Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

An arrogant, outwardly charming manipulator with a complete Lack of Empathy, morals and conscience. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Science Fiction Films Distracted by the Sexy Jerkass Abhorrent Admirer Rule of Cool Your Head A-Splode Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Smug Snake You Killed My Father Badass Grandpa Heel Realization Alliterative Name Wrong Genre Savvy Dwindling Party The Faceless Well-Intentioned Extremist Bond Villain Stupidity Suddenly SHOUTING! Here We Go Again! Stalker with a Crush Becoming the Mask Shipper on Deck Call-Back "Awesome McCool" Name Only Sane Man Be Careful What You Wish For Mercy Kill Composite Character The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dramatic Gun Cock The Un-Reveal Time Skip folderlabel Pimped-Out Dress Serial Killer Handicapped Badass Slashed Throat Naked People Are Funny Ax-Crazy Dirty Cop Silent Movie Bloodless Carnage Action Prologue Biopic May–December Romance Idiot Ball Ironic Echo Malevolent Masked Men Word of God MacGuffin Genre Savvy Evil Is Petty Dressing as the Enemy Slasher Movie Loophole Abuse Gone Horribly Right The '90s Dutch Angle Depraved Bisexual Guns Akimbo Mad Scientist Broken Bird Plucky Comic Relief Pretty in Mink Expository Hairstyle Change Actually Pretty Funny Armor-Piercing Question Training Montage Running Gag Adults Are Useless Happily Married Beta Couple Stealth Pun Anachronism Stew Meaningful Background Event Agony of the Feet Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Kill It with Fire Mama Bear Anti-Villain Eureka Moment Riddle for the Ages Major Injury Underreaction Good Is Not Nice "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Big Damn Heroes Bi the Way Action Girl Department of Redundancy Department Unwitting Instigator of Doom Disney Villain Death Cruel and Unusual Death Make It Look Like an Accident Improvised Weapon Determinator aka: The Determinator Black Comedy Funny Background Event It Can Think In Name Only Unspoken Plan Guarantee I'm a Humanitarian Protagonist Title Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Scare Chord Get Out! Camp Gay Blood Knight Knife Nut Took a Level in Jerkass Shut Up, Hannibal! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adaptation Dye-Job Would Hurt a Child Red Eyes, Take Warning Obviously Evil Greater-Scope Villain Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Drives Like Crazy One-Word Title Authority Equals Asskicking Vacation Films Ambiguous Disorder Enemy Mine Room Full of Crazy Self-Deprecation Fate Worse than Death Calling the Old Man Out Black and Gray Morality Logo Joke timeperiod Adaptational Heroism Hidden Depths Male Frontal Nudity Break the Haughty Book-Ends Non-Indicative Name Fun with Acronyms Fire-Forged Friends Serious Business Foil Truth in Television Costume Porn All There in the Script Artistic License – Military Everyone Has Standards Christmas Movies Index Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Offscreen Teleportation No Name Given Easily Forgiven Unreliable Narrator Important Haircut Bury Your Gays Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Ungrateful Bastard Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ascended Extra Plot Hole Rich Bitch Five-Man Band Epic Fail Disappeared Dad Novelization Big-Bad Ensemble Horror Comedy Dramedy The Dog Bites Back The Mole Monumental Damage Catch-Phrase Mooks Captain Ersatz Early-Bird Cameo Punny Name Failed a Spot Check Mr. Fanservice Silence Is Golden An Aesop Affectionate Parody Brick Joke Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Parental Neglect Index of Film Westerns Vampire Fiction Fish out of Water Determinator Comically Missing the Point All Just a Dream Action Genre Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Lost Lenore Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Never My Fault Public Domain Feature Films Evil vs. Evil Final Girl Fiery Redhead Gold Digger Film Noir Index The Ditz Darkest Hour Hypocritical Humor Vitriolic Best Buds Daylight Horror Meet Cute Large Ham Heroic Sacrifice The Dreaded Needs Wiki Magic Love Instant Death Bullet Big Bad Duumvirate Friend to All Children Madness Mantra Off-into-the-Distance Ending Ambiguous Ending Author Avatar '80s Hair Closed Circle Historical Villain Upgrade I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Accidental Murder Reasonable Authority Figure Bilingual Bonus Leave the Camera Running Arch-Enemy Older Than They Look The X of Y Stock Footage Brutal Honesty Pet the Dog Bald of Evil Music Stories All There in the Manual The Remake Gilligan Cut Irony An Axe to Grind Eyepatch of Power Skewed Priorities Ugly Guy, Hot Wife German Films The Cavalry Works Set in World War II Noodle Incident The Musical Mistaken for Gay Overly Long Gag Punch-Clock Villain Flashback Didn't Think This Through Show Within a Show You Have Failed Me Broken Aesop Say My Name Wham Line Take That! Anguished Declaration of Love Awesome, but Impractical Badass Normal Male Gaze The Big Guy Actor Allusion Casting Gag Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Ace Zombie Stories Scenery Gorn Butt-Monkey Rated M for Manly Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Big Fancy House Ambiguously Gay Central Theme Card-Carrying Villain Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Laser-Guided Karma Soft Glass Destination Defenestration The Dragon Abusive Parents Jerk with a Heart of Gold Ominous Latin Chanting Cool Car Credits Gag Domestic Abuse Pragmatic Villainy Continuity Nod Expy Spiritual Successor Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sole Survivor Dull Surprise Big Bad Brainless Beauty A.I. Is a Crapshoot Does Not Like Shoes Grievous Bottley Harm Villain Ball Dark and Troubled Past Slap-Slap-Kiss Honor Before Reason Cool Shades Sealed Evil in a Can Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Documentary Anachronic Order Aluminum Christmas Trees Line-of-Sight Name No OSHA Compliance Anyone Can Die Bad "Bad Acting" The Mafia Twist Ending Disproportionate Retribution My God, What Have I Done? Bring My Brown Pants Defiant to the End Shower Scene Men Are the Expendable Gender It Will Never Catch On Totally Radical Decoy Protagonist War Is Hell Bottomless Magazines Demoted to Extra Anti-Hero Psychological Thriller Face–Heel Turn Adaptation Name Change Woman in White Romantic False Lead Award-Bait Song The '80s Parental Substitute Did Not Get the Girl Scary Black Man Mighty Whitey Rousing Speech Rule of Funny No-Sell Deliberately Monochrome Last-Name Basis Your Cheating Heart Deus ex Machina Cowboy Cop Black Dude Dies First Left the Background Music On Air-Vent Passageway Redemption Equals Death I Have Your Wife Trailers Always Spoil The Oner Not So Stoic Sequel Escalation Big Applesauce Captain Obvious Only a Flesh Wound Breaking the Fourth Wall Nice Guy Artistic License – Physics Naïve Newcomer Hair-Trigger Temper Demonic Possession The Bully Neck Snap Motor Mouth Have a Gay Old Time Fanservice Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Peek-a-Boo Corpse As Long as It Sounds Foreign Reality Is Unrealistic Historical In-Joke Bar Brawl Adaptation Distillation Really Gets Around Insult Backfire Villain Opening Scene Earn Your Happy Ending Undying Loyalty Redshirt Army Chekhov's Gunman Psycho for Hire Bloodier and Gorier Beard of Evil 20 Minutes into the Future Put on a Bus Evil-Detecting Dog O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dirty Old Man Gory Discretion Shot Shout-Out Genre Throwback Foregone Conclusion All for Nothing Freudian Excuse Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dies Wide Open Drowning My Sorrows After the End Fingore Body Horror Same Language Dub Chekhov's Skill The Quiet One Made of Explodium Fourth Date Marriage Brother–Sister Incest French Films Antagonist Title Green-Eyed Monster Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Alcoholic Empathic Environment Sequel Hook Fat Bastard Red Shirt Establishing Character Moment A Minor Kidroduction Sinister Minister Cat Scare Random Events Plot True Companions The Voiceless Sir Swears-a-Lot Catapult Nightmare Once More, with Clarity! Taking You with Me Gainax Ending In the Back Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Place Gorn Heterosexual Life-Partners Take a Third Option Death Seeker Outrun the Fireball Gender Flip And I Must Scream Recycled IN SPACE! Eiffel Tower Effect Berserk Button Sassy Black Woman Accidental Misnaming Action Survivor Dirty Coward Badass Bookworm Reality Has No Subtitles Creepy Child Race Against the Clock Sanity Slippage Together in Death Combat Pragmatist Due to the Dead Retirony Groin Attack Real Life The Power of Love Red Right Hand Sexy Discretion Shot Morality Pet This Is Gonna Suck Refuge in Audacity Affably Evil Karmic Death Spared by the Adaptation Worthy Opponent Dual Wielding Stylistic Suck Toplessness from the Back Death by Irony Contrived Coincidence Setting Update Fake Shemp Cool Old Guy Facial Horror Coming-of-Age Story Informed Ability Martial Arts Movie Henpecked Husband Frame-Up The Casanova Villainous Breakdown Throwing Your Sword Always Works Meaningful Echo An Arm and a Leg Death Glare Hollywood Law Villain Protagonist Belligerent Sexual Tension Papa Wolf Crapsack World Narrator Fanservice Extra Cloudcuckoolander Fainting As You Know Hoist by His Own Petard La Résistance Bolivian Army Ending Ripped from the Headlines Japanese Films Creator Cameo Evil Sounds Deep Country Matters Soundtrack Dissonance Foreshadowing Big Eater Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Stoic Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Television Movie Index Dumb Blonde Yandere Improbable Aiming Skills Character Development The Cameo Grey and Gray Morality Horror Films Villain with Good Publicity Artistic License – History Parental Incest B-Movie Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Tempting Fate Sadistic Choice The Load Chiaroscuro Cool Guns Bad Boss Asshole Victim No Antagonist I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Made of Iron Retired Badass He Who Fights Monsters Poor Communication Kills Disguised in Drag Karma Houdini My Beloved Smother Parental Abandonment Death by Sex Light Is Not Good Crazy-Prepared Small Name, Big Ego Spanner in the Works Bound and Gagged The End... Or Is It? Smoking Is Cool Dropped a Bridge on Him Hooker with a Heart of Gold Taking the Bullet Kubrick Stare A Date with Rosie Palms Police are Useless More Dakka Half the Man He Used to Be One-Man Army All Men Are Perverts Bavarian Fire Drill Evil Counterpart British Films Pretty Little Headshots Drugs Are Bad Rasputinian Death No Celebrities Were Harmed Australian Movies Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Drill Sergeant Nasty Evil Laugh Historical-Domain Character Unresolved Sexual Tension Four-Temperament Ensemble Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Extreme Doormat Immune to Bullets Adult Fear Arranged Marriage Russian Films Product Placement How We Got Here Real Life Writes the Plot Mood Whiplash Video Credits Playing Gertrude Eldritch Abomination Fatal Family Photo Never Found the Body The Alleged Car Artistic License – Geography Married to the Job Bland-Name Product Badass Longcoat The Reveal Manic Pixie Dream Girl Blackmail Celebrity Paradox Animated Credits Opening Jitter Cam The Lancer "The Reason You Suck" Speech Too Dumb to Live As the Good Book Says... Covers Always Lie Mystery and Detective Films Ass Shove Call-Forward The '50s The Atoner Adaptation Expansion Beware the Nice Ones Only One Name The Chick Black Best Friend Double Entendre Revenge Visual Pun Artistic License – Gun Safety Maybe Ever After Spiteful Spit Intrepid Reporter Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Moment Killer Amoral Attorney Re-Cut Heroes Want Redheads What the Hell, Hero? Insane Troll Logic Canadian Movies Slasher Smile A God Am I Those Wacky Nazis Stealth Hi/Bye Deal with the Devil The Great Depression Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Our Vampires Are Different Bond One-Liner Up to Eleven Laughing Mad Adorkable Kill 'em All Not So Different Kick the Son of a Bitch She Cleans Up Nicely Homage Police Brutality It's All About Me Leitmotif Mexican Standoff Black Comedy Rape Precision F-Strike Vomit Indiscretion Shot Not Using the "Z" Word "Shaggy Dog" Story Adaptational Badass Race Lift Token Minority Nothing Is Scarier Killed Mid-Sentence The Ghost The '70s Cluster F-Bomb Heroic BSoD Better to Die than Be Killed Implacable Man Downer Ending Manchild Not Quite Dead Dying Moment of Awesome Manly Tears Batman Gambit Humans Are Bastards Not Even Bothering with the Accent Framing Device Cool Old Lady Sacrificial Lion Auto Erotica Lighter and Softer No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Badass Boast Deliberate Values Dissonance As Himself Manipulative Bastard Dissonant Serenity Crazy Jealous Guy Diabolus ex Machina Reckless Gun Usage Artistic License – Law Dark Is Not Evil Man on Fire Crucified Hero Shot Imagine Spot Boom, Headshot! The Hero Dies No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Damsel in Distress Tagline Military and Warfare Films Obfuscating Stupidity Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer BFG Based on a True Story Driven to Suicide Not What It Looks Like Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Faking the Dead Annoying Younger Sibling Meaningful Name Italian Films Ms. Fanservice Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Guile Hero It's Personal Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Hero Antagonist Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Jerkass Has a Point Adaptational Villainy Daddy's Girl Corrupt Corporate Executive Alas, Poor Villain Mythology Gag Only Known by Their Nickname Took a Level in Badass Car Fu Eagleland Wicked Cultured Evil Brit Those Two Guys Overprotective Dad The Smurfette Principle Historical Hero Upgrade Mundane Made Awesome Neck Lift The Stinger Fantastic Racism Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fan Disservice Animal Title Index You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! NO INDOOR VOICE Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds There Is No Kill Like Overkill Tranquil Fury Love at First Sight Broken Pedestal Retcon Tap on the Head Evil Is Hammy Only in It for the Money And the Adventure Continues For Want of a Nail Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Stuff Blowing Up Star-Crossed Lovers Oh, Crap! Not So Above It All Epic Movie Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Sociopath Canon Foreigner Knight Templar Mind Screw Wounded Gazelle Gambit From Nobody to Nightmare Shell-Shocked Veteran Lampshade Hanging Bittersweet Ending My Greatest Failure Every Car Is a Pinto Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The '60s Stepford Smiler Even Evil Has Standards Jerk Jock Mugging the Monster What You Are in the Dark The Hero Darker and Edgier Interrupted Suicide Kick the Dog Betty and Veronica Exact Words Children Are Innocent Victoria's Secret Compartment Early Installment Weirdness Super Strength Amusing Injuries Lock and Load Montage The Stoner Conspicuous CG Whole Plot Reference Attempted Rape Ghost Fiction Cassandra Truth Badass in a Nice Suit Death by Adaptation Red Herring Never Trust a Trailer Wretched Hive Chewing the Scenery Offscreen Moment of Awesome Cold-Blooded Torture Hate Sink Aside Glance Chase Scene Ship Tease Apocalypse How Market-Based Title Villain Song Sports Stories Woman Scorned Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Back from the Dead The Smart Guy Dramatic Irony Pragmatic Adaptation Rule of Three Age Lift He Knows Too Much Corpsing Creative Closing Credits N-Word Privileges Suspiciously Similar Substitute Sci-Fi Horror Gratuitous English The Film of the Book Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Blood from the Mouth Bloody Hilarious Fantasy Films Improbable Weapon User Dark Reprise Dogged Nice Guy In Medias Res Unusual Euphemism Film Series Jump Scare Red Oni, Blue Oni Shirtless Scene All Girls Want Bad Boys Camera Abuse Hollywood Darkness Rule of Symbolism Humiliation Conga One Steve Limit You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Arc Words Bullying a Dragon The Vamp Names to Run Away from Really Fast Nice Hat Eye Scream The Chessmaster Bait-and-Switch Face Death with Dignity Getting Crap Past the Radar Unusually Uninteresting Sight What Happened to the Mouse? Adaptational Attractiveness Bowdlerise Intergenerational Friendship Hell Is That Noise Defrosting Ice Queen Bunny-Ears Lawyer She's Got Legs Mr. Exposition Let's Get Dangerous! Rape as Drama Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Funny Foreigner Evil Plan Faux Affably Evil Pay Evil unto Evil Title Drop Storming the Castle Bare Your Midriff Femme Fatale Does This Remind You of Anything? Author Appeal Film Noir Exactly What It Says on the Tin Missing Mom Vomit Discretion Shot I Did What I Had to Do Shown Their Work Posthumous Character Wham Shot Developing Doomed Characters Spell My Name with an "S" Superhero Extremely Short Timespan Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Match Cut Kids Are Cruel Properly Paranoid Advertised Extra Chekhov's Gun Almost Kiss Psychopathic Manchild Obstructive Bureaucrat Dark Action Girl Double-Meaning Title Freeze-Frame Bonus The Brute Rewatch Bonus Thriller Adapted Out Loads and Loads of Characters Scenery Porn Death of a Child Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Big "NO!" Hope Spot "Well Done, Son!" Guy A Father to His Men Pyrrhic Victory Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Starscream World of Ham Hypocrite Big Brother Instinct I Need a Freaking Drink Politically Incorrect Villain For the Evulz Translation Convention Straight Gay Off with His Head! Curse Cut Short Fatal Flaw Our Zombies Are Different Babies Ever After Artistic License – Biology Famous Last Words Flipping the Bird Curb-Stomp Battle Suspiciously Specific Denial Heel–Face Turn Love Triangle Break the Cutie Hong Kong Films Those Two Bad Guys Alpha Bitch From Bad to Worse Disney Death Insistent Terminology Cat Fight Genre Shift Blatant Lies Deadpan Snarker Reality Ensues Would Hit a Girl And Starring Cain and Abel Hero of Another Story Paper-Thin Disguise Deconstruction Despair Event Horizon Animal Motifs Romantic Comedy Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Bad Guy Wins No Ending