Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

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

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