Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

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

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