Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Disorder

A character who has a vague mental disorder. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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