Tropescilloscope: Psychopathic Manchild

A crazy person with all the strength/intellect of an adult and the innocence of a child. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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