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The exact extent of the character's childishness will vary, and in general Psychopathic Manchildren can come in several varieties, with possible overlap. Such a character may:

 

 

Whichever version these types of characters qualify as, often they are not fully aware of how nasty their actions actually are. In some cases (though not all), a [[Heel Realization]] may cause the character to [[Character Development|develop into a better person.]] A more innocent or well-intentioned Psychopathic Manchild may be a [[Noble Demon]].

 

 

 

* [[Complete Monster|Johan Liebert]] of ''[[Monster]]'' is a classic Type B example. His goals and desires are still those of an eight year old but as an adult he pursues them with an appropriate level of sophistication. Exactly how childish he really is can be hard to judge given that he's an excellent manipulator.

* [[Tower of God|Quant]] is a Ranker of the Tower, a position commanding great respect and implying a terrifying amount of power, which he does possess. His greatest weakness is his incredible immaturity, which not only let him self get lead on TWICE by the examinees he had to train and test, but also caused 197 people to die because he didn't give a shit about concocting a complicated preliminary exam and just settled with a 30 minute death match. His childish disposition would make him a B or C-class case.

* Gluttony from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is Type A - he is a ridiculously strong [[Artificial Human]] with the temperament and intelligence of a young boy. Throughout most of the anime, he's reliant on his "keeper" Lust to do the thinking for him (his main input being to ask her if he can eat people). {{spoiler|When she dies, the poor guy suffers a nervous breakdown. It's almost a relief when Dante scours away his mind.}}

** In the manga, he isn't much more different. {{spoiler|But he appears to have finally met his end when he gets eaten by the creepy childman Pride. Poor guy, all he wanted was sum num nums.}}

* Ryoko Asakura from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. She has that cute smile on her face, always cares for every person in the class, a total hottie, has a lot of friends and seems to take a special interest in you! When you meet her alone, her smiling face changes into that of an innocent little girl that stole a lollipop and felt bad about it. And then she tries to slice you up with a combat knife, while keeping her cute expression. ''"Because whether you care about it or not, I really want you to die ^_^"''

** This is partly to do with her being an artificial human, whose outward appearance doesn't necessarily correlate to her actual emotions. Fellow artificial human, Yuki Nagato, is the same thing, except with her personality stuck on [[Emotionless Girl]] mode.

* Nova, Hikaru's [[Enemy Without]] from ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'s'' second season. She just wants to be loved by Hikaru...and by that, we mean [[Psycho Lesbian|cover her friends in large pools of blood so that only the two of them can "play" forever and ever]].

* Russia in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' deftly combines this trope with [[Stepford Smiler]] and [[Yandere]]. He even has the same voice actor as [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Gluttony]].

** America tends to [[Ron the Death Eater|get this treatment]] in any [[Dark Fic]] he shows up in...

** Rosamia Badam from [[Zeta Gundam]]. She's a Type D as well, but in different terms: she's a 17-going-to-18 year old [[Dark Action Girl]] who, outside her mecha, has the mentality and the fears of a little girl, latches innocently on whoever she sees as a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for her dead older brother, and is borderline unable to take care of herself. In her case it's justified: she not only is a survivor of the infamous Zeon [[Colony Drop]] of the [[One Year War]], but was subjected to cruel experiments that totally messed up with her mind.

* Renge in the ''[[Flame of Recca]]'' manga, who is so childishly nuts she tore up a Teddy Bear just because it doesn't answer her when it doesn't have a speaking device, only to cheerfully laugh to ask for her Papa to get her a new one. Speaking of her Papa, Mori Kouran, [[Complete Monster]] extraordinary and literally, she thinks her Papa's horrendous monstrous look after {{spoiler|fusing with Tendou Jigoku}} looks EXTREMELY COOL. She doesn't end really well.

* Bambi from ''Bambi and Her Pink Gun'' is incredible childish in many ways, but also subverts this in others. While she's a psychopath who acts almost entirely on instinct, she's also a vain health nut who doesn't eat anything she hasn't personally boiled and will kill you if you so much as ''smoke'' near her.

** Also Emperor Pilaf from Early Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball GT.

** Chilled from the Gainax manga Episode of Bardock presumably qualifies under this trope, as he has shown himself to be exceedingly childish, and yet was shown to be even more ruthless than even ''Frieza'', notably killing one of his soldiers while in a good mood just because the soldier was unfortunate enough to just happen to be blocking his view.

** Android #17 is Type B. Even more so in the [[Bad Future]] of Future Trunks' timeline.

** Depending on how you interpret the series, you could probably include Beatrice, Eva-Beatrice, and {{spoiler|Erika}} in this trope. Maria gets excused because, well, she ''is'' a little girl.

* Wonderweiss Margela from ''[[Bleach]]'' fits pretty well. He can't even speak coherently, but heaven help you if you don't let him play with your hat {{spoiler|or aren't Yamamoto}}.

** Fittingly, {{spoiler|the one who actually defeats Old Cho is Etsuko, a [[Little Miss Badass]] with similar psychic powers and a [[Plucky Girl]] nature.}}

** In the light novels Chick and Maria are described as having the personalities of 12-year-olds.

** Speaking of, Chick qualifies in the anime as well.

** Ladd's [[Loony Fan]] Graham Specter may also count.

* Arguably Kano from ''[[Texhnolyze]]''. He's eloquent, intelligent and charismatic, but that doesn't change the fact that he sees the world as a one big playground, and himself as the only real person in it.

** One of the newest members of the [[Psycho Rangers|Blackbeard Pirates]] {{spoiler|San Juan Wolf}} seems to apply. In his past, he was a Pirate who committed crimes "so atrocious they were effectively erased from history itself", a bounty likely to be in the upper multi-millions, and when caught offscreen, was transferred to the lowest level of [[The Alcatraz|Impel Down]], and to earn his freedom from there, was {{spoiler|forced to kill everyone in his cell on orders from [[Evil Counterpart|Marshall D. Teach]] and co.}} Also, he is the largest man alive in the show, easily dwarfing Oars at least four time over, and is compared to a walking Sears Tower. But, in his first appearance, he {{spoiler|peeks out from Maineford HQ's main building like a curious child, has an expression like he was caught stealing from a cookie jar when spotted by Mooks, expressed surprise that a Vice Admiral knew his name, and was scared by Whitebeard and hid while the rest killed him.}}

*** Let's not forget his classic "They found me!" line , which is all the more hilarious when one looks at this [http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4434/juanwolf2.jpg size comparison pic], yes the circled person is one of the regular giants.

* Vincent from ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' might as well be the king of this trope due to his nasty habit or slicing up dolls with scissors and {{spoiler|causing the tragedy of Sabrie}}.

* Jack Winslow of ''[[Power Stone]]'' is a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|really 100-year-old]] crazy who was orphaned at a young age and lost at sea. Lack of human contact might explain his behaviour.

* Puppetmon from ''[[Digimon]]'', anyone? He kidnaps Takeru in order to play hide and seek. While trying to kill his brother Yamato and the rest of his friends, and then Takeru himself. Way to go.

** Arguably Diablomon from ''Our War Games''. There isn't much known about it, but consider that the e-mails it sends suggests that it sees the battle as a game, and that the only sound it makes (in the original version) is a [[Hell Is That Noise|creepy]] [[Giggling Villain|childish giggle]].

* [[Expendable Clone|Eva-R and Eva-Q]] in ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]'' are [[Happiness in Slavery|conscious of and delighted with being playthings]], meant to suffer and die for Eva Silver. And yet in a backwards way, they regard any prospective dominant (i.e., anyone they look at) as their plaything, and are quick to break any 'toy' who isn't breaking ''them'' to their satisfaction.

** Sasori is a mix of B and C. He is an insanely talented and cold-blooded Puppetmaster in his 30's, who also transferred his essence into a puppet resembling his 15 year old self, and was more or less beaten by a memory of his parents coming to hug him. [[Justified Trope]], though: Sasori's parents were killed in battle by Kakashi's father Sakumo when Sasori was a baby ''and'' he left the Sand Village when he was around 15 years old after killing and turning the 3rd Kazekage into one of his puppets. From his broken childhood to his subsequent defect from his village, he grew cold and stoic due to the lack of parental love. His emotions were stunted to that of an abandoned, forgotten child.

* The villain from the second episode of ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'' shows signs of this, in that he kills the people in his charge as part of a fun game, and is hinted to be capricious to the people in his court.

* Tamaki, the Promoter of ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]''. When he isn't causing the deaths of or torturing inmates he's often found playing with toys in his office, including a Lego model of the prison and a dancing flower. {{spoiler|He's also a bit of an RPG [[Otaku]] and sees the Wretched Egg as a [[Big Bad]] to defeat.}}

* {{spoiler|Kure Kirika}} of ''[[Oriko Magica]]'' is pretty much completely unfamiliar with the concept of maturity. She's also hunting down and killing {{spoiler|other magical girls.}} Although her motive for doing so is because she was asked to by {{spoiler|Oriko}}, whom she is [[Yandere|obsessively in love with]], rather than her childish tendencies.

* {{spoiler|Haruko}} from ''[[FLCL]]''.

 

* [[Deadpool]].

* Bizarro and Solomon Grundy from ''[[The DCU]]''.

** It's a bit of a stretch, but technically you can call most of [[Batman]]'s [[Rogues Gallery]] this. Two-Face, Riddler, Calendar Man, Scarecrow (kinda), Firefly, Maxie Zeus... seeing as how psychology-driven [[Batman]] is, it makes sense that all of his villains would be so simply motivated. Most of them are just trying to prove something to Bats, making them the "Childish Motivations" breed.

*** Specifically, TRY to deny that Joker's motivations are... arbitrary. You will fail in this.

* Though a [[Serial Killer]] and not a [[Psycho for Hire]], Johnny from ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' fits the trope perfectly, mostly due to unfathomable mental instability.

** And coming to Squee for a band-aide after cutting his hand on a "Skettie-Os" can probably clinches it.

* Validus, from the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]''. Basically a mindless powerhouse, easily controlled by his teammates in the Fatal Five. In the original continuity, he turned to actually be the child of Legion founders Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad (time travel was involved).

* Billy Kincaid of ''[[Spawn]]''. While the comic version is more Freddy Kreuger-ish, the version portrayed in the HBO animated series definitely had the mind of a child. A child that liked to kill things. Mainly real children. With a [[Squick|paedophilia subtext]].

* Sergeant Crumb, the largest man to serve in the British armed forces, in ''Adventures in the Rifle Brigade''. Possessing strength that is rather unnatural even for a man his size (at one point he punched a man's head clean off his shoulders), and constantly sporting a mindless, toothy smile, he seems incapable of actual speech and only ever says "Ey-oop!" The conclusion reached by his superiors in his official dossier (which mentions several events where he's implied to have killed dozens of people) is: "Mummy, I'm frightened."

** Similarly, Corporal Geezer only says "Yer aht of ordah!" and is one of the most prolific murderers in British history, being tried for over 413 murders before evidence was waived when he was assigned to the Rifle Brigade, which desperately needed a maniac like him to tie it together.

* Larfleeze from'' [[Green Lantern]]'' has been living alone in a cave for [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|billions of years]] with everything he's ever wanted being brought to him by his mindless constructs. This has given him the temperament of a spoiled three year old.

* ''[[The Question]]'' villain Baby Gun. He looked like an giant toddler and used an air gun at close range to kill people.

* Funland from ''[[The Sandman]]''. A [[Serial Killer]] who preyed on children at an amusement park, wore Mickey Mouse ears and a Big Bad Wolf T-Shirt and liked "playing" with other kids.

** To be clear, he's huge and pretty fat, and probably in his mid-thirties.

** When {{spoiler|Dream <s>kills him</s> causes him to fall into a magical slumber,}} he kindly lets him go having a dream that {{spoiler|all the (dead) children come back and forgive him, and don't laugh at "the funny big giant," and they all play together forever and ever.}}

 

 

* Norman Bates from ''[[Psycho]]'' has a gangly childishness, due to his mother's isolating and dominating him.

** It becomes more obvious when Lila Crane snoops through the Bates home and comes across Norman's room.

* Kadaj of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]] [[Advent Children]]'' can go from vicious and sadistic to heartbreakingly childlike and back again in the span of around fifteen minutes. His older 'brother' Loz also qualifies, being less psychotic, but more childlike.

** Probably Yazoo as well, so that's all three of them. He doesn't get much screentime, but just watch him laughing in childish excitement in the extended version as he steers his motorcycle off an exploding bridge to attack an airborne helicopter.

* The Merrye siblings in ''[[Spider Baby]]'', who have a condition that causes them to revert intellectually until they have childlike minds in full-grown bodies. This enables them to do things like kill deliverymen as part of their games, and demonstrates how excellent it is that humans can be taught morality before they're big enough to do real damage.

* Zigesfeld in ''[[If Looks Could Kill]]'' displays multiple signs of mental retardation, including a childlike dependence on the film's female villain. When she strokes his [[Red Right Hand|mechanical hand]] in one scene to calm him down, he grins like a little boy.

* The towering 'trolley boy' in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''.

* The 1963 film ''[[Cleopatra]]'' [[Historical Villain Upgrade|portrayed]] Octavian (the future Augustus Caesar) as one of these. The historical community was Not Amused.

* Nick Frost's cameo in ''[[Grindhouse|Don't]]''

* In ''[[Suicide Kings]]'', one of the [[No Name Given]] kidnappers holds a gun to his partner's head, cocks the hammer, and begins to pull the trigger...because his partner changed the channel while he was watching a cartoon and wouldn't change it back. After he leaves, the partner checks the cylinder of his gun and finds that it was fully loaded.

* Near the end of ''[[The Last King of Scotland]]'' Nicholas is captured by Idi Amin's men trying to flee the country, tortured and confronted by the dictator, leading to this little exchange:

'''Nicholas''': (battered and bloody) You are a child. Thats what makes you so fucking scary. }}

* Buffalow Bill from ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''.

* The Ghost of Christmas Present from ''[[Scrooged]]'' is a female example.

* The various ''[[Harry Potter]]'' film adaptations portrayal of Bellatrix Lestrange depicts her as having shades of this. For one thing, shortly after murdering Sirius Black, as well as her re-encounter with Harry at the burrow, she taunts Harry about her direct involvement in Sirius Black's death by singing "I killed Sirius Black!~~" repeatedly in a similar manner to a playground taunt by preschoolers.

* [[Evil Is Sexy|Sarah]] from ''[[Hocus Pocus]]''.

* Baby Firefly from the ''[[House of 1000 Corpses]]'' films. She cuts the heads off of dolls and nails them to the wall, has a childish high pitched voice and giggle, and recited the Rabbit Hutch rhyme while murdering a woman that she put in a rabbit suit.

* [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Great Dictator]]'''s depiction of Hitler is of this trope, as evidenced by how he interacted with his "globe."

* Stuntman Mike in ''[[Death Proof]]''. He puts on a suave act, but at his core he's a vindictive juvenile who gets off on doing cruel things to people. His demeanor in the last act, when he comes across some women who fight back, is that of a kid whose prank has backfired on him.

 

* Lennie Small in the Steinbeck novel ''[[Of Mice and Men]]''. While he never means to hurt anyone, his mental handicap and brute strength lead him to [[And Call Him George|accidentally commit manslaughter]].

** While all that is true he's not really the best example and may tend to subvert the trope on some levels, since unlike most of the examples on this page he ''never'' tries to do anything bad at all (most of the others do bad things on purpose and may or may not know that what they're doing is wrong).

* Merricat in ''[[We Have Always Lived in The Castle]]''. She started out as a psychopathic child and is still very childlike though over 20.

** From the other extreme of the spectrum, the same book features Banjo, an even more child-like thug, who is clearly mentally handicapped, and comes across as [[Dumb Is Good|much more innocent]]. And he and Teatime are friends, of course. Or at least, he does what Teatime tells him to while Teatime treats him with dismissive contempt.

*** So basically, both Teatime and Banjo are Psychopathic Manchildren. It's just that Teatime is more Psychopath while Banjo is more Manchild.

* Another Pratchett example: First Mate Cox in ''[[Nation]]'' is at one point given a description suggesting this, when his gleeful expression at shooting down a parrot was compared to a little boy proud of wetting himself.

** But note that at ''no'' other point is he shown as anything but fully, rationally aware of [[Complete Monster|what he is]].

*** As Terry himself wrote "First Mate Cox had a choice, every day, and had chosen to be First Mate Cox."

** JJ, the protagonist's [[Enemy Within|vile alter-ego]], will gleefully commit murder, vandalism, assault, and any number of crimes for his own childish amusement. However, if anyone responds violently or threateningly, he'll react by bursting into tears and running off.

* ''[[The Somnambulist]]'' by Johnathan Barnes features a pair of these, called The Prefects.

* The (presumed) [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Meq]]'' is the Fleur-Du-Mal, who, like the rest of the titular race of immortals, is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], but he's also a [[Psycho for Hire]] with a bone to pick with the rest of his race. He likes to cut throats, kidnap little girls and turn them into prostitutes, dabble in the occult, manipulate normal people, or Giza as they're called, with his appearance as a twelve-year-old boy, and sadistically torment his own kind. Yeah, he's a [[Jerkass]].

** Soon, Ray's sister, Zuriaa {{spoiler|was dangerously unstable and became Fleur-de-mal's [[Stop Copying Me|twin]].}} What a plot twist.

* In the ''[[Redwall]]'' book ''Martin The Warrior", the heroes come across a tribe of [[Chaotic Neutral]] wild squirrels who live for pleasure and think it would be a really fun game to chase said heroes up a cliff and throw them off! They do end up working for the good guys later on, as they're convinced this would be an even better game. Also, the horribly spoilt Prince Bladd (though his age is unclear, so he may in fact be fairly young). He likes [[Funetik Aksent|playink mitt fire]].

* In ''[[Codex Alera]]'', this seems to be the eventual demeanor of {{spoiler|the Vord queen}} as she slowly becomes {{spoiler|more and more human in her emotions.}}

* ''[[In Death]]'': A number of the murderers can be considered this. That doesn't make them any less dangerous, though.

* It's still up in the air about the inner workings of Petyr Baelish from [[A Song of Ice and Fire]], but he is arguably Type B, in that whilst his ambition and plans are certainly mature, he is entirely motivated by his [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|by his childhood affection]] for Catelyn Stark. The entirety of his plan so far can easily be viewed as a massive temper tantrum [[If I Can't Have You|simply because he couldn't have her for himself]], leaving {{spoiler|almost the entirety of Westeros devastated by war}} and with winter just around the corner too...

* The Colorman in [[Christopher Moore]]'s ''Sacre Bleu'' who always shrugs off his murders with "Sorry. Accident. Couldn't be helped." and his molesting the female help with "Penis".

 

** Hal says it best in one episode: "He has no more sense of right and wrong than a treefrog."

** Arguably Francis from the same show.

** Definitely Hal, if Lois isn't there to keep him in line.

** "The Squire of Gothos". Trelane, an omnipotent alien obsessed with Earth culture, is a more urbane example of this trope; indeed, his childlike immaturity isn't revealed until the end of the episode when his even ''more'' omnipotent parents show up to scold him for his actions.

** "Whom Gods Destroy" involves one of Kirk's heroes gone insane from a head injury during a starship crash. Imprisoned in an institution for the criminally insane, he starts screaming at the top of his lungs and banging his fist on the floor when he can't impersonate Captain Kirk well enough to be allowed onto the ''Enterprise''. Most other patients exhibit this trope. They exhibit "entertainment" to Kirk in the form of wheelbarrow racing in a circle. One patient defends accusations she plagiarized a poem from A.E. Houseman by saying she "wrote it again this morning" and craves attention from all the other inmates.

*** Of course, the hero in question was [[Large Ham|played by]] [[William Shatner]].

**** But only when the once-hero-gone-insane is impersonating Kirk, yes? If not, then someone's incredible make-up skills should also have been put to use in "Arena" (for starters).

* Jackman's [[Jekyll and Hyde|Hyde]] persona from ''[[Jekyll]]'' is repeatedly stated to be a child who just happens to have the intelligence and drives of a full grown man.

** The {{spoiler|Gods of Ragnarok}} in ''The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'' are extremely powerful beings who have been completely consumed by the desire to be entertained 24/7 (or whatever Segonax's day is). One of them even manifests as a child.

** {{spoiler|Melody Pond}}. She gets better.

* Joey Heric of ''[[The Practice]]'' was sociopathic, calculating and exhibited a very childish attitude {{spoiler|Such as announcing "I need to pee" to stop a trial session}} to get his way out of his own murder trials.

* ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' gets one in its tenth season with CSU Tech Dale Stuckey; in the season finale, Stuckey kills several innocent people to try and frame a psychotic man who'd killed before, kills his CSU boss before he can tell the police he was the actual killer, and starts assaulting Stabler with the intent to kill him before Benson makes the save.

** One flasher-turned-child rapist is a severely stunted man who knew he had a problem as a teen {{spoiler|but his dad used it (and his cameras) after having his son watch him with prostitutes, than watching his son with prostitutes wasn't enough to get him off}}. Olivia feels very, ''very'' sorry for him.

* Gem and Gemma from ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' are a rare heroic example. They're intellectually geniuses, but in everything except physics and technology, they're about five.

** They are also ''really'' fond of violence in general, and explosives in particular.

** Sylar himself is a Type C. He's shown to be extremely powerful, but also enjoys unnerving his enemies with toys and other mundane items. He's also shown to treat abilities as a giant toy collection and even explicitly compares Maya to a shiny new toy.

* Cyril O'Reilly from ''[[Oz]]'', an Irish gangster who became retarded after a blow to the head. He also has the bad luck of having a [[Manipulative Bastard]] brother whose orders land him in jail. Though he's normally quite good natured, he becomes one of the more feared inmates as a very strong man who's easy to set off.

** Topher in the first season probably qualifies. (He starts to develop a bit of a conscience later in the second season.)

* Many of the serial killers in ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' are emotionally stunted, but special mention goes to the killer in the two part "To Hell ... And Back", {{spoiler|an emotionally and mentally retarded middle-aged man whose quadriplegic brother directed to pick up transients and use them in the smarter brothers' experiments.}}

* Franklin from ''[[True Blood]]'' plays this trope straight off into the distance.

* Al Capone in ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' {{spoiler|shoots Jimmy Darmody's pillow while he was sleeping as a joke.}} He also {{spoiler|gives his boss Johnny Torrio an exploding joke cigarette in the middle of a meeting. Johnny is not amused.}}

* How bad can a young man be when he wears Bert-and-Ernie shirts, keeps a lollipop in his mouth, and often mumbles like a shy four year old? If it's [[Complete Monster|Marlo Stanfield]] from ''[[The Wire]]'', pretty damn bad.

* ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'' has three of these. Kazari, a childish [[Complete Monster]] and [[Chessmaster]], Gamel, whose a little lacking on the "psychopathic" part but still a destructive and childish kaijin, and {{spoiler|Lost Ankh, Ankh's body that obtained sentience and has the mind of a child, but is none the less evil and destructive.}}

* Chang on ''[[Community]]'' enjoys wielding the power of being a teacher a little too much, and is shown to be very immature playing mind games with his classes.

* Lucas Taylor in ''[[Terra Nova]]'' {{spoiler|seeks to destroy Terra Nova and the entire world in which it is located killing over a thousand innocent people, all because he wants to get back at his father for not saving his mother when he was a teenager and generally not giving him enough attention growing up}} proving that being a genius scientist is no bar to living up to this trope.

 

* The main character of the Thomas Fersen song and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIel5ImMFh0 music video] "Hyacinth".

 

 

* The entire gimmick of Abyss in ''[[TNA]]'' is this trope. When he's a face, the sympathy is milked for all it's worth.

 

** Possibly Ogryns as well, given their fierce loyalty. See [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Gav_and_Bob Gav and Bob] for a [[Tear Jerker]] example.

* [[The Fair Folk]] of ''[[Exalted]]'' are mostly this. They don't mean to be horrible, horrible monsters, but they don't understand how reality works. They hail from [[World of Chaos|the Wyld]], where most any being they encounter is simply a figment of either their imagination or another Fae's, so they have difficulty processing the idea that every individual they meet in Creation is an independent and sentient being. Furthermore, in the Wyld, [[Death Is Cheap]]. A Fae killed by another Fae can just shape himself back into existence with a thought, so they have trouble understanding why the Creation-born are so uptight about the stabbing.

 

 

* The Boomers in ''[[Gears of War]]'' and other Locusts of his size. The other locusts use cover effectively and yell orders to each other. The Boomer stands out in the open, points his gun in the general direction of the enemy, and dutifully says "Boom" before firing. That's all he ever says.

** Don't forget the oh-so-bland "SKY FIRE" when you fire a mortar.

* Ramon Salazar of ''[[Resident Evil|Resident Evil 4]]'' has the build and proportions of a nine-year old, the skin of a sixty-year old, and claims to be twenty. He's also fucking nuts and suffers a severe [[Villainous Breakdown]] over the course of the game.

** A less hilarious, more tragice example would be Lisa Trevor. After decades of Umbrella experiments, she's a powerful, seemingly unkillable monster with the faces of some of her victims sewed together and worn like a mask. Despite all this, her mind is that of a very young child, desperately searching for her mother.

** Don't forget the turrets and their child-like voices. "Hello, friend. I see you. Are you still there? Good night. Put me down! Malfunction. I don't blame you..."

*** "No hard feelings..."

** And GLaDOS' creepy red core. Her {{spoiler|yellow is curious ("Do you smell something burning?") her blue rattles off cake mix...plus other things ("Don't forget food garnishes such as: [...] fish-shaped dirt.") and the red is...er...well, it doesn't speak--instead it snarls and shrieks at you.}}

** {{spoiler|Wheatley, anyone? By the end, at least?}}

* Achenar, from the game ''[[Myst]]'', has a childish way of relating horrific thoughts and events to the player, even speaking in a mocking, higher-pitched voice and giggling like he's just thought of some ridiculous joke. The effect is unnerving, to say the least.

* Walter Sullivan from ''[[Silent Hill|Silent Hill 4]]''. He basically {{spoiler|kills people because he believes that he can resurrect his "mom" that way.}}

** Eddie from ''[[Silent Hill]] 2'' also works.

*** And, while more tragic than psychotic, Angela Orosco. She routinely flips between being a normal woman, a suicidally depressed woman, a psychotic and hateful woman, an innocent child and a psychotic and terrified child. Sometimes in the space of less than a minute. But given what her father did to her it's not that surprising.

* Chesty, from a ''[[Fable]] 2'' sidequest, takes the concept of Nightmare Fuel and cranks it [[Up to Eleven]] thanks to having this personality...including not seeming to understand that his new "Super Best Friend" ''really isn't having fun'' during his [[Boss Rush|Monster rush.]]

** This super best friend had fun. She felt lucky to be able to do it twice thanks to a bug.

*** This super best friend was particularly happy when the game {{spoiler|gave him back his lost youth.}}

** His other hats include a rubber glove on his head, and his taunts make it appear that he has an affection for fighting games and air guitar. Considering he's the Pyro, the psychopathic part isn't open to much questioning.

** YMMV with Shadow. Still, [[Alternate Character Interpretation|it's possible]]; seeing the one person who supported him the most and who he saw as a moral figure murdered in front of his eyes probably disturbed him to the point of becoming this trope.

** Ellis is just WAAAAAAAY too happy during the zombie apocalypse. It's almost as if he views it as a big game {{spoiler|Unless someone dies}}

*** "Ho-lee-SHIT guys! It's KIDDIE LAND!!!"

**** Well to be fair at this point he is borderline, as all the bosses in Ulduar are Completly bonkers, thanks to good Old [[Eldritch Abomination|Good old Yoggy]], being the Old God of Death and his powers being the power of inducing insanity into living beings.

** Many of the undead abominations (giant bloated zombies made from multiple corpses) count as well. Patchwerk is well-known for his creepy childish lines:

* Tira from ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' is more or less Type E. She has such an extreme case of bipolar disorder that it has separated her into two personalities: "Jolly" and "Gloomy". When "Jolly", she talks like a little girl and refers to people as if they are playthings, and gets [[Perverse Sexual Lust|a thrill from breaking them in the most perverse and sadistic ways]], as evidenced by her win quotes. When "Gloomy", she becomes extremely cynical and is willing to harm herself to inflict damage on her opponent.

* John DeFoe of the ''[[Chzo Mythos]]'' is essentially this, seeing as he was raised alone in the basement of DeFoe manor after being disowned by his father, whom he considers an abomination and resposible for his wife's death. Being posessed by the Tall Man after he was beaten about the head and neck with a wooden idol containing his soul certainly didn't help.

*** Really, it's somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]] in his case. He is less than a year old.

* Purge from ''[[Space Channel 5]]'' Part 2. He likes to play "games". And as heroic characters such as President Peace and later {{spoiler|Jaguar}} are unwillingly forced to take you on, he just laughs and at one point even DANCES happilly as they struggle in pain. He even goes as far as to basically have a temper tantrum and {{spoiler|charges up the Ballistic Groove Gun to destroy everyone, including himself for ruining his plan.}} The game hints that he doesn't know love somehow, but it still doesn't keep it from being slightly disturbing.

** A hint of this snuck its way into ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', where he talks about battle as playtime {{spoiler|during his fight with Terra}}, as well as his referring to his opponents as "toys."

** As well as in ''Duodecim'', where he remarks that his fight with Vaan was "The most fun [Kefka's] had in minutes." in an over the top, high-pitched, giddy voice.

*** His [[Final Fantasy VII|successor]], although it's not quite as in-your-face, unless he's talking about his "mother."

* [[Those Wacky Nazis|Edward]] [[Mad Doctor|Richtofen]] from [[Nazi Zombies]] is a type C.

 

* Richard from ''[[Looking for Group]]'' often shows childish tendencies and extremely bratty and whimsical behaviour.

** Tim the ogre would be a textbook psychopathic manchild (he refers to Cale'Anon as "Chicken", ex. "Chicken needs squishy?"), but has been described by one of his associates as being taking one too many maces to the head.

* Reakk from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Even though he's a demon who eats people's souls, it's hard not to like the dimwitted little guy.

** Oasis also qualifies to a fairly large extent, with her underdeveloped personality and sadistic fondness of killing. Bun-bun described her as a "demented toddler", and while she's theoretically opposed to killing innocents, once she eliminates someone from that category, she's willing to do things such as cut their ribs out one at a time out of curiosity while they're still alive.

** [[Dumb Muscle|Fighter]] is a Type A, who generally enjoys beating the living shit out of people, but is quite friendly and rather... [[The Ditz|slow.]]

* Lawler of ''[[White Noise]]'' could be considered this. He's a skilled, ruthless, cheerfully sadistic operative who's obviously quite a few bananas short of a bunch. Yet he has a child-like unquestioning devotion to his boss, and spends his spare time having fun by drawing all over his hands. Aww.

* Spot of ''[[Get Medieval]]'' has a childlike enthusiasm for fire and explosions and pure hate for those who try to stop him from making either.

* Jared of ''[[Jared]]'', despite being very intelligent and pretty much a [[Badass]], is childishly selfish and obsessive.

* Butch of ''[[Chopping Block]]'' can be this, though the degree to which it applies varies wildly from strip to strip. In one case, his mutilation of corpses was compared to a child [[Kids Prefer Boxes|playing with a cardboard box]].

 

* Blaine Eno and Cillian Crowe from ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' are each brutal killers brought onto the island specifically to spice up the competition (it's implied that the terrorists actually broke Cillian out of his asylum to take him to the island), but Blaine is mentally and emotionally seven years old and has no real grip on what he's doing, while Cillian is almost literally under the control of an imaginary, daemonic, friend named Haddy.

* The title character of ''[[Salad Fingers]]'', though this may be a subversion as he's more [[True Neutral]] in the "uncaring, detached, and having no regard for either good or evil" sense.

*** Elisa's characters Dr. Tease and The Makeover Fairy both enjoy torturing people through science and makeovers ''far'' too much.

** Reversed in Cracked's other content, where Swaim is a polite android, while D.O.B. and Brockway have the drug-fueled, destructive benders.

 

** Though he is only four. {{spoiler|[[The Slow Path|at first.]]}}

* Toyman of the ''[[DCAU]]'', recreated as a childish madman who wears a doll head with a creepy smile.

* The titular character of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' can edge toward this. His interactions with his leaders, especially.

* Grimlock from ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' is a Psychopathic Mech-Proto who regularly tries to defeat Optimus Prime for leadership of the Autobots, destroys Decepticons with pleasure and rules his faction of Dinobots with an iron tail... in his down time, he enjoys fishing with said faction, hearing stories about the Good Ole Days from Kup (in the middle of battles) and giving human children and annoying, rhyming Autobots piggy-back rides. He also has his own brand of [[Hulk Speak]].

* The Bowler Hat Guy from ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]''.

* Quackerjack from ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'', going along with his "power" of making deadly toys.

* Baron Vain from ''[[The Modifyers]]'', the [[Big Bad]] who gleefully goes "Yay!" when his favorite agent shows up, to ecstatically feeding incompetent henchmen to a gigantic fish while playing opera music.

 

== Meta ==

* Works of fiction targeted towards children tend to make the villain fit this trope ([[Irony|Ironically]] to make the work more appealing to them).

 

* [[Michael Jackson]], who convinced himself that he was Peter Pan, named his home "Neverland Ranch" as a result, and was ''very'' close to children.

 

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