Psychopathic Manchild: Difference between revisions

* 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.}}

* 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]]''.

* 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.}}

* [[Evil Weapon|Nightblood]] from ''[[Warbreaker]]'' is a lot like this, acting much like an optimistic child eager to please its owner -- by killing things.

* From ''[[Harry Potter]]:'' [[Sadist Teacher|Dolores Umbridge]], [[Complete Monster|Bellatrix Lestrange]], and arguably, [[Big Bad|Voldemort himself]].

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

**** 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:

* Jackle from ''[[NiGHTS Into Dreams]]'' is a literal psychopath whose lair looks like a small child's play room; complete with teddy bears, a merry-go-round, and a guillotine.

* 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.

*** 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.

* [[Isometric Projection|Isometric]] [[Third-Person Shooter]] ''Loaded'' has Mamma, so named because [[Verbal Tic Name|it's the only word he knows]]. A hulking, diaper-clad giant prone to [[And Call Him George|inadvertently crushing people to death]], his backstory indicates that he was abandoned as a baby, but somehow survived to adulthood without acquiring any education or [[No Social Skills|social skills]].

* Albedo from ''[[Xenosaga]]'', especially with his interactions with MOMO and Jr. In the first game, he giggles at the sight of a Kirschwasser he tore apart and demonstrates his ability to regenerate as if he was performing a magic show.

** Lately Liam "Brook" Brooks has shown signs of being one of these after having some [[Sanity Slippage]] which resulted in [[Ax Crazy]] tendencies.

* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'': Nappa.

* The title character of ''[[Saladfingers]]'', 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.

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is a Type B. Imagine him as a twelve year old boy with no supervision and a gun and you get the idea.

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Futurama]]'''s Bender, the alcoholic, amoral gambler who deals porn and has no qualms with selling children as dog food occasionally becomes incredibly childish, most notably in the Mom-centric episodes.

** 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.

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' has a rather [[Tear Jerker]] [[Deconstruction]] in "Baby-Doll"; The titular supervillainess is a 30 year old actress with a medical condition that causes her to look about five, despite having the emotional and intellectual maturity of her actual age. Because of this, she was never taken seriously beyond her original role in a sitcom and ended up being [[Driven to Madness]], throwing up her [[Cheerful Child]] stage persona as a psychological shield against her miserable existence (though it isn't perfect-she slips up and reveals her true, depressive personality on occasion). The plot is driven by her attempt to recreate the show's setting in an attempt to return to the one happy part of her life. Her emotional immaturity is a mask to help her avoid her problems with adulthood, as revealed when she crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]].

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

* [[Metalocalypse|Dethklok]]

* 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]].