History PsychopathicManchild / LiveActionTV

** Another ''Franchise/StarTrek'' example, this time from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The ''Q race'' at times comes across as this. Omnipotent and godlike in power, while gleefully using their power to manipulate, bully and otherwise annoy "less evolved" species, while reacting with indignation when these species actually call them out on their behavior. The Q played by John [=DeLancie=], with whom the crew most frequently interacts, has a particular reputation for this sort of behavior even among ''his own'' people and is very much TheTrickster. Except when he runs into [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Ben Sisko]], who unlike Picard is not about to put up with his crap and outright decks him when pushed too far. His [[Series/StarTrekVoyager son]] takes it UpToEleven.

** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': [[GreenEyedMonster Mitsuzane Kureshima]] starts out as a SpoiledSweet but as the series drags on it's become apparent that he is a SpoiledBrat ever since he becomes a Villain he makes deals with other [[BigBad Big Bads]] and when he is either called out, sees hallucinations of Takatora and asks if his plan is really going to work. He goes into a fit of hysteria.

* The Homelander from ''Series/TheBoys2019'' has a [[AttentionWhore chronic desire for attention]], gets angry when he doesn't get what he wants, and has zero regard for the pain he inflicts on others.

** [[spoiler:Metatron]]f. One angel who refuses to follow him points out to him that even though he may have been able to get the better of everybody in the S8 finale, [[spoiler:cast all the angels out of Heaven]], and essentially [[spoiler:become their new god afterwards]], he's basically just a nerd trying to fit in with the popular kids.

** [[spoiler:Metatron]] is a mix of Types B and C. One angel who refuses to follow him points out to him that even though he may have been able to get the better of everybody in the S8 finale, [[spoiler:cast all the angels out of Heaven]], and essentially [[spoiler:become their new god afterwards]], he's basically just a nerd trying to fit in with the popular kids.

** Glory is a mix of Types C and [[CuteAndPsycho D]]. She's a pretty blonde girl with ''massive'' SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and NighInvulnerability... and a SpoiledBrat whose default response to not getting her way is "throw destructive temper tantrum and murder anyone in my way." At the very end of her debut episode, after breaking the heel on one of her shoes, she starts stomping in a childish rage, which causes the ''entire building'' she's in at the time to collapse on top of her.

** Hal is very immature for a middle-aged father, quite paranoid, and capricious, and frequently puts his own desires above those of his family.

*** Kilgrave may act sophisticated, but has a hair-trigger temper and no self-control. He has a tendency to [[DisproportionateRetribution use his powers to hurt those who have annoyed or insulted him]] (from making a newsvendor throw scalding hot coffee in his own face, making an annoying gambler [[UseYourHead bash his head against a wooden column]], and ordering two house slaves to rip the skin off each others' faces if he doesn't get back within a certain time), hates not getting his way, and [[NeverMyFault refuses to take responsibility for his actions]]. Towards the end of the season, it is revealed that he gained his powers when he was a child and that may have caused him to have this permanent mindset.

** Tuco Salamanca, by contrast, is a deranged thug, who oscillates wildly between fits of exuberant glee, pouting tantrums, and outbursts of horrific violence. In his trademark moment, he beats a mook to an inch of his life for speaking out of line and then screams at Heisenberg to "fix him" a moment later. It's telling that his only whatsoever humanizing moment comes from standing for his elderly grandmother. With horrific violence, of course.

*** Melvin Potter. When we first meet him, he comes across as a really big kid. When Matt shows up at his workshop, he acts like he's going to punished by his parent for it so he fights back a nearly pummels Matt. In Season 2, however, he has dropped this trait, which is explained in the show as Melvin no longer having Fisk pressuring him or withholding his medications.

* Reese from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''.
** 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.
** Not that Lois is any better considering how [[HairTriggerTemper easily she throws childish temper tantrums.]]
** Since this is a SadistShow, maturity is in very short supply among the adults and children of the cast.

* The killer from the ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' episode "Poison" had shades of this: she [[LackOfEmpathy lacked the sense of empathy]] that most adults possessed and [[ItsAllAboutMe looked at the world by only her terms]], threw tantrums when she didn't get her way (and even had one upon being arrested by clinging onto a countertop, forcing the detectives to pry her hands off of it) and [[ItMakesSenseInContext smacked around a baby doll]] after being told her mother's arrest for the poisonings ended her deal with a clothing store she hoped to own and even admitted to her mother that she only married her recently-deceased husband so that she wouldn't pass judgment on her for sleeping around with him beforehand.

** The most recent one, a guy who transformed his victims into actual PeoplePuppets, at least has the excuse that a serious brain injury caused his personality to revert back to his childhood when [[spoiler: his puppeteer father was murdered by a robber; he was young enough that he thought the puppets were real and didn't understand why they didn't help when they were hanging right behind the robber]].

** Joe, the mentally disabled MonsterClown from "Damaged". Despite being in at least his thirties, he's extremely childlike, when he's finally caught he weeps like a child and screams for his daddy. But don't feel too sorry for him [[spoiler:he stalked a little girl through a carnival, then broke into her home and murdered her parents with an axe. For twenty years he was ThatOneCase to Rossi.]]

* ''Series/BlackMirror'': Robert Daly, the antagonist of [[Recap/BlackMirrorUSSCallister "USS Callister"]], is clearly stunted both emotionally and socially. He is entitled to the point of viewing even harmless slights as disrespectful. He vents his frustrations on sapient clones of his co-workers by torturing them into playing along with his fantasies. While reliving his favorite TV show with himself as the hero, Daly does a lot of immature things such as resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. Daly appears to be uncomfortable with anything even remotely sexual, despite an implied desire for a romance with the real-life Nanette Cole. When kissing the female crew members after "saving the day", Daly insists on keeping the kiss close-mouthed. He also removes all the clones' genitals and feels very awkward when Nanette's clone tries to distract him by flirting. Walton's clone refers to the ''Space Fleet'' mod as a "playground", and Robert Daly is shown enjoying other child-like things such as pizza and chocolate milk. Daly's actor, Jesse Plemons, has even compared the character to a 12-year-old boy who is confused about his own feelings and actively wishes for control.

** In ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum Asylum]]'', you have the bloody face killer, who is very sociopathic and intelligent, but quite child-like in their obsession with breast milk and devotion to idealised mother figures.

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** In ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Murder House]]'', you have the ghost/monster created from Nora's dead baby, which - in the main timeline - looks like an elderly person, is infantlike in its intelligence and behaviour, and is very homicidal.

** ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven Coven]]'' had Kyle (after he becomes a Frankenstein monster, though this is somewhat justified--the witches literally pieced him back together using various parts from his frat brothers, and the spell used to bring him back to life is a tricky one; the witches end up "raising" him by having him watch children's television and giving him simple books to read); Madison (who, despite being a teenager, is largely a SpoiledBrat who throws tantrums when things don't go her way); and Spalding (especially around his doll collection...though there's [[DirtyOldMan something more sexual]] going on in that case).

** Chang enjoys wielding the power of being a teacher like a bratty ten-year-old would, and is prone to throwing tantrums at the tiniest (if any) provocation.

** Another female variant is Margaret Hallman in "I Love You, Tommy Brown" - a 40-year-old woman who acts like a bratty, lovestruck teenager even as she shoots innocent people, abducts a child, and molests her former student. The final showdown has her throw a tantrum at the agents, stomping and yelling at them to be quiet.

** King Joffrey Baratheon is slightly older than [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire his book counterpart]] - a man at 17 by Westerosi standards, old enough to sit on the throne, at least - but is highly immature due to [[RoyallyScrewedUp his upbringing.]] He constantly engages in petty cruelty and takes sadistic delight in murdering, torturing, and humiliating those beneath him [[StupidEvil even when doing so would be to his detriment]], but behaves childishly towards those who stand up to him, usually resorting to screaming "''I AM THE KING''!" Never more apparent than in "Mhysa", when his grandfather and [[NumberTwo Hand of the King]] Tywin dismisses him to his chambers without his supper for insulting Tywin and Joffrey actually responds with "''I'm not TIRED''!"

** After The Reveal that Barbara Kean actually killed her parents, she acts like this a lot of the time, prone to childish temper tantrums that often end in someone's death. She grows out of it in season 4 thanks to [[spoiler:the influence of Ra's Al Ghul]].

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has the Gang of main characters. ''None'' of them has matured past their teen years (at most). While sometimes it does seem like there's an endearing aspect to this (usually in the case of Charlie's good-natured love for some things), it's shown as a horrible thing all around - the Gang are demanding, selfish, uppity monsters with no self-control who can barely take care of themselves. Special mentions include:

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Coover Bennett is the classic "DumbMuscle bruiser" type. Very dim, and possessing the emotional range of an eight-year-old, Coover's life is built around pleasing his mother and brothers, and he throws violent temper tantrums when he can't get his own way. His older brother Dickie is a slightly more mature example, being psychologically frozen at the moment in high school when protagonist Raylan Givens broke his knee, leaving him with [[EvilCripple his trademark limp]].

** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' gives us Ryutaros - what makes him worrying is that he gives the titular rider access to Gun Form; it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that, in order to turn into Den-O Gun Form, Ryutaros has to POSSESS Ryotaro. He believes that the best way to win over the heart of Airi is not by wooing her, but rather, by murdering Yuto/Zeronos.

** ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'': [[EvilPrince Aran]] acts like a [[EvilIsPetty jilted five-year-old]] when talking to Makoto in the first half of the series. Also, his debut as Kamen Rider Necrom really gave off the vibe of a rich kid showing off a new toy. Mind you, he is at least 18 by physical age and 160 by actual age. Realizing the error of the Ganma ways removed the psychopathic part and left him with only occasional bouts of harmless immaturity like complaining about minor things that humans usually take for granted.
** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': [[PerpetualSmiler Parado]] gets bored extremely easily and will not stand still unless properly entertained. His usual reaction to being ignored by [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Emu]] is pretty much the same as that of a child being ignored by their parents-if said kid was completely untroubled by murder and capable of causing a pandemic with a snap of their fingers. The playful attitude does not impair his TheChessmaster qualities or alleviate the fact that his preferred game is [[DeadlyGame Kamen Rider Chronicle]], where [[AnyoneCanDie civilians]] fight [[MonsterOfTheWeek Bugsters]] to death. [[spoiler: As it turns out this is largely because he was created as a six-year-old's ImaginaryFriend.]]

*** Melvin Potter. When we first meet him, he comes across as a really big kid. When Matt shows up at his workshop, he acts like he's going to punished by his parent for it so he fights back a nearly pummels Matt. In season 2, however, he has dropped this trait, which is explained in the show as Melvin no longer having Fisk pressuring him or withholding his medications.

** [[LighterAndSofter Softened slightly]] in season two: we see her bonding with her ''sestra'' Sarah (particularly the "Sugar, Sugar" singalong during the brief road trip) and the other clones, finding a [[TemporaryLoveInterest "boyfriend"]] in a chivalrous bar patron, and showing kindness to other girls and women who have been mistreated in the same ways that she has. That being said, she still resorts to violence [[HairTriggerTemper at a moment's notice]] and [[TheDogBitesBack takes brutal revenge]] on those who have wronged her.
** Another, more understated example is Rachel Duncan, the "proclone". Whenever something doesn't go her way, Rachel reacts with petty spite. Whether it's coercing Paul to have sex with her to get back at Sarah for killing her monitor/lover (even though Helena killed him), denying Cosima medical treatment in order to punish Sarah for being uncooperative, or petulantly smashing the vials of Sarah's daughter's bone marrow like a five-year-old breaking her sister's toys when Sarah doesn't give her important information (that she doesn't even have). Her grudge against Sarah is essentially out of pure jealousy for taking away attention from her and for being the only known fertile clone.

* [[MultiethnicName Marlowe Viccellio]] from ''Series/{{Psych}}''. Apparently a normal woman when we first meet her, she is arrested for stealing blood [[JustLikeRobinHood (it was to save her brother's life)]] and sent to a California women's prison, where she quite abruptly turned into this. Given the nature of the show, this is PlayedForLaughs, with a scene of Marlowe acting cute and flirty with her boyfriend [[StarCrossedLovers (ironically, a police detective)]] when he comes to visit her and then, ''seconds later'', joining the rest of the inmates in a violent attack on the guards when they start a riot during a prison variety show. Later, when she is released from prison, Marlowe proves to be perfectly sane; [[ObfuscatingInsanity her "crazy" shtick had been an act to endear herself to the other inmates]] - which is more heroic than it sounds, because the detectives needed her to cozy up to Santa Barbara's most notorious female gangster in order to uncover some clues toward solving a gang shooting.

** "Charlie X," full-stop. A human child raised by omnipotent aliens and given the ability to warp reality. Though 18 years old, he has the social skills of a spoiled five-year-old. Having committed mass murder before being picked up by the Enterprise, he causes so much carnage upon the crew (which the aliens ultimately undo) that he is handed back to the aliens at the end of the episode.

** The [[Series/TheTwilightZone2002 2002 revival series]] employs this trope in "It's Still a Good Life", a sequel to the classic series episode "It's a Good Life", with the grown-up Anthony Fremont. Having been coddled his entire life due to his RealityWarper powers, Anthony has maintained a childish mentality well into adulthood, to the point where his seven-year-old daughter is more mature than him.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold is most definitely an emotionally immature version of this with his masterminding grand evil plans to get what he wants from everyone, his deal-making, and chronic addiction to dark magic, being used as "mask" to cover up his fear of abandonment and deep-seated insecurity and belief that he is unworthy of true love and that no one could ever love him that appears to go all the way back to his dad abandoning him as a kid in Neverland for eternal youth. He's definitely closest to the type three evil genius type manchild who's obsessed with power. However, he gravitates from both ends of the spectrum of both good and evil. Even his evil and psychopathy seem to be more based on the curse's dark influence, rather than Rumple himself.

** Ramsay Bolton is a Type C because he is intelligent, cunning, deliberate in his actions, a capable fighter and hunter, and purports himself to be the civilized scion of a Westerosi house but he has his moments of indulging in his sadistic pleasures and urges more than he should. Like, for instance, that episode with the pork sausage...This also pushes him into StupidEvil territory despite aforementioned intelligence.

** Sylar himself is a Type C. He's shown to be extremely powerful and ruthless, but also indulges in childish behavior to deeply freak people out. He's also shown to treat abilities like a toy collection, even explicitly calling Maya a shiny new toy to play with.

*** Kilgrave is a Type C. He may act sophisticated, but has a hair-trigger temper and no self-control. He has a tendency to [[DisproportionateRetribution use his powers to hurt those who have annoyed or insulted him]] (from making a newsvendor throw scalding hot coffee in his own face, making an annoying gambler [[UseYourHead bash his head against a wooden column]], and ordering two house slaves to rip the skin off each others' faces if he doesn't get back within a certain time), hates not getting his way, and [[NeverMyFault refuses to take responsibility for his actions]]. Towards the end of the season, it is revealed that he gained his powers when he was a child and that may have caused him to have this permanent mindset.

* Jay Wratten of ''Series/TheShadowLine'' is an example of Type C. He's an extremely dangerous man and his outward childishness only makes him creepier. He also turns out to be [[HiddenDepths much smarter and more manipulative than anyone realises]].
* Moriarty in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' is this trope in spades (type C). This is in deep contrast to the Moriarty of the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
* Paulie Walnuts from ''Series/TheSopranos'' is the perfect(ly nightmarish) combination of the petty self-centeredness of a spoiled child with the total disregard for human life of a stone-cold murderer.

** The Trickster/[[spoiler:Gabriel]] is a Type E, having a mastery of every kind of DeadlyPrank and torturous mind game.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':

** In ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Murder House]]'', you have the ghost/monster created from Nora's dead baby, which - in the main timeline- looks like an elderly person, is infantlike in its intelligence and behaviour, and is very homicidal.

* [[TheCaligula Emperor Cartagia]] from ''Series/BabylonFive'' is thouroughly insane and monstrous, but his cruel antics have a distinctively petty and childish taste. He's like a dim-witted bully tormenting a cat. He would dance a merry dance with the court jester and then have him executed for mocking him, goes all sulky when despite all his [[ColdBloodedTorture efforts]], he cannot get a scream out of his victim, and acts annoyed that he has to make all the decisions, when asked which of the victim's eyes he would like to be put out. He sentences his planet to destruction, because he was promised to be made a god if he does.

* ''Series/BlackMirror'': Robert Daly, the antagonist of [[Recap/BlackMirrorUSSCallister "USS Callister"]], is clearly stunted both emotionally and socially. He is entitled to the point of viewing even harmless slights as disrespectful. He vents his frustrations on sapient clones of his co-workers by torturing them into playing along with his fantasies. While reliving his favorite TV show with himself as the hero, Daly does a lot of immature things such as resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. Daly appears to be uncomfortable with anything even remotely sexual, despite an implied desire for a romance with the real life Nanette Cole. When kissing the female crew members after "saving the day", Daly insists on keeping the kiss close-mouthed. He also removes all the clones' genitals, and feels very awkward when Nanette's clone tries to distract him by flirting. Walton's clone refers to the ''Space Fleet'' mod as a "playground", and Robert Daly is shown enjoying other child-like things such as pizza and chocolate milk. Daly's actor, Jesse Plemons, has even compared the character to a 12-year-old boy who is confused about his own feelings and actively wishes for control.

** Tuco Salamanca, by contrast, is a deranged thug, who oscilates wildly between fits of exuberant glee, pouting tantrums and outburst of horrific violence. In his trademark moment he beats a mook to an inch of his life for speaking out of line, and then screams at Heisenberg to "fix him" a moment later. It's telling that his only whatsoever humanizing moment comes from standing for his elderly grandmother. With horrific violence, of course.

** Chang enjoys wielding the power of being a teacher like a bratty ten-year-old would, and is prone throwing tantrums at the tiniest (if any) provocation.
** Pierce veers into this, particularly in S2, with the lengths he is willing to go to to make the other students' lives hell just to get attention, and has had a number of psychotic breakdowns. He's seen (and acts) in-universe like a rebellious teenage son to [[TeamDad Jeff]] and [[TeamMom Britta]], despite being older than either of them.

** There is also Cy in "Proof", who, despite being born with brain damage, is unsympathetic. The reason for this is that, unlike the examples above, there is no indication that Cy's mental handicap is the ''cause'' of his behaviour; for all his childishness, he is not incapable of knowing right from wrong, and says that he learned when he was a child that [[KickTheDog kicking his dog]] was fun, and [[ForTheEvulz he kills for the same reason]]. He also has the same misogyny as many other killers, takes trophies of his victims, and plans to avenge perceived wrongs by making his brother watch the tape of Cy mutilating his daughter, and by the end of the episode it's clear that, even without his handicap, he would still be a SerialKiller (and a particularly sadistic one at that, he rapes and takes away his victims' senses with sulphuric acid to kill them).
** Another female variant is Margaret Hallman in "I Love You, Tommy Brown" - a 40-year-old woman who acts like a bratty, lovestruck teenager even as she shoots innocent people, abducts a child and molests her former student. The final showdown has her throw a tantrum at the agents, stomping and yelling at them to be quiet.

* ''Series/{{Delete}}'': The AI comes off as this, since it's essentially a young child lashing out at those it views as a threat.

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'''s Walter Bishop is a seemingly harmless MadScientist and pretty likeable, until you remember he experimented on children in order to communicate with other dimensions, has created horrible monsters and oodles of other universe-smashing stuff.

** King Joffrey Baratheon is slightly older than [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire his book counterpart]] - a man at 17 by Westerosi standards, old enough to sit on the throne, at least - but is highly immature due to [[RoyallyScrewedUp his upbringing.]] He constantly engages in petty cruelty and takes sadistic delight in murdering, torturing and humiliating those beneath him [[StupidEvil even when doing so would be to his detriment]], but behaves childishly towards those who stand up to him, usually resorting to screaming "''I AM THE KING''!" Never more apparent than in "Mhysa", when his grandfather and [[NumberTwo Hand of the King]] Tywin dismisses him to his chambers without his supper for insulting Tywin and Joffrey actually responds with "''I'm not TIRED''!"

** Dany's older brother Viserys was a more sympathetic and complex variation of this trope. On one hand, he is childish, abusive, cruel, petulant, vindictive and entitled and retreats into childlike fantasy and tantrums rather than dealing with his problems. On the other hand,he's also a bit of [[TheWoobie a woobie]] (or at least, a DracoInLeatherPants)because it's easy to understand why he'd behave like this because (as a child) he experienced no guidance and have had every whim catered for by adults who were just using him for his name, had a pronounced genetic predisposition to mental illness and a tragic and traumatic personal history. Fans who feel sad that the character was killed off so soon do so because he didn't seem condemned to spend his entire life as a psychopathic manchild: he comes across more as a troubled youth than a complete sociopath, and there's this sense that he could have [[CharacterDevelopment matured into a decent adult]].

** Ramsay Bolton is a Type C because he is intelligent, cunning, deliberate in his actions, a capable fighter and hunter and purports himself to be the civilized scion of a Westerosi house but he has his moments of indulging in his sadistic pleasures and urges more than he should. Like, for instance, that episode with the pork sausage...This also pushes him into StupidEvil territory despite aforementioned intelligence.

* In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', the title character Hannibal, despite being cultured, cunning, and a strategical genius, regularly displays downright petty behaviour, for example making veiled confessions to the FBI agents he's toying with or killing people because they insulted him.His main motive for his crimes seems to be curiosity, as he says: 'Occasionally, I drop a teacup to shatter on the floor on purpose. I’m not satisfied when it doesn’t gather itself up again. Someday perhaps, a cup will come together.' He just 'wants to see what happens'. At some point, he shows mannerisms that resemble a child in an unsettling manner, like toying with a pencil, deliberately pricking his thumb on a fishing hook, then sucking the blood off his finger, or his childlike happiness about seemingly meaningless, little things.

** Dennis Reynolds. While Mac and Charlie are more openly immature and childish, Dennis' immaturity takes form in the spiteful way he reacts when things don't go his way, his lack of responsibility and self-awareness and his inability to see the considerable psychological damage he inflicts on everyone around him as anything more than a game.

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

** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' has Phoenix, a Co-Dragon to the big bad. Before he was turned into a monster, he was a florist and described as not being able to harm anyone. As Phoenix, his violent tendancies, coupled with his CameBackStrong power, made it increasingly harder to control him, and the BigBad feared he may actually do more harm than good as he rampaged. He was finally [[HurlItIntoTheSun kicked into the sun]], only to be replaced by [[FromBadToWorse Sora/Gremlin]], whose friendly and playful nature is offset by being a ManipulativeBastard that is a bigger pain in both side's sides than Phoenix. Unlike Phoenix, however, it was revealed that Sora was a serial killer whose StartOfDarkness occurred when his girlfriend broke up with him and the reason for his unusual behavior had nothing to do with the loss of his humanity and more that he never had much to lose in this department in the first place.

* Villanelle/Oksana from ''Series/KillingEve'' is definitely one of these. It's best seen in episode 8 wherein she kidnaps her mentor's pre-teen daughter Irina. She and Irina spend the whole episode bickering back with Vilanelle acting like she's Irina's peer. She also gets mad at Irina for being better at speaking Mandarin.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' 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.

*** Kilgrave is a Type C. He may act sophisticated, but has a hair-trigger temper and no self-control. He has a tendency to [[DisproportionateRetribution use his powers to hurt those who have annoyed or insulted him]] (from making a newsvendor throw scalding hot coffee in his own face, making an annoying gambler [[UseYourHead bash his head against a wooden column]], and ordering two house slaves to rip the skin off each others' faces if he doesn't get back within a certain time), hates not getting his way, and [[NeverMyFault refuses to take responsibility for his actions]]. Towards the end of the season it is revealed that he gained his powers when he was a child and that may have caused him to have this permanent mindset.

* In ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Major Frank Burns is an extremely emotionally immature individual, who repeatedly acts in ways not too dissimilar to a young child -- up to and including throwing an honest-to-god '''temper tantrum''' when he finds out he won't get to remain commanding officer of the 4077 after Colonel Blake is killed. He's also capable of extreme acts of self-centered malice and cruelty, such as laughing at the possibility of his rival Captain Hawkeye Pierce getting executed for a court martial and being willing to steal a wounded General's gun and let the company clerk take the blame for it.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold is most definitely an emotionally immature version of this with his masterminding grand evil plans to get what he wants from everyone, his deal making, and chronic addiction to dark magic, being used as "mask" to cover up his fear of abandonment and deep-seated insecurity and belief that he is unworthy of true love and that no one could ever love him that appears to go all the way back to his dad abandoning him as a kid in Neverland for eternal youth. He's definitely closest to the type three evil genius type manchild who's obsessed with power. However, he gravitates from both ends of the spectrum of both good and evil. Even his evil and psychopathy seem to be more based on the curse's dark influence, rather than Rumple himself.

* Cyril O'Reilly from ''Series/{{Oz}}'', an Irish gangster who became mentally disabled after a blow to the head. He also has the bad luck of having a ManipulativeBastard 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.

* Joey Heric of ''Series/ThePractice'' 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.

* The ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' "Undercover Boss" parody starring [[Franchise/StarWars Kylo Ren]] exaggerates the PsychopathicManchild traits he has in the movies. As "Matt the Radar Technician", Kylo Ren constantly tries to talk up Kylo Ren and reacts like a pouty child when Tim the Stormtrooper calls his lightsaber poorly made. He also thinks a silly looking card is a sufficient apology to a subordinate for ''killing his son''. In a "Behind the Scenes" vid, an unused segment shows him seeing a poster of Kylo Ren defaced with insults and throwing an angry tantrum as a result.

** Another ''Franchise/StarTrek'' example, this time from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The ''Q race'' at times comes across as this. Omnipotent and godlike in power, while gleefully using their power to manipulate, bully and otherwise annoy "less evolved" species, while reacting with indignation when these species actually call them out on their behavior. The Q played by John [=DeLancie=], with whom the crew most-frequently interacts, has a particular reputation for this sort of behavior even among ''his own'' people and is very much TheTrickster. Except when he runs into [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Ben Sisko]], who unlike Picard is not about to put up with his crap and outright decks him when pushed too far. His [[Series/StarTrekVoyager son]] takes it UpToEleven.

** Lucifer, for all his power, wisdom and affable evilness, is revealed to be nothing more than a "[[SpoiledBrat bratty child]] throwing a temper tantrum". His destruction of the human race is due to him being jealous that God favored humans more than him, essentially making the Apocalypse one big family argument.

** [[spoiler:God himself is revealed to be this in the Season 14 finale. He views the universe the same way a child views their favorite television show, and has been putting the Winchesters through hell all this time because it makes the show more exciting for Him. When the Winchesters rebel aginst Him, He goes to increasingly extreme lengths to punish them, right up to [[KillEmAll killing every human on Earth]].]]

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' gives this treatment to Queen Elizabeth I, of all people. "Queenie" is a naughty schoolgirl at heart who keeps her courtiers in line by threatening to cut their heads off (and occasionally following through on the threat).

%%* Franklin from ''Series/TrueBlood'' plays this trope straight off into the distance.

* Many of the serial killers in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' 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 him to pick up transients so he could use them in the smarter brother's experiments.]]

** Joe, the mentally retarded MonsterClown from "Damaged". Despite being in at least his thirties, he's extremely childlike, when he's finally caught he weeps like a child and screams for his daddy. But don't feel too sorry for him [[spoiler:he stalked a little girl through a carnival, then broke into her home and murdered her parents with an axe. For twenty years he was ThatOneCase to Rossi.]]

** ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'' has [[TheGunslinger Jin]], the sociopathic [[GigglingVillain combatant]] of the apocalyptic [[FarEastAsianTerrorists terrorist group]] [=MetsuboJinrai.NET=]. He is essentially dumber [[Series/KamenRiderExAid Parado]] (mentioned above), only interested in causing mayhem and sometimes even going against his party's best interests to make things more fun for himself. On the other [[DramaticGunCock gun]], that doesn't make him any less capable [[TheBrute fighter]] and probably makes him even scarier because he could do anything just for [[FortheEvulz funzies]].