Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

Fictional characters looking at the Fourth Wall. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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