Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

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

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