Tropescilloscope: Leaning on the Fourth Wall

Implying the Fourth Wall. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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