Tropescilloscope: Leaning on the Fourth Wall

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

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