Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

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

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