Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

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

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