Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

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

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