Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

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

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