Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

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

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