Tropescilloscope: Aside Glance

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

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