Tropescilloscope: Breaking the Fourth Wall

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