Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

A character experiences an emotional breakdown. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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