Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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

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