Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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

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