Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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

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