Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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

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