Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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

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