Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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

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