Tropescilloscope: Leaning on the Fourth Wall

Implying the Fourth Wall. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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