Tropescilloscope: Leaning on the Fourth Wall

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

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