Tropescilloscope: Leaning on the Fourth Wall

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

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