Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

A reference to an actor's previous role. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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