Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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