Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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