Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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