Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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