Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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