Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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