Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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