Tropescilloscope: Actor Allusion

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

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