Tropescilloscope: As Himself

Bob the Actor is actually playing Bob the Actor. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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