Tropescilloscope: As Himself

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

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