Tropescilloscope: As Himself

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

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