Tropescilloscope: Bad "Bad Acting"

Bad actors in a Show Within a Show don't resemble what actual bad actors are like. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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