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)

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