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