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