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