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