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