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