Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

Highly dramatic, pretentious, and over-the-top acting. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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