Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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