Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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