Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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