Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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