Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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