Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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