Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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