Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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