Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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