Tropescilloscope: Large Ham

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

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