Tropescilloscope: Bad "Bad Acting"

Bad actors in a Show Within a Show don't resemble what actual bad actors are like. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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