Tropescilloscope: As Himself

Bob the Actor is actually playing Bob the Actor. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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