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The Power of Acting
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When acting isn't just a skill, it's practically a superpower. For whatever reason, a character's acting can be just as effective against one's enemies as the powers of a Flying Brick. It can be for the heroes, a Sidekick or even the villain, but with this trope, acting is something to be reckoned with. Note that espionage often requires some acting skill, or just being able to bluff and con people, but those are not this trope. This is about acting as for the stage, film, etc. being a power itself — or at least, someone who is attempting a bluff or a con being explicitly referred to as an actor. Despite how good the character's acting is said to be In-Universe, it's still as likely as not to be presented as Stylistic Suck (often for Rule of Funny, and/or to avoid an Informed Attribute). Compare Charles Atlas Superpower, Awesomeness Is a Force, Master of Disguise, Consummate Liar, Master Actor. Sister Trope to The Power of Language. Contrast Bad "Bad Acting". |
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Sean Bean Saves Westeros: When Sean Bean, in the place of Eddard Stark has to rouse the armies of the North against the Lannisters, he delivers a Rousing Speech. The reader will recognize it as a mosaic of vaguely adapted Shakespeare quotes, but the effect of The Bard's words, delivered by a trained Shakespearean actor, on people who don't know the speech is stolen is truly a sight to behold. | |
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In the second Rose Petal Place special, Sweet Violet gets Horace so into character during an acting session she's able to slip away and warn Rose Petal about Nastina's plan. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Touma defeated the Reality Warper Aureolus Izzard by convincing him that his powers had no effect anymore since he believed it, it came true. The above incident isn't the only case of this since Touma's shown to be quite good at BS-ing people when he wants to. Best shown by the fact that even after a dozen or more volumes, no one's realized that he's suffering from Amnesia (due to the events of the first arc). |
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In Unavowed, one of the Player Character's possible backgrounds is having worked as a stage actor, in which case their primary way of solving social situations becomes using their acting talent to deceive and distract people with tall tales, and they turn out to be extremly good at it. So good in fact, that even Mandana, who is a supernaturally empowered Living Lie Detector, admits that she has serious problems sensing it when they spin one of their stories. | |
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One of (if not the) most awesome moments of Cordelia's in Angel was when she bluffed Angelus into thinking that a jug of bottled water was actually holy water. Also when she pretends to be a police detective to infiltrate, alongside Wesley, a demon fight club. |
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The Simpsons, "Flaming Moe": A one-off character summons a thunderstorm with acting. As he said: | |
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Tomlane Belaroth in Hello, from the Magic Tavern is a stage actor who, over the course of the series, uses his skills to infiltrate the Dark Lord's army under multiple identities. When one of his identities is discovered, he covers himself by having another persona kill that one. In front of witnesses. And he's so good they believe it. | |
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Man-E-Faces from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) specializes in acting when not on duty. His main gimmick is being able to switch between three personae with various abilities, but his ability to act has also proven useful for him. | |
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So crucial a trope in Hamlet that it becomes a plot point. Realizing that "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king," Prince Hamlet has a theatrical troupe visiting the Danish court stage The Murder of Gonzago, whose plot mirrors almost exactly the backstory of Hamlet. Upon hearing the line "None wed the second but who killed the first," Queen Gertrude becomes uneasy (and remarks "The lady doth protest too much, methinks,"). Then, when Lucianus pours poison into the ears of the sleeping King Gonzago, King Claudius is so stricken with guilt that he abruptly gets up and leaves. This is proof enough for Hamlet that Claudius is responsible for the murder of his father. | |
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This is the skill-set that popular screen actor Lito Rodriguez contributes to the cluster in Sense8. On more than one occasion he (or one of his clustermates allowing him to use their body) manages to bluff, flirt or otherwise trick his way out of a difficult situation. | |
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Great Britain in Cyborg 009, it's the reason he was chosen to be transformed into a cyborg. | |
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Whateley Universe: If Mephisto the Mentalist's claims are to be believed, 99% of his career as a Super Villain consisted of a bunch of old Vaudeville tricks and illusions backed up by a lot of Genre Savviness and the judicious use of mind-altering powers which were taught to him by masters of the Ancient Conspiracy he serves. He was consistently able to pull a fast one over even his cleverest opponents, convincing them of everything from alien invasions to his own seeming apotheosis decade after decade. As for the less brilliant Super Hero types, such as the original Champion, well, in his own words, | |
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Discworld: This happens to the protagonist of Moving Pictures: being a movie star somehow allows him to defy physics so that he can save the day. Because, due to magic, he was using Hollywood (or rather, Holy Wood) Physics and Magic instead of the normal kinds. Tomjon from Wyrd Sisters, due to his godmothers' gifts, can remember every role he's ever played, is able to perfectly slip into any role he's given (meaning his acting will always be completely sincere) and is extremely good with people. One of his friends describes him as being able to use the Discworld's equivalent of the St. Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V to start a revolution in an Ankh-Morpork alehouse and have the people inside storm the palace and install him as king. |
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In DC Nation, Hugo Anders was armed only with this and a Desert Eagle if something bad happened. At one point, he was armed with nothing more than a Tamaranian disguise and his acting skills and infiltrated a secure prison to reach Starfire and smuggle her a UV light. | |
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One of the playable characters in Don't Starve is Wigfrid, an insane actress who plays a viking warrior. Somehow her method acting has made her not only exceptionally strong, but has also given her the ability to absorb hit points from her fallen enemies. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Elan's Dashing Swordsman prestige class gives him remarkable fighting prowess for long as he can keep up a quipping swashbuckler act (for example, giving him a circumstance bonus for making a Dynamic Entry). Given that his base class is a bard, and his fighting skill on its own is miserable, his instinctive knowledge of dramatic structure serves him well. | |
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In A Certain Scientific Railgun, Shinobu Nunotaba uses some excellent psychological warfare to convince the thugs who were threatening her that she had a Touch of Death ability. She barely even had to move and the thugs were soon terrified out of their minds Mook Horror Show-style. | |
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Inglourious Basterds: A major theme in the film is the power of cinema. After Shosanna shoots Zoller, she glances back at the propaganda film he starred in and watches him act, which momentarily moves her to pity him and let her guard down. This allows him to get his revenge. | |
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Mike (Satomi Keiko) in Umi no Misaki, when she gets really into a role, can make herself sound - and, in dim light, even somehow look - like who she's playing. Including, at one point, seeming to wear the other girl's eyeglasses, which there's no possible way she could have. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons, a Bard's effectiveness at bamboozling opponents or making his allies tougher is in direct proportion to his powers of performance. There was also a prestige class introduced which was essentially a stage magician who could produce actual magical effects by convincing his audience that he could do a given feat and presumably through the power of their belief. |
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Zootopia: Judy and Nick's climatic Batman Gambit required Nick to pull off a successful performance of succumbing to the Night Howler serum and hunting Judy long enough for her to secretly record all of Bellwether's gloating. | |
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Tomjon from Wyrd Sisters, due to his godmothers' gifts, can remember every role he's ever played, is able to perfectly slip into any role he's given (meaning his acting will always be completely sincere) and is extremely good with people. One of his friends describes him as being able to use the Discworld's equivalent of the St. Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V to start a revolution in an Ankh-Morpork alehouse and have the people inside storm the palace and install him as king. | |
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A couple of scenes in Galaxy Quest qualify, like pretending to fight to distract the guards. A deleted part of one scene has Sir Alexander Dane "entering the mind" of the stone monster through Method Acting. | |
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Gary Johnston from Team America: World Police. At the climax, he has to out-act Alec Baldwin. | |
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Also, in one of the anime episodes, Sumire uses her knowledge of acting to placate the vengeful spirit of an actress at a movie studio. It's actually quite a Tear Jerker to see the ghost finally happy again. | |
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Usopp from One Piece almost managed to trick a whole room full of marines he was a surprise inspector during the filler G8 Arc. That is, until Robin showed up in the surprise inspector's uniform and didn't back him up when he said he lied about being the inspector. It was all good since it saved him. He also used the power of BS on Thriller Bark to make Perona faint from sheer terror. |
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In an episode of Jonathan Creek, Carla reminds Jonathan that all the suspects are trained actors who will naturally be able to put up a convincing show of grief for the murder victim. As it happens, they're not faking their grief (since they were genuinely fond of their dead co-star) but are instead pretending to fight with each other in order to make the real killer think he's escaped their suspicion. This, of course, leads to them successfully murdering him. | |
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In his Really That Good episode on Superman: The Movie, Bob Chipman describes this trope as being how Superman was able to pull off Clark Kenting, specifically pointing to the scene where he takes off his glasses, stands more upright, and speaks in a more authoritative tone as he prepares to reveal his Secret Identity to Lois Lane — only to seamlessly slip right back into his dweebish Clark Kent personality when Lois steps out and he realizes he's not ready to do it. | |
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"Master Thespian" from Saturday Night Live aspires to this. His teacher, Chin-Hua, was able to look like Carl Weathers for a production of Othello (despite being an 80-year-old Chinese man) through "acting!" | |
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Used by Sophie in Leverage, despite her being a terrible actress when not running a con. | |
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Airi from Those Who Hunt Elves: her experience makes her an expert at reading and manipulating people. | |
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Doctor Who: The Second Doctor is a Master Actor, which is his main ability gimmick. See The Highlanders and The Enemy of the World for particularly dangerous uses of his acting skills. "The Shakespeare Code", where theatrical performance both summons and banishes the Monster of the Week. In the Expanded Universe book Managra, the main villain is a profoundly untalented 17th-century playwright whose stage shows incorporate mind control effects, and whose writing can possess people into becoming his actors. Part of the Doctor's plan to combat him involves performing Shakespeare soliloquies in a Time Lord-technology version of the Globe Theatre that responds mimetically to the performance of the actors, expanding the space and creating illusions of the setting. |
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This happens to the protagonist of Moving Pictures: being a movie star somehow allows him to defy physics so that he can save the day. Because, due to magic, he was using Hollywood (or rather, Holy Wood) Physics and Magic instead of the normal kinds. | |
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Grave Robbers from Outer Space blends character/in-movie elements with movie-making ones, so a few cards reference how good or bad someone’s performance is; making someone else’s Character a “Third-Rate Actor� for example makes them easier to kill. | |
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The basic concept of Private Actress is to prove this trope. | |
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The Iron Giant: When Kent manages to get the Iron Giant's location out of Hogarth, thus bringing in the army the next morning, Dean plays up his "scrappy beatnik" persona everyone in town thinks he has, and has the giant sitting in a lotus meditation pose to look like a giant art piece. The only person who doesn't fall for the ruse is Annie, Hogarth's mother, but even then she doesn't feel suspicious enough about it to directly call the act out. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In the Wraith Squadron books of the X-Wing Series, Garik "Face" Loran fills this role in the Wraith Squadron commando unit. When it comes to infiltration, he tells the other members of the team how to not draw attention and seem inconspicuous, while he gets everyone to pay attention only to him and feeding them his made up stories. Having a galaxy-wide famous actor on a covert operations team never becomes a problem, as he's just so good that nobody ever recognizes him if he doesn't want them to. It helps that he was famous for his child acting, and went into hiding before he became an adult. It also helps that he has the advantage of a great deal of advanced makeup. |
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Skyler White, from Breaking Bad, has used this to her advantage a number of times: faking going into labor to avoid getting arrested for a shoplifting her sister committed, faking a panic attack to convince a locksmith to get her into Walt's home, faking being a dumb blonde to help an old boss get off the hook for cooking his books, just to name a few examples. | |
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