One of the defining traits of this particular character is his movie lore. This character will compare nearly
everything to a scene from a movie. While this character might be
Genre Savvy it's not a requirement.
Additionally,
The Movie Buff usually knows all about Oscar nominees, Oscars won, actors, directors, Emmy awards, how a movie was received, etc.
This is usually a source of pride for said character but can sometimes be a source of chagrin for the rest of the cast.
His knowledge is likely to be used for humor more often than it is used as a plot point.
Examples:
- Dean from Supernatural.
- Tony on NCIS.
- Randy in Scream.
- Remington Steele. Every case he and Laura had could be solved by his remembering the plot of an old movie.
- The Film Freak from the Batman comics.
- Abed from Community. Naturally, he's a film student.
- In Big Wolf on Campus, Merton J. Dingle makes movie references pretty much Once an Episode.
- Obviously Truth in Television, especially in film school.
- Dawson, the title character in Dawson's Creek. He even has a theory that the answers to all of life's questions can be found in Spielberg films.
- Paramedic of Metal Gear Solid 3 fame loves trashy B-Movies, and uses them as a metaphor for gameplay.
- The main character in Secret of Evermore.
- Both John Egbert and his Troll counterpart, Karkat of Homestuck enjoy bad movies and rom-coms as a guilty pleasure (or in John's case, out of really bad taste), and John especially makes loads of references to them throughout the series.
- And in Act 6, Jake English, who loves all movies indiscriminately, to the point that you can't see his bedroom walls under the posters.
- Agent Francis York Morgan of Deadly Premonition will go off on tangents discussing his favorite movies while driving around in game. It ranges from reminiscing about Fast Times at Ridgemont High to referencing some seriously obscure B-horror movies.
- Shawn Spencer from Psych to a ridiculous degree. He is constantly comparing situations to movies (and TV shows) and casting himself and his friends in the various roles.
- Family Guy's Carl specializes in action movies and/or hot actresses, and can quote the exact second you need to see.
- Ed Chigliak on Northern Exposure.
- The extremely Genre Savvy Klingon communication officer in the Star Trek novel How Much For Just the Planet? specializes in Hitchcock movies, and is pretty much a walking encyclopedia of same.
