Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

Extreme or ultimate self-centeredness. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Kick the Dog Affably Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Very Loosely Based on a True Story Loads and Loads of Characters Defrosting Ice Queen Cat Scare Even Evil Has Standards Truth in Television Big-Bad Ensemble Only a Flesh Wound Dropped a Bridge on Him Loophole Abuse Crapsack World Stealth Pun Cluster F-Bomb Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Cameo Daylight Horror Slasher Movie Major Injury Underreaction For Want of a Nail The '60s Book-Ends Tranquil Fury Establishing Character Moment Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Faceless Italian Films Jitter Cam Chekhov's Gun What You Are in the Dark Big Fancy House Same Language Dub Anti-Hero Not Using the "Z" Word Overly Long Gag Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Aluminum Christmas Trees Grey and Gray Morality War Is Hell Trailers Always Spoil Fun with Acronyms Reality Has No Subtitles Historical In-Joke Anachronic Order Cat Fight Cruel and Unusual Death Sexy Discretion Shot Sole Survivor Rasputinian Death Laughing Mad Hypocritical Humor Mood Whiplash Belligerent Sexual Tension Hollywood Darkness La Résistance Christmas Movies Index Ripped from the Headlines Product Placement Offscreen Teleportation Badass Longcoat Fantastic Racism Dying Moment of Awesome Once More, with Clarity! 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In the Back Character Development Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Advertised Extra Fan Disservice Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Exactly What It Says on the Tin Pay Evil unto Evil Taking You with Me Fish out of Water Neck Lift Country Matters Fake Shemp Adults Are Useless Madness Mantra Wounded Gazelle Gambit Suspiciously Specific Denial Guile Hero Bloodier and Gorier Setting Update Damsel in Distress Pragmatic Villainy Air-Vent Passageway Adaptational Attractiveness Evil Counterpart Bloodless Carnage Straight Gay The Alleged Car Lock and Load Montage Insistent Terminology Action Survivor Laser-Guided Karma Villain Protagonist Nice Hat Dark Action Girl Black Dude Dies First Not Quite Dead Psycho for Hire Never Found the Body Big Bad Duumvirate Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Missing Mom Adaptational Heroism Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Skill Obviously Evil Naïve Newcomer Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Back from the Dead Needs Wiki Magic Love Bait-and-Switch Spell My Name with an "S" Curse Cut Short An Arm and a Leg Make It Look Like an Accident Bound and Gagged Dull Surprise Black Comedy Not So Above It All Authority Equals Asskicking Alliterative Name Ax-Crazy Combat Pragmatist Due to the Dead Meaningful Echo The Stoic Not So Stoic Took a Level in Badass Horror Comedy Obstructive Bureaucrat Happily Married Morality Pet Mr. Fanservice Romantic False Lead Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ironic Echo "Shaggy Dog" Story Dogged Nice Guy Undying Loyalty Sports Stories Unreliable Narrator Double Entendre Bolivian Army Ending Precision F-Strike Here We Go Again! Reasonable Authority Figure Beard of Evil Market-Based Title Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Better to Die than Be Killed Playing Gertrude The Power of Love Hong Kong Films Pet the Dog Hooker with a Heart of Gold Manly Tears Danny Peary Cult Movies List Department of Redundancy Department Calling the Old Man Out Rich Bitch Continuity Nod Shower Scene As the Good Book Says... You Have Failed Me Woman Scorned I'm a Humanitarian It Will Never Catch On Too Dumb to Live Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Dark Is Not Evil Femme Fatale Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fantasy Films Guns Akimbo Cool Old Lady Bury Your Gays Martial Arts Movie '80s Hair The Alcoholic Blatant Lies Darkest Hour The Musical Moment Killer Beauty Is Never Tarnished Break the Haughty Adaptational Badass Informed Ability Russian Films Irony Match Cut Well-Intentioned Extremist How We Got Here Twist Ending Cold-Blooded Torture Corpsing Karmic Death What Happened to the Mouse? 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Or Is It? Broken Aesop Facial Horror Wretched Hive This Is Gonna Suck Sequel Escalation Leitmotif Spiritual Successor Big Eater Unusual Euphemism Bring My Brown Pants Sacrificial Lion I Did What I Had to Do Beta Couple Dramatic Gun Cock Badass Bookworm Stalker with a Crush Recycled IN SPACE! Visual Pun Brick Joke Mind Screw Artistic License – Biology Psychological Thriller Paper-Thin Disguise What the Hell, Hero? Love at First Sight Tagline Took a Level in Jerkass Awesome, but Impractical Ship Tease Mistaken for Gay Retirony Casting Gag Narrator Slashed Throat Bullying a Dragon Kids Are Cruel Only Sane Man The Dreaded All Girls Want Bad Boys Romantic Comedy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Mama Bear Race Against the Clock Award-Bait Song An Aesop Love Triangle Plot Hole Eagleland The Stinger The Smurfette Principle The Starscream Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Works Set in World War II Badass Boast Unresolved Sexual Tension Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Atoner Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Worthy Opponent From Nobody to Nightmare Time Skip Canon Foreigner Antagonist Title Japanese Films Action Girl Death by Sex Television Movie Index Killed Mid-Sentence Heroic BSoD Insane Troll Logic Red Shirt Lampshade Hanging Rule of Funny Four-Temperament Ensemble Have a Gay Old Time Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun My God, What Have I Done? Creative Closing Credits Fourth Date Marriage Our Zombies Are Different You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Black and Gray Morality Frame-Up Early-Bird Cameo All Men Are Perverts Silence Is Golden Self-Deprecation Real Life No Celebrities Were Harmed Rule of Symbolism Taking the Bullet Annoying Younger Sibling No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ghost Fiction Karma Houdini Small Name, Big Ego The Big Guy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Agony of the Feet The Vamp Cool Old Guy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Reality Is Unrealistic Break the Cutie Meet Cute Death by Adaptation Meaningful Name Fate Worse than Death Cassandra Truth Asshole Victim Hell Is That Noise Dumb Blonde Pyrrhic Victory He Knows Too Much Zombie Stories Offscreen Moment of Awesome Daddy's Girl Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Ditz Knife Nut No Antagonist Broken Pedestal Sci-Fi Horror Gory Discretion Shot Eldritch Abomination Framing Device Brutal Honesty Alpha Bitch Fiery Redhead The Sociopath Smug Snake Bond Villain Stupidity Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Gorn Hoist by His Own Petard Epic Fail Thriller Foregone Conclusion The Mole Dark Reprise Your Head A-Splode Determinator Arranged Marriage Politically Incorrect Villain Novelization Shirtless Scene Conspicuous CG He Who Fights Monsters Action Genre Heel Realization Deliberate Values Dissonance Meaningful Background Event Race Lift Artistic License – Gun Safety Action Prologue A Father to His Men And the Adventure Continues Faux Affably Evil Evil Plan Stylistic Suck NO INDOOR VOICE Super Strength Extreme Doormat Eiffel Tower Effect Shout-Out Shown Their Work Nothing Is Scarier Fanservice Extra Badass Grandpa Sadistic Choice The Great Depression Abhorrent Admirer Heterosexual Life-Partners She's Got Legs Get Out! Evil vs. Evil It's All About Me Adaptation Expansion The Bad Guy Wins Film Series Noodle Incident Half the Man He Used to Be You Killed My Father Broken Bird Ambiguous Ending Token Minority Death Seeker Non-Indicative Name Roger Ebert: Great Movies List True Companions Chiaroscuro Storming the Castle The Casanova Those Two Bad Guys Ungrateful Bastard Pre-Mortem One-Liner Affectionate Parody Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The '90s Villain Song Bar Brawl Actor Allusion Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Adorkable Pretty Little Headshots Anti-Villain Age Lift Last-Name Basis Brainless Beauty Implacable Man Eureka Moment Off with His Head! Artistic License – Military Accidental Misnaming Parental Abandonment Did Not Get the Girl Black Best Friend Disney Death Chase Scene Flashback Leave the Camera Running Covers Always Lie Take a Third Option Re-Cut Body Horror Armor-Piercing Question Evil Is Hammy Oh, Crap! Sinister Minister Final Girl As Himself Sir Swears-a-Lot Anguished Declaration of Love Man on Fire "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sequel Hook Parental Neglect Pimped-Out Dress Scare Chord Disney Villain Death Villain with Good Publicity Children Are Innocent Idiot Ball I Just Shot Marvin in the Face