Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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

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