Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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

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