Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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

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