Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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

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