Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

Making fun of yourself. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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