Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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Knight Templar Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Imagine Spot Would Hurt a Child Deal with the Devil Groin Attack Shirtless Scene Black Comedy Closed Circle Combat Pragmatist Wounded Gazelle Gambit Really Gets Around Book-Ends You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Faux Affably Evil Off-into-the-Distance Ending Super Strength BFG Femme Fatale B-Movie World of Ham Italian Films Superhero Bloody Hilarious Hooker with a Heart of Gold Frame-Up No Antagonist Dark Is Not Evil Lock and Load Montage Reality Ensues Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Pimped-Out Dress Broken Aesop The Load Red Shirt Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? All for Nothing Manic Pixie Dream Girl Same Language Dub Be Careful What You Wish For Market-Based Title The Stoic Foregone Conclusion Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Training Montage Dwindling Party Meaningful Echo In Medias Res Hero Antagonist Intrepid Reporter Tap on the Head No Ending The Reveal Those Wacky Nazis Asshole Victim Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Early Installment Weirdness Bloodier and Gorier Fake Shemp Adorkable Antagonist Title Chekhov's Gunman Bait-and-Switch An Aesop Suspiciously Similar Substitute Evil Brit Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Crucified Hero Shot Hypocrite Villain Protagonist As the Good Book Says... Mighty Whitey Only Known by Their Nickname Bury Your Gays Mistaken for Gay Never Found the Body Creepy Child Historical-Domain Character Your Head A-Splode Military and Warfare Films Fanservice timeperiod Ax-Crazy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fatal Family Photo Villain Song Unreliable Narrator Alpha Bitch Enemy Mine Bullying a Dragon Jump Scare Epic Fail Parental Substitute Big Damn Heroes Rousing Speech Friend to All Children Affably Evil Novelization Stylistic Suck Demoted to Extra Bond Villain Stupidity Rich Bitch Large Ham Fingore Rule of Funny Pre-Mortem One-Liner Male Gaze Silence Is Golden Greater-Scope Villain Word of God Fatal Flaw Grey and Gray Morality Car Fu Homage Attempted Rape The Stinger Break the Haughty Heroic Sacrifice Gone Horribly Right Conspicuous CG Shown Their Work Paper-Thin Disguise You Killed My Father Does Not Like Shoes Central Theme Corpsing Offscreen Teleportation Disappeared Dad Tagline Villain Ball Sassy Black Woman Dutch Angle Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dark Action Girl Punch-Clock Villain Running Gag Red Oni, Blue Oni Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Captain Ersatz The X of Y Genre Shift Cool Old Guy Developing Doomed Characters Stealth Pun The Faceless Easily Forgiven Honor Before Reason Badass Longcoat Spanner in the Works Cain and Abel Wham Line Becoming the Mask The Un-Reveal Older Than They Look Up to Eleven Evil Plan "Awesome McCool" Name Jitter Cam Calling the Old Man Out Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Television Movie Index Psychological Thriller Amoral Attorney Famous Last Words He Who Fights Monsters Woman in White Mooks Knife Nut Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hollywood Law This Is Gonna Suck Not Using the "Z" Word Neck Snap Dumb Blonde Artistic License – Biology Wham Shot Celebrity Paradox Blackmail Scare Chord Call-Forward Artistic License – History Grievous Bottley Harm The Alcoholic Ms. Fanservice Adults Are Useless Lampshade Hanging She Cleans Up Nicely Depraved Bisexual Translation Convention Spared by the Adaptation Determinator aka: The Determinator No Name Given Big Fancy House Hope Spot Crazy Jealous Guy Science Fiction Films Brother–Sister Incest Death by Adaptation Daddy's Girl All Girls Want Bad Boys Ascended Extra Jerkass Has a Point Expy He Knows Too Much Meet Cute Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Drives Like Crazy Playing Gertrude Informed Ability The Musical Show Within a Show Sole Survivor Narrator The Chessmaster My Beloved Smother Bound and Gagged Biopic Heroic BSoD The '60s Card-Carrying Villain Smoking Is Cool What Happened to the Mouse? Not So Stoic Dirty Coward Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Aluminum Christmas Trees Mugging the Monster Bunny-Ears Lawyer Shut Up, Hannibal! Bald of Evil Arranged Marriage Almost Kiss Evil-Detecting Dog Deus ex Machina Ambiguous Disorder Abusive Parents I Need a Freaking Drink Gory Discretion Shot Covers Always Lie The Hero Dies Moment Killer Blatant Lies Film Noir Index Mr. Exposition Cruel and Unusual Death Cool Shades Made of Explodium Crazy-Prepared Beard of Evil All There in the Manual Properly Paranoid Composite Character Adaptational Badass Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Spiritual Successor For Want of a Nail Horror Comedy Took a Level in Jerkass Precision F-Strike Manchild Fiery Redhead I Have Your Wife Sci-Fi Horror Let's Get Dangerous! 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Your Cheating Heart Cowboy Cop Accidental Misnaming Bland-Name Product Framing Device And Starring It's Personal Epic Movie Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Black Comedy Rape "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Peek-a-Boo Corpse Red Right Hand Character Development Affectionate Parody Martial Arts Movie An Axe to Grind The Mafia Papa Wolf Ironic Echo Stepford Smiler The Power of Love Only in It for the Money Neck Lift Evil vs. Evil Dramedy Chekhov's Gun Breaking the Fourth Wall Defrosting Ice Queen Obfuscating Stupidity Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bavarian Fire Drill Hypocritical Humor Author Appeal Cat Fight Air-Vent Passageway Arc Words Non-Indicative Name The Dog Bites Back The Chick Butt-Monkey Pyrrhic Victory Broken Pedestal Leitmotif Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Break the Cutie Recycled IN SPACE! Deadpan Snarker Our Zombies Are Different Chekhov's Skill Mercy Kill Funny Background Event Action Genre "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Great Depression Getting Crap Past the Radar Riddle for the Ages Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Laser-Guided Karma Bring My Brown Pants Instant Death Bullet Action Girl Works Set in World War II Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Public Domain Feature Films Loophole Abuse Dies Wide Open Eureka Moment Dual Wielding The Cameo Red Eyes, Take Warning Darkest Hour Early-Bird Cameo It Can Think folderlabel Disney Villain Death Scenery Porn The Alleged Car Manipulative Bastard Bi the Way Shipper on Deck Happily Married Hollywood Darkness No OSHA Compliance Politically Incorrect Villain Horror Films Sequel Escalation I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Eiffel Tower Effect Artistic License – Law Pay Evil unto Evil No Celebrities Were Harmed Australian Movies The '50s Kill It with Fire Setting Update Parental Incest Heel–Face Turn Our Vampires Are Different Aside Glance Age Lift Retirony Those Two Guys Naked People Are Funny Adaptation Distillation I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" '80s Hair Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Foil Bad Boss Karma Houdini Body Horror Adaptation Name Change Drill Sergeant Nasty Male Frontal Nudity Visual Pun Guns Akimbo Author Avatar The Bad Guy Wins Rule of Three Berserk Button Taking You with Me The Smurfette Principle Fanservice Extra Death by Sex Mexican Standoff Heel Realization Disguised in Drag Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bittersweet Ending Dirty Cop All There in the Script Exact Words Irony 20 Minutes into the Future Unspoken Plan Guarantee Reality Has No Subtitles Fat Bastard Men Are the Expendable Gender Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Made of Iron Empathic Environment Pet the Dog A Date with Rosie Palms Bare Your Midriff Back from the Dead Took a Level in Badass Artistic License – Physics Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Canadian Movies Scenery Gorn Skewed Priorities Meaningful Background Event Gratuitous English Once More, with Clarity! Oh, Crap! Four-Temperament Ensemble Kill 'em All Only Sane Man Naïve Newcomer Authority Equals Asskicking Captain Obvious Contrived Coincidence Malevolent Masked Men Morality Pet Big Brother Instinct Anti-Hero Serious Business Shell-Shocked Veteran Leave the Camera Running Camp Gay Eagleland Dull Surprise Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! True Companions Nice Hat Actually Pretty Funny As Himself Slasher Movie Race Lift Police Brutality Mama Bear Establishing Character Moment Demonic Possession Amusing Injuries Bad "Bad Acting" Danny Peary Cult Movies List Storming the Castle Dissonant Serenity The End... Or Is It? Bilingual Bonus The '80s Creative Closing Credits Maybe Ever After The '70s It Will Never Catch On The Oner Rasputinian Death Kick the Dog Tempting Fate Never Trust a Trailer Together in Death The Hero Does This Remind You of Anything? Earn Your Happy Ending Genre Savvy Even Evil Has Standards Would Hit a Girl Chewing the Scenery Villain Opening Scene The Lost Lenore Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Ship Tease Romantic Comedy Laughing Mad Thriller Final Girl Green-Eyed Monster Very Loosely Based on a True Story Brick Joke Smug Snake The Quiet One Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Determinator There Is No Kill Like Overkill Light Is Not Good Idiot Ball Improbable Aiming Skills Noodle Incident Eye Scream Heterosexual Life-Partners The Ghost Sir Swears-a-Lot Humans Are Bastards Dramatic Gun Cock Flipping the Bird Fate Worse than Death Love Triangle Plucky Comic Relief Refuge in Audacity Race Against the Clock Blood from the Mouth Vacation Films Pragmatic Villainy Action Prologue Off with His Head! Cloudcuckoolander Real Life Gender Flip N-Word Privileges A God Am I Disproportionate Retribution Apocalypse How And I Must Scream Obviously Evil Dogged Nice Guy Fantasy Films Black Dude Dies First Hidden Depths Beta Couple Stuff Blowing Up She's Got Legs Slashed Throat Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Shoot the Shaggy Dog Animated Credits Opening Not Quite Dead You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Despair Event Horizon Worthy Opponent Video Credits Toplessness from the Back Rated M for Manly Downer Ending Animal Title Index More Dakka Domestic Abuse Genre Throwback Anyone Can Die Ambiguous Ending Creator Cameo Double Entendre The Starscream Gold Digger Roaring Rampage of Revenge Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Adaptation Dye-Job Hate Sink One-Word Title Mythology Gag Historical Villain Upgrade Casting Gag Evil Sounds Deep Not So Different Self-Deprecation Badass Normal Historical In-Joke Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Rape as Drama Cool Car Anguished Declaration of Love Comically Missing the Point Reality Is Unrealistic Cool Old Lady From Bad to Worse The Dragon Sealed Evil in a Can Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Unwitting Instigator of Doom Poor Communication Kills Left the Background Music On Wrong Genre Savvy Scary Black Man Hong Kong Films All Just a Dream Annoying Younger Sibling Arch-Enemy Adaptational Villainy Missing Mom One Steve Limit O.O.C. Is Serious Business Logo Joke Big Bad Drugs Are Bad Flashback Loads and Loads of Characters Fire-Forged Friends Awesome, but Impractical Redshirt Army Never My Fault The Smart Guy An Arm and a Leg Bloodless Carnage Double-Meaning Title What You Are in the Dark Mind Screw Villainous Breakdown Serial Killer Leaning on the Fourth Wall Small Name, Big Ego Brainless Beauty Posthumous Character Film Series The Brute My God, What Have I Done? Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Line-of-Sight Name Lighter and Softer Trailers Always Spoil Destination Defenestration Costume Porn "Shaggy Dog" Story Manly Tears Alas, Poor Villain The Ditz In Name Only I'm a Humanitarian Beware the Nice Ones Sacrificial Lion And the Adventure Continues Insane Troll Logic Dark Reprise Meaningful Name Handicapped Badass Kick the Son of a Bitch Spiteful Spit Adult Fear Freudian Excuse Tranquil Fury Damsel in Distress For the Evulz Stock Footage Woman Scorned Agony of the Feet Cluster F-Bomb My Greatest Failure Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gorn Dying Moment of Awesome No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Reckless Gun Usage Darker and Edgier Chiaroscuro Jerkass Curb-Stomp Battle Black Best Friend Dressing as the Enemy A.I. Is a Crapshoot I Did What I Had to Do Corrupt Corporate Executive Film Noir The Sociopath Soundtrack Dissonance As Long as It Sounds Foreign Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Brutal Honesty Hero of Another Story Here We Go Again! Due to the Dead Accidental Murder Karmic Death Face–Heel Turn Artistic License – Military Half the Man He Used to Be Children Are Innocent Freeze-Frame Bonus Catch-Phrase Curse Cut Short Stalker with a Crush Parental Abandonment Silent Movie Foreshadowing MacGuffin Soft Glass Spell My Name with an "S" Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane All Men Are Perverts The Bully Ass Shove Married to the Job Only a Flesh Wound Big Bad Duumvirate Facial Horror Mystery and Detective Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome Suspiciously Specific Denial Evil Is Petty Blood Knight