Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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