Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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