Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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