Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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