Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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