Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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