Tropescilloscope: Self-Deprecation

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

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