History Main / DismissingACompliment

-->-- '''Fuschia''', ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}''

ThinkNothingOfIt overlaps when it combines with gratitude. ComplimentBackfire is the SubTrope where the compliment person is actively angry over the compliment.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' , Diamante of the Don Quixote Pirates has a habit of doing this. It's clearly an act, as when the person he's talking to decides to change the subject, he'll shout, "Okay, if you insist, I'm a genius!" or something like it.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3355 Fuschia envisions saying this to Crimney.]]

Jill hears a compliment -- of any type and quite possibly sincere -- from Jack and says that it was not sincere, such as doubting he meant it for her particularly, or calling him a charmer, or a rogue, a silver-tongued devil or other less than honest characterization, or it flattery, or telling him to stop it, or describing it as an exaggeration.

The compliment can be sincere; Jill can even know it. It's a ploy to avoid having to take the compliment at face value, and respond accordingly -- [[ComplimentFishing assuming it's not fishing for more compliments]].

A socially awkward Jack who gave the compliment will often make only semi-coherent protests of sincerity, which never ends well in that scene. Many characters will be frustrated. Some will regard it as a challenge. When it's banter, the other character may banter back.

* In Disney/{{Tangled}},
** when Rapunzel says she likes [[spoiler:Eugene Fitzhubert better than Flynn Rider]], Flynn says that if so, she's the first person to do so.
** when Shorty praises Mother Gothel as a StatuesqueStunner, she laughs and says, "Go on, you big lunk."

* {{Meatloaf}}'s "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" begins with a romantic conversation that essentially says, "I give my heart and soul to you." At the end, when he asks her if she's his (albeit more poetically) and she answers, "Yes", he says, "I bet you say that to all the boys." Then the song starts.

Ranges from a simple form of banter or flirtation -- common with {{UST}} -- or even trying to avoid appearing [[{{Pride}} stuck up]], through indicating that the character is not to be won over by flattery or manipulation, or a way to joke about YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame, to [[IWorkAlone a belligerent repulse of sociability]], to [[HeroicSelfDeprecation a crushing lack of confidence.]]

* ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'''s Keladry of Mindelan will insist that she's only doing what she's been trained to do, or that she's had plenty of help, whenever a friend compliments her for doing something {{Badass}}.

* ''{{Friends}}'': While comforting Monica over her single status, Chandler tells her: "Who wouldn't want you?" but she passes it off with a joke. Later subverted when he tells her she was the most beautiful woman in the room...and she asks if he's serious.(RelationshipUpgrade ensues).

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-->'''Shepard:''' I bet you say that to every guy who [[spoiler: gets you a homeworld.]]
-->'''Tali:''' Only the cute ones.

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* ''HeyArnold'', "Married".

* An interesting variant in ''TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E18BrushWithGreatness Brush With Greatness]] when Marge tells her art teacher [[JonLovitz Mr. Lombardo]] he's very supportive. He immediately says, "Marge, please, I don't take praise VERY WELL!" The irony is that he praises everything he sees.

->'''Fuschia''': ''Oh, I bet you say that to all the devil girls''.
-->-- '''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'''

* {{Dilbert}} features a strip with Dogbert demonstrating on Ratbert how he can use false self-deprecation to [[ComplimentFishing make people compliment him]], and use false compliments to make people insult themselves.

* Rose Lalonde of ''Webcomic/Homestuck'' repeatedly denies any compliments to her character from those around her, especially from the most sincere one of them all, John Egbert. She even falsely interprets John's completely frank reasoning for why he gave her knitting needles as a passive-aggressive way of pointing out her dark personality, ''even when he says it in his letter''.

* Rose Lalonde of ''Webcomic:Homestuck'' repeatedly denies any compliments to her character from those around her, especially from the most sincere one of them all, John Egbert. She even falsely interprets John's completely frank reasoning for why he gave her knitting needles as a passive-aggressive way of pointing out her dark personality, ''even when he says it in his letter''.

* Rose Lalonde of Homestuck repeatedly denies any compliments to her character from those around her, especially from the most sincere one of them all, John Egbert. She even falsely interprets John's completely frank reasoning for why he gave her knitting needles as a passive-aggressive way of pointing out her dark personality, ''even when he says it in his letter''.

* An interesting variant in ''TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E18BrushWithGreatness Brush With Greatness]] when Marge tells her art teacher [[JonLovitz Mr. Lombardo]] he's very supportive. He immediately says, "Marge, please, I don't take praise VERY WELL!"

TruthInTelevision

-->-- '''{{Sinfest}}'''

* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3355 Fuschia envisions saying this to Crimney.]]

* In Webcomic/GirlGenius, during the Literature/{{Cinderella}} story, Gil admires Agatha's entrance. She calls him a flatterer -- rather flirtatiously.