Basic Trope: A character has done something in their past that they regret, typically due to being embarrassed by it.
- Straight: Alice was the lead role in the Show Within a Show Trope Adventures. Looking back on it, she regrets being in the show, and feels embarrassed whenever anyone brings it up.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice regrets absolutely everything she did in her past.
- Alice regrets being in Trope Adventures so much that having it brought up is her Berserk Button.
- Downplayed: Alice doesn't think Trope Adventures is very good when she looks back on it, and admits there's a lot about it that she would do differently if she were doing it these days.
- Justified:
- Alice made Trope Adventures when she was young and needed the money.
- Alice got involved in the show before undergoing Character Development, and no longer agrees with the views the show expresses.
- Trope Adventures was critically panned, and Alice agrees that it deserves the negative reception it got.
- Nobody will let Alice forget she was in the show, so she begins finding it embarrassing for that reason.
- Trope Adventures was one of Alice's first acting roles (if not her very first), and she wasn't very good at acting at the time.
- Inverted: Alice thinks Trope Adventures — her first acting role — is the best thing she's ever done.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice regrets some things she did in her past, but not others.
- Alice agrees that Trope Adventures isn't very good, but she doesn't necessarily regret being in the show because she had fun doing it, thinks it helped her learn to act, and/or she feels it has a few good qualities that still hold up.
- Averted: Alice doesn't regret doing anything in her past.
- Enforced: The creators are referencing a real life case of Creator Backlash that they and/or the actress playing Alice have had.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob shows Alice her first ever acting role, hoping she'll find it embarrassing.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice doesn't talk about Trope Adventures, despite it being what she's most well-known for in the story.
- Played for Drama: Alice isn't just embarrassed by something she did in her past, but feels genuinely guilty over it.
The older version of this page was embarrassing, trust us.
