Basic Trope: Someone claims to not have good speaking skills, when they are actually very skilled.
- Straight: Eddie is about to make a speech, and keeps telling people that he's not a good orator. However, when he makes the speech, he's actually excellent at it.
- Exaggerated: Eddie thinks he's the worst public speaker on the planet, despite being a professional orator who has given many speeches over the course of his life.
- Downplayed: Eddie thinks he may not be a very good speaker. His speech goes well regardless, though.
- Justified:
- Eddie is insecure about his abilities.
- Eddie is being humble.
- Eddie has never given a speech in public before, and thinks he won't do very well because of it.
- Eddie is dealing with Performance Anxiety.
- Inverted: Eddie thinks he's a good orator, but he absolutely sucks at giving speeches.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Eddie is a decent orator and believes himself to be as well.
- Enforced: It's the only way Eduardo's speech from the Spanish original can be translated without changing his humbleness and have it fit the grammar pattern chosen for Eddie.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Eddie intentionally claims he isn't a good orator so that his audience's expectations won't be too high.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why is that character claiming he can't give speeches? I think his speech turned out really well!"
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