'''Basic Trope''': A character has done something in their past that they regret, typically due to being embarrassed by it.
* '''Straight''': [[FormerChildStar Alice]] was the lead role in the ShowWithinAShow ''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 BerserkButton.
* '''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 [[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney she was young and needed the money]].
** Alice got involved in the show before undergoing CharacterDevelopment, 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.
** [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten 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 CreatorBacklash that they and/or the actress playing Alice have had.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': Bob shows Alice her first ever acting role, [[TheGadfly 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 [[MyGreatestFailure feels genuinely guilty over it]].
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%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
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%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???