Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

Honest truth hurts. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Flipping the Bird Music Stories Plot Hole Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Honor Before Reason Foil Antagonist Title Crapsack World Reckless Gun Usage Immune to Bullets Adapted Out Pay Evil unto Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Loads and Loads of Characters Famous Last Words Destination Defenestration "Awesome McCool" Name Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chiaroscuro Men Are the Expendable Gender Cold-Blooded Torture Accidental Misnaming Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Early-Bird Cameo Blood Knight For Want of a Nail Canon Foreigner Pragmatic Villainy No-Sell Hate Sink Vacation Films Vomit Indiscretion Shot Cruel and Unusual Death Never My Fault I Have Your Wife Shut Up, Hannibal! Gender Flip Overprotective Dad Determinator Well-Intentioned Extremist Video Credits Call-Forward Manchild Jitter Cam Artistic License – Law The Chessmaster Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Novelization Green-Eyed Monster The Great Depression Fate Worse than Death The Cameo The Cavalry Beard of Evil Precision F-Strike Storming the Castle Would Hurt a Child Evil Plan Abusive Parents The Brute Fourth Date Marriage Rule of Symbolism Chuck Cunningham Syndrome You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Celebrity Paradox She Cleans Up Nicely Truth in Television The Quiet One Those Wacky Nazis Punny Name Big Damn Heroes Adaptation Name Change Eyepatch of Power Outrun the Fireball Deadpan Snarker Hypocrite The Smart Guy Half the Man He Used to Be Brutal Honesty Reasonable Authority Figure Made of Iron Those Two Bad Guys Empathic Environment Punch-Clock Villain Dumb Blonde Disappeared Dad One-Word Title Not Using the "Z" Word Romantic False Lead Frame-Up Too Dumb to Live Hero of Another Story Rule of Three Naïve Newcomer Character Development Only One Name Conspicuous CG Smoking Is Cool Dirty Coward Villain Opening Scene Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Faking the Dead After the End Horror Comedy Anti-Hero Ambiguously Gay Shell-Shocked Veteran Tagline Trailers Always Spoil Not What It Looks Like Suspiciously Similar Substitute Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Chekhov's Gunman Gone Horribly Right Film Noir Death Seeker Malevolent Masked Men Real Life Writes the Plot Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Film Noir Index Greater-Scope Villain Pimped-Out Dress Heroic BSoD Bavarian Fire Drill A Date with Rosie Palms Villain Protagonist Comically Missing the Point Wham Line Happily Married Red Right Hand Hong Kong Films Dark and Troubled Past Wham Shot Bloody Hilarious Jerkass Has a Point Establishing Character Moment Important Haircut Skewed Priorities Country Matters Eagleland German Films Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sassy Black Woman Camp Gay Motor Mouth Bland-Name Product Soundtrack Dissonance Reality Has No Subtitles Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Woman in White Setting Update Damsel in Distress Deus ex Machina Politically Incorrect Villain The '50s Crazy-Prepared Kill 'em All Credits Gag In the Back Smug Snake Not Quite Dead Unwitting Instigator of Doom Framing Device Chekhov's Gun Henpecked Husband Historical Villain Upgrade Adorkable All for Nothing Enemy Mine Spared by the Adaptation Last-Name Basis Artistic License – Gun Safety Mighty Whitey My Beloved Smother Bar Brawl Rousing Speech Slasher Smile Product Placement Anachronic Order Brother–Sister Incest Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Is Serious Business Dramatic Irony Historical In-Joke Vampire Fiction Shipper on Deck Captain Obvious Guns Akimbo Danny Peary Cult Movies List Faux Affably Evil Straight Gay Room Full of Crazy What You Are in the Dark Police Brutality Knight Templar Race Against the Clock Insult Backfire Show Within a Show Animal Motifs Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fatal Family Photo Affectionate Parody Shower Scene Curb-Stomp Battle Wretched Hive Depraved Bisexual Alpha Bitch Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Unreliable Narrator Failed a Spot Check Ironic Echo Badass Normal Determinator aka: The Determinator Japanese Films Australian Movies Good Is Not Nice Off with His Head! Rasputinian Death Morality Pet Meaningful Name Grey and Gray Morality It Will Never Catch On All There in the Manual Spell My Name with an "S" Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Karma Houdini Covers Always Lie Fiery Redhead Mr. Fanservice Bring My Brown Pants Babies Ever After This Is Gonna Suck Fake Shemp Very Loosely Based on a True Story Instant Death Bullet Bad "Bad Acting" Stealth Hi/Bye Badass in a Nice Suit Martial Arts Movie Retirony Artistic License – Geography Psychological Thriller Vitriolic Best Buds Pet the Dog Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Homage Accidental Murder Stuff Blowing Up Psycho for Hire You Have Failed Me And the Adventure Continues The Lancer Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Artistic License – History Dropped a Bridge on Him Evil Counterpart The Hero Dies Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Action Survivor Sexy Discretion Shot Coming-of-Age Story No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Big Bad Fan Disservice Rule of Funny The Chick NO INDOOR VOICE Dramedy Artistic License – Military Totally Radical The Mafia The Bully The Alleged Car Heroic Sacrifice Love at First Sight The Voiceless Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Rewatch Bonus Heroes Want Redheads Bare Your Midriff Badass Grandpa Public Domain Feature Films Chase Scene Sequel Escalation Humans Are Bastards Death of a Child Freudian Excuse Redshirt Army Knife Nut Laser-Guided Karma Karmic Death Broken Aesop Adaptational Heroism The Stoner BFG World of Ham Hollywood Darkness Get Out! Author Avatar Recycled IN SPACE! 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