Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

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Last-Name Basis Expy Faking the Dead "The Reason You Suck" Speech Accidental Murder Market-Based Title How We Got Here Age Lift Bond One-Liner Not So Different The Place Only One Name Artistic License – Geography Bond Villain Stupidity Never Trust a Trailer Artistic License – Biology Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Chewing the Scenery Suddenly SHOUTING! You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Darkest Hour Even Evil Has Loved Ones Large Ham My Greatest Failure Only a Flesh Wound Heel Realization Danny Peary Cult Movies List Calling the Old Man Out Eye Scream The '60s Would Hurt a Child Alas, Poor Villain Wretched Hive It's All About Me Humiliation Conga Jerk Jock Facial Horror Logo Joke Frame-Up Scenery Gorn Costume Porn Parental Abandonment Villainous Breakdown Psychopathic Manchild The Remake Exactly What It Says on the Tin Rape as Drama No-Holds-Barred Beatdown And Starring You Have Failed Me Man on Fire The Mafia Abusive Parents Blackmail Break the Cutie Destination Defenestration Does This Remind You of Anything? Eureka Moment Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Mr. Exposition Back from the Dead It's Personal Dies Wide Open Asshole Victim Silent Movie Big Applesauce Wrong Genre Savvy The Mole Cool Old Lady Didn't Think This Through Taking You with Me Spared by the Adaptation Take That! 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