Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

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N-Word Privileges Properly Paranoid Shoot the Shaggy Dog Light Is Not Good Men Are the Expendable Gender Suspiciously Specific Denial Pre-Mortem One-Liner Villain Song Spell My Name with an "S" Male Gaze Psycho for Hire Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Obfuscating Stupidity Kick the Dog The Lost Lenore Not Using the "Z" Word Smug Snake Setting Update I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Foreshadowing Outrun the Fireball Not So Above It All Car Fu Call-Forward Extremely Short Timespan Aluminum Christmas Trees Mighty Whitey Biopic Big Eater All Girls Want Bad Boys The Place Anguished Declaration of Love Chekhov's Skill Names to Run Away from Really Fast Self-Deprecation Eldritch Abomination Ambiguous Disorder Irony Establishing Character Moment Logo Joke I Have Your Wife A Minor Kidroduction Intergenerational Friendship Empathic Environment Kubrick Stare Darker and Edgier Rasputinian Death Canadian Movies Auto Erotica Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking For the Evulz Friend to All Children Coming-of-Age Story Camera Abuse Leave the Camera Running Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Dying Moment of Awesome The Dreaded Adapted Out Nothing Is Scarier Motor Mouth Hollywood Darkness Left the Background Music On No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Stock Footage Shell-Shocked Veteran Adaptational Heroism Straight Gay Casting Gag It's Personal Author Avatar Your Head A-Splode Music Stories French Films The Big Guy Dark Reprise The X of Y Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds He Knows Too Much Rule of Cool Downer Ending Eagleland Historical Villain Upgrade The Remake Chase Scene Mexican Standoff Big Bad Driven to Suicide Red Herring Faux Affably Evil Fan Disservice Never My Fault Famous Last Words Bunny-Ears Lawyer Book-Ends Bar Brawl Epic Fail Cool Old Lady Cowboy Cop Narrator Reasonable Authority Figure Hypocritical Humor The '60s No Ending Unspoken Plan Guarantee Arch-Enemy Take That! Action Prologue Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Air-Vent Passageway Fingore Flashback Sadistic Choice Silent Movie Adaptational Attractiveness The Dragon Hair-Trigger Temper Monumental Damage Sassy Black Woman Authority Equals Asskicking Domestic Abuse Offscreen Moment of Awesome Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Normal Stealth Hi/Bye Imagine Spot Fiery Redhead Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Christmas Movies Index A Father to His Men Back from the Dead Villain Opening Scene Slap-Slap-Kiss Wham Line Jerk Jock Fourth Date Marriage The Great Depression Arranged Marriage Dark Action Girl Does This Remind You of Anything? Leitmotif The Musical Thriller Anachronism Stew Tagline Spiteful Spit Only a Flesh Wound Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! B-Movie Green-Eyed Monster Big-Bad Ensemble Spared by the Adaptation Crucified Hero Shot Put on a Bus Pyrrhic Victory Handicapped Badass Historical Hero Upgrade Bury Your Gays Amusing Injuries Bare Your Midriff Chewing the Scenery Fake Shemp Red Shirt Psychological Thriller Corpsing The Dog Bites Back Let's Get Dangerous! Age Lift Obstructive Bureaucrat The Reveal Improbable Aiming Skills Those Wacky Nazis Evil vs. Evil Damsel in Distress Visual Pun Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Cameo Shut Up, Hannibal! Heroic Sacrifice Hooker with a Heart of Gold You Killed My Father Femme Fatale Everyone Has Standards The Smart Guy Cruel and Unusual Death Bolivian Army Ending Italian Films Affably Evil Superhero Those Two Guys Big Applesauce No Name Given Major Injury Underreaction Adaptational Badass Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Gone Horribly Right Title Drop Belligerent Sexual Tension Bait-and-Switch Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Male Frontal Nudity Insult Backfire Determinator Took a Level in Jerkass Eyepatch of Power Blood Knight Scare Chord Stealth Pun The End... Or Is It? Ghost Fiction Mr. Fanservice Depraved Bisexual The Bad Guy Wins The '70s Fantasy Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Badass Grandpa Japanese Films Getting Crap Past the Radar Protagonist Title Soft Glass And Starring Documentary Dogged Nice Guy Heel Realization Dirty Coward Hidden Depths Rule of Three Didn't Think This Through Dark Is Not Evil Villain Ball Running Gag Shower Scene Mugging the Monster Bavarian Fire Drill Big Bad Duumvirate The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Up to Eleven Call-Back He Who Fights Monsters Important Haircut La Résistance Animal Motifs Face–Heel Turn Made of Iron Punny Name Man on Fire Cold-Blooded Torture Revenge Alliterative Name Star-Crossed Lovers It Can Think Match Cut Redshirt Army Hell Is That Noise Break the Haughty Badass in a Nice Suit Parental Incest For Want of a Nail Kids Are Cruel Pimped-Out Dress Kill 'em All Ungrateful Bastard Combat Pragmatist Line-of-Sight Name Annoying Younger Sibling Mistaken for Gay MacGuffin Lighter and Softer Frame-Up Death by Adaptation Took a Level in Badass Brainless Beauty Say My Name Too Dumb to Live Mr. Exposition Lock and Load Montage The Ghost Bond Villain Stupidity Genre Throwback Actually Pretty Funny Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fun with Acronyms Peek-a-Boo Corpse Creepy Child Dark and Troubled Past Despair Event Horizon The Alcoholic Artistic License – Biology Re-Cut Insane Troll Logic Ambiguously Gay Artistic License – History Meaningful Echo Funny Background Event Grievous Bottley Harm It Will Never Catch On Black Comedy No Antagonist The Chessmaster Older Than They Look An Aesop Neck Lift All Just a Dream Gory Discretion Shot Reckless Gun Usage Fish out of Water Vitriolic Best Buds Death Glare Together in Death Sequel Escalation What You Are in the Dark My Beloved Smother Mooks Drill Sergeant Nasty Children Are Innocent Advertised Extra Deliberate Values Dissonance Get Out! Truth in Television How We Got Here Skewed Priorities Rule of Funny Adaptation Dye-Job Break the Cutie Red Eyes, Take Warning Those Two Bad Guys Real Life Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Badass Bookworm Manly Tears Freeze-Frame Bonus Only One Name Genre Shift The Chick Artistic License – Military The Faceless In Medias Res Loads and Loads of Characters Blood from the Mouth Wham Shot Race Against the Clock 20 Minutes into the Future Enemy Mine Vacation Films Evil Is Petty Psychopathic Manchild Villain with Good Publicity Villainous Breakdown Real Life Writes the Plot Would Hurt a Child Becoming the Mask Lampshade Hanging Moment Killer She's Got Legs Diabolus ex Machina Horror Films Manchild I'm a Humanitarian Romantic False Lead Villain Protagonist Mundane Made Awesome Adaptation Distillation Dramatic Gun Cock Worthy Opponent Crazy-Prepared Defrosting Ice Queen Berserk Button Pay Evil unto Evil Bloodier and Gorier Disguised in Drag Evil Brit Sinister Minister Non-Indicative Name Time Skip Mythology Gag Red Oni, Blue Oni Beta Couple Red Right Hand Heterosexual Life-Partners The Ditz Almost Kiss "Where Are They Now?" 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Mama Bear Earn Your Happy Ending Death by Sex All There in the Script Guile Hero Only Sane Man Did Not Get the Girl Precision F-Strike Pragmatic Villainy Funny Foreigner Eureka Moment Department of Redundancy Department Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Evil Laugh Laser-Guided Karma Cool Shades Adaptation Name Change Interrupted Suicide Unwitting Instigator of Doom Death Seeker Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Deal with the Devil Sports Stories Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Vamp May–December Romance Cat Scare Expy Jitter Cam Catapult Nightmare Chekhov's Gun Last-Name Basis An Axe to Grind Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Creative Closing Credits Only Known by Their Nickname Destination Defenestration Retired Badass Eiffel Tower Effect Works Set in World War II Only in It for the Money Historical In-Joke As You Know Smoking Is Cool Bilingual Bonus Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Load Accidental Misnaming Scenery Porn After the End Brutal Honesty Taking the Bullet Adult Fear '80s Hair Parental Neglect Redemption Equals Death Artistic License – Geography Black Comedy Rape You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Drowning My Sorrows Bloody Hilarious Brick Joke Police are Useless Super Strength Adaptation Expansion Karma Houdini Artistic License – Law Heroes Want Redheads Card-Carrying Villain Amoral Attorney Instant Death Bullet Artistic License – Gun Safety Large Ham Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Calling the Old Man Out In Name Only From Bad to Worse Better to Die than Be Killed Neck Snap Not Even Bothering with the Accent Deus ex Machina Humiliation Conga folderlabel Soundtrack Dissonance Hope Spot Boom, Headshot! Ascended Extra Plot Hole Offscreen Teleportation The '50s The Starscream Actor Allusion Sacrificial Lion Love at First Sight Aside Glance Show Within a Show Alas, Poor Villain Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gold Digger Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Not So Stoic Action Survivor Film Series Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Killed Mid-Sentence Bowdlerise Oh, Crap! Wretched Hive Does Not Like Shoes Freudian Excuse Small Name, Big Ego Happily Married Take a Third Option Fantastic Racism Rule of Symbolism Married to the Job Animated Credits Opening Animal Title Index Even Evil Has Loved Ones Missing Mom Serial Killer A God Am I Big Brother Instinct Not What It Looks Like Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Whole Plot Reference The '80s Not Quite Dead Vampire Fiction Homage Deliberately Monochrome The Atoner Bullying a Dragon Bland-Name Product Unusual Euphemism Dual Wielding You Have Failed Me The Stinger Abusive Parents One Steve Limit Cloudcuckoolander Ragtag Bunch of Misfits "Awesome McCool" Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Crazy Jealous Guy "The Reason You Suck" Speech Comically Missing the Point Honor Before Reason Improvised Weapon This Is Gonna Suck Expository Hairstyle Change Black Best Friend Martial Arts Movie Author Appeal Even Evil Has Standards Shout-Out Heel–Face Turn Hero Antagonist Nice Guy Cluster F-Bomb Russian Films The Alleged Car Jerk with a Heart of Gold Covers Always Lie The Stoner Horror Comedy And the Adventure Continues Love Triangle Stepford Smiler NO INDOOR VOICE Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Slasher Movie I Need a Freaking Drink No Celebrities Were Harmed Facial Horror Alpha Bitch Disney Villain Death As the Good Book Says... 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Apocalypse How Anyone Can Die All for Nothing World of Ham Mind Screw Jerkass Has a Point Guns Akimbo Tempting Fate Demoted to Extra Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mercy Kill Daddy's Girl Face Death with Dignity Scenery Gorn Disappeared Dad Taking You with Me Fainting Bad Boss My Greatest Failure Betty and Veronica Have a Gay Old Time Market-Based Title Token Minority Contrived Coincidence Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Serious Business Word of God Hate Sink Action Girl Disproportionate Retribution Dressing as the Enemy Noodle Incident Informed Ability The Oner Adorkable Your Cheating Heart Made of Explodium Here We Go Again! Dropped a Bridge on Him Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Retcon Chekhov's Gunman Bald of Evil Victoria's Secret Compartment Pretty in Mink Yandere Television Movie Index Ass Shove Central Theme Asshole Victim Stylistic Suck Brother–Sister Incest Antagonist Title Race Lift Kill It with Fire Meaningful Background Event Continuity Nod Training Montage I Did What I Had to Do Danny Peary Cult Movies List Product Placement Foil Hollywood Law Sealed Evil in a Can Developing Doomed Characters Stuff Blowing Up Suspiciously Similar Substitute Cain and Abel Refuge in Audacity Meet Cute Dirty Old Man Closed Circle The Cavalry As Himself The Mole Naïve Newcomer Decoy Protagonist Ambiguous Ending Index of Film Westerns Shipper on Deck Every Car Is a Pinto Ship Tease Reality Is Unrealistic Tap on the Head Darkest Hour Madness Mantra Beauty Is Never Tarnished Demonic Possession Room Full of Crazy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Jerkass Disney Death Meaningful Name Country Matters Due to the Dead Broken Pedestal Dramatic Irony Film Noir Attempted Rape Flipping the Bird Overly Long Gag Sole Survivor Credits Gag Canon Foreigner Wicked Cultured Shirtless Scene Henpecked Husband Loophole Abuse Armor-Piercing Question Fire-Forged Friends Australian Movies Extreme Doormat Obviously Evil Distracted by the Sexy The Lancer Our Vampires Are Different More Dakka Dutch Angle Evil Is Hammy "Shaggy Dog" Story Karmic Death Historical-Domain Character Half the Man He Used to Be Punch-Clock Villain Sir Swears-a-Lot Impaled with Extreme Prejudice All There in the Manual Mood Whiplash The Casanova Manipulative Bastard Implacable Man What the Hell, Hero? Evil Counterpart Film Noir Index timeperiod Laughing Mad Camp Gay Hypocrite No-Sell Intrepid Reporter And I Must Scream Ominous Latin Chanting Big "NO!" Double-Meaning Title No OSHA Compliance Early Installment Weirdness