Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

More Tropes The Remake Eagleland Sanity Slippage Maybe Ever After Reckless Gun Usage The Mole The Big Guy Irony Anachronism Stew Heroic Sacrifice Drill Sergeant Nasty Arranged Marriage An Axe to Grind As Long as It Sounds Foreign It's All About Me Funny Background Event Freudian Excuse Back from the Dead Age Lift Death by Irony Unreliable Narrator A Minor Kidroduction Interrupted Suicide Really Gets Around Works Set in World War II Sadistic Choice Ghost Fiction Dramatic Gun Cock More Dakka Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bait-and-Switch Ironic Echo Posthumous Character Mystery and Detective Films World of Ham Determinator aka: The Determinator Curb-Stomp Battle Jerk Jock Exact Words Wham Line Market-Based Title Token Minority Country Matters Outrun the Fireball Contrived Coincidence Humans Are Bastards Ominous Latin Chanting Your Cheating Heart Recycled IN SPACE! Important Haircut Femme Fatale Easily Forgiven Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mundane Made Awesome After the End The Stinger Heterosexual Life-Partners Twist Ending Chewing the Scenery The Cavalry No Ending Catch-Phrase Shower Scene Lock and Load Montage Parental Substitute Fat Bastard Vomit Discretion Shot Butt-Monkey B-Movie Novelization Does This Remind You of Anything? Early-Bird Cameo Shut Up, Hannibal! Bunny-Ears Lawyer Evil Laugh Mythology Gag Not So Above It All Sinister Minister Bald of Evil Fatal Family Photo Adult Fear Took a Level in Jerkass Kill 'em All One-Word Title Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Idiot Ball Whole Plot Reference Evil Plan MacGuffin Laughing Mad Evil Is Petty Made of Iron Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dutch Angle "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Exactly What It Says on the Tin Married to the Job The Faceless folderlabel Needs Wiki Magic Love Unspoken Plan Guarantee Public Domain Feature Films Brother–Sister Incest Mooks Badass Boast Beauty Is Never Tarnished Refuge in Audacity Big Damn Heroes Military and Warfare Films O.O.C. Is Serious Business Thriller Eye Scream My Greatest Failure Death by Sex Heel Realization Mr. Fanservice Danny Peary Cult Movies List Random Events Plot Groin Attack Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Facial Horror Red Eyes, Take Warning Artistic License – Law Foregone Conclusion Sci-Fi Horror Stealth Pun Hair-Trigger Temper The Great Depression Hero Antagonist Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Geography Animated Credits Opening Paper-Thin Disguise Non-Indicative Name Fourth Date Marriage Very Loosely Based on a True Story Madness Mantra Shown Their Work The Ditz Babies Ever After Awesome, but Impractical Affectionate Parody Narrator Adorkable Bloodier and Gorier The X of Y And the Adventure Continues Costume Porn Auto Erotica Unwitting Instigator of Doom Face–Heel Turn Dark Is Not Evil And Starring Obstructive Bureaucrat Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mistaken for Gay Smoking Is Cool Didn't Think This Through Evil Sounds Deep Flipping the Bird Expository Hairstyle Change Mood Whiplash Driven to Suicide Friend to All Children Soft Glass Informed Ability Up to Eleven Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Famous Last Words Off with His Head! Final Girl Due to the Dead Sir Swears-a-Lot Sexy Discretion Shot Arch-Enemy As You Know Hollywood Law Zombie Stories Bloodless Carnage Demoted to Extra Author Avatar Together in Death timeperiod Pay Evil unto Evil Only Known by Their Nickname Naïve Newcomer Frame-Up The Bad Guy Wins Male Frontal Nudity Deliberate Values Dissonance Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Drives Like Crazy Gold Digger Improvised Weapon No OSHA Compliance The Alleged Car Same Language Dub Jerkass Has a Point Rape as Drama Tempting Fate Extremely Short Timespan Vacation Films Instant Death Bullet Character Development Super Strength Historical-Domain Character Abusive Parents Cold-Blooded Torture Ax-Crazy Disappeared Dad Decoy Protagonist The Chick Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Here We Go Again! Badass Longcoat Casting Gag Action Genre Men Are the Expendable Gender Kubrick Stare Totally Radical Genre Throwback Defiant to the End Conspicuous CG Never Found the Body Developing Doomed Characters Sealed Evil in a Can Karma Houdini Christmas Movies Index Body Horror Shipper on Deck Humiliation Conga He Knows Too Much Disney Death This Is Gonna Suck All Girls Want Bad Boys Gorn Cain and Abel Tagline Slashed Throat Superhero Fish out of Water Unusually Uninteresting Sight Mad Scientist Meaningful Echo Good Is Not Nice Drowning My Sorrows Call-Back Would Hurt a Child NO INDOOR VOICE Catapult Nightmare Combat Pragmatist Plot Hole Composite Character Make It Look Like an Accident Real Life Darkest Hour Bound and Gagged Even Evil Has Standards Stalker with a Crush Names to Run Away from Really Fast Killed Mid-Sentence Animal Title Index Red Right Hand Evil Brit Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Wretched Hive Handicapped Badass Manipulative Bastard Not What It Looks Like Retirony Action Survivor Light Is Not Good Implacable Man Villainous Breakdown Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" "Well Done, Son!" Guy Deadpan Snarker Kick the Dog Death Seeker Wounded Gazelle Gambit Last-Name Basis Take a Third Option Sequel Hook Morality Pet One Steve Limit Breaking the Fourth Wall Toplessness from the Back Genre Shift My God, What Have I Done? Kick the Son of a Bitch Creative Closing Credits Sassy Black Woman Almost Kiss A Date with Rosie Palms Double-Meaning Title Camera Abuse Leaning on the Fourth Wall Blackmail Failed a Spot Check Love Triangle Race Against the Clock Attempted Rape Left the Background Music On Henpecked Husband Disney Villain Death Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Blood from the Mouth Spanner in the Works Anti-Hero Ms. Fanservice In Medias Res Malevolent Masked Men Say My Name Daddy's Girl Silence Is Golden Police are Useless Slap-Slap-Kiss Cool Old Lady Author Appeal Bowdlerise Re-Cut Retired Badass Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Dreaded Gainax Ending Fatal Flaw Broken Aesop Psychological Thriller Running Gag Large Ham Never Trust a Trailer Credits Gag All Just a Dream Not Quite Dead Alas, Poor Villain Coming-of-Age Story Chekhov's Skill Bittersweet Ending Film Noir Index Big Fancy House All Men Are Perverts Everyone Has Standards What the Hell, Hero? Have a Gay Old Time The Stoic Dual Wielding Dirty Old Man Cat Fight Plucky Comic Relief Eiffel Tower Effect Dramatic Irony Lighter and Softer Cluster F-Bomb Badass in a Nice Suit Evil Counterpart "Shaggy Dog" Story Eyepatch of Power Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Translation Convention Dramedy Double Entendre Protagonist Title Air-Vent Passageway Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? There Is No Kill Like Overkill Captain Ersatz Ambiguously Gay Overly Long Gag Demonic Possession Berserk Button Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Beware the Nice Ones Nice Guy Despair Event Horizon Black Dude Dies First Tap on the Head The Ghost Missing Mom Ambiguous Ending Call-Forward Anyone Can Die The Smart Guy No Celebrities Were Harmed One-Man Army Poor Communication Kills Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Setting Update Antagonist Title Leave the Camera Running Armor-Piercing Question Monumental Damage Pretty Little Headshots An Aesop Fire-Forged Friends Pre-Mortem One-Liner British Films Dark Action Girl Taking You with Me Action Prologue Accidental Murder Shoot the Shaggy Dog Once More, with Clarity! Index of Film Westerns Fantastic Racism Blatant Lies Deconstruction Cloudcuckoolander The Starscream Trailers Always Spoil Faking the Dead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Early Installment Weirdness Bi the Way I'm a Humanitarian Brick Joke Anguished Declaration of Love Papa Wolf Brainless Beauty An Arm and a Leg Adaptational Badass Man on Fire Hope Spot Greater-Scope Villain Guile Hero Bury Your Gays Freeze-Frame Bonus All There in the Script Epic Fail Evil Is Hammy Take That! Bloody Hilarious Faux Affably Evil Soundtrack Dissonance The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Disguised in Drag Villain Protagonist Sole Survivor She's Got Legs Historical Villain Upgrade BFG Nothing Is Scarier Offscreen Teleportation I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Put on a Bus Gender Flip Japanese Films Fanservice Older Than They Look Manic Pixie Dream Girl Meaningful Background Event Adaptation Expansion Silent Movie Be Careful What You Wish For Intrepid Reporter Artistic License – History Those Two Bad Guys Actor Allusion Slasher Movie Rule of Funny Bolivian Army Ending How We Got Here Wham Shot In the Back Bond Villain Stupidity Spiritual Successor Distracted by the Sexy Annoying Younger Sibling Creator Cameo Spared by the Adaptation Darker and Edgier The Place Asshole Victim Loophole Abuse Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dying Moment of Awesome The '70s Meaningful Name The Bully Heel–Face Turn Eldritch Abomination Woman in White A Father to His Men Hypocritical Humor Immune to Bullets Abhorrent Admirer Naked People Are Funny Kids Are Cruel Hooker with a Heart of Gold Canon Foreigner Those Wacky Nazis Car Fu I Need a Freaking Drink Pretty in Mink Big Bad Duumvirate Grey and Gray Morality Scenery Gorn Red Herring Amusing Injuries The Chessmaster Black and Gray Morality Mercy Kill Cat Scare Closed Circle Psycho for Hire Green-Eyed Monster Curse Cut Short Yandere Beard of Evil For Want of a Nail Only Sane Man Male Gaze Dirty Coward Only in It for the Money Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Took a Level in Badass Villain with Good Publicity Advertised Extra Line-of-Sight Name Biopic Did Not Get the Girl Badass Normal The Cameo Shell-Shocked Veteran From Bad to Worse Scenery Porn Crazy Jealous Guy Anachronic Order All for Nothing "Awesome McCool" Name Off-into-the-Distance Ending Word of God Major Injury Underreaction Only a Flesh Wound Scare Chord Corpsing Adaptational Heroism Beta Couple Break the Cutie The Smurfette Principle Horror Comedy The Alcoholic Mighty Whitey You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Music Stories Actually Pretty Funny Hong Kong Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Load Determinator Diabolus ex Machina Hypocrite Motor Mouth Bring My Brown Pants Spell My Name with an "S" Vampire Fiction Crazy-Prepared Never My Fault Parental Abandonment Truth in Television Parental Neglect Stylistic Suck Noodle Incident Shout-Out Boom, Headshot! Even Evil Has Loved Ones Not So Different Hero of Another Story Earn Your Happy Ending '80s Hair Grievous Bottley Harm Daylight Horror Fun with Acronyms Cool Car What You Are in the Dark Reality Has No Subtitles Funny Foreigner Empathic Environment Jump Scare Jitter Cam Dull Surprise Corrupt Corporate Executive He Who Fights Monsters Artistic License – Military Defrosting Ice Queen Villain Ball Our Zombies Are Different The Power of Love Rasputinian Death Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Only One Name Fanservice Extra Storming the Castle Eureka Moment Redemption Equals Death Intergenerational Friendship Undying Loyalty Bond One-Liner Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Unresolved Sexual Tension Hate Sink And I Must Scream Title Drop The Ace Stuff Blowing Up Real Life Writes the Plot Wicked Cultured Adaptation Dye-Job Central Theme Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Four-Temperament Ensemble Bullying a Dragon Black Comedy Jerkass Suspiciously Specific Denial The Stoner Skewed Priorities All There in the Manual Film Noir Deal with the Devil I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Italian Films Properly Paranoid Lampshade Hanging Framing Device Heroes Want Redheads Tranquil Fury Vitriolic Best Buds It's Personal Politically Incorrect Villain The Un-Reveal Improbable Aiming Skills Race Lift You Have Failed Me The Dragon May–December Romance Those Two Guys Adaptation Name Change Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Oh, Crap! Small Name, Big Ego Insult Backfire A God Am I Downer Ending Stealth Hi/Bye She Cleans Up Nicely From Nobody to Nightmare Product Placement Serious Business Face Death with Dignity Hollywood Darkness Betty and Veronica Award-Bait Song Crapsack World Accidental Misnaming A.I. Is a Crapshoot The End... Or Is It? Brutal Honesty Children Are Innocent Rousing Speech Badass Grandpa Captain Obvious Not Using the "Z" Word Love at First Sight Self-Deprecation Bilingual Bonus Animal Motifs The Atoner Neck Snap Red Oni, Blue Oni Foreshadowing The Quiet One Let's Get Dangerous! Dogged Nice Guy Expy Time Skip Flashback My Beloved Smother Star-Crossed Lovers Stepford Smiler Belligerent Sexual Tension Big-Bad Ensemble Cool Guns Imagine Spot Video Credits Cool Shades Australian Movies Cool Old Guy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Karmic Death Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ascended Extra "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bad Boss Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Not Even Bothering with the Accent Fantasy Films As the Good Book Says... Insistent Terminology Playing Gertrude Chekhov's Gun The '80s Television Movie Index Epic Movie Throwing Your Sword Always Works Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dirty Cop Bavarian Fire Drill Reality Is Unrealistic Insane Troll Logic Action Girl Rule of Symbolism Rich Bitch Based on a True Story Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Russian Films Chase Scene Destination Defenestration Blood Knight Better to Die than Be Killed Parental Incest Too Dumb to Live Room Full of Crazy Woman Scorned Spiteful Spit Romantic False Lead Chekhov's Gunman Fake Shemp Big Eater Wrong Genre Savvy Continuity Nod The '60s Creepy Child Card-Carrying Villain N-Word Privileges Our Vampires Are Different Scary Black Man Badass Bookworm Apocalypse How Crucified Hero Shot Knight Templar Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Reality Ensues Evil-Detecting Dog I Have Your Wife Dark and Troubled Past Punny Name Gone Horribly Right The Hero Dies Martial Arts Movie The Voiceless Pragmatic Adaptation Bottomless Magazines Cruel and Unusual Death Break the Haughty The '50s Horror Films Ambiguous Disorder Ungrateful Bastard Dropped a Bridge on Him Adults Are Useless Slasher Smile Heroic BSoD Visual Pun Five-Man Band Death by Adaptation Bland-Name Product Drugs Are Bad Broken Pedestal Canadian Movies Establishing Character Moment True Companions Dwindling Party Meet Cute Celebrity Paradox Broken Bird The '90s Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Big Brother Instinct Disproportionate Retribution Adaptational Villainy Mexican Standoff Artistic License – Physics The Casanova Gory Discretion Shot Villain Song 20 Minutes into the Future Fate Worse than Death Dies Wide Open Authority Equals Asskicking Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Get Out! Bare Your Midriff The Mafia Cowboy Cop Enemy Mine Hell Is That Noise Made of Explodium The Vamp Big Applesauce Does Not Like Shoes Anti-Villain The Hero Worthy Opponent Suddenly SHOUTING! Camp Gay Fan Disservice Fingore Obfuscating Stupidity Covers Always Lie Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Manchild Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Historical In-Joke No Name Given Leitmotif The Film of the Book Fiery Redhead Honor Before Reason Aside Glance Adaptation Distillation For the Evulz French Films Mind Screw Retcon As Himself Gilligan Cut You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Artistic License – Gun Safety Nice Hat I Did What I Had to Do Would Hit a Girl Knife Nut Mr. Exposition Rule of Cool Obviously Evil Big Bad Unusual Euphemism Precision F-Strike Riddle for the Ages Hidden Depths Logo Joke Half the Man He Used to Be The Sociopath Amoral Attorney Department of Redundancy Department No-Sell Guns Akimbo Stock Footage Aluminum Christmas Trees Homage Romantic Comedy Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Brute Dumb Blonde Chiaroscuro Pragmatic Villainy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Affably Evil What Happened to the Mouse? Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Police Brutality Show Within a Show Death of a Child Batman Gambit No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Your Head A-Splode Science Fiction Films Historical Hero Upgrade Revenge Happily Married Comically Missing the Point Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Black Comedy Rape Documentary Reasonable Authority Figure Hoist by His Own Petard Suspiciously Similar Substitute Black Best Friend Mama Bear Big "NO!" Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Kill It with Fire Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Agony of the Feet Calling the Old Man Out Villain Opening Scene Roaring Rampage of Revenge Manly Tears Fainting In Name Only Evil vs. Evil Rule of Three Sacrificial Lion Pimped-Out Dress Straight Gay The Oner Adaptational Attractiveness The Dog Bites Back Overprotective Dad Red Shirt Deliberately Monochrome Ripped from the Headlines La Résistance Bad "Bad Acting" Psychopathic Manchild Redshirt Army Depraved Bisexual Improbable Weapon User Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Every Car Is a Pinto Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Punch-Clock Villain It Will Never Catch On Well-Intentioned Extremist Loads and Loads of Characters Laser-Guided Karma The Musical You Killed My Father Book-Ends Alpha Bitch German Films No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Alliterative Name Sequel Escalation Artistic License – Biology Dressing as the Enemy Arc Words Deus ex Machina Cassandra Truth Vomit Indiscretion Shot Sports Stories Gratuitous English Getting Crap Past the Radar Ass Shove Neck Lift Film Series Match Cut Adapted Out Genre Savvy The Lancer Rewatch Bonus Ship Tease Domestic Abuse Foil Bar Brawl Not So Stoic Taking the Bullet Serial Killer Training Montage The Lost Lenore The Reveal Extreme Doormat Death Glare It Can Think Moment Killer Smug Snake Victoria's Secret Compartment Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Becoming the Mask Pet the Dog Pyrrhic Victory Damsel in Distress War Is Hell Rated M for Manly No Antagonist Shirtless Scene Mugging the Monster Dark Reprise