Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

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