Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

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