Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

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