Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

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Rich Bitch The Musical Aside Glance He Who Fights Monsters The Dreaded Overly Long Gag Captain Ersatz Slap-Slap-Kiss Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fish out of Water Bunny-Ears Lawyer Suspiciously Similar Substitute Super Strength Wounded Gazelle Gambit Film Noir Index Irony You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Kill 'em All Badass Boast Time Skip Parental Neglect Adorkable Hope Spot Damsel in Distress Big-Bad Ensemble Dumb Blonde Ghost Fiction Intrepid Reporter Bi the Way Say My Name Kids Are Cruel Karmic Death Department of Redundancy Department Gold Digger Car Fu Dying Moment of Awesome Bittersweet Ending Take That! The Place 20 Minutes into the Future I'm a Humanitarian All for Nothing Thriller Mercy Kill You Have Failed Me Off with His Head! Pimped-Out Dress Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Boom, Headshot! Humans Are Bastards Authority Equals Asskicking Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Final Girl Beauty Is Never Tarnished Conspicuous CG Eagleland Yandere Pre-Mortem One-Liner Horror Films Silence Is Golden Rasputinian Death Bloody Hilarious Agony of the Feet Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome One Steve Limit How We Got Here Evil Cannot Comprehend Good French Films Older Than They Look I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Belligerent Sexual Tension Badass Grandpa The Remake Meaningful Background Event Manchild You Killed My Father From Bad to Worse Took a Level in Badass After the End Names to Run Away from Really Fast Better to Die than Be Killed Didn't Think This Through Artistic License – Gun Safety The Smart Guy Big Applesauce Woman Scorned Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Imagine Spot Wicked Cultured One-Man Army Heel Realization Sci-Fi Horror Combat Pragmatist Scenery Gorn Heel–Face Turn Gilligan Cut Book-Ends The Oner N-Word Privileges The Vamp Needs Wiki Magic Love Ascended Extra Playing Gertrude Mood Whiplash Unwitting Instigator of Doom My Greatest Failure Adult Fear German Films Psychological Thriller Superhero Silent Movie Continuity Nod Double-Meaning Title Villain with Good Publicity This Is Gonna Suck Dressing as the Enemy Improbable Aiming Skills Artistic License – Law Ripped from the Headlines Really Gets Around The Ditz Same Language Dub Slasher Movie The Cameo The Faceless The Quiet One Trailers Always Spoil Children Are Innocent Took a Level in Jerkass Expy Pretty Little Headshots Dirty Old Man Random Events Plot Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Visual Pun Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Undying Loyalty Jerkass Sinister Minister Show Within a Show Politically Incorrect Villain Brother–Sister Incest Film Series Mythology Gag Stock Footage Oh, Crap! 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Guy Lampshade Hanging Hero of Another Story Fatal Family Photo Babies Ever After Evil Sounds Deep Broken Aesop Blood from the Mouth Distracted by the Sexy Cool Old Lady Antagonist Title Sexy Discretion Shot Sassy Black Woman Fantastic Racism Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Serious Business Lock and Load Montage Did Not Get the Girl Back from the Dead Rewatch Bonus Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ungrateful Bastard Beware the Nice Ones The '60s Bitch in Sheep's Clothing It's Personal Heroic Sacrifice Improvised Weapon Big Bad Badass Longcoat Guns Akimbo Light Is Not Good Villain Ball Age Lift Awesome, but Impractical No Name Given Would Hit a Girl True Companions Determinator aka: The Determinator Have a Gay Old Time Smug Snake Mystery and Detective Films Bait-and-Switch All Girls Want Bad Boys Black and Gray Morality Every Car Is a Pinto Nice Guy Obstructive Bureaucrat Russian Films Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adaptational Villainy Action Prologue Those Two Bad Guys Riddle for the Ages Bilingual Bonus A Father to His Men Leave the Camera Running Not So Different What the Hell, Hero? 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Flashback Death Seeker La Résistance Celebrity Paradox Running Gag Aluminum Christmas Trees Alpha Bitch Killed Mid-Sentence Gender Flip Bound and Gagged Offscreen Teleportation No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Ambiguously Gay Mighty Whitey '80s Hair Together in Death Apocalypse How Coming-of-Age Story Badass Bookworm Naked People Are Funny A God Am I It's All About Me Fat Bastard Femme Fatale Television Movie Index Death by Adaptation Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Chase Scene Actor Allusion Mama Bear Mexican Standoff Early-Bird Cameo Never My Fault Police Brutality Neck Lift Wham Shot Re-Cut Villain Protagonist Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Award-Bait Song Worthy Opponent Sacrificial Lion Anachronic Order Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Missing Mom Ambiguous Ending The Cavalry Eyepatch of Power Annoying Younger Sibling Disney Death Author Appeal Bland-Name Product I Need a Freaking Drink Parental Incest Madness Mantra Break the Cutie Parental Abandonment Vampire Fiction Stuff Blowing Up Room Full of Crazy Empathic Environment Loads and Loads of Characters Black Comedy Rape Jitter Cam Zombie Stories Fate Worse than Death Only a Flesh Wound MacGuffin Evil Plan Word of God Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Brick Joke Mistaken for Gay Important Haircut Twist Ending Chekhov's Skill Overprotective Dad Good Is Not Nice Faking the Dead Despair Event Horizon "Awesome McCool" Name Foregone Conclusion Cain and Abel What You Are in the Dark Real Life Recycled IN SPACE! Nice Hat The '50s Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bottomless Magazines Creator Cameo Plucky Comic Relief Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Papa Wolf Badass in a Nice Suit Demoted to Extra Brainless Beauty Animal Title Index Drill Sergeant Nasty Once More, with Clarity! Bloodier and Gorier Bring My Brown Pants The Big Guy Sequel Hook Love at First Sight Fanservice Wretched Hive Malevolent Masked Men folderlabel Big Eater Diabolus ex Machina Australian Movies Red Shirt Roaring Rampage of Revenge Paper-Thin Disguise Drugs Are Bad Villain Opening Scene Character Development Fainting Crapsack World No Antagonist Those Two Guys Idiot Ball Ironic Echo Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Off-into-the-Distance Ending Reality Is Unrealistic Genre Savvy Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adaptation Distillation Pet the Dog Cool Old Guy Almost Kiss Peek-a-Boo Corpse Soft Glass Darkest Hour Reckless Gun Usage Disney Villain Death Contrived Coincidence Truth in Television Rape as Drama Lighter and Softer Punch-Clock Villain Kick the Son of a Bitch Heroes Want Redheads Major Injury Underreaction Obfuscating Stupidity Bolivian Army Ending Early Installment Weirdness Action Survivor Bowdlerise Your Cheating Heart Informed Ability Loophole Abuse Take a Third Option Dirty Cop Everyone Has Standards As the Good Book Says... 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Is a Crapshoot Spanner in the Works Unresolved Sexual Tension Composite Character Death by Sex Too Dumb to Live Amusing Injuries Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Ambiguous Disorder Hypocrite Chewing the Scenery Five-Man Band Documentary Love Triangle Setting Update Historical Villain Upgrade Closed Circle Sadistic Choice The Dog Bites Back In the Back Determinator Artistic License – Military It Can Think Throwing Your Sword Always Works Jump Scare Mr. Fanservice Bar Brawl Sir Swears-a-Lot Ominous Latin Chanting The Chick The Reveal Abusive Parents Creative Closing Credits Alliterative Name Index of Film Westerns Interrupted Suicide In Medias Res Easily Forgiven Hypocritical Humor Cool Guns No OSHA Compliance Camp Gay Pay Evil unto Evil The '80s Chekhov's Gunman Your Head A-Splode Dissonant Serenity Anachronism Stew Scare Chord Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Kubrick Stare Gratuitous English Eureka Moment Ax-Crazy Honor Before Reason As Himself Deal with the Devil An Aesop Red Right Hand Arranged Marriage Made of Iron Auto Erotica Hollywood Darkness The Un-Reveal Match Cut Our Zombies Are Different Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mad Scientist Vacation Films All Men Are Perverts Biopic Adapted Out The Voiceless Does This Remind You of Anything? Slashed Throat Serial Killer Mind Screw Catapult Nightmare Vitriolic Best Buds Exactly What It Says on the Tin Laser-Guided Karma Disappeared Dad Casting Gag Here We Go Again! Insult Backfire O.O.C. Is Serious Business Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Plot Hole Our Vampires Are Different Stealth Pun Bury Your Gays Historical-Domain Character Pyrrhic Victory Beta Couple Jerkass Has a Point Berserk Button Action Genre I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Gainax Ending Death of a Child Slasher Smile I Have Your Wife Death by Irony Shipper on Deck Death Glare No Ending Obviously Evil No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Deconstruction Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Stinger Romantic Comedy Adaptational Heroism Be Careful What You Wish For Sanity Slippage Historical In-Joke Stalker with a Crush Psycho for Hire Hero Antagonist Hidden Depths Hate Sink Domestic Abuse Implacable Man Stealth Hi/Bye Title Drop Logo Joke Police are Useless Blackmail The Bad Guy Wins Star-Crossed Lovers Gone Horribly Right Big Fancy House The X of Y Defiant to the End Accidental Misnaming Author Avatar Canadian Movies Men Are the Expendable Gender The Sociopath Artistic License – History Horror Comedy Arc Words Unusually Uninteresting Sight Race Against the Clock Epic Fail Dogged Nice Guy Black Dude Dies First May–December Romance Actually Pretty Funny From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptational Badass Line-of-Sight Name Straight Gay Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Starscream Punny Name Artistic License – Geography A Minor Kidroduction More Dakka Air-Vent Passageway Poor Communication Kills Victoria's Secret Compartment Eye Scream Cat Fight Broken Pedestal Genre Shift Woman in White Cool Shades Tagline Crazy Jealous Guy Scenery Porn Friend to All Children Film Noir Leitmotif Greater-Scope Villain Not So Above It All And I Must Scream For the Evulz British Films Dies Wide Open Cowboy Cop In Name Only Captain Obvious Dull Surprise Extreme Doormat Faux Affably Evil Dark Reprise Dramatic Gun Cock Redemption Equals Death The Chessmaster Bavarian Fire Drill Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" And Starring Retcon