Tropescilloscope: Brutal Honesty

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

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