Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

A truth that no one believes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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