Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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

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