Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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

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