Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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

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