Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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

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