Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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

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