Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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

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