Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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

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