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| 5 | * SacredCow: [[invoked]] In the Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'', after the narrator talks about Music/{{Beyonce}}'s performance as Nala, the narrator follows up with a little disclaimer: |
| 6 | -->'''Narrator:''' The important thing to remember is that these are just observations about Beyoncé combined with some light wordplay. They are not, I repeat ''not'', jokes at her expense. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I value my family's safety and I am saying this of my own free will]].\ |
| 7 | ''[sound of "the Beyhive" buzzing growing louder and louder]''\ |
| 8 | '''Narrator:''' [[OhCrap Oh jeez, they're here!]] |
| 9 | * SandInMyEyes: |
| 10 | ** At the end of ''Film/HomeAlone1'', when Old Man Marley is reunited with his estranged son, and finally meets his granddaughter. |
| 11 | --->'''Narrator:''' This scene always gets to me. ''[sniffles]'' I'm not crying! ''You're crying!'' |
| 12 | ** During ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the narrator starts tearing up during the T-800's HeroicSacrifice. |
| 13 | --->'''Narrator:''' What? No, I'm not crying! Why would I be crying? It's just a dumb, stupid action movie. Stop looking at me! |
| 14 | * SavedFromDevelopmentHell: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Series/Halo2022'' describes how it's taken so long for an adaptation of [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} the game series]] to get off the ground, and reflects on how the series creator has messed up past adaptations: |
| 15 | -->'''Narrator:''' Creator/{{Microsoft}} tried for decades to bring ''Halo'' to Hollywood, but after bailing on movies from great directors,[[note]]Creator/NeillBlomkamp, Creator/AlexGarland, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/GuillermoDelToro[[/note]] bailing on shows from the best producers,[[note]]Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/RidleyScott[[/note]] and bailing on showrunners who even looked at the game, they'll bail on even trying to direct the game's storyline for [[Creator/{{Paramount}} the studio]] that [[Film/TerminatorGenisys bailed on]] ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles The Turtles]]'' and ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. Oh, and Creator/{{MTV}}. And ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]''. Man, Paramount is just dangling from Creator/TomCruise's [[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries giant nuts]]. |
| 16 | * SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: At the start of the trailer for ''Film/BatmanForever'', the Narrator calls the movie "definitely the worst movie [he] has seen 30 times''. |
| 17 | * SceneryPorn: |
| 18 | ** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is criticized for its absurdly long landscape shots. |
| 19 | ** Also, ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies are described as an eleven hour New Zealand tourism commercial. |
| 20 | ** ''Film/TheRevenant'' gets poked for its many, many shots of the sky: |
| 21 | --->'''Narrator:''' Yep, that's the sky. Yep, it's still the sky. Oh look, there's the sky again. Sky's not going anywhere. Another sky shot, oh goody. [[LeaveTheCameraRunning Did they just put the camera down and forget it was rolling]]? Aaaaaand... sky.\ |
| 22 | ''[later, when another sky shot appears]''\ |
| 23 | '''Narrator:''' Yes, thank you. We know the sky is still there. |
| 24 | * TheScrappy: [[invoked]] |
| 25 | ** Subverted when talking about Skyler White in ''Series/BreakingBad'', with it being noted that while Skyler is initially annoying, she quickly becomes ''very'' sympathetic once Walt starts to degenerate into a terrifying and emotionally abusive sociopath. |
| 26 | --->'''Epic Voice Guy:''' ''(on Skyler White)'' ...who at first you wish would just go away, then later will wish she could just ''get'' away, since she's married to a complete sociopath. ''[shows clips of Walt being hostile to Skyler to demonstrate his point, including his "I am the danger!" scene]'' |
| 27 | ** In ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', E is "a snarky know-it-all who's the least fun part of every episode". |
| 28 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' notes how the Ewoks filled this role in the franchise before Jar-Jar Binks came along, due to being disliked by fans for being able to take down the much more advanced Empire forces and getting two bad spinoff movies, ''Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure'' and ''Ewoks: The Battle for Endor''.[[note]]Known jointly as ''Film/StarWarsEwokAdventures''[[/note]] |
| 29 | * ScrappyMechanic: [[invoked]] |
| 30 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' describes the absorption dash as this because it encourages players to speed through levels even though the level design and enemy placement doesn't really permit this. |
| 31 | ** The Batmobile in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' for being cool at first, but eventually becoming tedious. |
| 32 | ** While the Honest Trailer for ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' praises it for its story and gameplay, the game is criticized for taking a few pages out of [[AllegedlyFreeGame free to play games']] book by introducing microtransactions to pay for cosmetic features, four different types of in-game currency and a levelling system that encourages playing for a long time and grinding for drops. |
| 33 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' describes the sections where the player has to run towards the camera, often resulting in them falling off a barely visible edge, as "Why Would You Do This" mode. |
| 34 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Combined with a RageQuit in the Honest Trailer of ''Film/AfterEarth''; the narrator leaves towards the end after realizing how many terrible {{Plot Hole}}s the movie has. |
| 35 | -->'''Narrator:''' Look, I gotta get outta here. It's just not worth it. You guys don't have to pay me for this one, just call me next week for ''[[Series/TheWalkingDead Walking Dead]]''. ''[drives off]'' |
| 36 | * SeasonalRot: [[invoked]] |
| 37 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1''[[note]]Actually the remastered version of the ''[=REmaster=]'' version[[/note]] opens with a note on [[Franchise/ResidentEvil the franchise]]'s transition from serious SurvivalHorror games into ones with more tongue in cheek humor: |
| 38 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...[t]he franchise that defined survival horror, ''[shot of Chris Redfield sitting on a mechanical panda]'' [[MoodWhiplash then turned into a comedy]]! |
| 39 | ** While the Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' describes it as one of the best superhero series ever, it points out how the animation quality took a dive during the second half of the fifth season, when production was moved to the Philippines. |
| 40 | --->'''Narrator:''' Yeesh! Don't get any ideas, [[Creator/BryanSinger Singer]]! |
| 41 | ** Brought up (perhaps inevitably) in the Honest Trailer for ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Vol. 3 (covering Seasons 6-8): |
| 42 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...[w]here, after one mixed season that still pulled off some major highs, the last two shortened ones scrambled to tie everything up real quick, because the showrunners either got [[invoked]][[CreatorsApathy bored]], [[CreatorBreakdown burned out]] or [[CreatorBacklash bitter]] that no-one liked their slavery idea[[note]]Referring to the criticism raised against ''Thrones'' showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss' now cancelled ''Confederate'' series[[/note]]. Featuring [[AbortedArc huge revelations that never really pay off]], [[DerailingLoveInterests relationships that took years to develop turning on a dime]], and characters that straight up forgot their best friends, or [[ForgotAboutHisPowers forgot their magic shapeshifting powers]], or forgot who they're at war with. |
| 43 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' opens with a TakeThat at the declining quality of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons the TV show]]: |
| 44 | --->'''Narrator:''' After 20 seasons of TV, and 8 actually ''good'' seasons of TV... |
| 45 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 46 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI22c1YmiN4 The trailer for the Screen Junkies channel]]. |
| 47 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', the movie's actual director, Creator/JordanVogtRoberts, points out flaws in the movie while also mocking some of the web series' RunningGags. |
| 48 | ** Deadpool hijacks the trailer for ''Film/Deadpool2'' to give Honest Trailers their ''own'' Honest Trailer. |
| 49 | ** The Honest Trailer for the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has them describing themselves as a "comedy webseries that would've died a long time ago if Marvel movies weren't so popular". |
| 50 | ** ''Series/CobraKai'''s Honest Trailer claims that the only mistake this show made was releasing it on Website/YouTube Red, a streaming service that eventually got replaced by Website/YouTube Premium. It then shows a montage of other streaming services that died out, with one of them being WebVideo/ScreenJunkies Plus. |
| 51 | * {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] |
| 52 | ** ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' is described as "the adventure that launched your childhood obsession with dinosaurs... and [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark two really]] [[Film/JurassicParkIII disappointing]] sequels." |
| 53 | ** The Narrator feels this way about ''The Dark Knight Rises'', describing Creator/ChristopherNolan as the "director of [[Film/BatmanBegins two good]] [[Film/TheDarkKnight Batman movies]]." |
| 54 | ** Their ''Film/IronMan2'' trailer mostly consists of them comparing how it falls short of ''Film/IronMan1'', such as by making the technology more ridiculously impossible than the previous movie and having too many forgettable subplots. |
| 55 | ** Also for ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' trilogy, where it's even referred to "[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg The Matrix... and its sequels]]". |
| 56 | ** The ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' is called ''Film/TheGodfather Trilogy'' of superhero movies, "in that the first two are great and the third one sucks a**." |
| 57 | ** ''Film/XMen1'' and ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' "proved comic book movies can be awesome", while ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' "proved comic book movies can totally suck balls". |
| 58 | ** ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'', for not having any of the things that made people love [[Film/IndependenceDay the original]], like good special effects, enjoyable campiness, a RousingSpeech or Creator/WillSmith. |
| 59 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' is described as spawning [[invoked]][[EvenBetterSequel one great]] [[WesternAnimation/Shrek2 sequel]] and two [[WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird crappy]] [[WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter ones]]. |
| 60 | ** In the ''Film/AlienCovenant'' Honest Trailer, the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise is said to have become like the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' movies, in that the first two movies (''Film/TheTerminator'' and ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'') are awesome, and every movie since then has been bad or mediocre, referring to how the first two ''Alien'' movies, ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', are considered sci-fi movie classics, but the sequels have all been worse. |
| 61 | ** Zigzagged with ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', the Honest Trailer of which describes it as a lesser movie than [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 the first one]], but still describes it as the best second movie of all the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movies, except for ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. |
| 62 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' describes it as an inferior movie to ''Film/ANewHope'' and ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' on account of making the series more childfriendly by including [[ToiletHumor burp humor]], {{Slapstick}} comedy and [[invoked]][[TheScrappy the Ewoks]]. |
| 63 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''A New Hope'' blew people's minds. ''The Empire Strikes Back'' [[invoked]][[EvenBetterSequel challenged what you thought a sequel could be]]. Now, the last chapter in the original trilogy takes its place in history as... [[DamnedByFaintPraise the third one]]. |
| 64 | ** The ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' is credited as the first Marvel franchise that has a solid origin story, an EvenBetterSequel, and then goes off the rails in the third installment. |
| 65 | ** When the narrator sees that ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' actually got a sequel, and it stars Creator/LarryTheCableGuy, he panics and screams for someone to KillItWithFire. |
| 66 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' describes ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' as "Hollywood's most reliable franchise... because every new one is worse than the last", showing how the sequels of each "trilogy" have gotten progressively worse critical reviews. |
| 67 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' does this twice: |
| 68 | *** The video opens by throwing shade at the declining quality of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' [[Film/HarryPotter movies]]: |
| 69 | ---->'''Narrator:''' From [[Creator/ChrisColumbus the director]] of ''Harry Potter'', [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone back when that]] [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets meant something]]... |
| 70 | *** When pointing out how the plot of the second movie is basically the same as [[Film/HomeAlone1 the first]], it reflects on how much worse the following movies were: |
| 71 | ---->'''Narrator:''' Hey, come on, it all worked out great the first time. Why not just try it again? Just don't try it ''again'' [[Film/HomeAlone3 again]]. Or ''again'' [[Film/HomeAlone4TakingBackTheHouse again again]]. [[Film/HomeAloneTheHolidayHeist Again again]] ''again'' again. [[OverlyLongGag And definitely not]] again again ''again'' [[Film/HomeSweetHomeAlone again again]], that would just be stupid. |
| 72 | * SequelNumberSnarl: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Halloween1978'' has the narrator struggling to sum up [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} the franchise's]] odd chronology: |
| 73 | -->'''Narrator:''' Before you see ''Halloween'', [[Film/Halloween2018 the sequel]] to the original ''Halloween'', but not ''Film/HalloweenII1981'' and definitely not [[Film/HalloweenII2009 this other movie]] called ''Halloween II''. Okay, wait, let me start over. Before you see the third ''Halloween II'' - that's right, isn't it? - be sure to revisit the first one; not the new one (the 2018 movie), and not [[Film/Halloween2007 the other movie]] called ''Halloween''. Ugh, boy, this franchise is a mess. |
| 74 | * SequelReset: The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' criticizes the movie for playing this trope completely straight. At the end of the first film, the Parrs had learned to fight crime together like a family, and the public loved superheroes again because of their actions, but at the start of this movie (which InUniverse is set only mere minutes after the end of the previous one) all of that has been forgotten and undone. |
| 75 | * SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] When the movie they're making an Honest Trailers shows similar plot to another movie. |
| 76 | ** ''Film/{{Inception}}'' is "a supposedly original film that's actually just ''Film/TheMatrix'', except with creepier extras, and unclear rules [of physics]." |
| 77 | ** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is shown to be another big offender. |
| 78 | *** The plot -- that Raoul Silva has stolen a harddrive with a list of secret agents, "which the writer stole from the plot of ''Film/MissionImpossible''." |
| 79 | *** The finale at the Skyfall estate, "an ending so goofy, they just ripped it off from ''Film/HomeAlone''." [[spoiler:''Cue a montage of the Skyfall booby trap sequence. In the montage, clips from the second ''Home Alone'' movie of Harry setting his head on fire are spliced in.'']] |
| 80 | ** Subverted with ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'': |
| 81 | --->'''Narrator:''' What I'm trying to say is: they're ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 the Space Avengers]]''. But I guess it's technically not stealing if they're ripping off themselves. |
| 82 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' points out the game's many similarities to ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'': |
| 83 | --->'''Narrator:''' A hero saving a young girl who was kidnapped by an evil green monster, [[GroundPound butt slamming]], levels that you return to several times to collect shiny gold things, a HubWorld full of doors to new levels that require a certain amount of shiny gold things to unlock, and a final boss that hides at the top of a castle. ''[{{beat}}]'' Okay, it basically is ''Super Mario 64''. |
| 84 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' points out the game's obvious similarities to the gameplay of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': |
| 85 | --->'''Narrator:''' Suffer through another brutal action RPG that's as brutal as ''Dark Souls'', because it basically is ''Dark Souls'', but isn't called ''Dark Souls'' to trick people who hate ''Dark Souls'' into trying out ''Dark Souls''. |
| 86 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' points out how similar it is to films from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: |
| 87 | --->'''Narrator:''' Prepare for a movie based on a Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} comic you had no idea existed, that Disney removed all the Marvel branding for, and didn't tie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite the fact that it has [[ComicBook/TheAvengers a team of quippy heroes]] going up against [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld a forgettable villain]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 with a vague plan]] in [[Film/TheAvengers2012 a final battle with a sky-based doomsday device]] [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron made by disposable robots]], and [[TheStinger an after-credits scene]] with Creator/StanLee. Come on, this is the [[BuffySpeak Marvel-iest non-Marvel movie]] ever! |
| 88 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/TheLastGuardian'' points out some obvious similarities to another game from [[VideoGame/TeamIcoSeries the same series]]: |
| 89 | --->'''Narrator:''' Slip on the tunic of a nameless fantasy boy, cast into an ancient ruin for no apparent reason, where he'll make friends with the magical creature trapped inside, free it from bondage and escort it through the castle, solving elaborate puzzles and escaping the mysterious shadow creatures that pursue them. Wait a minute... They made ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'' again, didn't they? |
| 90 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'' points out how it's basically the same as the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' games: |
| 91 | --->'''Narrator:''' [...] yet another incredibly short indie game, with sinister, childlike environments, toys that are secretly murder machines, five nights worth of story, and non-stop {{jump scare}}s, in a horror experience that did the impossible: made ''Five Nights At Freddy's'' look polished and original. |
| 92 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' points out the many similarities to ''Film/IronMan1'': |
| 93 | --->'''Narrator:''' [T]he heroic origins of a cocky, but capable, super rich, wisecracking, workaholic with a weird goatee, in love with a red-headed subordinate, learning to be less selfish, played by a famous Sherlock Holmes actor. It's just like ''Iron Man''! But... actually that's it; it's pretty much ''exactly'' like ''Iron Man''. |
| 94 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' points out the gameplay's similarities to that of the most recent ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games: |
| 95 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...[a]s she explores a vast wilderness of map icons, uncovering ancient ruins, artificial monstrosities, [[BenevolentArchitecture mountains with conveniently placed hand-holds]], the best version of Creator/{{Ubisoft}} towers you've ever seen, and killing wave after wave of dudes with just a bow. Wait a second, this feels awfully familiar... Oh, it's sci-fi ''Tomb Raider''! Glad we cleared that up. |
| 96 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'' opens by spelling out the movie's similarities to ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', both in its universe and central plot, with a rewrite of the "Water, earth, fire, air..." opening of ''Avatar'': |
| 97 | --->'''Narrator:''' Fang, heart, spine, talon, and tail. Long ago, the five lands lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Druun nation attacked. Only the dragons could stop them. But when the world needed them most, they vanished. 500 years passed, and Raya discovered the last dragon, a water dragon named Sisu. And although her magic skills are great, she has a lot to learn before she's ready to save anyone. But Raya believes Sisu can save the world.\ |
| 98 | ''[title card]''\ |
| 99 | '''Narrator:''' ''Rayatar: The Last Airdragon''- Eh, ''Avatar''- I mean, ''Raya and the Last Dragon''. |
| 100 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RebelMoon -- Part One: A Child of Fire'' lays out how much the movie based itself on Franchise/StarWars and works that influenced it: |
| 101 | --->'''Narrator:''' Creator/ZackSnyder always dreamed of making a Star War, but when Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} said "that sounds terrible, [[TakeThat and we made]] ''[[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker Rise of Skywalker]]''", Zack was finally free to tell his own story, where a humble farmboy from the outer rim of the galaxy joins up with a smuggler and a royal knight hiding in exile who once served as a princess' bodyguard to fight an empire ruled by an upstart senator, complete with laser swords, alien cantinas and polite English robots. Calling it now: in ''Part Two'', they will reveal that [[spoiler:the hero's father is not only still alive, but serves as the leader of the Empir-]]\ |
| 102 | [[spoiler:'''Regent Balisarius:''' My daughter, Arthelais...]]\ |
| 103 | '''Narrator:''' Or why wait? Original trilogy speedrun, let's go!\ |
| 104 | '''Narrator:''' Prepare for more than just Snyder copying Creator/GeorgeLucas, he's also copying from [[Creator/AkiraKurosawa the guy Lucas copied from]]. Featuring the exact plot of Kurosawa's ''Film/SevenSamurai'', a film about recruiting skilled fighters to save a village from grain-stealing bandits, only this time, they're recruiting skilled fighters to save them from a grain-stealing... spaceship? |
| 105 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: During the ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesInsurgent'' Honest Trailer, the narrator gets sick of the franchise's use of "SAT words" like Abdegnation and Erudite: |
| 106 | -->'''Narrator:''' I'm frustrated by the bounteous measure of inorderly and circuitous vernacular in this cinematic offering! ''[{{beat}}]'' See? I have a thesaurus too! |
| 107 | * SeriesContinuityError: The trailer for ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' points out how it doesn't even try to maintain continuity with the previous movies in the series, to the point that you could watch it as a standalone movie. |
| 108 | * ServileSnarker: The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' refers to Alfred as the "butler of Batman, but king of sick burns." Likewise with the trailer for ''Film/BatmanReturns'', where he's credited as "Who Needs a ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} When You've Got Yourself a Catty Man?" followed by most of his snarks from the movie. |
| 109 | * {{Sexposition}}: ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is described as "A show with so many monologues, HBO will desperately try to keep your attention by [[PunctuatedForEmphasis any... boobs... necessary]]." |
| 110 | * ShapedLikeItself: |
| 111 | ** In ''Film/HomeAlone'', John Heard is credited as "The Dad From ''Home Alone''". |
| 112 | ** In ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', Creator/SamNeill is credited as "That Guy from ''Jurassic Park''". |
| 113 | ** In ''Film/Deadpool2016'' and ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', Creator/TJMiller is credited as "A T.J. Miller Type". |
| 114 | * TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: [[invoked]] |
| 115 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheNewMutants'' opens by telling about its many, many delays: |
| 116 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...comes a film that was set to be released in 2018, until it got delayed to avoid ''Film/Deadpool2'', delayed again to avoid ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', delayed again after Creator/{{Disney}} acquired Creator/{{Fox}}, delayed ''again'' thanks to [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic the 'rona]], and after all that buildup, looks like [[DamnedByFaintPraise the fourth-best superhero movie of 1995]]. |
| 117 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Morbius2022'' opens by listing the movie's many delays because of [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic the pandemic]] since the release of the first trailer in early 2020: |
| 118 | --->'''Narrator:''' [...]but after a short delay, a long delay, a medium-sized delay, a little bitty baby delay, and one more big fat delay for good measure, audiences everywhere are demanding... [[BaitAndSwitch STOP PLAYING THE F*CKNG MORBIUS TRAILER]] [[SuddenlyShouting EVERY TIME I SEE A FILM!]] IT'S BEEN ''TWO YEARS!'' |
| 119 | * ShootTheMoney: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' points out how often it makes use of T. Rex models: |
| 120 | -->'''Narrator:''' ...[w]ith more deaths, more dangling vehicles and more giant practical T. rex heads passing next to things, pushing into things, and moving behind things. Because those heads cost a ton, and [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg's]] gonna get his money's worth, dammit! |
| 121 | * ShotForShotRemake: |
| 122 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/StarTrek2009'' describes it as "[[Creator/JJAbrams Abrams]]' ''Franchise/StarWars'' demo reel", showing how certain shots from the ''Star Trek'' movie are near identical to some scenes of the classic ''Star Wars'' movies. |
| 123 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' points out how similar the final fight between Neo and Agent Smith is to a fight scene from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. |
| 124 | --->'''Narrator:''' Ka-me-ha-me... nah! |
| 125 | ** The full Honest Trailer for ''Film/LaLaLand'' points out how it copies famous shots from classic movies such as ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' and ''Film/TheRedBalloon''. |
| 126 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' points out how several scenes in the film were just live action recreations of scenes from [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the animated original]]. |
| 127 | * {{Shotoclone}}: The ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' trailer, in its "Starring" part, features Ryu... and Also Ryu (Ken), Girl Ryu (Sakura), Joke Ryu (Dan), Evil Ryu (Akuma), and, uh... Eviler Ryu. |
| 128 | * ShoutOut: |
| 129 | ** After the Narrator rage quits in ''Film/AfterEarth'', a rather squeaky-voiced Hal Rudnick continues the trailer by saying, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles Uh... I don't think he's coming back.]]" |
| 130 | ** For ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'', Creator/AlecGuinness' starring name comes up as [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E2LisasRival "Genuine Class."]] As a CallBack, Creator/JeremyIrons is called "Jeremy's Iron" in the ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' trailer. |
| 131 | ** For ''Film/DieHard'', Hans Gruber's name is pronounced like "[[Film/MacGruber MACGRUBEEEERRRRRRRR!!!]]" |
| 132 | ** In the "Starring" section of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Yoda is credited as [[Music/BadLipReading "Run Run Run Jump, I Can Be Your Backpack While You Run."]] |
| 133 | ** In the ''Film/GoneGirl'' Honest Trailer they boil down the message to "Don't have sex with crazy people" saying that Neil Patrick Harris didn't learn that by showing a clip of "The Crazy Hot Scale" from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' [[spoiler: before cutting to a shot of Desi's dead body.]] |
| 134 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' credits the titular character as "Amazon Prime" and retitles the film as "[[Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn A Justice League of Her Own]]", two jokes straight out of Wonder Woman's appearance in ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'', where she rapped "I'm in my Amazon Prime!" and "I'm like Creator/GeenaDavis, in a Justice League of my own!". |
| 135 | ** The Narrator describes Past Thanos learning of future events from watching Present Nebula's memories in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' by saying that he "steals his evil plans from ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''," leading to a mix of the aforementioned scene with the scene from ''Spaceballs'' of Dark Helmet watching the movie itself. |
| 136 | ** The Narrator briefly refers to ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'' as ''Film/Troll2'', which is immediately followed by the "OH MY GOOOOOOOD!" scene from the earlier film. |
| 137 | ** After the title card, the ''Series/SquidGame'' Honest Trailer goes into a [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Stefon]]-esque rundown of the games. |
| 138 | --->Seoul's hardest extreme competition is Squid Game. This show has everything: dramatic life-or-death stakes, [=PlayStation=] controller cosplay, human furniture, old men soiling themselves, organ harvesting, and you can do a human marble, which is that thing where you play marbles with your best friend, until one of you loses the will to compete. |
| 139 | * ShowDontTell: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheKissingBooth'' and ''Film/TheKissingBooth2'' complains how Ellie's internal monologue keeps popping up "like a Creator/{{Netflix}} version of [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftOfficeAssistant Clippy]]" instead of conveying it through the actual movie: |
| 140 | -->'''Ellie:''' ''[voiceover]'' You obviously couldn't see this, but my heart just did a backflip.\ |
| 141 | '''Narrator:''' Yeah, that's what the ''acting'' is for!\ |
| 142 | ''[...]''\ |
| 143 | '''Narrator:''' Look, if I'd wanted to listen to this crap, I'd buy the audio book. |
| 144 | * ShownTheirWork: |
| 145 | ** The ''Film/PearlHarbor'' Honest Trailer lists several ''actual'' heroes of the attack under "Not Starring," including Kenneth Taylor and George Welch, who really took off and shot down Japanese planes. |
| 146 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/PointBreak1991'' notes how it accurately uses surfer lingo. |
| 147 | ** [[invoked]] As a counter-argument for fan hatred of [[TheScrappy the Ewoks]] in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' because they are able to put up a good fight against the more advanced Empire, the Honest Trailer lists several real-life wars where similarly poorly armed and smaller forces won, such as UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. |
| 148 | ** For ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', they dug up a Tokelauian speaker. Just for a cheap gag.[[note]]Or was it brilliantly faked Tokelauian? Either way, it still falls under this trope![[/note]] |
| 149 | * SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer: [[invoked]] The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' remarks on how much play time will probably be spent doing sidequests and other side activities like fishing, gathering recipes and roaming and even describes them as the most enjoyable part of the game. |
| 150 | * SignatureStyle: |
| 151 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'' points out some of director Creator/MartinScorsese's recurring techniques that appear in it, such as tracking shots, voiceovers and freeze frame shots. |
| 152 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GoneGirl'' lists the various "trademark [[Creator/DavidFincher Fincher-isms]]" featured in the movie: |
| 153 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...[l]ike smooth camera pans, a cool color palette, a dank [[AbandonedArea abandoned building]], nihilism, [[TheSociopath sociopaths]], low-lit interiors, ambient music, haze, and general [[BuffySpeak fucked up-edness]]. |
| 154 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'' points out how the movie, even though Creator/MichaelBay is just producing it and not directing it, still has many of his hallmarks, such as [[StuffBlowingUp things going "BOOOOOOM"]], Creator/MeganFox, [[ToiletHumor fart jokes]], spinning camera shots and a ton of ProductPlacement. |
| 155 | ** The Honest Trailer for "Every Creator/WesAnderson Movie" lists many of his visual and story signatures, which are so many and create such a distinctive style the movies are practically their own genre. They include overhead shots of objects, conspicuous zooms, [[WhipPan whip pan shots]], the Futura font, characters getting punched in the face and/or suffering facial wounds and characters with weird names. |
| 156 | ** The Honest Trailer for "Every Creator/ChristopherNolan Movie" describes some of his signature techniques, such as [[AnachronicOrder non-linear stories]], blue-tinted filter, innovative camerawork, plot twists pulled off with varying degrees of success and loud orchestral scores. |
| 157 | * SimilarlyNamedWorks: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheRoom2003'' urges viewers not to confuse it with ''Literature/{{Room}}''. "[[{{Understatement}} Veeery different]]". |
| 158 | * SingleTear: The ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' trailer contains a montage of Peter Parker doing these. |
| 159 | * SkewedPriorities: |
| 160 | ** From ''Film/LesMiserables2012'': |
| 161 | *** In the beginning part: |
| 162 | ---->''Meet the spirit of human redemption, Jean Valjean\ |
| 163 | A paroled thief now on the run under an assumed identity\ |
| 164 | For reasons never made clear in the entire movie\ |
| 165 | Who must face off against InspectorJavert\ |
| 166 | An officer with such terrible priorities\ |
| 167 | He'll put the entire city of Paris on lockdown\ |
| 168 | To stop a man who already served his time'' |
| 169 | *** And: |
| 170 | ---->''Leaving Valjean to now care for Cosette\ |
| 171 | [Fantine's] precocious child who is scared of the dark\ |
| 172 | But is totally cool letting some stranger\ |
| 173 | drag her around the city'' |
| 174 | *** Then finally, a two-in-one hit: |
| 175 | ---->''Now at the dawn of revolution\ |
| 176 | One young man will give up everything\ |
| 177 | [[invoked]][[StrangledByTheRedString For a woman he's met through a fence]]\ |
| 178 | Prompting a heartbreaking romance we know nothing about\ |
| 179 | Because the entire subplot is glossed over\ |
| 180 | To make room for countless scenes of Borat'' |
| 181 | ** From ''Series/GameOfThrones'' |
| 182 | --->'''Narrator:''' Watch as everyone fights to sit on the world's most uncomfortable chair, while completely ignoring an invasion of ice zombies that threatens to kill them all. |
| 183 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HobbsAndShaw'' points out how ''no-one'' in the movie seems to take the whole "save the world" mission seriously, and calls out Hobbs for saying he doesn't like Shaw because of "his voice" and not the fact that he killed several people in ''Film/FastAndFurious6'', including Han. |
| 184 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' calls out the movie for cutting WesternAnimation/PepeLePew because the character has come to be considered problematic while still including outrightly evil characters as extras in the movie, such as [[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise the Clown]] from ''Film/It2017'' and "Baby" Jane from ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane''. |
| 185 | * SlasherSmile: |
| 186 | ** Creator/WillemDafoe as the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] in ''Film/SpiderMan1'' freaks out the Narrator when he makes this: |
| 187 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...eugh, he looks better with the mask on! |
| 188 | ** In ''Film/Mother2017'', "[[spoiler:a baby being eaten alive]] is nothing, compared to a closeup of Creator/JavierBardem smiling". |
| 189 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Their description of [=The Master/Missy=] in the Honest Trailer for ''Series/DoctorWho'' (Modern): |
| 190 | -->'''Narrator:''' [...]The Master, a renegade Time Lord who consider themselves the Doctor's archnemesis, but is in the middle of this list, so you do the math. |
| 191 | * SmallReferencePools: |
| 192 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/SquidGame'' suggests that American viewers will most likely see it as a mix of ''Film/{{Parasite|2019}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' due to that being the only experience they have of Korean cinema and battle royales. |
| 193 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{RRR|2022}}'' remarks on how little experience the average American viewer probably has of Indian cinema, besides the occasional GIF and ''Film/{{SlumdogMillionaire}}''. |
| 194 | * SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: |
| 195 | ** Calls ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'s'' Fixer-Upper as "The One You Don't Know the Words To" |
| 196 | ---> ''So he's a bit of a Fixer-Upper \ |
| 197 | ????????? \ |
| 198 | Something something\ |
| 199 | Something something\ |
| 200 | Little bit of love!'' |
| 201 | ** Again for the Zulu chorus in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'''s "Circle of Life": |
| 202 | ---> ''I-------- don't know what the words really are\ |
| 203 | (It's okay) (We'll make them up!)\ |
| 204 | No one knows what-a we are a-singing\ |
| 205 | But it's fun to sing it anyway-a!'' |
| 206 | * SoOkayItsAverage: [[invoked]] |
| 207 | ** The Narrator's opinion of ''Film/{{Thor}}''. |
| 208 | --->'''Narrator:''' You've seen [[Film/TheDarkKnight great]] [[Film/SupermanTheMovie superhero]] [[Film/IronMan1 films]], you've seen [[Film/Catwoman2004 terrible]] [[Film/{{Daredevil}} superhero]] [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine films]]. Now, prepare for a superhero film that's just kinda... "ehh". I'm mean, I guess they did the best they could adapting [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor a comic book about a bratty space god]]. |
| 209 | ** The Honest Trailer for the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', is pretty cool about it, describing it as "another perfectly adequate Marvel movie". This even gets a call back in the Honest Trailer of ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', when after describing its climax as "an impossible-to-see climax, that takes place at night, ''underwater'', against a cloud... thing." he adds that ''Thor: The Dark World'' looks "pretty good right now" in comparison. |
| 210 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', very apologetically, notes that it's pretty fun despite its storytelling problems: |
| 211 | --->'''Narrator:''' I mean, it's definitely ''good'', just not ''great'', you know what I mean? Like, certainly ''enjoyable'', but, you know... Aw man, we're gonna catch hell for this anyway. |
| 212 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' describes it as "gaming's hottest [=7/10=]". |
| 213 | ** While the Narrator generally dislikes ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'', he goes as far as to describe it as "fine, but forgettable". |
| 214 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' states that it's not as bad as its reputation would suggest, calling it an "above-average kids movie", but it also states that there isn't really much to say about it, so they just jump to ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', which they consider a legitimately bad movie. |
| 215 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'' and ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' describes them as "the most okay" animated movies where [[HeelFaceTurn villains become good guys]], ranking it above ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' and below ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''. |
| 216 | ** [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'', which is described as "sort of down the middle" compared to the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse's movies, but points out that when a team-up movie featuring Creator/DCComics' greatest heroes turns out "just okay", that still qualifies as a pretty huge miss. |
| 217 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' describes the movie as the theater nerd equivalent of "just average" superhero blockbusters such as ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and sequel blockbusters such as ''Film/JurassicWorld''. |
| 218 | ** The Double Feature Honest Trailer for ''Film/PacificRimUprising'' and ''Film/TombRaider2018'' describes them both as "aggressively okay", noting that both had enjoyable moments even if they weren't enough to carry the entire movie. |
| 219 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Solo}}'' describes it as "a mixed bag that wasn't exactly great, but wasn't exactly terrible", but by and large forgettable: |
| 220 | --->'''Narrator:''' You [[FirstInstallmentWins love the original trilogy with a burning passion]]. You [[BrokenBase went to war over]] ''Film/TheLastJedi''. Now, get ready for a completely new kind of ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie: one you'll forget by the time you're home from the theater. |
| 221 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' describes it as [[OvershadowedByAwesome disappointing when held up next to]] the preceding ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and the following ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and a solid film compared to most other Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse OriginStory movies, but still ''far'' better than [[Film/Catwoman2004 the other]] [[Film/{{Elektra}} female-led]] [[Film/TankGirl superhero movies]] [[Film/BarbWire out there]] (except for ''Film/WonderWoman2017)''. |
| 222 | ** During the Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' they claim that some have been good ComicBook/SpiderMan movies (while footage from ''[[Film/SpiderManHomecoming Homecoming]]'' and ''Film/SpiderMan2'' plays), some have been bad (playing footage of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''), while some have been ''Film/Venom2018''. ''Venom'''s own Honest Trailer does pick apart its numerous flaws but also points out that the film has an oddball charm and endearing central dynamic between Eddie and the Symbiote. |
| 223 | *** ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' follows suit; the narrator points out that it may [[invoked]][[ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars not even be trying to have Oscar-worthy pretenses]] or mimic another genre, but it's "ninety minutes of dumb fun watching a reporter in love with his tapeworm." |
| 224 | ** Their ultimate assessment of ''Film/Glass2019''? "Well... that happened." |
| 225 | ** Their trailer for ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' says that it transformed [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 the original]] from "a movie that was two hours long and terrible to a movie that's four hours long... and mediocre." |
| 226 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RedNotice'', while disagreeing with the movie's mediocre critical reception, still doesn't find it impressive: |
| 227 | --->'''Narrator:''' From [[Creator/{{Netflix}} the studio]] turning formulaic movies into literal formula, comes the average of every blockbuster you've ever watched, with stars playing the average of every character they've ever played, that feels like the average of every meal you ate from the microwave because anything else was too much effort. |
| 228 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' says that it's not as bad as its review-bombers claim, but still "not good enough to defend in court". |
| 229 | * SongParody: Every time there's an episode about a movie that prominently includes either one or several songs (such as movies from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon), parodies of those songs are featured in the episode. |
| 230 | * SoundEffectBleep: Out of fear of Website/YouTube's demonetization policies, every use of "fuck," "shit," and "asshole" will be censored when any use of the words are made in each Honest Trailer that is produced. [[note]] There have also been notable periods where the use of the bleep was expanded to a point that any expletive stronger than "hell" and "damn" respectively would be bleeped out even if it had previously been used uncensored.[[/note]] |
| 231 | ** This has resulted in jarring instances when said words are used concurrently with less offending forms of profanity that are usually left uncensored, sometimes when trying to prove a point regarding certain movies. Like how the narrator summed up Steve Rogers' portrayal in Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier by stating: |
| 232 | --->'''Narrator:''' Holy sh*t! Who knew ComicBook/CaptainAmerica kicked so much ass? |
| 233 | ** Or how the montage of clips of Rogers swearing in the Honest Trailer for Film/AvengersEndgame had the "you've gotta be shitting me." line be the only one of the expletives represented to be censored. |
| 234 | * SoundtrackDissonance: |
| 235 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men Trilogy]]'' features a montage of mutants causing destruction set to upbeat orchestra music. |
| 236 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' shows a montage of [[StuffBlowingUp the many "BEWMS"]] in the movie, making them hilarious by adding the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRn9chmRAY "Stars and Stripes Forever."]] |
| 237 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' adds a "SoundtrackDissonance/YaketySax"-like tune, goofy sound effects and a laugh track to the scenes where Malcolm and the others are chased by raptors in a sequence described as ''Jurassic [[Series/TheBennyHillShow Benny Hill]]''. |
| 238 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' makes fun of its bizarre scene transitions by showing them in a montage with circus-like music. |
| 239 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheRevenant'' describes the more violent scenes as "so over the top it's one music change from being ''Series/{{Jackass}}''", showing some of the scenes set to "Corona" by Minutemen (the theme song of ''Jackass'') and with clips of the ''Jackass'' guys laughing their asses off. |
| 240 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' sets one of the series' fight scenes to polka music while discussing [[JitterCam the shaky camera work]]. |
| 241 | ** After the Honest Trailer for ''Film/LaLaLand'' turns into an Honest Trailer for ''Film/Moonlight2016'', the narrator realizes that all they have left of the video is a song from the former, resulting in the bittersweet, emotional plot of ''Moonlight'' being retold to the chipper, upbeat tune of ''La La Land'''s "Another Day of Sun". |
| 242 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' shows a montage of some pretty violent scenes in the movie that are supposed to be comedic, but makes them pretty damn scary by setting them to dark, PsychoStrings-like music. |
| 243 | ** The Honest Retro TV Themes special (made in anticipation of the 2017 Emmy Awards) takes the fairly somber TV shows ''Series/StrangerThings'', ''Series/ThisIsUs'', and ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' and gives them new, 80s and 90s style, hilariously inappropriately upbeat theme songs: to ''Stranger Things'' one based on the theme song of ''Series/PerfectStrangers'', to ''This Is Us'' one based on the theme song of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', and to ''The Handmaid's Tale'' one based on "I Don't Want To Wait", the theme song of ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' (performed by Music/PaulaCole, the original performer of "I Don't Want To Wait"). ''Series/GameOfThrones'' also got a new theme song, though that one is more "80s style" epic. |
| 244 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Mother2017'' shows a montage of the most bizarre, violent scenes of the film ("everything goes coo-coo bananas nuts and cray") set to an upbeat song that [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sounds similar]] to "SoundtrackDissonance/YaketySax". |
| 245 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Predator}}'' does this twice: |
| 246 | *** First, when they describe Dutch (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) as "a jacked-up, badass, cigar-chomping [[Film/HomeAlone Kevin McAllister]]", playing an upbeat, rock version of "Twelve Days of Christmas" while showing scenes of Kevin's traps in ''Home Alone'' next to scenes of the traps Dutch used against the Predator. |
| 247 | *** Second, in the "Starring" part, they include the movie's credits, which was composed of shots of the characters addressing the camera and "made the movie look like a [[TheNineties 90s]] {{Sitcom}}", replacing the original music with a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to [[Series/{{Friends}} "I'll Be There For You"]]. |
| 248 | ** When the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheShining'' lists the many things it did different from modern horror movies, it adds an eerie rendition of "Let It Snow" to scenes of the movie, suggesting that's what the trailers would have been like if it had been marketed today. |
| 249 | ** During the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheKissingBooth'' and ''Film/TheKissingBooth2'': |
| 250 | *** In one bit, we are shown a montage of Elle and Lee's many friendship rules, with the music gradually changing from a light and breezy one to a creepier, more sinister one. |
| 251 | *** Another, more incidental bit is when the Honest Trailer shows some of Noah's violent and controlling behavior while the video still has the same upbeat music. |
| 252 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Scream}}'' shows a montage of Ghostface attacking people and either being given the slip or getting injured when they fight back, made comical thanks to the added goofy soundtrack. |
| 253 | * SpeakingSimlish: The Narrator points this out in ''VideoGame/TheSims'': |
| 254 | -->'''Narrator:''' Create your own story as your Sims babble away in incomprehensible Simlish...\ |
| 255 | '''Male Sim:''' ''[question in Simlish]''\ |
| 256 | '''Female Sim:''' ''[agreement in Simlish]''\ |
| 257 | '''Narrator:''' ...a ridiculous fake language like [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon]] or [[EskimosArentReal Swedish]].\ |
| 258 | '''WebVideo/PewDiePie:''' ''[angry Swedish [[ForeignCussWord cursing]]]'' |
| 259 | * SpinOff: |
| 260 | ** ''Honest Game Trailers'', which focuses on video games instead of films or TV shows. |
| 261 | ** ''Honest Action'', which has a certified physician analyze action movies and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome list the injuries the character would receive in the real world]]. Sadly only episodes on ''Film/DieHard'' and ''Film/HomeAlone'' were made. |
| 262 | ** ''Honest Theme Songs'', a SongParody for a recent movie. |
| 263 | * SpecialEffectFailure: [[invoked]] |
| 264 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' takes a jab at the poorly executed CGI zords and megazords. The narrator even goes so far as to claim that the PeopleInRubberSuits from the TV show look better by comparison. |
| 265 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' shows test footage with CGI that was so bad the producers wisely decided not to use it in the actual movie. |
| 266 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' takes a jab at the poor CGI used to cover up Creator/HenryCavill's moustache. |
| 267 | ** The trailer for ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' mocks the effects used for the scene where Howard flies the Turboman Jetpack, which has not aged well. |
| 268 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' says the effects are so bad "it barely looks better than the leaked rough cut" and lists all the problems they can think of, including CGI claws that look worse than the ones in the first three X-Men movies do. |
| 269 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' points out how this movie's version of The Lizard looks worse than he did in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', and even worse than Reptile from the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' movies, both [[Film/MortalKombat2021 the recent one]] and [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie the old one]]. |
| 270 | * SpiritualSuccessor: [[invoked]] Brought up in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' trailer: |
| 271 | -->'''Narrator:''' And don't tell me it's impossible to make a good ''Fantastic Four'' movie. It's called ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', [[SacredCow and it's perfect]]. |
| 272 | * {{Spoiler}}: |
| 273 | ** The series openly discusses spoilers, since the videos are released after the film in question is available on home media. Honest Trailers revealing major plot twists or developments will usually begin with the disclaimer "The following trailer is rated "S" for spoilers". |
| 274 | ** ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has a spoiler-free version where potentially spoilery content (even those from the first episode!) was either blurred or bleeped. This includes every mention of dragons. |
| 275 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' opens with the usual disclaimer, also chiding the movie's real trailer for not showing that kind of discretion by giving away "the only cool part in the entire movie", that [[spoiler:John Connor becomes a Terminator]]. |
| 276 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Split}}'' comes with the standard spoiler warning in the opening. Later, as it's about to reveal that [[spoiler:the movie is a Stealth Sequel to ''Unbreakable'']], it stops, gives a warning that it's about to reveal something major and then gives viewers a few seconds to turn quit watching, showing footage of the trees from ''Film/TheHappening''. |
| 277 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Predator}}'' repeatedly complains about how the very first scene of the film already gives away that the enemy the soldiers have to face is an alien, thus killing a lot of the suspense. |
| 278 | * SpoofAesop: Describes ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' as a movie that "teaches girls everywhere they don't need a prince to rescue them, because all men are disgusting loners ''[shows Kristoff]'', greedy murderers ''[shows The Duke of Weselton]'', or [[spoiler:lying, manipulative, power-hungry sociopaths ''[shows Prince Hans]'']]". |
| 279 | -->'''Narrator:''' Happy now, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel_(website) Jezebel]]? |
| 280 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: |
| 281 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' suggests that it gives way too much screentime to Creator/SachaBaronCohen as Monsieur Thénardier in favor of the romantic subplot between Marius and Cosette and scenes with the more interesting Éponine. |
| 282 | ** The ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' trailer considers Wolverine this for the whole ''X-Men'' film series, in detriment to most other characters. |
| 283 | --->'''Narrator:''' In a world full of other cool X-Men, meet... Wolverine, for the seventh f*cking time. |
| 284 | ** The ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' trailer renames the series ''Jack Sparrow of the Caribbean (And Some Other Pirates)''. |
| 285 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'' describes it as "April O'Neil: The Movie" because of how much attention she gets compared to the actual Turtles. |
| 286 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'' and ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' points out how the Minions progressively have become the focus of the franchise; going from just getting some funny moments in the first film, to having a whole B-plot in the sequel, to getting [[WesternAnimation/{{Minions}} their own spinoff movie]], to inspiring an endless parade of memes that really have nothing to do with them. |
| 287 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious The Fate of the Furious]]'' describes Hobbes (Wrestling/DwayneJohnson) and Deckard (Creator/JasonStatham) and their [[BuddyCopShow buddy cop moments]] as this, noting how they appear together in "every cool scene in the movie" while the rest of the cast gets sidelined. |
| 288 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' suggests that [[spoiler:Tony Stark]] is this in the movie because [[spoiler:his death continues to motivate Peter and Mysterio's origin story here is directly connected to him]]; made more glaring by the fact that [[spoiler:Tony died in the previous movie]]. |
| 289 | * StalkerWithACrush: The ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' trailer calls Anakin a "a rat-tailed ***hole who's been creepily stalking Padme for the last decade". Cue [[http://youtu.be/4nJS-LPcFfw?t=1m37s montage]] of Anakin's love declarations throughout the movie with dissonant horror movie music added in. |
| 290 | -->'''Padme:''' Please don't look at me like that.\ |
| 291 | '''Anakin:''' Why not?\ |
| 292 | '''Padme:''' It makes me feel uncomfortable.\ |
| 293 | '''Anakin:''' ''[smirking]'' Sorry milady. ''[stares at her leaving for an uncomfortably long time]''\ |
| 294 | '''Narrator:''' [[{{Squick}} Eyuugh.]] |
| 295 | * StarDerailingRole: [[invoked]] Credits Creator/MariaPitillo in the ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'' Honest Trailer as "Career Killer." |
| 296 | * StarMakingRole: [[invoked]] |
| 297 | ** ''Film/{{Friday}}'' is described as launching Creator/ChrisTucker into ''Film/RushHour'' stardom... and post-''Rush Hour'' obscurity. |
| 298 | --->'''Narrator:''' Seriously, what ''happened'' to Chris Tucker? |
| 299 | ** ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' is credited with being Creator/BenedictCumberbatch's launchpad into movie stardom, including roles in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', ''Film/TheHobbit'' movies, ''Film/TheImitationGame'' and a National Theatre Live production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. |
| 300 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Memento}}'' credits it with launching Creator/ChristopherNolan's fame as a director... and making people somewhat aware of the existence of his brother, Creator/JonathanNolan, showing a clip of someone interviewing him and being unaware that he has collaborated with Christopher on many of his movies at that point. |
| 301 | * StartXToStopX: From the ''Film/NationalTreasure'' Honest Trailer: |
| 302 | -->'''Narrator''': When the Declaration of Independence is in danger...\ |
| 303 | '''Ben Gates''': Someone's gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.\ |
| 304 | '''Narrator''': One group will steal... the Declaration of Independence.\ |
| 305 | '''Ben Gates''': I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.\ |
| 306 | '''Narrator''': So that no one else can steal... the Declaration of Independence.\ |
| 307 | '''Ben Gates''': I'm not gonna let you steal the Declaration of Independence. |
| 308 | * STDImmunity: From the ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' Honest Trailer: |
| 309 | -->'''Narrator:''' Meet Vinnie, a movie star with no talent, no charisma, and [[ReallyGetsAround by some miracle]], no herpes. |
| 310 | * StealthInsult: |
| 311 | ** They snuck in a quick jab at ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' during their ''Film/{{Inception}}'' trailer. |
| 312 | --->'''Narrator:''' From [[Creator/ChristopherNolan the director]] of ''two'' good Batman movies... |
| 313 | ** The opening to their trailer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' mentions that it's been 3 years since their last musical (''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'') and 18 years since their last GOOD musical (''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''). |
| 314 | * StillbornFranchise: [[invoked]] |
| 315 | ** Makes a crack with this at the expense of ''Film/GreenLantern2011''. |
| 316 | --->'''Narrator:''' Haha! [[TakeThat They thought there was going to be a sequel. That's adorable...]]. |
| 317 | ** And again at the expense of ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' |
| 318 | --->'''Daisy:''' Luigi, Mario! You have to come with me, I need your help!\ |
| 319 | '''Narrator:''' ''[flatly]'' Yeah, that's not gonna happen. |
| 320 | * StockFootage: |
| 321 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' shows how it reuses "the same flying shots used over, and over, and over, and over again". |
| 322 | --->'''Narrator:''' Seriously, these are all the same shot? You couldn't do one more take? That's... that's lazy, you guys. |
| 323 | ** The ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' trailer points out that the same animated shots are used multiple times in the same movie and that some of the shots were reused in later Disney movies. |
| 324 | ** The ''Series/TheFlash2014'' shows how some scenes of Barry running at superspeed were used in more than one episode. |
| 325 | * TheStoner: |
| 326 | ** In the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' trailer, the narrator's voice briefly changes into this, after pointing out that the item that can heal the injuries received by the player characters is a green herb. |
| 327 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[in a Jamaican accent]'' Nothing a little Green Herb can't fix, am I right, mon? Hohohohoho! |
| 328 | ** During the Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReeferMadness'' and ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', released on [[FourTwentyBlazeIt April 20]] 2021, the narrator is smoking a bong throughout the video. |
| 329 | * StoryToGameplayRatio: |
| 330 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' gets jabbed for its long, long cutscenes and endless radio conversations. |
| 331 | ** ''VideoGame/QuantumBreak'', which consists of player-controlled third-person shooter gameplay which influences long, episode length episodes of a TV series that tell most of the story, is described as feeling like "taking breaks from playing ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'' to watch an episode of ''Series/{{Fringe}}''". |
| 332 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: While the Epic Voice Guy (Jon Bailey) and Epic Voice Guy Sr. (Gannon Nickell) disagree on whether or not ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' is a good movie overall, they share the same favourite and least favourite moments. They have the same conversation about ''Film/TheLastJedi'' and again share the same favorite and least favorite scenes. |
| 333 | * StrangledByTheRedString: [[invoked]] |
| 334 | ** The romantic subplot of ''Film/LesMiserables2012'', as pointed out in the third example for SkewedPriorities above. |
| 335 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheHungerGames'' also claims Katniss and Peeta lack chemistry. |
| 336 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JungleCruise'' complains more than once about Frank and Lily's lack of chemistry even though they become a romantic couple, while also pointing out Wrestling/DwayneJohnson's better chemistry with other actors in the movie (as well as Frank's boat and animated pet jaguar). |
| 337 | * StrictlyFormula: |
| 338 | ** Every Creator/SamRaimi ''Spider-Man'' film is narrated with the exact same plotline: "A story about Peter Parker struggling with his powers, breaking up with Mary Jane, and fighting a villain who ultimately kills himself." |
| 339 | --->'''Narrator:''' Wait, did they just make the same movie three times in a row? |
| 340 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/IronMan1'' describes a formulaic trend that will dominate subsequent Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movies: "Take a half-forgotten, B-list superhero, cast an unknown or half-forgotten, B-list actor, have him fight a [[GenericDoomsdayVillain generic villain]] [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie that will only last one movie]], fall in love with a generically strong female character, [[DeadpanSnarker make a ton of quips]], [[TechnoBabble talk a bunch of science]], [[DestructiveSaviour destroy some public property]], [[TheCameo cram]] Creator/StanLee [[TheCameo in there somewhere]], [[PillarOfLight shoot a blue beam into the sky]], [[SequelHook set up an Avengers movie]], and force the audience to sit through 500 visual effects guys' names just to catch [[TheStinger a few extra seconds]]." |
| 341 | ** ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' gets jabbed for its use of Creator/{{Pixar}}'s success formula: |
| 342 | --->'''Narrator:''' [A]n emotionally jarring opening, a sentimental protagonist-wacky sidekick duo, and just enough [[ToiletHumour poop jokes]] to entertain your kids while the heartwrenching story makes you reevaluate your entire adult life. |
| 343 | ** ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' is described as following the standard episode formula from [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the TV series]]: |
| 344 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...[w]here [[BigBad Rita]] summons a monster, the Power Rangers fight their minions hand-to-hand, someone gets really big, and the Rangers morph into a Zord to save the day. |
| 345 | ** The Honest Trailers for the ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' follow a similar structure with similar jokes in addition to the usual Honest Trailer format. They all use the same parody of the cover of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Crazy in Love" that was used in the series' real trailers, there is usually a joke about Christian's creepy, stalkerish demeanour, the "Starring" or "Not Starring" parts always consist of awful lines or scenes from the books or the movies, and the joke title always segues into the narrator bemoaning the fact that the movies exist and are huge cashcows despite being so bad. |
| 346 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' lampshades how pretty much every Creator/{{Pixar}} movie has a climax that involves a ChaseScene of some sort. |
| 347 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/WandaVision'' describes it as another reminder that, no matter how different and original a Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse story might start out, it will [[spoiler:usually feature a final battle with a skybeam and a fight where two animated figures fire special effect beams at each other]]. |
| 348 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' suggests that the movie was written with the same basic plot as many other Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movies: keep [[MacGuffin important object X]] out of the hands of military leader Y by taking down massive airship Z. |
| 349 | --->'''Narrator:''' I know [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]]'s [[Series/WandaVision taking some risks]] [[Series/Loki2021 here and there]], but this one definitely sticks to the old plan. |
| 350 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: |
| 351 | ** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the Bat-Armor "can withstand falls from any height, but sucks against bullets." |
| 352 | ** Also, in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', "watch Academy Award winning ladies' man Creator/GeorgeClooney [[invoked]][[MoneyDearBoy phone it in as Batman]], a hero capable of performing impossible feats... except for moving his neck. Or body." |
| 353 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/StrangerThings'' points out how the Demigorgon switches back and forth between being an invincible, unkillable, lightning-fast predator, and a slow moving [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]] who gets beaten by a teen with a baseball bat. |
| 354 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Aquaman2018'' points out Aquaman's powers are rather inconsistent throughout the movie, particularly in regards to his strength and invulnerability. |
| 355 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' remarks on how the bugs can either take several bullets with barely a scratch or get ripped apart with just a few depending on what the story requires. |
| 356 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/NationalTreasure'' points out how Riley tends to know everything until a situation happens [[RuleOfFunny where it's funnier if he doesn't]]. |
| 357 | * StupidCrooks: |
| 358 | ** In ''Film/FastFive'', "gear up to steal $100 million with the dumbest criminals ever as they: take off their masks during robberies, go for leisurely strolls while all of Rio's drug gangs are after them, and drag race cop cars they just stole down the middle of the streets." |
| 359 | ** In ''Film/BabyDriver'', Baby is "the Creator/DaneCook of being a crook, whether he's using his criminal alias in public, wearing the same outfit before, during and after his heists, not wearing gloves or wiping down his prints, and making his own recorded evidence of criminal conspiracies". |
| 360 | * StupidSexyFlanders: |
| 361 | ** Both narrators ''really'' wanted [[Film/TheHungerGames Katniss to choose Gale instead of Peeta]]. |
| 362 | --->'''Gannon Nickell:''' I mean, [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday I'm not gay]], but I would totally [[CensoredForComedy s*ck Gale's d*ck!]]\ |
| 363 | '''Jon Bailey:''' I would totally choose Gale... ah, I mean, if I were Katniss... ah, screw it! Gale is hot and I would make out with that face in a heartbeat! |
| 364 | ** Also, [[Film/TheForceAwakens Poe Dameron]], who both narrators agree has a beautiful face and that is a high point of the movie. |
| 365 | ** There's [[Film/Aquaman2018 Aquaman]], with the narrator arguing that his real superpower is "the smolder". |
| 366 | --->'''Aquaman''': Permission to come aboard?\ |
| 367 | '''Narrator''': ''Permission granted, sailor.'' Uh, I mean-- is it hot in here? Whoo! |
| 368 | * SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: The Honest Trailer for the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' complains how the few memorable villains that stand out among the usual bland bad guys of the franchise are all killed off. |
| 369 | * SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: The ''Film/IronMan3'' trailer proposes that the rest of the Avengers were absent due to budgetary reasons, and criticizes Tony for not calling any of his fellow Avengers to help him when he [[TooDumbToLive demanded that the Mandarin come attack him at his home]]. It concludes by saying that the film is "not starring" any of the other Avengers, Nick Fury, Selvig, Agents Coulson and Hill, "or even the ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' guy." |
| 370 | * SurprisinglyImprovedSequel:[[invoked]] |
| 371 | ** Their opinion of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': |
| 372 | -->'''Narrator:''' You weren't that impressed with [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger his first movie]]. He wasn't your favorite [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avenger]]. Now, get ready for the sequel that made everyone say... "Holy sh*t! Who knew Captain America kicked so much ass?" |
| 373 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsMovie'' credits Creator/DaveFiloni with making [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars the following TV series]] this to the movie because it's much more compelling and it turned Ahsoka Tano into a [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favorite]][[invoked]]. |
| 374 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: What happens during the Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''. |
| 375 | --> '''Narrator:''' ''[as Edward dives into a bale of hay]'' Surely this small amount of hay will cushion the impact--*CRACK* OH GOD, MY BONES! |
| 376 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' jokes that Bloodsport (Creator/IdrisElba) has so many similarities to Creator/WillSmith's version of Deadshot from [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 the previous movie]], both being sharpshooters trying to get back to their daughters, that there may well be a copy of the script with Deadshot's name still in it. |
| 377 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 378 | ** "And when I say [[[Film/HarryPotter Hermione]] is] hot, I mean only in the ''last'' three movies after [the actress playing her] [[Totally18 turned eighteen]]! Heh heh... [[HypocriticalHumor pervs]]!" |
| 379 | ** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Palpatine is credited as "Definitely ''Not'' the Emperor". |
| 380 | ** In the ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'' Trailer, they give an unconvincing denial of looking at the Creator/JenniferLawrence nude leaks. |
| 381 | ** At the end of the ''Film/MagicMike'' trailer, the Narrator insisted that he's not gay or weird... after spending the "Starring" part raving about ''abbbbbs'' and ''asssss'' and ''peccccs'' and having a FreudianSlip about wanting Creator/ChanningTatum, he didn't really fool anyone. |
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| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:T]] |
| 385 | * TakeAThirdOption: In the ''Film/ManOfSteel'' trailer, Superman has to decide which of his fathers' advice to follow- his biological father, who wants him to show off his powers to inspire humanity, or his adoptive father, who tells him to hide his powers even if innocent people die. Superman then decides to show off his powers and let innocent people die. |
| 386 | * TakeThat: [[TakeThat/HonestTrailers Has its own page]]. |
| 387 | * TakeThatAudience: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheBatman2022'' has the narrator complain that the Riddler has no trouble getting his 500 followers to do acts of terrorism for him, but that barely 10% of the Honest Trailers audience like the videos or subscribe to the channel. |
| 388 | * TakeThatScrappy: [[invoked]] Besides Creator/ShaileneWoodley's [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously performance]], the only good thing the narrator has to say about ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesInsurgent'' is that Creator/JaiCourtney's character is killed off (which also serves as a sort of BrickJoke to how much his performance was criticized in the ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' Honest Trailer). |
| 389 | * TankGoodness: The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' focuses mostly on how the Batmobile is essentially a tank. So much so that they call it ''Arkham: VideoGame/WorldOfTanks''. |
| 390 | * TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] |
| 391 | ** In ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': "Re-experience the ground-breaking CGI that still holds up after twenty years, [shows shots of the park's 1990s computers] and all of this technology that doesn't." |
| 392 | ** In ''Harry Potter'', Hogwarts is a place "where technology seems to have been frozen in the nineteenth century, replacing cell phones and the Internet with quill pens and owls." |
| 393 | * TemptingFate: |
| 394 | ** At the end of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' trailer: |
| 395 | ---> '''Narrator:''' At least this is just one of those one-off internet fads that I won't have to play anymor-''[cue trailer for VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2]'' Oh f***. We're gonna have a million of these, aren't we? |
| 396 | ** Meta example for the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Honest Trailers, where one character is raged at in particular. |
| 397 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[in the first ''Game of Thrones'' Honest Trailer]'' God, if [Joffrey] doesn't die this season, I'm gonna f*cking kill him myself! F*cking HATE that kid!\ |
| 398 | ''[Joffrey died shortly after the Honest Trailer was released]''\ |
| 399 | '''Narrator:''' ''[in the second ''Game of Thrones'' Honest Trailer]'' ...and since this worked so well when I said it last time: God, if [Ramsay] doesn't die this season, I'm gonna f*cking kill him myself! He's like, invincible Joffrey! Piece of sh*t!\ |
| 400 | [[spoiler:''[Ramsay died shortly after said Honest Trailer was released, too]'']] |
| 401 | ** The second ''Game of Thrones'' trailer also has a montage of "beeeewbs" with high note music before it suddenly cuts out at Cersei's humiliation. The narrator laments that they do not want these boobs, loaded with character development as they are, and "this used to be fun. Well, at least the bewbs can't get worse, right?" Smash cut to Melisandre's true (and truly old) body, leading the narrator to cry out in horror. |
| 402 | ** The Honest Trailer for the first season of ''Series/StrangerThings'' has the narrator advice the show against things that would happen in the second season (which had already premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} at the time of the Honest Trailer's release) which were considered divise among audiences, such as [[spoiler:replacing the Demogorgon with several smaller, weaker ones]] and [[spoiler:the practically self-contained, Eleven-centric episode that throws off the narrative momentum of the season]]. |
| 403 | * ThatOneAttack: [[invoked]] The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' credits [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] as "Down + B (Cut That Shit Out!)" in reference to his Lightning attack. |
| 404 | * ThatCameOutWrong: Happens twice during the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''. |
| 405 | -->'''Narrator:''' So settle in for a fantastically-animated, well-told lesson about disproving stereotypes, even though the fox character really is sneaky, the weasels do cheat, and the sloths are slow. Oh wait, no. Does this mean ''I'm'' racist? I owned a bunch of rabbits when I was a kid. I mean...No, they were mine! Not that I, you know...not like they're property or...I love rabbits, okay?! This...That came out all wrong! Go to starring! ''Go to starring!'' |
| 406 | -->''[he goes through the cast until he gets to Judy]'' |
| 407 | -->'''Narrator:''' ...and Film/HotFuzz. You get it? 'Cause she's a bunny cop, but she's hot too. Wait, n--I can ''say'' she's hot though, right? Dang it, am I racist ''and'' a furry?! Ugh, this movie is such a minefield! |
| 408 | * ThatsWhatSheSaid: |
| 409 | ** The narrator says this in the ''Film/ManOfSteel'' trailer in response to Lois Lane's attempts [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to plug something into a hole and saying it's supposed to go all the way in]]. |
| 410 | ** The ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' trailer also played on this with all the {{Accidental Innuendo}}es in the movie's "Freudian finale" (as the narrator put it): |
| 411 | --->"Luke is the best bush pilot in the Outer Rim Territories."\ |
| 412 | "Look at the size of that thing!"\ |
| 413 | "They came from behind."\ |
| 414 | "...should be able to penetrate the outer defense."\ |
| 415 | "Almost there... Almost there...!"\ |
| 416 | "Didn't go in."\ |
| 417 | "You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"\ |
| 418 | "Luke, at that speed, will y'be able to pull out in time?"\ |
| 419 | '''[[Series/TheOfficeUS Michael Scott]]:''' That's what she said! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! |
| 420 | * TheyChangedItNowItSucks: [[invoked]] |
| 421 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' brought along Creator/TeamFourStar, playing characters from [[Manga/DragonBall the anime it's very vaguely based on]], to explain just [[InNameOnly how different the movie is from its source material]]. |
| 422 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'', the narrator is infuriated by the changes Creator/GeorgeLucas made to the re-releases of the movie over the years; specifically the painfully badly animated aliens added to the scenes on Tatooine. |
| 423 | --->'''Narrator:''' Return to a time when technology forced George Lucas to collaborate with other people [...] to deliver a near-perfect movie. That he's made progressively worse with each [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion Special Edition]]. Because if there's one thing the original ''Star Wars'' ''wasn't'' missing, [[EnragedByIdiocy it's poorly rendered,]] ''[[EnragedByIdiocy out of place CGI animals]]'' '''''[[EnragedByIdiocy filling every square inch of the frame]]!!!''''' |
| 424 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke'' got this in droves for how it differed from [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke its iconic graphic novel]] and turned the first half into a romantic subplot between Batman and Batgirl. |
| 425 | ** All over the place in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' with how the villains from the cartoons and comics were wasted, such as Shredder not appearing in his signature costume and Baxter Stockman never turning into a human fly. Creator/StephenAmell's version of Casey Jones, a.k.a. "[[ActorAllusion You Have Failed]] [[Series/{{Arrow}} This Character]]", gets it particularly badly because of the many changes to the character. |
| 426 | ** In addition to complaining that ''VideoGame/DeadRising4'' [[invoked]][[ItsTheSameNowItSucks is pretty much the same basic game as the last ones]], the game's Honest Trailer bemoans that the protagonist, Frank, has been changed for the worse and the game has lost many of the things that made the previous games stand out. |
| 427 | ** Similar to the ''Star Wars'' entry above, the Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' also points out how its [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion Special Edition]] featured several disliked changes from the original movie, such as the same kind of bad special effects, added visual references to the prequel movies and Darth Vader's infamous shouts of "No"; they especially note how the Special Edition removed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6vAuS0KNs the Ewoks' "Yub Nub" song from the ending]] and added the more disliked "Jedi Rocks" song. |
| 428 | ** The Double Feature Honest Trailer for ''Film/PacificRimUprising'' and ''Film/TombRaider2018'' laments how both of them lack cast members or creative people that made the previous entries in their respective franchises more enjoyable; Creator/AngelinaJolie, Creator/JonVoight and Creator/IainGlen (a.k.a. [[Series/GameOfThrones Jorah Mormont]]) from the ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' movies, and Creator/GuillermoDelToro, Creator/RonPerlman and Creator/CharlieHunnam from ''Film/PacificRim''. |
| 429 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'' notes how people will probably complain about the movie's take on Black Mask because it's so different from the comics: |
| 430 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[sighs]'' ''Really'' looking forward to hearing about ''this'' and [[Film/IronMan3 the Mandarin]] until the sun explodes. |
| 431 | * TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: [[invoked]] |
| 432 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' chides it for ripping off other movies, such as the volcanic scenes from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', the super-fast punching fight scenes of ''Film/TheMatrix'' and the turqoise filter-filmed brooding of ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', showing the original scenes next to those of ''Dragonball'' for comparison. |
| 433 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Gotti}}'' shows how it almost copied lines and replicated several shots and scenes from ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', showing them side-by-side with the ''Goodfellas'' scenes for comparison. |
| 434 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' laments how many franchises like to rip off elements of ''Film/{{Logan}}'': |
| 435 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...where a franchise film comes out[[note]]''Logan'', ''Terminator: Dark Fate'', ''Film/Halloween2018''[[/note]] that [[CanonDiscontinuity doesn't dwell on the terrible sequels]][[note]]''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'', ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''[[/note]], brings back a grizzled ass-kicker[[note]]Logan, Sarah Connor, Laurie Strode[[/note]], gives them [[ShellShockedVeteran a mean case of PTSD]], pairs them with a young girl to hopefully take over from here[[note]]Laura / [[ComicBook/{{X23}} X-23]], Dani Ramos, Allyson Nelson[[/note]], and has them do all the stuff you liked, but ''just'' differently enough to eke another 10-20 bucks out of you before dementia sets in and every movie feels new again. |
| 436 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Uncharted2022'' points out its similarities to other recent blockbusters: |
| 437 | --->'''Narrator:''' From the Creator/{{Disney}} [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment of gaming]], and [[Creator/ElectronicArts the EA]] [[Creator/SonyPictures of film]], comes a swashbuckling romp about a buff dude, a smaller, quippy guy, and a sexy lady with an accent to hunt down a mythical treasure: ''Film/RedNotice''. I, I mean, uh, ''Film/JungleCruise''. No, wait, I mean, ''Uncharted''. ''[frustrated]'' Eugh, since when did bad versions of ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'' become its own genre? |
| 438 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[invoked]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter/HonestTrailers Has its own page]]. |
| 439 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[invoked]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot/HonestTrailers Has its own page]]. |
| 440 | * ThirdPersonPerson: The Narrator often refers to himself as "Epic Voice Guy". |
| 441 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: |
| 442 | ** The ''Film/AfterEarth'' trailer begins with "From the director of... ''[Creator/MNightShyamalan's name appears on the screen]'' Oh God, not him again." |
| 443 | ** Happens again in the trailer for another Shyamalan movie, ''Film/TheHappening'', which begins with "From M. Night Shyamalan... ''[{{beat}}]'' [[SarcasmMode Hoo boy, this should be good...]]" |
| 444 | ** His reaction to having to do the trailer for the insanely-divisive ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' (they actually preemptively disabled the comments when they put it up): |
| 445 | --->'''Narrator:''' I am ''sooo'' getting doxxed! |
| 446 | ** The narrator again has this reaction when, during the Honest Trailer for ''Film/Deadpool2'', Deadpool suddenly hijacks the trailer and begins his own Honest Trailer about Honest Trailers. |
| 447 | * ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: [[invoked]] The ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' Honest Trailer refers to the movie as "''Film/IronMan1'' on weed." |
| 448 | * ThisLoserIsYou: "From Creator/JKRowling, the author of [[Literature/HarryPotter the book series]] that kept Borders open for another few years, comes the movie adaptation for people too lazy to read ''[shows clip of [[FatBastard Uncle Vernon]] grabbing a container of ice cream from the freezer]''." |
| 449 | * ThrowItIn: In-universe. In the ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' trailer, the narrator references how [[Creator/SamuelLJackson "Thamuel L. Jackthson"]] invoked this trope to give Valentine a lisp, and he wonders if the director was too scared to refuse. |
| 450 | * TimeSkip: |
| 451 | ** In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', "when Bond is abruptly killed, it'll only take the length of one Music/{{Adele}} song before he anticlimatically pops up in the most secluded corner of the globe. That conveniently has CNN in English." |
| 452 | ** Also mocks the fact that in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', after Bane takes over Gotham, the movie skips over three months, during which there is only "one riot and zero gridlock. Seriously, where is everybody?" |
| 453 | ** ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' has "Not since ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' has a movie been so manipulative with its use of time jumps." |
| 454 | * TitleThemeDrop: All ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' trailers play the franchise's theme with the requests that start the video. |
| 455 | * ToiletHumour: In the ''Film/GrownUps'' trailer, they criticize the overuse of toilet jokes. |
| 456 | * TokenBlackFriend: |
| 457 | ** The Honest Trailer of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' points out how MCU movies have a tendency to give their (usually white) leads one of these, showing a compilation of all the black charactes that served this role so far. |
| 458 | ** The Honest Trailer of ''Series/WandaVision'' describes Monica Rambeau as this to Wanda, first [[spoiler:when she is stuck in the Hex and serves as a supporting character]], then when she tries to help Wanda as herself, and finally [[spoiler:a superhero]] who could one day become the MCU's first black best friend character [[spoiler:''IN SPACE'']]. |
| 459 | * TokenMinority: |
| 460 | ** In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' trailer, the Demoman (the only dark-skinned class) is said to have been added to the cast to add some diversity to it, [[BaitAndSwitch because he's Scottish]]. |
| 461 | ** In the ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' trailer, the movie is noted to have given the movie some diversity after [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the original]] had no colored characters... in the form of two black extras only visible in a tiny corner of a scene. |
| 462 | * TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: The first thing pointed out in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. |
| 463 | -->Welcome to Tokyo, the only place that ever exists in anime. |
| 464 | * TomHanksSyndrome: [[invoked]] |
| 465 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Nope}}'' opens by naming its writer/director, Creator/JordanPeele, as one of the few major old-school directors active today, and references his past career in comedy: |
| 466 | --->'''Narrator:''' In an entertainment landscape dominated by corporate IP, three filmmakers are fighting to keep cinema alive: [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg]], [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantino]] and [[Creator/ChristopherNolan Nolan]]. But now, with just his third film, one more name joins that list: [[Series/KeyAndPeele L'Carpetron Dookmarriot]]. |
| 467 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'' opens by referencing Creator/CraigMazin's past in mediocre comedies: |
| 468 | --->'''Narrator:''' From the showrunner who hit his stride once he [[Series/{{Chernobyl}} started being unfunny on purpose]][...] |
| 469 | * TooDumbToLive: The ''Film/IronMan3'' trailer describes Tony giving out his address on live TV as a challenge to terrorists, then failing to adequately prepare for or react to the inevitable attack, as squarely falling into this trope. |
| 470 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 471 | ** Carol in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' Seasons 4-6: |
| 472 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...and Carol, the meek, emotionally-scarred victim who...\ |
| 473 | '''Rick:''' Did you kill [[spoiler:Karen]] and [[spoiler:David]]?\ |
| 474 | '''Carol:''' Yes.\ |
| 475 | '''Narrator:''' Wait, what?\ |
| 476 | '''Carol:''' Just look at the flowers, [[spoiler:Lizzie]]. ''[she shoots [[spoiler:Lizzie]] dead]''\ |
| 477 | '''Narrator:''' Damn!\ |
| 478 | ''[Carol is shown stabbing and killing a Wolf]''\ |
| 479 | '''Narrator:''' Whoa!\ |
| 480 | '''Carol:''' ''[threatening Sam]'' The monsters will come, and they will tear you apart and eat you up, all while you're still alive, all while you can still feel it.\ |
| 481 | '''Narrator:''' Damn, Carol, you scary! |
| 482 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'' points out how the characters got ridiculously better and better at fighting over the course of the franchise: |
| 483 | --->'''Narrator:''' You're ''carjackers''! When did you turn into Franchise/JohnWick? |
| 484 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' throws shade at how [[Creator/BryceDallasHoward Claire]] has gone from being a white-collar executive to jumping from rooftops and fighting dinosaurs in just a few years. |
| 485 | * TookTheBadFilmSeriously: [[invoked]] |
| 486 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' has the Narrator noting that Creator/WillSmith, Creator/MargotRobbie, and Creator/JaiCourtney all give good performances in the movie. Unfortunately, their efforts are all canceled out by Creator/CaraDelevingne's unintentionally goofy version of the Enchantress and Creator/{{Jared Leto}}'s [[PoorMansSubstitute insufferable take]] on the Joker. |
| 487 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious The Fate of the Furious]]'', Creator/VinDiesel is described as the only actor who takes the franchise seriously anymore. |
| 488 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' compliments the cast for managing to read several ridiculous lines with complete sincerity, making the narrator wonder if any of them were aware of the movie's satirical intentions. |
| 489 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/StreetFighter'' lauds Creator/RaulJulia for his performance as M. Bison, which became [[SwanSong his last movie role before his death]], and praises it as the only genuinely good part of the movie; they compare it to how Creator/OrsonWelles' last role became Unicron in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''. |
| 490 | --->'''Narrator:''' [[Film/{{Mank}} Mank'd!]] |
| 491 | * TotallyRadical: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' draws attention to how the movie tries to appeal to younger viewers by using dated memes and pop culture references, including ''Film/AustinPowers'' and ''Film/TheMatrix'': |
| 492 | -->'''Narrator:''' [[Series/ThirtyRock How do you do, fellow kids?]] It's the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes! They may have peaked during UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, but that won't stop them from doing all the latest memes... of 2003. |
| 493 | * TotemPoleTrench: Used metaphorically in the trailer for ''Film/{{Speed}}'', which the narrator describes as "three action scenes, stacked on top of each other, under a trenchcoat, pretending to be a movie." |
| 494 | * ToughActToFollow: [[invoked]] |
| 495 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' suggests that the movie may have been hit by this because Creator/{{Pixar}} has given viewers unrealistic expectations of the quality of movies made for children: |
| 496 | -->'''Narrator:''' They're ''supposed'' to be dumb, remember? |
| 497 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', the Narrator notes that the film can't help but be somewhat disappointing as the "meat" in the "Infinity War sandwich" (referencing how the film came out after ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and before ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' respectively). That being said, they still note the film itself is fine in its own right. |
| 498 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: {{Discussed|Trope}} in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', which remarks that the revelation that the T-800 ''protects'' John Connor instead of hunting him was given away by the film's actual trailers. The Honest Trailer also remarks that ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' apparently didn't learn from that mistake, since its actual trailers gave away the twist that [[spoiler:John Connor becomes a Terminator]]. |
| 499 | * TraumaCongaLine: The description of Creator/{{Sony}}'s recent business mishaps from the ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' Honest Trailer: |
| 500 | -->'''Narrator:''' From the studio that just [[Film/TheInterview got hacked by North Korea]], [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse lost creative control]] of ComicBook/SpiderMan, might lose Film/JamesBond, and couldn't even keep Creator/AdamSandler happy,[[note]]Referring to Sandler signing a multi-picture deal with Creator/{{Netflix}}[[/note]] comes this [[TemptingFate sure-fire hit to put them back on track!]]\ |
| 501 | ''[shows a ton of angry comments about the trailer]''\ |
| 502 | '''Narrator:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh no...]] |
| 503 | * {{Troperiffic}}: |
| 504 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' describes it as "cramming every genre trope it can fit" that belongs to the horror genre, like [[AbandonedMine abandoned]] [[AbandonedHospital locations]], [[LetsSplitUpGang characters splitting up to cover more ground]], and characters [[spoiler:being killed when trying to have sex]]. |
| 505 | ** Similarly, ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' gets ribbed for stuffing itself to the brim with horror story tropes, like "the creepy house from ''[[VideoGame/SilentHills P.T.]]'', the antagonists from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', [[DeathTrap elaborate death puzzles]] from ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'', the [[StringyHairedGhostGirl little girl]] from ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'', and the {{jump scare}}s from every modern horror film". |
| 506 | * TroubledProduction: [[invoked]] |
| 507 | ** ''Film/WorldWarZ'', "a film with so many production problems, people were genuinely surprised when it ''wasn't'' a complete disaster." |
| 508 | ** The ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' Honest Trailer mentions how messed up the production of the film was: |
| 509 | ---> '''Narrator:''' Geez, what a mess. The movie about ''making this movie'' would be so much better than this movie! |
| 510 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' tells about the game's several delays, terrible marketing and multiple Kickstarter drives; once for the actual game, one more for additional voice acting, a third one for DLC, and a fourth one that raised money for [[VideoGame/RedAsh a completely different game]]. |
| 511 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' notes how many bumps the movie ran into during its making, such as [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-v-superman-fallout-warner-895174 DC making changes to their movies' executive structure]], director Creator/DavidAyer having to write the script in just six weeks and taking cheap shots at Creator/{{Marvel|Studios}},[[note]]Referring to an incident when he appeared at a publicity event for the movie and joined in on some of the audience members shouting "Fuck Marvel"[[/note]] juggle several different cuts of the movie, reshoot several scenes and include the Joker scenes the trailers had promised. |
| 512 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' points out how difficult the movie was to make: |
| 513 | --->'''Narrator:''' So enjoy another super smash hit whose success was far from guaranteed, with two [[Creator/{{Sony}} competing]] [[Creator/MarvelComics studios]] [[TeethClenchedTeamwork fighting for control]], six different screenwriters, and [[Creator/JonWatts a director]] with just two [[Film/{{Clown}} low-budget]] [[Film/CopCar indies]] to his name. |
| 514 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Solo}}'' mentions the movie's tumultuous production, and notes that it isn't the first time this has happened in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise: |
| 515 | --->'''Narrator:''' [[invoked]]After Creator/{{Disney}} reshot half of [[Film/RogueOne their first]] ''[[Film/RogueOne Star Wars]]'' [[Film/RogueOne story]] because [[ExecutiveMeddling they didn't like what the director did]], watch them hand the keys to [[Creator/PhilLordAndChrisMiller an exciting new creative team]], then [[Creator/RonHoward reshoot]] ''[[Creator/RonHoward even more]]'' of the movie because they didn't like what the directors did. |
| 516 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' makes some mentions of its behind-the-scenes difficulties, such as Creator/ChrisHemsworth and Creator/TessaThompson each hiring their own dialogue writers and the director, Creator/FGaryGray, trying to leave the project several times. |
| 517 | ** [[invoked]] A fair amount of the Honest Trailer for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse is about what production nightmares many movies in the franchise have been because of Creator/WarnerBros [[CreatorBacklash feuding with their directors]], [[Film/BirdsOfPrey2020 changing their titles after release]], [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/DCExtendedUniverse cancelling announced films]], publicly fighting with [[Creator/RayFisher their stars]] and cancelling Creator/ZackSnyder's original plan for the franchise, resulting in Snyder's most rabid fans hounding them relentlessly online even in context not directly related to the franchise. |
| 518 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...in the kind of behind-the-scenes drama you get when the closest thing you have to a [[Creator/KevinFeige Feige]] is UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's Treasury Secretary.[[note]]Steven Mnuchin, who was a producer on many of the movies[[/note]] |
| 519 | * TrollingCreator: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' describes Marvel as messing with their loyal audience with the movie, such as by getting Creator/VinDiesel to appear in movie, but only having him say one line,[[note]]Which he actually recorded several times in different tones in different languages[[/note]] getting major actors such as Creator/GlennClose and Creator/JohnCReilly into the cast, but having them play minor roles, and having [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/HowardTheDuck the lead character]] of [[Film/HowardTheDuck their worst film ever]] appear in the post-credit sequence instead of a hint of the next ''Avengers'' movie]]. |
| 520 | * TryingNotToCry: |
| 521 | ** ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' trailer has the narrator making a game attempt at remaining snarky while summing up the climax of the film, only to break down by the end of it. |
| 522 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[while sobbing]'' Enough! It's too sad! Just go to starring! Go! |
| 523 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' trailer, the narrator tries to hold back tears during [[spoiler:[[Heartwarming/TheLastOfUs the giraffe scene]]]]. |
| 524 | * {{Typecasting}}: |
| 525 | ** Invoked in the trailer for ''Film/DieHard'' regarding Reginald [=VelJohnson=]: |
| 526 | --->'''Narrator:''' Meet Reginald [=VelJohnson=]. After he was the cop in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', but before he was the cop in ''Series/FamilyMatters'', he was the cop in ''Film/DieHard''! |
| 527 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' shows how the movie set up the surfer dude personality that would show up in several roles that Creator/KeanuReeves played over the years: |
| 528 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...[A]s Keanu debuts the dumb surfer character he would spend his entire career trying to get away from.\ |
| 529 | '''[[Film/PointBreak1991 Johnny Utah]]:''' You trying to tell me the FBI's gonna pay me for learning how to surf?\ |
| 530 | '''Narrator:''' ...eventually!\ |
| 531 | '''[[Film/TheMatrix Neo]]:''' Whoa...\ |
| 532 | '''Narrator:''' ...any time now!\ |
| 533 | ''[clip of him kicking ass in ''Film/JohnWick'']''\ |
| 534 | '''Narrator:''' There it is! Nice, dude! |
| 535 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' suggests that Creator/JesseEisenberg's performance as Mark Zuckerberg resulted in him being typecast as "every awkward, know-it-all nerd role in Hollywood". |
| 536 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Bright}}'' points out how Creator/WillSmith tends to get cast as "the wild card [occupation] with a by-the-book partner", such as in ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/WildWildWest'' and ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}''. |
| 537 | ** The Double Feature Honest Trailer for ''Film/PacificRimUprising'' and ''Film/TombRaider2018'' notes how ''Pacific Rim: Uprising'' became the third time in six movies in which Creator/ScottEastwood played a straight-laced military character, the other two being ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' and ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious''. |
| 538 | ** The Starring part of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' points out how, during the 80's, actor James Tolkan always plays authority figures which the protagonists get in trouble with, such as in ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' and ''Film/TopGun''. |
| 539 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/KnivesOut'' points out how Creator/ChristopherPlummer keeps getting cast as patriarchs of dysfunctional, wealthy families, having previously been so in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011'' and ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld''. |
| 540 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' remarks that at the time it was made, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, who plays Carl Jenkins in the movie, was trying to break away from his [[Series/DoogieHowserMD usual nerd roles]], but his character is still a math geek with a pet ferret. |
| 541 | ** The Starring part of the Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'' describes Creator/MayaRudolph, who plays Luca's mom in the movie, as "Professional Cartoon Mom", referring to her also having played moms in many other animated movies and TV series, including ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'', ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' and ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6''. |
| 542 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheGrayMan2022'' points out how often Creator/RyanGosling is cast as [[TheStoic cool, silent characters]], including [[Film/Drive2011 cool, silent driver]], [[Film/FirstMan cool, silent astronaut]] and [[Film/BladeRunner2049 cool, silent future detective]]. |
| 543 | [[/folder]] |
| 544 | |
| 545 | [[folder:U]] |
| 546 | * UnconvincinglyUnpopularCharacter: [[invoked]] Cracks are made about Peter Parker in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' and Augustus in ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' somehow being losers: |
| 547 | -->"Peter Parker was just an attractive, intelligent, likable, athletic, well-dressed teenage loser."\ |
| 548 | "There, she will meet Augustus Waters; a confident, 6'4", well-spoken, adorkable, polite, funny, star-athlete, philosopher poet with a six-pack." |
| 549 | * UnderageCasting: [[invoked]] |
| 550 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheMummy2017'' takes a dig at the movie for describing Creator/TomCruise's character as "a younger man" even though Cruise was in his mid-50s when the movie was made. |
| 551 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' points out that the movies' habit of [[TimeSkip skipping ahead a decade or two between entries]] has resulted in characters that would be in their 50s being played by much younger actors. |
| 552 | ** Similar to ''The Mummy'' above, the ''Film/{{Nightmare Alley|2021}}'' segment of the Honest Trailer for the 2021 [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] remarks on how Creator/BradleyCooper's character is called "boy" and meant to be a young man even though Cooper was in his 50s when the movie was made. |
| 553 | * UnexplainedAccent: |
| 554 | ** Mocked in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': |
| 555 | --->'''Narrator:''' All of these African animals sound [[IAmVeryBritish British]] ([[Creator/RowanAtkinson Zazu]]), [[JewishMother Jewish mom]] ([[Creator/NathanLane Timon]]), [[JiveTurkey Gangsta]] ([[Creator/WhoopiGoldberg Shenzi]]) and CNN ([[Creator/JamesEarlJones Mufasa]]). |
| 556 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/{{One Piece|2023}}'' wonders how Luffy ended up with the accent he has when his father figure has a British accent and [[spoiler:his grandfather has a Scottish one]]. |
| 557 | * UnfortunateImplications: {{Invoked}}, as the trailers repeatedly point out this flaw in the movies they cover: |
| 558 | ** The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' says the movie "teaches girls that they don't need a prince to rescue them because all men are disgusting loners (Kristoff), greedy murderers (the Duke of Weselton), or lying, manipulative, power-hungry sociopaths (Prince Hans)." |
| 559 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' suggests that it will teach children that tiny people inside their heads are responsible for their actions and not they themselves. |
| 560 | ** The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' points out how poor aesops the movie contains. In order: only ugly people can be together, true love will turn you into a monster, stick to your own kind, and short people deserve ridicule. |
| 561 | ** The trailer for ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' says it teaches kids that modern medicine is useless (while showing the formerly handicapped man explaining to Strange how the Ancient One healed him) and that, if you text while driving, you will become a wizard. |
| 562 | ** The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' says it teaches kids that life is a meaningless, mediocre, joyless slog, that takes place mostly on your phone, and only exists to serve a global conglomerate's interest. |
| 563 | ** The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' calls out the movie for depicting the Huns as monstrous humans with claws, fangs, and bird-like eyes. |
| 564 | --->'''Narrator''': Good lord, Creator/{{Disney}}, these were actual people, not the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Uruk-hai]]! |
| 565 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' notes that the series seems to consider [[Film/BlackPanther2018 Killmonger]] to be inherently evil and irredeemable, despite his sympathetic backstory and motivations, while [[DoubleStandard at the same time]] having a redeemed version of Thanos, who committed much greater crimes. |
| 566 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' draws attention to how the movie whitewashes a story of colonialism that was much grimmer in real life, reducing the conflict between the colonizers and the Native Americans to "a few bad apples" issue and depicts a real-life Native American people as literally magical. |
| 567 | * UnfortunateNames: The trailer for ''Film/PacificRim'' mentions the awesome names of the giant fighting robots (Crimson Typhoon, Cherno Alpha, Striker Eureka)...and then the one named after a stripper (Gipsy Danger). |
| 568 | * TheUnintelligible: |
| 569 | ** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', chaos will arrive in the form of Bane, a villain who no one can fully understand. |
| 570 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheExpendables'', the narrator lampshades this trope by asking "Was that even in English?" after one of Creator/SylvesterStallone's one liners. |
| 571 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' complains about how much of the T-800's TechnoBabble is hard to hear because of [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Schwarzenegger]]'s thick accent. |
| 572 | * UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[invoked]] |
| 573 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/IndependenceDay'' lists a bunch of [[TheNineties 90s]] nostalgia triggers from the movie, like [[TechnologyMarchesOn CD-ROMs]], Music/{{REM}} and Fruitopia. |
| 574 | ** In ''Film/HomeAlone'', "bundle up and relive the early 1990s joy of Micro Machines, starting lineup figures, Creator/JohnnyCarson, 35 mm cameras, landline phones, answering machines, pre-9/11 air travel, and Macaulay Culkin." |
| 575 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/{{Entourage}}'''s "Starring" section contains "Outdated cultural references", such as Facebook being considered juvenile and mentions of "the ''Film/{{Gigli}}'' effect". |
| 576 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DieHard'' lists a bunch of things from the movie, which came out in [[TheEighties 1988]], that aren't as common today, such as cocaine, indoor smoking, pregnant drinking, making fun of touchscreens [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and more cocaine]]. |
| 577 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[makes a loud sniffing sound]'' WHOOO! Best decade ''ever''! |
| 578 | ** ''Film/Godzilla1998'' is mocked for how dated it is, with a list of [=90s=] stuff that appears in it, such as Kodak disposable cameras, Josta Cola,[[note]]Discontinued in 1999[[/note]] Blockbuster video stores and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center being described as the worst case of destruction on U.S. soil, the last of which obviously feels very dated after 9/11. |
| 579 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' notes that while it looks very dated, with its old technology and references to [=90s=] pop culture, the show is still enjoyable. |
| 580 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' points out the frequent appearances of late 90s technology, like flip phones, payphones and minidiscs. |
| 581 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'' states that this movie already was dated before it even came out, remarking that the script was clearly written in the 1990's, and nobody bothered to update the jokes when production finally began. |
| 582 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' points out how that movie is basically a time capsule of the early 2000s by naming the various tropes related to that decade. These tropes include "[[invoked]][[SpecialEffectsFailure crappy CGI]], ''[[BulletTime Matrix]]''[[BulletTime -ing]], [[Series/TheSopranos Sopranos]], and [[Music/SnoopDogg -izzies]]." Instead of their usual credits for the actors, the Narrator examines the soundtrack, which he claims is "full of the 2000s' NuMetal bands" such as Music/{{POD}}, Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/{{Seether}}, Hoobastank and Music/{{Nickelback}}. |
| 583 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Memento}}'' points out how the absence of modern phones becomes pretty glaring because of the frequent use of landline phones, polaroid cameras and pen and paper. |
| 584 | ** Because ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'' (released in 2006) is supposed to take place ''after'' ''Film/FastAndFurious6'' (released in 2013), the former's Honest Trailer jokes that Japan in the movie is going through a retro tech phase because of the dated technology seen throughout, such as flip phones, [=iPods=] and old laptops. |
| 585 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' remarks that the plot of the movie is really only possible because of the [[TheNineties mid-90s']] lack of modern smartphones and online shopping. |
| 586 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'' points out how some of the dialogue comes off as very [[Main/TheNewTens 2010s]], like "Bling is my thing" and mentions of "pop and lock". |
| 587 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/FreeGuy'' draws attention to some things in it that feel dated due to the script being written in 2016, like certain gamer slang and the cameos of real-life gaming streamers who have fallen out of popularity since the movie was made. |
| 588 | * UnintentionalUncannyValley: [[invoked]][[InUniverse The reaction]], in the trailer for ''Film/{{Elvis|2022}}'', to Colonel Tom Parker's make-up ("[[JerkAss a monster]] who should be banished to the uncanny valley he crawled out of"). |
| 589 | * UnpleasableFanbase: {{invoked}} in the trailer for the 91th UsefulNotes/AcademyAward, regarding ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' getting nominated for best picture. The trailer points out how, after years of fans complaining that no comic book movies ever get nominated for this category, one finally does, only for fans to complain it's not good enough to deserve it. |
| 590 | -->'''Narrator''': There is no pleasing you is there? |
| 591 | * TheUnpronounceable: |
| 592 | ** ''Les Miserables'' causes particular trouble ("Les Miserabablebles", and later "Less Miserables"). |
| 593 | ** Tn ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the narrator struggles mightily with Svartalfheim before moving on to the next world's name with apparent relief ("Sfar... Sfur... Sfortul... ASGARD!"). |
| 594 | ** The narrator makes numerous attempts to pronounce ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', before deciding to screw it and just call the movie ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' instead. |
| 595 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', the narrator can't figure out how to pronounce actor Creator/PetePostlethwaite's name, and instead just calls him "[[Film/TheUsualSuspects Kobayashi]]". |
| 596 | ** In the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' video, the narrator can't figure out how to pronounce creator Scott Cawthon's surname. |
| 597 | ** In the ''Film/JurassicWorld'' video, the narrator can't pronounce director Creator/ColinTrevorrow's name and just calls him "Not Creator/StevenSpielberg" instead. |
| 598 | ** When bringing up ''Film/{{Arrival}}'' during the Honest Trailer for the 2017 [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], the narrator can't figure out how to pronounce director Creator/DenisVilleneuve's name. |
| 599 | ** The ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' trailer has the narrator having difficulty pronouncing Hwoarang's name ("Howao... Ha... Hwooer... Howard?") |
| 600 | ** While listing the cast members of ''Film/Moonlight2016'' during the ''Film/LaLaLand'' Honest Trailer, the narrator is surprised that he can pronounce Creator/MahershalaAli's name right. |
| 601 | ** In the entry for ''Film/TheFavourite'' in the 2019 Oscars Honest Trailer, the narrator gives up on trying to pronounce the name of its director, Creator/YorgosLanthimos, and instead just refers to him as the director of ''Film/TheLobster''. |
| 602 | * UnreliableNarrator: |
| 603 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'' goes to great length to show how hard it is to tell what is real and what is only in Tim's imagination. |
| 604 | ** In the stinger for Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Wonka}}'', the narrator points out how the first musical number in the movie was all in Wonka's imagination, and wonders how reliable all the other songs and fantastical elements are, ending with the conclusion that Wonka likely froze to death on a park bench and the whole movie was his DyingDream. |
| 605 | [[/folder]] |
| 606 | |
| 607 | [[folder:V]] |
| 608 | * ValuesDissonance: |
| 609 | ** They invoked and poke fun at Disney about this in the ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' trailer, first by doing a montage of the sexism in the movie before moving on to showing the unfortunate portrayal of Native Americans. It then goes on to show all the other racial stereotypes in the other Disney films. It continues in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' trailer where they mock Disney's past treatment of people of Asian descent while pointing out the UnfortunateImplications in the film itself. |
| 610 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' points out how a scene where Bill and Ted jokingly calls the other "fag" would not go over well today. |
| 611 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Predator}}'': |
| 612 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...[t]hat's never been improved on [[Film/Predator2 in its]] [[Film/{{Predators}} sequels]], and could be released in theaters today because it's aged so well.\ |
| 613 | '''Blain:''' ...a bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here...\ |
| 614 | '''Narrator:''' Eh, ''mostly'' well. |
| 615 | ** The ''Series/{{Friends}}'' trailer features a montage of GayPanic moments that occurred during the show's run, and points out that the show kept non-white people mostly in the background, even though it's a show set in New York City. |
| 616 | ** The ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' trailer argues that the film "is as transphobic as Creator/JKRowling" (cuts to the Fairy Godmother calling the cross-dressing Big Bad Wolf "gender-confused"), then proceeds to chastise a joke appearing to make light of police brutality. |
| 617 | * VerbalTic: In ''Series/BreakingBad'', "meet Walter White's partner Jesse Pinkman, a {{UsefulNotes/Juggalo}} without the makeup who prefers the formal term for female dog." ''[Cues a montage of every instance of Jesse saying "bitch"]'' |
| 618 | * VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: |
| 619 | ** Naturally comes up in ''Film/ThreeHundred''. |
| 620 | --->'''Narrator:''' A film based on a comic book, based on an [[Film/The300Spartans older film]], based on [[WrittenByTheWinners Ancient Greek propaganda]], based on a [[UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars true story]]! |
| 621 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' points out the film's many deviations from the true story: |
| 622 | --->'''Narrator:''' If you want to know the real story behind Facebook, [[BaitAndSwitch watch something else]]. Because they're bending the truth harder than the news your uncle posts on his wall. In a film that makes up the girlfriend who supposedly inspired the site, makes up an obsession with finals clubs that tears Mark's friendship apart, and makes him into an awkward, scowling robot when in real life he was a normal, dorky college kid.\ |
| 623 | ''[shows clip of the real Mark Zuckerberg]''\ |
| 624 | '''Narrator:''' But hey, don't let facts get in the way! I'm sure the real Sean Parker ''loves'' seeing himself as a paranoid, coked out, maybe-sorta statuatory rapist. |
| 625 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' tears the movie a big one for its [[ArtisticLicenseHistory countless, serious deviations from history]], such as P.T. Barnum [[AdaptationalHeroism being portrayed as a nice, caring guy when he was really an abusive, cruel con man]], him being portrayed by [[MrFanservice the handsome]] Creator/HughJackman when [[AdaptationalAttractiveness the real guy was average-looking]], him having a completely made up affair with Jenny Lind (Creator/RebeccaFerguson) and the fact that Phillip Carlyle (Creator/ZacEfron) and Anne Wheeler (Creator/{{Zendaya}}) were completely fictional. |
| 626 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', the narrator goes into detail how many liberties the movie took with the actual historical events, but ends it with admitting that people watch it for the action, not the facts. |
| 627 | * VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[invoked]] |
| 628 | ** Referenced in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'': |
| 629 | --->'''Narrator:''' [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie Before people]] [[Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation caught on]] [[Film/ResidentEvil2002 that video game movies]] [[Film/StreetFighter were a terrible idea]], experience the film that proved that video game movies... are a terrible idea. |
| 630 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' suggests that it figured out the trick to making good video game movies: by not focusing too much on the video games. |
| 631 | ** Referenced again in the Honest Trailer for the ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'': |
| 632 | --->'''Narrator:''' Before ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'' tries to shake off [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 the stink]] [[Film/HouseOfTheDead of all the]] [[Film/DoubleDragon1994 video game]] [[Film/WingCommander movies that]] [[Film/StreetFighter came before]], two films would challenge the rule that game adaptations suck... and more or less confirm it. |
| 633 | ** Referenced yet again in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/WarCraft2016'': |
| 634 | --->'''Narrator:''' [''[=WarCraft=]''] changed the world's expectations of video game movies from crappy-looking, low-budget messes to gorgeous-looking, ''high''-budget messes. Baby steps, you guys. We'll get a good one someday. |
| 635 | ** The trailer for ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' describes it as "yet another crappy video game movie based on a great video game franchise". |
| 636 | ** Referenced again in the trailer for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', where the narrator claims that the only thing worse than a movie tie-in video game, is a video game tie-in movie. |
| 637 | ** And brought up again in the trailer for ''Film/StreetFighter'', which points out how the bad movie in turn got [[invoked]][[RecursiveAdaptation adapted back]] into [[VideoGame/StreetFighterTheMovie a bad videogame]]. |
| 638 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/Halo2022'' opens by pointing out how video game adaptations have gotten better recently, but reminds us that a lot of them aren't as lucky: |
| 639 | --->'''Narrator:''' The ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' [[WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}} show]] was good. Even the [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 Sonic]] [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022 movies]] were decent. Now, as a new era dawns for video game adaptations, one series will remind us "don't get too excited; they're still usually ass." |
| 640 | * ViewersAreGoldfish: |
| 641 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', the narrator explains that you'll travel along with two of the most famous cartoon characters of all time (Donald Duck and Goofy), "but don't worry if you forget everyone's name, because they remind you every five seconds," followed by a montage of them introducing themselves as "Sora, Donald and Goofy." And then the narrator calls them "[[Webcomic/{{Dolan}} Dolan and Gooby]]" when he continues. |
| 642 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Speed}}'' points out how, despite the fairly simplistic story, the viewer is reminded over and over again that the bus will explode if it slows down below 50 MPH. |
| 643 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/NationalTreasure'' points out how the premise of stealing the Declaration of Independence keeps getting repeated with those same words throughout the movie. |
| 644 | * ViewerGenderConfusion: [[invoked]] |
| 645 | ** They mistake Creator/ElliotPage for portraying a male character in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Inception}}''.[[note]]The Honest Trailer in question was made long before Page had come out as trans[[/note]] |
| 646 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Legolas]] is credited as Creator/GwynethPaltrow. |
| 647 | ** Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter (as Mme. Thenardier) is mistaken for Creator/TimBurton in ''[[Film/LesMiserables2012 Les Miserabablebles]]''. |
| 648 | ** The narrator got smacked with this hard in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' trailer. |
| 649 | --->'''Narrator:''' You'll also join forces with hot chicks like... Tifa... [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Aeris/th]]... and Sephiroth, whose beautiful silver hair, slender hips, and deep green eyes will leave you breath-- ''[shirtless Sephiroth appears]'' wait, he's a dude!? Aw man! I have his picture up in my bedroom! |
| 650 | * VictoriousChildhoodFriend: The Narrator jokes that Peeta's role in ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire Catching Fire]]'' as "his never ending journey to [[JustFriends escape the friendzone.]]" |
| 651 | -->'''Narrator:''' ''[after Katniss kisses Peeta]'' Holy shit that worked. Not bad, Series/CakeBoss, not bad. |
| 652 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 653 | ** According to the Narrator, the human antagonists in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 654 | -->'''Narrator:''' Watch as all mutant-kind must band together to defeat evil government officials out to prove that mutants are dangerous... which they totally ''are''! ''[cue montage of mutants being dangerous with [[SoundtrackDissonance comedic music playing over it]], ending with Charles Xavier being brainwashed into snuffing out humans with his mind]'' |
| 655 | ** For ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', the narrator expresses his great surprise at how Killmonger actually wins the moral debate against T'Challa, and gets T'Challa to change his ways and open up Wakanda to the world. |
| 656 | ** For ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', the trailer points out how the movie never actually proves the villain wrong (she wants to keep supers illegal because most of them are [[DestructiveSaviour quite destructive]], and because people rely on them for solving all of their problems way too much), and that she is actually right in her rant about how people spend way too much time consuming media. |
| 657 | ** For the end of the ''Series/StrangerThings'' Season 4 the trailer mentions that Jason had every reason to believe that Eddie was the one who killed Chrissy and makes it clear that they consider his death to be KarmicOverload. |
| 658 | * VillainyFreeVillain: The Narrator considers Khan to be this in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. |
| 659 | -->'''Narrator:''' [Khan]'s a ruthless villain so diabolical he'll... not kill Spock ''[Khan shoots Spock's gun out of his hand]'', let Kirk express his feelings ''[Khan does nothing while Kirk punches him repeatedly]'', and [[StrawmanHasAPoint ultimately be completely justified in his actions]]. ''[Khan talks about wanting to save his family]'' ...you've gotta admit, he's got a point. |
| 660 | * VindicatedByHistory: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', described as a "a work of subversive genius", remarks more than once how it was misunderstood as a really dumb war movie when it came out, but is now better recognized for how it satirizes a militarized society and "a movie about using war to take advantage of dumb people": |
| 661 | -->'''Narrator:''' [[InNameOnly Not at all based on]] [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the classic sci-fi novel]], comes the film that made you say "oorah!" when it first came out, then "oooh, I get it" when you watched a few years later. |
| 662 | * VisualPun: |
| 663 | ** The Walt Disney Corporation's increasing monopoly over most of modern media is depicted in the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' Honest Trailer as a box of the Disney edition of ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}''. |
| 664 | ** The aforementioned "[video game adaptations a]re still usually ass" is said as a naked Master Chief's bare bottom is seen. |
| 665 | * VomitDiscretionShot: TheStinger for ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' shows how different it would be had Ariel's top half been a fish instead of her bottom half. Eric covers his mouth as if he were about to toss his cookies. |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | [[folder:W – X]] |
| 669 | * WallOfText: The narrator starts to detail the master plan of Lex Luthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', but then gives up, and details the convoluted plan in a very long text. |
| 670 | * WaxingLyrical: The "Starring..." at times has jokes built out of song lyrics. |
| 671 | ** The ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' theme song inspired the Turtles' credits on the 2014 movie ("Leads", "Does Machines", "Cool But Crude", and "A Party Dude"), "Teenage Foggy Nelson Turtle" on ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'' (for Pollux, played by Elden Henson, who also plays Foggy Nelson on ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''), and "Teenage Mutant Negasonic" on ''Film/Deadpool2016''. |
| 672 | ** Music/{{Queen}} tunes also inspired some, such as when in ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' credited John Connor [[spoiler:after being turned into a Terminator]] as "Another John Made of Dust" and ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' credited the Alien Queen as "She's a Killer Queen". |
| 673 | ** ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' had Scorpion credited as "[[Music/{{Eminem}} Palms are deadly, knees weak, arms are heavy.]]" |
| 674 | ** ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' had Creator/BillPaxton as "[[Music/ScatmanJohn I am the Paxman, Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop!]]". |
| 675 | ** ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' had the Major as "Turning Japanese, Turning Japanese, I really think so". |
| 676 | ** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' had a case with added [[{{Scatting}} scat performance]] of the opening riff: "Bam, da da bum, da da bum, My Gamora!" |
| 677 | ** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' had "Come my lady, come come my lady, you're my butterfly, Film/{{Mothra}}, baby!" |
| 678 | ** ''Film/{{Twister}}'' has the flying cow listed as "[[Music/{{Ludacris}} Moooove B***, Get Out the Way]]" |
| 679 | ** ''Film/TheFifthElement' has Leeloo as "What If God Was One of Us" and the President as "[[Music/EltonJohn Hold Me Closer]] Creator/TinyLister". |
| 680 | ** ''Series/WandaVision'' credits Wanda, now finally the Scarlet Witch, as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch_(Meredith_Brooks_song) I'm a Witch, I'm a Mother, An Avenger, Had a Brother]]" |
| 681 | ** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' has the latter as "[[Music/{{Chumbawamba}} I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again]]" |
| 682 | ** The last credit on ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' is downright singing of [[Music/TheLonelyIsland "Sam's On a Boat!"]] |
| 683 | ** ''Film/MortalKombat2021'' changes the opening of [[Westernanimation/BeautyAndTheBeast "Be My Guest"]] to "See My Vest! See My Vest!" |
| 684 | ** ''Film/MoneyPlane'' features "[[Music/JohnDenver I'm Thieving... On a Bet Plane... I Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again]]" |
| 685 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[invoked]] |
| 686 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' notes, with horror, that the studio originally wanted Creator/OJSimpson to play the T-800. |
| 687 | ** In the ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' trailer, the narrator mentions the alternate ending [[spoiler:in which Scott ends up with Knives rather than Ramona]] and thinks it was better than the actual ending. |
| 688 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/FaceOff'' notes how it was originally written for Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger - and expresses disappointment that the closest thing we got to them co-starring as leads in an action movie became ''Film/EscapePlan''. |
| 689 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Predator}}'' mentions how the titular alien was originally going to be Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme in a red, lobster-like body suit. |
| 690 | --->'''Narrator:''' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yep, that really happened]]. |
| 691 | ** The opening of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' mentions who was originally supposed to direct it: |
| 692 | --->'''Narrator:''' From Creator/ColinTrevorrow, [[invoked]][[CreatorKiller until someone saw ]] ''Film/TheBookOfHenry''... |
| 693 | ** The Starring part of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/StreetFighter'' mentions that Japanese actor Kenya Sawada was originally cast as Ryu, but because [[TheUnintelligible his English was so bad]] he was recast as [[DemotedToExtra a random Allied Nations soldier]]. |
| 694 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'' starts by listing some older Creator/DCComics movie projects that were cancelled: ''Superman Lives'', where ComicBook/{{Superman}} would have been played by Creator/NicolasCage, ''Batman vs. Superman: Asylum'', which would have featured Superman fighting ComicBook/{{Batman}}, and ''Superman: Flyby'', written by Creator/JJAbrams. It also mentions how some movies planned for the franchise, like the ''ComicBook/NewGods'' movie and an Aquaman spinoff about The Trench, were cancelled because of behind-the-scenes problems. |
| 695 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: [[invoked]] |
| 696 | ** The narrator points out that ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' would be very different if told in another medium: |
| 697 | --->'''Narrator:''' Laugh along at the mix of expert [=CGI=] and comically bad Live Action -- that covers up the horrific reality of what you're actually watching! Like this cop killing his own parents! The destruction of an entire city... the brutal beheading of one of the films heroes! And the fact that [[spoiler:this father and son have created a sentient universe in their basement that they can destroy at any time!]] |
| 698 | ** The narrator has a similar reaction to ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': |
| 699 | --->'''Narrator:''' Follow along with this kids' film slash noir crime thriller full of bright colors, cute characters, allegories to contemporary racial and... class politics... police discrimination... affirmative action... tokenism... sexism... and racial slurs? |
| 700 | ** The narrator is rather unnerved that in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'', Creator/MeganFox's April O'Neil not only at one point wears a schoolgirl outfit, but also changed into it in public, when it's shown that it must've required taking off the pants she was wearing. |
| 701 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' points out the surprising amount of violence in the film, showing a montage of it set to grim, angsty music. |
| 702 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' points out how terrifying the factory and Willy Wonka really are, going as far as to compare Willy Wonka to a SerialKiller. |
| 703 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' points out how it has some really scary themes that feel kind of out of place in a movie made for children: |
| 704 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...like, unresolved childhood issues, bullying, literal death, fears about your own inadequacies that manifest as mass shooters, and tons of PTSD. Man, this is ''so'' much darker than I remember. |
| 705 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' lists some things from the movie that are pretty dark for such an otherwise warm and uplifting story, such as a surprisingly high bodycount, {{Mooks}} [[WouldHurtAChild trying to kill children]] and children actually killing mooks. |
| 706 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Hook}}'' points out how much child and family-unfriendly stuff is actually in the movie. |
| 707 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Shazam2019'' starts with reminding audiences that, despite being much brighter in tone than previous DCEU entries like ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', and starring a KidHero, it's still not recommended for young viewers due to the scary scenes involving the Seven Deadly Sins. |
| 708 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' notes how kinky the movie is, especially for a movie based on action figures and aimed at kids. |
| 709 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann'' opens by mentioning how it was made when Creator/{{Disney}}'s live-action movies were surprisingly un-childfriendly: |
| 710 | --->'''Narrator:''' Before Disney made [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes live-action films so parents could relive their childhoods]], return to the era when Disney made [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit live-action films]] so parents could ''end'' their kids' childhoods.\ |
| 711 | ''[a montage of disturbing or terrifying scenes from ''Film/ReturnToOz'', ''Film/TheBlackHole'' and ''Film/PetesDragon1977'']'' |
| 712 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' has the narrator wonder what kind of kids movie this is, considering the plot resolves around Goofy as a middle aged suburban dad who tries to connect with his teenage son, who hates him. |
| 713 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' reminds the audience that, despite being a fantasy movie with child protagonists, it has many dark and depressing moments. |
| 714 | ** The trailer for ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' has the narrator point out how horny the characters are acting in all the scenes that were added to stretch the story to movie lenght. |
| 715 | --->'''Narrator''' : "I thought this was for kids" |
| 716 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 717 | ** In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': "Wait, whatever happened to that hard drive they were looking for? Wasn't that the whole point of the movie? No? Oh, OK." |
| 718 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JupiterAscending'' points out that, at the end of the movie, [[spoiler:while Balem was defeated, the other two Abraxi siblings are just forgotten by the plot and must have been left to continue their genocidal business]]. |
| 719 | * WhatTheHellHero: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BatmanBegins'' points out how Batman is not above using illegal tactics, and thus isn't that different from the criminals. His list of crimes include: arson, breaking and entering, illegal wiretapping, vigilantism, [[TerrorHero terroristic threatening]], [[DestructiveSaviour property damage]], third-degree murder, attempted murder, and manslaughter. |
| 720 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' takes a few shots at Creator/BenedictCumberbatch's American accent, describing it as his third weird accent choice following his awful Southern American accent in ''Theatre/AugustOsageCounty'' and his questionable Bostonian accent from ''Film/BlackMass'' and comparing it to the scene from ''Film/DieHard'' where Creator/AlanRickman adds a fake American accent on top of his fake German accent. |
| 721 | -->'''Narrator:''' Benny, bubby! Your natural voice is perfect! Use it! |
| 722 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: In the trailer for ''Film/{{Wonka}}'', the narrator points out how difficult it is to pinpoint where exactly the movie takes place: |
| 723 | -->'''Narrator''': Where does this take place again? The weather is Norway, the signs are German, the names are French, and everyone's speaking English? |
| 724 | * WhyDontYouJustShootHim: |
| 725 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/FaceOff'', the narrator keeps telling Castor Troy and Sean Archer to shoot each other in a scene where they talk while pointing guns at each other. |
| 726 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'', the video points out how much easier it would have been for the crime lord responsible for putting the snakes on the plane to just kill Sean in a more straightforward way, or just plant a proper bomb on the plane instead of the snakes. |
| 727 | * WolverinePublicity: |
| 728 | ** Referenced during the Honest Trailer for ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': |
| 729 | --->'''Narrator:''' In a world of other cool X-Men, meet Wolverine. For the seventh [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] time! |
| 730 | ** By the time of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Logan}}'', Wolverine is the ''victim'' of this trope, rather than the one who gets the benefit. The film is so damn good, that the narrator finds it hard to make fun of it. He even calls Film/Deadpool2016 and see if he has something sarcastic to say, only to discover that ''he also'' thinks that the film is a "fucking masterpiece." |
| 731 | * WorstWhateverEver: |
| 732 | ** ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is referred to as "''The Worst Batman Ever''." |
| 733 | ** The "Just Sayin" reporter from ''Film/IronMan3'' gets called the "Worst Movie Extra Ever." They even hijack the ''Iron Man 3'' WebVideo/CinemaSins video to point it out again. |
| 734 | ** Lex Luthor pushing a Jolly Rancher onto a senator's mouth in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is credited as "Worst. ProductPlacement. Ever." |
| 735 | * WriterOnBoard: Inverted - The previous narrator took over the trailer of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', to make sure that the current narrator does not get too complacent because of his fanboyism. |
| 736 | * TheXOfY: In ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 737 | -->'''Narrator:''' Travel to Westeros, a place where everything is the Thing of Nouns.\ |
| 738 | '''King Robert:''' The Hand of the King.\ |
| 739 | '''Sam Tarly:''' Light of the Seven.\ |
| 740 | '''Brienne of Tarth:''' Brienne of Tarth.\ |
| 741 | '''Ygritte:''' Lord of Bones.\ |
| 742 | '''Lord Beric:''' Lord of Light.\ |
| 743 | '''Lord Tywin:''' Master of Coin.\ |
| 744 | '''Queen Daenerys:''' Mother of Dragons.\ |
| 745 | '''Shagga:''' Son of Dolf.\ |
| 746 | '''Melisandre:''' Son of Fire.\ |
| 747 | '''Melisandre:''' Warrior of Light.\ |
| 748 | '''Tyrion:''' Bank of Braavos.\ |
| 749 | '''Lord Stark:''' Lord of Winterfell, and Warden of the North... |
| 750 | [[/folder]] |
| 751 | |
| 752 | [[folder:Y – Z]] |
| 753 | * YouAreNumberSix: |
| 754 | ** In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', Creator/ChrisPratt is credited as "Marvel Chris #3" (after Creator/ChrisHemsworth and Creator/ChrisEvans). |
| 755 | ** In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Severine is credited as "Random Bond Girl #732." |
| 756 | ** In ''Film/AntMan1'', Darren Cross is credited as "Disposable Marvel Villain #9." |
| 757 | ** In ''Film/{{Taken}}'', the generic gangster villains are simply credited as "Eastern European Criminal #1", "Eastern European Criminal #2", and so on. |
| 758 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Will Smith as [[Film/AfterEarth Cipher Rage]]... Hehe, okay guys, very funny, what his real name?" (Followed shortly by this trope, name dropped) |
| 759 | * YouNoTakeCandle: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MoonFall'' is spoken in borderline caveman lingo to highlight how stupid the movie is. |
| 760 | -->'''Narrator:''' Director Creator/RolandEmmerich hate world. His movies make everything explode. But now with nothing left on Earth to boom, he blow up Moon. ''[[TitleIn Moonfall]]''. Brain. Can't think. Oh well. |
| 761 | * YoyoPlotPoint: The Honest Trailer for ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' Season 4-6 points out how often the group keeps finding safe havens to take shelter in only for them to get burned down every time: |
| 762 | -->'''Narrator:''' I wonder where Negan lives? I can't wait from them to blow up that town next season. |
| 763 | * YourVampiresSuck: The Honest Trailer for the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' calls the vampires from these movies the most pathetic vampires since ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', who burst into flames at the slightest touch of silver, garlic or sunlight, practice an ancient [[MookChivalry one-at-a-time fighting style]], only have one master plan, can't really speak through their fangs, and name everything by slapping the word 'Vampire' in front of a noun. |
| 764 | [[/folder]] |
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