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  • Animation Age Ghetto: In the Ahsoka trailer, the narrator firmly goes into this by mocking fans who still like Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels for not having developed more mature interests since they were children. The trailer for The Mandalorian Season 3 also mocks Dave Filoni for bringing in characters and concepts from the animated series he helmed for the same reasons.
  • Archive Panic: Over 400 episodes and counting.
  • Awesome Music: Some of the parody songs can genuinely be this. The Honest Trailer for Cats is a good example, especially because the majority of it is nothing but parodies of the musical's songs.
  • Broken Base:
    • Who is the better Honest Trailer narrator? Gannon Nickell or Jon Bailey? Bailey received a lot of complaints when he first got the job about how he's not as good as his predecessor, but just as many viewers prefer his voice over Nickell's. This has mostly gone away as the years have gone by, with a majority of fans now preferring Bailey (in fact, many people were worried when it was revealed that Bailey wasn't voicing any of the newer Honest Game Trailers as sponsored by Fandom Games), although this debate was briefly brought back when Nickell returned to co-voice with Bailey the Honest Trailers for The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, and the ending of the former reminded people that there were two other one-shot Honest Trailer narrators besides them: Dough Medlock (Avatar), and Ptolemy Slocum (The Phantom Menace, the first ever Honest Trailer). Even the Alec Baldwin-sounding Narrator for the Honest Trailer for Every Wes Anderson Movie got his share of people who prefered him over Bailey.
    • In the Honest Trailer for Deadpool 2, just as the narrator starts in, the actual Deadpool shows up, takes control of the video, and turns it into a Honest Trailer for Honest Trailers. In the comments, some people loved the savage fourth-wall breaking of it (way higher than in the Honest Trailer for the first Deadpool film), and others thought that they were robbed the Deadpool 2 Honest Trailer that they were expecting.
    • Whenever they take a stab at musical movies, like Les Misérables (2012) or Cats, they do it in a song format, usually in-style of that movie's soundtrack. Plenty of people love it, considering that it adds another layer of hilariousness, especially since the performances aren't any less good. Others hate it, arguing that the gimmick gets annoying quickly and detracts from the review.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • From the 300 trailer; "Hey you guys!"
    • "We are mice as smart as people! We could kill you in your sleeple! Go ahead and tell somebody, no one will believe you"
    • The Honest Trailer for Men in Black: International referencing the controversy following certain comments made by Liam Neeson around the time the video was released? Context  Quite the Mood Whiplash, or Black Comedy at best. Doing so by having his appearance in the Honest Credits be a quite detailed summation of the controversial comments, just replacing "Black" with "alien"? It becomes this trope.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With the CinemaSins crew. They often cover the same movies and even collaborated a number of times. They even decided to trade styles for a day when they both tackled The Amazing Spider-Man 2. To the point where Honest Trailers complained that people think that they're the same and ask them to do sins videos.
  • Genius Bonus: In their Aladdin video during the "Starring" portion, they refer to Jafar as "Male-ficent". This makes sense, as the character of Jafar was actually inspired by Maleficent, right down to their similar appearences, motives and even their clothing.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Now has its own page
  • He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Some people missing the satire element is an inherent risk of that type of comedy, but the more caustic videos that don't really hide the writers' disdain or bias for a movie or video game will get more of it due to people feeling they are going on a personal tangent rather than trying to create an entertaining video.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Has its own page.
  • Older Than They Think: The Pearl Harbor Honest Trailer was not the first to refer to the movie as "Bore-a! Bore-a! Bore-a!" in reference to Tora! Tora! Tora!. A Washington Post review did that when the movie came out in 2001.
  • Seasonal Rot: Honest Game Trailers was viewed to have taken a dip in quality ever since it moved from Smosh Games to Fandom Games, resulting in a different writing team. A common criticism is how the newer Honest Game Trailers lack the tongue-in-cheek humor of the previous ones and focused more on mean-spirited criticisms of the games they covered.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Honest Game Trailers got this reaction when it moved to Fandom Games and stopped being voiced by Jon Bailey, with many demanding he be brought back and the inital trailer that was done under Fandom (Anthem) being generally poorly received for lacking a lot of his comedic delivery and timing. Afterwards, Fandom did a rotating cast of guest narrators for the next nine trailers, before ultimately settling on Brad Venable from Wolfenstein: Youngblood onwards. Venable was, while still divisive, generally warmly received by viewers for striking a balance between going for a similar style to Bailey while still putting his own spin on it, helping allievate this complaint. After Venable sadly passed away early in 2021, Bailey ultimately took over the Honest Game Trailers once again.
  • Tough Act to Follow: The other videos made by Screen Junkies tend to receive less attention and acclaim. This is lampshaded in their "Making of Honest Trailers" video.
    Hal Rudnick: So I know a lot of you guys are big fans of the Honest Trailers, so much so that you say you wish I'd die in a fire so there'd be no more Screen Junkies Show and only Honest Trailers! Sorry! I'm still here!

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