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| 5 | * NarrationEcho: Used in the trailer for ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' to highlight some on-the-nose dialog: |
| 6 | -->'''Narrator:''' He's a buff boy scout, here to fight for truth, justice and the American way!\ |
| 7 | '''Superman:''' I'm here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.\ |
| 8 | '''Narrator:''' That's what I said. |
| 9 | * NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: Invoked in their ''Film/GlassOnion'' video, where they point out that in both this film and its [[Film/KnivesOut predecessor]], the most famous actor in the cast did it. |
| 10 | * NauseaFuel: Invoked in the honest trailer for ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', where the narrator watches the first-person shot of Ryan repeatedly spinning backwards early on in the film, and nearly barfs. |
| 11 | * NeverTrustATrailer: Based around subverting this marketing. Some specific examples when they've pointed out how inaccurate a work's actual trailers were: |
| 12 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MagicMike'', whose advertising focused on the parts [[MrFanservice where hunky actors play male strippers]] and left out the serious, emotional story, leading to an Honest Trailer with a ton of [[MoodWhiplash sudden and heavy shifts in mood]]. |
| 13 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', which mentions how the game's emotional cinematic trailer constrasted with the gory action of the actual game. |
| 14 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' references the scandal surrounding the game's E3 trailer and how the footage in it looked better than the retail version. |
| 15 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RogueOne'' has a "Not Starring" section made up entirely of scenes featured in the movie's actual trailers that didn't make it to the final cut. |
| 16 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AlienCovenant'' notes that, despite being advertised as a return to the horror style of [[Film/{{Alien}} the beloved first movie]], it eventually turns into the long-winded philosophy piece that many criticized ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' for being. |
| 17 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' does this twice; once when they point out how Creator/JeffGoldblum's return as Ian Malcolm shown in the trailers was actually just a 30-second cameo, and once when they point out how a shot of a Mosasaurus swimming through a tall wave covered by surfers [[spoiler:is just part of a tease for a future sequel in the movie]]. |
| 18 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheMeg'' shows how the movie, whose trailers marketed it as [[NarmCharm a festival of over-the-top ridiculousness]], keeps swinging into an overly serious tone. |
| 19 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' points out how the movie's real trailers marketed it as a silly comedy instead of the sci-fi adventure movie with comedic elements it really was. |
| 20 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MortalKombat2021'' points out how the rivalry between Scorpion and Sub-Zero, despite being advertised as a central element of the plot, [[spoiler:just consists of one fight early in the movie and another brief one near the end]]. |
| 21 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'' points out how the trailers made it look like it would be ''Film/CallMeByYourName'' for kids, while the actual movie features no romance plot of any kind. |
| 22 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Morbius2022'' draws attention to how [[Creator/TyreseGibson Simon Stroud's]] robotic arm was only shown in the trailers and doesn't appear at all in the movie. |
| 23 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: |
| 24 | ** In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', they criticize how Deadpool, "The merc with a mouth, gets his mouth removed, and trades his cool costume for eight minute abs, and magic eyeshadow. Oh, and he also gets a grab bag of random mutant powers that Deadpool never had." |
| 25 | --->'''Narrator:''' Are we ''sure'' Creator/BrettRatner didn't direct this? |
| 26 | ** In ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'', "Stare in wide-eyed disbelief at these new, completely made-up powers like rebuilding the Great Wall of China with his eyes, lowering people with his mind, and [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace helping this woman breathe in outer space]]." |
| 27 | * TheNicknamer: The TropeCodifier in any medium. Up to eleven when ''all 152 Pokemon'' from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' are nicknamed -- ''including'' [=MissingNo.=] |
| 28 | * NightmareRetardant: [[invoked]] In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/ItChapterTwo'', they illustrate how Pennywise's scares have gone from being cool and terrifying to over-the-top and ridiculous by intercutting examples with scenes of Creator/JimCarrey from ''Film/TheMask''. |
| 29 | * NoEndorHolocaust: The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' and the joint Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'' and ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' points out how many people must have died as a result of the main characters' actions; of special note is Gru's [[spoiler:shrinking and stealing the moon]] in the first film, which they note would probably have doomed the entire planet Earth. |
| 30 | * NominalHero: The protagonists of ''Film/FastFive'' "will stop at nothing to take down a sort-of-ruthless drug lord, by destroying poor neighborhoods, destroying rich neighborhoods, killing twenty-two cops with a giant metal safe, and ultimately leaving Rio in way worse shape than when they found it." |
| 31 | * NonIndicativeName: In the ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' trailer, the narrator points out how the changes to the title character turned her name into this trope. |
| 32 | -->'''Narrator:''' Instead, watch as the character whose name literally means "evil" [[PokeThePoodle mildly punks people]], feels sorry, [[FreudianExcuse and is only mean because she was roofied and mutilated by her childhood love]]. |
| 33 | * NonhumansLackAttributes: From the ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' trailer: |
| 34 | -->'''Narrator:''' So, how do I put this... where are all the monkey dicks? |
| 35 | * NoOSHACompliance: |
| 36 | ** In the ''Harry Potter'' trailer, child endangerment is described as being no big deal. Cue montage of various characters receiving horrifying injuries from magic spells or other accidents. |
| 37 | --->'''Narrator:''' Seriously, how have they not shut this school down yet? |
| 38 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' is quick to point out how dangerous the factory truly is. |
| 39 | * NoSmoking: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Cruella}}'' points out how nobody is ever seen smoking in the movie, despite it being set in [[TheSeventies 1970s]] London. |
| 40 | * NostalgiaFilter: [[invoked]] |
| 41 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' points out how [[Franchise/PowerRangers the franchise]] wasn't as good as viewers probably remember: |
| 42 | --->'''Narrator:''' Now, take a trip down memory lane, and realize... What was I thinking?! ''This is terrible!'' |
| 43 | ** The same was done for ''Film/SpaceJam'' |
| 44 | --->'''Narrator:''' Look millennials, I know you're just getting old enough to feel nostalgia for the first time, but trust me. This one sucks. |
| 45 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Hook}}'' suggests that its best remembered by people aged 30 and up who saw it as children, because those will probably best remember it for its good aspects, such as Creator/DustinHoffman's awesome performance as Captain Hook and the gorgeous production designs, while those who view it with more adult eyes it comes off as a darker, more violent story about a man's midlife crisis that [[{{Padding}} takes two hours to really get going]]. |
| 46 | ** A RunningGag in the ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' Honest Trailer is the video trying to distract from the movie's logical failings by showing one of the movie's nostalgic [[CallBack call backs]] to [[Film/JurassicPark the beloved first movie]] - until it comes back to bite it in the ass when it tries to distract from a shot of a Brachiosaurus dying in a volcanic eruption by cutting to the iconic Brachiosaurus scene from the first movie and [[spoiler:the video instead cuts to a news article revealing that the Brachiosaurus seen being killed ''was the same Brachiosaurus'']]. |
| 47 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''That'' was [[spoiler:''the same one'']]? What is ''wrong'' with you people? |
| 48 | * NotAllowedToGrowUp: The trailer for ''Series/StrangerThings'' remarks that the producers better get the next seasons done fast, before puberty hits the main cast. |
| 49 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: [[invoked]] |
| 50 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men Trilogy]]'' points out how Creator/HalleBerry dropped Storm's African accent in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' after using it in ''Film/XMen1''. |
| 51 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' points out how, despite the movie being set in France, all villagers have American accents. |
| 52 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' notes that, similar to the Storm example above, Creator/ElizabethOlsen eventually dropped Scarlet Witch's Eastern European accent. |
| 53 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' points out how Mera speaks in a different accent in it compared to how she spoke in ''Film/Aquaman2018''. |
| 54 | * NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The second trailer for ''Series/GameOfThrones'' points out how the show has transcended the original, more realistic style of the first season and turned into "crazy heavy metal album art", referring to the introduction of more fantasy-like elements like the dragons and White Walkers. |
| 55 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: |
| 56 | ** During several scenes of awkward silence in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', and ''Series/BreakingBad'', a caption will appear to point out that the scene is unedited by them. |
| 57 | ** Half of the ''Film/JupiterAscending'' trailer is them recapping the plot of the film with no jokes, with captions pointing out that this is the story the filmmakers actually went with. (And also noting that Channing Tatum wears pointy ears, yet the movie was screened at ''Sundance''.) |
| 58 | ** After pointing out the most inherently nonsensical moment in the film ''Film/Armageddon1998'' -- namely, that training astronauts to operate a drill is somehow harder than teaching a bunch of oil rig workers to be space pilots in only two weeks -- it cuts to an appropriately subtitled snippet of Ben Affleck's audio commentary for the DVD, where he admits he himself didn't understand the reasoning behind the idea. |
| 59 | --->'''Affleck:''' I asked Michael why... and he told me to shut the fuck up. So th-that was the end of that talk. ''[...]'' I mean, this is a little bit of a logic stretch, let's face it. "They don't know jack about drilling"? How hard can it ''be?'' Aim the drill at the ground and turn it ''on''. |
| 60 | ** TheStinger of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheMummy2017'', as proof of how rushed the movie was, shows footage of an early trailer that included scenes that missed several important sound effects, adding that "this is real". |
| 61 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/It2017'', the Narrator is quite surprised to learn the book really has a subplot about the giant Turtle Maturin, which wasn't in the movie. |
| 62 | ** The double feature ''Film/PacificRimUprising / Film/TombRaider2018'' credits ''Creator/BurnGorman'' as....Burn Gorman, with the narrator pointing out that this really is his name. They make the same remark in the Honest Trailer for ''Series/Halo2022''. |
| 63 | ** At the end of the trailer for ''Film/Scream1996''', the narrator ends the credits by calling the film ''Film/ScaryMovie'', then remarks that that was actually the initial title for the film. |
| 64 | * NotQuiteDead: Lampshaded in the trailer for ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Bucky, Dr. Zola, Nick Fury, and Crossbones (Brock Rumlow)]] all turn out to still be alive. |
| 65 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: |
| 66 | ** From the ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' trailer, the narrator notes that when disaster strikes, Anna saves the day by joining forces with her sister (''Anna and Elsa sharing a laugh''), a merchant (''Oaken''), a hot guy, (''Kristoff'') and a snowman (''Olaf''), to defeat villains like: her sister (''Elsa having a mental breakdown''), a merchant (''the Duke of Weselton''), a hot guy, (''[[spoiler:Prince Hans]]'') and a snowman (''Marshmallow'')! |
| 67 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' points out how similar the plot is to [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice DC's recent movie about superheroes fighting each other]], even though they were very differently received: |
| 68 | --->'''Narrator:''' Featuring: a non-superpowered villain, tricking a symbol of America into fighting a billionaire playboy, using [[GambitRoulette an incoherent plan]] that involves blowing up a meeting of government officials and using [[spoiler:the hero's mom to manipulate him]], that ends with [[spoiler:an ominous warning from a prison cell]] and sets up a universe's worth of spinoffs along the way. |
| 69 | ** [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer points out a similarity ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' had to several other blockbusters that were also released in 2016, but didn't get as much online hate: |
| 70 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...that after a summer [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 full of duds]] like the ''Film/JasonBourne'' [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks rehash]], the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence sequel]], and [[Film/TheLegendOfTarzan a Tarzan reboot]], proves once and for all that girls can make [[SoOkayItsAverage middle-of-the-road]], [[ExecutiveMeddling studio-mandated]] franchise batter [[BackhandedCompliment just as well as the boys]]. |
| 71 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' points out that, even though it sets out to parody tropes from Creator/{{Disney}} movies and fairy tales, that doesn't stop it from using them itself, like a reluctant, ugly hero who thinks no one can love him, a no-nonsense princess, an evil, horny government member who wants to be king, and a funny animal sidekick. |
| 72 | --->'''Narrator:''' Hey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! |
| 73 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' points out how the Beast and Gaston are in fact guilty of the same things: |
| 74 | --->'''Narrator:''' Cheer as this strong, smart, independent woman, rejects this (Gaston) violent, controlling, bad mannered, hairy dude who imprisons her dad, for this (the beast) violent, controlling, bad mannered, hairy dude who imprisons her dad. |
| 75 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne'' points out how the antagonist, [[Creator/BenMendelsohn Nolan Sorrento]], is villainized for wanting to use OASIS to make more money (by implementing more of a PayToWin model), scenes before he has managed to achieve his goals show that the system's creator, [[Creator/MarkRylance James Halliday]], already makes plenty of money from it. |
| 76 | ** The Honest Trailer for "Every Creator/QuentinTarantino Movie" addresses his habit of recreating shots or scenes from older movies in his own, which has made him something of a divisive filmmaker, by pointing out that plenty of great directors have also been known to do the same thing. |
| 77 | --->'''Narrator:''' It's not stealing [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure if you haven't seen it]]. Just ask [[Creator/GeorgeLucas Lucas]], or [[Creator/PaulThomasAnderson PTA]], or Creator/GuyRitchie, or... all of 'em (Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/BrianDePalma). |
| 78 | ** The Honest Trailer for Seasons 2 and 3 of ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'' suggests that show has become what it also satirizes: "a successful superhero franchise beloved by all, made possible by [[Creator/{{Amazon}} an evil corporation]]". |
| 79 | * NotSoStoic: The narrator usually delivers all his lines in the same epic tone, but when he's talking about certain things, he'll drop the stoicism: |
| 80 | ** When he's talking about [[spoiler: the changes done to the Mandarin]] in ''Film/IronMan3'', he's clearly upset. |
| 81 | ** And of course, there's his increasing anger that comes out in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/AfterEarth'', culminating in a case of ScrewThisImOuttaHere. |
| 82 | ** In the Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', the narrator gets upset when he gets hit by a blue shell. |
| 83 | --->'''Narrator:''' A weapon so incredibly evil that it seeks out the lead driver and -- AW COME ON!!! I was right there! This happens every race! Stupid Nintendo! I was like in first the entire freakin' time! |
| 84 | ** Calling for the death of King Justin Bieber/Joffrey in the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' trailer. And in the second ''GOT'' trailer, for Ramsay Bolton/[[InvincibleVillain Invincible Joffrey]] to also get a CruelAndUnusualDeath, as he's earning it. |
| 85 | ** In ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'', the narrator questions the plot, culminating angrily with "And how can trapping a bunch of teenagers in a maze possibly be the solution to any of society problems?! '''HELLO?! ANYONE?! F*CK!'''" |
| 86 | ** In the Honest Trailer for the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Coming Out of Their Shells'' musical concert, after WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic showed clips of the Turtles doing more embarrassing appearances in live-action media: |
| 87 | --->'''Narrator:''' '''''WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING?!?!?! I HATE THE PAST!!! DAMN YOU NOSTALGIA CRITIC!!!'''''\ |
| 88 | '''The Nostalgia Critic:''' '''''[[EvilLaugh AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!]]''''' |
| 89 | * NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' trailer, the narrator says these words immediately after mentioning "a child raised by a same sex couple" (flashes pics of Simba being raised by Timon and Pumbaa) as one of the things he's surprised got included in a G-Rated movie. |
| 90 | * NowWhereWasIGoingAgain: The Honest Trailer for ''VideoGame/TheLastGuardian'' describes its minimalistic gameplay, which will often have players running around in desperate search for an idea of where to go, and notes that that probably makes at least a few players miss the guiding features they've complained made previous games too easy, like objective markers or highlighted paths. |
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| 95 | * ObviousJudas: [[invoked]] |
| 96 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' describes Wesker as "the world's most obvious traitor". |
| 97 | --->'''Narrator:''' Spoiler alert! But come on, he wears sunglasses - indoors - at night. Confirmed douchebag. |
| 98 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' points out how obvious it was that Palpatine was secretly evil before it was officially revealed: |
| 99 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[[{{GASP}} Gasp!]]'' [[SarcasmMode Not the guy who does four evil head-turns in one conversation?]] |
| 100 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' describes Martin as "the world's most obvious traitor". |
| 101 | * ObviousBeta: [[invoked]]The Honest game trailers of ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' and ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' criticized the games being this trope, with tons of [[GameBreakingBug game-breaking bugs]], being obviously [[ChristmasRushed rushed]], and the fact [[{{Narm}} you can't take the story seriously]] as a result of the above issues during gameplay. |
| 102 | * OddballInTheSeries: |
| 103 | ** ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'' is described as this for the ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise, due to not starring any of the main characters from the other movies, not having any real connection to [[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001 the two]] [[Film/TwoFastTwoFurious previous movies]] and taking place out of chronological order from the other movies (it takes place after ''Film/FastAndFurious6'' despite being the third entry in the franchise). |
| 104 | ** A large part of their criticism of ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' regarding its relationship to the rest of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, as they point out how many of the familiar tropes to that franchise are absent (subtle {{Sequel Hook}}s, [[TheOtherDarrin the recasting]] of the title character, and how the MCU seldom references the film in later installments, etc). |
| 105 | * OhNoNotAgain: In the ''Film/AfterEarth'' trailer: |
| 106 | -->'''Narrator:''' From the director of... ''[Creator/MNightShyamalan[='s=] name appears on the screen]'' Oh God, not him again... |
| 107 | * OhTheHumanity: The narrator is forced into this in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' trailer when the "evil" Peter Parker from ''Film/SpiderMan3'' goes dancing in the street. |
| 108 | * OldShame: [[invoked]] |
| 109 | ** TheStinger for the ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' trailer is clips of the cast and director expressing their regret of the film. |
| 110 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' opens with a recap of the various racist depictions of Asians in previous Disney movies, like the siamese cats from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'', the asian piano playing cat from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', and old ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' [[WartimeCartoon World War II cartoons]]. |
| 111 | * OlderThanTheyLook: In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings', the narrator thinks Creator/TonyLeungChiuWai has been expertly [[DigitalDeaging digitally de-aged]] in the movie, and is surprised to learn that, no, he just still looks like this despite being almost 60 when the movie came out. |
| 112 | * OlderThanTheyThink: [[invoked]] |
| 113 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Batman1989'' points out that said movie was already creating controversy and hitting most of the "angry internet nerd bingo" sore points such as changing backstories, odd casting choices, and {{Race Lift}}ing, before the internet was even much of a thing. |
| 114 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' refers to Aerith's death as the most shocking and saddening death scene in an RPG and the series to date that has seldom been done before..."except when Tellah died in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV IV]]'', Galuf died in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV V]]'', Shadow in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI VI]]'' and Minwu in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII II]]''." |
| 115 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' points out how it actually predated ''Film/Deadpool2016'' as the first R-rated superhero movie, and ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' as the first Marvel movie featuring a black superhero, something that entertainment news apparently forgot about when praising the latter two movies. |
| 116 | --->'''Narrator:''' Okay, look, it's fine if you don't remember ''[[Film/TheMeteorMan Meteor Man]]'',[[note]]The first major movie ever to star a black superhero[[/note]] but there were ''three'' of these! |
| 117 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' describes the villain, Syndrome, to an early example of the nerd outrage culture that later developed, since he was a huge fan of Mr. Incredible and became so disappointed with him when they actually met that he declared war on superheroes; the Honest Trailer compares it to online petitions related to something that pissed fans of the related franchise off, such as having ''Film/TheLastJedi'' stricken out of canon and having the fabled [[Creator/ZackSnyder Snyder Cut]] of ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' released. |
| 118 | ** An interesting example involving ''Series/SpiderManJapan''; the trailer points out how the show is very similar to ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' (a hero fighting monsters with help of a giant robot), but acknowledges that ''Spider-Man'' did it first. This is true, but to an even greater extend than the trailer realizes, as ''Spider-Man'' predates even the earliest use of a giant robot in ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', Power Rangers' parent show. |
| 119 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BirdBox'' informs us that, while the similar ''Film/AQuietPlace'' came out first of the two movies, the novel ''Bird Box'' was based on came out four years before ''A Quiet Place''. |
| 120 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' points out how it was the first movie based on a Marvel comic to feature [[PillarOfLight a skybeam]], a forgettable villain and a womanizing, hard-drinking main character, all things that became staples of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. |
| 121 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/{{Lost}}'' points out that it featured audience favorite [[AntiHero antiheroes]] before ''Series/BreakingBad'' did the same, genre-driven [[invoked]]ViralMarketing before ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' and shocking character deaths before it became a staple of ''Series/GameOfThrones''. |
| 122 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' reminds the viewer that in the comics, She-Hulk was actually the first superhero to make meta-jokes like BreakingTheFourthWall, before ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' and his movie-adaptations. |
| 123 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: |
| 124 | ** Invoked for the infamous DreamSequence from ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', in which [[TalkingAnimal a raptor says]] "Alan". Not only is it brought up repeatedly in the honest trailer for said film, but it is also frequently used for a quick joke in other trailers, like the one for ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018''. |
| 125 | ** In the opening for the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' Honest Trailer, their creator, Creator/DreamworksAnimation, is introduced as the company that made [[WesternAnimation/BeeMovie a movie where a bee falls in love with a human woman]]. The InterspeciesRomance is so bizarre that he trails off: |
| 126 | --->'''Narrator:''' I mean, he's a bee! And she's a lady! How is that supposed to even work? It's physically impossibl- Wait, what movie were we talking about again? |
| 127 | * OnceOriginalNowCommon: [[invoked]] |
| 128 | ** In the ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' Honest Trailer, the narrator makes a big deal of the fact that it was the first Pokemon game to have: |
| 129 | --->'''Narrator:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Full. Blown. COLOR!]]\ |
| 130 | ''[sounds of ChirpingCrickets]''\ |
| 131 | '''Narrator:''' Look, it was a big deal at the time, all right? Jeez! |
| 132 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' points out how the movie's [[Anime/GhostInTheShell source material]] has influenced so many modern, American-made films (most prominently ''Franchise/TheMatrix'') that its actual live-action adaptation might feel [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks like a ripoff of those movies]]. |
| 133 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Literature/TheShining'' points out how the famous "Here's Johnny!" scene has [[HeresJohnnyHomage been copied and parodied]] so many times, it's not even scary anymore. |
| 134 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' suggests that some of the tropes and jokes it uses were more fresh and original when they appeared in [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} the original comic book]] back in 2003, such as [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles a costume designer who makes outfits for superheroes]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} robotic gangsters]]. |
| 135 | * OneSteveLimit: |
| 136 | ** The Honest Game Trailers for the "canon" ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' games attempt to come up with "Honest Names" for ''every single Pokémon in existence'', which leads to a couple of reused names like "Blue Balls" and "[[ProductPlacement Beats by Dre]]". Some come rather close, like [[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy "I am Groot" (Sudowoodo) and "Groot"]]. |
| 137 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''Franchise/MegaMan'' lampshades this when three different bomb-themed Robot Masters are nicknamed "VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}", even though the name is taken. |
| 138 | * OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: [[invoked]] |
| 139 | ** Their general attitude towards many non-Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel movies (i.e. ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', ''Film/{{Daredevil}}''), especially when the ones made after the MCU was created (i.e., ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'', ''Film/FantasticFour2015'', the [[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men films]] that followed ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''). |
| 140 | ** Averted with ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', which they note is considered the best movie in the franchise despite having the ''least'' involvement by Creator/GeorgeLucas. |
| 141 | ** Played with at the end of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017''. The narrator comments that live action adaptations of anime should only be done by the Japanese... until a clip of the live-action ''Film/{{Attack on Titan|2015}}'' movie is shown, in which a Titan eats a person, which makes him change his mind. |
| 142 | ** Again played with in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheShining'', where the narrator claims Creator/StephenKing should have control over the adaptations of his work, only to be reminded [[Film/MaximumOverdrive what happened the one time he directed a film]]. |
| 143 | ** Played Straight once more in the trailer for ''Series/TheSandman2022'', which the narrator claims is actually pretty good, and that this should be a lesson why the creators of a works should be allowed to own their characters. |
| 144 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: |
| 145 | ** The ''Film/ThreeHundred'' Honest Trailer suggests that Leonidas "hails from the Scottish part of Greece" because of Creator/GerardButler's tendency to slip into his Scottish accent. |
| 146 | ** The ''Film/PacificRim'' trailer points out Englander Creator/CharlieHunnam's trouble. |
| 147 | --->'''Narrator:''' Meet Raleigh Becket, a hotshot pilot struggling to maintain his American accent.\ |
| 148 | '''Raleigh:''' You know, all these years of living in the past... never really ''thawt'' about the future. |
| 149 | ** The second ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Honest Trailer mentions in the Starring section: |
| 150 | --->'''Narrator:''' Littlefinger's Accent:\ |
| 151 | '''Littlefinger:''' ''[in one accent]'' I suppose all of our ancestors came from somewhere else [...]\ |
| 152 | '''Narrator:''' Littlefinger's ''Other'' Accent:\ |
| 153 | '''Littlefinger:''' ''[in a different accent]'' You're right; he wasn't involved in [[spoiler:Joffrey's death]]. |
| 154 | * OscarBait: |
| 155 | ** Creator/AnneHathaway is described in the Starring section of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' as "Susan Boyle (♫ I really, really, really wanted to win an Oscar ♫)". |
| 156 | ** ''Film/TheRevenant'' is described as this: |
| 157 | --->'''Narrator:''' [F]eaturing [[BasedOnATrueStory a true story]] [[{{Biopic}} about a historical figure]], [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory plus a son he never had]], and [[ArtisticLicenseHistory a poetic ending where he gets the revenge the real guy never had]], shot by [[Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance last year's Best Picture]], [[Creator/AlejandroGonzalezInarritu Best Director]] and Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki) winners, and released in a year when his best competition was this:\ |
| 158 | ''[clip of Creator/BryanCranston in ''Film/{{Trumbo}}'']''\ |
| 159 | '''Narrator:''' Seriously, if he lost out to Communist [[Series/BreakingBad Heisenberg]], we'd riot. |
| 160 | ** While the Honest Trailer for the 2017 [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] praises ''Film/Moonlight2016'' for its excellent direction, it also notes that it checks pretty much every box on the list of Academy Award-winning topics, marking those topics with literal checkmarks: |
| 161 | --->'''Narrator:''' [...] as this young ''[checkmark]'', black ''[checkmark]'', gay man ''[checkmark]'', struggles to escape from poverty ''[checkmark]'' and drug addiction ''[checkmark]'', [[TimeSkip told across three decades]] ''[checkmark]'', [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a play]] ''[checkmark]'', [[{{Biopic}} based on the life story of its author]] ''[checkmark]''. So yeah, I'd say it's nominated for an Oscar. |
| 162 | ** The Honest Trailer for the 2017 Oscars also suggests ''Film/LaLaLand'' earned so many nominations because the Academy can't resist movies that give praise to Hollywood. |
| 163 | ** The Honest Trailer for the 2018 Oscars points out how ''Film/ThePost'', with its two-time Academy Award-winning director, Creator/StevenSpielberg,[[note]]For ''Film/SchindlersList'' and ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''[[/note]] Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Josh Singer,[[note]]For ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'' along with Tom [=McCarthy=][[/note]] and its leads, two-time Academy Award-winner Creator/TomHanks[[note]]For ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'' and ''Film/ForrestGump''[[/note]] and ''21-time nominee'' Creator/MerylStreep, and timely subject matter similar to modern day circumstances (the media resisting [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon an unpopular]] [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Republican president]]), the movie was practically built to win Oscars. |
| 164 | * TheOtherDarrin: [[invoked]] |
| 165 | ** Appears at times. For instance, in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', the Hulk is "Not [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 Edward Norton]]" ("[[Film/{{Hulk}} ALSO NOT ERIC BANA]]"). |
| 166 | ** Creator/TerrenceHoward being replaced by Creator/DonCheadle after ''Film/IronMan1'' is referenced more than once: |
| 167 | *** In the ''Film/IronMan2'' Honest Trailer, Cheadle!Rhodey is referred to as "Better Terrence Howard" in the Starring part. |
| 168 | *** The ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' Honest Trailer references it by saying Rhodey is hoping and praying they don't travel back to the part of the timeline when he was played by a different actor. |
| 169 | *** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/SecretInvasion2023'' jokes that the change of actor [[spoiler:foreshadowed Rhodey being a shapeshifting Skrull in the series]]. |
| 170 | ** In their trailer for ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'', they make references to both Howard's replacement with Cheadle and how, despite the film's faults, the film did pave the way for Creator/MarkRuffalo's version of the Hulk. |
| 171 | * TheOtherMarty: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' references the replacement of Chris D'Elia with Creator/TigNotaro, a.k.a. "Chris D'eleted", by having the narrator read her name in a blocky, stilted way while reading the rest of the segment about the character in a normal tone. |
| 172 | * OverlyLongGag: |
| 173 | ** One example is from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trailer, as "these unlikely heroes embark on [[SceneryPorn an eleven hour New Zealand tourism commercial]] rife with: walking... roaming... hiking... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment more walking]]... and strolling." That trailer also [[EndingFatigue ends three times]]. |
| 174 | ** The ''[[HeldGaze STARES]]'' in ''Twilight''. Best of all, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpU5O_Uur_c they made a supercut]] of '''ALL''' the stares in the series. The video is just a little under ''half an hour''. |
| 175 | ** The ''Film/StarTrek2009'' trailer does this with ''[[LensFlare LENS FLARES]]'', and the same music. |
| 176 | ** From ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': |
| 177 | --->'''Narrator:''' All to leave more time for... foreshadowing ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', introducing the plot device for... ''The Avengers'', unnecessarily freezing himself so he can be in... ''The Avengers'', and [[TheStinger an after-credits scene]] that is literally a trailer for... ''The Avengers''. |
| 178 | ** The ''Film/GrownUps'' trailer features almost a minute and a half of the actors' self-indulgent, scripted laughs at the jokes in the movie. It gets old, FAST. Even the announcer gets angry. |
| 179 | ** From their trailer for ''Franchise/KingdomHearts 2.8'', they top off the cast list with a LampshadeHanging on there being multiple versions of one character present in the game: "...and Xehanort and Xehanort and Xehanort and Xehanort and Xehanort and Xehanort!" |
| 180 | ** The trailer for ''Film/Venom2018'' points out how often the Rialto Theater is seen in the movie: |
| 181 | --->'''Narrator''': ''The Rialto Theater, The Rialto Theater, and that's, that's The Rialto Theater as well. The Rialto Theater, again. What theater's that? Oh, it's The Rialto.'' |
| 182 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', the Narrator frequently uses the term "gray CGI monster" to describe Steppenwolf, Desaad and Darkseid. |
| 183 | ** When showing Snake Eyes' origins in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' and ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', we are shown a long montage of young him fighting another kid while the narrator chants "kid fight, kid fight, kid fight", only stopping to lament that those scenes are the best part of the movies. |
| 184 | ** Lampshaded in the ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' trailer, which shows pretty much the entire clip of Gary endlessly throwing up in an alleyway. About halfway through, the narrator remarks that it's stopped being funny, but towards the end he admits that it's gone back to being funny again. |
| 185 | * OverlyNarrowSuperlative: |
| 186 | ** The ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' trailer calls the movie "the best American Godzilla movie ever made, which really isn't saying much," and shows crappy scenes from [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} the 1998 Godzilla movie]]. |
| 187 | ** ''Film/PitchPerfect'' is described as "the best film of all time... about making noises with your mouth," [[DamnedByFaintPraise placing it above]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1EIUP8tvbE the theme song]] of ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'', the music video of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1EIUP8tvbE "Daft Punk"]] by Music/{{Pentatonix}}, and [[Creator/MichaelWinslow Larvelle "Motor Mouth" Jones]] from the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movies. |
| 188 | ** The ''Film/JurassicWorld'' trailer calls it "the best ''Jurassic Park'' sequel ever made, which really isn't saying much," and shows the scene of the talking raptor in Alan Grant's dream from ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. |
| 189 | ** The ''[[Literature/{{Divergent}} The Divergent Series: Insurgent]]'' Honest Trailer describes the franchise as "the second-best franchise about [[Film/TheHungerGames a teenage girl revolutionary whose name ends in "-is"]]. |
| 190 | ** On a more positive note, the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' calls it "the year's best film about talking animals", pointing out that 2016 had had ''a lot'' of those by the time the Honest Trailer was released.[[note]]The films they listed were ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'', ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'', ''Film/NineLives2016'', ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.[[/note]] |
| 191 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpaceJam'' describes it as "the ''Film/CitizenKane'' of live action/animated hybrid basketball movies", comparing it to, well, nothing, and notes that, despite its major flaws, it's "the best movie starring an NBA player", comparing it to the panned ''Film/{{Thunderstruck}}'', ''My Giant'' and ''Film/{{Kazaam}}''. |
| 192 | ** In ''Film/PowerRangers2017'', Trini is credited as "Really? The first gay superhero in a movie? Wow!", pointing out that up until then there, well, no gay superheroes in a movie. |
| 193 | ** ''Film/PointBreak1991'' is "the best movie about bank-robbing surfers ever made... and also the only movie about bank-robbing surfers ever made". |
| 194 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' describes the villain, Steppenwolf, as "[[Creator/DCComics DC's]] scariest horn-helmeted minor god villain with a giant, bladed weapon since the movie right before this one", referring to his obvious similarities to Ares from ''Film/WonderWoman2017''. |
| 195 | ** ''Film/WildWildWest'' tries to bill itself as the best film that uses an increasingly number of weird qualifications, only to get annoyed because there are better films that still fit those narrow qualifications. Narrator finally nails it with "the best film where Creator/WillSmith fights a redneck in the engine room of a mechanical spider." |
| 196 | ** ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' is described as "the third-best hard-boiled detective story featuring cartoon animals ever!", accompanied by a graphic pointing out that this means it's the third-best in a field of four.[[note]]The other three being ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', and ''Film/CoolWorld''.[[/note]] |
| 197 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'' describes Knuckles as "the second-best mean little red cartoon who wears boxing gloves all the time" after Strong Bad from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. |
| 198 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'' describes it as "the second-best, Creator/MichelleYeoh and a googly-eyed rock movie of 2022", after ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce''. |
| 199 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: |
| 200 | ** Their opinion of every single 2015 summer blockbuster that was not ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. |
| 201 | --->'''Narrator:''' Strap in for the the summer's only hard-R movie made by a [[Creator/GeorgeMiller grandpa]], that makes every other summer franchise look tame by comparison. |
| 202 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' suggests that the game would have been a shoo-in for Game of the Year awards - if it hadn't come out a few days before ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. |
| 203 | *** The Honest Game Trailer for the sequel, ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', suggests that history repeated with it being released so close to ''VideoGame/EldenRing''. |
| 204 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games notes that [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996 the first game]] would probably have been way better remembered if the classic ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' hadn't been released two months earlier. |
| 205 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' says that, with its compelling, funny story, good action and great effects, it would have been mindblowing less than a decade ago, but will probably get ignored by more hardcore fans because it doesn't do much to advance the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's overall story arc. |
| 206 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[as [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons the Comic Book Guy]]]'' Um, uh, how many planets do they visit? Just one? Pass. I don't get out of bed for anything less than a Celestial. Uh, good day, sir. |
| 207 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'' suggests that the movie underperformed at the box office because it went up against ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. |
| 208 | * OvertOperative: In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', "Suit up with 007, the super-secret [=MI6=] agent, who everyone knows by his real name." ''[cue every instance of a character addressing him as some variant of "James Bond"]'' |
| 209 | * OverusedRunningGag: [[invoked]] |
| 210 | ** The narrator cuts short the ''LENS FLARES'' montage from ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', deciding the audience gets the point already. |
| 211 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'', the narrator gets frustrated with the movie's abundant jokes about Gene's parents deliberately unemotional deliveries (because they're both "Meh" emojies). |
| 212 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' draws attention to how often characters in [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] stories make fun of names of (usually) other superheroes for sounding silly to the point of the joke becoming worn out by now. |
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| 217 | * {{Padding}}: [[invoked]] |
| 218 | ** From the ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn]]'' trailer: "Brace yourself for two movies so unnecessarily long that they include [[ProductPlacement five Volvo commercials]], two montages of the previous Twilight movies, four games of chess, and '''the [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MOST]]. [[HeldGaze STARES]]. EVER!'''" |
| 219 | ** The trailer for ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', "a film so bloated you can honestly just skip the first half hour (Don't worry, there's still, like, three hours left to go)." |
| 220 | ** In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', the description of Krypton includes "way too many subplots". |
| 221 | ** The trailer for ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'' lampshades the three hour run time of the movie in its own way; the narrator at one point dozes off and yawns when he is suddenly roused from his nodding off at the mike. |
| 222 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheRoom2003'' points out the bizarrely prolonged scene of people doing completely mundane things: |
| 223 | --->'''Narrator:''' Most movies cut straight to the interesting parts, but ''The Room'' [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope is not most movies]]. Where, if a man makes a tape, you get to see him set up the equipment...\ |
| 224 | ''[shows the scene where Johnny bugs his phone]''\ |
| 225 | '''Narrator:''' If two friends have lunch, you see what everyone in front of them ordered...\ |
| 226 | ''[shows a scene of a coffee shop where just that happens]''\ |
| 227 | '''Narrator:''' And if a man gets his fiancée flowers, you'll see exactly how that finanical transaction went down. Spoiler alert: it was ''weird''!\ |
| 228 | ''[shows the infamous "Oh hai, doggy!" scene]'' |
| 229 | ** [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HobbsAndShaw'' describes it as a perfectly decent, 90 minute summer blockbuster... which makes a 45 minute detour "because [[Creator/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] wanted to take a trip to Samoa". |
| 230 | ** [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' complains that part of the added material making up the ''four hour runtime'' are scenes of Steppenwolf reporting his progress. |
| 231 | * PainMistakenForSex: In ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', the narrator refers to Jean Grey's rather suggestive crying and groaning while struggling or being tormented at certain moments as "X-gasms" while the trailer runs a remarkably long montage of them. |
| 232 | -->'''Narrator:''' Is it weird that this is... kinda turnin' me on? |
| 233 | * PanderingToTheBase: [[invoked]] |
| 234 | ** The last third of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'', the highest-grossing movie in China to date, is narrated in Chinese to make fun of the way the movie so obviously panders to Chinese audiences by portraying China, its nationals and its government favorably. |
| 235 | *** The movie was brought up again in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/Mulan2020'', which despite obviously being angled towards a Chinese audience, is mentioned to have gotten negative reviews in China after pirated copies were spread online. |
| 236 | ---->'''Narrator:''' Come on, Creator/{{Disney}}! How do you get out-pandered by Creator/MichaelBay? Now ''this'' is a master at work!\ |
| 237 | ''[shows footage of ''Age of Extinction'' where the Chinese government and authorities are portrayed as competent and effective]'' |
| 238 | ** Similarly, the ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' Honest Trailer mocks it for its obvious pandering to Chinese audiences by making the Chinese military a prominent role in the planet's defense and including lots of ProductPlacement of Chinese brands. |
| 239 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' opens by drawing attention to questionable past ways Creator/{{Disney}} have tried to appeal more to the Chinese market, like doing ProductPlacement for Vivo, [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 having the Ancient One]] be played by Creator/TildaSwinton when the original character was Tibetan, and giving thanks to prison camp bureaucrats in the credits of ''Film/Mulan2020'', and says the movie is definitely better than when the Chinese cut of ''Film/IronMan3'' added a whole subplot involving two Chinese doctors who [[spoiler:operate on Tony Stark when he has the last shrapnel removed from his chest]]. |
| 240 | --->'''Narrator:''' [[SarcasmMode I am ]]''[[SarcasmMode shocked]]'' [[SarcasmMode this wasn't in the American cut]]. |
| 241 | * PaperThinDisguise: In ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', "follow along with a team of scientists who blend in with the natives by wearing the Gap khaki collection." |
| 242 | * ParanoiaFuel: [[invoked]] ''Film/GoneGirl'' is the movie that left its viewers "wondering if their significant other was planning to kill them!" The narrator also thinks it should alternatively be titled ''Your Wife Probably Wants To Kill You''. |
| 243 | * ParentalSexualitySquick: The Honest Trailer for ''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Darker]]'' describes it as "another horrifying reminder that your aunt probably gets off to this". |
| 244 | * ParodyAssistance: |
| 245 | ** Creator/RyanReynolds himself voiced Deadpool in his [[Film/Deadpool2016 eponymous movie]]'s Honest Trailer. |
| 246 | ** Creator/JordanVogtRoberts, director of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' co-wrote the Honest Trailer for the movie and appeared in it himself. |
| 247 | ** Sometimes, actors from certain movies or TV series will reprise their roles and read comments in the Starring section of Honest Trailers for those works, like Creator/SteveBlum in the one for ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' and Creator/CasperVanDien in the one for ''Film/StarshipTroopers''. |
| 248 | * PatrioticFervor: ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''[='=]s campaign is described as the following: |
| 249 | -->'''Narrator:''' Experience [[{{Eagleland}} the ultimate American power fantasy]] as you mow down thousands of faceless Arabs, angry Latinos, and evil Russians, in campaigns so patriotic they could give [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]]'s ghost a boner. |
| 250 | * PersonAsVerb: Describes Creator/SandraBullock's many instances of the RapidFireNo in ''Film/{{Gravity}}'' as "Creator/ShiaLaBeouf-ing", referencing [=LaBeouf=]'s similar love for the trope. |
| 251 | * PerspectiveFlip: The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' does this to [[CatsAreMean Lucifer]] and his role antagonizing the mice: |
| 252 | -->''...Spend more than half the movie watching a cat trying to contain an army of vermin who have infested every corner of the house, and for all his reasonable efforts to contain the rodent horde, gets [[Series/GameOfThrones Bran Stark]][[PersonAsVerb ed]] [[DestinationDefenestration out the window]].'' |
| 253 | * PigeonholedVoiceActor: |
| 254 | ** Their ''Lord of the Rings'' video lampshades how most of Creator/AndySerkis' post-Gollum roles [[Film/KingKong2005 have been]] [[Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes mostly motion]]-[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011 capture ones]]. |
| 255 | --->'''Narrator:''' From the award winning visual effects team that launched the career of one man who must now [[SerkisFolk wear skintight Spandex and face dots for the rest of his life]]... |
| 256 | ** Brought up again in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'', which mentions Serkis' appearance in Creator/WarnerBros' [[Film/{{Mowgli}} own upcoming adaptation]], "because God forbid a CGI movie come out that doesn't include Andy Serkis". |
| 257 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' describes the [[invoked]][[SpecialEffectFailure horribly animated monkeys]] as "Andy Serkis' Worst Work". |
| 258 | * PillarOfLight: The overuse of "sky beams" in special effects-heavy blockbuster action movies, especially when used together with "disposable CGI armies" has become a source of annoyance for the narrator almost to the point of becoming a RunningGag. In fact, among the positives they name for ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' is that it ''doesn't'' use one. |
| 259 | * PlayingAgainstType: [[invoked]] In the Honest Trailer for the 2016 [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], it's noted that the director of ''Film/TheBigShort'', Adam [=McKay=], was previously best known for lighthearted, straight-up comedies like ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'' and ''Film/StepBrothers'', a pretty big contrast to the cynical tone and serious subject matter of ''The Big Short''. |
| 260 | * PlotArmor: |
| 261 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/It2017'' points out how Pennywise kills all his victims, but somehow never goes that far with the Losers' Club and settles for just scaring them, despite having several opportunities to do kill them. |
| 262 | --->'''Narrator:''' Rule of thumb: main characters get spooked, everyone else is clown food. |
| 263 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''[[Franchise/MenInBlack Men in Black trilogy]]'' points how how the villains of all three movies have the power to instantly kill anyone that opposes them, but somehow never do this to J and K. |
| 264 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' suggests that Natasha "turned on the cheat code that turns off environmental damage", showing scenes where she suffers injuries that would normally be fatal, but walks away pretty much fine. |
| 265 | * PoorMansPorn: |
| 266 | ** ''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Darker]]'' is described as "the steamiest story you can buy at a Target". |
| 267 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' references Creator/{{HBO}}'s older, steamier output like ''Real Sex'' and ''Taxicab Confessions'', describing it as "the pre-Internet porn you stayed up to watch as a kid". |
| 268 | * PoorMansSubstitute: [[invoked]] |
| 269 | ** {{Hunk}} actors with [[DullSurprise questionable acting abilities]] tend to be considered a Poor Man's Substitute of Creator/ChanningTatum. Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson is credited as "Discount Channing Tatum" in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', and Creator/JaiCourtney is described as a "homeless man's Channing Tatum" in ''Film/TerminatorGenisys''. |
| 270 | ** In ''Film/IronMan2'', director Creator/JonFavreau is called "the poor man's Creator/JossWhedon". |
| 271 | ** The ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' Honest Trailer calls Creator/JJAbrams "diet [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg]]". |
| 272 | ** The ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Out of Their Shells'' Honest Trailer describes the Shredder in the musical as "[[ShapedLikeItself a homeless man's Shredder]]". |
| 273 | ** The Honest Trailer for the first three ''Film/ThePurge'' movies describes Creator/FrankGrillo, who has a recurring role in the series, as a poor man's Creator/JonBernthal. |
| 274 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DeepBlueSea'' describes it as "a poor man's ripoff of ''Film/JurassicPark''" because of how much of the plot the movie borrowed from it. |
| 275 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' describes Halbrand as a "Kirkland brand Aragorn". |
| 276 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' credits Riri Williams / ComicBook/{{Ironheart}} as "We Have Creator/RobertDowneyJr At Home" as a reference to how the movie tries to set her up as the new Iron Man of the MCU. |
| 277 | * PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: The Honest Trailer for ''Series/StrangerThings'' describes its creators, the Duffer Brothers, as Creator/QuentinTarantino, "if he referenced films you've actually seen", showing a clip of how Tarantino's movie ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' referenced the more obscure Hong Kong action movie ''City on Fire''. |
| 278 | * PrecisionFStrike: |
| 279 | ** Normally swearing is bleeped out, but a clear f-word is left at the end of ''The Dark Knight'' trailer. |
| 280 | --->'''Narrator:''' Oh, who are we kidding? This movie is fucking awesome... |
| 281 | ** There is one for the original ''Film/RoboCop1987'' trailer; it ''is'' bleeped out, but you can still clearly hear it. |
| 282 | --->'''Narrator:''' Rated 'R' for [=RoboCop=]. [[TakeThat Because that's how you make a f*cking RoboCop movie!]] |
| 283 | * PreviewsPulse: Pointed out in the trailers for ''Film/{{Inception}}'' and ''Film/WorldWarZ'', and imitated in the teaser for ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. |
| 284 | * TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[invoked]] |
| 285 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''VideoGame/MadMax2015'' video game compares it to other rushed, crappy games based on terrific movies such as ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', ''Film/TheMatrix'' and ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. |
| 286 | ** The ''Ghostbusters II'' Honest Trailer also draws attention to the two terrible ''Ghostbusters'' video games made after the first movie. |
| 287 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''[[VideoGame/Superman64 Superman 64]]'' names the game as a prime example of this trope. |
| 288 | ** The trailer for ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' repeatedly mocks the game for its outdated gameplay, boring RPG, the loot system that only gives you about 4% extra endurance, the game getting unexpectedly hard, and the level-up system that basically forces you to restrict yourself to a few characters if you want to LevelGrind enough to beat the later stages. The narrator concludes with stating the game honors an old tradition within video games; design mediocre games based on popular franchises, purely to rip off children. |
| 289 | * ProductionLeadTime: The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' points out how, due to this trope combined with how quickly internet culture changes, many of the apps, [[TotallyRadical slang]], and memes featured in the movie were already outdated again when the movie came out. [[invoked]] |
| 290 | * ProductionPosse: [[invoked]] |
| 291 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheSantaClause1'' describes the director, John Pasquin, as "the man behind all things Creator/TimAllen", referring to him having directed a lot of other projects starring Allen, like ''Film/Jungle2Jungle'' and episodes of ''Series/HomeImprovement''. |
| 292 | ** {{Subverted|Trope}} in the ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' Honest Trailer, when the narrator expects the movie to star Creator/AdamSandler's usual guys, but is surprised to see that his co-stars were Creator/JoshGad and Creator/PeterDinklage: |
| 293 | --->'''Narrator:''' Not cool, man! Suck all you want, but don't drag [[Series/GameOfThrones Tyrion]] down with you! |
| 294 | * ProductPlacement: |
| 295 | ** ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'' set records for ProductPlacement in real life. So for the Honest Trailer, instead of announcing the actual stars, the narrator announces these stars: |
| 296 | --->'''Narrator:''' Starring: Burger King, Panasonic, eBay, Cadillac, GMC, Music/TheStrokes, Pepto-Bismol, Platform/{{Xbox}}, ''Furbies?!'' Pontiac, Mountain Dew, Chevrolet, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Chevrolet]], [[AndStarring and introducing]], [[RuleOfThree Chevrolet]]." |
| 297 | ** The last ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' movie is so bloated that the narrator says it contains the equivalent of five Volvo commercials. |
| 298 | ** TheStinger for ''Film/WorldWarZ'''s trailer parodies the film's use of this. |
| 299 | --->'''Narrator:''' Man, all the reshoots must have cost a fortune. How'd they afford to pay for that? ''[scene of Brad Pitt drinking a Pepsi]'' Man, that really makes me want a [[BaitAndSwitch Coke]]. |
| 300 | ** The product placement of ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' gets mentioned in the Honest Trailer, including the infamous opening joke featuring [=YooHoo=]. |
| 301 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' points out the game's rather obvious product placement for Cup Noodles. |
| 302 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' makes fun of how the plot keeps circling around Krispy Kreme: |
| 303 | --->'''Narrator:''' Mmmmm... I could really go for some [[BaitAndSwitch Dunkin' right now]]. |
| 304 | ** The non-''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' notes that "everyone [in New York] exclusively uses Sony products". |
| 305 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GetOut2017'' notes that the movie's budget was so low, they had to include product placement for the Platform/MicrosoftWindows Phone -- which also lampoons how the phone quickly fell out of style after the film's release. |
| 306 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', the narrator wonders how the filmmakers could afford to redesign Sonic and still make the release date. Cue a lot of clips of product placement for, among others, Amazon, Zillow and Olive Garden. |
| 307 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/{{Friends}}'' lists off the large number of blatant placements of [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece obviously 1990's stuff]] [[invoked]] featured in the series. |
| 308 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' and ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' points out how the movies often features products by Cisco. |
| 309 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' features several instances of blatant product placement near the beginning, with each one accompanied by a "Skip Ad" button once its brand is revealed. This culminates with a shot from the movie of the Warner Bros. backlot, with the frustrated narrator trying to click the "Skip Ad" button over and over again. |
| 310 | --->'''Narrator''': ''[whispers]'' It goes on like this for ''two hours''. |
| 311 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HocusPocus'' throws shade at the sequel for spending so much time at a Walgreen's, saying it feels like a long Superbowl commercial. |
| 312 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Barbie|2023}}'' draws attention to how the movie works in product placement for fancy cars: |
| 313 | --->'''Narrator:''' [...]while Barbie will have to balance handling her new feelings of inferiority with the superior handling of the new Chevy Blazer EV, her discomfort with being judged by her exterior with the smooth comfort of the new Chevy Suburban's interior. In this epic voyage of self-discovery that wouldn't be possible without first getting into the 1956 Chevy Corvette C1. It's subtle, [[{{Dissimile}} like a rock]]. |
| 314 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Madame Web|2024}}'' draws attention to the many appearances of Pepsi in the movie, even including a Pepsi can in the thumbnail and a Pepsi-related comment in the opening among the Honest Trailer requests. It especially points out how a lot of scenes have Creator/DakotaJohnson trying to open a Pepsi can: |
| 315 | --->'''Narrator:''' Did Pepsi only send you ''one'' can? I find that hard to believe. ''[shot of a huge Pepsi neon billboard]'' |
| 316 | * ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: In ''Series/BreakingBad'', "[Walter White will] cook crystal meth [[JustifiedCriminal to pay for his expensive cancer treatment]], [[OnlyInItForTheMoney then to save money for his family]], [[ForTheEvulz and then just because]]...." |
| 317 | * PsychoStrings: Show up in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' to underline how Wonka appears to actually be a demented serial killer. |
| 318 | * PungeonMaster: The narrator says that in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy [[VillainTeamUp team up]], "even though their goals are completely incompatible, to make '''the most puns ever'''." ''[Cue montage of Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy making puns]'' Mr. Freeze is later credited in the starring bit as "[[Film/TheRunningMan The Punning Man]], [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Coldman the Barbarian]], [[Film/KindergartenCop Kindergartern Ice Pop]], Franchise/{{Terminator}} Blue..." |
| 319 | * PunnyName: Actors' names are often punned when read. For instance: |
| 320 | ** "[[Creator/MichaelCaine My Cocaine]]" for ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. |
| 321 | ** "[[Creator/NoomiRapace Noomi Rapeface]]" and "[[Creator/CharlizeTheron Charlie The Ron]]" for ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. |
| 322 | ** "[[Creator/HarrisonFord Harrison Bored]]", "[[Creator/ShiaLaBeouf Shit the Bed]]", and "[[Creator/CateBlanchett Cat Blanket]]" for ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''. |
| 323 | ** In ''Film/IronMan2'', Creator/RobertDowneyJr as "[[Series/GameOfThrones Robb Stark]]" |
| 324 | ** ''Film/TheNotebook'' has [[Creator/RachelMcAdams Rachel McAdamsApple]] while focusing on [[DontExplainTheJoke her Adam's Apple]]. |
| 325 | ** ''Harry Potter'' has [[Creator/GaryOldman Hairy Old Man]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skypotter]]. |
| 326 | ** "[[Creator/IdrisElba Eye Dress Elbow]]", "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lokimon]]", and "[[Creator/NataliePortman Portm]][[Series/{{Portlandia}} andia]]" from ''Film/{{Thor}}''. |
| 327 | ** "[[Creator/SigourneyWeaver Sick Horny Weaver]]" in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' |
| 328 | ** The Film/AttackOfTheClones trailer gave us "[[Creator/HaydenChristensen Hay Don't Act Again]]" and "[[Creator/EwanMcGregor Ewan a Bad Movie]]" |
| 329 | ** ''Film/SpidermanTrilogy'' lists Creator/TopherGrace as "Gopher Face". |
| 330 | ** Creator/SeanBean in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' is credited as "Sean Bee-n". |
| 331 | ** ''Everyone'' who's credited in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Furious 7]]'' (except for Creator/VinDiesel). |
| 332 | --->'''Narrator:''' That's just his name. That's not a pun. |
| 333 | ** "[[Creator/KateBeckinsale Kate Beckons Sailors]]" in ''Film/PearlHarbor''. |
| 334 | ** The non-''WebVideo/CinemaSins Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' Honest Trailer lists Creator/DaneDeHaan as "Dane [=DeHäagenDazs=]". |
| 335 | * QuestionableCasting: [[invoked]] |
| 336 | ** During the "Starring" portion of the ''Film/ThreeHundred'' trailer, the narrator breaks from giving witty nicknames to voicing his shock at some of the actors who got cast, though it seems less because of the usual miscasting associated with the trope and more because of the sheer levels of RetroactiveRecognition. |
| 337 | --->'''Narrator:''' [[Series/GameOfThrones Cersei Lannister]]? [[Series/TheWire McNulty]]? And Creator/MichaelFassbender?! |
| 338 | ** During the "Starring" portion of the ''Film/SupermanReturns'' trailer, the narrator wonders what is Creator/ParkerPosey[[note]]Best known for her work in indie movies[[/note]] doing in a ''Superman'' blockbuster. |
| 339 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GetOut2017'' points out how the movie [[InvokedTrope did this intentionally]] by casting well-known white actors such as indie favorite Creator/CatherineKeener, ''Series/TheWestWing'' co-star Bradley Whitford and ''Series/{{Girls}}'' co-star Creator/AllisonWilliams as [[spoiler:racist serial killer horror movie villains]]. |
| 340 | ** The Starring segment of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/HobbsAndShaw'' questions the logic of casting the Mexican Creator/EizaGonzalez as a Russian super criminal. |
| 341 | ** The [[WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings Pitch Meeting]] section of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/MoneyPlane'' suggests that the villain, Darius "The Rumble" Grouch, sounds like he should be played by a ScaryBlackMan actor like Creator/SamuelLJackson or Creator/VingRhames rather than his actual actor, Creator/KelseyGrammer. |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:R]] |
| 346 | * RaceLift: |
| 347 | ** In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', there's disbelief at the fact that Ms. Moneypenny's black. Credited as "Miss Moneypenny's black?!" |
| 348 | ** The "race bending" of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' is "advertised". |
| 349 | --->'''Narrator:''' Watch as the ethnically diverse heroes you know and love are brought to life as generic white kids, and the ethnically diverse villains... stay ethnically diverse. |
| 350 | ** Creator/LaurenceFishburne as Perry White in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' is credited as "Perry Black". |
| 351 | ** Discussed in the ''Film/Batman1989'' trailer, where the narrator checks the "Cast a black guy to play a white guy" (referring to Harvey Dent being played by the black Creator/BillyDeeWilliams) box for the "Break the Internet bingo" he's playing. |
| 352 | ** The ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 [=Fant4stic=]]]'' Honest Trailer points out that the Internet was kinder to [[Creator/JessicaAlba a Latina]] playing Sue Storm in the original films, but went ballistic when [[Creator/MichaelBJordan a black guy]] was hired to play her brother Johnny in the reboot. |
| 353 | * RageQuit: The narrator finds ''Film/AfterEarth'' far too dumb, gives up, and drives off in a huff just before the cast reading. |
| 354 | * RandomEventsPlot: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' points out how the movie basically consists of the hero overcomming some random obstacles, only for the plot to resolve itself eventually. |
| 355 | * RatedIForIndex: Usually "Rated H for Honest" or "Rated S for Spoilers". |
| 356 | * ReadTheFinePrint: The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' reveals that the print of Stitch's adoption paper is actually a thank-you letter from Disney to the animators of the movie, meaning that the Galactic Federation has every right to take Stitch away from Lilo. |
| 357 | * RealIsBrown: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' remarks on how the movie's primarily beige and grey color tones makes it look duller than the colorful Creator/JackKirby [[ComicBook/TheEternals comic book]] it's based on. |
| 358 | * RealTrailerFakeMovie: |
| 359 | ** For AprilFoolsDay in 2015, there was an Honest Game Trailer for ''[[{{Vaporware}} Half-Life 3]]''. The trailer pretty much consists of calling it the greatest human experience ever made. |
| 360 | ** For April Fool's of 2020, they did one for "The [[Creator/ZackSnyder Snyder]] Cut" of ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', which at the time wasn't real and seemed like a hopeless pipe dream ([[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Snyder's actual version of the film]] got a proper Honest Trailer after its release). |
| 361 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: |
| 362 | ** The trailer for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' points out how the Ewoks being able to defeat the better armed, and seemingly superior Empire actually isn’t that farfetched, drawing parallels to real-life wars like Afghanistan and the Vietnam War. |
| 363 | ** The remastered ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' trailer mentions that as stupid as {{Unobtanium}} sounds, there are real minerals with even stranger names, like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite Cummingtonite]]. |
| 364 | * RealitySubtext: [[invoked]] |
| 365 | ** In the ''Film/ManchesterByTheSea'' entry in the Honest Trailer for the 2017 [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], it's suggested that Creator/CaseyAffleck drew inspiration for his portrayal of "a hard-drinking, irrittable Boston man living in the shadow of his more successful older brother" from his relationship with [[Creator/BenAffleck his own more successful older brother]]. |
| 366 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Catwoman2004'' suggests that some of the scenes where Creator/SharonStone's character talks about being pushed aside when she got older are just Stone venting about her Hollywood career. |
| 367 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' redubs "Surface Pressure" to be about how Creator/LinManuelMiranda is feeling the pressure to [[invoked]][[ToughActToFollow keep producing hits]]: |
| 368 | --->♫ Pressure after ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' put him right on top, uh-oh ♫\ |
| 369 | ♫ Pressure after ''Film/InTheHeights'' was a total flop, uh oh oh oh ♫\ |
| 370 | ♫ Hoping that ''Encanto'' gives him an [[MediaNotes/TheEGOTs EGOT]] win ♫\ |
| 371 | ♫ So we'll all forget his role in ''[[Film/MaryPoppinsReturns Mary Poppins]]'' ♫\ |
| 372 | ♫ Overexposed, but he can't take a break ♫\ |
| 373 | ♫ [[invoked]][[MoneyDearBoy Money's great!]] ♫ |
| 374 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TopGunMaverick'' isn't subtle about how Maverick's fear of being too old to stay in the action likely reflects those of his actor: |
| 375 | --->'''Narrator:''' Creator/TomCruise returns in his iconic role as Maverick, for a film about how Tom-- I mean, Maverick may be old, but To-- I mean, Maverick won't go down that easy, because Tom-- I mean, Maverick refuses to die, no matter how many dumb stunts To-- er, Mav pulls for ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]''-- er, the Navy or whatever. |
| 376 | * RecurringElement: |
| 377 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'' points out how many of Creator/MartinScorsese's movies have featured an ambitious criminal main character with a temper [[spoiler:whose pride is eventually his downfall]]. |
| 378 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''Film/MissionImpossible'' films (up until ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'') notes that they all involve a rogue IMF agent and an arms dealer. |
| 379 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' movie points out several things that director Creator/ZackSnyder later carried over into his films in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, ''Film/ManOfSteel'' and ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', such as huge amounts of rain, graphic violence, Jesus allegories, apocalyptic dream sequences and [[spoiler:a scene where two characters who don't like each other discover that they have the same name (comparing it to the infamous "Martha" scene in ''[=BvS=]'')]]. |
| 380 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AlienCovenant'' points out how many movies in the franchise have "a short-haired girl in a tank top fighting the Xenomorph" and [[spoiler:killing it be shooting it into the vacuum of space]]. |
| 381 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' points out how many of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies have repeated the movie's plot points of an evil space station of some sort being blown up in an attack by Rebel (or a similar other faction) ships and scenes of characters wandering through deserts. |
| 382 | ** The Double Feature Honest Trailer for ''Film/PacificRimUprising'' and ''Film/TombRaider2018'' points out how both movies start with a fun opening sequence, only to turn to generic action, and end with a SequelHook that [[invoked]][[StillbornFranchise probably won't get any follow-up]], feature a hero with daddy issues who gets top-secret information from a dead family member and teams up with heroic Chinese characters. |
| 383 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ThePredator'' points out that many nerd franchises (or single movies) feature evil monster dogs. |
| 384 | ** The Honest Trailer for "Every Creator/WesAnderson Movie" notes how all of them feature an emotionally stunted male protagonist "suffering from a vague bout of ennui"[[note]]Melancholia, depression, listlessness[[/note]] who has a strained relation with one or more parents, SiblingRivalry and is sometimes being cheated on by romantic partners, who joins forces with "a brown subordinate/love interest", [[SharpDressedMan wears a lot of nice mens' suits]] and [[BittersweetEnding ends up kinda, sorta happy]]. |
| 385 | ** The Honest Trailer for "Every Creator/ChristopherNolan Movie" points out how many of them feature a character (usually a main character) with a dead wife, scenes with men in tan suits, women who are secretly evil, lairs in snowy locations, shots of tundras, a stoic main character who often has some criminal occupation (or, in the case of ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', is a vigilante) and a strict moral code, [[SharpDressedMan dresses in a nice suit]] and has brushed-back hair (similar to how Nolan himself often dresses). |
| 386 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' notes that every movie in [[Franchise/JurassicPark the franchise]] released to date has included at least one child of divorce. |
| 387 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheFifthElement'' describes it as the most fun "child-like traumatized-but-badass lady sex object" movie of all of Creator/LucBesson's many other movies with such a main character.[[note]]The others being ''Film/TheProfessional'', ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc'', ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', ''Film/{{Anna}}'' and ''Film/{{Lucy}}''[[/note]] |
| 388 | ** The Honest Trailer for the first season of ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' notes how it shares a lot of concepts with ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', on which showrunner Creator/MichaelWaldron also worked, such as portal guns, monologues about how existence is chaos, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech characters breaking each other down psychologically]] and a main character who gets drunk during missions. |
| 389 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[as Rick Sanchez]'' Wow, ''[urp]'' where did they ''[urp]'' get all these ideas? I guess there was nothing left to steal from Creator/JackKirby, huh? |
| 390 | ** The Starring part of the Honest Trailer for the 2022 [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]]: |
| 391 | *** The ''Film/LicoricePizza'' segment points out how many of Creator/PaulThomasAnderson's movies take place in the San Fernando Valley, including ''Film/PunchDrunkLove'' and ''Film/BoogieNights''. |
| 392 | *** The "Starring" sections lists very specific topics from past Best Picture nominees also present in the current ones, like "[[Film/ThePowerOfTheDog The Depressing Secret]] [[Film/BrokebackMountain Gay Cowboy Love Affair]]", "[[Film/Coda2021 A Musician Rebelling From,]] [[Film/SoundOfMetal Then Ultimately Accepting The Deaf Community]]", and "Paul Thomas Anderson [[Film/LicoricePizza About Very]] [[Film/TheMaster Awkward]] [[Film/PhantomThread Relationships]]". |
| 393 | ** TheStinger of the Honest Trailer for ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' points out how many of the MCU TV series, [[spoiler:including ''She-Hulk'', end with a near-omniscient, powerful figure explaining what's going on to the main characters in a place outside time and space]]. |
| 394 | ** The Honest Trailer for the three ''Pinocchio'' adaptations released in 2022, when covering Creator/GuillermoDelToro's [[WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio version]], lists elements in the movie also present in his other works, like [[Film/PansLabyrinth a child during World War II]] and [[Film/Hellboy2004 sympathetic monsters]]. |
| 395 | * ReCut: Screen Junkies Plus has extended versions of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' and ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'', both because the writers had too much material and due to the movies themselves having extended Blu-Ray versions. |
| 396 | * RecycledWithAGimmick: |
| 397 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JupiterAscending'' calls Creator/MilaKunis's character "CINDERELLA. '''IN. SPACE!!!'''" |
| 398 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/Starcraft2'' names it "''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' IN SPACE!", referring to how the gameplay in the games are essentially the same. |
| 399 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' describes it as ''Series/MyTwoDads'' '''IN SPACE!!!''' |
| 400 | ** The stinger for the Honest Trailer for ''Film/Aquaman2018'': |
| 401 | --->'''Narrator:''' Ok, look. I know people think this is similar to [[Film/BlackPanther2018 another comic book movie where two ideologically opposed family members clash over the kingship of a hidden high-tech civilization]], but hear me out: This one... '''IS UNDERWATER!!!'''. |
| 402 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' describes the movie as "''Film/MadMax'', but wet." |
| 403 | * RecycledScript: [[invoked]] |
| 404 | ** The ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy''. Composed of: |
| 405 | ###''Film/SpiderMan1'': where Peter Parker struggles with his powers, breaks up with Mary Jane, and fights with a villain that ultimately kills himself; |
| 406 | ###''Film/SpiderMan2'': where Peter Parker struggles with his powers, breaks up with Mary Jane, and fights with a villain that ultimately kills himself; and |
| 407 | ###''Film/SpiderMan3'': where Peter Parker struggles with his powers, breaks up with Mary Jane, and fights with a villain that ultimately kills himself. |
| 408 | ---->'''Narrator:''' [[LampshadedTrope Wait, did they just make the same movie]] [[RuleOfThree 3 times in a row?]] |
| 409 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'' points out how the movie repeats not just the basic premise of [[Film/DumbAndDumber the first movie]] (Harry and Lloyd going on a road trip to deliver a mysterious package), but also many jokes and specific scenes ("I like it a lot", the Mutt Cutts Van, the Binaca spray gag, etc.). |
| 410 | ** The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy. Composed by: |
| 411 | ### ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': where they travel to the past, beat up the bully, fix the future, and set up the sequel, |
| 412 | ### ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': where they travel to the past, beat up the bully, fix the future, and set up the sequel, and |
| 413 | ### ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': where they travel to the past, beat up the bully, fix the future, and leave open the possibility for a sequel. |
| 414 | ---->'''Biff Tannen:''' There's something very familiar about all this... |
| 415 | ** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'''s trailer lampoons how the hard drive Bond is after contains the identity of all NATO agents, which is ripped off from ''Film/MissionImpossible'' and how the ending is a rip off of ''Film/HomeAlone''. |
| 416 | ** Jon Bailey actually interrupts his reading of both ''Divergent'' Honest Trailers finding the movie identical to other dystopias (''The Hunger Games'' for the original, ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'' for ''Insurgent''). |
| 417 | ** ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''[='=]s storyline is called as such. |
| 418 | --->'''Narrator:''' Pick up all three of the best-selling shooters that are all the same, full of rehashed moments like: slow-motion door breaches; the level where you control a giant gun; [[ControllableHelplessness that part where you look around and wait to die]]; the unnecessary controversial moment; and, the climatic ending where you're seriously injured and the main bad guy is about to kill you... but then he gets distracted by something which gives you enough time to kill him first. |
| 419 | ** The first four ''Film/MissionImpossible'' movies, involving a rogue IMF agent and an arms dealer. |
| 420 | ** The video for ''Film/AntMan1'' points out the plot's similarities to the first ''Film/IronMan1'' movie, such as a brilliant tech industrialist being betrayed by a bald former ally and a supporting character looking at the suit they'll wear in the sequel. |
| 421 | ** Relentlessly parodied in ''Film/SupermanReturns'', where all of the homages to the Donner films are said to just be kind of pointless and dull, especially when combined with weepy dramatic subplots and very unsubtle Jesus imagery; at one point, all of the dialogue directly lifted from the first film is just played side-to-side with the original. |
| 422 | --->'''Narrator:''' Creator/ChristopherReeve ''IS'' Superman... and Creator/BrandonRouth is doing a pretty good impression of him.\ |
| 423 | '''Narrator:''' Creator/KevinSpacey stars as Creator/GeneHackman's Lex Luthor! |
| 424 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Gannon Nickell points out the movie's many similarities to the very first ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie, ''Film/ANewHope'': |
| 425 | --->'''Nickell!Narrator:''' Gear up for a film so desperate to recapture the magic of the first ''Star Wars'', it practically ''is'' the first ''Star Wars''. Featuring: desert orphan finding a cute droid with top secret information, escapes the Empire with the help of the Millenium Falcon, visits a shady cantina, learns about the Force from a tiny alien,[[note]]Comparing Maz Kanada to Yoda, though Yoda didn't appear until ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[/note]] watches [[spoiler:a man in black kill her mentor]] and needs to destroy a shield generator so X-Wings can make a trench run. |
| 426 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' mocks the game for how much it copied from ''VideoGame/StarFox64'', such as the story, levels, bosses and enemies. |
| 427 | ** ''Ghostbusters II'', which gets a side by side comparison to the first movie, pointing out how the plot is identical to the first film. |
| 428 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''[annoyed]'' It's exactly the same as the first movie! But bad! |
| 429 | ** ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Trilogy]]''. Composed of: |
| 430 | ###''Film/TheBourneIdentity'': where Bourne tries to figure out who he is, has a cool car chase, and runs from a control room full of people on computers, only to discover that the crooked government guy chasing him [[spoiler:was just [[TheDragon a puppet]] [[TheManBehindTheMan for someone else]]]]; |
| 431 | ###''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'': where Bourne tries to figure out ''why he is'' who he is, has a cool car chase, and runs from a control room full of people on computers, only to discover that the crooked government guy chasing him [[spoiler:was just a puppet for someone else]]; and |
| 432 | ###''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'': where Bourne tries to figure out ''who made him'' who he is, has a cool car chase, and runs from a control room full of people on computers, only to discover that the crooked government guy chasing him [[spoiler:was just a puppet for someone else]]. |
| 433 | ---->'''Narrator:''' Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
| 434 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'', in addition to saying the plot is the same as the original movie, points out the final battle's similarities to the final battle of ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', showing how both feature main characters in jumpsuits fighting an army of giant monsters and shooting at them with lasers and even use similar shots. |
| 435 | ** The full Honest Trailer for ''Film/LaLaLand'' points out a similarity between it and the director's previous movie: |
| 436 | --->'''Narrator:''' From the filmmaker behind [[Film/{{Whiplash}} the movie]] about the jazz guy who likes jazz so much [[spoiler:he ends up alone]], comes a movie about a jazz guy who loves jazz so much [[spoiler:he ends up alone]]. Man, what did jazz do to Creator/DamienChazelle? |
| 437 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/PointBreak1991'' points out how it seems to have been a big inspiration for the first ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' movie: |
| 438 | --->'''Narrator:''' Ride along as a [[DullSurprise blank-faced]] cop falls in with a charismatic adrenaline junkie who's secretly committing crimes and dates a waitress with a personal connection to his target. But ''The Fast and the Furious'' didn't totally rip this off, because in ''Fast'', they drink Coronas, where in ''Point Break'' they drink... also Coronas. Seriously, somebody owes someone money. |
| 439 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' points out how it borrows a plot point from a certain other summer blockbuster: |
| 440 | --->'''Narrator:''' [Optimus Prime]'s been forced by a lady with dreads to turn against his family. And if you said "that's the exact plot of ''[[Film/TheFateOfTheFurious Fate of the Furious]]''", congratulations; you saw some really bad movies in 2017! |
| 441 | ** The Honest Trailer for "Every Creator/WesAnderson Movie" points out how all of his eight movies made to date have featured one or more disaffected protagonists, a romantic interest for one of the main characters that he sometimes [[LoveTriangle shares with a third person]], and some sort of elaborately planned event that goes wrong. The plots get so repetitive that, as the narrator reads them, the Honest Trailer fast forwards faster and faster to get past them. |
| 442 | --->'''Creator/AlecBaldwin-sounding Narrator:''' It sounds repetitive, but trust me; they're just the most charming little things. |
| 443 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DeepBlueSea'' lists the many plot points it borrows from ''Film/JurassicPark'': |
| 444 | --->'''Narrator:''' [...], complete with approaching tropical storm, running on a skeleton crew on their most important weekend, [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Sam Jackson]], "hiding in a kitchen" scene, and guy who gets eaten for resetting the power. |
| 445 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' points out how it rips off the story of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', apart from the endings: |
| 446 | --->'''Narrator:'''[...], where an old cast member gets summoned to the estate of an ailing original park founder, then sent to the island to save the dinosaurs, only to get [[spoiler:double-crossed by a slimy junior exec, who secretly hired a hunter to bring the dinosaurs back to the mainland for profit]]. |
| 447 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheMeg'' notes how the movie repeats ''its own'' script by having two sequences where the main character, Jonas, saves the crew of a trapped sub, a woman is set up as his love interest, there is an accident involving the crane of a boat and, just to hammer it in, [[spoiler:the first sequence ends with the Meg getting eaten by a second, even bigger Meg]]. |
| 448 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RockyIV'' points out how, despite the new opponent, the movie does essentially nothing new compared to the previous Rocky movies. It still has the same basic plot, same jokes, etc. |
| 449 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RobinHood2018'' points out how, besides recycling everything the previous Robin Hood movies already did, it also recycles the main storyline from ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' and ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. |
| 450 | --->'''Narrator''': This Robin Hood is also a rich young man that trained in a distant land, who returned home to fight injustice as a masked vigilante, helps his social activist girlfriend protect the slums, hits a secret identity speed bump in his love life, inspires a repressed population to rise up against a villain, and twist the guy dating his ex into... I dunno. Some kind of a Two-Face? |
| 451 | ** The narrator notes the plot of each of the ''Film/MenInBlack'' films is really similar. |
| 452 | --->'''Narrator"''': The first film, where K shows J the ropes, while being hunted by a villain who can kill people instantly, unless you're the heroes, as they search for an all-powerful device that was right under their nose all along; the second one, where J shows K the ropes, while being hunted by a villain who can kill people instantly, unless you're the heroes, as they search for an all-powerful device that was right under their nose all along; and the third one, where J goes back in time to show K the ropes, while being hunted by a villain who can kill people instantly, unless you're the heroes, as they search for an all-powerful device that was... Yadda yadda yadda. Are we sure we want more sequels to this thing? |
| 453 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/MortalEngines'' derides it for how the movie's action scenes are similar to ones from ''Franchise/StarWars'', and that it even has [[spoiler:the villain turning out to be the main character's father]]. |
| 454 | ** The trailer for ''Film/TheMummy1999'' ackknowledges that it's in many ways a repeat of the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies, but then proceeds to point out how those movies were based on earlier serials like ''King Solomon's Mines'', which in turn were based on radio plays, which in turn were based on books. |
| 455 | --->'''Narrator''': So let The Mummy be another reminder, that nothing you've ever enjoyed is original. |
| 456 | ** The Honest Trailer for the ''[[Franchise/MenInBlack Men In Black trilogy]]'' points how how besides having the same basic plot[[note]]one agent shows the other the ropes, they hunt down a dangerous villain who can instantly kill anyone but somehow never does this to the heroes, and they search a plot device that is ultimately revealed to be right under their nose all along[[/note]], but also the same three jokes[[note]]Aliens being horny, a scene where big things seem small and small things seem big, and the question how many rips Will Smith can make[[/note]] |
| 457 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' points out how its plot borrows plotlines from old episodes of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons the TV show]], such as [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomer Homer going on a chili-fueled hallucination trip]] and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E4TwoCarsInEveryGarageAndThreeEyesOnEveryFish one involving a multi-eyed fish caught in a polluted lake]]. |
| 458 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' details how the plot mirrors that of many previous MCU Movies, with the lead character having to keep important object x, out of the hands of military leader Y, by taking down massive airship Z. |
| 459 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' points out how the plot is very similar to ''Film/{{Hook}}'': |
| 460 | --->'''Narrator:''' ...and when [[=LeBron's=]] son Dom gets kidnapped by his nemesis, a cleverly named villain who'll win the kid over by showing all the love and encouragement he's missing at home, forcing the dad to round up a bunch of cartoonish misfits from a land where they don't age and convince them to help him fight back against the bad guy, until he learns to let loose, have some fun and believe he can fly. Bang-a-Rang! Bang-a-Rang! Hey, can we just watch ''Hook'' instead? |
| 461 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/JungleCruise'' lists major plot points from ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' the movie repeated: |
| 462 | --->'''Narrator:''' So if you like the first ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' film, Creator/{{Disney}}'s hoping it's because you like movies where a boat captain and a headstrong {{tomboy}} lady clash, and then they run across some nasty Europeans who are actually immortal, so the captain [[spoiler:pretends to die to save the others, but he turns out to be immortal too]], and the headstrong tomboy lady saves him in the end. ''[with Jack Sparrow's voice]'' Savvy? |
| 463 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' points out how it recycles pretty much every plot point of the first movie. |
| 464 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' lists several plot points it has in common with ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'': |
| 465 | --->'''Narrator:''' So if you only see one sequel full of beautiful underwater photography about the evils of colonialism from an indigenous perspective, fighting for control of a natural resource that enhances human potential, set against a blue-skinned race that's friends with whales, that introduces [[spoiler:children of the heroes from the first film]], and brings back [[spoiler:some legendary dead warriors]], then dang, you've got a tough choice on your hands. I guess it depends on how much cry face you want to look at. |
| 466 | * ReedRichardsIsUseless: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' points out how Hank Pym's growth and shrinking technology could be used to solve world hunger, but instead gets used for fight suits. |
| 467 | * ReferenceOverdosed: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018'' describes the movie as having "More references than a [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Big Bang Theory]] episode about the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] challenging Comicbook/TheAvengers to an anime edition of TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit". |
| 468 | * RelationshipSue: [[invoked]] Creator/RyanGosling in ''Film/TheNotebook'' is credited as "Perfection". |
| 469 | * ReplacementScrappy: [[invoked]] |
| 470 | ** [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze Tokka and Rahzar]] (who are {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s for [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Bebop and Rocksteady]]) are referred to as, "two lame-ass ripoffs that no-one ever '''asked for!'''" |
| 471 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious The Fate of the Furious]]'' suggests that the movie tries, unsuccessfully, to replace Creator/PaulWalker's character with "Little Nobody" (played by Creator/ScottEastwood). |
| 472 | * {{Retcon}}: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' points out how many plot points from ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' were just ignored in the movie, such as the public's hatred of Superman, who is now treated as an icon InUniverse, and Bruce Wayne's nightmare with the Flash, which is never even brought up. |
| 473 | * {{Retraux}}: |
| 474 | ** Honest Trailers for films and TV shows released a few decades before present, such as ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'', ''Film/TopGun'', ''Film/{{Hackers}}'', and ''Film/RockyIV'', are filtered to make it look like they were ripped from an old video tape. |
| 475 | ** The Honest Game Trailer for ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is given a different narrator and a different opening to make it look like a 40s or 50s propaganda infomercial. |
| 476 | ** The entry for ''Film/{{Mank}}'' in the Honest Trailer for the 2021 [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] is narrated in the same style as a news reel from the 30s or 40s. |
| 477 | * RetroactiveRecognition: [[invoked]] |
| 478 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/LoveActually'' has a Starring list made of the actors from the movie as roles in which they were more famous. Also, throughout the trailer the narrator is surprised that Mark is played by Creator/AndrewLincoln, who years after the movie became famous for his role as Rick Grimes in ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. |
| 479 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' mentions how the show featured guest appearances by actors who were fairly unknown at the time, but went on to become more famous than any of the show's lead actors, such as ''Series/{{Community}}''[='=]s Creator/KenJeong and ''Series/ModernFamily''[='=]s Creator/SofiaVergara. The Honest Trailer also shows a scene where Ari and E talk about the lead actor in ''Film/TheStationAgent'', who, according to Ari, was relegated to making Fedex commercials - the lead actor in question being Creator/PeterDinklage: |
| 480 | --->''[shot of [[Series/GameOfThrones Tyrion]] looking grim]''\ |
| 481 | '''Narrator:''' ''Awkward''. |
| 482 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/BatmanBegins'', the narrator realizes that the child Batman saves is Creator/JackGleeson (AKA [[TheCaligula King Joffrey Baratheon]] from ''Series/GameOfThrones''). |
| 483 | ---> '''Narrator:''' Is this King Joffrey? That is him! Why are you giving him military hardware? Take him before it's too late! |
| 484 | ** In the Starring part of the ''Film/FaceOff'' Honest Trailer, the narrator is surprised that a member of Castor Troy's gang is played by the future director (Nick Cassavetes) of ''Film/TheNotebook'', of all things. |
| 485 | ** ''Series/{{Friends}}''' "Starring..." segment points out that an extra in one episode is "that guy from Screen Junkies" (Hal Rudnick). |
| 486 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/DonnieDarko'' shows that a young Creator/SethRogen was in the movie, but the narrator gets incredibly uncomfortable about his scenes because the creepy jerk he plays is such a jarring performance compared to his later, easygoing [[TheStoner stoner]] roles. |
| 487 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Hancock}}'' draws attention to the fact that it was co-written by a pre-''Series/BreakingBad'' Creator/VinceGilligan: |
| 488 | --->'''Narrator:''' [...]this blockbuster, that tried to create an original AntiHero audiences love from scratch. But you can't expect to get everything right the first time. Right, Vince? |
| 489 | * RevenueEnhancingDevices: |
| 490 | ** A big point in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the very first Honest Trailer, is that the movie was being re-released in 3D. |
| 491 | ** ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' 3D. "3D so real, you can actually ''feel'' Creator/JamesCameron stealing money from your pocket." |
| 492 | ** As the introduction of ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' points out |
| 493 | ---> '''Narrator:''' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Special Edition [Total Cost: $180]. Plus {{DLC}} [Total Cost: $280]. |
| 494 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' gets mocked because the game was released with very barebones gameplay and the developers apparently chose to squeeze money out of players with {{DLC}} instead. |
| 495 | * ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' accused the movie of doing this to the original trilogy, and in the long run the franchise as a whole, by making a movie full of burp gags, slapstick comedy, and Boba Fett going out like Wile E. Coyote. |
| 496 | * RhymesOnADime: The first minute of the trailer for ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' is narrated entirely in rhyme. |
| 497 | * RockBeatsLaser: The Honest Trailer for ''Film/IndependenceDay'' notes that the advanced aliens are defeated with "a sheet, Morse Code, punching, and an Apple Powerbook 5300." |
| 498 | * RoleEndingMisdemeanor: [[invoked]] The Honest Trailer for Season 2 of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' predicts that Creator/GinaCarano and/or her character, Cara Dune, will eventually be taken out of the show after she made a number of tweets supporting the alt-right movement. Their prediction finally came true the week after the episode aired after she retweeted a comment from a conservative who likened Republicans to ''Holocaust victims''. |
| 499 | * RootingForTheEmpire: Invoked by the narrator when he has this reaction to watching [[StuffBlowingUp the exploding warships]] in ''Film/PearlHarbor'', getting so excited by the action... that he forgets he's cheering on the Japanese bombers blowing up fellow Americans. |
| 500 | -->'''Narrator:''' Dammit Creator/MichaelBay, why'd you make that look so cool? |
| 501 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: |
| 502 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheSantaClause1'' attributes its title to why some people can't spell "Santa Claus". |
| 503 | ** A more literal example is at the beginning of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/RogueOne'', which opened with a bunch of people in the comments asking for "Rouge One". |
| 504 | --->'''Narrator:''' Guys, you've seriously gotta learn how to spell "rogue". |
| 505 | * RuleOfCool: In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', they point out their disbelief at how ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk could suddenly and inexplicably control his rage, "which doesn't matter, because that shot[[note]]The Hulk punching a flying monster[[/note]] was ''awesome''." |
| 506 | * RunningGag: [[invoked]] |
| 507 | ** "[[Film/{{Twilight}} STARES]]." Also made into an OverlyLongGag set to very EPIC music. Done for X-Men and Godzilla, too! |
| 508 | ** "...[[DistractedByTheSexy Bewbs!]]" / "...[[EatingTheEyeCandy Abs!]]" / "...[[NakedPeopleAreFunny Tush!]]" / "...And [[CensorBox pixellated]] Bahls!" |
| 509 | ** Shots of characters looking strained from a test of strength will be dubbed: "(Character) pooping." |
| 510 | ** Any trailer involving an animated movie will have silly parodies of the songs, with the obligatory love song changed to [[IntercourseWithYou a song about "porking."]] |
| 511 | ** The constant Bonnie jumpscares in the VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys video. As well as at the end, the narrator is relieved that at least there are no sequels, only for the sequel title to appear. At the end of the Honest Game Trailer for ''Five Nights At Freddy's 2'', the exact same joke is done only to reveal ''Five Nights At Freddys 3''. |
| 512 | ** The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' trailers will at least have one Pokemon being called "[[Music/AliciaKeys This (Creature) is on Fire!]]" [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything And at least two get renamed as]] [[AssShove sex toys]]. |
| 513 | ** "And leave a comment with a word you'd like to hear me say in my awesome voice." |
| 514 | ** "What a coincidence!" In the ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' crossover video "Everything Wrong with ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''", everytime characters meet up or something happens conveniently to the plot. |
| 515 | ** The narrator reading lines that shower [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar]] [[EthnicScrappy Binks]] or Creator/MNightShyamalan with praise despite the fact that both of them have been heavily mocked in Honest Trailers. |
| 516 | ** Any time there's a mention of ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', it's accompanied by the talking velociraptor dream sequence clip. And if ''any'' part of the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise gets mentioned, chances are they'll find an excuse to work the conversation around to ''Jurassic Park III''. |
| 517 | *** Taken to its logical conclusion in the actual Honest Trailer for ''Jurassic Park III'', which not only uses the clip as a scene transition throughout, it also includes the scene in the "Starring" part, nicknames Alan Grant "Alan!" in reference to it, and nicknames the movie ''[The One where [[OverlyLongGag a Dinosaur Says 'Alan']]''. |
| 518 | *** Following the aforementioned ''Jurassic Park III'' Honest Trailer, a few subsequent trailers have a raptor randomly appear as a random visual gag (e.g. as a possible player avatar in ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne'', and a Thanos snap victim in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''). |
| 519 | ** Whenever a movie is made by one of Creator/{{Disney}}'s subsidiaries, such as Creator/TouchstonePictures or [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] (for movies made or released before it was purchased by Disney and changed its name to "20th Century Studios"), the narrator will simply refer to them as "Disney". |
| 520 | *** As of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', the gag has been extended to Creator/WarnerBros, which is referred to as "AT&T" in reference to them buying Warner Bros. mother company, [=WarnerMedia=]. |
| 521 | ** In the Honest Trailer for ''Series/TedLasso'', whenever he makes fun of the titular character, it cuts to him looking sad, causing Epic Voice Guy to panic and apologize. |
| 522 | ** Any time a villain's {{evil plan}} is [[ComplexityAddiction overly convoluted]] or [[DidntThinkThisThrough poorly thought out]], the clip of [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Tony Stark saying "Not a great plan"]] is played. |
| 523 | * RussianReversal: |
| 524 | ** The Honest Trailer for ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' says it was "too nerdy for mainstream America, and too mainstream for nerdy America". |
| 525 | ** The Double Feature Honest Trailer for ''Film/PacificRimUprising'' and ''Film/TombRaider2018'' describes the latter as "the movie that was based on [[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 the video game]] that was trying to look like a movie" and the former as "the movie trying as hard as it can to look like a video game". |
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