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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"The truth is like sunlight. People used to think it was good for you."''
|'''Nancy Gribble''', ''[[King of the Hill]]''}}
Since everybody in TV land spends all day [[Fawlty Towers Plot|desperately lying their way out of situations]], one of the more reliable gags is to create a situation where you'd imagine the characters would lie, and have them be perfectly honest and straightforward instead.
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Goku from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. Subtlety is [[No Social Skills|one of those things his grandfather forgot to teach him]].
* Luffy from ''[[One Piece]]'' seems to do this deliberately. Zoro and usually Sanji tend to follow suit.
* Ichigo from the [[Please Teacher!|Onegai]]/[[
* [[Inuyasha]]
* In ''[[K-On!]]'', Yui watches the light music club's first performance and tells them outright that they aren't very good.
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'''s Haruhi is usually a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and sometimes it's because of this. Often times she's just stating the honest truth without realizing it might actually hurt someone's feelings.
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* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''▼
** Calvin is caught by his visiting uncle while going through his luggage, and responds to the incredulous resultant question with "[I'm] going through your luggage. What's it look like?"▼
** Similarly, when his mother catches him pounding nails into the coffee table in the living room with a "What on earth are you doing?!", there's a [[Beat Panel]] before he says, "... Is this a trick question?"▼
* ''[[Dilbert]]''▼
{{quote|'''Dilbert''': Your plan looks like it was written by a drunken lemur as a practical joke on other drunken lemurs.}}▼
▲* [[New Mutants|New X-Men]]: When questioned by Surge concerning what happened to her boyfriend David during a demonic attack on the X-Mansion, most of the team made evasive and inconsistent references to minor injuries. [[X-23]] provided a detailed report on how the demon lord Belasco ripped his heart out through his chest and noted that [[Healing Hands|Elixir]] restored it before anoxia-induced brain damage could have happened.
== Fan Works ==
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'''Apple Bloom:''' Because I don't like you.
'''Trixie:''' *[[Wild Take]]* ''[[Angrish|...ARGH!!]]'' }}
* In the ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' fanfic ''[[Weekend at Hisao's
* In Jeconais' ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[White Knight, Grey Queen]]'', Harry is so used to being lied to and manipulated "for his own good" that when the Parkinsons say, basically, "here's our motives, here's our resources, here's what we want to do for and with you, let us know if you want to work with us", it all but bowls him over with its novelty and openness. It's a family trait of the Parkinsons, who call it "bluntness", and elsewhere in the story someone notes that they could almost use it as a weapon.
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* Used in ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''. When Sam asks Flint if he can [[Secret Keeper|keep a secret]], he immediately answers, "No."
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Waterworld]]'' likes children when he's asking for someone's opinion, since they tell the truth rather than what they think you want to hear.
** Notably, a couple entries in the [[Evil Overlord List]] run off of the same principle.
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'''Ax:''' Yes. Also, that the fact that this mission involves your mother will damage your judgement and cause you to make unwise decisions that might result in all of our deaths. }}
* Wallace Wallace of ''[[No More Dead Dogs]]'' practices this due to the fact that his father told him about fighting in the Vietnam, making his son very proud of him. Wallace is disappointed to find out that his father was lying about the whole thing (he was too young to have even been in the army during the Vietnam conflict.) His incredibly harsh but entirely honest book report on "[[Death by Newbery Medal|Old Shep,]] [[Cliché Storm|My Pal]]" leads to his English teacher (who's directing the school play of the book) to believe that he never read it.
* In ''My Fair Godmother
* Scott Adams endorses this trope as a quick, reliable way to make a situation funny in ''[[Dilbert|The Joy of Work]]''.
* Luna Lovegood of ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' is known for being painfully honest at times. Slightly averted when no one really minds because the things she says about others aren't very critical, and she reacts with a confused stare instead of an argument when people disagree with her. And then subverted when her Brutal Honesty starts causing discomfort in Harry because she's honest about [[Iron Woobie|her own life]], namely that everyone considers her crazy and picks on her, and she doesn't have any friends.
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* Hiromu Sakurada, the [[Rookie Red Ranger]] of ''[[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]]'', tends to be blunt to the point of rudeness primarily because he trained alone; [[Closer to Earth]] [[Robot Buddy]] Nick does his best to get Hiromu to curb this habit.
* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' pilot, the team (sans Gwen) is testing the Resurrection Glove (AKA Risen Mitten) on a murder victim (they're only interested in the glove, not the murder). This time, they choose to go with this approach when the man asks what's going on. After he dies again (permanently, this time), they mention that last time they tried to tell the guy he was injured, only for him to keep screaming for an ambulance. They actually get some results via Brutal Honesty.
* The very first scene in ''[[The Newsroom]]'' has an [[Establishing Character Moment]] for Will, when he is asked by a very aggressive reporter why America is the greatest nation in the world. At first he tries to dodge the question, but eventually, he decides to go for broke, launching into a dramatic three-minute speech about how America is ''not'' in any way as great as everyone claims it is, pointing out its -- rather pathetic -- accomplishments and a lot of its most dismal failures, ending the speech with the optimistic and plot-defining words, "It's not, but it could be."
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''
▲** Calvin is caught by his visiting uncle while going through his luggage, and responds to the incredulous resultant question with "[I'm] going through your luggage. What's it look like?"
▲** Similarly, when his mother catches him pounding nails into the coffee table in the living room with a "What on earth are you doing?!", there's a [[Beat Panel]] before he says, "... Is this a trick question?"
▲* ''[[Dilbert]]''
▲{{quote|'''Dilbert''': Your plan looks like it was written by a drunken lemur as a practical joke on other drunken lemurs.}}
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* One of the reasons [[Rance]] is a [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] despite being a [[Sociopathic Hero]] rapist is that he's an ''honest'' [[Sociopathic Hero]] rapist.
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Hideaki is quite brutally honest, such as when he alludes to Akira putting her and Lilly's tickets through the wash.
* A defining trait of oni in ''[[Touhou Project]]'' is their high standards for honesty, to the point that it's believed they [[Can Not Tell a Lie]]. They also have a reputation for rudeness because, among other things, they're often very blunt and have a knack for finding out what people don't want to hear and saying it to their faces.
* ''[[The Unfair Platformer]]''; the early 2000s saw a lot of [[Platform Hell]] Indy games, but at least this one was honest about it.
== Web Comics ==
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* [[Daffy Duck]] in ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''. This drives everyone crazy except for Foghorn Leghorn, who sees him as an [[Honest Advisor]].
* Commander Feral in ''[[Swat Kats]]''. Diplomacy is ''not'' his strong suit.
* From the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode "You Said a Mouseful", the Brain notices a flaw in his latest plan:
{{quote|'''Brain:''' Actually, Pinky, in your naivete, you’ve stumbled upon a slight snafu. The only way the Axis Shift-a-Tron can successfully change the Earth’s axis is if the Earth suddenly loses weight.
'''Pinky:''' What if everyone in the world went on a diet?
''(Brain gives Pinky a snarky aside glance.)''
'''Brain:''' [[Discussed Trope| Diets don’t work.]]
'''Pinky:''' Even if you call them a “whole new way of eating”?
'''Brain:''' No.}}
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTWz7nu_wk Big Bill Hell's], originally produced for a faux award show called ''The Ad Follies'', runs on this trope.
{{quote|"It's our belief that you're such a stupid motherfucker, you'll fall for this bullshit. Guaranteed!"}}
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Character Flaw Index]]▼
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:Insult Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Character Flaw Index]]
[[Category:Stock Aesops]]
[[Category:Truth and Lies]]
▲[[Category:Brutal Honesty]]
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