Brutal Honesty: Difference between revisions

'''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.

* 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.