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  • Sacred Cow: invoked In the Honest Trailer for The Lion King (2019), after the narrator talks about Beyoncé's performance as Nala, the narrator follows up with a little disclaimer:
    Narrator: The important thing to remember is that these are just observations about Beyoncé combined with some light wordplay. They are not, I repeat not, jokes at her expense. I value my family's safety and I am saying this of my own free will.
    [sound of "the Beyhive" buzzing growing louder and louder]
    Narrator: Oh jeez, they're here!
  • Sand In My Eyes:
    • At the end of Home Alone, when Old Man Marley is reunited with his estranged son, and finally meets his granddaughter.
      Narrator: This scene always gets to me. [sniffles] I'm not crying! You're crying!
    • During Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the narrator starts tearing up during the T-800's Heroic Sacrifice.
      Narrator: What? No, I'm not crying! Why would I be crying? It's just a dumb, stupid action movie. Stop looking at me!
  • Saved from Development Hell: invoked The Honest Trailer for Halo (2022) describes how it's taken so long for an adaptation of the game series to get off the ground, and reflects on how the series creator has messed up past adaptations:
    Narrator: Microsoft tried for decades to bring Halo to Hollywood, but after bailing on movies from great directors,note  bailing on shows from the best producers,note  and bailing on showrunners who even looked at the game, they'll bail on even trying to direct the game's storyline for the studio that bailed on Terminator, The Turtles and Transformers. Oh, and MTV. And Avatar. Man, Paramount is just dangling from Tom Cruise's giant nuts.
  • Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: At the start of the trailer for Batman Forever, the Narrator calls the movie "definitely the worst movie [he] has seen 30 times''.
  • Scenery Porn:
    • Skyfall is criticized for its absurdly long landscape shots.
    • Also, The Lord of the Rings movies are described as an eleven hour New Zealand tourism commercial.
    • The Revenant gets poked for its many, many shots of the sky:
      Narrator: Yep, that's the sky. Yep, it's still the sky. Oh look, there's the sky again. Sky's not going anywhere. Another sky shot, oh goody. Did they just put the camera down and forget it was rolling? Aaaaaand... sky.
      [later, when another sky shot appears]
      Narrator: Yes, thank you. We know the sky is still there.
  • The Scrappy: invoked
    • Subverted when talking about Skyler White in Breaking Bad, with it being noted that while Skyler is initially annoying, she quickly becomes very sympathetic once Walt starts to degenerate into a terrifying and emotionally abusive sociopath.
      Epic Voice Guy: (on Skyler White) ...who at first you wish would just go away, then later will wish she could just get away, since she's married to a complete sociopath. [shows clips of Walt being hostile to Skyler to demonstrate his point, including his "I am the danger!" scene]
    • In Entourage, E is "a snarky know-it-all who's the least fun part of every episode".
    • The Honest Trailer for Return of the Jedi notes how the Ewoks filled this role in the franchise before Jar-Jar Binks came along, due to being disliked by fans for being able to take down the much more advanced Empire forces and getting two bad spinoff movies, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.note 
  • Scrappy Mechanic: invoked
    • The Honest Game Trailer for Mighty No. 9 describes the absorption dash as this because it encourages players to speed through levels even though the level design and enemy placement doesn't really permit this.
    • The Batmobile in Batman: Arkham Knight for being cool at first, but eventually becoming tedious.
    • While the Honest Trailer for Injustice 2 praises it for its story and gameplay, the game is criticized for taking a few pages out of free to play games' book by introducing microtransactions to pay for cosmetic features, four different types of in-game currency and a levelling system that encourages playing for a long time and grinding for drops.
    • The Honest Game Trailer for Crash Bandicoot describes the sections where the player has to run towards the camera, often resulting in them falling off a barely visible edge, as "Why Would You Do This" mode.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Combined with a Rage Quit in the Honest Trailer of After Earth; the narrator leaves towards the end after realizing how many terrible Plot Holes the movie has.
    Narrator: Look, I gotta get outta here. It's just not worth it. You guys don't have to pay me for this one, just call me next week for Walking Dead. [drives off]
  • Seasonal Rot: invoked
    • The Honest Trailer for Resident Evilnote  opens with a note on the franchise's transition from serious Survival Horror games into ones with more tongue in cheek humor:
      Narrator: ...[t]he franchise that defined survival horror, [shot of Chris Redfield sitting on a mechanical panda] then turned into a comedy!
    • While the Honest Trailer for X-Men: The Animated Series describes it as one of the best superhero series ever, it points out how the animation quality took a dive during the second half of the fifth season, when production was moved to the Philippines.
      Narrator: Yeesh! Don't get any ideas, Singer!
    • Brought up (perhaps inevitably) in the Honest Trailer for Game of Thrones Vol. 3 (covering Seasons 6-8):
      Narrator: ...[w]here, after one mixed season that still pulled off some major highs, the last two shortened ones scrambled to tie everything up real quick, because the showrunners either got invokedbored, burned out or bitter that no-one liked their slavery ideanote . Featuring huge revelations that never really pay off, relationships that took years to develop turning on a dime, and characters that straight up forgot their best friends, or forgot their magic shapeshifting powers, or forgot who they're at war with.
    • The Honest Trailer for The Simpsons Movie opens with a Take That! at the declining quality of the TV show:
      Narrator: After 20 seasons of TV, and 8 actually good seasons of TV...
  • Self-Deprecation:
  • Sequelitis: invoked
  • Sequel Number Snarl: The Honest Trailer for Halloween (1978) has the narrator struggling to sum up the franchise's odd chronology:
    Narrator: Before you see Halloween, the sequel to the original Halloween, but not Halloween II (1981) and definitely not this other movie called Halloween II. Okay, wait, let me start over. Before you see the third Halloween II - that's right, isn't it? - be sure to revisit the first one; not the new one (the 2018 movie), and not the other movie called Halloween. Ugh, boy, this franchise is a mess.
  • Sequel Reset: The Honest Trailer for Incredibles 2 criticizes the movie for playing this trope completely straight. At the end of the first film, the Parrs had learned to fight crime together like a family, and the public loved superheroes again because of their actions, but at the start of this movie (which In-Universe is set only mere minutes after the end of the previous one) all of that has been forgotten and undone.
  • Serial Numbers Filed Off: invoked When the movie they're making an Honest Trailers shows similar plot to another movie.
    • Inception is "a supposedly original film that's actually just The Matrix, except with creepier extras, and unclear rules [of physics]."
    • Skyfall is shown to be another big offender.
      • The plot — that Raoul Silva has stolen a harddrive with a list of secret agents, "which the writer stole from the plot of Mission: Impossible."
      • The finale at the Skyfall estate, "an ending so goofy, they just ripped it off from Home Alone." Cue a montage of the Skyfall booby trap sequence. In the montage, clips from the second Home Alone movie of Harry setting his head on fire are spliced in.
    • Subverted with Guardians of the Galaxy:
      Narrator: What I'm trying to say is: they're the Space Avengers. But I guess it's technically not stealing if they're ripping off themselves.
    • The Honest Game Trailer for Banjo-Kazooie points out the game's many similarities to Super Mario 64:
      Narrator: A hero saving a young girl who was kidnapped by an evil green monster, butt slamming, levels that you return to several times to collect shiny gold things, a Hub World full of doors to new levels that require a certain amount of shiny gold things to unlock, and a final boss that hides at the top of a castle. [Beat] Okay, it basically is Super Mario 64.
    • The Honest Game Trailer for Bloodborne points out the game's obvious similarities to the gameplay of Dark Souls:
      Narrator: Suffer through another brutal action RPG that's as brutal as Dark Souls, because it basically is Dark Souls, but isn't called Dark Souls to trick people who hate Dark Souls into trying out Dark Souls.
    • The Honest Trailer for Big Hero 6 points out how similar it is to films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
      Narrator: Prepare for a movie based on a Marvel comic you had no idea existed, that Disney removed all the Marvel branding for, and didn't tie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite the fact that it has a team of quippy heroes going up against a forgettable villain with a vague plan in a final battle with a sky-based doomsday device made by disposable robots, and an after-credits scene with Stan Lee. Come on, this is the Marvel-iest non-Marvel movie ever!
    • The Honest Game Trailer for The Last Guardian points out some obvious similarities to another game from the same series:
      Narrator: Slip on the tunic of a nameless fantasy boy, cast into an ancient ruin for no apparent reason, where he'll make friends with the magical creature trapped inside, free it from bondage and escort it through the castle, solving elaborate puzzles and escaping the mysterious shadow creatures that pursue them. Wait a minute... They made ICO again, didn't they?
    • The Honest Trailer for Tattletail points out how it's basically the same as the Five Nights at Freddy's games:
      Narrator: [...] yet another incredibly short indie game, with sinister, childlike environments, toys that are secretly murder machines, five nights worth of story, and non-stop jump scares, in a horror experience that did the impossible: made Five Nights At Freddy's look polished and original.
    • The Honest Trailer for Doctor Strange (2016) points out the many similarities to Iron Man:
      Narrator: [T]he heroic origins of a cocky, but capable, super rich, wisecracking, workaholic with a weird goatee, in love with a red-headed subordinate, learning to be less selfish, played by a famous Sherlock Holmes actor. It's just like Iron Man! But... actually that's it; it's pretty much exactly like Iron Man.
    • The Honest Game Trailer for Horizon Zero Dawn points out the gameplay's similarities to that of the most recent Tomb Raider games:
      Narrator: ...[a]s she explores a vast wilderness of map icons, uncovering ancient ruins, artificial monstrosities, mountains with conveniently placed hand-holds, the best version of Ubisoft towers you've ever seen, and killing wave after wave of dudes with just a bow. Wait a second, this feels awfully familiar... Oh, it's sci-fi Tomb Raider! Glad we cleared that up.
    • The Honest Trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon opens by spelling out the movie's similarities to Avatar: The Last Airbender, both in its universe and central plot, with a rewrite of the "Water, earth, fire, air..." opening of Avatar:
      Narrator: Fang, heart, spine, talon, and tail. Long ago, the five lands lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Druun nation attacked. Only the dragons could stop them. But when the world needed them most, they vanished. 500 years passed, and Raya discovered the last dragon, a water dragon named Sisu. And although her magic skills are great, she has a lot to learn before she's ready to save anyone. But Raya believes Sisu can save the world.
      [title card]
      Narrator: Rayatar: The Last Airdragon- Eh, Avatar- I mean, Raya and the Last Dragon.
    • The Honest Trailer for Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire lays out how much the movie based itself on Star Wars and works that influenced it:
      Narrator: Zack Snyder always dreamed of making a Star War, but when Lucasfilm said "that sounds terrible, and we made Rise of Skywalker", Zack was finally free to tell his own story, where a humble farmboy from the outer rim of the galaxy joins up with a smuggler and a royal knight hiding in exile who once served as a princess' bodyguard to fight an empire ruled by an upstart senator, complete with laser swords, alien cantinas and polite English robots. Calling it now: in Part Two, they will reveal that the hero's father is not only still alive, but serves as the leader of the Empir-
      Regent Balisarius: My daughter, Arthelais...
      Narrator: Or why wait? Original trilogy speedrun, let's go!
      Narrator: Prepare for more than just Snyder copying George Lucas, he's also copying from the guy Lucas copied from. Featuring the exact plot of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, a film about recruiting skilled fighters to save a village from grain-stealing bandits, only this time, they're recruiting skilled fighters to save them from a grain-stealing... spaceship?
  • Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: During the The Divergent Series: Insurgent Honest Trailer, the narrator gets sick of the franchise's use of "SAT words" like Abdegnation and Erudite:
    Narrator: I'm frustrated by the bounteous measure of inorderly and circuitous vernacular in this cinematic offering! [Beat] See? I have a thesaurus too!
  • Series Continuity Error: The trailer for Dark Phoenix points out how it doesn't even try to maintain continuity with the previous movies in the series, to the point that you could watch it as a standalone movie.
  • Servile Snarker: The trailer for Batman: The Animated Series refers to Alfred as the "butler of Batman, but king of sick burns." Likewise with the trailer for Batman Returns, where he's credited as "Who Needs a Catwoman When You've Got Yourself a Catty Man?" followed by most of his snarks from the movie.
  • Sexposition: Game of Thrones is described as "A show with so many monologues, HBO will desperately try to keep your attention by any... boobs... necessary."
  • Shaped Like Itself:
  • The Shelf of Movie Languishment: invoked
  • Shoot the Money: invoked The Honest Trailer for The Lost World: Jurassic Park points out how often it makes use of T. Rex models:
    Narrator: ...[w]ith more deaths, more dangling vehicles and more giant practical T. rex heads passing next to things, pushing into things, and moving behind things. Because those heads cost a ton, and Spielberg's gonna get his money's worth, dammit!
  • Shot-for-Shot Remake:
  • Shotoclone: The Street Fighter trailer, in its "Starring" part, features Ryu... and Also Ryu (Ken), Girl Ryu (Sakura), Joke Ryu (Dan), Evil Ryu (Akuma), and, uh... Eviler Ryu.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Show, Don't Tell: The Honest Trailer for The Kissing Booth and The Kissing Booth 2 complains how Ellie's internal monologue keeps popping up "like a Netflix version of Clippy" instead of conveying it through the actual movie:
    Ellie: [voiceover] You obviously couldn't see this, but my heart just did a backflip.
    Narrator: Yeah, that's what the acting is for!
    [...]
    Narrator: Look, if I'd wanted to listen to this crap, I'd buy the audio book.
  • Shown Their Work:
    • The Pearl Harbor Honest Trailer lists several actual heroes of the attack under "Not Starring," including Kenneth Taylor and George Welch, who really took off and shot down Japanese planes.
    • The Honest Trailer for Point Break (1991) notes how it accurately uses surfer lingo.
    • invoked As a counter-argument for fan hatred of the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi because they are able to put up a good fight against the more advanced Empire, the Honest Trailer lists several real-life wars where similarly poorly armed and smaller forces won, such as The Vietnam War and The American Revolution.
    • For Moana, they dug up a Tokelauian speaker. Just for a cheap gag.note 
  • Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: invoked The Honest Game Trailer for Final Fantasy XV remarks on how much play time will probably be spent doing sidequests and other side activities like fishing, gathering recipes and roaming and even describes them as the most enjoyable part of the game.
  • Signature Style:
    • The Honest Trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street points out some of director Martin Scorsese's recurring techniques that appear in it, such as tracking shots, voiceovers and freeze frame shots.
    • The Honest Trailer for Gone Girl lists the various "trademark Fincher-isms" featured in the movie:
      Narrator: ...[l]ike smooth camera pans, a cool color palette, a dank abandoned building, nihilism, sociopaths, low-lit interiors, ambient music, haze, and general fucked up-edness.
    • The Honest Trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) points out how the movie, even though Michael Bay is just producing it and not directing it, still has many of his hallmarks, such as things going "BOOOOOOM", Megan Fox, fart jokes, spinning camera shots and a ton of Product Placement.
    • The Honest Trailer for "Every Wes Anderson Movie" lists many of his visual and story signatures, which are so many and create such a distinctive style the movies are practically their own genre. They include overhead shots of objects, conspicuous zooms, whip pan shots, the Futura font, characters getting punched in the face and/or suffering facial wounds and characters with weird names.
    • The Honest Trailer for "Every Christopher Nolan Movie" describes some of his signature techniques, such as non-linear stories, blue-tinted filter, innovative camerawork, plot twists pulled off with varying degrees of success and loud orchestral scores.
  • Similarly Named Works: invoked The Honest Trailer for The Room (2003) urges viewers not to confuse it with Room. "Veeery different".
  • Single Tear: The Spider-Man Trilogy trailer contains a montage of Peter Parker doing these.
  • Skewed Priorities:
    • From Les Misérables (2012):
      • In the beginning part:
        Meet the spirit of human redemption, Jean Valjean
        A paroled thief now on the run under an assumed identity
        For reasons never made clear in the entire movie

        Who must face off against Inspector Javert
        An officer with such terrible priorities
        He'll put the entire city of Paris on lockdown
        To stop a man who already served his time
      • And:
        Leaving Valjean to now care for Cosette
        [Fantine's] precocious child who is scared of the dark
        But is totally cool letting some stranger
        drag her around the city
      • Then finally, a two-in-one hit:
        Now at the dawn of revolution
        One young man will give up everything
        invokedFor a woman he's met through a fence
        Prompting a heartbreaking romance we know nothing about
        Because the entire subplot is glossed over
        To make room for countless scenes of Borat
    • From Game of Thrones
      Narrator: Watch as everyone fights to sit on the world's most uncomfortable chair, while completely ignoring an invasion of ice zombies that threatens to kill them all.
    • The Honest Trailer for Hobbs & Shaw points out how no-one in the movie seems to take the whole "save the world" mission seriously, and calls out Hobbs for saying he doesn't like Shaw because of "his voice" and not the fact that he killed several people in Fast & Furious 6, including Han.
    • The Honest Trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy calls out the movie for cutting Pepé Le Pew because the character has come to be considered problematic while still including outrightly evil characters as extras in the movie, such as Pennywise the Clown from It (2017) and "Baby" Jane from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.
  • Slasher Smile:
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Their description of The Master/Missy in the Honest Trailer for Doctor Who (Modern):
    Narrator: [...]The Master, a renegade Time Lord who consider themselves the Doctor's archnemesis, but is in the middle of this list, so you do the math.
  • Small Reference Pools:
    • The Honest Trailer for Squid Game suggests that American viewers will most likely see it as a mix of Parasite and Fortnite due to that being the only experience they have of Korean cinema and battle royales.
    • The Honest Trailer for RRR remarks on how little experience the average American viewer probably has of Indian cinema, besides the occasional GIF and SlumdogMillionaire.
  • Something Something Leonard Bernstein:
    • Calls Frozen's Fixer-Upper as "The One You Don't Know the Words To"
      So he's a bit of a Fixer-Upper
      ?????????
      Something something
      Something something
      Little bit of love!
    • Again for the Zulu chorus in The Lion King (1994)'s "Circle of Life":
      I———— don't know what the words really are
      (It's okay) (We'll make them up!)
      No one knows what-a we are a-singing
      But it's fun to sing it anyway-a!
  • So Okay, It's Average: invoked
  • Song Parody: Every time there's an episode about a movie that prominently includes either one or several songs (such as movies from the Disney Animated Canon), parodies of those songs are featured in the episode.
  • Sound-Effect Bleep: Out of fear of YouTube's demonetization policies, every use of "fuck," "shit," and "asshole" will be censored when any use of the words are made in each Honest Trailer that is produced. note 
    • This has resulted in jarring instances when said words are used concurrently with less offending forms of profanity that are usually left uncensored, sometimes when trying to prove a point regarding certain movies. Like how the narrator summed up Steve Rogers' portrayal in Captain America: The Winter Soldier by stating:
      Narrator: Holy sh*t! Who knew Captain America kicked so much ass?
    • Or how the montage of clips of Rogers swearing in the Honest Trailer for Avengers: Endgame had the "you've gotta be shitting me." line be the only one of the expletives represented to be censored.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance:
    • The Honest Trailer for the X-Men Trilogy features a montage of mutants causing destruction set to upbeat orchestra music.
    • The Honest Trailer for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen shows a montage of the many "BEWMS" in the movie, making them hilarious by adding the song "Stars and Stripes Forever."
    • The Honest Trailer for The Lost World: Jurassic Park adds a "Yakety Sax"-like tune, goofy sound effects and a laugh track to the scenes where Malcolm and the others are chased by raptors in a sequence described as Jurassic Benny Hill.
    • The Honest Trailer for Hulk makes fun of its bizarre scene transitions by showing them in a montage with circus-like music.
    • The Honest Trailer for The Revenant describes the more violent scenes as "so over the top it's one music change from being Jackass", showing some of the scenes set to "Corona" by Minutemen (the theme song of Jackass) and with clips of the Jackass guys laughing their asses off.
    • The Honest Trailer for The Bourne Series sets one of the series' fight scenes to polka music while discussing the shaky camera work.
    • After the Honest Trailer for La La Land turns into an Honest Trailer for Moonlight (2016), the narrator realizes that all they have left of the video is a song from the former, resulting in the bittersweet, emotional plot of Moonlight being retold to the chipper, upbeat tune of La La Land's "Another Day of Sun".
    • The Honest Trailer for The Secret Life of Pets shows a montage of some pretty violent scenes in the movie that are supposed to be comedic, but makes them pretty damn scary by setting them to dark, "Psycho" Strings-like music.
    • The Honest Retro TV Themes special (made in anticipation of the 2017 Emmy Awards) takes the fairly somber TV shows Stranger Things, This Is Us, and The Handmaid's Tale and gives them new, 80s and 90s style, hilariously inappropriately upbeat theme songs: to Stranger Things one based on the theme song of Perfect Strangers, to This Is Us one based on the theme song of Cheers, and to The Handmaid's Tale one based on "I Don't Want To Wait", the theme song of Dawson's Creek (performed by Paula Cole, the original performer of "I Don't Want To Wait"). Game of Thrones also got a new theme song, though that one is more "80s style" epic.
    • The Honest Trailer for mother! (2017) shows a montage of the most bizarre, violent scenes of the film ("everything goes coo-coo bananas nuts and cray") set to an upbeat song that sounds similar to "Yakety Sax".
    • The Honest Trailer for Predator does this twice:
      • First, when they describe Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as "a jacked-up, badass, cigar-chomping Kevin McAllister", playing an upbeat, rock version of "Twelve Days of Christmas" while showing scenes of Kevin's traps in Home Alone next to scenes of the traps Dutch used against the Predator.
      • Second, in the "Starring" part, they include the movie's credits, which was composed of shots of the characters addressing the camera and "made the movie look like a 90s Sitcom", replacing the original music with a Suspiciously Similar Song to "I'll Be There For You".
    • When the Honest Trailer for The Shining lists the many things it did different from modern horror movies, it adds an eerie rendition of "Let It Snow" to scenes of the movie, suggesting that's what the trailers would have been like if it had been marketed today.
    • During the Honest Trailer for The Kissing Booth and The Kissing Booth 2:
      • In one bit, we are shown a montage of Elle and Lee's many friendship rules, with the music gradually changing from a light and breezy one to a creepier, more sinister one.
      • Another, more incidental bit is when the Honest Trailer shows some of Noah's violent and controlling behavior while the video still has the same upbeat music.
    • The Honest Trailer for Scream shows a montage of Ghostface attacking people and either being given the slip or getting injured when they fight back, made comical thanks to the added goofy soundtrack.
  • Speaking Simlish: The Narrator points this out in The Sims:
    Narrator: Create your own story as your Sims babble away in incomprehensible Simlish...
    Male Sim: [question in Simlish]
    Female Sim: [agreement in Simlish]
    Narrator: ...a ridiculous fake language like Klingon or Swedish.
    PewDiePie: [angry Swedish cursing]
  • Spin-Off:
  • Special Effect Failure: invoked
  • Spiritual Successor: invoked Brought up in the Fantastic Four (2005) trailer:
    Narrator: And don't tell me it's impossible to make a good Fantastic Four movie. It's called The Incredibles, and it's perfect.
  • Spoiler:
    • The series openly discusses spoilers, since the videos are released after the film in question is available on home media. Honest Trailers revealing major plot twists or developments will usually begin with the disclaimer "The following trailer is rated "S" for spoilers".
    • Game of Thrones has a spoiler-free version where potentially spoilery content (even those from the first episode!) was either blurred or bleeped. This includes every mention of dragons.
    • The Honest Trailer for Terminator Genisys opens with the usual disclaimer, also chiding the movie's real trailer for not showing that kind of discretion by giving away "the only cool part in the entire movie", that John Connor becomes a Terminator.
    • The Honest Trailer for Split comes with the standard spoiler warning in the opening. Later, as it's about to reveal that the movie is a Stealth Sequel to Unbreakable, it stops, gives a warning that it's about to reveal something major and then gives viewers a few seconds to turn quit watching, showing footage of the trees from The Happening.
    • The Honest Trailer for Predator repeatedly complains about how the very first scene of the film already gives away that the enemy the soldiers have to face is an alien, thus killing a lot of the suspense.
  • Spoof Aesop: Describes Frozen as a movie that "teaches girls everywhere they don't need a prince to rescue them, because all men are disgusting loners [shows Kristoff], greedy murderers [shows The Duke of Weselton], or lying, manipulative, power-hungry sociopaths [shows Prince Hans]".
    Narrator: Happy now, Jezebel?
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad:
    • The Honest Trailer for Les Misérables (2012) suggests that it gives way too much screentime to Sacha Baron Cohen as Monsieur Thénardier in favor of the romantic subplot between Marius and Cosette and scenes with the more interesting Éponine.
    • The X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer considers Wolverine this for the whole X-Men film series, in detriment to most other characters.
      Narrator: In a world full of other cool X-Men, meet... Wolverine, for the seventh f*cking time.
    • The Pirates of the Caribbean trailer renames the series Jack Sparrow of the Caribbean (And Some Other Pirates).
    • The Honest Trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) describes it as "April O'Neil: The Movie" because of how much attention she gets compared to the actual Turtles.
    • The Honest Trailer for Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 points out how the Minions progressively have become the focus of the franchise; going from just getting some funny moments in the first film, to having a whole B-plot in the sequel, to getting their own spinoff movie, to inspiring an endless parade of memes that really have nothing to do with them.
    • The Honest Trailer for The Fate of the Furious describes Hobbes (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard (Jason Statham) and their buddy cop moments as this, noting how they appear together in "every cool scene in the movie" while the rest of the cast gets sidelined.
    • The Honest Trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home suggests that Tony Stark is this in the movie because his death continues to motivate Peter and Mysterio's origin story here is directly connected to him; made more glaring by the fact that Tony died in the previous movie.
  • Stalker with a Crush: The Attack of the Clones trailer calls Anakin a "a rat-tailed ***hole who's been creepily stalking Padme for the last decade". Cue montage of Anakin's love declarations throughout the movie with dissonant horror movie music added in.
    Padme: Please don't look at me like that.
    Anakin: Why not?
    Padme: It makes me feel uncomfortable.
    Anakin: [smirking] Sorry milady. [stares at her leaving for an uncomfortably long time]
    Narrator: Eyuugh.
  • Star-Derailing Role: invoked Credits Maria Pitillo in the Godzilla (1998) Honest Trailer as "Career Killer."
  • Star-Making Role: invoked
  • Start X to Stop X: From the National Treasure Honest Trailer:
    Narrator: When the Declaration of Independence is in danger...
    Ben Gates: Someone's gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.
    Narrator: One group will steal... the Declaration of Independence.
    Ben Gates: I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.
    Narrator: So that no one else can steal... the Declaration of Independence.
    Ben Gates: I'm not gonna let you steal the Declaration of Independence.
  • STD Immunity: From the Entourage Honest Trailer:
    Narrator: Meet Vinnie, a movie star with no talent, no charisma, and by some miracle, no herpes.
  • Stealth Insult:
  • Stillborn Franchise: invoked
  • Stock Footage:
    • The Honest Trailer for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace shows how it reuses "the same flying shots used over, and over, and over, and over again".
      Narrator: Seriously, these are all the same shot? You couldn't do one more take? That's... that's lazy, you guys.
    • The The Jungle Book (1967) trailer points out that the same animated shots are used multiple times in the same movie and that some of the shots were reused in later Disney movies.
    • The The Flash (2014) shows how some scenes of Barry running at superspeed were used in more than one episode.
  • The Stoner:
    • In the Resident Evil trailer, the narrator's voice briefly changes into this, after pointing out that the item that can heal the injuries received by the player characters is a green herb.
      Narrator: [in a Jamaican accent] Nothing a little Green Herb can't fix, am I right, mon? Hohohohoho!
    • During the Honest Trailer for Reefer Madness and The Big Lebowski, released on April 20 2021, the narrator is smoking a bong throughout the video.
  • Story to Gameplay Ratio:
    • Metal Gear gets jabbed for its long, long cutscenes and endless radio conversations.
    • Quantum Break, which consists of player-controlled third-person shooter gameplay which influences long, episode length episodes of a TV series that tell most of the story, is described as feeling like "taking breaks from playing Infamous to watch an episode of Fringe".
  • Strange Minds Think Alike: While the Epic Voice Guy (Jon Bailey) and Epic Voice Guy Sr. (Gannon Nickell) disagree on whether or not The Force Awakens is a good movie overall, they share the same favourite and least favourite moments. They have the same conversation about The Last Jedi and again share the same favorite and least favorite scenes.
  • Strangled by the Red String: invoked
    • The romantic subplot of Les Misérables (2012), as pointed out in the third example for Skewed Priorities above.
    • The Honest Trailer for The Hunger Games also claims Katniss and Peeta lack chemistry.
    • The Honest Trailer for Jungle Cruise complains more than once about Frank and Lily's lack of chemistry even though they become a romantic couple, while also pointing out Dwayne Johnson's better chemistry with other actors in the movie (as well as Frank's boat and animated pet jaguar).
  • Strictly Formula:
    • Every Sam Raimi Spider-Man film is narrated with the exact same plotline: "A story about Peter Parker struggling with his powers, breaking up with Mary Jane, and fighting a villain who ultimately kills himself."
      Narrator: Wait, did they just make the same movie three times in a row?
    • The Honest Trailer for Iron Man describes a formulaic trend that will dominate subsequent Marvel Cinematic Universe movies: "Take a half-forgotten, B-list superhero, cast an unknown or half-forgotten, B-list actor, have him fight a generic villain that will only last one movie, fall in love with a generically strong female character, make a ton of quips, talk a bunch of science, destroy some public property, cram Stan Lee in there somewhere, shoot a blue beam into the sky, set up an Avengers movie, and force the audience to sit through 500 visual effects guys' names just to catch a few extra seconds."
    • Finding Nemo gets jabbed for its use of Pixar's success formula:
      Narrator: [A]n emotionally jarring opening, a sentimental protagonist-wacky sidekick duo, and just enough poop jokes to entertain your kids while the heartwrenching story makes you reevaluate your entire adult life.
    • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is described as following the standard episode formula from the TV series:
      Narrator: ...[w]here Rita summons a monster, the Power Rangers fight their minions hand-to-hand, someone gets really big, and the Rangers morph into a Zord to save the day.
    • The Honest Trailers for the Fifty Shades of Grey follow a similar structure with similar jokes in addition to the usual Honest Trailer format. They all use the same parody of the cover of Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love" that was used in the series' real trailers, there is usually a joke about Christian's creepy, stalkerish demeanour, the "Starring" or "Not Starring" parts always consist of awful lines or scenes from the books or the movies, and the joke title always segues into the narrator bemoaning the fact that the movies exist and are huge cashcows despite being so bad.
    • The Honest Trailer for Incredibles 2 lampshades how pretty much every Pixar movie has a climax that involves a Chase Scene of some sort.
    • The Honest Trailer for WandaVision describes it as another reminder that, no matter how different and original a Marvel Cinematic Universe story might start out, it will usually feature a final battle with a skybeam and a fight where two animated figures fire special effect beams at each other.
    • The Honest Trailer for Black Widow (2021) suggests that the movie was written with the same basic plot as many other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies: keep important object X out of the hands of military leader Y by taking down massive airship Z.
      Narrator: I know Marvel's taking some risks here and there, but this one definitely sticks to the old plan.
  • Strong as They Need to Be:
    • In The Dark Knight, the Bat-Armor "can withstand falls from any height, but sucks against bullets."
    • Also, in Batman & Robin, "watch Academy Award winning ladies' man George Clooney invokedphone it in as Batman, a hero capable of performing impossible feats... except for moving his neck. Or body."
    • The Honest Trailer for Stranger Things points out how the Demigorgon switches back and forth between being an invincible, unkillable, lightning-fast predator, and a slow moving Gollum who gets beaten by a teen with a baseball bat.
    • The Honest Trailer for Aquaman (2018) points out Aquaman's powers are rather inconsistent throughout the movie, particularly in regards to his strength and invulnerability.
    • The Honest Trailer for Starship Troopers remarks on how the bugs can either take several bullets with barely a scratch or get ripped apart with just a few depending on what the story requires.
    • The Honest Trailer for National Treasure points out how Riley tends to know everything until a situation happens where it's funnier if he doesn't.
  • Stupid Crooks:
    • In Fast Five, "gear up to steal $100 million with the dumbest criminals ever as they: take off their masks during robberies, go for leisurely strolls while all of Rio's drug gangs are after them, and drag race cop cars they just stole down the middle of the streets."
    • In Baby Driver, Baby is "the Dane Cook of being a crook, whether he's using his criminal alias in public, wearing the same outfit before, during and after his heists, not wearing gloves or wiping down his prints, and making his own recorded evidence of criminal conspiracies".
  • Stupid Sexy Flanders:
    • Both narrators really wanted Katniss to choose Gale instead of Peeta.
      Gannon Nickell: I mean, I'm not gay, but I would totally s*ck Gale's d*ck!
      Jon Bailey: I would totally choose Gale... ah, I mean, if I were Katniss... ah, screw it! Gale is hot and I would make out with that face in a heartbeat!
    • Also, Poe Dameron, who both narrators agree has a beautiful face and that is a high point of the movie.
    • There's Aquaman, with the narrator arguing that his real superpower is "the smolder".
      Aquaman: Permission to come aboard?
      Narrator: Permission granted, sailor. Uh, I mean— is it hot in here? Whoo!
  • Superhero Movie Villains Die: The Honest Trailer for the Marvel Cinematic Universe complains how the few memorable villains that stand out among the usual bland bad guys of the franchise are all killed off.
  • Superman Stays Out of Gotham: The Iron Man 3 trailer proposes that the rest of the Avengers were absent due to budgetary reasons, and criticizes Tony for not calling any of his fellow Avengers to help him when he demanded that the Mandarin come attack him at his home. It concludes by saying that the film is "not starring" any of the other Avengers, Nick Fury, Selvig, Agents Coulson and Hill, "or even the Galaga guy."
  • Surprisingly Improved Sequel:invoked
    Narrator: You weren't that impressed with his first movie. He wasn't your favorite Avenger. Now, get ready for the sequel that made everyone say... "Holy sh*t! Who knew Captain America kicked so much ass?"
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: What happens during the Honest Game Trailer for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
    Narrator: [as Edward dives into a bale of hay] Surely this small amount of hay will cushion the impact—*CRACK* OH GOD, MY BONES!
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The Honest Trailer for The Suicide Squad jokes that Bloodsport (Idris Elba) has so many similarities to Will Smith's version of Deadshot from the previous movie, both being sharpshooters trying to get back to their daughters, that there may well be a copy of the script with Deadshot's name still in it.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:

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  • Unconvincingly Unpopular Character: invoked Cracks are made about Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man Series and Augustus in The Fault in Our Stars somehow being losers:
    "Peter Parker was just an attractive, intelligent, likable, athletic, well-dressed teenage loser."
    "There, she will meet Augustus Waters; a confident, 6'4", well-spoken, adorkable, polite, funny, star-athlete, philosopher poet with a six-pack."
  • Underage Casting: invoked
    • The Honest Trailer for The Mummy (2017) takes a dig at the movie for describing Tom Cruise's character as "a younger man" even though Cruise was in his mid-50s when the movie was made.
    • The Honest Trailer for Dark Phoenix points out that the movies' habit of skipping ahead a decade or two between entries has resulted in characters that would be in their 50s being played by much younger actors.
    • Similar to The Mummy above, the Nightmare Alley segment of the Honest Trailer for the 2021 Oscars remarks on how Bradley Cooper's character is called "boy" and meant to be a young man even though Cooper was in his 50s when the movie was made.
  • Unexplained Accent:
  • Unfortunate Implications: Invoked, as the trailers repeatedly point out this flaw in the movies they cover:
    • The trailer for Frozen says the movie "teaches girls that they don't need a prince to rescue them because all men are disgusting loners (Kristoff), greedy murderers (the Duke of Weselton), or lying, manipulative, power-hungry sociopaths (Prince Hans)."
    • The Honest Trailer for Inside Out suggests that it will teach children that tiny people inside their heads are responsible for their actions and not they themselves.
    • The trailer for Shrek points out how poor aesops the movie contains. In order: only ugly people can be together, true love will turn you into a monster, stick to your own kind, and short people deserve ridicule.
    • The trailer for Doctor Strange (2016) says it teaches kids that modern medicine is useless (while showing the formerly handicapped man explaining to Strange how the Ancient One healed him) and that, if you text while driving, you will become a wizard.
    • The trailer for The Emoji Movie says it teaches kids that life is a meaningless, mediocre, joyless slog, that takes place mostly on your phone, and only exists to serve a global conglomerate's interest.
    • The trailer for Mulan calls out the movie for depicting the Huns as monstrous humans with claws, fangs, and bird-like eyes.
      Narrator: Good lord, Disney, these were actual people, not the Uruk-hai!
    • The Honest Trailer for What If...? notes that the series seems to consider Killmonger to be inherently evil and irredeemable, despite his sympathetic backstory and motivations, while at the same time having a redeemed version of Thanos, who committed much greater crimes.
    • The Honest Trailer for Pocahontas draws attention to how the movie whitewashes a story of colonialism that was much grimmer in real life, reducing the conflict between the colonizers and the Native Americans to "a few bad apples" issue and depicts a real-life Native American people as literally magical.
  • Unfortunate Names: The trailer for Pacific Rim mentions the awesome names of the giant fighting robots (Crimson Typhoon, Cherno Alpha, Striker Eureka)...and then the one named after a stripper (Gipsy Danger).
  • The Unintelligible:
  • Unintentional Period Piece: invoked
    • The Honest Trailer for Independence Day lists a bunch of 90s nostalgia triggers from the movie, like CD-ROMs, R.E.M. and Fruitopia.
    • In Home Alone, "bundle up and relive the early 1990s joy of Micro Machines, starting lineup figures, Johnny Carson, 35 mm cameras, landline phones, answering machines, pre-9/11 air travel, and Macaulay Culkin."
    • The Honest Trailer for Entourage's "Starring" section contains "Outdated cultural references", such as Facebook being considered juvenile and mentions of "the Gigli effect".
    • The Honest Trailer for Die Hard lists a bunch of things from the movie, which came out in 1988, that aren't as common today, such as cocaine, indoor smoking, pregnant drinking, making fun of touchscreens and more cocaine.
      Narrator: [makes a loud sniffing sound] WHOOO! Best decade ever!
    • Godzilla (1998) is mocked for how dated it is, with a list of 90s stuff that appears in it, such as Kodak disposable cameras, Josta Cola,note  Blockbuster video stores and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center being described as the worst case of destruction on U.S. soil, the last of which obviously feels very dated after 9/11.
    • The Honest Trailer for X-Men: The Animated Series notes that while it looks very dated, with its old technology and references to 90s pop culture, the show is still enjoyable.
    • The Honest Trailer for The Matrix points out the frequent appearances of late 90s technology, like flip phones, payphones and minidiscs.
    • The Honest Trailer for Dumb and Dumber To states that this movie already was dated before it even came out, remarking that the script was clearly written in the 1990's, and nobody bothered to update the jokes when production finally began.
    • The Honest Trailer for Daredevil points out how that movie is basically a time capsule of the early 2000s by naming the various tropes related to that decade. These tropes include "invokedcrappy CGI, Matrix-ing, Sopranos, and -izzies." Instead of their usual credits for the actors, the Narrator examines the soundtrack, which he claims is "full of the 2000s' Nu Metal bands" such as P.O.D., Evanescence, Seether, Hoobastank and Nickelback.
    • The Honest Trailer for Memento points out how the absence of modern phones becomes pretty glaring because of the frequent use of landline phones, polaroid cameras and pen and paper.
    • Because The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (released in 2006) is supposed to take place after Fast & Furious 6 (released in 2013), the former's Honest Trailer jokes that Japan in the movie is going through a retro tech phase because of the dated technology seen throughout, such as flip phones, iPods and old laptops.
    • The Honest Trailer for Jingle All the Way remarks that the plot of the movie is really only possible because of the mid-90s' lack of modern smartphones and online shopping.
    • The Honest Trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon points out how some of the dialogue comes off as very 2010s, like "Bling is my thing" and mentions of "pop and lock".
    • The Honest Trailer for Free Guy draws attention to some things in it that feel dated due to the script being written in 2016, like certain gamer slang and the cameos of real-life gaming streamers who have fallen out of popularity since the movie was made.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: invokedThe reaction, in the trailer for Elvis, to Colonel Tom Parker's make-up ("a monster who should be banished to the uncanny valley he crawled out of").
  • Unpleasable Fanbase: invoked in the trailer for the 91th Academy Award, regarding Black Panther (2018) getting nominated for best picture. The trailer points out how, after years of fans complaining that no comic book movies ever get nominated for this category, one finally does, only for fans to complain it's not good enough to deserve it.
    Narrator: There is no pleasing you is there?
  • The Unpronounceable:
    • Les Miserables causes particular trouble ("Les Miserabablebles", and later "Less Miserables").
    • Tn Thor: The Dark World, the narrator struggles mightily with Svartalfheim before moving on to the next world's name with apparent relief ("Sfar... Sfur... Sfortul... ASGARD!").
    • The narrator makes numerous attempts to pronounce Maleficent, before deciding to screw it and just call the movie Sleeping Beauty instead.
    • In the Honest Trailer for The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the narrator can't figure out how to pronounce actor Pete Postlethwaite's name, and instead just calls him "Kobayashi".
    • In the Five Nights at Freddy's 3 video, the narrator can't figure out how to pronounce creator Scott Cawthon's surname.
    • In the Jurassic World video, the narrator can't pronounce director Colin Trevorrow's name and just calls him "Not Steven Spielberg" instead.
    • When bringing up Arrival during the Honest Trailer for the 2017 Oscars, the narrator can't figure out how to pronounce director Denis Villeneuve's name.
    • The Tekken trailer has the narrator having difficulty pronouncing Hwoarang's name ("Howao... Ha... Hwooer... Howard?")
    • While listing the cast members of Moonlight (2016) during the La La Land Honest Trailer, the narrator is surprised that he can pronounce Mahershala Ali's name right.
    • In the entry for The Favourite in the 2019 Oscars Honest Trailer, the narrator gives up on trying to pronounce the name of its director, Yorgos Lanthimos, and instead just refers to him as the director of The Lobster.
  • Unreliable Narrator:
    • The Honest Trailer for The Boss Baby goes to great length to show how hard it is to tell what is real and what is only in Tim's imagination.
    • In the stinger for Honest Trailer for Wonka, the narrator points out how the first musical number in the movie was all in Wonka's imagination, and wonders how reliable all the other songs and fantastical elements are, ending with the conclusion that Wonka likely froze to death on a park bench and the whole movie was his Dying Dream.

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  • Values Dissonance:
    • They invoked and poke fun at Disney about this in the Peter Pan trailer, first by doing a montage of the sexism in the movie before moving on to showing the unfortunate portrayal of Native Americans. It then goes on to show all the other racial stereotypes in the other Disney films. It continues in the Mulan trailer where they mock Disney's past treatment of people of Asian descent while pointing out the Unfortunate Implications in the film itself.
    • The Honest Trailer for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure points out how a scene where Bill and Ted jokingly calls the other "fag" would not go over well today.
    • The Honest Trailer for Predator:
      Narrator: ...[t]hat's never been improved on in its sequels, and could be released in theaters today because it's aged so well.
      Blain: ...a bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here...
      Narrator: Eh, mostly well.
    • The Friends trailer features a montage of Gay Panic moments that occurred during the show's run, and points out that the show kept non-white people mostly in the background, even though it's a show set in New York City.
    • The Shrek 2 trailer argues that the film "is as transphobic as J. K. Rowling" (cuts to the Fairy Godmother calling the cross-dressing Big Bad Wolf "gender-confused"), then proceeds to chastise a joke appearing to make light of police brutality.
  • Verbal Tic: In Breaking Bad, "meet Walter White's partner Jesse Pinkman, a Juggalo without the makeup who prefers the formal term for female dog." [Cues a montage of every instance of Jesse saying "bitch"]
  • Very Loosely Based on a True Story:
  • Video Game Movies Suck: invoked
  • Viewers Are Goldfish:
    • In the Honest Trailer for Kingdom Hearts, the narrator explains that you'll travel along with two of the most famous cartoon characters of all time (Donald Duck and Goofy), "but don't worry if you forget everyone's name, because they remind you every five seconds," followed by a montage of them introducing themselves as "Sora, Donald and Goofy." And then the narrator calls them "Dolan and Gooby" when he continues.
    • The Honest Trailer for Speed points out how, despite the fairly simplistic story, the viewer is reminded over and over again that the bus will explode if it slows down below 50 MPH.
    • The Honest Trailer for National Treasure points out how the premise of stealing the Declaration of Independence keeps getting repeated with those same words throughout the movie.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: invoked
    • They mistake Elliot Page for portraying a male character in the Honest Trailer for Inception.note 
    • In the Honest Trailer for The Lord of the Rings Legolas is credited as Gwyneth Paltrow.
    • Helena Bonham Carter (as Mme. Thenardier) is mistaken for Tim Burton in Les Miserabablebles.
    • The narrator got smacked with this hard in the Final Fantasy VII trailer.
      Narrator: You'll also join forces with hot chicks like... Tifa... Aeris/th... and Sephiroth, whose beautiful silver hair, slender hips, and deep green eyes will leave you breath— [shirtless Sephiroth appears] wait, he's a dude!? Aw man! I have his picture up in my bedroom!
  • Victorious Childhood Friend: The Narrator jokes that Peeta's role in Catching Fire as "his never ending journey to escape the friendzone."
    Narrator: [after Katniss kisses Peeta] Holy shit that worked. Not bad, Cake Boss, not bad.
  • Villain Has a Point:
    Narrator: Watch as all mutant-kind must band together to defeat evil government officials out to prove that mutants are dangerous... which they totally are! [cue montage of mutants being dangerous with comedic music playing over it, ending with Charles Xavier being brainwashed into snuffing out humans with his mind]
    • For Black Panther (2018), the narrator expresses his great surprise at how Killmonger actually wins the moral debate against T'Challa, and gets T'Challa to change his ways and open up Wakanda to the world.
    • For Incredibles 2, the trailer points out how the movie never actually proves the villain wrong (she wants to keep supers illegal because most of them are quite destructive, and because people rely on them for solving all of their problems way too much), and that she is actually right in her rant about how people spend way too much time consuming media.
    • For the end of the Stranger Things Season 4 the trailer mentions that Jason had every reason to believe that Eddie was the one who killed Chrissy and makes it clear that they consider his death to be Karmic Overload.
  • Villainy-Free Villain: The Narrator considers Khan to be this in Star Trek Into Darkness.
    Narrator: [Khan]'s a ruthless villain so diabolical he'll... not kill Spock [Khan shoots Spock's gun out of his hand], let Kirk express his feelings [Khan does nothing while Kirk punches him repeatedly], and ultimately be completely justified in his actions. [Khan talks about wanting to save his family] ...you've gotta admit, he's got a point.
  • Vindicated by History: invoked The Honest Trailer for Starship Troopers, described as a "a work of subversive genius", remarks more than once how it was misunderstood as a really dumb war movie when it came out, but is now better recognized for how it satirizes a militarized society and "a movie about using war to take advantage of dumb people":
    Narrator: Not at all based on the classic sci-fi novel, comes the film that made you say "oorah!" when it first came out, then "oooh, I get it" when you watched a few years later.
  • Visual Pun:
    • The Walt Disney Corporation's increasing monopoly over most of modern media is depicted in the Avengers: Endgame Honest Trailer as a box of the Disney edition of Monopoly.
    • The aforementioned "[video game adaptations a]re still usually ass" is said as a naked Master Chief's bare bottom is seen.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot: The Stinger for The Little Mermaid (1989) shows how different it would be had Ariel's top half been a fish instead of her bottom half. Eric covers his mouth as if he were about to toss his cookies.

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  • You Are Number 6:
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: "Will Smith as Cipher Rage... Hehe, okay guys, very funny, what his real name?" (Followed shortly by this trope, name dropped)
  • You No Take Candle: The Honest Trailer for Moon Fall is spoken in borderline caveman lingo to highlight how stupid the movie is.
    Narrator: Director Roland Emmerich hate world. His movies make everything explode. But now with nothing left on Earth to boom, he blow up Moon. Moonfall. Brain. Can't think. Oh well.
  • Yo-Yo Plot Point: The Honest Trailer for The Walking Dead Season 4-6 points out how often the group keeps finding safe havens to take shelter in only for them to get burned down every time:
    Narrator: I wonder where Negan lives? I can't wait from them to blow up that town next season.
  • Your Vampires Suck: The Honest Trailer for the Blade Trilogy calls the vampires from these movies the most pathetic vampires since Twilight, who burst into flames at the slightest touch of silver, garlic or sunlight, practice an ancient one-at-a-time fighting style, only have one master plan, can't really speak through their fangs, and name everything by slapping the word 'Vampire' in front of a noun.

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