Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

Lies so obvious they lack even a shred of plausibility. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Would Hurt a Child Camp Gay Determinator aka: The Determinator Butt-Monkey Hypocrite Big Eater The '60s Henpecked Husband Video Credits Groin Attack Age Lift Drives Like Crazy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Malevolent Masked Men No Celebrities Were Harmed In Name Only Dissonant Serenity Epic Movie Hell Is That Noise Crapsack World Flipping the Bird Badass Boast Manly Tears Artistic License – Biology Central Theme Shirtless Scene Dark Reprise Blackmail Shoot the Shaggy Dog Your Cheating Heart Retcon The Load The Atoner Intergenerational Friendship Famous Last Words Vitriolic Best Buds Made of Explodium Babies Ever After Stealth Pun Married to the Job Awesome, but Impractical Flashback Despair Event Horizon Serial Killer Death Glare Establishing Character Moment Big Fancy House Insane Troll Logic Market-Based Title "Well Done, Son!" Guy Eye Scream Adaptational Attractiveness Overly Long Gag The X of Y Action Girl Expy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Destination Defenestration Biopic Took a Level in Badass Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping "The Reason You Suck" Speech Maybe Ever After Becoming the Mask Big "NO!" As the Good Book Says... Body Horror Eureka Moment Abusive Parents Arch-Enemy Fiery Redhead Only Known by Their Nickname Death by Adaptation MacGuffin Broken Aesop Beta Couple Book-Ends Wham Line As Himself Good Is Not Nice Brick Joke Peek-a-Boo Corpse Mystery and Detective Films Accidental Murder In the Back Genre Savvy The Sociopath Leaning on the Fourth Wall Abhorrent Admirer Decoy Protagonist Dramatic Gun Cock Those Two Bad Guys Punny Name This Is Gonna Suck Asshole Victim Epic Fail Cool Old Guy Actually Pretty Funny Soundtrack Dissonance Offscreen Teleportation The '80s Retired Badass Mooks Oh, Crap! Totally Radical Bavarian Fire Drill Adult Fear Advertised Extra Grey and Gray Morality Genre Shift Fate Worse than Death Slasher Smile Taking the Bullet Defiant to the End Failed a Spot Check Martial Arts Movie Psychological Thriller Fantasy Films Thriller Damsel in Distress Rousing Speech Cool Old Lady The Voiceless Drugs Are Bad Dark Action Girl The Brute Adaptational Heroism Gone Horribly Right Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Hate Sink Undying Loyalty Fanservice Extra Fatal Family Photo Male Gaze Narrator Freudian Excuse Star-Crossed Lovers Mr. Fanservice Slashed Throat Missing Mom After the End Translation Convention Smug Snake Defrosting Ice Queen Red Herring Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Humiliation Conga Victoria's Secret Compartment Never My Fault Bound and Gagged Anti-Villain Dirty Cop No Name Given Comically Missing the Point Together in Death Affectionate Parody Revenge Bloodless Carnage Adorkable Unresolved Sexual Tension Vomit Discretion Shot Brainless Beauty Noodle Incident Half the Man He Used to Be Here We Go Again! Naïve Newcomer Death Seeker Whole Plot Reference Monumental Damage Crazy Jealous Guy Did Not Get the Girl Artistic License – History Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shell-Shocked Veteran Dumb Blonde Scare Chord Italian Films Serious Business Our Vampires Are Different And the Adventure Continues Not So Above It All Really Gets Around B-Movie Mugging the Monster Mexican Standoff Belligerent Sexual Tension Neck Lift Ax-Crazy Light Is Not Good The Mole Idiot Ball Obfuscating Stupidity Product Placement Stepford Smiler Cat Fight Deadpan Snarker Blood Knight Soft Glass There Is No Kill Like Overkill Evil Is Hammy Insistent Terminology Scenery Porn Vacation Films Pimped-Out Dress The Cameo Sequel Hook Sealed Evil in a Can Rasputinian Death Beauty Is Never Tarnished Attempted Rape Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Death by Sex No-Sell Wicked Cultured Drill Sergeant Nasty Crucified Hero Shot Reality Is Unrealistic Not What It Looks Like Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Demonic Possession Death by Irony Auto Erotica Sports Stories Vampire Fiction Karmic Death Historical-Domain Character The '50s Psychopathic Manchild The Un-Reveal Country Matters It's Personal Madness Mantra Artistic License – Military Hope Spot Bad "Bad Acting" Kick the Dog Daddy's Girl Brother–Sister Incest Cold-Blooded Torture Disappeared Dad Developing Doomed Characters Shout-Out Action Prologue Imagine Spot Properly Paranoid The Smart Guy Gender Flip Woman Scorned Broken Pedestal Title Drop Wrong Genre Savvy Adaptational Villainy Race Against the Clock Hollywood Darkness Eldritch Abomination Bloody Hilarious Let's Get Dangerous! Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Novelization Meet Cute Villain Ball Cat Scare Disney Villain Death One-Man Army Danny Peary Cult Movies List How We Got Here Tagline Major Injury Underreaction Paper-Thin Disguise Dirty Old Man Male Frontal Nudity Science Fiction Films Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Eagleland Overprotective Dad Genre Throwback Badass Normal Rule of Funny Stylistic Suck Toplessness from the Back Parental Substitute Villain Protagonist Pre-Mortem One-Liner The '70s Car Fu Super Strength Darker and Edgier Shipper on Deck "Shaggy Dog" Story Bowdlerise Card-Carrying Villain Silence Is Golden Yandere Christmas Movies Index No OSHA Compliance NO INDOOR VOICE Antagonist Title Air-Vent Passageway The Quiet One Character Development Leitmotif Hoist by His Own Petard An Axe to Grind She Cleans Up Nicely Our Zombies Are Different Annoying Younger Sibling I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Big Applesauce Dark and Troubled Past Fun with Acronyms Sexy Discretion Shot Naked People Are Funny Police Brutality Anti-Hero The Bad Guy Wins In Medias Res Works Set in World War II Papa Wolf The Hero Instant Death Bullet Fainting Word of God Only Sane Man Spared by the Adaptation Bury Your Gays Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Self-Deprecation Skewed Priorities Adaptation Distillation Real Life Lighter and Softer Superhero Evil Is Petty Fire-Forged Friends Fat Bastard Fake Shemp Non-Indicative Name Bland-Name Product The Stoic Captain Ersatz Betty and Veronica From Bad to Worse Author Avatar Dressing as the Enemy Eiffel Tower Effect The Place Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Call-Forward Loophole Abuse Reality Ensues Take a Third Option Bolivian Army Ending Badass in a Nice Suit Impaled with Extreme Prejudice No Ending Getting Crap Past the Radar Playing Gertrude Alliterative Name Reality Has No Subtitles Guns Akimbo French Films Villain Song Amoral Attorney Due to the Dead Extremely Short Timespan Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Better to Die than Be Killed Token Minority Improbable Aiming Skills Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Even Evil Has Standards Ambiguous Ending Implacable Man Tempting Fate Action Survivor Sacrificial Lion Unwitting Instigator of Doom Mythology Gag All There in the Manual Put on a Bus Chekhov's Gun Creative Closing Credits My Greatest Failure War Is Hell Scenery Gorn I Did What I Had to Do Truth in Television Contrived Coincidence Pay Evil unto Evil Worthy Opponent Determinator Unusual Euphemism Beard of Evil Chekhov's Skill Heroic BSoD Parental Neglect Cruel and Unusual Death Throwing Your Sword Always Works Recycled IN SPACE! Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Insult Backfire Spell My Name with an "S" Taking You with Me No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Jerkass Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Rule of Symbolism Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Hero Dies Does This Remind You of Anything? Big Brother Instinct Animated Credits Opening Redemption Equals Death The Bully Evil Sounds Deep Downer Ending timeperiod Not So Stoic Didn't Think This Through Shower Scene Would Hit a Girl Depraved Bisexual Sequel Escalation Killed Mid-Sentence Refuge in Audacity Creepy Child Television Movie Index Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Starscream Red Shirt Closed Circle Adaptation Dye-Job Vomit Indiscretion Shot Combat Pragmatist Trailers Always Spoil Easily Forgiven Gorn Darkest Hour Call-Back Fingore '80s Hair Film Noir Motor Mouth Fourth Date Marriage Bar Brawl Say My Name Documentary Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Guile Hero Setting Update Red Right Hand Award-Bait Song Race Lift Break the Cutie Sanity Slippage Adaptational Badass Facial Horror Suspiciously Specific Denial The Power of Love Pet the Dog Adaptation Name Change I Need a Freaking Drink Dirty Coward The Smurfette Principle Politically Incorrect Villain Sinister Minister Be Careful What You Wish For Made of Iron Hero of Another Story Scary Black Man Pretty in Mink Friend to All Children Mr. Exposition Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The End... Or Is It? Silent Movie Four-Temperament Ensemble Slap-Slap-Kiss Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Smoking Is Cool Intrepid Reporter Only a Flesh Wound Immune to Bullets Logo Joke Mind Screw Storming the Castle Get Out! 20 Minutes into the Future Happily Married Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Disproportionate Retribution Hollywood Law Redshirt Army Pragmatic Adaptation You Killed My Father A Date with Rosie Palms Nothing Is Scarier The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Alas, Poor Villain My Beloved Smother Dual Wielding Small Name, Big Ego BFG Does Not Like Shoes Your Head A-Splode Early-Bird Cameo Ominous Latin Chanting Rape as Drama Too Dumb to Live And Starring Gilligan Cut Reckless Gun Usage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Chiaroscuro Australian Movies folderlabel Spiritual Successor Jerk Jock Alpha Bitch Ungrateful Bastard Rich Bitch Cluster F-Bomb Running Gag Manchild Improbable Weapon User The Alleged Car Very Loosely Based on a True Story Offscreen Moment of Awesome Domestic Abuse Show Within a Show Calling the Old Man Out Everyone Has Standards Bi the Way Informed Ability Horror Films Black Comedy Daylight Horror All for Nothing Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Affably Evil Punch-Clock Villain Laser-Guided Karma Names to Run Away from Really Fast Covers Always Lie Not Using the "Z" Word Visual Pun Black Comedy Rape Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Have a Gay Old Time Time Skip Bare Your Midriff You Have Failed Me Corrupt Corporate Executive Bald of Evil It's All About Me Retirony Those Wacky Nazis Evil-Detecting Dog Index of Film Westerns A.I. Is a Crapshoot Cowboy Cop Adapted Out Empathic Environment A Father to His Men Heel Realization May–December Romance Dull Surprise Boom, Headshot! Cloudcuckoolander He Who Fights Monsters Public Domain Feature Films Last-Name Basis Spanner in the Works Kill 'em All Anachronism Stew Adaptation Expansion Only in It for the Money Catch-Phrase Early Installment Weirdness Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Make It Look Like an Accident Badass Longcoat Bring My Brown Pants Manipulative Bastard Extreme Doormat No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Tranquil Fury Important Haircut Evil Counterpart From Nobody to Nightmare Sassy Black Woman The Chessmaster N-Word Privileges Protagonist Title Horror Comedy Real Life Writes the Plot Bilingual Bonus Ghost Fiction Up to Eleven Not Even Bothering with the Accent Black Dude Dies First Cain and Abel The '90s Film Noir Index One Steve Limit Handicapped Badass A God Am I Ambiguously Gay Japanese Films Anachronic Order Jump Scare Knight Templar Lampshade Hanging British Films The Big Guy Villainous Breakdown Berserk Button Rule of Cool The Stoner Captain Obvious Agony of the Feet Badass Grandpa Hooker with a Heart of Gold Disney Death Historical In-Joke Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dramatic Irony Almost Kiss Those Two Guys Foregone Conclusion Stuff Blowing Up Bond Villain Stupidity Amusing Injuries Kick the Son of a Bitch Jerkass Has a Point Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Room Full of Crazy Composite Character Bait-and-Switch Took a Level in Jerkass Poor Communication Kills Red Oni, Blue Oni Blatant Lies Beware the Nice Ones Morality Pet Unspoken Plan Guarantee Pragmatic Villainy Exact Words The Dog Bites Back Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Wounded Gazelle Gambit Posthumous Character Drowning My Sorrows Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Wretched Hive Mistaken for Gay Stealth Hi/Bye Black and Gray Morality Death of a Child Evil Plan The Ace Blood from the Mouth Ship Tease Parental Incest Kubrick Stare Large Ham Artistic License – Law The Dreaded Slasher Movie Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Ditz More Dakka Shut Up, Hannibal! Greater-Scope Villain Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dies Wide Open Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Meaningful Echo Corpsing Manic Pixie Dream Girl Expository Hairstyle Change Mama Bear Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Obviously Evil Tap on the Head Interrupted Suicide Fanservice Camera Abuse He Knows Too Much Action Genre Evil Brit For Want of a Nail Hero Antagonist Chase Scene Twist Ending All There in the Script Bittersweet Ending Random Events Plot Cool Shades Dramedy Villain Opening Scene Suspiciously Similar Substitute Kill It with Fire "Awesome McCool" Name Black Best Friend Bond One-Liner Fantastic Racism It Can Think Evil Laugh Frame-Up Love Triangle Never Trust a Trailer Training Montage Sci-Fi Horror Straight Gay Romantic False Lead You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Irony Re-Cut Face–Heel Turn The Film of the Book Armor-Piercing Question Bottomless Magazines Heterosexual Life-Partners Stalker with a Crush Children Are Innocent Red Eyes, Take Warning Men Are the Expendable Gender Neck Snap Laughing Mad Every Car Is a Pinto Mercy Kill Karma Houdini Brutal Honesty Double Entendre Credits Gag Continuity Nod Meaningful Name Older Than They Look An Arm and a Leg Zombie Stories Badass Bookworm Dwindling Party Cassandra Truth Deliberately Monochrome Actor Allusion Animal Motifs Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Animal Title Index Curb-Stomp Battle Casting Gag Five-Man Band Rule of Three What Happened to the Mouse? Line-of-Sight Name Love at First Sight Dark Is Not Evil Face Death with Dignity It Will Never Catch On The Dragon German Films Riddle for the Ages Never Found the Body Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Anguished Declaration of Love Mad Scientist The Reveal Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Unreliable Narrator All Men Are Perverts Heroic Sacrifice Breaking the Fourth Wall Girl-on-Girl Is Hot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Fish out of Water Well-Intentioned Extremist Coming-of-Age Story Aside Glance Improvised Weapon Foil Precision F-Strike The Great Depression Gory Discretion Shot Deus ex Machina Bullying a Dragon Rated M for Manly Big-Bad Ensemble Gratuitous English Sir Swears-a-Lot Ascended Extra Distracted by the Sexy Adults Are Useless Author Appeal The Chick Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Evil vs. Evil Once More, with Clarity! Pretty Little Headshots Exactly What It Says on the Tin Plucky Comic Relief Heel–Face Turn Shown Their Work Not So Different Off with His Head! Break the Haughty Deliberate Values Dissonance Back from the Dead Green-Eyed Monster Aluminum Christmas Trees Hypocritical Humor Take That! The Ghost All Girls Want Bad Boys Artistic License – Geography Man on Fire The Vamp She's Got Legs Anyone Can Die Ambiguous Disorder Catapult Nightmare Homage Funny Foreigner Big Bad Duumvirate Ass Shove Outrun the Fireball Honor Before Reason Canadian Movies The Lost Lenore Grievous Bottley Harm A Minor Kidroduction Match Cut Rewatch Bonus World of Ham Framing Device Military and Warfare Films Gainax Ending Deconstruction Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Costume Porn Diabolus ex Machina Demoted to Extra Nice Guy Double-Meaning Title As You Know Cool Guns My God, What Have I Done? Mood Whiplash Creator Cameo Needs Wiki Magic Love Broken Bird Plot Hole Based on a True Story Historical Hero Upgrade Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Parental Abandonment Femme Fatale Authority Equals Asskicking Curse Cut Short Artistic License – Physics The Cavalry Jitter Cam Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Artistic License – Gun Safety Chekhov's Gunman True Companions Disguised in Drag O.O.C. Is Serious Business Ripped from the Headlines Hong Kong Films For the Evulz Historical Villain Upgrade Only One Name The Casanova What the Hell, Hero? La Résistance The Stinger Meaningful Background Event Spiteful Spit Villain with Good Publicity Dutch Angle Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Remake The Lancer Batman Gambit And I Must Scream One-Word Title Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Knife Nut Roaring Rampage of Revenge Freeze-Frame Bonus Suddenly SHOUTING! No Antagonist Faking the Dead Gold Digger Fatal Flaw Arranged Marriage The Oner Nice Hat Conspicuous CG Left the Background Music On Stock Footage Deal with the Devil Reasonable Authority Figure Hidden Depths Even Evil Has Loved Ones I Have Your Wife Dying Moment of Awesome Funny Background Event Obstructive Bureaucrat Lock and Load Montage I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Faceless Big Damn Heroes The Alcoholic Hair-Trigger Temper Film Series Eyepatch of Power Bad Boss Celebrity Paradox I'm a Humanitarian Leave the Camera Running Cool Car Sadistic Choice Driven to Suicide Mighty Whitey Faux Affably Evil Police are Useless Department of Redundancy Department Big Bad Kids Are Cruel Moment Killer The Musical Ms. Fanservice Psycho for Hire As Long as It Sounds Foreign An Aesop Accidental Misnaming Loads and Loads of Characters Mundane Made Awesome Dropped a Bridge on Him Russian Films All Just a Dream Sole Survivor Fan Disservice Foreshadowing Music Stories Earn Your Happy Ending Pyrrhic Victory Enemy Mine Crazy-Prepared Dogged Nice Guy Bloodier and Gorier The Mafia Canon Foreigner Ironic Echo What You Are in the Dark Woman in White Wham Shot Humans Are Bastards Not Quite Dead Final Girl Chewing the Scenery Apocalypse How Arc Words Heroes Want Redheads Romantic Comedy Same Language Dub