Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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