Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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