Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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