Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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