Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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