Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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