Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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