Tropescilloscope: Blatant Lies

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

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