Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Specific Denial

To specifically deny something, even when you shouldn't know it if you did not do it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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