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