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)

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