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