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