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