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