Tropescilloscope: Unreliable Narrator

A narrator who may not be telling the truth. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Scare Chord Celebrity Paradox Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Soft Glass Improbable Aiming Skills Hollywood Law Ass Shove Freeze-Frame Bonus Wretched Hive Ghost Fiction Bald of Evil Bloodless Carnage Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Title Drop Credits Gag Sports Stories Russian Films Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Film Noir Index It's Personal Coming-of-Age Story Mythology Gag Evil Is Petty Curb-Stomp Battle Hero Antagonist Darker and Edgier Historical Villain Upgrade Male Frontal Nudity B-Movie Alas, Poor Villain Market-Based Title Arch-Enemy Early Installment Weirdness Badass Bookworm Man on Fire Heel Realization Brother–Sister Incest Beard of Evil Fan Disservice Bullying a Dragon Whole Plot Reference Creepy Child Reality Ensues Anachronism Stew Superhero Hope Spot Throwing Your Sword Always Works Demoted to Extra Lighter and Softer Fainting Blatant Lies Rule of Cool Yandere Gone Horribly Right Vacation Films Badass Longcoat Made of Iron Adaptational Villainy The Lost Lenore Bar Brawl Shower Scene "Shaggy Dog" Story Blackmail Spanner in the Works Show Within a Show '80s Hair Small Name, Big Ego Ambiguous Disorder Horror Films Pretty Little Headshots Science Fiction Films Eldritch Abomination Hollywood Darkness The Smurfette Principle Pragmatic Adaptation Dying Moment of Awesome Bi the Way Unresolved Sexual Tension Manipulative Bastard Neck Lift Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Eye Scream Stealth Hi/Bye Contrived Coincidence Obfuscating Stupidity Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds You Killed My Father Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Logo Joke Only a Flesh Wound Freudian Excuse Gory Discretion Shot Evil Counterpart Fiery Redhead Guns Akimbo From Nobody to Nightmare Slasher Movie Villain Protagonist Ascended Extra It's All About Me Broken Aesop Posthumous Character Dark Is Not Evil The '90s Sexy Discretion Shot Big Bad Framing Device Loophole Abuse In Medias Res Punctuated! 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Mad Scientist Italian Films Really Gets Around Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Animated Credits Opening For Want of a Nail Rated M for Manly Sci-Fi Horror Hong Kong Films Properly Paranoid Red Shirt Evil Plan Slap-Slap-Kiss The Chick Oh, Crap! Only Sane Man Sassy Black Woman Dirty Cop He Who Fights Monsters Dwindling Party Humans Are Bastards Adaptational Badass Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dirty Old Man Brutal Honesty Undying Loyalty Woman in White Shout-Out Better to Die than Be Killed Manly Tears Unreliable Narrator Enemy Mine folderlabel Intrepid Reporter Manic Pixie Dream Girl Love at First Sight Parental Neglect The Lancer Honor Before Reason Knight Templar Cat Fight Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fire-Forged Friends The '50s I Need a Freaking Drink Canon Foreigner Implacable Man Shipper on Deck Those Two Guys Demonic Possession Death by Sex Karma Houdini Jerkass Has a Point Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Anachronic Order An Axe to Grind Batman Gambit Depraved Bisexual No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Conspicuous CG Pre-Mortem One-Liner Off with His Head! Action Girl Documentary The Hero Auto Erotica Big-Bad Ensemble Worthy Opponent Bunny-Ears Lawyer Historical In-Joke Cool Shades Race Lift Closed Circle Police Brutality Crazy-Prepared Would Hit a Girl Hell Is That Noise Creator Cameo After the End Villain Opening Scene Mighty Whitey Corpsing Author Avatar The Alcoholic Character Development NO INDOOR VOICE The Stoner Diabolus ex Machina Ship Tease The Un-Reveal Punch-Clock Villain Crapsack World Eiffel Tower Effect Animal Motifs Wham Line A Minor Kidroduction The Cameo Kick the Dog Pyrrhic Victory Femme Fatale Needs Wiki Magic Love Artistic License – Military An Arm and a Leg Good Is Not Nice Horror Comedy Bond Villain Stupidity The Bad Guy Wins Fatal Family Photo Very Loosely Based on a True Story Adults Are Useless Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rich Bitch You Have Failed Me The Voiceless Even Evil Has Standards The Brute The Smart Guy Killed Mid-Sentence Kill 'em All Rasputinian Death Kids Are Cruel Take That! 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