Tropescilloscope: Unreliable Narrator

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

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