Tropescilloscope: Unreliable Narrator

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

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