Tropescilloscope: Unreliable Narrator

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

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