Tropescilloscope: Unreliable Narrator

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

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