Tropescilloscope: Unreliable Narrator

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

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Your Head A-Splode Mood Whiplash Badass in a Nice Suit Alliterative Name Famous Last Words Lighter and Softer No Antagonist Dual Wielding Greater-Scope Villain Flipping the Bird Storming the Castle Sadistic Choice Foil Freudian Excuse Suddenly SHOUTING! Despair Event Horizon Take That! Didn't Think This Through All for Nothing Comically Missing the Point Double-Meaning Title Bond One-Liner Antagonist Title Half the Man He Used to Be Bad "Bad Acting" Heroic BSoD Evil-Detecting Dog And I Must Scream Shut Up, Hannibal! Sci-Fi Horror Bad Boss Deliberate Values Dissonance Married to the Job Match Cut Coming-of-Age Story Older Than They Look Amoral Attorney BFG Action Survivor The Stoic Friend to All Children No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Eldritch Abomination The Cameo Grievous Bottley Harm The Voiceless Obstructive Bureaucrat All There in the Script Spell My Name with an "S" Index of Film Westerns Cool Car Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Action Genre Deal with the Devil Author Avatar Major Injury Underreaction Even Evil Has Standards Break the Cutie Redemption Equals Death Bland-Name Product Slasher Movie My Greatest Failure NO INDOOR VOICE Nothing Is Scarier Lock and Load Montage Groin Attack Made of Explodium Bullying a Dragon Slashed Throat The Place "Shaggy Dog" Story Call-Back Plot Hole Dropped a Bridge on Him Badass Normal Did Not Get the Girl What Happened to the Mouse? Breaking the Fourth Wall Pet the Dog Badass Grandpa Ominous Latin Chanting Daddy's Girl Romantic Comedy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Stealth Hi/Bye Television Movie Index Important Haircut '80s Hair Insistent Terminology No Name Given Composite Character Final Girl Exact Words Evil Plan Mighty Whitey Get Out! In Name Only Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Manly Tears Death by Sex Celebrity Paradox Psychological Thriller Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Rousing Speech Disney Villain Death Yandere Dying Moment of Awesome Abusive Parents Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dissonant Serenity Villain Song Getting Crap Past the Radar Sports Stories Video Credits Adaptational Attractiveness Genre Savvy Attempted Rape Car Fu Villain Protagonist Insane Troll Logic Overly Long Gag Artistic License – Military Blood Knight Offscreen Moment of Awesome Punctuated! For! Emphasis! My God, What Have I Done? Hollywood Law Framing Device "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Australian Movies Star-Crossed Lovers Police Brutality Based on a True Story "Awesome McCool" Name Four-Temperament Ensemble Defrosting Ice Queen Book-Ends Heel Realization Genre Throwback Evil Sounds Deep Crapsack World Fourth Date Marriage No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Actor Allusion Victoria's Secret Compartment Canon Foreigner Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Dirty Coward Pretty Little Headshots Face–Heel Turn Captain Ersatz Italian Films Wicked Cultured Sexy Discretion Shot Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adaptation Distillation Broken Pedestal Naïve Newcomer Rewatch Bonus Pyrrhic Victory Translation Convention Handicapped Badass Faking the Dead Neck Snap Apocalypse How Those Two Guys Gory Discretion Shot Anti-Villain Red Eyes, Take Warning Be Careful What You Wish For Empathic Environment Whole Plot Reference Demonic Possession Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Here We Go Again! 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Expy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Every Car Is a Pinto Bilingual Bonus Contrived Coincidence The Power of Love Jitter Cam Show Within a Show Annoying Younger Sibling Evil Is Petty Make It Look Like an Accident The Remake Slap-Slap-Kiss Cluster F-Bomb Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Unusual Euphemism Biopic Manipulative Bastard Bait-and-Switch Retcon Determinator Air-Vent Passageway Rasputinian Death Japanese Films Artistic License – Law Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Downer Ending Fate Worse than Death Sealed Evil in a Can Dies Wide Open Market-Based Title Drives Like Crazy Bi the Way Black Comedy A Minor Kidroduction Fatal Family Photo Hollywood Darkness Bare Your Midriff Gratuitous English Dirty Cop Stalker with a Crush Pragmatic Adaptation Central Theme It's Personal Cat Fight Meaningful Echo Closed Circle Stepford Smiler Fake Shemp Parental Neglect Animal Title Index Undying Loyalty Crazy Jealous Guy Daylight Horror Twist Ending "Well Done, Son!" Guy Mad Scientist Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Due to the Dead Fingore Sequel Hook The Chessmaster Extremely Short Timespan Rule of Cool The Film of the Book Not Using the "Z" Word Big Applesauce Cool Shades Shipper on Deck Eureka Moment Hate Sink Camp Gay Karmic Death Pragmatic Villainy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Badass Bookworm Would Hit a Girl Slasher Smile Evil vs. Evil Reality Ensues As the Good Book Says... This Is Gonna Suck Evil Counterpart Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Adorkable Karma Houdini Let's Get Dangerous! Broken Bird Man on Fire There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dark Is Not Evil Unresolved Sexual Tension The '70s Manchild Facial Horror Psycho for Hire Chekhov's Gun Our Zombies Are Different timeperiod Shower Scene Smoking Is Cool The Hero Dies Evil Is Hammy True Companions You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Death by Adaptation Foregone Conclusion Fat Bastard Kick the Son of a Bitch The Alleged Car Mr. Exposition Arranged Marriage Jerkass Has a Point The Oner Overprotective Dad Real Life Butt-Monkey Bittersweet Ending Gone Horribly Right Expository Hairstyle Change Combat Pragmatist Kill 'em All Awesome, but Impractical Rule of Three Throwing Your Sword Always Works Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Rich Bitch Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Mystery and Detective Films She Cleans Up Nicely Fiery Redhead Adult Fear Does This Remind You of Anything? Properly Paranoid Worthy Opponent Naked People Are Funny Historical-Domain Character As Long as It Sounds Foreign Irony Dwindling Party Faux Affably Evil The Lancer Tagline The Lost Lenore Destination Defenestration Insult Backfire Only in It for the Money The Bad Guy Wins Blonde, Brunette, Redhead It Will Never Catch On Aside Glance Large Ham Accidental Misnaming Imagine Spot Canadian Movies Training Montage A Father to His Men Made of Iron Mooks Brainless Beauty Silence Is Golden Body Horror Black and Gray Morality Fantastic Racism Spiteful Spit Deconstruction The Reveal Idiot Ball Adapted Out An Arm and a Leg Suspiciously Similar Substitute You Killed My Father Nice Guy Decoy Protagonist Hair-Trigger Temper Hypocritical Humor British Films Plucky Comic Relief Funny Foreigner Spared by the Adaptation Missing Mom Bavarian Fire Drill Mama Bear Red Right Hand And the Adventure Continues Ascended Extra Vomit Discretion Shot Improbable Weapon User Running Gag Affectionate Parody Auto Erotica Sequel Escalation Not So Different Humans Are Bastards Punny Name Leaning on the Fourth Wall Martial Arts Movie Depraved Bisexual Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bald of Evil Nice Hat Noodle Incident Abhorrent Admirer Chase Scene Heel–Face Turn Kubrick Stare Fainting Gilligan Cut Visual Pun Corpsing Dressing as the Enemy Ambiguous Disorder Last-Name Basis Adaptation Dye-Job Have a Gay Old Time Took a Level in Jerkass Brother–Sister Incest Shown Their Work The '80s Honor Before Reason Retired Badass Red Shirt Shout-Out Black Dude Dies First Early-Bird Cameo Failed a Spot Check The Musical Continuity Nod Badass Longcoat Hope Spot Chekhov's Gunman You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mugging the Monster Face Death with Dignity Serial Killer Big-Bad Ensemble Once More, with Clarity! Military and Warfare Films Heroes Want Redheads Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Big Bad Duumvirate From Bad to Worse Suspiciously Specific Denial Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hell Is That Noise More Dakka Covers Always Lie The Mafia Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Gorn Guile Hero The Cavalry Creative Closing Credits Calling the Old Man Out Reality Has No Subtitles Not Quite Dead Homage Dutch Angle Darkest Hour Offscreen Teleportation Shoot the Shaggy Dog Artistic License – Physics Kill It with Fire Accidental Murder Not So Stoic Adults Are Useless Fan Disservice Call-Forward Wham Line Costume Porn Title Drop Poor Communication Kills Berserk Button