History Main / BadLiar

** When Tenten meets [[spoiler:Kushina]] for the first time, she freaks out upon coming to the conclusion that the latter is a ghost. Later on, when [[spoiler:Kushina]] comments that Tenten is at least no longer panicking after her initial reaction, Tenten replies "It was... umm... screams of joy, in honor of your return to the world of the living... and... umm... the excitement made me pass out... I'm pregnant, can't handle the surprises, you know. Hahahaha...", all while blushing, sweating, and nervously smiling. Both [[spoiler:Kushina]] and Hinata give her a look that can be summed up as "Seriously? You think we're gonna believe that?", causing Tenten to nervously say "[[DefensiveWhat Wh-What?!]]"

--->'''Gru:''' What are you talking about? These are kittens! Any resemblance to persons living or dead is completely coincidental.
--->'''Edith:''' (''gives Agnes a sidelong "Yeah, right" look'')
** In the second film, Gru tries to convince El Macho that he's up for joining the latter's EvilPlan. Needless to say, it doesn't work.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'''s [[ManipulativeBastard Lelouch]] might be a ConsummateLiar, but he's ''really crappy'' at it, especially when put on the spot. Unfortunately, this is never pursued for various reasons and sometimes people ''buy his terrible lies'' [[spoiler: most prominently during the Betrayal which has Lelouch play up being heartless [[BreakHerHeartToSaveHer just to save Kallen's life]] as he sees no way out]] despite how obvious they are.

* Early in the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' Manga, Mokuba is like this. He often challenged Yugi to games with dangerous stakes that he rigged in his favor. But he was a bad liar ''and'' a bad bluffer, making it easy for Yugi to tell the games were rigged and exactly ''how'' Mokuba was rigging them. For instance, right before the "Death T" arc, Mokuba plays "Russian Roulette Buffet" with Yugi and Jonouchi, a game consisting of a spinning table, and six plates of food, two of which have poison; to which only Mokuba has the antidote. It's rigged, of course (Jonouchi is poisoned on the first spin), as Mokuba is controlling where the spin lands with a syrup bottle -- and ''empty'' syrup bottle -- next to him. This -- along with his lame excuse as to why it's empty and the fact that Mokuba doesn't seem worried at all -- tips Yugi off quickly to how he's doing it, and he wins by tying his Puzzle to the table for the final spin, breaking the bottle with it; having to depend solely on luck, Mokuba ends up with the second poisoned dish and loses.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** In ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', as trying to convince Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} that she is Kryptonian, Psi reveals her real name Gayle Marsh. Characters/{{Batgirl}} quickly points out that is not a Kryptonian name when stating her story does not hold up.

*** In the recent TournamentArc, Luffy was supposed to conceal his identity while fighting. He wasn't simply bad at lying, but forgot he was supposed to do it every couple of minutes. Cue his new battle cry: "This is a normal punch!" It's telling that, in a universe where Paper Thin Disguises work on everyone but the person's closest friends (and sometimes even then), Luffy's denial fooled absolutely no one.

** Dr. Agnes Jurati acknowledges that she's a terrible liar, which is why she told Commodore Oh everything about her conversations with Jean-Luc Picard while she was being interrogated.

This page, [[IHaveThisFriend if it were about]] Bad Liars, would say that sometimes, but never for comedic effect, a character is unable to lie in a convincing way and comes up with really silly lies that fool no one. It would not point out that children are especially prone to it, because once they get over [[ChildrenAreInnocent their innocent]] [[CannotTellALie inability]] they have little practice. It would not talk about [[PinocchioNose physical tics that give away liars]] either. And it would ''especially'' never say that this is a reason why KeepingSecretsSucks, because keeping secrets is cool. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle But this page]] ''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle isn't]]'' [[SelfDemonstratingArticle about Bad Liars, so it won't. Seriously.]]

* In ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'', Jara is an awful liar. She denies that she tried to coerce [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] into sleeping with her, but her inability to stick to her own story means no one believes her.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]]: Martha is so stunned at the sight of Professor Yana's pocket watch, which is actually a [[GadgetWatch Chameleon Arch]], a device that Time Lords can use as a SoulJar, that she does a very bad job of convincing Yana that it's really, honestly, absolutely ''not'' important and that she's ''never'' seen it before.

* The titular [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Venture Brothers]] are a prime example.

* Socrates in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Whom Gods Destroy", Garth's lover Marta was a pathological liar (likely one of the reasons she was in the insane asylum where most of the episode took place). She even went so far as to quote the poetry of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, claiming it was her own work. Not even Garth, who was [[AxeCrazy much more insane]] than she was, believed a word she said. (You still kind of have to feel sorry for her [[BlofeldPloy given what he did to her later]], though...)
** Kirk has a many great qualities, charm, quick thinking etc., but when he hasn't had any time to come up with a good lie, he's helplessly awkward. The footnote in the ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' boils down to he'd want sex more often than seven years, and then there's that whole "accident with a rice-picker" business.

* In an episode of ''Series/StarkRavingMad'' it's revealed that lying makes Henry so nervous that he starts speaking in a Daffy Duck-esque voice. Ian helps him prepare for a situation where he has to lie by drawing on Henry's experience as an actor in college: by rehearsing lies before hand, Henry can then lie convincingly (albeit in a somewhat hammy fashion).

Hawk and Cohn have remarked that Tim is awful at lying.

*** Louis is unable to fool the mortician that his daughter has a fatal heart condition. The mortician senses that something isn't right, so he demands that they leave the premises.

** Throughout series one he keeps [[FriendshipDenial denying being (best) friends]] with [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Crowley]], liking him, and at some point even knowing him. He has got [[DatingCatwoman his reasons]], but still...
-->'''An Actor:''' ''(to Aziraphale, who's standing right next to Crowley)'' And what does your friend think?
-->'''Aziraphale:''' Oh, he is ''not'' my friend. We've never met before. We don't know each other.
-->'''Crowley:''' ''(amused)'' I think you should get on with the play.
** Episode 4 of season 2 gives us this hilarious scene when [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon Shax]] confronts him about the whereabouts of Gabriel and Aziraphale [[BlatantLies outright denies knowing him]], ''his boss'':
-->'''Aziraphale:''' I'm afraid I have no idea what you are talking about. Nor where this angel Gabriel - [[ObfuscatingStupidity who I've never heard of]] - might be.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon}}'': Candace is known for being a terrible liar. When she returns home the morning after she stays at a hotel with her boyfriend, her father questions her whereabouts, she gets flustered and claims she spent the night at her friend's house watching "that one Leonardo Di Caprio movie". Her lie quickly unravels when she's unable to specify a movie.

* Nahman of the LetsPlay/GIProz has shown to not be a very good liar, at least in his videos.