History Main / ConsummateLiar

* In ''WebAnimation/RedVersusBlue'', [[ArtificialIntelligence Gamma]] is this. He lies in pretty much all of his scenes, manipulating the UNSC's operatives to fulfill his plans. He acts as a FalseFriend to [[TheProtagonist Church]] while psychologically torturing him, inflames [[ActionGirl Carolina's]] ego to turn her against her teammates, and even successfully manipulates the religion of an entire alien race to control them. The only people he ''might'' be telling the truth to are [[VillainousFriendship Wyoming]] and [[BigBad Sigma]], and even then it's ambiguous.

** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Tsumugi Shirogane]] is a far more dangerous example. Prior to being exposed as the mastermind, she deceives everybody into thinking Kaede killed Rantaro; not even [[LivingLieDetector Kokichi]] caught on. The epilogue even incentives the player to question all the statements she made in the final trial.

* Steele, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'', is able to lie effectively enough that the entire town is sold and considers him the town hero. The only one who's able to see through his lies is Jenna, and that's likely because she knows he's a selfish GloryHound and has no interest in him, and Balto, because Steele lets him see what's BeneathTheMask by tormenting him all the time. Naturally, neither of them is believed when they tell others Steele is a liar.

** Lelouch Lamperouge/Vi Britannia. While a lot of his lies and secrets ''do'' eventually get found out, he still manages to be incredibly convincing. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, he's lying to ''the entire world'']]. There is only ONE person who he never lies to [[spoiler:(C.C.)]] in the entire anime.

* [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugLilaRossi Lila Rossi]] from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' is one of these. In her first appearance alone, she successfully manages to convince the class that she's traveled around the world and [[CelebrityLie met various celebrities]], and is able to convince Adrien that she's descended from a fox-themed heroine (aided by a necklace that looks very similar to the actual Fox Miraculous). After said first episode, she becomes an ArchEnemy to Marinette (in both forms) and swears [[EvilIsPetty she will destroy all of her relationships and everything she loves in revenge]]. Then season 5 reveals that she has had multiple fake identities this whole time, "Lila Rossi" being one of them.

** Tyrion notes that making honest feelings do dishonest work is one of Cersei's many gifts.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': With Light Yagami's track record, the only way to keep this entry to a reasonable length would be to list only the characters he failed to fool completely. You can count them on one hand: [[spoiler:L, Rem, Mello, and Near. Additionally, Aizawa, Ide, and Mogi too become suspicious of Light, but only after Near has manipulated them and revealed the secret of the fake ''Death Note'' rules.]]

* As a sociopath well-practiced at fitting in, ''Series/{{Dexter}}'''s a decent liar himself, but his victim in "An Inconvenient Lie"(2x03), a car salesman/murderer, lies so effortlessly that even Dexter is amazed and impressed.

-->-- '''[[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Elim Garak]]''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E14InPurgatorysShadow In Purgatory's Shadow]]"

** Celestia Ludenberg from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' is this, as a Super High School Level Gambler with the nickname "Queen of Liars". [[spoiler: This leads to her managing to manipulate Yamada into killing Ishimaru before killing him herself. It was only a small verbal slip picked up by Naegi that turned the case against her.]]
** Depending on how the player wants to play, the main character can be this in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''. In addition, TheRival character of this game (Kokichi Oma) is also a huge liar himself. [[spoiler: To the point where his ThanatosGambit is referred to as his "last lie", and it's a big one: it deceives even the nigh-omniscient ''Monokuma'', and none of the students [[GoodAllAlong initially]] have any idea whether his FinalSpeech (that he hates the Killing Game and wants it to end at any cost) were truth or a lie either. The protagonist says he might as well be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of lying.]]

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': Zero, a.k.a. [[spoiler:Akane Kurashiki (June)]], can feign concern for [[spoiler:the man who not only tried to kill her, but who she is trying to kill (or at least ruin) herself]]. This facade is absolutely flawless, and doesn't break once during the story.

* A crossover between ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' noted that Batman's heartbeat never changes based on his thoughts or intentions, leaving Daredevil unable to tell if he's bluffing or what he's thinking. On the other hand, it also makes it ''really'' easy for Daredevil to identify Batman's secret identity, as his heartbeat is described as "wardrum" and slightly slower than it should be.

%%* ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' has Zaniel Templar. Comicbook/{{Superboy}} acknowledges it but knows he has to play along.

* Two versions of this shows up in the ''ComicBook/{{Outsiders|2003}}''. When trying to figure out which of the members is a traitor, Arsenal hooks them up to lie detectors. Nightwing points out that he's more than capable of beating a lie detector (to which Arsenal replies, "Not this one.") and alien member Starfire is completely immune. Arsenal uses his massive connections to procure an alien ''torture device'' that he modifies to work as a lie detector. Two other members of the team aren't even questioned because one is a robot and the other doesn't have a bloodstream. [[spoiler:The robot turns out to be a ManchurianAgent whose "Indigo" personality was a mask; her true self is actually ''[[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]]'' version 5.0 from the future.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': In ''The Trial of Venom'', a crossover between ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'' and ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', Eddie Brock's symbiote seems to have died, and Eddie convinces everyone -- psychologists, polygraph operators, and even Matt (who is acting as his lawyer) -- that it's dead and that he's no longer a threat. Matt even manages to get him acquitted and released on an InsanityDefense. (HollywoodLaw applies here.) In truth, the symbiote is inside his body, keeping him calm and controlling his vital signs to fool the polygraph and even Matt's super-sensitive hearing, without even ''knowing'' that Matt is Daredevil. He might never have been found out unless a still-suspicious Spidey decided "just to make sure", and provoked a heated argument with Eddie, making him angry until the symbiote emerged and he gave himself away.

* '''Just Too Alien''': An entire race of people (usually aliens) just happen to be immune to whatever the LivingLieDetector's ability is. Often not quite as disastrous as the lone exceptional Consummate Liar, because once you figure out that the [[Franchise/StarTrek Ferengi]] are immune to your telepathy, you quit trying to use it on them to gather information. Note that being immune to one type of truth-telling might not make a race immune to ALL types (just because you can resist telepathy doesn't mean you can necessarily resist some kind of AppliedPhlebotinum TruthSerum).

* The alter-ego of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' is lawyer Matt Murdock. Matt [[LivingLieDetector can usually tell when someone is lying]] by listening to their heartbeat. He agrees to defend an accused man because the man's heartbeat does not change when he claims to be innocent of the crime. After Matt successfully defends the man, he thanks Matt for helping him get away with a crime for which he was actually guilty. It turns out that he had a pacemaker, so his heartbeat didn't change when Matt questioned him prior to taking him on. This twist was also done in [[Film/Daredevil2003 the movie]] but with a witness rather than the defendant. For some reason, Matt openly reveals his super-hearing when he ambushes the guy to requestion him and figure out why his heart rate isn't changing. In ''[[ComicBook/MarvelNoir Daredevil Noir]]'', Matt's senses never detect dishonesty from Eliza, and even when he's spying on her, she reads as being uniquely devoid of internal conflict, which turns out to be because [[spoiler:as this continuity's version of Bullseye, she's a [[TheSociopath sociopath]]]].

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lestat de Lioncourt is adept at deception. It ranges from something very simple like lying by omission to something very elaborate like [[FakingTheDead faking the death]] of his mistress (the "evidence" he leaves behind is convincing enough to the police that her demise is reported on the front page of a New Orleans newspaper). His vampire daughter Claudia notes that "It's [Lestat's] nature to lie."

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lestat de Lioncourt is adept at deception. It ranges from something very simple like lying by omission to something very elaborate like [[FakingTheDead faking the death]] of his mistress (the "evidence" he leaves behind is convincing enough to the police that her demise is reported on the front page of a New Orleans newspaper).

* Two versions of this shows up in the ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'' comic. When trying to figure out which of the members is a traitor, Arsenal hooks them up to lie detectors. Nightwing points out that he's more than capable of beating a lie detector (to which Arsenal replies, "Not this one.") and alien member Starfire is completely immune. Arsenal uses his massive connections to procure an alien ''torture device'' that he modifies to work as a lie detector. Two other members of the team aren't even questioned because one is a robot and the other doesn't have a bloodstream. [[spoiler:The robot turns out to be a ManchurianAgent whose "Indigo" personality was a mask; her true self is actually ''[[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]]'' version 5.0 from the future.]]