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* In ''Film{{ManOnFire}}'', a burned-out intelligence operative becomes a bodyguard to a wealthy executive's little girl. After she is kidnapped for ransom, he interrogates one of the girl's captors, promising that they will not be harmed. When the kidnapper reveals what they know, the bodyguard informs the other kidnappers that the promise was not true, and executes one kidnapper. This greatly enhances the cooperativeness of the remaining kidnapper.

As well, an {{antihero}} may utter this phrase, particularly if they have promised the bad guy, such as an abductor, they won't harm him if he tells them where the victim is hidden. One the anti-hero is confident they know what they need to know, they may utter the phrase.

-->'''Caulder:''' Oh, and that medicine you took was not the antidote. Hello? Can you hear me? Mr. Mayor? ...[[CatchPhrase Fascinating]].

* "What? I'm evil. I lied." is a RunningGag / CatchPhrase for most of the villains in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft: Brood War'', and the main reason Kerrigan really works as a villain.

* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWarsDaysOfRuin'': Caulder/Stolos employs this in response to [[StrawmanPolitical The Mayor's]] protests that the former promised the civilians food, supplies and a cure to TheVirus they're infected with if they [[spoiler:handed over [[MysteriousWaif Isabella/Catleia]]]]. He then tops it off by revealing that the medicine sample he'd just handed over to the Mayor as a gesture of goodwill (which he'd immediately taken), well:

-->'''Wordsworth''': Uh, Chauncey, you promised I could deliver my extended comprehensive lecture about the significance of honesty!\\
'''Chauncey''': I did?\\
'''Wordsworth''': Yes.\\
'''Chauncey''': I lied. ''(looks to camera, fart sound plays)''
* Used in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Shadows", though not in a sinister way. Mulder lies to the doctors who called him, saying he can't help them, as he's never seen anything like their case before. He was lying, though given that the team that requested his help were stingy on the details, it was more of a snarky revenge.

'''Mulder:''' I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation.

* ''And Hell Followed After Him'' has Ranma does this to Mousse. [[DraggedOffToHell After being sent to hell by Cologne and his rivals]], tortured for 100 years (10 on the outside), Ranma returns as the ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' to exact bloody vengeance. After [[AnArmAndALeg de-legging]] Mousse and fighting his way through Hotel Moscow, the Chinese Triad and Roanapur's most lethal assassins (Revy and Eda included), he finally has the Amazon-turned-hitman at his mercy and decides to [[Film/{{Darkman}} channel his inner Peyton Westlake]].

* ''And Hell Followed After Him'' has Ranma does this to Mousse. [[DraggedDownToHell After being sent to hell by Cologne and his rivals]], tortured for 100 years (10 on the outside), Ranma returns as the ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' to exact bloody vengeance. After [[AnArmAndALeg de-legging]] Mousse and fighting his way through Hotel Moscow, the Chinese Triad and Roanapur's most lethal assassins (Revy and Eda included), he finally has the Amazon-turned-hitman at his mercy and decides to [[Film/{{Darkman}} channel his inner Peyton Westlake]].

'''Matrix:''' [[{{Pun}} I let]] [[ObligatoryJoke him]] [[ BondOneLiner go]].

'''Matrix:''' [[{{Pun}} I let him go]].

* Caulder/Stolos employs this in ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'' in response to [[StrawmanPolitical The Mayor's]] protests that the former promised the civilians food, supplies and a cure to TheVirus they're infected with if they [[spoiler:handed over [[MysteriousWaif Isabella/Catleia]]]]. He then tops it off by revealing that the medicine sample he'd just handed over to the Mayor as a gesture of goodwill (which he'd immediately taken), well:

* After an "unsupervised" test early in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', [=GLaDOS=] admits that she lied about it being unsupervised. Then she promises to stop [[UnusualEuphemism enhancing the truth]] "in three... two... ''[[LostInTransmission (static)]]''"

** In "Officer Blue, in order to get a murder confession Aiden resorts to this in a pizza shop that's a front for money laundering.

-->'''Reverend Mother:'''That is not a person you can hide. That is a conspicuous person, designed to stick out.\\

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Lord Kayneth is given a geas, in which it states that he and his wife shall not be harmed by Kiritsugu in any way should he accept the conditions, which is to have his Servant commit suicide. [[spoiler:Lord Kayneth, who was dealt a grievous wound in a former battle, accepts. After the death of his Servant, Lord Kayneth and his wife are shot dead by Maiya, a henchman of Kiritsugu, who is not covered by his geas.]]

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Quinella motivates her henchman Chudelkin by swearing an oath to the goddess Stacia that if he can defeat the heroes, she will have sex with him. She has no intention of honoring her oath and points out that she doesn't believe in Stacia, so her oath is meaningless.

** He tricks an evil former empress trying to take back the throne from her sister by promising to abduct said sister, but instead takes one of her sister's body guards for her psychic abilities.

'''Apocalypse:''' I LIED.

* A heartwarming variation occurs in the play ''Mass Appeal'', in which Catholic priest Father Farley mentors Mark, a young, progressive deacon who has earned more than a few side-eyes for his non-traditional beliefs. When Mark is first assigned to Father Farley, Farley tells Mark that the local monsignor forced the arrangement on him, but later admits that he actually asked to mentor Mark because he believed the Church needed progressive thinkers.[[note]]When the play was adapted into a film in 1980, this element was dropped due to the fact that the conversation between Farley and the monsignor was actually depicted, making it impossible to keep it as a secret leading up to TheReveal.[[/note]]

** When Redcloak admits what the ritual to be used on the Snarl does. [[spoiler: [[JustBetweenYouAndMe Right before murdering Tsukiko.]]

* Big Mama from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' doesn't so much ''lie'', but rather ''alter the terms of an agreement at the last second'' to benefit her alone, which she does often when making deals with her ex Splinter and the Turtles.

-->'''Rapunzel:''' But you said you-!
-->'''Varian:''' Rapunzel, I ''used'' you! I begged you and this kingdom for help! Everyone turned their back on me, it has to be this way!

* ''Literature/ArtemisFowlTheOpalDeception'': Opal Koboi regarding the explosive strapped to Julius Root supposedly having had a "sweet spot", which, if Holly had hit it accurately, would have saved Root's life. There was no sweet spot, and the bomb went off seconds later. This served the dual purpose of [[KickTheDog screwing with Holly by forcing her to shoot her oldest friend]] ''and'' tricking her into framing herself for his murder on camera.

* Used word for word by Shrapnel after he takes false information from an Autobot traitor and proceeds to fry him in Creator/MarvelComic's ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}''.

** Heard in first season finale. After trapping his [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive]] father Derek Powers, who Terry wanted to bring to justice for murdering his father, his son Paxton delivers with particularly exaggerated suaveness:

Stock Phrase uttered in response to YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo or a similar expression of shock at a broken promise of leniency or forgiveness. Spoken by the villain (or a particularly [[SociopathicHero unmerciful]] [[AntiHero hero]]) just before killing the hostage, blowing up the DoomedHometown, using the DoomsdayDevice, or some other act of merciless badness. Sometimes spoken just after, with a smirk and a smoking gun. This action is commonly done by NeutralEvil characters.

Generally speaking, anyone who says this is [[KickTheDog lining up that puppy between the goal posts]] or even [[MoralEventHorizon about to perform their defining act of depravity]] and has, in any case, revealed their cruelest colors. Expect them to rub it in with EvilGloating, asking the heroes "[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Did you actually believe me when I said...]]"

For some reason, [[HeroBall this often seems to take the heroes by surprise]], even when the speaker has an extensive history of villainy. This is most likely because VillainsNeverLie.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/XMen X-Men: The Animated Series]]'' four-partner "Beyond Good and Evil", Apocalypse gets in this habit.