History Main / UnreliableExpositor

* [[StarWars Obi Wan Kenobi]]'s original statement to Luke about the fate of his father is extremely misleading, and ends up becoming the TropeNamer for FromACertainPointOfView. This makes Obi-Wan very much one of these.

** An AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Han Solo's claim the Millenium Falcon "made the Kessel run in [[UnitConfusion less than 12 parsecs]]".

* [[StarWars Obi Wan Kenobi]]'s original statement to Luke about the fate of his father is extremely misleading, and ends up becoming the TropeNamer for FromACertainPointOfView (before it was renamed). This makes Obi-Wan very much one of these.

-->--[[MrExposition Sosuke Aizen]], ''{{Bleach}}''

Examples should be confined to exposition that is later proved to be flat out wrong, or DidNotDoTheResearch-level science in the mouth of somebody who either is willfully simplifying or is a liar, fanatic, or otherwise fundamentally unreliable.

* Creationists tend to do this a lot.

** An AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Han Solo's claim the Millenium Falcon "made the Kessel run in [[UnitConfusion * In ''IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Walter Donovan:

less than 12 parsecs]]".

* IMDB has a whole category for these things (and closely related other errors) in its Goofs section, "Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers)".

** An AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Han Solo's claim the Millenium Falcon "made the Kessel run in [[UnitConfusion less than 12 parsecs]]".
* ''BatmanBeyond'' has an interesting, possibly unintentional, case: One character claims that psychic powers are a result of being able to use the remaining NinetyPercentOfYourBrain; but that character is an avowed Psychic Supremacist criminal foot soldier (in other words, exactly the wrong person to be giving scientific exposition).
* In ''IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Walter Donovan:

* ''DarkerThanBlack'' provides a healthy dose of ExpoSpeak early on, from a scientist who studies things that are under TheMasquerade, no less. The next thing we see? Our expo-speaker did not even knew [[spoiler: who she ''herself'' is]] and presumably was not allowed to have any really sensitive information at all. So, have a happy dish of common oversimplifications and [[LaserGuidedAmnesia tampered memories]]. You're on your own.
** Hell, 90% of everything ''anyone'' says in the first two episodes is misleading at best, and BlatantLies at worst. We're looking at you, [[ObfuscatingStupidity Hei]].

* Anytime we get any exposition on {{Lost}} about anything related to the Island and its various mysteries, it turns out to be a case of this.
** Mostly because Ben, one of the people who knows the most about the island, is a [[ConsummateLiar lying liar]].
* As seen in the page quote, half the things [[BigBad Sosuke Aizen]] of {{Bleach}} says are lies. The other half are half-truths and AGodAmI BS. Everything he ''doesn't'' say is a lie. His power even has the ability to alter all of your perceptions, or, ''lie''.
* Applied in layers in ''{{Naruto}}'', where Itachi provides exposition about himself and [[spoiler:[[BigBad Madara]]]], who provides contradicting exposition about Itachi and himself (as well as quite a few other things later on). Given later exposition from people who seem to be reliable ([[spoiler:Minato, Kushina, and Danzo, though the later by accident]]), it currently seems that each was telling the truth about each other but lying about themself.
* An in-universe example in GoodOmens, where [[spoiler: Agnes Nutter, who predicts the future, turns out to be wrong. She acted as an expositor for generations of witches.]]
** It's implied that this was intentional. "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path," and all that.
* The Codex of MassEffect. While it has a wealth of information that provides good background information on TheVerse, certain details sometimes contradict what the player has seen or done.

* In TheBoondocks, Grandad's stories about his life experiences are often questionable and he tends to lie to try to get out of just about anything.
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* In TheBoondocks, Grandad's stories about his life experiences are often questionable and he tends to lie totry to get out of just about anything.

* In the Boondocks, Grandad's stories about his life experiences are often questionable.

-->"How amusing. ... You say that what I'm saying now is a lie... ''yet what I said in the past is not?''"
-->--[[MrExposition Sosuke Aizen]], ''{{Bleach}}''

-->"How amusing. You yourself said that it's a lie... that you don't believe 'something like that'. You say that what I'm saying now is a lie... ''yet what I said in the past is not?''"