Basic Trope: Somebody admits they lied about something they said previously.
- Straight: "You Said You Would Let Them Go!" "I Lied."
- Exaggerated: Everything the hero and villain says is a lie, even the things that are true.
- Downplayed: The lie was already known to everybody but the hero until that exact moment.
- Justified: Lying is fairly easy to do, and the truth almost always sucks.
- Inverted: "Alright, a deal's a deal."
- Subverted: The villain lies, but it turns out that lie was in fact a lie, and therefore true.
- Double Subverted: Except it's not. He lied when said that the lie was a lie.
- Parodied: The villain's lie is totally transparent or just plain bad.
- Zig Zagged: The hero can tell when someone is lying, but the villain is really good at it.
- Averted: Lying is strenuously avoided in favor of soul-crushing candidness.
- Enforced: The villain can't stop lying even if he wants to.
- Lampshaded: When the hero objects to the lie, the villain responds with a shrug.
- Invoked: The villain lies to get what he wants.
- Exploited: The villain banks on the hero believing him since he's obviously telling the truth.
- Defied: No one is capable of lying in any way.
- Discussed: The villain explains his personal distinction between a lie and a "lie".
- Conversed: "Why is it I'm always the one getting dinged for lying? You've done your fair share."
- Implied: The villain has his hands clapsed tight or behind his back when he speaks his lie.
- Deconstructed:
- Because of all the lies, the hero no longer responds to the villain with anything but brute force, given that he's a liar and will only deceive if given another chance.
- The villain at bottom can't tell if what he said was a lie or not.
- The lie begins to spiral out of control as soon as it's uttered.
- The lie is one of omission rather than commission; the villain never meant to mislead at all.
- Reconstructed:
- The villain learns to wise up and tell an occasional truth in between lies, if only to avoid a pummeling.
- The hero and villain set up a tenuous Heigelian dialectic to try and discern the truth.
- Eventually, the lie stabilizes into something approximating the truth, saving the villain from a hiding.
- The matter of the misleading is cleared up by a rapid backpedal, technically a second lie, that won't be discovered until the villain takes his final leave.
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