Would this be an example for a blatant lie?
In the film, Provoked, Sheila Ahluwalia (Kiranjit's mother-in-law and Deepak's mom) is brought to the court to testify for Kiranjit. She makes up lies like her being arrogant and ordering Deepak around like a servant, when this was not true at all. One solicitor asked if she ever saw her son abusing Kiranjit. We are shown a flashback of Kiranjit being choked by Deepak after he got angry at her for calling him at work, and Sheila is stopping him from choking Kiranjit. In the present, Sheila says "No, I see nothing."
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"Run (or go) I'll be right behind you" should be a sub trope of blatent lies. This has been used a lot when a charater wants another charater to get out of harms way before making some sort of heroic sacrifice.
Star wars rebels Kanan's master tells him that before getting cut down by clone troopers
Kanan tells the rest of the crew of the ghost before getting captured
You could probablly fill a page with the amount of times a variant of that quote has been used.
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Where would this example fit in?:
The wiki for School Days states that Episode 12 of the anime is ""[...]a happy-go-lucky slice of life anime was so brimming with romance and love that it offended many Japanese people, because it reminded themselves of how unlucky they are, so many old fogies protested the anime
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Anyone who knows about the series knows that is not the case.
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The Not Real Life folder starts with "This kind of lie has never actually worked in Real Life. Therefore, what follows are all aversions and subversions." Nearly all the following examples are straight. Is the first part a self demonstrating example, or should any straight real life examples be removed?
What's the difference between this and Suspiciously Specific Denial? We seem to have blurred the line.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial is accidental on the liar's part, for one thing. Second, Blatant Lies usually require Implausible Deniability.
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Uh, it might just be me remembering wrong, but that image looks like it came from The Oatmeal.
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Things Bears Love is created by The Oatmeal, far as I can tell.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
I removed this example:
- It seems that Homer lied, at least, eleven times in the mortage document's because They were part of an unique web of lies
This about close to be separated into multiple pages?
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Just wanted to say...
Never change the names for the categories unless absolutely necessary. The Real Life 'name' -whatever you call it, of the folder, is absolutely hilarious.
Mirroring the disclaimers...AHAHAHA.
Whomever put that edit in, kudos.
Bizarre has a recurring sketch called "Byner Originals" in which show host John Byner would claim to be introducing some new comedy creation - Boy John, Johnny Jackson - that were blatant ripoffs of actual personalities of the day which would prompt producer Bob Einstein to interrupt the sketch, calmly berate Byner, and then suffer a litany of insults in return. In one episode, they blatantly rip off a skit that the show did only 3 years earlier.
Original Sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN4UMwvrgpA
Blatant ripoff skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrNng5QesJg
Is the Frank Skinner thing deliberate? Because that amazing Mock the Week zinger comes from Patrick Kielty, not him.
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Statler And Waldorf stinger: Should it be moved back, or is the current one fine?
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
I propose changing the trope image (which isn't so much Blatant Lies as a mistranslation) to the famous "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" painting by Réné Magritte. It's a painting of a pipe.
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That's more Exact Words than Blatant Lies, as Magritte's explanation, I believe, is that it isn't a pipe. It's a painting of a pipe.
I propose this image:
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Misuse
, started by Linhasxoc on Jun 23rd 2011 at 10:04:27 PM
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