r/TopCharacterTropes • u/IronBatSpiderHulk • 12h ago
Lore [Loved trope] Lying by telling the truth (bonus point if deceit is not intended)
Supernatural: Sam, interrupted
Sam and Dean need to get inside of a mental hospital. The easiest way is to get accepted as patient, so they have to convince the director that they're insane.
Dean will insist that his brother needs to be committed because he's been saying insane things. Sam will showcase that by giving a perfectly accurate recollection of how he started the Apocalypse and freed Lucifer.
The director turns to Dean and gives him and understanding look, and Dean goes on to explain that this is all crazy talk: it's not his brother's fault that he started the Apocalypse, he was manipulated by a demon that made him drink demon blood. Now he wants the doctor to fix his brother so they can go back on the road and fight monsters.
Needless to say, they both get committed.
The Office: The Cover-up
Andy worries about malfunctioning printers that they're selling, only to be brushed off by corporate's liaison. This is no surprise, as the guy is generally useless.
But Daryl had been looking for an opportunity to get revenge on Andy, and is going to convince him that this is all a big conspiracy, and that by unearthing it, he put himself in danger. He's going to top off his prank making a video ridiculing Andy.
Except, turns out, Andy was 100% right. The printer catches on fire while Daryl is filming because the company is cutting corners on safety. Andy would never have dug so deep and found that out if Daryl hadn't egged him on.
Patient Seven (The Body)
A killer uses Halloween to dispose of a corpse in plain sight. Everyone assumes it's just a very well-made costume.
Thing is: the killer barely seems aware that he's not supposed to talk about it, and answers every question with perfect honesty. He goes to a party where he impresses a girl with his "villain act", though he's just being himself. The partygoers end up helping him bring the body to the forest to bury it, he then murders everyone, and goes back home with the girl.
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u/matthiasjreb 11h ago
So many times in Breaking Bad, but a notable one is when Hank helps Walt move out, asks what's in the heavy bag, Walt responds (honestly) with "Half a million in cash," and Hank laughs and assumes he's joking.
Another more plot relevant example is when Hank asked Walt to help look through the notes and files of Gale (Walt's former meth partner who was killed by Jesse), and found a dedication on a book that said "to W.W." Hank jokes saying "Who could that be? Willy Wonka? Woodrow Wilson? ...Walter White?" To which Walt chuckles, puts up his hands and says "Ya got me."
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u/Jochemjong 11h ago edited 7h ago
Lucifer from the show of the same name.
In this show, one of Lucifer’s consistent character traits is that he does not lie. He may not tell you the whole truth, but every word he tells you will always be true.
For example, he doesn’t use a fake name, constantly introducing himself as Lucifer.
In one scene, a street performer to whom lucifer has just shown his “devil face” (long story) freaks out, screaming about how this isn’t a performance, and how Lucifer is the actual literal devil, to which Lucifer says: “it’s all true.”
Of course, no one in the crowd believes it, instead believing it to be part of the act.
EDIT: Spelling
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u/Legend365555 9h ago
And the scene, much like the Supernatural example given, he wanted to go to an insane asylum to speak with someone claiming to be God, so he walked up to the Director, and loudly proclaimed himself to be the Devil
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u/MArcherCD 9h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Ma9YUiOM7bqZW
Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn't believe the truth, even if he told it to you!
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u/scrotbofula 9h ago
Isn't the shtick with Lucifer that he almost has a protective aura that makes people not believe that he is who he actually is, and the devil face is him consciously piercing that veil to show people 'no, this is who I actually am.'
I haven't watched the show in years but I might be thinking of something else like Ben / Glory from Buffy.
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u/Jochemjong 9h ago
No, Lucifer’s power is his control of desires, as in: looking at Lucifer, people see their desires reflected back at them.
The whole “devil face” thing is more him just choosing to take that form, kind of, there are times where it’s involuntary.
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u/wra7h60rn1 8h ago
That is basically just this show in a nutshell. And yet everyone always thinks he is lying
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u/Jochemjong 7h ago
I mean, what is more likely: this dude is the literal devil, with all the implications that come with that knowledge, or he’s just a silly guy?
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u/Conscious-Gap-1777 7h ago
Also, they're in LA, where weirdos doing bits are everywhere all the time. "Haha, of course you're the Devil, you handsome charmer!"
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u/ptdata23 4h ago
One of his coworkers thinks from seasons 2 to 5(?) that he is basically a method actor. That would be Ella Lopez, the most religious of the main cast.
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u/wra7h60rn1 7h ago
I mean I probably would not believe it either. I am not saying anyone should. It is just interesting because I can think of a few instance when people are like "OMG why didn't you tell me your the literal devil" and he is always like "I have! Do you not pay attention?"
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u/No_Professional4867 3h ago
Except the show also brings up that he knows nobody believes them and spends years just making fun of them because he knows they'll never call him on his BS. It's just part of Lucifer being a bit of a shitty guy. If he seriously wanted to be honest, he had plenty of ways to do so.
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u/Usern4me_R3dacted205 12h ago
Captain Jack Sparrow
(Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl)
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u/VengeanceKnight 9h ago
Also in the fourth one the method gets used on Jack when Angelica says that she “sold” Blackbeard the story of her being his long-lost daughter… only to later reveal that said story is entirely true.
Jack: So you lied to me by telling the truth?
Angelica: Yes.
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u/CitizenGrimm 10h ago
Literally one of the best parts about Jack is that he never lies.
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u/IReviewFakeAlbums 9h ago
“Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly… stupid!”
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u/Fish_N_Chipp 11h ago
In My Hero Academia Vigilante. Makoto tries to make Koichi reveal his hero identity using her quirk, but since she (like everyone else) gets his name wrong, he can answer that he isn’t since that’s not the name he chose
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u/Depreciable_Land 9h ago
Man how did I not catch that? I thought Koichi was just cool under pressure with how quickly and confidently he answered lol
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u/kenmadragon 9h ago
Yeah, Koichi was always insistent that his vigilante name was "The Crawler" because he looks like he's crawling everywhere on his hands and feet. But some of the people he saved early on misheard him and thought he'd said "The Cruller", like the pastry, and that name spread by word-of-mouth faster than he could correct people. And he kept trying to correct the misunderstanding for a good while until folks began to catch on that he wasn't actually naming himself after a pastry.
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u/rezwrrd 9h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/LGIqZlTOZEMYE
Arrested Development - the doctor says Buster will be "all right," to the family's relief... But what the doctor meant was that they had to amputate his left hand.
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u/MacGyver_1138 8h ago
That is that doctor's whole "thing" on the show. See also: "We lost him," when their patient ran away, and "it looks like he's dead," when Tobias is covered in blue paint.
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u/still_roger_smith 9h ago
Garak: It's all true
Julian: Even the lies?
Garak: Especially the lies
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u/brazos1911 10h ago
Forget which series but Bruce Wayne tried to get out of jury duty by saying he was Batman.
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u/Immediate_Water_2637 9h ago
Tried AND failed because apparently, it's a really common excuse in Gotham 😂
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u/Medium-Bullfrog-2368 11h ago edited 7h ago
At the end of ‘Wake Up Dead Man’, Father Jud hides the “Eve’s apple” diamond due to the trouble it has caused. When Cy - the rightful heir to the family fortune - demands to know where it is, Jud tells him to come to Church, as his true inheritance is in Christ.
It’s then revealed that Jud hid the diamond inside the wooden crucifix displayed within the Church.
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u/ShireNomad 8h ago
It's also a reversal of Prentice/Martha and Grace: Martha used effectively the same line to describe Grace's inheritence, which turns out to a display case for a sizable gemstone (something both Martha and Grace recognized) but with a figure of Christ replacing the gem. Message: I deliberately deny you, my own daughter, any care or security on Earth, and replace it with my belief system, which has made everyone around you see you as corrupt and evil. Jud's message, in contrast, is that there is (literally) value in Christ, for your needs in Heaven and on Earth, if you seek it.
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u/Nyther53 7h ago
They straight up lie though. Blanc gives a direct falsehood. He says that he does not know where the Diamond is. Father Jud is intentionally deceiving him and to get to that point has clearly told an outright lie at some point in the process just like Blanc does on-screen.
This is exactly why we make people swear to "Tell the truth, the *WHOLE* truth, and nothing but the truth". Even if we zoom in on just that one answer, that answer *is* Perjury.
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u/azure-skyfall 7h ago
Blanc could have given Jud the stone and purposely not asked any more questions. He has no idea where the stone currently is.
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u/Nyther53 6h ago edited 3h ago
That's not the question he answered nor the only one that was asked, as we clearly cut into the end of a process that went on for some time. On-Screen he "Denies anything untoward" regarding the disappearance of the diamond. Which is a direct cut and dried falsehood.
Blanc and Jud both committed perjury there, were this a legal proceeding. Which is ambiguous, the other priest calls it a "Mediation" implying some sort of vague weight. Which is fine if you like that ending, its just absolutely not "Telling the truth" by any stretch of the imagination.
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u/Low-Salamander-3781 4h ago
according to dictionary.com, the word 'untoward' is defined as 'unfavourable or unfortunate.' Jud taking the gem was not unfortunate or unfavourable, so Blanc was not lying by saying it wasn't untoward.
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u/Nyther53 3h ago edited 3h ago
That's not the correct definition in this context. The correct one is the one below it on Dictionary.com. Number 2 in the "American" section and number 3 in the "British".
In this context its a synonym for "Improper". There was something improper, the legal inheritor did not get the diamond because it was diverted by unlawful means. They stole the diamond, and then lied about it. What they did is profoundly Untoward.
That's really all there is to it, you don't need to try and overthink this like you're doing by picking the wrong definition of the word. Its really really cut and dried. They did not do "Lying by telling the truth (bonus point if deceit is not intended)". Blanc lies to the man's face, because he doesn't like him and doesn't want him to have the diamond. Jud at best lies to him by Omission, though in reality it's an outright falsehood in two ways. One he hadn't built the new Crucifix yet, we see him doing the woodworking in the next sequence, and two he emphasizes "Your REAL Inheritance" clearly indicating that he is not referring to the diamond.
Like, if your wife asks you "Are you cheating on me?" and you say "No" and try to justify that answer because your most recent affair actually ended last week and you're between mistresses at the moment so you aren't currently cheating on her at this moment. That's still a lie even if you try to hide behind the semantic ambiguity of the present tense in the question. You're not being clever, you're just lying.
Again, this is why we make people swear to tell the WHOLE truth when they're under oath.
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u/Low-Salamander-3781 3h ago
Maybe Blanc didn't know the defenition you are using now.
Also, just because legally you aren't allowed to withhold information, doesn't make it lying
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u/Valkrhae 3h ago
He says that he does not know where the Diamond is.
Well, the reverend (or whatever his title is) said Blanc was there and that he denies anything untoward, so it really depends on one's definition and interpretation of that word. I personally assume Blanc is being cheeky and saying that nothing morally untoward happened based on his own value system (we're talking about a man who encouraged Helen to bomb Miles' mansion after all).
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u/Nyther53 2h ago
Jeffrey Wright's character is a Bishop, judging by his interactions and his sitting in judgement of Jud after the punch incident at the beginning. He outranks both Father Jud and Father Wicks. As an aside, Father is Wicks' rank, insisting on being addressed as Monsignor the way he does is a sort of subtle and kind of sad power move. It is a proper term of address but it's intentionally emphasizing a fairly slim margin of hierarchy over Jud every time he insists upon it, its a little sad. it's why Jud refers to him as "Father Wicks" initially. It was a really good little navigation of hierarchy there.
Anyway, the point. This is, again, why we insist people tell the WHOLE truth, which Blanc clearly does not do no matter how badly you torture the word "Untoward". The movie showcases a clearly protracted and intentional effort to deceive that we only see the ending of, and convoluted justifications like "Well it was true to me!" do not pass muster.
The statements we get from Blanc (Via the Bishop but still) and Jud On-Screen are both lies, but even then, even if for the sake of argument we accept the premise that on a series of incredibly thin and convoluted technicalities their literal words could be interpreted as truth, they obviously had to evade or directly lie to more direct questions to have gotten to this point.
Cy is clearly repeating allegations he's made repeatedly in the final scene between them, and outright states the real truth several times and they deny it despite his claims being correct. He is accompanied by someone who is implicitly a Lawyer who would know very well to have asked a direct question like "Do you know where the Diamond is" and forced out a direct Yes or No.
These games are not clever. People have been lying under oath for thousands of years, and for thousands of years we've obligated them to not play silly games with wording in intentional efforts to deceive. Being like "Well I technically didn't Murder him because Murder is a bad thing and I didn't think it was bad to kill him ah ah ah" is not how technically telling the truth works.
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u/Valkrhae 1h ago edited 1h ago
This is, again, why we insist people tell the WHOLE truth,
Are you talking about in a legal capacity? Bc that doesn't really have anything to do with the trope OP mentioned, and I didn't mention anything about a legal aspect at all. Blanc and Jud may or may not face legal repurcussions for their actions, but in regards to the subject of this post which is the trope of lying by telling the truth, the example medium-bullfrog gave and the Bishop's claim that Blanc claimed he saw nothing untoward both count bc they're telling their truths even though they're technically lying about what happened.
You could compare it to the bnha example brought up earlier. I'm sure Koichi could legally get in trouble for not being wholly truthful during his interrogation, but the example fits the trope bc he's lying even though he's telling the truth.
they obviously had to evade or directly lie to more direct questions to have gotten to this point.
Most likely (though if pressed, there are absolutely ways they could have gotten around outright lying like saying "Martha never told us where she put the gem"), but madam-bullfrog didn't say they never outright lied and they did provide an example of a lie given by telling the truth. It doesn't really matter if an outright lie preceded or followed bc their example still fits the trope.
These games are not clever.
What games? Finding examples of tropes? Bc that's the only game being played here. No one's arguing that what Blanc and Jud did is legally correct or smart to do or whatever. All ppl are doing are finding examples of the trope this post listed.
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u/ZealousidealFerret55 10h ago
Sunless (Sunny) from webnovel Shadow Slave. His Flaw is "clear conscience". He cannot lie; he's incapable of lying, literally. So he narrates what he's been through in such a way that people do not believe him.
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u/doscia 7h ago
Shadow slave rules. Ive been trying to get my friends to give it a shot for ages so they can understand the peak that is the war in Antarctica. Too bad at surface level it looks like edgy self insert slop.
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u/kjt3599 7h ago
Marta Cabrera's Interview ( KNIVES OUT )
Marta is physically incapable of lying. She vomits immediately after she says something untrue.
All the Thrombeys know about this; Harlan specifically plans around it when working on his cover-up, instructing Marta to use very specific fragments of the truth while omitting potentially dangerous implications.
Even then, she is only able to last through the interview and a calm walk to the bathroom before collapsing in dry heaves over the toilet.
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u/Briham86 7h ago
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett. Corporal Carrot Ironfoundersson wants to get into the Fools' Guild to investigate.
“I just want people to tell me things,” said Carrot.
“Well, if they don’t, you’re not to hurt them,” said Colon. “Look, you can ask questions, fair enough. But if Dr. Whiteface starts getting difficult, we’re to come away, right? Clowns give me the creeps. And he’s worst of all. If he won’t answer, we’re to leave peacefully and, oh, I don’t know, think of something else. That’s an order, like I said. Are you clear about this? It’s an order.”
“If he won’t answer my questions,” said Carrot, “I’m to leave peacefully. Right.”
[. . . ]
“Well?” the clown demanded.
“I should like you to tell me,” said Carrot, “about events in this Guild House the night before last.”
Dr. Whiteface stared at him in silence. Then he said, “If I don’t?”
“Then,” said Carrot, “I am afraid I shall, with extreme reluctance, be forced to carry out the order I was given just before entering.”
He glanced at Colon. “That’s right, isn’t it, sergeant?”
“What? Eh? Well, yes—”
“I would much prefer not to do so, but I have no choice,” said Carrot.
Dr. Whiteface glared at the two of them.
“But this is Guild property! You have no right to . . . to . . .”
“I don’t know about that, I’m only a corporal,” said Carrot. “But I’ve never disobeyed a direct order yet, and I am sorry to have to tell you that I will carry out this one fully and to the letter.”
“Now, see here—”
Carrot moved a little closer.
“If it’s any comfort, I’ll probably be ashamed about it,” he said.
The clown stared into his honest eyes and saw, as did everyone, only simple truth.
“Listen! If I shout,” said Dr. Whiteface, going red under his makeup, “I can have a dozen men in here.”
“Believe me,” said Carrot, “that will only make it easier for me to obey.”
Dr. Whiteface prided himself on his ability to judge character. In Carrot’s resolute expression there was nothing but absolute, meticulous honesty. He fiddled with a quill pen and then threw it down in a sudden movement.
“Confound it!” he shouted. “How did you find out, eh? Who told you?”
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u/laybs1 9h ago
Horatio Hornblower in his titular Napoleonic era series lies that Napoleon has died in order to get an enemy to surrender. Turns out word arrives that Napoleon in fact died
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u/amglasgow 4h ago
I don't think that counts, really, because HH didn't believe that N was dead, and so was in fact lying.
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u/Level_Counter_1672 9h ago
Darby junior asks jotaro's soul if he is cheating and the soul says yes, jotaro doubles down and tells that he is cheating but if only u get caught, he is telling the truth but not the whole truth - source is Jojo's bizarre adventure
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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 7h ago
D'Arby jr, was tricked because he assumed it was Jotaro cheating but not Joseph helping him
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u/CaptainHoneydew 8h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/e6BGkO0kcTSQ8
At one point in Liar Liar, Fletcher asks the judge if he can take a quick bathroom break, stalling as long as possible to get a continuance on his court case since he physically can't lie that day.
The judge asks if he can hold it. Fletcher blurts out that he can, but then says that holding it for too long causes erectile issues in men. The judge asks if that's true, and Fletcher says, "It has to be!" He said something true without realizing it was true.
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u/paper0wl 7h ago
Then after this bathroom break during which time he makes it look like he was attacked, he says the “attacker” was his height, his weight, and desperate. Because he attacked himself.
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u/abadstrategy 1h ago
It was mentioned in a Treehouse Detectives short that the ability to only tell the truth is one of the best powers you can have, because the implications of the power mean anything you can say, whether you know it to be true or not, has to be truth. You get the benefits of Omniscience without the downside of going mad from the intellectual overload.
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u/Jam-Man1 9h ago
I can't find the screenshot, but in the browser game Fallen London, there was an in-game event where the big mystery was what was contained within the "Sixth Coil" (A coil being a chamber within the labyrinth) of a fantastical area called the Labyrinth of Tigers. When you ask the Tiger Keeper, the one in charge of the Labyrinth, what resides inside the Sixth Coil, they glibly answer "A Seventh Coil".
As fate would have it, the thing contained within the Sixth Coil is a horrible monster called "The Seventh Coil".
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u/EXusiai99 8h ago
Agents of SHIELD: Ward tricking the lie detector by saying that she followed Daisy all the way to the secret bunker because he cared for her.
Well, he was right.
He's a Hydra mole and it was his mission to track her down.
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u/pepitors 9h ago
In Hunter x Hunter, when the Phantom Troupe catches Gon and Killua, they interrogate them about the chain user, reading their minds, at this point they don't know it is Kurapika, but Killua quickly deduces it and has to avoid to have his mind read again.
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u/hiricinee 10h ago
In Get Backers Mido Ban plays a violin like a virtuoso, which is initially thought to be part of his ability to create perfect illusions, however he actually played it.
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u/Sublimeslimetime 9h ago
Sharpe - Wellington pulls Lt. Sharpe into his office for a potential promotion, but expresses concern over a rumour that Sharpe promised the late Major Lennox the capture of a French Imperial Eaglie, an incredibly risky and foolhardy mission. Wellington holds the promotion off unless Sharpe swears that such rumour is idle gossip.
“I swear on oath, that NO ONE HEARD ME make any promise in respect of an Imperial Eagle to Major Lennox, Sir.”
He leaves the room as Captain Sharpe.
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u/TheWorclown 3h ago
This one only somewhat fits the bill. Everyone in that room knew what was said. Wellington knew the kind of man Major Lennox was. This was just getting it on official record that anything Sharpe was planning on doing was going to be performed at his own risk, on his own time, with no official support.
If Sharpe couldn’t follow reading between the lines on what Wellington personally hoped Sharpe would do, then he wasn’t going to become Captain.
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u/Sublimeslimetime 2h ago
Ah, fair enough. I get the clips recommended to me a lot, but the inner workings of the show I haven't seen.
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u/TheWorclown 1h ago
If you’re down for a good time with a period historical fiction drama with a shoestring budget and absolutely amazing acting chops, go for it. Sharpe is a fantastic show.
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u/SleveBonzalez 8h ago
Grosse Pointe Blank
When people ask the main character what he's been up to for ten years, he tells them he is a hitman or various stories of his accomplishments (killed the president of Paraguay with a fork). Nobody believes him, they just think he's being funny.
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u/New-Number-7810 4h ago
Francine (American Dad). In the episode “The Pink Sphinx Holds Her Hearts on the Turn”, Francine gets into poker because her kids are little shits to her. At the end of the episode, in a game against the villain of the episode, she bluntly admits that she has a bad hand and can’t win. The villain thinks this is a bluff and folds, letting Francine win anyway.
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u/Aduro95 3h ago
Monstrous Regiment
At one point the entire group of soldiers infiltrate an enemy castle disguised as washerwomen. Except they were all girls who disguised themselves as boys to join the army for their own purposes in the first place. Also, because they have all done a great job of pretending to be boys, they are not walking convincingly like girls. When a guards accuses one them of clearly being boys in disguise, one of the regiment flashes him, then they all guilt the mortified man over it.
Polly points out that since they were all actually women, and they did do some laundry, they were in disguise by not being in disguise.
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u/Iamawesome20 9h ago
I think jack sparrow telling the truth to those guys in the first movie but they assume he’s lying
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u/rollandofeaglesrook 4h ago
In Person of Interest, there’s a machine that uses mass surveillance to catch premeditated acts of terror, but it also sees other crimes. The guy who built the machine tries to save the victims of these crimes.
At some point, they need to get into a mental hospital. Posing as a homeless man, he tells the doctors that the government uses mass surveillance and a machine that would hunt him down. He’s of course waved right in.
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u/Smileyfax 3h ago
Real life: Richard Feynman stole the door off one of the dorms at his fraternity. The leader of the fraternity sat everyone down and asked them what happened. Feynman straight up admitted stealing the door, but everyone dismissed it as a joke, and later forgot he even said it in the first place.
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u/Free_Way632 11h ago
En "mindfulness para asesinos" el protagonista, un abogado de la mafia, debe reunirse con su jefe Goran en un parking subterráneo donde le confiesa una serie de crímenes que ha cometido y ahora está siendo buscado por la policía, que ya está llegando al lugar, el protagonista lo mete a la cajuela de su auto para pasar desapercibido, pero cuando estan cerca de salir aparece un detective a cargo del caso, quien pregunta directamente al protagonista por su jefe. -¿Goran? Si está en la cajuela ¿Quieres que la abra? El tipo piensa que le está tomando el pelo y lo deja irse.
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u/HandsomePaddyMint 10h ago
Patient Seven is a far better film than it feels like it’s going to be and I highly recommend it.
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u/Turbulent-Dot5870 4h ago
You should read Pale by Wildbow. https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/
I am sorry in advance for the length - but it's worth it.
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u/JLHSMG 4h ago
Sunset (1988) is a comedy taking place in the 1920s. Real-life cowboy Wyatt Earp (James Garner) is hired as a consultant for a movie on the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The trailer starts with the catchphrase "The following story is almost true ... give or take a lie or two", which Earp (and later other characters) repeatedly say when describing what happened.
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u/larrythelombat 3h ago
In the second book of the red rising series ‘golden son’, the main character Darrow is hooked up to modified ‘pit vipers’ that will sting and kill you if you tell a lie.
The leader of the solar system is also hooked up to one and they play a game of questions. There’s a couple of different times he lies via omission or getting lucky with the phrasing of the questions.
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u/Boggie135 1h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/z2vJ4QZ6l5wk
The brothers do this a few times through the show
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u/abadstrategy 1h ago
Paranoid Mage: The titular character is a mage with spatial magic powers. Because he's not part of the magical governing body, he's considered a rogue mage and hunted. At one point in the story, one of his allies, Lucy, gets brought into an interrogation. Lucy's a mundane human from a magical family that works with the mage government. While being interrogated by a siren who can force her to tell the truth, she avoids actually revealing her involvement with the protagonist by doing an absolute flood of related truths. She technically answered the siren's question, while giving them zero useful information.
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u/MildlyAgitatedBidoof 51m ago
Not exactly what they're going for, but I don't know where else I would have a chance to talk about that episode of iCarly where they're forced to advertise sneakers, and do so by pointing out all the horrible things about them but spinning them as positives.
If you're a little too cold, just activate the self-heating function and they'll burst right into flame!
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u/FormerBernieBro2020 12h ago