Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Specific Denial

To specifically deny something, even when you shouldn't know it if you did not do it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Pretty in Mink Amusing Injuries Dissonant Serenity Adaptation Name Change Famous Last Words Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dressing as the Enemy Word of God What the Hell, Hero? Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bad Boss Random Events Plot Hypocrite Faux Affably Evil Disney Villain Death Reality Has No Subtitles Adaptational Heroism The Remake Beard of Evil Attempted Rape Self-Deprecation Red Shirt Noodle Incident Major Injury Underreaction Hate Sink Chase Scene Red Eyes, Take Warning Every Car Is a Pinto Video Credits Determinator Danny Peary Cult Movies List Soft Glass Lock and Load Montage Badass in a Nice Suit Does This Remind You of Anything? Rape as Drama Black Best Friend Off-into-the-Distance Ending Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Deadpan Snarker Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Captain Ersatz Storming the Castle Stuff Blowing Up The Great Depression Same Language Dub Dumb Blonde Character Development Hoist by His Own Petard Crazy-Prepared The Chessmaster Facial Horror Overprotective Dad Title Drop Show Within a Show Cloudcuckoolander Heterosexual Life-Partners Stalker with a Crush Call-Back Pre-Mortem One-Liner Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Lighter and Softer Death Seeker Pragmatic Adaptation Ominous Latin Chanting Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mind Screw Toplessness from the Back Manic Pixie Dream Girl Big Fancy House Demonic Possession Fingore Villain with Good Publicity Heel–Face Turn As You Know Eye Scream The Faceless Horror Films Shipper on Deck The Hero Dies Henpecked Husband Bond Villain Stupidity Brainless Beauty Together in Death Guile Hero Beware the Nice Ones The Stoic Those Two Guys Decoy Protagonist Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Super Strength British Films Age Lift Ironic Echo Posthumous Character Television Movie Index Stealth Hi/Bye Call-Forward Depraved Bisexual Punctuated! 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Blatant Lies Scary Black Man Romantic Comedy An Aesop Maybe Ever After Stylistic Suck Reality Is Unrealistic Tranquil Fury Evil Is Hammy Amoral Attorney "Shaggy Dog" Story Bullying a Dragon Throwing Your Sword Always Works Driven to Suicide Redshirt Army Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Alpha Bitch The Vamp Mooks Vomit Discretion Shot Death by Adaptation Arch-Enemy Anachronic Order Science Fiction Films Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Australian Movies Black and Gray Morality Motor Mouth Did Not Get the Girl Evil Plan Sequel Hook Guns Akimbo Never Trust a Trailer Blood Knight The Lancer Agony of the Feet Chiaroscuro Humiliation Conga Important Haircut Comically Missing the Point Get Out! Dark Action Girl Retired Badass Offscreen Moment of Awesome Back from the Dead Big Applesauce Hope Spot Non-Indicative Name Intergenerational Friendship Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Fainting Woman Scorned Mr. Fanservice Naïve Newcomer Room Full of Crazy Big Bad Gender Flip Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Cluster F-Bomb Badass Normal Improbable Aiming Skills Fan Disservice Knight Templar The Ditz Fish out of Water Bilingual Bonus Public Domain Feature Films Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Armor-Piercing Question Animal Motifs Training Montage The Hero Gainax Ending Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cat Scare Never My Fault Action Survivor Only Sane Man Eyepatch of Power La Résistance Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Alas, Poor Villain "Well Done, Son!" Guy Artistic License – Biology Children Are Innocent Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Lost Lenore No OSHA Compliance What Happened to the Mouse? O.O.C. Is Serious Business Leitmotif Broken Bird The Alcoholic Captain Obvious Rated M for Manly Pyrrhic Victory Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Heroic BSoD Evil Sounds Deep Extremely Short Timespan Chewing the Scenery Off with His Head! The '70s Intrepid Reporter The Stinger Brutal Honesty Dirty Cop Spiritual Successor Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Taking You with Me Apocalypse How Belligerent Sexual Tension Wham Shot Corpsing Shower Scene Mad Scientist Meaningful Name Freeze-Frame Bonus Screw the Rules, I Have Money! No Name Given In the Back Exact Words Break the Haughty Obviously Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Ms. Fanservice Advertised Extra Heel Realization Impaled with Extreme Prejudice One Steve Limit Wham Line Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Woman in White Big Bad Duumvirate Framing Device Fake Shemp Boom, Headshot! Double-Meaning Title Put on a Bus Evil Is Petty And I Must Scream Protagonist Title Antagonist Title German Films True Companions Good Is Not Nice Sequel Escalation Vitriolic Best Buds Unusually Uninteresting Sight Curse Cut Short Properly Paranoid Jump Scare Parental Substitute Diabolus ex Machina Auto Erotica Insane Troll Logic Didn't Think This Through Parental Abandonment Bottomless Magazines Once More, with Clarity! 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Is a Crapshoot Running Gag Bi the Way Drowning My Sorrows Dual Wielding Anyone Can Die Celebrity Paradox Deliberately Monochrome Interrupted Suicide Hero of Another Story Up to Eleven The Reveal Villain Protagonist Kick the Son of a Bitch Not So Stoic Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Cain and Abel Male Gaze Eldritch Abomination The Load Those Two Bad Guys Martial Arts Movie Knife Nut Well-Intentioned Extremist Determinator aka: The Determinator Large Ham Funny Background Event Evil Brit Green-Eyed Monster Take That! Totally Radical Babies Ever After Idiot Ball Bar Brawl Easily Forgiven She Cleans Up Nicely Awesome, but Impractical Aside Glance Mystery and Detective Films Black Comedy Rape Darkest Hour Mexican Standoff Bring My Brown Pants Jerkass Has a Point Affably Evil Fatal Family Photo Adaptation Distillation Darker and Edgier The End... Or Is It? Slashed Throat Recycled IN SPACE! 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Gold Digger Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Historical Hero Upgrade The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Time Skip Red Right Hand Fanservice Extra Playing Gertrude Be Careful What You Wish For Fire-Forged Friends Broken Aesop Film Series Villain Opening Scene '80s Hair Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Star-Crossed Lovers Improbable Weapon User Rule of Three The Mole Neck Snap Anti-Villain Half the Man He Used to Be Exactly What It Says on the Tin As Himself The Place Big Damn Heroes Batman Gambit My God, What Have I Done? Blackmail Punny Name Sassy Black Woman Serious Business No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Foregone Conclusion Silent Movie Anachronism Stew Stealth Pun Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Re-Cut I Did What I Had to Do Arc Words Composite Character Hollywood Darkness The '60s Hong Kong Films Card-Carrying Villain Adults Are Useless Rule of Cool An Arm and a Leg A God Am I In Name Only Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Leave the Camera Running The Film of the Book Defiant to the End Insult Backfire And the Adventure Continues My Greatest Failure Trailers Always Spoil Only a Flesh Wound Race Against the Clock "The Reason You Suck" Speech Kill 'em All You Killed My Father Gone Horribly Right Logo Joke Truth in Television The Dragon Shell-Shocked Veteran Central Theme Developing Doomed Characters Sacrificial Lion Shut Up, Hannibal! The Sociopath And Starring Names to Run Away from Really Fast Bond One-Liner Never Found the Body Broken Pedestal Becoming the Mask The Bully Mugging the Monster Accidental Misnaming War Is Hell Stock Footage Bowdlerise Camera Abuse Badass Grandpa Foil The Atoner Even Evil Has Standards Downer Ending Thriller Men Are the Expendable Gender Jerkass Continuity Nod Aluminum Christmas Trees Karmic Death Rule of Symbolism Domestic Abuse Pet the Dog Face Death with Dignity Deus ex Machina Abhorrent Admirer Drugs Are Bad Neck Lift Action Genre The Starscream Slasher Movie Due to the Dead Double Entendre Paper-Thin Disguise Drill Sergeant Nasty Psycho for Hire Dwindling Party Mundane Made Awesome Manly Tears Epic Movie Precision F-Strike Fiery Redhead There Is No Kill Like Overkill Love at First Sight Police Brutality Bare Your Midriff It Can Think All Men Are Perverts World of Ham Dark Reprise Cool Old Guy Informed Ability Animal Title Index Department of Redundancy Department Gilligan Cut All There in the Manual Better to Die than Be Killed BFG Bloody Hilarious Would Hit a Girl Annoying Younger Sibling Hooker with a Heart of Gold He Knows Too Much Dark and Troubled Past Immune to Bullets Enemy Mine Monumental Damage Bad "Bad Acting" Badass Longcoat Flipping the Bird Tempting Fate Bald of Evil Unresolved Sexual Tension The '50s Made of Explodium Black Dude Dies First Rich Bitch Brother–Sister Incest Victoria's Secret Compartment Damsel in Distress Beauty Is Never Tarnished Real Life Writes the Plot Only One Name It Will Never Catch On Adaptation Expansion Not So Above It All I'm a Humanitarian Implacable Man One-Man Army No Celebrities Were Harmed Humans Are Bastards Frame-Up Mighty Whitey Let's Get Dangerous! Unreliable Narrator N-Word Privileges Not What It Looks Like Face–Heel Turn Meet Cute Actor Allusion Sports Stories Author Appeal Nice Guy Nothing Is Scarier Eureka Moment Villain Song Last-Name Basis I Need a Freaking Drink Everyone Has Standards folderlabel Yandere The Dog Bites Back Obstructive Bureaucrat Creepy Child Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Villain Ball Friend to All Children Scenery Gorn Shoot the Shaggy Dog Have a Gay Old Time Closed Circle Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big Eater Ambiguously Gay Breaking the Fourth Wall Ax-Crazy Disguised in Drag Italian Films The Stoner Evil Laugh Camp Gay Sexy Discretion Shot Arranged Marriage Smug Snake Abusive Parents Fatal Flaw Tap on the Head Extreme Doormat Those Wacky Nazis Superhero Cruel and Unusual Death Air-Vent Passageway Contrived Coincidence Casting Gag Laughing Mad Does Not Like Shoes Madness Mantra Soundtrack Dissonance Loads and Loads of Characters Market-Based Title The Big Guy Mama Bear Line-of-Sight Name Reckless Gun Usage No-Sell Almost Kiss Vomit Indiscretion Shot Biopic Moment Killer Kubrick Stare Papa Wolf Cool Car Daylight Horror Parental Neglect Deliberate Values Dissonance After the End Dramedy Funny Foreigner The Quiet One The Alleged Car Deconstruction Betty and Veronica Cassandra Truth Big Brother Instinct Skewed Priorities The '80s Covers Always Lie Revenge Bittersweet Ending An Axe to Grind Chekhov's Gun Four-Temperament Ensemble Cowboy Cop Evil vs. Evil Fanservice Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Twist Ending Kids Are Cruel Spanner in the Works Military and Warfare Films The Chick Book-Ends Earn Your Happy Ending Our Vampires Are Different Evil-Detecting Dog Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Real Life Bavarian Fire Drill Early Installment Weirdness Deal with the Devil