History PlayingWith / CryingWolf

** Danny is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] with NoSympathy for anyone that gets hurt from his lying, so he continues it until [[LaserGuidedKarma he's the one that suffers from his own actions]].

* '''Deconstructed''': The townspeople believe Danny's house is being robbed but they allow it to happen because they think he deserves it and they're sick of him.
* '''Reconstructed''': The townspeople recognise that statements can be true even if liars are saying them, but they give up on Danny as hopelessly untruthful just as he's starting to mend his ways.

* '''Played For Horror''': Danny's alarm is about how that SerialKiller who escaped two weeks ago is trying to get into his home. The morning after, people find Danny and his entire family disemboweled, and lament how they didn't came to help him after a gratuitous amount of time puking their guts out-

* '''Inverted''': Truthful Tom tells an obvious lie and gets away with it because he has never been known to say anything untrue.

* '''Defied''': "If I lie about that now, they might not believe me if it really happens".

* '''Played For Drama''': Danny gets a serious injury as a result of this trope.

** Everyone in town believes that Deceitful Danny is lying, even when the thieves are breaking in his house right in front of them.

* '''Exaggerated''': Deceitful Danny lied once about the flavor of a pie (it was cherry, he said apple) and now no one in town believes a word he says.

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Reconstructed''': The townspeople recognize that statements can be true even if liars are saying them, but they give up on Danny as hopelessly untruthful just as he's starting to mend his ways.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Danny comes running into town, [[AmusingInjuries banged up,]] fleeing for his life, [[BringMeMyBrownPants a fresh load in his trousers,]] with a wolf hot on his heels. [[ImplausibleDeniability The villagers STILL don't believe him.]]

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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Justified''': Danny is in frail health and suffering from the advanced stages of dementia. His alarms warrant one or two investigations but are ignored afterwards.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** [[CassandraTruth Cassandra]] says something true and nobody believes it.

* '''Inverted''':
** Truthful Tom tells an obvious lie and gets away with it because he has never been known to say anything untrue.
** [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]]

* '''Deconstructed''': The townspeople believe Danny's house is being robbed but they allow it to happen because they think he deserves it and they're sick of him.
* '''Reconstructed''': The townspeople recognize that statements can be true even if liars are saying them, but they give up on Danny as hopelessly untruthful just as he's starting to mend his ways.

* '''Defied''': "If I lie about that now, they might not believe me if it really happens."

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** [[{{Othello}} Iago]]

* '''Inverted''': Truthful Tom tells an obvious lie and gets away with it because he has never been known to say anything untrue.

* '''Averted''': A habitual liar's proclamations are treated with skepticism but are generally given the benefit of the doubt.

** [[Othello Iago]]

* '''Double Subverted''': ... the robbers.

* '''Subverted''': Danny calls and worries no one will come, but then some of his neighbors decide to help anyway.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Except they're actually just there to help the robbers.

** Alternatively, it's a drill.

* '''Subverted''': Danny who always claims responsibility for every murder in the city isn't believed when he confesses to one he has actually committed.
* '''Double Subverted''': But he gets convicted for one of the murders he confessed to but didn't commit and is executed anyway.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???