History PlayingWith / CutHimselfShaving

* '''Justified''': A character was in a place or does something that they want nobody else to know about, so anything that may be relating to the secret is brushed off. May be done more carefully to avoid being mistaken as the above justification.

* '''Straight''': Bob has injuries from a brutal fight. When asked about his bruises, Bob lies that and says that he got them in a game of (american) football that got rough.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob shows up with bruises that he explains away as being from a game of football. It turns out that this would be correct, but someone did beat him, but not where it would show.

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice the {{Domestic Abuse}}r hits Bob frequently and forces him to say that he fell down the stairs if anyone asks about his bruises.

** Bob gets severely beaten and explains that he fell down three stories of stairs.

** Bob gets his arm chopped off. Bob explains it away as him severing it himself during a fencing lesson.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A character lies to explain away suspicious injuries.

** Bob has a slight cut on his cheek due to shaving, but Alice assumes a {{Yandere}} with an axe tried to hurt him, and has hysterics over the supposed incident

* '''Straight''': Bob has injuries from a brutal fight. When asked about his bruises, Bob lies that and says that he got them in a game of football that got rough.

** Bob just beat up a gang of bikers. When asked about his battle scar the next day, he explains that the he stepped on a cat's tail.

* '''Parodied''': Bob just beat up a gang of bikers. When asked about his battle scar the next day, he explains that the he stepped on a cat's tail.

** Bob is truthful about the origins of his injuries.

* '''Defied''': Bob never appears with any suspicious injuries.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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

* '''Justified''':
** A character was in a place or does something that they want nobody else to know about, so anything that may be relating to the secret is brushed off. May be done more carefully to avoid being mistaken as the above justification.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs''': See Parodied.
* '''Played For Drama''': Almost always is.

* '''Inverted''': Bob tells everyone that he was beaten up, but everyone assumes that he got his injuries in a particularly rough game of football.
* '''Subverted''': Bob really did injure himself playing football, but everyone thinks someone beat him.

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

* '''Straight''': Bob's father beats him. When asked about his bruises, Bob lies that he got them in a game of football that got rough.

** Bob's father uses a sword to cut off his arm. Bob explains it away as him cutting it off himself during his fencing lesson.
** Bobb gets severely beaten by his father, and explains that he fell down three stories of stairs.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob has a small bruise on his arm from being hit by his father and explains it by saying he hit it on a counter top when asked.

** Child abuse is often considered a taboo subject, so Bob lies to save face. That, or if he tells the truth, his father will beat him harder next time.

* '''Inverted''': Bob tells everyone that his father beats him, but everyone assumes that he got his injuries in a particularly rough game of football.
* '''Subverted''': Bob really did injure himself playing football, but everyone thinks his father beats him.
* '''Double Subverted''': It turns out his father ''does'' beat him; the abuse just isn't the cause of that particular bruise.
* '''Parodied''': Bob just beat up all the biker gangs in the city. When asked about his battle injury the next day, he explains that the he stepped on a cat's tail.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob shows up with bruises that he explains away as being from a game of football. It turns out that this would be correct, but his father does beat him, but not where it would show.

** Bob doesn't get injured by his parents at all.
** Bob and his father openly fight each other, [[FightClubbing not necessarily from animosity]], and he openly admits that his father gave him the bruises.
* '''Enforced''': "We don't want to deal with Bob's father yet, so let's have Bob lie to cover up the injuries."

* '''Invoked''': WHACK "You got these playing football, you got that, runt? And if you say any different, I'll give you something to cry about!"
* '''Exploited''': Because of Bob's lies, Child Services never gets wind about his abusive father.

What I'd like to know is, how on earth did you [[{{Cut Himself Shaving}} cut yourself shaving]] while going back to the main tropes?

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's father uses a sword to cut off his arm. Bob explains it away as him cutting it off himself during his fencing lesson.

* '''Justified''': Child abuse is often considered a taboo subject, so Bob lies to save face. That, or if he tells the truth, his father will beat him harder next time.

* '''Averted''': Bob is truthful about the origins of his injuries.

* '''Parodied''': ???

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