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** Claire asks Bob about his date, while using MindReading to see his actual memories.
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* '''Inverted''': While Alice tells her friends the honest truth about the date, the audience is treated to her ImagineSpot of how wonderful/horrible it ''could'' have been...

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* '''Inverted''': While Alice tells her friends the honest truth about the date, the audience is treated to her ImagineSpot of how wonderful/horrible it ''could'' have been...NarratingTheObvious

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** Bob's narration claims that the date went perfectly -- until Flashback!Bob (whose date was a disaster) breaks the fourth wall and tells Narrator!Bob to shut up.



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* '''Defied''': ???Alice shows up in time to hear Bob's false version of events and quickly sets the record straight.
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is talking about his date with Alice, and says, "It was fine! I -- I think..." The {{Flashback}} shows them walking arm in arm; he trips and she helps him up, laughing a bit at his expense. The date may have gone all right, but not as smoothly as he wants his friends to think.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is talking about his date with Alice, and says, "It was fine! I -- I I-I think..." The {{Flashback}} shows them walking arm in arm; he trips and she helps him up, laughing a bit at his expense. The date may have gone all right, but not as smoothly as he wants his friends to think.
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* '''Subverted''': Bob's retelling matches the {{Flashback}} perfectly...

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* '''Subverted''': People assume Bob will lie, but Bob's retelling matches the {{Flashback}} perfectly...



* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Bob, are you imagining how it really went?" "I might not be..."
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob claims that he was a perfect gentleman who swept Alice off her feet for the most romantic night of her life. Meanwhile, the flashback reveals he ''really'' fumbled and bumbled his way through the whole thing while tossing out cheesy pick-up lines... at Alice ''and'' any other 'pretty girl' who crossed their path, until Alice finally had enough.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob claims that he was a perfect gentleman who swept Alice off her feet for the most romantic night of her life. Meanwhile, the flashback reveals he ''really'' fumbled and bumbled his way through the whole thing while tossing out cheesy pick-up lines... at Alice ''and'' any other 'pretty girl' who crossed their path, until Alice finally had enough.enough, threw her drink in his face and left, leaving Bob to walk home alone and depressed.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Bob's narration drifts back and forth between accurate and fake--eventually the audience realizes this is to cover Bob's secret identity as a superhero. Anything not involving his superpowers he tells straight, anything that might reveal his gifts is lied about.
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* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???Bob's narration in no way contradicts what we're shown.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob is talking about his date with Alice, and says, "It was fine! I -- I think..." The {{Flashback}} shows them walking arm in arm; he trips and she helps him up, laughing a bit at his expense. The date may have gone all right, but not as smoothly as he wants his friends to think.

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



* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???



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



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%%* '''Implied''': ???
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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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* '''Justified''': Bob doesn't want his friends to know about any problems he had with Alice, because he knows they'll relentlessly mock him if they knew the truth.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Bob doesn't want his friends to know about any problems he had with Alice, because he knows they'll relentlessly mock him if they knew the truth.



* '''Double Subverted''': ...At first. Then it slips out of sync as he starts to exaggerate and stretch the truth...

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
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At first. Then it slips out of sync as he starts to exaggerate and stretch the truth...



* '''Parodied''': Bob tells a [[BlatantLies blatantly exaggerated]] story about his ''absolutely perfect'' date, with limos and fancy restaurants and expensive presents for his girlfriend... when he really struggled to get his [[TheAllegedCar car through]] [=MacBurger's=] drive-thru.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Bob tells a [[BlatantLies blatantly exaggerated]] story about his ''absolutely perfect'' date, with limos and fancy restaurants and expensive presents for his girlfriend... when he really struggled to get his [[TheAllegedCar car through]] [=MacBurger's=] drive-thru.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob [[BitchInSheepsClothing isn't as nice as he acts]]; while he tells his friends about his nice, normal date, the {{Flashback}} reveals [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel what he really did to Alice]]...

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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob [[BitchInSheepsClothing isn't as nice as he acts]]; while he tells his friends about his nice, normal date, the {{Flashback}} reveals [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel what he really did to Alice]]...Alice...
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** Bob tells the above story about limos and fancy restaurants to his friends. They all [[GenreSavvy assume that this trope is in effect]]. He isn't lying at all.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob [[BitchInSheepsClothing isn't as nice as he acts]]; while he tells his friends about his nice, normal date, the {{Flashback}} reveals [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel what he]] ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel really]]'' [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel did to Alice]]...

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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob [[BitchInSheepsClothing isn't as nice as he acts]]; while he tells his friends about his nice, normal date, the {{Flashback}} reveals [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel what he]] ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel really]]'' [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel he really did to Alice]]...

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