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-->-- '''Alan-a-Dale''', ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''

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-->-- '''Alan-a-Dale''', ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''
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->''I am Alpharius. This is a lie.''
-->-- '''Alpharius Omegon''', ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy Alpharius: Head of the Hydra]]''
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->'''Janis''': It's a [[MoralityTale cautionary tale]] of fear and lust and pride/[[BasedOnATrueStory Based on actual events]] where people DIED\\

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->'''Janis''': It's a [[MoralityTale [[MoralityBallad cautionary tale]] of fear and lust and pride/[[BasedOnATrueStory Based on actual events]] where people DIED\\
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->'''Janis''': It's a [[MoralityTale cautionary tale]] of fear and lust and pride/[[BasedOnATrueStory Based on actual events]] where people DIED\\
'''Damian''': No one died.
-->-- ''Theatre/MeanGirls''

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->'''Future Ted:''' ''(narrating)'' Kids, pornography is bad, and so I was getting rid of that vile pornography right away.\\
'''Ted:''' ''(present)'' I am getting rid of this vile pornography right away.\\
'''Future Ted:''' ...when something terrible happened.\\
''(Present!Ted trips, [[BlatantLies one of the porn tapes flies around the room and lands in VCR]])''
-->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E07TheRoughPatch The Rough Patch]]"

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->'''Future Ted:''' ''(narrating)'' Kids, pornography is bad, ->''"Kids, you may be wondering how many of these stories I'm telling you are actually true. It's a fair question. After all, there's a fine line between a great story and so I was getting rid of that vile pornography right away.\\
'''Ted:''' ''(present)'' I am getting rid of this vile pornography right away.\\
a bald-faced lie."''
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'''Future Ted:''' ...when something terrible happened.\\
''(Present!Ted trips, [[BlatantLies one of the porn tapes flies around the room and lands in VCR]])''
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Ted''', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E07TheRoughPatch The Rough Patch]]"
"[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E19ZooOrFalse Zoo or False]]"


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->''"A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth."''
-->-- '''Barney Stinson''', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''
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-->-- '''Alan-a-Dale''', ''Disney/RobinHood''

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-->-- '''Alan-a-Dale''', ''Disney/RobinHood''
''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''
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what the heck does this have to do with anything?


->''"And that's how Equestria was made!"''
-->-- [[CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie,]] after telling a story about how she got her cutie mark, WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic
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-->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E7TheRoughPatch The Rough Patch]]"

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-->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E7TheRoughPatch "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E07TheRoughPatch The Rough Patch]]"
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-->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''

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-->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''
''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E7TheRoughPatch The Rough Patch]]"
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'''Future Ted:''' ''(narrating)'' ...when something terrible happened.\\

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'''Future Ted:''' ''(narrating)'' ...Ted:''' ...when something terrible happened.\\
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->'''Future Ted:''' ''(narrating)'' Kids, pornography is bad, and so I was getting rid of that vile pornography right away.\\
'''Ted:''' ''(present)'' I am getting rid of this vile pornography right away.\\
'''Future Ted:''' ''(narrating)'' ...when something terrible happened.\\
''(Present!Ted trips, [[BlatantLies one of the porn tapes flies around the room and lands in VCR]])''
-->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''

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-->-- '''Shari''', Gargoyles

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-->-- '''Shari''', Gargoyles
''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''



'''Richard:''' No, we haven't! Stop saying things in voiceover that aren't true!\\

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'''Richard:''' No, we haven't! Stop saying things in voiceover that aren't true!\\true!



-->-- '''Gallan''', ''Literature/ForgeOfDarkness''

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-->-- '''Gallan''', ''Literature/ForgeOfDarkness''
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->Nobody in this comic is a reliable narrator, not even {{God}}, who tells you this directly.
-->-- '''Abbadon''' author of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
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-->-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', S1:E9, "Burks to the Future"

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-->-- -->-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', S1:E9, "Burks to the Future"
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->'''Jeremy:''' ''[voiceover]'' We'd only gone a few miles before Richard and James ''completely'' changed their minds, and realised that the Excellent was the best car they'd ever been in!\\

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->'''Jeremy:''' ''[voiceover]'' We'd only gone a few miles before Richard and James ''completely'' changed their minds, and realised that [[TheAllegedCar the Excellent Excellent]] was the best car they'd ever been in!\\
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-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', S1:E9, "Burks to the Future"

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-- -->-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', S1:E9, "Burks to the Future"
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-->-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', Season 1, Episode 9, "Burks to the Future"


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-->-- -- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', Season 1, Episode 9, S1:E9, "Burks to the Future"

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-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', Season 1, Episode 9, "Burks to the Future"

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-- -->-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', Season 1, Episode 9, "Burks to the Future"
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->'''Jeremy:''' ''[voiceover]'' We'd only gone a few miles before Richard and James ''completely'' changed their minds, and realised that the Excellent was the best car they'd ever been in!\\
'''Richard:''' No, we haven't! Stop saying things in voiceover that aren't true!\\
-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', Season 1, Episode 9, "Burks to the Future"
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-->-- '''Aradia''' and '''[[spoiler:Alt!Calliope]]''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

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-->-- '''Aradia''' and '''[[spoiler:Alt!Calliope]]''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues''
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-->-- '''Aradia''' and '''[[spoiler:Alt!Calliope]]''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

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-->-- '''Aradia''' and '''[[spoiler:Alt!Calliope]]''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

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-->-- '''Aradia''' and '''[[spoiler:Alt!Calliope]]''', ''Webcomic/Homestuck''

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-->-- '''Aradia''' and '''[[spoiler:Alt!Calliope]]''', ''Webcomic/Homestuck''''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
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->A martyr died and said fuck.
->His final howl of profanity reverberated through the ages.
->It inspired his devotees during the darkest times of a brutal regime.
->His lessons were guarded, kept secret, espoused in the shadows of tyranny.
->A vision of peace for those who'd never conceived of it.
->And though his death was gruesome, it opened the world to a feeling of hope.
->This hope echoed through the ages.
->It gave his disciples the strength to persist as they perished in droves.
->It was the only light to shine on a dark planet for millions of sweeps.
->And if you are one so devoted to his teaching, who sees truth in his words,
->It may be said with great authority that '''you are wrong.'''
->'''You are foolish to believe his lies. His martyrdom is false, his sacrifice hollow.'''
->'''Repent for your adherence to this illusion now, and perhaps leniency will be your reward.'''
->"What just happened there?"
->"I brought to your attention that the story you were listening to had a speaker with a specific identity. And where there is an identity, there can also be an agenda."
-->-- '''Aradia''' and '''[[spoiler:Alt!Calliope]]''', ''Webcomic/Homestuck''
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->''Within the first five minutes, we see our lead Grant has a bump on the head and is hallucinating things. So immediately we know we can’t trust our storyteller and that the movie is building to a bullshit twist. That is not a good start because at that point I also lost interest.... In the second act you may be partially tricked that the twist has already come. Grant finally (FINALLY) runs into Joey. Joey explains though that he was not trying to kill Grant but Marissa because (get this) Marissa is a demon who lures its prey with sex then drains your life force. Temporarily my interest is piqued as I rather like the concept of Tom Sizemore as a demon slayer who is fighting sex demon Katherine Heigl. Throw in Creator/MelGibson as Sizemore’s partner and [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot you have the makings of one of the funniest buddy movies ever]]. So the second half is spend with Joey and Grant hunting Marissa.\\\

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->''Within the first five minutes, we see our lead Grant has a bump on the head and is hallucinating things. So immediately we know we can’t trust our storyteller and that the movie is building to a bullshit twist. That is not a good start because at that point I also lost interest.... In the second act you may be partially tricked that the twist has already come. Grant finally (FINALLY) runs into Joey. Joey explains though that he was not trying to kill Grant but Marissa because (get this) Marissa is a demon who lures its prey with sex then drains your life force. Temporarily my interest is piqued as I rather like the concept of Tom Sizemore as a demon slayer who is fighting sex demon Katherine Heigl.Creator/KatherineHeigl. Throw in Creator/MelGibson as Sizemore’s partner and [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot you have the makings of one of the funniest buddy movies ever]]. So the second half is spend with Joey and Grant hunting Marissa.\\\
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->My great merit as a historian is that I am known to be insane. No court or council can trust my testimony, and each reader may pick and choose what to believe, dismissing anything too unsettling as lunacy. I gave the public what it wanted of the truth, no more, leaving the pundits and propagandists free to shape opinion into faction, and faction into sides and enemies.
-->-- '''Mycroft Canner''', ''Literature/TerraIgnota''
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->A while ago in fiction the unreliable narrator was all the rage. The fixed and to be trusted storyteller of the Victorian novel had been replaced by the dodgy fabulist, con-man, cheat and perjurer. The authorial voice became instead another character, slippery, evasive, as likely to be the hand that struck the blow as any other member of the cast - butler, angry lover, resentful son.
->Let me reassure you, [[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription you can rely on me]], I am no jive turkey fabler, no fabricator of misleading tricks, I'm doing my best to tell it to you straight and only if I do so can there be any hope for me.
-->--''The Golden Age Of Censorship,'' by Paul Hoffman
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-->-- '''MercedesLackey''', "The Leslac Version"

->''Bir nodded towards Ching. “Lieutenant Leibshott has been filling me in on the recent history of your world, with some help from Lieutenant Katsuragi. She’s taken pains to stress that she was only telling me what was operationally necessary, and was keeping back sensitive details that pertained to you two for both professional and personal reasons.” He threw a wry look at Misato, who was pretending to study the map on the battle table’s display. “Although Lieutenant Katsuragi was only too happy to offer her own observations and speculations on that front at times. Some of them were very exotic and creative.”\\

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-->-- '''MercedesLackey''', '''Creator/MercedesLackey''', "The Leslac Version"

->''Bir nodded towards Ching. “Lieutenant Leibshott has been filling me in on the recent history of your world, with some help from Lieutenant Katsuragi. She’s taken pains to stress that she was only telling me what was operationally necessary, and was keeping back sensitive details that pertained to you two for both professional and personal reasons.” He threw a wry look at Misato, who was pretending to study the map on the battle table’s table’s display. “Although Lieutenant Katsuragi was only too happy to offer her own observations and speculations on that front at times. Some of them were very exotic and creative.”\\
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Thought that looked kind of weird...


->"''She says I'm only tellin' half of it''
->''That's probably 'cause there's only half worth tellin'''"

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->"''She ->“''She says I'm only tellin' half of it''
->''That's probably 'cause there's only half worth tellin'''"tellin'''”
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->"''She says I'm only tellin' half of it''
->''That's probably 'cause there's only half worth tellin'''"
-->-- {{Music/Nickelback}}, "Do This Anymore"
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-->'''Caption:''' ''Knowwhere''\\

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-->'''Caption:''' ->'''Caption:''' ''Knowwhere''\\
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-->--[[CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie,]] after telling a story about how she got her cutie mark, WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic

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-->--[[CloudCuckoolander -->-- [[CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie,]] after telling a story about how she got her cutie mark, WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic



-->--'''Shari''', Gargoyles

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-->--'''Shari''', -->-- '''Shari''', Gargoyles



-->--'''Rocket Raccoon''' narrating the events of ''What If: infinity: GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (what follows is every character repeating their catchphrase and Star-Lord going on about daddy issues for two pages in the middle of a fight)

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-->--'''Rocket -->-- '''Rocket Raccoon''' narrating the events of ''What If: infinity: GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (what follows is every character repeating their catchphrase and Star-Lord going on about daddy issues for two pages in the middle of a fight)



-->''[[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry End of the Golden Witch]]'', "????"

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-->''[[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry -->-- ''[[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry End of the Golden Witch]]'', "????"



-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.break.com/article/the-12-best-arnold-kills-out-of-all-509-2554063 "The 12 Best Arnold Kills (Out of 509)"]]

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-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', -->-- '''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.break.com/article/the-12-best-arnold-kills-out-of-all-509-2554063 "The 12 Best Arnold Kills (Out of 509)"]]



-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/zyzzyx-road-2006-john-penney/ on]] ''Film/ZyzzyxRoad'' (2006)

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-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment -->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/zyzzyx-road-2006-john-penney/ on]] ''Film/ZyzzyxRoad'' (2006)



--> -- '''L.N.Gumilev''', "[[RealityIsUnrealistic Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom]]".

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--> -- -->-- '''L.N.Gumilev''', "[[RealityIsUnrealistic Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom]]".



-->--''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'', ''[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/2578680/ chapter 49]]''

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-->--''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'', -->-- ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'', ''[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/2578680/ chapter 49]]''



-->-- ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy (2015) #5

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-->-- ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (2015) #5

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