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8	* ''Literature/AdrianMole:'' In ''Cappuccino Years'', Adrian's son William lies that a goat ate his lunch, but he was CaughtOnTape throwing his lunch at the goat. Adrian admits to himself that his son is a convincing liar, and tells his own blatant lie: that if William does not behave in future, a man called Jack Straw (then Home Secretary) would get him, and put him in prison.
9	* ''Literature/TheAmulet'': Sarah asks Jo where she got a cursed amulet that's been slaughtering its way across town. Jo says she bought it in a Sears-Roebuck catalog. Sarah checks anyway and confirms that Jo is lying.
10	* In ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book ''Stacey's Mistake'', Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Dawn visit Stacey in New York. After their first night, Kristy sends her family a postcard describing the fun party Stacey hosted for them and all her New York friends, saying how much fun they had, how easily they fit in, and how Claudia and Stacey's New York best friend Laine were "like sisters." In reality, the party was a disaster, the New York kids either ignored or made fun of the baby-sitters, no one had a good time, and the only siblings Claudia and Laine resembled were CainAndAbel.
11	* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': In ''Drugs & the Dominoes'', when Luck Gandor [[PullingThemselvesTogether pulls himself together after]] near-decapitation in front of a witness, there's no possible plausible lie, so he goes for a blatant one:
12	-->'''Luck:''' ''[grabs magazine with a red cover off shelf]'' Oh my, that was dangerous. If not for the timely rescue of this book, I would have died.\
13	'''Shopkeeper:''' Uh... that... no... ''blood''.\
14	'''Luck:''' ''[rips magazine]'' It was the cover of this book scattering everywhere. You saw wrongly. It was too sudden.\
15	'''Shopkeeper:''' But--\
16	'''Luck:''' Oh right, I have to repay you for this book...
17	* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBearsBigChapterBooks'': Early in ''The Berenstain Bears and the Red-Handed Thief'', when Sister and Fred are playing catch, Fred signals for a curveball at Brother's advice. Sister reads the sign, throws a fastball (which she's deadly with) instead, causing him a great deal of pain when the ball slams into his gloved hand, and when he yells at her, claims afterward that she misread his signal -- "I guess the sun was in my eyes" -- while grinning. It's pretty clearly her getting even with him for his delaying on letting her join in.
18	* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Jerin tells [[spoiler: the Porter sisters]] that he will marry them willingly, pleasure them in bed, and care for their children if they just don't kill Cira. Later Cira is surprised to find that he was lying, but like he said earlier in the book - "You have to be very careful [with lies], but we Whistlers have always thought it was a good thing to know how to do it well."
19	* In ''[[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Callahan's Secret]]'', by Spider Robinson, Mike Callahan recounts how, after a dimly-remembered alcoholic event, he woke up naked in New York and wound up riding a police horse, using the horse blanket as a toga. He averted attention by galloping boldly through the streets and periodically shouting, "Attack of the Horseclans! Coming soon from Creator/UnitedArtists!"
20	%% * ''Literature/TheCasterChronicles'': Sarafine's love for Lena. Though it did have shades of truth.
21	* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': In book #5 (''The Cat Who Played Brahms''), it's revealed that Fanny Klingenschoen told many of them, but the biggest would have to be the various fibs she told about how to get into her will (e.g. she would leave money to anyone who was named after her). When she dies and leaves everything to Qwill, the locals are rather understandably angry until the next book, where he sets up the foundation that disperses the money.
22	* ''Literature/ClockpunkAndTheVitalizer'': Clockpunk tells The Vitalizer she's the Bull. The audience is well aware that she is ''not'', in fact, the Bull; it's being shipped elsewhere as she says it. The Vitalizer is not so knowledgeable.
23	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
24	** ''Literature/MenAtArms'': When the rest of the Watch finds out Angua is a werewolf, they ask Colon if Vimes knew. Colon cagily claims he "sort of implied it", but when pressed admits his exact words were "She's a bloody werewolf, Fred."
25	** In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Moist asks why Mrs. Lavish keeps two loaded crossbows on her desk. The answer is "family heirlooms". He notes that a lie so blatant is clearly meant to make a statement rather than be believed. Considering the rest of her family, it's more of a [[MetaphoricallyTrue Jedi Truth]]. If any of her family tries anything funny, the crossbow bolts will be heirlooms, after they've been...''forcibly gifted'' upon the family member in question.
26	** In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', a fight nearly breaks out between a troll and a dwarf officer. Commander Vimes enters the room to find a table overturned, and the potential combatants being restrained by their fellow officers. He asks who's going to be the first to "tell me a huge whopper". Nobby Nobbs obliges by offering up an utterly preposterous explanation about how the dwarf almost drank some (dangerously chemical) troll coffee, and the others rushed to stop him. Vimes pretends to buy it, and the others pretend to believe that he buys it.
27	** Much of what Nobby Nobbs does involves this trope. He has been seen using the excuse that his "granny died" in order to get out of work. When directly asked by Colon, he says that this is about the twentieth one it happened to (although three of them were genuine; Granny Nobbs was OnlyMostlyDead the first time). Watchmen seem to be expected to have that particular excuse, having been given three afternoons off for grandmother's funerals a year.
28	** The "grandmother's funeral" excuse comes up again when two troll constables are given an order to apprehend another troll, Acting-Constable Detritus. This exchange promptly occurs (which showcases genius-level thinking, for a troll):
29	---> '''Sergeant Colon''': Lance-Constable Coalface! Lance-Constable Bauxite! Apprehend Acting-Constable Detritus!\
30	'''Lance-Constable Bauxite''': ''[salutes]'' Permission for leave to attend grandmother's funeral, sir?\
31	'''Sergeant Colon''': Why?\
32	'''Lance-Constable Bauxite''': It her or me, sarge.
33	** Nobby Nobbs only used the Grandmother's Funeral excuse twice... per year.
34	** ''Literature/FeetOfClay'' has Vimes and Detritus discussing who possibly could have threatened Chrysophrase's drug smuggler, Hardcore, while a new applicant looks on in disbelief as Detritus's assurances that none of HIS trolls would ever do such a thing (and yet he knew who was threatened and why) are accepted.
35	*** This is also a MetaphoricallyTrue case since none of Detritus' trolls actually did the deed. It was Detritus himself.
36	** ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment''. Roughly every other spoken line (though one specific character ''[[ExactWords technically]]'' only lies about one thing...).
37	--->'''Sgt. Jackrum:''' [[ExactWords Upon my oath, I am not a dishonest man.]][[labelnote:Spoiler]]True, since ''she'' is not a man.[[/labelnote]]
38	* Peter, who is from ''[[WillNotTellALie Candor]]'', claims he is not murderous when being held at gunpoint by [[spoiler:Tris]] in ''Literature/{{Divergent}}''. He had previously claimed that he was only trying to scare her by [[spoiler:throwing her down the chasm and molesting her]].
39	* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Rodrick tells Greg about "sewer wasps" that come out of the toilet. Greg believes him and is very cautious when he goes to the bathroom.
40	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
41	** Because most of the people are [[WeirdnessCensor deeply in denial]], large amounts of crap can be made up without anyone noticing. For example, a magical diagram to redirect a curse onto its originator is "Feng Shui", and Murphy once suggested calling in Homeland Security on the Denarians' demon-possessed asses by saying they're "terrorists with advanced biotechnology suits." However, this also gets {{Double Subver\|sion}}ted in ''Literature/TurnCoat'' when a security guard insists on taking Harry's staff, which he says is "traditional Ozark folk art": not because he knows that the staff covered in mystic runes has, in the past, been used to blast a rampaging hell-werewolf all the way through two buildings, but because he's worried about the fact that it's basically just a giant club. Harry does use it as such on a number of occasions.
42	** In ''Literature/GhostStory'': Harry states Agatha's pocket dimension burned down...and then he hurriedly adds that it was not his fault:
43	--->I'd dealt with a ghost named Agatha Hagglethorn once, and she'd had her own little pocket dimension filled with a Victorian era copy of Chicago.\
44	([[DestructiveSavior It burned down]].)\
45	(I was not responsible.)
46	** Murphy's job with Special Investigations is fifty percent solving supernatural crimes with Harry, and fifty percent concocting lies to explain away the resulting chaos to her superiors ''without'' acknowledging the supernatural exists. Which her superiors know ''does'' exist, they just don't want their cops to admit as much on public record. Harry's remarked that Murphy could've had a successful second career writing SpeculativeFiction.
47	** A RunningGag in the series is buildings being on fire or having burnt down and it not being Harry's fault.
48	--->'''First line of ''Literature/BloodRites'':''' The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.
49	* In ''Literature/{{Duumvirate}}'', Sarah raids and kills a pervert, then "found" a will on his hard drive that everything he owned was to go to her son. More a TakeThat than a lie meant to be believed.
50	* ''Literature/AnElegyForTheStillLiving'': Francis Church convinces a prisoner to play a game where they take turns asking and answering questions. Either player can accuse the other of lying. If the accuser is correct, he wins the game. The prisoner spots a loophole in the rules and decides never to make an accusation. Almost everything Francis says from that point on is a lie. Some of what he says is actually pretty subtle, but "I am not afraid of anything," is obviously untrue.
51	* In ''Literature/EmilyTheStrangeTheLostDays'', Earwig doesn't want to talk with her seatmate on the bus who just regaled her with his business at Wichita, where they are going.
52	-->'''Normal Guy:''' So, what are you doing, riding the Red Rabbit all by yourself?\
53	'''Me:''' Sorry, I don't speak English.\
54	'''NG:''' What? You sound like you speak English.
55	* In the classic novel ''Literature/{{Gladiator}}'', when his Army superiors ask for an explanation of his superhuman powers, Hugo Danner does ''NOT'' speak of his father's medical experiments. Instead, he simply says, "I'm from Colorado." [[RefugeInAudacity His superiors believe him.]]
56	* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': Although the Five generally consider themselves to be truthful, especially George, in ''Five Go To Smuggler's Top'', Julian tells a couple of whoppers just after Sooty and Uncle Quentin have disappeared in the night. When the maid Sarah brings Uncle Quentin his morning tea in bed, she is amazed to find Julian and Dick there instead; to get rid of Sarah, Julian says that he might be in his and Dick's bedroom. Later, Mr Lenoir tries to ask them what happened; Julian says they know nothing, but it is obvious he is lying by omission.
57	--> '''Julian:''' Marybelle, I think ''I'' had better take charge of the telling. (To Mr Lenoir) Uncle Quentin vanished from his bed last night, and so did Sooty. They may turn up, of course.
58	--> '''Mr Lenoir:''' Julian! You are keeping back something.
59	--> '''Marybelle:''' (wailing) Tell him, Julian, tell him!
60	* ''Literature/{{Gone}}'':
61	** Caine is an expert at telling obvious lies.
62	--->'''Emily:''' You can get the lights back on?\
63	'''Caine:''' I can. It would take about a week.
64	** Astrid is also great at telling lies that are incredibly obvious. There's a REASON she's on the cover of the book called ''Lies''.
65	** In ''Plague'', Drake told Sam, Dekka, and Jack that he had [[spoiler: killed Brianna.]] This wouldn't be too blatant of a lie, had he not been in the presence of a LivingLieDetector.
66	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
67	** The Dursleys claim Harry has gone to "[[DustbinSchool St. Brutus' Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys]]" to their fellow Muggle neighbors to explain his long absences at Hogwarts. Aunt Marge approves, and asks whether they still use the cane. And Harry, needing the Dursleys' to sign a permission form, jumps in on the blatant lying to the point Marge offers that if he can talk so lightly about St. Brutus, then they're not beating him hard enough.
68	** When asked directly by Harry what he saw when he looked into the Mirror of Erised, a mirror that shows one's greatest desire, Dumbledore claims to see "a pair of thick, woollen socks." It's actually [[spoiler:his dead sister, whom he may or may not have accidentally killed, alive again]].
69	* In Lawrence Block's ''Here Comes a Hero'' Evan visits an acquaintance named Gershon while in Tel Aviv. Gershon serves what he claims are zebra sandwiches, stating that zebra meat is said to taste remarkably similar to ham.
70	* ''Literature/AHoleInTheFence'': When brigadier Beauras catches Grisón trying to sneak into the Epnoi Forest, the kid claims he was only gathering strawberries. Beauras replies that both know that nobody told him to go to a restricted zone to gather strawberries in winter.
71	* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': In ''On Basilisk Station'', after Honor has just had the ''Fearless'' fly past a Havenite courier ship close enough to blow out its impeller nodes so it can't leave the system...
72	-->'''Courier captain:''' Captain Harrington, I protest your reckless, illegal shiphandling! You almost destroyed my ship! Our entire after—\
73	'''Honor:''' I'm very sorry, Captain. I'm afraid I wasn't watching where I was going.\
74	'''Courier captain:''' ''Weren't watching wh—?!''
75	* ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'':
76	** ''Johnny and the Bomb'' shows that it's possible to appear out of thin air, claim you're looking for the pottery club, and let everyone's WeirdnessCensor do the rest.
77	** Earlier, Johnny notes that the phrase "We're doing a school paper" seems to grant you all sorts of access, and that Hitler could probably have conquered all of Europe by claiming it was school research.
78	* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Every time Nolien says, "I'm not part of the Heleti family", he's wearing the medallion that is given to the ''heir'' of the Heleti family. Nobody believes him, but they play along.
79	* ''Literature/LeftBehind'': The Antichrist uses a lot of transparent lies, which work since he has MindControl powers to back him up.
80	* Everything Shin-tsu of ''Literature/TheLongingOfShiinaRyo'' says is taken as this, even though he's telling the truth. It's not his fault the Universe made him its [[CosmicPlaything plaything]].
81	* ''Literature/TheLordOfBembibre'': None of Don Alonso's servants believes his claims that his daughter Beatriz is leaving for the convent of Villabuena because she owes her aunt a visit. Everybody knows he is banishing Beatriz to punish her for refusing an arranged marriage, no matter how much he claims otherwise.
82	* ''Literature/LumbanicoTheCubicPlanet'': After arriving in the hidden Enchanted Valley, the main characters are summoned before the Great Guardian to explain why Pirela -an Outsider girl- had one chunk of Astrolita, a mineral which could only be found in the Arista's lost capital city, Astrópolis. Unwilling to reveal that they found the forgotten mountain tunnels leading into the hidden valley, Pirela hurriedly tells it is a gift from her grandmother. Pirreno Zyr -another Guardian- immediately shouts that Pirela previously stated she found it somewhere. Pirela angrily retorts she found it in her grandmother's jewel case, which she saw no reason to mention. When Zyr questions why an Outsider would keep chunks of an Aristan mineral, Ustrum suggests their ancestors picked some stones when they passed through the city on their journey back home. Later, Pirreno Zyr and other Guardians find their story ridiculous, and the Great Guardian agrees that it is full of holes. The Outsiders who were going back home after spending months hiding in the mountains knew they were going to find their Valleys devastated by an environmental disaster. Surely, they were feeling too depressed to gather mineral samples. And if someone had picked one stone and their family had treasured it for seven hundred years, they would not have given it to a thirteen-year-old child as it was a new toy.
83	* ''Literature/TheMonsterAtTheEndOfThisBook'', in the ''Series/SesameStreet'' Golden Book children's literature series. The story is about Grover, who tries to convince the reader to not finish the book because there is a horrifying, evil monster lurking on the final page. A series of obstacles (e.g., tying the pages together with Army rope, brick walls, etc.) of course don't work. The trope comes at the end: the "scary" monster at the end of the book is merely Grover! ("Oh, I am so embarrassed!" he says sheepishly.) One of the earliest and most successful ''Sesame Street'' books to date, a rewrite was commissioned in 1996, with Grover finding Elmo as the "horrifying monster" at the end of the updated version. (Although to some, Elmo would avert the trope, believing ''him'' to indeed be a scary monster.)
84	* ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': In ''The Ghost in the Third Row'', at one point, Paula Geller asks Alan if he saw the ghost, and later says that she ''meant'' “Did you see something Lydia might have mistaken for the ghost?” Nobody believes her.
85	* Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. The Party has browbeaten and conditioned its citizens to believe even the most blatant lies that it spouts. The Party's lies often contradict its own previously told lies. And it's not enough for citizens to simply ''say'' that they believe the lies. They have to genuinely believe them.
86	* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' novel ''Ashes of Honor'', Chelsea tells her mother that [[spoiler:Toby's turning her into a full fae didn't hurt.]]
87	* This is a mainstay in the ''Literature/PigeonSeries'' of children's books. The Pigeon would try all kinds of shenanigans to convince the reader to let him do what he wants, from telling them that "their moms would let him do it" to outright bribing the reader with five bucks.
88	* A lot of people in ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'' do this, but nobody is quite as blatant as [[spoiler:Indrani]] the Archer.
89	-->“We protected the innocent until surrender ensued,” [[spoiler:Indrani]] proudly replied, then spoiled the way she’d kept her face straight through that by badly winking.
90	* This happens quite a lot in ''Literature/ProjectTau'':
91	** Dennison, when he convinces Kalin that the latter [[spoiler:really is a Project]].
92	** Mason, when he promises Kalin that he'll be released from the lab after two weeks.
93	* In ''Literature/{{Ratburger}}'', the villain Burt claims to be his own twin brother with the same name because "his parents couldn't afford a name each."
94	* In the poem "Who Am I" from ''Literature/RavingLunacy'', the author claims, among other things, to be "the sunshine, the moonlight, the good times and the boogie" (an obvious reference to Music/MichaelJackson) and "the reason why some believe the moon landing was a hoax" (a subtle lampooning of (ridiculous) [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theories]]).
95	* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Fangburn and Sela come up with a pathetic story to explain to Cluny why Redtooth is missing when he gets killed by Constance. They claim he fell in a mysteriously-appearing swamp, and they can't agree on the direction it was in.
96	* In ''Literature/SevenStars'', Charles Beauregard finds one of Declan Mountmain's mooks in Declan Mountmain's house, dying of a wound inflicted by the reanimated {{Mummy}}. Mountmain claims the man is a complete stranger who happened to be hit by a carriage outside his house; Charles mentally notes that he's making no effort whatever to be convincing, because he know Charles won't believe him anyway and doesn't care.
97	* A ton of lying goes on in ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' but usually it's of the sly, clever variety. Then one of the flashbacks gives us the moment seven-year-old Jesper tried to spy on his parents after bedtime.
98	-->'''Aditi:''' Is my little rabbit awake?
99	-->'''Jesper:''' No.
100	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
101	** The Frey's excuse for the Red Wedding is that [[spoiler: Robb's forces attacked first by ''transforming into wolves'' and that they were forced to kill them. In self defense. Of course.]] Unsurprisingly, no one really buys this; they're relying more on people having to accept it for political reasons. It's not proving very effective. One observer sarcastically notes that it looks like the Freys realized that nobody was ever going to believe them no matter what excuse they gave, so they decided to go all out to at least come up with something memorably creative.
102	** Once upon a time, there was a massive civil war in the Seven Kingdoms (the Dance of the Dragons) for which any unbiased accounts about either side are rather thin on the ground. Except, there is that one chronicle recorded by the court fool, Mushroom. Problem is, he mixes truth, libel, tall tales, gossip and outright unbelievable lies in with his unabashedly negative portrayal of both sides of the conflict. Maesters use his accounts when writing about the period, since they're the best they've got, but they always comment about the dodginess.
103	* In ''Literature/SpaceGlass'', Amy pulls this number twice, first lying to Ratroe saying she doesn't have feelings for Bob, and then lying to Bob saying she does have feelings for Ratroe.
104	* In the Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel ''Literature/StarmanJones'', the main character questions one of his friends about the contents of some boxes the friend has smuggled aboard. The friend claims they're tea cozies, which he's importing as "skullcaps for pinheads". Not so much.
105	* In the first ''Literature/StarTrekMillennium'' novel, when Dr. Bashir asks Garak to aid him in identifying two recently-discovered bodies (referencing Garak's expertise), Garak responds: "Oh, Doctor, I'm afraid that in matters of mysterious deaths, I am entirely bereft of experience". No-one is amused. Bashir then clarifies he wanted Garak to examine their clothing..."I meant your expertise as a tailor".
106	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': ''Literature/XWingSeries'':
107	** ''Wraith Squadron'':
108	*** The Wraiths, pretending to be the crew of a warship, are on that warship's mission, touring planets aligned with Warlord Zsinj. The captain dies while they are capturing his ship, and at some point a planetary governor hails them and wants to talk to that captain. Improvising, the squadron's actor coats a pair of goggles with fluorescent paint, sticks one end of a tube in his nostril, the other in his ear (to disguise his distinctive features), and pretends to be a lieutenant and says that the captain is in the bath, dictating his memoirs. When the governor states his confusion, the actor roars that Captain Darillian has to budget his time; he's not some planetary governor who can [[WhiteCollarCrime skim taxes with one hand]] and pick his nose with the other!\
109	Later, the Wraiths' actor, "Face" Loran [[DeadPersonImpersonation impersonates]] that captain with [[OfCorpseHesAlive the help]] of his full-holo CaptainsLog. Most of the people who they met either hadn't known the man or had barely met him and knew little of him other than his [[LargeHam melodrama]] and [[SmallNameBigEgo ego]]. But then the actor talks in depth to Darillian's immediate superior, making him suspicious when they turn out not to know something the captain should. He gets out of this by [[IndyPloy furiously improvising]], again, and telling the admiral, as the captain, that it's been a very long time since he was home. The admiral knows that, and that the captain's family died thanks to Isard. The actor, as the captain, continues to improvise and tells the admiral that he was in love with Isard, and was wildly conflicted and distracted by this. Going off on a tangent about her, the actor fascinated the admiral long enough that he forgot about his suspicions and almost fell into the Wraiths' trap. This was helped by the fact that Loran had met Isard in person, and his particular talents allowed him to notice and remember very subtle details about her.
110	---->'''Face:''' Thank you, thank you. Performances every hour, on the hour. Imperial madmen a specialty.
111	*** When Wedge breaks up a fight:
112	---->'''Phanan:''' We were discussing the finer points of a specific hand-to-hand combat maneuver...\
113	'''Wedge:''' Flight Officer Phanan, how many times do you think I've heard that "we were talking about a boxing move" excuse?
114	** In ''Solo Command'', during Wedge and Han's "mutiny of anonymity", the various crew off-duty refused to refer to one another by their proper name and rank, or allow people who did into their section. The preferred address was "person who looks like [so and so]". Wedge explains:
115	--->'''"not-Wedge":''' Who do you think I am?\
116	'''Face:''' Um... Commander Wedge Antilles, New Republic Starfighter Command?\
117	'''"not-Wedge":''' No no no no... if I were Antilles, I'd be wearing proper rank insignia, wouldn't I?
118	** There's ''Starfighters of Adumar''.
119	--->'''Wedge:''' We'll need a wheeled transport, one of the flatcam units our pursuers are carrying, and four sets of women's clothing.\
120	'''Hobbie:''' Boss, please tell me you're not putting us in women's clothing.\
121	'''Wedge:''' Very well. I'm not putting us in women's clothing.\
122	''[in the next chapter, [[GilliganCut the four pilots are in women's clothing]]]''\
123	'''Hobbie:''' You lied to me.\
124	'''Wedge:''' I did. With [[SarcasmMode my brilliant achievements in the diplomatic profession]] has come the realization that lies can be powerful motivators.\
125	'''Hobbie:''' My faith is shattered.\
126	'''Wedge:''' You knew, when I said we needed four sets of women's clothing, that we were going to end up in them. You ''knew''. So any hopes you had to the contrary were just self-delusion.\
127	'''Hobbie:''' I understand that. But I'd rather blame you than me.
128	* ''Literature/AStudyInCharlotte'': Charlotte tells us that Sherlock refused to name the mother of his son, Henry, and when pressed, claimed it was ''[[MisterSeahorse Dr. Watson]]''.
129	* ''Literature/TheSurprisingAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': After telling how he and his companions escaped from a remote island inhabited by giant kingfishers, and visited a strange land inhabited by one-horned men and oxen, Munchausen says he arrived in a country where (tall)-taletellers are hanged; but he was not worried for his own safety, since he has never told a lie.
130	-->'''Munchausen:''' ''"This gave me no concern, as I have ever confined myself to facts".
131	* In ''Literature/TheFateOfPaulTwister'', a fellow bard asks Paul where in the world he ended up with a special breed of horse that's strongly associated with paladins. He flippantly remarks that he won her off a paladin in a gambling game, something which would never actually happen in-universe, and then in the narration explains that telling obvious but entertaining lies is proper social etiquette among bards to get them to drop a question you don't feel like answering.
132	* In Creator/RuthFrancesLong's ''Literature/TheTreacheryOfBeautifulThings'', Jack's first attempt to get Jenny to go back is this, plus illusion to back up that he and Puck are not TheFairFolk.
133	* ''Literature/TroyRising'': In ''The Hot Gates'', the entire Horvath diplomatic position is built on these. They even have the gall to demand compensation for the ships lost to "human pirates" when those ships were carrying out a ColonyDrop on several Earth cities, after their DepopulationBomb failed, and the humans decided to fight back. This is on top of demanding a restoration of their "protectorate" over Earth. Fortunately, not even their Rangora allies are supporting this position.
134	* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', after Bella is hurt by James, the Cullens are somehow able to pass her injuries off as her falling down some steps and smashing through a window. Everyone buys this. When Bella is dropped off at the hospital, she has a broken leg, four broken ribs, cracks on her skull, bruises all over her skin, and severe blood loss. There is no mention of lacerations or injuries from impact, nor of bits of glass in her hair or clothes, and she was jacked up with morphine before being put in the hospital. In ''Breaking Dawn'', Bella and Edward try to pass their daughter off Edward's previously-unmentioned niece from a previously-unmentioned brother, who suddenly fell over dead and left his daughter in the care of the officially-underage Edward. From all of this, the only thing that clues Charlie in on the lies is the fact that Renesmee's eyes look exactly like Bella's.
135	** In the movie, when he sees her, he even says "So, this is your kid, Edward?" and rolls his eyes knowingly when Edward insists on "niece" with the obligatory "Oh, right".
136	* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'': Played straight by the villains and their propaganda. Averted by the heroes, though out of pragmatism: Lies backfire when they are found out, whereas a ''true'' propaganda is invulnerable.
137	-->'''John Rumford:''' The first rule of good propaganda is to make sure the facts are accurate.
138	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
139	** In ''Literature/BlackLegion'', Khayon reassures Lheor that travelling through sorcerers' gate is "just like teleportation". As it turns out, it's ''not'', as you have to fight your way through scores of daemons. Upon passing the gate, Lheor decks Khayon for this.
140	** In ''Literature/WatchersOfTheThrone'', [[spoiler:Asterion Moloc]] claims that he and his men came to Terra to recuperate after their fortress-monastery was heavily damaged in the attack. Pretty much everyone in the room realizes immediately that they're lying - [[spoiler:the Minotaurs]] are fleet-based, and their "fortress-monastery" is a warship currently in orbit above Terra, visible to all.
141	* In ''Literature/{{Watersong}}'', Gemma and Harper's mother, Nathalie, suffered a traumatic brain injury that turned her into a compulsive liar. She is constantly telling blatantly obvious lies, and grows upset when they are pointed out.
142	* In ''Literature/WeAreNotAllMadeOfColour'', Magnum Brunel asserts that Aristotle was Socrates' father, that gravity causes cancer, and that Samuel Wilberforce wrote ''The Origin of Species.''
143	* In the first book of ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'', Mawk the weasel tries to claim he was "just passing" when caught snooping around a mole tunnel. The moles don't buy it: "Where were you going? The antipodes?"
144	* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' has [[LovableCoward Piglet]] tell a lie in "Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle" when he's scared at the prospect of the Woozles. What makes his lies blatant is its highly unlikely specifics.
145	-->'''Piglet''': I think...I think that I have just remembered something. I have just remembered something that I forgot to do yesterday and shan't be able to do tomorrow. So I suppose I really ought to go back and do it now.\
146	'''Pooh''': We'll do it this afternoon, and I'll come with you.\
147	'''Piglet''': ''[quickly]'' It isn't the sort of thing you can do in the afternoon. It's a very particular morning thing that has to be done in the morning, and, if possible, between the hours of--What would you say the time was?\
148	'''Pooh''': ''[looking at the sun]'' About twelve.\
149	'''Piglet''': Between, as I was saying, the hours of twelve and twelve five.
150	* In ''Literature/AWolfInTheSoul'', Joey attempts to defend Greg (in wolf form) from a hunter by claiming, rather ridiculously, that he's his pet dog. A part Labrador, part Golden Retriever named Muffin. "He's very tame. Does tricks and everything."
151	-->'''Me:''' Nope. I don't speak a word of English, and also, I have a speech defect, so if you don't mind, I'm going to sleep now.
152	* ''Literature/TheWinnieYears'': When Winnie, Sandra and Ty sneak into an aquarium to return a penguin that Ty stole from the aquarium, they are caught by a security guard, and Winnie makes up a story about Sandra being a mute who collects pets. She delivers the story in an awkward manner, so the security guard can tell that the story is fake.
153	* ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'':
154	** In the beginning, it's mostly Hector (sometimes with Garovel's help) coming up with excuses to explain his absence or physical exhaustion, but later on, it happens with other characters as well. There's one conversation between Gina and Roman with several examples.
155	** They begin talking on the phone:
156	--->'''Gina:''' Master Roman! Where are you? You haven't contacted me for weeks.\
157	'''Roman:''' Yeah, my phone kind of blew up. It's no big deal. I've got a new one now.\
158	'''Gina:''' How did your phone get destroyed?\
159	'''Roman:''' Oh, um. I dropped it.\
160	'''Gina:''' You dropped your phone, and it exploded.\
161	'''Roman:''' Yeah. That's a thing that can happen. I don't see what's weird about it.\
162	'''Gina:''' Master Roman, why are you lying to me? And moreover, why are you sucking at it?
163	** Later, about the jet:
164	--->'''Gina:''' Wait. What happened to your private jet?\
165	'''Roman:''' Oh, um. Yeah, don't worry about the private jet. It's fine.\
166	'''Gina:''' It's not fine at all, is it?\
167	'''Roman:''' It's at the bottom of a swamp.
168	** ... which may both be related to this:
169	--->'''Gina:''' They attacked you?\
170	'''Roman:''' No.\
171	'''Gina:''' Master Roman...\
172	'''Roman:''' Okay, maybe a little.
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Context BlatantLies / Literature