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4->'''''Truth:''' Noun. That which most easily appeals to the fears, hopes, and prejudices of the hearer; in essence, a lie.''
5->'''''Lie:''' Noun. That which causes its utterer to be reviled; in essence, the truth.''
6->'''''Deceit:''' Noun. Example: A dog rolls on the carcass of a dead possum in order to deceive other animals regarding his identity as a dog (whereas) a man lolls in the scents of church in order to deceive himself regarding his identity as a thief, an adulterer, and a liar (the difference is that the dog does not first have to endure being bored by the possum).''
7-->-- '''Thorax''', ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane''
8
9Truth, lies, and deception. If only it were easier to tell them apart. Listed are multiple tropes that fall into one of the three categories. And TheShadesOfFact offers insight into their fictional equivalents.
10----
11[[index]]
12[[foldercontrol]]
13
14[floatboxright:
15'''Also see:'''
16+ PromisesAndVowsIndex
17]
18[[folder:Tropes of Truth]]
19[floatboxright:
20'''Also see:'''
21* ATrustingIndex
22* InformationDesk
23]
24First, recognize honest intent, whether expressed as the plain truth or a technical falsehood.
25----
26* AllLovingHero: A hero will not lie about his good nature and intentions.
27* AwfulTruth: Something is true, but the truth is so bad that people keep it secret out of fear that other people will go mad.
28* BadActorGoodLiar: A character makes for a very good liar or con artist despite being terrible at professional acting.
29* BasedOnATrueStory: A work which is, or claims to be, based upon something which really happened.
30* BewareTheHonestOnes: Shifty characters distrust an honest one.
31* BluffWorkedTooWell: A character's lie works too well, causing unintended consequences.
32* BluntNo: Someone says "no" in a blunt tone as a response to a inquiry.
33* BluntYes: Someone says, "yes" in a blunt tone as a response to a yes-or-no question.
34* BrutalHonesty: You'd expect a character to lie, but they just tell the truth.
35* CardCarryingJerkass: A character will not lie about being a jerk.
36* CardCarryingVillain: A villain will not lie about his evil deeds.
37* CannotTellALie: Someone is literally unable to lie.
38* CassandraBystander: Someone confesses a truth, but relies on RefugeInAudacity so it won't be believed.
39* CassandraTruth: Someone tells the truth, but nobody believes them.
40* ContagiousCassandraTruth: Somebody cannot get anybody to believe something they know is true, but they manage to convince one, but nobody else.
41* DeceptionNoncompliance: Somebody has to deceive, but they deliberately mess it up.
42* ADogAteMyHomework: A student doesn't bring their homework and claims that a dog ate it, which is either a lie or a Cassandra Truth.
43* DreamingTheTruth: Somebody has a dream that makes them realise the truth.
44* EmbarrassingAlibi: Humiliating yourself or ConfessToALesserCrime to establish your alibi.
45* EyeContactAsProof: Having someone look you in the eyes while making a claim is the best way to verify the claim.
46* FalseReassurance: Someone tells the absolute truth, but makes it seem like they mean something else.
47* FoodInterrogation: Food is used as a way to get the truth in an interrogation.
48* HelpfulHallucination: A hallucinated person tells the truth and helps an actual character.
49* HeroicVow: A hero makes a promise they ''will not break''.
50* HonestAxe: Telling the truth earns a reward.
51* HonestyAesop: AnAesop about telling the truth.
52* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: Somebody tells the truth, because they feel they do not need to lie.
53* IGaveMyWord: Dialogue which basically means "I promised to do or not do something, you can't make me do otherwise", which often turns out to be irrational.
54* InVinoVeritas: Telling the truth while drunk.
55* ItWasHereISwear: Someone finds something, goes to show somebody else, but by the time they come to see, it's gone.
56* LieDetector: Something which can tell whether or not somebody is lying.
57* LiteralMetaphor: The simple truth, mistaken for a metaphor. Often a part of the ProphecyTwist.
58* LyingHeroesHonestVillains: A good guy lies, while a villain tells the truth.
59* NoManOfWomanBorn: Some sort of prophecy or something says that something cannot happen until something else, which sounds impossible but somehow isn't, does.
60* NoMoreLies: A lie that was useful no longer is.
61* NoPokerFace: A character can not hide their emotions, including when they're bluffing.
62* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: Somebody doesn't want to help a character but doesn't make an excuse.
63* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Immediately after the work gives information that sounds like made-up nonsense, the characters or the creator say something to the effect of "We didn't make that detail up, it's actually accurate".
64* PersonalizedPledge: "I swear upon [something personal]."
65* ProphecyTwist: A prophecy comes true, but not in the expected way.
66* RecordedSplicedConversation: Trying to pretend that a recording of another person is the actual person speaking.
67* SoCrazyItMustBeTrue: Believing a true, but really weird-sounding, story.
68* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: Supernatural happenings confirm that a transgender person is the gender they identify with, beyond all reasonable doubt.
69* ThrowingOutTheScript: Casting aside your pre-prepared speech to say what you're really thinking.
70* TruthInTelevision: A trope which happens in real life.
71* TruthSerums: A drug which makes the taker be honest.
72* TruthTellingSession: Many truths being confessed during a crowd argument.
73* VillainsNeverLie: A villain tells the truth in a manipulative way.
74* VillainRevealsTheSecret: Sometimes, they're telling ''[[AwfulTruth the truth]]'' and it usually isn't good for our heroes.
75* WillNotTellALie: Someone who technically ''can'' lie, but chooses not to.
76[[/folder]]
77
78[[folder:Tropes of Deception]]
79[floatboxright:
80'''Also see:'''
81* EspionageTropes
82* {{Hypocri|te}}sy
83* InfauxmationDesk
84* MistruthInMarketing
85* TheSecretIndex
86]
87Second, learn the myriad shades of deception, purely for self-defense, of course.
88----
89* TwoPlusTortureMakesFive: The villain tortures the hero by trying to make them believe something that's obviously not true.
90* BathroomSearchExcuse: Lying about looking for the bathroom.
91* TheBeard: A fake spouse or significant other, to hide one's actual sexuality.
92* BluffingTheAdvanceScout: Aliens want to do something bad to Earth, but the humans trick the aliens' advance scouts into thinking all humans are too nasty to deal with.
93* BluffingTheAuthorities: An authority figure thinks someone did something suspicious, but the suspected character comes up with an innocent explanation.
94* BluffTheEavesdropper: Somebody discovers they are being watched and starts acting to trick the watcher.
95* BluffTheImpostor: Tricking an impostor into exposing themselves by making an obvious mistake.
96* BluffingTheMurderer: Somebody is ''pretty sure'' who dunnit, but doesn't know for sure so tries to trick the suspect into confessing.
97* BookedFullOfMooks: A character in a public space discovers that all the bystanders around them are actually another character's employees or co-conspirators.
98* CassandraGambit: {{Invok|edTrope}}ing a CassandraTruth to hide something.
99* ConfessToALesserCrime: When the authorities come asking, the perpetrator will happily confess to being guilty of a minor indiscretion, in order to keep the more serious crime(s) from being brought up.
100* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: Multiple negatives deliberately used to throw the listener off-track.
101* ConfrontingYourImposter: An impersonator is exposed by the person they're impersonating.
102* ConsummateLiar: "Looks are only skin-deep," "The Earth is doomed," "No one who has drunk my tonic has ever died" -- all carefully selected truths, intended to deceive, the hallmark of {{advertis|ingTropes}}ers and politicians. Expect anyone unable to lie whether due to magic, AppliedPhlebotinum, or just being a ManipulativeBastard type, to be good at this.
103* ConsummationCounterfeit: Falsifying BloodstainedDefloration
104* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: When someone in authority claims a suspicious death is due to an accident, suicide, or natural causes.
105* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Missing some basic piece of information about someone you're pretending to be, often forcing you to make up something on the spot.
106* CrocodileTears: Pretending to cry to gain other people's sympathy.
107* DeadPersonImpersonation: Taking the identity of someone deceased.
108* DecoyBackstory: The backstory we were initially given for a character turns out to be untrue.
109* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Using a cute façade to get what one wants.
110* DestinationRuse: A character lies to a subordinate (usually a parent to a child) about where they are going.
111* DidNotDieThatWay: A character finds out they have been lied to about a loved one's death.
112* DrPsychPatient: An apparent authority figure such as a doctor is exposed as a mentally-unwell person adopting the role.
113* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Where the cover story goes into territory that makes the questioner regret asking.
114* FakeAlibi: A suspect claims to have [[TheAlibi an alibi]], witnesses confirm, yet the suspect is actually guilty.
115* FakeAssistedSuicide: A character pretends to be helping another character commit suicide.
116* FakeOrgasm: A character simulates a sexual climax (or confesses this fact) to show that a sexual encounter/relationship is unsatisfying.
117* FakePeriodExcuse: Pretending to menstruate.
118* FakePregnancy: A character pretends to be pregnant.
119* FakeRelationship: Two characters pretend to be in a romantic relationship.
120* FakeTexting: Someone pretends to be texting or checking social media on their phone.
121* FakedGiftAcceptance: Pretending to accept a gift but then destroying it or throwing it away when no one's watching.
122* FalseCause: Correlation does not imply causation, but here that is ignored.
123* FalseProphet: Someone who lies using religion for personal gain.
124* FauxFinalLine: To give an illusion of normalcy, a character pretends that they have been talking to another character.
125* FeigningIntelligence: A character tries to appear more intelligent than they really are.
126* FictionAsCoverup: Hiding the truth in plain sight by calling it fictional.
127* ForgedMessage: Writing a message but making it look like someone else wrote it.
128* {{Gaslighting}}: Using deceit to intentionally convince someone that they are insane.
129* GasLeakCoverup: A simple, dull, believable excuse for something that is none of those.
130* GideonPloy: Tricking your enemies into believing you have more people on your side than you do
131* GirlfriendInCanada: Pretending to be in a long-distance relationship. Has a chance to be a real long-distance relationship despite others accusing otherwise.
132* IdentityImpersonator: A ruse to protect a character's Secret Identity by showing both character's identities in the same place together at the same time.
133* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Tricking a suspect into revealing something only they would know.
134* InfractionDistraction: When someone confesses to or commits a small crime in order to cover for a bigger one.
135* IntentionalHeartbreaker: A character pretends to love someone, only to dump them later.
136* InsidiousRumorMill: A character lies or manipulates the friends, family members, and colleagues they share with someone they're in conflict with to turn their backs on that person.
137* ISurrenderSuckers: A character pretends to surrender but attacks once the opponent lowers his guard. If this is done by a soldier, it is called "Perfidy" and is a [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar war crime]].
138* LanguageFluencyDenial: Pretending not to speak a language fluently when one in fact can.
139* LiarsParadox: A stock technique where a paradox is formed from statements where truth and lie simultaneously occur.
140* LookingBusy: Pretending to be occupied.
141* ManipulativeBastard: The mastermind of deception.
142* ManipulativeEditing: Editing a video out of context to make it look like something else.
143* MetaphoricallyTrue: A statement that is technically true, but extremely misleading without all the facts.
144* MinionManipulatedIntoVillainy: The loyal minion learns that their helpful dark master who was there for them after their life fell apart was actually the one who engineered the tragedy.
145* MinorWithFakeID: An underage character uses a forged identity document to buy alcohol or something they're otherwise too young to access.
146* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: A StockPhrase for authority figures wanting to prevent people from seeing something.
147* MultipleIdentityIDs: When someone has several fake [=IDs=] for several fake identities.
148* MysteriousBacker: The characters are only being told as much as they need to know.
149* NewEraSpeech: A villain who wants to take over gives a speech that is true, but is ambiguous enough to sound like they want to do something good when really they want to do something bad.
150* ObfuscatingDisability: Faking a disability to mislead onlookers or throw off suspicion.
151* ObfuscatingInsanity: Likewise a character could fake insanity...
152* ObfuscatingStupidity: ...or a lack of intelligence.
153* OfCorpseHesAlive: Pretending a corpse is a living person.
154* PhoneyCall: Pretending to make or accept a phone call.
155* PhoningThePhantom: Pretending to be on a phone call so people don't think you're crazy when you talk to the mysterious person only you can hear.
156* PlayingSick: Pretending to be ill to avoid responsibilities or consequences.
157* PropagandaHero: A hero is either embellished or made up out of whole cloth for propaganda purposes.
158* PropagandaMachine: A program or agency that exists to promulgate an official (and often misleading) version of the truth.
159* PropagandaPiece: Publications geared to influence the public first and foremost, with journalistic integrity as an afterthought or completely absent.
160* RealStitchesForFakeSnitches: Deceptively making it look like a criminal has tattled on their employer or associates, especially when they could be hurt or killed for doing so.
161* RecordedSplicedConversation: Manipulating a recording to make a target think they're speaking to a real person.
162* ReversePsychology: Getting someone to do something by telling them to do the opposite.
163* SarcasticConfession: Telling the truth in a way that comes off as a lie. Often used to support the {{masquerade}}, this both deflects attention from the truth now and makes one less willing to accept the truth later.
164* ScoobyDooHoax: Using supernatural myths and UrbanLegends to scare someone for whatever reason.
165* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: A quick, incredibly detailed, and not easily disproved lie.
166* SelectiveStupidity: Cherry-picking a survey's responses to make a certain demographic look stupid.
167* ShamWedding: A fake wedding that's not legally valid.
168* SickCaptiveScam: A captive fakes illness or injury to get the drop on his captor.
169* SocialEngineering: Convincing someone that you're someone else, or convincing someone to do something they don't want to do.
170* SlumberPartyPloy: In order to do something or go somewhere they were prohibited from, kids lie to their parents that they are staying over at each other's houses.
171* StagingTheEavesdrop: Intentionally saying something loudly with the explicit intent of getting someone to eavesdrop on it.
172* SuccessThroughSexAccusation: Someone claims that another person's success is the result of sexual favors.
173* SureLetsGoWithThat: Alice confronts Bob, who is obviously hiding something, and she concludes something wildly different than the secret Bob is actually sitting on, but Bob confesses to Alice's accusation only because he's covering up something darker or just embarrassing.
174* TrojanVeggies: Tricking a child into eating vegetables by hiding them in a different food.
175* UnusuallyUninterestingName: This innocent-sounding group are not a secret organisation of any sort. You won't even question their involvement or even notice their existence. The name is likely to be technically correct, though.
176* WontGetFooledAgain: In which the deception only works once.
177* WoundedGazelleGambit: A guilty person acts innocent and manages to fool everyone.
178* YouDidntAsk: When a character simply doesn't tell/mention something that's particularly large, hard to avoid in conversation, or just really should have been mentioned.
179* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: A villain lies to someone to get them to go along with a plan that will ultimately hurt those that they care about, or otherwise makes a promise that he has no intention of keeping. Often involves use of loopholes.
180[[/folder]]
181
182[[folder:Tropes of Lies]]
183[floatboxright:
184'''Also see:'''
185* DirtySocialTricks
186* FictionNeverLies
187]
188For outright fabrications that may never be discovered as such.
189----
190* AccidentalTruth: Someone intends to lie, but their "lie" was actually true.
191* AccidentallyRealFakeAddress: Someone makes up a false address (or similar) that happens to be a real one.
192* AcquaintanceDenial: A character pretends they don't know someone to avoid judgment or embarrassment.
193* ActingUnnatural: People try to act innocent, but fail intensely.
194* AmalgamatedIndividual: Multiple individual actions are thought to be committed by a single person.
195* AmnesiacLiar: Somebody lies, gets amnesia, and then is told their lies because the person they lied to thinks they're true, and now the liar does too.
196* AnachronisticClue: An item that cannot come from the time period it supposedly came from, which is a clue.
197* BackupBluff: A character uses a lie as a last resort for when their plans fail.
198* BadLiar: Somebody cannot tell convincing lies.
199* BecomingTheBoast: Someone lies that they possess a skill, then is forced to actually gain that skill.
200* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Somebody tells something that isn't true but they believe it.
201* BigSecret: Someone lies during an investigation to hide a secret unrelated to the matter at hand.
202* BlatantLies: A lie that's ''obviously a lie'', even if you don't know the details.
203* BoyfriendBluff: Somebody (usually a man) saves someone else (usually a woman) by pretending to be their boyfriend or similar.
204* BrandishmentBluff: Pretending to have a weapon.
205* CelebrityLie: A character claims to be friends with a celebrity. HilarityEnsues.
206* CompulsiveLiar: Someone feels a need to lie even when it's not the most reasonable thing to do.
207* ConfessionDeferred: Someone lies until it benefits them to tell the truth.
208* ContraceptionDeception: Lying about birth control during sex.
209* ContrivedClumsiness: Somebody does something mean and pretends it was an accident.
210* CryingWolf: Lying so often that nobody believes you when you actually tell the truth.
211* CutHimselfShaving: Making up a lame excuse for injuries received from your secret life.
212* DarkSecret: Someone has a negative secret, which almost always leads to lying.
213* DeceptiveLegacy: A child is lied to about their missing parent(s).
214* DogGotSentToAFarm: Telling a child someone has gone somewhere else when they've really died.
215* DoubleSpeak: A euphemism.
216* DreamDeception: A character lies to another that they're dreaming.
217* EmptyPromise: Someone makes a promise they cannot keep/don't believe.
218* EngineeredHeroics: A character fakes being a hero.
219* EverybodyKnewAlready: Something you think is a secret, but really isn't.
220* ExerciseExcuse: A character lies about their strange behaviour by claiming they were exercising or dancing.
221* EyesNeverLie: Looking in somebody's eyes is a surefire way of telling whether or not they're lying.
222* FakeStatic: A character makes noises over the phone and pretends that it's a bad connection.
223* FakeWizardry: Magic is real...but you're not actually using it.
224* FakingAmnesia: Just what it sounds like, a character pretends they have amnesia.
225* FalseWidow: A woman who claims she has a dead husband when really she doesn't.
226* FawltyTowersPlot: Someone tells a lie, then other lies must be told to convince people the lie is true, but then it's revealed as false as it becomes too ridiculous.
227* FriendshipDenial: Somebody denies they're another character's friend, when they clearly are.
228* FrustratingLie: A character reacts with frustration when they either hear a lie instead of the truth, a really bad lie, or a lie that complicates their situation.
229* {{Glamour}}: TheFairFolk pretend to be an old friend of the hero/es.
230* GodGuise: Pretending to be a god.
231* GodNeverSaidThat: Lying about what the writers said about the work.
232* HandBehindHead: A character puts their hand behind their head, sometimes as a tell that they're lying.
233* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Bragging about something sexual that the bragger didn't really do.
234* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: If someone hesitates, they must be lying.
235* HowDidYouGetIt: A character lies about how they got a valuable or contraband item.
236* IAmOneOfThoseToo: When you are caught in a lie by someone who just happens to have that ability / nationality for real.
237* InventedInvalid: Someone lies about visiting a sick relative as an excuse to escape their duties.
238* IWasNeverHere: A character claims they never came.
239* ILied: A character outright admits to having previously lied.
240* ImplausibleDeniability: Denying something when evidence to the contrary is right in front of the denier.
241* InflationaryDialogue: A lie involving a number, that changes every time the lie is told.
242* InstantlyProvenWrong: When your lie offends the universe so badly that it exposes you on the spot.
243* InternalRetcon: Pretending something happened a different way from reality, because the truth would be dangerous.
244* InternalReveal: The characters find something out that the audience already knew.
245* InventedIndividual: Somebody makes someone up and eventually has to give up the made-up person by "killing" them or in some other way.
246* InventionPretension: Someone pretends they invented something which has already been invented.
247* ItsForABook: Claiming that a dodgy question is asked because you are writing a book, which is usually a lie.
248* KeepingSecretsSucks: Because it involves lying a whole lot.
249* LameRhymeDodge: A character denies saying a phrase or insult, instead claiming they said something else that [[MondegreenGag sounds like what they really said]].
250* LanguageOfTruth: A language that cannot be lied in.
251* LetThemDieHappy: Lying that a dying character will be OK in order to let them be happy before they die.
252* LiarRevealed: The protagonists learn that somebody else has been lying.
253* LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics: Using statistics to lie.
254* LiesToChildren: An analogy told to a kid is essentially a lie because they take it too literally.
255* LiteralMoneyMetaphor: A person thinks they were promised money, when really it was something else.
256* LivingLieDetector: Having the ability to detect lies.
257* LuridTalesOfDoom: A newspaper or magazine story of, at the best, extremely questionable truth, or at the worst, total fabrication.
258* LyingByOmission: Using the truth in both letter and spirit, but omitting key details to deceive.
259* LyingCreator: Something a creator says about a work turns out not to be true.
260* LyingFingerCross: Someone crosses their fingers while making a promise they don't plan on keeping.
261* LyingHeroesHonestVillains: A good guy lies, while a villain tells the truth.
262* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: Lying to avoid making the person being lied to sad/angry.
263* LyingToThePerp: A detective lies to a suspected perpetrator in order to get them to make a mistake.
264* MaintainTheLie: Someone lies about their life and their friends have to help them carry it on.
265* MaliciousSlander: Somebody intentionally slanders the protagonist.
266* MemoryGambit: Making yourself believe your lies just to regain memory after everyone else starts believing them.
267* MetaphoricallyTrue: A "lie" that is true if you make it a metaphor.
268* MilesGloriosus: Badass in their boasting, but a coward when faced with real danger.
269* MockMillionaire: Pretending to be rich or powerful.
270* MotivationalLie: Somebody tells a lie to motivate another person.
271* TheMunchausen: Someone who goes on and on about their unlikely adventures, either because they're lying, insane or even telling the truth.
272* MunchausenSyndrome: Faking illness for attention as part of a psychological condition.
273* NarrativeBackpedaling: The narrative tells a story, then admits it didn't happen.
274* NoTrueScotsman: Saying that if somebody is an X, they ''can't'' have been/done Y.
275* TheOldestTricksInTheBook: A list of old excuses.
276* ObstructiveVigilantism: Lying to the cops for the greater good. Or not.
277* ObviouslyFakeSignature: A blatant forgery of a signature.
278* ObviouslyNotFine: A character claims to be fine when anyone can see that they're not.
279* OpenSecret: When everyone acts like something is supposed to be a secret, but everybody knows about it anyway.
280* PhonyVeteran: Lying about being in the military.
281* PhotosLie: A photo doesn't show what happened before or after it was taken, leading to some lies.
282* PinocchioNose: Someone always does one particular thing when they lie.
283* PlagiarismInFiction: Taking someone else's work and saying it's yours.
284* PlayingUpTheStereotype: Pretending to have stereotypical qualities of your group.
285* ThePowerOfLegacy: Lying about what somebody's last words were.
286* QuoteMine: Lying that somebody said something they didn't by taking bits of what they ''did'' say out of context.
287* RecruitersAlwaysLie: The recruiter lies to the recruit.
288* RedundantRomanceAttempt: Acting out of character to impress a love interest who likes your true personality.
289* SandInMyEyes: A character lies about the reason they are crying.
290* SecretlyWealthy: Pretending not to be rich.
291* SelfProclaimedLiar: Someone outright says they're lying.
292* TheShadowKnows: An invisible character casts a shadow, or a shapeshifter's shadow looks like their true form.
293* ShamSupernatural: Someone pretends to be a supernatural creature that they aren't.
294* SnowballLie: A lie that spirals out of control, and other characters join in.
295* StereoFibbing: More than one character lies at once, about the same thing but often different lies.
296* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Somebody denies doing something ''very specific''.
297* ThatLiarLies: Accusing someone of lying.
298* TrickedToDeath: A lie that results in death.
299* TwistingTheWords: Turning an innocuous statement into something that sounds more incriminating.
300* TwoFacedAside: A character lies, then whispers or mouths the truth.
301* UnreliableExpositor: Someone gives exposition, but they're lying or ignorant or both.
302* UnreliableNarrator: The narrator lies or exaggerates.
303* UnreliableVoiceover: A FlashBack shows the truth, but the voiceover is lying.
304* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Someone's reputation as TheCasanova or someone who ReallyGetsAround is actually made up.
305* VeryFakeResume: A resume has some ''very'' blatant untruths in it.
306* WeDoNotKnowEachOther: Two or more characters pretend to be strangers.
307* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: One or more characters pretend they were acting.
308* WroteAGoodFakeStory: A character lies about writing a story as a cover for some other activity, then gets too involved in the non-existent story and wants to make it real.
309* WildCardExcuse: Somebody uses the same lie as an excuse for everything.
310* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: A "tell", such as in poker.
311* YouWontFeelAThing: Claiming that something won't be felt, which is usually a lie.
312[[/folder]]
313
314[[/index]]

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