Basic Trope: A character refuses to acknowledge facts that contradict their view of reality.
- Straight: Lewis thinks the sky is purple, and dismisses all mentions of the sky being blue as ludicrous.
- Exaggerated: Even when outside and looking at it, Lewis won't admit the sky is blue.
- Downplayed:
- Lewis will accept that the sky is blue when convenient or necessary, but otherwise persists in his delusion.
- Lewis accepts that the sky is blue, but is so pedantic he considers blue a shade of purple, which makes him right in the end.
- Justified:
- Lewis really doesn't like being wrong.
- Lewis has more conceit than brainpower.
- Lewis has a rare form of colorblindness that makes him see shades of blue as purple; he believes the sky is purple because that's precisely what he sees.
- Inverted: Lewis knows the sky is blue, and persists in calling it purple because he likes getting people worked up.
- Subverted:
- When confronted with empirical evidence, Lewis recants of his erroneous belief that the sky is purple.
- Lewis turns out to have a vision disorder that makes the blue sky look a different color for him.
- Double Subverted:
- Of course, Lewis still thinks the sky turns purple at sunset, which necessitates further research...
- Lewis believes the sky can only be blue, and no other colors like gold or red, which would be silly.
- Parodied: Lewis uses expressions like "the wild purple yonder" and "out of the purple", to everyone's confusion.
- Zig Zagged: Lewis didn't believe the sky was purple until he suffered a head injury as a child, and the resulting disorder has persisted into adulthood. After an operation which fixes his disorder, he sees the sky as blue like everyone else.
- Averted: Lewis figures the sky is usually blue.
- Enforced: "We need to show just how stupid Lewis is!"
- Lampshaded: "Lewis knows the sky is blue, right?"
- Invoked: Lewis can't stand the color blue, so pretending (even on a subconscious level) that the sky is purple makes life a bit more tolerable for him.
- Exploited: Charlie enables Lewis's delusion by supporting it with "logical" arguments because he finds it amusing to piss people off and lead dweebs like Lewis in circles.
- Defied: Lewis has always known the sky is blue, and figures any other colored sky belongs in sci-fi novels.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Lewis shakes his head when he hears other people talk about blue skies, as if he finds the idea laughable.
- Deconstructed:
- The constant ridicule and contempt Lewis has receives for even his more normal beliefs has made him hypersensitive to criticism, and therefore unlikely to ever change his mind.
- Lewis' delusion is putting his own life and/or the lives of others at risk by ignoring reality in such a careless way, and his adamant refusal to change his beliefs no matter what evidence hes presented isn't helping.
- Lewis' delusion is ultimately harmless, but it bugs some people so much that they vow to continue harassing him about it until he comes into line with everybody else.
- Reconstructed: It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks; Lewis is happy thinking the sky is purple, and to him that's all that really matters.
- Played For Drama: Lewis has been betrayed by everyone he ever trusted, framed for treason and murder, is sleeping in a cardboard box, and will likely be dead in days. He stubbornly insists in spite of all evidence to the contrary that things are okay because the only way he can cope is to refuse to acknowledge the reality of his situation.
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