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Basic Trope: A person tends to take even the most ridiculous of lies at face value.

  • Straight: Bob always believes Alice, even if she tells incredibly unbelievable lies.
  • Exaggerated: Alice could say "Fish can breathe on land" and Bob would believe her.
  • Downplayed: Bob's fairly gullible, but Alice needs to stick within the realms of possibility for her lies to be believed.
  • Justified:
    • Bob lives in a world with no concept of lies. Therefore, the possibility of Alice not telling the truth does not occur to him.
    • Alice is a Charm Person, and uses that to make sure that Bob believes her lies.
    • Bob's Living Lie Detector power is currently malfunctioning, giving Bob false 'they're telling the truth' results. Bob is unaware of this, and believes his power is working like normal.
    • Bob has recently discovered that magic exists, and so if Alice explains her lie by saying that it's magic, he'll believe her.
    • Bob is a young, imaginative child, making it easier for Alice's lies to work.
    • Alice took Refuge in Audacity; The most ridiculous, the most blatant lies will inevitably fool people due to how unbelievable it is, and saying it with such a matter-of-fact tone would pretty much make them believe it's true.
  • Inverted:
  • Subverted: Alice tells Bob a ridiculous lie, and Bob seems to believe it, but then decides it's not true.
  • Double Subverted: Alice then offers a flimsy explanation of why it's true... and Bob believes that without question.
  • Parodied: Bob believes Alice's ridiculous lies wholeheartedly, but never falls for her plausible lies.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice tells Bob a ridiculous lie, which he doesn't believe. He does fall for a slightly less ridiculous lie, but later he sees evidence that it was a lie and changes his mind.
  • Averted: Bob has a normal level of skepticism about Alice's lies.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded:
    • "How on Earth did he fall for a lie that unbelievable?"
    • "Bob wouldn't know a lie if it told him the sun rises in the north."
  • Invoked: Alice the Evil Matriarch raises Bob to never question that others are telling the truth so she can manipulate him for her own ends.
  • Exploited: Alice gets Bob to do what she wants by lying to him and trusting in his inability to detect lies.
  • Defied:
    • Bob makes his own researches to check if Alice's claims are true.
    • Bob's good friend Charles warns him never to trust Alice.
  • Discussed: "Bob, this tendency of yours to believe everything is getting ridiculous. We need to teach you how to distinguish between truth and lies."
  • Conversed: "You know, Bob's not very smart. He can't even tell the most unbelievable lie from the gospel truth."
  • Played For Laughs: Bob's gullibility runs on the Rule of Funny, where Alice tries making lies towards Bob to further her goal and always backfires at it hilariously.
  • Implied: Alice implies how many times Bob was easily tricked into her plans to Benny so he could teach Danny how to not fall for others' lies from the mind of a manipulator.

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