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:
- Cassandra Truth
- Bob is ludicrously skeptical, bordering on Arbitrary Skepticism at times.
- Bob is Too Dumb to Fool. Even the most covert, excellently hidden lies will not fool him.
- 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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