Quotes / Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story

You see how clever this part is? How it doesn't require a shred of proof?

—Dr. Silberman, The Terminator. Subverted in that Reese is actually telling the truth, but has no way to prove it.

"Um... I’m from a...a... tangent dimension! ON MARS! No, wait! It’s not on Mars, it is Mars! But not our Mars! Another Mars that’s on a parallel wavelength... thing. And, like, there’s this dragon! Named Trogdor! And he, like, has no stomach, because whatever he eats gets sent to this universe! And my dad was this knight who fought him, but he was all burninated. And mom was a witch, so she gave me gave me a magic seed that I got superpowers from. But she got burninated too. So I fought the dragon but it ate me. And that’s why I’m here!"

—Hope, Justice Society of Japan

Felicity: Mmm hmm. And if I call him, is he going to verify that?
Unwinder: Go ahead and try. Try to call Mark Zuckerburg.

—Unwinder's Tall Comics

Baltar: ...So, uh, tell me, are you from Aerilon? Slight trace of an accent there...
Boomer: What? Uh, no– Troy.
Baltar: Troy... tell me, why is that familiar?
Boomer: The mining settlement? The accident.
Baltar: The explosion, right. That was tragic. Your family, uh...
Boomer: They died with the rest.

— Battlestar Galactica, "Flesh and Bone"

”From now on I’m telling jobs I was the general manager of Toys R Us. who tf they gon call”

—A meme made after the closure of Toys ‘R’ Us.

Captain Numos: Captain Falco informed us we were participating in a diversion, and any orders [to the contrary] heard from you were part of that. He insisted we keep this secret, sharing it only among the captains of the capital ships.
Captain Tulev: All of whom are dead except for you three, and the man who you claim told you this is insane. How convenient.

— The Lost Fleet: Fearless

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