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* ''Series/TheBlackDonnellys'': The narrator (Joey "Ice Cream") puts himself into the story in places where he couldn't have been, gets dates wrong by a year or so, and just has the general demeanor of not being a guy whose facts are ready to bank. On the flip side, the story he tells does not make him seem like a MartyStu. He gets shut down by the ladies. He never plays a pivotal role in the events of the story. This leads us to believe we can accept at least ''some'' of what he is saying. Joey generally gives the sense of wishing he had brothers like the Donnellys, and that's why he inserts himself into the story, in a hopeful-sad attempt to feel like part of them while he's really an outsider. Sometimes it seems like he may have been there, and usually it seems like it was probably another Donnelly or sometimes Jenny who was really there.
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* ''Series/TheBlackDonnellys'': The narrator (Joey "Ice Cream") puts himself into the story in places where he couldn't have been, gets dates wrong by a year or so, and just has the general demeanor of not being a guy whose facts are ready to bank. On the flip side, the story he tells does not make doesn't flatter him seem like a MartyStu. He much; he gets shut down by the ladies. He ladies, and he never plays a pivotal role in the events of the story. This leads us to believe we can accept at least ''some'' of what he is saying. Joey generally gives the sense of wishing he had brothers like the Donnellys, and that's why he inserts himself into the story, in a hopeful-sad attempt to feel like part of them while he's really an outsider. Sometimes it seems like he may have been there, and usually it seems like it was probably another Donnelly or sometimes Jenny who was really there.
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* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' often mentions his lack of any emotions in his narration, though it becomes increasingly apparent that this is not true. For example, he does clearly care about the people in his life, though with his (eventual) wife and her two kids it's also implied to be a case of BecomingTheMask. He's not lying to the audience so much as he simply doesn't understand a lot of human nature.
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* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': [[Characters/DexterDexterMorgan Dexter Morgan]] often mentions his lack of any emotions in his narration, though it becomes increasingly apparent that this is not true. For example, he does clearly care about the people in his life, though with his (eventual) wife and her two kids it's also implied to be a case of BecomingTheMask. He's not lying to the audience so much as he simply doesn't understand a lot of human nature.
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* ''Series/Goosebumps2023'' is a unique variation. Harold Biddle (speaking through the possessed Mr. Bret) tells the teens exactly what happened to him in 1993 in how he found evil doll Slappy who [[spoiler: manipulated Harold into turning his parents into dolls]] and the kids' parents tried to stop Slappy, pulling him away from Harold who died by accident. This was all completely true with the kids in the present concluding that their parents tried to save Harold from this evil doll and Harold's death wasn't murder. However, Harold is appalled as his SelfServingMemory has him insisting their parents horribly bullied him (when they didn't), stole his "best friend" and are murderers. "Were you even listening?" Likewise, when the parents in the present confront him, Harold keeps accusing them of "murdering" him.
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* A minor case in ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa''. Akemi suffers from nightmares from when her uncle and home were set on fire. She sees the culprit, [[spoiler:her other uncle]], with a maniacal grin on their face as they set her uncle alight. However, when she properly confronts the memory, it instead shows that the culprit was shocked after what they had done, painting them in a more sympathetic light
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* A minor case in ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa''. Akemi suffers from nightmares from when her uncle and home were set on fire. She sees the culprit, [[spoiler:her other uncle]], with a maniacal grin on their face as they set her uncle alight. However, when she properly confronts the memory, it instead shows that the culprit was shocked after what they had done, painting them in a more sympathetic lightlight.
