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-->'''Shelby:'''Come play poker with us! Wing is cleaning us out with that excellent poker face of his.\\

-->'''Hiashi:''' ...\\

This page is not related to HurricaneOfExcuses or SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. Honest. And InflationaryDialogue is definitely not a specific form of it.

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'': Petra is called this trope by Master Splinter. When she tries to tell a lie, she refuses to make eye contact, stumbles over her words, and blinks a lot. Whenever she needs to keep something secret (like the fact that she lives in the storm sewers with a family of mutant ninjas), she relies heavily on ExactWords.

** Episode 4 of season 2 gives us this hilarious scene when [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon Shax]] confronts him about the whereabouts of Gabriel and Aziraphale [[BlatantLies outright denies knowing him, ''his boss'']]:

** Episode 4 of season 2 gives us this hilarious scene when [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon Shax]] confronts him about the whereabouts of Gabriel:

* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Aziraphale is hilariously bad at lying:
** Throughout series one he keeps denying being (best) friends with Crowley, liking him, and at some point even knowing him. He has got [[DatingCatwoman his reasons]], but still...
-->'''An Actor:''' ''to Aziraphale'' And what does your friend think?

** In season 2 when demon Shax confronts him about the whereabouts of Gabriel, he [[ObfuscatingStupidity denies even knowing him]]:
-->'''Aziraphale:''' I'm afraid I have no idea what you are talking about. Nor where this angel Gabriel - who I've never heard of - might be.

'''Ford:''' Oh. I thought you were just slaying a vampire.\\

--->'''Willow:''' ''[ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin]'' I'm a bloodsucking fiend. Look at my outfit.

* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Yotsuba, the fourth of the quintuplets. During Chapter 21, Fuutarou tells her to come up with some lies to get the others to stay home and study, and her idea is to say that he's suffering some kind of deathly illness (he just got sick from eating too much of Miku's food). [[spoiler:It also serves as foreshadowing, since at the end of the chapter she tells him that she likes him, and then tries to pass it off as a joke to prove that she can lie, but Chapter 90 reveals she was actually being sincere about it]].

** In ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', as trying to convince ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} that she is Kryptonian, Psi reveals her real name Gayle Marsh. ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} quickly points out that is not a Kryptonian name when stating her story does not hold up.

* ''Fanfic/APikachuInLove'': Misty [[spoiler:when she's trying to cover for Pikachu's midnight meetings with Pichi. Ash and Brock were quickly able to tell she wasn't telling the truth, but quickly dropped the subject when Misty decided to switch to being assertive instead when she realized it wasn't working.]]

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]], [[TheCape beacon of morality]] that he is, is a truly terrible liar. Not a single ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} employee is fooled for a second by his repeated claims not to know what's going on, and ComicBook/BlackWidow even insults him to his face for it (in an appreciative way). He's no better at other kinds of deception, either. His idea of hiding a USB with the fate of the free world resting on it is to put it behind two packs of gum in a vending machine that's being restocked.

** In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Peter Parker fits this. He's laughably bad at lying to Ned about being Franchise/SpiderMan, his only response to being caught being "No, I'm not [Spider-Man]."

*** Drax, who comes from a species with no sense of metaphor and is implied to be an oddball even by those standards. When the Sovreign come looking to kill the Guardians for Rocket stealing from them, Drax blabs, then immediately retracts it, saying hurriedly in a monotone he has ''no idea'' why their after the Guardians.
*** At one point, [[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyModern Nebula]] gives a blatantly transparent lie stating that she won't attack ComicBook/{{Gamora}} the moment she's let go, leading to Quill pointing out that she's a terrible liar. This is also Foreshadowing as both sisters never properly learned to lie, leading to the next entry.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': ComicBook/{{Thanos}} claims that Gamora is a terrible liar because he never taught her how to lie. That's why he can seemingly see through Gamora's claiming to not know where the Soul Stone is located. So he decides to get her to give him the info by torturing Nebula until she yields.

* In ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'', the titular protagonist repeatedly does a poor job of lying to or misleading other people, especially when directly confronted. She becomes flustered and awkward, and either tells easily-disproven BlatantLies (with her body language and tone of voice giving her away) or quickly throws in the towel. It's indicated to be a side-effect of her tendency to speak her mind and not hide herself; Hamlet says he admires Ophelia's honesty considering he's surrounded by a [[DecadentCourt whole court of deceivers]], although it causes huge problems when [[BigBad Claudius]] catches her in lies. [[spoiler:She ''is'' able to [[ObfuscatingInsanity convince almost everyone she's gone insane]], including a lot of improvisation, although interestingly, besides acting in a deranged manner, everything she ''says'' is the truth in [[BrutalHonesty one way]] [[ExactWords or another]]]].

* Sophia on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' typically fell into this when she told people stories about her past, which usually ended with a ridiculous twist. Despite the fact that the other characters rarely believed her, it was often unclear (even to Sophia herself) which stories were true or false, since she had suffered a stroke which affected her memory and also had a bit of a [[MultipleChoicePast mysterious past]].

* In what's slated to be the grand finale of ''WebVideo/CharlieTheUnicorn'', the other two unicorns actively try to talk Charlie into going with them to an incursion of ''something'' that starts with a "w", which is never the same exact group of syllables twice, talked up in slapdash tones like they can't be bothered. (Based on the other times, Charlie historically knows that he has no choice but to follow them anyway, and says as much before he's swept up.)

* ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'' has [[http://chainsawsuit.com/2008/11/19/strip-110/ Roger the Bad Liar]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': When Ivy confronts Viktor about the fate of the attacker she'd left him with he very unconvincinly claims he let the man go. Ivy responds that he needs to learn to tell a decent lie, though she does not figure out that Viktor stashed the mans body in a truck right behind her.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. After being accused of toilet papering someone's house:

* Artemis in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. She looks away, stutters, and visibly has to fish for ideas when lying. This is made kind of hilarious by the fact that [[spoiler:her father and sister are supervillains, and her mother is a reformed one]]. Which is usually what she's lying about.

** Calvin himself. His lies tend to outrageous even when you consider that he's a little kid. Trying to blame Hobbes every time he does something bad is a common one, but there are lots of others. Really, the only thing sillier than his lies is that he actually expects anyone to believe them. (As his mother said once when he tried to tell her that aliens had landed outside and were demanding to speak to her as a ploy to get her to leave the cookie jar unguarded, "just how dumb do you think I am?")
*** Part of Calvin's problems, when it comes to pinning Hobbes on his own crimes, is that from everyone else's perspective, Hobbes is an inanimate stuffed toy. Since Calvin seems to be genuinely unaware that others see his friend this way, the futility of shifting the blame completely goes over his head.

* ''Fanfic/APikachuInLove'': Misty [[spoiler: when she's trying to cover for Pikachu's midnight meetings with Pichi. Ash and Brock were quickly able to tell she wasn't telling the truth, but quickly dropped the subject when Misty decided to switch to being assertive instead when she realized it wasn't working.]]

* Celty from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' manages to be this ''without being able to speak''. Celty's lies are usually online, where she poses as a guy. She's so bad at this that nobody even ''knew'' that she was attempting to put on this act.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', Sōsuke is a ''lousy'' liar. Every time he tries to lie to the other students at school about how he's [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain A PERFECTLY NORMAL BOY WHO LOVES DOING NORMAL, BORING SCHOOL STUDENT THINGS]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARMY]], they're hardly ever shown to be convinced. ''And'' he fails at lying when it goes the other way and tries to convince them that he's actually a big, bad inhuman terrorist that's unreasonable and will kill anyone. Interestingly enough, however, when he's lying to a corrupt policeman who's actually ''trained'' in interrogating people, he actually manages to convince him about his phony background story (wanting to fight in the Yami Battle for money and power, and also to buy back a prostitute in Tokyo).

%%* Charlotte in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries''.

** Sophie Williams is Jack Aubrey's fiancée at this point.
** Preserved Killick is the name of Jack Aubrey's servant. Really.

-->'''*during girl talk about the guys they like*'''
-->'''Minerva: (referring to Inaho and Haruko)''' "That's... well... I know it's him."
-->'''Haruko: ([[LuminescentBlush blushing]] in embarrassment)''' [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c012/21.html "N-NO! IT's NOT LIKE WITH TAKE-CHAN!"]]
-->'''Himegami: ([[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]])''' "We never said "who" it was."
-->'''*Haruko [[BlankWhiteEyes goes blank]], realizing she's done it to herself again*'''

--> '''Sanji:''' If I ever got the ability I wanted to use it to '''[[FreudianSlip GIRL'S BATH]]'''. Ah no, I meant I asked myself '''[[CasanovaWannabe GIRL'S BATH]]'''. No, I wanted to use it to benefit the humanity '''[[OverlyLongGag GIRL'S BATH]]'''.

* Rainbow Dash is bad at lying even to herself in ''Fanfic/TwilightsList'', especially about being nervous. She lies to herself in her inner monologue, while she shows outwards signs of the emotion.
* Rainbow Dash is again bad at lying, even to herself, in ''Fanfic/SpringIsDumb'', as she does various things for herself, and totally not because she needs to apologize to Rarity.
* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'':
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight and Rainbow]] are so bad at lying that [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix]] can easily tell when they are hiding something from him without the help of [[LieDetector his lie detecting Magatama]].
** Gilda lies constantly, and never stops to consider if she's contradicting previously established facts. Eventually, even the prosecutor gets fed up with it.
* ''Fanfic/IHaveThisFriend'' is about Twilight going to Celestia, asking for romantic advice on behalf of a "friend" about a pony who sounds suspiciously similar to Princess Celestia. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted, as Twilight was telling the truth. But Celestia is left with the impression that Twilight just sort of confessed to her, and is now planning some sort of grand romantic gesture.]]

* In ''Fanfic/OhGodNotAgain'', Ginny is specifically portrayed as being this. When Ron wonders where Ginny got the extra money she was spending on school supplies (which she got from her cut of a completely inaccurate book by Lockhart), she freaks out and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial demands to know if he's implying she stole it]]. Harry thinks to himself that the Weasleys were raised to be honest.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Vegeta, on the Dragon Radar.
-->'''Vegeta:''' Stupid looking watch you got there.\\
'''Gohan:''' Yes, it tells time...and nothing else.\\
'''Vegeta:''' That's what a watch does. Dumbass.
* Socrates in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.
* ''Fanfic/DespairsLastResort'' has Kaito and Takara, though the latter is self-proclaimed. It's very obvious that Kaito can't lie to save his life, [[spoiler: which turns out to be exactly what happens. His lies in the first trial are seen through easily, leading him to be convicted as Chiyo's murderer]].

-->'''Brittany:''' Fan-freakin'-tastic. So [[IKnowYouKnowIknow you know that I know...do you how I know? Do you know that I know that you know-]]
-->'''Kratos:''' Enough. If you're trying to conceal your nervousness, you're doing a terrible job of it.\\
'''Brittany:''' ...Sorry. But really...what tipped you off?
-->'''Kratos:''' Hmph. Were I to list everything, this would take all night.

* Celestia in ''WebVideo/DanganronpaParody'', which is hilarious considering [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc in the original]], her poker face is legendary to the point of earning her the title ''[[ConsummateLiar Queen of the Liars]]''. Here, she only gets by because everyone else was holding the IdiotBall that chapter, and [[GreatDetective Kyouko]] was elsewhere.
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Archmage Dumat, also a DirtyOldMan, as noted in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-4#post-6355761 Skrimishing]]:
--> "So, how much of your time with the crystal ball did you spend trying to catch her sating said appetites?" the spymaster teased.\\
"None," Dumat sputtered.\\
Albrecht knew his old comrade to be a very honest man, who had great trouble squeezing a lie through his throat. The resulting higher pitch sounded much like what had just come from the man's lips. "Well, by all accounts, she is a pretty young woman," the king waggled his eyebrows knowingly at the wizard.\\
Dumat cleared his throat. "I don't like what you are implying," he squeaked.

---> "Where did you even hear that name!?" Sunburst demanded, pointing a hoof at her... before suddenly realizing she was a princess and backing away. "I mean, not that I need to know, your highness, I just wondered out of purely academic, you know, curiosity, [[MirthlessLaughter haha]], us scholars are certainly a curious bunch you know--"

---> one of Celestia's other students who I have ''definitely'' never met

---> She gasped as the quill in her magical grip burst into flames.\\

[...]\\

* In ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'', Jara is an awful liar. She denies that she tried to coerce [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] into sleeping with her, but her inability to stick to her own story means no one believes her.
-->Kara told Hira about the incident the next day. Hira talked to Nar-Es, who talked to Vara, who talked to Jasmine. Jasmine pooh-poohed Kara's version of the facts, asserting first that there had been no incident, then saying Kara had been the one to ask her over and make the advances. Nobody believed her.
* Edward in ''Fanfic/MyMasterEd'' is a remarkably bad liar within his own head; for someone who insists to himself that he doesn't care whether or not Hohenheim chooses be friends with him, he obsesses over the issue for an remarkably long time.

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' story ''Fanfic/EverybodysGottaLeaveSometime'', nobody believes Lucy when she says she will let Charlie kick the ball at last. And for good reason.
-->'''Lucy:''' That isn't important. The thing is, I'll hold it while you run up and kick it.\\
'''Charlie:''' NO.\\
'''Patty:''' I agree, Lucy. You'll just pull it away and poor Chuck will break his neck when he tries to kick it.\\
'''Lucy:''' How can you even think such a thing? This is the last time we may have to ever do this. The very last time. Don't you think I'd give him a real chance to kick it, after all these years? Don't you?\\
'''Patty:''' No, I don't.

* ''Fanfic/ARabbitAmongWolves'': [[IntrepidReporter Lisa Lavender]], after waking up in the lair of the White Fang organization she slandered, desperately and pathetically pretends to be a twin named "Laura". Everyone sees right through it. Justifed, in that she had to come up with it on the spot and is panicking in a life-threatening situation.
* ''Fanfic/APikachuInLove'': Misty [[spoiler: when she's trying to cover for Pikachu's midnight meetings with Pichi. Ash and Brock were quickly able to tell she wasn't telling the truth, but quickly dropped the subject when Misty decided to switch to being assertive instead when she realized it wasn't working.]]
* ''Fanfic/AFlowersTouch'': Sephiroth describes Aerith as speaking with such honesty that it's easy to tell when she's lying, telling a partial truth or hiding something.

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'': Several characters note that Bell Cranel really sucks at lying and CannotKeepASecret because of that.