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** Alice took RefugeInAudacity; 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''.
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** Bob is ludicrously skeptical.
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** Bob is ludicrously skeptical.skeptical, bordering on ArbitrarySkepticism at times.
** Bob is TooDumbToFool. Even the most covert, excellently hidden lies will ''not'' fool him.
** Bob is TooDumbToFool. Even the most covert, excellently hidden lies will ''not'' fool him.
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** Bob is a LivingLieDetector, but the 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.
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** Bob is a LivingLieDetector, but the Bob's LivingLieDetector 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.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice could say "The sun rises in the north" and Bob would believe her.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice could say "The sun rises in the north" "Fish can breathe on land" and Bob would believe her.
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** Bob is a young, imaginative child, making it easier for Alice's lies to work.
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* '''Defied''': Bob makes his own researches to check if Alice's claims are true.
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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** Bob makes his own researches to check if Alice's claims aretrue.true.
** Bob's good friend Charles warns him never to trust Alice.
** Bob makes his own researches to check if Alice's claims are
** Bob's good friend Charles warns him never to trust Alice.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's gullibility runs on the RuleOfFunny, where [[SmugSnake Alice]] tries making lies towards [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter 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 [[NaiveNewcomer Benny]] so he could teach [[KindheartedSimpleton Danny]] how to not fall for others' lies from the mind of a manipulator.
* '''Implied''': Alice implies how many times Bob was easily tricked into her plans to [[NaiveNewcomer Benny]] so he could teach [[KindheartedSimpleton Danny]] how to not fall for others' lies from the mind of a manipulator.
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** Bob has recently discovered that magic exists, and so if Alice explains her lie by saying that [[HandWave it's magic]], he'll believe her.
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** Bob is ludicrously skeptical.
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** Bob is ludicrously skeptical.
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* '''Justified''': Bob lives in a world [[Film/TheInventionOfLying with no concept of lies]]. Therefore, the possibility of Alice not telling the truth does not occur to him.
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** Bob lives in a world [[Film/TheInventionOfLying with no concept of lies]]. Therefore, the possibility of Alice not telling the truth does not occur to him.
** Bob lives in a world [[Film/TheInventionOfLying with no concept of lies]]. Therefore, the possibility of Alice not telling the truth does not occur to him.
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* '''Conversed''': "You know, Bob's not very smart. He can't even tell the most unbelievable lie from the gospel truth."
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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 "The sun rises in the north" 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 [[Film/TheInventionOfLying with no concept of lies]]. Therefore, the possibility of Alice not telling the truth does not occur to him.
** Alice is a CharmPerson, and uses that to make sure that Bob believes her lies.
** Bob is a LivingLieDetector, but the 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.
* '''Inverted''': CassandraTruth
* '''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 EvilMatriarch 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.
* '''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."
* '''Straight''': Bob always believes Alice, even if she tells incredibly unbelievable lies.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice could say "The sun rises in the north" 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 [[Film/TheInventionOfLying with no concept of lies]]. Therefore, the possibility of Alice not telling the truth does not occur to him.
** Alice is a CharmPerson, and uses that to make sure that Bob believes her lies.
** Bob is a LivingLieDetector, but the 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.
* '''Inverted''': CassandraTruth
* '''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 EvilMatriarch 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.
* '''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."
