Line #10 PlayingWith/MetaphoricallyTrue


1	'''Basic Trope''': A statement that's ''technically'' true but extremely misleading without all the facts.
2	* '''Straight''': [[KnightTemplar Bob]] tells [[LadyOfWar Alice]] that her father was killed by LaResistance. Actually, her father was a ''member'' of LaResistance and was killed by TheEmpire; Bob merely takes the view that if not for LaResistance, he'd still be alive.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Bob tells Alice that [[BoisterousBruiser Charles]], a member of LaResistance, is responsible for her father's death. In fact, Bob struck down her father while fighting LaResistance; Charles tried to save him. Bob "reasons" that her father would still be alive, if Charles had managed to rescue him -- but since he failed, obviously that means he's responsible.
5	** Charles wasn't even on the same continent as her father, but Bob reasons that, thanks to the butterfly effect, had Charles acted differently, her father never would have died.
6	** Bob reasons that if Charles was ''there'', he might have been able to save Alice's father.
7	** Bob claims Alice's father died of natural causes, reasoning that [[BlackComedy it's perfectly natural for someone to die]] [[InsaneTrollLogic after being shot in the head]].
8	** Bob tells Alice that he is a freedom fighter, he fights freedom the way firefighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime.
9	** Bob tells Alice that her father committed suicide. After all he considers opposing the Empire to be a suicidal endeavor.
10	* '''Downplayed''': Bob tells Alice the resistance killed her father. He was actually caught between a fight between the resistance and empire, and was not the only victim. Bob reasons that had the resistance not engaged the empire in such a place, the people would have been spared.
11	* '''Justified''':
12	** Bob tells Alice her father would be alive today if not for the resistance, but some time after Alice discovers that it's only true, it is discovered that Bob was told the LaResistance abandoned him to TheEmpire intentionally to save themselves.
13	** Bob does not like telling lies, but sees no problems in bending the "truth" around to make people come to their own conclusions.
14	* '''Inverted''': Bob tells Alice that he died fighting for the resistance. After she finds out he was a redshirt, she claims he lied to her, because he gave her the impression that her father was a major factor in the war.
15	* '''Subverted''':
16	** Her father really was killed by the resistance. They lied to her to get her on their side.
17	** When Alice confronts Bob with the truth, he's just as surprised by it as she was.
18	* '''Double Subverted''': Or Did They?
19	* '''Parodied''': Bob tells Alice completely BlatantLies and uses InsaneTrollLogic to justify everything.
20	* '''Zig Zagged''': It appears that the resistance fighter Charles killed Alice's father, then approached her with this type of lie to get her on their side, but does it rather ineptly. When Alice [[SpottingTheThread Spots The Thread]] and learns this, she abandons the resistance entirely. Charles then finds evidence that Nate is TheMole Bob and believes he killed her father and leaked the "truth" to her to avoid any chance of Alice joining the resistance for real. On confronting Nate, it finally comes out that Alice's ''father'' was TheMole and Nate was trying to protect her from that revelation - he was just bad at lying. Probably.
21	* '''Averted''':
22	** Bob flat-out lies and has no logic, even shaky logic, to justify his claims.
23	** He tells the truth, no matter how painful as it might be.
24	** Bob's cryptic comments on the subject could mean almost anything, and strings Alice along by letting on that he knows something, but never telling her anything.
25	* '''Enforced''':
26	** Having Bob lie cements him as "one of the bad guys" and gives the writer a way to set up [[LetsYouAndHimFight conflict]] between Alice and Charles before she [[TheReveal learns the truth]] and [[HeelFaceTurn joins the heroes]].
27	** In the original script, Alice's father actually ''was '' killed by LaResistance, but this was later [[RetCon Retconned]] due to ExecutiveMeddling.
28	* '''Lampshaded''': Alice responds to Bob's lie by asking how accurate it really is, but otherwise accepts it at face value.
29	* '''Invoked''': Bob intentionally allows Alice to learn the truth after giving this type of lie in order to discredit his own side, while acting as TheMole.
30	* '''Exploited''': "DidYouActuallyBelieve that Bob was telling you the whole truth, huh, Alice?"
31	* '''Defied''':
32	** Bob points out that he could give this type of lie to make Alice feel better about working with him, then tells her that she'll still work with him due to [[EnemyMine other reasons]].
33	** "You listen to me, you son of a bitch: you will provide information, ''right now''! Complete and unvarnished information; none of those "from a certain point of view" fucking bullshit loopholes! And if I ever discover that you twisted so much as a single fucking vowel and this is what got me and my men almost killed, endangered the fucking galaxy or [[SurpriseIncest almost made us make out with our siblings]] or whatever, ''I will fucking kill you right then and here'' and to hell with whatever happens to me afterwards! '''Are we fucking clear'''?!?"
34	** "You lied. You ''lied'', you ''lied'', you ''lied''! It doesn't matters what kind of wordplay you use to try to defend it, you bastard, you '''lied'''!!! It's not about what ''you'' think happened, it's about what really happened! [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Even if nobody else knows it!]]"
35	* '''Discussed''': Bob considers how to convince Alice to help him with a friend before approaching her, including the use of this lie and the possible ramifications if the truth emerges.
36	* '''Conversed''': "Well, that was a really vague and contrived way to be honest. Way to be, Bob."
37	* '''Deconstructed''': Bob twists the truth because he believes the AwfulTruth would hurt Alice too much, and he's afraid of losing her friendship. Naturally, when she finally learns the truth and turns on him, it's even more devastating.
38	* '''Reconstructed''': However, after some contemplation, Alice realises that Bob's intentions were in her best interests, and that if she had learnt the truth about her father's death earlier, she might have not been mature/discreet/strong enough to do the right thing. So she returns to LaResistance and proceeds to destroy TheEmpire and avenge her father.
39	* '''Played For Laughs:''' The lie is about something ridiculously trivial, like why Alice received key lime pie instead of lemon meringue. This is presented with [[FelonyMisdemeanor just as much drama as an actual murder would have been]].
40	* '''Played For Drama:''' Bob was a mentor/father figure to Alice for most of her life, and finding out that he was a lying liar for lies shakes her confidence in everything. Considering he actually ''did'' have some understandable reasons for hiding the AwfulTruth, which is why she's uncertain if she should really stop believing him altogether.
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46	%%* '''Implied:''': ???
47	%%* '''Untwisted:''': ???

Context PlayingWith / MetaphoricallyTrue