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Inversion of Unreliable Narrator
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Wouldn't the inversion of Unreliable Narrator be just an all-knowing narrator?
Seems like a good candidate for TLP if there is no more appropriate trope.
Apathy is Death. Worse than Death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds beasts and insects.
Doesn't sound distinct enough from Unreliable Narrator. What's the example?
I'm guessing the idea is that the character says something untrue and the narrator tells the audience the truth. Something like this:
Bob: Alice and I had sex last night.
Narrator: They didn't.
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^ Basically, though it's rarely that direct.
Bob: Alright. I bet we can find our way out of here in no time.
Bob and Alice then spent the next few hours stumbling in the forest until they collapsed from exhaustion.
Apathy is Death. Worse than Death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds beasts and insects.
Lemony Narrator plus Instantly Proven Wrong, possibly a mild Gilligan Cut.
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Is there a trope describing a situation, or rather an example of writing, when a character says something and the narrator immediately contradicts them?