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If you can't or won't lie, it can be hard to keep your secrets. But fear not, because there are ways to pull the wool over another's eyes without speaking a single untruth. Sometimes, you can tell the truth but no one will believe you because the truth is simply too weird. Other times, you can tell the truth in a tone of voice which makes everyone assume you meant the opposite. And if you are careful with your phrasing, you can pull off the highest verbal coup of all: to tell the truth, clearly and plainly, and still make everyone assume you meant something else. If others accuse you of being dishonest, you can stand behind the bulwark of your completely truthful Exact Words. Maybe they should pay more attention next time — if there is a next time... A character who is told they'll get "what's coming to you" or "your just desserts" is almost always on the receiving end of this trope. At this point, in fact, such lines feature almost exclusively in comedies, since it's just too implausible that characters in a serious drama (i.e. responding to dangerous situations with appropriate caution) wouldn't recognize the threatening subtext behind such phrasing. Needless to say, a villain who prides himself on his honesty considers this good form ("Alice can't come to the phone right now. She's all tied up at the moment"), especially when they're Faux Affably Evil, but it's not strictly a villainous trope. Heroic characters can give False Reassurance, too; particularly when they have a secret to keep, but can't or won't lie to their loved ones' faces. For example, Clark Kent might tell Lois Lane, "Don't worry. Clark Kent won't be seen outside this tropical resort," which does not bar Superman from going to investigate the mysterious temple. The key trope to many a Deal with the Devil. Subtrope to Double Meaning. Compare Prophecy Twist, No Man of Woman Born (where a prophecy of triumph or doom gives False Reassurance to its target because it seems like it can never come true), Metaphorically True, Exact Words, Lying by Omission, Stealth Insult, and You Said You Would Let Them Go. See also New Era Speech and Worrying for the Wrong Reason. The Self-Poisoning Gambit often relies on this. Contrast Suspiciously Specific Denial, Assurance Backfire, and Empty Promise. |
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In The Ballad of Halo Jones, she enlists in an army that assures new recruits that most soldiers never see combat. Later, when she's jumping with a parachute from a plane into the battlefield, she's told that if she's lucky, she will be one of the few whose parachute works. | |
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In the opening scene of The Recruiting Officer, Sergeant Kite is attempting to recruit peasants to the army, and does so using deception of this type. He invites a spectator to put on a soldier's cap, and the man asks, "won't the cap list me?". Kite replies, "No, no, no more than I can." Kite ultimately enlists the whole crowd by tricking them into accepting a "gift" of money and drinking to the King's health. | |
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In H'el on Earth, When Supergirl asks H'el if resurrecting Krypton will do anything to Earth, he assures her that the people of Earth won't suffer. That's because they'll all be dead after the Sun implodes if H'el's plan succeeds. | |
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RWBY: In the pilot episode, a Dust shop is robbed by Roman Torchwick and his mooks. The elderly shop owner holds up his hands and tells them to just take his Lien (money) and leave. Roman tells him to relax because he's not there to steal money. He then orders his men to steal as much Dust as they can. Dust is the basis for all technology in the show, and also acts as ammunition for weapons. While Dust is common and easily available, it's therefore highly valuable. From the moment Weiss returns home, Whitley is supportive of her and understanding about her situation. Weiss is confused by this because she was always under the impression that Whitley didn't really like her or Winter, but Whitley assures her it was only Winter he had issues with. It is only after Jacques has stripped her of her inheritance and handed it to Whitley that Weiss realises that Whitley was only pretending to be the supportive brother so that he would be seen by Jacques as the only suitable heir. He explains to Weiss that instead of rebelling, the only way to handle their father is to become exactly what he wants them to be. |
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In Paranoia, if Friend Computer or one of its human minions gives you what sounds like good news, you can pretty much assume that it's an example of this trope. It can also be turned back on Friend Computer in order to complain about something without Friend Computer picking up on it. "It is as wonderful as I had expected" sounds a lot like "It's wonderful" if you don't specify how much you expected. |
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Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: "What do you have to lose? Besides your life." | |
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A Dilbert strip had the Pointy-Haired Boss putting Wally in charge of a group he was going to eliminate. Wally freaks out when he realizes that he's going to be fired too, and the PHB says he will not fire him. At which point Dilbert walks in, and the PHB walks off thinking "That would be a job for Executive Director Dilbert." | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-507 was once reassured from behind a locked door that should he unlock it, the person behind it would not be able to stab him "because all of his objects were 'very blunt'". | |
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Garfield: A mouse tries to get Jon's cheese, but Garfield beats him to it. Garfield tells Jon "No mouse will ever get your cheese while I'm around."... and then eats the cheese himself. | |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: In "El circo", Mortadelo has to take the place of the lion tamer in the circus. He wonders how many tamers the lion has sent to the hospital, but he is told it hasn't sent any... because it has eaten the 14 previous right in its jail. | |
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Not Always Right: A story about an internet user who believed that the way to get an in-person visit from a technician was to not only verbally abuse the tech support line, but to threaten to come round to the company with a gun. This earned the false reassurance that someone would definitely be visiting the customer soon, possibly even running red lights to get there. Similarly, this story, where an auto shop is offered second-hand wheels of dubious provinence for a luxury car, and tells the seller they have a customer who is looking for exactly those kinds of wheels ... because they've recognised that the wheels have been stolen from a car they service. |
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Title Pending: Alyssa tries to convince the two that having 20 escaped life-sentence convicts as the filming crew isn't bad. Bayden starts thinking this isn't a good idea, but Cameron makes him reconsider. | |
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In Doom Patrol, the Candlemaker promises Dorothy that it will revive Josh (who had just been killed by The Chief), if in exchange she will let it enter the physical world. Dorothy agrees and the Candlemaker does bring Josh back to life as promised, but it kills him immediately afterwards. | |
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In All Fall Down, AIQ Squared promises his creator, IQ Squared, that "Nothing *on Earth* is unlawful about what's taking place." | |
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In Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, Supergirl has just discovered Lex Luthor's dirty secrets and asks whether he's planning to kill her. Luthor replies he will not kill her... because The Joker will do so. | |
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In What If the Star Wars Prequels Were Good?, Darth Maul demands his Master for a chance to kill his mortal enemy, Obi-Wan. Sidious tells his apprentice to be patient and relax, as all the loose ends will be wrapped up soon. When the foes eventually clash, Maul is defeated by Obi-Wan and Anakin. Sidious/Palpatine orders both Jedi to kill Maul, who suddenly realises that he was the loose end his Master was referring to earlier. | |
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In Series 5 of Old Harry's Game, Hell is overcrowded, leading to a workforce on strike and Satan spending a lot of time in the mortal world trying to slow the flood a bit. One of the new arrivals, Roland, sees this "an opportunity" he can use to take over. When Satan returns, Roland offers to help, saying "If you let me talk to the demons, you won't have anything to worry about ever again." | |
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The Eagles song "Hotel California" starts out with tantalizing lines about how nice the hotel is. Then, after a bit of foreshadowing in the second verse with the bar not having the traveler's favorite wine, it takes a dark turn. | |
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During one of his seminars, American travel writer Rick Steves told attendees something along the lines of "In Europe, you won't get mugged by criminals who threaten you using a gun or a knife — that's what happens here... Instead, you are more likely to experience pickpocketing." As it turns out, this isn't actually the case; while your odds of being threatened with a gun are much lower in Europe, the odds of being robbed with a weapon of some sort (be it a knife, club, acid, or something else) aren't particularly different from that of the US. And you're still more likely to get pickpocketed. |
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Part two of Shakespeare's Henry IV has an alliance of rebels (no, not that one) parleying with John of Lancaster, son of King Henry. They present him with a list of grievances, and John assures them that he will take the list directly to his father so they can be addressed. The rebels are satisfied and dismiss their army. John vows that they will "lie tonight together"... then has them all arrested for treason and orders his army to ride down the now scattering soldiers of the enemy. | |
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Macbeth: Macduff asks if Macbeth has been bothering his family, and Ross says "they were well at peace when I did leave 'em." Macduff notes Ross's oddly tight-lipped manner, and a few lines later Ross gathers his nerve and delivers the bad news: Macbeth has massacred Macduff's entire family. | |
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In one of the later issues of The Boys, an argument between the main characters ends when one of them genially informs the others that there's no hard feelings and no real disagreement because "I killed the last bloke I disagreed with." Everyone laughs it off — except what the character in question doesn't reveal is that he actually did kill that person the previous night. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All, one of Phoenix's clients assures him that he didn't kill anyone that night, especially not the murder victim. He didn't... the assassin he hired did. | |
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U.S. Acres: The worm dressed as a chicken to trick Booker and Sheldon told them he knew what he was doing. When Lanolin knitted Orson a scarf, Bo was worried Lanolin was pulling a trick on him [Orson]. She said she wasn't, and then it's revealed the scarf was made of Bo's wool. |
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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up: The Atom delivers one to Shaggy after shrinking himself and the gang. | |
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Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited: During the Darkest Hour of the "Calamity" prequel miniseries, as Asmodeus, Lord of the Nine Hells is unleased on Exandria in presence of the party, Brennan Lee Mulligan has the party roll a saving throw for each of their magic items. He tells Luis, playing The Paladin, that he doesn't need to roll for his Holy Avenger. This is because the sword is corroded and unmade instantly, with No Saving Throw. | |
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In the Finnish version of The Men from the Ministry episode "Ban the Wotsit," One and Two are being interviewed on the TV after Soviets manage to "replicate" the super-weapon Wotsit (which was really a pram full of junk mistaken for a weapon). The interviewer asks Lamb if he thinks the Soviet weapon is as powerful as the original, which he answers that he is sure it is just as powerful, no more or less. | |
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The most famous example was Jake Roberts betraying the Ultimate Warrior during the series of vignettes in 1991. Roberts supposedly was going to help Warrior in his feud with The Undertaker, constantly reassuring him that he was on his side, but wound up locking him in a room where a cobra bit him, and as the Warrior passed out, Roberts revealed his alliance with the Undertaker. | |
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To Catch a Predator. Many episodes feature suspects asking the question "Are you going to arrest me?", only to have Chris Hansen respond with "I'm not going to arrest you." Which he doesn't, because he's not a police officer. They're waiting outside. | |
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In The Pirate's Fate, the heroes may capture Queen Nakhta and try to force her to abdicate in favor of her sister, Bilba. Nakhta, sighing, declares that if Bilba wants power, she can have it, she'll put the crown on herself, and yes, she'd love to have the crew stay to watch. By which Nakhta means that she intends to place the magic crown that will de-age Bilba and remove her claim to the throne onto Bilba's head, and she wants the Dread Pirates present so that she can have them captured afterwards. What keeps this from being a moment of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero? Nakhta's technical honesty even in this is characteristic, and though you don't find out in this route, despite being a Jerkass she really is the better choice for the throne, as compared to the totally sociopathic Consummate Liar Bilba. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: Dimir Doppelganger is a shapeshifter that takes the form of dead creatures. Its flavor text? "Fear not, your life will not go unlived." Kiku's Shadow is a spell that causes a creature to damage itself. Its flavor text is a quote from the titular Kiku: "Me? No, I'm not going to kill you. I won't even lay a finger on you. I promise." |
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Jhariah: On "Not So Bad" from The Great Tale of How I Ruined It All, the protagonist tries to cope with the cult's takeover by convincing himself that maybe he should cave in, and it won't be such a big deal: "It's not so bad, it's just the end of the world." He ultimately doesn't, because a part of him still resists it. | |
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And in Arthur, King of Time and Space, the story is retold exactly in the baseline arc, and then we switch to the space arc, where Isolde simply says she's been in the arms of no man except her husband. It doesn't occur to Mark to suspect the Gender Flipped Dame Tristram. | |
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Sid Eudy also "reassured" Hogan that they were still friends, even though he was bitter at him for costing him the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at the end of the 1992 Royal Rumble. Two weeks later, on Saturday Night's Main Event, Eudy turned on Hogan in their tag team match against Ric Flair and The Undertaker. | |
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In Fate/stay night's Fate route, the Holy Grail War takes a sudden turn for the worse once an eighth Servant shows up and turns out to have won the Superpower Lottery. When explaining this to the supervisor of the Grail War, he responds that this is something he cannot ignore, and that he will look into it. And indeed he can't; the Servant is his, and has just blown its cover by wandering off on its own. It should be noted that said supervisor, Kirei Kotomine, is a master of this. | |
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One of the entries in Warhammer 40,000 tie-in website "The Regimental Standard" reassures Guardsmen that 90% of injuries do not require immediate medical attention. This is because they result in immediate death. | |
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Several feuds with Hulk Hogan began this way: "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff provided Hogan a "false reassurance" moment at the end of their tag team match against Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy, to ignite an explosive feud that raged from the summer of 1986 through the early months of 1987. Shortly before Orndorff attacked Hogan, he (belatedly) stopped the heels' 2-on-1 assault of Hogan and ran them from the ring ... but curiously they hung around ringside — and Hogan, not yet having regained his senses, not noticing — as Orndorff helped Hogan to his feet, patted him on the back and said, in essence, "It's alright, the attack is over," the trope kicking in as Orndorff raised Hogan's hand in victory ... before Orndorff viciously clotheslined Hogan to the mat, piledrove him and then called Bundy and Studd into the ring to finish him off for good. Hogan, of course, got his revenge. Sid Eudy also "reassured" Hogan that they were still friends, even though he was bitter at him for costing him the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at the end of the 1992 Royal Rumble. Two weeks later, on Saturday Night's Main Event, Eudy turned on Hogan in their tag team match against Ric Flair and The Undertaker. |
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In Jack Chick's "The Contract," the titular Deal with the Devil on paper serves as a passive version of this for people who don't sign any diabolical contracts. Think a devil like Beelzebub Fox can't drag you to Hell just because you didn't sign any contracts with him? Hey, he never said he needed a contract to get your soul; you made that inference all by yourself, sucker! | |
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It'll take an expert to tell if this is a good example or just has the airs of one, but Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Meffy is a tricky one. He's always forthcoming and outright tells Faustus that hell is inescapable and HORRIBLE, for one. Is he a Noble Demon giving a fair warning, or a Manipulative Bastard using Faust's Flat-Earth Atheist tendencies? |
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