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The lovechild of Law of Conservation of Detail and Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic, Hesitation Equals Dishonesty is ubiquitous to the point of being unnoticeable. Whether engaging in Blatant Lies or making sure to Let Them Die Happy, any time a character visibly hesitates when relaying information (rather than, say, making an emotional appeal) to another character, it's even money or better that they're being dishonest, and are trying to barely avoid Saying Too Much. Performance-based works will often use this trope even when the audience knows that the character is lying to avoid a Seamless Spontaneous Lie. If the character tells a lie without any indication of effort, they'll suddenly look like master manipulators, which might be out of character. The trope can also be used on the assumption that Viewers Are Morons. If the character's delivery doesn't scream "lie," the audience might get confused and think that either the character believes what they just said or that their statement is actually true. Expect a Tsundere to engage in this. Every time they deny having any feelings for their object of affection, they will repeatedly stutter and hesitate. Often said object of affection will not understand the implications of such hesitation. The trope extends to video games, even to the dialogue of the player characters: Even if Statistically Speaking the PC is an excellent liar, there's a good chance the writers will mark his Blatant Lies with the all too subtle "Why, yes.... I AM the assassin you've ordered". Sadly, belief in this in Real Life makes things even more difficult for those of us who aren't perfect communicators. Fridge Logic should indicate that the person with the perfectly rehearsed story is probably lying their ass off (or is extremely well-spoken, but there's a noticeable difference between the two), rather than the one who occasionally pauses to collect their thoughts. Also, anything from being very anxious/suffering a panic attack (which can be induced in some situations where the truth is demanded — for example, the mere presence of police officers is a massive trigger for some forms of anxiety and panic) to being sleepy, drunk/high, or simply unsure and wanting to tell the truth but not sure of what the "truth" is can lead to hesitation and even confusion. Subtrope of You Can Always Tell a Liar. Compare Seamless Spontaneous Lie. Compare/contrast with Suspiciously Specific Denial, where Saying Too Much suggests you're being dishonest. Also see Incriminating Indifference. |
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In Fractured Stars, McCall deactivates her illegally obtained android Scipio and hides him in a closet in a locked cabin. She tells Dash that the empty cabins are "for work or, uhm, storage." Dash immediately guesses that she's hiding something illegal in one of the "storage" cabins. | |
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Inverted in The Lives of Others. The man interrogated in the opening scene has a detailed and coherent alibi that he's able to stick to even under repeated rounds of questioning. This tips the interrogator off to the fact that it's a story he's spent time memorising, whereas someone remembering from an actual memory would probably start forgetting details, getting things mixed up and begin hesitating due to stress and tiredness. | |
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Averted on Lie to Me: characters point out that prepared lies generally cause people to answer more quickly because they have already prepared their story for questioning. The way to catch these people is to ask them to repeat their story backwards: your average liar won't bother to practice enough to get this right, but someone telling the truth will obviously be able to draw on their memory to answer. It's also mentioned, however, that hesitating is a way to make people think you're lying. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied/subverted: Bart's announcement of, "Well, I'm doing a presentation on... fireworks!" is met with his mother saying, "Bart, I wish you wouldn't lie like that" before confiscating said fireworks. Cut to Springfield Elementary, where Skinner is announcing a fireworks show, courtesy of Bart. Also subverted when Marge asks Homer where he's going, and he replies 'I'm just going outside... to stalk... Lenny and Carl', which is exactly what he was planning to do. Played straight (And very noticeably so) when Homer asks Marge whether she thinks he's smart or not. It veers into Overly Long Gag territory: In "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife", Homer does this when Marge asks him is he read her manuscript. Each pause is accompanied by Homer's pupil darting back and forth. |
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In the Miraculous Ladybug fic Spots Off, Chat Noir visits Marinette after her identity as Ladybug as publicly exposed. When she asks if he found out from the news broadcast, he hesitates before agreeing. As the reader knows, he actually found out when Nino called Adrien a couple of hours ago and told him about a viral video of her transforming, but he's not yet in a position to tell her they have mutual friends out of costume. | |
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In Asteroid in Love, Megu asks Ao if Moe is getting along with the girls from the club, and Ao pauses as she thinks of all the embarrassing things Moe did with them. Ao says, "I think she's fine," with an aside that Moe is "having a lot of fun," but Megu skeptically says "That pause just now..." | |
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In Heroes, when Matt tells Daphne he believes she's reformed, the poor guy is told Hesitation Equals Dishonesty, with the extra twist that the amount of time he hesitated was only significant to someone with Super-Speed. | |
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In the ending scene of Back to the Future, Marty asks Doc if he and Jennifer become "assholes" in the future and the Doc says they both turn out fine. The sequel establishes the Retcon that Doc was lying to protect Marty from the Awful Truth. In Back to the Future Part II, the refilmed version of that scene (refilmed to accommodate the Jennifer swap) has Doc hesitate before answering Marty's question. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: In Chapter 14, Onni figures out that Reynir is lying about the entire crew being fine after the battle from Chapter 13 due to Reynir taking two Beat Panels worth of time to answer when he asks after Tuuri and Lalli. | |
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Community: Jeff is normally a Consummate Liar, but devolves into this when the audience needs to know he's lying. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, when Edgeworth is cross-examining Larry Butz: | |
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Discussed between John Weir and Hailey Winton in Rabbit Hole (2023) as he is training her in the art of deception to help him with an op. He asks her to tell him something about herself, either true or a lie. When she hesitates in starting to tell her story, he tells her that he knows that she's lying because she hesitated and that people are suckers for confidence. Later, when Hailey is actually doing the op and tells their target that she knows he's lying because he hesitated, John comms through her earpiece that now she's just showing off. | |
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Wolf in the Streets, Sardine in the Sheets: While discussing the corruption among the local police, Kurtis names Captain Gordon as one of the few good men left in the precinct. Fenrich notes that Gordon was killed during a Hostage Situation one month prior; Kurtis stammers and shrinks into himself while noting "That's what the newspaper said," hinting that there's more to the story. | |
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The Dresden Files: A fairly realistic example in Ghost Story; Butters and Daniel are impersonating Wardens to try and intimidate a low-level warlock, and it seems to work until he asks them why they don't have the Wardens' trademark swords, at which point Butters hesitates and their cover is blown. It's pointed out later that had Daniel and Butters immediately responded or completely ignored the question as below their concern, the bluff might have worked. Butters was not an experienced liar, he had not had much time to work out the cover story, he was under a lot of stress at the time, and the warlock in question had some sort of very weak innate telepathy and was exactly the sort of impulsive person who would not stop to consider whether there might be an innocent reason for the hesitation. There actually was an innocent explanation for a Warden not carrying a sword ( the person who forged them was trapped in another body that lacked her former magical talent,) but the warlock was too low down in the magical food chain for this information to have reached him yet, and was able to see through the lie when someone who was better informed would not have thought it odd that the imposters had no swords. Harry hesitates in Fool Moon when it's revealed that one of his apprentices was connected to the werewolf they were chasing, causing Murphy to think he was withholding information. |
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Supernatural: After Balthazar rewrites history by un-sinking the Titanic, and is then forced to reset things by a very angry Fate, Castiel and the Winchesters have this exchange. The boys think Balthazar did it because he's an impulsive hedonist who hated the Titanic movie, but Castiel knows it was to create fresh souls for his war in heaven. | |
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Phoenix's Tear: Reignition has a variation when Mocchi asks Hare if he really wants to leave. Hare hesitates before replying that it's not about what he wants, but what's the most logical move. He's being honest, though his estimation of the situation is more skewed than he realizes. | |
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Both played straight and averted in Discworld. While pauses do often hint at lies, several characters, especially Sam Vimes, note that instant responses are even less honest. | |
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The characters in The Matchmaker mostly speak clearly and without errors, and in some places spontaneously produce eloquent monologues. In a few places, Mrs. Levi is written as stammering or using filler noises specifically to signal to the audience that at these moments she's making it up as she goes along. | |
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Thor: The Dark World: When Loki's adoptive mother Frigga asks him, "Am I not your mother?", he hesitates for a full five seconds before he unconvincingly replies "You're not." | |
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Averted in Inside Man. When Madeline White confronts Arthur Case, asking him if it was true that he used to work for the Nazis in WWII, he hesitates for about four seconds... then smiles and says "Yes." Either he was a truly honest man, who was old and had nothing to lose, or he realized that hesitating that long before lying about it would make it obvious that he was lying. | |
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Speaking in Tongues: John hesitates when he tells Leon that he got home around midnight to find a series of messages from his wife on the answering machine. It eventually turns out that he got home earlier and heard his wife's last message while she was leaving it, but made no attempt to answer the phone. | |
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In The Order of the Stick following the reveal that Julia's "message spell" is actually Eugene using an illusion to get past Roy's refusal to accept his help, you can go back and see that every time "Julia" has to get into details about how the spell works, or talk about her own life rather than what Roy needs to do, there's a pause. | |
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On The Middle, Frankie had set up a play date for Brick that went well. Several days passed without the other mother contacting her again, so Sue called her to ask what was up. The other mother said, "My son's been... sick." Sue accepts this, but thinking about it later she wonders why the woman had hesitated, and it turns out she was lying. | |
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In the Temps story "Leaks", a scientist experimenting on a paranorm whose only power is to channel other people's beer into his own glass, and insists it won't work on anything non-alcoholic, asks him "Would, ah, light ale provoke the desire sufficiently?" As the "ah" suggests, the bottle he's holding turns out to contain cold tea. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei hesitates before telling her parents that they (and not her friends) are who she refers to as "the people I love most in the whole world". Her parents don't pickup on it. | |
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In Murder on the Orient Express, when Poirot mentions to Hector MacQueen the letter naming Daisy Armstrong, the secretary interrupts his own reply. Poirot deduces that MacQueen is involved with the cover-up. (In this case, however, MacQueen didn't so much hesitate as he did start a sentence, stop, and change the sentence.) | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor: The Dark World: When Loki's adoptive mother Frigga asks him, "Am I not your mother?", he hesitates for a full five seconds before he unconvincingly replies "You're not." Subverted in Spider-Man: Far From Home: To cover for Peter, Ned tells Betty that the superhero in black coming to their rescue is not Spider-Man, but a European copycat he's heard off from the internet. When asked what his name is, Ned flounders and stumbles on his words, as he's trying to come up with a name on the spot, before settling on "Night Monkey". However, it ends up sounding pretty natural, looking like he's just having a hard time remembering the name, which is logical if he just glimpsed it online some time ago, so Betty fully believes him. |
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Shanghai.EXE: Genso Network: When Alice wants to lie when being asked a direct question on the cruise ship, her "Um..." gives her away. | |
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Smallville's Clark Kent is the king of this, pausing for years before delivering a horrible explanation for something that has even the slightest correlation to his being an alien. If you're going to pause that long, Clark, at least come up with a plausible explanation, will ya? | |
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In Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, during Chapter 275, Fujiwara pauses a long-time before making the bald-faced lie that she chose to be campaign speaker for her friend and kohai Iino's opponent in order to test Iino, rather than because she lost a game of mahjong. It only works because Iino is rather gullible, especially when it comes to Fujiwara. | |
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Everyone in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc invokes this at several points. In the demo trial, when Makoto's accused of being the murderer, he stutters from shock. Leon leaps on this, insisting that proves he's responsible. Lampshaded by Mukuro-as-Junko's shocked question: "Seriously?! Stuttering makes you suspicious?!" | |
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Cradle Series: Akura Fury is one of the most powerful people in the world, quite literally considered more dangerous than most natural disasters, spoken of as an omen of war in quite a few religions, and son of a woman who is essentially a goddess. But when his niece asks him a question he doesn't want to answer, it turns out he's a terrible liar. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inverted Trope. Garak is so good at lying that he can barely tell the truth. It's an art form for him, and something he engages in so frequently and with such open joy, that he has gained a great deal of notoriety. He lies about his skills, his past, the reason why he's in exile... even when he's beaten up or so ill that he's at death's door, he still lies about what happened to him. On one occasion, his shop is blown up in an attempt to assassinate him. Constable Odo's investigation leads the command crew to the discovery that the Romulans appear to be behind it. Garak is uncharacteristically silent throughout the entire session until Commander Sisko asks him why the Romulans would want him dead. There's silence for a moment and then Garak simply says that he has no idea. Infuriated, Sisko begins to rant about how he's reached the end of his patience with Garak's constant lying only to be interrupted by Odo saying that, this time, Garak is telling the truth. They're all startled by Odo's statement until Odo points out that, if Garak was lying, he'd have already been spinning out an elaborate web of deceit. | |
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Subverted in Spider-Man: Far From Home: To cover for Peter, Ned tells Betty that the superhero in black coming to their rescue is not Spider-Man, but a European copycat he's heard off from the internet. When asked what his name is, Ned flounders and stumbles on his words, as he's trying to come up with a name on the spot, before settling on "Night Monkey". However, it ends up sounding pretty natural, looking like he's just having a hard time remembering the name, which is logical if he just glimpsed it online some time ago, so Betty fully believes him. | |
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Bakemonogatari: Inverted. A good rule of thumb in this series is the more straightforward someone seems to be, the bigger the lie they're concealing. Nadeko is hesitant and lacks self-confidence, and her "big secret" is that she likes Araragi (secret only to Araragi, really); on the other hand, Suruga is quite forthright with her sexuality but no so much with her violent hatred towards Araragi for "stealing" Senjogahara from her. As it turns out, her provocative teasing of Araragi is probably a ploy to get Araragi to forget about Senjogahara, even if that means potentially having to seduce him. | |
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A fairly realistic example in Ghost Story; Butters and Daniel are impersonating Wardens to try and intimidate a low-level warlock, and it seems to work until he asks them why they don't have the Wardens' trademark swords, at which point Butters hesitates and their cover is blown. It's pointed out later that had Daniel and Butters immediately responded or completely ignored the question as below their concern, the bluff might have worked. Butters was not an experienced liar, he had not had much time to work out the cover story, he was under a lot of stress at the time, and the warlock in question had some sort of very weak innate telepathy and was exactly the sort of impulsive person who would not stop to consider whether there might be an innocent reason for the hesitation. There actually was an innocent explanation for a Warden not carrying a sword ( the person who forged them was trapped in another body that lacked her former magical talent,) but the warlock was too low down in the magical food chain for this information to have reached him yet, and was able to see through the lie when someone who was better informed would not have thought it odd that the imposters had no swords. | |
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Harry hesitates in Fool Moon when it's revealed that one of his apprentices was connected to the werewolf they were chasing, causing Murphy to think he was withholding information. | |
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Fallout, and doubtless many other older RPGs without much spoken dialog, use this trope to convey to the player that a particular dialog tree choice is... the gospel truth, of course. In modern gaming, tags such as "<Lie>" are included instead to indicate to the player that his character is lying. | |
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Five Petals (Naruto): Naruto gets knocked unconscious in the Forest of Death, causing him to miss a LOT of dramatic developments, such as Sakura pushing Sasuke away from Orochimaru and winding up with the Cursed Seal. Upon waking up to the aftermath of several of their fellow Leaf-nin genin pulling Big Damn Heroes moments, he naturally asks what happened while he was out cold. Sasuke hesitates long enough that everyone else present immediately realizes that he's about to lie. | |
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In the 1st Degree definitely plays this straight. When you question the defendant Tobin and pin him about the phone message of him threatening Zack, he says "I was trying to...persuade Zack to withdraw the claim." He's lying, you know it and the prosecutor you're playing as knows it. | |
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In the Internet Historian video "The Engoodening of No Man's Sky", the Historian states that a major factor to why Sean Murray, head of Hello Games, was considered a Lying Creator was because of his nervousness during interviews coming off as him being deceitful to the audience. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Harry spots that Draco was considering lying with this, and Draco believes that Harry is telling the truth because he doesn't stammer. | |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice's neck has extended after eating a piece of the Caterpillar's mushroom, causing the Pigeon to mistake her for a serpent. She tries to explain herself, but is understandably a bit confused about everything after all the weirdness she'd experienced: | |
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Girl Stinky of Sam & Max does this constantly. Typically when she's actually being honest. | |
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Lost's Benjamin Linus falls into the trope rather absurdly. 98% of what he says is at best a half-truth, and after several seasons it's still hard to tell which was which. But whenever he says something the audience already knows is a lie (like, say, that the smoke monster killed Jacob), he hesitates. | |
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In one episode of Monk, Monk's assistant asks him if he saw some embarrassing pictures of her. He hesitates for about a minute (no exaggeration intended), refusing to meet her eyes, before he responds "no". Then, as he walks away, he wretchedly adds, "Yes." | |
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Knight Rider pulled this now and again (since at least one character can only communicate with a words, and a series of little red lights, his hesitations were usually blindingly obvious. Then there's a scene in one of the traditional smash-KITT-up-so-we-can-redesign-him-for-the-new-season episodes: | |
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This is actually reversed in Stranger Than Fiction. After a disastrous first meeting, Harold encounters Anna Pascal on the bus, and stumbles his way through an apology, outright stating that he 'ogled' her and it was wrong. She accepts his apology... "But only because [he] stammered." | |
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Red vs. Blue: After a converation with Tex, Church realizes the true identity of Gary, which was Gamma, the A.I. of Wyoming and accuses him of lying. | |
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Invoked on Frontline, when Brooke edits a pause into the interview of a priest accused of rape to make it look like he's thinking about his answer. | |
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Chekov, under mind control, tells the Genesis scientists that the Reliant is going to appropriate their invention for immediate testing. His performance is so full of awkward pauses (Khan is feeding him lines offscreen) that even David, who believes the Federation to be a bunch of war-mongers, should have immediately considered it BS. Carol is at least rational enough to call for confirmation, which was Khan's plan all along. | |
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In the Daredevil fanfic What They Wouldn't Do: The premise of the work is that Sarah Corrigan, a young secretary at a company that used to be part of Wilson Fisk's criminal enterprise, accidentally stumbles upon Matt Murdock's secret identity of Daredevil. Matt, after conversing with Foggy about what to do, decides to track her down and intimidate her in an alleyway outside her apartment to find out how much she knows about him: It happens again later on when Sarah goes to the 15th precinct to fix a traffic ticket her dad received. Then she sees Matt and Foggy conversing with Brett Mahoney and immediately backpedals, knowing that Matt will think she's there to rat him out. Matt hastily follows her and drags her into an alleyway to interrogate her: |
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At the end of The 11th Hour, you are finally able to complete your mission of saving Robin, and she even declares that she loves you... in a very restrained fashion. This is because she has accepted Stauf's deal to be put in charge of her own television network. | |
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In the first issue of The Tick, a man on the street asks Tick if he's the guy who just broke out of the insane asylum (he is). Tick stutters for about half a page before coming up with the answer "No." | |
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Iji When Iji lies about the surviving Tasen in a Pacifist Run. According to Word of God, this was to make it obvious to the player that she was lying, rather than saying the same line regardless of the facts. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: When an imprisoned Adar questions Halbrand about his identity, Halbrand turns his back on Adar and stops for a few moments, but then leaves without answering the question, implying that he was dishonest about his origins. The second time it happens, is when Bronwyn asks him if he is the king he was promised. He hesitates to answer and looks at Galadriel, who nods affirmatively to him, and only then Halbrand says "yes". | |
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Princess Natasha: In "Something's Rotten in Zoravia", King Karl asks Natasha if she destroyed Lubek's weather machine. She didn't and hesitates before lying. | |
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On The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy's parents become convinced he's stealing when he can't immediately answer their questions about a recent string of robberies. Of course, he is lying, but it's because he's covering the existence of his fairies. | |
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From Get Smart: Max's "Would you believe?" segments often included this. | |
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Invoked on a Peanuts strip, where Lucy asks Charlie Brown if he thinks she's beautiful. But before he can answer, she notes that he didn't answer immediately, and takes it as an insult. This exchange is famously included on A Charlie Brown Christmas. | |
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Pixie and Brutus: Pixie tries to get Brutus to explain what war is after hearing their owner call Brutus a "Military Working Dog", and Brutus stalls for some time and then tells her militaries play games with each other. In a strip where Brutus takes down a hawk, he shows her one of its feathers. She gushes excitedly and asks him where he got it. Brutus hesitates briefly before saying he just found it lying there. |
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In StrikerS Sound Stage X of the Lyrical Nanoha franchise, Teana asks Runessa if she has heard of Toredia Graze, and after a surprised pause, the latter says no. Teana does some more investigation into this as a result of noticing Runessa's reaction, and eventually learns of her past connection with Toredia and eventually arrests her for her role in the Mariage killings, pointing out that the way Runessa responded was what tipped Teana off. | |
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The Porre ambassador in the Chrono Trigger Fan Sequel Crimson Echoes inserts significant hesitations into EVERY SINGLE ONE of his lines. Him not being on the up and up therefore comes as a tremendous surprise to the player. | |
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In Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince, Lori and Bree return to Skeaping Manor to ask the curator for the home address of Amanda Pickering. Their conversation starts off pleasantly enough, but the curator Miles Craven falls silent when Lori makes the request, then puts her off with protestations about confidentiality. It turns out that Miles knows Amanda has left to join her husband in Australia, and is a lousy liar who can't keep a secret. | |
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Hercule Poirot: In Murder on the Orient Express, when Poirot mentions to Hector MacQueen the letter naming Daisy Armstrong, the secretary interrupts his own reply. Poirot deduces that MacQueen is involved with the cover-up. (In this case, however, MacQueen didn't so much hesitate as he did start a sentence, stop, and change the sentence.) Subverted in The Hollow which involves a group of people trying to cast suspicion on themselves in order to cover for the real murderer. This leads them to try all sorts of tricks to convince Poirot that they're lying when they're telling the truth, and telling the truth when they're lying. |
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Judge Judy tends to assume that any answer with a pause in front of it is a lie. And don't you dare fill-in that silence with "Um"! | |
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Parodied as well in The Looney Tunes Show, when Daffy accuses Porky of this due to his stutter when trying to get out of paying a littering fine. No one buys it. | |
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This is inverted when Dolores Claiborne is questioned about her husband's death. She deliberately hesitates a second before answering anything because she knows answering immediately will indicate that she's too practiced and prepared. | |
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Mark Trail plays this ludicrously straight. Begin your sentence with "um" and you're the villain. | |
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The True Blood fanfic How Could You Forget? is an AU of season 4 where the witches erased Bill Compton's memories instead of Eric Northman's. After the witches subject Pam to her rotting spell like in the show, Eric goes to Bill's house to demand help, only to be told that Bill is busy and he'll need to speak with Jessica (who has been covering for Bill while Sookie is hiding him, and has glamoured the guards to forward all intended messages to her). Jessica's attempts to backpedal when she inadvertently lets slip things she shouldn't know of are enough to tell Eric that she's hiding something and eventually press her to reveal what's really happened to Bill. (This scene is essentially the same as the scene in the actual timeline where Bill learns through Pam the truth about Eric's amnesia, but with Bill and Eric switching places, and Jessica taking Pam's role): | |
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Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners: If poor Yoko is killed, Professor Tsuchida claims that they actually survived their mauling. Dr. Kuroe is clearly caught off guard by this assertation, but goes along with it... after hesitating and stammering slightly. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett. When asked if he's ever removed his helmet, which is against the Creed, Din hesitates to answer, making it obvious he did and only encouraging the Armorer to press until he admits it. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: During the Mahora Festival Story Arc, Haruna flatly asked Yue if she got jealous when the former kissed Negi. When Yue tried to deny that accusation, Haruna noted that she took a fraction of a second too long to answer and that the old Yue would have smacked her for being an idiot immediately. Busted. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Invoked by General Chang, during Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy's trial for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. Inspired by the Real Life incident where US Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II made a similar demand of the Soviet Ambassador. | |
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The Mountain and the Wolf: Averted in that while the Wolf won't immediately answer a question to which the audience knows the truth, it isn't interpreted as dishonesty but his about to tear the questioner's head off due to his Hair-Trigger Temper. Once he's calmed down (and given himself time to think up a plausible story) it's accepted at face value. | |
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In a season two episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted is trying to catch Robin out in a lie by asking a string of questions about the wedding she claims that she had. When she hesitates answering a question about the catering, he immediately takes that as his in to accuse her of lying, but she quickly covers by saying that she wasn't sure how to answer the question as there were multiple possible answers. She's got rapid-fire responses for all his other follow-up questions about the ceremony until he gets to "Husband's name?" to which she just stammers in response. It turns out that she is lying and was never married. | |
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Bionic Woman. Becca is suspicious about what her sister is up to, and grills her boss Jonas about her supposed job selling timeshares. Jonas is such a Consummate Liar he's able to make his hesitation look like he's thinking about the answer. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...", after Paul inquires about the nature of Lestat's relationship with Louis, Lestat hesitates for a full seven seconds before he can formulate an answer. 1910 was a very homophobic era, so Lestat can't reply truthfully that he has been wooing Louis these past few months. | |
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Friends: Explained in "The One with the Jam" where Chandler is explaining his problems with Janice which includes him pausing before what could be considered a white lie. Played for Drama in "The One with the Morning After". When arguing over Ross sleeping with the copy shop girl after Rachel declared that they needed a "break", she asks Ross if he would have forgiven her if the situation had been reversed. He takes several seconds to say yes, and only admits that he would have been devastated after Rachel keeps pressing the point. |
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The Navy Lark: One episode had Pertwee not only hesitate, but ask Cmdr. Murray to give him a minute to think, before reeling off an improbable explanation. Lampshaded by Phillips as being not too bad, given the time he had to come up with it. | |
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Kyon does this in Kyon: Big Damn Hero when Tsuruya asked why he had to return to the clubroom despite his telling her before he was dismissed for the day. It turns out he had to find Mikuru to Time Travel back to the next day. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Downplayed in the episode "Future Imperfect." Every time Riker asks someone a question there is a slight pause before they answer. It's so subtle that the audience might not notice it on first viewing, and Riker himself seems to take it as the person not knowing how to word an answer to a sticky question. It's when the very blunt and logical Data takes unnecessary pauses even for math problems that Riker realizes something's up. Riker turns out to be in an elaborate holo-simulation, and the pauses are the computer needing a moment to generate the proper response. Also in "Schisms" when Data asks Geordi La Forge what he thought of his poetry reading, when Gerodi pauses Data immediately points out that his hesitation suggests that he's trying to protect his feelings and also points out that as an android, he doesn't have any. |
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