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Living Lie Detector
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A character with the ability to always know when someone is lying. Sound lame? Other characters who have to spend at least five minutes in their presence don't think so. It may be the natural ability of an alien or some other non-human species, it may be a super power specific to one human, or it may be the effect of some Applied Phlebotinum. It could also be a prominent fringe benefit of a broader power like telepathy to directly reveal deceptive intent or Super-Senses to detect subtle variations in the speaker's heartbeat, breathing, etc. Some characters get the added bonus of being able to force people to tell the truth (as opposed to just remaining silent) rather than just detect deception. In some situations, this becomes a Blessed with Suck power. The character can't disable it, so they know whenever anyone is lying to them, driving the character nearly insane from all the lies. It can also be a learned ability, making this Truth in Television to some extent. This is because many people fidget, look away or do something else when they lie. So if a character is a Living Lie Detector, (s)he could just know what to look for. A police officer being able to tell when a witness is lying after years on the force is a common example of this. An exceptionally self possessed and clever liar can sometimes be unreadable or even fool the Living Lie Detector. A character may exploit a weakness of the detector: he does not detect "the" truth, but if the tested subject considers something to be true or not. Which is not a minor point: if the villain tells a lower mook that the Doomsday Device has been destroyed, and this mook is exposed to the lie detector, he will say it was destroyed and the detector will check "True!"... and, in the meantime, unknown by the heroes and his own mook, the villain still has the Doomsday Device. One aspect that goes alongside requirements for the mundane, non-Phlebotinous Lie Detector polygraph, is that there are certain elements that need to be in place for a person to register the normal signs of a lie. One being a baseline observation of the individual's behavior, someone who is naturally jittery means slight twitches don't really mean anything. Another is a threat of punishment, if you're not worried about consequences then you're either not afraid of the truth or you have nothing to lose. Characters with this power are also highly likely to see through or uncover the Masquerade because of the power. Could result in some awkward circumstances. See also Pinocchio Nose, You Can Always Tell a Liar, The Tell. Exact Words and Lying by Omission can sometimes help against this, but don't bet on it.note Depending on the kind of phlebotinum he uses, the lie detector may pick up on your intent to deceive even if your exact words are literally true. |
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In the comedic French series Hero Corp, where the characters are superheroes with decayed or mostly useless powers, Doug's power is freezing stiff whenever he hears a lie. This led him to quit his former job (a lawyer). | |
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The Terminator, specifically, the T-850 model 101 in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: | |
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His Dark Materials: The Pansebjörne are described as being capable of seeing lies and deception "as clearly as you see arms and legs". This becomes important later on: as Iofur becomes more and more human, he starts to lose his ability, leading to his defeat by Iorek. The Harpies have this ability and can use it to torment people. After the underworld is re-arranged, they ask for true stories from the dead in exchange for passage. Metatron has a similar ability to read the truth of someone's past. Using it on Consummate Liar Mrs. Coulter convinces him that she would betray Lord Asriel and Lyra for him... which is a lie. |
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Genshin Impact: Thanks to her astrology, Mona can tell whether she's being lied to or not. She uses this in her story quest when she reveals a group of merchants offering them a ride to Mondstadt are actually bandits. Her teacher, naturally, is also one; this is partly why she can't go back to her teacher (in her story quest) because she accidentally did something her teacher had forbidden her to do, and she won't be able to hide the fact from her teacher. | |
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Rorschach of Watchmen seems to discern truth from lies by means of listening to the tone in people's voices. However, due to his unsavoury techniques, it's equally likely that he discerns truth from lies by seeing whether you're still saying it after he breaks your fingers. Although the first one could still be true, as he fully believed that Veidt killed half of New York just from hearing him say it. | |
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Kelly from We're Alive is able to do this from her background as a lawyer. She's able to detect when one of the Colony members is lying, allowing her to save Pegs and Michael in time to escape Gatekeeper's coup. She is less able to get a read on Pippin though because his face was so badly swollen from the beating the Mallers gave him that she couldn't read his facial tics. | |
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Ward: Crock O' Shit has the power to tell when someone is lying, or even when someone is telling only part of the truth. What's horrifying is the way this power works: when someone tells a lie in her presence, her body physically reacts to it. She also has the power to transform into an alternate form based on the mutations her body has produced through those reactions... which means she gets progressively uglier and more monstrous the more lies she hears. | |
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Tattletale of Worm is exceptionally good at reading people thanks to her superpower, which makes it very difficult to lie to her. | |
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One episode of The Adventures of Superman show from the 50s featured Clark Kent grabbing the wrist of a man on death row and 'feeling' whether or not he was lying about being innocent. | |
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Some incarnations of Astro Boy have this ability (though you couldn't really call him alive in any biological sense of the word). | |
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On an episode of Law & Order: SVU, a serial rapist/killer (played by Martin Short!) who enjoys pretending to have PsychicPowers in order to play with his victims' families is revealed to have trained himself to be a Living Lie Detector using FACS. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): While Marston's Wonder Woman was not considered an avatar of the truth, nor was the magic lasso yet the "Lasso of Truth", through her low-level telepathy Diana was still usually aware of it when she was being lied to. If a villain was hiding their true nature and making benevolent claims, she could generally tell if their actual intent was nefarious. | |
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In The Witchlands, Truthwitches can instantly tell whether a person is speaking a truth or a lie. They can also tell whether a person is "true" or "false" — for example, false if they're hiding something. | |
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All Heralds in Heralds of Valdemar have the ability to cast the Truth Spell, which detects lies. Those with more powerful mind magic can also cast the second-stage Truth Spell, which forces the subject to tell the truth. Herald Myste has a truth-sensing ability that doesn't require use of Truth Spell. Herald-Trainee Mags is also developing non-magical truth-sense. |
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In the Mermaids of Eriana Kwai trilogy, merfolk have enhanced senses that sometimes allow them to detect lies by feeling the changes in each other's pulses through the water. | |
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The War of Winds: Vrin, but maybe one of the powers involved with her Deal with the Devil with Azaq. | |
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Kokichi Oma in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is a Consummate Liar and Manipulative Bastard, despised by the rest of the cast. However, as an expert in deceit, Kokichi easily sees through his classmates' falsehoods and often calls them out. Nonetheless, he tends to be a dick about it. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: Twilight's Awakenings: Twilight has been Celestia's student for so long and shadowed her in Day Court enough to pick up on signs when she is lying or telling half-truths, like when her right ear flicks. Because of this, she knows that Celestia is keeping something from her when she says she has no idea about the creatures from Twilight's dream or about the mysterious storm over the Everfree Forest. | |
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Dulcy the Dragon in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) has this as an innate ability. When Sonic was accused of Sally's murder, Dulcy rescued and believed him when he proclaimed his innocence, this being enough to stave off the Chaotix and Geoffery St. John at the end. Why she wasn't around when he was on trial for the murder or when he was roboticized and shooting up Knothole earlier is anyone's guess. | |
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Quarters: A trained bard can tell from the tone of a person's voice whether they're lying or not. Due to this, along with an ability to compel truthful testimony, bards supervise court trials. | |
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In Mermaid's Song, some merfolk have the ability to taste others' emotions on the water, including whether someone is lying. | |
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Ranma ½: This is only one of the reasons why Ranma Saotome thought Satori was annoying. It only made matters worse when Ranma realized that the kid was using his Telepathy to get back at him because he was upset over Ranma and Akane's engagement. | |
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K: Anna Kushina is able to tell if someone's lying due to her ability to read minds. | |
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The Lives of Others: Wiesler, as shown in the early interrogation scene that is also an Establishing Character Moment. He notes that innocent people will get angry when they're interrogated, and also that their stories tend to change as they reconstruct events. Guilty people get weepy and quiet, and they repeat their stories by rote because they're cover stories, not the truth. The man being interrogated eventually cracks under torture and confesses, though the audience is never shown if this confession is true or not.note The approach described by Wiesler here is absolutely ideal… for extracting a False Confession. It's very poorly suited to getting at the actual truth. | |
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Saga has Lying Cats, the most prominent in the series being the partner of assassin The Will. There are cats that say the word "Lying" (and nothing else) whenever they hear an untrue statement. The Will finds Lying Cat useful for his work in bounty hunting, but sometimes Lying Cat can be a little inconvenient in immediately calling out The Will's own lies. | |
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All telepaths in both Marvel and DC (Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, White Queen, Martian Manhunter, etc.) use this trick. | |
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Franken Fran: Gavrill Madaraki can detect liars due to her superhumanly powerful senses allowing her to smell subtle changes of adrenaline flow and whatnot. | |
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Spider-Man 2099: Lyla is a household AI, who among other things, can monitor the health status of the tenant, including their heart rates. In later volumes, she repurposes this function to detect if the people Miguel interrogates are telling the truth or not. | |
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In Unavowed and its associated universe, Jinn physically Cannot Tell a Lie, and can sense lies told in their presence. According to Mandana the sensation is somewhat akin to hearing nails dragged across a chalkboard, and depends on the teller knowing and feeling that they're telling a lie: Trained or skilled liars like an actor Player Character (who can halfway convince themselves that they are telling the truth) produce a much weaker response. | |
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Gail Curmen, one of the two main characters of Thunderstruck has this ability. Not that it does her much good — one of the main motivations of the plots of the assorted villains is a matter of opinion. | |
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Bones: Seeley Booth seems to have this knack, at least in formal, interrogation settings. In one episode, he gets seriously rattled when someone else catches a suspect in a lie that Booth missed — Booth worries that his recent health problems have cost him his ability. Dr. Sweets can detect lies, although his ability is based on his studies, rather than natural instinct. |
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Wonder Woman's sister Troia also has this ability, but in a lesser form. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_22d76c13 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_22e860f4 | comment |
Psych: Shawn has this ability as well as other talents and skills similar to this. The show subverts this when Shawn and Gus's older doppelgangers show up (5x06). |
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Psych | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_22e860f4 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_234035fa | comment |
In Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, the twisted Tretchlets that grow from the bodies of Curselings have the ability to discern any lie spoken in their presence and can sniff out even the most hidden of secrets. This ability makes Curselings excellent at rooting out those trying to infiltrate the Cult as well as discerning those most worthy of membership. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_234035fa | |
Living Lie Detector / int_234b78e5 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_234b78e5 | comment |
Noble members of the Sidhe House Gwydion, part of the Seelie Court, in Changeling: The Dreaming have the inborn ability to always sense when someone is lying or speaking an untruth. (Unless blocked by Unseelie magics.) This means they're usually honest themselves. This would have made them a natural choice for the role of judges if their House didn't also have this tiny problem with suffering from bad temper. A pissed-off Gwydion Sidhe knight determined to smite a filthy liar is someone to avoid. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_234b78e5 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_23a80895 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_23a80895 | comment |
It's A Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door: According to the Deerfolk, Applejack's connection with the Element of Honesty allows her to see through all falsehoods, from little white lies to illusionary magic. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_23a80895 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_23a80895 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_247422c7 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_247422c7 | comment |
Treecats in the Honor Harrington universe have this as an ability based on the fact that they're telepaths and empaths. The combination makes it quite impossible for someone to lie to them. Honor eventually develops a very similar if not quite as well-rounded ability. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_247422c7 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_248a0d14 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_248a0d14 | comment |
Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, looks at Dr Paul Ekman (the inspiration and adviser for Lie to Me), who was claimed to not only be a Living Lie Detector but to also be able to discern things about a society just by looking at the facial expressions of various members for a few seconds. The book claims that he was able to do so by understanding micro-tics, twitches of facial muscles that everyone sees but doesn't interpret because they go too quickly. Though unlike the trope, he also advises the use of a high-speed video camera (microexpressions last less than a second) and says that everything else should be ruled out before deciding that a statement is a lie. It should also be noted that while his pure research work is somewhat robust, there has been little evidence of practical applications. Those trained in his techniques are little better than a coin toss at finding liars, and Ekman has never submitted a peer reviewed study to show that those trained in his techniques are effective. The same book also had an anecdote about John Gottman, who created a computer program that uses data from a fifteen-minute conversation between a couple to tell whether or not they'll still be together in fifteen years. The accuracy? 80%. |
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Living Lie Detector / int_248a0d14 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_26541dd6 | comment |
Ava from Ex Machina can use her enhanced senses to detect when someone is being untruthful via noticeable micro-expressions. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_26541dd6 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2817ca8b | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2817ca8b | comment |
In The Killers of Krypton, Kara is interrogating the patrons of an alien bar about Rogol Zaar, and she uses her super-hearing to know who is being truthful and who is lying. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2817ca8b | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2817ca8b | featureConfidence |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2817ca8b | |
Living Lie Detector / int_28508de | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_28508de | comment |
In Winx Club, Bloom has shown to possess the ability of read the aura of the people, allowing her to know what they're thinking or feeling really. At least until Season 4 where seems that the writers forgot that she had this power. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_28508de | featureApplicability |
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Winx Club | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_28508de | |
Living Lie Detector / int_29e2fa5b | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_29e2fa5b | comment |
Crimson and Emerald: Hawks and Kiyome's eyesight is sharp enough that they can immediately tell that Toshinori is lying that he was sent by All Might to check up on Izuku. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_29e2fa5b | featureApplicability |
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Crimson and Emerald (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_29e2fa5b | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2b70efd4 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2b70efd4 | comment |
Almost every game line in both the Old and New World of Darkness lines have some power that allows the player to know if someone is lying. Noble members of the Sidhe House Gwydion, part of the Seelie Court, in Changeling: The Dreaming have the inborn ability to always sense when someone is lying or speaking an untruth. (Unless blocked by Unseelie magics.) This means they're usually honest themselves. This would have made them a natural choice for the role of judges if their House didn't also have this tiny problem with suffering from bad temper. A pissed-off Gwydion Sidhe knight determined to smite a filthy liar is someone to avoid. Vampires get the ability to perceive auras or compel someone to tell the truth, werewolves get Gifts that let them smell a lie, mages get mind magic, etc. The best is Demon: The Fallen, where demons can't be fooled by any form of supernatural trickery or illusion. Period. Mundane lies, on the other hand, can sail right past them. Inverted in the New World of Darkness Demon: The Descent, where demons' lies cannot be detected by any skill or superpower. Demons have absolute control over their expressed emotions and micro-expressions and can choose at all times if they want a statement to register as true or false. Hunter: The Reckoning. Both Judges and Waywards have Edges that allow them to detect when others are telling lies. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2bb4ae0f | comment |
Matt Parkman from Heroes can hear people's thoughts, and so also knows whether or not they're lying. As long as the person he's talking to actually thinks in English, that is. And doesn't know he can read minds. Mrs. Petrelli was able to keep him out of her head with relative ease before he got mind control powers. He can also only compare what the person is saying to what they're thinking. While that is enough to tell a liar in most cases, Noah Bennet once managed to trick him by thinking something that wasn't true. Sue Landers, a minor character and office worker, is revealed to have the power to tell when someone is lying. Unfortunately, it's revealed because Sylar is standing in her office, lying about why he has come to see her. He kills her and touches her brain, thus absorbing her lie-detection ability; unlike Matt, though, he can't dig around in the person's head for the truth. Ironically, Sylar's known to lie his way out of situations but gets violent when discovering that he's being lied to. Played with on the episode "The Wall" when Sylar believes Peter is a hallucination. Peter has to convince him that he's real. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2cc2f35d | comment |
In Loki: Agent of Asgard, Loki meets a woman named Verity Willis who has this power during a mission on behalf of Asgard. She is introduced during a speed-dating event where she sees through the bullcrap would-be dates feed her. Loki becomes interested when they realize she can see through their illusionary appearance of a 40-year-old divorcee after she asks them if they were cosplaying. Verity then goes on to demonstrate how much having this power can suck when it's always active. Ever since she was a child, she could see through any falsehood, because she swallowed the ring of Andvari, which reveals all lies and illusions, and it merged with her. She never believed in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus, she can't suspend disbelief in order to enjoy fiction, and she's had her heart broken at least once by lying paramours. She buries herself in mathematics, computer programming, and other non-fiction, all the while not even being able to lie to herself that it's enough. Loki offers her their sympathies and assures her that there are people in the world who will never lie to her. Not them, of course. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2e849915 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2e849915 | comment |
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: Makoto Tsukauchi has the Quirk "Polygraph". If she asks a question while physically touching someone, she can tell if they're lying or telling the truth. The Quirk can be tricked by Exact Words, however. When she asks Koichi Haimawari if he's the vigilante "The Hauler", he tells her no and her Quirk reads it as the truth. He's not The Hauler... because his Secret Identity is "The Crawler" and he hates the other Atrocious Alias. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2e849915 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2ea395ec | comment |
In Sight Since Zanpakutou cannot lie, Ichigo gets into the habit of looking at the zanpakutou to tell if their wielder is lying. Ichigo can tell that Ukitake lied to him about the Substitute Badge when his zanpakutou, Souyo no Kotowari look guilty while Ukitake lies to him with a straight face. This is why Ichigo feels he can trust Urahara despite the latter's secrets and lies, Benihime tries to be truthful and feels guilty on Ichigo's behalf which indicates that Urahara is being truthful when he can. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2ea6ae26 | comment |
Star Trek: Picard: Soji discovers that she's an android, only for her Romulan boyfriend to immediately try to kill her. This naturally makes her distrustful of Jean Luc Picard when he turns up to save her. Picard tries to persuade her otherwise by coaching her through the various physical cues her enhanced android senses can detect to prove to her that he's not lying. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2ea6ae26 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2ee053b1 | comment |
Yes, Your Grace: A rooster that crows when someone tells a lie around it can be purchased at some point. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2ee053b1 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2ee053b1 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2f1933a4 | comment |
The Outpost: Ilyin, a girl in service to Dred, can tell if anyone lies. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2f1933a4 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2f1933a4 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2f1b5710 | comment |
Hyde in Jekyll can detect lies by picking up on physiological indicators with his Super-Senses. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2f1b5710 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2fce14ae | comment |
In Wearing the Cape, a secondary character known as Veritas has the ability to detect the truth of anything, whether spoken, written, recorded, etc. This proves a vital plot point when he allows the main character to determine who the real villain is via a phone conversation. It's later revealed that he can only tell if the speaker/writer believes a statement is true or not, not whether it is factual. This allows him to be subverted by the Dark Anarchist, who honestly believes what he's doing is necessary for the future of humanity. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2fce14ae | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2fe59169 | comment |
What They Wouldn't Do, a Daredevil fanfic based off the Netflix series, deconstructs Matt Murdock's lie detector ability by showing that it can be thrown off when the changes in a person's heart rate from being frightened are not that different from when they're lying. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_2fe59169 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_2fe59169 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3095eb9f | comment |
This is one of the abilities manifested by revivers in Revival. It doesn't seem to work all the time and may be tied to the Telepathy some of them demonstrate. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_3095eb9f | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Naruto: Karin can notice someone's chakra being disturbed when they lie. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_30a5ebfd | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_30b255fb | comment |
Supergirl knows the same trick and was using it at least as far back as the 1960s. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_30b255fb | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_31ea2c8f | comment |
Kyle, and later Jessi, from Kyle XY both had the ability to tell when other people were lying. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_31ea2c8f | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3436775c | comment |
Medium does this in one episode where Allison hears a buzzer sound in her head every time someone tells a lie. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_3436775c | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Vincenzo Coccotti in True Romance: | |
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True Romance | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_34828df7 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_353bdeb0 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_353bdeb0 | comment |
Flinx and Pip in Humanx Commonwealth — both are empaths and can detect lies as a basic ability. Flinx is human and knows how to be discreet about it (when he isn't holding the Idiot Ball), but Pip (his minidrag companion) is not and reacts very aggressively toward liars and anyone who threatens her or her master. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_35e05f2a | comment |
RWBY: Robyn Hill's Semblance allows her to tell with apparently perfect accuracy whether someone is lying. While holding someone's hand with her Semblance active, her aura will cover both hands. When someone tells the truth, when answering a question or making a statement, her aura will turn green. Comes in handy for dealing with her fellow politicians. When Ironwood decides to break The Masquerade, she uses her Semblance to prove to the Council and the people of Atlas that he's telling the truth. | |
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RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_36f2432 | comment |
unOrdinary: Nadia uses her ability to tell whether or not someone is telling the truth when her bosses, the Authorities, are having someone questioned. If a person lies they can be carted off for "re-education". | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_36f2432 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_37f04ec8 | comment |
Team RAIN: Akane Amaranth's Semblance allows her to detect when people are lying. There are some caveats to it though. It is always on, so if her friends have a plan that involves lying to people, it will still be going off and take a toll on her. It also only detects when people are being intentionally deceptive. If the person telling the lie genuinely believes it as truth and has no idea otherwise, she won't be able to detect it. It also leaves her incapable of lying herself since it works even when she is lying. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_38ce5997 | comment |
The Boys (2019): Homelander can use his Super-Senses to detect if someone's heart rate and respiration have gone up. While that's useful as a lie detector, as always context is everything. For instance, in "The Self-Preservation Society", Homelander cites Starlight's accelerated heart rate as proof of her guilt but she's just terrified, as anyone would be if a psycho with superpowers was shouting in their face. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Wonder Woman, thanks to her enchanted lasso, is probably one of the most well-known examples. The Lasso is able to force people to tell the truth, as mentioned above — it takes godlike willpower to prevent this, and the subject will not be able to lie, only avoid saying anything at all. As she is the living embodiment of truth, being around Wonder Woman at all makes people slightly more truthful but this effect is easier to resist than being in contact with her lasso. As Mercedes Lackey pointed out in her introduction to "The Circle" trade paperback, the lasso doesn't just make its captive tell the truth, it makes them see and confront the truth. Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston, also basically invented the polygraph ("Lie Detector"). Note, however, that under his pen the Lasso was an all-purpose Mind-Control Device that Wonder Woman was (sometimes) nice enough to use as "just" a lie detector. This is airbrushed out in almost all modern comics and screen adaptations, though some of them may retain "You will forget this interrogation ever happened" as a valid power. Wonder Woman (1942): While Marston's Wonder Woman was not considered an avatar of the truth, nor was the magic lasso yet the "Lasso of Truth", through her low-level telepathy Diana was still usually aware of it when she was being lied to. If a villain was hiding their true nature and making benevolent claims, she could generally tell if their actual intent was nefarious. Wonder Woman's sister Troia also has this ability, but in a lesser form. Notably, the Lasso of Truth was ultimately used to bind Darkseid and thus free the Brainwashed and Crazy population of Earth from the power of the Anti-Life Equation in Final Crisis. While the reasons vary, Diana herself is usually able to tell if she's being lied to even without the lasso if she's paying attention. This means that when she wants to deny Ares' claim of being her maternal grandfather she doesn't even complete what she was going to say before her own intrinsic connection to the truth tells her he's not lying. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_397e9ed2 | comment |
Luminosity: Maggie is a witch and her power tells her when someone is lying. The audience doesn't know how yet, but we do know that that's how it works, because when Bella was immune, Maggie assumed she was telling the truth all the time. Elspeth inverts the trope in two ways. First, other people know when she's lying, and second, her power goes off when she's telling the truth—but its absence is notable. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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The Muppets Mayhem: Janice of The Electric Mayhem is literally allergic to lies being told around her. Nora's claims that she's the CEO of the record label and has lots of producers lined up to work with the band cause Janice to have such a severe reaction that she ends up in the hospital. She only heals when Nora comes clean and tells the band the turth. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Ma-Ti of Captain Planet and the Planeteers could use his allegedly "lame" Heart power to see through disguises, illusions, and deception, and once demonstrated immunity to More than Mind Control. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3ab71c22 | comment |
Dungeon Keeper Ami: From A New Arrival, the "Judge's Eye gift", which appears to tell if people are speaking the truth, is used by Abbot Durval uses on Ami, is presumably given by the Light Gods, and works through eye contact with the subject, given the name. Although, he doesn't seem to need to be looking them straight in the eye as they speak. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3b34143f | comment |
Harry Potter: Voldemort "almost always knows when someone is lying to him." He's not super-sensitive or precognitive, just casual about boring into others' minds. Snape's pretty good at this as well, as is Dumbledore. There's also a corresponding art to protecting oneself from lie detection. At the beginning of The Half-Blood Prince, you know that Snape was able to fool Dumbledore, Voldemort or both. Later in the book, it's revealed that Bellatrix is accomplished in it — likely so that she will keep secrets in the event of capture. |
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Toriko: Zebra, courtesy of his "Hell Ears", can detect subtle changes in a person's voice or body movement when they lie. As a direct result, the already volatile Zebra hates liars with a passion. One reason he likes Komatsu is because the chef is unusually honest. | |
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Toriko (Manga) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_3ba81aa2 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3bfc220f | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3bfc220f | comment |
Daredevil (2003): Like his comic counterpart, Matt uses his ability to read heartbeats to find out if an accused rapist is telling the truth on the stand. He's not. In the director's cut, Matt is thrown off when both the witness and the suspected murderer seem to be telling the truth. He later finds out that the witness has a pacemaker. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3c33bf0f | comment |
The best is Demon: The Fallen, where demons can't be fooled by any form of supernatural trickery or illusion. Period. Mundane lies, on the other hand, can sail right past them. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3e1dee9e | comment |
Kevin Groves in the Smoke and Shadows series. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3f4a104b | comment |
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, claims his training in being a hypnotist gives him the ability to tell when most people are lying. Along with complete mastery of persuasion. According to his blog, he tried to tell them that when he was called for jury duty, and they patiently explained to him that that's not how that works. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Bloody Cross: Tsukimiya can sense lies due to her being a half vampire half angel. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_3ffc9575 | featureApplicability |
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Bloody Cross (Manga) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_3ffc9575 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_40ef1034 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_40ef1034 | comment |
The Seven Deadly Sins has Galan of the Ten Commandments. As the "Truth" of the Ten Commandments, he has the power to detect whether someone is lying to him or not. His power also has the added twist of turning the liars into stone, which he himself is not immune to. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_4112c054 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4112c054 | comment |
In Rising of the Sleeping Soldier, having been raised as a royal in a rather cutthroat world, Alucard is able to tell when someone is lying to him or is hiding their true intentions through wording, tone, and very subtle gestures. He was able to tell that his escort was lying about him as to why he was not allowed in the library and could see that Malty had malicious intentions right from the get-go. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_41b0198a | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_41b0198a | comment |
The Dresden Files: In Changes, Dresden meets an FBI agent named Tilly, who can do this. This is actually magic-based, as Tilly has just enough power to tell if people are lying, but not quite enough power that he is clued into the Masquerade (or even be aware his ability is magical). It's not exactly a lie detector, but wizards have a special ability called a soulgaze that allows them to look into people's eyes and see their inner self. It doesn't give specific information, but a deep understanding of what the person you're talking to is like and is capable of is a great way to work out exactly how trustworthy they are. It also only works once, so the information gathered is not necessarily going to be up to date, as people change over time. Of course, the soulgaze allows the other person to look into the Wizards soul just as easily, which can be helpful for building trust or quite problematic if it happens on accident. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_41e38a1c | comment |
Brother on Brother, Daughter on Mother: Rachel Connor, an illegal human Augment, can tell whether someone is lying with her enhanced senses. Ironically, she herself is terrible at lying: fellow MACO Alicia Gantumur doesn't believe her for a minute when she lies to cover up being an Augment, and Reshek Taryn says Connor's future self was rejected for the Time Travel mission because Taryn cleans her out every time they play poker. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_41e38a1c | |
Living Lie Detector / int_43c1fbe4 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_43c1fbe4 | comment |
Kaname Ichijou, the protagonist of Exile Election, can see words that are lies in red due to his synesthesia. | |
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Exile Election (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_43c1fbe4 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_43da6f7f | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_43da6f7f | comment |
In Memento, Leonard learned to do this before his injury while working as an insurance claims investigator. As such, it is extremely difficult to deceive him in a face-to-face conversation. Or so he believes. | |
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Memento | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_43da6f7f | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4522bcaf | comment |
Poker Face: The main character Charlie has an innate ability to detect when people are lying, whether she can see them or is just hearing them. She comments that it's less useful than you might think outside of poker because people lie about trivial things constantly, but it does prove pretty handy for solving murders. | |
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Poker Face | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector / int_4522fd1 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4522fd1 | comment |
Fey of the Whateley Universe is a powerful empath and can use that to tell what people are feeling. Chaka can do the human lie detector bit too, but she does it by reading their Ki (naturally). | |
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Whateley Universe | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_4522fd1 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_47dfc6f | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_47dfc6f | comment |
In Total Drama Pahkitew Island, Chris brings in a special chicken named Clucky to act as a polygraph for his perverted version of "truth or dare" in "I Love You, I Love You Knots". Whenever a camper tells a lie, Clucky presses a button on a remote control to administer a shock not just to the camper who lied, but to his/her whole team. | |
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Total Drama | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_47dfc6f | |
Living Lie Detector / int_489150a8 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_489150a8 | comment |
The Licanius Trilogy: This is Davian's defining skill. When anyone lies to him, he sees a wisp of black smoke curling up from their mouths. He doesn't know that some liars are skilled enough to hide this from him, however. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_489150a8 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_48b94b04 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_48b94b04 | comment |
Captain Mapstone in Green Rider has this power, making her a valuable royal adviser. Unfortunately, this leads to life-and-death consequences when her ability begins to malfunction. | |
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Green Rider | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector / int_4c300a8c | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4c300a8c | comment |
Lilo & Stitch: The Series: One episode featured a literal living lie detector in Experiment 032, whom Lilo christened "Fibber". Jumba originally designed Fibber under the cynical belief that society is heavily based on people not telling the whole truth, and having people's secrets and little white lies exposed would cause untold chaos. Since the episode in question revolved around Pleakley trying to get out of an Arranged Marriage by pretending he was already engaged, this resulted in Fibber going off every 30 seconds or so for most of the episode (and proving Jumba kinda had a point). | |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_4c300a8c | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4d238cb5 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4d238cb5 | comment |
In RoboCop: The Series, the title character ran a program to gauge how truthful the crooks he was holding up by the scruffs of their necks were being. The reading was usually numbers like 92.4% or 33.4%. The joke in one episode was that the reading was 100% because the suspect in question was scared out of his gourd. One episode had a scientist use a functionally identical lie detector on a smooth-talking politician, and every single thing he said came back at 50%. The same thing happened when Robocop was questioning an immoral lawyer. The readings kept fluctuating. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4ed7cac8 | comment |
Nowhere Stars: Aisling Waite, The Truth's Lantern, has this power as part of her identity as The Seeker Archetype. Roland implies it isn't flawless, however, and that a cleverly worded response can fool it. | |
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Nowhere Stars | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4f410616 | comment |
The Mysterious Benedict Society: The main protagonist of the books, Reynard Muldoon, is good at this, and Constance Contraire is even better at it later on in the series. Mr. Benedict, the man who the books are named after, has strong skills in it as well. Additionally, in the prequel book The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, Benedict encounters a helpful prosecuting attorney who has developed the skill from practice and observation after years of work. In the television series adaptation, Mr. Curtain has cultivated this ability. When Reynie says that he's not working with anyone, Mr. Curtain recites back the list of physical signs to him that explain why he's lying, including the syncopated breathing, the perspiration on his forehead, the darting of his eyes, and ever so slight dilation of his pupils. |
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Living Lie Detector / int_4f7a49d9 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_4f7a49d9 | comment |
In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, Ringo notes that when using his mindsight, he can easily read someone's body language to determine if they're lying, their state of mind, etc. Unfortunately, most of the time when this ability would be useful, he can't use it because his mindsight is blocked. | |
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The Keys Stand Alone (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_4f7a49d9 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_52b3b8f8 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_52b3b8f8 | comment |
In Necroscope, the British E-Branch eventually gets one of these as their leader. Ben Trask's psychic ability is to instinctively detect lies. The only thing that might foul it up is if the person is telling the truth—as they know it. To him, it comes out as "true... but odd, somehow". Ben has also expressed great disgust with political seasons. | |
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Necroscope | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_52b3b8f8 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_55f41ce9 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_55f41ce9 | comment |
Parodied on Curb Your Enthusiasm, where Larry believes he can tell if someone's lying just by staring at their face. The audience is left to draw their own conclusion about how effective his method is. | |
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Curb Your Enthusiasm | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector / int_565db169 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_565db169 | comment |
In Blindfold, the Truthsayers on the Atlas colony are a major pillar of the colonial society. They use a special drug called Veritas to read people's minds and determine their guilt or innocence. All "readings" are conducted in public. All Truthsayers are Designer Babies, trained from childhood to always tell the truth, especially when reading someone. They also receive training on being able to reasonably detect falsehoods even without the drug, the way normal people do it. This is more for failed Truthsayers who become Magistrates. The Atlas justice system depends on one axiom — "the Truthsayers are never wrong." Guess what happens in the novel? | |
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Blindfold | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5688a1b0 | comment |
Chane Andraso of The Saga of the Noble Dead develops this power in the second arc. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5688a1b0 | featureApplicability |
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The Saga of the Noble Dead | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_5688a1b0 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5690420f | comment |
The magic artifact harp from the DuckTales (1987) episode Raiders of the Lost Harp would say in singsong "fibbing fibbing fibbing!" in response to any lie heard in its presence. The harp also appears in "The Lost Harp of Mervana" episode of the reboot. | |
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DuckTales (1987) | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector / int_5755b96a | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5755b96a | comment |
The Order of the Stick: Laurin Shattersmith is a Psion and can read thoughts to tell if someone is lying. This allows Tarquin to confirm that Malack is dead and that Nale killed him. | |
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The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_57cef9ba | comment |
Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting:The Cobalt Soul sub-class has an ability where they can strike the pressure points of a creature and use Ki Manipulation to make it impossible for that creature to tell a lie for a minute. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Xanth: Two separate minor characters are named Polly Graph. Both have this ability, but it works in different ways for each. Dor's talent can be used this way; if he thinks someone is being untruthful, he can ask any inanimate objects on their person (clothing, jewelry, etc.) to verify. |
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Xanth | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Subverted in Star Wars: Allegiance when the pirate leader called the Commodore floats in a pool with his eyes covered, the better to focus on the voice of his guest. He believes that doing this, damping down all of his senses but hearing, makes him more able to tell if he's being lied to and pick out hidden things about the speaker. However, he's trying to gauge Mara Jade, who is able to subtly stir the air and water to interfere with his senses without his knowing, and so he misses the fact that she's an Imperial agent sent to find connections between these pirates and corrupt officials. | |
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Star Wars: Allegiance | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5b3356f8 | comment |
In the Turning Red fic Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda, Jason Vaugn can easily tell when someone is lying to him. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5b344855 | comment |
Wolverine from X-Men. He does not have it as an innate power, but his senses are sharp enough that they can spot "tells". When the X-Men were hunting down Cable in X-Cutioner's Song, wrongly accusing him of having assassinated Professor X, Cable got out of a fight by saying to Wolverine "I did not shoot Xavier." Wolverine's senses correctly told him that Cable was being truthful. | |
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Wolverine (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector / int_5c208620 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5c208620 | comment |
In the Superman: The Animated Series episode, "The Late Mr. Kent", Clark interviews a man on death row who claims he is innocent. Clark uses his super-hearing to measure the man's heart rate and his super-vision to check the man's eye movement, and both remain steady, indicating that he is telling the truth. However, he does not take that as conclusive evidence, but just as something that prompts him to investigate the story further. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_5c208620 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Soul Eater: Joe was this due to his advanced soul perception. It's said to be the reason he broke up with Marie — he feared 'seeing through' her as his perception increased — and is likely why he worked with Shibusen's Internal Investigations. Highly likely Maka's own advanced soul perception will go this way. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Turnabout Storm has Twilight becoming this after accidentally Power Copying Phoenix's Magatama, giving her the ability to see when someone is hiding the truth from her through "Psyche-Locks". | |
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Turnabout Storm (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_5e16d550 | comment |
Black Clover: Rhya boasts of being able to tell when someone is lying, which is ironic since he knew all along that Lemiel never betrayed the elves but kept it to himself so that their hatred would be vindicated. When Asta tries to spare Rhya from Mereoleona by stating that they should be able to reach an understanding in spite of everything that has happened, Rhya is shocked when he realizes that Asta is being completely honest, and is reminded of the real Licht while wishing more people were like Asta. Later, when fellow elf Ronne steals the last magic stone from Yuno and declares that the elves will finally have their vengeance, Rhya immediately realizes that Ronne is lying and asks him to explain the contradiction. Ronne then puts a hole in Rhya before revealing that the "Ronne" in the room is actually possessed by a devil, who discards Ronne's body after using the magic stone to summon his real body from the Underworld. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_5e16d550 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_60e6b2da | comment |
In Harmony Theory, this is Detective Hard Boiled's special talent. He can also see through illusions and invisibility. | |
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The most powerful mages in Saga of Recluce can tell if someone is lying since magic is based on manipulating Order and Chaos and lying is a chaotic act. | |
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One episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent had a gambling-savant Manchild as a possible accomplice in a murder case. He was eventually cleared, but when he was shown video of his partner giving an alibi, he could see that he was lying, having an extremely acute ability to detect people's "tells". | |
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My Little Balladeer: Two in this novel-length Human in Equestria tale ... Applejack, as Bearer of the Element of Honesty and a pony of strong common sense, and John the Balladeer, between his own mystic insight and equally strong common sense. |
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Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined has the "You Can't Fool Me" move from The Light, which lets your character always tell when someone is lying to you. | |
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In The Long Kiss Goodnight, Timothy frequently and proudly announces his status as one of these — which makes it funnier when no one lies to him for the entire film. | |
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Hive Mind (2016): Downplayed with Lucas. Part of his imprint involves being able to read a person's reactions, so he can generally tell when somebody is lying. This is more of a problem than an advantage, as Amber can more easily tell if somebody is lying by reading their thoughts, but Lucas can use this on Amber when she knows something that he shouldn't. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: One "Donald Duck" story features the duck family making friends with an alien who is allergic to lies. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph Beifong from the original series has a Disability Superpower resulting from her ability to "see" with vibrations (since she's blind), including heart rate, breathing patterns, and other vital signs that react when someone lies. There's only one time that it ever failed, in "The Day of Black Sun, Part 2"...note It is probable that Azula is a sociopath who has no emotional reaction to lying and thus it cannot be detected, just as real world lie detectors. It is odd that Toph never deals with the opposite problem, a nervous person appearing to lie when they aren't. It is this, plus her lack of emotional connection with Zuko, which allows her to be rational about his presence in "The Western Air Temple". She can tell that he's being sincere when he offers to help Aang and complains that the others are the blind ones for allowing their emotions to cloud their judgement — a point that they then only reinforce by attempting to deny it. This can also help in finding out when someone's been brainwashed, like Toph does with Jet in "Lake Laogai": He claims that he had been living peacefully in Ba Sing Se ever since he arrived, but Smellerbee claims that Jet had been captured by the Dai Li a couple weeks ago. Toph senses that they're both telling the truth, in a way, with Jet thinking he's telling the truth, and Smellerbee telling the actual truth. Carried over into The Legend of Korra with Aiwei, a truth-seer who acts as an advisor in the metalbending city, creating a city without lies. (In fact, it's a bit of a running gag for him to point out everyone's lies.) Unfortunately, as Mako points out, being the only truth-seer in the city means no one can tell when he's lying, which he can cover just by changing things to make it look like he's not. As an added bonus, Aiwei can deduce people's thoughts if they know too much, which makes deceiving him all the more difficult. |
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In Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, powerful angels always know if they hear a lie thanks to their Divine Awareness. Rogues who take the Inquisitive subclass are also hard to deceive, as they can never roll less than an 8 on Insight checks to figure out if someone is lying. | |
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Janus from Sanders Sides, as the representation of Thomas's Deciet, always knows when Thomas or any of the Sides are lying, either to each other or themselves. | |
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The Alchemist from The Venture Brothers can tell whenever someone is lying. It's not always as useful as you'd think, however, as he quickly discovered when trying to assist Hank with his "case" of Dermott's missing sister (who as it turns out was just stuck in traffic). They discover a deeper mystery brewing under the surface, but Al can't make heads or tails of the conflicting witness accounts because none of them adds up and yet no one is lying. He was simply missing a single but critical fact: Dermott's "sister" was really his mother who had given birth to him during a teenage pregnancy, and the woman whom he thought to be his mother was his grandmother who had orchestrated the cover-up. Dermott's father is really RUSTY. | |
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Scorpius from Farscape can see energy signatures in living beings, which change when the subject is telling a lie. This allows him to act as a very effective torturer — unless the victim has the Scorpius neural clone present in his brain. Plus there was the lobster-like creature that could detect "cognitive dissonance". Fortunately John Crichton was able to fool it by sending his identical clone, who was able to truthfully say that he hadn't been running around doing things the local Ruler didn't approve of. Scarrans have this ability too (Scorpius is half-Scarran), though it appears to be based more on actual Telepathy than ES reading. In one episode Crichton was able to beat this by telling the literal truth about how he was rescuing Aeryn because he wanted to have sex with her (he just didn't mention they were also co-conspirators). |
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Purple Hyacinth: Lauren can somehow tell when someone is lying, but only as long as the person knows they're telling a lie. If they believe the lie to be truth, she can't detect it. This is represented with the type becoming red. | |
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Smallville: Ryan, Clark's little brother figure who can read minds, and Chloe in one episode, after being exposed to the experimental Levitas which caused those around her to tell the truth. Neither worked on Clark. Pete calls Chloe the Living Lie Detector. | |
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Bra'tac in Stargate SG-1 has the ability to detect Goa'uld brainwashing by looking into someone's eyes. He uses this to detect that Teal'c is lying about being loyal to the SGC. Notably, Teal'c had managed to fool trained psychiatric personnel hired to deprogram him before this happened. Bra'tac does it again later when the Jaffa council was being subverted by Ba'al, though it took him a bit longer. | |
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Toph Beifong from the original series has a Disability Superpower resulting from her ability to "see" with vibrations (since she's blind), including heart rate, breathing patterns, and other vital signs that react when someone lies. There's only one time that it ever failed, in "The Day of Black Sun, Part 2"...note It is probable that Azula is a sociopath who has no emotional reaction to lying and thus it cannot be detected, just as real world lie detectors. It is odd that Toph never deals with the opposite problem, a nervous person appearing to lie when they aren't. It is this, plus her lack of emotional connection with Zuko, which allows her to be rational about his presence in "The Western Air Temple". She can tell that he's being sincere when he offers to help Aang and complains that the others are the blind ones for allowing their emotions to cloud their judgement — a point that they then only reinforce by attempting to deny it. This can also help in finding out when someone's been brainwashed, like Toph does with Jet in "Lake Laogai": He claims that he had been living peacefully in Ba Sing Se ever since he arrived, but Smellerbee claims that Jet had been captured by the Dai Li a couple weeks ago. Toph senses that they're both telling the truth, in a way, with Jet thinking he's telling the truth, and Smellerbee telling the actual truth. |
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Manga Angel Neko Oka: Eiji can detect other people's lies, when he was younger, he was avoided by many people when they find out about his ability, since then he haven't told anyone about it. | |
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Gotals are a goat-like species with conical horns on their heads that allow them to sense electromagnetic fields, including those emitted by living creatures' neural networks. This makes them natural bounty hunters and diplomats, as they're not only able to detect their quarry, but sense subtle emotional changes that indicate someone's lying. It's not foolproof, though — in Wedge's Gamble, Gavin Darklighter is nearly executed as a bigot after a Gotal sensed his relief that a Bothan woman stopped hitting on him at a bar. What he was mainly worried about was drawing attention to the rest of Rogue Squadron during a covert operation on the Imperial capital — also, he's just shy. | |
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In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal warns Clarice "don't lie, or I'll know". She never tests him on it but seems to assume he can. | |
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The Dune universe contains multiple examples of humans with this capability. The Bene Gesserit develop latent psychic abilities in humans alongside Charles Atlas Superpowers; one outcome of this is "Truthsayers", people trained to detect lies. Some, like the Lady Jessica, can only detect the intent to deceive but are not able to reveal the actual truth. Some, like Paul, his sister Alia, and later his son Leto, can fully unmask any lies merely by observing their subject. This difference becomes a plot point in the first novel when Dr. Yueh manages to conceal his planned treachery from Jessica by leading her limited Truthsense on a carefully designed Red Herring, counting on himself being Beneath Suspicion due to supposedly unbreakable mental conditioning. Other characters, knowing of the capabilities of Truthsayers, have developed defenses against their abilities, such as Make It Look Like an Accident and other forms of Plausible Deniability when they can't have it known that they explicitly ordered the death of a rival. Later in the series, other factions develop this capability, and duels of wits between Truthsayers can be every bit as dramatic as physical combat due to the multiple levels of I Know You Know I Know involved. Chapterhouse: Dune explores life inside the Bene Gesserit sisterhood to a much larger degree than any other book in the series, with the Reverend Mothers basically always reading each other acting as 'watchdogs'. |
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Kiera Cameron in Continuum can detect lies though in a sense her ability works more like a traditional lie detector. The combination of the CMR computer chip in her brain and the cameras in her eyes read respiration, heart rate, body temperature changes, etc., and tell her when someone's reactions are abnormal. This means that she can nearly always tell when someone is lying (or even just withholding information) but she doesn't exactly know what the truth is or what information is being withheld. | |
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In the Tortall Universe, people with the Sight can tell when people are lying, among other things. The griffins take it one step further: lies cannot be told in a griffin's presence, and their feathers can dispel illusions. | |
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The Ties That Bind (Hayes) has this as a standard ability as members of the Inquisition. No one can lie to them. However, they can use Exact Words to answer questions truthfully. It's also an addictive power. | |
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Blood and Honor: Jaesa Willsaam has the ability, through the Force, to compel everyone in her vicinity to tell the truth. Her master uses this talent to expose Darth Baras's spies, and then, when Jaesa switches sides, the Emperor's Hand recruits her to help during prisoner interrogations. | |
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The chief mate of the Current of Faith from The Reader (2016) is this, at least when he's on board because he can speak to the trees that make up the hull and they tell him truth from lies. | |
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Rebuild World: Akira's Artificial Intelligence Virtual Sidekick Alpha serves as this. As she will be quick to point out, she has a blind spot for a Full-Conversion Cyborg, such as the Consummate Liar Yajima. | |
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In the Alexis Carew novel The Little Ships, Alexis encounters a Hanoverese intelligence officer who sees through both of her cover stories immediately just from his own experience as a professional liar. He first spots her as a New Londoner because of her accent, then reads the emotion in her voice to see through her lie about why she sought out the culturally French Hanoverese Lieutenant Delaine Theibaud, even approving of her attempt to make the lie seem convincing by including elements of truth in it.note To wit, she did join the Navy because of an inheritance issue with her grandfather's estate, but her grandfather agrees with her and wants to change the law so she can inherit, and she did fall in love with Delaine while held as a prisoner of war, but came looking for him for military reasons. | |
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Agent Henry from Curveball has an ability to detect lies that's so sensitive, he can tell if you're trying to misled him in any way (i.e. exact words, metaphorical truths, etc.). What's more, while he's making direct eye contact with you, you lose the ability to lie at all.note Out of courtesy to others, he keeps his sunglasses on at all times. | |
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Parodied in Phineas and Ferb with Albert, "the ta-ruth detector." Because he's "impossible to fool", his brother worries that an incredibly lame plot to trick him involving a hologram and some Paper Thin Disguises will fall flat on its face. Turns out that Albert believes anything you tell him. | |
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In Immortal Hulk, the Devil Hulk persona claims to be able to smell lies as part of his power set. It's later implied that the Savage Hulk can do it too, but hasn't figured out what the "funny smell" he detects when people lie to him means. | |
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Cypher: Morgan Sullivan's last mission is to a maximum security data bunker. While waiting for a data transfer to take place, the systems administrator conversationally brags/complains how he was the best at spotting moles and detecting lies, before he was obviated by high-tech biometric monitoring and stuck in a dead-end job. He then proceeds to demonstrate with a casual interrogation of Sullivan. | |
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Oni Ga Shiku Series: Naomasa Tsukauchi has a quirk called "Judge Eyes". His quirk allows him to see the statements of up to two people at the time and examine based on a variety of clues whether the people speaking are lying or not. That said, when a person tells something they think is true but is actually false, then the quirk registers it as a truth. Another major catch of the Quirk - and the reason it has this name - is that Naomasa's eyes glow gold when someone tells something truthfull, and silver when they lie. He also cannot turn it off, and the quirk works for Naomasa's own statements. This way anyone who knows about Naomasa's quirk can tell who is currently lying, which has backfired on Naomasa a few times. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Gandalf explains to Pippin just before meeting Denethor that it is extremely difficult to deceive him, and dangerous to try, due to his Númenórean psychic super-powers (actually just knowledge of psychic techniques that isn't widespread and having a ridiculous age advantage). His son Faramir seems to have inherited this ability, as he is able to immediately detect when Gollum lies to him. It should be noted here though that Pippin has an extraordinary ability to conceal his mind for someone his age. Éomer claims that the Rohirrim have some measure of this ability as well, saying that "the Men of the Mark do not lie, and therefore they are not easily deceived." Indeed, Wormtongue does not use direct lies to trick Théoden, but rather lies of omission. Lying to Sauron is practically impossible. The only way to trick him is to plant seeds and doubts in Sauron's mind from afar. When Aragorn revealed himself in the palantir, he showed him Narsil but never once claimed he had the ring, but this act effectively led Sauron to come to that incorrect conclusion. This is actually Aragorn using Sauron's own tricks against him: Sauron himself only lies by implication, so he assumes that Aragorn is doing so as well. You can't lie to Gandalf, either, as he demonstrates with Bilbo in the very first chapter (when Bilbo attempts to take the Ring with him to Rivendell: something that would be extraordinarily dangerous). It is physically impossible to lie to Galadriel unless you are magically stronger than her. Even lies of omission are impossible because she reads thoughts. |
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Tales of Inthya: Truthsayers, rare magic users, are capable of telling if anyone lies. They are mentioned several times before Crown Princess Ioanna of Xytan is revealed to have the gift in Daughter of the Sun. | |
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In Warehouse 13, this is the "talent" of the newest team member Steve Jinks, who himself is a terrible liar. (Unless he's going undercover, and thus has been given adequate time to prepare.) It can be beaten with an artifact, however, said artifact being Richard Nixon's shoes (which cause extreme paranoia in the wearer). It also doesn't apply to detecting false accents. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_81c1745d | comment |
The Guardians (Meljean Brook): The Guardians each have a unique Gift related to what they were in life. Hugh, who strove all his life to be honest, now can detect truth and force it from someone. It's deliberately activated by his love interest; when she can't bring herself to say "I love you" she says "I hate you" instead, knowing he will hear the lie in her words. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_81d11fd3 | comment |
In The Vazula Chronicles, dragons have this ability, as does Heath's father Norik. Norik can detect both deliberate lies and unconscious Lying by Omission, in either speech or writing. With great effort, he can even briefly pass his ability on to other people, such as when he shows King Matlock how the Record Master has been deceiving him in A Kingdom Restored. He describes being lied to as a bitter, acrid sensation somewhere between taste and smell. Heath keeps Vazula a secret from Norik by simply not answering his questions about where he and Reka go on their journeys. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_827d04a4 | comment |
The main character in Endling is a "dairne", a walking, talking dog whose species possesses the unique ability to detect the lies of others. They can hear it from the person's voice — the main character Byx describes hearing a lie as being like hearing a cat barking. In the story, she's been declared the last of her kind, which would make her ability extremely useful to anyone who would take advantage of her. It's complicated, however, by the fact that her species has been declared extinct. Also, because dairnes can detect lies, some believe that they themselves are incapable of it. This is false, though it's true that they don't lie among their own kind, as it would be pointless, and thus aren't in the habit of it. | |
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Endling | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8459204b | comment |
Legend of the Seeker: Kahlan is trained to detect lies by studying people's faces and tones of voice, even without her Confession power. Mord-Sith give her trouble though, due to their own training. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_8459204b | |
Living Lie Detector / int_852db1be | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_852db1be | comment |
In Small Persons with Wings, the moonstone has been set in a ring that causes wearers to feel cold when they hear a lie, and warm when they hear a truth. They can also see through illusions created by the Magica Artificia. If a human drops the ring into a glass of water and then drinks the water, they gain the same abilities, as well as the knowledge of every Awful Truth about themselves. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_852db1be | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8558d643 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8558d643 | comment |
In Phantom Blood, Robert E. O. Speedwagon, a reformed mugger operating in Ogre Street, has lived in those conditions for so long, he could tell whether someone was good and evil just from their smell. It allowed him to see past Dio's outward-facing personality and see him for the man he truly is. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8558d643 | featureApplicability |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (Manga) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_8558d643 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_85a246b3 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_85a246b3 | comment |
Titans (2018): Raven's empathic powers mean that most people can't lie to her. When it turns out that Dick did lie to her, she bitterly comments that he must be very good at it. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_85a246b3 | featureApplicability |
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Titans (2018) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_85a246b3 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8645d677 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8645d677 | comment |
The Grand Veritable in the Spellsinger novel Son of Spellsinger is a sentient device that can not only detect all lies but knows the objective truth of any statement. Once it's taken, it can't be gotten rid of unless someone else voluntarily takes it (though tricking someone into taking it works), and it always reveals the lies in every statement it hears, even lies of omission. This means that it rather quickly becomes an Artifact of Death. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_891a219c | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_891a219c | comment |
In The Land Before Time fanfiction The Seven Hunters the carnivores can use their superior sense of smell as a lie detector. | |
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The Land Before Time | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_891a219c | |
Living Lie Detector / int_897271d7 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_897271d7 | comment |
In Alien in a Small Town, the alien Jan have superhuman hearing and can pull this stunt by hearing a human's heartbeat. The genetically engineered Tesks, meanwhile, have a superhuman sense of smell and are masters of reading body language. | |
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Alien in a Small Town | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_897271d7 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_89dd130e | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_89dd130e | comment |
The Incredible Hulk (2008): After an attack on the Hulk (once again) goes horribly wrong, involving Betty Ross being injured and the Hulk escaping with her, General Ross visits Doc Samson, Betty's at-the-time boyfriend, who had tipped him off to Banner/Hulk's location (and was currently regretting it, as Hulk tried to protect Betty when the actions of the army almost killed her). When Ross gives him his word that Betty's safety is his first priority, over capturing the Hulk, Samson stands up and says; "Y'know, I consider it a matter of professional practice that I can always tell when someone is lying to me... and you are." | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_89dd130e | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8d36db52 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8d36db52 | comment |
In Tyranny, Kills-in-Shadow says that Lantry smells like "coal-ink and lies", leading Lantry to quietly wonder what, exactly, a lie smells like. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_8d36db52 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8d817ccb | comment |
In early seasons of Lost, Sayid claims to always know when people are lying to him, due to his past as a torturer. He is able to tell that Locke is lying about the existence of the hatch, and that "Henry" is one of the Others. The fourth season has called this ability into question somewhat. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_8d817ccb | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8d81bb26 | comment |
Agent Gibbs in NCIS is said in several episodes in the early seasons to be able to tell if a suspect is lying just by looking at their eyes. Ziva also has a fairly finely-tuned sense of when someone is or isn't lying - especially if it's Tony. |
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NCIS | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector / int_8d81f086 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8d81f086 | comment |
On Monk, Monk uses his uncanny ability to determine when someone is lying to not only solve difficult cases but also to ruin several of his assistant Sharona's budding romantic relationships. Also referenced in "Mr. Monk and the Other Detective", where it appears private eye Marty Eels is a living lie detector, able to use his apparent uncanny skills to extract the location of some stolen jewels from Eddie Dial, one of two criminals who robbed a jewelry store and killed a security guard and store manager in doing so. Monk then discovers that Marty is actually faking it: he knew about it all along as his mother, a quality control operator, overheard Dial and his partner Vic Blanchard talk about the crime while on hold to buy plane tickets, and fed all the information to Marty. |
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Monk | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8db36f7 | comment |
RoboCop can determine how likely it is that someone is being truthful (and estimate a percentage to the claims) by listening to the person using his cybernetic-enhanced senses, presumably by measuring stress levels in voice tone the way an actual polygraph test does. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_8db36f7 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8df5521b | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8df5521b | comment |
Superman: Superman has some ability to detect lies thanks to his Super-Senses. With him being Superman, the problems he faces aren't usually as small as someone lying... but it is pretty handy for a reporter. Supergirl knows the same trick and was using it at least as far back as the 1960s. In The Killers of Krypton, Kara is interrogating the patrons of an alien bar about Rogol Zaar, and she uses her super-hearing to know who is being truthful and who is lying. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8e19a5a1 | comment |
Read the Fine Print (Evangelion): When they were kids, Shinji sold his soul to Asuka in exchange for chocolates as a joke. Several years later, they find out their bogus contract was not bogus at all and try to alter it, but they are visited by an agent of the Infernal Administration. Asuka tries to argue their contract must be voided because they did not know souls are real, but the agent -called Bwynvienne- warns her against lying to someone who can detect lies. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8f6e0ce | comment |
The Naturals: Lia can always tell when people are lying, making her extraordinarily useful when interviewing suspects. She can't usually tell why they're lying, though — that's where our heroine comes in. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8f6e0ce | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_8f6e0ce | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_8fda7950 | comment |
Known Space: As a result of their telepathy, Grogs are impossible to lie to. One of the primary services that they provide in interstellar society is as lie detectors in courtrooms, and they are taken along during summits between humans and Kzinti to ensure that everyone involved stays honest. | |
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Known Space | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_8fda7950 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9026dbdc | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9026dbdc | comment |
In The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Demane can tell whenever someone is lying thanks to clues that he takes in through his superior sense of smell. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_9026dbdc | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_924c78dc | comment |
Hunter: The Reckoning. Both Judges and Waywards have Edges that allow them to detect when others are telling lies. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_924c78dc | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_924c78dc | |
Living Lie Detector / int_927d32e6 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_927d32e6 | comment |
Collette, a character in Playing for Keeps, has an interesting variation of this power. She possesses the superhuman ability to intuitively know a person's favorite food, making her a Supreme Chef extraordinaire. However, this skill also makes her able to instantly tell if someone is impersonating someone else — even if they change their entire appearance, they can't cover up their culinary preferences. | |
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Living Lie Detector / int_927d32e6 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9284ad43 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9284ad43 | comment |
Athena Cykes from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies has some elements of this with her Mood Matrix: she combines her Expressive Accessory Widget with her natural super-sensitive hearing, making her able to sense subtle traces of emotion in people's voices and point out contradictory emotional responses (like someone who sounds happy while describing the victim's dismembered corpse). | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9284ad43 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_9284ad43 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_943b8e1 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_943b8e1 | comment |
Osomatsu-kun and Osomatsu-san had the ESP Kitty as this; doubles as a variant of Not in Front of the Parrot!. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_943b8e1 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_943b8e1 | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_987626d8 | comment |
The Infected: This is the sole power of Martin Joabs, who is routinely pulled away from his work whenever the heroes desperately need to verify something. He makes a powerful combination with Christian Poures (a telepath) and Ellen Doer, who has the power to tell when a person has been abused, coerced, mind-controlled, or had their memories tampered with. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_987626d8 | featureApplicability |
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The Infected | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_987626d8 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_998cbda3 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_998cbda3 | comment |
Matt Murdock in Daredevil (2015), like in the comics, can tell when someone's lying based on their heart rate. We see it in the very first episode, where he realizes Karen is innocent of the murder she's been framed for based on her heart rate. When Foggy finds out the truth about Matt, he's pissed off and sees this ability of Matt's as a blatant invasion of privacy. | |
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Daredevil (2015) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_998cbda3 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9a29f3a4 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9a29f3a4 | comment |
In Top 10, everybody has powers (or gadgetry) that would usually make them a superhero. Duane "Dust Devil" Bodine's mother is the human lie detector, which is one of the reasons he doesn't like to deal with her. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9ab32c13 | comment |
Pony POV Series: Applejack becomes this after looking into the Truth, becoming able to see through lies and make people shy away if they're lying by looking into their eyes. Not even Princess Gaia's Lotus-Eater Machine can fool her. Dark World Rarity, being a fully awakened Element of Honesty, can detect lies as well. Dark World Applejack also has it, due to being the Element of Deceit, allowing her to detect lies as well. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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This is one aspect of a shamai's mental powers in The Quest of the Unaligned. A minor plot point hinges on this, as the world's most powerful shamai verifies the Quest's otherwise unbelievable story. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9be153a3 | comment |
The Spellmonger Series: Lesana, the protagonist of The Road to Sevendor, is a mage whose powers compel those around her to tell the entire truth against their will. To say she is Blessed with Suck is an understatement; in fact, her desire to have her "curse" removed is the motivator for her short story. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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In Meet the Parents, Jack has this ability via grasping the wrist of whomever he's questioning... or so he claims. After all, if you can put someone in such a state of fear that they're too scared to lie, and they're convinced that you'll know if they do, then you already know that every word they say is going to be the truth. The second sequel, Little Fockers, seems to imply that Jack's ability is real, as he grabs Greg's wrist without telling him he's about to do it. Plus, Greg doesn't seem to be afraid of or be intimidated by Jack as much as he is in the first film. Jack seems to be satisfied with the results of this and believes that Greg is telling him the truth. However, at the same time, he gets a lot of stuff wrong in the two sequels and is then shocked when it happens. | |
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Meet the Parents | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9d6c0940 | comment |
In Spider-Man (2000), a Spider-Man impersonator disrupts Doctor Octavius' new presentation and steals the technology. Daredevil corners the real Spidey for the crime. Thankfully, Daredevil uses his powers to realize that the real Spider-Man is innocent. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
One Piece: This is one of the powers Violet's Devil Fruit granted her. Because she can see through people both literally and figuratively, she can easily read people's minds and memories, making it obvious to her when a person is lying. When Sanji tells her that, even though she lied to him about actually needing his help, the tears she cried weren't fake, the fact that Sanji truly believes this and that he still trusts her is what makes Violet turn to his side. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9e7bb317 | comment |
The titular character in Mr. Brooks. A neat example in that he never talks about or tells anybody about this ability. It also primarily manifests through his Imaginary Friend Marshall. He's also secretly the Thumbprint Killer despite being a successful company owner and philanthropist, which is part of the reason he's so good at this and secretive about it. | |
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Mr. Brooks | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9ea16c62 | comment |
In The Captain of the Virtual Console, Sabrina's Alakazam uses telepathy in this manner. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_9fffd4ed | comment |
Steven Bloom on Undercovers actually had "the Living Lie Detector" as a nickname from his CIA days. | |
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Undercovers | hasFeature |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_a0d19f20 | comment |
Usotoki Rhetoric: Kanako Urabe is able to tell when people intentionally lie, hearing it as a clanging sound in their voice. It made her an outcast in her hometown, where everyone knew about it, so she left for Tsukumoya. Explored a bit in-depth: Kanoko can hear lying intent. Therefore, if someone honestly believes in (or has no personal opinion regarding) what they say, then she will not detect anything, regardless of whether the statement is actually correct or not. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_a33d74a4 | comment |
Sword of Truth: This is the purpose of the Confessors. Their power makes someone fall so deeply in love (to the point of destroying whoever they may have been before) that they obey whatever the Confessor asks of them. One of their chief duties is determining if someone sentenced to death really committed the crime. Some sorceresses are shown to have this power. One of them is so eager to constantly say "Lie!", even about small things, that Richard mentions his friend must have had a very difficult time telling her his stories. Her response: "True." |
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In Golden Wind we have Bruno Bucciarati and his very memetic way of finding out if someone's lying... by licking their sweat. This was famously used on series protagonist Giorno Giovanna in chapter 443 of the manga and episode 1 of the anime ("THIS IS THE TASTE OF A LIAR, GIORNO GIOVANNA!"). | |
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The Bible: The apostle Peter displayed this ability at least once, challenging a couple who were lying about the amount they were donating to the congregation (the amount itself wasn't important, but the fact that they lied about it was). Notably, both the man and the wife died instantly upon this being revealed. Jesus displayed a similar ability in his encounter with the woman at the well, although this one is more open to interpretation. When questioned about her marital status, the woman replies "I have no husband"; she's lying, as she's been married several times and is currently wed, but Jesus, who knows she's speaking falsely, tells her that she unknowingly spoke the truth — the laws of that region stated that divorce was impossible, so technically, she doesn't have a husband as she's not living with the first man she married. Unlike the above example, she does not die (possibly because of her partial truth saving her) and she rushes back to town to tell everyone about her conversation; some Biblical scholars have argued that this makes her the first Christian evangelist. |
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Touhou Project: Suika Ibuki and Yuugi Hoshiguma are oni and very perceptive about lying. The whole species never tell lies and dislike deception, part of the reason it went into seclusion from human civilization. As far as the plots of the game are concerned, it's essentially an Informed Ability, but a lot of lip service is given to the onis' promise to keep evil spirits underground in turn for not being bothered in Subterranean Animism. Even Yukari Yakumo accepts this promise at face value. And then there's Aya: Satori Komeiji, as a satori, has perpetually-on telepathy, and always knows what other people are actually thinking, which doesn't make them favorably inclined toward her, so she's isolated herself from almost everyone but her pets. Her sister Koishi used to have perpetually-on telepathy, but willingly crippled the power because she hated being hated... removing her capacity for conscious thought in the process. |
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Muted: Demons can sense when humans are lying. This is actually how Silvia got her scar; when she was first summoning her familliar, she was trying to deceive it, and sensing her dishonesty, it attacked her. | |
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Kerrigan in the StarCraft novel Liberty's Crusade, as a side effect of her telepathy. She hates it, since most of the people around her lie constantly. She thinks Arcturus Mengsk is truthful... and once she figures out he isn't: | |
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In Origin Story, Alex Harris can do this by way of being able to monitor changes in a person's body heat and heartbeat. | |
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In Of Lovebugs And Promises Bruce is able to determine whether someone is lying to him, not by their heartbeats, but by whether his own blood rushes/heartbeat picks up in reaction to deception. | |
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In the Paradox Trilogy, Copernicus Starchild's psychic powers allow him to know when someone is lying to him. | |
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Callo Merlose in Vagrant Story, as a result of being exposed to the magic of Lea Monde, develops a type of clairvoyance called "heart-seeing"; if anyone lies to her, or tries to withhold information that she asks for, she has a vision revealing what it is they don't want her to know. | |
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In the Cormoran Strike Novels, it is said in The Cuckoo's Calling that Strike can smell a lie. He certainly doesn't he any supernatural abilities or anything, but he's more than experienced enough that if the signs are there, he will detect them. It basically takes a serial liar / psychotic type who is able to lie without giving off any of the usual signs to pull the wool over his eyes, as seen in Troubled Blood. | |
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Four examples in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. In Phantom Blood, Robert E. O. Speedwagon, a reformed mugger operating in Ogre Street, has lived in those conditions for so long, he could tell whether someone was good and evil just from their smell. It allowed him to see past Dio's outward-facing personality and see him for the man he truly is. In Stardust Crusaders, Terrence D'Arby's Stand works like this: he can read his opponent's soul, allowing him to always know when he's being lied to. He uses this to beat Jotaro and his team at various video games until they figure out the trick: his ability only works on yes-or-no questions. Jotaro manages to defeat him by having Joseph secretly reach into the game console with his Stand Hermit Purple and alter his inputs. Thus when D'Arby asks questions like "Are you going to throw a fastball?" Jotaro's soul might answer "Yes", but Joseph turns it into a curveball instead, completely frustrating D'Arby. In Diamond is Unbreakable, Tamami Kobayashi's Stand is the Lock, an Emotion Bomb that targets a victim's sense of guilt. Tamami can use it passively to detect if someone feels guilty, helping him find liars and cheaters. In Golden Wind we have Bruno Bucciarati and his very memetic way of finding out if someone's lying... by licking their sweat. This was famously used on series protagonist Giorno Giovanna in chapter 443 of the manga and episode 1 of the anime ("THIS IS THE TASTE OF A LIAR, GIORNO GIOVANNA!"). |
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L.A. Confidential: In the original book, Ed Exley is so insanely good at reading people that it is said he sometimes cannot look at himself in the mirror. | |
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Una, the personification of Truth in the first book of The Faerie Queene, has the power to reveal the truth. For example, she couldn't detect that the old hermit who sheltered her and The Hero was the Evil Sorceror Archimago or detect when he disguised himself as The Hero later, but when she deduced that Duessa's supposed messenger who crashed her engagement feast was Archimago in disguise, she was able to reveal his true form to everyone else. | |
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Shadow and Bone: An almost literal case, as Heartrenders can tell when a person is lying by the variations in their pulse and heartbeat, just like a real-life polygraph. | |
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Iris Zero: Asashi Yuki sees a devil tail growing out each time someone is lying. Because people around her were doing this all the time, she isolated herself from the others. Toru showed her that people can also lie not to hurt somebody or to protect their secrets. Thanks to his help Yuki opened herself up to the others once more. | |
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In And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid, Melissa's merpower — the unique ability all merfolk have that only works when they're in mer form — is the ability to tell when someone is lying. | |
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In This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, Vance Falconer's ability to do this is what made him a famous detective. | |
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March from The Sirantha Jax Series is a telepath, and this is the main reason he hates people. He always knows when they're lying, either to him or to themselves, and it's left him jaded about human nature. | |
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In Domina, this is Laura's power. However, it only works on absolute lies (half-truths explicitly slip right by), so everyone treats it as useless. | |
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Becoming LÃfþrasir: Ruffnut could tell Camicazi was lying when she said that she did not know where Cattongue was from. | |
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Spice and Wolf: Holo claims that her wolf ears can tell if a person is lying or not most of the time. Given her lifespan and her inability to track down exactly what was being lied about in the first example, this is probably just a learned skill of knowing what to look for. | |
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The Daniyelan Truthspell in The Children of Man takes the form of an orb of orange fire into which the subject must insert his hand. As long as he remains perfectly truthful, he won't be burned. Should he lie, however... There is also a more difficult version that can force the subject to answer the Daniyelan's questions. | |
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Ayla, the heroine of Earth's Children, can always tell the minute someone is lying. This is explained by her growing up with a group of people who communicate mainly through hand signals and body language, and thus she can tell by someone's body language if they are lying, even when she can't understand the language. In fact, her entire adoptive species can do this, due to the nature of their language. | |
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The Nuptialverse subverts and lampshades the trope — as Applejack has apparently had to explain many times, being the Element of Honesty does not give her the ability to tell when somepony's lying, which is why she couldn't tell that "Cadence" was an impostor. | |
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Fear in the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater fanfic The Joy Of Battle is a human lie detector. He explains it simply to Sorrow after finishing his sentences for most of a scene: "I'm perceptive." | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, the Seekers of Truth were a Space Marine chapter specializing in helping the Inquisition, with their Chapter Master regularly praying to the God-Emperor to let them separate truth from lies and aid them in their holy mission. Unfortunately, Tzeentch, the Father of Deceit, saw fit to grant his wish, and now they could hear every lie spoken by mankind... at any time, in the entire Imperium. Considering that one of the biggest lies the Imperium was founded on was that the Emperor was a god in the first place (he was very much an atheist), it's no surprise that they fell to Chaos soon after that, now known as the Scourged. | |
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Jerry Espenson on Boston Legal — an ironic ability for someone with Asperger Syndrome. | |
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The Powers of Harmony: One of the abilities granted to the Bearer of Honesty is Truesight, which sees through all illusions, as well as being able to automatically tell when someone is lying. Though any unicorn skilled enough can cast Truesight themselves, it's temporary and costs a lot of magic to use; the Bearer of Honesty is able to do so instinctively and for as long as they want. |
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In Stardust Crusaders, Terrence D'Arby's Stand works like this: he can read his opponent's soul, allowing him to always know when he's being lied to. He uses this to beat Jotaro and his team at various video games until they figure out the trick: his ability only works on yes-or-no questions. Jotaro manages to defeat him by having Joseph secretly reach into the game console with his Stand Hermit Purple and alter his inputs. Thus when D'Arby asks questions like "Are you going to throw a fastball?" Jotaro's soul might answer "Yes", but Joseph turns it into a curveball instead, completely frustrating D'Arby. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Fires of Pompeii": Both of the soothsayers unnerve the Doctor and Donna by seeing right through the claims they made about being locals, and telling them things about them the seers couldn't possibly have known. "Time Heist": The Teller is a unique spin on this, in that it detects guilty and remorseful feelings from people that have stolen from the bank. If an individual's thoughts come up as positive for guilt, they get a Fate Worse than Death. As a woman who shifts faces on a regular basis, Saibra is very good at reading people. She instantly deduces the Doctor is lying when he opens the case with the Shredders and claims to be ignorant of their function. |
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Person of Interest: During a flashback in "The Cold War", which takes take place in 1973, a young Greer proclaims himself to be one, which is why he justified showing mercy to his target, a KGB mole in MI6. The only exception to this power is his supervisor, who is a mole for the KGB and ordered the death of said target. | |
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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: Triple-Zero is a diplomatic droid who has been reprogrammed as a Torture Technician, so is good at detecting deception. He uses this to his advantage by establishing with 89.43% certainty that Aphra intends to deactivate him despite what she says, therefore justifying any action he takes to stop this as self-defence, getting around her command not to murder anyone. | |
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The spider-priests from The Dagger and the Coin have this ability, as well as on the flip-side a Compelling Voice that causes anyone who listens to them to believe their words are true. However, this is ultimately deconstructed, because the spider-priests ability doesn't actually detect truth, just certainty; you can utter falsehoods to one of the priests all you want and so long as you believe it to be true, the priests' powers won't detect it. Furthermore, they're not immune to their own Compelling Voices, and so over time come to believe their own opinions represent objective truth. If you say something that goes against a spider-priest's beliefs, but genuinely believe it to be the truth, they'll be psychologically unable to reconcile the situation and will fly into an irrational berserk rage. | |
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Villains by Necessity: Kaylana has this talent, presumably due to being a druid. It does have drawbacks, such as lies of omission, and non-verbal communication. | |
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In Circle of Magic, some "academic mages" have this ability. It's implied that it goes along with talent in other metaphorically sight-related magics, like scrying. Some mages who can do it are employed as "truthsayers" by courts and law enforcement (districts that can't afford one or an artifact equivalent use the old standby, Cold-Blooded Torture). | |
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In The Balanced Sword, priests and other god-touched types are sometimes granted this ability by their patron god. It takes a lot of divine energy, and isn't always dependable, as it can be diverted or blocked by an antagonist force of comparable or greater power. | |
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Hunter × Hunter: One of the advantages of Melody's powers is to detect lies with her supersensory hearing. If she hears your heartbeat go abnormal just a bit when you say anything, she can tell if you're lying or not. As a result, she is really useful when interrogating people. It backfires horribly when she interrogates Chrollo: the lack of change in his heartbeat drives the poor woman to an Heroic BSoD. Kurapika develops this ability with the Dowsing Chain. He uses it in coordination with Melody to cover each other's imperfections in their capacity to detect lies. He later uses it to identify agents from the Kakin government trying to infiltrate the Hunter Exam to minimize their meddling with the Hunter Association. Phantom Troupe member Pakunoda has her own unique way of determining if someone is lying to her by checking their memories through physical contact. Trying to trick her with a false memory won't work, because she always uses a loaded question to bring the true memory forth, meaning you either have to tell her the truth or legitimately not know the answer to her questions. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cb382d90 | comment |
Judge Judy claims to be this. Since the decisions based on her claim are not subject to review and cannot be appealed, it is impossible to know how often her interpretations are correct. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cb382d90 | featureApplicability |
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Judge Judy | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_cb382d90 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cb7392b7 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cb7392b7 | comment |
A Court of Thorns and Roses: Nesta is very apt at sensing people are trying to hide something from her, particularly Feyre and Rhysand. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cb7392b7 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_cb7392b7 | featureConfidence |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_cb7392b7 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cc1ec7ec | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cc1ec7ec | comment |
Daredevil can use his Super-Hearing to detect heartbeats, proving useful both in his role as a superhero and his Secret Identity as a lawyer. He's not perfect, however, and there's been a couple of occasions where a pacemaker has entirely thrown him off, which brings up the question of how he's not able to tell they have a pacemaker. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cc1ec7ec | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_cc1ec7ec | featureConfidence |
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Daredevil / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_cc1ec7ec | |
Living Lie Detector / int_ccf875f7 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_ccf875f7 | comment |
One episode of Criminal Minds had the team meet a boy who'd been blind from birth and who claimed that he could tell if something was lying by putting his hands on their head when they speak. It wasn't clear if it actually worked, but it adds tragedy to a scene at the very end. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_ccf875f7 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_ccf875f7 | featureConfidence |
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Criminal Minds | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_ccf875f7 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd59f6a6 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd59f6a6 | comment |
The Lunar Chronicles: This is one of Cinder's abilities as a cyborg. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd59f6a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd59f6a6 | featureConfidence |
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The Lunar Chronicles | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd59f6a6 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd63e81d | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd63e81d | comment |
Ace Attorney: The title character of the fourth game, Apollo Justice, is very good at spotting the Character Tics that indicate deceit. It's a somewhat subconscious ability, so he isn't always aware that he's doing it; he has the aid of a special bracelet that feels tighter when he tenses up, letting him know when to hyperfocus on what someone's just said. Trucy Wright has a similar ability, only she doesn't have the benefit of Apollo's bracelet. This is appropriate since she's actually his half-sister. Marvin Grossberg, Mia Fey's mentor, has the amazing ability to tell if somebody is lying.... through his hemorrhoids. Athena Cykes from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies has some elements of this with her Mood Matrix: she combines her Expressive Accessory Widget with her natural super-sensitive hearing, making her able to sense subtle traces of emotion in people's voices and point out contradictory emotional responses (like someone who sounds happy while describing the victim's dismembered corpse). |
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Living Lie Detector / int_cd63e81d | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_cd63e81d | featureConfidence |
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AceAttorney | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_cd63e81d | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cdae0b41 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cdae0b41 | comment |
Forever: Henry sometimes seems to think he has this ability, declaring a suspect is telling the truth or is innocent based on his own assessment of their truthfulness. Sometimes played with, in that he'll say a suspect is telling the truth about one thing, but could still be guilty of the main crime. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cdae0b41 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_cdae0b41 | featureConfidence |
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Forever (2014) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_cdae0b41 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cfc45be9 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cfc45be9 | comment |
In Spoonbenders, Irene's psychic ability is that she can tell whether someone is lying. While it's most effective on simple "yes/no" questions, she's able to fish out lies on other types of lying too. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cfc45be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_cfc45be9 | featureConfidence |
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Spoonbenders | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_cfc45be9 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d00adba4 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d00adba4 | comment |
Sandra from Super Minion has this power. Half the hiring process for Hellion's Henchmen is her asking people basic questions like whether or not they're planning to betray the organization. Tofu would have gotten thrown out for being too young, except that he misunderstood the question and thought she was asking if he was at least eighteen days old. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d00adba4 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d00adba4 | featureConfidence |
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Super Minion | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d00adba4 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d0b414cc | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d0b414cc | comment |
Dungeon Keeper of Love and Justice: Abbot Duval has the Judge's Eye spell, which allows him to tell when people are lying. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d0b414cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d0b414cc | featureConfidence |
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Dungeon Keeper of Love and Justice / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d0b414cc | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d109f322 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d109f322 | comment |
Andromeda: In "The Right Horse", the inhabitants of the planet Veras have Living Lie Detector abilities. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d109f322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d109f322 | featureConfidence |
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Andromeda | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d109f322 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1d1b9f8 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1d1b9f8 | comment |
Dûnyain monks in Second Apocalypse are so well trained in reading minute changes in people's facial musculature that they can practically look into a person's soul just by watching their face. Recognizing lies is a small part of what they see. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1d1b9f8 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d1d1b9f8 | featureConfidence |
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Second Apocalypse | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1d1b9f8 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1fbfbbc | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1fbfbbc | comment |
The Twilight Saga: Maggie has this ability. Charles is an inversion; he can't tell the truth. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1fbfbbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1fbfbbc | featureConfidence |
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The Twilight Saga | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d1fbfbbc | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d2cd3b5e | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d2cd3b5e | comment |
In Nomine: Seraphim can always when someone is lying, and depending on how kind the dice are when they try to do this they can tell what specific parts of the statement are a lie, if the other person knows what the truth is, what they think the truth is, and what the Truth of the matter actually is. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d2cd3b5e | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d2cd3b5e | featureConfidence |
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In Nomine (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d2cd3b5e | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d4642985 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d4642985 | comment |
Rashmika Els from the Revelation Space Series novel Absolution Gap. She's also a Consummate Liar. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d4642985 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d4642985 | featureConfidence |
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Revelation Space Series | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d4642985 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d47fbdc7 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d47fbdc7 | comment |
Issue 6 of X-Factor (2020) highlights how Eye-boy's ability to see on multiple spectrums, Prestige's telepathy, Daken's heightened senses and pheromone control, and Prodigy's ability to "know" everything about someone all make them this so they can tell that Siryn is lying to them. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d47fbdc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d47fbdc7 | featureConfidence |
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X-Factor (2020) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d47fbdc7 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d551d868 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d551d868 | comment |
Efina from LiEat is a dragon whose ability is to make lies into a physical manifestation. So naturally, she knows when someone is lying. But she only knows when, not exactly what a person is lying about, especially if someone says multiple things at once. She's unable to tell when her caretaker, Leo the con artist, is lying due to just how much he lies and therefore can't manifest his lies. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d551d868 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d551d868 | featureConfidence |
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LiEat (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d551d868 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6b6971d | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6b6971d | comment |
Sandra from Survivor seems to have the power to tell when someone's lying. When Johnny Fairplay pulled his infamous "dead grandmother" ploy, she saw through it instantly, even before The Reveal to the audience. Several times she comes across as The Cassandra, as voting against Jon in that particular challenge got her grief even from her own teammates. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6b6971d | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d6b6971d | featureConfidence |
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Survivor | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6b6971d | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6db8495 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6db8495 | comment |
Eddie from The Speed of Sound can always tell when someone's lying. He makes a buzzer sound when people say things that aren't true, although Dr. Fenton tries to discourage him from doing it. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6db8495 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d6db8495 | featureConfidence |
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The Speed of Sound | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d6db8495 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d73a0be6 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d73a0be6 | comment |
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The eponymous Takagi-san is able to tell pretty easily if the protagonist Nishikata lies to her. She does this through a combination of recognising Nishikata's tells (e.g. he tends to stammer or look away), a good understanding of his thought processes, and deducing things. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d73a0be6 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d73a0be6 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d968ef8 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d968ef8 | comment |
In Dexter's Lab: Equestria, Applejack, because of her Element of Honesty, can tell when somepony is lying. This makes it hard for Dexter to hide his scientific genius. Even more so are Changelings, based on their ability to sense emotional responses. The changeling posing as Cheerilee not only knows Dexter is lying about the machine but is able to determine based on his biological response to her presence, that he not a pony. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d968ef8 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_d968ef8 | featureConfidence |
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Dexter's Lab: Equestria (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d968ef8 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d98c0a73 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d98c0a73 | comment |
Derek, Scott and mostly any werewolves on Teen Wolf courtesy of their Super-Senses. They can tell lies through smell and quickened heartbeats. Also, sexual attraction. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d98c0a73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_d98c0a73 | featureConfidence |
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Teen Wolf | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_d98c0a73 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_da275e44 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_da275e44 | comment |
The 4400: This was an ability occasionally used by Isabelle. In "The Truth and Nothing But the Truth", it is revealed that April developed the ability to compel people to tell the truth simply by asking them questions. She and her new boyfriend Colin used it to make money by attracting marks and blackmailing them with the secret information that they have no choice but to tell her. When Tom doubts the effectiveness of her ability, April forces him to admit that he has occasionally had sexual fantasies about Diana. He is fully convinced after that. |
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Living Lie Detector / int_da275e44 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_da275e44 | featureConfidence |
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The 4400 | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_da275e44 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_db96ded4 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_db96ded4 | comment |
Carried over into The Legend of Korra with Aiwei, a truth-seer who acts as an advisor in the metalbending city, creating a city without lies. (In fact, it's a bit of a running gag for him to point out everyone's lies.) Unfortunately, as Mako points out, being the only truth-seer in the city means no one can tell when he's lying, which he can cover just by changing things to make it look like he's not. As an added bonus, Aiwei can deduce people's thoughts if they know too much, which makes deceiving him all the more difficult. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_db96ded4 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_db96ded4 | featureConfidence |
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The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_db96ded4 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_dbde69cf | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_dbde69cf | comment |
MARZENA: Marian is said to smell lies with her eyes. It's all about reading body movements, apparently. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_dbde69cf | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_dbde69cf | featureConfidence |
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MARZENA | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_dbde69cf | |
Living Lie Detector / int_de6659ec | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_de6659ec | comment |
Once Upon a Time: Both Emma and Henry seem to have this talent. Emma invoked it in the pilot, asking if Henry's adopted mother really loved the kid. However, Emma has been fooled/mistaken a few times. Word of God states that Emma's emotions compromise this ability. In season 3, when Wendy Darling is lying about not knowing where Henry is, everyone is fooled, even Emma, except Rumpelstiltskin. |
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Living Lie Detector / int_de6659ec | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_de6659ec | featureConfidence |
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Once Upon a Time | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_de6659ec | |
Living Lie Detector / int_debf52f2 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_debf52f2 | comment |
Darwin's Game: Ryuji from the Sunset Ravens has the sigil Truth or Lie note Scanlations like to translate his ability as 'Bullshit Detector', which allows him to figure out whether a person is lying or telling the truth simply by listening. He doesn't think his sigil is very cool, but it has turned out to help him in certain situations. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_debf52f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_debf52f2 | featureConfidence |
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Darwin's Game (Manga) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_debf52f2 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_df15b22d | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_df15b22d | comment |
In Firebird (Lackey), Ilya suspects Mother Galina may be one (he's certainly never been able to lie to her) and fears that the Katschei might be one. His experience in getting around the former helps him considerably with the latter. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_df15b22d | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_df15b22d | featureConfidence |
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Firebird (Lackey) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_df15b22d | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e11715a2 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e11715a2 | comment |
The Perfect Run: Luigi's Blue power means that he can force anyone who's already talking to him to speak with total honesty. He uses this to vet new recruits, much to Ryan's frustration on runs where he's technically betraying the Augusti. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e11715a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e11715a2 | featureConfidence |
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The Perfect Run | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_e11715a2 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e293455a | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e293455a | comment |
Of all the unlikely people, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer demonstrates a mild version of this on occasion. As Buffy says at one point, "I can't fool myself. Or Spike, apparently." Later on, he easily sees through Willow's pretense that she is coping after Oz leaves. And he accuses Buffy (and, by extension, all Slayers) of having a secret death wish in season five. On Angel, Spike is the first person to suspect Eve of being up to something beyond being the Senior Partners' liaison. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_e293455a | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e2cb4c1 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e2cb4c1 | comment |
Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, holds an amulet called the Eye of Agamotto which reveals the true nature of things. On one occasion he used it to compel a confession from a burglar. This happened in She-Hulk's comic, which at the time was a semi-comedic superhero legal drama: the firm tried to get the confession thrown out since Strange had violated the fifth amendment protection from self-incrimination. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e2cb4c1 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_e2cb4c1 | featureConfidence |
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Doctor Strange (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_e2cb4c1 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e3591cee | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e3591cee | comment |
In the second season of Todd McFarlane's Spawn, the character Merrick is able to tell when someone is lying by the hesitation and inflections in their voice. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e3591cee | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_e3591cee | featureConfidence |
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Todd McFarlane's Spawn | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_e3591cee | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e4a1416 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e4a1416 | comment |
In Changes, Dresden meets an FBI agent named Tilly, who can do this. This is actually magic-based, as Tilly has just enough power to tell if people are lying, but not quite enough power that he is clued into the Masquerade (or even be aware his ability is magical). | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e4a1416 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e4a1416 | featureConfidence |
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Changes | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_e4a1416 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e5c5bc22 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e5c5bc22 | comment |
GURPS has the Empathy advantage and the Detect Lies skill, which are also synergistic - having Empathy gives a bonus to Detect Lies. | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e5c5bc22 | featureApplicability |
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Living Lie Detector / int_e5c5bc22 | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e5fd2cef | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e5fd2cef | comment |
Lensman: This is one of the abilities conferred by the Lens of Arisia. Virgilia Samms, who does not have a Lens, can also do it by reading tiny involuntary muscle movements; it is noted that her lack of need for apparatus makes her better at certain types of undercover work than actual Lensmen of the same period. | |
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Lensman | hasFeature |
Living Lie Detector / int_e5fd2cef | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e6267766 | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e6267766 | comment |
Star Wars Legends: Force-sensitives have some insight into the emotional states of the people to whom they are speaking. They can feel when someone flinches or has an emotional reaction, even when those are carefully hidden. However, they have more trouble when the person they're speaking to is of an unfamiliar alien species, and it's very hard to tell if someone with a massive degree of self-control is lying. This is used the most in 'Survivor's Quest'', during the Gambit Pileup in the first third of the book, when everyone is hiding something. Subverted in Star Wars: Allegiance when the pirate leader called the Commodore floats in a pool with his eyes covered, the better to focus on the voice of his guest. He believes that doing this, damping down all of his senses but hearing, makes him more able to tell if he's being lied to and pick out hidden things about the speaker. However, he's trying to gauge Mara Jade, who is able to subtly stir the air and water to interfere with his senses without his knowing, and so he misses the fact that she's an Imperial agent sent to find connections between these pirates and corrupt officials. Gotals are a goat-like species with conical horns on their heads that allow them to sense electromagnetic fields, including those emitted by living creatures' neural networks. This makes them natural bounty hunters and diplomats, as they're not only able to detect their quarry, but sense subtle emotional changes that indicate someone's lying. It's not foolproof, though — in Wedge's Gamble, Gavin Darklighter is nearly executed as a bigot after a Gotal sensed his relief that a Bothan woman stopped hitting on him at a bar. What he was mainly worried about was drawing attention to the rest of Rogue Squadron during a covert operation on the Imperial capital — also, he's just shy. Lorrdians are a race of humans who have developed a sophisticated language of signs and subtle face and body movements, due to their history of being slaves forbidden to speak. Many Lorrdians, including the Big Bad of Razor's Edge, Aral tukor Viest, can read truth and lies, as well as other aspects of a person, off of his or her face and body. Facing Viest, Leia is extremely careful with both her words and her tone of voice and facial movements, trying to use Exact Words as much as possible to conceal her true intentions. When Han is captured, he does the same, but by then Viest knows more about them and their Rebel ties, and he is unsuccessful. |
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Living Lie Detector / int_e67a7d6c | type |
Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e67a7d6c | comment |
Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Nodoka becomes this with her pactio artifact Diarium Ejus. It manifests as a book that taps into the mind of her target with a great deal of detail, so long as she knows his/her identity. This trope gets played for laughs briefly as a case of Blessed with Suck: She tried to use the artifact on herself when she was thinking of an adequate situation for the Love Triangle she was in. Turns out that her desired solution reinforces the fact that she is a Covert Pervert. |
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Living Lie Detector | |
Living Lie Detector / int_e75c6d45 | comment |
Biscuit in Goblins is a justified instance, due to the comic taking place in an RPG Mechanics 'Verse based on Dungeons & Dragons; Sense Motive (the skill which lets you know when someone is lying) gets a bonus based on a character's wisdom, and creatures gain a bonus to their wisdom stat as they age. Biscuit, being over 600 winters old, has a Wisdom stat considerably higher than a typical orc, so his Sense Motive skill is correspondingly above average as well. | |
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Goblins (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Code Geass has Nunnally Lamperouge/Princess Nunnally vi Britannia, a blind young girl who has gained the ability to tell if someone's lying to her (presumably to being able to sense pulse rate, transpiration or body temperature changes), if she's touching their skin. Volume 4 of the Code Geass R2 novel explains the origins of Nunnally's ability. Marianne conducted experiments with her own egg, giving Nunnally some powers derived from C.C. which allowed Nunnally to detect lies. The novel also reveals that it was Marianne's idea to blind Nunnally because Marianne had thought removing one of the five senses would strengthen Nunnally's ability, which Marianne determined wasn't powerful enough. The R1 anime also has a few scenes that imply Nunnally's abilities aren't restricted to merely lie detection — she can seemingly sense Code Bearers. Or perhaps NOT sense, as it's a Geass-derived ability, that only C.C. and V.V. would be immune to, thus explaining why she mistakes one for the other. There's also that she detects Lelouch arriving in an earlier episode, well before he gets close enough to open the electric door. | |
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The Invisible Detective: Being part of an abusive family has made Meg an expert at noticing liars' tells. | |
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In a mini-arc of Goblin Slayer, a priestess of the Supreme God that Guild Girl employs has an ability called "Sense Lie", which she uses to catch Rhea Scout in some bullshit and allows Guild Girl to suss out that he had been Ninja Looting, keeping a treasure he had earned for himself rather than sharing it with his party and selling it off to get the money for some new boots, earning him a demotion back to Porcelain Rank and a permanent ban from working as an adventurer in the town. | |
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In The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan, anyone who is proficient in energy-sensing, under the justification that the way the body reacts when lying gives off enough of a flare in energy to be detected and thus exposed. Nova Shine gets the most opportunity to show it off, even to the point of teaching it to Twilight so she can be absolutely sure he is telling the truth when he's clearing up a serious misunderstanding. | |
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In the Count to the Eschaton novel The Hermetic Millennia, Soorm tells Menelaus that he can do this. Menelaus counters that it's a pity so useful an ability failed to work. | |
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World Trigger: Kuga Yuuma inherited his father's ability to detect lies. | |
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The Walking Dead (Telltale) has Clementine, who has a natural talent to discern when people are being dishonest. This foreshadows a crucial moment near the end of Season 1 Episode 4, where she will be able to tell if you lie and be heartbroken if you do so. None of the other options lead to a better resolution. | |
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In Diamond is Unbreakable, Tamami Kobayashi's Stand is the Lock, an Emotion Bomb that targets a victim's sense of guilt. Tamami can use it passively to detect if someone feels guilty, helping him find liars and cheaters. | |
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The Lord Ruler from Mistborn has this ability, as a combination of his Super-Senses and having a thousand years to practice reading people. It doesn't hurt that he's a despair Emotion Bomb, so that very few individuals can even muster the willpower to lie to his face in the first place. | |
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At one point in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Geralt claims to be able to know when someone is lying to him by the pace of their heartbeat, although it's left vague as to whether he's telling the truth (Witchers do possess Super-Senses as a result of their mutations) or if he's just trying to psyche the guy who just lied to him out. | |
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Yami no Aegis: Angel was born with a condition that means if anyone (including herself) lies, she will feel pain, even if the lie is small. Combined with her sad history, it's no wonder she becomes bitter about humanity in general. | |
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Daystar: One of Taylor's Charms, the Judge's Ear Technique, lets her detect deception or half-truth in those speaking to her. And because it keys off the intent to deceive rather than any kind of physiological response, there is no counter to it other than not talking to Taylor. It even works over phone lines and the like. | |
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In the Dora Wilk Series, Witkacy's shamanistic abilities apparently let him discern whether someone lies, tells a half-truth or complete truths. | |
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According to pre-release materials for the cancelled Rockman Online, Duo and his kind are this, as are the mass-produced copies of him. It's also noted that the copies have less control over themselves than the original, and will reflexively throw a punch at anyone who so much as slightly fibs to them. | |
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Patrick Jane in The Mentalist is shown to have these sorts of abilities; either by feeling pulses or by outright hypnosis. He also has a trick where he deduces the location of hidden objects. In one episode, an agent comments that a suspect must be an amazing liar because the man was able to tell a lie to Patrick and Patrick did not spot it right away. | |
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Inverted in the New World of Darkness Demon: The Descent, where demons' lies cannot be detected by any skill or superpower. Demons have absolute control over their expressed emotions and micro-expressions and can choose at all times if they want a statement to register as true or false. | |
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AI: The Somnium Files has the main character Kaname Date and his sentient cybernetic eyeball, Aiba. Aiba, among other abilities, can use her thermal imaging to detect the subtle fluctuations in body temperature when someone tells a lie, though this is less effective on experienced liars (such as politicians). | |
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In the George and Azazel story "The Mind's Construction", a Super Gullible detective ends up as one due to becoming more sensitive to gland output. Raises his status... causes problem with his girlfriend. | |
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Legion: In "Chapter 27", Charles Xavier reminds David Haller that telepaths can always tell if someone is stating a falsehood. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Because vampires are telepathic, they can sense when someone's lying. In "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self", Lestat de Lioncourt informs his new fledgling Louis de Pointe du Lac (who doesn't yet know how to tap into this skill) that the latter's employee Finn O'Shea is deceiving him. There's a non-superpowered example with Daniel Molloy, who's an ordinary human. Because he's an award-winning investigative journalist, he has spent his entire career detecting inconsistencies and falsehoods, so he's able to read Louis, a 144-year-old vampire, like a book. Daniel swiftly picks up on any holes in the narration, and he challenges Louis about the so-called truth every single time something doesn't add up. Louis may be able to lie to himself, but he can't lie to Daniel, who has zero patience for the former's "bullshit" (as Daniel calls it). Louis can usually access Claudia's thoughts (unless she puts up a Psychic Block Defense), so in "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart", he knows her serial killing spree is far worse than how she's trying to depict it. |
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Reincarnated as a Sword has August Alsand, who possesses the skill "Essence of Falsehood". Said skill allows him to tell when someone is lying in his presence... and make his own lies more convincing. He mostly abuses his skill to accuse people of various crimes in order to extort whatever he wants out of them, since no one else can prove that he's the one lying. Teacher puts a stop to that by stealing it, which sends August indo a downward spiral before long. | |
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There's also a corresponding art to protecting oneself from lie detection. At the beginning of The Half-Blood Prince, you know that Snape was able to fool Dumbledore, Voldemort or both. Later in the book, it's revealed that Bellatrix is accomplished in it — likely so that she will keep secrets in the event of capture. | |
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The MLP Loops: Bearers of the Element of Honesty can do this. Applejack is of course the most famous, but Gilda, Nyx, and Vinyl Scratch all become Honesty Bearers over time and can do the same thing. For Applejack at least, this occurred before she gained her Element. At least, she was pretty good at noticing lies, but when she started consciously using her Element for it she became supernaturally good. | |
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Jim Ellison from The Sentinel has highly developed senses and can therefore tell if people are lying by checking if their heartbeat is speeding up or if they're sweating too much. | |
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The Greenhouse: The demon 'Red' always knows. She can even tell when her host is lying to herself in her own thoughts. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Deanna Troi since she's an empath, apart from when it would be inconvenient for the plot, in which cases it is handwaved as either a temporary failure in her abilities or her inability to sense the emotions of a particular species. Notable for her ever-irritating catchphrase "I sense great deception." Geordi LaForge could also tell, at least on humans, with his VISOR (enabling him to detect minor shifts in body temperature, pulse, and suchlike). |
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