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Lying Finger Cross
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Sometimes when a character is forced to make a vow, oath, promise, gesture, etc. they don't actually mean, they will cross their index and middle fingers in a way hidden to the character they're talking to but visible to the audience, to show they're actually lying. Most often the person will have their crossed fingers held behind their back, but off to the side, under a table, or somewhere else hidden is also possible. Truth in Television, of course, which is the reason why it works as a visual cue, often in the form of An Insert. There's a number of guesses out there as to why it became a common gesture for lying, but the general idea is that it somehow either protects you from the consequences of lying or absolves you from being held to your word to begin with. In real life, this gesture is mainly used by children, especially since it's not a reasonable thing for an adult to do — someone willing to break perceived rules of propriety and conduct would generally just lie, especially since crossing your fingers risks telegraphing your falsehood to those you're trying to deceive. Therefore, the trope is generally associated with characters who are very young or just act like they are — or failing that, very superstitious characters. It can also be used as an Out-of-Character Alert, both in-universe and Real Life, to signal to other people that a statement or gesture was made under coercion or otherwise insincerely. A simple example as such would be military prisoners of war being forced to participate in videos/photos either making it look like their captors was caring for them, or that the prisoners were renouncing their political beliefs. A discreet crossed finger or leg on film would be an indicator back home that the message was falsified in some way. Not to be confused with visually similar "fingers crossed" used as "Good Luck" Gesture. Examples |
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In the Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! episode "Cruisin' for a Bruisin'", Dr. Phibes is made to agree to hold a truce with Shaggy and Scooby while they're on a vacation cruise. He crosses his fingers when making the promise and orders his henchmen Agents 1 and 2 to kill Shaggy and Scooby. | |
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An episode of Make Way for Noddy has Dinah Doll tell Gobbo that she knows he's lying because his fingers are crossed, and that goblins cross their fingers when they lie. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding," when Lisa and Marge talk through a video phone: | |
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In Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Mr. Whiskers promises Brandy he won't interfere with Ed's attempts to ask Lola out by showing her that his fingers, ears, and toes aren't crossed. However, after Brandy leaves, he crosses his teeth while doing an Evil Laugh. | |
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In The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, Lock, Shock, and Barrel do this whenever you beat one of them in individual combat and Jack makes them promise to stop working for Oogie. This trope is then averted when they leave the game after their three-on-one battle. | |
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Looney Tunes: At the end of "Sniffles Bells the Cat", Sniffles is telling his fellow mice about the adventure he had getting the bell on the cat, and insists he wasn't scared for a moment... while the audience can clearly see his crossed fingers. | |
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Kissy Fur: In one episode, Lenny constantly bullied other kids for their lunches. Near the end, he saw himself in a pinch where he needed their help and they only agreed when he promised he'd no longer bully them. The next day, he broke his promised and, when called out on it, he claimed he had his fingers crossed when he made it. Fortunately, they'd learned how to use the strength of numbers against him. | |
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In Meet the Robinsons, The Bowler Hat Guy finds Lewis and asks him to fix his memory scanner. Lewis agrees to do it if he promises to take him back in time to meet his birth mother. The Bowler Hat Guy promises while the viewer sees his fingers crossed behind his back. Later on, after the Bowler Hat Guy betrays Lewis after the memory scanner is fixed, Lewis calls him out on breaking his promise while Bowler Hat Guy responds, "Crossies! Doesn't count!" | |
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Home and Away: One episode has Irene take Olivia with her to go on the run to prevent her evil grandmother from becoming her legal guardian. Barry catches up with Irene, tells her what she's doing is stupid, so they go back to her house where a meeting was meant to be taking place with the grandmother and a social worker. When they get back to the house, Irene comes up with a cover story that she went out shopping with Olivia and the car got a flat tyre. Olivia is asked if Irene's story is true and she nods. The viewer then sees her fingers are crossed behind her back. Another episode has Leah apologise to Ryan after falsely accusing him of wrecking her wedding dress. Ryan says that he accepts Leah's apology, but then we see he has his fingers crossed behind his back. |
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In DuckTales, a Lying Finger Cross is done by the blackhearted Flintheart Glomgold when Scrooge McDuck suggests a Teeth-Clenched Teamwork deal to retrieve Scrooge's Nephews and the previously earned treasures of the game from Magica De Spell. Glomgold would help get the kidnapped kids and Scrooge gives him the treasure as payment. Glomgold agrees to the deal with the fingers crossed behind his back, clearly willing to ditch the kids and Scrooge if he gets his hands on the treasures first. | |
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In the film version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the Grinch, after going back and forth on deciding to go to the Christmas party in Whoville, claims once and for all that he's going...but then reveals he had his fingers crossed on himself. He ends up going anyway when Max pulls a Trap Door cord that sends him to Whoville. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): Orko did this in "Disappearing Act" when he promised He-Man, Man-At-Arms and Battlecat he'd clean up his room without magic. In "Dree Elle's Return", Dree Elle's brother did this when he promised her he'd not play pranks during their stay in Eternia. |
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In Kickers, Inc., Jack Magniconte (the only team member with actual powers) makes the rest of the team promise to stay on their sea plane while he carries out a dangerous rescue mission on a Caribbean island. All four of them promise with fingers crossed behind their backs. | |
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The Joker from The Batman does this in an episode when making a deal with his nano-tech clone—who does it as well. No points for guessing how the deal went. | |
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In the premier episode of Power Rangers Dino Fury, Amelia does this when he boss Jane asks her if she has permission to investigate the local historical site Dinohenge. | |
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In the Aqua Something You Know Whatever episode "Bookie", Master Shake tried using this to welch out of paying a bet. He promptly gets his fingers broken by the mobsters running the gambling ring. | |
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The Little Hut: Henry does this when telling his friend Philip that he, Henry, had an affair with Philip's wife. | |
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In Wild America, Marshall tells his mother over the phone, "Of course we're being careful. Safety first, that's our motto," while crossing his fingers behind his back. | |
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At the end of the Camp Lazlo episode "Dirt Nappers", after Camp Kidney gets their dirt back, Sampson promises not to use his vacuum cleaner again. As he and Lazlo walk into the sunset, we see him crossing his fingers with one hand and holding his vacuum in the other. | |
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Black Orchid: In Annual that served as the 1993 series' The Children's Crusade (Vertigo) tie-in, Suzy takes the opportunity in a game of truth or dare to get Junkin Buckley to truthfully answer her a question. Suzy asks him about a rhyme he made up earlier, specifically inquiring if he really meant it when he said "I love you". After Junkin Buckley answers that he meant every word of the poem, the next panel shows him crossing his fingers behind his back. Later, in issue 18 of the 1993 series, Suzy asks Junkin Buckley if he's lying about being the last of the buccas. Junkin insists he isn't, but a panel shows that he's lying yet again by having his fingers crossed behind his back. |
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The Harry Potter fanfic Becoming Female has Lucius Malfoy do this when he makes a Pinky Swear with Umbridge, which apparently is a legit loophole that allows him to break the terms. | |
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League of Super Evil: In "Dial E for Evil" Humungo demands Voltar to apologize for prank calling him. though Voltar does a poor job of spitting it out, Humungo accepts it. Only for Doomageddon to place a mirror behind Voltar, revealing he has his fingers crossed. | |
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In Chasing the Sunset, Myrhad does this for a coerced promise: | |
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In The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists, after Littlefoot left with Ali to the Land of Mists, Littlefoot's grandparents warn Cera and the others not to go to the Land of Mists. Cera and the others do this while saying that they won't go there, but because Cera and Spike are both quadrupedal dinosaurs (a Triceratops and Stegosaurus, respectively), they do this with their hind feet, while Ducky and Petrie play this straight. | |
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In The Truman Show, Truman's wife doing this covertly in their wedding picture tips him off to The Masquerade. | |
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Garfield crossed his toes while making a promise◊. | |
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In the Wacky Races (2017) episode "Cold Rush", Peter Perfect makes Dick Dastardly promise that he won't cheat in the race this time. To make sure he's not trying anything funny, Peter also makes Dick stop crossing his fingers and his toes. | |
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Total Drama: Chris makes a deal with Owen in "Masters of Disasters" that he can eat snacks with the winning team if he promises not to sue the show for the serious physical harm that's been done to him during a challenge. Owen promises, but just to be sure Chris asks if his fingers aren't crossed. Owen waves his hands in front of him to show he's truthful. In "Picnic at Hanging Dork", Courtney pulls Heather into the unlit bathroom to convince her into an alliance against Gwen. Heather agrees if Courtney won't lose on purpose or vote for her instead. When the deal is made, Heather turns the light on for a confessional, revealing that she's been keeping her fingers crossed. She considers it one of the benefits of the dark. Courtney makes a deal with Heather in "Food Fright" that she'll be the next to give the pancake challenge a try on the condition that if the Villainous Vultures lose, Gwen will be voted off that evening. Heather accepts the terms, but not really as she keeps her fingers crossed behind her back. |
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Edgar does this when making a promise to Victor in Frankenweenie. | |
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In Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Ruthie and Floyd do this when Miss Finch asks them where Big Bird ran off to. | |
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In the middle of Madeline, the twelve girls have sabotaged the Old House In Paris to scare away potential buyers. When the Indian Ambassadornote implied to be Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, who was the ambassador at the time of the film's setting visits the house, the girls greet them in a friendly matter, and we cut to several close ups of lying finger crosses in a clear homage to the Veruca Salt example above. | |
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Blinky Bill: An adult demands a promise to behave from Bill, then demands Bill uncross his fingers and say the promise again. | |
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G'Nort's archenemy Scarlet Skier did it when granted a parole. | |
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Just like in the movie, in The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey, Lock, Shock, and Barrel do this when they offer to go to Christmas Town to find Zero, and only find Zero. They start to cause chaos the second they enter Christmas Town. This is such a well-known character tic with them that it's telling when they don't do it, such as when Santa asks them if they know the difference between good and bad, and they're legitimately confused. |
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Jem: Techrat did it while telling the Misfits how "safe" his gimmick in "The Jem Jam - Part 2" was. | |
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Peter Pan & the Pirates has Captain Hook of all people pull this off. After giving his word and then breaking it, Wendy calls him out on it, saying that "You swore an oath as a gentleman!" Hook then calmly states that while he swore his oath as a gentleman, he had his fingers crossed as a pirate. | |
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In the Rotten Ralph episode "Dead Man's Drop", Ralph crosses his fingers while promising his owner Sarah he won't try anything stupid again. | |
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In The A-Team episode "A Nice Place to visit", Amy makes the team promise they'll wait for her and keep out of trouble. They all promise with their fingers crossed with the exception of Murdock who forgets. He's reluctant to break his promise until BA drags him off with them. In a later episode "Sheriffs of Rivertown" BA has to swear on the Bible and tries to do so with his fingers crossed until Face catches him and emphasises it's the Bible. | |
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The Night of Wishes: Early in the book, there's an illustration of Beelzebub and Tyrannia where Beelzebub does the finger cross behind his back and Tyrannia is implied to be doing the same. That was the first clue to their Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. | |
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In Super Mario World (1991)'s "The Night Before Cave Christmas", after Mario (disguised as Santa Claus) rescues Oogtar from being eaten by a Rex, Oogtar hides his fingers behind his back and crosses them as he promises to be a good caveboy for the rest of his life. Mario is aware of this, much to Oogtar's amazement. | |
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To Tell the Truth had a figure in its stage art of a man with his hand raised as if taking an oath, but he has his fingers crossed. It was used on the CBS and first syndicated series, then brought back for NBC's 1990-91 revival. The 2000-02 syndicated version had the crossed fingers in its logo. | |
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Super Mario Bros. cartoons: In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3's "Crimes R Us", King Koopa crosses his fingers when he promises Crimewave Clyde half of what the Koopa Kids steal as a reward for teaching them how to commit crimes. Clyde doesn't catch on until it's too late but he makes them pay with the help of the Mario Bros. In Super Mario World (1991)'s "The Night Before Cave Christmas", after Mario (disguised as Santa Claus) rescues Oogtar from being eaten by a Rex, Oogtar hides his fingers behind his back and crosses them as he promises to be a good caveboy for the rest of his life. Mario is aware of this, much to Oogtar's amazement. In "A Little Learning", another episode of World, Hip and Hop do this when they promise to King Koopa that they won't attend school, claiming lying to be an excellent trait. Now you know how Clyde feels, Koopa. |
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In Annual that served as the 1993 series' The Children's Crusade (Vertigo) tie-in, Suzy takes the opportunity in a game of truth or dare to get Junkin Buckley to truthfully answer her a question. Suzy asks him about a rhyme he made up earlier, specifically inquiring if he really meant it when he said "I love you". After Junkin Buckley answers that he meant every word of the poem, the next panel shows him crossing his fingers behind his back. | |
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Subverted in Cousin Skeeter, where Bobby makes Skeeter promise not to say anything that would get Bobby in a crazy situation. Skeeter promises while the viewer sees him put his hand behind his back with his fingers crossed. Until Bobby angrily demands that he uncross his fingers and Skeeter pulls his hand out from behind his back and yelps to see his fingers are still crossed. | |
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An episode of M*A*S*H had Hawkeye lie on the radio to Quartermaster Corps, stating that the requisitions for additional blankets were in the mail. When Radar picked up said papers from the desk, Hawkeye held up crossed fingers. | |
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In Rome, Vorenus' daughter Vorena (who thinks Vorenus killed her mother) makes the sign of the horns gesture behind her back when they're dining together. Vorenus used the same gesture when cursing his children after her wife killed herself and the way Vorena uses it basically means the same as if she had crossed her fingers: she doesn't mean any of the compliments she says to her father. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The She Creature", Pearl promises to never show Mike and the 'Bots another bad movie ever again. She holds up one hand in the Scout hand sign — sort of, using two fingers, which she crosses, in plain sight, then crosses her ring finger and pinky together and crosses those over her other crossed fingers, then holds up her other hand with all four fingers crossed over themselves and each other, then crosses both arms in front of her chest. Mike and company have their doubts. | |
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In the final episode of Daria, Kevin reveals to his girlfriend Brittany that he flunked his senior year and won't be graduating with her. He still gets her to promise that they'll stay together while she's in college, but she nervously crosses her fingers behind her back. | |
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In AJ & Magnus, Ebony tells AJ not to use her untested invention and makes him promise not to touch it while she goes see her mom. AJ promises but has his fingers crossed and starts using it. Magnus points out that this trick doesn't actually undo a promise. | |
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Hermes on Futurama crossed two digits of his new extensible robot-arm when he promised he wouldn't get any more cybernetic upgrades. | |
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Episode "The Execution" of 'Allo 'Allo! uses the crossed fingers gesture, but the meaning is a bit ambiguous. Café owner and reluctant Resistance member René is about to be shot by Germans for blowing up the railway, but Colonel von Strohm and Captain Geering are entangled in it as well, so he was promised that the firing squad would use wooden bullets. Hans however brought two boxes to the execution: one with fake ones and one with real bullets. Lt. Gruber accidentally took both boxes. Nevertheless, Colonel and Captain smile at René and give him a supportive thumbs-up. They are shown to have crossed fingers behind their back, meaning they either wish the plan worked or that they acknowledge their reassurance was not sincere. | |
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Plastic Man and his sidekick, Woozy, do this on one episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. | |
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Ellen and Otis: Invoked in Otis Spofford by both Ellen and Otis himself or, in the terminology of the book, "having kings." Ellen invokes it when pretending to apologize for having called Otis "Big Chief Pink Underwear." At the end of the book, after Ellen and Austine return his boots to him on the promise that he won't tease Ellen anymore, Otis reveals to Ellen that he had his fingers crossed when he made that promise. | |
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Get a Life: Chris does this to Gus in the episode 1977 2000. Then he realizes he has no idea how to uncross his fingers, and consults a pull-down wall chart labeled "How to Cross and Uncross your Fingers" for step-by-step instructions. | |
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In Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman, Reid tells Mr. O'Clocke, "us bald guys gotta stick together". When Crabbe notices he has his fingers crossed behind his back and accuses him of lying, Reid admits that he's not actually bald. "I get my hair cut this way." Mr. O'Clocke finds that very flattering. | |
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This was played with in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, where Dracula claims that he had his fangs crossed after promising to let Shaggy and friends go. And when he promises to turn Shaggy back into a human if he wins the race, his fangs really do cross! | |
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Subverted in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders — Catwoman crosses her fingers behind her back when making an Enemy Mine alliance with Robin, but never attempts to betray him. | |
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In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3's "Crimes R Us", King Koopa crosses his fingers when he promises Crimewave Clyde half of what the Koopa Kids steal as a reward for teaching them how to commit crimes. Clyde doesn't catch on until it's too late but he makes them pay with the help of the Mario Bros. | |
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In Bad Mermaids Meet the Sushi Sisters, Zelda makes Beattie promise not to use any magic around the Sushi Sisters. Beattie says, 'Promise', while crossing her fingers behind her back. | |
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Played with on SpongeBob SquarePants in the episode "Hooky". When SpongeBob and Patrick promise Mr. Krabs not to play on the fishing hooks, Patrick claims he had his fingers crossed. SpongeBob then points out that he has no fingers. | |
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In Transformers: Animated episode "Velocity", Bumblebee asks Bulkhead to give him his turbo boosters back so he can find out who the blue racer is. Bulkhead tells him to promise not to go any shenanigans, with Bumblebee saying so while crossing his fingers. | |
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In the Bump in the Night Christmas Episode "Twas the Night Before Bumpy", when Squishington reminds Mr. Bumpy that he promised to get Juaquin Gusanito Sin Manos a set of bionic hands, Bumpy replies that he had his toes crossed when he made the promise. | |
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Defied in an episode of Hercules: The Animated Series. Pain and Panic make Herc assist them in ridding the Underworld of Hecate and bring Hades back into power, in exchange for the sheep they stole. Herc crosses his fingers in the promise, but they exploit his Hero Honor to make sure he follows through. | |
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In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, when Superman and Spider-Man had an intercompany Crossover, Supes asked Spidey to turn himself over to the police after their adventure since he was wanted at the time. Spidey shook on it but had his fingers crossed behind his back. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Princess Spike", Spike tells Princess Cadence that he's using Twilight's authority to improve the summit. Then we see that he's crossing his claws behind his back. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Kaiba does this when saying that he loves his brother Mokuba. Joey notices and points it out, causing Kaiba to... change his finger sign somewhat. | |
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In the Beetlejuice episode "Out Of My Mind," Beetlejuice promises Lydia he won't prank her dad. But naturally, he had his fingers crossed behind his back. | |
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Johnny Bravo: "Mama's New Boyfriend" ends with Johnny's mom crossing her fingers after promising she won't let anyone else come between them. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Ed Overboard", Marie and Lee cross their fingers behind their backs while promising May a gorgeous makeover. | |
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Mentioned on ER: | |
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In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, when Wonka gives the kids Everlasting Gobstoppers and makes them promise not to tell another living soul about them, Veruca crosses her fingers behind her back. In Julie Dawn Cole's memoir, she mentions that she did that in-character as Veruca, and the director wasn't familiar with the gesture and had to have it explained. Once he was told, he insisted on a close-up of it. | |
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Lois & Clark: In the first season finale, Clark does this while telling Lois that when he said that he loved her (in the penultimate episode) he didn't mean it, he was lying to get her to not marry Lex. | |
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In Dragon Age II, a Lying Finger Cross shows up in the mood indicator whenever Hawke will lie with their answer. | |
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During the filming of the Nazi Party rally in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, director Steven Spielberg instructed the actors giving a Nazi salute to cross their fingers with their other hand. | |
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The Mask: Peggy tried this in the very first episode but Stanley caught on. | |
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Referred to in Burn Notice, when Larry, the corrupt spy that Michael is temporarily forced to work with, kills the guy they're supposed to be kidnapping. | |
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Friends, the episode "The One Where No One Is Ready": Joey and Chandler are having a very long argument about who gets to sit on a chair. | |
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In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Lloyd accuses his father, Lord Garmadon, of doing this when he promises to leave Ninjago, only for him to point out that his claw hands make it impossible for him to do so. | |
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At one point Deadpool's healing factor was breaking down, so he and his Love Interest Siryn decide to track down the Weapon X doctor who gave him his powers in the first place. Siryn makes Deadpool promise not to kill him when they find him. Deadpool tells her that he won't, to her relief. Then he reveals that—whoops!—had his fingers crossed! He runs away gleefully singing about how he's going to disembowel him, and Siryn tears off after him. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: In comic book story "Salt and Pepper", Dexter and Dee Dee make a deal where she'll stay away from his lab forever. When he tries to collect, she reveals that she crossed her fingers. | |
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Gravity Falls: In "Fight Fighters", Mabel makes a promise to Grunkle Stan and puts on a sweater with a hand doing the "Scout's honor" gesture on the front. When she turns her back to the fourth wall we see the back of her sweater has a hand with its fingers crossed. In "Scary-oke", Dipper and Stan do this to each other when they make a deal that Dipper only use his journal for self-defense against Gravity Falls' supernatural side and not look for trouble only if Stan, who had just revealed that he had been faking being oblivious to the town's weirdness all this time, doesn't have any other bombshell secrets he's keeping, the audience knowing about the machine he has in the basement. In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", Pacifica looks at paintings of her ancestors showing them to be lying, cheating scoundrels, one of whom is a Calvary captain signing a peace treaty with an Indian chief while doing the cross behind his back. |
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