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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Some form of this disclaimer can be found at the front of nearly every novel out there as well as in the credits of most films and TV episodes. It's an attempt to stave off libel suits; it seems to have originated as a response to a suit against the makers of the 1932 film Rasputin and the Empress by a Russian princess who believed one of the characters to have been modeled on her.note More precisely Princess Irina of Russia, the only biological niece of the last tsar, who was married to Rasputin's murderer, Prince Felix Yusupov Think of it as the more professional equivalent of I Do Not Own, though with more legal force.note I Do Not Own admits that the characters, etc. portrayed are someone else's intellectual property and used without permission: it's basically saying "It's Fair Use because I don't pretend it's mine" and it doesn't do much legally. This trope has nothing to do with intellectual property, and it's basically saying "if some of this seems Ripped from the Headlines, it wasn't intentional", so it has more legal significance. Minor historical footnoteIt's of some note that Rasputin and the Empress had the following text at the beginning of the movie: "This concerns the destruction of an empire ... A few of the characters are still alive—the rest met death by violence." In other words, it pretty much claimed that "Much of what follows is true." A justice involved in the UK libel case pointed out that MGM would have had a better chance if they had incorporated the direct opposite: a disclaimer that the film was not intended as an accurate portrayal of real people or events. And thus was a standard piece of legal boilerplate born. Sometimes this disclaimer is the only part of the movie that's fiction, especially when the real people in question lived long enough ago that they're not going to sue anybody. (And sometimes publishers make the mistake of putting it in books openly Based on a True Story; e.g., the first printing of the Touchstone paperback edition of Schindler's List.) Works Based on a True Story may use a modified disclaimer, acknowledging the historical basis for the work but stating that it doesn't necessarily conform 100% to history. Although not a Dead Unicorn Trope, this can easily be mistaken for one by the unobservant. When played straight, the disclaimer is generally buried amid a bunch of similar legalese (at the end of the credits or on the copyright page of the book, for example) where it might be easily missed. More playful versions are generally given much more prominent placement, so everyone can recognize how clever the creators are being, though subtle modifications of the phrase "persons living or dead" may be easily missed by less alert viewers. If a work uses Write Who You Know, the issue will probably be avoided. A Sub-Trope of Our Lawyers Advised This Trope. Compare No Celebrities Were Harmed, No Communities Were Harmed. Contrast Falsely Advertised Accuracy, where you have a work of fiction that the author tries to pass off as true or accurate. Compare and contrast "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer which often includes a list of which parts the author is making up. |
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(500) Days of Summer begins with the standard disclaimer, and then appends, "Especially you, Jenny Beckman. Bitch." | |
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Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair begins with the following disclaimer. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has one at the beginning of the game, which is rather unusual since the series has never had one before. In the final trial you learn that it's actually an in-universe message, as the game is a Meta Sequel where the previous Danganronpa games and anime are fictional, and that the current killing game is an "Ultimate Real Fiction" reality show based on the series where the participants have had their memories and identities erased and replaced with fictional ones more suited to the Danganronpa universe. | |
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Free Birds starts with a disclaimer that goes: "The following film is a work of fiction. It is loosely based on historical events and is in no way meant to be historically accurate. Except for the talking turkeys. That part is totally real." | |
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The book Simply Weird: The (fake) History of Weird Comics Incorporated, A (fake) Comic Book Company starts this way. It's more or less a joke when the title already says the history present in the book is fake. | |
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Used upon booting up Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, before immediately cutting to the opening cutscene. | |
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In one chapter of Great Teacher Onizuka, a note between panels mentions: "The characters in this story are fictional. Any similarities to people living or dead is completely coincidental and quite bizarre." Another chapter mentions "Any resemblance to people or events in your life means you're an extremely strange individual." | |
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Habitually used verbatim at the start of Like a Dragon games (re-)released in the West from Yakuza 0 onwards, with a specific form of words used◊ as both a Content Warning, a means of setting the scene for the player and also a legal disclaimer — which is very necessary given that the games feature numerous people, in a relatively realistic portrayal of the yakuza world, habitually committing many, many violent criminal acts. | |
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Used at the beginning of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, because it was written in 1999, depicted terrorist attacks in New York and was completed only two months after September 11, 2001. Now incorporated into Peace Walker as well, mainly to tell audiences that Militaire Sans Frontières (Soldiers without Borders) has exactly zero relationship to the real life charity Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders). Used upon booting up Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, before immediately cutting to the opening cutscene. |
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Dragnet and Adam-12 also did this with the revelation that the events were based on real cases since Jack Webb had a good relationship with the LAPD. It might have been the first, or one of the first, police procedurals to use Ripped from the Headlines stories. | |
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All of the Old World of Darkness games had funny disclaimers at the beginning of their books to ward off the Satanic Panic accusations along the lines of "You are not a vampire and if there really was a secret society of vampires, someone would have noticed by now." | |
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The Looney Tunes cartoon Rocket Squad, an homage to Dragnet, had the following disclaimer: The story you are about to see is true. The drawings have been changed to protect the innocent. Daffy Duck and Egghead opens with a foreword stating that the ducks depicted are fictitious, and any ducks seen in the picture, "living or roasted, are purely coincidental." Porky Pig's Feat has "Any resemblance between this hotel and real hotels, living or dead, is coincidental." Porky's Road Race has the forward: "All the characters in this picture are strictly phony! Any fancied resemblance to any living person is the bunk! Any incident portrayed is pure fiction!" Porky's Building opens with a disclaimer saying that the similarities to actual persons and events is definitely intended ("If you think we're going to sit around for days thinking up new ideas - you're pixilated!"). Detouring America, a 1939 parody of short travelogues, starts with the disclaimer "All states depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual states, either Democratic or Republican, is purely co-incidental." |
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Hello, from the Magic Tavern is presented in-universe, Audio Play-style, as a completely nonfiction, informational podcast trying to let the world know about the existence of other dimensions. The show begins and ends with disclaimers from an external voice insisting that the show is not real. But over time, these disclaimers develop into their own storyline, as it's revealed that the Mysterious Man doing the voice overs is some sort of Cosmic Keystone who's desperately trying to maintain The Masquerade that there are no other dimensions, when in fact there are many. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head had two notable disclaimers at different periods of its series run, the latter essentially a slightly slimmed down version of the former, accompanied by jaunty banjo music: | |
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The Good Wife had an interesting take on this where a film studio made a movie about a Mark Zuckerberg substitute internet billionaire and got sued for defamation. If they admit that they intentionally made the guy look bad they are guilty of defamation. If they publicly say that the movie was a work of fiction then the movie loses a lot of its appeal since they based their advertising and Product Placement on the fact that it is an accurate depiction of actual events. | |
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Almost all the Shin Megami Tensei games have this disclaimer at the beginning in some form. Can be seen at the beginning of both the English and Japanese versions of the Raidou Kuzunoha games, perhaps due to the historical(ish) setting and the use of a few Historical Domain Characters. Persona 5 plays with this by not only including the disclaimer, but making the player agree to it before starting a new game. If you don't, you get sent back to the start screen. The message takes on a sinister new meaning with some of the end game reveals by making it clear that the Big Bad is the one voicing the message and by accepting, the players agree to reject the existence of the Phantom Thieves. Another way it plays with this trope involves The Velvet Room: In previous Persona games, access to The Velvet Room is restricted to only those who have a contract. But you never signed such a contract in game, in the end it turns out you did sign a contract: the big bad took over the Velvet Room, and the "this is a work of fiction" disclaimer that was read to you at the game's start WAS in fact a contract that lets you enter the Velvet Room, and you agreeing to its terms was you signing said contract. When booting up Persona 3 Reload, this disclaimer is the first thing displayed on the screen, alongside Content Warnings for some of the potentially upsetting themes shown in the game. |
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Canada's Worst Driver has this inverted for laughs. The trailer reversing challenge in season 13 is presented as a skit show. At the end of it, there's a fake set of credits with the names of many of the bad drivers from previous seasons and with the disclaimer "This unreal driving is truly a piece of work. Names, characters, places, and events are beyond imagination yet completely true. Any resemblance to safe driving is purely coincidental." | |
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency claims that it bears no resemblance to any people "...living, dead, or wandering the night in ghostly torment." | |
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Airplane! has a standard disclaimer, but ends it with "...so there!" | |
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The roleplaying game Nephilim has an interesting disclaimer. One page reads, in all caps, "THIS GAME IS NOT REAL." The next page reads, again in all caps, "YOU ARE." | |
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Used in the ending of Chocobo GP to tell the player that "any persons, groups, names, etc., that seem familiar are entirely coincidental." It's hard to tell if it's parodying the lack of a fourth wall in the story or if it's a straight use. | |
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Inverted in the 1969 film Z, which satirizes the military dictatorship ruling Greece at that time. It has this notice: "Any resemblance to actual events, to persons living or dead, is not the result of chance. It is DELIBERATE." Original FrenchToute ressemblance avec des évènements réels, des personnes mortes ou vivantes n'est pas le fait du hasard. Elle est VOLONTAIRE | |
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SCP Foundation has gone out of its way to assure everyone that it's simply a work of fiction, especially in the wake of the Slender Man stabbing. | |
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Tokyo Xanadu opens with a disclaimer that "This game is a work of fiction. Outside of specific instances, all places, persons, situations, etceteras are not real and are products of the author's imagination. Because seriously, high school students wielding psychic weapons?!" | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail has the regular "accidental and unintentional" message... but follows it up with "Signed Richard M. Nixon". | |
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Samurai Champloo: "This work of fiction is not intended as an accurate historical portrayal... LIKE YOU GIVE A %#@&!" | |
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Kamen Rider Build ends with this message. They probably felt the disclaimer was necessary since Build ends with Sento having compiled the events of the series into a set of scripts and starting to record the Opening Narration from the first episodes, as if the show we just watched was his resulting account. | |
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In the Author's Note for The Fault in Our Stars: | |
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Occult Academy ends with this: (translated to English) This program is a work of fiction. Departed Spirits, Psychic Abilities, Aliens, UMA's, etc., do not exist. | |
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Persona 5 plays with this by not only including the disclaimer, but making the player agree to it before starting a new game. If you don't, you get sent back to the start screen. The message takes on a sinister new meaning with some of the end game reveals by making it clear that the Big Bad is the one voicing the message and by accepting, the players agree to reject the existence of the Phantom Thieves. | |
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Red Dwarf has an episode in which an ancient scroll containing this disclaimer for The Bible is unearthed. | |
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Asteroid City begins with a TV host introducing the titular play-within-a-play in this manner. | |
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Said word-for-word in the disclaimer at the end of Chapter 77 of Joe vs. Elan School, upon legal advice pertaining to what the author is going to write about in subsequent chapters. The author then doubles down and says that there was no Elan School, which is Blatant Lies considering the comic has linked to plenty of evidence of the school not only being real, but being as horrifically abusive (if not more so) as depicted in the comic. | |
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Sonichu: "Any names, or persons, illustrated in any of the Sonichu Comics, except that of Christian Weston Chandler, that may seem similar to anyone in real life, are purely coincidental, or otherwise parodic." Considering how many characters are based on people in the creator's life, though, this is Blatant Lies. | |
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The Woody Woodpecker short "Under the Counter Spy" opens with the card "The story you're about to see is a big fat lie. No names have been changed to protect anybody." | |
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In OSMU: Fanfiction Friction, Opal comes across a fanfic titled Omar, My Partner, My Love and has to remind herself of what Oprah told her earlier — that the stories she comes across on the Internet are not real and the same goes for any of the ships presented in the stories. It doesn't stop her from giving a moan from having the story be available on the Internet though. | |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Rozemyne's mentor, Ferdinand, is quite popular among noble ladies, to the point that most of the adult female population of the Noble's Quarter has a Celeb Crush of sorts on him. Rozemyne, who's using her Past-Life Memories from Earth to introduce printing to the setting, tries to make money by selling mass-produced illustrations of Ferdinand in the Noble's Quarter, but quickly gets discovered and Ferdinand's veto on the activity. Rozemyne continues via all the Loophole Abuse she can think of, including illustrating printed stories with a Comic-Book Fantasy Casting version of Ferdinand. For the occasion, she also introduces a common disclaimer from Earth: | |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has the disclaimer "The film you are about to see is based on real events. Only the names, locations, and events have been changed." | |
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The disclaimer in An American Werewolf in London notes the fictional status of all characters "living, dead, or undead". The remake of Dawn of the Dead did the same thing. | |
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The Books of Magic III has: "This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof." Neil Gaiman is fond of doing this. The collected edition of The Books of Magic has this: |
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The phrase "...any persons living, dead or undead" is also used by the music video for Michael Jackson's Thriller (which, like An American Werewolf in London, was directed by John Landis). On a more serious note, a (ghostwritten) disclaimer by Jackson was added at the beginning disassociating Jackson and his religious beliefs with the film's occult themes, stating "Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult." | |
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It's repurposed in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya; the SOS movie includes a version of it so that Haruhi won't inadvertently make everything in the movie real. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Tom Siddell says this, almost word for word, in the annotation for this page and the one following. However, the the message here is not "Although this looks like it could have really happened, it didn't.", but rather "I KNOW this is impossible! It's a fantasy story, OK?" | |
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Somehow inverted with Disney, in which this trope is seldomly seen in recent years, outside of one Frozen (2013) parody regarding what Kristoff said earlier in the end credits. Most of the time instead of the said disclaimer after the copyright notice, for some reason, it has, along the lines of "For the purposes of United Kingdom copyright, Disney Enterprises, Inc. (or its affiliate studios/production companies depending on the movie) was the owner of copyright in this film immediately after it was made." | |
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Total Drama Island has its own variation on the disclaimer at the beginning of each episode. | |
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Thirsty Sword Lesbians: has fun with this disclaimer on the copyright page: | |
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Parodied with the disclaimer seen at the beginning of Crank Yankers, which gleefully informs viewers that "The calls you are about to hear are real. The names have not been changed. Screw the innocent." | |
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L.A. Noire has the following disclaimer on the back of its box: | |
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Can be seen at the beginning of both the English and Japanese versions of the Raidou Kuzunoha games, perhaps due to the historical(ish) setting and the use of a few Historical Domain Characters. | |
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Averted by Bloody Mama. "Any similarity to Kate Barker and her sons is intentional." | |
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Each book in the 87th Precinct series features the following disclaimer (which is partly a shout-out to Dragnet): | |
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Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card begins with the traditional "any resemblance to real people or events is entirely co-incidental" despite Tecumseh and Tenskatawa being major characters who do essentially the same things as they did in real life. The book then has a more detailed disclaimer, explaining "This story takes place in an America whose history is often similar to, but often quite different from our own ... In particular, you should be aware that William Henry Harrison ... was a somewhat nicer person than his counterpart in this book." | |
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The Lackadaisy animated pilot has the following in the end credits: | |
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Parodied in the Japanese version of Super Mario RPG and in all versions of its remake, where using Mallow's Psychopath/Thought Peek spell on the Guerrilla enemy (which heavily resembles Donkey Kong) will reveal its thoughts to be: | |
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Square One TV: The opening spiel of Dragnet parody Mathnet: | |
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Many episodes of shows from the Law & Order franchise begin with the caption "The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event." Some have a modified version: "Although inspired by true events, the following story is fictional." Experienced viewers know that either means "Okay, this story's been Ripped from the Headlines. Please don't sue us." The series pilot film "Everybody's Favorite Bagman" and the first-season episode "Indifference" both ended with a caption and voice-over pointing out that while the stories were similar to, respectively, a scandal at the Parking Violations Bureau and the child-killing of Lisa Steinberg, both episodes were fictional. (In the latter case, the disclaimer cites specific differences between the real case and the episode.) These remain the only explicit disavowals in the franchise's history. In episodes that aren't Ripped from the Headlines but show parts of the legal system as corrupt, a modified version specifically stating that the episode is fictional and doesn't actually represent the department and is not meant to imply anything. |
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Pani Poni Dash!. After Himeko presses a button on Ichijou's back at the end of an episode set entirely in the Edo period and blows up a building labelled "Squ Eni": "This program is pure fiction. Resemblances to people that existed, organizations, the Edo period, Pani Poni, Pani Poni Dash!, etc... are all coincidental" | |
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Danganronpa: Inverted with the "Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery" in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, which Monokuma claims to be entirely non-fictional. It apparently involves some of the actual characters, providing a motive for the next murder, though Danganronpa 3 retcons the situation somewhat. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has one at the beginning of the game, which is rather unusual since the series has never had one before. In the final trial you learn that it's actually an in-universe message, as the game is a Meta Sequel where the previous Danganronpa games and anime are fictional, and that the current killing game is an "Ultimate Real Fiction" reality show based on the series where the participants have had their memories and identities erased and replaced with fictional ones more suited to the Danganronpa universe. |
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Knickerbocker Holiday, Epilogue for Stuyvesant: | |
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Subverted in July Anarchy: Prologue, which manual opens with the following text: | |
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This disclaimer was suggested on Mock the Week while discussing "Unlikely lines to read in The Bible". | |
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In Despicable Me, Gru is reading a storybook he wrote to the three girls. When Edith points out that the kittens in the story look like the three of them (specifically how one wears a pink hat like hers), he denies the correlation. | |
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The Andromeda Strain starts with this on-screen message: | |
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In One Piece, specifically the anime, the writing just below the bounties that would normally have details of the wanted persons is actually said disclaimer written in romanji. | |
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As does Eric Powell's The Goon, published by Dark Horse. | |
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Detouring America, a 1939 parody of short travelogues, starts with the disclaimer "All states depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual states, either Democratic or Republican, is purely co-incidental." | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei has a different disclaimer at the end of each episode, always related to the plot of the episode and always a Suspiciously Specific Denial. In the last episode they go so far as to claim that any similarity with their own show is purely coincidental. |
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In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash (the book that served as the basis for A Christmas Story) has this— "The characters, places, and events described herein are entirely fictional, and any resemblance to individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, accidental, or the result of faulty imagination." | |
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Decker: The first televised season of Decker, Unclassified, begins with a black screen stating that "The following events are fititious but well within the realm of possiblity | |
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In You Have to Stop This, the final book of the Secret Series, the disclaimer reads "The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. Of course, you know what they say about good intentions...." | |
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The Hunt for Red October has an interesting variation: The film specifically states that according to the US and Soviet governments, nothing that you are about to see in the film ever happened. | |
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Jacob the Liar is about a prisoner in a Jewish ghetto in World War II Poland, who winds up somewhat unintentionally pretending to have a radio and faking stories of advances by the Russians in order to raise morale. The film opens with three title cards. The first says "The tale of Jacob the liar is not true." The second says "Honest." Then the third says "But maybe it is true after all." | |
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Played with in Oshi no Ko. The story opens with a narration stating "This is a work of fiction." The following sentences make clear that the "fiction" disclaimer also refers to the idol industry at large, being highly exaggerated and embellished to cater for its fans. | |
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The Star*Drive novels subtly parody this with the disclaimer "All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons or aliens, living or dead, is purely coincidental." | |
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The in-game description for the Dancing Zombie from Plants vs. Zombies says, "Any resemblance between Dancing Zombie and persons living or dead is purely coincidental." This is probably a joke, since the zombie is obviously based on Michael Jackson in his zombie-themed Thriller music video. Or at least it was, until the real Michael Jackson died a month after the game's release. As a result, the Dancing Zombie was redesigned into a more generic Disco Dan. The disclaimer is still there, though. | |
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In one of the stranger examples of this trope, Noah carried a disclaimer stating that the film is merely inspired by the Biblical story, and not a direct retelling of it. | |
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In Sons of Provo, the film ends with the disclaimer "Everyone in this film is based on someone the creators know, so if you know the filmmakers at all, you're probably in this film. So sue us." | |
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The AC/DC song "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Around To Be A Millionaire)" starts with Bon Scott declaring "The following is a true story. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty." | |
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Subverted in an epilogue to the 1931 Dracula. Edward Van Sloan (Van Helsing in the film) speaks directly to the audience, giving them what sounds like a reassuring message about the fictitious nature of the preceding film... until he gets to the kicker: "There are such things as vampires!" Sadly, this epilogue was cut from the film's 1936 re-release (for fear of offending religious groups), and is now lost. | |
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Celebrity Deathmatch has the standard disclaimer, but ends it with "Anyway, IT'S JUST CLAY!!!!" | |
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Go, Mutants!: | |
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Now incorporated into Peace Walker as well, mainly to tell audiences that Militaire Sans Frontières (Soldiers without Borders) has exactly zero relationship to the real life charity Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders). | |
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Parodied in Granblue Fantasy. The Lady Katapillar and Vira form has a description talking about how Katalina was transformed into "an ancient and magnificent tool of destruction", and is now a "slave to Vira's will" sent on a path to kill everyone she meets. Under this is a notice: | |
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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden: This game is set After the End and features characters who are Beast Men, including a Pig Man. The following appears at the end of the credits: "All events and characters appearing in this work are unlikely to be based on anything or anybody who really exists (we'd love to meet a pig-faced person!)." | |
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El Goonish Shive: Any similarities to any real people living, dead, and/or the opposite gender are entirely coincidental. [see commentary] | |
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Hands over the City: This social realism drama about a corrupt slumlord in 1963 Naples ends with a title card saying that the story is fiction, but "the social and environmental context is real." | |
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The video case for Blackadder's Christmas Carol states that all characters are fictional and any resemblence to any real person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Except the Awful Screeching Woman, who knows exactly who she is. | |
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Skinny Dip explains: | |
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The sequel, "I'll Never Heil Again", has a similar intro: "The characters in this picture are fictitious. Anyone resembling them is better off dead." | |
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In The Pale King, David Foster Wallace points out the paradox of the book being both a memoir and literary fiction in The Author's Foreword, first saying that everything in the book is true, and then pointing out that the sentence in which he says that is itself covered by the disclaimer at the beginning of the book. | |
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The "Spam" episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus begins with Fake-Out Opening credits for an epic adventure, mangling the disclaimer to "Any similarity between persons living or dead is coincidental." | |
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These opens with a variation of this disclaimer. | |
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Go Ask Alice is marketed as being the real-life diary of a girl who died due to drug abuse, but was actually a fictional story either written or edited by Beatrice Sparks. According to Snopes, however, it plays this trope entirely straight by having this on its copyright page: "This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental." | |
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When booting up Persona 3 Reload, this disclaimer is the first thing displayed on the screen, alongside Content Warnings for some of the potentially upsetting themes shown in the game. | |
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Every episode of Unsolved Mysteries started out with a warning in (first) an ominous male voice, and on the Lifetime broadcasts, an equally ominous female voice: | |
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South Park displays this at the beginning of each episode: | |
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No More Dead Dogs has a disclaimer that goes (something like), "This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or dogs proves you have some strange friends." | |
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American Gods has a long version of the disclaimer, including discussion of precisely how real certain locations discussed in the book are, and ending "Furthermore, it goes without saying that all the people, living, dead and otherwise in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real." | |
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The Darkside Detective: McQueen pauses in the middle of telling the life story of the mobster Al Caphoney to claim that any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. The game's end credits include a standard "This is a work of fiction" disclaimer, followed by a couple of paragraphs of worryingly specific clarifications about which aspects of the game are definitely fictional and nothing to be concerned about. |
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Appears at the end of Normality. The first half is played straight, reading "The characters portrayed in this game are totally fictitious." The latter half is where it gets snarky and self-aware. "Any resemblance to any persons dead or alive is rather unfortunate and disturbing." This either relates to the early 3D modeling causing an Unintentional Uncanny Valley effect with its often grotesque character models, or the characters themselves exhibiting unpleasant behavior. | |
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The Great Dictator begins with the notice: "Any resemblance between Hynkel the dictator and the Jewish barber is purely co-incidental". (They are played by the same actor.) The movie is very clearly and emphatically a parody and satire of Nazi Germany, and the subverted disclaimer only underlines how it's completely unapologetic and unsubtle about it. | |
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Played with in Touhou: Ten Desires — "This game is a work of fiction. All characters and organizations that appear have entered Gensokyo." Gensokyo, the setting, is composed of things that people have stopped believing in. And the plot of this game involves this happening a major Japanese historical figure... | |
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The Return of the Living Dead opens with a disclaimer stating that the events of the film are not fiction. Given that the movie is about brain-eating zombies, this is of course blatant lies. | |
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The Three Stooges short "You Nazty Spy!" claims that "Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle." The sequel, "I'll Never Heil Again", has a similar intro: "The characters in this picture are fictitious. Anyone resembling them is better off dead." |
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Due to the crazy and unfair court system used in Ace Attorney, the Western version of the game manual contains a disclaimer to the effect of "This game's legal system applies only to the game, and does not reflect any actual legal system." Despite this, it is, in fact, based on the former Japanese court system — the disclaimer in that region reads more like "This game's court system is exaggerated for entertainment purposes and not intended to be an accurate representation". | |
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Prince of Persia: The Graphic Novel has the usual kind of disclaimer but with more colorful wording: | |
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Satirical comedy Italiano Medio opens with the claim "Based on a fake story". | |
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Speaking of Thriller, the 25th Anniversary Edition of Night Trap seems to use this disclaimer as a Shout-Out to the music video: "The events and characters depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental." | |
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In Transmetropolitan, Spider Jerusalem starts watching porn based around his persona, preceded by this disclaimer: "This is a work of fiction not intended to represent anyone living, dead or writing a weekly column for a newspaper." | |
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Ars Magica is set in a "Mythic Europe" where, among other things, divine and infernal forces from the Abrahamic religions are demonstrably real and active. In older editions, the books detailing things like the nature of Hell, the disposition of souls, and the supernatural power of faith have disclaimers that the content is for roleplaying purposes only and its resemblance to real-world beliefs is coincidental. | |
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Being written in the 2nd Century AD, the satirical True History may be the Ur-Example of the trope, as the author explains in the introduction of the story that it's a completely made up Tall Tale, as the author lived too simple of a life to write his own adventures. | |
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For the New World of Darkness: The default disclaimer is a less funny "This book uses the supernatural for settings, characters and themes. All mystical and supernatural elements are fiction and intended for entertainment purposes only. This book contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised." The Inferno supplement, detailing demons and the singularly awful means of summoning and dealing with them, has a more pointed reminder that the rituals don't work, demons aren't real, and the book is a work of fiction. |
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Played straight in the legal screen of Mafia II. As the game was set in a historical era and involved or mentioned organizations such as the Mafia, it would make sense for the developers to say that this isn't a true account of what happened in the mob underworld. | |
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Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River: The book includes a disclaimer: | |
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Captain Underpants, in The Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, had a comic with this disclaimer on the back, "Any simalarities to real people (living or dead) is very, very unforchenate." | |
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In Cartoon Drive Thru's Deadly Space Action! season two, at the end of each episode: | |
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Meanwhile, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! referred to The Bible itself in this way in the closing line of their episode on the subject. | |
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Because of the historical and religious implications of the plot of the Assassin's Creed series, every game takes care to point out that it "was designed, developed and produced by a multicultural team of various religious faiths and beliefs". | |
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Porky Pig's Feat has "Any resemblance between this hotel and real hotels, living or dead, is coincidental." | |
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Night Raid 1931, which is set in China in 1931 and deals in a great part with the events leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War, has one such disclaimer at the end of every episode. Unlike most anime that use this trope, this one is deadly serious, considering that historical revisionism of World War II is a very touchy subject in East Asia. This is pretty gutsy from a series that in fact goes against the popular (in Japan) interpretation by not ignoring Japan's role in what happened and presenting it as a bad thing. |
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