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Any fictional character worth their plotline knows that they have to be very, very careful about what they say within earshot of their enemies. Unfortunately, some of them don't know who their enemies are, or don't realize the danger that the bitchy-but-seemingly-harmless Alpha Bitch might pose. Yes, she's snarky, but even with her high-heeled posse backing her up, she's not really a threat, is she? Well, yes, she probably is. She probably won't beat you up personally, and while she might be queen bee of her clique, she doesn't have any official authority... but she can let a few comments slip to the principal, Sadist Teacher, or your Helicopter Parents. And what's more, she won't make up "proper" lies to do so. She'd get caught fairly quickly that way, and she's smarter than that. Instead, she'll "innocently" report something you said. Perhaps you were joking or telling a story. Perhaps it was the sort of remark that would make sense to your friends, but no one else. Perhaps the phrase itself is totally harmless — but it won't be by the time your poisonous rival's through with it. Somehow, they'll make an innocuous comment seem like high treason or proof that you really shouldn't be allowed out of the house without a responsible adult in attendance. There's a couple of ways they can do this. They can take the words out of context (a man who remarks that he's Bugs Bunny sounds like a case for the nice men in white coats, until you realize he was going to a fancy dress party that night), change their tone of voice ("He's an idiot" sounds very different when it's said with a warm, half-amused tone from when it's said with real venom) or they might add in a little story of their own to colour your words with a level of malice that wasn't intended ("Mr. Smith, Milly was storming down the street and beating up puppies the other day, and she said something about wanting to throttle you for giving us so much homework. I'd call the police, 'cause she looked really dangerous..."). It can be done unintentionally when someone misreads a situation or jumps to conclusions, in which case it's nearly always being used for laughs. The Ditz is particularly prone to this sort of misinterpretation. The thing is, you did say what they claim you said, technically speaking. And unless you're prepared to lie outright, you'll find it difficult to defend yourself when the angry authority figure comes storming up to you, demanding answers. Chances are that you'll get as far as "Yes, I said something like that, but..." before You Are Grounded!...or fired, or in serious trouble with the local thugs, depending on your age. The causes and consequences of this type of ploy vary with age. Among young children, this might be as simple as "Miss, Bobby said a bad word!" when Bobby happened to comment that he's had a nosebleed and his face is all "bloody." On the adult stage, however, it can be more severe, as when the nastiest employee of a company reports a colleague to the boss, using their own words against them in the hope of getting them fired. Gets extremely messy when the police turn up and the local gossip has "proof" that Joe Average did it in revenge for John Doe almost backing the car on top of him that morning (tip: Before grumbling that you're going to "kill him/her," check the local newspapers for stories about serial killers). Speaking of newspapers, they're not above this sort of thing either, especially if it makes a story more sensational. Take this hypothetical example: Chief of Police: We don't think this is a serial killer. If he was an experienced murderer, he would have worked much faster. Newspaper: CHIEF OF POLICE: KILLER ISN'T WORKING FAST ENOUGH! The person who has been misquoted (and probably suffered one heck of a character assassination in the eyes of the public as a result) will find it difficult to get rid of this smear on their name. Somehow, it always seems a bit false when they appear on the television the next day, trying to explain what they actually meant. It's not helped when there are so many cases of celebrities genuinely saying bigoted, or just plain dumb, things. We may never know the true extent of this trope in the press since...well, the people reporting on it are likely to be the same ones who sensationalised it in the first place. The Naïve Everygirl is especially prone to being the victim of this sort of attack (usually perpetrated by the aforementioned Alpha Bitch). In fact, most characters who are too sweet-natured for their own good, or conspicuously chaste — in which case the "twisting" of their own words is likely to make them out to be a sex maniac — make soft targets for this trope; possibly because, being so good-hearted and having such a pristine reputation, this is the only way their enemies can get any real ammo against them. A Manipulative Bastard loves to do this, while a Hair-Trigger Temper or someone with a highly sensitive Berserk Button will do it internally instead of involving an authority figure, cutting out the middle man and beating you up personally for some perceived slight. It might also be used by someone who believes Everything Is Racist, finding a racial subtext in someone's words that they didn't necessarily intend. For victims of bullying, this trope is very Truth in Television. See also Quote Mine and Manipulative Editing. Does not work in a Because You Were Nice to Me situation. Compare Translation with an Agenda and/or Trolling Translator for when this happens between two languages. Also see Out-of-Context Eavesdropping. |
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Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes features Brenda Carlton, who does this for basically everything she reports on. When Nancy stumbles out of a burning building at the beginning of the game, Brenda immediately demands to know what made Nancy "decide to burn down the old Town Hall". Nancy denies it, which results in Brenda throwing out all the video footage and saying Nancy was "rendered speechless" instead. | |
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There's an episode of Clone High where Lincoln and JFK are both running for student president, and JFK makes an attack ad full of Manipulative Editing: | |
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The entire premise behind Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Celebrities on the show are interviewed in a fairly normal manner. The answers are then taken wildly out of context, with the questions Space Ghost asks often having no relation at all to what was originally asked. One extreme example of this is when they made it look like Björk was Space Ghost's wife. This is balanced by the fact that Space Ghost and the other cartoon characters often look more insane than the interviewee. | |
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Inverted in the fourth season of House, after a documentary film crew has been recording Dr. House's attempts at diagnosing a patient for most of the episode. At the end, we see a glimpse of an early cut of the documentary, and several of House's Jerkass comments had been edited out of context (for instance, making sarcasm sound sincere) to create the illusion that he's a decent, sympathetic man. House, being House, is pissed that he's been misrepresented. | |
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The Simpsons: "Call Of The Simpsons": After Homer is mistaken for Bigfoot, Marge protests "That's not Bigfoot, that's my husband!" We are then treated to a tabloid headline reading "SHE MARRIED BIGFOOT!" And this gem: In "Homer Badman", Homer gets mistakenly accused of sexually harassing Ashley Grant, the college-aged babysitter he and Marge hired. So, he goes to the news show Rock Bottom to explain himself. Unfortunately, they twist his words to paint him as a crazed sexual predator. To make it that more obvious that this is a hack job to score Ratings for a Hard Copy-style TV tabloid, the hands on the clock in the background jump around more than Homer does. At the end, when Homer is cleared and the truth is revealed, the show was forced to admit that many of their reports were lies and reveal many truths. However, it's apparent that the reporter never learned his lesson, especially since the corrections flash across the screen too fast to actually read. Hilariously invoked by Skinner in "Skinner's Sense Of Snow": In the "Treehouse Of Horror XV" segment "The Ned Zone", Homer is thinking of detonating the nuclear plant, Ned Flanders comes in to stop him by yelling through a mic "Don't do it! Don't do it! You'll kill everyone!" but by interruptions, Homer only hears: "<interruption>DO it! <interruption>DO it! <interruption> Kill everyone!" |
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He's not a journalist, but Neilen from Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire uses a wind spell to rearrange the words of Dominic and Luna to try and break them up. | |
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In one episode of Justice League Unlimited Captain Marvel mentions to a group of reporters that Luthor is reformed and now running for president, saying that people can change. The next day the headlines read, "Captain Marvel endorses Luthor for President." | |
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In Naruto, the Fifth Mizukage takes great offense to being called too old to get married—which includes statements that only have a few words even vaguely related to such a topic which weren't even directed to her or speaking of her in the first place. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric is very good at mistaking anything anyone says for a "short" joke. He even does this to himself when he says he's lucky he's small enough to fit through the vents at the Fifth Laboratory. | |
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An episode of Brass Eye features Nicholas Parsons, thinking he was reading a poem dedicated to a (fictitious) elephant who had jammed his trunk up its arse, being (incredibly obviously) edited to say | |
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Toriko: Chief Mansam always thinks someone's calling him handsome. | |
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Arrested Development lampshades it: GOB tells a reporter, "Don't edit this so it sounds like I killed Earl Milford!", which is reduced to "I killed Earl Milford!" | |
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The Jackbox party game "Survive the Internet" is essentially Word Twister, The Videogame. Players are initially asked to provide a quote for a review or opinion on something totally innocuous, then another player takes that quote and attaches it to a headline that changes the context of the quote completely, making it come off as either deeply embarrassing or insensitive and tone-deaf. Example: | |
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Neko-Sensei from Princess Tutu always seems to twist words or actions to a belief that someone wants to marry him. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, disabling Umbridge's loudspeakers has the effect of twisting every rule she announces over them. For example: "Walking is <interference> not permitted. Children must <interference> run everywhere!" | |
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Mean Girls: This is one of the first things Cady does that marks her slide into the habit of being a two-faced liar. Her teacher talks to her privately about her performance in school, and Cady twists her words to make it sound as if she were confessing to being a drug dealer. There's also this early scene: |
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Ginger, in As Told by Ginger was occasionally a victim of this kind of thing. Her histrionic friend, Dodie, did it unintentionally while vicious Miranda used it deliberately, especially in attempts to break up Ginger's friendships. Another unintentional variation turns up in the episode "And Then, She Was Gone." Ginger's teacher decides that her student's rather bleak poem is obviously evidence of suicidal tendencies despite the girl's protests that it's just fiction. Everyone else who quotes the poem back to Ginger assumes that the poem is about the poet herself, and applies suitably morbid connotations to it. Ginger ends up at the school psychologist's office as a result. |
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The Muppet Show: In the episode with George Burns, Fleet Scribbler, reporter for "The Daily Scandal", searches the theater for the best news to exaggerate. His interview with Kermit goes like this: | |
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The newspaper editor teases Sergeant Angel like this in Hot Fuzz, asking him how he liked a production of Romeo and Juliet, and when Angel says he enjoyed it, coming up with headlines like "Cop Enjoys Watching Young Lovers" and "Local Bobby Gives Thumbs Up to Teen Suicide." Angel describes the latter as 'just grossly inappropriate." | |
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A humorous example from the film The Trollhunter features a genuine clip from the former Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg: "We've got trolls in Norway" He's actually referring to the Troll oil field. | |
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This was used during the first Credomar story arc in Schlock Mercenary, to make the amorph look like a sociopathic villain instead of the Sociopathic Hero that he is. They mostly relied on the "edit in completely different questions" method. Mass rioting occurred later, though for different (but related) reasons. | |
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Early in the follow-on to The Lost Fleet series, Admiral Geary is outraged to see a news headline reading that he expressed only "qualified support" for the government. His wife explains that he told a reporter that he'd follow any lawful orders — that's limiting his support because he wouldn't follow any and all orders. | |
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Himeno of Prétear can barely open her mouth without someone claiming that she said or did something inappropriate. Especially in the manga adaptation, whenever she tries to explain the cavalcade of men who have taken to following her about. | |
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My Cousin Vinny: Stan and Bill get arrested as suspects in a hold-up and murder at a store that they were at moments earlier since the witnesses said they saw the suspects driving away in a similar-looking automobile. However, since Bill mistakenly shoplifted some tuna, they think they're getting arrested for that, and it isn't till the sheriff asks "When did you shoot the clerk?" that they realize what's going on. Unfortunately, Bill asks "I shot the clerk?" in an attempt to clarify, but instead, it's interpreted as an admission of guilt. Sure enough, at their preliminary hearing, the statement "I shot the clerk?" is presented as such. This scene shows why you should always ask to speak to a lawyer if you're ever arrested. When the police say "Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.", they mean it. | |
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Blixemi: In the "Know Your Clanmate" episode about Squirrelflight, the narrator claims that she steals tufts of fur from all her clanmates. When Squirrelflight argues that she has more important things to do than that, her words immediately get twisted with the second "fact" — that she thinks she's far more important than the rest of her clanmates. | |
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In Sickness, as a reporter talks to Lucia about Suoh, she tries her absolute best to make the killer a bad guy while Lucia claims he's not so: | |
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Inverted in Safety Catch. Simon, an arms dealer who hates his job, is describing his job at a dinner party, not realising one of the other guests is a reporter. Simon talks about the arms trade, and how his company can profit unethically by selling to both sides in a conflict. When his company is asked to comment, and they are played a copy of the recording made at dinner, he and his friends add dialogue to make it look like they always acted ethically, and that the reporter was trying to take them out of context. | |
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In Ziwe, whenever a guest says something that can be construed negatively, a graphic will pop up in the lower third oversimplifying their statement, often in an incriminating way - e.g., after Michael Che remarks that "he doesn't need a therapist" because he can learn about his faults just from talking to Ziwe, a graphic pops up that reads "Michael Che: 'Every black woman is my therapist'." | |
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One Piece: Played for Laughs where during Baby 5 and Sai's fight, she misinterprets all of Sai's aggressive fighting shouts as declarations of love, such as "I'll rip your heart out" as "I'll steal your heart" in a metaphorical sense. Also, a Running Gag about Buggy is that he often mishears words and thinks people are talking about his red nose instead. One instance where Alivda was talking about being in "big trouble" but Buggy only hears the "big" part and thinks she is making fun of his nose and threatens to kill her. |
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Bill does this to Jerry Seinfeld in one episode of NewsRadio. | |
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Toby in The West Wing misreads his relationship with a Republican woman, who takes an inflammatory statement said in a "casual" conversation and uses it to attack the Democratic White House regarding the minimum wage in a televised press conference. | |
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Discussed in The Screwtape Letters as a means of making the most (from The Devil's Perspective) of a domestic Passive-Aggressive Kombat: | |
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In the Thomas Edison level of the Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1997) game, one of the puzzles is solved by recording the store owner's message onto a series of wax cylinders and then rearranging them to have the completely opposite meaning. | |
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One FoxTrot comic had Paige saying "Mr. Vivona says we have to cut three newspaper articles out for social studies every day this week, and the only pair of scissors I have is like totally dull" over the phone. Jason records the conversation and splices it into "I cut social studies every day this week. Mr. Vivona is like totally dull" in order to get her in trouble. | |
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In Contact at Kobol, Admiral Cain attempts to do this when Colonel O’Neill (Jack’s clone) is talking with the Quorom after the Pegasus got in a firefight with a Tau'ri warship. When O'Neill simply observes under questioning that the Tau'ri might have set up their own colony in the system if it was uninhabited, Cain attempts to use this to create the impression that the Tau’ri would conquer the Colonies, thus earning support for her defensive action. | |
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, this is the standard MO for the media mega-corp Picus. Reading the emails on their computers makes it very clear that they deliberately manipulate the news to promote their own agenda. One email in particular has an editor send back a rookie's column with changes made in such a way that it didn't say anything different but certainly had a very different tone. | |
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In Fairy Tail, Juvia will twist any word that has ANYTHING to do with Gray. | |
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In Torin's Passage near the end, there's a puzzle where you use crystals in a recording device to warp the words of Lycentia (The woman who kidnapped your parents) "You're not welcome here, you decrepit old creep!" to "Dreep, come here!" which makes a guard named Dreep, who works for her, leave after you let the device float away (Via the lack of gravity). | |
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In an episode of That's So Raven, Raven and Chelsea are competing on a reality show, and the producer edits their confessionals to make it seem like they've been trash-talking each other to amp up the drama. | |
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Many people on YouTube have taken one of JFK's speeches out of context to try and make it look like he's warning us about the New World Order. Even without the context, it's still blindingly obvious to anyone with a brain that he's talking about the Soviet Union. For that matter, the whole theory comes from taking out of context one time George H. W. Bush said "new world order" (he too was talking about the Soviet Union, specifically its fall). | |
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Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In sometimes did a skit like this: they'd show an interview with a celebrity. Then they'd say, "Now here's what could be done by unscrupulous editing of this interview footage," and the "edited" version would have the celebrity making a number of inflammatory or self-incriminating remarks, such as John Wayne saying critics of his films "can kiss my Levi's!" | |
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In the The Prisoner (1967) episode "It's Your Funeral," one of the prisoners is being used by the powers behind the scenes to assassinate the current Number Two. Number Six attempts to warn him (to avert reprisals against the inhabitants of The Village); his warning is ignored because the current Number Two has seen a misleading recording that makes Number Six sound like a paranoid crank who has delivered several such warnings to his predecessors. | |
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In MÄR there's a version where the character doesn't even have to say anything. Early on in the War Games, Jack fights Pano and she ends up tied up in his Earth Beans, which he starts to climb. When his hand reaches her breast (and is clearly nowhere near touching and all signs point to him continuing to climb) she calls out that he's a pervert and the crowd catches on. He quickly climbs down and tries to convince them he's not. Later, he shows that he actually is a pervert, and Pano ends up being his girlfriend and living with him and his mother. | |
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Years later, interviewers tried to pull the same stunt with John Cena and steroid use. By this point, however, Vince McMahon was wise to the trick and had his own unedited footage of the interview. | |
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According to his autobiography, Mick Foley fell afoul of this in an interview about backyard wrestling. He was shown various amateur footage ranging from guys jumping around on a crash mat to stupid hardcore stunts, and then the interviewers showed his reactions out of order so that he appeared to be endorsing kids breaking light tubes over their heads as 'harmless fun'. | |
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In The Fantastic Four versus The X-Men, Reed Richards' journal contains entries similar to what he remembers writing, but shifted to a context that suggests that he deliberately arranged to expose the group to the cosmic rays that gave them their powers because the world needed powerful defenders. The discovery of these entries nearly destroys the team. At the end of the story, Sue concludes that the journal had been altered by Doctor Doom to undermine Reed's confidence in himself. | |
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Done in-universe in Burn Notice: a drug dealer's phone conversation is cut to make it sound like he's entering a plea bargain with the FBI. The other members of the cartel are not happy. | |
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Averted and lampshaded in an episode of Frasier where he tells Niles not to give an interview to the press concerning his possible involvement with his ex-wife's murder of her boyfriend and says that he will give one in his place which they will be unable to twist. He then has a Freudian slip where he says that Niles and his ex should be "executed" when he meant to say "exonerated". | |
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In the Babylon 5 episode "The Illusion Of Truth", a reporter's interview footage is taken out of context and combined with slanted commentary to produce a propaganda hit piece. In another episode, Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari tears into a report on the Minbari made by his assitant Vir, because it is meant for the eyes of the Centauri emperor and as such, should be worded in such a way as to denegrate the Minbari and imply their inferiority to Centauri. |
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Done by the TV reporter in the second Scooby Doo movie. "Hey! You're doing that thing again where you take everything I say out of context, you're trying to make it look like I think Coolsville sucks! (Beat) No! Don't record that!" Of course, in peak Scooby-Doo fashion, this turns out to be part of the villain's big plan. As Jonathon Jacobo (disguised as Heather Jasper Howe) attempts to smear Mystery Inc.'s name in order to turn the public against them. | |
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