Blatant Lies/Comic Books

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"Batman: You promised-- Joker: I'm a notorious liar."
 * Subverted in a classic Silver Age Flash comic which ends with Iris wondering aloud about the timing of Barry's absences. Without missing a beat, Barry just tells her she's right: "One and one still makes one! I'm the Flash!" Naturally, this flippant claim convinces Iris he's not. (This is the same issue with the immortal cover line "I've got the strangest feeling I'm being turned into a puppet!")
 * Iris does end up being subjected to Blatant Lies. Iris learns Barry's identity because he talks in his sleep but he doesn't end up telling her for another year. This obviously bothers her a bit. Justified in a retcon because Barry isn't sure if he's still human and wants to determine if he and Iris can have children before breaking the news to her.
 * Similarly, this line from Darkhawk: "The best way to keep a good secret is to tell everybody -- then nobody believes you."
 * A common fight example is a character promising their opponent "one free shot", then attacking while they prepare.
 * Oddly enough, one issue of Captain America (comics) has a instance where Cap does give the villain their "one free shot", who then knocks Cap down with the free shot.
 * From the classic Batman #251, Joker's Five Way Revenge: Joker promised to let his hostage go if Batman willingly jumps into a shark tank. Batman complies, but Joker throws the hostage in for dessert. A rare example of Batman holding the Idiot Ball.


 * That's not so much a blatant lie as False Reassurance. He did, after all, release the hostage. Never said where.
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