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[[File:ChickSatan ILied 4997.jpg|link=Chick Tract|frame|If you can't trust Colonel Sanders, you can't trust anybody.]]
{{quote|''"You are far too trusting. Dantooine is too remote for an effective demonstration."''
Stock Phrase uttered in response to [[You Said You Would Let Them Go]] or a similar expression of shock at a broken promise of lenience or forgiveness. Spoken by the villain (or a particularly [[Sociopathic Hero|unmerciful]] [[Anti-Hero|hero]]) just before killing the hostage, blowing up the [[Doomed Hometown]], using the [[Doomsday Device]], or some other act of merciless badness. Sometimes spoken just after, with a smirk and a smoking gun.
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Usually said with dripping irony, which tends to [[Discredited Trope|fall a little flat]] if the speaker doesn't at least put a new spin on the phrase. Contrast [[Empty Promise]] and [[Villains Never Lie]]
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Slightly inverted in the ''[[Black Butler]]'' final episode, where we have a [[Villain Protagonist]] becoming slightly less villainous sharing this exchange with his [[Affably Evil]] demon butler, causing a bit of a [[Tear Jerker]] as {{spoiler|Sebastian jumps into the Thames to recover Ciel.}}
{{quote|Sebastian: {{spoiler|You said you would live till then.}}
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== Fan
* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' fanfic ''[http://games.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600086745 Prison Island Break]'' has this used in a prison setting...
{{quote|'''Silver:''' Are you good or are you bad?
'''Shadow:''' Oh, I'm good. Definitely good. I'm in this max-security hell-hole because I robbed a grocery shop to pay for the meds for my dear ole granny.
'''Silver:''' Really? They put you in here just for that..?
'''Shadow:''' No, it was a lie. Criminals do that sort of thing. I'm a murderer and a rapist and they didn't even want to ''risk'' putting me in a regular prison. }}
* A ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
▲* A [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|MLP: FIM Fan Fic entitled "Cheerilee's Garden"]] has a moment where Sliverspoon and Diamond are put through a [[Secret Test of Character|Not-so Secret test of Character]] where she has to choose between her life and her best friend's, She chooses to spare her friends life by [[Eye Scream|getting a drill put through her eye]] in a [[Heroic Sacrifice|moment of true friendship]]. After Silverspoon gets knocked uncontious from blood loss after having her toungue cut off [[Would Hurt a Child|Cheerilee]] tells Diamond Tiara if she can get to Silverspoon on the other side of the room she'll let them both go. This is made extreamly difficult because Diamon tiara's hooves have been [[Body Horror|Reduced to nothing but bone]] She [[Beyond the Impossible|SOMEHOW]] makes it only to find out Cheerilee Lied to them and they get a huge batch of acid poured on them till their entire body is agonizingly reduced to nothing.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7510453/1/Shadowchasers-Ascension Shadowchasers: Ascension]]'' by "Occam's Razor", Ophelia duels Rule-of-Three on the condition he'll release the captive Penelope and Red Feather if he loses. When he does lose, [[One-Winged Angel| he assumes his true form]] and this Trope is played out:▼
▲** [[Brain Bleach|OH MY GOD.]]
{{quote|'''Rule-of-Three:''' Well, let’s see… I could honor my side of the bargain, which would make [[Big Bad|
▲* In Shadowchasers: Ascension, Ophelia duels Rule-of-Three on the condition he'll release the captive Penelope and Red Feather if he loses. When he does lose, [[One-Winged Angel| he assumes his true form]] and this Trope is played out:
▲{{quote|'''Rule-of-Three:''' Well, let’s see… I could honor my side of the bargain, which would make [[Big Bad| Jalie]] and [[Bigger Bad| my master]] very angry… Or I could renege on it, which would make them quite pleased… Tough decision… ''(Starts to assume his true form.)'' Oh, who am I kidding? It’s an incredibly easy decision!
'''Penelope:''' That dirty bastard...
'''Rule-of-Three:''' There are three rules to dealing with demons, like me... One, always get payment in advance. Two, always watch your back. And the third rule is... ''[transformation is now complete]'' Well, the third rule is, just don't make deals with them at all! They tend to lie!}}
** Unfortunately for him, at that second
{{quote|'''Lorelei:''' [[Scheherezade Gambit|
'''Ophelia:''' Oh please, it [[Deconstructed Trope|
== Film ==
* In ''[[Sister Act]]'', on allowing Deloris to
{{quote|'''[[Maggie Smith|Reverend Mother]]:'''That is not a person you can hide. That is a conspicuous person, designed to stick out.
'''Monsignor O'Hara:''' You took a vow of hospitality for all in need.
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'''Cindy:''' Where's Sully?
'''Matrix:''' I let him go. }}
** Homaged by Pegasus and Bakura in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' pays homage to this with Lieutenant General Adorov in the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj.
** Also parodied in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'':
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''[Kennedy drops Schwarzenegger to his death (with him screaming "You suck")]'' }}
** On an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', obvious [[The Ahnold|Schwarzenegger parody]] Rainier Wolfcastle says this to a piece of pie. ("Remember when I said I would eat you last?")
*
* In ''[[The Inkworld Trilogy|Inkheart]]'', the [[Big Bad]] Capricorn lies—a lot—in order to get people to do what he wants, and such gets one of these in about every scene he's in, in addition to being [[Lampshade Hanging|honestly baffled that people are surprised]]. At one point, he ''lies about having lied''.
* In the ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the
* Used by [[Gary Oldman]]'s character in ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'':
{{quote|'''Grace Marshall:''' You said you were gonna release us.
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* Appears in ''[[Terminator]] 3'', showing the titular machine had become [[Ridiculously Human Robot|ridiculously human enough]] to lie.
** Or to reference his old movies.
* [http://www.badmovies.org/movies/spacehunter/spacehunter4.wav Invoked by Overdog], played by [[Michael Ironside]] in ''[[Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone]]'' to Nicki (played by a young [[Molly Ringwald]]).
{{quote|'''Overdog:''' You have a very enviable life force, a life force you're going to share with me.
'''Nicki:''' But... you said if I made it through, I'm free.
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'''Kirk:''': I Lied. }}
** Worth pointing out, in a nerdy way, that from the Klingon perspective, this makes Kirk very much a villain. It's considered a great deal of dishonor for a Klingon to be captured alive rather than killed in battle.
* In the film ''[[Freejack]]'', [[Mick Jagger]] gets the very last line in the film, when asked by Emilio Estevez about his sudden change of loyalties. It is delivered with such scenery chewing glee that it may be the Platonic Ideal of "I Lied".
{{quote|'''Vacendak''': I LIED! }}
* In ''[[Demon Knight]]'', The Collector says this directly to one character just before he is [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves]].
* A somewhat more meta-example: ''[[Scary Movie]]''{{'}}s tagline was "No Mercy. No Shame. No Sequel." When ''Scary Movie 2'' came out, their tagline was: "We lied."
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