Implausible Deniability/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character denies doing something even in front of unquestionable evidence.

  • Played Straight: After Bob burns a bunch of crates with a flamethrower, he drops the flamethrower and denies doing it, even though the flamethrower was just in his hand.
  • Exaggerated: After Bob destroys an entire house and yard with a bulldozer, he denies doing it, he's still in the buldozer.
  • Justified: Bob is drunk and has no idea what's going on.
    • Bob is a pathological liar.
  • Inverted: Sarcastic Confession
  • Subverted: Bob says that he did do it...
    • Alternately, he says that he didn't do it and, despite the undeniable evidence, Alice believes him.
  • Double Subverted: When responded to with shock, Bob says he has no idea what they're talking about.
  • Parodied: Bob vehemently denies burning anything even as he continues to light crates on fire.
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Bob straight up admits that the damage was his fault.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "I have no idea how you expect me to believe you when you have that near you."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Defied: "You know what, nevermind, yeah. It was me."
  • Discussed: "No matter what people do, sometimes they don't want to admit it, even while the jig is up."
  • Conversed: ???

I saw you go back to Implausible Deniability! How can you expect me to believe your claim?