Implausible Deniability/Playing With
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?