Implausible Deniability: Difference between revisions

'''Durante''': ''(standing in front of the elephant)'' What elephant? }}

* Subverted in ''[[The Amityville Horror|Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes]]''. The evil, possessed lamp (yes, really) makes the chainsaw turn on and flail around randomly while the son is holding it and covers the daughter's room in crayon graffiti, but while the mother doesn't believe an evil spirit is behind it yet, she still denies the logical explanation that the kids did it.

== Literature ==

* Several examples from the [[Discworld]] series:

** [[All Trolls Are Different|Trolls]] also tend to repeat "I never done nuffin" (They have learned that denying [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|specific things]] doesn't work as well.) when they suspect they may be in trouble. Coalface is quite emphatic in this regard.

** Detritus is the king of this. No of course he didn't nail that troll up by the ears for being the kind of scumbag that sells drugs to kids. Now, if you'll excuse him, he needs to go hide that hammer in his locker.

** And then there's the inversion of "Done It" Duncan, who confesses to every single crime ever committed, even if it's completely impossible for him to have committed it.

* Natalia in ''[[The Tiger's Wife]]'' refuses point-blank to admit that she knew in advance that her grandfather was terminally ill, even though her grandmother knows perfectly well that Natalia knew, and is begging her to admit it.

* There is a story told about the possibly fictional possibly real Mulla Nasreddin (the Muslim World's [[Trickster Archetype]]):

** A neighbour came to the gate of Mulla Nasreddin's yard. The Mulla went to meet him outside. "Would you mind, Mulla," the neighbour asked, "lending me your donkey today? I have some goods to transport to the next town." Having heard that that particular man was occasionally rather harsh with his own donkeys, the Mulla didn't feel inclined to lend out the animal to that him, however. So, not to seem rude, he answered: "I'm sorry, but I've already lent him to somebody else." All of a sudden the donkey could be heard braying loudly behind the wall of the yard. "But Mulla," the neighbour exclaimed. "I can hear it behind that wall!" "Who do you believe," the Mulla replied indignantly. "The donkey or your Mulla?"

* In ''[[Hidden Talents]]'', a kid known as "Torchie" insistently denies that he was responsible for those odd fires that keep breaking out all over the place whenever he's around. {{spoiler|Justified, as Torchie isn't intentionally starting them... he's a [[Playing with Fire|pyrokinetic]] with a case of [[Power Incontinence]].}}

== Live-Action TV ==

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