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{{quote|''"Circumstantial evidence, that's all you've got!"''
|'''[[Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]]'''}}
People have trouble admitting things, even when the proof is right in front of their face. Whatever the situation, and for whatever reason, they will adamantly refuse to admit a situation is what it is.
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{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* A Starburst commercial features [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Ernie the Klepto]]. Ernie claims to have reformed from his thieving ways. A kid points out that Ernie stole his Starbursts. Ernie replies, "No, I didn't," while actually eating the candy. [[Too Dumb to Live|The kid accepts Ernie's denial though]], allowing Ernie to steal the rest of his stuff.
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== Anime
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'': No, Kaname, Sousuke is not following you. He decided to stop at the same cafe, take the same train and - when accidentally missing his stop that he just now decided to get off on (which is, coincidentally, the same as yours) - jump out the window of a moving train for entirely non Kaname-related reasons. Really, it's entirely coincidence!
* In a more serious example, {{spoiler|Light Yagami}} of ''[[Death Note]]'' after {{spoiler|irrefutable evidence to his being Kira was presented, his first answer was "I've been framed! This is all a set-up!". Aizawa told him to give up the act. Understandably, given that this evidence consisted of Light shouting "[[Too Dumb to Live|I win!]]", and his name being the only one of the people besides Mikami's not being in the notebook}}
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* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]'' has [[No Sense of Direction|Ri Kouyuu]] coming up with ridiculously implausible explanations whenever he got lost.
* Seto Kaiba in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' to a ridiculous extent, at least in the dub. No matter how much everyone tries to convince him that magic is real or the world is in danger, he generally believes they're either delusional or just plan nuts. By the time the fifth season ends, he admits that ''maybe'' magic exists.
* One [[Adam Sandler]] sketch has his character asking random people on the street to guess if the sounds he plays for them are made by people having sex or working out. He'll then play a recording of an over-the-top porn soundtrack, with people saying things like, "You're fucking the shit out of me!" When the person tells him they were having sex, he'll respond with something like, "Nope, they were doing leg squats!" then mock them for having dirty minds.▼
* In one of [[Bill Cosby]]'s routines, he tells a story illustrating why "Children are so honest" is bullshit. He tells his toddler daughter she can't have a cookie, then catches her with her hand in the cookie jar. When he asks her what she's doing, she says, "I was getting a cookie for you, Daddy!"▼
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== Fan
* Invoked in the crossover ''[[The Man with No Name (fanfic)|The Man With No Name]]''.
{{quote|[When [[Firefly|Inara]] and [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]] are {{spoiler|escaping from the enemy base}}].
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** And then there's [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|"No Homo"]], where the things the dudes say get more and more blatantly homosexual as the song continues. They ''insist'' they're straight throughout, despite lyrics like...
{{quote|'''Jorma:''' No homo but I wanna dress up like Dorothy, and buttfuck a dude while he 69s Morrissey!}}
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
▲* One [[Adam Sandler]] sketch has his character asking random people on the street to guess if the sounds he plays for them are made by people having sex or working out. He'll then play a recording of an over-the-top porn soundtrack, with people saying things like, "You're fucking the shit out of me!" When the person tells him they were having sex, he'll respond with something like, "Nope, they were doing leg squats!" then mock them for having dirty minds.
▲* In one of [[Bill Cosby]]'s routines, he tells a story illustrating why "Children are so honest" is bullshit. He tells his toddler daughter she can't have a cookie, then catches her with her hand in the cookie jar. When he asks her what she's doing, she says, "I was getting a cookie for you, Daddy!"
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* "Extra-dimensional imps! That's how this happened!" [[Foe Yay]] denial in ''[http://www.superstupor.com/sust01022008.shtml Super Stupor]''.
* Black Mage is willing to deny doing anything wrong in ''[[8-Bit Theater]]''. Even if caught stuffing a child's corpse into a garbage can.
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