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Contrast [[Sarcastic Confession]], [[Plausible Deniability]].
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* In a more serious example, {{spoiler|Light Yagami}} of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|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}}
* In the case of ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'', {{spoiler|Kotonoha Katsura}} denies that she's been wronged, and frequently tells people that she's {{spoiler|Makoto}}'s girlfriend and that he wouldn't cheat on her. After he tells her in person that he doesn't like her any more, it goes from implausible deniability to psychosis. She leaves several voice messages for him to a recording saying her call could not be connected, detailing plans for their dates together. In the end she says "Finally... It's just the two of us..." as she {{spoiler|clutches his severed head as she sails off into the sunset}}, although [[A Love to Dismember|partially]] she is speaking the truth.
* A delusional example occurs in the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. When Rosette confronts Joshua about his dependency on Chrono's horns, he responds "You're not Rosette. My sister was nice." After seeing a flashback of her ''half-strangling'' him when he (correctly) tells Chrono that her cooking is horrible, as well as eight volumes of watching her do things like [[Nun
* In ''[[Nagasarete Airantou]]'', Ikuto refuses to believe in magic, [[Agent Scully|no matter what he has seen.]] He assumes summoned spirits are just "creatures". One chapter has him partially transformed into an animal, which doesn't wipe his memory (unlike everyone who was fully transformed). Despite seeing friends look completely different and the changes to his own body, when he finally recovers, he believes it was just a dream. (Pitying friends try not to remind him of this.)
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]'' has [[No Sense of Direction|Ri Kouyuu]] coming up with ridiculously implausible explanations whenever he got lost.
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** And, of course, no one should forget the <s> Dead</s> Pining For the Fjords Parrot Sketch.
*** Which was once beautifully subverted in a stage version that took full advantage of the sketch's [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|over-familiarity]]: {{spoiler|after building up to the lengthy [[Implausible Deniability]] that forms the sketch's core, the shopkeeper amiably agrees with the customer, and gives him a full refund and a few holiday coupons to compensate.}}
*** John Cleese has mentioned, as an early memory of recognizing something as absurd, a teacher who told his class a story about an ancient Greek wrestler who "won" a match by not letting go of his opponent even after he himself [[Critical Existence Failure|had died]]. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|The idea being that if you just never give up, you can't possibly lose.]]
*** The Dead Parrot sketch is loosely based on a Car Salesman sketch that Michael Palin had previously done with Graham Chapman in ''How To Irritate People''. And '''that''' was based on a [[Real Life]] encounter Palin had with a car salesman who "had an excuse for everything" and refused to admit that there was anything wrong with a car, even as it fell apart in front of him.
** There's also a sketch in which Graham Chapman insists he can fly while hanging from a very visible wire. And the Argument Clinic sketch dips in and out of this.
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'''Figgins:''' Sue, there is an orgy of evidence stacked against you! <br />
'''Sue:''' Well, you've clearly made up your mind not to be impartial in this case. }}
* ''[[Supernatural]]'', "Swan Song". In plain view of everyone, Castiel hits [[
{{quote| '''[[Archangel Lucifer|Lucifer]]:''' [incredulous] Did you just molotov my brother with holy fire?<br />
'''Castiel:''' Um... ''no.'' }}
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'''Interviewer:''' Actually, I'm pretty sure you did.<br />
'''Boss:''' Naw, that ain't me. }}
** 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!}}
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* Clinical psychopaths have a tendency to never admit guilt even when faced with undeniable proof of their actions.
* Baseball fans have a bunch of in-jokes regarding this, such as "flaxseed oil" ("the clear", according to Barry Bonds) and "B-12 and lidocaine" (Roger Clemens ''swears'' these are the only things he was ever injected with.)
* Despite winning ''The Sun'''s Sexiest Man of 2012 poll by a landslide, [[Benedict Cumberbatch]] has an incredibly hard time believing that he's attractive. Practically every time somebody mentions his looks, he'll respond in a [[Self
* Frank Gusenberg, one of the victims of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, when asked who shot him, replied "Nobody shot me". While dying.
** That's straightforward Mafia honour. The basic philosophy was "if I die, I forgive whoever did this to me; if I don't, I'm gonna get better and come after him. No need for the cops to get involved."
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* Morrissey's constant denial of being gay, despite many Smiths lyrics (written by him) being about homosexual experiences of his.
* In the series of interviews that made up 2003's ''Living with [[Michael Jackson]]'', Jackson claimed he had only had two plastic surgeries in his entire life, and that the reason his face had changed so dramatically to the point of [[Body Horror]] was due to the natural maturation process. (His claim that one reason he had had a nose job was to better "hit the high notes" was referenced in an ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode about Shake becoming obsessed with plastic surgery not long afterwards.)
* Mickey Rooney still to this day denies that, not only was there nothing wrong with his portrayal of [[Breakfast At
* Anorexic people will insist that they're fat even when they're as skinny as a weed. The tragedy of it being that due to their perspective being extremely distorted by the condition, it isn't a lie from their point of view. In some cases, though, many are aware of their condition but are told by their subconscious to keep fasting. Also, for some, fasting is not due to a wish to lose weight in particular but a demonstration of power and self-restraint.
* The Chinese government denies that the Tianamen Square massacre ever happened. Even with millions of videos and pictures of it circulating the web even today. Of course, people behind the "great firewall of China" don't get to see those videos and pictures...
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* In one routine, comedian [[Chris Rock]] claims that this is the ''proper response'' when a man is caught cheating by his wife. Deny everything, no matter how much evidence she has...even if she catches you IN BED with the other woman, deny that it was you. Because, as Chris says, "sometimes it works."
* Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, known in the West as "Comical Ali" or "Baghdad Bob", infamously (and hilariously) continued to claim that the Iraqi army was crushing the [[The War On Terror|American invasion forces]], even denying that American troops had reached Baghdad as ''American tanks were visible behind him''.
* Sometimes a topic can be politicized to such a degree that denial of something is taken as an article of faith, despite extremely well-documented proof of otherwise. While there are many examples in this list that are fairly uncontroversially true where people have the freedom to say them and not be arrested for it, there are some issues that in some parts of the world are pure [[Flame Bait]], documentation notwithstanding. For example, [[Global Warming]] denial is extremely common in [[Useful Notes/The United States|The United States]], and [[World War II|Holocaust]] denial is extremely common in [[Useful Notes/Arab
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