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** Pinochimon (Puppetmon) in ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' has the same quirk as the character he's named for.
* Every time Monmon from ''[[Zatch Bell]]'' lies, his face will grow longer.
* One episode of ''[[Hello Kitty]] Fairy Tale Fantasy'' retells the Pinocchio story, with the same results when Pinocchio lies. There's an additional twist, however--whenhowever—when the fairy says she's helped Pinocchio too many times, and she's not going to bail him out anymore, ''her'' nose grows.
 
== Film ==
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* ''[[The Negotiator]]'' has a character use the same logic as the ''[[CSI]]'' example below.
* The creators of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' have confirmed that whenever Aladdin tells a lie, the feather on his Prince Ali hat falls in his face.
** Not to mention Genie's ''literal'' [[Pinocchio Nose]] - and head - when Aladdin first tells him he'll wish for Genie's freedom.
* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', Evey can tell that a newsreader is giving a false report if she blinks a lot.
* ''[[Airplane!]]'' has the doctor telling the passengers that [[Blatant Lies|nothing is wrong, everything is fine, and they will be landing shortly.]] His nose gets longer with every lie he tells.
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* Mentioned and described in [[Mamet]]'s ''House of Games''.
* [[Harry Potter|Ron Weasley's]] ears go red when he's angry or lying.
* Cathy's mother in [[V. C. Andrews]]' ''Flowers in the Attic'' plays with her pearl necklace -- ornecklace—or mimics playing with one if she doesn't have one on -- wheneveron—whenever she's nervous or lying.
* In one of the ''[[Princess Diaries]]'' books, Mia's grandmother points out that Mia's nostrils flare when she lies.
* In Robert Sawyer's ''Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy'', the titular [[Lizard Folk|tyrannosaurian race]] literally turned blue in the face if they tried to tell a lie. {{spoiler|Most of them, anyway.}}
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* There was an episode of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' all about this; whenever anyone would mention their own lying tics then she would end up doing it. Giggling and sweating were two of them, but there were more.
* ''[[CSI]]'' example: Catherine was able to penetrate one witness' story by recalling her eye movement: "People tend to look left when remembering, right when creating." It's handy to know, but not infallibly reliable.
* There was a whole ''[[Coupling]]'' ramble on this -- Thethis—The Prickles, where you freeze and can feel said prickles all over your face ready to burst into rampant blushing; the Blurts, where you try to cover your prickles by blurting out denials; and the Head laugh, where you realize you were speaking too quickly and need to make everything seem alright and overcompensate with the Head Laugh.
* In ''[[MacGyver]]'', Jack Dalton's left eye twitches whenever he lies. It's mentioned in his first scene with Mac.
** Including in his faked funeral.
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'''Lise''' ''(shaking her finger at him):'' Methinks you speak not the truth in saying that!<br />
'''Cyrano:''' [[The Adventures of Pinocchio|Did you see my nose quiver when I spoke?]] [[Shout-Out|'Faith, it must have been a]]<br />
[[Pinocchio Nose|monstrous lie that should move it!]] }}
 
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