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{{quote|''"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"''|'''[[Myth Busters|Adam Savage]]''', [[Older Than They Think|quoting]] ''[[The Dungeonmaster]]''}}
{{quote|''"It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else."''|'''[[
A character, typically an antagonist, is known for for making some outrageous claims. Either [[Malicious Slander|vicious attacks against their foes]], [[A God Am I|claims of divinity]], or [[Miles Gloriosus|consistently twisting events so they look better]].
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* God Eneru in ''[[
** Buggy the Clown; breaking a bunch of prisoners out of their cells in order to facilitate his escape from [[The Alcatraz|Impel Down]] caused him to start being referred to as "The Great Buggy-sama". This hit a critical mass when it emerged {{spoiler|that he once served on the Pirate King's ship, alongside one of the current Four Emperors.}} As a result, he started thinking he had a chance of taking Whitebeard's head. To put that in perspective, Buggy is on the low end of ''One Piece's'' [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]], and Whitebeard is called [[World's Strongest Man]] with zero exaggeration.
* A villain of the week from the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga was a fake psychic (who physically made his prophecies of doom come true.) At the end, he's in a tight spot where only manifesting actual psychokinesis can save him, and he believes so hard he actually hallucinates that it's working.
* The manga-only arc Onisarashi-hen from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In an [[Archie Comics]] story, Veronica tells Archie and Reggie that whoever scores the most baskets in the next school game gets to take her out that weekend. Reggie attempts to sabotage Archie by telling him that the best way to improve his basket-shooting is to criticize himself constantly and harshly while practicing. This goes Reggie's way until Coach Clayton sets Archie straight, telling him that he should do the opposite while practicing and build up his confidence. Archie indeed goes on to score the most baskets, leading Reggie to wonder whether there was something to his "advice" after all. The story ends with Reggie practicing while berating himself and surrounding himself with demotivational posters.
* [[Depending
* ''Unknown Soldier'' from DC Comics, one of the versions. He is there when America liberates a Nazi concentration camp. He kind of snaps. Now he believes that whatever America does is right, no matter how horrible, because they once fought against the horrible Nazis.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* David Weber has done this in two of his series:
** Cordelia Ransom, from ''[[
*** The Masadans also believe things happened in a way that can't possible be true, all so that they can hold their women in less than slavery and continue to pursue their goal of destroying Grayson.
** Also from [[David Weber]] are the "Archangels" of the ''[[
** And also from ''Safehold'', this is, and is lampshaded as, the single creepiest attribute of church leader [[Complete Monster|Zhaspahr Clyntahn]]--no matter what he does, he can come up with a justification for why it's the best course of action for everyone (and not just for him personally), often one that requires blatant disregard of facts he knows and doesn't know everyone else knows, and he seems to have compartmentalized his mind to such a degree that he can think himself innocent even as he knows he's guilty. {{spoiler|There's a scene in the third book where he and his fellows debate the proper course of action in response to a murder apparently committed by an enemy of the church. The others realize one by one that ''he'' paid the assassins, just so the enemy of the church would be blamed, but at any intimation the others make of this he's as indignant as if his conscience was spotless.}}
* In the [[Kurt Vonnegut]] novel ''[[Cats Cradle|Cat's Cradle]]'', Bokonon and Earl McCabe, rulers of the fictional West Indian country San Lorenzo, create a new religion, Bokononism, in order to improve their subjects' lives. To increase the new religion's appeal to the masses, McCabe [[Forbidden Fruit|outlaws its practice upon pain of death]] (while practicing it in secret), whereupon Bokonon "flees" into the jungle, a "wanted" man. Over time, however, the two men become so habituated to their respective roles in the charade that they go insane and become enemies for real.
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': Gollum really believes that the ring was supposed to be his birthday gift.
** Of course given that the ring {{spoiler|corrupts every being who wears it, given long enough}}, it's possible he can be excused.
* A minor character in the [[
* Must be the case with Nozdryov in ''[[Dead Souls]]'', who tells a lot of bullshit, even in court. You'll have to read it to see how much he BSs.
* Because of their tendency to lose their old memories to [[The Fog of Ages]], the Marra of ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Balseraph demons from ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* This was one of the critical flaws of ''[[The Order of the Stick
** Additionally, Ian Starshine (Haley's father) raised his little girl in a [[Wretched Hive]] and taught her to lie at ''every opportunity'' whenever asked about herself. He's so paranoid he's incapable of taking people at their word and will invent elaborate scenarios which justify his ridiculous position and seems to totally believe them.
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