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The person who has been misquoted (and probably suffered one heck of a character assassination in the eyes of the public as a result) will find it difficult to get rid of this smear on their name. Somehow, it always seems a bit false when they appear on the television the next day, trying to explain what they actually meant. It's not helped when there are so many cases of celebrities genuinely saying bigoted, or just plain dumb, things. We may never know the true extent of this trope in the press since...well, the people reporting on it are likely to be the same ones who sensationalised it in the first place.
The [[Naive Everygirl]] is especially prone to being the victim of this sort of attack (usually perpetrated by the aforementioned [[Alpha Bitch]]). In fact, most characters who are [[Good Is Dumb|too sweet natured for their own good,]] or [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|conspicuously chaste]] -- in which case the "twisting" of their own words is likely to make them out to be a sex maniac -- make soft targets for this trope; possibly because, being so good-hearted and having such a pristine reputation, this is the only way their enemies can get any real ammo against them. A [[Manipulative Bastard]] loves to do this, while a [[Hair
For victims of bullying, this trope is ''very'' [[Truth in Television]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''The [[Fantastic Four]] versus The [[X-Men]]'', Reed Richards' journal contains entries similar to what he remembers writing, but shifted to a context that suggests that he [[Reluctant Mad Scientist|deliberately arranged]] to expose the group to the cosmic rays that [[Super Hero Origin|gave them their powers]] because [[Well
== [[Film]] ==
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* Often inverted in [[Real Life]] movie ads, which take quotes from negative reviews and use ellipses to make them sound flattering, or take the one positive word ("Spectacular!") in an otherwise disparaging sentence ("This film is a spectacular failure")<ref>Another good tip is the size of the quote's credit line. If it's from a local TV affiliate, and/or is close to unreadable on a standard-def TV, it's probably not a good movie.</ref>
* A Malaysian bootleg version of ''Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2'' avoided this, opting instead to provide some unintentionally funny [[Truth in Television|Truth In Advertising]] using this blurb from a FilmCritic.com review: "Superbabies has no redeeming qualities", using the same large-type font usually reserved for a glowing review from ''Rolling Stone''.
* The pro-evolutionary interviewees in Ben Stein's ''[[Expelled (Film)|Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]'' have claimed that they were misled into believing that the film being made was a balanced documentary about the conflict between science and religion, rather than a straight anti-evolution, pro-intelligent-design opinion piece, and that the final edit [[Manipulative Editing|cherry-picked]] from their responses to support the premise. There was also the issue of Stein "quoting" a heavily edited passage by Darwin to [[Evilutionary Biologist|make it sound like he was advocating eugenics]] and [[
* In the [[Adam Sandler]] version of ''[[Mr. Deeds]]'', Deeds rescues a woman and all her cats from a burning building, but corrupt reporters edit the footage to make it look like Deeds murdered the cats, then dragged the woman out to rape her.
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