Unreliable Voiceover: Difference between revisions

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So Joe Suspect is explaining to the cops where he was last night. As he speaks, we get a [[Flash Back]] showing us the events.

 

Related to [[Rashomon Style]], except that instead of someone else's version of events clashing, it's the cold, unvarnished truth. Unlike [[Unreliable Narrator]], we're led to believe that the visuals tell us what really happened. Unless there's a [[Mind Screw]] going on.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* There's something of an example of this (and a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]) in one of the late first season episodes of ''[[Darker than Black]]''. Mao (a [[Body Snatcher]] Contractor in a cat's body) is trapped with several series antagonists and is narrating the beginning of the episode. While he narrates in a calm voice, talking about being a Contractor and thus rational enough to overcome fear, you see the cat shaking in terror, and when Mao talks about making a clever, rational choice, he... {{spoiler|meows. Apparently his brilliant idea was to pretend to be a normal cat and hope Amber had grabbed him out of [[Cuteness Proximity]], and hadn't heard him [[Talking Animal|talk]].}}