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Contrast [[I Gave My Word]]. Compare [[Villains Never Lie]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** Mind you, s/he is not perfect, either. You lose Honesty-points if you try to claim "I never lie."
* The Ur-Quan Kzer-Za in ''[[Star Control]] 2''. They claim that lying is for the weak, and the Ur-Quan are NOT weak.
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'': Byrne Faraday writes in Kay's 'promise journal' that she should not tell lies. When she actually does tell one it's only because she broke another promise (talking to a stranger) and is upset that he might find out. {{spoiler|Of course he can't, being dead and all, and her lie nearly gets Gumshoe arrested for Faraday's murder.}} Later on she not only refuses to lie but runs her mouth off about being the Yatagarasu [[What an Idiot!|in front of Interpol agents actively looking for the Yatagarasu.]]
* Kirei Kotomine in ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate/stay night]]'' won't lie to you. He's very fond of [[False Reassurance|False Reassurances]] and half truths though. 'A Servant is still hanging around from the last war? As the supervisor I cannot ignore that!' {{spoiler|He's shocked because after telling Gilgamesh not to show himself, he did so anyway. So he doesn't ignore it, he scolds Gilgamesh for almost blowing his cover.}} As noted in [[Fate Hollow Ataraxia (Visual Novel)|Fate/hollow ataraxia]] it also applies to most Servants by default: Their pride doesn't let them.
* 343 Guilty spark from ''[[Halo (Video Game)|Halo]]'' might fall into this trope, or he might fall into [[Can Not Tell a Lie]], depending on whether on whether you believe he's gone rampant, or if he's just always been that way. Either way, nothing he ever says is untrue. He will withhold inconvenient facts if nobody asks about them, however.
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* Ishida Mitsunari from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' never lies, or indeed speaks in ''anything'' but [[Brutal Honesty]], due to being too socially blunt. This is one of his few virtues, as he's a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|screaming whirlwind of bloody vengeance]] most of the time.
* This is [[Complete Monster|Terumi]]'s schtick in ''[[Blaz Blue]]''. Lying is, in fact, even a [[Berserk Button]] for him... Besides, what better way to [[Mind Rape]] somebody than [[Hannibal Lecture]]-ing them with [[Awful Truth|Awful Truths]] and [[Brutal Honesty]]; like revealing to them that their desired rightful place in the world was stolen away by their best friend, who only exists because of causality-interference effects screwing with the [[Stable Time Loop|time loops]], or that they're really just a failed version of an [[Eldritch Abomination]], which ''in turn'' is a failed version of a [[Person of Mass Destruction]]?
** Here's another interesting detail about him: He is an [[SNK Boss]], but in his first appearance he claims that he isn't good at fighting. How did he manage to tell that [[Blatant Lies|Blatant Lie]] without breaking character? Well, aside from never telling lies, he is also very accomplished in telling [[Half Truth|Half Truths]], or conveniently "forgetting" to include certain insignificant details that might prove vital to a person's continued existence. Also, he's the [[Trope Pantheons/Mentalism|God of Trolling]]... I.e., he just said that while he doesn't consider himself good at fighting, everybody else still suck beastballs at it compared to him, the shitfaced losers. So, while he doesn't necessarily say the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he never technically fibs and pretty much confesses without ''any'' provocation that he gave [[Anti
** Though subverted that despite his claims of disliking lies and constantly claiming that the world is nothing but lies... he's ''not'' above lying if being honest would lead to his schemes and plans getting revealed too early. For instance, when he attempted to get rid of Makoto for knowing too much of his plan in Jin's story, his claim was merely 'to discipline Makoto'. The [[Hypocrite]].
*** [[From a Certain Point of View]] one ''could'' say that he was being truthful then, too. Offing someone isn't a diciplinary session that would teach anyone a lesson they'd have much use for, but it sure as hell gets the point across that they shouldn't have done it, and will never do it again...
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