I stg I keep seeing people refer to fiction as lying to the audience, and it's making me insane.

You mean a twist? You mean a retcon? What the hell are you talking about?? Lmao

That sure is a take.

Oh, they mean story beats involving, yes, twists and unreliable narrators and characters being wrong. And retcons.

...huh

Not sure I'd call that lying.

I saw someone refer to a movie's ending as being "fake" in the context of the rest of the narrative only to have another commentary, without irony, pose that the whole thing was fake. Like this was some smart thing he'd stumbled upon. Yes. It's a movie. It is fiction.

Professor Xavier is not a real person? Comics have LIED

Oy.

Misdirection maybe. Not the same thing in the context.

I just had a weirdly aggressive customer confrontation, so I'm fired up and this is the first thing I've latch onto. Very odd!

cbr is basically the worst listicle site around anymore, and i genuinely can't remember if it was always like that or not

this would be the perfect time to break out the cbr headline generator, but apparently the site is broken and so is my heart

They make some weird choices! It's just one of the things that my chrome frontpage on mobile feeds me sometimes. Sometimes harmless fun, sometimes genuinely baffling!

Especially for the medium, which is... just desperately trying to stretch the same main characters out for decades.