Mitsuhide: No one's called me that before! What people say is that I'm stupid! Prince Zen: It's for that very reason that people say you're a blunt simple idiot!
Munakata of Medaka Box introduces himself by saying that he does not kill people for no reason.He then goes on to state that Rin's death opened his eyes to the truth that the world is worthless, and so therefore needs to change. A much more serious example happens later, when Ob ito tells Kakashi that Rin's death is not his reason for pulling the entire world into a war.When Naruto accuses Jiraiya of being a pervert, Jiraiya replies that he's not a pervert but a super-pervert.Apparently ◊ Futari Ecchi is not hentai, but rather the thinking man's erotic manga.After another Team Rocket plot failed on Pokémon, Meowth said to think of it instead as not succeeding.In Lucky Star, after Konata asks her dad, on account of him having loved Kanata and being clingy with Konata herself, if he is a paedophile, he insists that she's got him all wrong he not only likes young girls but likes more mature, well-endowed women, too, so he is " also a lolicon".He of course then points out that that means the same thing. In MariaHolic, when Mariya first comes to the conclusion that Kanako is a lesbian pervert, Kanako insists that he refer to it as "yuri".It's a world that people are currently adapting and developing. Lutecia: You mean you can't see that it's a criminal deportation world?Īgito: That's not what I mean.
The equivalent on TV Tropes is Ridiculously Similar Trope.Īgito: You know, this place is really great. Can lead to Immediate Self-Contradiction. May also relate to Cannot Tell a Lie, Will Not Tell a Lie or Weasel Words, when the wording is very deliberately selected to convey a false impression without technically being a lie in the traditional sense.
If there is a distinction that would matter to the specific people involved, but not to most people, it's You Keep Using That Word (for instance, the distinction between "murdered" and "killed" is hugely important within the legal system, but in common, casual usage, it's not uncommon for the two words to be used interchangeably).