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* Creator/PeterJackson gave us an example of this trope in ''Film/TheFrighteners''. Special Agent Milton Dammers offers a view of what Mulder might be like if the next fifteen years were particularly unforgiving. Having spent almost two decades undercover in various cults without any therapy or {{deprogram}}ming (and extremely heavily implied that [[SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder his superiors hoped he would die or snap on one of the many assignments they gave him]]), Dammers is neurotic, paranoid, and absolutely insane. Perhaps not the best possible example since, though he knows ''something'' supernatural is going on, he jumps to more than a few wrong conclusions before catching on.

* Creator/PeterJackson gave us an example of this trope in ''Film/TheFrighteners''. Special Agent Milton Dammers offers a view of what Mulder might be like if the next fifteen years were particularly unforgiving. Having spent almost two decades undercover in various cults without any therapy or {{deprogram}}ming, Dammers is neurotic, paranoid, and absolutely insane. Perhaps not the best possible example since, though he knows ''something'' supernatural is going on, he jumps to more than a few wrong conclusions before catching on.

* [[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]] in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. From the moment he first arrived in the town he was insisting that there was something weird going on, and he quickly becomes obsessed with learning the secrets of the town and learning everything he can about every supernatural being he encounters along the way, despite teasing and insistence from others that he's going overboard.

* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'': The short ''The F-Tales'', which is an ''X-Files'' parody in a fairy tale setting, gives us agent Chick Little, who is always paranoid about the sky falling.

** ''Film/ShinGodzilla'': Yaguchi is the only one to dare to believe that the "massive entity" is indeed a living creature. Initially, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs. Then the creature's tail shows up.

* Franchise/MonsterVerse: Eiji Serizawa in the prequel graphic novel ''Godzilla Awakening'', somewhat. He wholeheartedly believed that references to the same sea monster across multiple cultures around the world indicated they were all inspired by the same saurian Titan, at a time when the rest of Monarch believed Gojira was just a myth and thought Eiji's beliefs to be a wild goose chase. And to be fair on the skeptics, the fledgling Monarch which did not yet fully understand the power discrepancy between humanity and the Titans did attempt to locate Godzilla and had as much luck as tracking the Loch Ness Monster would bring.

*** See the Comic Books folder for another example.

* Richard Castle of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', believing in psychics, ghosts, and in one episode where his status as Agent Mulder was [[LampshadeHanging explicitly stated]], aliens. Beckett, of course, is his AgentScully. Though, [[ArbitrarySkepticism surprisingly]] Castle doesn't believe in curses while the rest of the squad is trying to convince him that they do. [[spoiler: It turns out they were really screwing with him throughout the episode until he really does seem to be suffering from extremely bad luck after being attacked by a dog. Once this occurs the positions are reversed to normal.]] In "Undead Again", he admits to Ryan that the reason he does this is merely to drive Beckett crazy, not that he actually believes it. Also as a writer he is mostly interested in what makes the best story as opposed to what is really occurring.

* In ''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Bomb]]'', Kirsty has become this, talking about MenInBlack, rains of fish, and crop circles, before reluctantly admitting that ''maybe'' the rain of fish had something to do with the explosion at the pet shop, and that there is ''some'' evidence the crop circles were created by Bigmac (such as a full admission). Interestingly, this ''doesn't'' make Johnny an AgentScully; as ever, he just accepts things that have happened. If there's a rational explanation, it was probably that, and if not, it must have been something weirder. Denying either of these things just makes things unnecessarily complicated.

* ''Film/RedLights'': Dr. Shackleton is one of the rare examples shown completely in the wrong (although not unsympathetic): he is too driven to believe that FakePsychic Simon Silver is the real deal, and thus does not figures out that Silver is faking psychic powers even after extensive testing (for what is worth, Silver is doing it incredibly well - [[spoiler:[[ObfuscatingDisability pretending to be blind helps a lot]] - and the AgentScully protagonist almost drives himself crazy, and needs his girlfriend giving him an EurekaMoment, to figure out how Silver did it).

* Dipper Pines in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. From the moment he first arrived in the town he was insisting that there was something weird going on, and he quickly becomes obsessed with learning the secrets of the town and learning everything he can about every supernatural being he encounters along the way, despite teasing and insistence from others that he's going overboard.

* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': Warren is a science student at Blackwell Academy, but he's also a sci-fi aficionado, so he's remains openminded when it comes to the possibility of the paranormal and other unexplained phenomena. It's first seen when Max confides in him that she believes Kate's suicide attempt is somehow linked to [[spoiler: Rachel Amber's disappearance]] and the strange happenings in Arcadia Bay. Warren replies that he isn't much for conspiracy theories, but admits that Max might be onto something. And when Max finally tells him about her rewind ability during episode 5, he believes her without question.