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* Eliott during the second season of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. He initially believes that the Hargreeves siblings are aliens as they drop through the time portal at various periods in the 1960s. Five sees the many antennae on the roof; and of course, this accelerates Elliott's theory. He continues to play on it by seeing the newspaper articles and the various communication and atmospheric devices in the home. Elliott has also saved the article about Diego being institutionalizer for stalking Lee Harvey Oswald and having multiple knives. Later, he pulls a gun on Five, Diego, and Lila, believing that they are enemies of the people due to the contents of the Frankel footage, which takes place on the date of [[WhoShotJFK JFK's assassination]], six days from the current day; of course, Five and Diego use quick action to take away the gun and tie him up. By the fourth episode, he doesn't question the conversation between Five and Diego about Viktor (then known as the female Vanya) previously ending the world and being upset as he has amnesia and that he did this in the first place. He later believes what they tell him about Five's blotched time-travel events, and he is subsequently fascinated by Diego's truth about Viktor suspending him midair with an energy tendril. [[spoiler:While his taking them in ultimately costs Elliott his life]], Five and the others are undoubtedly grateful to have his place as their base of operations.

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* Eliott during the second season of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. He initially believes that the Hargreeves siblings are aliens as they drop through the time portal at various periods in the 1960s. Five sees the many antennae on the roof; and of course, this accelerates Elliott's theory. He continues to play on it by seeing the newspaper articles and the various communication and atmospheric devices in the home. Elliott has also saved the article about Diego being institutionalizer for stalking Lee Harvey Oswald and having multiple knives. Later, he pulls a gun on Five, Diego, and Lila, believing that they are enemies of the people due to the contents of the Frankel footage, which takes place on the date of [[WhoShotJFK JFK's assassination]], six days from the current day; of course, Five and Diego use quick action to take away the gun and tie him up. By the fourth episode, he doesn't question the conversation between Five and Diego about Viktor (then known as the female Vanya) previously ending the world and being upset as he has amnesia and that he did this in the first place. He believes that the Majestic Twelve wants JFK dead, [[spoiler:and he turns out to be correct.]] He later believes what they tell him about Five's blotched time-travel events, and he is subsequently fascinated by Diego's truth about Viktor suspending him midair with an energy tendril. [[spoiler:While his taking them in ultimately costs Elliott his life]], Five and the others are undoubtedly grateful to have his place as their base of operations.
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* Elliot during the second season of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. He initially believes that the Hargreeves siblings are aliens as they drop through the time portal at various periods in the 1960s. Five sees the many antennae on the roof; and of course, this accelerates Elliot's theory. He continues to play on it by seeing the newspaper articles and the various communication and atmospheric devices in the home. Elliot has also saved the article about Diego being institutionalizer for stalking Lee Harvey Oswald and having multiple knives. Later, he pulls a gun on Five, Diego, and Lila, believing that they are enemies of the people due to the contents of the Frankel footage, which takes place on the date of [[WhoShotJFK JFK's assassination]], six days from the current day; of course, Five and Diego use quick action to take away the gun and tie him up. By the fourth episode, he doesn't question the conversation between Five and Diego about Viktor (then known as the female Vanya) previously ending the world and being upset as he has amnesia and that he did this in the first place. He later believes what they tell him about Five's blotched time-travel events, and he is subsequently fascinated by Diego's truth about Viktor suspending him midair with an energy tendril. [[spoiler:While his taking them in ultimately costs Elliot his life]], Five and the others are undoubtedly grateful to have his place as their base of operations.

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* Elliot Eliott during the second season of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. He initially believes that the Hargreeves siblings are aliens as they drop through the time portal at various periods in the 1960s. Five sees the many antennae on the roof; and of course, this accelerates Elliot's Elliott's theory. He continues to play on it by seeing the newspaper articles and the various communication and atmospheric devices in the home. Elliot Elliott has also saved the article about Diego being institutionalizer for stalking Lee Harvey Oswald and having multiple knives. Later, he pulls a gun on Five, Diego, and Lila, believing that they are enemies of the people due to the contents of the Frankel footage, which takes place on the date of [[WhoShotJFK JFK's assassination]], six days from the current day; of course, Five and Diego use quick action to take away the gun and tie him up. By the fourth episode, he doesn't question the conversation between Five and Diego about Viktor (then known as the female Vanya) previously ending the world and being upset as he has amnesia and that he did this in the first place. He later believes what they tell him about Five's blotched time-travel events, and he is subsequently fascinated by Diego's truth about Viktor suspending him midair with an energy tendril. [[spoiler:While his taking them in ultimately costs Elliot Elliott his life]], Five and the others are undoubtedly grateful to have his place as their base of operations.
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* Elliot during the second season of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. He initially believes that the Hargreeves siblings are aliens as they drop through the time portal at various periods in the 1960s. Five sees the many antennae on the roof; and of course, this accelerates Elliot's theory. He continues to play on it by seeing the newspaper articles and the various communication and atmospheric devices in the home. Elliot has also saved the article about Diego being institutionalizer for stalking Lee Harvey Oswald and having multiple knives. Later, he pulls a gun on Five, Diego, and Lila, believing that they are enemies of the people due to the contents of the Frankel footage, which takes place on the date of [[WhoShotJFK JFK's assassination]], six days from the current day; of course, Five and Diego use quick action to take away the gun and tie him up. By the fourth episode, he doesn't question the conversation between Five and Diego about Viktor (then known as the female Vanya) previously ending the world and being upset as he has amnesia and that he did this in the first place. He later believes what they tell him about Five's blotched time-travel events, and he is subsequently fascinated by Diego's truth about Viktor suspending him midair with an energy tendril. [[spoiler:While his taking them in ultimately costs Elliot his life]], Five and the others are undoubtedly grateful to have his place as their base of operations.
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* To a lesser extent, Mrs. Driscoll. The staff at ''ThHawkins Post'' believe that she is a nut job not only because of her claim that diseased rats were eating her fertilizer (which turns out to be true), but also because she claimed that Lyndon B. Johnson [[WhoShotJFK killed Kennedy.]] [[spoiler:A flayed]] Tom claims that she is also a paranoid schizophrenic, but this is highly questionable based on her initial behavior to Nancy and Jonathan [[spoiler:before becoming flayed herself]] and the fact that her family was threatening litigation for Nancy and Jonathan's well-meaning but illegal activities indicate that they loved her enough that they wouldn't allow a widowed 80-year-old family member to live by herself. Therefore, her theory about JFK is indeed nothing more than the many conspiracy theories about the event.

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* To a lesser extent, Mrs. Driscoll. The staff at ''ThHawkins ''The Hawkins Post'' believe that she is a nut job not only because of her claim that diseased rats were eating her fertilizer (which turns out to be true), but also because she claimed that Lyndon B. Johnson [[WhoShotJFK killed Kennedy.]] [[spoiler:A flayed]] Tom claims that she is also a paranoid schizophrenic, but this is highly questionable based on her initial behavior to Nancy and Jonathan [[spoiler:before becoming flayed herself]] herself]], and the fact that her family was threatening litigation for Nancy and Jonathan's well-meaning but illegal activities indicate that they loved her enough that they wouldn't allow a widowed 80-year-old family member to live by herself. Therefore, her theory about JFK is indeed nothing more than the many conspiracy theories about the event.

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* "Series/StrangerThings":
** Murray Bauman is a prime example. During his introductory scene, he believes that Eleven is a psychic Russian weapon for the Soviets, previously believing that aliens abducted Barbara Holland, and he dramatically exclaims that a full-on Russian invasion is taking place "''right here in Hawkins!''" Of course, Eleven isn't Russian and what's taking place in Hawkins is due to interdemensional beings, which he learns from [[spoiler:Nancy and Jonathan when they visit him to expose Hawkins Lab.]] He has a StringTheory BigBoard intending to connect the dots regarding Barb's disappearance, and he points out to [[spoiler:Nancy and Jonathan that "The People" will never believe them; as such, he suggests that they modify the story in such a way that the public will believe them, and they instead report that a chemical leak into the environment was what killed Barb. Then, we learn in Season Three that Soviets are indeed invading Hawkins, but many months later.]] When Hopper and Joyce bring Alexi to him to translate what's really going down in Hawkins this time, he uses a metal detector on Alexi, telling Hopper that he brought over an enemy of the state as carelessly as a child who drags in shit on his shoe. [[spoiler:He justifiably assumes that Alexi will drive off once Hopper gives him the keys to his car, but Hopper turns out to be right in that they are Alexi's only hope as Grigori believes that Alexi is a traitor, and he already could have escaped once, but his was only reaching the 7-Eleven for a cherry Slurpie.]] He has multiple locks on his door, when most Americans have at the most two. Then, he brings a computerized anti-tracing device to contact "Enzo" in Russia, warning Joyce to keep the call brief as the KGB could still track them down.

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** Murray Bauman is a prime example. During his introductory scene, he believes that Eleven is a psychic Russian weapon for the Soviets, previously believing that aliens abducted Barbara Holland, and he dramatically exclaims that a full-on Russian invasion is taking place "''right here in Hawkins!''" Of course, Eleven isn't Russian and what's taking place in Hawkins is due to interdemensional beings, which he learns from [[spoiler:Nancy and Jonathan when they visit him to expose Hawkins Lab.]] ]] That, plus, there are many people who believe that aliens exist who aren't necessarily conspiracy theorists on a larger scale. He has a StringTheory BigBoard [[TheBigBoard big board]] intending to connect the dots regarding Barb's disappearance, and he points out to [[spoiler:Nancy and Jonathan that "The People" will never believe them; as such, he suggests that they modify the story in such a way that the public will believe them, and they instead report that a chemical leak into the environment was what killed Barb. Then, we learn in Season Three that Soviets are indeed invading Hawkins, but many months later.]] When Hopper and Joyce bring Alexi to him to translate what's really going down in Hawkins this time, he uses a metal detector on Alexi, telling Hopper that he brought over an enemy of the state as carelessly as a child who drags in shit on his shoe. [[spoiler:He justifiably assumes that Alexi will drive off once Hopper gives him the keys to his car, but Hopper turns out to be right in that they are Alexi's only hope as Grigori believes that Alexi is a traitor, and he already could have escaped once, but his was only reaching the 7-Eleven for a cherry Slurpie.]] He has multiple locks on his door, when most Americans have at the most two. Then, he brings a computerized anti-tracing device to contact "Enzo" in Russia, warning Joyce to keep the call brief as the KGB could still track them down.down.
* To a lesser extent, Mrs. Driscoll. The staff at ''ThHawkins Post'' believe that she is a nut job not only because of her claim that diseased rats were eating her fertilizer (which turns out to be true), but also because she claimed that Lyndon B. Johnson [[WhoShotJFK killed Kennedy.]] [[spoiler:A flayed]] Tom claims that she is also a paranoid schizophrenic, but this is highly questionable based on her initial behavior to Nancy and Jonathan [[spoiler:before becoming flayed herself]] and the fact that her family was threatening litigation for Nancy and Jonathan's well-meaning but illegal activities indicate that they loved her enough that they wouldn't allow a widowed 80-year-old family member to live by herself. Therefore, her theory about JFK is indeed nothing more than the many conspiracy theories about the event.
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* "Series/StrangerThings":
** Murray Bauman is a prime example. During his introductory scene, he believes that Eleven is a psychic Russian weapon for the Soviets, previously believing that aliens abducted Barbara Holland, and he dramatically exclaims that a full-on Russian invasion is taking place "''right here in Hawkins!''" Of course, Eleven isn't Russian and what's taking place in Hawkins is due to interdemensional beings, which he learns from [[spoiler:Nancy and Jonathan when they visit him to expose Hawkins Lab.]] He has a StringTheory BigBoard intending to connect the dots regarding Barb's disappearance, and he points out to [[spoiler:Nancy and Jonathan that "The People" will never believe them; as such, he suggests that they modify the story in such a way that the public will believe them, and they instead report that a chemical leak into the environment was what killed Barb. Then, we learn in Season Three that Soviets are indeed invading Hawkins, but many months later.]] When Hopper and Joyce bring Alexi to him to translate what's really going down in Hawkins this time, he uses a metal detector on Alexi, telling Hopper that he brought over an enemy of the state as carelessly as a child who drags in shit on his shoe. [[spoiler:He justifiably assumes that Alexi will drive off once Hopper gives him the keys to his car, but Hopper turns out to be right in that they are Alexi's only hope as Grigori believes that Alexi is a traitor, and he already could have escaped once, but his was only reaching the 7-Eleven for a cherry Slurpie.]] He has multiple locks on his door, when most Americans have at the most two. Then, he brings a computerized anti-tracing device to contact "Enzo" in Russia, warning Joyce to keep the call brief as the KGB could still track them down.
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** He also seems to believe that [[{{Squick}} baby foreskin]] is being put into skin cream ([[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-cut-above-the-rest-wrin/ which is actually true]]) and other products; he is also paranoid around tap water.
*** This claim becomes doubly hilarious when [[spoiler: The Grail uses his own foreskins in making skin cream.]]
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* In ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}'', Cassidy is convinced that the constantly resurrecting [[spoiler:[=DeBlanc=] and Fiore]] must be involved in a cloning program and when they say they're from the government, he feels this makes sense.
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* A man dies and goes to heaven. He was a raging conspiracy theorist in life, but otherwise a very nice stand-up guy. He arrives at the pearly gates and meets with St. Peter, who seeing his record, tells him that he gets one wish before being let into heaven. He tells St. Peter that all really wants to know is the truth behind who killed John F. Kennedy. St. Peter nods and tells him, "Yes sir, that was Lee Harvey Oswald, and he acted alone." The man stares for a moment, then mutters to himself, "Wow, this conspiracy really does go all the way to the top."

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* A man dies and goes to heaven. He was a raging conspiracy theorist in life, but otherwise a very nice stand-up guy. He arrives at the pearly gates and meets with St. Peter, who seeing his record, tells him that he gets one wish before being let into heaven. He tells St. Peter that all he really wants to know is the truth behind who killed John F. Kennedy. St. Peter nods and tells him, "Yes sir, that was Lee Harvey Oswald, and he acted alone." The man stares for a moment, then mutters to himself, "Wow, this conspiracy really does go all the way to the top."
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* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal introduces the Ankh-Morpork Unidentified Flying Saucer Reasearch Association, who are Ground Zero for every conspiracy theory doing the rounds. In ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight'', they firmly believe the main base of the Air Watch (which necessarily has tight security) is ''[[Area51 Area Fifty-Seven]]'', where Vetinari sanctions not only advanced research into flight, but also contacts representatives of advanced civilizations from elsewhere. Of course, this is all Hushed Up.
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* Website/YouTube personality ''WebVideo/TheRealWeeklyNews'' made a video called "[=HuluTube=]: Phasing You Out of Website/YouTube." In this video, he states that the (at the time) recently added "Shows" tab on Website/YouTube's front page was a grand conspiracy by companies like Burger King and Creator/{{Disney}} (seriously, those were his two big examples) to get all the normal content creators off of Website/YouTube. Mentions of {{tin foil hat}}s were pretty common from critics of the video.

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* Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube personality ''WebVideo/TheRealWeeklyNews'' made a video called "[=HuluTube=]: Phasing You Out of Website/YouTube.[=YouTube=]." In this video, he states that the (at the time) recently added "Shows" tab on Website/YouTube's [=YouTube=]'s front page was a grand conspiracy by companies like Burger King and Creator/{{Disney}} (seriously, those were his two big examples) to get all the normal content creators off of Website/YouTube.Platform/YouTube. Mentions of {{tin foil hat}}s were pretty common from critics of the video.



* According to a tweet from the titular [[TheMuse Muse]] from the Website/{{Twitter}} blog ''Blog/WorstMuse'', everything is either a conspiracy or a ContrivedCoincidence. No middle grounds.

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* According to a tweet from the titular [[TheMuse Muse]] from the Website/{{Twitter}} Platform/{{Twitter}} blog ''Blog/WorstMuse'', everything is either a conspiracy or a ContrivedCoincidence. No middle grounds.
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* ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'': Kuromi would love to prove the existence of ghosts, [=UFOs=], and other assorted oddities, though she insists on "healthy skepticism".
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* ''Series/TheNightAgent'': Peter is hounded by one name Elliot Rome. He believes Peter was behind the Metro bombing, along with his many followers. We see him harassing Peter in a video, while his followers later do this too.
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* ''Film/Extraterrestrial2014'': Travis, a ShellShockedVeteran friend of April's dad, who has a pot farm in the area and lives as far off the grid as he can. He is a cynical, distrustful person who relates to the young people how the government had long ago made a treaty with aliens allowing the abductions of many people so they could experiment on them. All of this turns out to be true, although Kyle dismisses it at the time.
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* Dudley Carew in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Murder on St. Malley's Day". Amongst his theories was one that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Midsomer two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated.

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* Dudley Carew in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Murder "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E5 Murder on St. Malley's Day".Day]]". Amongst his theories was one that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Midsomer two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated.
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* Azula takes this role in ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch''. Weird use of the trope too. Azula believes ''everything'' is in some way, shape or form, a ploy by her mother to kill her before Azula can get to her first. Azula uses this belief as a means of latching onto some semblance of sanity and to keep her focused, as readers who watched the series before knows that Azula's been long broke-brained.

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* Azula [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Azula]] takes this role in ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch''. Weird use of the trope too. Azula believes ''everything'' is in some way, shape or form, a ploy by her mother to kill her before Azula can get to her first. Azula uses this belief as a means of latching onto some semblance of sanity and to keep her focused, as readers who watched the series before knows that Azula's been long broke-brained.

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* ''Fanfic/{{Dekugate}}'' revolves around a group of these believing that the marriage of All Might and Inko Midoriya and the birth of Izuku has some ulterior motives from the HSPC and their eventual escalation to [[spoiler:try to kill Izuku.]]



* Shoto Todoroki from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' tends to get played up as one in fanon for laughs [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten due to him]] asking [[TheHero Deku]] at one point if he's the secret love child of [[BigGood All Might]].

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* Shoto Todoroki from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' tends to get played up as one in fanon for laughs [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten due to him]] asking [[TheHero Deku]] Izuku "Deku" Midoriya]] at one point if he's the secret love child of [[BigGood All Might]].

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* In ''Fanfic/CustodyBattle'', Shouto Todoroki is one that believes that All-Might and Hisashi/All-For-One are secretly dating, much to the disgust of both. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, the entire Todoroki family gets in on the act and are convinced that Yuuto, Hisashi's younger brother, is actually their missing brother Touya Todoroki.]]



* In ''Fanfic/ForgivenessIsTheAttributeOfTheStrong'', a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfiction, Shouto Todoroki is notorious for coming up with conspiracy theories that have a grain of truth but are never completely right.



* ''Fanfic/MischiefMHA'': Shoto is a great example of it, aside from the usual "secret love child" gag, he likes to make extensive research about aliens and supernatural subjects, which often comes in handy given the amount of trouble the kids often find themselves at.



* Shoto Todoroki from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' tends to get played up as one in fanon for laughs due to him asking [[TheHero Deku]] if he's the secret love child of the BigGood.

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* Shoto Todoroki from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' tends to get played up as one in fanon for laughs [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten due to him him]] asking [[TheHero Deku]] at one point if he's the secret love child of [[BigGood All Might]].
** In ''Fanfic/CustodyBattle'', Shouto Todoroki is one that believes that All-Might and Hisashi/All-For-One are secretly dating, much to
the BigGood.disgust of both. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, the entire Todoroki family gets in on the act and are convinced that Yuuto, Hisashi's younger brother, is actually their missing brother Touya Todoroki.]]
** In ''Fanfic/ForgivenessIsTheAttributeOfTheStrong'', a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfiction, Shouto Todoroki is notorious for coming up with conspiracy theories that have a grain of truth but are never completely right.
** ''Fanfic/MischiefMHA'': Shoto is a great example of it, aside from the usual "secret love child" gag, he likes to make extensive research about aliens and supernatural subjects, which often comes in handy given the amount of trouble the kids often find themselves at.
** In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Todoroki's canon assumption that Deku is All Might's secret lovechild is painted even more as him developing a random conspiracy theory, with him revealing it to Momo [[spoiler:when she arrives to his house while he is suspended for being utterly unapologetic for nearly getting Deku killed in the USJ attack]] and Momo thinking there is something wrong with him for thinking that, as well as [[spoiler:him spreading it through the UA students when he returns to the campus being treated as a literal adding insult to injury to Deku.]]



* In the film ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' one of the Characters is a Conspiracy Theorist with his own radio station, which he uses to rant about aliens and the government.

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* In the film ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' one of the Characters is a Conspiracy Theorist with his own radio station, which he uses to rant about aliens and the government. He notably continues to believe [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever the giant spiders besieging the town]] are aliens through the whole film and he refuses to get a rectal probe.
-->'''Chris''': (''completely fed up with Harlan's insistence that the spiders are aliens'') Okay, they are spiders from Mars! Satisfied?!?\\
'''Harlan''': (''very nervous'') Not really...

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