History Main / ConspiracyTheorist

* In {{Host}}, by Stephanie Meyer, conspiracy theorists were more likely to survive the AlienInvasion than the average person. This is because the aliens are PuppeteerParasites and most people did not notice the difference, except the "crazies".

* A side quest in ''TheElderScrolls IV: Oblivion'' concerns a wood elf named Glarthir who is convinced that several people in town are involved in a conspiracy against him, and wants the player to help him find proof.

For RealLife examples, see [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories our Useful Notes section on conspiracy theories]].

See also [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories the Useful Notes section on conspiracy theories]] in RealLife.

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* In the '90s Disney Channel remake of the '60s comedy ''The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'', the main character's best friend was a stereotypical college-age radical who, in a parody of Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, believed that President William [=McKinley=] was actually killed by his vice president, Teddy Roosevelt.
* In the Film ''8 Legged Freaks'' one of the Characters is a Conspiracy Theorist with his own radio station, which he uses to rant about aliens and the goverment.
* Charlie's dad in SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer is convinced that the world is run by a secret group known as "The Pentaverate:" the Queen, the Rothschilds, the Vatican, the Gettys, and Colonel Sanders "before he went [[NeverSayDie tits-up]]."

* Jonathan Shriek in Jeff [=VanderMeer's=] ''[[{{Ambergris}} Shriek: An Afterword]] is perceived as one by the world at large because he insists that midgets who live underground secretly control the people in his home town with fungus spores. Ofcourse everyone knows that there ''are'' midgets who live underground and really like mushrooms, but don't think that they're any more than that. [[spoiler:They are wrong.]]

* ''[[MatthewReilly Area 7]]'' opens with an article from "The Conspiracy Theorist Monthly" (circulation: 157 copies) connecting a senator's death by hunting accident with the deaths of his wife and daughter by gas explosion. [[spoiler:There's actually a ''bigger'' conspiracy going on than the writer knows...]]

See also [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories the Useful Notes section on conspiracy theories]]. Please don't repeat here the theories already covered by that page.

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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society John Birch Society,]] founded by king theorist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Welch Robert Welch,]] announced early on that [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Eisenhower was a Communist stooge]], concluded later that the Communists were [[TheManBehindTheMan themselves just a front]] for a much [[AncientConspiracy deeper and older conspiracy]], and originated the entire [[TheEmpire New World Order]], [[OneWorldOrder One World Government]] conspiracy meme that Alex Jones is [[SpiritualSuccessor still promoting today]].
* The cartoony religious tracts of JackChick present a vast Satanic conspiracy run by [[CorruptChurch the Vatican]], and involving [[HollywoodEvolution evolutionary theory]], [[DepravedHomosexual the gay agenda]], and ''DungeonsAndDragons''.
** Don't forget the entire religion of Islam. [[YouFailReligiousStudiesForever Yeah, it's apparently run from the Vatican, as well.]]
* Peter Joseph, creator of ''Zeitgeist: The Movie'', would have you believe that [[PathOfInspiration religion is meant to control you and program you with a dualistic mindset]], that 9/11 was a government conspiracy, and that there is a secret cabal hell-bent on putting microchips into you and making a New World Order. The funny thing is, although he pays lip-service to skepticism, his film has been renounced by skeptics. How bad? The predominantly atheist demographic on the JREF forums largely finds his anti-Christian arguments in Part I of ''Zeitgeist'' to be fabricated.
* Jeff Wells, who runs Rigorous Intuition, appears to suspect a GovernmentConspiracy of Satanists (the "military-occult complex") of using ritual abuse and media to power psychic mind control experiments and create {{MIB}}s that are projected hallucinations. No joke.
* Just in case you thought they couldn't get any more useless, [[TheHills Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt]] apparently fall into this category now. They made an appearance on a radio show by the aforementioned Alex Jones, where they revealed they were both 9/11 truthers, and that Heidi is obsessed over "the {{mark of the Beast}}."
* Lyndon [=LaRouche=] and his followers have a whole mess of conspiracy theories, many tied together by an apparent obsession with the British secretly controlling everything, or taking steps towards that goal. There are so many of them, and so far removed from reality, that it got to the point where ''SaturdayNightLive'' had a running "Lyndon [=LaRouche=] Theater" sketch about some of his weirder theories.
* Internet crackpot Robert E. [=McElwaine=], for a degree of insanity on par with David Icke. A few of the [[SoBadItsGood best moments]]:
** "Supermarket barcode scanners are the work of Satan because they always include one of the codes for a 6!"
** "{{Alchemy}} works, and they're suppressing it!"
** "Space lizards are fermenting human conflict so they can feed on our negative emotions!"
* OlderThanFeudalism example: Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus, last of the Flavian Emperors. While a pretty decent administrator, he also alienated many of his supporters with his growing paranoia and prosecuted ''many'' groups, Christians included. It ''really'' didn't help that he was TheUnfavorite, compared to his father Vespasian and his brother Titus. The result? He was assassinated and given an HistoricalVillainUpgrade.
** Contemporary rumors blamed Emperor Nero for being responsible for the fire of Rome. He, in turn, accused Christians of arson and assorted other crimes, leading to their mass persecution, arrests and executions.
* There are multiple theories as to why BarackObama isn't a natural-born American citizen and thus is ineligible to be President of the US, under [[http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#A2Sec1 Article II, Section 1]] of the US Constitution.
** There are also more than a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspiracy_theories Obama religion conspiracies]].
* Some conspiracy theorists claim that ID cards will soon become compulsory in Britain, with the threat of fines and imprisonment if you don't get one. ID cards are available, sure, but they're optional, just like getting a passport. They also tend to use hyperbole about biometric and other data being available to the government, since most information about us is already freely available. And let's not forget that, day in day out, we ''give away'' our data at the drop of a hat -- whether it's on the internet, signing up for that latest social networking tool, or even in the forms we fill out for store loyalty cards. So the conspiracy nuts are fine with the Internet and store loyalty cards, but the second the government talks about it, there's automatically something terribly wrong? Go figure.
** ID cards were going to be compulsory in the UK until a) enough people complained about it and b) the recession hit and the government decided that it wasn't worth spending all that money just to make themselves more unpopular. The arguments for the need for ID cards (preventing terrorism and/or identity fraud) don't make sense given the reasons outlined above - if driving licences, passports etc exist, what's the point of them?
* On the subject of the European Union, there are a vast majority of conspiracy theories, especially in the UK, about the EU being an anti-democratic farce dreamed up by secret neo-Nazis and Nazi sympathisers to finally subjugate and destroy Britain. Sadly, it's an accepted viewpoint in much of the UK perpetrated by the likes of the Daily Mail. In reality, the UK holds great sway over the European Union, including the largest share in the Parliament (10.5% of seats) apart from Germany and opt-outs from many treaties which have been criticised by other states in the union as defeating the entire purpose of the treaty or the union (e.g. Schengen, which abolishes '''internal''' border controls and offers access between national law enforcement agencies, which annoys the more-Europhilic Ireland as neither can join without the other joining, as free movement between the UK and Ireland would have to be restricted).
* The early 20th century pseudo-cleric [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Summers Montague Summers]] made a lively career by writing vast books on what he perceived as a very real conspiracy of witches and demon worshipers, and later went on to propose that not only are vampires real, but that they secretly run the world. Summers' fictional persona of Catholic priest was believed by so many at the time that when he was actually accused of pederasty, he was let off on the assumption that no priest would be capable of such a thing.
** How times have changed!
* TVTropes was made by the government to [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife keep people in a mindless stupor]] so they can take away our freedoms without us noticing.
** The one conspiracy theory that's true. Damn you for making me browse this place for several hours a day.
** But it also creates a world of GenreSavvy tropers who would inevitably realize the conspiracy and resist. Kind of circular...
*** But that's just part of a BIGGER conspiracy, by aliens, to keep us in a neverending circle!
* Actor MelGibson's father was a hard-core lunatic-fringe tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist, which probably explains why he did such a good job portraying one in the movie ''Conspiracy Theory''. It also explains some of the appalling stuff that comes out of his mouth when he's drunk.
** And when specifically asked what he thinks about these matters, his answer has usually been "my father never told me a lie." Well, ''technically'' it's not a lie if you actually ''believe'' it...
* A common religious conspiracy made by a number of historians is that Jesus is not part of history and is a fabricated person. This in and of itself is controversial, but some even go a step further and say that the "character" of Jesus was made up by the founders of Christianity as a figurehead for a religion that they could use to control people. Given the history of Christianity, particularly in regards to religious persecution, this notion can be subject to more than a bit of skepticism.
* Catholics have been said, in one pamphlet, to be part of a conspiracy to force people to pray on Sundays instead of Saturdays and would install prison terms to those who don't.
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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society John Birch Society,]] founded by king theorist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Welch Robert Welch,]] announced early on that [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Eisenhower was a Communist stooge]], concluded later that the Communists were [[TheManBehindTheMan themselves just a front]] for a much [[AncientConspiracy deeper and older conspiracy]], and originated the entire [[TheEmpire New World Order]], [[OneWorldOrder One World Government]] conspiracy meme that Alex Jones is [[SpiritualSuccessor still promoting today]]. The John Birchers are the {{Ur Example}}s of all modern conspiracy theorists.
** Not by a long shot. Welch's pedigree goes back to the anti-Semitic hysteria of the middle ages--and his refinement of the basic concept was made necessary only because it became political suicide to use Jews as scapegoats after [[AdolfHitler one conspiracy theorist in particular]] was handed the power to hunt down his personal bogeymen(/women/children).

* Just in case you thought they couldn't get any more useless, [[TheHills Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt]] apparently fall into this category now. They made an appearance on the aforementioned Alex Jones' show, where they revealed they were both 9/11 truthers and Heidi obsessed over "the {{mark of the Beast}}."

* There are several different theories as to why BarackObama is secretly not an American citizen. They include:
** His mother wasn't allowed to get a plane ride back to Hawaii when she was visiting Kenya because she was too pregnant. She gave birth in Kenya and somehow smuggled the baby onto the plane and to Hawaii without it crying or attracting any attention. No reason is given as to why she jumped through all of these hoops, as opposed to just bringing the baby onto the plane like a normal person.
*** To elaborate: His mother is an American citizen, so her children would have been American citizens in any case. The only thing even remotely in dispute would have been his eligibility to run for president (due to the hazy definition of "natural-born"). His mother going to all this trouble just to ensure he could one day become president crosses the line into XanatosRoulette. (For extra points, imagine her estimating her colored son's chance for the presidency in ''1961''.)
** Obama was forced to give up his American citizenship when he lived in Indonesia as a child.
** Obama ''is'' a U.S. citizen, but also has British citizenship which he inherited from his father. Apparently American presidents are not allowed duel citizenship, despite Chester Arthur doing so.
** Let us also not forget the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspiracy_theories Obama religion conspiracies]].

* And, on the subject of the European Union, there are a vast majority of conspiracy theories, especially in the UK, about the EU being an anti-democratic farce dreamed up by secret neo-Nazis and Nazi sympathisers to finally subjugate and destroy Britain. Sadly, it's an accepted viewpoint in much of the UK perpetrated by the likes of the Daily Mail. In reality, the UK holds great sway over the European Union, including the largest share in the Parliament (10.5% of seats) apart from Germany and opt-outs from many treaties which have been criticised by other states in the union as defeating the entire purpose of the treaty or the union (e.g. Schengen, which abolishes '''internal''' border controls and offers access between national law enforcement agencies, which annoys the more-Europhilic Ireland as neither can join without the other joining, as free movement between the UK and Ireland would have to be restricted).

* Actor [[MelGibson Mel Gibson's]] father was a hard-core lunatic-fringe tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist, which probably explains why he did such a good job portraying one in the movie ''Conspiracy Theory''. It also explains some of the appalling stuff that comes out of his mouth when he's drunk.

* A common religious conspiracy made by a number of historians is that Jesus is not part of history and is a fabricated person. This in and of itself is controversial, but some even go a step further and say that the "character" of Jesus was made up by the founders of Christianity as a figurehead for a religion that they could use to control people. Now to be fair, the Church did commit certain atrocities in its long history, and they did control people with their enormous political power. However, the intention of the Church is to help people by spreading the good news that Jesus gave them. It just had some corrupt people run the Church for periods of their history. The early Christians were persecuted 6 ways from Sunday, to hell and back, etc., for standing up for Jesus' cause and calling him their Messiah. If a group of people were trying to control people, and it failed so bad that the local government was putting them in jail and sending them to their deaths in a Colosseum, then it would have been smart for them to stop, unless they knew what they were preaching was right. There is no conspiracy; the vast majority of the historical community will tell you Jesus was a real man, as the historical criteria of determining reality matches up with what is said about the life he lived and where he lived it. The early Christians weren't trying to control people; they were hiding from the Romans because they were afraid of persecution.

* Lyndon [=LaRouche=] and his followers, whose theories include:
** the British are trying to TakeOverTheWorld,
*** [[TheBritishEmpire They already tried that]]. And it seemed like they were doing pretty well for a while.
** the Zionists, who are often targeted by other conspiracy groups, are merely pawns of the British,
** environmentalists are actually racists,
** [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 violent video games]] are being devised as [[MurderSimulators training programs for the US military]],
** Isaac Newton is not a real person, and he was just created by the British to steal the ideas of Johann Kepler,
** All conflicts since the Peloponnesian war have been started by the same group of evil financiers,
** TheBeatles and the [[TheSixties '60s]] [[NewAgeRetroHippie counterculture]] were part of a secret plan by (guess who) the British to corrupt youth culture and reclaim America,
::and more. It got to the point where ''SaturdayNightLive'' had a running "Lyndon [=LaRouche=] Theater" sketch about some of his weirder theories.

* TimeCube is being suppressed by THE ACADEMIC RELIGIOUS singularity. You must opposite think to unthink EVIL of android mind.

* Proof that anti-Vatican conspiracy theories can come from ''within'' the Vatican as well as outside it, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi_Martin Father Malachi Martin]] was a defrocked (or... '''WAS HE?!''') priest and self-proclaimed professional exorcist who had a particularly lurid set of theories about Satanists secretly operating the Catholic Church. Martin's later years were spent writing novels about Vatican conspiracies that read like proto-Dan Brown novels and are written in a deliberately easy-to-decipher code so that readers in the know could pinpoint whose fictionalized character was whose.
* The equally odd early 20th century pseudo-cleric, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Summers Montague Summers]] made a lively career by writing vast books on what he perceived as a very real conspiracy of witches and demon worshippers, and later went on to propose that not only are vampires real, but that they secretly run the world. Summers' fictional persona of Catholic priest was believed by so many at the time that when he was actually accused of pederasty, he was let off on the assumption that no priest would be capable of such a thing.

**** I keep coming back to this article, and I don't know why! Always after that recurring dream, and the strange music...

See also [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories the Useful Notes section]] on conspiracy theories. And note that (depressingly) the RealLife examples take up almost half this page...

* And speaking of anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denial quickly goes into conspiracy theory when they are asked questions such as "Well, where did all the people go, then?" Note that the people that denial generally gets traction with usually have beliefs that Jews control everything.
* The modern era's MostTriumphantExample has to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke David Icke]], former [[TheBeautifulGame football player]], sports commentator and independent politician, who maintains that the world is being ruled by a clan of [[VoluntaryShapeShifting shape-shifting]] [[AlienInvasion space]] [[LizardFolk lizards]]. The {{British royal family}}, many European royal families, as well as [[GovernmentConspiracy high-ranking politicians]] in the United States are allegedly space lizards. Seeing as most of them are related (albeit most of them only in the tangential sense that anyone is anyone else's seventh cousin or so if you dig deep enough), it isn't surprising that Icke grouped them together. There are a number of people who think his [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar space lizards are a code]] and he's anti-Semitic, but he insists he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin actually means space lizards]]. He has, however, backed down from claims [[MessianicArchetype that he is Christ]]. You have to feel sorry for him, though; he ''did'' play for Coventry.
* Dylan Avery, Jason Bermas, and Korey Rowe, the trio of college students who created the film ''[[DocumentaryOfLies Loose Change]]''. Avery, et al. posit that 9/11 was a [[XanatosGambit ridiculously elaborate hoax]] performed by the US government, who [[NoDelaysForTheWicked covertly rigged two 110-story skyscrapers]] with [[YouFailPhysicsForever exploding thermite]] so that the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil Jewish landlord]] could collect insurance money.
** In 2006, during the "Truth" Movement's heyday, as many as [[http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll one in three]] Americans may have believed one 9/11 conspiracy theory or another. It all sort of collapsed later in the year, when two things happened at once. First, the movement began to [[BrokenBase schism along doctrinal lines]]. Most of the splits were between left-wing groups and right-wing groups, although there's also a lot of argument regarding exactly ''how'' the conspiracy was pulled off (were the planes remote-controlled, or holograms? was thermite used to bring down the towers, or a KillSat?), and whether the government planned the whole thing from the start or simply knew about it ahead of time and deliberately allowed it to happen. Second, the scientific community finally noticed them, did an investigation of their claims, and proceeded to tear them apart. The remaining Truthers have been all but absorbed by the greater body of internet loons, and incorporated their theories into the greater narrative of whichever camp they wound up in. Some bought into Icke's space-lizard story, but most settled down with...
*** Loose Change was completely debunked as far back as 2005 when Popular Mechanics did an investigation on [[http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/1227842 the validity of the conspiracy]]. Not that it would stop wannabe college drop outs from pointing out that these people are obviously either wrong, or "In on it"
* [[http://www.infowars.com/ Alex Jones]], former investigative journalist turned calculating professional fearmonger. Jones makes a tidy living running a radio show and hawking books, tapes, and merchandise, in which he rants about an elaborate, yet somewhat generic [[TheEmpire New World Order]] conspiracy revolving around pretty much every important figure on the planet ([[ReligionOfEvil who are all secretly devil worshippers]]) plotting to round up and [[KillAllHumans kill more or less everyone else]] on the planet for [[ForTheEvulz little discernible reason]].
** Not really, agree with him or no, seeking absolute power and domination for it's own sake isn't a case of doing something ForTheEvulz. It is, sadly, a perfectly logical reason to do something. After all, communism in Soviet Russia was fucking AWESOME if you were a member of the politburo (i.e. political establishment). To think that other people wouldn't climax at the thought of doing anything they want to anybody they want for whatever reason pops into their head without any fear of reprisal is the apex of naiveté. That's what the CompleteMonster does, and many politicians and especially dictators throughout history have more than lived up to that trope. To believe that nobody in the upper echelons of power in this world desire this means that [[DyingLikeAnimals you might be a bit delusional]].
*** No, Jones' himself thinks the conspiracy theories he preaches about are inherently "evil"; vaguely described traits in human psychology set aside. ''Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement'' and ''Endgame 1.5'' are his opuses in this regard. Jones' earlier [[YourMileageMayVary "documentaries"]] were fairly well-researched and thoughtfully explored ideas (relative to the subject in general) regarding New World Order conspiracy theories, but along the way he evolved his own mythology for how he viewed the NWO. It's not splitting hairs, his work more or less culminated into ''Endgame'' where he goes on long rants about the evil of the NWO and the genocide they have in store for humanity. Really, his ideas would have far more traction if he based them on vague psychological mechanics rather than the mess of theories he presents.
** An integral part of the conspiracy theory is that these elites are ''already'' more powerful than any institution known to exist. Not even the Politburo could have pulled off 9/11 and kept it a secret for almost a decade.
** Even if Alex Jones is right about everything, he is still a weasel because he makes a living selling people stuff that will never save them. I doubt buying your own electric generator and "Getting off the grid" is going to save you from the one world government if it really exists.
** Jones' theories are an amalgamation of every conspiracy theory ever (He sews together the birthers, 9/11, Holocaust, NWO, FEMA camps, and Michael Jackson's death all into one).

* Former Minnesota Governor (and professional wrestler) Jesse Ventura believes that the government was involved with 9/11 (though not exactly a "Truther") and now hosts a show on [=TruTV=] aptly titled ''Conspiracy Theory'' where he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin investigates popular conspiracy theories with a team of experts]].
** I may be [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch complaining about a show I don't watch]], but if the commercials are correct, then I do believe he is insane. I'm just waiting for him to get out his tinfoil hat to protect him from the government's {{mind control}} rays before trying to prove that Albus Dumbledore had a hand in Kennedy's assassination due to magicking the bullet.
*** MacPhisto has been watching every episode. While "The Body" is certainly open-minded, he tries to approach every case with a degree of rationality.

* A shockingly large number people still loudly put forth that the 1969 moon landing was a hoax, despite everyone from NASA to ''{{Mythbusters}}'' showing them evidence and scientifically proving it happened. Even without the evidence, you'd think that the USSR would have said something.
** The Russians were in on it, of course. Yes, the "Apollo hoax" people actually claim this.
*** It's hilarious to hear, when pointing out that the Soviet Union would have instantly jumped at slightest chance to disprove the achievements of the dirty capitalists, that "you can't trust those Communists." Apparently they would lie and cheat even to help their worst enemies.
* This Troper has no patience for conspiracy nuts who claim that ID cards will soon become compulsory in Britain, with the threat of fines and imprisonment if you don't get one. ID cards are available, sure, but they're optional, just like getting a passport. She also has no patience for the hyperbole about biometric and other data being available to the government, since most information about us is already freely available. And let's not forget that, day in day out, we ''give away'' our data at the drop of a hat -- whether it's on the internet, signing up for that latest social networking tool, or even in the forms we fill out for store loyalty cards. So the conspiracy nuts are fine with the Internet and store loyalty cards, but the second the government talks about it, there's automatically something terribly wrong? Go figure.

*** I believe they were intended to eventually supplant them, for greater ease (but, admittedly, more risk). The cards would eventually have also been a valid ID for movement within the European Union.

* Back in TheNineties, there was a conspiracy regarding the death of Vince Foster, a deputy White House counsel to Bill Clinton involved in the Travel Office firings known as "Travelgate." The death--a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Fort Marcy Park--was determined to be a suicide by park police, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and two separate special prosecutors, including Ken Starr, a man who tried to get Clinton ousted for lying about a blow job. As late as 1999, there were some people who stated some doubts, but when you reach the point that three separate "police" investigations and two special prosecutors come to the conclusion that it was a suicide, a man from Occam might have something to say about that.

* Good Lord, the things that can be said about John F. Kennedy's assassination. Was Oswald acting alone? Was the Mafia/U.S government/Russians/Aliens/whatever in on it? The fact we are still talking about it decades later must mean something, and that is all that needs to be said lest we start a flame war.
* this troper actually found a pamplet once that said catholics were part of a consparicy to force people to pray on sundays instead of saturdays and would install prison terms to those who dont

* TeenGenius Susumu in ''WandabaStyle'' adamantly believes that the 1969 moon landing was fake, and is thus trying to get a rocket there himself (using environmentally safe methods). In the second half of the series, his mother is introduced as a DesignatedVillain, simply because she wants him to admit that he is wrong (it's her methods in doing so that put her into {{Villain}} territory).

* A common religious conspiracy made by a number of historians is that Jesus is not part of history and is a fabricated person. This in and of itself is controversial but some even go a step further and say that the "character" of Jesus was made up by the founders of Christianity as a figurehead for a religion that they could use to control people. Now to be fair the Church did commit certain atrocities in its long history, and they did control people which was easy with their enormous political power, but the intention of the Church is to help people by spreading the good news that Jesus gave them it just had some corrupt people run the Church for periods of their history. The early Christians were persecuted 6 ways from Sunday, to hell and back, etc., for standing up for Jesus' cause and calling him their Messiah, if a group of people were trying to control people and it failed so bad that the local government was putting them in jail and sending them to their deaths in a Colosseum then I would say it would be smart for them to stop unless they knew what they were preaching was right. There is no conspiracy, the vast majority of the historical community will tell you Jesus was a real man as the historical criteria of determining reality matches up with what is said about the life he lived and where he lived it, and the early Christians weren't trying to control people they were hiding from the Romans because they were afraid of persecution.

* Huey Freeman from ''TheBoondocks'' believes that that there's a Government Conspiracy against black people from, you guessed it, the white man, despite the fact that in "The Trial Of Robert Kelly", he admits that black people don't make it any easier on themselves

* Steven Hyde from ''That70sShow''.

* The Question from ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited''. "There was a magic bullet! It was forged by Illuminati mystics to prevent us from learning the truth!" However he is also played oddly positively for a conspiracey theorist as while his tendancey to connect everything to a single overarcing conpiracey is shown to be insane it also allows him to see the connections to the real conspiracies. He's even called the League's "Data Guy" and is a case of someone being a ProperlyParanoid CrazyAwesome
** Also, aglets. See the page quote.