History Main / YouHaveToBelieveMe

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': A similar event happens in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E20BeforeAndAfter Before and After]]". [[WeAreAsMayflies Dying of old age as a nine-year old grandmother]], Kes starts jumping back through her own timeline. At first she has difficulty convincing people as they (as with Picard) think it's dementia, but becomes more convincing as she gets younger and gathers more information... until she jumps back to her childhood on the Ocampan homeworld, where she's unable to convince her father she's not playing some kind of kid's game.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': After Rhino's encounter with aliens in "The Spaceship," he excitedly relates his experience to Bolt and Mittens. Because the elderly rodent has been telling all sorts of [[TallTale tall tales]] as part of his recent [[ScatterbrainedSenior bouts with dementia]], his friends exchange glances, roll their eyes, and grin patronizingly, clearly not buying Rhino's story. The hamster adamantly insists that he's telling the truth, gradually become angry in the process. Eventually, Bolt and Mittens decide to play along and say they believe him, calming him down.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': After Rhino's encounter with aliens in "The Spaceship," he excitedly relates his experience to Bolt and Mittens. Because the elderly rodent has been telling all sorts of TallTales as part of his recent [[ScatterbrainedSenior bouts with dementia]], his friends exchange glances, roll their eyes, and grin patronizingly, clearly not buying Rhino's story. The hamster adamantly insists that he's telling the truth, gradually become angry in the process. Eventually, Bolt and Mittens decide to play along and say they believe him, calming him down.

* Subverted in ''Film/StarTrek2009''; when he's figured out what's going on, Kirk races into the bridge like a madman yelling about how it's a trap. Given his actions -- plus the fact that he's pretty much a stowaway -- Captain Pike is within seconds of having him locked up when Uhura validates Kirk's story with evidence and Spock (who has been given no reason to like Kirk) acknowledges both that Kirk's theory is logical, and Uhura's linguistic skills are beyond reproach. This plus the fact that Pike wrote his dissertation on the anomalous event Kirk is trying to prove is happening a second time gets Pike to give Kirk the benefit of the doubt. It also helped that Kirk was acting fairly calm and rational, at least compared to most people described on this page.

* ''{{ComicBook/Sabretooth}}'' has this with ''{{ComicBook/Deadpool}}'' in his 2016 solo series. Deadpool's memory is not good--to say the least. He doesn't remember killing his parents and mistakenly believes Creed did it. Creed decides to carry the burden--he felt guilty that he watched Wade kill his parents, but didn't stop him. Even when he thinks Wade is about to kill him, he only says that Wade has to trust him & that it's not what--, but Wade cuts him off to reveal he learned the truth.

* Zig-zagged in the ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Intercom}}''. Riley is determined '''not''' to do this, fully aware that telling people about her [[HearingVoices emotions]] could get her locked up. However, it becomes increasingly apparent to her parents and friends that something is troubling her. And the more Riley insists that everything is fine, the more it becomes apparent that something is wrong. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that Riley's experiences with her emotions match the symptoms of schizophrenia to a tee. Eventually, Riley herself starts doubting if the voices are real.]]

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'': Twisted and reversed. At the game's climax, Raiden is contacted by Rose (secretly the Patriots' AI in her form) who claims, as the subtitles spell, "You have to beLIEve me!"

* After ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' got {{uncanceled}} the first time, Creator/SethMacFarlane called Alex Borstein to tell her that the show was back on. She didn't believe him, but instead laughed derisively at him and hung up.

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Dib is one of the only two people on Earth who knows that Zim is an alien, and vehemently and relentlessly tries to convince everyone else around him that they're in terrible danger; his sister Gaz is the second person who knows, but Zim's plots never worry her because she knows that he's such a HarmlessVillain that he'll always wind up sabotaging his own schemes.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The main character in the famous episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]" spends most of the episode gradually slipping into a major anxiety attack after seeing a gremlin on the wing of the plane he's riding on, which vanishes whenever anyone else looks at it, and trying to convince everyone that he isn't going insane. Their concern is admittedly justified, because until recently he'd been a patient in an asylum after suffering a nervous breakdown on a plane, and because he's played by [[Creator/WilliamShatner William Shatner]], ''completely'' [[LargeHam hamming it up]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'': Supergirl has vivid recurring nightmares about killing people. She goes to Green Arrow who is naturally skeptical. Then [[ConspiracyTheorist The Question]] overhears her and is so certain that it's part of a deep government plot that even Supergirl becomes skeptical. He is eventually [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight proven right.]]

** The "Terror at 5 1/2 Feet" segment in "Treehouse of Horror IV," per its [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123Nightmareat20000Feet source material]]. Bart, crazed with fear, fails to convince his fellow passengers of the gremlin dismantling the school bus but ''does'' succeed in freaking them all out to the point where after he's been proven right, they stick him in an insane asylum anyway.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In the episode "Hooky", Mr. Krabs tries to warn people about the fishing hooks just outside of town, but they just ignore his ravings. One even tells him [[YouNeedABreathMint to take a breath mint]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StarchaserTheLegendOfOrin'': Subverted when Orin is trying to convince the others of the existence of the outside world and gets interrupted by [[BigBad Zygon]].
-->'''Orin:''' He's only telling you what he ''wants'' you to believe!\\
'''Zygon:''' ''[entering the chamber behind Orin]'' Because I want you to believe the ''truth''!

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Thanes are faced with some pretty outlandish stories from their population and might easily fall for this trope, although they have the good sense to [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure ask you to go look into that mysterious cavern]] just to be certain. Surely enough, no matter how crazy the story was it all turns out to be true.

* In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', Peter tries to convince Captain Stacy that Dr. Connors is the Lizard with nothing but his say-so to back it up. Stacy has him removed [[spoiler:but does ask one of his officers to look into it]].

* Averted in ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}''. After being recovered from an EscapePod, Captain Carlson starts to tell his interrogator that his story will seem hard to believe. He's interrupted with the news that the extraterrestrial woman that was found on his abandoned space shuttle has escaped, draining the LifeEnergy of several people in the process, so they'll believe a lot more than he thinks.