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** Bob is properly pronoid, as his belief that everyone is out to do him good is proven correct, given [[SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld the safety of the world is dependent on Bob's comfort and safety]].
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** An event repeatedly occurs to Bob, and he gets paranoid about that event, but one day the event stops happening.
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'''Basic Trope''': Characters believe in a conspiracy against them and are proven correct even though most people don't believe them.

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'''Basic Trope''': Characters believe in a conspiracy against them and are proven correct even though [[IgnoredExpert most people don't believe them.them]].

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** Bob turns out to be correct about the spy program, but thinks the spies are more dangerous/damaging than they are.

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** Bob turns out to be correct about the spy program, but thinks the spies are more dangerous/damaging dangerous or damaging than they are.



** The existence of numerous conspiracies makes it possible that Bob's claims might be true, but it turns out he is so focused on his imaginary conspiracies that he is completely unaware of the real ones. The government is actually subtly using him to discredit people who do know what's going on.

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** The existence of numerous conspiracies makes it possible that Bob's claims might be true, but it turns out he is so focused on his imaginary conspiracies that he is completely unaware knows nothing of the real ones. The government is actually subtly using him to discredit people who do know what's going on.



** Bob points out [[RevealingCoverUp blatant evidence that the government is hiding things]] over and above legitimate national security grounds, but nobody pays any attention to him.

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** Bob points out [[RevealingCoverUp blatant evidence that the government is hiding things]] over and above what most people consider legitimate national security grounds, but nobody pays any attention to him.



** Bob's paranoid theories tend to vary wildly from false to [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight completely correct]] and all points in between.

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** Bob's paranoid theories tend to vary wildly from totally false to [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight completely correct]] and all points in between.



* '''Averted''': It turns out that Bob is just crazy.

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* '''Averted''': It turns out that '''Averted''':
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Bob is just crazy.crazy and his suppositions of nefarious happenings are wrong.
** Bob doesn't claim anything shady is happening, and the possibility of such is not explored.



** Alice, a high-ranking government agent, decides "ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight" and divulges everything to Bob about what he wants to know.

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** Alice, a high-ranking government agent, decides "ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight" [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight breaks her oath of secrecy for the sake of her conscience]] and divulges tells Bob everything to Bob about what he wants to know.



** Bob isn't pleased that nobody listened to him, and when he was finally proven right, everybody rushed to him for help. But he refused out of spite, leaving them all for themselves to fight back without any clue about how.

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** Bob isn't pleased that nobody listened to him, and when he was he's finally proven right, everybody rushed rushes to him for help. But he refused refuses out of spite, leaving them all for themselves to fight back without any clue about how.

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