Cassandra Truths in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- All For Luz:
- In the first chapter, Luz tries to tell her mother she's got holes in her hands, Camila initially believes she just drew them on and tells her to clean them off. Its only after being clean with a cloth and could feel the holes does realise her daughter is telling the truth and immediately takes her to the hospital in motherly panic.
- Discussed in chapter 8. Luz fears her teammates won't believe her if she tells them she took Julia's Quirk away from her with her permission. Luckily, its subverted as they believe her before Julia even vouches for her friend.
- Defied in chapter 18. Luz doesn't bother trying to explain to the crowd and her mother about what happened at The Independent Store she just blew up in her fight with the assassins, believing that whatever answer she gave, no one was going to listen to a word of what she would say, due to seeing her just become a Cop Killer.
- Amazing Fantasy: Multiple:
- Izuku suddenly manifests spider powers after nearly dying from a spider bite. He tries to pass this off as just getting his long-awaited Quirk, but this infuriates Bakugou, who believes that Izuku was hiding his powers for years despite Izuku's assurances otherwise.
- Peter is frustrated with the fact that he struggles to get anyone to believe that he could possibly be the real Spider-Man, who is nothing more than a comic book character in Izuku's universe. Even when being interrogated by a Living Lie Detector after being hospitalized by Stain, the police continue to believe that he's nothing more than a lunatic who deludes himself into believing he's Peter Parker.
- In the Ranma ½/Rosario + Vampire crossover Big Human on Campus, Ranma will tell anyone at Youkai Academy who asks him what kind of monster he is that he's a human (which he is). However, only Tsukune and Moka believe him.
- Downplayed in Boldores And Boomsticks. Many characters assume that Yang's performance at a fighting-type tournament is complete nonsense, given that she's a human who has supposedly beaten many Pokemon. Yang repeatedly proves the doubters wrong, either with photographic evidence or outright demonstrating her skills.
- Also downplayed with Professor Cypress. As hysterical as he can be, Professor Oak knows he can be right as often as he's wrong, and the times he was right have turned out to be pretty serious (like those incidents with the "Water's Great Guardian" and the Unown). So when he starts trying to warn Oak about the Grimm, he actually takes it seriously as something is probably happening, and if Cypress is right, lives could be at stake.
- Can I Keep Him?: Mirabel seems to be the only one who ever noticed the existence of the "monster" lurking in the jungle outside of town and no one believes her when she tells them.
- The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout: Jack and his friends accuse Karla of pushing him and hurting his head when she beats him in a race. Since Karla is prone to mischief, Fishlegs believes them and subjects her to yoga as punishment.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: Multiple, all involving Ami and her good, peaceful, Bookworm, Dark Is Not Evil nature, against all expectations of Dungeon Keepers, being part of her as a Hero with Bad Publicity:
- From "Outside Perspectives"
:"That- that deviant monster! What did she do to her?" Anise demanded to know, her cheeks matching her eyes in colour.
"I don't know." Dandel turned over the scroll, revealing two blackened lines where she had been reading. "Someone has censored that part of the letter. Oh, and there's an annotation in a different handwriting." The fae stared at the much neater characters. "This part was not factually correct and based on a misunderstanding. Nothing untoward was planned nor occurred," she read.
"Yeah, right, who'd believe that?" Tilia snorted. - From "Ward Trouble":"I believe his exact words were," the King began, imitating the Avatar"s impatient and disdainful tone nearly perfectly, "'just stop provoking the bookworm and she won't bother you.'"
Duke Libasheshtan remained silent as he parsed the absurdity of the statement. - From "Reluctant Overtures":"I expect you would be disappointed by the results. She's more than happy to stay with her books unless forced into action, as I have repeatedly pointed out before."
King Ral snorted. The day he started to believe that the Dark Empress had an elaborate city conquest plan just lying around with no intention to use it was the day he’d abdicate due to senility.
- From "Outside Perspectives"
- Equestria Ninja Girls: In Equestria Batgirls and Forgotten Friendship, Mikey's brothers still don't believe home about Pizzaface. And neither do the Rainbooms. This is also Subverted as the Titans and Batgirl believe him. And in Forgotten Friendship, human Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy believe him as well.
- Two instances in the Touken Ranbu/Onmyoji crossover The First Saniwa:
- Izuminokami overhears two yōkai discussing their plans to Kill All Humans, but is dismissed by Kasen as "hallucinations". Cue next chapter with Aoandon declaring her intention to free demonkind by wiping out humanity.
- Ishikirimaru warns Heian-kyō folks of high amounts of malicious energy that he senses, but everyone dismisses his concern since Yamata-no-orochi is already defeated at this point.
- A Hero: Dalek Sec's answer whenever someone asks what he is is a loud "I AM AN IM-PER-I-A-LIS-TIC SPACE NAZI." Most civilians think he's just a really dedicated cosplayer and move on.
- A Hero Forged:
- When she notices the similarities between Luz and Eda, Lilith immediately comes to the conclusion that Luz is Eda's half-human daughter and that she has been keeping it a secret from everyone. When Eda finds out about this and tries dissuading this theory, Lilith dismisses this as her denying it.
- Pretty much everyone at Hexside also believe that Luz is Eda's daughter, referring to her as "Clawthorne" and making up excuses for explanations to the contrary.
- Heroes of the New World; Original Character Spytand Malice notices Yamato acting strangely after one of her fights against Kaido, taking more food back to her room and taking a wider variety than her usual meat and sake, and (most importantly) not trying to kill her father for nearly two weeks. He's convinced she's hiding something, but when he reports this to Queen the Fat Bastard blows Malice off, thinking he's just a creepy Stalker with a Crush that needs to get a real hobby. When it's revealed she was hiding something (specifically, she was nursing Izuku Midoriya back to health and the two successfully launched an escape attempt from Wano, nearly killing Malice in the process when he tried to stop them), Kaido is furious with Queen for dismissing Malice's report and intends to have a little "chat" with him before ordering Malice to make up for his own failure and bring Izuku and Yamato back to Wano alive.
- Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Upon learning from Professor Sycamore on the Fog Car (aka Silent Hill) and there's a nice person named Alex Shepherd that will help Sycamore when he arrives, Parker Cerise immediately warns him that's not the best plan. Unfortunately, Gloria and Goh immediately tell the boy to shut up — not out of malice, but because he accidentally blurted out the twist to Silent Hill 2 prior — before Parker gives up on telling why it's not a good idea. The next chapter then reveals why Parker was wary; Alex Shepherd's game contains Pyramid Head, same as 2, and one ending could turn Alex into one. Yuri only knew about 2 and Chloe, the other expert of the series, wouldn't have learned about the talk for afew more chapters. And those who read the stories from the original trilogy would know that this Alex can do the same.
- It's Always Spooky Month: In chapter 7, Skid keeps getting blamed for things breaking by both Pump and Lemon Monster, when he was really innocent. It was actually the Happy Fella doll who broke them.
- Justice League of Equestria: Multiple:
- Mare of Steel: When Rainbow Dash, suffering from lack of control of her new powers, accidentally shatters one of Applejack's trees with a kick, AJ doesn't believe her when she tells the truth. Later, when Rainbow Dash reveals her identity as Supermare to her friends, Applejack and Rarity don't believe her... until Rainbow Dash blows up a boulder with her heat vision to prove it.
- In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night: When Shining Armor tries to tell Cadence about his recruitment by the Green Lantern Corps, she laughs it off as a joke. This in spite of the fact that she's had lunch with an alien superhero and is best friends with a demigoddess — something she herself reminds Shining of when reassuring him that she'll believe him no matter what.
- The J-WITCH Series: Initially Uncle in particular is rather skeptical of Drago's claims of being Shendu's son, since demons are Born of Magic and therefore have no need to reproduce. It isn't until Elyon gets confirmation from the elder dragon himself that that he is Drago's father that he believes.
- In the Jackie Chan Adventures and W.I.T.C.H. crossover fanfic Kage (part of Project Dark Jade), Jade's claims of not being a threat are this, especially after a takeover attempt by the Queen and a dose of Blatant Lies from Nerissa (as "the Mage").
- In the Recursive Fanfiction Shadows over Meridian, even when Tynar points out evidence to the contrary, and Jade/Kage herself denies it, Vathek still refuses to accept that she's not a monster created by Phobos as a minion. It's only after seeing the two of them interact, and seeing Nerissa's comatose body (Jade having stolen her shadow with a Leech Khan) as proof of what Jade was saying, that he begrudgingly starts to believe.
- Caleb takes it even further, refusing to believe that the Mage was an imposter even when seeing Nerissa's body.
- In the Recursive Fanfiction Shadows over Meridian, even when Tynar points out evidence to the contrary, and Jade/Kage herself denies it, Vathek still refuses to accept that she's not a monster created by Phobos as a minion. It's only after seeing the two of them interact, and seeing Nerissa's comatose body (Jade having stolen her shadow with a Leech Khan) as proof of what Jade was saying, that he begrudgingly starts to believe.
- In Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else?, while Dagur is suspicious of all of the lies they try to feed him, the one thing they tell him that is the truth — that Mirabel is Hiccup's girlfriend, not his servant — he scoffs at.
- In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Kyon's sister had tried to tell her parents and friends that her brother is a hero and has real adventures but nobody believes her. This is in part because her brother, knowing she can't keep a secret, tells her enough to know but not enough for her to be believed if she tells someone else.
- Metal Gear: Green:
- When the press ask Nezu how he can rationalize hiring villains for security, Nezu asks if they have proof that the MSF are villains. Madam President has proof of the MSF doing things that go against hero society, the problem being it would implicate the HPSC in even worse crimes.
- When Grizzly explains to Momo, Mina and Toru that the Heart Star-Freezer Boy shipping nonsense is because he was trying to expose her money laundering scheme back then, they still don't believe it until he shows the video.
- When Momo asks where the heroes were when Ape and Eagle explain their endeavors in South America, Grizzly mentally remarks that there's no heroes in South America, but to these kids who digest hero propaganda all their lives, that's impossible for them to believe.
- Basically defied in “The Prodigal Grandson” when James Bond and new associate Catherine ‘Cat’ Svensson confront one of the parties responsible for the current crisis;
- Bond: How disbelieving would you be if I said it was an alien being?Svensson: Around you, I would believe almost anything.Bond: In that case, it’s an alien being.
- In Rabbit of the Moon, Hestia is initially disbelieving of Bell's story about Yharnam, the Old Blood, and coming back from the dead, initially trying to write it off as him being under some kind of strange illusion because she knows he's not lying. But after reading his Falna, she knows it must be true and is soon brought to tears at the horrible things her child experienced.
- Remnant Inferis: DOOM: Jaune Arc participates in the defense of Vale and manages to kill a few Possessed, but Team RWBY and the Doom Slayer were the only ones who saw him do it. Later, when the survivors are questioned, an Atlas soldier examines Jaune's sword and finds it is completely undamaged, causing him to believe that Jaune lied about fighting and hid like a coward, condescendingly telling him to go home and make room for the real fighters. In reality, this is because his sword is very well built and durable to stand up in battle.
- Spider-Ninja:
- This trope is the reason why Nick Fury and Agent Coulson aren't too concerned about the Turtles being exposed. For example, even though Baxter Stockman saw the teenage mutant ninja turtles and their sister, no one will readily believe that SHIELD has a secret team of teenage mutant ninjas, especially not when Baxter was found unconscious on the floor right after attacking a warehouse with an army of robots. The same goes for Sitwell, who (even if he hadn't betrayed the organization) would never be believed if he told people he'd been interrogated by two mutant Turtles note . Fury, Hill, and Coulson know they're telling the truth, but they aren't about to tell anyone that.
- Invoked then defied in Chapter 37. Hun doesn't believe the Purple Dragons when they tell him that they're regularly being beaten up by "four guys in turtle costumes" and a web-shooting girl, and he doesn't expect Shredder to, either. That's when Shredder holds up a camera with footage one of the Dragons shot of them fighting with the Turtles.
- A Starstruck, Phantasmic Romance: A mall guard, upon looking at how skinny Starfire is and not knowing about her powers, refuses to believe she hurt Dash.note
- The Sassgardian in Superhero RPF has a lot of headcanons, as the other fanfic writers put it, to share from the anatomy and mating habits of dragons to Asgardian culture. Most, if not all, of it is true. When they begin to believe him this quickly turns into a case of Too Much Information.
- Invoked in To rise above, a crossover between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel. A few months after the Snap, Angel reveals that the vision he received from Cordelia (which occurred just hours before the Snap) saw the complete Scooby Gang and Angel Investigations fighting alongside the entirety of the Avengers. However, Angel doesn't mention this vision to anyone until a visit to a spiritual council of magic (which includes Tara's ghost) reveals that the Infinity Stones were actually sent to other dimensions by the Senior Partners as part of a deal they made with Thanos; prior to this revelation, Angel had no idea how or why his team might be allied with the Avengers, so he saw no point bringing it up until he knew how everything would come together.
- Wander over Foster's AU One-Shot (Wander over Yonder, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends): No one believes Bloo when he says that Wander is an alien. Unlike his other conspiracy theories, this one is true.
- In Weight of the World Team RWBY refuses to believe Emerald was the one who attempted to pickpocket America when he and Canada arrived in Vale, dismissing America's claim as soon as he brought it up. This results in the brothers not sharing their discovery that Emerald has a hallucination Semblance with them or JNPR. In contrast, when America tells Penny about the Semblance and Emerald and her team's untrustworthiness, she believes him immediately.
- In the Supernatural/Arrow crossover "When Demon Hunters Meet the Arrow", after the heroes hand Malcolm Merlyn over to the League of Assassins, he tries to take the heroes down with him by revealing Thea's status as his daughter. However, thanks to a deal with Crowley (in exchange for video evidence of Dean acting as a dog under the influence of a potion), everyone who might be able to support Malcolm's claim that Thea is his daughter has either had their memory erased or been driven insane, depending on their level of involvement with Malcolm's crimes.
- With Pearl and Ruby Glowing: A lot of the support group members tried to tell people about their assaults and were not believed for various reasons, ranging from the story sounding too extreme to be true to the perpetrator being involved with law enforcement.
- All Assorted Animorphs AUs:
- In "What if all the yeerks suddenly died?", the Animorphs and ex-hosts alike are unwilling to tell the public exactly what happened at first because they think no-one would believe them.
- In "What if Elfangor and Loren raised Tobias?", the Fangor parents didn't tell their son that they met in space because they couldn't prove it and knew it sounded unbelievable.
- Eleutherophobia:
- In The Day the Earth Stood Still, none of the soldiers believe Tom when he says that his Yeerk is dead, so he has to be detained for three days to see if it starves out. The little girl in the cell next to him also doesn't believe that he's really Jake's brother.
- In Escape from L.A., Tom and Eva are aware that the past Animorphs won't believe them when they say that they're not Controllers, so they have to hide from them instead.
- In the A Splash of Blue series, at one point Tobias overhears Chapman reveal that the Yeerks are leaving Loren (Tobias's mother) alone because she's regarded as such a lunatic with her alien conspiracy theories that they basically consider her a full cover operation all on her own, as people are used to ignoring her.
- In What Tomorrow Brings, Mertil kidnaps Tom and Marco because he thinks they're Controllers. Marco insists that he's not, even as Tom tells him that it'll do no good.
- In Dirty Sympathy, Daryan screams at the Detention Center and at his trial that he wasn't guilty of the murder he was accused of and that he was framed. No one believes him.
- What It Takes: Neither Laurel nor Oliver are able to convince Quentin that Darhk is a villain, even as red flag after red flag about the man springs up. Even Sara isn't able to convince him, though by that point it's because he doesn't want to believe her, as it means he destroyed his relationship with Laurel for nothing.
- In The Changeling Sequence, Tim Drake tries to comfort Dick by exposing his theory about Jason secretly coming back from the grave. He only manages to upset the older hero because hey, dead generally stays dead.
- A lighter example would be people cooing over Damian when he casually declares his dad is Batman. Every little kid believes their father is a superhero, after all.
- In the sequel to Cinderjuice, The Bug Princess, there is an amusing example of this. One of Lydia's dorm mates, Tara, is certain that Lydia is bringing an unregistered male visitor into her room. She's absolutely right. However, when said male visitor is a shapeshifter, this is difficult to prove.
- In The Prodigal Son, when Atlas and Delta confront Stanley Poole, he yells that Atlas isn't real. Everyone dismisses it as a splicer's delusions ( especially since Poole had also been deluding himself into thinking he was the socialite Ava-Marie Tate), but Stanley had actually just spoiled the big twist of BioShock.
- The Black Wrangler: most of Ichigo's friends believe he simply imagined the Title Character.
- Neither of Calvin's parents believe him when he describes the bizarre adventures he's been on in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series.
- Same with Miss Wormwood when grading his paper on Egypt (which he completed by going there himself).
- Invoked by Hobbes in Can You Imagine That?, setting a Forget-O-Ray on everyone but himself and Calvin for this reaction.
- A Certain Unknown Level 0: No one in MINUS believes that Touma is the Unknown Level 0 when he tells them upfront because they can't believe he didn't fight Accelerator to make himself strong.
- Blackened Skies:
- Monokuma effectively sets this up with his first motive. While randomly distributing videos to students detailing the crimes they committed in their previous killing games, he announces that one of the videos is fake. Thus, when Hifumi receives a video detailing the extent of Celeste's crimes, they fear that nobody will believe them despite having evidence.
- This also comes into play when Kaede watches her video and learns that the trap she set didn't actually kill Rantaro. Once the initial shock wears off, she immediately insists that couldn't possibly be real, and that this must be the fake Monokuma had mentioned.
- let's go out with a bang!: After constantly Crying Wolf and Playing the Victim Card, Kokichi finds that nobody believes him when he insists that Miu tried to shoot him. Particularly given how, well, he's still alive to tell the tale.
- Danganronpa Gaiden Series: In Tying the Knot, Hiro freaks out and claims that Makoto and Kyoko's wedding venue is haunted. He is promptly told to shut up by Aoi, who doesn't want him to ruin the wedding. However, he's actually correct as the ghosts of Kyoko's parents, as well as their dead classmates (minus the Despair Sisters) and Koichi Kizakura are present.
- In Slash Fic Fever Dreams when Light goes to the media, L manipulates the media in order to suppress Light's story: painting his "Kira experience" and claims of having met the real L in the same light as someone claiming to have had a demonic possession and an Elvis sighting so that no one will ever believe him. There's also the instance when Light is cornered and L has all but proved that he is Kira, Light counters with the argument that if he really was Kira then why were they all still alive and why would he allow himself to be trapped so easily? Aizawa suggests that Kira might just be "a Fool for Love" but L immediately dismisses that idea as ridiculous — Kira would never fall in love with L!
- What If Frieza Turned Good?: Future Trunks suffers from this; when he arrives, he finds it much harder to convince the Dragon Team that Goku is going to suffer from a fatal heart virus or that there's some evil Androids that will awaken in a few years.
- What If Goku Landed at Capsule Corp?: Bad Launch sneezes right after being cornered by the heroes; Good Launch has no idea what is going on. Bulma believes that Launch is attempting to trick the group by playing dumb, and is ready to beat her up.
- Duchess overhears Raven and Apple admit that their relationship is fake in Girlfrenemies. She tries to out them but no one believes her. Apple and Raven are too obviously in love to be faking. After Apple and Raven begin dating for real, Apple outright tells Duchess that no one will believe her story that they weren't really dating until a few minutes prior.
- Corrin Reacts: Takumi is heavily insistent that Corrin is the prankster that Ryoma and Xander are hunting for. However, all of them dismiss him as being overly paranoid.
- "Fix You" features Ross reuniting with the group after spending four years in London since his marriage to Emily, learning that Rachel is now engaged to Marco, the heir to a major fashion business. Ross initially has trouble getting along with Marco, who makes various comments to Ross implying that he is making sure that Rachel is completely dependent on him for her future job prospects, but Ross never has any proof that Marco is anything but a supportive fiancé and husband to her. Fortunately, Ross finally gets proof of Marco's true nature when he accompanies Joey to a gay bar while Joey is researching a role and the two see Marco making out with another man, allowing Ross to obtain proof that Marco was just using Rachel as a beard to hide his own sexuality from the public.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Dumbledore at one point admits to Harry that he's responsible for every bad thing that's happened throughout his life, but the conversation's sheer absurdity combined with a Chicken Incident mean Harry doesn't take it seriously.
- In Harry Potter and the Descent Into Darkness, a Dark!Harry fic, when picking Harry's "treasure" for the Second Task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament, the cup comes up blank when picking a hostage for Harry to save. Everyone assumes the cup is malfunctioning. No one considers that maybe there's no one at Hogwarts that Harry gives a damn about anymore. Also, in Divination class, Ron scrys that Harry is a manipulative liar and a murderer, but immediately dismisses it as having misread the results.
- In My Brother, a running gag in the early chapters is that virtually nobody believes that Harry has a little sister until she actually starts at Hogwarts (Emma was born after James and Lily went into hiding, two months before Voldemort killed them, with the result that very few people were even told about her over the next decade to ensure her safety).
- In Make a Wish there's an entire magical family descended from the mythical Cassandra, all of whom have inherited the same curse. Instead of going mad as no one pays attention to their predictions, they use what they see to start profitable businesses, with a sideline of helping the good guys (like Harry Potter).
- The Rigel Black Chronicles: Harry is stunned when Hermione's research reveals that witches and wizards don't create their own magic, they just absorb it from the environment — meaning that widespread attitudes of owning magic, or being a steward of it, are bunk. However, she quickly realises that she can't just go around telling people, because it will be completely unpalatable to most of society, including many of the most powerful and influential people, who would certainly retaliate against her before she could gain any traction.
- In Snapped Draco makes several attempts to alert Snape to Harry's rule-breaking activities, only to be dismissed as lying to try to get Harry in trouble.
- Lampshaded in When in Doubt, Obliviate. After Gilderoy Lockhart complains that Sirius believes Lockhart erased his memory before taking him to St. Mungo's that fateful Halloween night, Harry comments that it's the truth.Lockhart: That just makes it worse. Still, at least no one else seems to believe it.
Harry: I think it's the way he's phrasing it, really. It makes him sound like it's just a conspiracy theory.
Lockhart: I've never tried the whole Cassandra Truth but it's really working for me.
- In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, after killing a few Brazilian soldiers who burst into his room, Alucard gets a phone call from Integra. Alucard truthfully tells Integra that he was minding his own business when the soldiers burst in and started shooting him. Integra doesn't believe him, because Alucard is such a Troll and a Blood Knight who revels in Black Comedy that killing a bunch of soldiers For the Evulz is the exact kind of thing Alucard would do.Alucard: Okay. First of all, I was minding my own business.
Integra: (slams her desk) Bullshit!
Alucard: I was!
- Collated Accounts of the Infinity Train: A summary: The existence of the train was this prior to the 21st century, at which point advances in technology helped abductees more easily record evidence of its existence and collate their stories. Until then, claims were dismissed as insane ramblings and delusions.
- The Sun Will Come Up And The Seasons Will Change: Defied; Mary knows nobody would believe her about the Infinity Train, so she doesn’t even bother trying to tell anybody about it. Instead, she claims that after running away, she survived out in the woods, met Nora and lived in the hut the latter had created for a while, and then Nora had tried to kill her after finding out that she was autistic. She also told the police what she knew about Nora’s neo-Nazi ideals and her ties with Xander, but didn’t tell them about her Spiteful Suicide as she thought her body would have remained stuck in the Infinity Train’s realm. The story does come under scrutiny between the lack of physical evidence that Mary was at the hut and nobody being able to figure out Nora’s cause of death after her body was returned to Earth. However, as there was no evidence disproving Mary’s testimony and since Nora’s memories gave Mary details about the hut that she would only have known if she had actually seen it, the police decide to just close the cases on Mary and Nora’s disappearances.
- Asylum of Doom: When Gaz is somehow sent back in time and trapped in the Burke Lunatic Asylum as a patient, nobody believes her claims that she's from the future and doesn't belong there. They just think she's crazy like everyone else is.
- The New Adventures of Invader Zim has the canonical example of absolutely no one believing Dib about Zim, and later the other Irkens, being aliens. For a separate example, starting in Season 2, there's Tak's insistence that Zim is the mystery masked figure "Miz" who is inciting rebellion against the Tallest. No one believes her about this, due to a combination of thinking Zim wouldn't use such an obvious alias (and that he lacks the charisma to pull it off) and viewing Tak's belief as just an extension of her obsession for revenge on Zim.
- The Boy Who Cried Idiot:
- When Lincoln tells Mrs. Johnson about how Martin was the one who threw his textbook out the window and a raccoon was the one who bit it, she doesn't believe him. Then, when he tells the same thing to Principal Huggins, he doesn't believe him either, and neither do his parents.
- When Lincoln tells Lynn Sr. about Leni's habit of watching him sleep, he again thinks he's lying.
- When Lincoln tells his sisters that Martin isn't his friend, they don't believe him either.
- Calamity Physics has Matt Murdock finally confessing his heightened senses to Karen, but since he's currently in the hospital and on drugs for the pain, Karen merely thinks he's higher than a kite. Matt rambling about Foggy's "pillowy" arms and spontaneously undressing doesn't help either.
- In The home-trip., when Peter tells his class that the Winter Soldier and Black Widow are his parents, Flash openly denies this.
- In Peter Parker's Field Trip (Of course it's to Stark Industries), Mr. Harrison is convinced that Peter is lying about his internship with Tony Stark (which, to be fair, is half-right) and thinks that he is only telling everyone this because it would make him popular. The fact that they have called his Aunt and ignored her confirming Peter's involvement with SI and did nothing to confirm the validity of their accusations with SI itself takes it to I Reject Your Reality territory. It takes Tony Stark walking into the principal office and telling them himself that Peter wasn't lying for it to sink in.Principal: So, what was it? Boasting about the internship? Trying to argue with him about it?
Peter: No, sir. Mr. Stark signed my permission slip to Stark Industries, alongside my Aunt May's signature, and Mr. Harrington thinks that I forged it.
Principal: Correction. Mr. Harrington knows that you forged it. Just like we knew that you forged his signature on the internship papers and on your emergency contact slip... and, both times, he vouched for your usual honesty and integrity. We took the hard times that you were going through into account, we let it slide... but three strikes, Mr. Parker, and you're out. I'm sure you're familiar with that concept?
- Happens in a number of Miraculous Ladybug fics spawned by the same tumblr prompt. The specifics vary depending on the author, but the gist is that Marinette finds out Adrien is Chat Noir and decides to tell him that she knows, that she is Ladybug and that she has a crush on him. Unfortunately, she manages to fumble it so badly that when she actually tells him she's Ladybug, he assumes she's lying. And Marinette is then further humiliated when Chloé hears the conversation and brings it up in front of the class.
- Common in fanfiction regarding Lila Rossi following the events of "Chameleon" and Season Three. Much drama is mined from Marinette struggling — and failing — to convince others of Lila's true nature.
- In Marinette Dupain-Cheng's Spite Playlist and tales like it, this leads to Marinette transferring out of College Francoise Dupont in order to get away from the drama and have a fresh start.
- In Who You Know, Alya not only refuses to believe that Lila never actually bothered telling Marinette that she could arrange for her to meet the mysterious new fashion designer MDC (as Lila knew Marinette would never buy it), but that Marinette is MDC, and wants Alya to have her first exclusive interview after revealing her identity.
- I See What You Do Behind Closed Doors: After Lila is exposed, Mylene is the first to try apologizing to Marinette, but gets rejected due to claiming that she had no way of knowing Lila wasn't telling the truth. The rest of the class then dig themselves deeper when they try to convince her that it was her fault they dismissed her as being Driven by Envy; while calling them out on this, Marinette implies that she actually could have forgiven them for being taken in if they weren't so insistent upon blaming her for how they refused to heed her warnings.
- The Karma of Lies:
- Both Marinette and Plagg try to convince Adrien to help expose Lila's deceit, as she's actively hurting their classmates with Fake Charities and other scams. But Adrien blows them off: thanks to his family's wealth, he has no idea about the true value of material goods, dismissively claiming that anything she's stolen can easily be replaced.
- Plagg also repeatedly warns Adrien that he's Tempting Fate, and that a karmic backlash is building up against him. Adrien, however, firmly believes that he's protected by Protagonist-Centered Morality: he's a good guy! And he's going to get everything he desires and rightly deserves.
- Lila deliberately invokes this while talking to the police; her testimony paints her as an Unwitting Pawn of Gabriel and Adrien, with her blissfully unaware that her 'beloved boyfriend' was manipulating her. When she realizes that Officer Roger is suspicious of him, she tearfully insists that it would be a "grave miscarriage of justice" to assume he helped his father terrorize Paris, knowing she won't be believed.
- Once Lila finally makes things personal by tricking Adrien, he immediately finds out that his classmates don't believe his claims about her at first, with Alya immediately reminding him that "We know Lila doesn't lie." They're only willing to start believing him after discovering all the ways that she's scammed them... only to find that people think they're supporting Adrien in his efforts to slander a perfectly innocent girl.
- The police find Adrien's testimony doubly suspicious, as he freely admits that he knew about her true nature the whole time and never bothered doing anything about it. So regardless of whether they believe him or not, he's just inadvertently revealed that he considers that kind of thing to be no big deal so long as he's not personally affected.
- Adrien also finds himself in this position when it comes to the question of whether or not he knew about his father's activities as Hawkmoth. While he sincerely wasn't aware, his behavior makes him look extremely suspicious, particularly as he clings to his conviction that everything should go the way he wants because he says so.
- Leave for Mendeleiev: After Lady Wifi 'exposes' Chloé as Ladybug, Chat Noir cheerfully harasses the real Ladybug about how the 'cat's out of the bag', openly calling her by her supposed Secret Identity. Nothing Ladybug says or does can convince him that she's not Chloé — and after the fight, he corners her in the closet when she runs in there to detransform, claiming that it's okay for her to drop her disguise since he 'already knows' her secret. It takes seeing Chloé outside with her father when he knows Ladybug is still hiding in the closet to get him to realize Lady Wifi was wrong... and even then, he continues insisting that Chloé could have been Ladybug.
- The One to Make It Stay:
- Even when confronted with direct proof that Lila lied about working with Prince Ali, Nino and Kim remain doubtful. Alya, meanwhile, combines this with Moving the Goalposts, declaring that unless they have proof that everything was a lie, she won't accept that they have reason to doubt her word.
- Later, Ladybug points out to Alya that anything she posts on the Ladyblog can be seen by anyone, including enemies like Hawkmoth. Alya is briefly horrified, but later convinces herself that the Ladyblog is surely Beneath Notice. Hawkmoth's first Interlude proceeds to prove that he does, in fact, follow the Ladyblog, and used the very thing Ladybug was confronting Alya over posting as inspiration for one of his nastiest schemes yet.
- Of Patience and Pettiness:
- Marinette spent a full week trying in vain to convince her classmates that Lila was deceiving them all before she came up with a plan to decisively expose her. The fact that nobody was willing to hear her out beforehand, and how easily the majority try to find somebody else to blame for how easily they turned their backs, naturally strains her relationships with everyone.
- Alya later finds herself grappling with this when she declares that she used to be Rena Rouge, only for Kagami to question it, pointing out that she doesn't have any proof of her claims.
- In the fourth chapter of Royal Blue and La Sylphide, Paulette, the little girl Gabriel is babysitting, remembers getting turned into a mermaid champion by La Sylphide to fight a Spectre in detail. Fortunately, her story about "a prince with blue feathers and a fairy princess" is waved away by her parents as a game of make-believe.
- To Save a Friend: Marinette is livid when she learns that Alya has been abusing Nino thanks to Lila's Toxic Friend Influence, but laments that nobody will believe her thanks to Lila undermining her credibility. Later, when Adrien admits how Ladybug had called Lila out in front of him, Chloé shuts down the others before they can turn on him for it:Alix: So, you knew Lila was lying and didn't tell us?!
Chloé: Could you blame him? You all turned on Dupain-Cheng when she tried to warn you! - So you time travel to the future and your classmate gets punched...: While Future!Chloé is showing her classmates evidence of all of Lila's Celebrity Lies, Rose pipes up and reveals that she'd already learned the truth from Prince Ali. Alya immediately demands to know why she hadn't warned them, only for Rose to remind the Ladyblogger that she had, but Alya refused to listen:Rose: I even tried to show you the texts, but you got mad and accused me of making up lies and trying to put down Lila. Juleka told me not to bother showing the proof if you are not going to accept it.
- What Goes Around Comes Around:
- After being exposed as one of Hawk Moth's accomplices, Lila finds herself hard-pressed to convince the police that she wasn't part of his inner circle and aware of the full scope of his evil plans. She insists that she was Locked Out of the Loop to no avail.
- When Adrien first tells him that he was Chat Noir, Nino assumes it was a poorly planned out joke, only to realize he was actually being serious. Similarly, Marinette doesn't believe him until Tikki vouches for him. It hardly helps that Adrien no longer has the Ring, having given it to his mother and letting her become a super-powered terrorist who broke the other villains out of jail.
- Phoenix's Tear: Reignition:
- Tiger of the Wind runs headlong into this when dealing with Juniper. While his keen sense of smell alerts him that Juniper is actually a disguised Hare, he can't easily prove this to the others, much to his mounting frustration.
- Hare cites this as one of the main reasons he didn't tell the others about the Tear right from the start: when they first met, he tried tricking the group out of their rightful winnings. Since Holly had the Magic Stone, if he claimed that he just so happened to have a magical pendant of his own, they likely would have assumed he was trying to trick them again. (And while he could easily prove he was being truthful, Hare had his own reasons for keeping it secret, thus using this trope as an excuse.)
- Try as he might, Tiger isn't able to convince his brother that Muu is lying about how he captured Gray Wolf. Hare notes that Gray Wolf might prefer the lie since it enables him to stay righteously angry at Tiger over his supposed betrayal.
- Dermabrasion: When Hawks takes Dabi as his date for a Hero gala, the other pros ask him how they met. Dabi tells the truth that they met when Dabi was burning down a Yakuza compound and then started hanging out more when Hawks tried to inflitrate the League of Villains through him. The heroes think he's joking.
- Ennea Series:
- After Hawks unlocks Orange (Future Bakugo)'s Quirk, Green (Future Midoriya) realizes no one will believe they are from the future. He predicts they will think they are a spy or Manchurian Agent because only agents of All For One have access to more than one Quirk. His prediction comes true when Hawks tells Aizawa about the time travelers and their future. Aizawa initially believes Hawks has been brainwashed and reassures Hawks he will help him... by sending him to psychiatric care. Orange steps in before he can try and convinces Aizawa they're telling the truth.
- Seven years before the present day, an elderly man noticed someone (a Commission agent) following a family who told the police a Hero murdered someone. He told the police this when the family was killed, but his word was dismissed since he was "senile, old, and paranoid" (or at least, the Commission claimed he was).
- No one believes Hawks when he tells them about his fight with Kaetsu and the injuries his handler sustained during their brawl since All For One had Overhaul heal Kaetsu's wounds, erasing the evidence. This causes Hawks to doubt his own memory.
- Nutricula: when Izuku tells Katsuki just how his Combo Platter Powers work — mainly, that he has to die first, then comes back with an ability related to how he died — Katsuki naturally refuses to believe him. Partly as that would require Katsuki to recognize that he himself accidentally killed Izuku.
- Peace's Apprentice: While the press publicized how All Might was not working at U.A., the League of Villains refuses to believe that it's not some kind of cover-up. In reality, the only thing being withheld is the reason why his plans to work at the academy fell through: he resigned after Aizawa expelled Midoriya under false pretenses. The League still attacks at the USJ, expecting All Might to show up; they're very surprised — and frustrated — upon realizing the media was right and their target isn't present.
- In Statistic, Toshinori learns the hard way that all of his fellow teachers at Aldera willfully and deliberately ignore the Barbaric Bullying going on there. Whenever he tries to report what's happening, they treat it as hearsay, accusing him of making things up... just like they accuse Izuku of making up the abuse.
- Played for Drama in Whispered Tribulation: Contrary to Aizawa's theory, Izuku is not working with the League of Villains. Yet Aizawa refuses to accept the truth, intending to force a confession out of the student through vicious interrogation, only prevented from doing so by Nedzu's intervention.
- With Confidence: Discussed. After learning All Might's secret, Izuku points out that he now has a lot of power over him. All Might responds that nobody would ever believe him, something Izuku concedes.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemares: Spitfire is convinced that Rainbow is making up all the stories she tells about her hometown. In reality, Rainbow is downplaying all the stuff that happens.
- A Diplomatic Visit: Comes up in chapter 10 of Diplomacy Through Schooling. Apparently, Cozy Glow has tried to tell people she has a medical disorder that keeps her from aging physically. They assumed she was just playing pretend and sent her away; Twilight's the first to figure it out when she examined Cozy's magical signature.
- Discord's New Business: Twilight, Discord and Pinkie Pie all tell Spike that his Shapeshifting Seducer plan is a bad idea. He doesn't listen. Rarity figures out who he is almost immediately.
- How I Lost My Mother: After being banished and having her existence effectively erased, Cozy Glow is unable to convince anyone that she's the daughter of Princess Celestia.
- I Have This Friend is built around this trope, as Celestia does not believe Twilight is talking about somepony else.
- Loved and Lost, an extended retelling of A Canterlot Wedding, has the canonical example of Twilight's suspicions regarding the false Princess Cadance. In a twist of irony, the ponies who didn't believe her — Shining Armor, Princess Celestia, the Mane Five and Spike — get one of their own after Prince Jewelius turns them into hated pariahs for failing to prevent the Changeling invasion. After they learn that Jewelius himself helped Queen Chrysalis infiltrate Canterlot and then double-crossed her to steal the throne all for himself, they try to tell this to Twilight and Canterlot's citizens, but because they failed to uphold their trustworthiness by refusing to believe the above-mentioned canon example, the citizens and Twilight refuse to listen to them while Jewelius has them wrapped around his hoof.
- When the Changelings escape Canterlot, Chrysalis briefly confronts Twilight and tells her that Jewelius is trying to get rid of everypony whom he has no further need for, the Changelings being no exception. Of course, Chrysalis being as deceitful as she is, Twilight refuses to believe her. It isn't until Jewelius himself heartlessly gloats to her in a later confrontation when she realizes just how much of a threat he really does pose to both her and potentially all of Equestria.
- The Pandoraverse: Chakra Blossom, after shaping up and abandoning his old manipulative and selfish ways, is the only one to catch on to the fact that Moondancer was responsible for Midnight Abyss' death and is playing her grieving mothers for fools. Starlight thinks he's just throwing accusations at a dear family friend and throws him out of the house. When he was genuinely telling the truth and trying to help, his record as an extremely manipulative and untrustworthy stallion ended up ruining everything.
- The Twilight Child: Frustrated in her attempts to figure out who exactly 'Midday Eclipse' is, Rainbow Dash asks her. In response, Midday tells the her the absolute truth. Much like the Superman example (see Western Animation) Rainbow Dash thinks she's being played with. Averted with the Cutie Mark Crusaders nearby, who due to previous events realise Midday is telling the truth.
- In The Witch of the Everfree, Twilight manages to predict both Nightmare Moon and Discord's returns before they happen, but Sunset doesn't take her seriously, assuming that if they were actual threats Celestia would be doing something about them.
- The Writing on the Wall has the eponymous writing on the wall of an ancient structure, which is disregarded as a curse intended to scare off tomb robbers. It is intended to scare people off, but it isn't a curse, but a warning of the danger it was built to contain. Namely, the place was a repository for nuclear waste.
- Glass Marionette: While Kankuro warns Gai and Kakashi about his brother's naturally murderous tendencies, both brush off his concerns and insist that their respective students will be fine fighting Gaara.
- I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!:
- Ino is easily able to tell that Naruto and Hinata, and Sasuke and Sakura are together. Neither of her teammates believe her (in part due to being oblivious preteen boys who have barely hit puberty).
- During the Finals, nobody believes Kakashi when he tells them that his students were already this monstrously strong before he started training them.
- The Kakashi Way: This is one of the main reasons why Sasuke decides against taking a straightforward approach to changing the future for the better after accidentally traveling back in time. Even though Hiruzen is already aware of Danzo's ambitions, he's such a Horrible Judge of Character when it comes to his old rival that Sasuke doesn't trust him to actually heed any of his warnings. So he takes a more indirect approach, attacking Danzo in such a way that exposes the councilman's treachery so that Hiruzen can't ignore it any longer.
- Later on, once he's brought in for questioning, Sasuke decides to tell the whole, unvarnished truth, knowing full well that he probably won't be believed... but also that they're going to have a hell of a time proving otherwise. Especially when he presents them with photos that were taken in the future.
- This is the basic premise of The Boy Who Cried Yuri, with Shinji on the receiving end. When he tries to alert Misato, she instantly dismisses him — even though she should know very well that he's too much of a coward to make this up. Asuka even lampshades it.Rei: Asuka, do you think it is wise to do this now? Shinji may come in at any time.
Asuka: No, Misato was talking to him. He's probably gotta go apologize to Fuyutsuki for screwing the test up.
Rei: Do you think he suspects something?
Asuka: I doubt it. Even if he does, people will think he's just fantasizing like he always does. The little pervert.
(unknown to them, Shinji's already hiding in the room with a tape recorder)- And then it gets double subverted when Shinji shows his audio evidence to Misato: she ambushes the girls during their next session... and instead of punishing them, she joins the fun.
- A Crown of Stars: In chapter 1 future Asuka said her six-months-younger counterpart that she will tell Shinji —after kissing him- why she ran to the bathroom after their First Kiss. Asuka did not want to believe it, but many chapters later it happens. In chapter 26 Asuka remembers how she refused to believe a prediction made by her own future self.Asuka: Wow. And two days later, here we are. Wow... I even told myself it was going to happen, and I still couldn't believe it.
- Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): Fully knowing how it went the previous time, Shinji tries to point out the obvious risks in the mission for capturing the 8th Angel. This prompts Asuka (who was mad at him at the time for unrelated reasons) to laugh in his face and go along with it anyway. Of course, when the mission goes awry the way he predicted and Asuka nearly ends up killed as a result, she feels guilty for dismissing him so lightly.
- The Second Try: When Gendo confronts Shinji about his conversation with Asuka during the attack by the 15th Angel, Shinji tells him exactly what's going on. Gendo promptly dismisses his son's warnings as the ravings of a mad child because he refuses to believe that he'll never see his wife again.
- In All Mixed Up!, Olaf senses that Mariana Mag is a bad person and begins antagonizing her. Given that he has a limited vocabulary, though, no one can understand what he's saying and he is instead scolded by Oprah, who tells him to take a recently-anagrammed Oren back to Headquarters. His outburst ends up working in the more vocabulary-proficient Otto's favor, however, as he ends up confronting Mariana shortly after.
- Invoked and Exploited in Brother's Keeper. Caleb is the only person who knows that Emperor Belos, his brother, is a witch hunter who is planning to wipe out all life on the Boiling Isles on the Day of Unity. To keep Caleb from telling anyone, Belos forces him into the persona of Lord Metanoy, the man who went insane after he messed with wild magic. He keeps Caleb locked up, feeds him mind-altering drugs to induce bouts of insanity, and occasionally parades him around as a propaganda piece, ensuring that when Caleb does try to tell people, his warnings are taken as the ramblings of a madman.
- In Pokemon: Shadow of Time, Giovanni asks the Team Rocket Trio to order an operation in Mount Moon to be aborted, but the Rocket Admins in charge of the operation don't believe that the Trio would ever be Giovanni's messengers, and as a result the operation suffers serious losses when Ash and Misty find them.
- Don't Cry For Me, I've Already Wilted: Nagisa catches Saki hanging around with Akaoni and Kabaton, about to create an Akanbe. When she marches her to the Precure library to expose her, none of the Cures there believe her, not even Honoka. Amane in particular says she doesn't want to believe that Saki would do such a thing, given Amane's history with villains.
- In To the Stars, this is soundly averted by the Cult taking Ryouko's vision very seriously, taking steps to make sure the vision's subject does not end up in the situation foretold.
- In The Fall of Professor Arc, everyone Roman tries to tell about Jaune refuses to believe that some kid with no skills at anything could masquerade as a competent professor under the noses of the entirety of Beacon.
- Jaune learns in Hands-On Education that when Nora would say that she and Ren aren't "together-together", she really meant it and views him as more of a brother than anything.
- Jaune invokes this in Operation: Jaune's Ex-Girlfriend. After being captured by his friends and forced to reveal who his mysterious ex-girlfriend is, Jaune decides to tell the truth (Bella Bleu, a famous actress) knowing his friends wouldn't believe him, which would give him the perfect opportunity to create a distraction and escape. They do end up believing him, though this is because he dropped his scroll while running away, which receives a call from said ex mere moments later.
- White Sheep (RWBY): Whenever anyone asks Jaune what he wants, he says he wants world peace. Normally, they just dismiss him as a well-meaning idiot who will probably manage to do some good while chasing this impossible dream. But when people ask him this question while he's in his Grimm-form, he gives the same answer, and everyone assumes he's just mocking them. Ironwood in particular almost kills him multiple times before finally realizing they want the same thing.Jaune: What's the point of even asking if you're not going to believe anything I say?
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
- In Cat-Ra, Catra tries to explain during a fight with Adora that the latter is The Chosen One who was meant to fall off the skiff and find the sword all those months ago. Well, was the Chosen One, anyway; Catra has had the sword for so long that The Chooser of the One has decided to transfer ownership by this point. Either way, Adora immediately deems this to be a flimsy lie and points out how unlikely it would have been for the "right" events to occur. Catra admits she has a point.
- In Must Love Ned Flanders, Naomi Sanders is a "real" woman transported into the Simpsons universe. She tells Ned she's from another dimension, but he doesn't believe her until he actually goes there.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- So Rot Vie Blut: The man who poisoned the king tries to tell Grimhilde that Snow White was behind it, but Grimhilde doesn't believe him.
- Little Hands, Big Attitude: Even after Obsidian traps everyone in an illusionary Nightmare Fuel-filled Mental World and gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Commander Walters, Tails still doesn't believe Knuckles when he tells him that little baby Obsidian can understand everything they're saying.
- Sonic X: Dark Chaos:
- It's revealed that Astorath originally told Maledict to his face that his Gambit Roulette would backfire spectacularly, but Maledict ignored him.
- Nobody believes any of Eric's ramblings about Maledict's cloning process or his Ultimate Weapon plan, even though he was entirely right.
- Détente: Damian thinks Anya is delusional when she reveals her telepathy. Subverted when she has him test her to prove it.
- In A Sword to Pass, it doesn't help that he lied the first two times (first Alrich then Tristan) but when Ezra tells Sabine that he got the beskar knife she found on him from her mother she doesn't believe him. It's being implied that by giving him the knife, Ursa was granting him permission on some aspect of his relationship with her daughter. Sabine doesn't believe that her mother trust Ezra and isn't aware of her own feelings for him.
- SAO: Mother's Reconciliation: It's established early on that Kouichirou saw Sugou's true nature from the very beginning, and warned his parents repeatedly not to trust him. Sadly, neither Shouzou nor Kyouko listened, and Asuna and 300 other SAO survivors ended up paying the price.
- The Big Bad weaponizes it in The Measure of a Titan. The OC David Foster is completely honest about what he knows of his history and his ignorance of why people are after him, but things are arranged by the Big Bad to make him look like The Mole to Raven, sowing dissent.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- In Turtle Kittens, the Shredder alienates Tang Shen from her family by convincing them that he is her husband and that every awful thing happening to her is karma for disgraceful behavior, forcing her to escape to America with no help before he could come and retrieve her.
- In How to say ‘Oh Primus’ properly, Rodimus's friends notice how close he is to Rung, and tease him about cheating on Primus (who he is bonded to). Rodimus tells them that Rung IS Primus, but they think he's joking.
- In The Panda Chronicles, this is Downplayed in "Feeling Faint"; only Jesse won't believe Aaron T. is sick. Robaire, Tae Young, and Aaron Z. do.
- Great Grand-Uncle Schimmelhorn's Toolbox: When Taylor's bullies first see her arrive at school wearing a badge that warns of continual audio recording, they snatch her bag and empty it out, but find nothing and assume she's bluffing, going back to their regular mistreatment of her. After weeks of Taylor continuing to wear her badge, and on occasion verbally warning people that she's recording everything, with no apparent results, even the teachers assume it's just a charade, and continue doing nothing to help or protect her. Then six weeks of extremely damning recordings get filed with the Brockton Bay Police Department, with enough incriminating evidence to bury not only the bullies but the majority of the school staff, especially the principal, and dragging the PRT down into the mud with them. Taylor was indeed wearing a tiny audio recorder around her neck, with another in a hidden pocket just in case the first was found, and she was working with her father and the DWU lawyer to assemble a completely airtight case.
- Risk It All: Ren had no idea what he was getting into when he entered that VIP room, much less that the casino was owned by Black Mask. But when he tries to explain this to the mob boss, Ren gets brushed off as just another member of the Triads and shot in the head.
- In The Dimensional Drifter, Yuya asks Judai where he got his Neo Spacian cards, and Judai warns him that the story is quite outlandish. Yuya tells him to say it anyway, which leads to this:Judai: [...] Basically I borrowed a boat and took off.
Yuya: You borrowed a boat?
[…]
Judai: Then I got knocked over by a small meteorite, woke up in outer space, talked to an alien two-legged dolphin, got told I was the Chosen One, got sent back with a new deck and woke up beached on Academia Island.
Yuya: You can't honestly expect me to believe that.
Judai: You know, my friends said the same thing. - A Mother's Touch: No matter how many times You Show has to tell Sylvio and Reiji that Yuya did not duel Sylvio in the warehouse, it was Yuto, they refuse. Not because it's hard to believe, but because they just want to pin the blame on Yuya so they can get revenge (Sylvio) or Yuya's cards (Reiji). Yuya himself is also in disbelief until he sees Yuto himself in Chapter 3.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series in episode 81, Dartz mention to Yami Yugi that he knows everything about him as his time as a pharaoh and even mentions that he knows his true name: Atem. Problem is, Dartz' thick accent mangles the pronunciation and makes it difficult to Yami to know what's he talking about, resulting in Yami believing Dartz is just simply lying to save face.
