History Main / ConspiracyTheorist

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. A god-like being who calls herself Jasmine has used her power to take over Los Angeles. Winifred Burkle, the only member of Team Angel to escape her influence, takes refuge in a conspiracy bookstore and asks the owner if he hasn't noticed anything strange [[CrapsaccharineWorld about the way everyone is acting]]. The owner says that the CIA are still listening to the implants in his head, but it doesn't bother him any more as he's broadcasting Jasmine's love back to them via the mind control satellites. Jasmine later turns up at the bookstore, and grants the conspiracy theorist's greatest wish by telling him WhoShotJFK -- turns out it was Oswald.

** ''Series/{{Crusade}}'': "[[Recap/CrusadeS01E12VisitorsFromDownTheStreet Visitors from Down the Street]]" has the crew visiting a pre-FirstContact industrial-age planet where two aliens that resemble Mulder and Scully a lot enter the ship explaining that their government hides the existence of humans to the population, but no record of contacting such government exists, to what the aliens in an innocent way think that the human government "hides the truth" to them too. It turns out the planet's government did discover the existence of humanity due to radio and television signals and created the conspiracy that they were manipulated by humans secretly to avoid uprisings and coups (very common in their homeworld to that point) as the general population can't fight the "alien" masters and can't get angry with the puppet government. [[spoiler:Captain Gideon, irritated at being used by an authoritarian government, dumps a load of probes onto the planet surface with messages explaining the situation to the populace, which (so we're led to assume) ends the practice.]]

'''Hadassah:''' Why? Cast a ballot? Think about it: "Ballot" is just two letters away from "bullet." They want us to kill our community.
* Hodgins on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He takes it pretty hard when he misses the ancient conspiracy that has a member [[spoiler:''living in his house'']]. He also takes it as an insult when he is informed that the government has deemed him 'harmless'. Interestingly Hodgins' own family is wealthy and influential enough to feature in the conspiracies he believes in. If anyone would know...
-->''"You call it "conspiracy". I call it "the family business"."''
** There is one conspiracy theory he won't touch, and only one: he is quite adamantly NOT a '9/11 Truther'. Everything else is fair game.
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}:'' Cliff starts becoming one over the course of the show, espousing theories like the Beatles somehow being involving in the JFK assassination, or how earthquakes in LA are actually the government drilling down to the center of the Earth to install a computer that will control the planet's rotation, or one of his neighbours secretly being Hitler.

* The hostage-taker from the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Derailed" is one of the "government is watching me" variety.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]]: Clive Finch is a downplayed example as, despite sounding like an utter nutcase to anybody who doesn't know ''Doctor Who'', he's mostly correct: he thinks the pictures of the Doctor from various time periods are all the same man (they were), that the Doctor's an alien (he is), and that the Doctor is immortal (not 100% true, but 900 years is a hell of a long lifespan). The only thing he didn't guess was the time-travel angle.
*** It's also implied in the episode (and confirmed in the novelisation) that Clive has evidence of the majority of the Doctors, and not just the Ninth, but believes it to be a case of the title "the Doctor" is passed [[LegacyCharacter from generation to generation]] and not [[TheNthDoctor the same person with different faces.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love & Monsters"]]: LINDA, the Doctor fanclub the episode focuses on, has aspects of this when they try to deduce exactly who the Doctor is and what his deal is.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]]: Howie believes wholeheartedly in conspiracies, and thinks the alien HellHotel is actually a secret bunker in Norway for world leaders to survive the destruction of the Earth, prompting Rory to sarcastically compliment him on having come up with a theory "more insane than what's actually happening." [[spoiler:This belief in conspiracies is what led him to be abducted as food for the faith-targeting EmotionEater.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]]: A man named Alfie is a Victorian Era version of this. He thinks the ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' accidentally brought to London by the Doctor is a "special effect" created by the government, and his wife's reaction suggests he's been thinking like this for a long time. Then he gets murdered and his eyes stolen by the Faceless Man.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]]: Hakim Khan, companion Yaz's father. This is to the point that when his wife and daughter realize he actually ''was'' on to something with the garbage he'd been collecting, Yaz is annoyed, and Najia complains that she'll have to hear about him being right.
*** Becomes a BrickJoke in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], as [[spoiler:he notes he was accurate about a conspiracy involving all of the world's computers and smart devices.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon "Fugitive of the Judoon"]]: "All Ears" Allan (the nickname is self-granted) believes that Lee Clayton is not who he says he is and has compiled a dossier full of information while attempting to persuade Lee's wife Ruth, with whom he's in love, to leave him. While Allan turns out to be [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight onto something]] about Lee, [[spoiler:his crush on Ruth blinds him to similar holes in her backstory]].
* In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', one of Literature/SherlockHolmes' hobbies is to troll conspiracy theory websites and submit absurd theories that he makes up on the spot just to see what everyone else on the sites will believe. He claims that the (depressingly, real) conspiracy theory that the CIA invented crack cocaine is one of his. Ironically, in the same episode (Season 1's "The Red Team"), he discovers a real conspiracy, [[spoiler:but despite initial appearances, it's not the work of a murderously paranoid and secretive government agency; the initial death that starts them on the case was an argument that got out of hand, and the deaths of Red Team members have all been orchestrated by a single killer. Is it technically a conspiracy if there's only one person in on it?]]

* ''Series/{{Good Omens|2019}}'':

* JustForFun/JohnMunch was one of these when he appeared in ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. This was also a major aspect of his character when he moved to ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', to the point where a shrink accurately concluded, "You could smell a conspiracy at a five-year-old's lemonade stand." At one point he is pretending to be a homeless man and is shouting about random conspiracies. His partner just claims this is what he always says but louder.
** Actor Creator/RichardBelzer is actually a real conspiracy theorist, having not only written some books on the subject, but advocated these views in public appearances.
** Steve Crosetti was also fixated on the conspiracy to assassinate UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.
** The episode "Zebras" deals with a schizophrenic man who became a conspiracy theorist after the 9/11 attacks.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' mocks this trope in [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E10SweetDeeHasAHeartAttack "Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack"]]. After working in the mail room for several days, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Charlie]] believes he's uncovered a [[CorporateConspiracy Corporate Conspiracy]] involving fake employees and a mysterious figure named Pepe Silvia, tipped off by a [[TheMenInBlack Man In Black]]-esque guy named Barney Barney. It is quickly revealed that Barney Barney actually a stress and caffeine-fueled hallucination and that the conspiracy is completely inside Charlie's head, with the implication that "Pepe Silvia" is just the [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate Charlie's]] misinterpretation of the word [[{{UsefulNotes/Pennsylvania}} Pennsylvania]] written on all of the mail that he's supposed to (and subsequently neglecting to) deliver. Charlie's paranoid antics resurface in a number of later episodes, most notably in [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E08CharlieCatchesALeprechaun "Charlie Catches A Leprechaun"]] where he is seen fully believing in the existence of leprechauns and a resultant cover-up, leading him to almost [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] a dwarf in a leprechaun outfit. This one is explained by Charlie's habit of [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin drinking]] [[{{Squick}} green paint]].

* In the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode "Absentia", a guru on trial for murder claims that the government is framing him ... and also that the government killed Music/JohnLennon (this is {{very loosely based on a true story}}).
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': "Wade Perkins" (Hardison) in "The Three Days of the Hunter Job", complete with a standard-issue RoomFullOfCrazy. Hilariously, Eliot and Hardison start telling Parker the stuff on there is real, just to mess with her.

* Frank Lapidus on ''Series/{{Lost}}'', who believes the wreckage of flight 815 is a fake. He is of course correct.
** There's also a hilarious conspiracy theory video in the season 4 DVD extras.

* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': In the first episode, as Cate is taking a taxi to her disappeared father's apartment in Tokyo, the driver notes how the Japanese government is massively beefing up the country's military defences in preparation for potential {{kaiju}} attacks (the series being set one year after the events of ''Film/Godzilla2014''). He thinks the kaiju attack in San Francisco was all a hoax [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall made with CGI]] to profit the military–industrial complex, and tells Cate to check out his podcast where he goes into more detail. Later in the episode, we see that Cate, working as a schoolteacher, was present in San Francisco on G-Day, saw Godzilla with her own eyes, and [[DeathOfAChild lost many of her students]] in the attack.
* ''Series/MurderOne'': In episode eleven one of the potential jurors turns out to be convinced that Cross and Avedon are part of a Masonic plot. He takes his own dismissal as further evidence for this, naturally.
* Sebastian Lund from ''Series/NCISNewOrleans''. According to him, the faked moon landings are the reason why there isn't any decent footage of Bigfoot. [[NoodleIncident Somehow.]]

* On ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', Alex thinks one of the new inmates, Lolly, was sent by drug kingpin Kubra to kill her, after Lolly starts following her around. However, [[spoiler:it turns out Lolly is just mentally ill and thinks Alex is working for the CIA and spying on ''her''.]]

* In ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}'', Cassidy is convinced that the constantly resurrecting [[spoiler:[=DeBlanc=] and Fiore]] must be involved in a cloning program and when they say they're from the government, he feels this makes sense.
** He also seems to believe that [[{{Squick}} baby foreskin]] is being put into skin cream ([[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-cut-above-the-rest-wrin/ which is actually true]]) and other products; he is also paranoid around tap water.
*** This claim becomes doubly hilarious when [[spoiler: The Grail uses his own foreskins in making skin cream.]]
* Second Technician Arnold Judas Rimmer has traits of this in the first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'', where everything odd has a chance of being explained as being aliens. This has ranged from everyone missing days of their memory and two unexplained broken legs, to a new computer, to [[NoodleIncident "that time we used a whole bog roll in one day."]]
** It's even Rimmer's entire plotline in the first season episode ''Waiting For God'', as he becomes convinced a pod the ship picked up contains aliens that can replace his hologram body with a new organic one. [[spoiler:It's a garbage pod, and everybody else agreed not to tell him.]]
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': The main suspect in "Somebody's Watching Me" is Leroy, a conspiracy theorist who believes he is being spied on by aliens.
* ''Series/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'' had a recurring conspiracy theorist character who liked to share his theories with strangers on the street. According to him, the Kennedys were assassinated by Hitler, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden are brothers, bin Laden is in Canada working at a gas station, and the Chernobyl accident happened because aliens spilled a Slurpee on the control panel.

* ''Series/SleeperCell'': Ilija hooks up with a woman like this after he's gone on the run in the wake of the first season's terrorist attack. She believes he's innocent, with both the attack and 9/11 being [[FalseFlagOperation staged by the government]]. As a result, she willingly shelters him so Ilija can flee the US.
* Martin Lloyd in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Point of No Return".
** His case was a rather amusing {{Deconstruction}}, as it turns out that all his beliefs were not only correct, but he knew the truth because [[spoiler:he himself was an alien from another world who was suffering from a drug-induced [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesia]] perpetrated by his fellow aliens]].
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had an episode ("The Voyager Conspiracy") where Seven of Nine goes temporarily crazy from information overload and links most of the major events of the series up to that point into a massive Federation conspiracy to capture her, a Borg Drone... this is easily dismissed until you realize that, even though her conclusion about it being all about her was flawed and delusional, several of her premises were, in fact, quite grounded and made for some tantalizingly uncomfortable questions that were completely swept under the rug by the show... One can't help but wonder if there really WAS a conspiracy going on there...
** ''Voyager'' was a long running highly episodic series with numerous writers of various qualities. As such, it included many {{plot hole}}s, logical inconsistencies and cases of characters getting the IdiotBall. This makes it a fertile ground for any theory that could go back re-explain past problems.

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

** Ron Reznick in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E12Nightshifter "Nightshifter"]], who is convinced that the shapeshifter attacks he's been doing independent research on are caused by "mandroids". His research is sound, he just came to the wrong conclusion.
** In [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E06SlashFiction "Slash Fiction"]] paranoid whackjob Frank Devereaux doesn't put much stock in magic, but he's sure that "The government's been cloning people for years."
** In the [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E09ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve "Clap Your Hands If You Believe..."]] episode, Dean and Sam come across several cases in a town where there have been kidnappings, light shows in the sky, and CropCircles. They run into a group claiming it was aliens. [[spoiler:Subverted when it is revealed at least one of the group is a Fairy, who is using the "alien" cover to make sure the Fair Folks kidnappings, light shows, and other effects are not taken seriously.]]
* Steven Hyde from ''Series/That70sShow''. For example, he claims that Creator/StevenSpielberg directed a fake moon landing for the government - which "is how he got the job for ''Film/{{Jaws}}''." Most prominently, however, is his frequent mentioning of the car that runs on water, man.

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

* Mozzie, Neal's criminal contact, on ''Series/WhiteCollar'', is incredibly paranoid and suspicious of the government, which leads to him acting out various Hollywood spy story cliches like meeting on park benches, playing loud music or running water during conversations, using code names, and so on. His antics are treated as ridiculous, but [[GovernmentConspiracy in the show's world, he may have a point.]]
** Ironically it's discovered that one of his old fake identities had become a patsy for criminals, so Mozzie accidentally created a conspiracy himself. Mozzie's response?
--->'''Burke''': You're a living conspiracy theory.\\
'''Mozzie''': See? They do exist.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has Ronaldo Fryman, Peedee's older brother. He has a blog detailing the oddities around town and thinks the government is ruled by snake people. After the events of [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird "Keep Beach City Weird"]], Ronaldo changes his theory to [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight a surprisingly accurate one]] about "polymorphic sentient rocks" and "the Diamond Authority" which he claims wants to hollow out the Earth. Many fans have noticed he seems to be TheCassandra and have made theories based on things he has said.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', Ensign Mariner runs into Lt. Levy while trying to run away from other crewmembers trying to earn a favor for her towards the captain. It's revealed that he believes [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration the Battle of Wolf 359]] was an inside job[[note]]To be fair, the Borg ''did'' assimilate Captain Picard...[[/note]], that [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Changelings]] aren't real and the Dominion War never happened. This is later {{Deconstructed}} in the season 4 episode "Caves" where he annoys Boimler with tales about the Vendorians and, when his paranoia leads to him destroying a vehicle that could get them out of there, Boimler finally blows up at him. And while [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he was right about the Vendorians]], his paranoia has made him something of an outcast.
* Members of "'''H'''umans '''A'''gainst '''T'''he '''E'''xtraterrestials" (from the second ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon) believed that the aliens which had recently invaded Earth had left behind agents to infiltrate the planet, and were willing to blow up Manhattan in order to exterminate them.

* The Creator/VertigoComics one-shot ''Totems'', which [[NewYearHasCome takes place on New Year's Eve]], has a nutty conspiracy theorist named Bernie Madden as the protagonist. It's his obsession with proving that aliens and other unusual beings are involved that in fact resulted in his wife leaving him for another man. After unsuccessfully trying to win his ex-wife back by telling her of a bizarre adventure he just went through with [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Robotman]], ComicBook/SwampThing, ComicBook/BlackOrchid, ComicBook/AnimalMan and [[ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan Rac Shade]], he then tries to shoot himself. [[HappilyFailedSuicide He fails to kill himself, but takes it as a sign that he should stop despairing and enjoy life]].

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

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

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

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

* A man dies and goes to heaven. He was a raging conspiracy theorist in life, but otherwise a very nice stand-up guy. He arrives at the pearly gates and meets with St. Peter, who seeing his record, tells him that he gets one wish before being let into heaven. He tells St. Peter that all really wants to know is the truth behind who killed John F. Kennedy. St. Peter nods and tells him, "Yes sir, that was Lee Harvey Oswald, and he acted alone." The man stares for a moment, then mutters to himself, "Wow, this conspiracy really does go all the way to the top."

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

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

* Dudley Carew in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Murder on St. Malley's Day". Amongst his theories was one that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Midsomer two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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