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A possible outcome of a [[Cassandra Truth]], as well as a potential fate of the [[Ignored Expert]]. Related to [[Shoot the Messenger]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* An old [[Paul Bunyan]] tall tale has the logger stumble across a pair of mysterious whimpering shoes. Sometime after it whimpers, something incredibly strange happens, such as it raining upside-down. The other lumberjacks demand the Paul get rid of the shoe (sort of hard to blame them since stuff this [[Weirdness Magnet|weird]] only happened right after Paul found the shoe), but Paul, realizing the shoe's value, keeps them hidden away, only bringing them out when he was playing poker with lumberjacks who wouldn't recognize them.▼
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* This happens in ''[[The Passage]]'' when Amy shows up at Jaxon's village.▼
* The [[Pokémon]] Absol is considered a bad omen, because it is only ever seen before disasters strike. Of course, it can predict disasters and is just trying to warn people. ▼
* According to the ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'' book that was released for charity, Augeries in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' are feared because they're said to prophesise death. {{spoiler|They really cry in advance of bad weather.}}▼
* This is one [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] concerning the Mothman, which appears in fiction in [[The Mothman Prophecies]].▼
* A villain in ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' twisted this to his advantage, threatening a village with the earthquakes he could only detect.
* Often happens to Gary when he trys to fix the next day's events that he read about in the ''[[Early Edition]]''.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In a ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' parody storyline in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', Der Trihs tells the authorities that a shark is behind the killings, but they don't believe him because [[Misplaced Wildlife|sharks aren't native to that world]]. He sarcastically suggests that it must have been a stealth submarine with a shark-jaw mechanism, and they immediately decide that Der Trihs is responsible, and it was ''his'' stealth shark-submarine, and arrest him. Even when the [[Mad Scientist]] who created the sharks confesses, the police are convinced that he was Der Trihs's co-conspirator.▼
* The [[Iron Maiden]] song "The Prophecy".▼
* Pretty much every episode of ''Kid Vs. Kat''▼
* In volume 5 of ''[[Empowered]]'', the Superhomies (especially Major Havoc) blame Emp for the trouble {{spoiler|Fleshmaster / dWARf!}} caused at the Capeys, since she "so obviously" could never win a fight against a supervillain on her own and must ahve planned it and may even be a closeted villain herself. The telepath Mindfuck reads Emp's mind and sides with Emp, but Havoc doubts Mindfuck's abilities and still thinks Emp had something to do with it and issued a gag order on all public discussions on the matter, leaving Emp unable to defend herself publicly against the already-started rumors.
* According to the eponymous detective of the BBC series ''[[Sherlock]]'', certain members of the London Metropolitan Police have assumed that the self-proclaimed sociopath demonstrating extensive knowledge of the crime and attempting to insert himself into the investigation must be the killer. [[Stealth Pun|No kidding?]]▼
* This happens to Dusk in the [[DC Comics]] [[Crisis Crossover]] ''[[Final Night]]''. She arrived on Earth and announced the Sun was going to get eaten. The Sun was then eaten. Obviously her fault.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "Bridle Gossip": Twilight and friends confront Zecora, a mysterious zebra who lives in [[The Lost Woods|the Everfree Forest]] and whom everyone suspects of being a witch. Zecora departs into the woods with a cryptic warning about "those leaves of blue" the ponies are standing near, which the other ponies assume is some kind of curse. Sure enough, [[Screwball Serum|a weird affliction]] strikes the ponies the next day, and guess who they blame? Naturally, Zecora has nothing to do with their condition, and it turned out to be the fault of the blue-leaved plants they were walking through earlier, which are actually a magical plant called [[Just for Pun|"poison joke"]].▼
== [[Film]] ==
* In the [[Neopets]] plot "The Curse of Maraqua", two sisters with the gift of foresight deal with this trope. The first sister, who sees happy events in her dreams, is lauded and welcomed; the other, who sees bad events in her nightmares, is feared and shunned.▼
* A lot of the conflict of ''[[The Frighteners]]'' arises when people who think Frank is a complete fraud (rather than just running a [[Monster Protection Racket]]) interpret his warnings as threats.
== [[Literature]] ==
▲* This happens in ''[[The Passage]]'' when Amy shows up at Jaxon's village.
▲* According to the ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'' book that was released for charity, Augeries in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' are feared because they're said to prophesise death. {{spoiler|They really cry in advance of bad weather.}}
▲* This is one [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] concerning [[w:Mothman|the Mothman]], which appears in fiction in ''[[The Mothman Prophecies]]''.
* Nephi II in ''[[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]]'' announced the murder of the chief judge before he could have known about it by normal means. The lesser judges spent the next couple of chapters arguing over whether he was a prophet or had conspired with the murderer.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* This set in motion the plot of ''[[Psych]]''.
▲* Often happens to Gary when he trys to fix the next day's events that he read about in the ''[[Early Edition]]''.
▲* According to the eponymous detective of the BBC series ''[[Sherlock]]'', certain members of the London Metropolitan Police have assumed that the self-proclaimed sociopath demonstrating extensive knowledge of the crime and attempting to insert himself into the investigation must be the killer. [[Stealth Pun|No kidding?]]
== [[Music]] ==
▲* The [[Iron Maiden]] song "The Prophecy".
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
▲* An old [[Paul Bunyan]] tall tale has the logger stumble across a pair of mysterious whimpering shoes. Sometime after it whimpers, something incredibly strange happens, such as it raining upside-down. The other lumberjacks demand the Paul get rid of the shoe (sort of hard to blame them since stuff this [[Weirdness Magnet|weird]] only happened right after Paul found the shoe), but Paul, realizing the shoe's value, keeps them hidden away, only bringing them out when he was playing poker with lumberjacks who wouldn't recognize them.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* The [[Pokémon]] Absol is considered a bad omen, because it is only ever seen before disasters strike. Of course, it can predict disasters and is just trying to warn people.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* In a ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' parody storyline in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', Der Trihs tells the authorities that a shark is behind the killings, but they don't believe him because [[Misplaced Wildlife|sharks aren't native to that world]]. He sarcastically suggests that it must have been a stealth submarine with a shark-jaw mechanism, and they immediately decide that Der Trihs is responsible, and it was ''his'' stealth shark-submarine, and arrest him. Even when the [[Mad Scientist]] who created the sharks confesses, the police are convinced that he was Der Trihs's co-conspirator.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* In the ''[[Neopets]]'' plot "The Curse of Maraqua", two sisters with the gift of foresight deal with this trope. The first sister, who sees happy events in her dreams, is lauded and welcomed; the other, who sees bad events in her nightmares, is feared and shunned.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* ''[[My Little Pony:
* A variation of this occurs in Earl Cooper's backstory in the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "The Mechanic". He was instrumental in blowing the lid off a scheme perpetrated by Global Motors. When he realized their newest model had a potential lethal safety defect that threatened lives, he was nearly killed by his employers in an attempt to silence him, but was saved by Batman. While he exposed said employers for the crooks they were, he would, for years afterward, be labeled a whistleblower, unjustly blacklisted by the industry, "unable to get a job as a grease monkey", as he put it. That is until, at the end of his rope, Batman appeared again, telling him simply: [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?| "I need a new car." ]]
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