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* This set in motion the plot of ''[[Psych]]''.
* This happens in ''[[The Passage]]'' when Amy shows up at Jaxon's village.
* The [[Pokémon (Franchise)|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.
** This happens to an Elgyem in episode 33 of ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]: Best Wishes''.
* According to the ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (Literature)|Fantastic Beasts and Where Toto Find Them]]'' book that was released for charity, Augeries in ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|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 (TV)|Early Edition]]''.
* In a ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'' parody storyline in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|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 (Music)|Iron Maiden]] song "The Prophecy".
* Pretty much every episode of ''Kid Vs. Kat''
* In volume 5 of ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|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 (TV)|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 (Animation)|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"]].
* 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.
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