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Often the main character isn't aware of this, it's just that the villain conveniently turns out to be someone they were uneasy about all along. Sometimes, though, characters are willing to risk a lot on that gut feeling; when this happens they're usually right. This is also common trait of the [[Mary Sue]]; they're perfect, so anyone who they don't like has to be the bad guy.
Compare [[Evil
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* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', while having numerous straight examples of this trope, has subverted it at least once. Before a tournament arc, all the heroes are uneasy about a short blue guy. That short blue guy was (one of the) the Supreme Kais and just about the only good guy there besides the main characters. They'd completely missed the real bad guys there.
** Though in this example the characters were basing their assumptions based on how strong the others were. The Supreme Kai was far stronger than the villians, who turned out to be disposable mooks anyway.
* ''[[Mai-HiME (Anime)|Mai-HiME]]'', episode 2: Haruka tells Yukino that she ''doesn't'' trust Mai, and tries to convince her skeptic friend that Mai's arrival by ferry is somehow connected to the weirdness in their school. {{spoiler|1=It turns out Haruka's suspicion is well-founded, as Mai's HiME abilities kick in later that night while [[And Your Little Dog, Too|defending Takumi from an Orphan]].}}
* L and Near in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' both have this, and Light as well, to a lesser extent. L is immediately able to narrow down all suspects to one (the right one) within his first chat with the suspect. Near literally looks at a television screen and figures out that the man on the screen is his main suspect, even though he says nothing incriminating. (The manga explained the latter conclusion much better.)
* Runge from ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'' is purportedly able to reconstruct a crime scene based on the emotions and other similarly nebulous traces of human presence he senses in it.
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== Film ==
* Subverted in ''[[The Usual Suspects]]''. Although it could be considered playing to the trope as the crooks are the main characters, the main detective's obsession with one of those crooks leads him to completely miss the true [[Diabolical Mastermind]] (who is responsible for killing off the rest of his [[Five
* In the cop movie ''[[Heat]]'', [[Al Pacino]]'s character and [[Robert De Niro]]'s have a bit of this towards each other. De Niro's character, the crook, stops in the middle of a heist because he can sense that Pacino is watching him. Later, Pacino's investigation team is following De Niro's crooks as they seem to be casing a job. Everyone on the team is puzzled, as there seems to be nothing there worth stealing, until after a few seconds Pacino reads De Niro's mind and figures out that what De Niro and company have actually done is lure the police into exposing their surveillance team.
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