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'''Willow:''' *nods*. }}
** There's also the time that Xander was possessed by a hyena. Buffy quickly figured out he was possessed while Giles believed he [[Teens Are Monsters|was just being a teenage boy]]. Knowing Giles' teen years, this assumption makes a bit more sense.
* Dirk Gently does this to some extent in ''[[The Long Dark Tea -Time of the Soul (Literature)|The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul]]''. When he meets a girl who constantly recites the previous day's stock quotes (in real time, just with a 24-hour delay), he rejects the assumption that she's just memorizing them somehow (after all, the information is out there!) in favor of some more mystical explanation, because nobody would ever go to that much trouble. It's a little different since he's arguing on the basis of general human nature, not specific character, but the principle is the same. Dirk sums this up by reversing [[Sherlock Holmes]]' usual maxim: Eliminate the improbable, and whatever remains, however impossible, must be the truth.
* ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'' has [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00520.htm some] fun with this. Apparently, Florence is a vampire. Either that, or she really swam in the cold water a bit too long.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' has a [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-12-10 borderline example].
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'': Cardboard boxes and [[Memetic Mutation|Small Bombs]].
** Trying to find a ''Possible'' [[Doing in Thethe Wizard|Mundane Solution]] seems to be how Battler can win.
* In Stephen King's "The Mist", one of the grocery store's occupants poo-poos the idea that something unnatural is loose in the fog, claiming the locals set up the tentacles as a prank. A witness to the maybe-squid-thing's attack sarcastically replies that, yes, they spend thousands of dollars to buy a giant squid from an aquarium and truck it to town in a tank, ''just'' to play a prank on the man.
 
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