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He's not good. He's not nice. He's a [[Jerkass]]. What he just said is ''not'' what the main characters wanted to hear. And yet, he's ''right.''.
 
The jerkass in question can be anything from your ISO Standard [[Jerkass]] or [[Anti-Hero]] all the way up to any flavor of [[Villainvillain]] (though the chance is inversely proportional to the distance they go down the "slippery slope"). Whoever he or she is, they're seriously deficient in the morals department, at least from the point of view of the perspective characters. Then they have a moment where they say something undeniably true - the good guys don't have to ''like'' what he's saying, but they can't deny he's right without deluding themselves. Perhaps even the protagonist is caught on a moral stumbling block, and the antagonist is all too glad to point out their hypocrisy.
 
The ''other'' main reason a character is likely to say "[[I Can't Believe I'm Saying This|I don't believe I'm saying this]], but I agree with ''him''."
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* Iago is the [[Token Evil Teammate]] among the protagonists of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', not to mention the rudest and most annoying. However, in one episode he opposed vehemently helping or trusting Caliph Kapok, simply because he was known to be a wizard. (Agrabah's experiences with wizards were unpleasant to say the least.) While such a suspicion at first seemed like [[Fantastic Racism| unfair stereotyping]], Iago had a valid point here, because Kapok was as evil as any other wizard they'd known.
* Sebastian from ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''; when he sang "Under the Sea" in an attempt to persuade Ariel to stay put, his true motive was to prevent ''him'' from getting in trouble, and a lot of bad things could have been avoided had he just kept his trap shut. Still, you can't deny that, being a crab, he was once of the few undersea denizens who could walk on land, and had seen enough of the human world to make a comparison. Plus, his statement that "the human world is a mess" is something quite a few viewers can agree with.
* FourthIn the fourth season of the [[Netflix]] versionreboot of ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'';, after managing to [[Brainwash]] Carmen, the other leaders of V.I.L.E. are so pleased with how much better off they are with her on their side that they want to give her the empty seat on the council. Carmen's nasty rival Tigress objects to this, believing it is a disaster waiting to happen, but she has no say in the matter. In the [[Series Finale]], after Carmen overcomes the brainwashing and leads Acme right to V.I.L.E.'s front door, Tigress ''does'' get a chance to give them an "I told you so" remark, but it's cold comfort for Tigress, seeing as she's in prison with them.
 
== Real Life ==
* [[Cracked.com|Cracked]]'s list of [http://www.cracked.com/article_18499_the-5-biggest-assholes-who-ever-turned-out-to-be-right.html The 5 Biggest Assholes Who Turned Out to be Right] gives us a number of [[Truth in Television]] examples.
 
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