Not-So-Phony Psychic: Difference between revisions

 

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* Don Kan'Onji, from ''[[Bleach]]''. He has a show on TV where he "exorcises" ghosts, but he's actually making things worse. Ichigo sets him straight, and he pops up from time to time throughout the rest of the series.

** Later on, he pretty much totally sheds this trope when {{spoiler|he punches Aizen in the face.}}

* The first arc of ''[[Ghost Hunt]]'' centers around a high-school girl who claims that she can see spirits and ghosts and the like... coinciding with some paranormal events in an old schoolhouse. Naru soon finds enough evidence to prove that she's just faking it in order to stand out and appear interesting - but then, with further investigation, realizes that she's a latent Psychic, and subconsciously CAUSING the paranormal events in order to prove her own stories. {{spoiler|Later events uncover a [[Fridge Logic]] alternate explanation - Mai is later revealed to have a powerful psychic potential, and all the paranormal events coincided with her idly musing that it would be 'more fun' if there was actually something spooky going on. And the final test Naru used could point to Mai as easily as the other girl... if that's the case, then it doesn't actually fit the trope, but the show never address that possibility, so...}}

 

* Robert James Lees in ''[[From Hell]]''. {{spoiler|"I made it all up, and it all came true anyway. That's the funny part."}}

 

 

* [[Dirk Gently]]. In the [[Backstory]], he pretended to be a psychic but everything he predicted came true.

* Sybill Trelawney, from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', on a good day. She actually ''can'' See into the future, but only when in a trance that she cannot remember; most of the time she uses tarot cards and crystal balls, which are depicted as not working. (Though some fans have noted that they ''do'' foreshadow things uncannily often...)

* Marjorie Potts, AKA Madame Tracy, in ''[[Good Omens]]''.

* In ''[[Repairman Jack|The Haunted Air]]'', [[Phony Psychic]] Lyle Kenton has a run-in with a genuine ghost, and ends up developing real powers of foresight and acquiring a genuine spirit-guide in {{spoiler|his brother Charlie}}.

 

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