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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Mai Valentine pulled a fake psychic act at first in the Duelist Kingdom arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''; in reality, she scented all her cards with unique scents so she'd know by scent which cards she'd draw. Joey figured out her trick when he closed his eyes and noticed the scents. [[Fridge Logic|Despite having caught a cold a few episodes ago from diving into the ocean in an attempt to recover Yugi's Exodia cards.]]
** Espa Roba also pulls a phony psychic stunt in the Battle City tournament, with help from his brothers spying on his opponents' cards and relaying them through a headset.
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== Film ==
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s final film ''[[Family Plot]]'' stars Barbara Harris as a ''faux'' psychic and Bruce Dern as her legman-researcher.
* In ''[[Magicians (film)|Magicians]]'', part of Karl's reinvention of himself as a 'street' magician involves a Phony Psychic routine complete with [[Cold Reading]]. He's not very comfortable with it to begin with, but when his would-be girlfriend leaves him when she learns he's not a real psychic and upon hearing the sad story of someone coming to see his act who wants to make contact with a loved one on the other side he breaks down and admits he's a fake. At the end of the movie, we then see that a much less-scrupulous magician has filled the niche he left behind.
* The classic [[Film Noir]] ''[[Nightmare Alley]]'' features Tyrone Power as a venal carnie who gets the show's resident "psychic" to give him the secret of a successful con before [[Accidental Murder|accidentally poisoning]] him. Without spoiling too much, it's safe to say [[Laser-Guided Karma|things do not end well for him]].
* The [[Two Lines, No Waiting|B-plot]] of ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]'' is a Phony Psychic played by [[Whoopi Goldberg]] discovering that she actually ''[[Not-So-Phony Psychic|can]]'' [[I See Dead People|See Dead People]].
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