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{{quote|'''Mulder:''' Why is it still so hard for you to believe, even when all the evidence suggests extraordinary phenomena?
'''Scully:''' Because sometimes [[Hypocritical Humor|looking for]] [[Irony|extreme possibilities]] makes you blind to [[Occam's Razor|the probable explanation right in front of you]].|''[[The X-Files]]''}}
{{quote|''"You're not a skeptic, Freddy... you're in denial!"''|'''Daphne''', ''[[Scooby
A case of [[Weirdness Censor]] where the [[Epileptic Trees]] invoked by the characters are so ludicrous that the viewers want to bash their heads against the wall and point out that accepting the <s>super</s>natural reality would, in fact, be [[Occam's Razor|simpler]]. A marking feature of [[Agent Scully]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Happens to Cilan in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' during the course of the museum episode. He kept suggesting ridiculous things to explain the mysterious circumstances, even though it becomes increasingly clear that there is a ghost, like iris suggested. Subverted when it's revealed that they're both wrong - it was a Pokemon.
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** [[Justified Trope|Granted]] there's been real cases of pre-Tornado storms dropping fish and other critters before (generally a Waterspout appears over a school, they get sucked up, falls some time later on land), but still it's not very common.
* ''[[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul]]''
* Parodied/subverted in ''[[
** Also worth mentioning, in the same exchange, was a "miraculous rain of elephants." When pressed, Visit concedes, "Well, it was just one elephant, but it made quite a splash."
* In ''[[Left Behind]]''—no one except main characters ever thinks of the mass disappearances as being caused by the Rapture, even though premillennialism is a well-known theological concept. Some possible explanations are rational enough, but everyone believes the [[Big Bad|Antichrist's]] bizarre "nuclear warheads-electromagnetism-[[Negative Space Wedgie]]" theory. (Main characters, on the other hand, act as if they've [[Functional Genre Savvy|read the book jacket]].)
* In ''[[Inferno]]'', Allen Carpentier's attempts to interpret his experiences as a product of [[Clarke's Third Law|super-advanced technology]] are [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]] more unreasonable than accepting the reality that Hell exists and he's in it.
== [[Live
* Named after Dana Scully of ''[[The X-Files]]'', who was particularly adamant in her denial of the supernatural.
** To be fair, by the end of Season 2, she'd accepted the existence of the supernatural, after being abducted herself, even if she still always tried to find a mundane/natural explanation first.
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** It's shown in later seasons, on the handful of occasions where Scully encounters an X-File without Mulder along, that Scully's perfectly willing to consider the supernatural explanation if there isn't a more reasonable mundane one (see the episode where she microwaves a creepy doll that's causing people to kill themselves). But not only was she assigned to debunk Mulder's work, but she feels (and is often justified in feeling) that she's ''required'' to debunk him and offer mundane explanations, for his safety and hers.
* The main characters of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', although aware of the supernatural, argue frequently about whether the case of the week is up their alley. It always is.
** Except for 1.15, [
* T'Pol from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' continued repeating that "The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined time-travel to be impossible" long after any vaguely logical person should have at least started thinking of it as a real possibility. She actually used this as a mantra to defeat interrogation by someone who asked what she knew about specific time travellers she'd had contact with.
** And after that, she time-travelled.
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{{color|blue|EB: maybe. yeah you're right.}}
[[color:red:TG: what are you an idiot
TG: [[Hypocritical Humor|of course]] there are monsters in your house
TG: youre in some weird evil monster dimension come on]] }}
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Narrative Devices]]
[[Category:Index Syndrome]]
[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Scully Syndrome]]
[[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]
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