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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 ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'', when religious nut Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets is talking about deity-invoked rains of objects to the skeptical Constable Shoe. He runs down a list, and Shoe's rebuttals get weirder and weirder, until eventually Visit mentions a "Sudden and miraculous rain of rain." Shoe replies in exactly the same sort of wording he used before: "Probably solar energy caused water to evaporate from the surface of a body of water, which then condensed into clouds that wind carried across the country, where cold air currents caused the droplets to recondense and fall as liquid water." In other words, the precise scientific explanation for rain.
** 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 -Action TV]] ==
* 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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