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Since the premise for his actions is incorrect, his actions are not reasonable either. In fact, his actions can be quite outrageous when he [[I Did What I Had to Do|does what he has to do]] to save people from a [[Windmill Political|threat that doesn’t even exist]].
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So, why did he mistake windmills for giants in the first place? Well... maybe he's [[Cloudcuckoolander|crazy]], maybe someone gave him [[Red Herring|misinformation]] that he [[Did Not Do the Research|didn't check up enough]], or maybe he [[Belief Makes You Stupid|blindly believes]] some religious or ideological dogma.
Fighting a threat that [[No Mere Windmill|others mistake for a windmill but actually is a real threat]] doesn't make the character a
Might suffer from [[Black and White Insanity]] or [[Aggressive Categorism]], and is likely to do [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]].
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Compare [[Conspiracy Theorist]]. Contrast [[Lord Error-Prone]] for someone who makes a lot of little mistakes rather than one huge fundamental misconception.
[[No Real Life Examples, Please]], as people are bound to disagree as to whether or not various controversial philosophers, activists, political leaders, or religious prophets fall under
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* In ''[[Downfall (film)|Downfall]]'', Hitler and some of his closest followers are portrayed as tragic antiheroes who desperately tried to save the world from a world-engulfing conspiracy that they honestly believed to be real. As Berlin falls they face what they [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|believe to be the twilight of mankind itself]]. Hitler himself is portrayed as a person who is most likely insane, while his followers are rational except for their misguided belief that he is a legitimate leader rather than a madman. Their actions make total sense when one take this tragic belief into account.
* In ''[[A Beautiful Mind]]'', the protagonist is the [[Real Life]] Nobel Prize winner John Nash, hired by the US government in their struggle against terrorism. What neither Nash nor his closest superiors know {{spoiler|is that Nash is not only brilliant but also a paranoid schizophrenic who takes orders from two kinds of US officials: The real and the imaginary. The later “branch of the government” takes him on a quest that only keep getting weirder as the (imaginary) terrorists get closer to their nefarious goal of planting nukes in American cities.}}
* One minor character in ''[[Terminator|Terminator 2]]'' and ''Terminator 3'' is a psychiatrist who is so convinced that Sarah Connor is a
* ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]''
** Jesus is initially portrayed as the insane kind of
** Paul is briefly portrayed as the misguided kind of
* ''[[Shutter Island]]'': {{spoiler|the main character}}.
* ''[[Defendor]]'': Played with, and ''maybe'' [[No Mere Windmill|averted]].
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': While Buffy has [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]] as an inherent trait, the episode “Normal Again” subverts this when Buffy is drugged and hallucinates that she’s been insane all along and that Sunnydale is only in her mind. In this hallucination Buffy is an insane
* An episode of ''[[Smallville]]'' has a similar premise, with Clark being given a hallucination in which he is a mental patient who only thinks he is a super-powered alien. Specifically, in an inversion of an incident in the pilot, he learns that Lex lost both his legs in a car accident after Clark jumped out in front of him insisting he was saving him.
* In ''Inside Scoop'' they try to pin society's problems on [[A Sinister Clue|left-handed people]], and propose that we should "ban left marriage". (It's a parody of [[Heteronormative Crusader|homophobes]], of course.)
* ''[[Grotesco]] 2'': In this Swedish comedy show, some religious leaders take their homophobia a few steps beyond [[Heteronormative Crusader]] straoight into windmill territory. A protestant, a catholic, a muslim and a jew all agree that it's not ''their'' fault they have been murdering each other for
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' gives us Emma Nelson. It's not enough to boycott genetically modified foods, or even petition to have them removed. She's convinced the lunchlady's trying to poison them.
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** In [[Dragon Age II]] it's revealed that some nobles of Orlais ''do'' want to reconquer Ferelden for... some reason (national pride, boredom, take your pick...) and are in disagreement with their Empress (who actually planned to {{spoiler|marry the King of Ferelden before his death}} in ''Origins''. So Loghain was on the ball about that, but being [[Properly Paranoid]] doesn't mean you're right about everything.
** [[Word of God]] and notes found in the "Return To Ostagar" DLC confirm that yes, {{spoiler|Cailan was planning on leaving his wife- Loghain's daughter- for the queen of Orlais}} and yes, {{spoiler|Loghain found out about it, which factored into his decision to betray Cailan}}. Loghain's biggest error of judgement is that, as Flemeth puts it, "he believes the Darkspawn are merely another army that can be out-manoeuvred".
* Maximillion of Northshire, a quest giver in [[World of Warcraft]]'s Un'goro Crater, will take the player's character on a long quest to defeat the [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|"evil dragons"]] in the area, rescue the "purse" of a "fair maiden"<ref>
* N from ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' truly believes he's rescuing Pokemon from people, but only because {{spoiler|Ghetsis only allowed him to interact with abused Pokemon. He planted the idea into N's head that he was the "hero", then used him to further his own plans of regional domination.}}
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