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* In ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'', the bad weather is only bad weather. It’s only bad weather, it’ll get better soon... or not. This is a Type C, where the main character gets ridiculed for a prognosis that is far less lethal than the situation they are really about to face.
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* In ''[[Defendor]]'', the hero appears to be a lunatic going up against an imaginary [[Super Villain]] called "Captain Industry". Defendor may or may not actually believe this, but in either case the "Captains of Industry" is actually a metaphor for the very real threat of drug lords—the very villains whom Defendor has been fighting all along. Thi makes it a Type A example.
* In ''[[Terminator]] II: Judgment Day'', we are introduced to a crazy woman who is obviously a paranoid schizophrenic. She even believes that evil robots from the future are out to get her, imagine that. To the great surprise of everyone except the audience, it eventually turns out that the robots are real and Sarah is completely sane (although traumatized). She knows exactly what a terminator really is, a straight Type B of this trope.
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