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A Windmill is a quite different creature from its distant cousin, the [[Strawman Political|Strawman]].
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* In the YA novel ''[[The King of Dragons]]'', the hero's father is a severe PTSD case of [[Windmill Crusader]]. His PTSD from military service causes him to believe that the government is out to get him and that terrible things will happen if he and his son are found by the authorities, so he gives the boy Survival [[Training from Hell]]. At the end of the book, the father is recovering, and tells his son, "I mistook molehills for mountains, but I taught you how to climb mountains."
* According to ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved'' from 1975, the danger of [[The Bermuda Triangle]] is a simple hoax. [[wikipedia:Bermuda triangle|There is no special danger associated with traveling in that area.]]
* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', Harry and Dumbledore are assumed by the Ministry of Magic to be using this trope regarding Voldemort's return. As a result, this trope is ironically used against them in response.
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* In ''[[Animal Farm]]'', Farmer Jones, his spies, and {{spoiler|eventually Snowball}} are all accused of being the source of all the farm's problems, long after Jones has apparently left the farm for good. The literal windmill, however, is not.
* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', Goldstein and the Brotherhood are known as [[La Résistance]] against the Party, but O'Brien suggests that they were invented to keep more control over the population and to identify dissidents.
** On the other hand, the same is true of Big Brother.
{{quote|'''Winston:''' Does he exists as you and I exist?
'''O'Brian:''' [[Unperson|You do not exist.]] }}
* In the ''[[Bionicle]]'' novel "Island of Doom", the villains use a Type 2 example in order to convince the Matoran that they're really the good guys by using their powers to create a fake monster which they then "defeat."
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