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Subtrope of [[Cassandra Truth]]. Compare [[Crying Wolf]], where a character is not believed because he's always lying, and [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]], which is often the result of this. See also [[Harbinger of Impending Doom]]. If the Cassandra is blamed when her prediction comes true, that's [[Cassandra Did It]].
If The Cassandra is a [[Waif Prophet]] or an [[Oracular Urchin]], this may be because of [[All of the Other Reindeer]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' Ichigo and {{spoiler|Ginjo}} become one in Lost Substitute Shinigami arc when the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|[[More Than Mind Control|inserts his presence in everyone's past, effectively brainwashing them]]}}.
* Presumably in order to make the classical reference more obvious, they even name this character "Cassandra" in ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]''. The only person who ever believes her is the protagonist, and then only for a trivial matter.
== Film ==
* In ''[[Space Jam]]'' the basketball players, whose talent was stolen by the tiny aliens ask a [[Fortune Teller|cliché fortune teller]], who actually finds out their problem (Talent stolen by tiny little aliens to play a basketball game against Bugs Bunny), but because it sounds too weird, they don't believe her.
* ''[[The Good Son]]'' uses a variant on this when the {{spoiler|child psychologist believes the wrong child to be telling the truth}}.
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== Live Action TV ==
* [[Dr. Jerk|Dr.]] [[House (TV series)|House]] is pretty much always right, he even says so, and yet, the other doctors continue to contradict him in every which way.
** This is justified and heavily subverted because he's also consistently ''wrong'' for most of each episode, and occasionally (though rarely) wrong all the way through. He's ''almost'' always '''eventually''' right, not always right. The reason he has the other doctors around is to prove him wrong until he's right.
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