Gut Feeling: Difference between revisions

* [[Spider Sense]]

* [[The Profiler]]

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* This is often used in manga and anime on [[Worthy Opponent]]s, particularly those whose opposition is caused by a misunderstanding, and those who will be making a [[Heel Face Turn]].

* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', while having numerous straight examples of this trope, has subverted it at least once. Before a tournament arc, all the heroes are uneasy about a short blue guy. That short blue guy was (one of the) the Supreme Kais and just about the only good guy there besides the main characters. They'd completely missed the real bad guys there.

** Harry tends to be an intuitive and perceptive person, but he's also very emotional, and his feelings cloud his judgement - which leads to him mistaking his personal dislike of characters like Malfoy and Snape for evidence that they're up to something (which they may or may not be).

* [[The Sword of Truth|Kahlan]] decided that the men who objected to her taking command of their forces, who had previously been fighting a hopeless battle against the Imperial Order, intended to side with them and ordered all but one of them killed. Surprise, the survivor admitted they did intend to go up to the enemy army and try to join up.

* In ''[[The Stand]]'', Lloyd's first reaction to hearing [[Big Bad|Randall Flagg]] wandering around in the prison looking for survivors is to hide under his bunk and hope that he'll go away. Since Lloyd is also dying of starvation in his cell, he quickly reveals himself and begs Flagg for help when Flagg pretends to get ready to leave.

* Herald Talia in the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series is [[The Empath]], but the Queen's most trusted advisor makes her profoundly uneasy because she cannot sense anything from him. He turns out to be a traitor of the highest order, though tragically he isn't found out before he gets Talia's close friend (his own ''nephew'') killed.

 

 

* In ''[[NCIS]]'', Special Agent Gibbs' gut instincts are legendary. Give him two minutes with a perp in the interrogation room and he'll either beat a confession out of him or walk calmly out of the room and say "it wasn't him." It's been played to the point where the possibility of his gut feeling being wrong caused a serious mental conflict with himself and an even more serious conflict for Abbey, his groupie down in forensics.

** Be fair. He doesn't ''beat'' it out of them. He doesn't have to. [[Death Glare|He's Gibbs.]]

 

 

* [[Stephen Colbert]] pokes fun at politicians who rely on their gut over facts (see quotes page).

 

 

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