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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Ah yes, Reapers. An immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. [[Memetic Mutation|We have dismissed that claim.]]"''|'''[[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Councilor Sparatus]]''', ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}
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Likely to result in various forms of [[Dying Like Animals]]. See also [[Not So Harmless]].
Contrast [[Elephant in
Just as with the supertrope Windmill Political: No contemporaty [[Real Life]] examples please, and no history examples except ones surrounded by a really thick consensus.
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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.
* The 1971 George C. Scott film ''[[They Might Be Giants (
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== Literature ==
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* In the fifth novel of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' (as well as the end of the fourth), people cling to the belief that Voldemort cannot have returned. Thus they let the dark lord grow in power undisturbed, while they accuse Harry of being a [[Windmill Crusader]] and Dumbledore of being a [[Manipulative Bastard]] using this Windmill Political for some shadowy political game.
* The Dragonriders in the early ''[[Pern]]'' novels are widely considered to be [[The Artifact|a useless political relic]] that no longer serves any functional purpose. Thus, when Weyrleader F'lar starts warning them that the flesh-eating alien spores called Thread are about to start falling again, everyone laughs at him. Naturally, he's right.
* The Guardians of Selfhood in ''[[
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' the Night's Watch is mostly seen as a joke, since while they do defend the realm from wildling raiders, that's not really a job that requires a 900 foot wall of ice, multiple fortresses, and lifelong dedication forswearing all lands and family to do. Their real purpose is defending the realm from the White Walkers,zombifying ice people, but hardly anyone believes in them anymore. {{spoiler|They're real, and waking up.}}
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* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'': The [[Memetic Mutation|oft-repeated]] page quote comes from the Citadel Council, as they dismiss [[Player Character|Shepard's]] claims that the [[Eldritch Abomination|Reapers]] are real, that they were responsible for the events of the first game, and that they are on the warpath. Only in the third game is Shepard finally vindicated, as the Reaper fleet attacks Earth.
* [[Full Metal Panic]] protagonist, Sōsuke Sagara in [[Super Robot Wars]] games is most of time treated as [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] [[Windmill Crusader]] who sees danger at every corner. Sometimes however, he turns out to be right. Like in [[Super Robot Wars Judgment]] when he informs [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Yurika]] that suspicious person has appeared - that suspicious person turns out to be [[
== Web Comics ==
* [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2134#comic This] ''[[SMBC]]'' strip [[Playing
* [http://xkcd.com/556/ This] ''[[
== Real Life ==
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