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* '''Straight''': [[TV Genius]] Professor Smith dismisses fears that a cataclysmic event will befall humanity. Shortly afterwards, it does.
* '''Exaggerated''': Professor Smith says obviously false things so many times that you wonder why anyone takes him seriously in the first place.
* '''Justified''': Professor Smith is [[The Smart Guy|genuinely intelligent]], respected, and [[
* '''Inverted''': Professor Smith says that the horrific event will occur, and of course no one listens to him.
* '''Subverted''': At first Professor Smith seems to be denying the apocalypse, but it turns out that he is being [[Conspiracy Theories|blackmailed into saying this]] and does not actually believe what he says.
* '''Doubly Subverted''': And it turns out that Professor Smith was [[Real Life|right all along]].
* '''Parodied''': Professor Smith is [[What an Idiot!|an obvious idiot]] but everyone around him acts like everything he says is the truth.
* '''Deconstructed''': Everyone listens to Professor Smith, [[Tastes Like Diabetes|everything seems fine, flowers are growing, sunlight is pouring down,]] and then the meteor hits and [[Kill
* '''Reconstructed''': Professor Smith recants his previous position, and all is forgiven until he slips up again.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Professor Smith at first believes his own words, and then realizes the truth, trying to convince everyone that he was wrong. [[Crying Wolf|No one listens to him, of course.]]
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