The Cassandra/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character knows the future. It could be pretty useful, but no one believes her.

Straight: Cassie knows the future, and has discovered how Claire plans to dump Bob and feed the bad guy with him. She also knows that Alice will be his one true love. Too bad, Bob just won't believe what she tells the heroes, and they all side with him.
Exaggerated: Cassie has been right on all her predictions lately, discovering Emperor Evulz's plan, what the Dragon wanted to take when he broke into the Hero's lair, and even guessed the place where Bob's socks were hidden, but Bob refuses to believe her.
Justified: Cassie is a Mad Oracle, thus Bob doesn't know when he must believe her.
- Claire has always been fiercely devoted to Bob, before turning evil.
  - ... and she still has some good sides.
- Cassie was working with the evil side and just joined the Heroes. Bob doesn't believe her.
- Bob believes Claire is his one true love, and Alice is such a Knight in Sour Armor.
Inverted: Cassie is stupid/incompetent/cruel, but they always believe her in the Hero Team.
Subverted: Cassie knows all this because she is working with the Big Bad and she just gives some useful information amongst a lot of traps, and Bob is the Only Sane Man.
- Cassie has just guessed right.
- Charlie, whom the viewer know as probably the Messiah and a Hero, declared that his followers should not trust Alice and Cassie, and uncovers their Darkandroubledpast...
Double Subverted: ... until Cassie Becomes the Mask and Bob proves to just have difficulties to get past the time she rejected his offer of a date.
- ... because of her great intuitive capacities.
- ... but Charlie revealed to have problems to regress his Double Standards opinions.
Parodied: Cassie is always great. She descends from the great Cassandra. She has always been right so far. She is the Only Sane Man. She has been genetically engineered to see things to come and be very clever. But Bob doesn't want to believe her because she can't guess his coffee cup's temperature.
Deconstructed: Cassie has so much difficulties getting believed that she is not effective, and gets depressed.
- Cassie is surrounded by mean people that will not trust her, and all her efforts backfire.
- Alternatively, it is really fine that no one believes her, because if someone believed her, someone would know things humans are not supposed (except for prophets) to know.
- All her prophecies are self-fulfilling...
Reconstructed: Cassie learns to improve her social skills, and she becomes an Hyper Competent Sidekick, who is... often believed.
- Cassie at last finds people that trust her... most of the time.
- But then, humans need to acquire a new level of consciousness, and it would be fine if Cassie was believed.
- ... up to one point.
Averted : Everyone believes Cassie.
- Cassie doesn't know the future and isn't trusted less.
Enforced : "If people believed Cassie, the Heroes would always win. Let's make people have problems to trust her!"
Invoked: Cassie decides to inform everyone after she witnesses an evil act by Emperor Evulz.

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