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* In the film ''[[Conspiracy Theory (film)|Conspiracy Theory]]'', [[Mel Gibson]]'s character prints a newsletter called "[[Title Drop|Conspiracy Theory]]", filled with conspiracy theories about anything and everything under the sun. Everyone, possibly even including himself, thinks he's just another crackpot with an axe to grind. Then the assassins start chasing him.
* In ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]'', Marty is [[The Stoner]], always talking about the "[[Properly Paranoid|puppeteers]]" and how he isn't going to be controlled by them. He also plays the part of the [[Only Sane Man]].
* In the film version of ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]],'', Coraline’s neighbors are eccentric, but their advice towards Coraline is legitimately good - it’s just not immediately obvious that Coraline should listen to them, though they do help Coraline with the Other Mother. This is a contrast to their Other counterparts, who seem awesome at first but become a threat to her mission to save the ghost kids.
* ''[[Enchanted]]'': Though Robert’sRobert's never portrayed as being wrong to criticize Giselle, she actually turns out to be right a lot of the time, and she’sshe's not wrong to criticize him, either. For example, she is not wrong to believe that the world is not terrible. And she was right that her prince was coming for her, even though she decides he’s a brother to her end.
 
== Literature ==
* ''[[Catch-22]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]]. Yossarian finally figures out what Orr was telling him in the end.
* Luna Lovegood from ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is a font of wisdom despite being a complete Cloudcuckoolander.
** She's a Ravenclaw for a reason, and her answers to the Ravenclaw Tower door's questions in ''Deathly Hallows'' were pretty smart.
** She takes after her father Xenophilius, who is just as strange, but 100% correct about [[Title Drop|Thethe Deathly Hallows]].
** Some of the stories from ''The Quibbler'' have a grain of truth to them. For example, Sirius may not be Stubby Boardman, but it ''does'' get right that he was an innocent man falsely imprisoned.
** Also from ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Sybill Trelawney is an amiable lunatic who everyone thinks is a complete fraud... until she issues two True Prophecies that affect the plot of the entire series. She actually predicts a lot of minor stuff, but she seems so much of a fraud that nobody seems to take her words for any merit; probably because she has the habit of hopelessly misinterpreting the actual omens she sees. It's heavily implied that she ''has'' the gift, passed down from previous generations, but just can't ''control'' it, making her most genuine prophecies in a trance-like state that she doesn't remember afterward.
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