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* [[Don Quixote]] is the [[Trope Namer]] as well as the ur-example. The main character mistakes literal windmills for literal gigantic hostile humanoids. Even when he is a deluded fanboy and not a politician, this trope really applies to Don Quixote. At Part I Chapter I, Don Quixote praises the giant Morgante, because he is the only good giant he has encountered in his chivalry books. All other giants are evil because “the giant breed which is always arrogant and ill-conditioned” [[Moral Dissonance|Therefore, for a Knight, is perfectly honorable to attack giants without provocation, kill them all, and rob them of their possessions.]] The fact that Don Quixote at Part I, Chapter VIII, gets caught in one of the windmill sails could be interpreted by the reader as a funny event, a tragic failure, or the [[Laser-Guided Karma|deserved fate of an HeroicSociopath wanabe]].

{{quote|At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."}}

* In the YA novel ''[[The King of Dragons]]'', the hero's father is a severe PTSD case of [[Windmill Crusader]]. His PTSD from military service causes him to believe that the government is out to get him and that terrible things will happen if he and his son are found by the authorities, so he gives the boy Survival [[Training ~~From~~ Hell]]. At the end of the book, the father is recovering, and tells his son, "I mistook molehills for mountains, but I taught you how to climb mountains."

* In the YA novel ''[[The King of Dragons]]'', the hero's father is a severe PTSD case of [[Windmill Crusader]]. His PTSD from military service causes him to believe that the government is out to get him and that terrible things will happen if he and his son are found by the authorities, so he gives the boy Survival [[Training from Hell]]. At the end of the book, the father is recovering, and tells his son, "I mistook molehills for mountains, but I taught you how to climb mountains."

* According to ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved'' from 1975, the danger of [[The Bermuda Triangle]] is a simple hoax. [[wikipedia:Bermuda triangle|There is no special danger associated with traveling in that area.]]

* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'', Harry and Dumbledore are assumed by the Ministry of Magic to be using this trope regarding Voldemort's return. As a result, this trope is ironically used against them in response.

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== Western Animation ==

* [[Al Gore]]'s portrayal in ''[[South Park]]'', in which he insists on the terrible threat Manbearpig (half man, half bear, half pig) poses to mankind, a satire, of course, of the real Gore and his activism against [[Global Warming]].

* [[Al Gore]]'s portrayal in ''[[South Park]]'', in which he insists on the terrible threat Manbearpig (half man, half bear, half pig) poses to mankind, a satire, of course, of the real Gore and his activism against [[Hollywood Global Warming]].

* From ''[[The Simpsons]]'':

{{quote|'''Lisa:''' By your logic, I could claim this rock keeps tigers away.

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