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== Live Action TV ==

* A heroic example. In a fourth season episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Sheridan creates an imaginary threat in the form of mysterious aliens who are invisible to all but the White Star fleet. He does this by, among other things, denying the existence of said invaders, and having Ivanova state on her news program that [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|nothing at all happened in a particular region of space that day]]. All this serves to amp the alien ambassadors' normal paranoia [[Up to Eleven]]. Note that this isn't done to gain personal power, but rather to get the alien races to allow the White Star fleet to patrol their respective territories (and thus protect them from ''real'' threats), something they would never do normally because the afore-mentioned paranoia could cause them to assume ulterior motives.