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* Creator/GrantMorrison loves treating fringe science claims as true in their comics, whether it's the "morphogenetic field" in ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' or Masaru Emoto's theory that water has feelings coming true in a chapter of ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers''.

* In ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'', almost every weird, pulp scientific theory has some truth to it... with the caveat that the protagonist ([[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription himself an example of said fringe science]]) is a FlatEarthAtheist who [[GenreBlind insists none of it is possible]], often just before getting [[ButtMonkey painfully proven wrong]]. There’s a memorable scene where he insists time travel is impossible ''while talking to his future selves''.

* Ditto the short-lived series ''Series/DarkSkies'', based on [=UFOlogy=] and other 1960s UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory lore.

* As part of its satirical use of UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory elements, ''Literature/FoucaultsPendulum'' employs a number of fringe theories, including the telluric currents idea. However, the novel is as much a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope (and the Conspiracy Theory and AllMythsAreTrue tropes) as anything, so it's ambiguous whether the theories are true or whether some of the characters are simply perceiving reality from an unusual angle.

* A notable SpiritualSuccessor, ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' also uses this trope as its premise.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation lives and breathes this trope. Not only are they true, but they're also terrifying.

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, a number of fringe theories are quite true, including the Counter-Earth idea and the underlying explanation of nearly all non-magical superpowers deriving from Creator/JackKirby's use of AncientAstronauts in the 1970s series ''Comicbook/TheEternals''. Similarly, from the 1980s to TheNewTens, TimeTravel obeyed the rules of the many-worlds hypothesis as well. Oh, and thanks to the Fantastic Four villain Diablo, alchemy is real, too.

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, a number of fringe theories are quite true, including the Counter-Earth idea and the underlying explanation of nearly all non-magical superpowers deriving from Creator/JackKirby's use of AncientAstronauts in the 1970s series ''Comicbook/TheEternals''. Similarly, from the 1980s to TheNewTens, TimeTravel obeyed the rules of the many-worlds hypothesis as well.

* ''Literature/Area51'': The prevalent occult/conspiracy theories about ancient aliens being on Earth, Atlantis, Area 51 the Pyramids etc. were all or mostly true according to the books. In fact, the author claims [[https://bobmayer.com/swarming-area-51/ 95% of the content is true]].

* This line of Teach The Controversy [[http://controversy.wearscience.com/ t-shirts]] frequently makes use of this trope, including such discredited theories as [[http://controversy.wearscience.com/design/phlogiston/ phlogiston]], [[http://controversy.wearscience.com/design/geocentric/ geocentrism]], [[http://controversy.wearscience.com/design/demons/ the demon theory of disease]], and [[http://controversy.wearscience.com/design/humors/ the four humors]].

* For its part, Franchise/TheDCU has long relied on the parallel-worlds theory, an inheritance from its prominence TheGoldenAgeOfScienceFiction. Writer Gardner Fox and editor Julius Schwartz were heavily involved in that industry before and while they worked in comics, explaining its use as the spine of the comics' cosmology.

* Creator/GrantMorrison loves treating fringe science claims as true in his comics, whether it's the "morphogenetic field" in ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' or Masaru Emoto's theory that water has feelings coming true in a chapter of ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers''.

* Similar to Morrison, Creator/WarrenEllis tends to use "bleeding edge" and sometimes undersupported scientific hypotheses culled from popular journals, with the result that much of his work fits into this trope when it isn't purely ArtisticLicensePhysics. Examples include description theory and the universal structure presented in ''ComicBook/Planetary''.

* Similar to Morrison, Creator/WarrenEllis tends to use "bleeding edge" and sometimes undersupported scientific hypotheses culled from popular journals, with the result that much of his work fits into this trope when it isn't purely ArtisticLicensePhysics. Examples include description theory and the universal structure presented in ''Comicbook/Planetary''.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has a lot of fun with fringe science. Most notably the way the word "quantum" can be used to justify anything, and the morphogenic field. (The ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRoleplayingGame'' notes that all theories of morphic resonance are true on the Disc, ''including the ones that contradict each other''). Not to mention the whole "the world is flat" thing, y'know?
* As part of its satirical use of UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory elements, ''[[Literature/FoucaultsPendulum Foucault's Pendulum]]'' employs a number of fringe theories, including the telluric currents idea. However, the novel is as much a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope (and the Conspiracy Theory and AllMythsAreTrue tropes) as anything, so it's ambiguous whether the theories are true or whether some of the characters are simply perceiving reality from an unusual angle.
* Creator/JamesJoyce frequently uses the archaic cosmological ideas of Giambattista Vico in his literary works; ''Literature/FinnegansWake in particular uses vico's version of eternal return as one of its basic structural principles.

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* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', Dr. Daniel Jackson became the laughingstock of the archeological community with his theories that aliens built the pyramids. The premise of the series is that he was, of course, right.

* Theories that propose the existence of a [[TheMultiverse multiverse]] come often under fire due to this as never mind how weird is an idea, somewhere out there it will be truth even if the Universe where that happened would totally be disconnected from ours, thus unable to affect us in any way.

The SciFiCounterpart of AllMythsAreTrue, this is when long-obsolete, fringe, or disproven scientific theories are considered true for the purposes of either RuleOfCool or [[ArtMajorPhysics Art Major Technology]]. Examples should be distinguished from ScienceMarchesOn, as in this trope's case the use of dodgy science is quite deliberate. This is sometimes a supertrope of AncientAstronauts, LamarckWasRight, GeneticMemory, OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious, PsychicDreamsForEveryone and many other tropes found right here on this wiki, and arguably underpins most modern uses of alchemy in SpeculativeFiction. It's also rampant in SteamPunk, which is often set in universes where, for example, the theory of the aether is true.

* As part of its satirical use of ConspiracyTheory elements, ''[[Literature/FoucaultsPendulum Foucault's Pendulum]]'' employs a number of fringe theories, including the telluric currents idea. However, the novel is as much a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope (and the Conspiracy Theory and AllMythsAreTrue tropes) as anything, so it's ambiguous whether the theories are true or whether some of the characters are simply perceiving reality from an unusual angle.

* Ditto the short-lived series ''Series/DarkSkies'', based on [=UFOlogy=] and other 1960s ConspiracyTheory lore.

* In ''RiseOfLegends'', helicopters follow Leonardo Da Vinci's "aerial screw" drawings, long since proven aerodynamically impossible.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' used this trope sometimes. In the case of Area 51... I mean, Zone 91... it was heavily {{Lampshaded}}. It was more moderately lampshaded when an Atlantis-type lost civilization turned out to be real. And there are also the Skrit Na, whose main purpose for being in the books was to be an alien race fitting the description of TheGreys. Subverted, though, when Erek is telling the story of how his Chee race arrived at the right time to be AncientAstronauts. When asked about the concept that they might have been the ones to design the pyramids, Erek clarifies that the Chee didn't interfere with human society in ways like that, just as they don't do things like that in the present day. Also, the series' treatment of [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone psychic phenomena]], and of the question of dolphin and whale intelligence, seems to be based on this trope.

* SCPFoundation lives and breathes this trope. Not only they're true but they're also terrifying.

->''"I've been studying theoretical physics, although at this point I guess it's just physics."