History Main / CassandraDidIt

** It’s also subtly implied that Loghain did internally know the truth, but was unable to consciously accept it. After all, to admit the threat was to accept the aid of Orlais, for which he’s held a not-IrrationalHatred after having fought their invasion which [[YouKilledHisFather killed his parents]]; the prospect of a threat big enough to ‘’require’’ Orlesian aid on Ferelden soil turned him into TheParanoiac.

-->-- Bruno, the unfortunate seer from ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}''

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/Encanto'' features Bruno Madrigal, a superstitious man with the Gift of Future Vision. To his displeasure, a majority of his visions foretold bad things happening leading to the entire town blaming him for all the misfortune that would come to be. [[spoiler:When he read his latest vision of how [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel]] would play a part in [[TheMagicGoesAway the destruction of the Madrigal magic]], or its stability, Bruno was aware that everyone was going to see it as worse then what it really was. Believing that everyone would hate him and ostracize his niece, he decided to self-exile into the walls of Casita without sharing his last vision]].

->''"Oh, Bruno makes bad things happen. He's creepy and his vision killed my goldfish!"''

* ''The Last Warring Angel'' starts with the FBI questioning a man who tried to assasinate the president. The man informs them that he wasn't trying to kill the president, but his EvilChancellor who's going to manipulate the U.S. into World War 3 after North Korea nukes Seoul. He's treated as a madman at first, and a North Korean spy once Seoul indeed gets nuked.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "Bridle Gossip": Twilight and friends confront [[RhymesOnADime Zecora]], a mysterious zebra who lives in [[TheLostWoods the Everfree Forest]] and whom everyone suspects of being a witch. Zecora departs into the woods with a cryptic warning about "those leaves of blue" the ponies are standing near, which the other ponies assume is some kind of curse. Sure enough, [[ScrewballSerum a weird affliction]] strikes the ponies the next day, and guess who they blame? Naturally, Zecora has nothing to do with their condition, and it turned out to be the fault of the blue-leaved plants they were walking through earlier, which are actually a magical plant called [[JustForPun "poison joke"]]; when they confront her, she was actually in the middle of making them a cure.
%%%%* ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Scardey Cat" sees Porky Pig moving in to an old house with Sylvester as his pet cat. Sylvester quickly finds out that the mice infesting the house are trying to kill them. He proceeds to spend the night alternately trying to warn Porky and trying to foil the murder attempts. Unfortunately foiling those wound up making it look like Sylvester was trying to kill him.

-->-- Bruno, the unfortunate seer from '''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'''

->''"Oh, Bruno makes bad things happen. He's creepy and his vision killed my goldfish!
-->-- Bruno the unfortunate seer from WesternAnimation/Encanto

-->-- Bruno the unfortunate seer from ''Encanto''

-->-- Bruno the unfortunate seer from ''WesternAnimation/Encanto''

[[''WesternAnimation/Encanto'' Bruno]]: Oh, Bruno makes bad things happen. He's creepy and his vision killed my goldfish!

[[WesternAnimation/Encanto Bruno]]: Oh, Bruno makes bad things happen. He's creepy and his vision killed my goldfish!

[[Encanto Bruno]]: Oh, Bruno makes bad things happen. He's creepy and his vision killed my goldfish!

''WesternAnimation/Encanto''Bruno: Oh, Bruno makes bad things happen. He's creepy and his vision killed my goldfish!

* In a ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' parody storyline in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Der Trihs tells the authorities that a shark is behind the killings, but they don't believe him because [[MisplacedWildlife sharks aren't native to that world]]. He sarcastically suggests that it must have been a stealth submarine with a shark-jaw mechanism, and they immediately decide that Der Trihs is responsible, and it was ''his'' stealth shark-submarine, and arrest him. Even when the MadScientist who created the sharks confesses, the police are convinced that he was Der Trihs's co-conspirator.

As idiotic as this kind of reasoning sounds, it is possible to use it in such a way that's not completely stupid. TheUnintelligible may have shown up for the sole purpose of warning us about the catastrophe, but if we can't understand him, well, blaming him for the problem makes as much sense as anything else. Additionally, once Cassandra has been revealed as knowing something, the idea that she's an accomplice is plausible -- although, since she's trying to warn you, treating her like a criminal is still pretty dumb. However, with certain subjects, or when the listener is in a certain frame of mind, their [[WarningMistakenForThreat warning may be taken as a threat]].

* This is one AlternativeCharacterInterpretation concerning the Mothman, which appears in fiction in ''Film/TheMothmanProphecies''.
* A lot of the conflict of ''Film/TheFrighteners'' arises when people who think Frank is a complete fraud (rather than just running a MonsterProtectionRacket) interpret his warnings as threats.
* Happens to the protagonist of Werner Herzog's ''Film/HeartOfGlass'', the clairvoyant cowherd Hias. When, true to Hias' prophecies, the local glass factory burns down, the townsfolk blame it on him, beat him up and turn him in to the authorities.

As idiotic as this kind of reasoning sounds, it is possible to use it in such a way that's not completely stupid. TheUnintelligible may have shown up for the sole purpose of warning us about the catastrophe, but if we can't understand him, well, blaming him for the problem makes as much sense as anything else. Additionally, once Cassandra has been revealed as knowing something, the idea that she's an accomplice is plausible -- although, since she's trying to warn you, treating her like a criminal is still pretty dumb. However, with certain subjects, or when the listener is in a certain frame of mind, their warning may be taken as a threat.

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* In ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', the circus prophet Cesare foresees that Allan will die at dawn. Cesare then kills Allan in his sleep. [[spoiler: The ending implies that Allan was actually murdered by the film's UnreliableNarrator, Francis.]]

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* An old Myth/PaulBunyan tall tale has the logger stumble across a pair of mysterious whimpering shoes. Sometime after it whimpers, something incredibly strange happens, such as it raining upside-down. The other lumberjacks demand the Paul get rid of the shoe (sort of hard to blame them since stuff this [[WeirdnessMagnet weird]] only happened right after Paul found the shoe), but Paul, realizing the shoe's value, keeps them hidden away, only bringing them out when he was playing poker with lumberjacks who wouldn't recognize them.
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-->'''Wormtongue''': Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear. "''Lathspell''" I name you: ill news, and an ill guest!

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-->'''Judean pagan worshippers in Pathros''': "On the contrary, we will do everything we have vowed - to make offerings to the Queen of Heaven and to pour libations to her, as we used to do, we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty to eat, we were well off, and suffered no misfortune. But ever since we stopped making offerings to the Queen of Heaven and pouring libations to her, we have lacked everything, and we have been consumed by the sword and by famine!"

* The {{Franchise/Pokemon}} Absol gets this treatment, [[AllThereInTheManual according to its 'dex entries]]. They have a natural ability to sense disaster, and a natural desire to warn humans of it -- but they [[PokemonSpeak can't communicate effectively with humans]], and so are believed to be the cause of the disaster when it does arrive.

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* Parodied on TheSimpsons.
-->'''Moe''': ''[in response to a near-miss meteor strike]'' Let's burn down the observatory, so this can never happen again!

* The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''Scardey Cat'' sees Porky Pig moving in to an old house with Sylvester as his pet cat. Sylvester quickly finds out that the mice infesting the house are trying to kill them. He proceeds to spend the night alternately trying to warn Porky and trying to foil the murder attempts. Unfortunately foiling those wound up making it look like Sylvester was trying to kill him.

It may go without saying, but this shows up commonly in RealLife, particularly in regards to TheWarOnStraw.

* This becomes an InvokedTrope in ''An Enemy of the People'' (1978) when the protagonist is framed to look as if his objection to a tannery that was poisoning the town's water is a stock swindle.