History Main / SuperGullible

* Woody in ''{{Film/Nebraska}}'' - it's [[PlayedForDrama extremely depressing]] to see an elderly man get his hopes up over a million-dollar sweepstakes.

* Gatrie, the NiceGuy Armor Knight of the Greil Mercenaries from the ''Videogame/FireEmblemTellius'' subseries is extremely easy to take advantage of, as revealed in his [[RelationshipValues support conversation]] with his [[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner]] and [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolic Best Bud]] Shinon. There, a woman he [[CasanovaWannabe tries to woo]] manages to get all of his money to "pay for an operation" because she is terminally ill with "Brain Stones." She runs off, never to be seen again. In a twist, Gatrie is actually ''aware'' of his gullibility, but thinks that it makes him charming.

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': Oboro takes the concept of JustFollowingOrders to its ludicrous extreme. As a member of the school's Decency Committee, her job is to confiscate any material that's considered lewd. So when she tries to take Fuwa's yaoi doujin, Fuwa contends that it's research material. Oboro immediately believes her and authorizes the book. However, Tanukichi tells her it's smut, so Oboro promptly takes the book back and bans it. The gag continues like this for several moments.

* ''Everyone'' becomes this when [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{Graceling}} Leck]]]] is involved. Lying is his Grace, so even if the lies are several times removed from the source, people believe them despite how very suspicious they are. Po is the only one who can see through it.

* In early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' this was one of superintendent Chalmers characteristics in relation to the lies principal Skinner told him. The greatest example of this is him believing Skinner's story that the northern lights were occurring in the kitchen, when it was really a really bad fire.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Ruby Squad from "Hit The Diamond" accept absolutely ''every'' statement at face value, even if it's made by someone who [[BadLiar couldn't be acting more unnatural if she tried]], or [[spoiler: is blatantly impossible, like the lie that their target Jasper is on Neptune.]]

* {{Justified}} in ''Film/TheInventionOfLying'' where nobody has ever told a lie before, so lines like "I'm not here" and "we have to have sex right now or else the world will end" are taken at face value.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Ruby Squad from ''Hit The Diamond''. They accept absolutely ''every'' statement at face value, even if it's made by someone who [[BadLiar couldn't be acting more unnatural if she tried]], or [[spoiler: is blatantly impossible, like the lie that their target Jasper is on Neptune.]]

* Woody in ''{{Film/Nebraska}}'' - it's extremely depressing to see an elderly man get his hopes up over a million-dollar sweepstakes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' Starfire lacks experience with Earth culture and tends to accept explanations without a second thought, since the culture difference is so large that it's hard to tell crazy from crazy.

* Popura from ''Manga/{{Working}}'' will believe any ridiculous lie Satou or Souma tell her, such as that eating dried geckos will help her grow taller. She also somehow fails to realize that Souta and Kozue knowing each other and having the same last name while living in the same neighborhood is probably a hint that they’re siblings.
* ''Manga/ServantXService'' by the same author as ''Working!!'' has its own Popura expy with Lucy, who is incredibly willing to give out personal information for flimsy reasons or believe Chihaya’s terrible lies.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ryoga's naivety and trusting nature makes him everyone's victim, especially Ranma, who repeatedly uses [[GenderBender his girl form]] to either spy on him, or dupe him. You'd think Ryoga would eventually learn to recognize her face, or her voice - but he never does. Even when Ranma's using [[PaperThinDisguise little more than a pair of glasses as a disguise.]] The most egregious instance being, when Ranma was even able to convince Ryoga that he was his sister. Ryoga figured it was plausible, given he hadn't seen his family in years, [[NoSenseOfDirection due to his poor sense of direction.]]

* Lingk in the play and film version of ''Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss'' is not only an ExtremeDoormat and HenpeckedHusband, he also swallows every lie the ShadyRealEstateAgent Roma feeds him without getting suspicious. Even when one of Roma's statements is exposed as untrue by a third person, Lingk's reaction is to apologize for letting Roma down.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TheGamersDorknessRising'': Sir Osric, ThePaladin (and a {{GM PC}}), tries to keep the party on a morally upright path, but whenever they need to do something illegal, they simply Bluff him into running out of the room to fight some non-existent evil. Because his Sense Motive skill is so low, apparently, it works like a charm every time.

* Barney Stinson from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is as an adult still believing all the ridiculous lies his mother has told him as a child. This is also quite ironic, considering that Barney is a notorious liar himself.

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', characters with low [[TheSixStats Wisdom]] and [[SkillScoresAndPerks Sense Motive/Insight]] modifiers tend to have trouble discerning truth from lies, and therefore often fall under this trope.

* Sunohara in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' consistently falls for Tomoya’s bullshit, even being convinced once that he was dreaming simply because he didn’t believe Tomoya would remember the capital of Australia. Or being woken up after class and being told that they were living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and that Tomoya was a robot duplicate of the original Tomoya.
* PlayedForDrama in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2''. Near the middle of the third chapter, Ibuki Mioda catches a disease which Monokuma released on the island with random, personality-affecting symptoms. Among the three who contracted the disease, she was unlucky enough to get 'gullibility' as her symptom, [[spoiler:which made it easy for Tsumiki -who was the nurse that was supposed to be caring for the sick- to strangle her to death; Mioda quite literally went along with her own murder without suspecting a thing]].
** The side-story ''Danganronpa IF'' reveals Mukuro Ikusaba to be this regarding anything her sister (the BigBad of the franchise) says when she needed to get a blood transfusion for Naegi but didn't know his blood type. Despite said sister being the reason he was bleeding out in the first place, Mukuro followed her instructions '''without suspecting a thing''' (repeated several times during that passage for emphasis on Mukuro's gullibility). She had to be told right to her face that she was being tricked, after nearly giving Naegi the wrong transfusion.

* Invoked in ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated'' season 6, when Binwin tries to figure out whether Danielle is pulling a fast one on him and rolls for Sense Motive, and Aoefel bursts out into laughter because Binwin's Wisdom modifier is -1 and he would probably believe whatever Danielle said--even if she were just making handfarts.

* In early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' this was one of superintendent Chalmers characteristics in relation to the lies principal Skinner told him. The greatest example of this is him believing Skinner's story that the northern lights were occurring in the kitchen, when it was really a really bad fire.

* Wakamatsu in ''Manga/GekkanShoujoNozakiKun'' is adorably naïve and willing to believe what people tell him. Even the nicer characters like Sakura and Hori will do it, such as claiming there’s no seniority in culture clubs, finding out they can’t apply screentones while Wakamatsu can and then instantly and arrogantly shoving the work off on him, completely reversing what they had said before.

* Youko in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' is as terrible at telling lies as Asahi, but also falls for them even more easily than he does. And when [[FallenAngel Karen]] is introduced, she turns out to be even more gullible, as she's such a NiceGirl that the words "doubt" and "suspicion" seem thoroughly absent from her dictionary.

* Youko in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' is as terrible at telling lies as Asahi, but also falls for them even more easily than he does. And when [[FallenAngel Karen]] is introduced, she turns out to be even more gullible, as the words "doubt" and "suspicion" seem thoroughly absent from her dictionary.

* Youko in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' is as terrible at telling lies as Asahi, but also falls for them even more easily than he does.

** The side-story ''Danganronpa IF'' reveals Mukuro Ikusaba to be this regarding anything her sister (the BigBad of the franchise) says when she needed to get a blood transfusion for Naegi but didn't know his blood type. Despite said sister being the reason he was bleeding out in the first place, Mukuro followed her instructions '''without suspecting a thing''' (repeated several times during that passage for emphasis on Mukuro's gullibility).

See also TheDitz and GenreBlindness. May be a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter. Not to be confused with GullibleLemmings.

* ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'': Ryoga's naivety and trusting nature makes him everyone's victim, especially Ranma, who repeatedly uses [[GenderBender his girl form]] to either spy on him, or dupe him. You'd think Ryoga would eventually learn to recognize her face, or her voice - but he never does. Even when Ranma's using [[PaperThinDisguise little more than a pair of glasses as a disguise.]] The most egregious instance being, when Ranma was even able to convince Ryoga that he was his sister. Ryoga figured it was plausible, given he hadn't seen his family in years, [[NoSenseOfDirection due to his poor sense of direction.]]