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* 'Series/HowIMetYourMother'':

** OneShotCharacter Honey is this even more than Barney. Future Ted admits that in the years since they met her, he and all his friends have forgotten her name, but [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname have taken to calling her "Honey"]] because every other thing she says elicits a sympathetic, appalled, "Oh, ''honey''." For example, believing a sketchy "audition" she did had landed her a part on ''Series/{{LOST}}'', a show that had been over for a year when the episode takes place, or thinking her apartment building is super safe because her landlord put security cams all over the place... including [[PeepingTom her shower]].

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

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'':
** Yor Briar Forger may be a badass assassin, but she's also a SociallyAwkwardHero and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who buys Loid's flimsy excuses that the goons trying to kill them are [[BlatantLies his psychotic patients that he's using "concussive therapy" on.]]
** Her brother Yuri is a member of the secret police, but has a ''huge'' sister-complex that makes him just as gullible when it comes to Yor. When he gets suspicious that Yor has supposedly been married for a year, she claims that she "forgot that she forgot" to tell him, and Yuri buys it. One flashback to their childhood showed Yor returning home covered in blood, not even giving an excuse beyond "I'm totally fine", and Yuri shrugs it off.

* 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 actually a really bad fire.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin will believe any ridiculous stories his dad tells him at face value, no matter how silly they get. The Sun is actually the size of a quarter and it lands in Arizona at night, and that's why the rocks there are red, and Calvin accepts this as fact.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Soldier is a Grade-A moron for several reasons (take your pick of [[CloudCuckoolander loose grip on reality]], [[AxCrazy violent tendencies]], [[DumbMuscle brazen stupidity]], or [[WaterSourceTampering lead in the water]]) and is remarkably prone to accepting patently untrue things (such as Heavy and Medic being Americans) at face value. Despite this, he is also somehow TooDumbToFool, as despite the above he is not taken in by the {{Paper-Thin Disguise}}s of other people in the supplemental comics.

* Sakura of ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' always believes any tall tale her classmate Takashi tells her without fail. Most new transfer students also tend to fall into this, which is eventually lampshaded by Takashi's girlfriend in ''Manga/CardCaptorSakuraClearCard''.

* ''Literature/HennekoTheHentaiPrinceAndTheStonyCat'': Tsukushi Tsutsukakushi is the strict president of the track and field club, but she is so gullible that she believes Youto's ridiculous excuse that he's innocent of the perverted acts she's determined to punish him for because they were actually committed by his (made-up) identical twin brother. As a result she continues to trust him like she always has while attributing anything naughty he does to his twin brother, and when she catches him in an AccidentalPervert situation she takes him for his brother and refuses to believe him when he tries to explain that the "twin brother" thing was a lie in the first place.

* Oshigiri from ''Manga/TheOnesWithin'', as part of his "cute dork" schtick. He combines this with CuriousAsAMonkey in an omake, where he finds himself wondering uncontrollably if the insults a teammate threw at him have some kind of deeper meaning (they don't).
* Throughout multiple season of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[IdiotHero Ash]] and [[TrueCompanions his friends]] repeatedly fall for every PaperThinDisguise that [[GoldfishPoopGang Team Rocket]] uses, with ''very'' rare exceptions.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ryōga's naivety and trusting nature makes him everyone's victim, especially Ranma, who repeatedly uses [[SexShifter his girl form]] to either spy on him, or dupe him. You'd think Ryōga would eventually learn to recognize his face or 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 is even able to convince Ryōga that he is his sister. Ryōga figures it is plausible, given he hadn't seen his family in years, [[NoSenseOfDirection due to his poor sense of direction.]]
** In time Ryoga ''does'' start growing suspicious of these redheaded girls, such as when he found a maid in his home... But Ranma is always able to give some "logical" explanation, such as the Hibikis needing someone to keep their house clean due [[NoSenseOfDirection being rarely able to find their way home]].

* Yor Briar-Forger of ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' may be a badass assassin, but she's also a SociallyAwkwardHero and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who buys Loid's flimsy excuses that the goons trying to kill them are [[BlatantLies his psychotic patients that he's using "concussive therapy" on.]]

* ''LightNovel/HennekoTheHentaiPrinceAndTheStonyCat'': Tsukushi Tsutsukakushi is the strict president of the track and field club, but she is so gullible that she believes Youto's ridiculous excuse that he's innocent of the perverted acts she's determined to punish him for because they were actually committed by his (made-up) identical twin brother. As a result she continues to trust him like she always has while attributing anything naughty he does to his twin brother, and when she catches him in an AccidentalPervert situation she takes him for his brother and refuses to believe him when he tries to explain that the "twin brother" thing was a lie in the first place.

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

* {{Justified}} in ''Film/TheInventionOfLying'' which is set in a world where no one has any concept of lying whatsoever, which means that people believe the protagonist (the only person able to lie) no matter how ridiculous his lies get. 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.

** While nowhere near the extent of other people on this list, Hifumi Yamada never thinks to question Celestia (the self-professed Queen of Liars) on anything she says. [[spoiler: This includes telling him that Kiyotaka (the Ultimate Moral Compass) raped her, and assuring him that she wouldn't kill him as part of their joint murder plan, despite it putting Hifumi in a perfect position to be killed to stop him from giving her away and complete the constructed narrative.]]

** The WhatIf 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.
** As a result of having raised in the forest, Gonta Gokuhara from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' is this as in the start of Chapter Two, he honestly believed [[CardCarryingVillain Kokichi Oma]] when he stated that he was a honest and trustworthy man.
** While not to extent of Gonta, Tenko Chabashira from the same game is this as she will believe anything that was said by her Neo-Aikido master, such as that her moves can get weakened by getting too excited for holidays, eating more than three sweets per day, or having men touching her. Note that the last thing is what ended up contributing to her disdain for men despite her mentor ''also'' being male, and she was still gullible enough to not notice that contradiction. And it is suggested that her master was even joking around while saying all this, but Tenko took it all seriously!

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation:'' [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3740 SCP-3740 (Ashur, God of the Windswept Plains and Soaring Skies)]] has a bad case of this, which actually makes him fairly easy to contain despite being the PhysicalGod of wind and perfectly capable of calling tornado-force winds at will. He has successfully been convinced that his containment cell is actually the Gods' heavenly abode and that the research staff are all fellow deities of his pantheon; proof of godhood can be such things as mundane prestidigitation, having dyed hair and ''using the light switch'', so long as they're given a little spin. [[spoiler:Later on another deity whom the rest of the pantheon assigned as Ashur's minder drops in and isn't fooled by the staff in the slightest, but is more than happy to let the Foundation take care of him]].

See also TheDitz, EasilyImpressed, and GenreBlindness. May be a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter. Not to be confused with GullibleLemmings. The polar opposite of this trope would probably be TheParanoiac, who is incapable of trusting others. Contrast WontGetFooledAgain.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation:'' [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3740 SCP-3740 (Ashur, God of the Windswept Plains and Soaring Skies)]] has a bad case of this, which actually makes him fairly easy to contain despite being the PhysicalGod of wind and perfectly capable of calling tornado-force winds at will. He has successfully been convinced that his containment cell is actually the Gods' heavenly abode and that the research staff are all fellow deities of his pantheon; proof of godhood can be such things as mundane prestidigitation, having dyed hair and ''using the light switch'', so long as they're given a little spin. [[spoiler:And of course, when a ''real'' deity drops by to check in, SCP-3740 doesn't believe him to be one. The deity in question is more than happy to let the Foundation take care of him]].

-->-- '''[[AlmightyIdiot SCP-3740]] file''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

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* According to some theories of autism, autistic people may lack of "Theory of Mind", or the ability to understand another person's point of view or mindset. This may lead to the person with autism believing nearly everything he or she is told, even if the information is obviously false to everyone else.
%%Though with all things considered, as each person on the spectrum is different, this has to be taken with a grain of salt.
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