History Main / TheCuckooLanderWasRight

* * ''Fanfic/ParentsOfPonyville'' features [[RashomonStyle four different accounts]] of what happened at a parent-teacher conference. The two parents both give obviously biased, self-serving accounts, while the teacher Cherilee gives a relatively plausible story, and the child Terry tells a nonsensical story about flying through space fighting aliens. It's later implied that ''Terry's story'' was the true one.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing any less-than-realistic-sounding truth that someone else like the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny such fact''' through a defense mechanism called ''rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make the former sound, act or even '''''become''''' crazy themselves from doing so.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing any less-than-realistic sounding truth that someone else like the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny such fact''' through a defense mechanism called ''rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make the former sound, act or even '''''become''''' crazy themselves from doing so.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing any less-than-realistic sounding truth that someone else like the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny such fact''' through the defense mechanism called ''rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make the former sound, act or even '''''become''''' crazy themselves from doing so.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing any less-than-realistic sounding truth that someone else like the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny such fact''' through the defense mechanism called ''rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make the latter sound, act or even '''''become''''' crazy themselves from doing so.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing any truth that someone else like the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny such fact''' through the defense mechanism called ''rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make the latter sound, act or even '''''become''''' crazy themselves from doing so.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing the truth(s) that the Cloudcuckoolander has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny such fact''' through a defense mechanism called ''rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make them sound, act or even '''''become''''' crazy from doing so.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing the truth(s) that the Cloudcuckoolander has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny''' it through a defense mechanism called ''Rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make them sound, act or even '''''become''''' crazy from doing so.

Contrast ScullySyndrome, in which an individual, despite witnessing the truth(s) that the Cloudcuckoolander has been suggesting to others, '''tries to deny''' it through a defense mechanism called ''Rationalization'', where it can potentially ([[{{Irony}} and ironically]]) make them sound, act or even ''''''become''''' crazy from doing so.

* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', this is how J gets the job -- him and a group of straight-laced soldiers are put into two tests. The first test is a written one; the soldiers fight to get comfortable and write on their legs, J drags the (metal) table over to his seat. The second test is target practice; the soldiers go gung-ho on the random aliens, J shoots a little girl and explains that her being out among the others in the middle of the night carrying highly-advanced books probably means she's the real threat. Later material reveal he's quite right!

* In the start of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasChronicleOfTheMoonExploration'' when Nobita's class is discussing a news broadcast reports of an unidentified object being spotted on the moon, everyone had conflicting ideas on what the object could be. Gian says it's probably a UFO, Suneo thinks it's merely dust on the lens, Haruo and Yasuo says it's ectoplasm... and then Nobita thinks it's a MoonRabbit. Just guess who got the closest answer.

* People often make fun of conspiracy theorists who think the government is watching everyone, but revelations from leaked files about global surveillance programs show those conspiracy theorists are more right than many would like.

* ''TabletopGame/BlackbirdsRPG'': "Mother's Watch" causes the afflicted to become increasingly paranoid and [[Manchild childish]], eventually becoming convinced that there exists a grand conspiracy to replace ordinary people with monstrous doppelgangers and throwing destructive tantrums if this belief is questioned. It only affects those who have glimpsed the servants of the Allmother, a monstrous DeityOfHumanOrigin whose ultimate goal is to KillAndReplace every single person and whose creations have already infiltrated every level of society in several regions. As a result these conspiracy theories are often somewhat accurate, but the people making them are so obviously deranged and paranoid that nobody really believes them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFinalExitOfTheDisciplesOfAscensia'': Mira and Celisse are members of the titular cult led by Ascensia, who tells them that they will all ascend to their true mothers in space one day. One the day of the ascension, Mira tells Celisse that she doesn't actually believe anything Ascensia says, only joining the cult to get free food and housing, and convinces Celisse to leave before Ascensia kills them. Suddenly, Ascensia calls from a spaceship that they're leaving and she's very disappointed in them, and the two are made into servants in the aliens' home planet.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'', the Phantom Zoners manage manipulate former fellow inmate Quex-Ul into releasing them. When they are leaving Quex-Ul's apartment, Jer-Em tries to talk two Zoners -Az-Rel and Nadira- out of their plan, reasoning that they were meant to serve time in the Phantom Zone, and defy Rao's will by invading Superman's cherished Earth is a terrible idea. Both Kryptonian criminals dismiss his words as superstitious nonsense of a crazy doomsayer, though, and Jer-Em has to point out that it is possible to be crazy ''and'' right. Jer-Em is definitely proved right when both Kryptonians get killed off.

* At some point in the third arc of ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'', Walker and Erika casually decide that Simon and Dennis, the owners and staff of the local Russian Sushi restaurant that they regularly eat at, are secretly FormerRegimePersonnel on the run from TheMafiya. The next volume proves them ''completely right''.

* In Episode 3 of ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Nyarko wonders if Mahiro's {{Tsundere}} attitude and [[ImprobableWeaponUser skill with forks]] mark him as a descendant of the cursed deity hunter from the "[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos forbidden black book]]". In Episode 4, Mahiro's mother returns home and everyone (including Mahiro himself) learns that she's a part-time deity hunter who's also deadly with forks. When this is revealed, even Nyarko is shocked, since by her own admission her earlier remark was just an off-the-cuff joke and not meant to be any serious speculation.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': The at first unhinged seeming CyberNinja Nelia gets decisively proven right in her VillainousCrush claims that she and Akira go great together when they work perfectly in a BadassMindsThinkAlike situation, with Akira being InLoveWithYourCarnage just like she was when they first met. In part due to Nelia's weirdness serving as CommonalityConnection to Akira's own IGaveMyWord and ConsummateProfessional values.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', one of the main characters turns out to be a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Mazoku.]] Everyone expresses shock and surprise and various levels of betrayal, except for {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Gourry, who says he knew it all along. [[TooDumbToFool Turns out he thought it was so obvious that it didn't deserve a mention.]]

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* Grandpa Simpson in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' -- "Twisted tail...a thousand eyes...trapped forever... EEEPA! EEEPA!" It gets lampshaded later on: "My god, the crazy old man in church was right!" By himself.

* In ''Film/LoveActually'', Colin has a truly daft plan to score chicks by visiting America, where he believes his British accent will make him irresistible to women. He is thoroughly and rightly mocked for this idea; he attempts it and it works exactly as he expected.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', super-suit designer Edna Mode no longer uses capes in her designs, citing (with dates) several instances where superheroes were killed gruesomely because their cape snagged on something or got sucked into a jet engine intake. "NO CAPES!" At the very end of the movie, [[spoiler: Syndrome's cape gets him sucked into the intake of his own jet]].

* In Manga/{{Bakuman}}, the highly eccentric Nizuma is nevertheless often right about manga. When looking over works that Mashiro and Takagi, Fukuda, and Aoki and Nakai plan to submit to the Golden Future Cup, he predicts that two of them are tied for first place, but refuses to say which to avoid upsetting the one in third. He's correct, as [[spoiler:Detective Trap and Kiyoshi Knight- Muto Ashirogi and Fukuda's work, respectively]] are tied for first place in an unprecedented result.

* In ''VisualNovel/ShinraiBrokenBeyondDespair'', Rihatsu Shinpuku, the mother of Raiko, the main character, is often rathr childish and eccentric, such as trying to get Raiko to dress up in a cat costume for her friends' Halloween party. After reading a pre-game entry about Kamen throwing a paper airplane at Raiko in class, Rihatsu comes to the conclusion that Kamen [[spoiler:is secretly in love with Raiko]]. Rihatsu's conclusion seems entirely baseless, but the ending(in which Kamen [[spoiler:kisses Raiko on the cheek]]) and post-game extra content suggest that she's right.