History ParanoiaFuel / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/AlexRider'': [[spoiler: The duplicate of Alex, on soooo many fronts.]]

* ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'': Your entire life - everything you've done, everything you've experienced, everyone you know, have spoken to, or loved, cared about, or hated, all of your lifetime experiences and ambitions and beliefs and goals - in short, everything that makes you who you are - could be a complete fabrication, ''and you would not be able to tell.''

* ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'', especially the opening: "Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But, there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit... ''a darkside''."

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' is teaming with this. [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E7Obit "O.B.I.T"]] features machines that can track down and monitor anyone, and has this chilling line:

* Certain episodes of ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark''. The intro sequence for ''Goosebumps'' is one example.

** In season two, it's revealed that the Nebari infect their rebels and dissidents with an extremely communicable sexually transmitted disease before sending them out into the galaxy. It has no effects on its victims... until the Nebari Establishment are ready to invade en mass. Chiana claims to have been purged of it, but that doesn't stop anyone from shitting bricks when she showed up on Earth in the eighties and, [[AnythingThatMoves well...]] It's implied that the Nebari don't ''need'' the STD to soften up its targets. They're a HigherTechSpecies with the power to rival the Peacekeeprs and the Scarrans. It's demonstrated when one of the most powerful ships in the Peacekeeper navy is destroyed by a run-of-the-mill Nebari transport. They don't have dedicated warships because they don't ''need'' them. But don't worry, you won't mind them in control of you, as they have perfected MoreThanMindControl techniques that will make you serve them in blissful ignorance.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Not only could Your dull as Dishwater Friend be a monstrous Serial killer, but almost everyone around You is a Killer in one form or another. And the Police are so inept that the aforementioned friend is probably the only thing standing between You and a Hideous Death.
** I'd correct the capitalization of this entry, but I'm too busy trying to figure out the hidden message. And who put it there. ''And what they want to do to me.''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is well known for having ostensibly started off as a somewhat [[EdutainmentShow educational]] sci-fi series that would be fun for the whole family... but [[SurpriseCreepy instead provides prime examples of every kind of terror there is.]]

** "In The Flesh" involves [[AliensAmongUs Species 8472 impersonating humans and planning to infiltrate Starfleet Academy]]. They don't go through with this plan, but still.

** One episode involves Species 8472 impersonating humans and planning to infiltrate Starfleet Academy. They don't end up actually doing it, but still.

** Walter White's character exemplifies how someone with the proper motivation (in his case, a lung cancer diagnosis), can do a complete 180 in character and go into a highly self-destructive path. How the people who see as very timid, normal, shy etc. could be wearing a mask to hide their true self, good or bad.

** Season 4 kicks it UpToEleven with Samaritan. Samaritan has all the capabilities of the Machine, but unlike the Machine which [[BenevolentAI is protecting the world for humanity]], Samaritan is determined to remake the world in its image. And it's winning.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' ''delights'' in this. Your friend could be a mannequin! Technology is alive! Aliens are screwing with you [[ForTheEvulz for the lolz]]! Death is stalking you ([[DontFearTheReaper but can also be kind]])! Dead loved ones will call your children from ''beyond the grave!''

* ''Series/{{Millennium}}''. There is a secret organization devoted to stopping ''some'' vague, never specified threat. All we know about it is that it will be very, ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt very]]'' bad.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is well known for having ostensibly started off as a somewhat educational sci-fi series that would be fun for the whole family... but instead provides prime examples of every kind of terror there is.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]] has statues that move behind your back. To quote the Doctor, "Your life could depend on this -- don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you could believe. DON'T turn your back, DON'T look away, and DON'T BLINK. Good luck." The episode ends with a montage strongly suggesting that the Monster of the Week is everywhere, and that the viewer isn't safe either. What makes it worse is that the episode establishes that the angels cannot move when someone is watching them. Watch the episode again, and notice the various times where an angel is stationary even though none of the characters are looking at it. Why is it not moving? [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou YOU are watching it!]]

** The Silents. They look as creepy as hell, [[spoiler: may kill you [[ForTheEvulz for the lulz]], ''and you forget about them the moment you stop looking at them.'' It is helped by "the Day of the Moon," in scenes which seem to run continuously... and then you realise something has happened off-camera between frames. The camera hasn't shown everything... Or has it? Are you sure you haven't just forgotten?]] Ever watch footage of the moon landing? How many Silents have [[spoiler: you killed]]?

** Have a look at the walls in your bedroom. Or anywhere in your house. See that little crack? Yeah. Sweet dreams.

** [[ArcWords Silence will fall]]!

* At the beginning of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', ''two'' characters turned out to be EvilAllAlong: Seska, who was [[TheMole a Cardassian spy]] (and who was the ex-girlfriend of Chakotay and best friend of B'Elanna), and Suder, who was a sociopath.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime''' now has the MemeticMutation of "EVERYONE IS CORA"... because, at some point, she ''has actually posed as everyone''. The paranoia fuel is working out if it's ''actually'' the character... or her in disguise.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' is teaming with this. "O.B.I.T" features machines that can track down and monitor anyone, and has this chilling line:

** The Season 3 Inhumans arc contains a healthy dose of it: It's basically the ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' example above, but worse because not only could anyone around you turn out to have some terrifying superpower, YOU could turn to have some terrifying superpower and you wouldn't know until it manifested. This power may or may not be something you can control and it can be unlocked by something as mundane as taking the wrong fish oil supplement.

** Hansel and Gretel's power in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E11Gingerbread Gingerbread]]" is ParanoiaFuel itself.

** Peter Lewis from the episode "Mr. Scratch" and a few sequel episodes is ''made'' of ParanoiaFuel. He likes to mess with people's perception and memory, first planting hallucinogenic drugs to make his victims see monsters and attack their own families, then brainwashing a random person into stating he's Tara's brother so he can lure the team into a trap, and finally making Hotch see his own worst fear, namely that the team are all being killed and he's powerless to help them.

** Even once you can get the Vashta Nerada out of your head, the Library double episode also uses another reliable source of ParanoiaFuel: a particularly terrifying variant of the LotusEaterMachine. Donna is "saved" by the planet's computer, and her mind is placed in an artificial world. The frightening thing is how well Creator/StevenMoffat captures the idea of a "dream-world": Donna notices that she is at any destination as soon as she expresses a desire to go there, only for false memories of the journey to implant a moment later, just as happens in dreams, making the feeling very relatable. It gets worse when we are treated to her "waking up." Sounds like a good thing, right? But just because she knows about her situation doesn't mean she can escape - and now the children she thinks she's been raising for years ''disappear right in front of her'' because she can no longer retain the [[YourMindMakesItReal belief]] required to keep them in existence in her dream-world.

* The third episode of ''Series/UnnaturalHistory'' gave us the idea of Soviet/Russian sleeper agents in America. It doesn't seem like ParanoiaFuel at first, ''until news of actual Russian spies in the US came shortly after.''