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15->''"Everywhere I go there's someone in a trenchcoat staring at me,\
16And when I'm not at home I'm sure someone's rummaging through my trash.\
17Whatever could they want from me? Is it just a part of a giant government conspiracy?\
18I gotta go see my doctor about this itchy pentagram-shaped rash..."''
19-->-- '''Music/BarenakedLadies''', "Get in Line"
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21[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Conspiracy Theorist here?]] [[AC:Shyeah right. That's just what ''they ''want you to do. Haven't you sheeple ever heard of [=MKUltra=]? Your vibrational frequencies are too high! They thrive off of fear! Your Zero-point is a great distance from fear! Alright, I'll tell you what. I'll give you the Official Line about truth-seekers; what ''they'' want you to think. And you can just think about that. And then, if you're ready to take the Red Pill, then maybe you can go do some digging of your own. Maybe, just maybe, you'll learn the '''real''' truth. ''Better luck next time, Low-Vibrational Reptilians!'']]
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23A Conspiracy Theorist attributes the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political, social or historical events), or the concealment of such causes from public knowledge, to a secret and often deceptive plot by a [[TheConspiracy group of powerful or influential people or organizations]]. Many conspiracy theories state that major events in history have been dominated by conspirators who manipulate political happenings from behind the scenes. The Conspiracy is generally [[CardCarryingVillain evil beyond evil]]. And yet despite how evil they are, [[LawfulEvil they never betray each other]], so the conspiracy stays together for thousands of years. How they accomplish this is unexplained. It is something beyond the wisdom of our puny minds.
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25Conspiracy theorists in the media may be {{Mad Scientist}}s associated with {{Right Wing Militia Fanatic}}s or DirtyCommunists, and always seem to come off as [[TheyCalledMeMad somewhat mentally unhinged]] ([[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment though you and I know better, right?]]). This seems to be the case even when one of them [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight catches the trail]] of a genuine AncientConspiracy or GovernmentConspiracy. Of course, said conspiracies have a tendency to try to [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade silence the "kook"]] once they learn he's on to them, [[VillainBall despite the fact]] that [[CassandraTruth no one would]] [[YouHaveToBelieveMe actually believe]] [[RevealingCoverup he's telling the truth]].
26This tends to backfire in one of two ways:
27# If the attempt fails, it gives the theorist the HeroicResolve he needs to [[PullTheThread unravel the conspiracy]].
28# If it succeeds, whoever investigates the murder is bound to stumble upon the conspiracy, particularly if higher-ups [[RevealingCoverUp try to hush it up]].
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30There is a medical condition frequently attributed to conspiracy theorists: apophenia, "[[ThereAreNoCoincidences the tendency to see connections where none exist]]" ([[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague thank you]], [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Question]]). But that's only what The Man and his crony doctors will have you believe. And as AgentMulder would say: [[ProperlyParanoid just because you're paranoid doesn't mean They're not out to get you]].
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32Okay. That's the official line. The rest is up to you. I'[[WMG/GrandUnifyingGuesses v]]e left a few JustForFun/{{clues|ToTheConspiracy}} below to follow up if you want to find the real story. Be careful. The [[ReptilianConspiracy reptilians]] are watching you.
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34To those who still just don't believe me, then wake up, smell the muffins, and get off that bandwagon! And don't you dare say those things to me!
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36Every conspiracy theorist worth his salt has a [[StringTheory pegboard filled with weird photos and connecting strings]] and a TinfoilHat ready... but if you ever get the urge to buy a copy of ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'', for God's sake, resist!
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40!!Examples are just misconceptions created by the government. I have proof!
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44%%* Schwarzwald in ''Anime/TheBigO''. [[spoiler:Given the kind of world he's living in, he could very well be right.]]
45* In ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', Mithril has programs that troll online forums and denounce anyone who makes connections about events Mithril was involved in as a conspiracy theorist so that nobody pays any attention to the (sometimes accurate) conclusions that the posters are coming to.
46* In ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin'', Char's mentor and Ramba Ral's father Jimba is shown as one. When sheltering Char and his family, Jimba constantly rants about how the Zabi family are responsible for killing Char's father Zeon Deikun and are planning to take over Side 3 to form their evil empire. Interestingly, Jimba himself was proven to be correct in many of his rants as Degwin Zabi did actually poison Zeon while his daughter Kycilia killed Sasro Zabi with a bomb and then framed the Ral family for the assassination.
47* ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse'' has Kensuke trade in his military fanboying for this.
48* TeenGenius Susumu in ''Anime/WandabaStyle'' adamantly believes that the 1969 moon landing was fake, and is thus trying to get a rocket there himself (using environmentally safe methods). In the second half of the series, his mother is introduced as a DesignatedVillain, simply because she wants him to admit that he is wrong (it's her methods in doing so that put her into villain territory).
49* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': In Chapter 192, Yasuo somehow gets it into his head that AlienAbduction is the reason Saejima, Tsukai, and Katsuyuki haven't been coming to school the last few days. Even after seeing Atsushi get whacked in the head by a [[TwoByFore stick]] during a drive-by, he asks if it was aliens.
50* Satou's old school friend in ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'': "It's a conspiracy" is practically her catchphrase. Satou himself is one of these, thanks to her influence. The title is a reference to his main conspiracy theory, that the Japanese TV channel NHK is a conspiracy to create {{Hikikomori}}.
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54* [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Azula]] takes this role in ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch''. Weird use of the trope too. Azula believes ''everything'' is in some way, shape or form, a ploy by her mother to kill her before Azula can get to her first. Azula uses this belief as a means of latching onto some semblance of sanity and to keep her focused, as readers who watched the series before knows that Azula's been long broke-brained.
55* ''ComicBook/BerrybrookMiddleSchool'': Jensen's defining character trait in "Awkward", as he just cannot help but rattle on and on about the dreaded sunspots that threaten to destroy the Earth. In "Brave", this aspect is toned down...on the subject of sunspots. He now fears a potential ZombieApocalypse.
56* ''The Big Book of Conspiracies'' is a graphic novel detailing (along with some actual plots and cover-ups) many popular conspiracy theories. Its narrator/host is a mysterious character implied to be a rogue [[TheMenInBlack MIB]] who claims he, at the very least, finds each conspiracy theory he presents plausible... though he also suspects that at least some of them (along with accounts generally accepted as true) might be deliberate misinformation. A ghostly Charles Fort who narrates another book in the series, ''The Big Book of the Unexplained'', is implied to suspect he might be deliberately trying to mislead people for one reason or another, making this a possible subversion.
57* [[MeaningfulName Perry Noia]] from ''ComicBook/TheCrossovers'', who is convinced that aliens are launching a secret takeover of Earth. His neighbors' ten-year-old son Cliff is a UFO abductee and alien collaborator whom Perry is trying to reveal as a traitor.
58* In ''ComicBook/GIJoeIDW'', Mainframe came to be regarded as a conspiracy theorist after he stumbled onto the Cobra conspiracy. He went AWOL from the Joes and started living like a stereotypical conspiracy theorist as he attempted to prove he was right.
59* The Ghost, an ''ComicBook/IronMan'' villain, is a massive conspiracy theorist.
60* Inversion: In "Everything You Know About ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls Is Wrong" (issue #40, DC run), the students of Pokey Oaks are giving their own ideas on how the girls were created, paralleling the origins of Spiderman, Superman and the Fantastic Four in their tales. The girls finally step up to tell how they were ''really'' created, only to find it was Ms. Keane's creativity assignment for the class--which the girls receive a failing grade.
61* Cecil Holmes from ''ComicBook/PS238''. Of course, [[WrongGenreSavvy in obsessing over the belief that his elementary school is a front for an alien invasion, he's completely missed out on its nature as a superhero training program]]. [[spoiler:Turns out he can sense if someone else has superpowers. So his entire life he's felt that other people are different, and since so many of those people are secretive he believed aliens.]]
62* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': At his third high school, Tim befriends a fellow student named Bernard who has a number of interesting theories. His most amusing one is that "Batman owns a bunch of secret orphanages all over the world -- where he gets his Robins from", since he earnestly tells it to Tim, who was Robin.
63* Arnie Burnsteel from ''ComicBook/ScareTacticsDCComics'' is the chief of paranoia; a living, breathing encyclopedia of arcane trivia, conspiracy theories and questionable proven facts
64* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The short story "The Deniers!" features a blue-collar worker named Phil who believes that Superman isn't real and is just a hoax made up by the government to keep people in line. Part of his evidence is that he's lived in Metropolis his whole life and has ''never'' seen Superman or the so-called monsters and supervillains he faces. A montage shows Superman and his enemies always appearing [[MissedHimByThatMuch out of Phil's line of sight]]. When one of his friends points out the abundance of news footage and photos of Superman in action, Phil claims it's all doctored.
65* ''ComicBook/TimDrakeRobin'': Bernard spends their date in issue 1 telling Tim about his theory that Batman is a Demigod-Demogorgon hybrid.
66* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. He started as an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/TheQuestion, who in the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' is a saner {{Expy}} of Rorschach.
67* ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'': The Ante-Endor Assocation on Mrlsst are an Imperialist group of these. In the two months following [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the Battle of Endor]], they begin claiming this never took place and is just Rebel propaganda. They insist the Empire is still at full strength, Palpatine's alive, no Jedi exist and in fact the Rebels had destroyed Alderaan while trying to make a superweapon like the Death Star.
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71* Huey Freeman from ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' takes this to ridiculous extremes. Originally he simply believed that there was a conspiracy among whites against African-Americans (accusing even the most unlikely people of being "in" on it, such as Henry Kissinger and others who won Nobel Peace Prizes) but eventually took this a little too far, spouting crazy theories accusing the government of covering up the dangers of the bird flu pandemic (which is HilariousInHindsight, as there was never a single case of someone dying from that outside of China). Eventually he made an enemy's list where he included SantaClaus (resulting in him getting a [[BadassSanta threatening letter from the big man himself]]) and Lucy from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' (claiming he never liked her because of "the whole football thing").
72* One gag in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had a lone man standing on a street-corner preaching about the existence of vampires, with a mirror being carried by in the background [[TheCassandra revealing that all those passing by his soapbox cast no reflection]].
73* Al, the bartender in ''ComicStrip/LibertyMeadows'', believes in numerous conspiracies, most notably that Shakespeare was actually written by Bacon.
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77* The Seraphim, the main villain of ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat'' is this to a ridiculous extreme. Amongst his theories is that he is a "descendant of Enoch" (who, if the Bible is taken literally, is ancestor to ''everyone'') and that he is descended from an English occultist whom the Catholic Church imprisoned when he foretold events such as the destruction of Gotham.
78* In ''[[Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy Blood and Spirit]]'', Fi is highly suspicious of all members of the Sheikah tribe, specifically their leader Sheik. She warns Link not to trust any of them, thinking that they too have gone rogue like Veress and her followers. However, Link is quick to shoot that possibility down.
79* In the Franchise/BuffyVerse fic ''Fanfic/BringMeToLife'', Kennedy goes off on a massive rant against Buffy after finding out about Angel's DarkAndTroubledPast, which Buffy had withheld from the others, going so far as to accuse her of deliberately sending Annabelle and Chloe to their deaths and being in league with the First; naturally, Buffy blows her stack and punches Kennedy in the face before outright telling Kennedy that she's young, stupid, and not to make assumptions on what she ''thinks'' she knows.
80* The Series/{{Supernatural}} fan fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31485914 Coast To Coast With Castiel]]'' has Castiel having a debate with a Conspiracy Theorist radio host who lives in a basement.
81* ''Fanfic/{{Dekugate}}'' revolves around a group of these believing that the marriage of All Might and Inko Midoriya and the birth of Izuku has some ulterior motives from the HSPC and their eventual escalation to [[spoiler:try to kill Izuku.]]
82* ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfFriendship'': At one point during Book I, a pony named Tinfoil Hat takes over Octavia and Vinyl's [[VoiceOfTheResistance rebel radio broadcast]], and tells everyone that Celestia and Nightmare Moon are actually the same pony, Twilight is her [[TheDragon chief enforcer]], and the quest to learn how to use the Elements of Harmony is actually a complicated plot to TakeOverTheWorld. And then Octavia and Vinyl kick him out of their safehouse.
83** He reappears in Book II. During the height of Discord's rampage across Equestria, he hacks into a radio broadcast to tell everyone listening that Discord is actually Celestia's ex-boyfriend, and Selena is her child by Discord's bat-pony half-brother. He then goes on a rant about how he's not going to let all the facts that contradict him stop him from spreading the "truth". And then Vinyl shows up and knocks him out again.
84* In ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', the narrator, and by extension, one of her sources, Crazy Larry definitely qualify. The narrator goes to the extent of stating she is the only "true" historian in all of Equestria, and all the rest have been paid off by Celestia to support her lies.
85* ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'':
86** Dib is still this, like in canon. For example, at one point he mentions not trusting pigeons, while at another he explains he taught himself to resist telepathy because he thought his third grade teacher was a government agent spying on him.
87** Another example is an Irken named Zeke, who self-publishes magazine articles about various shady activities carried out by the Empire. [[spoiler:He turns out to be right about them.]]
88* In ''Fanfic/AGunToLovesHead'', Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publicly declared that [[spoiler:Higuchi was Kira all along, with the Second Kira, whose identity is "classified," privately executed.]] Misa becomes a pro-Kira writer that writes books on the fact that that theory does not make sense.
89* Zoe is characterized as one in ''Fanfic/HeroChat'', having theories that range from Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing ''on the actual moon'' to claiming that Jagged Stone is a hologram being controlled by Fangs the crocodile.
90** When Marinette asked her to become Talon, Zoe thinks she's being inducted into their vampire coven (stemming from the CuteLittleFangs that Team Miraculous possesses).
91** After Rose tells the other heroes [[spoiler:that she's the granddaughter of a {{Necromancer}} supervillain and had inherited his powers]], Zoe is mentioned to have torn down her conspiracy board because she pegged Rose as a Dryad or Fae.
92* ''Fanfic/LightsSong'': Jacob Hopkins, as in canon. After he attacks Hunter at a supermarket, believing that he's a demon, an employee mentions that he's banned from the store for attacking said employee with a baguette, believing that he's a cyborg drone for the Martians due to his cochlear implant.
93* Alya goes through a brief but intense period of this in ''Fanfic/MissingMiraculousLadybug'' while attempting to reconcile Lila's claims of [[CelebrityLie being best friends with Ladybug]] with Ladybug's staunch insistence that she only knows her as an occasional akuma victim. She offers up various theories, each twisting logic more severely than the last to try and make things fit together in a way that ''doesn't'' require her to accept the idea that maybe -- just maybe! -- Lila was lying. Because if she admits that much, it also means admitting she might have made a serious mistake in accepting Lila at her word rather than fact-checking... and she's not mentally prepared to face what that might mean.
94* Shoto Todoroki from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' tends to get played up as one in fanon for laughs [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten due to him]] asking [[TheHero Izuku "Deku" Midoriya]] at one point if he's the secret love child of [[BigGood All Might]].
95** In ''Fanfic/CustodyBattle'', Shouto Todoroki is one that believes that All-Might and Hisashi/All-For-One are secretly dating, much to the disgust of both. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, the entire Todoroki family gets in on the act and are convinced that Yuuto, Hisashi's younger brother, is actually their missing brother Touya Todoroki.]]
96** In ''Fanfic/ForgivenessIsTheAttributeOfTheStrong'', a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfiction, Shouto Todoroki is notorious for coming up with conspiracy theories that have a grain of truth but are never completely right.
97** ''Fanfic/MischiefMHA'': Shoto is a great example of it, aside from the usual "secret love child" gag, he likes to make extensive research about aliens and supernatural subjects, which often comes in handy given the amount of trouble the kids often find themselves at.
98** In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Todoroki's canon assumption that Deku is All Might's secret lovechild is painted even more as him developing a random conspiracy theory, with him revealing it to Momo [[spoiler:when she arrives to his house while he is suspended for being utterly unapologetic for nearly getting Deku killed in the USJ attack]] and Momo thinking there is something wrong with him for thinking that, as well as [[spoiler:him spreading it through the UA students when he returns to the campus being treated as a literal adding insult to injury to Deku.]]
99* Zack from ''Fanfic/TotalDramaLegacy''. He'll tell you anything you need to know about aliens, cryptids, or [[MoonLandingHoax how they faked the moon landing]].
100* In ''Fanfic/TwilightSparklesAwesomeAdventure'', [[spoiler:ADMIRAL Awesome]] would rather believe that [[spoiler:the President of Amarican]] is controlled by evil Martian deep-sea fishes than that he would, of his own free will, refuse to give him any money or medals.
101* ''Fanfic/TwoLetters'': Jalil became convinced that Ladybug was secretly working with Hawkmoth, and railed against her online under the handle of [=LadybugSkeptic9000=]. Due to this, Marinette isn't particularly concerned about [[spoiler:his mysterious disappearance]].
102** She also takes advantage of his addiction to conspiracies when she and Luka want to get into his father's office, by telling Veronique that she's heard rumors that Jalil was spreading slander about the ''new'' Ladybug, and she's worried that he might have left those materials in Mr. Kubdel's office. Given that the new Ladybug has marshalled a CultOfPersonality around herself, such rumors could ruin the Louvre's reputation.
103* ''Fanfic/WhatGoesAroundComesAroundMiraculousLadybug'': ''Truth & Journalism'' reveals that there are groups have cropped up who insist that "Hawk Moth did nothing wrong", and that the magical terrorist and his allies were trying to create a utopic new world (which has ''some'' measure of truth to it, though Gabriel's concept of ideal is [[ItsAllAboutMe entirely self-centered]] and a far cry from the paradise they believe in). Among these fervent believers is Jalil, Alix's older brother, severely straining his relationships with the rest of his family as his father fears that he'll destroy their reputations.
104* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Zootopia}} The cut original draft]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' featured a paranoid badger named Honey who was known to believe that all sheep were part of a grand "Cud-spiracy" against all other mammals. As you can expect, numerous ''Zootopia'' fanfics have taken the character and run with her.
105** ''Fanfic/GuardianBlue'' has a (moderately) more grounded take on Honey, where she's untrusting of sheep, but [[spoiler:the Cud-spiracy is shown to have some degree of truth to it]], and later on, she's shown to work with sheep, first reluctantly with Sharla, then it's revealed that [[spoiler:she was working with Sharla's brother Gareth, who was acting as [[TheMole Honey and her cohorts' inside mammal]]]].
106** ''[[Fanfic/FantasticFoxesofZootopia The Bin and the Badge]]'' on the other hand [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] this, with Honey being shown to be seriously disturbed and even highly bigoted against sheep as a result of her paranoia, and the story centres around her undergoing treatment to address this.
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110* In ''Film/ThirteenSins'', Vogler has been tracking the history of the Game for years, and believes that it is an entertainment for the super-rich, and has been running since Ancient Greece. [[spoiler:The ending indicates he may be right.]]
111* In ''Film/AngryVideoGameNerdTheMovie'', Cooper, the [[WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd Nerd]]'s friend and producer, believe in (among other things) the ''[[VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial Eee Tee]]'' dumping grounds, the Roswell UFO incident, {{Area 51}}, SantaClaus, the Flat Earth theory, and "Death Mwauthzyx": an ancient monster who created God and the Devil, rests in Mount Fuji, and can end reality simply by turning a radar dish on its head 180 degrees, and the only thing that would survive the apocalypse would be one bologna sandwich that would be of immeasurable mass due to there being nothing to compare it against. [[spoiler:Turns out, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he's not far off the mark with some of his theories]].]]
112* In the '90s Disney Channel remake of the '60s comedy ''Film/TheComputerWoreTennisShoes'', the main character's best friend was a stereotypical college-age radical who, in a parody of Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, believed that President UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley was actually killed by his vice president, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt.
113* Terrance, Aaron, and Mark in ''Film/TheConspiracy''; the in-universe documentary on Terrance is most prominently centered around his 9/11 theories.
114* Jerry Fletcher (Creator/MelGibson) from the movie ''Film/ConspiracyTheory''. [[spoiler:By the end it hints that he was right about ''all'' his theories as the president almost gets caught in an earthquake just like he predicted.]]
115* Vasily in ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin''. He has a strange belief in 'Zionists' and 'New York queers' who are somehow in league with the Central Committee to open his dead father's head and fill it with American lies. Vasily is a strange, unstable person.
116* Gabriel from ''Film/DriveHeSaid'' eventually becomes one.
117-->'''Gabriel''': Do you know what we're doing while they're parading? We're being sterilized by the death ray. Our brains are literally being electrified into neon gas by this piece of history.… They faked the whole goddamn moon shot in Phoenix! Do you hear that, paper people of America?
118* [[GeneralRipper General Jack D. Ripper]] from ''Film/DrStrangelove''. He believed that the fluoridation of drinking water in the 50s was a Communist plot to poison America. Believe it or not, this was an actual conspiracy theory at the time. Reading between the lines, though, indicates that he came to this conclusion due to a sudden attack of impotence. So yes, the trope namer doomed the world because he couldn't comprehend that he was getting old and could no longer become erect at will. The fluoride conspiracy is STILL floating around, but is now usually attributed to the US government attempting to subdue the populace.
119* In the film ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' one of the Characters is a Conspiracy Theorist with his own radio station, which he uses to rant about aliens and the government. He notably continues to believe [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever the giant spiders besieging the town]] are aliens through the whole film and he refuses to get a rectal probe.
120-->'''Chris''': (''completely fed up with Harlan's insistence that the spiders are aliens'') Okay, they are spiders from Mars! Satisfied?!?\
121'''Harlan''': (''very nervous'') Not really...
122* ''Film/Extraterrestrial2014'': Travis, a ShellShockedVeteran friend of April's dad, who has a pot farm in the area and lives as far off the grid as he can. He is a cynical, distrustful person who relates to the young people how the government had long ago made a treaty with aliens allowing the abductions of many people so they could experiment on them. All of this turns out to be true, although Kyle dismisses it at the time.
123* ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'':
124** Joseph Brody. After his wife Sandra was among the deaths at the Janjira nuclear power plant when it was abruptly destroyed, he is convinced that whatever caused the disaster was [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever a bit less "natural" than an earthquake]]. He spends the next 15 years trying to puzzle out the truth behind the tragedy and becomes estranged from his son in the process, so he's unsurprisingly miffed to find out that a group called [[CovertGroup MONARCH]] is, indeed, covering up what actually happened.
125** The opening credits montage also has a glimpse of text concerning some guy who thinks the cover-up of Godzilla's existence in TheFifties was the work of the Illuminati:
126--->The illuminati has been using PRODUCTION DESIGNER OWEN PATERSON to build facilities to hide their study of the creature and it's origins. All clues are suppressed.
127** Burnie Hayes from ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' is one. Notably, with the exception of believing that Apex is doing something crazy ([[spoiler:they're using the last remaining Ghidorah head to create Mechagodzilla, provoking Godzilla to attack them in the process]]), he's still portrayed as being utterly crazy for believing in things like lizard people and the government controlling people via fluoride in tap water.
128* In ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', Ludlow Lamanoff is played for laughs as the worst version of those. His saner theory is that CIA is spying on us by cable TV. His less sane theory is that "JFK shot first".
129* Bobby Lee Swagger from ''Film/{{Shooter}}''. He has the 9/11 Commission report on his nightstand, and generally distrusts TheGovernment (and for a reason). Nick Memphis also sees signs of conspiracy around the attempted presidential assassination [[spoiler:where the president wasn't the real target, anyway]], and gets tortured and almost "shoots himself" with the help of some Secret Agents.
130* Darren "Mother" Roskow (Creator/DanAykroyd) from the movie ''Film/{{Sneakers}}''.
131-->'''Mother:''' Did you know the Deputy Director of Planning was down in Managua, Nicaragua the day before the earthquake?\
132'''Crease:''' Now what are you saying, the C.I.A. caused the Managua earthquake?!\
133'''Mother:''' Well, I can't prove it, but...\
134'''Crease:''' Now what are you saying -- The ''NSA'' killed [[WhoShotJFK Kennedy?]]\
135'''Mother:''' No. They shot him, but they didn't kill him -- he's still alive!
136* Charlie's dad in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' is convinced that the world is run by a secret group known as "The Pentaverate:" the Queen, the Rothschilds, the Vatican, the Gettys, and Colonel Sanders "before he went [[NeverSayDie tits-up]]."
137* The aptly named "Conspiracy Brother" from ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' thinks ''everything'' is out to get black people, and freaks out at even the most innocent-sounding of gestures. In a setting where there ''actually is'' a white conspiracy led by The Man to keep the black man down, he ''still'' manages to come across as a paranoid lunatic. It takes ''real'' conspiracy theory skills to turn "Good morning!" into a two-minute paranoid manifesto.
138-->'''Conspiracy Brother:''' Let me tell you something about the word "good," brotha. Good is an ancient Anglo-Saxon word, go-od, meanin' the absence of color. I.E. it's all good, which it is, OR Good Will Huntin', meanin, "I'm Huntin' Niggas!" So when you say good morning, what you're telling me is "I'm gonna kill yo black ass, first thing in the mornin'!"
139** And yet even he won't insist that O.J. is innocent.
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143* A man dies and goes to heaven. He was a raging conspiracy theorist in life, but otherwise a very nice stand-up guy. He arrives at the pearly gates and meets with St. Peter, who seeing his record, tells him that he gets one wish before being let into heaven. He tells St. Peter that all really wants to know is the truth behind who killed John F. Kennedy. St. Peter nods and tells him, "Yes sir, that was Lee Harvey Oswald, and he acted alone." The man stares for a moment, then mutters to himself, "Wow, this conspiracy really does go all the way to the top."
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147* ''[[Creator/MatthewReilly Area 7]]'' opens with an article from "The Conspiracy Theorist Monthly" (circulation: 157 copies) connecting a senator's death by hunting accident with the deaths of his wife and daughter by gas explosion. [[spoiler:There's actually a ''bigger'' conspiracy going on than the writer knows...]]
148* ''Literature/Area51'': We meet a number of these, "UFO watchers" who camp outside Area 51. They turn out to be right that the government is involved with/covering up [=UFOs=]. In later novels, it's mentioned that most Americans don't believe aliens are real, that it's all been fabricated by the government (along with thinking the Moon landing didn't happen). No doubt the first lot being correct fueled later ones.
149* The whole point of ''The Big Book of Jewish Conspiraces'', a satirical work by Joshua Neuman and David Deutsch. Everything from the American Revolution and Christianity to the reemergence of anti-semitism is described as due to Jewish conspiracies. The introduction describes the decision to commission the work to discredit said theories. For instance, the Chinese Revolution is an attempt to get payment for a meal provided to the Chinese Emperor. Eventually the meal is paid for by a high-ranking communist who used to work for the Jewish couple. They had nicknamed him "Katzen" or "kitten" because of his name [[spoiler:Mao]].
150* James and Harrison of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfSteveStollberg''. When the government says that Mickey Mouse was killed in a drive-by-shooting, James suspects that Mickey actually [[FakingTheDead faked his death]], and Harrison suspects that he was actually cryogenically frozen rather than cremated.
151* In David Wingrove's ''Literature/ChungKuo'', Kim is a genius who in his teens uncovers the files showing the truth about world history, which has been falsified by the T'ang Lords.
152* In the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novel ''The Traitor's Hand'', there were apparently a number of people who believed that the Governor of Adumbria's death from apparently natural causes [[SuccessionCrisis without designating an heir]] a year before Chaos forces invaded was actually a very clever assassination. These people took the fact there was absolutely no evidence to back this theory up, even after twenty years of looking, to be proof of exactly how cleverly done the plot was.
153* ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary'': Bierce satirizes some views of these with the entry on "Freemasons":
154-->An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucius, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids — always by a Freemason.
155* Llurdis of ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'' is always sniffing for an intrigue and instantly jumps in with her convoluted theory when a dead body is found (it involves attempting to murder the father to make him marry the daughter off to the killer). It doesn't help that Palace of the Fireflies ''is'' a DecadentCourt.
156* Several examples in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', almost always involving the phrase "the government hushed it up":
157** ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': The opening passage about differing theories about how science works eventually turns to the idea that the AdvancedAncientHumans knew it all, but governments hush it up, then [[ButIDigress digresses]] further in a [[FootnoteFever footnote]] about how hushing things up seems to be the only thing governments do reasonably successfully.
158** In ''Literature/TheTruth'', William loses his patience with one, and says he heard that huge meteors crash into the city every day, but the Patrician hushes it up (and, since William WillNotTellALie, he presumably ''has'' heard someone say that). The guy accepts it without question.
159** ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' has a mention of people who have strange theories about hidden messages in Methodica Rascal's painting of Koom Valley, as described in the book ''The Koom Valley Codex''. Nobby says Dave of Dave's Pin and Stamp Exchange says the government hushed it up, to which Sergeant Colon points out that Dave ''always'' says the government is trying to hush things up, and no-one ever hushes ''him'' up.
160* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] contains a novel called ''Who Killed Kennedy'' which works as a PerspectiveFlip on the 1970s U.N.I.T stories by presenting it from the perspective of a journalist who becomes convinced that U.N.I.T and the Doctor are part of some malevolent organization, determines to uncover the truth, and ends up ruining his reputation and becoming considered one of these. [[spoiler:It's partly {{Deconstructed}}; the general gist of what he believes is true, but he's got things completely wrong with regards to who are the good guys and who has malevolent intentions. He also learns that alien invasions are covered up mainly because no one would believe the truth.]]
161%%* ''Literature/FoucaultsPendulum''
162* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', some of the stuff Adam absorbs from the New Age magazines Anathema lent him falls into this category. He's momentarily stymied in his explanation of all this to his friends when they ask him ''why'' the government wants to hush up the existence of aliens; the magazine had just taken it as an article of faith that that's what governments ''do''.
163* One or two theorists are seen in Hell in ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'', where they insist that the afterlife they're in is false and that any attempt to invite them to Heaven is a deceptive trick.
164* Luna Lovegood from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' novels as well as her father, Xenophilius Lovegood.
165* ''Literature/HelenAndTroysEpicRoadQuest'': Helen's mother Roxanne believes that the National Questing Bureau doesn't actually exist and that a NebulousCriminalConspiracy called the Black Knights are [[ShadowGovernment ruling the world from the shadows]], the exact reasons for why things happening changing on a weekly basis.
166* In several of Creator/TomHolt novels, recurring character (or possibly multiple characters with the same name) Danny Bennett is convinced that the Milk Marketing Board is somehow connected to the assassination of JFK.
167* In ''Literature/TheHost2008'', by Creator/StephenieMeyer, conspiracy theorists were more likely to survive the AlienInvasion than the average person. This is because the aliens are {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s and most people did not notice the difference, except the "crazies".
168* Various characters in ''Literature/TheIlluminatusTrilogy'', though due to the [[ConspiracyKitchenSink nature of the book]], they're maybe the sanest people around.
169* Crazy Emmett in the Literature/KateShugak novel ''Hunter's Moon''. A former history teacher who believed the United Nations was plotting to install a one world government, he dropped off the grid to live deep in the Alaskan bush.
170* In ''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Bomb]]'', Kirsty has become one, refusing to believe that the rain of fish was related to the gas leak under the pet shop, or that the crop circles were made by Bigmac even though he says they were. Johnny, who is cursed with seeing what's really there, thinks everything's complicated enough without people like Kirsty making it worse.
171* After watching too much ''Series/IClaudius'', Creator/EphraimKishon became very suspicious of his wife. Well, in one of his satirical short stories. [[WriteWhatYouKnow It tends to overlap]].
172* ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' included a conspiracy theorist as an aversion, as he disdains the conjecture that passes for 'theory'. Professor de la Paz pursued the study of historical conspiracies and developed a body of principles to describe how they work, how they fail to work, how they wind up being revealed. As a founding member of a revolutionary conspiracy, his theories are quite valuable for functioning in the scientific/academic meaning of the word. This also helps him develop his theory; since the most successful conspiracies are never revealed, the only way to be sure he's observing one is to take part in it.
173* In the ''Literature/NightHuntress'' books, Timothy, Cat's next neighbor in the first book, is convinced the government covers up evidence of the supernatural (he's right). He later goes to work for "one of those magazines that give [[TheMenInBlack Cat's boss]] headaches".
174* In ''Literature/ThePaleKing'', There's an old lady [[spoiler:later revealed to be Toni Ware's grandmother]] who believes Creator/JackBenny is attempting to achieve global thought control via radio waves. She covers her house with electrified hubcaps, which jams her neighbors' signals. She ends up getting cited for diverting her household's amperage, so she salvages a generator that runs on kerosene.
175* ''Literature/PlanetEarthIsBlue'': Before Bridget and Nova were taken away with CPS, they lived with their mama, who believed that the moon landings had been faked and would watch TV static for secret government messages.
176* ''Literature/ThePower'': Many of these attempt to explain what happened when the Power emerges, among them [=UrbanDox=], an online blogger. He blames this all on a secret cabal within the government planning to kill off most men, roping in the Zionists too.
177* The poem "Conspiracy" from ''Literature/RavingLunacy'' by Blaine Munday is a parody of inane conspiracy theories, the narrator berating how he believes people want him to die and to eat his eyes.
178** "Non-Falling Towel" features this together with InsaneTrollLogic as the poem's narrator thinks a towel he saw was made by aliens from another dimension.
179* Several flavors of this trope (alien abductee, Satanic cult victim, militia gun nut) appear in the Literature/RepairmanJack novel ''Conspiracies'', which is actually set at a Conspiracy Theorist convention. [[spoiler:Turns out the only ''genuine'' conspiracy there is an EldritchAbomination plot targeting Jack himself.]]
180* Jonathan Shriek in Jeff [=VanderMeer's=] ''[[Literature/{{Ambergris}} Shriek: An Afterword]]'' is perceived as one by the world at large because he insists that midgets who live underground secretly control the people in his home town with fungus spores. Of course everyone knows that there ''are'' midgets who live underground and really like mushrooms, but don't think that they're any more than that. [[spoiler:They are wrong.]]
181* ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': PlayedForLaughs with Ned Land: as a professional fisher, he doesn’t believe in {{sea monster}}s (giant narwhales or octopi), but he believes that his captors [[ImAHumanitarian could be cannibals]], that the language spoken in the Nautilus is a [[MilkmanConspiracy conspiracy to let him die of hunger]] (see ConLang) and in ArtificialHuman:
182-->''"Haven't seen or heard a thing!" the Canadian replied. "I haven't even spotted the crew of this boat. By any chance, could they be electric too?"\
183"Electric?"\
184"Oh ye gods, I'm half tempted to believe it!"''
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188* ''Series/Accused2023'': Joanna is one with a large number of followers who claims children murdered in a mass shooting never existed, with the entire thing faked to seize people's guns. She also thinks that this is a global conspiracy, and that the people she thinks are involved sexually abuse their children too.
189* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. A god-like being who calls herself Jasmine has used her power to take over Los Angeles. Winifred Burkle, the only member of Team Angel to escape her influence, takes refuge in a conspiracy bookstore and asks the owner if he hasn't noticed anything strange [[CrapsaccharineWorld about the way everyone is acting]]. The owner says that the CIA are still listening to the implants in his head, but it doesn't bother him any more as he's broadcasting Jasmine's love back to them via the mind control satellites. Jasmine later turns up at the bookstore, and grants the conspiracy theorist's greatest wish by telling him WhoShotJFK -- turns out it was Oswald.
190* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
191** Michael Garibaldi in is a paranoiac conspiracy theorist of the future (as the show is set in the 24th century), not helping the fact that he was made more paranoid than normal by the telepath villain Bester. Although he's not totally unjustified, as Earth's government does have conspiracies going on, not to mention Psi Corps and the Shadows. [[spoiler:After Bester goes to work on him, his paranoia about possible conspiracies starts getting out of hand, but he sadly fails to spot that ''he's currently part of one''.]]
192** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E06SpiderInTheWeb Spider in the Web]]", Captain Sheridan mentions "collecting" conspiracy theories as a hobby in one episode, naming a rumoured secret government agency as possibly being behind B5's recent troubles - "Bureau 13". However, this ended up being rendered EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: after the episode was finished, somebody on the production crew discovered [[TabletopGame/Bureau13StalkingTheNightFantastic there was an unrelated tabletop RPG by that name]], so the organization and Sheridan's interest in conspiracy theories were both [[ScrewedByTheLawyers abandoned out of an abundance of caution]].
193** ''Series/{{Crusade}}'': "[[Recap/CrusadeS01E12VisitorsFromDownTheStreet Visitors from Down the Street]]" has the crew visiting a pre-FirstContact industrial-age planet where two aliens that resemble Mulder and Scully a lot enter the ship explaining that their government hides the existence of humans to the population, but no record of contacting such government exists, to what the aliens in an innocent way think that the human government "hides the truth" to them too. It turns out the planet's government did discover the existence of humanity due to radio and television signals and created the conspiracy that they were manipulated by humans secretly to avoid uprisings and coups (very common in their homeworld to that point) as the general population can't fight the "alien" masters and can't get angry with the puppet government. [[spoiler:Captain Gideon, irritated at being used by an authoritarian government, dumps a load of probes onto the planet surface with messages explaining the situation to the populace, which (so we're led to assume) ends the practice.]]
194* ''Series/ABlackLadySketchShow'': Dr. Hadassah, by nature of being a female [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoteps Hotep]], espouses some tenuous beliefs about the world with an Afrocentric slant.
195--> '''Hadassah:''' "The Earth Is Flat and Other Reasons You Shouldn't Vote."\
196'''Creator/GabrielleUnion:''' But people ''should'' vote.\
197'''Hadassah:''' Why? Cast a ballot? Think about it: "Ballot" is just two letters away from "bullet." They want us to kill our community.
198* Hodgins on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He takes it pretty hard when he misses the ancient conspiracy that has a member [[spoiler:''living in his house'']]. He also takes it as an insult when he is informed that the government has deemed him 'harmless'. Interestingly Hodgins' own family is wealthy and influential enough to feature in the conspiracies he believes in. If anyone would know...
199-->''"You call it "conspiracy". I call it "the family business"."''
200** There is one conspiracy theory he won't touch, and only one: he is quite adamantly NOT a '9/11 Truther'. Everything else is fair game.
201* ''Series/{{Cheers}}:'' Cliff starts becoming one over the course of the show, espousing theories like the Beatles somehow being involving in the JFK assassination, or how earthquakes in LA are actually the government drilling down to the center of the Earth to install a computer that will control the planet's rotation, or one of his neighbours secretly being Hitler.
202* Over the past 10 years or so, medical shows like ''Series/ChicagoMed'' have episodes where the doctor characters encounter people who believe in vaccination conspiracy theories by "The Government" or "Big Pharma".
203* ''Series/ColdCase'':
204** An elderly man who was interviewed in "[[Recap/ColdCaseS5E7WorldsEnd World's End]]" was convinced that the FBI somehow facilitated an invasion of Martians in 1938, and that it was covered-up as a hoax using the Creator/OrsonWelles broadcast of ''[[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938 The War of the Worlds]].''
205** One of the suspects in "[[Recap/ColdCaseS6E7OneSmallStep One Small Step]]" believes that the moon landings were faked. The murder that the protagonists are investigating occurred on the day of the first moon landing, and the events of that day may have fueled the suspect's later delusion.
206* In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS2E09ConspiracyTheoriesAndInteriorDesign Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design]]", Jeff is ostensibly taking a class that studies various Conspiracy Theories. The truth of the matter is quite another beast.
207* The whole point of ''Series/ConspiracyTheory'' with Wrestling/JesseVentura.
208* The hostage-taker from the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Derailed" is one of the "government is watching me" variety.
209* The ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "Leapin' Lizards" involved a group of conspiracy theorists who believed that Earth's governments were controlled by a group of shape-shifting reptilian aliens. [[http://www.davidicke.com/ Which was based on a real case.]]
210* Fredwynn from ''Series/DispatchesFromElsewhere'' is convinced that the AlternateRealityGame he's stumbled into is a [[GovernmentConspiracy government-run social experiment]], and he's not above trying to break the game's apparent "rules" in order to gain more information.
211* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
212** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]]: Clive Finch is a downplayed example as, despite sounding like an utter nutcase to anybody who doesn't know ''Doctor Who'', he's mostly correct: he thinks the pictures of the Doctor from various time periods are all the same man (they were), that the Doctor's an alien (he is), and that the Doctor is immortal (not 100% true, but 900 years is a hell of a long lifespan). The only thing he didn't guess was the time-travel angle.
213*** It's also implied in the episode (and confirmed in the novelisation) that Clive has evidence of the majority of the Doctors, and not just the Ninth, but believes it to be a case of the title "the Doctor" is passed [[LegacyCharacter from generation to generation]] and not [[TheNthDoctor the same person with different faces.]]
214** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love & Monsters"]]: LINDA, the Doctor fanclub the episode focuses on, has aspects of this when they try to deduce exactly who the Doctor is and what his deal is.
215** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]]: Howie believes wholeheartedly in conspiracies, and thinks the alien HellHotel is actually a secret bunker in Norway for world leaders to survive the destruction of the Earth, prompting Rory to sarcastically compliment him on having come up with a theory "more insane than what's actually happening." [[spoiler:This belief in conspiracies is what led him to be abducted as food for the faith-targeting EmotionEater.]]
216** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]]: A man named Alfie is a Victorian Era version of this. He thinks the ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' accidentally brought to London by the Doctor is a "special effect" created by the government, and his wife's reaction suggests he's been thinking like this for a long time. Then he gets murdered and his eyes stolen by the Faceless Man.
217** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]]: Hakim Khan, companion Yaz's father. This is to the point that when his wife and daughter realize he actually ''was'' on to something with the garbage he'd been collecting, Yaz is annoyed, and Najia complains that she'll have to hear about him being right.
218*** Becomes a BrickJoke in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], as [[spoiler:he notes he was accurate about a conspiracy involving all of the world's computers and smart devices.]]
219** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon "Fugitive of the Judoon"]]: "All Ears" Allan (the nickname is self-granted) believes that Lee Clayton is not who he says he is and has compiled a dossier full of information while attempting to persuade Lee's wife Ruth, with whom he's in love, to leave him. While Allan turns out to be [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight onto something]] about Lee, [[spoiler:his crush on Ruth blinds him to similar holes in her backstory]].
220* In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', one of Literature/SherlockHolmes' hobbies is to troll conspiracy theory websites and submit absurd theories that he makes up on the spot just to see what everyone else on the sites will believe. He claims that the (depressingly, real) conspiracy theory that the CIA invented crack cocaine is one of his. Ironically, in the same episode (Season 1's "The Red Team"), he discovers a real conspiracy, [[spoiler:but despite initial appearances, it's not the work of a murderously paranoid and secretive government agency; the initial death that starts them on the case was an argument that got out of hand, and the deaths of Red Team members have all been orchestrated by a single killer. Is it technically a conspiracy if there's only one person in on it?]]
221-->'''Sherlock:''' I adore [conspiracy theorists], as one does a barmy uncle, or a cat that can't stop walking into walls.
222%%* Creator/NickOfferman plays lawyer and conspiracy theorist Karl Weathers in ''Series/{{Fargo}}'''s second season.
223* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS01E03 Hairtrigger]]", Doug Timmons believes that the US government allows [[AxesAtSchool school shootings]] to happen to raise a younger generation who are terrified and easily controlled.
224* In ''Series/FirstWave'', "Crazy Eddie" is a well-known crackpot conspiracy theorist, who publishes an online journal called ''Paranoids Times''. During his first meeting with Cade, he insists that Lincoln was killed with a sword (which he has) and that the CIA has developed a compound that is capable of quickly dissolving a dead body. By the end of the episode, he finally accepts the truth — aliens are real, they're here, and they're preparing for an invasion. Of course, the show's premise is straight out of a conspiracy nut's repertoire: hostile AliensAmongUs, predicted by secret quatrains of Nostradamus. This conspiracy theory happens to be true in-universe, but, of course, most disbelieve Eddie anyway.
225* ''Series/{{Good Omens|2019}}'':
226** Though it's not really lingered on, Anathema appears to be one. Not only is she sure that [=GMOs=] and nuclear plants are evil, but she's subscribed to a magazine that advocates for many different theories (ranging from aliens really visiting us or Atlantis being real to Tibetans spying on people from tunnels). Adam reads all of her issues and turns into a believer too (with all their claims becoming real as a result of his powers).
227** Shadwell, in his own peculiar way, is also a conspiracy theorist, albeit one more focused on witches and other supernatural phenomena.
228* RealLife examples of this trope are frequently given the opportunity to rant by certain programs on ''Creator/TheHistoryChannel''.
229* JustForFun/JohnMunch was one of these when he appeared in ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. This was also a major aspect of his character when he moved to ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', to the point where a shrink accurately concluded, "You could smell a conspiracy at a five-year-old's lemonade stand." At one point he is pretending to be a homeless man and is shouting about random conspiracies. His partner just claims this is what he always says but louder.
230** Actor Creator/RichardBelzer is actually a real conspiracy theorist, having not only written some books on the subject, but advocated these views in public appearances.
231** Steve Crosetti was also fixated on the conspiracy to assassinate UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.
232** The episode "Zebras" deals with a schizophrenic man who became a conspiracy theorist after the 9/11 attacks.
233* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' mocks this trope in [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E10SweetDeeHasAHeartAttack "Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack"]]. After working in the mail room for several days, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Charlie]] believes he's uncovered a [[CorporateConspiracy Corporate Conspiracy]] involving fake employees and a mysterious figure named Pepe Silvia, tipped off by a [[TheMenInBlack Man In Black]]-esque guy named Barney Barney. It is quickly revealed that Barney Barney actually a stress and caffeine-fueled hallucination and that the conspiracy is completely inside Charlie's head, with the implication that "Pepe Silvia" is just the [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate Charlie's]] misinterpretation of the word [[{{UsefulNotes/Pennsylvania}} Pennsylvania]] written on all of the mail that he's supposed to (and subsequently neglecting to) deliver. Charlie's paranoid antics resurface in a number of later episodes, most notably in [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E08CharlieCatchesALeprechaun "Charlie Catches A Leprechaun"]] where he is seen fully believing in the existence of leprechauns and a resultant cover-up, leading him to almost [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] a dwarf in a leprechaun outfit. This one is explained by Charlie's habit of [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin drinking]] [[{{Squick}} green paint]].
234* ''Series/JustShootMe'': Nina is revealed to believe that the moon landing was really a hoax. Maya brings in one of the astronauts involved to tell her otherwise. She's mollified by his outrage at the idea, but then it turns out he believes in even ''weirder'' theories.
235* In the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode "Absentia", a guru on trial for murder claims that the government is framing him ... and also that the government killed Music/JohnLennon (this is {{very loosely based on a true story}}).
236* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': "Wade Perkins" (Hardison) in "The Three Days of the Hunter Job", complete with a standard-issue RoomFullOfCrazy. Hilariously, Eliot and Hardison start telling Parker the stuff on there is real, just to mess with her.
237* Field Commander Moss of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' is an over-the-top parody:
238-->'''Moss:''' Take the 1 from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Split it in half. Take the two halves. Now, attach them to the two zeros. What have you got? ''666'' Pennsylvania Avenue. Coincidence? I don't think so. ''There are no coincidences,'' my friends!
239* Frank Lapidus on ''Series/{{Lost}}'', who believes the wreckage of flight 815 is a fake. He is of course correct.
240** There's also a hilarious conspiracy theory video in the season 4 DVD extras.
241* Dudley Carew in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E5 Murder on St. Malley's Day]]". Amongst his theories was one that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Midsomer two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated.
242* Stuart from ''Series/MIHigh'', who has failed that to notice that there is a secret government ElaborateUndergroundBase beneath his school.
243* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': In the first episode, as Cate is taking a taxi to her disappeared father's apartment in Tokyo, the driver notes how the Japanese government is massively beefing up the country's military defences in preparation for potential {{kaiju}} attacks (the series being set one year after the events of ''Film/Godzilla2014''). He thinks the kaiju attack in San Francisco was all a hoax [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall made with CGI]] to profit the military–industrial complex, and tells Cate to check out his podcast where he goes into more detail. Later in the episode, we see that Cate, working as a schoolteacher, was present in San Francisco on G-Day, saw Godzilla with her own eyes, and [[DeathOfAChild lost many of her students]] in the attack.
244* ''Series/MurderOne'': In episode eleven one of the potential jurors turns out to be convinced that Cross and Avedon are part of a Masonic plot. He takes his own dismissal as further evidence for this, naturally.
245* Sebastian Lund from ''Series/NCISNewOrleans''. According to him, the faked moon landings are the reason why there isn't any decent footage of Bigfoot. [[NoodleIncident Somehow.]]
246* Joe Garrelli from ''Series/NewsRadio'' is obsessed with conspiracies, particularly ones involving the government's cover-ups of knowledge about extraterrestrials.
247* In ''Series/NewTricks'', Brian Lane turns into one of these if he comes off his anti-depressants; most notably in one episode where the team are investigating the suspicious death of a prominent 1970s trade unionist, Brian -- himself a member of the Police Union during his service -- becomes convinced that he was spied on then and is being observed now. He's wrong about the latter, but it turns out that the intelligence services ''did'' have a file on him back then... which concluded that he was insignificant. He's deeply offended.
248* ''Series/TheNightAgent'': Peter is hounded by one name Elliot Rome. He believes Peter was behind the Metro bombing, along with his many followers. We see him harassing Peter in a video, while his followers later do this too.
249* ''Series/NoTomorrow'': Hank, who believes a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories Jade Helm]] conspiracy theory.
250* On ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', Alex thinks one of the new inmates, Lolly, was sent by drug kingpin Kubra to kill her, after Lolly starts following her around. However, [[spoiler:it turns out Lolly is just mentally ill and thinks Alex is working for the CIA and spying on ''her''.]]
251* ''Series/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'': Evelyn and Bengelsdorf turn into this near the end of the show to explain what happened, causing disdain or sadness from other people.
252* Second Technician Arnold Judas Rimmer has traits of this in the first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'', where everything odd has a chance of being explained as being aliens. This has ranged from everyone missing days of their memory and two unexplained broken legs, to a new computer, to [[NoodleIncident "that time we used a whole bog roll in one day."]]
253** It's even Rimmer's entire plotline in the first season episode ''Waiting For God'', as he becomes convinced a pod the ship picked up contains aliens that can replace his hologram body with a new organic one. [[spoiler:It's a garbage pod, and everybody else agreed not to tell him.]]
254* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': The main suspect in "Somebody's Watching Me" is Leroy, a conspiracy theorist who believes he is being spied on by aliens.
255* ''Series/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'' had a recurring conspiracy theorist character who liked to share his theories with strangers on the street. According to him, the Kennedys were assassinated by Hitler, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden are brothers, bin Laden is in Canada working at a gas station, and the Chernobyl accident happened because aliens spilled a Slurpee on the control panel.
256%%* Miles Goodman from ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''.
257* ''Series/SleeperCell'': Ilija hooks up with a woman like this after he's gone on the run in the wake of the first season's terrorist attack. She believes he's innocent, with both the attack and 9/11 being [[FalseFlagOperation staged by the government]]. As a result, she willingly shelters him so Ilija can flee the US.
258* Martin Lloyd in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Point of No Return".
259** His case was a rather amusing {{Deconstruction}}, as it turns out that all his beliefs were not only correct, but he knew the truth because [[spoiler:he himself was an alien from another world who was suffering from a drug-induced [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesia]] perpetrated by his fellow aliens]].
260* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had an episode ("The Voyager Conspiracy") where Seven of Nine goes temporarily crazy from information overload and links most of the major events of the series up to that point into a massive Federation conspiracy to capture her, a Borg Drone... this is easily dismissed until you realize that, even though her conclusion about it being all about her was flawed and delusional, several of her premises were, in fact, quite grounded and made for some tantalizingly uncomfortable questions that were completely swept under the rug by the show... One can't help but wonder if there really WAS a conspiracy going on there...
261** ''Voyager'' was a long running highly episodic series with numerous writers of various qualities. As such, it included many {{plot hole}}s, logical inconsistencies and cases of characters getting the IdiotBall. This makes it a fertile ground for any theory that could go back re-explain past problems.
262* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
263** Ron Reznick in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E12Nightshifter "Nightshifter"]], who is convinced that the shapeshifter attacks he's been doing independent research on are caused by "mandroids". His research is sound, he just came to the wrong conclusion.
264** In [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E06SlashFiction "Slash Fiction"]] paranoid whackjob Frank Devereaux doesn't put much stock in magic, but he's sure that "The government's been cloning people for years."
265** In the [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E09ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve "Clap Your Hands If You Believe..."]] episode, Dean and Sam come across several cases in a town where there have been kidnappings, light shows in the sky, and CropCircles. They run into a group claiming it was aliens. [[spoiler:Subverted when it is revealed at least one of the group is a Fairy, who is using the "alien" cover to make sure the Fair Folks kidnappings, light shows, and other effects are not taken seriously.]]
266* Steven Hyde from ''Series/That70sShow''. For example, he claims that Creator/StevenSpielberg directed a fake moon landing for the government - which "is how he got the job for ''Film/{{Jaws}}''." Most prominently, however, is his frequent mentioning of the car that runs on water, man.
267-->'''Hyde:''' I'm not a conspiracy nut, okay? [[IResembleThatRemark My history, shop and gym teachers secretly started that rumor to discredit me.]]
268* [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Wilson Wilson]] in ''Series/{{Utopia}}''. Through various means, he's erased himself from all government databases and has built a fallout shelter under his house but is still shocked when he accidentally becomes involved in a ''real'' GovernmentConspiracy. [[spoiler:Subverted when he performs a FaceHeelTurn and [[WrongSideAllAlong actually joins the conspirators]].]]
269* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Sam Seaborn has recurring run-ins with a conspiracy theorist of the "there really were aliens at Roswell and the government is covering it up" variety. He got it from his father.
270* Mozzie, Neal's criminal contact, on ''Series/WhiteCollar'', is incredibly paranoid and suspicious of the government, which leads to him acting out various Hollywood spy story cliches like meeting on park benches, playing loud music or running water during conversations, using code names, and so on. His antics are treated as ridiculous, but [[GovernmentConspiracy in the show's world, he may have a point.]]
271** Ironically it's discovered that one of his old fake identities had become a patsy for criminals, so Mozzie accidentally created a conspiracy himself. Mozzie's response?
272--->'''Burke''': You're a living conspiracy theory.\
273'''Mozzie''': See? They do exist.
274* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
275** Fox Mulder is a heroic conspiracy theorist who is unusual both in almost always being right in his postulations about secret doings and in (usually) being a rational, shrewdly observant investigator who labors to find solid evidence to support his ideas rather than just relying on WildMassGuessing. Of course, as the evidence tends to disappear, everyone not "in the know" still thinks he's nuts.
276** The Lone Gunmen are Agent Mulder's geeky friends and conspiracy theorists themselves. In their first episode, one of them tells Mulder that they like to hang out with him because his theories are way crazier than theirs. Like Mulder, it's not really a conspiracy ''theory'' if the conspiracy is true.[[note]]Their origin episode took place in Baltimore with Creator/RichardBelzer as a weary police officer (heavily implied to be Munch) interrogating them, meaning the Gunmen may have been the inspiration behind Munch's love of conspiracy theories (which Belzer shares, even writing some books on them).[[/note]]
277** The trio of conspiracy theorists Langly, Bayers and Frohike got their own spin-off series, ''Series/TheLoneGunmen''. Ironically, the fact that it was canceled has led to conspiracy theories about why it was canceled. Perhaps it was the March 2001 pilot being about an attempt by a shadowy government conspiracy to crash jet liners into the World Trade Center, which of course has only inspired further theories about how they "anticipated" it somehow.
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281* "Get In Line" by the Music/BarenakedLadies provides the page quote. The song was written specifically for the official ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' soundtrack and is meant to serve as sort of an ImageSong for Dale Gribble (see entry under WesternAnimation).
282* "Everything You Know Is Wrong" by Music/{{Chumbawamba}} is a parody of this trope.
283* The song "Stuart" by ''Music/TheDeadMilkmen'' is either about a conspiracy theorist or a drunkard (or, more likely, both) who has 'interesting' ideas about the relationship between soil erosion and The Homosexual Agenda.
284* Music/DiamondRio's "It's All in Your Head" is about a snake-handling preacher who seems to be one ("We never walked on the moon, Music/{{Elvis|Presley}} ain't dead / You ain't goin' crazy, it's all in your head").
285* "Touch-Tone Telephone" by Music/LemonDemon is about a fanatical conspiracy theorist frantically trying to get in contact with a radio show host, who he believes is the only other one who understands what he's talking about, so he can explain his theories on air.
286* ''Music/NautilusPompilius'': In the song "My Brother Cain", Cain wants to save Russia from Freemasons.
287* Music/WeirdAlYankovic parodies the character type in the second verse of his song [[Music/MandatoryFun "Foil"]], playing off of the TinfoilHat.
288* Music/NickLutsko's music frequently star a fictionalized version of himself who frequently makes outlandish declarations, such as celebrities staying hot by drinking baby blood, UsefulNotes/JoeBiden being a criminal obsessed with stealing people's meat, and UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump hiding something under his ass.
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292* In ''Podcast/AliceIsntDead'', the CharacterNarrator learns that her missing wife Alice was actively investigating TheConspiracy before her disappearance, gathering information on three mysterious parties: The Cumberland Project, Vector H, and Bay & Creek Shipping. The discovery of her scattered notes prompts the Narrator to involve herself more directly, going so far as to get hired as a [[IntrepidMerchant long haul trucker]] by Bay & Creek Shipping, one of the [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront parties concerned]], though its clear her interest in the conspiracy itself is generally secondary to its usefulness in locating her missing wife. However, agents of the Conspiracy, including a cannibalistic HumanoidAbomination, don't much care for her meddling...
293* ''Podcast/ComedyBangBang'' has a parody of Wrestling/JesseVentura played by James Adomian who's a crazy conspiracy theorist.
294* Jessica from ''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous'' has multiple theories about the disappearance of Maura Murray, including that she eloped with Bigfoot. "Wake up Sheeple! They've got three children!"
295* Parodied in episode six of ''Podcast/MysteryShow'', when someone tells Starlee that she's just over-thinking things and she takes it as a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.
296* ''Podcast/ItCouldHappenHere'': The show mentions Alex Jones and goes into his conspiracist rants at length, explaining that people like him (especially since he has a massive following) are dangerous rather than just harmless cranks, since he's pushed for violence against people (liberals or the LGBT), he claims are really vicious criminals. Rhetoric like this, Evans believes, could push extremists to act on his words.
297* ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'': Riley is such an extreme conspiracy theorist that their beliefs sometimes border on dangerous, including attempting to tear the face off of one of their Uber drivers because they believed they were a secret hidden reptilian.
298* Interestingly inverted in ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': In the episode "The Sandstorm", Night Vale resident Steve Carlsburg sends an email to the radio station, claiming that he thinks the sandstorm was engineered by the government. Cecil, the radio broadcaster, scoffs at him...because "of COURSE it was created by the government, the City Council announced that this morning!"
299* A RunningGag of ''Podcast/WellTheresYourProblem'' is the hosts blaming the industrial accident of the week on a conspiracy and/or a cryptid, especially Mothman. They have also claimed that their podcast is a UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} front, as is every other podcast in existence.
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303* [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Paul London and Brian Kendrick]] are believers in the "Babylonian Gods were really reptilian space aliens who still control humanity" theory, among others. One segment had them watching a television show where Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness turned into one such lizard man after they openly speculated on it.
304* Whenever post-HeelFaceTurn Wrestling/MichaelCole suspects that a heel is up to no good, Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield (who supports most heels) scolds him and calls him this. But when he rants about Wrestling/JerryLawler supporting the Occupy Raw Movement, Cole is quick to fire the insult back at him.
305* Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/FrankieKazarian were correct in their suspicion that there was a conspiracy in Wrestling/RingOfHonor against The Knigts Of The Rising Dawn. What they failed to realize was that their fellow Knight, Chris Sabin, was the one conspiring with Alex Shelley to advance the Motor City Machine Guns at their expense. Furthermore, The Knights Of The Rising Dawn were themselves born out of a conspiracy against ROH to ensure talent was rewarded ahead of company loyalty and ensure the defeat of reDRagon.
306* After Wrestling/ChrisJericho lost the WCW Cruiserweight Championship to Wrestling/DeanMalenko, Jericho branded himself a "conspiracy victim" in his bid to get the decision overturned (due to Malenko using an ImpersonationGambit to get the match with Jericho) and would spend several weeks accusing the WCW locker room, the company's upper management, and eventually ''the entire United States government'' of conspiring to rob him of the Cruiserweight Championship.
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310* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
311** Mr. Morrison, the Philosophy teacher at Rogers High, believes that the strange events at the school (such as destruction of property and the appearance of apparitions on the camera feed) are a result of government interference. [[ProperlyParanoid He's not too far off the mark]], but his overt eagerness gets him branded as a kook by the students he tries to talk to about it.
312** Crispin Hayward writes a best-selling YA novel about an urban legend that was, in turn, inspired by a government conspiracy that he wholeheartedly believes in. He makes mention of a 'sizable' internet community that agrees with him, and also brings up other conspiracies that he's convinced have been covered up. This leads the cast to not take him seriously.
313** Josephine is a conspiracy theorist that's portrayed sympathetically, as her paranoid delusions that the government is out to get her, and that she can't trust anyone, are due to a [[DarkAndTroubledPast childhood of vicious bullying]], during which she was betrayed by someone who she thought was a close friend.
314* Mr. Liatsis, a teacher from the V4 pregame of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', is commented on as being a notorious conspiracy theorist. Some students have their moments as well.
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318* ''TabletopGame/BlackbirdsRPG'': The influence of the Allmother - which can be spread with something as innocuous as unwittingly glimpsing one of her servants - causes the afflicted to become increasingly paranoid, convinced that society has been infiltrated by inhuman monsters masquerading as ordinary people. Due to the Allmother's [[KillAndReplace general MO]] these conspiracy theories are often somewhat accurate, but their paranoia is so obvious that almost no one would believe them anyway.
319* ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter1999'' is filled with conspiracy theories and just downright strange stories and information.
320* The ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' supplement ''The Black Circle: Unholy Alliance'' had a Conspiracy Theorist archetype suitable for use as a player character. From an InUniverse perspective, those who work for the newspaper called the Epitaph, and a lot of people who read it, are seen as this. The reality, of course, is that these people are actually telling the truth (though they still don't know everything), and there really are monsters and magic all over the place now, and there really ''is'' a governmental cover-up to try and suppress this truth. To be fair, there's a good reason to cover it up: spreading fear of monsters [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve makes more monsters appear.]]
321* The Inquisitors archetype from ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' are a bunch of conspiracy theorists. The problem, given [[InMysteriousWays how]] the God Machine works with its Infrastructures and Occult Matrices, and how they ''actually'' worked with such systems before the fall, this may be less conspiracy theory and more ProperlyParanoid.
322* In the collectible card game ''TabletopGame/{{Illuminati}}'', one of the groups you can control is the Conspiracy Theorists. They have zero Power (nobody believes them), but they let you hold an extra Plot card... because while they're completely wrong, they ''do'' have useful ideas. Another group, Paranoids, gives you protection against everything except Natural Disasters, because ''their'' worries are correct...
323* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' does ''not'' respect them. There ''is'' an AncientConspiracy, yes...who do everything in their power to ''promote'' conspiracy theorists (especially the [[BigBrotherIsWatching Panopticon]]) since they (a) enforce a cultural meme that LaResistance is pointless when the Seers of the Throne have bitterly learned that it isn't (see: The [[AncientTradition Pentacle]], but ''especially'' the Free Council) and (b) tend to think of ''the good guys'' as TheIlluminati, since if the Pentacle wins, they're going to...''change'' things (for the better, mostly, but most conspiracy theorists are of a reactionary bent). There are fairly positive portrayals of some theorists, but unlike most examples they actually bother to fight back against the evils they see by making the world a better place (indeed, one of the characters for the Silver Ladder is one who, upon being offered to join the conspiracy that promotes cooperation and personal freedom, couldn't wait to sign up).
324* The "Flake" archetype in ''TabletopGame/MonsterOfTheWeek'' ''is'' this -- and depending on the group, they may be hunting monsters alongside people like the "Initiate" (who really does belong to a secret ancient sect), the "Monstrous" (an actual monster notionally on the side of good) or the "Professional" (who's explicitly working for some "Agency" or other that may or may not be government-related), who can also be player characters.
325* In the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness ''Clanbook: Gangrel'', there's a Gangrel vampire who's a conspiracy theorist. And indeed, they were common (and often ''[[ProperlyParanoid right]]'') in all the [=OWOD=] games, especially ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''.
326* In ''TableTopGame/DeltaGreen'', you are a part of the Conspiracy. Your job is keeping the Cthulhu Mythos in check as much as possible and keeping the population from knowing about it while working at some other US Government agency. The Conspiracy Theorist is an insanely common thorn in your side; typical MO is to feed them something stupid besides the truth to keep them busy.
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330* One of the Wrath punishments in ''VideoGame/Afterlife1996'', appropriately named "Illuminatiland," is specifically designed to slowly, methodically, turn every SOUL living in it into one of these. It ''starts'' out like [[ThisIsntHeaven a pretty heavenly place]] until the demons seed the thought that something isn't right, then begin {{Gaslighting}} the soul in question with manufactured conspiracies right out the corner of the eyes and co-opting anyone the soul confesses to until the damned have lost their minds five times over.
331* There are mentions in some routes of ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' of a massive conspiracy known as Naixatloz, dead-set on sending a satellite into space with the mission of spreading the Wadjet System, the basis for the game's artificial intelligence, throughout the universe. [[spoiler:Iris]] believes that [[spoiler:she]] has uncovered this truth and become a target of them in doing so. [[spoiler:If Date commands Aiba to follow Iris's instructions within her Somnium, it's shown that he has become swallowed up in her delusion as well, and he spends the rest of that route tying everything to Naix, much to Aiba's frustration.]]
332* Steven Heck of ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' is a (supposed) CIA Agent/Psychopath who has knowledge of damn near every government conspiracy out there. He's actually right most of the time despite his insanity.
333* ''{{VideoGame/Bugsnax}}'' has Snorpy Fizzlebean. He's incredibly paranoid about the "Grumpinati", blocks out both his and Chandlo's names during his interview (by saying "REDACTED"), puts tracking devices on people by hugging them, has a StringTheory board in his house, and accuses his older sibling Floofty of "working for the man".
334* ''VideoGame/CitizensOfEarth'' has the Conspiracy Guy as one of the first characters you recruit. He starts up the plot by informing you that there's something strange about the [[BlandNameProduct Moonbucks]]' Special Blend, which appears to brainwash people. In combat, he can perform an EnemyScan, [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talk enemies to death (literally)]], reveal government secrets to confuse enemies, or perform elemental attacks with a cattle prod, TruthSerum, and a spotlight.
335* Since ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' is a ConspiracyKitchenSink, it's only fitting it has its own Conspiracy Theorist, talk radio host Gordon Wells.
336* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', Dooley has tendencies in this direction, and runs his own conspiracy blog. Being TheDitz, his conspiracy theories are things like "the moon is fake" (not the moon landings, mind you -- the moon itself), "Columbus faked the America landings" (he says there's no evidence America actually exists, and his hometown is actually in a secret location in the Alps), "the government is pumping dihydrogen monoxide into our homes", and "the government is a mass hallucination caused by chemicals put in the water by the government".
337* Conspiracy theorists appear in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans''. In the first, they are referred to as "town crazies," and suburban ones are a bit more geared towards conspiracies than others (who are sometimes just plain nuts), even catching onto the plot of the VillainProtagonist. In the second, "The Freak," a California hippy, occasionally has these moments.
338* Pretty much every character in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', but when one considers that the conspiracies usually prove true only minutes after being first mentioned, and that just one conspiracy is nowhere ''near'' enough for this game, it's to be expected.
339** And as an added GeniusBonus for people who follow conspiracy theories, pretty much all the ones in the game are based on [[TruthInTelevision real-life conspiracy theories]].
340** At one point, you can try explain the conspiracy you're working against to a minor character, who'll react with amusement and think you're a complete nutter.
341** The {{Prequel}}, ''[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Human Revolution]]'', has Lazarus, a paranoid radio host ''convinced'' that FEMA are the foot-soldiers of a fear-mongering OneWorldOrder conspiracy group bent on using the augmentation debate to fulfill their nefarious schemes. Anyone who has played the original ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' will be impressed with [[StrawmanHasAPoint how much he got right]].
342* ''VideoGame/DiscworldNoir'': Malaclypse, a servitor of Errata, Goddess of Confusion and Misunderstanding. This is a ShoutOut to out world Malaclypse the Younger (a penname for Gregory Hill), the supposed creator of ''Principia Discordia'', which details the worship of Eris, the Goddess of Chaos. [[spoiler:A reasonable chunk of his gibberish [[CassandraTruth is actually true]], and covers a lot of Discworld (and Discordian) mythology/history.]]
343* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'':
344** Cassandra (the Chantry Seeker interrogating [[UnreliableNarrator Varric]]) is initially one due to her desperately seeking someone to blame for the CivilWar. At first, she's convinced that Hawke and their companions planned the entire thing from the moment they set foot in Kirkwall. Deconstructed when we learn that there isn't a true BigBad, and like in RealLife, most of the events are simply caused by a combination of coincidence and GreyAndGrayMorality. Unlike most conspiracy theorists, Cassandra is reasonable and objective enough to accept evidence that contradicts her original view.
345** If Hawke aligns himself/herself with the Templars in the endgame [[spoiler:Meredith also becomes this. A combination of her red lyrium sword's corrupting influence and her own ControlFreak nature lead Meredith to believe that Hawke is the BigBad behind Kirkwall's troubles (which naturally makes her TheHero, as it should be).]]
346* Helsdim Rolfsen from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' DLC "Jaws of Hakkon" is an Avvar weirdo who writes long, convoluted missives concerning sinister plots by anyone from the [[VestigialEmpire Tevinters]] to the aliens from unknown parts of the universe. With proper prerequisites, you can recruit him into the Inquisition, where he will work tirelessly to uncover conspiracies (mostly imaginary, but some quite real) under [[TheSpymaster Leliana's]] supervision.
347* A side quest in ''VideoGame/DyingLight'' has the player working for a conspiracy theorist, hunting meteorite fragments that he believes are associated with the cause of the epidemic. [[spoiler:In the end, it's revealed that he believed the meteor to have been sent to the Earth by a reptilian race called the Gadoids, and that his theory about the origin of the Harran virus is basically just a tinfoil hat conspiracy]].
348* Teddy in ''VideoGame/{{Dyscourse}}'' believes that the plane crash which stranded the main characters on a DesertedIsland was the government's way of getting them all in one place so that they can test them for some unspecified reason and that a rainstorm which happens if you help him build an SOS out of driftwood is the result of a government weather machine, among other equally-wacko things.
349* A side quest in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' concerns a wood elf named Glarthir in Skingrad who is convinced that three of his fellow townspeople are spying on him, and must be part of some nefarious conspiracy against him. He asks you to follow each of them for a full day and report back any suspicious behaviour. [[spoiler:None of them are spying on him at all, nor do they do anything else suspicious. However, if you tell him this, rather than putting his mind at ease, he decides that there's no way they're ''all'' innocent, so for you to say that they are can only mean you're in on the conspiracy, and he attacks you]]. If you investigate his house, there's lots of notes that indicate that he's been spying on them and the PC for a while. Also, from the second he first sees you in Skingrad, he follows you everywhere so there's no escaping his quest unless you run everywhere you go. He even follows you into the Mage's guild and your house, if you've bought the one in Skingrad.
350* No-Bark is Novac's town crazy in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. He believes a rash of feral ghoul attacks coming from an abandoned rocket factory are the work of "Ghosts! Commie ghosts that don't know they're dead!" Their objective: fly to the moon, paint it pink and stick Lenin's face on it. Although, similar to some other of his crazy stories, he's [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight partially right]]: the sentient ghouls inside the factory really want to fix the rockets and fly away to a place they call "The Far Beyond".
351** [[BigBad Ulysses]] can also be seen as one, developing an obsession with symbols and patterns and hidden meanings, and kicking off much of the plot simply because he can't accept that the destruction of his home in The Divide was an unfortunate accident and nothing more.
352* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
353** The Truth from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', though revealed to be much more insightful than he appears.
354** Parodied in the expansion packs for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', which include a [[Radio/GTARadio radio show]] called ''Conspire'' hosted by "John Smith", a parody of Alex Jones and similar right-wing/libertarian conspiracy theorists. "John" entertains, and often voices, every single crazy conspiracy theory and bit of paranoia and racism his listeners phone in with.
355** Likewise in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', there's Nervous Ron's show on Blaine County Talk Radio, which is less Alex Jones and more ''Series/TheXFiles'' with a bit of ''Film/TheMatrix''. His main topics included the Annunaki ([[ReptilianConspiracy lizard people]]), TheIlluminati, and how banks make [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall cyberspace clones of you that you have to level up]]. Ironically, his reflexive skepticism of the "official story" makes him an easy dupe for a slick energy-industry shill who comes on his show to claim that GlobalWarming is a hoax. Meanwhile, Ron's other friend Chef buys into Ron's "lizard people" theories, Lester believes in the Illuminati, and Trevor Philips believes in both.
356* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': A minor [=NPC=] in Lion's Arch, "Wild-Eye Miller", offers several conspiracy theories as part of the area's ambient dialogue. One of them (Evon Gnashblade's "twin brother") was written as a Developer's Saving Throw after a glitch put Evon in two different outfits and two different areas at the same time. The others are straight-up conspiracy theories, from every single playable race being dragon minions to how Mai Trin escaped justice after Scarlet Briar's attack on the city.
357* Zeke is one of these in ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}''. This clearly seen in his pad with Big Oil posters and often connecting something with a government conspiracy.
358* The Captain of the Gourd from ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' seems to think that tin cans, spiders, and/or goblins are conspiring against him and his precious gourd, and offers a side quest where he gives you a XP-granting item in exchange for can lids, spider webs, or Knob goblin fire crackers (depending on your main stat). According to the Captain's [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind jar of psychoses zone]], the Gourd whispers [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Gourd_conspiracies nonsensical conspiracy theories]] to him.
359* ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'': Alan James starts out as a crackpot who seems convinced the Advance party is going to do all sorts of horrible things now that they're in power, based largely on InsaneTrollLogic. [[spoiler:Not only is he proven right, but he ends up becoming the head of [[LaResistance the main resistance movement against Advance, Disrupt]].]]
360* A minor example occurs in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', if you play the male character. The trainer you meet at the Ferris Wheel during winter months (named Beauty December) tells you that "They" are out to get her because she has some secret that they want ''kept'' secret. She does battle you and ride the Ferris Wheel with you, but then warns you to stay away, saying "They" might get you too. (Of course, this could well be a subversion; there's no way of knowing whether she's paranoid or this is the truth.)
361* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp1e0JQyGI Boyd]] in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' ''invented'' the MilkmanConspiracy. And you get to [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind dive into his mind]]...
362* Bosco from the Telltale ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games. Oddly enough, he's usually right!
363* Dave Screed of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld,'' edits a magazine for like-minded theorists and is currently hiding in a noisy laundromat for fear of being spied on by the Illuminati; among other things, he believes that they replaced his girlfriend with an android. It's later revealed that he's actually serving as an UnwittingPawn of the very people he's trying to expose: the Illuminati periodically feed conspiracy theorists like Screed with erroneous information to keep them producing nonsense conspiracy theories, and then leak the truth by the same method, [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles ensuring that it remains lost amidst the flood of bullshit]]. Also, despite his paranoia, Screed is completely oblivious to the fact that the player character is actually an agent of one of the secret societies he fears.
364* Otis Monday of ''VideoGame/StubbsTheZombie'', who mistakenly identifies a zombie invasion as a combined communist/Illuminati/New World Order/Nazi strike on his homeland.
365* Gomez, one of [[ShowWithinAShow Deb of Night's]] regulars in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', comes up with increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories throughout the game... then in the final chapter, he suddenly starts citing the cosmology of the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' to the letter. The problem is: if that last "theory" actually precisely describes the very setting of the game, then what about the others?
366* ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'': Floyd Tesseract is a radio host who constantly rants about conspiracies and advises his listeners to question all authority figures, [[DisobeyThisMessage including himself]]. Of course, he does genuinely live in a world where aliens controlled the population for decades using propaganda and psychic powers--and he was one of them. Beneath all the yelling and self-contradictory theories, he [[TheAtoner just wants to atone for helping to enslave entire species.]]
367* The Prepper in ''Videogame/ZombiU'' has a lot to say about the government's role in keeping the public ignorant about John Dee's prophecy and the zombie outbreak it foretold. He also claims that the Queen is a [[ReptilianConspiracy Reptilian]], though he may have been joking about that one.
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372* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' has Kenji Setou, the main character's BromanticFoil, who believes that Yamaku Academy is a forward staging base for a vast feminist conspiracy plotting to take over the world. The game being a [[RomanceGame romantic]] VisualNovel, this is (mostly, thus far) PlayedForLaughs in the extreme.
373* ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' has the main hero, Rintaro Okabe, who believes that there is a mysterious "Organization" that rules over humanity from the shadows, and that he is one of the few fighting against it. Naturally, over the course of the story he happens to stumble upon an ''actual'' global conspiracy (by [[spoiler:SERN, the research firm that built the LHC]], of all people) to use TimeTravel to enslave the rest of the human race.
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377* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgpgP6CMLUU Hiiragi]] thinks his sister's crime for stealing Tsutsuji's money is a government conspiracy to make her break up with him, Tsutsuji dismisses his pathetic claim as an alien language.
378* ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'': Kuromi would love to prove the existence of ghosts, [=UFOs=], and other assorted oddities, though she insists on "healthy skepticism".
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382* ''Webcomic/BloodIsMine'': Grizwald is a seemingly crazy conspiracy nut who wears a TinfoilHat and lives in an empty arcade building, except he is completely ''right'' on every single occasion (yes, even about tinfoil hats protecting from psychic attacks). He has an incredible wealth of knowledge and he often provides important information to the protagonist and her team.
383* ''Webcomic/CSectionComics'' comic "[[https://www.csectioncomics.com/comics/sorting-hat Sorting Hat]]": The [[Franchise/HarryPotter Sorting Hat]] reads various conspiracy theories from the brain of the child being tested (jet fuel can melt steel beams, vaccine toxins, and something about Bill Gates), to [=McGonagall=]'s horror. He is eventually sorted into [[spoiler:House Trutherdor.]]
384* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', a swarm of conspiracy theorists came to Moperville after a supernatural being spontaneously appeared on a news broadcast. Unusually, the conspiracy theorists are portrayed as crazy even though there really is a conspiracy.
385* Jessica of ''Webcomic/{{Freakwatch}}'' grew up with an uncle who was a huge fan of horror and mystery, and taught her to solve puzzles and cyphers of all sorts. The end result, of course, is she tends to read into things more than most people, though given the peculiar circumstances of her uncle's death, perhaps her paranoia is warranted.
386%%* Sylvester from ''[[http://www.agameoffools.com A Game of Fools]]''.
387* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Roxy is considered one by her friends (mostly Jane) in-universe. Given that her theories include "Betty Crocker is [[spoiler:an alien sea witch overlord"]], they're probably justified for having that opinion. [[spoiler:Actually, she's got more or less the full story and is probably the only protaganist to get close to the full story behind BC.]] And it turns out that this is because [[spoiler:she lives hundreds of years in Jane's future, where the world was already conquered and ravaged by BC.]]
388* ''Webcomic/LeavingTheCradle'': Dan is this towards the government. His reasoning for taking the unconscious alien away from the crash site is that the military shot down the shuttle on the government's orders, they're going to take the creature to a secret laboratory to vivisect it, and they're going to search the area for witnesses and evidence. Although he's [[RightForTheWrongReasons partially correct]] about the military being involved and [[TheCloudCuckooLanderWasRight completely]] [[ProperlyParanoid right]] about them looking for witnesses, it's clear that his distrust of them is pretty [[https://leavingthecradle.com/comic/36 extreme]] to say the least.
389* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' Miko made huge leaps in logic and crafted a huge conspiracy pinning the blame for a horrible situation that she created on Roy and company. It's ultimately the main reason she couldn't earn redemption -- she just couldn't accept that anything was her fault.
390* In ''Webcomic/RogueDiamond'' Twilight fits this trope to a T, to the point where ''her entire ROOM is covered in Tinfoil ''!
391* In ''Webcomic/RoosterTeethComics'' Gus is portrayed as one of these. Occasionally, he's proved right, such as his theory about the cantaloupe industry trying to discredit the watermelon industry. Ironically, he actually does believe the moon landings happened. [[spoiler:The Vikings just beat America to it.]]
392* Malcolm of ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' does this both in story and in the FourthWallMailSlot.
393* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''
394** [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2240#comic/ How to be a]] Conspiracy Theorist. The sample [[InsaneTrollLogic reasoning]] mostly consists of really bad puns substituting for connections between things.
395** In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/human-3 "Human 3,"]] aliens capture a sample human and, because of what he says because he's a Conspiracy Theorist, decide that humans aren't a threat and don't need to be annihiliated after all.
396* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Rue Bahia is an active {{magical girl}} who highly distrusts the government, and refuses to [[SuperRegistrationAct register with the Board of Magical Girls]] in order to stay "off the grid." She's critical of the government's attitude towards magical girls in general; she criticizes the benefits that the government offers to entice girls to register, and she denounces the CelebritySuperhero aspect of magical girl culture as {{propaganda|Hero}} to downplay the life-threatening work they do. She even goes as far as claiming that the government knows what ([[CityInABottle if anything]]) exists on the other side of the [[DomedHometown Great Barrier]], but is [[GovernmentConspiracy covering it up]] to put off dealing with whatever the answer is.
397* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The Denmark segment of the prologue has one pointing out the fact that nothing is known of the PatientZero group, and uses this as a basis for suspecting an ApocalypticGagOrder about the Rash disease's seriousness. She turns out to be right in the following segment, that has an official newcast admit what she suspected two days earlier.
398* ''Webcomic/TalesFromThePit'' [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/5336116675 briefly features]] a ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' player who believes the ''New Phyrexia'' expansion is a hoax.
399* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': There's a wild-haired fellow in Mulimar who has drawn up his ideas on a wall that he stands before while proclaiming the Aldish eat their "lesser breeds" for immortality, and that they're pushing south because they're running out and need more victims. Even with the dislike of the Aldish [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch04/ch04_47.html everyone dismisses him as crazy.]]
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403* ''Website/AboveTopSecret'' is the WretchedHive of conspiracy message boards. ATS has actually played a role in some notable conspiracy theories. Someone who called himself [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor John Titor,]] posted on the site in 2000, claimed to have traveled back in time from 2036. His predictions of the USA falling to civil war and breaking into 5 subnations was memetic for a while, but disproven by 2004. Some of the first [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories#No-planes_theory "no planes"]] 9/11 theories appeared on this site. Many ATS users suspected that the "no planes" theory was itself a conspiracy to make truthers proposing more rational theories look crazy by association.
404* ''Literature/AegerothACheckeredHistory'': It is hinted at that the guardsman Davi might be a bit of a conspiracy theorist, judging from the scolding he says he received from the chief of police.
405* ''Literature/BinderOfShame'': Collateral Darren insists, among other things, that employers only insist on being sent resumes as part of a conspiracy to make more money for paper manufacturers, because at the interview you have to write down all the same information on a job application.
406* Mercilessly [[ParodiedTrope mocked]] in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo Deceptive Deceptions]]''. Truly something to behold: among the things "uncovered" as part of a massive conspiracy embracing all of humanity in this "truthumentary", they include the shooting of Music/TupacShakur, Dan Aykroyd's role in ''Film/CaddyshackII'' and ''Film/NothingButTrouble'', Music/PaulMcCartney's replacement by a doppelgänger, Helter Skelter possessing UsefulNotes/CharlesManson with the spirit of the Anti-Christ, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler actually being "a cyberganic demon" created by Nazi scientists, UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} faking the space landings, the UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy assassination, ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', Dick Cheney, Nabisco, AOL, CITGO, Atkins, Adidas, the New York Knicks, Hooters, and Website/{{Google}}. And the identity of the secret cabal that is more powerful than [[TheGovernment the American government]], the Freemasons, and TheIlluminati? [[spoiler:The College Humor staff]].
407* Illuminati and Ancient Astronauts are common themes in Music/DoctorSteel's songs and web videos, though perhaps just for flavor. (Or ''are'' they...?)
408* An [[OrphanedSeries orphaned]] webseries called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgo835FLFd8 The eX-Files]]'' from South Africa (a parody of ''Series/TheXFiles'' and, to a degree, ''Californication'') milks this archetype for all that its worth. The Agent Mulder Expy ([[SarcasmMode creatively called Hound Moulder]]) is in conspiracy theorist rehab at [[Creator/UmbertoEco 'The Umberco Centre]] [[Literature/FoucaultsPendulum for]] [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords Secular Theodicy']] with a whole bunch of other conspiracy theorists, each with their own crazy theory. During sessions with a psychiatrist Moulder shares several of his conspiracy theories involving extra-terrestrials, Music/ElvisPresley and a particularly nutty one involving [[Creator/RalphFiennes Ralph]] and Creator/JosephFiennes.
409* ''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':
410** A man aptly nicknamed "Conspiracy Joe" is frequently depicted as a guest on a political radio talk show, citing long lists of ridiculous conspiracy theories regarding just about any subject. For example, after Pol Pot dies, Joe claims that he and Colonel Sanders were actually the same person in some bizarre FalseFlagOperation, and after the assassination of [[spoiler:President Lee Iacocca]], he lists ''dozens'' of suspects, each more nonsensical than the last.
411** Later entries feature chat conversations taken from a conspiracy website discussing everything from government conspiracies to subliminal communist messages in ''The [=SpongeBob=] Zone'' (this timeline's version of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'').
412* ''WebVideo/{{Miniminuteman}}'' regularly debunks conspiracy theories regarding historical artifacts, and on one occasion created an entire video dedicated to refuting one particular conspiracy theorist who thinks geographic features--natural mountains--are ''melted buildings'' and proof that ancient Egyptians colonized North America.
413* ''WebVideo/MonteFjanton'': "Mystikhörnan" follows middle-aged conspiracy theorist Morgan Månstråle and his friend Kenneth Hyvel (and Leffe, Morgan's landlord, who isn't [[OnlySaneMan quite as convinced]]) as they try to prove all sorts of conspiracies, focusing especially on [[ReptilianConspiracy the reptilians]]. It is never quite clear if the series does take place in a ConspiracyKitchenSink or if it's all in the main characters' heads [[spoiler:and by the finale of season 2, all the plot holes that arose from contradicting theories manifest into a physical plot hole that the protagonists get sucked into, taking them out of the ShowWithinAShow]].
414* Downplayed and lampshaded by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic when he believes the ''Film/SpiderMan1'' movie cut out a World Trade Center scene as to not offend anyone after 9/11.
415* Platform/YouTube personality ''WebVideo/TheRealWeeklyNews'' made a video called "[=HuluTube=]: Phasing You Out of [=YouTube=]." In this video, he states that the (at the time) recently added "Shows" tab on [=YouTube=]'s front page was a grand conspiracy by companies like Burger King and Creator/{{Disney}} (seriously, those were his two big examples) to get all the normal content creators off of Platform/YouTube. Mentions of {{tin foil hat}}s were pretty common from critics of the video.
416* Chris, the deuteragonist of ''WebOriginal/SheaScientificFilms'', is a downplayed one, having an apparent suspicion of the government in general, a belief in more plausible things like secret aerospace projects, but an unwillingness to accept more outlandish claims without good evidence.
417* Talib Al-Jarrah, a peacekeeper in [[https://sixchances.com Six Chances]] is this. He believes bubble blowers are weapons of mass destruction, styrofoam is used for mind control, and that there is an Organization out there that is controlling everything and that is out to get him because he knows that.
418* [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1862 1862]] is an adherent to the "fluoridated water is poison" theory, which is ironic considering his body's organs are now made entirely out of various fluorine compounds.
419** [[http://www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/parawatch-hub Parawatch]] is an in-universe online forum dedicated to conspiracies and the paranormal. While the setting is legitimately overflowing with the abnormal and powerful top-secret agencies trying to hide the anomalous from the public, users of said site tend to be completely out of the loop and have totally off-base theories. The Foundation monitors it just in case some legitimate sensitive material slips through, but for the most part it chooses to leave Parawatch alone; wild conspiracy theories like theirs serve as an effective disinformation campaign.
420* Script/SeinfeldTheTwinTowers: Arthur, one of Kramer's kooks, believes that 9/11 was an inside job. Kramer says later that he last saw Arthur get tossed into a van by some [[TheMenInBlack Men In Black]].
421* ''WebVideo/SlimecicleCinematicUniverse'': In "We Spent 100 Days in a Hardcore Minecraft Apocalypse", Ronald Boo (played by Ranboo) seems to believe that the zombie apocalypse is staged and that all the zombies are (highly trained) paid actors.
422* In ''Series/WarpZoneProject'', where the {{Masquerade}} can be summed up as ComicBooksAreReal meets WeirdnessCensor, Edouard knows that ''something'' is going on. However, when he actually runs into well-known super-villains, he tends to assume that they are government agents dressed up as fictional characters to throw people off guard instead of considering the possibility that they could be real life comic book characters, even when they use their powers right in front of him. He gets even more confused when [[spoiler:he starts developping super strength, the person sent to mentor him gets killed by the villains on which he was spying and he realizes one of his good friends has repeatedly used the weirdness censor on him before this within the same day]].
423* According to a tweet from the titular [[TheMuse Muse]] from the Platform/{{Twitter}} blog ''Blog/WorstMuse'', everything is either a conspiracy or a ContrivedCoincidence. No middle grounds.
424-->[[https://twitter.com/WorstMuse/status/495610515796668416 "Commit to a motif: everything is conspiracy, or everything is coincidence."]]
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428* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has Andromeda, Tilly’s friend. She believes in all sorts of supernatural elements, such as aliens and [[ReptilianConspiracy lizard people]]. She even thinks that Officer Keys is an alien in disguise.
429* Huey Freeman from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' believes that that there's a Government Conspiracy against black people from, you guessed it, the white man. (Like the comic strip examples above, he takes it ''very'' much to extremes.)
430* Alex from ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough''.
431--> '''Alex:''' ''(dressed only in his underwear surrounded by conspiracy theory boards)'' Quiet! I'm ''this'' close to connecting ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}... to ''Jesus.''\
432'''Emily:''' ''[picking up a jug of yellow liquid]'' Are you drinking moonshine?\
433'''Alex:''' That's disgusting! That's my urine.
434* Numbuh One from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. Considering the world he lives in, he more often than not is ProperlyParanoid. One episode had him theorizing that Numbuh 5's older sister Cree's bras were, in reality, adult combat armor. Cree and Abigail both mocked him for the remainder of the episode until he left her home. And then it turned out they really ''were'' combat armor...
435* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In one episode, Creator/AdamWest spends $150,000 of taxpayer money to discover why his plants absorb the water he pours them.
436* Ferret from ''WesternAnimation/FerretAndParrot'', who gets all of his information from old tabloids that are used to line the floor of his cage.
437* Freezbone from ''WesternAnimation/{{Freefonix}}''. Everything is either a conspiracy, or aliens.
438* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
439** Parodied when the cast travel back in time to 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, [[BeenThereShapedHistory inspiring an]] ''[[BeenThereShapedHistory actual conspiracy]]''. The Area 51 base brings President UsefulNotes/HarryTruman and a conspiracy nut no-one will believe. Inexplicably, the photographs the nut takes of actual evidence (such as Truman himself being on the base, the Planet Express spaceship right above him) turn out looking like real-life "evidence" of UFO lights and the Loch Ness Monster, respectively.
440** "Decision 3012" spends the entire episode satirizing the Obama "birthers", [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything as a presidential nominee faces accusations about not being a "true" citizen because of a missing "Earth certificate"]].
441* Matt Bluestone from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', thanks to his obsession with the Illuminati (which actually does exist in the show's universe).
442* Dipper Pines from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is this mixed with [[ProperlyParanoid properly paranoid]] due to [[TownWithADarkSecret the town he is residing in]]. It's implied, however, that arriving in Gravity Falls, was not the start of his interest in conspiracy theories, merely the beginning of his ever being right about them.
443%%* Dib from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''.
444%%* Creator/AdamWest, as seen on ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''.
445* ComicBook/TheQuestion from ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]''. "There was a magic bullet! It was forged by Illuminati mystics to prevent us from learning the truth!" However he is also played oddly positively for a conspiracy theorist, as while his tendency to connect everything to a single overarching conspiracy (supposedly dating back at least to AncientEgypt, and [[AncientConspiracy secretly controlling the world ever since]]) is shown to be insane, it also allows him to see the connections to the real conspiracies. He's even called the League's "Data Guy" and is a case of someone being a ProperlyParanoid {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, to the point that Batman of all people admits he's "wound a little tight." The rest of the JL can only give Batman dropped jaws. Also, the tips at the end of shoelaces are called [[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet aglets]]. Their true purpose is ''SINISTER''. And Batman has said in the show that The Question is a better detective than him. Batman only considers rational possibilities when he investigates things. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfkNY-XBdOc his intro in the animation,]] The Question's room aboard Watchtower is shown, with a posterboard showing an elaborate conspiracy that the Girl Scouts are behind CropCircles, that the government is using boy bands to control the public, and that they are part of a single grand conspiracy with the aglets and the magic bullet. He's convinced that this all ties together somehow, but admits to not having figured out ''how''.
446-->'''Green Arrow:''' This whole trip might just prove [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} the kid]] shouldn't eat nachos before bed.\
447'''Question:''' Peanut butter sandwiches.\
448'''Supergirl:''' How did y- What, do you go through my trash?\
449'''Question:''' Please... I go through ''everyone's'' trash.
450* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'': One of the original characters, Harvey. He's quick to attribute aliens as the cause of anything slightly odd, partly due to his heavy interest in comics and science fiction. "Gimme a News Break" mainly focuses on [[ADayInTheLimelight him and Perch]] reporting news, while Harvey thinks everything is due to Martians. In "Wise Kraken", when everyone is supposed to go on stage to do stand-up comedy and tell jokes, Harvey rambles about aliens and has to be pulled off multiple times.
451* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
452** [[Characters/KimPossibleRonStoppable Ron Stoppable]] is like this at times. Many of his beliefs (such as the bad guys stealing Christmas and corn dogs) are proven incorrect. However, he has been right on a few occasions, such as claiming that the lake at Camp Wannaweep is dangerous or that Lord Monty Fiske (later known as Monkey Fist) is, as he put it, "bad road". In the episode where Shego is [[MirrorMoralityMachine temporarily turned good]], he shows a bizarre mix of [[ArbitrarySkepticism skepticism]] and [[SkepticismFailure credulity]]:
453--->'''Kim:''' (''elbowing Ron'') Ron, that's Shego!\
454'''Ron:''' Nah, it's not Shego, it's Miss Go -- see, it says so on the board.\
455'''Kim:''' Putting something on the board doesn't make it true!\
456'''Ron:''' Oh, sure, y'know, when I said that in 20th Century History, I got sent to the office!\
457'''Kim:''' The moon landing wasn't [[MoonLandingHoax faked in the Arizona desert]], Ron!
458** In one episode, it turns out that all the stories about {{Area 51}} are true, leaked by the government so that [[CassandraGambit people will think they're just wild conspiracy theories]].
459* [[Characters/KingOfTheHillDaleGribble Dale Gribble]] on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill.'' A believer in every conspiracy theory known, yet unable to discover that his wife had been cheating on him. And when he finally realizes that the only time she could've gotten pregnant was during the time John Redcorn was visiting while he was away, he comes to the logical conclusion. [[spoiler:His son was conceived when aliens artificially inseminated his wife!]] He comes to that same conclusion in a later episode when a family moves into the neighborhood, and they have a daughter who resembles Joseph and was born at about the same time as him.
460** He apparently became a Conspiracy Theorist after something in the report on JFK's assassination didn't add up for him. Then he rereads it and discovers he got that particular detail wrong. With the correct detail in place, the whole thing "makes complete and perfect sense", leading him to abandon this status... [[ResetButton for the episode]].
461* Tigress is shown to be this in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'', "Ladies of the Shade". Monkey comments on this.
462-->'''Tigress:''' I don't trust them.\
463'''Monkey:''' You don't trust anyone! Not even the mailman, and he's been coming here for thirty years.\
464'''Tigress:''' ''Planning'' something for thirty years!
465* Reigh in ''WesternAnimation/LostInOz'', who even had a big board of evidence to track the magic shortage.
466* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali''; In "Mystery in the Night Sky," Montey Cribbits, the "Alien Detective," claims to have seen aliens, believes that aliens built the Taj Mahal, and charges fans to join his club for $19.95.
467* In ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'', ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s BestFriend Jimmy Olsen believes that aliens, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster are real, and has a Youtube channel talking about these theories. As he lives in Franchise/TheDCU, he experiences a ''lot'' of TheCuckoolanderWasRight. [[spoiler:He's not just guessing either; [[KnewItAllAlong he figured out Clark wasn't human from day one]] after seeing him [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength accidentally break a door handle in half]], but kept quiet out of respect for his privacy.]]
468* ''WesternAnimation/MyGoldfishIsEvil'': Scoop believes in many bizarre stories, which makes him the only adult Beanie can always count on to help him thwart Admiral Bubbles (even if he also doesn't believe the goldfish is behind any of the show's weird happenings).
469* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has a minor character named Tiny Nose, who was in jail for this in the first episode. The show also later introduces a far more serious example in Jacob Hopkins, a minor human villain who caught a glimpse of Eda in her owl beast form and became obsessed with demons and witches. His actual knowledge of the subject is a blend of some facts he managed to figure out on his own, combined with an enormous amount of nonsense he got from [[BlandNameProduct Mewtube]]. The dangerous part is that he is so deep into his own wild theories that he refuses to listen to anything else, and nearly disects an entirely benevolent, sapient and capable-of-speech demon under the assumption that it's malevolent.
470* [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Fred]] on ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' is often babbling about Red Herring (his nemesis), aliens, Mole Men and other monsters. It doesn't help that his uncle runs a tabloid paper that churns out this stuff.
471* Sid, a crazy guy living in Roswell in ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'', [[spoiler:but he's really ObfuscatingStupidity. He's a former Alliance operative ''and'' an alien invader]].
472* [[Characters/TheSimpsonsBartSimpson Bart Simpson]] becomes one of these (and converts most of the other kids in Springfield) in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy". And again, due to the effects of a Ritalin Expy, in "Brother's Little Helper". [[ProperlyParanoid This time, he's right]].
473* Dooper from ''WesternAnimation/SlackerCats''. He has a different theory each episode.
474* Sticks the Badger from ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' is smart, but also very paranoid and loopy, and not too fond of the government. Living by herself has given her some extremely backwards ideas on how the world works. Chief among them being that everything is a massive conspiracy, and the government is out to get her. Citing just one example is this quote from the episode, "The Curse of the Cross-eyed Moose":
475-->'''Sticks:''' Crossin' paths with a cross-eyed moose brings a curse on the moose-crosser and the non-moose-crossed friends. DON'T YOU PEOPLE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SCIENCE?!
476* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has Ronaldo Fryman, Peedee's older brother. He has a blog detailing the oddities around town and thinks the government is ruled by snake people. After the events of [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird "Keep Beach City Weird"]], Ronaldo changes his theory to [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight a surprisingly accurate one]] about "polymorphic sentient rocks" and "the Diamond Authority" which he claims wants to hollow out the Earth. Many fans have noticed he seems to be TheCassandra and have made theories based on things he has said.
477* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', Ensign Mariner runs into Lt. Levy while trying to run away from other crewmembers trying to earn a favor for her towards the captain. It's revealed that he believes [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration the Battle of Wolf 359]] was an inside job[[note]]To be fair, the Borg ''did'' assimilate Captain Picard...[[/note]], that [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Changelings]] aren't real and the Dominion War never happened. This is later {{Deconstructed}} in the season 4 episode "Caves" where he annoys Boimler with tales about the Vendorians and, when his paranoia leads to him destroying a vehicle that could get them out of there, Boimler finally blows up at him. And while [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he was right about the Vendorians]], his paranoia has made him something of an outcast.
478* Members of "'''H'''umans '''A'''gainst '''T'''he '''E'''xtraterrestials" (from the second ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon) believed that the aliens which had recently invaded Earth had left behind agents to infiltrate the planet, and were willing to blow up Manhattan in order to exterminate them.
479* Harry Bolye's neighbor on ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome'', Ralph Kane, thinks the Commies are on the move in our country. He has a grass roots squadron of neighborhood citizens at the ready to ward off the Red foe...wherever they are.
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481%%%
482%% Remember, this is a touchy subject, so no Real Life, thanks.
483%%%
484----
485->''Remember, tin-foil hats preventing mind control is merely a lie cooked up by Reynolds Corporation in order to sell more tin-foil and fund the New World Order. But you didn't hear it from me.''

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