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3[[folder:Comic Books]]
4->Call it paranoia if you want. But I've come to trust that nagging itch at the base of my skull.
5-->-- '''Frank Castle''', ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX''
6
7->[[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Where I come from]], paranoia is just another word for "not dead yet."
8-->-- '''Kremlin''', ''ComicBook/ExMachina''
9
10->Remember: A Paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts.
11-->-- '''Spider Jerusalem''', ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''
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13
14[[folder:Fanfic]]
15-> Mad-Eye Moody had once worked out how long it had taken him, in retrospect, to achieve what he now considered a decent level of caution - weighed up how much experience it had taken him to get ''good'' instead of ''lucky'' - and had begun to suspect that most people died before they got there. Moody had once expressed this thought to Lyall, who had done some ciphering and figuring, and told him that a typical Dark Wizard hunter would die, on average, eight and a half times along the way to becoming 'paranoid'. This explained a great deal, assuming Lyall wasn't lying.
16-->--''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''
17
18->'''[[{{WebAnimation/RWBY}} Raven Branwen]]:''' First... don't trust Ozpin.\
19'''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow The Hedgehog]]:''' I already don't.
20-->-- ''Fanfic/ARedRoseInTheBlueWind'', "Underneath the Colors"
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22
23[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
24->Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
25-->-- '''Spike Logan''', ''Film/KillerElite''
26
27->I ''always'' think ''everything'' could be a trap. Which is why I'm still alive.
28-->-- '''Prince Humperdinck''', ''Film/ThePrincessBride''
29
30->Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale.
31-->-- '''Philo Gant''', ''Film/StrangeDays''
32
33->You know what, Grady? Some people think I'm [[CrazyPrepared overly prepared]], paranoid, maybe even [[CrazyIsCool a little bit crazy]]... but they never met any pre-Cambrian lifeforms, did they?
34-->-- '''[[CrazySurvivalist Burt Gummer]]''', ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks''
35
36->'''Cooper:''' What's your trust setting, TARS?\
37'''[[RobotBuddy TARS]]:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Lower than yours, apparently.]]
38-->-- ''{{Film/Interstellar}}''
39
40->''"Paranoid? I'm not paranoid. All my fears are real."''
41-->--'''Bill Whitney''', ''Film/{{Society}}''
42
43-> '''Michael Corleone:''' C'mon Frankie... my father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth.\
44'''Frank Pentangeli:''' Your father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth... but he never ''trusted'' Hyman Roth!
45-->-- ''Film/TheGodfather''
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47
48[[folder:Literature]]
49->I live in a paranoid world. But just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I don't have enemies. I have ''real'' enemies. Enemies that would freeze your blood if you only knew.
50-->-- '''Marco''', ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}: [[Recap/AnimorphsThePredator The Predator]]''
51
52->Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards ''know'' it.
53-->-- ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}''
54
55->"Why?" Gareth bleated. "What's wrong? For three days you've been running away from your own shadows..."\
56"That's right," John agreed, and there was a dangerous edge to his quiet voice. "You ever think what might happen to you if your own shadow caught you? Now ride - and ride silent."
57-->-- ''Dragon's Bane''
58
59->Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
60-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/{{Storm Front|DresdenFiles}}''
61
62->'''Aunt Josephine''': Mr. Poe told me to be on the watch for [[BigBad Count]] [[MasterOfDisguise Olaf]], but he did also say you children tended to see him everywhere.\
63'''Klaus''': We see him everywhere because he ''is'' everywhere.
64-->--''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''
65
66->''[[CatchPhrase Constant Vigilance!]]''
67-->-- '''Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody[[spoiler:/Barty Crouch Jr. in disguise]]''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''
68
69->'''Leif:''' You're the most paranoid man I've ever met.\
70'''Atticus:''' I'm also the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld longest-lived]] man you've ever met.
71-->-- ''[[Literature/IronDruidChronicles Hounded]]''
72
73->A paranoiac, my friend... is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is.
74-->-- ''[[Creator/KurtVonnegut Look At The Birdie]]''
75
76->Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.
77-->-- '''Roose Bolton''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
78
79->It's one thing to believe that everyone is out to get you. Quite another when it's actually true.
80-->-- ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide''
81
82->"You've got to learn to cross the line and live your life outside society, shut yourself away from people, cut yourself off. Values are different out there. Let a man show friendship for you and you've got to deny him, mistrust him, suspect him, and nine times out of ten you'll be wrong but it's the tenth time that'll save you from a dirty death in a cheap hotel because you'd opened the door to a man you thought was a friend. Out there you'll be alone and you'll have no one you can trust, not even the people who are running you. Not even me. If you make the wrong kind of mistake at the wrong time in the wrong place, and it looks like you're fouling up the mission or exposing the Bureau, they'll throw you to the dogs. [[GoodIsNotNice And so will I]]."
83-->-- '''Literature/{{Quiller}}''', "The Warsaw Document"
84
85->''Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.''
86-->-- ''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''
87
88->'''Horst:''' I mean, you're bulk buying handguns. What does that say about your lifestyle?\
89'''[[{{Necromancer}} Johannes]]:''' It says I'm prudent and farsighted.
90-->-- ''Literature/TheBrothersCabal''
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93[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
94->'''Garibaldi:''' For starters, I don't know you, therefore I don't trust you.\
95'''Lochley:''' The world's full of people you don't know.\
96'''Garibaldi:''' I worry about that all the time.
97-->-- ''Series/BabylonFive'', "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E06StrangeRelations Strange Relations]]"
98
99->'''Michael:''' Even paranoids have enemies.\
100'''Sam:''' [[BackhandedCompliment Yeah, you're living proof of that!]] (''Mike glares at him'') [-Well, you know, a little.-]
101-->-- ''Series/BurnNotice'', "[[Recap/BurnNoticeS1E8WantedMan Wanted Man]]"
102
103->'''Cole:''' Don't you think you're being a little paranoid?\
104'''Phoebe:''' With my demon ex-husband from hell? [[SarcasmMode No, Cole, I don't.]]
105-->-- ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}''
106
107->The deal feels bad, the deal is bad.
108-->-- '''Eddy Mansfield''', ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing,'' "David Schultz and the Slap Heard Round the World"
109
110->'''TheBrigadier:''' [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Armor piercing, solid core with Teflon coating.]] Go through a Dalek. UNIT's been very busy, Doctor. We also got high-explosive rounds for Yetis and very efficient armour-piercing rounds for Robots. And we even got gold-tipped bullets for you-know-what.\
111'''The Doctor:''' No silver?\
112'''Brigadier:''' ''Silver'' bullets?\
113'''The Doctor:''' Well, you never know.\
114'''Brigadier:''' Quartermaster Sergeant! Silver bullets, have we any?[[note]]Yes, they have, and guess what end up saving the day?[[/note]]
115-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield "Battlefield"]]
116
117->'''Frank''': [[SarcasmMode Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot!]] I live in ''this'' world, and [[ConspiracyTheorist you]] live in a psycho bunker where [=9/11=] was an inside job and the government are all Nazis!\
118'''Bill''': THE GOVERNMENT '''''ARE''''' ALL NAZIS!\
119'''Frank''': Well, [[{{Touche}} yeah]], ''[[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica now]]'', but not then!
120-->-- ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'', [[Recap/TheLastOfUs2023S1E3LongLongTime "Long, Long Time"]]
121
122->When you've done the things I've done, there's no such thing as paranoia.
123-->-- '''Eliot, ''Series/{{Leverage}}'''''
124
125->''"Rule 40: If you think someone's out to get you, they are."''
126-->-- '''Gibbs''', ''Series/{{NCIS}}''
127
128->Only the paranoid survive.
129-->-- '''[[TheSpook Harold]] [[IHaveManyNames Finch]]''', ''Series/PersonOfInterest''
130
131->Give me a man that's not paranoid in ''this'' company and I will show you a man [[DangerousWorkplace with twelve knives in his back.]]
132-->-- ''Series/RoboCopPrimeDirectives''
133
134->Paranoia is a skill, the secret to longevity.
135-->-- '''Mozzie''', ''Series/WhiteCollar''
136
137->When everybody is out to get you, paranoia is just straight thinking.
138-->-- '''Dr. Johnny Fever''', ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati''
139
140->No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough.
141-->-- '''[[DoomedByCanon Suzanne Modeski]]''', ''Series/TheXFiles''
142
143->"Paranoid" is what they call people who ''imagine'' threats against their life. I ''have'' threats against my life.
144-->-- '''Garak''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E22ForTheCause "For the Cause"]]
145
146->'''Weyoun:''' (...) Let's just say I left Cardassia because my life was in danger.\
147'''Odo:''' From whom?\
148'''Weyoun:''' Everyone.\
149'''Odo:''' Aren't you being a little paranoid?\
150'''Weyoun:''' Of course I'm paranoid, everyone's trying to kill me.
151-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E06TreacheryFaithAndTheGreatRiver "Treachery, Faith And The Great River"]]
152
153->'''Egrorian:''' You are a cautious man, Avon.
154->'''Avon:''' Well that's a habit I hope to live with.
155-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E11Orbit Orbit]]"
156
157->"You'd be paranoid too if everyone was plotting against you!"
158-->--'''Jim Hacker''', ''Series/YesPrimeMinister''
159
160->'''Sgt. Faithful:''' [[PointyHairedBoss Simpson]]'s touting a report...says that Anderson was paranoid.
161->'''Inspector Brennan:''' Check it?
162->'''Sgt. Faithful:''' Yes... The police psychologist ''also'' stated that there's nothing crazy about thinking you're being persecuted when you are being.
163-->-- ''Series/{{Phoenix}}'', "Christmas in July"
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166[[folder:Music]]
167->Just because you're paranoid\
168Don't mean they're not after you
169-->-- '''Music/{{Nirvana}}''', "[[Music/NevermindAlbum Territorial Pissings]]"
170
171->Are there any paranoids in the audience tonight?! Is there anyone here who's ''weak?'' Heheheheh, pathetic. This song's called "Run Like Hell."
172-->-- '''Music/RogerWaters''', OnceAnEpisode during live performances of ''Music/TheWall'' in TheEighties
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174
175[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
176->How can I be paranoid... when the paranoid mother-fuckers who are making me paranoid are really out there?
177-->-- '''Creator/DavidCross'''
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179
180[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
181->They are used to ease irrational fears (which is silly; in Alpha Complex there ''are'' no irrational fears.)
182-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''
183
184->I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
185-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Illuminati'', [[{{Gaslighting}} written on the cover in dark grey text on a black background]]
186
187->[[TheCorrupter Lead a]] [[TheGrotesque Nosferatu]] [[TheCorrupter slowly and gently]]: of all their habits of thought, I find their suspicion the hardest to break, because it is so often justified.
188-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Followers of Set (revised)''
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190
191[[folder:Video Games]]
192->Every time I think I'm paranoid enough, my enemies find a new way to show me different.
193-->-- '''Crimson''', ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''
194
195->''"Roman's always been paranoid. It's probably why he's lasted this long."''
196-->-- '''Franchise/{{Batman}}''', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins''
197
198->''With every failed time spell, the magister grows a bit more paranoid - or perhaps it's not paranoia, since the Elder One really ''will'' [[YouHaveFailedMe kill him for his failures.]]''
199-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''
200
201->''"I told Grodd [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} you]] [[TheMole were loyal to the Bat]]. He called me 'paranoid.' At least he listened when I said Franchise/{{Batman}} wouldn't relinquish his [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Cave]] so easily."''
202-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Bane}}''', ''VideoGame/Injustice2''
203
204->An asylum catches fire. Everyone freaks out. Everyone except the paranoid delusionals. Normally they twitch and scream, but in the face of disaster, [[DissonantSerenity they're as cool as cucumbers]]. They lead everyone, staff and patients, out of the building in an orderly manner. They have a plan. They always knew this was going to happen.
205->[[BrokenBird My mental state]] is a mater of expunged public record. If what the doctors wrote is true, [[DarkAndTroubledPast if I did what they said]], then I was well equipped to find this [[BlackBugRoom second dream]].
206-->--[[spoiler: '''[[VideoGame/ThePark Lorraine Maillard]]''']], ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
207
208->[[YouDirtyRat This one]] was hiding in your pillow with an ether-soaked napkin and an ear-drill. Fortunately, you are in the habit of distressing your pillow thoroughly with a poker before sleep, in case of ambushes just like this one. Good to see the habit finally pay off.
209-->--''Videogame/FallenLondon''
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211
212[[folder:Webcomics]]
213->Isn't that the nice part of going mad? You realize you weren't paranoid after all.
214-->-- '''Helen Narbon''', ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}''
215
216->Paranoia? I rule a city where I have to [[ObfuscatingInsanity fake senility]] [[DecadentCourt just to avoid being assassinated.]] [[RPGMechanicsVerse I took Improved Paranoia like 5 levels ago.]]
217-->-- '''Lord Shojo''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
218
219->Whatever happened to basic adventurer paranoia, though? It's like these people have never had a ceiling come to life and try to smother them before!
220-->-- '''Belkar''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
221
222->'''Sam:''' Are all engineers as paranoid as you?\
223'''Florence:''' We call it being properly cautious.
224-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''
225
226->'''Tagon:''' Kevyn, Thurl, I need to be one hundred percent sure that nobody else has a back-door into this artificial intelligence you're installing for the ship.\
227'''Kevyn:''' Sir, it's all commercial hardware, from six different vendors with three completely unique value chains. The only way for there to be out-of-spec back doors or faults common to all these systems is if there were a secret cabal or conspiracy among ''all'' the manufacturers and vendors we used. Of course, if there were such a cabal, they probably wouldn't have ''our'' best interests in mind...\
228'''Tagon:''' Welcome to my world, Kevyn.
229-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
230
231->Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
232-->-- '''[[BigBookOfWar The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries]]''', ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
233
234->'''Sploorfix:''' Vexxarr, why do you always have to be so cynical?\
235'''Vexxarr:''' Oh, I dunno... always being ''right'' might have something to do with it...
236-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}''
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239[[folder:Web Original]]
240->I do not know what is more terrible, that I have begun to take every possible precaution for the slightest action, or that I have been proven perfectly justified in doing so.
241-->-- '''Polo of Sealock''', ''[[Webcomic/AsteroidQuest Polo Quest]]''
242
243->Everyone's always told me that I'm paranoid and need to calm down, but guess what? I'm '''alive''', and everyone who told me that is ''dead!'' That's the ultimate proof that someone doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. "Aliens aren't invading, Freeman. You're just being paranoid." [[SubvertedTrope "The mailman's not spying on you, Freeman. You're just being paranoid."]] What else... [[CloudCuckoolander "There's no society of anthropomorphic frog people living in the sewer, Freeman. You're just being paranoid." "Owls can't read your thoughts, Freeman. You're just being paranoid."]] Bet you wouldn't call me paranoid now if you were still alive!
244-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Gordon Freeman]]''', ''WebVideo/FreemansMind''
245
246->79. Fear everything, it's safer.
247-->-- ''[[http://monsterlibrarian.com/horrorsurvive.htm Horror Survival List]]''
248
249->I don’t know why Batman keeping an arsenal of secret weapons to kill all the other members of the Justice League is played up as such a deep, dark ''thing''. I mean, all he’s gotta do in order to justify it is say: "Okay, show of hands - is there anybody in this room who has ''never'' been cloned, mind controlled, fought an evil version of themselves from another dimension, anything like that? Anybody? Anybody at all?"
250-->--'''[[https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/165912497502/i-dont-know-why-batman-keeping-an-arsenal-of David J Prokopetz]]'''
251
252->''"Seriously, I'm not paranoid. Paranoia is when you think you're being followed but you're not. We on the other hand? Are legitimately being followed."''
253-->--'''Spencer''', ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'', "The Serum"
254[[/folder]]
255
256[[folder:Western Animation]]
257->You know, the lesson here might be that fear and paranoia is a bad thing, except that's what saved us.
258-->-- '''Ron Stoppable,''' ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''
259
260->That'll never come in handy, Stork. You're wasting your time, Stork. Hmph. ''(smirks)'' I was right, the rest were wrong.
261-->-- '''Stork''', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks''
262
263->'''Batman/Terry [=McGinnis=]:''' He expects me to work even harder while he's gone.\
264'''[[SecretKeeper Max Gibson]]:''' Why?\
265'''Terry:''' He always thinks something bad's going to happen the minute he leaves town. (''sky lights up'') [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed And somehow he's always right]].
266-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS3E6Inqueling Inqueling]]"
267[[/folder]]
268
269[[folder:Real Life]]
270->Even paranoids have enemies.
271-->-- '''Joseph Berke''', psychotherapist
272
273->A paranoiac is a guy who knows a ''little'' of what's going on.
274-->-- '''Creator/WilliamSBurroughs'''
275
276->Even a paranoid can have enemies.
277-->-- Allegedly '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir Golda Meir]]''' to '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger Henry Kissinger]]''' during the 1973 Sinai talks, after he accused her of being paranoid for refusing to grant the Palestinians additional concessions
278
279->It's not paranoia when [[ANaziByAnyOtherName they]] really are out to get you.
280-->-- '''Martin Willett'''
281
282->Paranoia: You only have to be right once for it to be worthwhile.
283-->-- '''Anonymous'''
284
285->Paranoids are only people who imagine responsibly.
286-->-- '''New Old Saying'''
287
288->The man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one.
289-->-- '''[[Creator/McElroyBrothers Justin McElroy]]'''
290[[/folder]]
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