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1	->''"In movies and TV series about the paranormal, the stereotypical "skeptic" figure always seems to convert into a believer by the end. And why does this occur? Well, because in ''fiction'', the author can control the laws of nature, and in these fictional narratives (which show an abundant lack of creativity), the supernatural always turns out to be ''real''."''
2	-->-- '''Chris Mooney''', [[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/06/25/hollywoods-offensive-and-deeply-unoriginal-skeptic-conversion-narrative/ 'Hollywood's Offensive and Deeply Unoriginal "Skeptic Conversion" Narrative']]
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4	->''"You best start believin' in ghost stories, Miss Turner. Yer '''in''' one!"''
5	-->-- '''Captain Barbossa''', ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''
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7	->'''Rey:''' The Jedi ''were'' real?
8	->'''Han Solo:''' I used to wonder about that myself. I thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and light? The crazy thing is... it's true. The Force. The Jedi. ''All of it.'' It's all true.
9	-->-- ''Film/TheForceAwakens''
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11	->'''Professor Morgan:''' It's the most fantastic thing I've ever heard!
12	->'''The Doctor:''' But you're prepared to believe it, Professor?
13	->'''Professor Morgan:''' [''sighs''] I've got to, haven't I, Doctor? I mean, after the events of the last couple of days, I'd say all bets are off.
14	-->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho009TheSpectreOfLanyonMoor The Spectre of Lanyon Moor]]"
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16	->'''August 22nd'''
17	->''10 sets of tracks 1/2 mile NE of canyon entrance. Barefoot???''
18	->'''August 23rd'''
19	->''Saw them through scope. [[OurGhoulsAreDifferent Corpses walking around]]. Finally gone crazy. Dementia maybe.''
20	->'''August 24th'''
21	->''[[OhCrap I'm not crazy, they're real. Goddammit they are real.]]''
22	-->-- ''Randall Dean Clark's journals'', ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas: Honest Hearts''
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24	->''"All my life, I've been rational, never giving things like magic a second thought. But when the Shadow War happened, it jolted something in me. Opened my eyes! There's a world beyond textbooks and rational truths! One I'm compelled to know more about."''
25	-->-- '''Violet Sabrewing''', ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', "Friendship Hates Magic!"
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27	->''"You know, I've never been afraid of ghosts at all. I mean, '''at all'''. People would take me to a haunted place, but it's always the same thing: There's nothing there. '''There's nothing there'''. So have ghost hunters had something like this happen to them? Because, yeah, if a ghost straight-up '''punched me in the face'''? That would do it! That would make me a convert! Seeing is believing, but being punched in the face is even '''more''' believing. In fact, everything I've been punched in the face by, I believe was real."''
28	-->-- '''Ross Scott''', ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon: [[VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh Phantasmagoria 2]]''
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30	->'''Captain Archer:''' I thought you were the skeptical one when it came to time travel.
31	->'''T'Pol:''' Our recent visit to [20th Century] Detroit has tempered my skepticism.
32	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "Azati Prime"
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34	->Then it all went blurry, because [[HeroicBSOD Plum's eyes were full of tears]]. She had denied it all her life, that any of it was real, but not anymore. Not after this, and not after what the girl in the mirror had shown her. It had really happened. It wasn't just a story, it was a true story. It had found her, drawn her into its pages, and now it was time for her to play her part in it. [[MagicLand Fillory]] had [[WoobieFamily chewed up her ancestors and spat them out]]. Now it was hungry again and coming for her, and she would have to find a way to face it.
35	-->--''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician's Land]]''
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37	->'''Barry:''' Al, you make cruel jokes about people who believe that kind of stuff. ''You're'' the skeptic! You gave me an hour-long lecture on homeopathy last month! What was it? "If there's no proof, it's pure bullshit. Period."\
38	'''Alan:''' Guess the laugh's on me, then.

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