Times where characters proved to be Properly Paranoid in Fan Works.
- All For Luz Reaction: Hunter treats All For One with great distrust before he even learns that the man inquestion is a murderous supervillain.
- The only quality Rei has, and keeps from the original Sailor Moon series, when she enters the Code Geass universe in the Code Mars Trilogy. Whenever she has suspicions about Zero being behind something she's often right, such as driving the leader of the hotel jacking to suicide and blowing up the JLF boat to cripple Cornelia's forces.
- A Devil Amongst Worms, James Tagg believes that Makima could be secretly a Supervillain and (correctly) deduces she has some kind of Mind Control power. Most of his colleagues think he's Improperly Paranoid but he's actually closer to realising Makima's true nature than anyone else on Earth-Bet.
- In the Robotech/Babylon 5 crossover A Different Kind of Contact series, the Centauri hold a number of strange beliefs, such as the Vorlon being behind the creation of telepaths, the mysterious alien Haydon possibly being their main god the Great Maker, and an unknown race being out there to try and destroy the Younger Races through proxies. They're right about telepaths and the unknown race attacking the Younger Races through proxies, and given his history of messing up with alien races Haydon may well be the Great Maker.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: In the first chapter, when Ami wants to magically scan her first Dungeon Heart, the Horned Reaper (a demonic Blood Knight impatient for anyone to free him after being trapped underground for centuries) is willing to wait a bit longer and encourages her in do so, thinking it's paranoia. As a prospective Dungeon Keeper, such caution is respectable and a sign of competency:After waiting for decades, waiting a bit more did not mean much to [the Horned Reaper]. "Paranoia? Useful in this business. Go right ahead."
- In Friendly Foreign Exchange Student Spider-Man!, Aizawa sees all the oddness in Peter's powers, skills, and background, and is very quick to be suspicious of him. Given that My Hero Academy has a traitor storyline in canon, he's right to be suspicious, even if he is looking into the wrong person.
- After capturing two of Harry Potter's crew in The Havoc Side of the Force, the bounty hunters hired by Gardulla the Hutt change vehicles several times and eventually take shelter in a fortified bunker lined with traps and a door that'd take a week to hack through or a lightsaber to cut through. The bunker also has numerous well trained guards and a panic room for Gardulla. But as Harry put it, none of that matters if he's already in there with them.
- Green Leaves: Both Hiruzen and Danzo were extremely wary of finally granting Might Guy a genin team of his own, as they suspected he would rather protect the kids' happiness and well-being than focusing on the village's need. Sure enough, Guy would allow Neji to remain in the world of My Hero Academia since he cannot bring himself to force the teen to endure a life of slavery at his relatives' hands.
- An Incognito Query: Question may be a paranoid crackpot, but in the world of Inside Job, where almost every conspiracy is true, that paranoia is pretty damn justified.
- Infinity Crisis: Lampshaded in Gamma Relations. While fighting a mind-controlled Captain Marvel, Jane notes Tony's idea to have the Avengers train to go against each other was right after all.
- JoJo's Alien Adventure: DIO is unsure of why Ben joins the Joestars, as while Kakyoin and Polnareff joined after they had their flesh buds removed and Avdol is a friend of Joseph, Ben has no real ties to the Joestars and yet continues to fight with them. While Enya tries to reassure him that his assassins will be able to take care of Ben, DIO still insists on watching Ben as they encounter Forever, worried about the unknown individual. His paranoia is then justified when he sees the power of the Ultimatrix, particularly its evolutionary function.DIO continued to stare at Ben's photo. Every time he looked at it, there was a nagging feeling in the back of his skull. Some primal instinct that was telling him there was something about the boy; something that made him almost as dangerous, if not unexplainably more so, than the Joestars. The sensation irked DIO to no end. He knew that there was more to this than simply Stand Users attracting one another and DIO wanted to know why.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Dipper, while spying on Wendy's date with Danny, suspects Danny's nature, and is even able to catch a glimpse of his ghost form.
- Some of the people Harry meets in Metagaming?
think he's paranoid for refusing to go into battle (or allow those close to him to) unless clad in the strongest armor he can create. Given that Luna's artificial body, which had been indestructible in a previous world, was heavily damaged by sheer brute force, Harry's clearly not wrong. As such, Harry, Luna, and anyone they party with wears full arcanite plate armor along with arcanite chainmail and a mooncloth gambeson underneath. Since all the armor Harry's forged has been spellforged to be extra light, even casters aren't hampered by their armor. He also forges himself, Luna, and Collette new bodies that are much stronger than their old ones and include troll regeneration. In chapter 16, Garona tries to kill Harry and Jaina, with the former only surviving due to his new body and the latter because Harry carries an extremely potent healing potion. Naturally, Harry lampshades that he had tried to warn Jaina against relying solely on her magic to protect her. - The Night Unfurls, Heaps of combat experience accumulated in Yharnam has taught Kyril to be as vigilant as possible, for he would be slain by even the lowliest of beasts should he spare one moment of complacency. This attitude is all but one of the reasons why he is Strong and Skilled, even granting him the upper hand when he is ambushed or surrounded as shown in Chapter 6, Chapter 28 and Chapter 29. He is so paranoid that he remains fully armed even during indoors. Him getting shot by an arrow meant for Celestine during an assassination attempt Gone Horribly Right proves him correct.Kyril: A Hunter does not celebrate the end of one conflict. He just gets ready for another one.
- In Raptor, Harry Potter makes quite clear that John Hammond needs to beef up the security on the carnivore pens, especially the velociraptors. While herbivores will likely avoid fences upon realizing they're electrified, carnivores might test them again if there's prey on the other side (especially during a power outage). And velociraptors are not only vicious and intelligent, but man-sized so unlike most carnivores they can enter buildings.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- When Julian tries to make Caleb see reason in Chapter 11 and argues that Jade appears to be more reasonable than Phobos, Caleb questions if that's truly the case or if Jade is simply more cunning than Phobos and having a secret long-term plan of her own which they won't be able to figure out before it's too late. Though he's saying this in his paranoia and Irrational Hatred, Jade indeed has a plan to steer the public favor towards Phobos and away from Elyon and the Rebellion.
- Amelia is quick to note several glaring holes in Vera's story about their team's "secret mission" which Vera is using as a cover for her renegade actions, but the fact that she's always been a Commander Contrarian to Vera means that the others mostly brush off her concerns. Vera's increasing Sanity Slippage gets them to realize Amelia has a point as they get closer to their destination, though.
- Sudden Contact: Mengsk has justification after surviving four separate assassination attempts in a single day.
- In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, Supergirl looks around using both X-Ray and telescopic vision before opening a suitcase containing anti-Kryptonian weapons. As she says, "I can’t afford to open this without making a check first."
- Wander over Foster's AU One-Shot revolves around Bloo believing that the newest imaginary friend at Foster's, Wander, is an alien. As it turns out, Wander is an actual alien. However, he's not a dangerous alien invader sent to spy on Earth. Wander is just accidentally stuck on the planet.
- Weight of the World: Canada is suspicious of the Atlesian Knights and soldiers of Atlas, though he does not know why. He insists on not trusting them, avoids them whenever possible, and carries a weapon on him whenever there's a chance he may run into them. Atlas is responsible for America and Canada's abduction and the Atlesian Knights massacred the people of Westwind during an attempt to retrieve the twins after they escaped. The Knights also turn on the citizens of Vale during the attack on Beacon.
- What Was Created By God: Odysseus is wary of letting Calypso give him food until he's reassured it's safe for consumption. Percy admits it's quite reasonable since a mortal eating something meant for deities is going to explode, or be turned in a farm animal if the god is feeling mischievous today.
- In Three Strikes, the Foulkes were right to be afraid that there would be people coming after them out of revenge for what Pixy did, both as a pilot for Ustio and for A World With No Boundaries. Now their youngest daughter, who they kept in the dark, is facing the consequences of her father's actions.
- Avatar: Legend of the Guardian: Min hides her identity as Princess Xia and a Firebender to the rest of Team Avatar, fearing they may end up rejecting her afterwards. When her identity is outed by Azula and Zuko in "The Chase", they reject her and leave her behind with Zuko and an injured Iroh just as she feared, with Katara outright assaulting her. In the next chapter, Toph is the one who gets through to them, pointing out that Xia never did anything that would hint at her being evil, and their reactions to the reveal did nothing but justify all of her fears.
- Embers (Vathara): Zuko is commonly regarded as paranoid by the Gaang and other people he comes across, until they see more of what's going on and start hoping he's paranoid enough.
- Selina Kyle aka Catwoman in Marry the Knight makes a point of staying on the top floor of her hotel and replaces every plant within ten floors of her with plastic replicas. This helps save her life when Poison Ivy comes to kill her.
- A fair number of Buffy the Vampire Slayer stories have even citizens unaware of vampires and demons instinctively take precautions including never going out at night alone, closing their business before sunset, and not having a welcome mat. While not being foolproof, each significantly decreases their odds of being eaten by a vampire.
- Code Geass Cornelia of the Defection has Cornelia quickly figuring out Lelouch has some sort of hypnosis or mind control after noticing how many times someone doesn't remember doing something after interacting with Lelouch or Zero. Particularly damning is that she had recorded her first conversation with Lelouch and notices a section that she can't remember. Furthermore, upon realizing that Lelouch can only use Geass once per person, she orders him to Geass Euphemia to do something trivial so he doesn't accidentally Geass her later.
- In Fever Dreams, when L notices Light acting just a little bit oddly, he has special security cameras installed everywhere at taskforce HQ (passing off the mass installations as him just being his regular paranoid self and installing more normal security cameras for the hell of it). These special cameras are tracking eye movements in the off chance that Light is interacting with a presence that only he can see, such as a Shinigami. The cameras show that Light keeps focusing on what appears to be empty space on a regular basis and with this evidence L is able to prove that Light is either mentally ill or Kira.
- Legend of the Monkey God: After Yamcha gives Bulma and Goku a new car as an apology for seeing Bulma nude the previous night, Bulma inspects it and finds a hidden tracking device.
- The Odyssey: Played with. To avoid possible sabotage by Jael, he not only sleeps in his friend Saery's closet, he also hires a sorcerer to impersonate him for the day prior to the duel.
- In the Fire Emblem Fates fanfic A Brighter Dark, Hinoka is unnerved by Corrin's sword Ganglari and tells her that the dark magic that powers it is considered taboo in Hoshido. Corrin dismisses Hinoka's concerns by stating that no one weapon or school of magic is any deadlier than the other regardless of how "scary" it appears to be. It doesn't take long for Hinoka's fears to be borne out as that same dark magic-enchanted sword suddenly comes alive and kills Mikoto.
- In the Fire Emblem: Three Houses fanfic You'll Get No Answers from the Blue Sea Star:
- Jeralt leaves the monastery because he's sure Rhea has done something to Kid. As the years go on, he starts to wonder if he'd overreacted out of grief over losing his wife. Turns out his first guess was right.
- Seteth keeps lying about his relationship to Flayn because he's not sure if all their enemies are dead, even after almost a thousand years. They're not.
- In Let Her Live, Ed is suspicious that Shou Tucker hasn't produced a talking chimera in two years and is way too nervous for the State Alchemist assessment. Noting that Shou's wife had "coincidentally" left the year he made the chimera, Ed talks a skeptical Alphonse to break into Tucker's house at night. They break in right when Tucker was about to fuse his daughter Nina and her dog Alexander, saving the two from their gruesome fate.
- Harry Potter in Dodging Prison and Stealing Witches has a habit of checking if anyone is listening in to his conversations with Hermione and Daphne by having one of them speak a secret covered by the Fidelius Charm that he's the Secret-Keeper of. If anyone is around who doesn't know the secret, they'll choke when they try to talk. So far the group has found a spying house elf and Daphne realized Hermione was an imposter with this method.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Harry had always prepared for unexpected contingencies. When it becomes clear that there actually is something going on, he goes into full-blown Conspiracy Theorist mode. It eventually reaches a point where he spends almost all of his time hidden under his invisibility cloak, even when talking to his friends. Of course Harry's paranoia is dwarfed by Alastor Moody's, who, like all characters in the story, has been upgraded drastically from canon. Even those precautions don't seem to be enough to protect them from the dark wizards.
- In Harry Potter Junior Inquisitor, when Harry notices that someone tried to break into his quarters, he thoroughly searches said quarters before attempting to contact Amelia Bones to let her know. Unfortunately for him, after failing to break in Moody waited outside and grabbed Harry when he left. Moody does note that Harry was much smarter than Albus gave him credit however.
- In Hogwarts Intelligence Network, Harry's friends correctly suspect that someone will try to enter Harry in the Triwizard Tournamnet so they can kill him. So they always keep a sharp eye on him (even when he is in the bathroom or sleeping) to give him an air-tight alibi when his name comes out of the Goblet of Fire.
- In The Rigel Black Chronicles, Harry's friends are a bit disturbed by her habit of collecting and cataloguing shed hairs from whomever she can. She, in turn, keeps warning them not to just leave their essence lying around. When her long-term Polyjuice wears off unexpectedly and she needs to brew another batch, her collection proves to be invaluable.
- From "Alien Freak", a Filk Song from Dib's perspective:So what if I'm paranoid?/I don't wanna see this place destroyed!
- from porcelain to ivory to steel
- While staying in a hotel in Hong Kong, Sherry finds that her room has an out-of-place creepy doll. Suspecting it's a Stand, she goes to get Avdol for assistance. Once they are in her room, Avdol uses Magician's Red to find and bind the Stand User Devo hiding in the fridge, while Sherry impales the doll with Silver Chariot when it tries to stab him.
- Later when exploring a ghost ship, Sherry and Anne run into Forever the Orangutan. Sherry is disturbed when she finds out that the ape communicated with Anne, and the girls are disgusted and disturbed respectively when they see it reading a porn magazine. In anger, Sherry rashly stabs the orangutan in the head... killing Forever and causing its Stand Strength to fade away from the boat it was possessing. Avdol even lampshades that Sherry is a superstitious good luck charm at this point.
- Splint: When Cadoc and Rukhash are captured by the latter's half-brother Thraangzi, the Uruk-hai orders his Black Uruk companion Lugat not to let Rukhash out of his sight for any moment while he tortures Cadoc as personal revenge. He does this because he knows what an escape artist his half-sister is thanks to the flexibility she inherited from her goblin father. Confident his bindings can hold Rukhash, Lugat gets bored and leaves her alone, but when he's ordered back by Thraangzi, he discovers to his shock that Rukhash has escaped, and when he finally figures out why his companion insisted on guarding her so vigilantly, she attacks and kills him by dropping from the cave's ceiling.
- The Nightmare House has Lana being Afraid of Doctors in her nightmare. As it turns out, the doctor is evil and brainwashes her into acting like a "good girl".
- Sixes and Sevens: Peggy believes Cassandra Romulus will go after Angie to get to her and decides she needs to bring her back to the mansion to keep her safe, which Michael chides her for since they're already pressed for time. But sure enough, when she and Howard reach Angie they find Vertigo waiting for them and only barely get out.
- In Mass Effect: End of Days, someone calls Batarians paranoid after learning they keep their classified documents on a completely separate network. Another person notes that the Alliance did try to access the documents after all...
- In Designer Decoy, Marinette correctly suspects that Lila will sabotage the dress she made for the Gabriel design competition. Fortunately, the model she's paired with dislikes Lila enough to go along with her plan.
- Miraculous City:
- In a flashback from chapter 7, Luka feels a bit unsure about Kitty Section signing a record deal with Bob Ross. While initally hesitant about using his new inante Snake Powers for such a minor purpose, he decides to do so to make sure things are fair for his friends. Sure enough, when the post-signed contract reveals that Bob owns everything connected to Kitty Section and fire its members, Luka turns back in time and refuses to sign the contract to protect his band mates.
- Ladybug was concerned in chapter 17 when a trip to the near future has her run into a worries and relieved Rena Rouge and Carapace, who can't tell her the full reason without damaging the timeline. During the final fight against the Team Disaster after they expose Team Miraculous's Secret Identities, Marinette suspect this might be the event that leads to something terrible to her in the future. So she discreetly hands the Ladybug Miraculous to Socqueline and relying on her inante Ladybug powers to fight, which proves beneficial when Hawkmoth returns and captures her, only to find the Miraculous not in her hands.
- The Wavering Peahen: When Master Fu translated how to fix a broken Miraculous, he intentionally changed one step so that the repairs would only be temporary, just in case the translation fell into the wrong hands. Sure enough, Hawkmoth got his hands on the translation and used it to repair the Peacock Pin, only for it to break again.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Loved and Lost:
- In the beginning of this extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", there's the canon example of Twilight Sparkle (see the Western Animation section). Later the banished heroes — the princesses as well as Twilight's brother and friends — hear rumours that there's in Canterlot escaped Changelings who're planning revenge against Twilight. Princess Luna has a lingering feeling something doesn't match and voices a belief there might be a trap set for them in Canterlot. The others desire to earn Twilight's forgiveness and their lives back so much that they don't give Luna's suspicious more than polite acknowledgement and decide to return to Canterlot. As a precaution, Luna separates herself from the others and sticks to the shadows. As it turns out, King Jewelius has set a trap for the heroes, and the false rumours were just a bait. If Luna hadn't hidden herself, nopony could have saved Celestia from hanging.
- In the fifteenth chapter, this trope is discussed as wisdom in hindsight. Luna reveals that when she was first introduced to Cadance and Jewelius, she sensed a darkness stirring in the young prince's heart, but she believed it to be just an aftersensation from her recently ended time as Nightmare Moon and dismissed it. With everything bad that has happened over the course of the story in mind, Luna considers that she could have prevented it all if she had back then taken the Properly Paranoid stance and done some digging.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse:
- One of the minor plot threads in the first season is Applejack's paranoid insistence that she and her family have a sacred duty to single-handedly ensure that Ponyville never goes hungry, and that therefore anyone trying to compete against her wants Ponyville to starve. This is always presented as just plain ridiculous until Zecora unleashes a curse that ruins most of Ponyville's farms and only the massive Apple family food stockpiles can keep the town fed until the next crops come in. The mayor even tells Applejack that she should feel free to say "I told you so".
- During "The Return of Tambelon", shortly after things go wrong, the Element Bearers run into a local of the Ghost City. Trixie is reluctant to trust him, on account of their previous encounter with Zecora in the Everfree Forest. In very short order, he turns out to be working with Grogar. Of course, the readers know this from the off.
- In the beginning of The Death of Princess Luna, Luna is very frustrated by Celestia's refusal to allow her to leave the palace unescorted because of the possibility that some extremist who hasn't forgotten Luna's past as Nightmare Moon would try to hurt her. When the Princess of the Moon sneaks out alone, she's lured into a trap by some extremely well-prepared ponies who not only manage to keep the magically powerful Alicorn contained for a whole month and fool nearly everypony — even Celestia herself — into thinking that she was killed by a beast, but would have for all purposes managed to sacrifice her to permanently destroy "Nightmare Moon" if not for the Mane Six and Spike.
- The Twilight Child: Rainbow Dash remains convinced for months that there is something up with "Midday Eclipse", a supposed disgraced accountant from Canterlot, and tries to prove it long after everypony else has stopped caring. When the truth finally comes out, Rainbow's only comment is to call herself an idiot, which might have something to do with the fact that Midday told her exactly who she was some weeks prior.
- The Witch of the Everfree:
- When Sunset feels like she's being followed, she assumes she's just being baselessly paranoid, but casts a scanning spell anyway. Turns out she was completely right, leading her to turn around and decide she actually wasn't being paranoid enough.
- Twilight manages to correctly predict both Discord and Nightmare Moon's returns, even if nopony believes her about them.
- In one of the sequels, Don't Invite Witches to Weddings, Sunset mentions that her recent experience in Saddle Arabia has taught her to pay extreme attention to details, given she hadn't been paranoid enough when she was there. Details such as the color of a magic aura - that being how she recognizes Cadance as an imposter, as Chrysalis' aura is acid green and Cadance' is blue. She later checks Celestia's aura color after finding her in the same room she saw Chrysalis enter while running from her, and follows her indication on where the Changeling Queen had escaped to only after seeing the the aura is golden as it should be.
- OrangeLemon's Sannin Swap: Danzo was distrustful of any Uchihas even without suspecting that Sasuke had discovered the role he and the other elders played in the Uchiha Massacre. This saved him from being poisoned as badly as Homura and Koharu.
- True Potential: Eventually, Pain, Konan, and Tobi rightly begin to suspect that Itachi is The Mole who's been leaking vital intel based on Kisame's reports. As such, Tobi makes a point to monitor Itachi.
- Advice and Trust: Ritsuko thought that Unit-00 went berserker because it hated her and tried to kill her. Later on, Rei confirmed that the Humongous Mecha wanted to kill Ritsuko.
- Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88):
- In chapter 17, Shinji is forced to talk to SEELE. Before that meeting, his mind comes up with all kinds of bad scenarios and disastrous outcomes (including SEELE saying they know everything before putting a bullet in his head). His paranoia is, of course, justified: Khiel has figured out that he's up to something.
- When she's bathing in the hot springs, Asuka is almost sure that the penguin is eyeing her. Since the aforementioned bird is Pen Pen, she's pretty right.
- Rise of the Minisukas: When the Geofront suffers a blackout, Misato suddenly suggests to get the Evas ready just in case, since "this seems exactly like a situation where an Angel would attack, so [they] should prep the Evas however [they] can." Ritsuko states that Misato's idea is ridiculous, and one minute later the pilots rush into the Command Center screaming that Shinji has been kidnapped by an Angel.
- In Start Again, after finding a warning letter to her mother that her continued research in Cogntivie Pscience will lead to her death, Futaba bugs Wakaba's phone to keep an eye on her. It comes in handy when the conspiracy sends their men to try and kill Wakaba with a drug overdose. Futaba overhears the incident and calls Sojiro to rescue her, allowing Wakaba to be brought to a hospital and saving her life, although Wakaba does end up in a coma for a while.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
- Giovanni suspects that Proton might be growing too ambitious for his own good. A side story reveals that Proton is running projects behind Giovanni's back, so he might be onto something.
- When Ash's group arrives to the Fuchsia Gym, Iris is the only one who picks up that Janine is carrying weapons on her. As a result, she decides to train Ash and the other girls so they become stronger and sharper, much to Misty's annoyance. However, Iris' concerns are proven true when Sabrina kidnaps Ash and their training actually comes in handy.
- Hearts of Ice: When Ranma notices neither Shampoo nor Cologne have been seen in weeks, he right away assumes that they are up to something especially nefarious. And he is absolutely right.
- In the Kingdom's Service:
- Both Jaune and Blake are suspicious of each other due to parts of their introductions not making any sense. Jaune claims he plays role playing and first person shooter videogames on his lapscroll (i.e. laptop) but Blake notices he doesn't push the keys nearly fast enough for that to be true; she immediately assumes he's doing it to watch his team. Meanwhile Blake says her father works in construction in a frontier town, which has Jaune wondering how her father afforded the obviously expensive Gambol Shroud for her on a civilian's salary in an isolated town, and where she learned to use such a complicated weapon so well. Given that Jaune is a spy and Blake is a former terrorist, both are correct to suspect each other, though neither is actually a threat to the other.
- After Jaune refuses a suicidal order and leaves the VSS, he and Blake are certain they will come for him with Blake telling Ruby "Don't let them take him" before she passes out from her injuries. VSS agents disguised as medics try to kidnap Jaune mere minutes later.
- White Sheep: After Jaune is spotted streaking in his Grimm form by several students, Remmy the parasite inside him insists Jaune get rid of anything that ties him to his Grimm form, including the boxers he is still wearing. Not long after, Cardin tries to prove Jaune is the human-Grimm by pulling his pants down to show they wear the same boxers. Thanks to Remmy's advice, Jaune's secret is kept safe and Cardin gets detention for sexual harassment.
- Bequeathed from Pale Estates: Ned Stark was so paranoid about someone finding out Lyarra's true parentage that he discouraged and then ended all her music lessons and never confirmed or denied the rumors that her mother was Ashara Dayne. Despite all his precautions, however, people found out anyway by Spotting the Thread.
- The King Nobody Wanted: One of Pycelle's teachers, Archmaester Lothar, "drilled [The Blackfyre] family tree into every acolyte working for his electrum link, and swore that the future of the Seven Kingdoms would one day depend on knowing it." Pycelle indicates that he felt exasperated by the task, but does admit to worrying that a female line Blackfyre might resurface (one of Daemon Blackfyre's daughters, one of his granddaughters, and his three great-granddaughters all vanished at certain points and may have had children, and some of the male Blackfyres' might have had bastard children). During the main story, incognito Blackfyres are indeed entering both Highgarden and King's Landing while keenly watching the civil war.
- In the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) fanfic The Refugees of Mobius, instead of keeping the Master Emerald hidden in the cooler, Tails instead makes a special safe for it. The safe requires a 16 figure password that contains both numbers and letters, handprint scanners for three different handprints, and three special keys that need to be turned simultaneously. In addition, Tails also made sure that the safe itself is impossible to steal; it's made of a special alloy he invented which is heavier than the building that contains it, is electrified to shock anyone who touches it, and is bolted to the ground by four giant screws that go four feet deep. And on top of all this, the safe is contained within a steel cage that is designed to be electrified from the inside when locked, and there's a special camera that detects if the person trying to open it is in distress. Oh, and it's located in the local jewerly store as opposed to the owner's house so anyone looking for it wouldn't know where to look. And Knuckles makes sure to check on it daily. Needless to say, when Classy Cat-Burglar and master at Safecracking Rouge the Bat tries to steal it, she fails miserably. Even after being told how the safe works. And then the shop owner locks her in the cage.Rouge: WHY would you lock the inside of a cage?!
Shop owner: Oh I dunno, maybe because the owners of that emerald were worried about it getting stolen?
- Shakedown Shenanigans: Downplayed. Taurik thinks Eleya's being paranoid by insisting that the Bajor be 100% operational before leaving dock, calling the fiasco at the start of Star Trek: Generations a very-large-number-to-one occurrence. Eleya's sort of right, but the Bajor technically didn't need to be the ship that responded to the distress call from the SS Azura. Eleya was just stressed and wanted to shoot something.
- In this Star Wars one-shot, the problems the Jedi have with Contingency Order 66, demanding their complete extermination in case of treason, isn't that it exists, but that it's inadequate. As Mace Windu points out, a war is going on and some Jedi go to the Dark Side during wars, so it's only logical to provide the troops with instructions and a legal framework on what to do when (not if) it'll happen. Thus Mace Windu suggests that it's reworded so that it applies to individual Jedi, it asks to capture them if the troops can do it without unduly endangering themselves or bystanders, and can be issued by Clone officers and other legal superiors.
- After Pong Krell's treason leads Rex to issue Order 66 on him and accidentally reveals the existence of the biochips enforcing it, the Kaminoans are induced to deactivate the chips so that they cannot be subverted by the Separatists or malfunction due the heavy use of EMP weapons the Clones make. In canon a chip did malfunction (and the author states that this time it didn't), and Palpatine, who had legal authority to issue it but was also behind the Separatists, issued it to exterminate the Jedi and the Clones didn't object at the idea of murdering children (and here instead they do just that, causing Anakin's Heel Realization).
- Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: In chapter 17, Gwen is wary of and ultimately refuses to use the shower in Cody and Heather's dorm. The fact that one has a reputation as a pervert while the other is blackmailing her, her concerns are warranted, especially since Cody is a known tech geek. Ultimately subverted however as there are no hidden cameras in the dorm.
- All Guardsmen Party: The guardsmen's paranoia has saved them a great many times. It's shown to great effect in The Xenotech Heresy: the Guardsmen's paranoia allows them to counter the machinations of the Eldar and Mechanicus.
- After the events of Discount Spaceship, the party has a unanimous paranoid hatred of servitors, declaring them daemon-possessed spies at the drop of a bolter shell and commissioning Twitch to make overkill anti-servitor traps for their barracks. It turns out that the Mechanicus was indeed attempting to spy on the group with cleaning servitors during The Xenotech Heresy, only failing because the party killed them all with extreme prejudice.
- Twitch, the explosives expert, is a full-on paranoid, especially when Orks are involved (as they triggered his paranoia in the first place). This gets to the point of having short-fuse grenades taped to the inside of a top-of-the-line security door, setting up redundant detonators, keeping shaped charges on his back-plate to keep people from sneaking up on him, and booby-trapping his own weapons (when Twitch says not to touch his stuff, it's for your safety). This would normally make him a bit too paranoid, but each time this comes up it saves the rest of the team.
- According to Shoggy, the DM allows Twitch's player to roll for paranoia and leaks him spoilers based on how well he does, which the other players are only privy to through Twitch's in-character interpretation. Consequently, the revelations that the mystery box was "full of Orks" and the Tyrannid "ghosts" were caused by the comatose Zoanthrope becoming possessed by a Daemon resulted in "I told you so" moments.
- In Everqueen, Malcador is constantly suspicious of Isha's work, believing she has an agenda and might have modified the plants she made for a purpose not coinciding with the Emperor's. She modified them to whisper songs of hope to the Eldar, much like what she did in canon as a prisoner.
Miscellaneous
- Khaos Omega has invoked this a few times, usually involving XQ agents. Anise in particular has been on both sides of this trope paying off.
- During Operation Phaaze Anise brings her Chrono Eclipse Cannon, a compact-sized, super-powerful XQ-designed weapon, with her to Norion in case she has to destroy an inbound Leviathan should the on-site cannon be disabled. The blast that gives her a unique rainbow-colored Phazon strain with selective targeting vindicates her decision to bring the weapon.
- A known case where Anise ends up on the wrong side of it: She followed an anonymous note to the scene of a potential rape. It ends up being a trap set by Fontina Evans and Michaela Martin; the note was to bring her to the scene as their hired rapists have a local girl as their potential victim. The goal of the note was to force Anise to meet her lesbian harem's equivalent of ZK3 teammate Rochelle, suspecting Ayane would be like Rochelle if Anise herself was actively involved in the rape. The two GD Antheum survivors orchestrated the trap itself believing Ayane knew of Anise's rape fetish; they were right.
- Anise ends up preparing for another situation as a precaution, this time during a Pokémon world run where she ended up boosting her lesbian harem's ranks considerably. The stop in question is in Olivine City. After winning her Gym battle there, her sixth of Johto, she and Jasmine plan to get intimate. Jasmine opts to have them do it on a bed. Anise doesn't fight it, remembering the trap in Fiore she and three Fairy Tail mages were tricked into because Fontina and Michaela needed one of the three mages who accompanied Anise, Lucy Heartfilia, to succeed in bringing out Erza Scarlet's Amethyst energy. One Jasmine suddenly becomes a full-on horde, each in a different pair of high heels associated with the real-world individual behind the signature heels of Rainbow Angel Jasmine Levesque. Furthermore, the one who actually gets Jasmine Levesque's signature heels is her Amethyst counterpart in terms of rank within the hierarchy of the harem she belongs to, and like Caulifla before her swaps the color her character archetype doesn't have in Omega Canon (in Jasmine's case, golden-blonde compared to Caulifla's teal) for Anise's pinkish-red.
