Right For The Wrong Reasons / Video Games

Times where somebody is Right for the Wrong Reasons in Video Games.

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• In Baten Kaitos Origins Guillo doesn't like or trust Milliarde from pretty much the instant they meet, constantly calling her a wench, calling her evil, and constantly talking down to her. Of course she actually is a mole sent by Lord Baelheit (and his daughter to boot), but the actual reason Guillo didn't like or trust her is because he is in love with Sagi and jealously views her as competition.
• Played for Laughs in Batman: Arkham Knight. One of the pieces of Enemy Chatter has a Mook speculating on Nightwing and Robin's Secret Identities before concluding that they're both the same person. He's right in the sense that Nightwing (Dick Grayson) was Robin, but clearly has no idea that Dick "graduated" to the Nightwing identity and passed the mantle on to Tim Drake.
• In BioShock Infinite, the Order of the Raven manages to correctly guess that their leader Comstock has Native American blood in him. Yet the way they discovered this is through usage of the laughably debunked "science" of phrenology.
• Bug Fables: Cerise knows that you are safe from monsters if you're burrowing underground, and is actually right on this one despite generally being The Ditz. However, she believes that this is because they cannot see you if you cannot see them, which is not true, as lampshaded by Kabbu.
• In The Caligula Effect, Sweet-P hears Mifue yelling at the chubby Flower Princesses and calling them disgusting because of their being fat, and concludes that she actually wants to yell at herself because she thinks Mifue is a fatty in the real world. While Mifue is self-loathing regarding her words, she wasn't fat herself. She yelled at her mother, after being mocked by other children for having a fat mother. She hates what she said, and wants to apologize to her mother.
• In Caravaneer 2, if the player talks to the Church of Zinc about Emilia's hairy and savage baby, they think it is incurable and must be euthanized with rituals to dispel its "demonic" influence from the bunker. If you talk to her about that, she and the other people in her community consider this a ridiculous superstition and refuse to talk to you. Turned out that the mutation of Emilia's baby is permanent, but was caused by Emilia's constant exposure to radiation from the secret refining of weapons-grade uranium into the bunker's fuel source.
• In Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, Rozalin comes to the conclusion that her "father", "Overlord Zenon" is a fake for completely arbitrary and selfish reasons. It's helped by the fact that he doesn't exactly deny it when she confronts him, but she completely misses all the real hints that her father really is a fake and that Overlord Zenon has reincarnated into none other than Rozalin herself.
  • Meanwhile, when Zenon's Curse transforms all the humans of Veldime into demons, Adell is unaffected. He concludes that he's immune to the curse because he's The Chosen One who will defeat Zenon. In reality, he's not transformed into a demon because he was already a demon who simply looks completely human due to a birth defect.
• Dragon Age:
  • In Dragon Age: Origins, Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir is hated by the nobility of Ferelden, despite his deserved reputation as a war hero, because of his assumption of the regency after the king's death. They view it as a power-grab, and they're absolutely right, but the nobles are more upset that an up-jumped farmer presumes to lead them than they are that someone seized the throne. Consequently, despite his accomplishments, he starts with almost no allies who are not simultaneously serious liabilities, and his gross political ineptitude means that he never really gains any support.
    • Loghain himself considers the King wanting to bring Grey Warden reinforcements from neighboring Orlais as to be the clinching evidence that the King is plotting to dump his current queen (Loghain's daughter) and marry Orlais' Empress to unite the countries. The plan turns out to be real, but the Wardens aren't involved in any way, meaning he antagonizes the Grey Wardens for nothing. As revealed in the third game, the Orlesian Grey Wardens barely participate to the Deadly Decadent Court of Orlais (and thus have no political power there) despite the Orlesian Empire's respect to them and they take neutrality very seriously.
  • Later in the series, Sera - essentially a street punk turned would-be revolutionary, whose sense of humour tends to top out at "juvenile" - manages to correctly guess that the prophet Andraste had ginger hair. She does so by misconstruing the burning eye on Cassandra's Seeker armour as "Andraste's hairy eyeball" and forming conclusions based on that.
    Sera: Well, there you go then.
    Cassandra: No. No, there we don't go.
• In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Rolff Stone-Fist has reached the conclusion that the Dunmer refugees of Windhelm are Imperial or Thalmor spies based entirely on his Fantastic Racism and Insane Troll Logic. However poking around in the back of the New Gnisis Cornerclub, you'll find a suit of Imperial armour and an Imperial sword along with other memorabilia on display, suggesting the Dunmer owners really are Imperial supporters after all (then again it is also possible one of them is a veteran of the Imperial Legion or simply a collector of Imperial memorabilia, but there is nothing said to suggest this).
• A secret encounter in Fallout 2 has the Chosen One be accosted by a bridgekeeper (who definitely isn't a walking Shout-Out to the one from Monty Python and the Holy Grail), who makes you answer various questions (as in the film, two easy, one hard, fail and you die). If your character has low Intelligence, the bridgekeeper asks "Which non-player character from Fallout 1 survived to appear in the sequel, although the said person may be now very old?" The character then has the option to mumble out "Huh old?" as if repeating the question. By coincidence, it turns out that "Harold" is a valid answer.
• Final Fantasy:
  • In Final Fantasy IX, this is what prompts Kuja to change course from gathering Summon Magic to harness the game's Limit Break system instead. As Zorn and Thorn attempted to extract Eiko's Eidolons at Kuja's command, Mog (her best friend, a Moogle) comes to the rescue by revealing her true identity as the Eidolon Madeen, which Kuja interprets as the Moogle having gone into a Trance. He then decides that attaining a Trance of his own will give him the power he needs to take revenge on Garland. It turns out he was right, to say the least.
  • The plot of Final Fantasy X-2 is kicked off when Yuna and Rikku discover a Sphere recording of Tidus imprisoned and yelling at the guards. Even though Tidus died at the end of the last game, they conclude that he might be out there somewhere, and Rikku recruits Yuna as a Sphere Hunter to look for him. Much later, it turns out that the recording isn't of Tidus at all; it's a millennia-old recording of Shuyin, his Identical Stranger (which is much less of an Ass Pull than it sounds for long, spoileriffic reasons ^note Shuyin is from the city of Zanarkand, which was destroyed a thousand years ago. Zanarkand was then recreated in a magical, spectral simulation, which is where Tidus was born. The implication is that that Tidus is a sentient simulation based on Shuyin, which is why they're nigh-identical). However, getting the good ending results in the Fayth bringing Tidus back as thanks for saving the world again, so Rikku was right in that pursuing Spheres would help them find him, just not in the way they expected.
  • Final Fantasy XIV: Hildibrand Manderville bleeds this trope. A self-styled "gentleman inspector", he follows many an absurd and Insane Troll Logic-y train of thought, yet somehow arrives at the correct conclusion. For instance, a phantom thief known for impersonating his victims intends to steal the "virtue" of a maiden in Costa del Sol - renowned for her beauty, having never seen by anyone but her father and servants, and soon to be married. One of the prime targets for the thief's impersonation is her groom; Hildibrand has the bride-to-be hide in servant's clothes for her own safety, dons her wedding dress, and arrives at the bride's position in time. When the groom reacts with abject shock at Hildibrand standing where his bride should be, Hildibrand accuses him of being the phantom thief, on the grounds that - not knowing what his bride-to-be looks like - why should he be surprised at what he looks like? Despite everyone else at the wedding pointing out the absurdity of his logic, the phantom thief does in fact turn out to be impersonating the groom, and successfully makes off with his prize (the bride's necklace) while the authorities are busy with Hildibrand.
    • Connected to Manderville is Delion, He's an alien Conspiracy Theorist who writes for a tabloid paper, so he comes off as a loon. However, he is able to pick up on the Main Story Quest's plot beats, but for the completely wrong reasons: he's right that there have been alien invasions, but points the finger at the adorable Loporrits^note He's completely missed those like Omega and the Endsinger; he believes the moon is actually a spaceship for an invasion^note It's actually a Space Ark; he believes the Sharlyans are working with the Loporrits to kidnap people^note They are working with them, but it was to save their lives; and he believes that the Scions of the Seventh Dawn have disbanded and went underground as they're mind-slaves or allies of the aliens^note They just want to make sure the world can handle things without them.
  • In Final Fantasy XVI, when Benedikta Harman is killed early on in the story, her lover Hugo Kupka swears bloody vengeance upon her presumed killer Cidolfus Telamon. When Cid dies in the attack on Drake's Head, Kupka turns his attention to Cid's successor Clive in an act of presumed Revenge by Proxy. However, when they confront each other, Clive informs Kupka that Cid did everything he could to talk Benedikta down and that he himself was the one who killed her, meaning Kupka targeted the right man for his revenge by sheer accident.
• Fire Emblem:
  • As discussed in this video, for a long time, it was rumored among fans of Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade that the game's RNG system was bugged and this was the cause of the many cases of it not turning out in the player's favor. In reality, Binding Blade uses the same system as the other GBA games, which is actually weighted in the player's favor—however, it also has a lot of inaccurate weapons, strong enemies, characters with somewhat low growths, or effects that increase Avoid, meaning it tends to roll badly more often than later games. However, it turns out Binding Blade's RNG is bugged in a way that can cause you to miss when you shouldn't have, and this was fixed in later games—it's just that said bug will probably never occur in the average playthrough, as it requires the computer to roll a 65,500 or greater on a scale of 0 to 65,535 twice in a row, the odds of which are roughly one in 3.3 million. Here's footage of this bug occurring.
  • In Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright, Hinoka figures out that the Archduke Izana of Izumo is an imposter based on how casually he talks, believing that no royal would ever act that way. The real Archduke does indeed speak that way, and she just happened to be correct that he was being impersonated when the party got there.
  • This is a major aspect of Edelgard in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. While she's is correct that Rhea is insane and probably not fit to rule, she thinks this character's motivations are entirely malicious and that they want to oppress humanity, and that they killed Nemesis in the past for selfish reasons. In reality Rhea/Seiros killed Nemesis because he was involved in the massacre of her entire race, including her mother, and most of her questionable actions are motivated by a desire to see her mother again. Additionally, Edelgard is very much right to believe the Crests are bad, but she's wrong about why. Rather than tools of the goddess to control the people, the Crests exist because a group of bandits butchered Seiros' race and infused themselves with their blood. It doesn't help that Rhea turned very secretive in a misguided attempt to protect her remaining kin and hid the truth about both reasons for the War of the Heroes and the origin of Crests even from her allies, creating a noble lie about the 'blessing from the Goddess' and leading Wilhelm, her close ally and Edelgard's distant ancestor as the first emperor of Adrestia, to draw his own conclusions about the lead-up to the war.
• Gabriel Knight: NOPD assume that the so-called "Voodoo Murders" were carried out by a random serial killer who decided to dress up their murders with some voodoo, because while the voodoo stuff looks real enough to the untrained eye, it doesn't match any of the rituals of New Orleans voodoo. The real answer is that the ritual elements are accurate, but to one of voodoo's West African parent religions rather than voodoo itself.
• Keqing in Genshin Impact is skeptical about divine beings but her criticism falls flat when the main target is her own Archon who happens to be dutiful, well-intentioned and highly successful. However, her views are more accurate regarding other gods, both past and present.
• Ghost Trick
  • Early on, the protagonist and Ghost Amnesia sufferer Sissel learns his name as he infiltrates a foreign base where the people present call him by that name while viewing data on him. It turns out that not only was Sissel merely a pseudonym that the foreigners were given to refer to him, but the main character isn't even the man in the picture. Despite all of this, the protagonist's name really is Sissel, though it's much less coincidental than it sounds because he has extremely close ties with that man.
  • At one point, Sissel sees security footage which appears to depict his death, getting shot by Lynne. Over the course of the game, we learn that literally nothing in this footage is actually what it appears to be — Lynne wasn't acting of her own free will, Sissel isn't the man she shot, and the man she shot didn't even die. Despite this, the footage does record the moment of Sissel's death, and he was shot by Lynne — it was just by accident.
• Grand Theft Auto III: In one mission, the ever-paranoid Don Salvatore Leone asks you to investigate a skeevy, mob-connected bartender he believes is snitching to the Leone family's newest enemies, the Colombian Cartel. Sal is correct that the bartender is a rat, but he suspected him because he'd apparently been spending way above his salary, when the Cartel has actually been paying him in drugs to feed his own habit, not cash. This leaves the source of his alleged extra income a mystery, but the matter is quickly rendered moot when you kill him a minute later.
• Bridget from Guilty Gear was Raised as the Opposite Gender due to a superstition in her hometown that twins of the same gender were a bad omen. While she does ultimately disprove the superstition with her bounty hunting work, the fact that she eventually turns out to be a transgender woman means that her parents were technically right to have raised her as a girl.
• Horizon Zero Dawn:
  • After the Proving Massacre, one Jerkass Nora proclaims the attack happened because of the presence of Aloy, who he calls a "motherless Outcast", in the Proving. He's partially right: The attack was supposed to specifically kill Aloy, but the attackers couldn't care less whether she was an Outcast or not.
  • The "All-Mother" worshiped by the Nora turns out to be the computer controlling the door to the facility where the first Nora came from after the Artificial Intelligence GAIA had re-seeded the world with life. They are right in that said door computer was instrumental in their origin, but it still ended up as the equivalent of a Cargo Cult that's worshiping Siri.
• Idol Manager: One possible random event is the equipment in the sound studio malfunctioning in a way that has one of the idols persuaded that the place is haunted to the point that she refuses to work there. The two experts the player can choose to consult are an external sound expert and a spirit medium. The external sound expert will recommend dusting the room better. Calling the spirit medium also fixes the problem, once the salt they threw around the room in the process of banishing the ghost is cleaned up.
• inFAMOUS: When Cole first encounters Kessler, he is shown a vision of a Bad Future, and becomes convinced that Kessler is the one responsible for it. The finale reveals that Kessler was responsible, just not in the way Cole initially thought: the one who was truly responsible was The Beast, but when he first appeared, Kessler had the power to defeat him, but instead chose to run away with his family, leaving the world to burn.
• Just Cause 4: Cesár is a Conspiracy Theorist convinced that Oscar Espinosa is a Reptilian alien from Deneb, and that the saucer-shaped things sometimes seen at the centre of storms are his spaceship. When the Army of Chaos manages to take down a saucer and it turns out to have USB ports, Cesár is disheartened, until Rico points out that Cesár has unearthed an actual conspiracy; Espinosa might not have been an alien, but he was developing weather control weapons in violation of the Geneva Convention... and Cesár has incontrovertible proof that that conspiracy is real.
• Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days: has this twofold in Neverland. Hook has acquired a great number of treasure maps, all of which have led to junk and Heartless. He believes that whosoever buried the treasure has built plenty of fake maps to prevent anybody else from getting at the treasure; thus, if Smee digs at each location on every one of the maps, they'll find the treasure eventually. The truth is, Pete is relying on Hook's greed to generate a great number of Heartless so Maleficent will have an army at her disposal next time they meet up. However, no matter how many fake treasures Smee digs up, Pete never finds Heartless left behind; he figures Hook needs something to really be greedy about in order to create Heartless, and so provides a very wealthy treasure at the final map spot. In fact, Organization XIII has been sending Roxas to defeat Heartless, and it just so happens that he always comes out where Hook is having Smee dig - as such, he's striking them down as fast as Hook's greed can generate them. It's not until Hook finds the final treasure that Pete catches Roxas in the act and realizes what's really been going on.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the guard to the entrance of Goron City immediately greets Link by his name despite never having met him before. When Link asks how he knew, the guard admits he didn't; he simply greets every Hylian traveler who wanders into Goron City as if they were the hundred-years-"dead" Hylian Champion just to pass the time.
• Manafinder: Starkas believes the Settlement should reject the manastone that Azain gave them, mainly out of pride rather than logic. Later, it turns out that the manastone was tampered with to allow the nomads to invade the Settlement.
• Mass Effect:
  • In Mass Effect 3, during the first part of the game, one of the ongoing conversations that a player can eavesdrop on is a volus by the name of Rupe Elkoss talking with a human woman named Sarah about "Sanctuary", the much-advertised "safe haven" from the war. Elkoss, himself a successful CEO of a multi-planetary corporate combine ("Isn't that that company that makes... everything?") gives several reasons as to why Sanctuary is obviously a fraud, all based on his presumption it's some amoral, unscrupulous businessman seeking to make money off of people's fear. Sanctuary is a scam alright... but it's not a racket. It's a front for a Cerberus operation; the refugees are either indoctrinated into Cerberus soldiers, turned into husks as part of experiments with Reaper technology, or simply slaughtered outright. Oh, and there is "some amoral, unscrupulous businessman" running it, who just happens to be Miranda Lawson's father.
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda: Avitus Rix doesn't believe his mentor, Saren Arterius (yes, that Saren) went rogue and attacked the Citadel of his own free will, but believes it was because something happened to Saren that made him go mad, since Avitus didn't know about indoctrination.
  • Elsewhere in the game, a random angara speculates that the Andromeda Initiative is, despite their claims of just being a colonization effort, fleeing from some unspeakably horrible thing. They're right, it's just that almost nobody in the Initiative knows this.
• In Night in the Woods, when Mae happens to see a kidnapping, she (being something of a Womanchild) assumes that a ghost is responsible, and goes ghost hunting. While she doesn't find any evidence of ghosts at the creepy historical sites she can investigate, the actual culprit is present, since they and their organization are deeply involved with the town's history.
• In Ōkami, Issun hesitates in giving Rao the Fox Rods because owning them would make her a target for evil creatures. Rao is actually being impersonated by one of their most powerful enemies, which makes him right that her having them would be a bad thing.
• In Persona 3, the main goal of the S.E.E.S. is to find and eliminate the 12 Arcanum Shadows that lurk the city during a Full Moon. However, there is a group that opposes their actions - Strega, who tries to hinder the main cast from killing all 12 Shadows because they believed that their Persona powers would disappear if all Arcarum Shadows are gone. The S.E.E.S. eventually defeat all the 12, only to find out that killing them all would cause the 13th Arcarum to appear, Death, who can bring about The Fall. Fuuka at one point, even lampshades that Strega was right about something after all (though by this point, ironically enough, Strega is fully in support of bringing the Fall about).
• Persona 5:
  • When first investigating who the Phantom Thieves are, Makoto decides to follow Joker because of the nasty rumors circulating him about being a violent criminal. While the rumors are false, Joker is in fact one of the Phantom Thieves.
  • Around halfway through, the Phantom Thieves become so popular that their website hosts an anonymous poll as to who they should target next. At this point, the Thieves are also looking for the culprit behind the Mental Shutdown incidents. One of the names that ends up in the target rankings is Goro Akechi, simply out of spite for him denouncing the Phantom Thieves on TV. However, Akechi is not only The Dragon, he's the one behind the Mental Shutdowns. The eventual winner of the poll ends up being a case of this too. Kunikazu Okumura ranks 1st because the villains rigged the poll, as he was a loose end they needed to dispose of, and framing the Phantom Thieves for his death would kill two birds with one stone. However, because he really was abusing his employees and about to force his daughter into an arranged marriage with an abusive Jerkass for political gain, his actions probably would've got him targeted by the Thieves anyway.
  • In the second-to-last act, the Big Bad Masayoshi Shido claims to have been chosen by God to rule as Prime Minister of Japan. While he's clearly full of himself, there ends up being some Accidental Truth to this. He, alongside everyone else, including the Phantom Thieves, is an Unwitting Pawn to Yaldabaoth, the God of Control, who has been using the game's events as part of his own plan to rule over humanity himself.
  • During the new Palace in Royal, one segment has the party answering questions based on what the Arc Villain would think is the correct answer. The last question is "What would you do if you have the power to steal hearts?" and one of the five answers is "steal evil hearts to reform society". Ryuji instantly goes to pick that answer just because it's what the Phantom Thieves do, and is reprimanded by the rest of the group. But it turns out this is what the Arc Villain considers the correct answer.
• Serilly the mermaid from Puyo Puyo is constantly worried that others want to eat her due to a legend that consuming mermaid flesh makes one immortal. Other characters have expressed interest in eating Serilly, but only because she's technically seafood rather than out of interest in the legend.
• In Radiant Historia, the corrupt government of Alistel spreads propaganda that the gradual Desertification of the world is being directly caused by queen of the country they're fighting against being so evil. Unbeknownst to them, they're actually right about her being the cause of the Desertification increasing. The royal family of Granorg has the responsibility to perform a ritual that will stop the Desertification, but Protea only cares about living a decadent life for herself so has no interest in performing the ritual. And she couldn't perform it even if she wanted to, because she isn't of the royal bloodline.
• Rise of the Third Power: The Bell Ringer correctly determines that Rowan and Corrina aren't actually the exterminators hired to take out the giant toads. His reasoning is that the real exterminators wouldn't use pistols and daggers, which is faulty reasoning because the toads are threats on par with the Evenheart Castle guards.
• In RosenkreuzStilette, Spiritia finds out that the RKS's rebellion was indeed a waste of time and a potential downer for human-Magi relations, but not because (as she initially assumed) Count Sepperin had turned against the empire. Instead, his daughter had planned these machinations for her entertainment, along with her desire to usurp GOD!
• In RuneScape, one of your tasks for the Fremennik Trials is to play an enchanted harp strung with golden fleece. A nearby troll has golden sheep, but doesn't want humans getting near the pasture. Another Fremennik going through the trials tells you he traded the troll a pet rock for the fleece. When you try the same trade, the troll refuses— not because he's realized the pet rock is a scam, but because he's afraid that if he has two pet rocks, they will breed.
• This is very very common amongst social deduction games such as Among Us, Barotrauma, Town of Salem, or Werewolves Online. Because the gameplay is player-driven, it's not uncommon for someone to end up deducing a player as a certain role for entirely the wrong reason. This can happen for a multitude of reasons - for example a game with multiple "Evil" factions throwing the blame off of another player to mislead the uninformed majority, a player whose sole role is to cause chaos naming random people who turn out to be evil, etc.
• In Star Control 2, the Spathi are terrified of a so-called "Ultimate Evil". Their "proof" that it exists is that their sensors have never picked up any signs of its existence. Meaning it's hiding, which is just further proof of its nefarious intent. Turns out their next door neighbors, the Orz, are apparently manifestations of an actual (likely malevolent given the fate of the Androsynth) extradimensional being.
• A skit in Tales of Symphonia has the party muse over how Lloyd, normally dumb as a two-man axe, was effortlessly able to memorize the Dwarven Vows. Lloyd explains how as a child he would learn one vow before each meal and, if he wasn't able to recite it, wouldn't get to eat. Colette concludes the food was the reason Lloyd was able to do this because, apparently, there were "Dwarven Vow memory ingredients" in the food and his adoptive father's food raised people's abilities similar to the Exspheres they use in battle. An exasperated Regal explains, to no avail, that the food DID boost Lloyd's memory but only because Lloyd's desire for food forced him to memorize them.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • The short "Expiration Date" has the team discovering massive disgusting tumors in loaves of bread that went through a teleporter. The smarter members of the team conclude that this means the teleporters are screwing with their biology and they're probably going to die in a few days. On the other hand, Soldier, the local Cloudcuckoolander, screams "WE CANNOT TELEPORT BREAD ANYMORE!" in anguish, and only calms down when Engineer tells him that he can teleport bread as much as he likes. By an astounding coincidence, it turns out Soldier is right and Engineer is wrong: for some reason, teleporters only create the tumor effect in bread and are totally harmless to humans, and also the tumors in bread grow into carnivorous monsters if given too much exposure. In fact, Soldier takes Engie's advice, spending his "last few days" teleporting bread over and over until he gets a truck-sized man-eating tumor.
  • One of Soldier's domination lines to Sniper is referring to him as various mispronounciations of "Bilbo Baggins." In context, the joke is that Soldier is mixing up New Zealand (where the Peter Jackson adaptations of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were filmed) with Australia (where Sniper is actually from), because he's an idiot. However, later on, it was revealed in the comics that Sniper actually does hail from New Zealand, having been sent to Australia as a baby without his knowledge.
• During Mettaton's deadly quiz show in Undertale he realizes Alphys is helping you and asks the Armor-Piercing Question of "Who does Alphys have a crush on" as punishment. The correct answer is either Asgore or Undyne (both are true), but if you answer yourself that's also accepted as correct: Mettaton finds your sheer conceited audacity hilarious and goes on to acknowledge that it's actually a fair assumption as Alphys has been closely watching you ever since your adventure started.
• Valkyrie Profile: At one point in his life, Badrach was stiffed out of money by a group of slavers. In revenge, he let a girl he'd captured go instead of handing her over to them. This turns out to be the only good deed he ever did in his life, the one thing that qualifies him to be an Einherjar instead of going to Nifleheim, and it was entirely out of petty spite.
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Alistair Grout goes on a very eloquent rant about how Freudian psychology is so much bunk, and that ignoring the physiological component of mental illness is a recipe for disaster (both well accepted truths in modern mental health care), followed by an expressed hope that phrenology will retake its rightful place among the sciences.
• In The Walking Dead Season 1, once it's been revealed that someone is slipping supplies to the Save-Lot Bandits, Lilly immediately and correctly suspects Ben. Her reasoning is that he's the newest guy in their group and came from the forest where the bandits are, and therefore he is either been a plant all along or was hoping to buy his way into their group by selling out his current one. She's actually right that he was the one stealing supplies, but his actual reason was a simple protection racket: he thought he could keep his current group safe from bandit attacks by effectively buying their safety with drugs.
• Played for Laughs in World of Warcraft when some fishermen are telling tall tales. One claims to have fought off a pack of land sharks but another calls her out on the ridiculousness of her story... because sharks are solitary hunters.

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