It's from Warehouse 13.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I think this trope could use some double-subversion once in awhile (or simply be played straight). In fact, playing the suspicion aesop straight seems far less expected. How often do you see this scenario where the average protagonist Unlucky Everydude really turns out to be an unsympathetic loser, and the new guy in town getting all the chicks really is better?
OK, so I put it on the An Aesop page, but it's not in the An Aesop category!
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Give it a while, sometimes the system is slow. If it's not up later tomorrow then post it on the forum or PM Fast Eddie.
Also, you might want to shamelessly pimp this on various other (related!) tropes and works, with only 3 inbound wicks this new trope might be forgotten or go undiscovered.
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- When Claudia decides to bring home Street Urchin Nick because he reminds her of herself at that age, Steve immediately distrusts him because he never says one truthful thing to him (the others aren't 100% peachy with him being there, either, but it's more because they're trying to hide a big secret and the fewer people who know, the better). Turns out, Nick really is evil and was just playing everyone so he could get into the Warehouse and free his evil uncle from the Bronze Sector. Then Double Subverted, as it turns out Nick and his parents are really 500 years old and they really just want to grow old and die like everyone else (or, in Nick's case, to grow up at all). They just happened to need his crazy uncle to accomplish that goal.
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