History ArbitrarySkepticism / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Kid Flash, despite living and working with superheroes that include [[BadassNormal Robin]], [[MakingASplash Aqualad]], [[SuperStrength Super]][[NighInvulnerable boy]], and [[PsychicPowers Miss Martian]]; does not believe in magic, despite the fact where this trait comes up is in an episode where he is in the tower of a magician that has been alive for centuries and is constantly being put through magic escapades. More precisely, he does believe in the magician's power; however, he assumes [[DoingInTheWizard there is a scientific]] [[ClarksThirdLaw explanation behind it]]. This is likely because one of the Flash's enemies uses advanced technology and claims it to be magic (and, in a CMOF, on of the enemies spying on him is using the EXACT SAME tech setup he was just talking about!). He grows out of it by the end of the episode. [[spoiler:After all, if you put a magic helmet on yourself and wind up inside the helmet talking to a guy who's recently died and a [[PowersThatBe Lord of Order]] who's currently possessing your body, wouldn't it be kind of stupid to continue to disbelieve magic? He does, however, take a while to admit it, simply because he doesn't want to admit to his teammates that he was wrong.]] He also has no problem with [[CuteWitch Zatanna]] or her father Zatara's magic in later episodes.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has Anne catch a sighting of a rare creature called the Moss Man, which nobody believes her about, as it's seen as essentially the equivalent to Bigfoot. Frustratedly, she points out that the world has all kinds of fantastical creatures, such as "fire-breathing beavers and mutant centipedes", and the people telling her this is a myth are the Plantar family, a group of talking anthropomorphic frogs. However, this is justified: to the Plantar family, those "fantastical creatures" are just the local wildlife which they see regularly, and they've never seen the Moss Man. They also point out that Anne has no right to talk about what is and isn't normal, as she considers "flying machines and magic memory boxes" (read: airplanes and smartphones) to be perfectly ordinary.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', when Anne claims to see a creature known as the Moss Man, the others laugh it off and say that it's a myth that only the young or the gullible believe. Anne immediately points out all the crazy stuff she's experienced since [[TrappedInAnotherWorld coming to this world]], only for them to point out in return that they have actual evidence of those things existing and how such things are ''far'' more normal than her strange "memory box" (smartphone) and tales of flying machines. This naturally just makes her more upset about not being believed.

* In a very similar example to the above, one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' had Spidey teaming up with Doctor Strange but not believing that anything that was happening was magic. He even invoked ClarksThirdLaw as well. This was a bit more of a stretch since an earlier episode had Spider-Man teamed up with Thor and traveling to Asgard to fight Frost Giants and Loki and Thor getting [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a frog]] with no skepticism at all on the web-slinger's part.

** Actually [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in one circumstance. When the Martian Manhunter comes to the Kent farm on Christmas, Ma and Pa Kent ruefully tell J'onn how they use to wrap Clark's Christmas presents in lead foil so he couldn't [[MundaneUtility peep on them with his x-ray vision.]] Clark, in a tone of complete seriousness, sternly corrects them, "You mean ''Santa'' wrapped them." [[FridgeBrilliance If you were a godlike alien adopted by humans who was spending Christmas Eve with a shapeshifting alien from an entirely different species, how hard is Santa to believe in?]]

*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction Stranger Than Fan Fiction]]", Quibble Pants is dissatisfied with most of the Daring Do series because he finds the fantastical and action elements too farfetched, even though he's a talking pony in a HighFantasy setting where magic, monsters, ancient evils and epic adventures are common and easily observable events.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' in one of the episodes of the time traveling last season while in Scotland Hefty sees a Nessie expy. All the other Smurfs even Papa react with laughter abd skepticism of SeaSerpents. That is weird for creatures who know dragons, ekces, goblins and well AllMythsAreTrue.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow'' episode "Election of Evil", the Mayor of Superhero City at one point mentions something about [[ComicBook/SpiderMan a hero who gained powers from being bitten by a radioactive bug]]. Wolverine retorts that the Mayor is just making stuff up in spite of encountering equally implausible things like evil sorcerers and shape-shifting aliens.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/The7D'', Grumpy insists that ogres don't exist simply because he's never seen one himself, depsite living in a fantasy world where witches, fairies, and the like all exist.

** Played straight with Thor in that despite all the other odd things they've seen, ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} [[FlatEarthAtheist think the Thunder God just delusional]] about being '''[[SuperHeroGods The]]''' Thor.

*** Earlier in that same episode, Batman suggests that Carter Hall might be psychologically unstable, as he believes that Egyptian architecture was built with the aid of aliens. Shayera responds that Batman's right, and Carter ''must'' be insane because everyone knows aliens don't exist -- especially ones such as herself.

* In a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} on ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', Laura Carrot and Junior Asparagus are at first suspicious of the talking Rumor Weed, like any schoolkids would be; the Rumor Weed points out, though, that "I'm a talking weed, you're a talking carrot..."

* Played straight yet averted in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episodes "Raiders of the Lost Harp". Scrooge dismisses the idea that the minotaur is magic. Yet later....

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/The7D'', Grumpy insists that ogres don't exist simply because he's never seen one himself.

** [[TheSpock Sokka]] seems to have trouble with this one from time to time. The second season episode "The Swamp" is one good example, in which he refuses to believe that the swamp called forth spirits. When [[TheChick Katara]] points out that [[TheHero Aang]] has contacted spirits regularly (and he was once kidnapped by one and stuck in the spirit world), he dismisses it with "That's Avatar stuff; it doesn't count."

** In "The Night has Wings", Black Panther, who knows that Norse and Greek mythology are basically true, is utterly dismissive of his ''own'' culture's traditional beliefs. Even once he encounters the monster, he still insists that the fact there was a scientific explanation means it wasn't "really" the creature from folklore, rather than that he now knows the origin of the myths.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Rick mixes this with FlatEarthAtheist. He has gone on record that he does not believe in God, yet casually asks a shop owner if he's the devil (which turns out that yes, he is), has no problem believing in magic or curses, travels through dimensions that feature far more unbelievable crap than what a God would entail and frequently does things that could be considered "God-playing" such as creating entire universes from scratch for silly reasons like powering up his ship. Essentially, it seems Rick is open to literally anything but God.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Rick has gone on record that he does not believe in God, yet casually asks a shop owner if he's the devil (which turns out that yes, he is), has no problem believing in magic and curses, travels through dimensions that feature far more unbelievable crap than what a God would entail and frequently does things that could be considered "God-playing" such as creating entire universes from scratch for silly reasons like powering up his ship.

** The show has included Godly miracles, a visit from Jesus, a visit from Death, and countless events of the just plain ludicrous variety, yet Brian remains a [[FlatEarthAtheist staunch atheist]].
** Subverted [[CharacterizationMarchesOn in an early episode]]: "You want an explanation? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GOD. IS. PISSED.]]"
** Lampshaded in season eleven's Christmas special.
--->'''Meg:''' ''[holds up an ornament representing Jesus's birth in a manger]'' This one's my favorite ornament. I can only imagine what it must have been like for them on that very first Christmas.\\
'''Brian:''' Yeah, it was probably very moving... and fictional.\\
'''Stewie:''' Jesus lived with us for like a week, what else do you need?

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Rick has gone on record that he does not believe in God, yet casually asks a shop owner if he's the devil (which turns out that yes, he is), travels through dimensions that feature far more unbelievable crap than what a God would entail and frequently does things that could be considered "God-playing" such as creating entire universes from scratch for silly reasons like powering up his ship.

** The show has included Godly miracles, a visit from Jesus, a visit from Death, and countless events of the just plain ludicrous variety, yet Brian remains a staunch atheist.

** In "Enter the Madkat," the magical shapeshifting jester Madkat has abducted several people, including two members of the principal cast, and imprisoned them inside a magic box. When Katzmer - the antique store owner - turns up at Enforcer Headquarters to tell everyone how to defeat Madkat, Steel immediately dismisses him as "a crank." And not because he doesn't believe in Madkat, either; he'd just spent the previous scene with Callie discussing how to deal with "that crazy fool." So he accepts the existence of the supernatural villain, but dismisses any advice on how to actually ''stop'' him as nonsense.

** In "Enter the Madkat," the magical shapeshifting jester Madkat has abducted several people, including two members of the principal cast, and imprisoned them inside a magic box. When Katzmer - the antique store owner - turns up at Enforcer Headquarters to tell everyone how to defeat Madkat, Steel immediately dismisses him as "a crank." And not because he doesn't believe in Madkat, either; he'd just spent the previous scene discussing how to deal with "that crazy fool." So he accepts the existence of the supernatural villain, but dismisses any advice on how to actually ''stop'' him as nonsense.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' movie Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales, Abba Cadabba has no problem with talking cats, but is incredulous to the idea of singing frogs.
* In the bat-related episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' Ralphie is firmly convinced that Ms. Frizzle is a vampire while Keisha continually says that vampires don't exist. However, they're used to continually going around in a magic transforming semi-sentient school bus driven by a mostly sentient chameleon that can turn them into bats at the press of a button. Granted, Keisha is right (at least about Ms. Frizzle) but they've swallowed a lot of impossible things while trying to prove whether vampires exist. She would have been better off pointing out that vampires can't go out in the daylight and they see Ms. Frizzle during the day five days a week.

** In ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', Daphne still claims that she doesn't believe in ghosts despite the fact that a ghost hired her and her friends to clear his name and prevent him from being destroyed. She was still glad to see that he was safe though.