History Main / ArbitrarySkepticism

** ''ComicBook/UltimateThor'': [[AgentMulder Brian Braddock]] thinks that, if Captain America could be found in ice and brought back to life, then it shouldn't be too weird to accept Thor's story. [[AgentScully His father]] replies that Cap's case was a combination of genetics and cryogenics, scientific stuff; Thor's claims of being a reborn god are something completely different. Thor's right, by the way.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf:'' In the "Avengers of the 50s" issue, Marvel Boy -- who grew up on the planet Uranus and is telepathic -- seems to have difficulty accepting that Venus is the mythological goddess Venus.

* Doctor Strange himself plays with in one issue where he dismisses a supposed mystic teacher as a charlatan. His business manager Sarah Wolfe immediately responds, “I would think that you of all men would be more open to the possibility.” He answers that he of all men knows how how few true practitioners there are, and how many impostors.

* '' ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Ratchet rejects anything religious or spiritual: Primus, Spectralism, the afterlife, magic, and so on. This universe includes plenty of magic, a Dead Universe that resurrects Transformers as zombies, and so on.

*** In a ''New Teen Titans'' issue dealing with a girl who is possibly possessed, most of the Titans act like demonic possession is impossible. This is despite having encountered supernatural beings and gods before, and ComicBook/{{Raven}}, one of their own teammates, ''being the daughter of a demon''. To his credit, despite initial skepticism, ComicBook/{{Robin}} eventually says that he gave up wondering what was crazy the first time he met ComicBook/TheSpectre.

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' lampshades it when Sydney [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-107-dabblers-green-card-say-extra-super-super-skilled-alien/ sees through Dabbler's glamour]], and accepts the explanation of her being an alien lifeform. (It helps that Sydney works at a comic book store and reads comics, which can have plots involving superheros and aliens.)

** This is a recurring thing with Syndney specifically in the comic. As a life-long proudly self-proclaimed comic nerd, her [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] is at a high enough level to make it practically a super-power in its own right.

* Psycho Mantis in the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' fan {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' is vehemently opposed to the idea of ghosts existing despite increasing evidence that they do when Big Boss possesses Liquid and being confronted by The Sorrow later on. This despite the fact that he is a ''psychic''. The Sorrow {{lampshades}} this. The comic seems to provide a [[JustifiedTrope reasonable explanation]] for Mantis' skepticism, namely that he might ''really'' want there to not be ghosts, since if there are, that means he's going to have to face a ''lot'' of pissed off victims of his when he dies. Rather ironically, ''his ghost'' shows up in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''.

*** Try as hard as you cosmically can, you can never get the ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan to believe the legitimacy of any mystical aspect of the Marvel Universe. [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Sorcerer Supreme]]? Hack. [[ComicBook/SpiderVerse Inter-dimensional representation of the Spider]]? It's got the word "totem" in it so it's just stupid rambling.

** [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] asks Franklin [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/390a0bca4a71f1da96cd3a2f14ff7693/tumblr_pj6pmnweuX1rxjb9io1_1280.png if he's written a list for Santa]]. When Franklin expresses doubt about the existence of someone who can watch people and deliver presents all over the world, Reed mentions people they've met who actually have that kind of power. Reed concludes that he can't be sure whether Santa exists or not, and decides to leave out some cookies, just in case.

* Dr. Will Magnus reveals in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' that he's spent his entire life being hounded by this. His ComicBook/MetalMen operate under the idea that each element has a specific personality trait attached to it, and an individual's psyche was determined partially by the chemical make-up of his body. He wound up laughed at by almost every serious scientific institute, save for his EvilMentor Dr. Thomas Morrow. When he explains this theory to Chang Tzu, a giant, sentient egg-like creature who's running an island containing all the world's mad scientists and is ''forcing Magnus to build a new Metal Man based on the scientific theory Magnus just described to him'' he remarks that's completely absurd. [[spoiler:Magnus then reveals he already rebuilt his original Metal Men and has them murder Chang Tzu.]] Then again, he also admits that his theory resulted in a device that's basically a BlackBox - it's possible his theory is closer to alchemy or {{Magitek}} than true science.
* [[ComicBook/AntMan Giant-Man]] is particularly ironic. He is an atheist despite knowing the existence of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Eternity]], the living personification of the universe. Thor and other gods he dismisses as extradimensional beings, but to be a straight atheist and dismiss Eternity is a stretch. From ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] vs. [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Atlas]]'':
-->'''Giant-Man:''' Sirens, that's a... myth...\\
'''ComicBook/TheWasp:''' You do remember we've got [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] on our team, right?
** It's been suggested that his disbelief may be a coping mechanism. Hank Pym is prone to mental illness (delusions of grandeur and bipolar disorder, in particular). Clinging to a set definition of "real" vs. "unreal," even if it's inaccurate, helps keep him mentally grounded.

* ''ComicBook/AvengersBackToBasics'': Bruce calls out Thor on this when the latter claims that the undead warriors trying to bring about Ragnarok are a myth, since according to common wisdom so is Thor himself.
-->'''Loki:''' Tell me, Thor -- do you remember the Desir?\\
'''Thor:''' They... they are myth.\\
'''Bruce:''' Says the Norse god of Thunder.

** Bruce Wayne (Franchise/{{Batman}}) and the late Ted Knight (ComicBook/{{Starman}}) claim to be atheists, and Ted has explicitly stated that he doesn't believe in anything supernatural. This is despite having both of them having had regular interactions with magicians, clairvoyants, angels, demons and Greek gods.

** In a ''New ComicBook/TeenTitans'' issue dealing with a girl who is possibly possessed, most of the Titans act like demonic possession is impossible. This is despite having encountered supernatural beings and gods before, and ComicBook/{{Raven}}, one of their own teammates, ''being the daughter of a demon''. To his credit, despite initial skepticism, ComicBook/{{Robin}} eventually says that he gave up wondering what's crazy the first time he met ComicBook/TheSpectre.

** A Pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}} Superman story actually featured a group of people who refused to believe that Superman was really an alien. It turned out that these people were in fact ''aliens'' themselves, but, being stranded on Earth seemingly forever, [[ZanyScheme opted to erase their own memories]] so they could live normal lives among humans. Their skepticism was a side effect of the brainwashing. In the end Superman helps them return to space. Not only didn't they believe that Superman was an alien, they claimed that there was no such thing as space travel and all reports of missions that had been flown were hoaxes.

** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLuthor'': When Supergirl reveals her existence to the public, Lex Luthor refuses believe she is real, despite notoriously and repeatedly clashing with a Kryptonian. He is utterly certain that Superman is hoaxing the underworld with a robot.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After their encounter with an Ancient Egyptian who claimed himself immortal and faded away following his defeat ComicBook/SteveTrevor is rather dumbfounded that the two Holliday College professors along are happy to denounce the entire thing as something they hallucinated or dreamed up, considering they're standing right next to the magical immortal Amazon Princess Diana whose youthful looking mother has been around since the now fabled siege of Troy and is mentioned in actual Greek Mythology.
** Queen Hippolyte of the Amazons dismisses Odin and the Valkyries as "Nordic Myth". Colonel Darnell also dismisses them when told about Valkyries by his own soldiers, but changes his tune as soon as Wonder Woman shows up to investigate, deciding that if she's there, there must be some credibility to the stories. The Amazon Queen is the one who needs more proof that they exist, and then that they are anything but creations of the Nazis, despite having seen things far more fantastic than Wonder Woman on several occasions.
** While Golden Age Earth two Wonder Woman has an open mind, her Silver Age Earth One counterpart can be skeptical to an unhealthy degree. In issue #113, after being told about a spinx that will come to life when it sees Queen Mikra, about how she looks just like this queen, Wonder Woman decides to take Steve Trevor out to the desert to prove it's just a myth. When the Spinx moves, {{roar|beforebeating}}s, blasts her with EyeBeams and starts speaking English, Wonder Woman tries to convince herself it's just a nightmare she will soon wake up from. Earth One Wonder Woman's setting ''is'' less fantastical than her Earth Two counterpart's, if one ignores the SharedUniverse elements that are more pronounced on Earth One anyway, but it doesn't change the fact Earth One Wonder Woman has super powers gifted to her directly from the goddesses of Olympus and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Hermes.]]

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': In most continuities, Reed Richards doesn't believe in magic. Not even when he's standing beside it. Once in a blue moon, he'll admit that he recognizes that it exists (kinda hard not to when one of your best friends is ComicBook/DoctorStrange) but just doesn't understand it, being unable to understand why it doesn't operate scientifically. At times, it seems that his denial of magic comes from annoyance that despite his genius, Reed ''hasn't'' yet figured out how to explain it scientifically.

* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy:''
** During a team-up with Thor, most of the Guardians refuse to believe he's an actual god at first. This is after they've done things like time-travel, met Doctor Strange and Valkyrie, who is from the same place as Thor.
** In the middle of ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'', Adam Warlock asks Major Victory if he believes in werewolves. Bear in mind Adam's a genetically engineered superbeing using what is essentially magic (he just refuses to call it such), and more importantly, werewolves ''do'' exist in the Marvel universe. Major Victory points out that given the circumstances, he's willing to believe in anything at that point.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': One issue of Bruce Jones's controversial run involving ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''-type shenanigans with [[TheGrays Gray-style aliens]] has the Hulk casually dismiss the idea, saying he doesn't believe in aliens. Needless to say, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse in general and the Hulk's life in particular are always up to their eyeballs in aliens, and he knows that perfectly well.

* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the Legion travels to Zerox, most famously known as the ''Sorcerers''' World, inhabited by wizards who are constantly changing the landscape merely for showing off, and where Legionnaire Dream Girl's sister ''White Witch'' studied magic in the past. All the same, Dawnstar -whose race is deeply spiritual- still believes magic is a hoax.
* After the 2011 [[ComicBook/New52 DC Universe Reboot]], Creator/DanDiDio was quoted as saying that one of the reasons it was decided that Barbara Gordon -ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}- should able to regain her mobility (after spending two decades since being shot by ComicBook/TheJoker in a wheelchair as the information-brokering Oracle) was that it required "too much suspension of disbelief" for her to remain wheelchair-bound in a universe where all sorts of magical cures were available.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** When Spider-Man first joins ComicBook/TheAvengers as a reserve, he helps the team fight a break-out at [[CardboardPrison Project Pegasus]]. At one point, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica mentions the [[MagmaMan Lava Men]]. Spidey laughs it off, stating matter-of-factly he does not believe in Lava Men. This is despite the fact that not only is he a superhuman joining a team of gods, mutants, super soldiers, and androids, not only is he fighting equally inhuman villains at the time, but one of his own rogues resembles Lava Men a great deal: the Molten Man.
** In crossover "ComicBook/SupermanAndSpiderMan", Wonder Woman tries to bound Spider-Man with her magic lasso. As dodging her, the hero who has fought alongside Doctor Strange several times and faced plenty magical threats declares he does not believe in "magic lassos".
** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': Ben Urich wants to run a story on recent vampire activity in New York and Jameson refuses to publish it. As Urich lampshades, mutants, Spider-Men, frozen people and supersuits are all plausible but Jameson chooses to draw the line at believing in vampires for some reason. (This is made even more amusing by the fact that in the main Marvel continuity, Jameson's son is a ''werewolf''.) This may actually be making fun of a moment in the ''Peter Parker'' comic series where main universe Spider-Man suddenly draws the line at believing in vampires... despite having fought a massive number of bizarre entities before. And living in the same universe as ComicBook/{{Blade}}. And actually having ''fought'' vampires before, like ComicBook/{{Morbius}} (who isn't technically a supernatural vampire), and Count {{Dracula}} (who, well, is). This is merely so Spider-Man can be proven "right" when the vampire in question proves to be a science-based rather than supernatural vampire, like Morbius. Despite the fact that Morbius, despite not being a supernatural monster, is ''still'' a vampire for almost any useful definition of the term.
** Later on, when Spidey rescues Urich from a girl he was interviewing after she was bitten by a vampire, he lampshades this out loud after bringing Urich to a hospital and the doctors initially don't believe what happened.
--->'''Spider-Man: Listen'''! You are talking to a man with '''spider powers''', and I am telling you he was bitten by a '''vampire'''!
** Also in the mainstream universe, Spidey once thought the idea of alchemy being real was absurd when he fought the old ComicBook/FantasticFour villain Diablo (who was living proof that it was) at first thinking he was some sort of illusionist like Mysterio. (Of course, seeing as most scientists tend to universally regard alchemy as a "fake science", it was hard to blame Peter, someone who had studied biochemistry and other physical sciences most of his life.)
** Try as hard as you cosmically can, you can never get the ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan to believe the legitimacy of any mystical aspect of the Marvel Universe. [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Sorcerer Supreme]]? Hack. [[ComicBook/SpiderVerse Inter-dimensional representation of the Spider]]? It's got the word "totem" in it so it's just stupid rambling.
* In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', some time after Alec's (the title character's) presumed death, ComicBook/AdamStrange drops in on Alec's lover Abby with a message that he's still alive and will return to her soon. Abby's delight turns to angry disbelief when Strange explains that he met the Swamp Thing on the planet Rann, which he visits periodically via zeta beam. In tears, she tells him to "call up [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Scotty]] on your communicator and tell him to zeta beam you the hell out of here, you goddamned lunatic!" This, despite the fact that she's been witness for many years to all sorts of paranormal occurrences and creatures (like her lover).
* From ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' [[https://marvel.com/digitalcomics/view.htm?iid=24184 Vol. 4 #17]]:
-->'''[[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Gorilla-Man:]]''' You mean... this is ''literally'' a tunnel to China? That's insane. And this is coming from a talking gorilla.
* ''ComicBook/TalesOfSuspenseRedLedger'': [[spoiler: Bucky's refusal to even consider that Natasha is truly dead is strange enough in a universe known for people coming back to life all the time but is even more ridiculous coming from a man who was considered dead for more than a century. And of course, Natasha turns out to be alive after all.]]
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': It seems like every single issue there would be some supernatural/psychic/alien/other fantastic threat that a civilian or single Titan would witness, only for most of the team to blow it off as imaginary or the viewer as crazy until they did a little bit of investigating and then stop said threat, then the same exact thing happens next issue.
* '' ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Ratchet rejects anything religious or spiritual: Primus, Spectralism, the afterlife, magic and so on. This universe includes plenty of magic, a Dead Universe that resurrects Transformers as zombies, and so on.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateThor'': [[AgentMulder Brian Braddock]] thinks that, if Captain America could be found in ice and brought back to life, then it shouldn't be too weird to accept Thor's story. [[AgentScully His father]] replies that Cap's case was a combination of genetics and cryogenics, scientific stuff; Thor's claims of being a reborn god are something completely different. Thor's right, by the way.
* In an early ''ComicBook/XMen'' issue, Iceman encounters the Super-Adaptoid -- a robot villain -- alone in the woods and goes to tell the rest of the team. Despite the fact that the team has fought monsters, aliens, and, yes, robots many times, they refuse to believe his story for no apparent reason. Not only that, their resolute belief that if there really were sinister robots about it certainly would have been someone other than Iceman who spotted them is so convincing, Iceman himself starts to wonder whether he's remembering the incident correctly.
** During an issue of ''New X-Men'', the commander of Sentinel Squad O*N*E, a former Mutant who was depowered by the Scarlet Witch warping reality, expresses scepticism about magic to Amanda Sefton, who is a witch. She tells him if Doctor Strange were there, he'd turn the man into a llama just for that.

* Aside from the superheroes and major characters displaying it, ordinary people in both DC and Marvel main universes are often shown being shocked and/or disbelieving at the idea of aliens. Despite the fact that both versions of Earth have been invaded multiple times, and in DC continuity the most famous superhero on the planet is well-known as being a literal alien. Similarly, when a super uses their powers in front of others often normal people and sometimes even other supers will claim what they're doing is "impossible", despite living in a universe full of superheroes and supervillains that demonstrate so-called impossible superpowered feats on a routine basis and are widely known to the public. Additionally, random bystanders also tend to think when someone else sees supers that are flying or look unusual, which they usually describe as "flying men" or "beast men" or something along those lines that those people are drunk or need a psychiatrist despite again, supers that fly and look like lizard people or whatever being all over the planet and widely known.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': One issue of Bruce Jones's controversial run on ''The Incredible Hulk'' involving ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'' type shenanigans with [[TheGrays Gray-style aliens]] has the Hulk casually dismiss the idea, saying he doesn't believe in aliens. Needless to say, the Marvel Universe in general and the Hulk's life in particular are always up to their eyeballs in aliens, and he knows that perfectly well.
* A major point of ''Comicbook/InvaderZim'' is that [[HeroAntagonist Dib]] knows about all sorts of paranormal phenomena, most notably [[VillainProtagonist Zim]], [[CassandraTruth but can't convince anyone]]. One issue focuses on his classmates' weird theories about their teacher, [[HumanoidAbomination Ms. Bitters]], while Dib is the only one who thinks that she's a normal (albeit nasty) old woman.

* In [[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2020/06/29/cupid-comic-29-sea-for-yourself/ one strip]] from ''Webcomic/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', it transpires that the Wellsians — an alien race of telepathic octopi — don't believe in… oceans.

Sometimes it makes sense -- after all, [[IfJesusThenAliens just because aliens exist, it doesn't follow that something unrelated does as well]] -- but the viewer is often left wondering how a character who has seen ghosts and vampires can feel so comfortable in immediately dismissing the possibility of, say, Santa Claus. It's not Arbitrary Skepticism if the character came to their conclusion through research and thought, and has a plausible explanation of ''why'' Santa can't exist, or why this specific instance seems unlikely (for instance, PsychicPowers might exist, but ''this'' psychic [[PhonyPsychic seems to be faking it]]).

* ''ComicBook/AvengersBackToBasics'': Bruce calls out Thor on this when the latter claims that the undead warriors trying to bring about Ragnarok are a myth, since according to common wisdom so is Thor himself.
-->'''Loki:''' Tell me, Thor -- do you remember the Desir?\\
'''Thor:''' They... they are myth.\\
'''Bruce:''' Says the Norse god of Thunder.
* ''ComicBook/BeastsOfBurden'': Pugsley is always the first to dismiss any talk supernatural phenomena as superstitious nonsense, no matter how much weird stuff he sees (like witch-cats in "The Unfamiliar" or a ghost in "Stray").
-->'''Pugs:''' Just 'cause your doghouse was haunted doesn't mean ''everything's'' spooks!
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** When Spider-Man first joins ComicBook/TheAvengers as a reserve, he helps the team fight a break-out at [[CardboardPrison Project Pegasus]]. At one point, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica mentions the [[MagmaMan Lava Men]]. Spidey laughs it off, stating matter-of-factly he does not believe in Lava Men. This is despite the fact that not only is he a superhuman joining a team of gods, mutants, super soldiers, and androids, not only is he fighting equally inhuman villains at the time, but one of his own rogues resembles Lava Men a great deal: the Molten Man.
** In crossover "ComicBook/SupermanAndSpiderMan", Wonder Woman tries to bound Spider-Man with her magic lasso. As dodging her, the hero who has fought alongside Doctor Strange several times and faced plenty magical threats declares he does not believe in "magic lassos".
** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': Ben Urich wants to run a story on recent vampire activity in New York and Jameson refuses to publish it. As Urich lampshades, mutants, Spider-Men, frozen people and supersuits are all plausible but Jameson chooses to draw the line at believing in vampires for some reason. (This is made even more amusing by the fact that in the main Marvel continuity, Jameson's son is a ''werewolf''.) This may actually be making fun of a moment in the ''Peter Parker'' comic series where main universe Spider-Man suddenly draws the line at believing in vampires... despite having fought a massive number of bizarre entities before. And living in the same universe as ComicBook/{{Blade}}. And actually having ''fought'' vampires before, like ComicBook/{{Morbius}} (who isn't technically a supernatural vampire), and Count {{Dracula}} (who, well, is). This is merely so Spider-Man can be proven "right" when the vampire in question proves to be a science-based rather than supernatural vampire, like Morbius. Despite the fact that Morbius, despite not being a supernatural monster, is ''still'' a vampire for almost any useful definition of the term.
** Later on, when Spidey rescues Urich from a girl he was interviewing after she was bitten by a vampire, he lampshades this out loud after bringing Urich to a hospital and the doctors initially don't believe what happened.
--->'''Spider-Man: Listen'''! You are talking to a man with '''spider powers''', and I am telling you he was bitten by a '''vampire'''!
** Also in the mainstream universe, Spidey once thought the idea of alchemy being real was absurd when he fought the old ComicBook/FantasticFour villain Diablo (who was living proof that it was) at first thinking he was some sort of illusionist like Mysterio. (Of course, seeing as most scientists tend to universally regard alchemy as a "fake science", it was hard to blame Peter, someone who had studied biochemistry and other physical sciences most of his life.)
** Try as hard as you cosmically can, you can never get the ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan to believe the legitimacy of any mystical aspect of the Marvel Universe. [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Sorcerer Supreme]]? Hack. [[ComicBook/SpiderVerse Inter-dimensional representation of the Spider]]? It's got the word "totem" in it so it's just stupid rambling.
* Aside from the superheroes and major characters displaying it, ordinary people in both DC and Marvel main universes are often shown being shocked and/or disbelieving at the idea of aliens. Despite the fact that both versions of Earth have been invaded multiple times, and in DC continuity the most famous superhero on the planet is well-known as being a literal alien. Similarly, when a super uses their powers in front of others often normal people and sometimes even other supers will claim what they're doing is "impossible", despite living in a universe full of superheroes and supervillains that demonstrate so-called impossible superpowered feats on a routine basis and are widely known to the public. Additionally, random bystanders also tend to think when someone else sees supers that are flying or look unusual, which they usually describe as "flying men" or "beast men" or something along those lines that those people are drunk or need a psychiatrist despite again, supers that fly and look like lizard people or whatever being all over the planet and widely known.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': In most continuities, Reed Richards doesn't believe in magic. Not even when he's standing beside it. Once in a blue moon, he'll admit that he recognizes that it exists (kinda hard not to when one of your best friends is ComicBook/DoctorStrange) but just doesn't understand it, being unable to understand why it doesn't operate scientifically. At times, it seems that his denial of magic comes from annoyance that despite his genius, Reed ''hasn't'' yet figured out how to explain it scientifically.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In "Recap/AsterixAndTheMagicCarpet", the BigBad's henchman says:
-->'''Owzat:''' I don't believe in that kind of miracle, o divine master. Flying carpets are one thing, but rain-making is sheer science fiction!
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', despite the fact that [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan]] and [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Mina]] live in a world in which every work of fiction exists, they'll occasionally decide that the idea of, say, a mindreader or a magician is just too far-fetched. This is justified, though; the 1890s setting is when the fantastic really came to the fore in fiction, and the British government has tried its damnedest to keep fantastic elements a secret from the public anyway. Mina doesn't ''know'' that a man named Gullivar Jones flew to Mars on a flying carpet, for instance -- and had all this time thought her encounter with Dracula to be an anomaly, not akin to something she would soon deal with every day.

* In an early ''ComicBook/XMen'' issue, Iceman encounters the Super-Adaptoid -- a robot villain -- alone in the woods and goes to tell the rest of the team. Despite the fact that the team has fought monsters, aliens, and, yes, robots many times, they refuse to believe his story for no apparent reason. Not only that, their resolute belief that if there really were sinister robots about it certainly would have been someone other than Iceman who spotted them is so convincing, Iceman himself starts to wonder whether he's remembering the incident correctly.
** During an issue of ''New X-Men'', the commander of Sentinel Squad O*N*E, a former Mutant who was depowered by the Scarlet Witch warping reality, expresses scepticism about magic to Amanda Sefton, who is a witch. She tells him if Doctor Strange were there, he'd turn the man into a llama just for that.
* In the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse comic "Tesseract", the Tenth Doctor refuses to believe that his new companion Emily has encountered beings called the Tef'Aree that live in the Time Vortex, because they're the subject of Gallifreyan fairytales. His rationalization that she heard the word somewhere is particularly flimsy -- WHERE would she have heard it?
* ComicBook/AtomicRobo absolutely refuses to believe in TimeTravel -- even as he's talking to three past versions of himself, even when he has encountered ghosts and at least one EldritchAbomination.
-->'''Atomic Robo:''' No such thing as time travel. We're only experiencing this nonlinear episode due to interacting with physics outside our universe.
* After the 2011 [[ComicBook/New52 DC Universe Reboot]], Creator/DanDiDio was quoted as saying that one of the reasons it was decided that Barbara Gordon -ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}- should able to regain her mobility (after spending two decades since being shot by ComicBook/TheJoker in a wheelchair as the information-brokering Oracle) was that it required "too much suspension of disbelief" for her to remain wheelchair-bound in a universe where all sorts of magical cures were available.

* [[ComicBook/AntMan Giant-Man]] is particularly ironic. He is an atheist despite knowing the existence of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Eternity]], the living personification of the universe. Thor and other gods he dismisses as extradimensional beings, but to be a straight atheist and dismiss Eternity is a stretch. From ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] vs. [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Atlas]]'':
-->'''Giant-Man:''' Sirens, that's a... myth...\\
'''ComicBook/TheWasp:''' You do remember we've got [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] on our team, right?
** It's been suggested that his disbelief may be a coping mechanism. Hank Pym is prone to mental illness (delusions of grandeur and bipolar disorder, in particular). Clinging to a set definition of "real" vs. "unreal," even if it's inaccurate, helps keep him mentally grounded.
* During one point in the Wonder Woman issue of ''ComicBook/ScoobyDooTeamUp'', Daphne says it's weird that beasts like the Minotaur, a dragon, or harpies could be on Paradise Island, given that they're merely mythological. Wonder Woman points out that some people would call Amazons or talking dogs mythological as well.
* From ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' [[https://marvel.com/digitalcomics/view.htm?iid=24184 Vol. 4 #17]]:
-->'''[[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Gorilla-Man:]]''' You mean... this is ''literally'' a tunnel to China? That's insane. And this is coming from a talking gorilla.
* In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', some time after Alec's (the title character's) presumed death, ComicBook/AdamStrange drops in on Alec's lover Abby with a message that he's still alive and will return to her soon. Abby's delight turns to angry disbelief when Strange explains that he met the Swamp Thing on the planet Rann, which he visits periodically via zeta beam. In tears, she tells him to "call up [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Scotty]] on your communicator and tell him to zeta beam you the hell out of here, you goddamned lunatic!" This, despite the fact that she's been witness for many years to all sorts of paranormal occurrences and creatures (like her lover).

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': It seems like every single issue there would be some supernatural/psychic/alien/other fantastic threat that a civilian or single Titan would witness, only for most of the team to blow it off as imaginary or the viewer as crazy until they did a little bit of investigating and then stop said threat, then the same exact thing happens next issue.
* Dr. Will Magnus reveals in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' that he's spent his entire life being hounded by this. His ComicBook/MetalMen operate under the idea that each element has a specific personality trait attached to it, and an individual's psyche was determined partially by the chemical make-up of his body. He wound up laughed at by almost every serious scientific institute, save for his EvilMentor Dr. Thomas Morrow. When he explains this theory to Chang Tzu, a giant, sentient egg-like creature who's running an island containing all the world's mad scientists and is ''forcing Magnus to build a new Metal Man based on the scientific theory Magnus just described to him'' he remarks that's completely absurd. [[spoiler:Magnus then reveals he already rebuilt his original Metal Men and has them murder Chang Tzu.]] Then again, he also admits that his theory resulted in a device that's basically a BlackBox - it's possible his theory is closer to alchemy or {{Magitek}} than true science.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateThor'': [[AgentMulder Brian Braddock]] thinks that, if Captain America could be found in ice and brought back to life, then it shouldn't be too weird to accept Thor's story. [[AgentScully His father]] replies that Cap's case was a combination of genetics and cryogenics, scientific stuff; Thor's claims of being a reborn god are something completely different. Thor's right, by the way.
* '' ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Ratchet rejects anything religious or spiritual: Primus, Spectralism, the afterlife, magic and so on. This universe includes plenty of magic, a Dead Universe that resurrects Transformers as zombies, and so on.
* ''ComicBook/TalesOfSuspenseRedLedger'': [[spoiler: Bucky's refusal to even consider that Natasha is truly dead is strange enough in a universe known for people coming back to life all the time but is even more ridiculous coming from a man who was considered dead for more than a century. And of course, Natasha turns out to be alive after all.]]
* ''ComicBook/GhostbustersIDWComics'': Egon, full stop. Ghosts, ancient deities, demons, creatures and people from parallel dimensions... sure. But aliens? Absolutely not. The ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' crossover naturally makes him grow out of that belief.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': One issue of Bruce Jones's controversial run on ''The Incredible Hulk'' involving ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'' type shenanigans with [[TheGrays Gray-style aliens]] has the Hulk casually dismiss the idea, saying he doesn't believe in aliens. Needless to say, the Marvel Universe in general and the Hulk's life in particular are always up to their eyeballs in aliens, and he knows that perfectly well.
* A major point of ''Comicbook/InvaderZim'' is that [[HeroAntagonist Dib]] knows about all sorts of paranormal phenomena, most notably [[VillainProtagonist Zim]], [[CassandraTruth but can't convince anyone]]. One issue focuses on his classmates' weird theories about their teacher, [[HumanoidAbomination Ms. Bitters]], while Dib is the only one who thinks that she's a normal (albeit nasty) old woman.
* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy:''
** During a team-up with Thor, most of the Guardians refuse to believe he's an actual god at first. This is after they've done things like time-travel, met Doctor Strange and Valkyrie, who is from the same place as Thor.
** In the middle of ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'', Adam Warlock asks Major Victory if he believes in werewolves. Bear in mind Adam's a genetically engineered superbeing using what is essentially magic (he just refuses to call it such), and more importantly, werewolves ''do'' exist in the Marvel universe. Major Victory points out that given the circumstances, he's willing to believe in anything at that point.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'' the protagonist is doubtful Santa Claus exists, even though ''he's riding a magic train''. Even when he reaches the North Pole which is full of elves and an entire Christmas town he has a hard time believing Santa is in charge.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisMilosReturn'': While traveling to Hellstrom's castle, Audrey questions the idea that the storm they're flying through is caused by the power of the old gods. Vinny lampshades this immediately by pointing out that they have already encountered several entities with godlike powers.

* During the first season of ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'', the Archivist is bizarrely determined to reject stories about supernatural forces, even though he knows for a fact that magic books and sentient hive-minds are things that exist. Later justified when we discover that he's been playing up the skeptic angle on purpose; he can sense that he's being watched, and he's worried that he might anger the watcher if he doesn't play-act as AgentScully.
* Discussed in an episode of ''Rule of Three'', a podcast devoted to discussing and analysing comedy, in an episode featuring Paul King, the director of ''Film/Paddington2014'' and ''Film/Paddington2''. King at one point discusses criticism that the film has received of the unlikely house that the main characters live in, which is too large and centrally located within the highly-expensive Notting Hill district for the characters to realistically afford. King notes in amusement that these people don't seem to have much trouble suspending their disbelief with regards to the ''talking bear'' that the films revolve around.

* Similar to the above, the ''TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness'' setting has the Sleepwalker merit that a character can take. This merit allows a non-supernatural character to see and comprehend magic as performed by mages. Normal people (AKA sleepers) react with Disbelief when they see magic, causing the spell to both fail and have catastrophic consequences for the mage who cast it. Similarly, werewolves have Lunacy, which means that mortals who see them do not understand what is going on and rationalize the experience in their own minds, and changelings have the Mask, which shields mortals from seeing their Fae aspects unless the changeling wills it.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has an example of this with the [[https://aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Sasquatch Sasquatch]]. Its description [[LampshadeHanging highlights]] that even in a FantasyKitchenSink setting, scholars still doubt the existence of Sasquatches, citing a lack of remains or lairs. {{Justified|Trope}} in that Sasquatches are remarkably stealthy in their forest habitats, feel no need to build or modify potential lairs, carefully and solemnly bury their dead, and have a language that sounds like natural forest noises.

* In Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', Caesar accepts superstition regarding the Lupercal festival as fact, and then refuses to believe a soothsayer telling him that March 15th will be a bad day.
* ''{{Theatre/Macbeth}}'': Witches can predict the future and cast spells, dead men can come back as ghosts, apparitions can rise from cauldrons... but trees can't move. That would be silly.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Robo will sometimes point out the impossibility of certain things, despite previously encountering those very same things.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** Agatha gets called on [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031231 exhibiting]] this trope: Krosp objects that she works with mad scientists and should be able to handle a talking cat.
** Krosp tries to invoke it on the former Heterodyne Senechal Carson von Mekkhan in Mechanicsburg later on only to be told off that a talking bipedal cat isn't the strangest thing in town. After all, the Heterodynes are a family of incredibly strong [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Sparks]] that routinely do things that ''[[MadScientist other Sparks]]'' have trouble believing.
** In a world filled with lightning guns, mind controlling bug robots, and other insane science, Tarvek utterly refuses to believe Gil's flying machine can stay aloft without a gas bag.
** Later while attending a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151207 royal wedding between two secret civilizations]] Agatha is confused about why they are considered secret when loads of diplomats are turning up for the wedding. Wooster explains that a lot of people just refuse to believe that it exists. Also for added fun one of the visiting diplomats is from a different secret civilization and refuses to believe in the existence of a "surface civilization".
* Played with a bit in ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound''. After scaring off a ghost with a holograph, The Boy expresses surprise that it would fall for such a trick. Ryan's response: "Ghosts got to be superstitious! Tell them there's a flying top-hat full of yoghurt out to get them... you'll get the benefit of the doubt."
* Kat Donlan of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' seems to be mentally distinguishing between [[MagicVersusScience magic and science]], in a 'verse where that dichotomy may not exist. She has no difficulty accepting the explicitly supernatural: [[TheGrimReaper psychopomps]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], [[TheFairFolk fairies]], [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]-possessed stuffed animals, [[LivingShadow shadow-men]], {{Physical God}}s, [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]], and [[{{Metamorphosis}} people turning into birds]]. But she [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=517 doesn't believe in magic]], even though her own parents are both science teachers who practice magic. And when it comes to robots, she's reluctant to consider the possibility of {{magitek}}, and outright scoffs at the idea of androids realistic enough to pass for humans. Lampshaded by Antimony [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=404 here]].
-->'''Antimony:''' We have seen stranger. Remember that cursed teapot?\\
'''Kat:''' Yeahhhhh... But that was... I don't even '''know''' what '''that''' was about...

* Psycho Mantis in the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' fan {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' is vehemently opposed to the idea of ghosts existing despite increasing evidence that they do when Big Boss possesses Liquid and being confronted by The Sorrow later on. This despite the fact that he is a ''psychic''. The Sorrow {{lampshades}} this. The comic seems to provide a [[JustifiedTrope reasonable explanation]] for Mantis' skepticism, namely that he might ''really'' want there to not be ghosts, since if there are, that means he's going to have to face a ''lot'' of pissed off victims of his when he dies. Rather ironically, ''his ghost'' shows up in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''.
** Mantis also refuses to accept that Berthold the wolf is psychic, despite his own abilities. This lasts up until Berthold puppeteers Vulcan Raven and [[GroinAttack threatens to remove Mantis's balls]], which satisfies ''all'' of Mantis's objections at once.
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' usually avoids this, at least with its main characters anyway. The bartender Crystal, however, falls pretty squarely into this trope. If she hears the other characters talking about aliens or vampires, she just assumes they're very drunk (which, granted, they usually are around her). She does this despite the fact that she's been to their Halloween parties (where a demon appears each year to devour Torg's soul), and regularly serves alfalfa margaritas to a talking rabbit.
* In one ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' arc Ash refuses to believe that a guy who just challenged him to a race could (a) talk to cars, and (b) be haunted by a dark force. For the record Ash [[WeirdnessMagnet lives with two Angels, has been intermittently stalked by a third, befriended by another racer who was haunted by her dead sister]] oh, yeah, and he [[GenderBender is trapped in a female body]].
* ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'': Piro (and Erika, and sometimes others) openly discredits the concept of zombies, and seems to be [[InvisibleToNormals completely unaware]] of the existence of {{Kaiju}}, {{Magical Girl}}s and, possibly, ninjas. This is coming from a guy who takes advice from an [[GoodAngelBadAngel angel and devil]] and, oh yes, has a RobotGirl living with him. There's also his gunslinger friends, the odd gadgets Largo creates, and [[Webcomic/AppleGeeks Hawk]], but these may be negligible compared to everything else that happens. Course, there ''was'' a certain amount of vagueness on how much of Largovision was actually real, or at least, in the same universe that Pirovision was seeing. Piro seems to mistake zombies for fanboys, or Largo mistakes fanboys for zombies, [[MindScrew or both, or something.]] Piro's not noticing giant beasts, {{Magical Girl}}s, etc. is probably due to a PerceptionFilter combined with (or created by) his general obliviousness.
* In ''Chaos Pet'', we have two characters discussing whether dogs can think like humans think. Then, we cut to {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s discussing if humans can think or not.
* ''Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}'':
** Starscream's Brigade has encountered the distilled power of [[CrystalDragonJesus Primus]] in the Matrix, battled against the priest and servants of a chaos god, and communicated with hyperevolved extradimensional beings. Starscream himself is immortal, has seen the afterlife and simply becomes a ghost when his body is destroyed. And yet their master strategist Thrust is repeatedly mocked for his trust in astrology and tarot cards.
** {{Flat Earth Atheist}}s Skyfire and Dreadmoon.
* You'd think [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael]] wouldn't be so fast to discount a few oddities in his world, but in ''Webcomic/MutantNinjaTurtlesGaiden'', he's completely (violently) unwilling to believe that a human could've been turned into a mutant turtle. It's even lampshaded [[http://www.obscurezodiac.com/mntgchapter10.php?p=18 later on]].
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': The eponymous doctor is from a family comprised of ninja who never remove their masks for any reason; he lives next to a haunted forest; his hometown has a zombie contingency plan (and yes, it gets used [[spoiler:because the guy that instituted it [[SetrIGHTWhatOnceWentWrong came from the future specifically to do so]]]]); his mentor was a clone of Benjamin Franklin; and it only gets weirder from there. So what strikes him as unbelievably absurd? 1. A family legend about Irish proto-ninja defending their village by throwing frozen shamrocks, and 2. an ancient South American doomsday device that will go off if no-one plays tennis with it. For the record, he doesn't disbelieve them so much as think they're completely ridiculous. Which they are. Later on in those storylines, he has to use frozen shamrocks to fend off pirates just like the legend goes and the tennis temple merely unveils the BigBookOfEverything left behind by the tribe that build it.
* ''Webcomic/LovelyLovecraft'': Sybilla Mason. She's a descendant of famed witch Keziah Mason, she studies at Miskatonic University, a semi-magical school with an official oath to fight the forces of darkness, and she (presumably) lives in thoroughly mysterious and creepy Arkham. She somehow still manages to dismiss strange disappearances as lovers eloping, mocks the University oath, and refuses to acknowledge Keziah's witchcraft.
* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'':
** Lampshaded: this from a talking dog and a patchwork zombie, whose office also employs a SteamPunk robot, a swarm of bees, and a helicopter with the brain of a video game nerd. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Tip]].
--->'''Sweetheart:''' Werewolves are storybook monsters, Unity!\\
'''Unity:''' You're telling a ''zombie''? Whaddya ''think'' they are?\\
'''Sweetheart:''' I don't know! I thought we were after genetically-engineered talking Canadian super-dogs!\\
'''Unity:''' Yeah, cause that's ''so'' much more real.\\
'''Sweetheart:''' Okay, so this job can get weird.
** Played for laughs again later, when a New Orleans doctor they meet is accepting and completely used to zombies -- but is utterly freaked out when the dog starts talking.
--->'''Remy:''' Sorry. There's weird, there's New Orleans weird, and apparently there's a third tier I wasn't aware of.
** And then it turns out that he believes in the voudon "death-like state" zombies -- he hadn't realized Unity was an actual deadgirl.
** Remy in turn lampshades Sweetheart's reluctance to believe in possession.
--->'''Remy:''' No, I'd never say anything so absurd to a talking dog.
** The usual lampshade is itself subverted when Sweetheart finds it unlikely that the seemingly exploded Tony and Mecututo were actually teleported to Pavane's mothership, and they ask if it's really that strange.
--->'''Sweetheart''': Oh no! You won't get me with that. I won't be so open-minded my brains fall out. I can be a talking dog that lives in a giant robot and still think your thing is weird.
* ''Webcomic/HijinksEnsue'' refers to this as [[http://hijinksensue.com/2009/05/13/a-severe-case-of-scullyosis/ "Scullyosis"]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** {{Discussed|Trope}}:
--->'''TG:''' dude monsters aren't real\\
'''TG:''' that's stupid kids stuff for stupid babies\\
'''EB:''' maybe. yeah you're right.\\
'''TG:''' what are you an idiot\\
'''TG:''' of course there are monsters in your house\\
'''TG:''' you're in some weird evil monster dimension come on\\
'''TG:''' skepticism is the crutch of cinematic troglodytes
** Also played with in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004467 this conversation]] where Karkat scoffs at Kanaya for asking whether magic is real, but then admits that all the stuff Sburb has done for them so far has been magic anyway:
--->'''FCG:''' WE CAN [[ItemCrafting ALCHEMIZE]] [[CombinatorialExplosion PRACTICALLY ANYTHING]] WITH THE RIGHT MATERIALS AND GRIST.\\
'''FCG:''' WE CAN, AND DID, MAKE SUPER POWERFUL WEAPONS AND ITEMS THAT CAN DO PRACTICALLY ANYTHING.\\
'''FCG:''' WHAT ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGE COULD MAGIC OFFER? ALL THIS SHIT IS PRACTICALLY MAGIC ANYWAY.\\
'''FCG:''' BUT MORE LIKE\\
'''FCG:''' [[ScienceFantasy GOOFY SCIENCEY MAGIC.]] YOU KNOW?
** It's something of a RunningGag that a surprising number of characters maintain that magic is fakey-fake bullshit despite knowing about -- and sometimes ''having'' -- God-Tier superpowers.
* By the eighth story arc in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' scientist Jean Poule is rather appalled to realize she has [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1146386 LOST her arbitrary skepticism where Bob is concerned.]]
* [[http://shawntionary.com/clockworks/?p=1302 Seen here]] in ''Webcomic/{{Clockworks}}''

* In ''Webcomic/ThisIsTheWorstIdeaYouveEverHad'' Cynthia, the local CatGirl says vampires don't exist.
* ''Webcomic/DandyAndCompany'': Bernard's teacher is told that they are living with talking or full-on anthropomorphic animals but doesn't believe it. Then the series experiences EarthDrift, talking and anthropomorphic animals turn out to be fairly common and not particularly secretive about it, with some even being celebrities and... he still won't believe.

* ''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy'': When Glenn tells his friends about getting attacked by [[DemBones ambulatory skeletons]] and accidentally acquiring a stick with magic powers, they naturally think he has an overactive imagination. What pushes it into Arbitrary Skepticism is that, even after his friends eventually accept that the stick has magic powers, they continue to insist that walking skeletons can't be real.
* Thief from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' refuses to believe that dragons exist, and actually starts this belief after actually seeing one, and before that he didn't deny they existed when he was told about a dragon. It's later explained as being wishful thinking; he doesn't want dragons to exist so he can stop encountering them.
* Discussed in the notes for one of the Ravenholm strips in ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'':
--> ''"... and others wondered how exactly he could be a zombie and not be a mindless undead creature like the rest of the zombies. It just didn't make sense to some people (oddly, no-one has yet questioned how he is able to not only write letters to Dr. Breen, but also have them promptly delivered)."''
* ''Blog/{{Moonstuck}}'' has Science Woona (a magical unicorn pony with wings) [[http://woonastuck.tumblr.com/post/17150752489 gets pretty upset when science is openly defied.]] Even better -- [[AlterEgoActing Science Woona is just regular Woona]] with NerdGlasses and a [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine labcoat]]. Guess who used her magical unicorn pony princess powers to defy science?
* Rhea Snaketail, from ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'', is actually called out on this by another character.
-->'''Sammy:''' It's funny to hear you excited about Khamega when your best friends are an Angel and a Demon!
* Asia Ellis from ''Webcomic/MorphE'' begins her first lesson in magic flat-out rejecting the concept, and when told how to picture an aura states [[http://morphe.thewebcomic.com/comics/1855012/chapter-2-page-64-skeptic/ "how can I visualize something which does not exist?"]]. She has already used magic herself once in the story before this point and has had telepathic conversations and been teleported from one location to another. This is only counting the magic applied to her person. She does have reasons for holding firmly to her beliefs in reality, however. Something in her past required her to have to relearn everything she once knew and she does not believe herself capable of going through that again.
* Clarice/Agent 146 from ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'': She deals with ghosts on a near-daily basis and has a cybernetic arm. But refuses to believe that [[spoiler:Hope]] has psychic abilities.

* An odd case in ''[[http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/comics/2126040/the-weight-of-skepticism/ Neko The Kitty]]'': Murphy can buy that dragons exist, but not that they can fly. Despite the fact that he ''saw'' Rremly fly in. Unfortunately, dragons also depend on Suspension of Disbelief to do things like fly, so as long as Murphy can't believe, they're all stuck in their current location.
-->'''Rremly:''' I've never had anyone believe I exist but not believe I can fly before. You're weird.
* Inverted in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' where, as is pointed out by the DM (and TheRant), the party endlessly nitpicks at everything in [[Franchise/StarWars the setting]]... except the existence of the Force as a deity, which they just blindly accept as fact, despite it being one of the few elements with an actual scientific explanation given (midichlorians, which are unambiguously the source of Force powers in this version).
* ''Webcomic/AvasDemon'': Gil immediately brushes off Ava's claim that she's made a [[PowersViaPossession pact with a spirit possessing her]], despite the fact that he just watched her manifest PlayingWithFire powers, she's undergone a PowerUpgradingDeformation, and he himself is dogged by an entity that no one but he can see.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', Fido initially considers the idea that a squirrel is a {{ForcedTransformation}}ed human ridiculous. Fox lampshades it:
-->'''Fox''': How is this ridiculous to you!? You are dating a ''literal witch''!
-->'''Fido''': Hey, just because I have witnessed ''direct evidence'' of ghosts, spirits, prophecies of the future, magic(k)al control over time and space okay maybe you have a point.
* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' lampshades it when Sydney [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-107-dabblers-green-card-say-extra-super-super-skilled-alien/ sees through Dabbler's glamour]], and accepts the explanation of her being an alien lifeform. (It helps that Sydney works at a comic book store and reads comics, which can have plots involving superheros and aliens.)
-->'''Maxima''': I have to say, Sydney, you don't seem surprised by the existence of aliens, or that Dabbler is one.\\
'''Sydney''': Says the giant golden superheroine.
** This is a recurring thing with Syndney specifically in the comic. As a life-long proudly self-proclaimed comic nerd, her [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] is at a high enough level to make it practically a super-power in its own right.
* ''Webcomic/BloodIsMine'': PlayedForLaughs. When Jane and Fuse use [[TinfoilHat tin foil hats]] to protect themselves from a psychic attack, Michelle refuses to believe that it worked. When Caius calls her out on this, reminding her that they have all experienced far weirder things already, Michelle says that she just doesn't want [[ConspiracyTheorist Grizwald]] to be right about everything.
* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Despite being a fantastical world filled with magic, the idea of "Unbounds" (travelers from another world) is seen by some as nothing more than myths. Most notably, by Nara. Part of this is because, in typical [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] fashion, most if not all of these people are unable to explain ''how'' they ended up in this new world.

* Jamie from ''[[Literature/TalesOfMU More Tales of MU]]'' has a habit of dismissing as ludicrous rumors that readers know to be true (from [[TheOriginalSeries MU classic]]).
* Phase in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' has been trying to convince her friends (mainly Fey and Chaka) that the New Olympians are really avatars of the original Greek Gods, and not just teenagers who have a cool theme team. Fey, Chaka, and the rest refuse to believe. Fey herself is the incarnation (or something) of a Faerie Queen who is far, far older than the Greek Gods! And they all know Carmilla, who is the child of the demon Gothmog, who some of them have ''met''. And Fey has faced [[Creator/HPLovecraft Mythos-related]] magics. (Eventually, they are convinced, but only after talking the some of the New Olympians about it personally).

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is full of people with physics-defying superpowers, but people still treat the sorts that perceive their powers as magical to be bonkers. This is despite the fact that there is no given scientific explanation for where the powers come from at all. [[spoiler:It turns out that one of the people closes to the truth was one of said kooks. She called the source of powers "faeries" rather than "aliens", but was still pretty much there. You could argue if calling the interdimensional EldritchAbomination SpaceWhale giving people superpowers "magic" is technically correct or not, but it's certainly beyond human understanding.]]
* ''Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes'':
** [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] asks Franklin [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/390a0bca4a71f1da96cd3a2f14ff7693/tumblr_pj6pmnweuX1rxjb9io1_1280.png if he's written a list for Santa]]. When Franklin expresses doubt about the existence of someone who can watch people and deliver presents all over the world, Reed mentions people they've met who actually have that kind of power. Reed concludes that he can't be sure whether Santa exists or not, and decides to leave out some cookies, just in case.
** Likewise, Robin asks Batman if he thinks the Easter Bunny will come while they're on patrol, and Batman answers that Alfred's the one who hides the eggs and he's surprised Robin still believes in the Easter Bunny. Robin points out that, with everything they encounter on a regular basis, a giant rabbit who distributes candy once a year isn't really a stretch.

* Parodied in ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'' with their video "War of Christmas". The basic plot is that Christmas-related objects (tree ornaments, ribbons, inflatable Santas, etc.) are attacking people. Somebody asks if this could be the work of SantaClaus, leading another person to reply along the lines of "Santa Claus? Grow up! This is serious...like the Easter Bunny!" Worth noting that it's never actually stated if it ''is'' Santa or not.

* Despite ''WebVideo/CaptainDisillusion'' being all about debunking hoax videos and remaining skeptical, the titular Captain D doesn't question [[DeadpanSnarker wisecracking]] living lens flares, [[SmallNameBigEgo egotistical]] floating heads, and the other weird things he encounters. This attitude is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] in "The Undebunkable", where he argues that [[AnAesop doubting and mistrusting everything you see is just as bad as believing everything you see]], as it can lead to the ConspiracyTheorist mindset.
* Shane, the co-host of ''WebVideo/BuzzfeedUnsolved''. In a show that is ostensibly about capturing evidence of ghosts and other paranormal creatures, he has dismissed everything from flashlights turning on at command to voices being caught on EVP to footsteps being audibly heard during one of their investigations as simply coming from natural causes. It's become a running joke in the fandom that for him to actually believe in ghosts, they'd probably have to drop-kick him into the floor.
* Lampshaded during the ''WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd'' review of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', where James Rolfe points out the irony that fans complained that aliens shouldn't exist in the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise despite the fact that supernatural curses do.