History Main / CassandraDidIt

-->'''Moe:''' ''(in response to a near-miss meteor strike)'' Let's burn down the observatory, so this can never happen again!

** Mirabel herself plays a similar role; when she first claims that she has seen cracks forming in the casita, she's dismissed, but once they start appearing unmistakably where others can see them, Abuela shifts to blaming her for somehow causing them.

** Bruno Madrigalis a superstitious man with [[{{Seers}} the Gift of Future Vision]]. To his displeasure, a majority of his visions foretold bad things, leading to the entire town blaming him for all the misfortune that would come to be. [[spoiler:When he read his latest vision of how [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel]] would play a part in [[TheMagicGoesAway the destruction of the Madrigal magic]], or its stability, Bruno was aware of how horribly the family and town would react to this. Believing that everyone would hate him and ostracize his niece, he decided to self-exile into the walls of Casita without sharing his last vision]].

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' features Bruno Madrigal, a superstitious man with [[{{Seers}} the Gift of Future Vision]]. To his displeasure, a majority of his visions foretold bad things, leading to the entire town blaming him for all the misfortune that would come to be. [[spoiler:When he read his latest vision of how [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel]] would play a part in [[TheMagicGoesAway the destruction of the Madrigal magic]], or its stability, Bruno was aware of how horribly the family and town would react to this. Believing that everyone would hate him and ostracize his niece, he decided to self-exile into the walls of Casita without sharing his last vision]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "Bridle Gossip": Twilight and friends confront [[RhymesOnADime Zecora]], a mysterious zebra who lives in [[EnchantedForest the Everfree Forest]] and whom everyone suspects of being a witch. Zecora departs into the woods with a cryptic warning about "those leaves of blue" the ponies are standing near, which the other ponies assume is some kind of curse. Sure enough, [[ScrewballSerum a weird affliction]] strikes the ponies the next day, and guess who they blame? Naturally, Zecora has nothing to do with their condition, and it turned out to be the fault of the blue-leaved plants they were walking through earlier, which are actually a magical plant called [[JustForPun "poison joke"]]; when they confront her, she was actually in the middle of making them a cure.

** It’s also subtly implied that Loghain did internally know the truth, but was unable to consciously accept it. After all, to admit the threat was to accept the aid of Orlais, for which he’s held a not-IrrationalHatred after having fought their invasion which [[YouKilledMyFather killed his parents]]; the prospect of a threat big enough to ‘’require’’ Orlesian aid on Ferelden soil turned him into TheParanoiac.

* Disney's ''{{WesternAnimation/Encanto}}'' features Bruno Madrigal, a superstitious man with [[{{Seers}} the Gift of Future Vision]]. To his displeasure, a majority of his visions foretold bad things, leading to the entire town blaming him for all the misfortune that would come to be. [[spoiler:When he read his latest vision of how [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel]] would play a part in [[TheMagicGoesAway the destruction of the Madrigal magic]], or its stability, Bruno was aware of how horribly the family and town would react to this. Believing that everyone would hate him and ostracize his niece, he decided to self-exile into the walls of Casita without sharing his last vision]].

---> '''Abuela:''' ''What did you do?!''

* Janet Lunn's novel ''Shadow In Hawthorn Bay'' features a Scottish protagonist named Mairi who has the gift of second sight. She has a vision of frozen gardens and says, "There will be no summer next year." The other people in her Upper Canada settlement don't believe her. When the area suffers an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer unseasonably cold and wet summer,]] the settlers decide that since Mairi knew about the strange weather beforehand, she must have caused it.

* In ''Series/Charmed1998,'' Phoebe is a juror in a case where the plaintiff, a [[MagiciansAreWizards magician]], is accused of killing his ex-wife; one of the main pieces of evidence is that he told the police where her body was, which he claims to have seen in a vision. While you can forgive the {{Muggle}} characters for not buying this, it somehow [[ArbitrarySkepticism never occurs to Phoebe]], who has magical visions about OncePerEpisode, that he could possibly be telling the truth...until she gets a vision of the murder and sees that it was somebody else.

-->'''Moe:''' ''[in response to a near-miss meteor strike]'' Let's burn down the observatory, so this can never happen again!

%%** This happens to an Elgyem in episode 33 of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}: Best Wishes''.

* In ''Series/{{Charmed}},'' Phoebe is a juror in a case where the plaintiff, a [[MagiciansAreWizards magician]], is accused of killing his ex-wife; one of the main pieces of evidence is that he told the police where her body was, which he claims to have seen in a vision. While you can forgive the {{Muggle}} characters for not buying this, it somehow [[ArbitrarySkepticism never occurs to Phoebe]], who has magical visions about OncePerEpisode, that he could possibly be telling the truth...until she gets a vision of the murder and sees that it was somebody else.

-->-- '''Bruno''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}''

* In a ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' parody storyline in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Der Trihs tells the authorities that a shark is behind the killings, but they don't believe him because [[MisplacedWildlife sharks aren't native to that world]]. He sarcastically suggests that it must have been a stealth submarine with a shark-jaw mechanism, and they immediately decide that Der Trihs is responsible, and it was ''his'' stealth shark-submarine, and arrest him. Even when the MadScientist who created the sharks confesses, the police are convinced that he was Der Trihs's co-conspirator. After the whole thing is cleared up, Massey (the Toughs' lawyer) says he's going to sue them for impersonating a police force.

* Disney's ''{{WesternAnimation/Encanto}}'' features Bruno Madrigal, a superstitious man with [[{{Seers}} the Gift of Future Vision]]. To his displeasure, a majority of his visions foretold bad things leading to the entire town blaming him for all the misfortune that would come to be. [[spoiler:When he read his latest vision of how [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel]] would play a part in [[TheMagicGoesAway the destruction of the Madrigal magic]], or its stability, Bruno was aware of how horribly the family and town would react to this. Believing that everyone would hate him and ostracize his niece, he decided to self-exile into the walls of Casita without sharing his last vision]].

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', some people will occasionally try to invoke this on Gandalf, since he only tends to show up when things are about to get bad. This usually leads to Gandalf sarcastically asking if they'd rather forgo his help in the face of great danger.

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[spoiler: Homura keeps trying to warn characters about the future, but they won't believe her warnings. When this future does eventually come true, Kyubey insinuates that the tragedy of it is actually all her fault, because it was her trying to warn everyone about the consequences that made said consequences even worse. Homura effectively turns the situation from "her friend dying" to "her friend becoming evil and so powerful the entire world is destroyed." This applies to timelines 1-4, in which Homura keeps making things worse; timelines 5 and 6 change everything.]] Subtly subverted because [[spoiler:it's implied that the events actually ''were'' in a way, TheCassandra's fault, rather than this being a scapegoat situation]].

* According to the ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' book that was released for charity, Auguries in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' are feared because they're said to prophesise death. [[spoiler: They really cry in advance of bad weather.]]

* Janet Lunn's novel ''Shadow In Hawthorn Bay'' features a Scottish protagonist named Mairi who has the gift of second sight. She has a vision of frozen gardens and says, "There will be no summer next year." The other people in her Upper Canada settlement don't believe her. When the area suffers an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer unseasonably cold and wet summer]], the settlers decide that since Mairi knew about the strange weather beforehand, she must have caused it.

* A variation occurs in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', when a "psychic" shows up to help the detectives find a girl who's been kidnapped and raped. He tells the team that she's beneath running water; later on, they find her body underneath water pipes. Stabler, being [[CowboyCop who he is]], immediately suspects that the psychic was somehow responsible. [[spoiler: He was.]]

* This can be found in the [[Literature/TheBible Book of Jeremiah]], making it OlderThanFeudalism. Jeremiah had spent the last years of the kingdom of Judah warning about the exile that the Judeans will go through if they continue worshiping pagan gods. Then the exile happens, and the people blame Jeremiah's crowd stopping the worship of the pagan gods as the reason for the exile! Jeremiah 44:17-18:
-->'''Judean pagan worshippers in Pathros:''' On the contrary, we will do everything we have vowed -- to make offerings to the Queen of Heaven and to pour libations to her, as we used to do, we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty to eat, we were well off, and suffered no misfortune. But ever since we stopped making offerings to the Queen of Heaven and pouring libations to her, we have lacked everything, and we have been consumed by the sword and by famine!

* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': The prophet Nephi denounces the spread of organised crime amongst the people, and prophetically announces that the chief judge has just been murdered by the "secret combinations". When he's found to be right, several of the judges (who belong to such organisations themselves, and didn't appreciate his call to repentance) have him arrested and charged as a conspirator to the murder.

* In Literature/TheBookOfMormon, the prophet Nephi is arrested as a suspected accomplice for correctly announcing that the chief judge has just been murdered. He then informs the authorities of the identity of the true culprit as well as how to trick him into confessing while also clearing his own name.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': When Yamamoto confronts Mayuri about the steps Mayuri's taken to counter the [[PuttingOnTheReich Vandenreich's]] potentially world-unbalancing activities, he briefly tries to pin the blame for the extent of the problem on Mayuri and his division's competence level. Mayuri retaliates by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech pointing out]] the only one to blame is Yamamoto himself for ignoring Mayuri's CassandraTruth two years beforehand as paranoia when it was Yamamoto's own fault for not killing the cause of the problem years ago. Yamamoto's forced to back down.
* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': [[InspectorJavert Inspector Lunge]] outright refuses to believe [[TheHero Dr. Tenma's]] story that a ten year old boy could have possibly committed multiple homicides, believing instead that Tenma is the real killer. He goes through various revisions to his theory starting with the Johan story being a poor attempt on Tenma's part to feign innocence, up to "Johan" being the [[JekyllAndHyde good doctor's murderous]] SplitPersonality. [[spoiler: He figures out the truth eventually, but by then there's already a massive body count.]]

* Janet Lunn's novel ''Shadow In Hawthorn Bay'' features a Scottish protagonist named Mairi who has the gift of second sight. She has a vision of frozen gardens and says, "There will be no summer next year." The other people in her Upper Canada settlement don't believe her. When the area suffers an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer unseasonably cold and wet summer]], the settlers decide that since Mairi knew about the strange weather beforehand, she must have caused it.
* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', some people will occasionally try to invoke this on Gandalf, since he only tends to show up when things are about to get bad. This usually leads to Gandalf sarcastically asking if they'd rather forgo his help in the face of great danger.
-->'''Wormtongue:''' Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear. "''Lathspell''" I name you: ill news, and an ill guest!
* Part of the reason Zorian keeps a low profile in ''Literature/MotherOfLearning'' is because he realises that his in-depth knowledge about the Cult of the Dragon Below and the upcoming invasion of Cyoria would sound to the authorities like he's ''involved'' in those things. "A time traveller [[GroundhogDayLoop endlessly repeating the month]]" will not be their first guess.
* "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": Hari Seldon is taken to court due to his claims that the [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] is [[VestigialEmpire falling apart]] and will completely collapse within a few centuries. The charge is disloyalty and attempt to incite trouble. The punishment is exile to the furthest planet in the galaxy, [[BatmanGambit exactly what he wished]].

* This set in motion the plot of ''Series/{{Psych}}''. Main character Shawn was trained to be hyper-observant by his father, in hopes that he would follow in his footsteps and become a police detective. Unfortunately, Shawn goes through a rebellious streak and instead takes on a plethora of odd jobs while occasionally using his skills to solve crimes based on mere minutes of news footage. The police refuse to believe Shawn could really be ''that'' good an amateur sleuth, and decide he was actually right all of those times because he's a criminal in the know. So Shawn claims that he's really psychic, then uses a number of things he's already noticed to correctly deduce information about his interrogators. The chief realizes he's a useful tool, and by the end of the episode, Shawn's set up a fake psychic detective agency called Psych.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', more than once, the Doctor has been blamed for bringing about whatever catastrophe of the week he's there to save everyone from, despite them having ignored his warnings about it. InUniverse, he's gained something of a reputation as a herald of doom, given that he nearly always shows up on the heels of disaster and a ridiculously high body count is likely to follow. Never mind that if he ''weren't'' there, many planets and indeed the whole of reality would have been obliterated several times over. To some extent, this is his fault, as he rarely accepts credit or reward for his actions and prefers to remain anonymous to the universe at large, guaranteeing that he will be ShroudedInMyth.
* A variation occurs in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', when a "psychic" shows up to help the detectives find a girl who's been kidnapped and raped. He tells the team that she's beneath running water; later on, they find her body underneath water pipes. Stabler, being [[CowboyCop who he is]], immediately suspects that the psychic was somehow responsible. [[spoiler: He was.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "Bridle Gossip": Twilight and friends confront [[RhymesOnADime Zecora]], a mysterious zebra who lives in [[TheLostWoods the Everfree Forest]] and whom everyone suspects of being a witch. Zecora departs into the woods with a cryptic warning about "those leaves of blue" the ponies are standing near, which the other ponies assume is some kind of curse. Sure enough, [[ScrewballSerum a weird affliction]] strikes the ponies the next day, and guess who they blame? Naturally, Zecora has nothing to do with their condition, and it turned out to be the fault of the blue-leaved plants they were walking through earlier, which are actually a magical plant called [[JustForPun "poison joke"]]; when they confront her, she was actually in the middle of making them a cure.