History Main / DoesntTrustThoseGuys

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** Smith is a subverted example as he's the only Agent that Sam, Jess and Dean along with Bobby, John and Neo trust. The reason - he's become an '''ex-''' Agent.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': deals with the social themes of prejudice, profiling, and stereotyping. In this world, foxes as a species have the unfortunate social stigma of being considered sly, shifty and untrustworthy.

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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Catelyn Stark warns her son never to trust a Greyjoy. Robb Stark doesn't listen and sends Theon Greyjoy to negotiate an alliance with his father Balon. Robb forgot that the reason he grew up with Theon and regards him as his best friend is because Theon is a hostage for his father's good behaviour. With his son delivered back to him on a plate, there's nothing to stop Balon Greyjoy from turning on the Starks.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. King Robb's mother warns him to "never trust a Greyjoy!" He ignores this advice and dispatches his childhood friend Theon Greyjoy to make an alliance with his father. Unfortunately Theon was sent to Winterfell as a child to make sure the rebellious Greyjoys stayed in line. Not only has Robb returned their hostage, Theon also knows that Winterfell is weakly defended.

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* Billy Blade promoted [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Vendetta Pro Wrestling]] as a place of tolerance and equal opportunity, but when it came time to give a foreigner a booking, he was always apprehensive. When he was champion and the time came to give a brown man a title shot he always resisted, because the truth is he doesn't trust you kind of people.[[/folder]]

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* "Put not your trust in princes, in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation." -- [[Literature/TheBible Psalm 146]]

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** Tali hates all AI and synthetics, since her people were driven off their planet by the geth.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': "Never trust an elf!" Good advice considering who he's talking about here, isn't it?
** Garithos also has it out for dwarves, naga, demons (although that one's [[AlwaysChaoticEvil justified]]) -- really, just about anyone who isn't [[FantasticRacism human]]. He's just less ''quotable'' on subjects that aren't elves.
*** And, of course, [[TheCorruptible Kael'thas]] only betrays humanity and sides with Vashj, Illidan and the demons [[DramaticIrony because Garithos was going to execute all of Kael's troops]].
*** And yet, Garithos was only going to execute Kael and his troops because [[ProperlyParanoid he repeatedly consorts with the servants of the Demon Lord Illidan]],[[labelnote:*]]While technically Illidan isn't a Demon Lord, neither Kael'thas nor Garithos could have known that, what with the way Vashj introduces herself and refers to Illidan as such[[/labelnote]] and [[ShootTheDog there really was no way to salvage executing a crown prince, so he might as well deal with all of them immediately rather than have a rebellion on his hands]].

* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': Ripley is outraged to learn that there is an android on the mission, after what one did in the first movie. A key subplot of the movie is that this one proves to be a hero.

** The D'regs in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' also pride themselves on being untrustworthy:
-->'''Ahmed:''' He is being looked after by an old lady whom I trust.\\

** ''Jingo'' also features a brief monologue from Commander Vimes about how quick people are to blame Them for the troubles of the world, rather than admit that the fault might be with Us.
** Discworld/{{Mort}} has "Never trust a Grand Vizier." (Though it's a bit different from other examples of this trope, as that's actually [[EvilChancellor pretty sensible advice]].)

** Littlefingrer is teaching the ways of the royal court to Ned Stark:"Do you have someone in your household you can trust?"
Ned, eagerly "Yes." Littlefinger:"Wrong answer."

* In literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe Mr. Beaver says, “But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.”

* ''Disney/FrozenII'': King Runeard doesn't trust the Northuldra, since they practice magic.

* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'': deals with the social themes of prejudice, profiling, and stereotyping. In this world, foxes as a species have the unfortunate social stigma of being considered sly, shifty and untrustworthy.

* ''Series/MASH'': A couple of times, Sherman T. Potter says, "Colonels, can't trust any of them," despite the fact that [[BoomerangBigot he himself is a colonel.]] Justified in that unlike most colonels seen in the series, Potter is not bucking to become a general.

* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'''s SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}: "How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants."

* A randomly comedic line in ''Franchise/StarWars: KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is "Fat people always lie."

This trope usually appears when a character has had a past problem with a member of a specific ethnicity/species/nationality/religion/[[PersonalityBloodTypes blood type]] or what-have-you. Ever since that time in the past, the character has known that anyone else belonging to his particular Target Group of Rage is not to be trusted. Call them [[CrazySurvivalist crazy,]] they're just [[CrazyPrepared prepared.]] "You can ''Never Trust'' a type AB-positive!" the character will exclaim at every opportunity.

* The D'regs in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' also pride themselves on being untrustworthy:

** Discworld/{{Mort}} has "Never trust a Grand Vizier." (Though it's a bit different from other examples of this trope, as that's actually [[EvilVizier pretty sensible advice]].)

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': According to Wakka, you can never trust an Al Bhed. He eventually gets over it, after finding out that Yuna is half-Al Bhed and Rikku is full Al Bhed.

* The trailers for ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' included the caption "[[CaptainObvious Never trust a pirate.]]"

* This exchange between OJ Simpson and... er, Rodger Rabbit in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
-->'''Rodger Rabbit:''' I knew I couldn't trust your kind!\\

'''Rodger Rabbit:''' [[FantasticRacism REAL PEOPLE! I MEANT REAL PEOPLE!]]

* In ''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon'', Creator/GeorgeOrwell quotes a proverb along these lines: "Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian." ValuesDissonance ahoy.

Not to be confused with ''Series/DontTrustTheBInApartment23''.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Catelyn Stark warns her son never to trust a Greyjoy. Robb Stark doesn't listen and sends Theon Greyjoy to negotiate an alliance with his father Balon. Robb forgot that the reason he grew up with Theon and regards him as his best friend is because Theon is a hostage for his father's good behaviour. With his son delivered back to him on a plate, there's nothing to stop Balon from turning on the Starks, and Theon's knowledge of the Starks weaknesses comes in very useful.

* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'''s CrowningMomentOfFunny: "How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants."