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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'': "Never trust a bunny" is used by the Wolf as an IronicEcho. When he first says it, he and Twitchy have just made the mistake of trusting Boingo for directions to Granny Puckett's house, which has led them into a bat-infested cave. Twitchy nods in approval. However, it becomes more powerful later when, after Flippers makes TheReveal about who the culprit is, the Wolf says, "[[IKnewIt I knew it!]] Never trust a bunny!"

* From ''Space Girl''

* 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." Yep, ValuesDissonance ahoy.

Compare IrrationalHatred. Not to be confused with ''Series/DontTrustTheBInApartment23'', or with not trusting ThoseTwoGuys.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' games
** ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'' has the immortal OneLiner: "Never trust a bartender with [[{{Pluralses}} bad grammar]]."
** A randomly comedic line in ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is "Fat people always lie."
** In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', Atton distrusts droids, both those who deserve his distrust (HK-50) and those who do not (T3-M4).
* Jagre from ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'': "If there's one thing I hate, it's a goddamn martial artist".
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': "Never trust an elf!" -- Is the annoyed quote of Grand Marshall Garithos, who's a capital R racist to anything non-human and treating them horribly because they're not human. Not only does this result in Prince Kael'thas and the Blood Elves consorting to demonic forces under Illidan that promised 'better treatment' and then having them betray the Alliance (and Garithos, ProperlyParanoid or not, planned to just execute them), other races within the Alliance (especially Dwarves) ''hates'' him and this made him easy pickings for Sylvanas to use as a pawn to reclaim Lordaeron and killed him when he ran out of use and no one, not even future Alliance leaders like the Wrynn family, had anything good to say on him.

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'': Among drunkard Farnham's words of wisdom: "I've never seen [Adria the witch] eat or drink, and you can't trust somebody who doesn't drink at least a little." [[spoiler:''Videogame/DiabloIII'' reveals that he was right to be wary of her.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'', the in-game encyclopedia entry for the city-state of Sidon mentions the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] princess Jezebel, who -- according to the [[Literature/BooksOfKings first Book of Kings]] -- married the UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}ite king Ahab, promoted [[Myth/CanaaniteMythology Phoenician paganism]] over [[UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} the Hebrew faith]], and eventually got assassinated by her own eunuchs and [[FedToTheBeast thrown to the dogs in the street]]. As the Civilopedia puts it: "There are two great lessons from this story for all rulers: first, don't mess with the people's religion, and second, [[EunuchsAreEvil never trust the royal eunuchs]]."

* In ''Fanfic/HuntingSeries'' it's revealed that despite the Agents letting the hunters live in the Matrix, the hunters never really trust the Agents because of the normal rebels getting killed on a regular basis.
** 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.
*** In part four - ''Ghostry Hunting'' Agent Moore appears and apparently wants to help them, they still don't trust him.

** Also Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #47: "Never trust a man wearing a better suit than your own."
*** It may seem [[{{Hypocrite}} odd]] for the Ferengi to advise distrust of the wealthy, but it may be [[JustifiedTrope prudent]] if you interpret the other guy's wealth as proof that he's better at wheeling and dealing than you are.

** Littlefinger 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."
*** Later on, [[spoiler:when Littlefinger betrays Ned, he says "I did warn you not to trust me."]]

* 30h!3's 'Don't Trust Me.' "Don't trust a ho, never trust a ho, won't trust a ho, WON'T TRUST ME."

* ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}: VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'' has the immortal OneLiner: "Never trust a bartender with [[{{Pluralses}} bad grammar]]."
* A randomly comedic line in ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is "Fat people always lie."

** ''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.

This trope usually appears when a character has had a past problem with a member of a specific ethnicity/religion/ideology/[[DoesNotLikeMen gen]][[HeManWomanHater der]]/species/[[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.

* Sarge from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' HATES the blues. He always takes the opportunity to remind his team to never trust a dirty blue. Church later comes to subvert this in a speech explaining why you should and should not hate someone.

* ''Literature/DragonlanceTheNewAdventures'': In ''Bronze Dragon Codex'', the human protagonist Tatelyn hates all dragons, even metallic ones, since a metallic dragon ([[spoiler:Asvoria inside Raedon the copper dragon's body]]) attacked her village. Simle the bronze dragon hates all humans, since some evil ones stole her siblings' eggs to turn into draconians.

** Also Ferengi Rule of Acquistion #47: "Never trust a man wearing a better suit than your own."

** 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."

* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': "Never trust an elf!" -- Is the annoyed quote of Grand Marshall Garithos, who's a capital R racist to anything non-human and treating them horribly because they're not human. Not only this results Prince Kael'thas and the Blood Elves consort to demonic forces under Illidan that promised 'better treatment' and then having them betray the Alliance (and Garithos, ProperlyParanoid or not, planned to just execute them), other races within the Alliance (especially Dwarves) ''hates'' him and this made him easy pickings for Sylvanas to use as a pawn to reclaim Lordaeron and killed him when he ran out of use and no one, not even future Alliance leaders like the Wrynn family, had anything good to say on him.

** Similar to Tali, Jaavik hates synthetic life-forms, telling Shepard to get rid of EDI and Legion at every opportunity.

--> '''Church''' You shouldn't hate someone for being red or blue. You should hate someone when they are an asshole.

-->--''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V''

-->--''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} 5''

* ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}: [[VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'' has the immortal OneLiner: "Never trust a bartender with [[{{Pluralses}} bad grammar]]."

* ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}: Jedi Knight II'' has the immortal OneLiner: "Never trust a bartender with [[{{Pluralses}} bad grammar]]."

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* This very wiki has NeverTrustATrailer, though there's unlikely to be any Aesop against our anti-trailer bias anytime soon. Trailers really are AlwaysChaoticEvil though. So that's okay. Except for the one behind [[{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]]. Ultra Magnus', remains uncertain...

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* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' has "Never trust actors."
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has "never trust an elf" and "never deal with a dragon" as two of its most oft-quoted pieces of street wisdom.
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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]]

** On Gallifrey they have a saying: "Never turn your back on a Prydonian." The Doctor, the Master, and Romana all belong to said caste. The last isn't an expected member, but she used the excuse that her predecessor drank alcohol as grounds to depose her and assume the presidency. [[ManBitesMan She also bites.]]

** On Gallifrey they have a saying: "Never turn your back on a Prydonian." The Doctor, the Master, and Romana all belong to said caste. If you think TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers, she used the excuse that her predecessor drank alcohol as grounds to depose her and assume the presidency. [[ManBitesMan She also bites.]]

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

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': "Never trust a toon."
** Not just Toons.
--->'''Valiant:''' Drop it, lady!\\
'''Jessica:''' I just saved your life and you still don't trust me?\\
'''Valiant:''' I don't trust anybody or anything!

This trope usually appears when a character has had a past problem with a member of a specific ethnicity/religion/ideology/gender/species/[[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.

** Cassandra in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1NewEarth New Earth]]": "Never trust a nun, never trust a nurse and ''never'' trust a cat." By the way, we're dealing with people who are all three at once. Nun nurse cat-people. Although in that case they really shouldn't have been trusted...

** In "The Green Death", the Doctor tells a joke that ends with the line "Never Trust A Venusian Shanghorn." It's the [[OrphanedPunchline only part of the joke we get to hear]].
** Cassandra in the episode "New Earth": "Never trust a nun, never trust a nurse and ''never'' trust a cat." By the way, we're dealing with people who are all three at once. Nun nurse cat-people. Although in that case they really shouldn't have been trusted...
** The Cybermen on the Master, in "The Five Doctors": "He is an alien. Aliens are not to be trusted." The Cyberleader then disagrees: "[[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves It is not necessary to trust him]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer reminds the audience at Hullabalooza not to trust anyone over 30.

This trope usually appears when a character has had a past problem with a member of a specific ethnicity/religion/gender/species/[[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.

Obviously this is subverted if it turns out that, whoops, yes, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil all AB-positives are in fact evil]] and [[TheFarmerAndTheViper not to be trusted.]] It's InTheBlood, as it were. Normally only done in cases of FantasticRacism, although certain authors actually try to make RealLife groups fit this mold. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Never trust an author like that.]]

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' parodied this - actually using [[PersonalityBloodTypes blood type AB]] as their example. TheStraightMan Haruhi brushes this off as superstition -- until she learns that Kyouya belongs to this group, which leaves her totally convinced.

--> '''Gimli:''' [[ElvesVsDwarves Never trust an elf!]]
* Subverted in the ''Film/IRobot'' movie (not the books): the robots really weren't to be trusted. Except for one.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Green Death", The Doctor tells a joke that ends with the line "Never Trust A Venusian Shanghorn." It's the [[OrphanedPunchline only part of the joke we get to hear]].
** Cassandra in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "New Earth", "Never trust a nun, never trust a nurse and ''never'' trust a cat." By the way, we're dealing with people who are all three at once. Nun nurse cat-people. Although in that case they really shouldn't have been trusted...

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in one episode of ''Father of the Pride'', where the MoralOfTheStory is that just because somebody's from a poor minority group doesn't mean they're incapable of crime.
* ''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.

* This very wiki has NeverTrustATrailer, though there's unlikely to be any Aesop against our anti-trailer bias anytime soon.
** Trailers really are AlwaysChaoticEvil though. So that's okay.
*** Except for the one behind [[{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]]. Ultra Magnus', I'm not so sure about...

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** Steiner of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' despises thieves and brigands... which isn't unreasonable except for the inordinate length of time it takes him to acknowledge that [[LoveableRogue Zidane]] is a worthy ally. He also continues to act as though Garnet's absence from Alexandria was Zidane's fault even after Garnet makes it clear that she would have left anyway and that Zidane was hired by ''her own uncle'' to spirit her away for her own protection.

* Weiss Schnee of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' holds the opinion that all [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] are treacherous criminals and terrorists, stemming from her family's conflicts with the White Fang, a Faunus terrorist group. [[spoiler:She's none too pleased when it turns out her teammate Blake Belladonna is not only a Faunus but a former White Fang member too (though, of course, Blake is a very moral person... emphasis on '''former''' White Fang member)]].

---> '''Church''' You shouldn't hate someone for being red or blue. You should hate someone when they are an asshole.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Never trust something that bleeds for four days but doesn't die.
** Also in ''South Park'', Cartman once did a school project on how Gingers are evil. The other kids tried to teach him an Aesop by sneaking into his room at night and making him look like a Ginger. Cartman immediately set about organising the Gingers into an EvilArmy.
* This exchange between OJ Simpson and... er, Roger Rabbit in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':

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

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