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* Averted in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode VI: Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Han Solo says, "I've just got a feeling I might not see her again," as the Millennium Falcon flies off to do battle with the Death Star. He does.
** This led to an annoying persistent UrbanLegend saying that the "original script" had Lando actually dying at the end, but was changed because "test audiences" (for which ''Star Wars'' movies are never screened) disapproved. Thankfully, it's since been [[http://web.archive.org/web/20040904153521/http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/feature/20000530/ debunked]].
*** The Rebels ''were'' about to walk (or fly) into a trap, however.
** Twisted a little in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''; when Anakin leaves his mother behind on Tatooine, she tries to convince him that they will meet again. They do, a film later, but only when she's dying.

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Averted in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode VI: Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Han Solo says, "I've just got a feeling I might not see her again," as the Millennium Falcon flies off to do battle with the Death Star. He does.
** This led to an annoying persistent UrbanLegend saying that the "original script" had Lando actually dying at the end, but was changed because "test audiences" (for which ''Star Wars'' movies are never screened) disapproved. Thankfully, it's since been [[http://web.archive.org/web/20040904153521/http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/feature/20000530/ debunked]].
*** The Rebels ''were'' about to walk (or fly) into a trap, however.
** Twisted a little in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''; when When Anakin leaves his mother behind on Tatooine, she tries to convince him that they will meet again. They do, a film later, but only when she's dying.
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* Happens a lot in ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles''.

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* An ironic example in ''Film/TouchOfEvil'’: Hank Quinlan suspects of who did the car bombing of the film's opening through sheer gut feeling and [[FrameUp plants evidence on him]] rather than do the proper investigation, leading to the rest of the plot when [[ByTheBookCop Agent Mike Vargas]] catches him doing it and discovers that Quinlan has been doing this for a very long time now to other suspects. After everything is said and done [[spoiler:and Quinlan has been killed trying to destroy (and then kill) Vargas]], another officer reports that the man Quinlan suspected confessed and supplied proper evidence of his crime, which leads [[SchiffOneLiner to one final ironic statement about Quinlan]]:
-->He was a great detective, but [[DirtyCop a lousy cop]].
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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', a prequel set in the 60s, the player's character stops the FemmeFatale from shooting an adversary for no particular reason (WordOfGod suggests a naive crush - ). Later it turns out that adversary is both TheMole in the organization of the BigBad and a very significant character in the timeline of the entire series.

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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', a prequel set in the 60s, the player's character stops the FemmeFatale from shooting an adversary for no particular reason (WordOfGod suggests a naive crush - ). Later it turns out that adversary is both TheMole in the organization of the BigBad and a very significant character in the timeline of the entire series.
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* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E1Aftermath Aftermath]]": Lee Shaw has a bad feeling about approaching the [[BigCreepyCrawlies Endoswarmer]] nest in the abandoned Kazakh power plant, despite Keiko and Bill both being confident that it's okay. It turns out Lee's gut was right when the eggs hatch and swarm him and Keiko, [[spoiler:killing the latter]].
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': When she is questioned by Poppy why she is helping a potentially dangerous stranger that just fell from the sky, Nori justifies her actions by responding she just knows he is important and that they were fated to meet.
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* ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury'': One of the reporters assigned to travel with O'Brien, Cliff Robston, is intercepted by his father when he aims to leave his house for the fateful duty. The father tells him that he's got a bad feeling about the whole matter, but Cliff assures him that he'll be fine. [[ForegoneConclusion Unfortunately, he won't]].
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** A RunningGag with Sayaka Maizono is for her to respond to Makoto's inner monologue, claim to be psychic, and then state that she's kidding and just has really good intuition.

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** A RunningGag with Sayaka Maizono is for her to respond to Makoto's inner monologue, claim to be psychic, and then state that she's kidding and just has really good intuition. [[spoiler: On the other hand, her ending in ''School Mode'', implies that Sayaka might be a psychic after all]].
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* ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad Belagarath the Sorcerer]]'', prequel to the Belgariad: everyone who interacts with Zedar feels vaguely uneasy, making his FaceHeelTurn little surprise to the reader (If there was any surprise left, since it's a prequel).

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* ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad Belagarath Belgarath the Sorcerer]]'', prequel to the Belgariad: everyone who interacts with Zedar feels vaguely uneasy, making his FaceHeelTurn little surprise to the reader (If there was any surprise left, since it's a prequel).
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Often the main character isn't aware of this, it's just that the villain conveniently turns out to be someone they were uneasy about all along. Sometimes, though, characters are willing to risk a lot on that gut feeling. Then this happens they're usually right.

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Often the main character isn't aware of this, it's just that the villain conveniently turns out to be someone they were uneasy about all along. Sometimes, though, characters are willing to risk a lot on that gut feeling. Then When this happens they're usually right.
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* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': After Matsuri is split into a boy and girl, one of which has to be a clone, none of Reo's {{Magitek}} tests can tell which. Despite this, Shadow Mei is able to feel [[spoiler:the boy]] was "made from grudges" like she was, and thus the clone. Girl Matsuri can also feel that [[spoiler:even if she's the human, destroying boy Matsuri will keep her from ever being a boy again]].
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* ''Literature/{{Once}}'': Thom Kindred recalls his [[spoiler: [[AlchemicElementals un]][[OurFairiesAreDifferent dine]]-turned-human]] mother Bethan's talk of the "inner voice," an unimpeachable awareness, innate to all, and distinct from the flesh it inhabits.

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* In ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', Naomi Misora meets up with an "unprivate detective" named Rue Ryuzaki. She feels like something is "off" about Rue, but she can't quite figure out ''what'' other than that he seems to be something of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. Because of this, she doesn't ''like'' Rue, but [[TeethClenchedTeamwork agrees to work with him and humor him to solve the case]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:she was right to think poorly of Rue, because ''he'' is actually the SerialKiller they've been looking for, Beyond Birthday]]. This makes her grabbing of the IdiotBall [[spoiler:and resulting death]] in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' series proper all the more jarring.

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* In ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', ''Literature/AnotherNote'', Naomi Misora meets up with an "unprivate detective" named Rue Ryuzaki. She feels like something is "off" about Rue, but she can't quite figure out ''what'' other than that he seems to be something of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. Because of this, she doesn't ''like'' Rue, but [[TeethClenchedTeamwork agrees to work with him and humor him to solve the case]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:she was right to think poorly of Rue, because ''he'' is actually the SerialKiller they've been looking for, Beyond Birthday]]. This makes her grabbing of the IdiotBall [[spoiler:and resulting death]] in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' series proper all the more jarring.



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* Carth Onasi insists in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' that Revan is not dead: "I feel like I would know!" By this point, of course, Carth has demonstrated a degree of prescience on several occasions (his Wookieepedia entry questions whether or not he's Force Sensitive), so he's not pulling this particular gut feeling out of nowhere.
** Carth appears to have an extremely well-honed [=BS=] detector. Part of it is borderline paranoia after being betrayed so horribly, but even when he's over most of those issues, he will frequently point out that something is very wrong with the whole setup, the Jedi, and your PlayerCharacter. ''And he turns out dead right on all fronts.'' In the comic story, his instincts about Zayne Carrick also turn out to be right, despite the bounty on Zayne's head.
%%* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', at the onset of the quest to find Thorald Gray-Mane, the quest giver, Thorald's mother, displays this heavily when told her son is dead. So does Thorald's brother when you talk to him.

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* Carth Onasi insists in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' that Revan is not dead: "I feel like I would know!" By this point, of course, Carth has demonstrated a degree of prescience on several occasions (his Wookieepedia entry questions whether or not he's Force Sensitive), so he's not pulling this particular gut feeling out of nowhere.
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nowhere. Carth appears to have an extremely well-honed [=BS=] detector. Part of it is borderline paranoia after being betrayed so horribly, but even when he's over most of those issues, he will frequently point out that something is very wrong with the whole setup, the Jedi, and your PlayerCharacter. ''And he turns out dead right on all fronts.'' In the comic story, his instincts about Zayne Carrick also turn out to be right, despite the bounty on Zayne's head.
%%* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', at * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': At the onset of the quest to find Thorald Gray-Mane, the quest giver, Thorald's mother, displays this heavily when told her son is dead.dead, insisting that he's still alive (and he indeed is). So does Thorald's brother when you talk to him.
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* Credenza, TheProtagonist of ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'', always knows who to trust, someone to [[TheLancer Raven's]] exasperation. Whether it's a reforming raven spirit, a pair of half-weresharks or that member of the villain team who's having second thoughts, if she trusts someone, they are or will become a hero sooner or later. Incidentally, Raven himself would be considered very untrustworthy by ''his own'' standards - for a while he's puzzled as to why she trusted him during his MookFaceTurn.

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* Credenza, TheProtagonist of ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'', always knows who to trust, someone sometimes to [[TheLancer Raven's]] exasperation. Whether it's a reforming raven spirit, a pair of half-weresharks or that member of the villain team who's having second thoughts, if she trusts someone, they are or will become a hero sooner or later. Incidentally, Raven himself would be considered very untrustworthy by ''his own'' standards - for a while he's puzzled as to why she trusted him during his MookFaceTurn.
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* Credenza, TheProtagonist of ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'', always knows who to trust, someone to [[TheLancer Raven's]] exasperation. Whether it's a reforming raven spirit, a pair of half-weresharks or that member of the villain team who's having second thoughts, if she trusts someone, they are or will become a hero sooner or later. Incidentally, Raven himself would be considered very untrustworthy by ''his own'' standards - for a while he's puzzled as to why she trusted him during his MookFaceTurn.
-->'''Raven''': All those things you said, it was just because I was listening too. As soon as I leave you can tell Blitz what you REALLY think.\\
'''Credenza''': I said what I said because it's truth. And I hope you can trust us enough to hear the truth face to face. You're a good human Raven, as much as you may deny it. And I think you have what it takes to someday be a good man.
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': At the end of book 50, Cassie gets the feeling that allowing the Yeerks to steal the morphing cube is the right thing to do. She can't explain the why to Jake, and problems quickly arise now that the Animorphs have to face dozens of morph-capable Controllers at once. Three books later, [[EnemyCivilWar two different factions of Yeerks rebel against their leadership]], one because they now have the power to morph, and the other because they were denied the power to morph, giving the Animorphs their last shot at victory and proving Cassie was right despite all odds.

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* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', with Luke and Vader, since they can both sense things through the Force.

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* Mocked by Snape in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' when Harry accuses Malfoy of nearly killing another student [[spoiler:([[CassandraTruth Harry is correct]] but has zero proof to back it up)]].
-->'''[=McGonagall=]:''' That is a very serious accusation, Potter.\\
'''Snape:''' Indeed. Your evidence?\\
'''Harry:''' I just know.\\
'''Snape:''' ''[extremely sarcastic]'' You just... know? Once again you astonish me with your gifts, Potter, gifts mere mortals can only dream of possessing. How grand it must be to be the Chosen One.



* Subverted in ''Literature/HarryPotter'': [[spoiler:Harry distrusts Snape from the moment he meets him]], and his opinion never changes. At the end of ''Half-Blood Prince'', he is apparently proved right, but then finds out in ''Deathly Hallows'' that his Gut Feeling was entirely wrong, even though [[spoiler:Snape hated Harry with a vengeance and had actively worked to ensure that Harry hated him just as much.]] Harry tends to be an intuitive and perceptive person, but he's also very emotional, and his feelings cloud his judgement - which leads to him mistaking his personal dislike of characters like Malfoy and Snape for evidence that they're up to something (which they may or may not be).
** Mocked by Snape in the film of ''Half Blood Prince'', when Harry accuses Malfoy of nearly killing another student. [[CassandraTruth (Harry is correct, but has zero proof to back it up.)]]
-->'''[=McGonagall=]''': That is a very serious accusation, Potter.\\
'''Snape''': Indeed. Your evidence?\\
'''Harry''': I just know.\\
'''Snape''': ''[extremely sarcastic]'' You just... know? Once again you astonish me with your gifts, Potter, gifts mere mortals can only dream of possessing. How grand it must be to be the Chosen One.

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* Subverted {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/HarryPotter'': [[spoiler:Harry distrusts Snape from the moment he meets him]], and his opinion never changes. At the end of ''Half-Blood Prince'', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', he is apparently proved right, but then finds out in ''Deathly Hallows'' ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' that his Gut Feeling was entirely wrong, even though [[spoiler:Snape hated Harry with a vengeance and had actively worked to ensure that Harry hated him just as much.]] Harry tends to be an intuitive and perceptive person, but he's also very emotional, and his feelings cloud his judgement - -- which leads to him mistaking his personal dislike of characters like Malfoy and Snape for evidence that they're up to something (which they may or may not be).
** Mocked by Snape in the film of ''Half Blood Prince'', when Harry accuses Malfoy of nearly killing another student. [[CassandraTruth (Harry is correct, but has zero proof to back it up.)]]
-->'''[=McGonagall=]''': That is a very serious accusation, Potter.\\
'''Snape''': Indeed. Your evidence?\\
'''Harry''': I just know.\\
'''Snape''': ''[extremely sarcastic]'' You just... know? Once again you astonish me with your gifts, Potter, gifts mere mortals can only dream of possessing. How grand it must be to be the Chosen One.
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* Invoked in ''Literature/MenAtArms'' when Angua attributes knowing that an explosion had been caused by a dragon blowing itself up to women's intuition. In fact it's because she's a werewolf and talked to a dog who was at the scene, but decided that "Because a little dog told me" was a worse explanation.
** In the previous scene, Vimes figures out a major plot-point on this, and is later proven correct. Mind you, this is par for the course for Vimes, who gets at least one of these every book, and is pretty much always correct.

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* Invoked in ''Literature/MenAtArms'' In ''Literature/MenAtArms'', Vimes figures out a major plot-point on this and is later proven correct. Mind you, this is par for the course for Vimes, who gets at least one of these every book and is pretty much always correct. {{Invoked|Trope}} later on when Angua attributes knowing that an explosion had been caused by a dragon blowing itself up to women's intuition. In fact fact, it's because she's a werewolf and talked to a dog who was at the scene, but she decided that "Because a little dog told me" was a worse explanation.
** In the previous scene, Vimes figures out a major plot-point on this, and is later proven correct. Mind you, this is par for the course for Vimes, who gets at least one of these every book, and is pretty much always correct.
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* Herald Talia in the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar series is TheEmpath, but the Queen's most trusted advisor makes her profoundly uneasy because she cannot sense anything from him. He turns out to be a traitor of the highest order, though tragically he isn't found out before he gets Talia's close friend (his own ''nephew'') killed.
* In ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', Naomi Misora meets up with an "unprivate detective" named Rue Ryuzaki. She feels like something is "off" about Rue, but she can't quite figure out ''what'' other than that he seems to be something of a CloudCuckoolander. Because of this, she doesn't ''like'' Rue, but [[TeethClenchedTeamwork agrees to work with him and humor him to solve the case]]. It turns out that [[spoiler: she was right to think poorly of Rue, because ''he'' is actually the SerialKiller they've been looking for, Beyond Birthday.]] This makes her grabbing of the IdiotBall [[spoiler: and resulting death]] in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' series proper all the more jarring.

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* Herald Talia in the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series is TheEmpath, but the Queen's most trusted advisor makes her profoundly uneasy because she cannot sense anything from him. He turns out to be a traitor of the highest order, though tragically he isn't found out before he gets Talia's close friend (his own ''nephew'') killed.
* In ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', Naomi Misora meets up with an "unprivate detective" named Rue Ryuzaki. She feels like something is "off" about Rue, but she can't quite figure out ''what'' other than that he seems to be something of a CloudCuckoolander.{{Cloudcuckoolander}}. Because of this, she doesn't ''like'' Rue, but [[TeethClenchedTeamwork agrees to work with him and humor him to solve the case]]. It turns out that [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she was right to think poorly of Rue, because ''he'' is actually the SerialKiller they've been looking for, Beyond Birthday.]] Birthday]]. This makes her grabbing of the IdiotBall [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and resulting death]] in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' series proper all the more jarring.



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* Discussed in ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when Roy and Vaarsuvius mull over whether or not they can trust [[spoiler:vampire!Durkon]], who had just recently joined the party:

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* Discussed {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' when Roy and Vaarsuvius mull over whether or not they can trust [[spoiler:vampire!Durkon]], [[spoiler:the vampirized Durkon]], who had just recently joined the party:



'''Roy:''' I don’t know. I don’t think Belkar is lying——which, let’s be clear, [[ICantBelieveImSayingThis is not a sentence I ever thought I’d say]]——but I also can’t assume he’s not letting his anger cloud his judgment. Every feeling, every instinct in my body tells me yes, that’s [[spoiler:Durkon]]——just changed a little. If I can help him through those changes, shouldn’t I do that? I can’t abandon my best friend when he needs me the most!\\
'''Vaarsuvius:''' I see. [[DoubleStandard When the halfling eschews logic and makes decisions emotionally, it is problematic. But when you do, it is valid.]]\\
'''Roy: ''NO!''''' Maybe. My gut is smarter than his gut!\\
'''Vaarsuvius:''' Abdominal cognitive limits aside, the rational thing to do would be to judge the creature that travels with us on its own merits——without regard to one’s feelings toward [[spoiler:the late Master Thundershield]].\\
'''Roy:''' I agree. And when I do that, he’s been a model part member. Hell, the ''one'' time he got agitated today, he was actively pursuing [[spoiler:a resurrection spell]].\\

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'''Roy:''' I don’t don't know. I don’t don't think Belkar is lying——which, let’s lying -- which, let's be clear, [[ICantBelieveImSayingThis is not a sentence I ever thought I’d say]]——but I'd say]] -- but I also can’t can't assume he’s he's not letting his anger cloud his judgment. Every feeling, every instinct in my body tells me yes, that’s [[spoiler:Durkon]]——just that's [[spoiler:Durkon]] -- just changed a little. If I can help him through those changes, shouldn’t shouldn't I do that? I can’t can't abandon my best friend when he needs me the most!\\
'''Vaarsuvius:''' I see. [[DoubleStandard When the halfling eschews logic and makes decisions emotionally, it is problematic. But when you do, it is valid.]]\\
'''Roy: ''NO!'''''
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'''Vaarsuvius:''' Abdominal cognitive limits aside, the rational thing to do would be to judge the creature that travels with us on its own merits——without merits -- without regard to one’s one's feelings toward [[spoiler:the late Master Thundershield]].\\
'''Roy:''' I agree. And when I do that, he’s he's been a model part member. Hell, the ''one'' time he got agitated today, he was actively pursuing [[spoiler:a resurrection spell]].\\



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-->Though she knew she'd be checking out other facilities, Pattie had a good feeling about this one. One thing she'd learned from softs was to trust intuition. More times than she cared to recall, one of her crewmates had said something along the lines of "I have a bad feeling about this," and the feeling had proved to be an accurate barometer of the situation. As she walked down the corridor, she fingered the pouch containing the datachip. Yes, I definitely have a good feeling about this.

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Your gut says he's evil, my gut says he's good/ Why not put our guts together and end this funky feud!]]''

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* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Walter and Jesse have set up a plan to get Gus out into the open, and give Walt an opportunity to plant a bomb under his car. Everything's going exactly as planned, up until Gus is walking back to his car, when he suddenly stops, apparently sensing something amiss. Then he walks back the other way, leaving Walt in utter confusion of how he could have possibly known, asking Jesse incredulously if Gus has some kind of sixth-sense for danger. [[spoiler:It doesn't save him from the bomb in the following episode though...]]
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* ''Series/{{Cluedo}}'':
** In series 3 and 4, the detectives are asked for their gut feelings about the room, weapon and suspect immediately after viewing the evidence, before they can ask the suspects any questions; usually to boos or cheers from the audience, and pleas of innocence from the suspects.
** In series 2, one detective gave "gut instinct" as her reason for accusing the Reverend Green, adding "I'll show you where it comes from, about here," pointing to her gut.
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* The ''Machinima/WaterHuman'' correctly guesses the identity, and the goals, of the Spy who tried to impersonate the Large Beetle. Not because the spy looked nothing like the Beetle, but because Water-Human just made a lucky random guess.

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** Miu in the same game is able to correctly point out the culprit in every trial she appears in, but doesn't swing trials because she can never actually provide a concrete reason for her guesses.
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* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}''
** A RunningGag with Sayaka Maizono is for her to respond to Makoto's inner monologue, claim to be psychic, and then state that she's kidding and just has really good intuition.
** Kaito from the 3rd game isn't the brightest in investigations (though apparently he's a decent scientist), but he's an excellent judge of character, immediately picking up that Maki had fighting experience and quickly shanghaiing Shuichi into being his 'sidekick' because he trusted in Shuichi's detective abilities. [[spoiler: In the second trial, he determines that neither he nor Maki were the culprit when Kokichi tried to pit them against each other, and helps uncover the ''true'' culprit by realizing that Kirumi didn't mean them when she said "everyone" was relying on her. He's also the only student to firmly believe in Maki's HiddenHeartOfGold and coax her into joining the other students.]]
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* ''Series/Moonbase3''. In the first episode, [[TheShrink Dr. Helen Smith]] thinks that the director's personal pilot is cracking up, but can only back this up with a vague feeling. Deputy Director Lebrun isn't impressed, as she's supposed to write up a report full of impressive-sounding psychobabble to justify grounding the pilot instead of passing the buck onto him. Lebrun is unable to convince the director not to use his favorite pilot, who proceeds to crack up on the trip back to Earth and get them both killed.

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* ''Series/Moonbase3''. In the first episode, [[TheShrink Dr. Helen Smith]] thinks that the director's personal pilot is cracking up, but can only back this up with a vague feeling. Deputy Director Lebrun isn't impressed, as she's supposed to write up a report full of impressive-sounding psychobabble to justify grounding the pilot instead of passing the buck onto him. Lebrun is unable to convince the director not to use his favorite pilot, who proceeds to crack up on the trip back to Earth and get them both killed.
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One thing you can count on in virtually any genre of fiction is that the heroes will have an uncanny sense of intuition, often bordering on [[SpiderSense being psychic]]. If a main character says something and justifies it as being a hunch, gut feeling, or an "I just know", then about 90% of the time he will turn out to be right. There are certain exceptions such as if a character says about another "I got a sudden feeling we might not see each other again", then the chances are only about 50-50 of the main character being right, and if he is wrong it is still guaranteed to be a while (unless this trope is purposely subverted). Gut feeling can be broken down into three categories:

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One thing you can count on in virtually any genre of fiction is that the heroes will have an uncanny sense of intuition, often bordering on [[SpiderSense being psychic]]. If a main character says something and justifies it as being a hunch, gut feeling, or an "I just know", then about 90% of the time he will turn out to be right. There are certain exceptions such as if a character says about another "I "I've got a sudden feeling we might not see each other again", then the chances are only about 50-50 of the main character being right, and if he is wrong it is still guaranteed to be a while (unless this trope is purposely subverted).{{subverted|Trope}}). Gut feeling can be broken down into three categories:



The main character is an infallible judge of character: his gut feeling about a person, not necessarily based on more than a couple minutes of interaction, is by far the most accurate measurement available of how good or evil that person is. For example: If a person has an "honest face," we can probably trust them. Perhaps writers think this is a subtler way to quickly point out who the bad guys are.

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The main character is an infallible judge of character: ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: his gut feeling about a person, not necessarily based on more than a couple minutes of interaction, is by far the most accurate measurement available of how good or evil that person is. For example: If a person has an "honest face," face", we can probably trust them. Perhaps writers think this is a subtler way to quickly point out who the bad guys are.



Another well-established piece of heroic gut feeling is that the hero can metaphorically read the villain's mind. If the hero has a gut feeling about where the villain is hiding, (or the bank robber's getaway method, or where the terrorists have hidden the bomb, or where the arms dealers are meeting, or where the killer hid the body, etc), you can safely disregard any and all evidence to the contrary because the hero will inevitably be proved right.

For example, it won't matter if the police have a gang's written plans, recorded phone calls, and the like saying they're going to rob Bank A, if the lead character/detective has a gut feeling they'll rob Bank B it will all turn out to be an elaborate fake-out, or the gang knew they were BeingWatched and recorded and were speaking in code. Particularly common in summer action movies and film noir. (In fact, regardless of a detective's condition, including being constantly drunk, paranoid, insane, and otherwise idiotic, his gut feeling will be his redeeming factor. Usually the only exception is if the crooks are the main characters, in which case the detective's Gut Feeling will be known about and used to their advantage).

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Another well-established piece of heroic gut feeling is that the hero can metaphorically read the villain's mind. If the hero has a gut feeling about where the villain is hiding, hiding (or the bank robber's getaway method, or where the terrorists have hidden the bomb, or where the arms dealers are meeting, or where the killer hid the body, etc), etc.), you can safely disregard any and all evidence to the contrary because the hero will inevitably be proved right.

For example, it won't matter if the police have a gang's written plans, recorded phone calls, and the like saying they're going to rob Bank A, if the lead character/detective has a gut feeling they'll rob Bank B it will all turn out to be an elaborate fake-out, or the gang knew they were BeingWatched and recorded and were speaking in code. Particularly common in summer action movies and film noir. (In FilmNoir. In fact, regardless of a detective's condition, including [[DefectiveDetective being constantly drunk, paranoid, insane, and insane]], or otherwise idiotic, [[CluelessDetective idiotic]], his gut feeling will be his redeeming factor. Usually Usually, the only exception is if the crooks are the main characters, in which case the detective's Gut Feeling will be known about and used to their advantage).
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If major characters are separated and/or there's a question about one of them surviving or succeeding in their task, but one character says calmly, "I know he's okay, I can feel it," then you can all but guarantee that this character will in fact be okay, despite the character not having anything to base this on. Common in cheesy movies of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and still found from time-to-time in Adventure and Action movies, as well as manga and anime, where such is often attributed to ThePowerOfFriendship or ThePowerOfLove.

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If major characters are separated and/or there's a question about one of them surviving or succeeding in their task, but one character says calmly, "I know he's okay, I can feel it," it", then you can all but guarantee that this character will in fact be okay, despite the character not having anything to base this on. Common in cheesy movies of the 60s, 70s, 1960s, '70s, and 80s, '80s, and still found from time-to-time time to time in Adventure adventure and Action action movies, as well as manga and anime, where in which such is often attributed to ThePowerOfFriendship or ThePowerOfLove.

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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' unfortunately combined this with StrawVulcan whenever the characters laud the value of gut instinct versus logic to Tuvok or Seven of Nine.

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combined this with StrawVulcan whenever the characters laud the value of gut instinct versus logic to logic, instead of "going with your gut" only when they don't have another option. [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E18Rise "Rise"]], [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E7SacredGround "Sacred Ground"]] and [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E24HopeAndFear "Hope and Fear"]] are all examples.
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Tuvok or Seven (usually the last to use this trope as he's a Vulcan) insists that another crewmember is responsible for a series of Nine.attacks, based purely on an un-Vulcan gut feeling. [[spoiler:Turns out Tuvok is a ManchurianAgent committing the attacks and this instinct is just a repressed memory of his actions.]]

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* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Ultimate Computer", Kirk has an uncomfortable feeling about the titular machine before it goes haywire, but he wonders if it's just because he's jealous. It isn't.

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In "Obsession", Captain Kirk is convinced the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode MonsterOfTheWeek is a threat he's encountered before as a young ensign and is [[MobySchtick dedicated to destroying it]]. This is presented as being highly subjective and dangerous to rely on, to the extent that Spock and [=McCoy=] formally threaten to relieve him of command unless he explains his actions (which he does, and turns out to be right).
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"The Ultimate Computer", Kirk has an uncomfortable feeling about the titular machine before it goes haywire, but he wonders if it's [[JobStealingRobot just because he's jealous.jealous]]. It isn't.
** In "Spock's Brain", Kirk is faced with three planets where the brain-napper might have gone, but only time to investigate one of them before Spock dies. Two have inhabited civilizations, but are not advanced enough to build a spacecraft. The other is a glacial world inhabited by primitives, but with regular pulses of energy coming from it. Kirk takes his chance on the last planet and turns out to be right. A justified example as he has to make a choice regardless based on limited data.


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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' unfortunately combined this with StrawVulcan whenever the characters laud the value of gut instinct versus logic to Tuvok or Seven of Nine.
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* It is discussed in ''Literature/CodexAlera'' that [[spoiler: Princeps Septimus]] would sometimes know things that he couldn't have, such as casually mentioning something that wouldn't happen for months and the even happening exactly as he said. Interestingly, it's also stated he apparently didn't realize it most of the time and his friends resorted to writing them down and showing it to him when it came true. [[spoiler: Tavi inherited a little bit of it, and Alera admits she may be unconsciously passing them information]].

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* It is discussed in ''Literature/CodexAlera'' that [[spoiler: Princeps Septimus]] would sometimes know things that he couldn't have, such as casually mentioning something that wouldn't happen for months and the even events happening exactly as he said. Interestingly, it's also stated he apparently didn't realize it most of the time and his friends resorted to writing them down and showing it to him when it came true. [[spoiler: Tavi inherited a little bit of it, and Alera admits she may be unconsciously passing them information]].
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* This is often used in manga and anime on {{Worthy Opponent}}s, particularly those whose opposition is caused by a misunderstanding, and those who will be making a HeelFaceTurn.

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