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*** The League of Lois Lanes is an AllianceOfAlternates of Lois who go around the Multiverse solving problems. They have also seen so many alternate versions of Superman [[BewareTheSuperman who are vile, murderous maniacs]] that their immediate reaction at seeing another Superman (the version of Clark who is the protagonist of the show, who is a hard-core NiceGuy) is "[[TriggerHappy annihilate with Kryptonite lasers first]], ask questions never."

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*** The League of Lois Lanes is an AllianceOfAlternates of Lois who go around the Multiverse solving problems. They have also seen so many alternate versions of Superman [[BewareTheSuperman who are vile, murderous maniacs]] that their immediate reaction at seeing another Superman (the version of Clark who is the protagonist of the show, who is a hard-core NiceGuy) is "[[TriggerHappy annihilate with Kryptonite lasers first]], ask questions never."" The story do implicates that the small group of Loises (and one Alternate of Jimmy) that we see is a RenegadeSplinterFaction of the larger League.

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** ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': Task Force X sees Superman and their immediate reaction is "threat to eliminate by any means necessary". [[EstablishingCharacterMoment One of the first lines in the show]] by its leader, The General, is him taunting Superman in the middle of a pun attempt to kill him to "drop the act" of being a hero, that "there's nobody around to buy his lies". The only Task Force operative who has appeared so far, Slade "Deathstroke" Wilson, [[SociopathicSoldier holds none of those beliefs (and even less humanity)]] and Amanda Waller ([[TokenEvilTeammate as usual]]) has no issues with civilian casualties if it nets [[DeadlyEuphemism results]].

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Task Force X sees Superman and their immediate reaction is "threat to eliminate by any means necessary". [[EstablishingCharacterMoment One of the first lines in the show]] by its leader, The General, is him taunting Superman in the middle of a pun attempt to kill him to "drop the act" of being a hero, that "there's nobody around to buy his lies". The only Task Force operative who has appeared so far, Slade "Deathstroke" Wilson, [[SociopathicSoldier holds none of those beliefs (and even less humanity)]] and Amanda Waller ([[TokenEvilTeammate as usual]]) has no issues with civilian casualties if it nets [[DeadlyEuphemism results]].results]].
*** The League of Lois Lanes is an AllianceOfAlternates of Lois who go around the Multiverse solving problems. They have also seen so many alternate versions of Superman [[BewareTheSuperman who are vile, murderous maniacs]] that their immediate reaction at seeing another Superman (the version of Clark who is the protagonist of the show, who is a hard-core NiceGuy) is "[[TriggerHappy annihilate with Kryptonite lasers first]], ask questions never."

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* During the last season of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Chancellor Gowron begins to fear that General Martok will try to kill him and seize control of the Klingon Empire (even though Martok has ''no'' political ambitions and is content with being a soldier), so he sets a UriahGambit in motion to get rid of Martok. Worf, however, sees through it and challenges Gowron to a duel. [[spoiler:He kills Gowron and appoints Martok the next Chancellor, exactly the scenario that Gowron feared.]]


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*In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode “[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E12WakingMoments Waking Moment]]”, the crew are attacked in their dreams by a race of aliens who appear to exist in a sleeping state, these dream aliens regarding all “waking species” as AlwaysChaoticEvil. Even after Chakotay manages to find a way to control his dream and promise the crew will leave them alone, the aliens continue their telepathic assault, driving Chakotay (the only crewmember able to keep himself awake) and the Doctor (a hologram who doesn’t sleep anyway) to find the aliens’ homeworld and threaten to fire a photon torpedo as their sleeping bodies unless they stop the attack, which they would never have done if the aliens had allowed ''Voyager'' to leave their sector in the first place.
* During the last season of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Chancellor Gowron begins to fear that General Martok will try to kill him and seize control of the Klingon Empire (even though Martok has ''no'' political ambitions and is content with being a soldier), so he sets a UriahGambit in motion to get rid of Martok. Worf, however, sees through it and challenges Gowron to a duel. [[spoiler:He kills Gowron and appoints Martok the next Chancellor, exactly the scenario that Gowron feared.]]
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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E6TheMirror The Mirror]]", a revolutionary-turned-dictator inherits a mirror from his predecessor, which the man says will show a person his enemies. The new dictator becomes paranoid as he sees his friends in the mirror and kills them off. Finally, after having thrown the entire country into disarray with his paranoia, he sees himself in the mirror. Two people walk into the room to find him dead on the floor.

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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E6TheMirror The Mirror]]", a revolutionary-turned-dictator inherits a mirror from his predecessor, which the man says will show a person his enemies. The new dictator becomes paranoid as he sees his friends in the mirror and kills them off. Finally, after having thrown the entire country into disarray with his paranoia, he sees himself in the mirror. Two people walk into the room to find him dead on the floor. The episode leaves open if [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the mirror was really magic (and cursed) or if it was the dictator's paranoia making him hallucinate]].
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* ''Fanfic/AlysanneLadyOfWinterfell'': Myribeth is very wary where nobles are concerned and thus doesn't trust Alysanne, thinking that she uses the women's courts to gain information that can be used against the women later and refusing to share the troupe's troubles because she expects that Alysanne's concern is a mask for attempts to see if the Sunflowers should be cut off from patronage. Alysanne has no such designs.
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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E71TheMirror The Mirror]]", a revolutionary-turned-dictator inherits a mirror from his predecessor, which the man says will show a person his enemies. The new dictator becomes paranoid as he sees his friends in the mirror and kills them off. Finally, after having thrown the entire country into disarray with his paranoia, he sees himself in the mirror. Two people walk into the room to find him dead on the floor.

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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E71TheMirror "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E6TheMirror The Mirror]]", a revolutionary-turned-dictator inherits a mirror from his predecessor, which the man says will show a person his enemies. The new dictator becomes paranoid as he sees his friends in the mirror and kills them off. Finally, after having thrown the entire country into disarray with his paranoia, he sees himself in the mirror. Two people walk into the room to find him dead on the floor.
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** Amanda Waller, one of the founding members of CADMUS, ultimately has a HeelFaceTurn, acknowledging she was wrong about the League and ruefully admits in the last season of ''Unlimited'' that she and her fellow CADMUS co-conspirator General Eiling (the one who launched the aforementioned nuke) are lucky not to be in prison. Eiling, on the other hand, doesn't learn his lesson and only gets worse, culminating with him injecting himself with a SuperSoldier serum (a formula made [[StupidJetpackHitler by the Germans back in WWII, even]]) to become the Hulk wanna-be "the Shaggy Man" and wrecking half of a city trying to force the Justice League's big hitters (especially Superman) to come so he can try to kill them with his bare hands and get rid of "their threat to the citizens" for good to his satisfaction. It takes the population of said city coming to him and pointing out that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters he is the one who wrecked the city and the Leaguers he's pummeled so far]] (BadassNormal-types) have their support because they tried to stop him ''and'' are quite visibly the underdog in this situation to make Eiling stop, accept that he's the one in the wrong, and go away after warning that he will come back if the League screws up ([[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and out of the show]] [[PutOnABus for the rest of its run]]).

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** Amanda Waller, one of the founding members of CADMUS, ultimately has a HeelFaceTurn, acknowledging she was wrong about the League and ruefully admits in the last season of ''Unlimited'' that she and her fellow CADMUS co-conspirator General Eiling (the one who launched the aforementioned nuke) are lucky not to be in prison.prison (and eventually, to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]], that [[HeelFaithTurn she knows she is going to have to answer to God for every single one of her misdeeds]]). Eiling, on the other hand, doesn't learn his lesson and only gets worse, culminating with him injecting himself with a SuperSoldier serum (a formula made [[StupidJetpackHitler by the Germans back in WWII, even]]) to become the Hulk wanna-be "the Shaggy Man" and wrecking half of a city trying to force the Justice League's big hitters (especially Superman) to come so he can try to kill them with his bare hands and get rid of "their threat to the citizens" for good to his satisfaction. It takes the population of said city coming to him and pointing out that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters he is the one who wrecked the city and the Leaguers he's pummeled so far]] (BadassNormal-types) have their support because they tried to stop him ''and'' are quite visibly the underdog in this situation to make Eiling stop, accept that he's the one in the wrong, and go away after warning that he will come back if the League screws up ([[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and out of the show]] for [[PutOnABus for the rest of its run]]).
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* ''VideoGame/BioShock'': The leader Peach Wilkins becomes convinced that Jack is an assassin sent to kill him. Jack only wanted safe passage through the fisheries, but Peach sets up an ambush with his men, forcing Jack to kill them all in self defense.
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* ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'': The conflict of the first season is all but wrapped up after Zac re-seals the [[ArtifactOfDoom trident]] in its chamber, having learned his lesson on why it's dangerous. While Lyla, Sirena, and Rita are satisfied with this outcome, Nixie is convinced that Zac will retrieve the trident again when their backs are turned, and conspires with Cam to make sure Zac can't ever get his hands on the trident again. The fact that Cam has a blatant case of superpower envy over Zac doesn't register with her, and Cam becomes the exact threat that the mermaids initially feared Zac would be once Nixie helps him gets the trident.
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** After Voldemort's return, Minister Fudge absolutely refuses to believe Harry or Dumbledore trying to warn him of what's going on because he's become paranoid that Dumbledore is planning a coup. Instead, he spends an entire year smearing Harry, Dumbledore, and their allies while telling the British wizarding community that all is well. This backfires ''spectacularly'' when Voldemort appears before half the Ministry, including Fudge himself, revealing that he was BS'ing everybody; within a fortnight, everybody in Wizarding Britain has turned against him and he's kicked out of office.

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** After Voldemort's return, Minister Fudge absolutely refuses to believe Harry or Dumbledore trying to warn him of what's going on because he's become paranoid that Dumbledore is planning a coup. Instead, he spends an entire year smearing Harry, Dumbledore, and their allies while telling the British wizarding community that all is well. This backfires ''spectacularly'' when Voldemort appears before half the Ministry, including Fudge himself, revealing that he was BS'ing everybody; within a fortnight, everybody in Wizarding Britain has turned against him and he's kicked out of office. Even then, it's too late; Voldemort has already used the time granted by Fudge's inaction to break most of his supporters out of prison, recruit giants and werewolves and Dementors, and prepare his campaign. Fudge, meanwhile, blamed the prison breakout on Sirius Black, who was protecting and housing the major opposition to Voldemort. Oh, and for good measure, Fudge deliberately crippled the Defence Against the Dark Arts education at Hogwarts, for fear that Dumbledore would train an army to oppose him, and as a result the rising generation is not well prepared to defend themselves against Voldemort.
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* Many of Ami's problems in ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' could be avoided if the surface world took her at face value when she says that she's not evil. The problem is that Ami is a Dungeon Keeper when literally every other Dungeon Keeper is AlwaysChaoticEvil, and paranoia is usually [[ProperlyParanoid the proper response]] to them. Everything she does, no matter how altruistic, is assumed to be a ploy of some sort for when she inevitably turns on them.

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* Many of Ami's problems in ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' could be avoided if the surface world took her at face value when she says that she's not evil. The problem is that Ami is a Dungeon Keeper when literally every other Dungeon Keeper is AlwaysChaoticEvil, and paranoia is usually [[ProperlyParanoid the proper response]] to them. The dwarves actually have laws specifically designed to ''require'' them to mistrust Keepers and prevent any kind of peaceful negotiation, due to a disaster that occurred in the past from a Keeper back-stabbing them. Everything she Ami does, no matter how altruistic, is assumed to be a ploy of some sort for when she inevitably turns on them. them.

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