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Occassionally, the character will have had an obsession with the supernatural ''before'' they meet the protagonist. They may be a danger that comes from the outside -- TheHunter, an InspectorJavert or the IntrepidReporter.

* Tim Drake used his abilities as this to convince Franchise/{{Batman}} that he should become the next ComicBook/{{Robin}}.

* Mandy from ''TotallySpies'' has acted like this a few times, though the situation is usually solved by LaserGuidedAmnesia. She is the AlphaBitch in the main characters' class who seeks to cross them wherever she can.

* Shin from ''SailorNothing'' -- except that [[spoiler:she ''succeeds'' and becomes a Sailor herself, and her analytical and research skills become a big asset to the other Sailors.]]

-->-- '''''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''''', episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E2TheCoon The Coon]]"

* Dr.Denman from H2O: Just Add Water, In the episode something fishy cleo's sister kim trys to prove that the girls are mermaids

* Notably absent in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', much to the surprise of all.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'', Mrs. Beady is constantly trying to prove the existence of "Taking barn animals".

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* Lois Lane in the LiveActionTV series ''TheAdventuresOfSuperman''.

** In the Silver Age, Dick Malverne. He grew up at the Midvale Orphanage during the same time that Kara Zor-El/Linda Lee/Supergirl did, and he was constantly trying to prove she had super-powers. In a story written in 2004, it was revealed that he always knew Linda was Supergirl, but he kept it a secret.

** In ''Adventure Comics'' Nasthalthia "Nasty" Luthor -Lex Luthor's evil niece- enrolled at Stanhope University as a student, hoping to lure Supergirl out into the open so her uncle could kill her. Several issues later she is convinced that Linda ''is'' Supergirl and follows her to San Francisco, where both begin work as junior reporters for K-SFTV as she tries to out Linda/Kara.

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} ComicBook/LoisLane would occasionally act this way around ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'', as would Comicbook/LanaLang around Superboy.

--> Clark, have you seen Lois?
--> Yes... she fall out of a window.

* Every [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Chicken Boo]] segment contains exactly one character who is aware that the titular character is in fact [[PhraseCatcher A CHICKEN I TELL YOU! A GIANT CHICKEN!]] This guy/gal tends to get ridiculed throughout the episode (or sometimes kicked out) until Boo's masquerade is stripped away somehow. If the wolf-crier was sent away, he/she returns at this point to say, "I told you he was a giant chicken."

* Dr.Denman from H2O: Just Add Water

* Dr.Denman from Series / H2O: Just Add Water

* Dr.Denman from '' Series/H2O: Just Add Water''

* Dr.Denman from H2O: '' Series/H2O: Just Add Water''

* In ''PushingDaisies'', [[spoiler: Oscar Vibinius]] eventually ends up as one of these.

* ''PhilOfTheFuture'': Vice Principal Hackett is convinced that there is something odd about the Diffys. But he is only half right about them. He believes them to be space aliens, but they are actually from the future.

* In the Richard Donner cut of ''SupermanII'', Lois Lane is this in spades, going even so far as to risk killing herself by jumping out a window and later pulling a gun on Clark and firing at him [[spoiler:(she loaded the gun with blanks)]] just to prove that he is Superman.

* Roger a.k.a. 'Pink-Eye' from ''{{Grossology}}'' is obsessed with proving that Abby and Ty are Grossology agents and later with becoming one himself.

* Hans Rotwood from ''AmericanDragonJakeLong''. A teacher of the titular hero, he has an interest in supernatural creatures and is set on proving that Jake is one to the world once he has found out.

-->-- '''''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''''', episode "The Coon"

* Vicky Vale in SilverAge ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics.