History Main / SubvertedSuspicionAesop

--->'''Ron''': Normally I'd say we learned that suspicion and paranoia is bad, except that's what saved us.\\
'''Rufus''': True!\\
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* ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'': In a parody of ''RearWindow'', Jimmy suspects that his neighbor is actually an evil [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes pickle]] lady. At the end, he turns out to be correct, and she becomes a recurring villain. Despite the fact that said episode ended with Cerby eating her.

** After having a bad experience with the griffon Gilda, Pinkie Pie comes to believe she's one of the most mean people in the universe. [[JerkAss She's in the ballpark, at any rate.]] Made un-Broken by the fact that the person advising Pinkie never actually met Gilda, and the ''only'' pony she's ever remotely nice to is Rainbow Dash.

** Played completely straight with Cadence/Queen Chrysalis in the season 2 finale. It turns out she's ''worse'' than Twilight thought, and has kidnapped and replaced the real Cadence for her own nefarious plot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolverine And The X-Men}}'' had a ''[[SubvertedTrope double-subverted]]'' suspicion aesop. Yes, really. It all starts with Emma Frost, who joined the team, but Logan was suspicious of her. For 19 episodes, she seemed reasonable, so it just seemed like the standard, unsubverted version. Then it became this trope when it was revealed that Emma was only there to gain their trust so that she could find Jean Grey for the Inner Circle. Indeed, she was responsible in part for the explosion that almost killed Jean and Charles Xavier, the one that launched the series and initially broke up the X-Men. But ''that'' was quickly subverted again, when we discover that she was doing this to try to save the world from the emergence of the Phoenix.

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* In an episode of AmericanDragonJakeLong, Jake's school holds a fund-raising auction in which the girls auction on which boy they want to date. Jake rigs the auction so he would go with the hottie instead of the nerd girl. Jake's friend warns him about being shallow. When there was a sighting of a Siren causing trouble, it took some convincing that the girl he was with was the culprit. [[spoiler: Turns out the nerd girl was the one who was the Siren]].

* In the ''ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' episode "The Gathering Gloom" Velma suspects the groundskeeper of being the Graveyard Ghoul, as they look and act very similar, but the rest of the gang are skeptical as it's too obvious and instead investigate the kind and pretty Swedish girls living nearby. It turns out Velma was right.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': After having a bad experience with the griffon Gilda, Pinkie Pie comes to believe she's one of the most mean people in the universe. [[JerkAss She's in the ballpark, at any rate.]] Made un-Broken by the fact that the person advising Pinkie never actually met Gilda, and the ''only'' pony she's ever remotely nice to is Rainbow Dash.

*** And just recently played completely straight with Cadence/Queen Chrysalis. It turns out she's ''worse'' than Twilight thought, and has kidnapped and replaced the real Cadence for her own nefarious plot.

* At the beginning of ''Series/TwentyFour'' Day 6, amid a series of terrorist bombings in American soil, a Middle Eastern youth named Ahmed (played by KalPenn) witnesses his father being detained as a suspected terrorist with apparently unclear evidence. The rest of the mostly white neighborhood then tries to pressure Ahmed to leave and are about to get violent until his neighbor defuses the situation, takes him into his home and even defends him against another neighbor who tries to kill him. An unfortunate victim of xenophobia used as an Aesop about bigotry? Nope! Turns out Ahmed himself is the real terrorist and "repays" his neighbor [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished by holding his family hostage and forcing him to deliver a package to his terrorist cell which results in the neighbor getting fatally shot and a nuclear bomb being detonated in the middle of LA]].

* ''AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery''. During group counseling:

* This is the ending of the plot of the early Tom Hanks comedy TheBurbs, in which a few nosy suburbanites become suspicious of their new foreign neighbors. It almost feels like an AssPull after Tom Hanks' character gives a speech ending with: "We're the lunatics! Us! IT'S NOT THEM! It's us!" ...Cue the neighbor trying to kill Hanks and then they discover human remains in his car trunk.

* The third season of ''SailorMoon'' toys with this trope a little, but ends up averting it. For a while, many of the senshi tell Usagi that she should regard Uranus and Neptune as enemies. Of course, she doesn't do so. But in the end, Usagi seems to have been the one with the right idea, since the girls eventually become part of the normal senshi group.

A new character enters the setting. But someone gets suspicious of them, and thinks they're up to no good. All the other people say [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong not to be suspicious about new people]], and/or that they're just jealous (which may or may not be true). If you're TropeTelegraphing, you may expect the guy to, in fact, be a good guy, after the main characters [[WhatTheHellHero start stalking the character all day]], possibly throwing in some moments that are NotWhatItLooksLike, and for the new character to be PutOnABus in exasperation.

[[DiscreditedTrope However, that is not how the trope is played most of the time.]] We didn't sit in front of the TV and stay there for 11 minutes just to see how much of a JerkAss the main character can be. So, TV writers often write a twist to the Aesop, where the new guy that the majority of the characters were defending was EvilAllAlong. When it's subverted like this, it may be revealed that they're evil midway, but it can easily be covered up as NotWhatItLooksLike.

* When Claudia decides to bring home StreetUrchin Nick because he reminds her of herself at that age, Steve immediately distrusts him [[LivingLieDetector because he never says one truthful thing to him]] (the others aren't 100% peachy with him being there, either, but it's more because they're trying to hide a big secret and the fewer people who know, the better). Turns out, Nick really is evil and was just playing everyone so he could get into the Warehouse and [[SealedEvilInACan free his evil uncle from the Bronze Sector]]. Then DoubleSubverted, as it turns out Nick and his parents are [[Really700YearsOld really 500 years old]] and they really just want to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever grow old and die like everyone else]] (or, in Nick's case, [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty to grow up at all]]). They just happened to need his crazy uncle to accomplish that goal.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The one with Ricardio. Finn thinks he's evil, Jake thinks he's good. He's evil.

* ''{{Castle}}'' subverts this (meaning, they play the Suspicion Aesop straight) with Tom Demming. When it's revealed that a suspect might be from Demming's precinct (and Esposito's old precinct), Castle and ThoseTwoGuys do everything to try and confirm Demming as the bad guy...but it turns out he's not only not the bad guy, he's a sickeningly sweet, almost [[MartyStu Stu]]-ish, clean-cut good guy.

* Averted in ''CardcaptorSakura''. Throughout the first arc, both Cerberus and Syaoran are distrustful of Kaho Mizuki, the magical newcomer to the neighborhood. Sakura, of course, doesn't understand their suspicion and proceeds to befriend her. Both boys then engage in a certain amount of investigating on Mizuki--Cerberus most noticeably--and for a while, it looks like this trope is going to be played straight, and Mizuki is going to end up being the BigBad. But in the end, it turns out she's on Sakura's side and it's really [[spoiler: Yukito Tsukishiro]] they should really have been watching out for.

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* ''Cops And Robbersons'': A running gag is cop-wannabe Chase getting bad service at a diner. Eventually he snaps and violently arrests the somewhat slovenly fellow (who never got his order right) and calls in the police(!); As veteran cop Palance apologizes profusely to the man, Chase stews in the back of Palance's car. On a whim, he put's the man name into the computer on the dashboard. The result: [[spoiler:countless warrants for Grand Theft Auto. Smug, Chase shows a printout to Palance, who arrests the career car thief. In Palance's words: "You got lucky."]]

* [[HalfBloodPrince The sixth]] ''HarryPotter'' book; [[spoiler: Harry was right, Draco had replaced his father as a Death Eater and was responsible for the attempts on Dumbledore's life]].

** And then double-subverted in the [[TheDeathlyHallows seventh]] HP book. Similar to [[spoiler: Draco, Harry had harbored a dislike and suspicion of Snape through the entire series, which, just like Draco above, was wrong every time until it seemed to be finally confirmed at the end of book 6. And then book 7 comes around and it turns out Harry was just being prejudiced, Snape was a good guy and a DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent for Dumbledore all along.]] Though admittedly, still a JerkAss to Harry.

** And then double-subverted in the [[TheDeathlyHallows seventh]] HP book. Similar to [[spoiler: Draco, Harry had harbored a dislike and suspicion of Snape through the entire series, which, just like Draco above, was wrong every time until it seemed to be finally confirmed at the end of book 6. And then book 7 comes around and it turns out Harry was just being prejudiced, Snape was a good guy and a DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent fot Dumbledore all along.]] Though admittedly, still a JerkAss to Harry.

** And then double-subverted in the [[TheDeathlyHallows seventh]] HP book. Similar to [[spoiler: Draco, Harry had harbored a dislike and suspicion of Snape through the entire series, which, just like Draco above, seemed to be finally confirmed at the end of book 6. And then book 7 comes around and it turns out Harry was just being prejudiced, Snape was a good guy and a DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent fot Dumbledore all along.]] Though admittedly, still a JerkAss to Harry.

* The third season of SailorMoon toys with this trope a little, but ends up averting it. For a while, many of the senshi tell Usagi that she should regard Uranus and Neptune as enemies. Of course, she doesn't do so. But in the end, Usagi seems to have been the one with the right idea, since the girls eventually become part of the normal senshi group.

* This happens every time Mayo Mitama appears in SayonaraZetsubouSensei. While one character will be initially suspicious of her, it's always completely dismissed based on her (evil) looks.

* In the ''ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' episode "The Gathering Gloom" Velma suspects the groundskeeper of being the Graveyard Ghoul, as they look and act very similar, but the rest of the gang are skeptical as it's too obvious and instead investigate the sweet Swedish girls living nearby. It turns out Velma was right.

* Averted in Cardcaptor Sakura. Throughout the first arc, both Cerberus and Syaoran are distrustful of Kaho Mizuki, the magical newcomer to the neighborhood. Sakura, of course, doesn't understand their suspicion and proceeds to befriend her. Both boys then engage in a certain amount of investigating on Mizuki--Cerberus most noticeably--and for a while, it looks like this trope is going to be played straight, and Mizuki is going to end up being the BigBad. But in the end, it turns out she's on Sakura's side and it's really [[spoiler: Yukito Tsukishiro]] they should really have been watching out for.

* Inverted and then double subverted in ''Jingo'': When a crime is committed, all sorts of excessively obvious clues point to the Klatchians, which Vimes interprets as his own countrymen attempting to frame them. [[spoiler: It then turns out that a Klatchian did do it, covering his real tracks and leaving obvious fake ones just to fool Vimes, who turns out not to have needed any such convincing since he had already decided it was a frame by his own countrymen (and refused to suspect the Klatchians) before having seen any clues at all]].