History Main / TheWormGuy

* ''Film/TheSwarm'': Dr. Brad Crane is the world's foremost expert on [[BeeAfraid killer bees]] and lives out of his van as he drives across America. Despite this, every (sympathetic) character in the film has heard of him and respects his expertise, and when the President assigns him to dealing with the titular swarm and grants him unlimited power (!) in the process, his reaction to all of this is essentially a calm, "I knew this day would come".

* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': Alan Grant, along with his colleague Ellie Sattler, is taken from his paleontological dig for a preview of living dinosaurs, as the powers that be wanted a paleontologist to endorse them. However, he wasn't making hypotheses based on little to no evidence. That was Malcolm's job. Both characters reprise this trope nearly three decades later in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''.

* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': Alan Grant is taken from his paleontological dig for a preview of living dinosaurs, as the powers that be wanted a paleontologist to endorse them. However, he wasn't making hypotheses based on little to no evidence. That was Malcolm's job.

* Dr Liara T'soni in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. In [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 the first game]], she gets recruited by the crew of the Normandy whilst out in the field on an Ancient Prothean dig-site. After rescuing her from a group of Saren's mercenaries are attempting to do the same, she is brought on to be their resident Prothean expert. In a nice {{subver|tedTrope}}sion, when Shepard confirms her theories on the Prothean extinction are indeed correct, which have earned her ridicule amongst her peers, she shows [[ArbitrarySkepticism skepticism]] how ''Shepard'' themself has any evidence. Shepard then reveals their experience with a Prothean beacon that downloaded a repository of their knowledge directly into their mind as well as a warning about the Reapers.

* ''Film/JurassicPark'': Alan Grant is taken from his paleontological dig for a preview of living dinosaurs, as the powers that be wanted a paleontologist to endorse them. However, he wasn't making hypotheses based on little to no evidence. That was Malcolm's job.

* ''Film/JEdgar'': The page quote [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype deconstructs this archetype]]. J. Edgard Hoover and Tolson [[DiscussedTrope discuss a scientist]] who makes seemingly absurd claims, like being ''the world expert in wood analysis''. Hoover rightly claims that it could be true, but also is irrelevant, because it's a OverlyNarrowSuperlative situation. Tolson comments that the scientist is NotGoodWithPeople and also has NoSocialSkills. Hoover [[TheyCalledMeMad asks if the guy is crazy]]. Tolson delicately notes that Hoover stating that conclusion is a clear case of IResembleThatRemark, because Hoover is an even better example, being a policeman who is obsessed with themes like organization, scientific knowledge, standardization, [[ItWillNeverCatchOn a need for a fingerprint database]] -- things that nobody before would have associated with the police, and the very things that make the FBI the force that is today.

%%* Robert Langdon in ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'' is ([[DanBrowned allegedly]]) an art historian example.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample

The trope is named after Niko Tatopoulos from ''Film/Godzilla1998'', who is referred to by the military personnel as "the worm guy", as they took him from Chernobyl where he was studying earthworms mutated by radioactivity. [[NoPronunciationGuide And they couldn't pronounce his actual name]].

* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'': Dr. Ross is the Plant Lady. She and Dr. Sid are the only ones who believe that the only sure way to destroy the Phantoms without literally destroying more of the planet to try to save it is by gathering enough data for a [[ReverseThePolarity spirit wave that is totally opposite to the one of the Phantoms' energy, which will disable them]]. Unfortunately, [[GeneralRipper General Hein]] is the one who really wants to take the "destroy more of the planet to save it" approach, [[ScientistVsSoldier and he will pull out all the stops to get his way]], including convincing his superiors that Ross' beliefs are being influenced by the Phantoms.

%%* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'': Dr. Ross is the Plant Lady.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample

* ''Film/Armageddon1998'': The drillers are a blue-collar version of this. When NASA initially approaches Harry Stamper, he insists he needs his team to pull off the drilling job forcing NASA to hire the entire RagtagBunchOfMisfits. He also points out a half dozen ways that NASA's engineers screwed up the design of the drill that will be used for the mission, based on a patent Harry made (which includes [[EpicFail putting the transmission on backwards]]).

* ''Film/Armageddon1998'': The drillers are a blue-collar version of this. When NASA initially approaches Harry Stamper, he insists he needs his team to pull off the drilling job forcing NASA to hire the entire RagtagBunchOfMisfits.