History Main / TooGoodToBeTrue

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'' movie, Agent Smith {{discussed}} how this trope thwarted the machines' earliest efforts to build a Matrix that was intended to be a utopian Heaven-on-Earth for humanity because humanity just wasn't buying it: "It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire [[LivingBattery crops]] were lost." He speculates that this distrust for perfection is inborn.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E111PrintersDevil Printer's Devil]]", Douglas Winter, the editor of the failing newspaper ''The Dansburg Courier'', hires a new star reporter and linotype operator Mr. Smith, who manages to turn the paper's fortunes around in two weeks. It turns out that Mr. Smith is the Devil who [[DealWithTheDevil wants his immortal soul]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'': Subverted in the "Bongo" portion of the movie where, after meeting having a FallingInLoveMontage with Lulabelle, Bongo is heartbroken when Lulabelle continuously slaps him, taking it to mean she's rejecting him in favor of Lockjaw, her StalkerWithACrush and starts to leave the forest. Turns out, however, that slapping one another is a bear's way of saying "I love you". Upon realizing this, the ecstatic Bongo races back and faces Lockjaw in a final showdown.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'', when Scrooge finds the lost treasure of Collie Baba, Merlock and Dijon, who was acting as Scrooge's guide, steal the treasure from him and leave his group trapped on a pillar that's lowered into a scorpion pit. Scrooge moans that he should've seen the double-cross coming because Dijon's price to act as guide was surprisingly cheap.

* In ''Series/{{Castle}}'''s first episode, Richard Castle is rather bothered by how quickly and neatly everything on his first case falls into place, though the cops don't see anything wrong with this. It turns out he's right, and the man they've arrested is a patsy.

* Kain Blueriver in ''Anime/LostUniverse'' gets offered a rather well-paid and seemingly easy job by Rail Claymore, but turns it down suspecting there's more to it than Rail is saying. After Rail spills the beans (he wants them to escort a key witness in a trial of a mob boss, [[HeKnowsTooMuch that is sure going to be targetted before the trial]]), Kain mentions that Rail could have fooled him had he offered half the sum he mentioned, but his grandma always told him [[GenreSavvy to watch out for deals that seem too good to be true.]] They end up having to take the job anyway because Millie signed the contract without asking.

* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'': Knuckles thinks that he and Robotnik are friends, until Robotnik steals the Master Emerald and reveals to Knuckles that they were never friends, and that he was only using him.