History ProperlyParanoid / WesternAnimation

** Also, Dipper's great inspiration and indirect mentor of sorts, the mysterious author of the journals that catalogue the weirdness of Gravity Falls, also known as [[spoiler:his [[LongLostRelative long-lost great uncle]] Stanford.]] His writings read a bit like an ApocalypticLog with numerous repetitions of "Is he watching me?", "Can't sleep!" and other signs of SanitySlippage, half of which are written in invisible ink to throw off whoever is watching him. Of course, this all makes sense once we learn in the second season that the Author was been plagued by an omnipresent MindScrew demon who's planning the apocalypse and could be possessing just about anyone he knows.

** During a flashback of his time at Camp Wannaweep, he felt that swimming in the camp lake was a bad idea. Turns out, the lake had been polluted by one of the neighboring camps, which resulted in Ron's camp bully Gil (who took to swimming in the lake all summer) becoming a mutant villain.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The main character, [[PunnyName Nigel Uno]] a.k.a. Numbah One, comes across as a big-time AgentMulder, with theories ranging from "the adults are feeding children asparagus because they hate it themselves" to "the mystery meat in the cafeteria is [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter rainbow monkey]]" to "the doctor is turning children into moose to sell their antlers" (or something to that effect). [[OnlySaneMan Numbah Five]] will often call him out on this, but even when Numbah One does turn out to be wrong, half the time it's only because the truth is even ''more'' outlandish. (For the record, out of the three examples listed, only the [[spoiler:middle one]] was wrong.) For another example, in one episode parodying the ''[[Anime/TheAnimatrix Animatrix]]'' short ''The Second Renaissance'', Numbah One gives an elaborate class presentation claiming that kids once ruled the world, until they created adults to be their playmates/servile caretakers. Naturally, the adults rebelled and took over the Earth, creating the fiction of "families" (with the adults in control and the children subservient). The teacher stops the presentation and chastises Nigel for his ridiculous flights of fancy, but after the class is dismissed, he grabs the apple off his desk (which is actually a communicator) and reports "They know..."

** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E13ScaredyPantsIWasATeenageGary I Was a Teenage Gary]]", after getting injected with snail plasma, [=SpongeBob=] worries that something will happen to him, but Squidward tells him he'll be fine. Turns out [=SpongeBob=] was right.

* 'WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':

* The eponymous hero of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' theorizes that anything bad that happens in the universe is the work of his ArchEnemy, the Evil Emperor Zurg. He's usually right, as Zurg, being a classic CardCarryingVillain, will do anything to cause chaos in the galaxy. There's even one episode completed devoted to this trope in which Buzz (after working nonstop for weeks) captures a pen from one of Zurg's shuttles, believing it to be the key to one of his most devious plans. Everyone thinks he's been wound a bit too tight and force him to take a vacation and relax. It turns out though that Buzz was right as the pen was the firing trigger for Zurg's ''(with dramatic sting music)'' '''Hyper''' DeathRay!

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has this in the main character, [[PunnyName Nigel Uno]] a.k.a. Numbah One. He comes across as a big-time AgentMulder, with theories ranging from "the adults are feeding children asparagus because they hate it themselves" to "the mystery meat in the cafeteria is [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter rainbow monkey]]" to "the doctor is turning children into moose to sell their antlers" (or something to that effect). [[OnlySaneMan Numbah Five]] will often call him out on this, but even when Numbah One does turn out to be wrong, half the time it's only because the truth is even ''more'' outlandish. (For the record, out of the three examples listed, only the [[spoiler:middle one]] was wrong.) For another example, in one episode parodying the ''[[Anime/TheAnimatrix Animatrix]]'' short ''The Second Renaissance'', Numbah One gives an elaborate class presentation claiming that kids once ruled the world, until they created adults to be their playmates/servile caretakers. Naturally, the adults rebelled and took over the Earth, creating the fiction of "families" (with the adults in control and the children subservient). The teacher stops the presentation and chastises Nigel for his ridiculous flights of fancy, but after the class is dismissed, he grabs the apple off his desk (which is actually a communicator) and reports "They know..."
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is built around this. The titular character sees some sort of monster and knows his owners are in danger. Many, many episodes prove he's correct.
* Dan in ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' often develops extreme grudges over relatively petty slights, and takes them as evidence of a nefarious conspiracy. Most of the time, ''he's right''.

* Mr. Crocker in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' suspects that '''[[CharacterCatchphrase FAIRY GOD PARENTS!]]''' are involved in every unusual situation, regardless of how minor. He is always correct, not that it helps.

* [[LovableCoward Wade]] from ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' comes off as this once he points out that local RealityWarper Orson keeps dragging Wade into [[PortalBook dangerous stories]] via {{Dream Sequence}}s. This is emphasized in one episode where Orson's reading causes Wade (and later Roy) to be placed in a series of dangers, including a polar bear, a train, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Suddenly it makes sense for Wade to be scared of everything. [[ASharedSuffering At least Wade isn't alone in this]] -- and he manages to convince [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Roy]] that a dinosaur and other dangers are after them and they both suffer from it, but luckily, [[EarnYourHappyEnding Roy stops Orson by giving him a calm coloring book]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib has a strong CassandraTruth reputation going strong. But he's right -- Zim, the main character, is indeed an evil alien bent on conquering humanity. What's more, whenever he's seen engaging in other paranormal studies (such as chasing a hairy kid he thinks is a baby Bigfoot), he continues to show much more awareness of the world around him than... well, the world around him. Maybe he'd be more credible if he stopped talking to himself. Subverted as far as his sister Gaz is concerned. She knows he's right about Zim (and a good chunk of his other paranormal ramblings, for that matter), but reasonably concludes from how Zim's plans [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption tend to go even when Dib isn't there to stop him]] that the alien isn't a real threat and her older brother is just wasting his time:

* ComicBook/TheQuestion's appearances on ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' are filled with [[ConspiracyTheorist wild ramblings about obscure plots]], but his crackpot theories seem a lot less crazy when you realize that he was right about Supergirl's disturbing dreams, Luthor triggering the apocalypse ''and'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Baskin-Robbins' 32nd flavor]].
* While being one of the most paranoid characters in the series, Ron Stoppable from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has been accurate many times. To elaborate:

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', conspiracy nut Dale Gribble has a practically ''encyclopedic'' knowledge of government bureaucratic procedures, a knowledge which has come in handy on several occasions. Perhaps the best example is the incident in which he blackmails a worker at the Department of Motor Vehicles into providing better service, simply by naming all of the worker's superiors in ascending order, then threatening to call them and complain: "IAmYourWorstNightmare! I have a three-line phone and absolutely nothing at all to do with my time!" That doesn't stop him from being the resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who doesn't believe in one conspiracy, he believes in ''[[ConspiracyTheorist all of them]]''. The only times he ever bashes an idea, especially ones said to him in jest, are when he has an even ''more'' outlandish idea. Taking a trip to Mexico every election day under the assumption (not fear, honest belief) that there's likely going to be a complete societal collapse because things didn't go the right way is one of the more blatant examples. It's [[LampshadeHanging mentioned]] that he believes so many nutty things that one or two have to be right eventually! There's also the time he's right about Hank being a victim of the vast government computer network known as "The Beast". Still, he's completely oblivious to a more mundane and much closer to home conspiracy: that his wife Nancy has cheated him with John Redcorn for ''fourteen years'' and that his son Joseph is actually Redcorn's biological son.
* A couple of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts have {{WesternAnimation/Sylvester|TheCatAndTweetyBird}} as WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's pet cat, who's the only one who knows that, for instance, a sinister mob of mice are out to kill his master. Porky catches Sylvester doing truly bizarre things to save both their skins and chalks his behavior up to cowardice, insanity or both.

* The Tribunal from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. Seem like a bunch of crazy people, convinced that a metal band is going to fulfill some kind of prophecy, right? Wrong. As the seasons have gone on, Dethklok has been doing almost everything The Tribunal has feared, and they aren't even aware of it. The Tribunal however is, and they're very worried about it. [[SubvertedTrope However]], the Tribunal is being manipulated, and they are going to be the ones causing trouble.
* Mallory from ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' seems rather disturbed that brainiac Tanya not only has a named code in the case of a random dinosaur attack but defense plans for just such an occasion. Dinosaurs are cousins to the race that twice conquered their planet and enslaved their people, so it's not as out there as the show makes it.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "[[Recap/SonicBoomS1E2CanAnEvilGeniusCrashOnYourCouchForAFewDays Can an Evil Genius Crash On Your Couch For a Few Days?]]" has Sticks predicting that Dr. Eggman has an Obliterator Bot ready to deploy against the group along with his latest evil scheme. Turns out he actually did have a literally named Obliterator Bot and an evil scheme to go with it.

* Tweek from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', an 8-year-old boy addicted to caffeine and suffering from ADD, is constantly twitching, jumping, screaming, and pulling his hair out because he sees the underpants gnomes. Unfortunately, ''they are real''. And of course, he lives in '''[[CityOfAdventure South Park]]''' of all places, so of course, he's constantly paranoid. Another time is when the boys try to steal Kenny's ashes from the [=McCormicks'=] living room. Cartman is checking the living room for robot guards all the while, but Kyle quickly tells him that his fear of robot guards in the living room is retarded. As it turns out, moments after they steal Kenny's ashes, there ''are'' robot guards. And given the [=McCormicks=] are Cthulhu cultists, the boys were lucky it was ''just'' robot guards.

* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' has Stork, who overlaps with CrazyPrepared. He believes that various and hundreds of things are out to get him/the ship/his crew, and he often turns out to be right. Granted, his species are from a planet where natural disasters happen almost constantly, so this is more an ingrained survival mechanism than anything else. Stork also built an impressive array of traps in the Condor, much to the consternation of the other crew members, but on the numerous occasions the ship has been boarded they are ''very'' useful, and the crew are glad to have them.
* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E9TwoToneTown Two-Tone Town]]", when Warner Bros. holds auditions for an upcoming television show, Buster is worried that the new show will replace ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' in its time slot, canceling it and forcing him and Babs to get jobs at ''[[Series/TheHollywoodSquares Toonywood Squares]]''. [[BrickJoke At the end of the episode]], what he said [[DownerEnding turns out to be true]] when he and Babs [[NiceJobBreakingItHero help obscure Warner Bros. stars Foxy, Roxy, Goopy Geer, and Big Bee get lead parts on the new show]] when [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished they previously were all down on their luck]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tooned}}'' has Professor M send along a robot avatar of himself to a secret [=McLaren=] base in Japan as a precaution in case Lewis and Jenson cause some sort of mishap with the robot test driver due to their usual M-ignoring antics. [[spoiler:He proved to be correct.]]

* Colonel Hunter Gathers from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' eats, sleeps, and breathes this trope. Nearly everything that comes out of his mouth sounds like completely insane conspiracy babble, but he's always right. On the very rare occasion that Gathers is outfoxed, it's because he wasn't paranoid ''enough''.