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CSS1
Since: Mar, 2021
22nd May, 2022 09:40:40 AM
Entertainingly Wrong probably fits in there somewhere. As would Right for the Wrong Reasons.
Edited by CSS1
A character who is proven correct about a situation believes this makes him correct in general, when this is not the case.
e.g. Bob the Conspiracy Theorist says that we're secretly ruled by reptilian aliens who put mind-control chemicals in the water, and that to facilitate this, the mayor, chief of police and high school principal are involved in a drug trafficking operation. When he's proven right about the last one (the three are arrested for moving and distributing cocaine), he takes it to mean that the other two are correct as well.
And the inverse where a character is right about the general gist of a situation, but the specifics are all wrong.
e.g. Bob again: "Russia interfered with the 2016 US election" is true, "Russia hacked election booths to change every Clinton vote to two Trump votes" is not.
Edited by Chabal2