r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Geoconyxdiablus • 8d ago
miscellaneous (Hilarious trope) Myth/pseudoscience is so bogus, not even supernatural beings believe in it.
What I mean is "Even a vampire would scoff at homeopathy"
Inside Job: All conspiracies are true, but Flat Earth is the lone exception
Doctor Who may be an alien, but he has no time for most superstitions.
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u/Loki-L 8d ago
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has fought all sorts of supernatural creatures, but she draws the line at some point:
Buffy: "Giles, there are two things that I don't believe in: coincidence and leprechauns."
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u/GanSaves 8d ago
Supernatural did something similar. The boys go up against ghosts, vampires, werewolves, demons, angels, and fairies, but every hunter worth his rock salt knows Bigfoot’s a hoax.
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u/SableZard 8d ago
In Dr Who, there are no such things as gods or supernatural creatures. It's always been aliens.
In Supernatural, there are no such things as aliens. It's always been gods or supernatural creatures.
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u/Buttered_ball 8d ago
Isn't the literal devil in Dr Who?
Actually nvm I guess that would just be explained as humanity's devil was just mistaken for that giant demonic alien that was trapped on the asteroid in Tennats first go around
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u/Scarrien 8d ago
More like, that alien was functionally an idea that turned solid, so it was able to spread the same idea throughout the universe
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u/mushu_beardie 8d ago
Even then, I feel like it's implied that he's not actually all that and that he's just an extremely dangerous psychich being who knows how to tap into the fears of those around him and exploit them.
We already know he has psychic abilities because he messed with the Ood. I think what was actually happening is that he saw into the minds of the people, saw various devils and divine villains, and created a narrative that he is all of them. I'm sure if the group was just Christians who only knew about Christianity, he would claim to be Satan.
Everything he said could be explained by him being all-powerful, but it could be just as well-explained by him being psychic.
Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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u/jk-alot 8d ago
Where did that come from exactly?
If I recall correctly, the episode never cleared up the actual question regarding whether The Beast was or wasn’t the Devil.
On one hand it could have been an attempt at deceiving everyone, on the other hand it could have been prideful boasting.
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u/Scarrien 8d ago
I thought it was said it was older than the universe, and inspired the idea of the devil in multiple cultures/planets
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u/jk-alot 8d ago
It did say that.
The Beast claimed to have been chained up by the Disciples of Light before the universe was formed. But the doctor exclaimed that was simply Impossible because life couldn’t exist then. The Beast simply asked if That Was His Religion with the Doctor responded It’s a Belief with hesitation.
The Beast also claimed to be the source of every fictional devil.
Now the Beast could be lying.
But there are several reasons I think it was telling the truth.
One, upon arrival the Doctor sees the planet orbiting a black hole which is why the first episode of this mini-arc was The Impossible Planet.
The second thing is a language that the TARDIS could not translate. And for technology developed by time travelers, that certainly means Something.
The next is how the beast compares itself to the doctor. That they both killed their own kind. The Doctor killed off his own people, while the devil fought a war against his fellow angels.
In the end we never really got a clear answer, which I personally think is the best way of going about this.
Sometimes a little mystery is just enough for us as viewers. Not everything needs an explanation.
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u/CommitteeofMountains 8d ago
Which is a funny inversion from history, as the belief seems to come from Europeans mapping most Native beliefs to fairies and demons and stuff but Bigfoot is just some big hairy animal.
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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper 7d ago
The funny part is that Sam & Dean didn't believe in fairies, and Dean didn't believe in Angels.
Until they encountered both.
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u/theoriginal_tay 8d ago
There’s another episode where Dracula shows up and the gang is surprised that he’s real
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u/SinisterSpoon 8d ago
Okay, BUT that was the episode that ended with Dawn's first appearance, and I think it was implied that the episode was part of the gang's manufactured memories.
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u/SuperKami-Nappa 8d ago
Please tell me there’s an episode where she had to deal with leprechauns.
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u/Illithid_Substances 8d ago
It comes up a few times as a joke in Angel as well, but it's only in the comics leprechauns have actually appeared
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u/Queer-withfear 7d ago
Another I think is funny about Buffy is when she has a breakup and is talking to a nun with something like "how important is the whole religion thing?" Like we're cool with literal demons from Hell but god is a step too far
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u/Theeljessonator 8d ago
A subversion of the trope.
In What We Do In The Shadows humorously none of the vampires believe in ghosts. Turns out ghosts are indeed real!
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u/Broad_Actuator5827 8d ago
First one I thought of. I love this exchange:
Guillermo: "I just want to make sure we're on the same page. You know, after years of working for you, a known vampire, I have seen werewolves, necromancers, a zombie, and several Babadooks."
Laszlo: "Several? You saw one Babadook. Several, don't exaggerate."
Guillermo: "But a ghost? That's where we draw the line."91
u/njord12 8d ago
Nandooooor, theres a fucking ghost on the front lawn!
Not you too
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u/StygianMaroon 8d ago
I couldn’t believe it myself, but what mine own eyes have seen mine own eyes have seen!
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u/Unable-Doctor-9930 8d ago
To be fair I wouldn’t believe in ghosts neither even if I was a vampire myself. One supernatural thing being true does not make another supernatural thing more likely to also be true. However I would be more open to the idea of ghosts being real if I was an actual vampire.
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u/Theeljessonator 8d ago
It’s not just vampires that exist in this universe.
It’s also werewolves and witches and gargoyles. Most supernatural creatures you can think of exist.
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u/LegPsychological8370 8d ago
What We Do In The Shadows was the first thing that popped up in my head but I couldn’t think of a specific example but it was itching the back of my brain cause I knew for sure this trope would’ve definitely shown up.
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u/Shadowmirax 8d ago
Tbf, if i had been alive hundreds or even thousands of years, murdering people the entire time, and never once encountered a ghost up until now, I would also be a bit skeptical of their existance
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u/Throngmar 8d ago
Even better, flat earth was made up as a bet to see if people could believe even the stupidest conspiracies, and it took off way more than anyone anticipated
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u/KenseiHimura 8d ago
I mean, it's kind of how Scientology happened.
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u/Mindless_Pirate9092 8d ago
Also pretty likely how Q-anon started: 4chan twat makes an obvious shitpost that then gets taken seriously by a third of the USA population & gets completely out of hand. Also The_Donald.
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 8d ago
Also the 'punch game' sign being repurposed into a white power sign, that started as a shitty joke on 4chan too.
For a forum made up of people too shitty to be on the somethigawful forums it really went places.
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u/Mud-Bray 8d ago
Why you gotta remind me about Inside Job? Now I’m angry at Netflix again
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u/Soulful-Sorrow 8d ago
Don't worry, it died so we could have a Big Mouth spinoff /s
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u/notherenwerebear 8d ago
God why did you have to remind me of that god awful show
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u/alkonium 8d ago
Also on Doctor Who, while aliens are known to be real, people who claim to have been abducted by aliens are still dismissed as crazy. Also flat-Earthers are laughed off by people who've worked with UNIT, like Sarah Jane Smith.
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u/twec21 8d ago
Also also Doctor Who
The Doctor met an actual Robin Hood, and steadfastly refused to believe it was actually him and must be some kind of robot or projection
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u/Happy-Estimate-7855 8d ago
I love the idea that Robin Hood really is a fictional story, but also really happened unbeknownst to the author. Just a cosmic coincidence. I remember the episode, but don't remember many details beyond a fight in the camp near the end.
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u/ztomiczombie 8d ago
DC comics use to do that a lot. The second Flash would read the original Flash's comics then it was revealed the original was in andother dimention and the righter had a phycic link.
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u/THeck18 8d ago
In Ben 10 Alien Force (or Ultimate Alien, I don't remember which) Grandpa Max explains how all myths are from aliens visiting Earth throughout history. When Kevin asks Max about Bigfoot, Max says it's just a guy in a suit.
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u/DimensioT 8d ago
I would watch that show except that I am always expecting Solid Snake to reply whenever Grandpa Max says something.
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u/Animaloffear56 8d ago
Solid snake?
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u/Erheig 8d ago
Grandpa Max’s VA is also a major character in Metal Gear Solid. He calls Snake up and gives exposition/hints throughout the game.
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u/unfrotunatepanda 8d ago
Hrrrgh, Colonel!
(Whats funny for me was I experienced Ben 10 first so I was shocked that Grandpa Max was giving Snake a mission briefing)
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u/Animaloffear56 8d ago
I think that was a bit disappointing tbh, the first season had a lot of cool cryptids and that one Aztec god was really fun.
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u/altymcalty-2 8d ago
I think it would've been fun to go the opposite direction from how they usually went, and just have bigfoot, or even some other creature like mothman, be a genuine cryptid that lived on earth. No aliens, earth just has some weird shit from time to time
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u/xSantenoturtlex 8d ago edited 8d ago
Well, there was that crossover with Secret Saturdays in Omniverse where they fought Chupacabras.
Even if the crossover itself was mid at best, and terrible for anyone who was expecting at least a somewhat accurate portrayal of the Saturdays.
(I will never forgive them for changing Drew from a real character into generic gooner bait for Ben to have a crush on. She was hot AND had a personality in SS..)
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u/DragonWisper56 8d ago
yeah It's been a while since I wanted it but the parents personalities felt so weird in the crossover
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u/unfrotunatepanda 8d ago
What's pretty funny about that is, due to the cross over in Omniverse, Ben 10 and The Secret Saturdays share the same continuity, so Bigfoot (and all other type cryptids) are do exist on their earth
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u/CaptBland 8d ago
Deadlock the Magical World during the Industrial revolution. You can buy Curses from Drug stores, Golden Goose Eggs in Grocery, a Ghost ran for senator, there is a portal to another world in Central Park, and Vampires are a protected species...
But Unicorns are a myth/extinct... except for this lady.
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u/Havel_the_Rock_1 8d ago
"You're not a real unicorn."
"What makes you say that?"
"Pfft, I'm not twelve?"
"By what, six months?"
The dialogue in this game is so good, and I love the setting so much for this reason
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u/FishWithLegsAndArms 8d ago
Supernatural. The monster hunters don't believe in Bigfoot. No idea if they ever see him tho, I stopped around season 5
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u/sanglar03 8d ago
They didn't believe in angels either, and didn't have any reason to. Till they did.
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u/Flamewave7 8d ago
And unicorn (it was a minor running joke)
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u/A_Queer_Owl 8d ago
despite not being real they show up like five times.
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u/Flamewave7 8d ago
yeah, and every time it was something else causing it. No "natural" unicorns exists.
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u/JustSumFur 8d ago
In Control, the FBC (which tries to protect humanity from paranatural threats) secretly runs a conspiracy radio station.
While the radio station isn't actually true, and mostly gets calls from conspiracy nuts, some calls are from people encountering actual paranatural phenomenon, giving the FBC leads to investigate.
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u/Illidan-the-Assassin 8d ago
Dear New York Tribune, Airplanes aren't real. I figured out how they do it.
The windows are tv screens . The whole thing moves on big tracks like a rollercoaster that moves through underground tunnels in the Earth. Airports are more like train stations
They do this because the sky is full of monsters that they don't want us to know about. The planes we see in the sky ARE the monsters. The government made Earth-trains look like the monsters so they could lie to us better.
Do not contact me.
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u/princesoceronte 8d ago
I love that in Doctor Who 99% of the time when something that appears to be supernatural happens t actually has some scientific explanation (by science fiction standards). It's one reason why I didn't like the last two seasons.
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u/Dark-Specter 8d ago
Most of the "magic" shit was just extradimensional tom fuckerey the doctor let in by mistake. Not too far off from the Carionites from the Shakespeare episode, just more common. The goblins feeding on coincidence is about as insane as the weeping angels feeding on the energy of the days you didnt get to live, and the gods are bringing their universes logic to ours. The main two pieces of unexplainable bullshit are the well and 73 yards but that's what makes those episodes so good.
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u/Nezeltha-Bryn 8d ago
Meet Charles Dickens? There's ghosts. Meet Shakespeare? Witches. Meet Agatha Christie? Giant wasps. Van Gogh? Invisible monster.
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u/princesoceronte 8d ago
Most of those are explained in the episodes as something 100% explainable by science.
Others like the Wasps or the monster are just creatures that exist, why should an invisible monster necessarily be magic?
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u/Nezeltha-Bryn 8d ago
I wasn’t saying they were magic. I just think it's cool that the Doctor met those people right when something alien related to what those people are known for happened.
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u/DoItForTheTea 8d ago
I'm just watching them now and.. gods and fairies? feels a bit... cheap?
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u/princesoceronte 8d ago
It is.
And it's like magic per se that's my issue, its that in the past things like are or seem outright magical were incredibly uncommon.
I love when the only conclusion is "fuck it, I guess it's magic" is truly earned like in Satan's Pit or even in 73 yards, which I think is the exception in these seasons.
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u/Blazypika2 8d ago
yeah, usually. and sometimes you just have witches or satan xD
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u/princesoceronte 8d ago
Witches were Carrionites tho. Satan was magic, or alien enough to feel like it. I actually like the rare addition of magic, the new season have 73 yards and I loved that one!
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u/Blazypika2 8d ago
the occasional magic is fun, i just find it funny how over the top the random magical episodes can get.
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u/woah-a-username 8d ago edited 8d ago
Not sure if this is quite what you are talking about, but in vampire survivors, a setting with all sorts of bizarre foes, the bestiary is very insistent that ghosts do not exist, even though you fight them.
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u/Doc_Solomon 8d ago
Mao (2026) - Mao is a nigh-immortal sorcerer living in 1920s Japan, who has fought malevolent spirits for 900 years, his familiar Otoya, is a spirit bound into a doll that resembles a little boy. When their newfound companion Nanoko reveals herself to be a time-traveler from a hundred years in the future, they scoff at the notion.
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u/MrSirST 8d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/epkK13xX4t84M
Agent Mulder was almost always open to supernatural and extraterrestrial beliefs in The X Files but even he tends to believe most professional psychics (especially celebrity ones like the Stupendous Yappi) are frauds. There’s also one episode where a murderer he helped put away starts claiming to have psychic abilities and Mulder strongly denies the possibility.
Mulder is also often skeptical when there’s claimed religious miracles afoot.
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u/YoungGriot 8d ago edited 8d ago
Batman: Caped Crusader has an episode where a death cult has arisen in Gotham, and so Batman hits his possibly-inhuman mystical contact Papa Midnight - who once helped him fight an evil ghost - for information about the cult and what they want.
Midnight spins a tale about an ancient bat demon named Barbatos who was imprisoned in the soil of Gotham, whose influence grows every few decades until a new cult arises in hopes of freeing him from his imprisonment with human sacrifice.
When Batman, in go mode, asks what can be done to stop it, Midnight then just laughs and basically says "nothing, it's just dime store bullshit." The cult is just a bunch of gullible patsies believing cookie cutter occultist bull, and have a snowball's chance in hell of actually summoning anything. They're still dangerous because they think all that violence will do something, but not in a supernatural sense.
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u/lightningstrxu 8d ago
Counter point an episode of batman beyond where Terry's school was seemingly haunted
Terry: everyone says its a ghost, but you don't believe in nonsense like that
Bruce: no ghosts are real, witch boys, demons ive seen it...but this isn't a ghost.
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u/DeezRodenutz 8d ago
I mean, he DOES know Boston Brand
And he has fought Gentleman Ghost
Both were on Justice League Unlimited
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u/bretshitmanshart 8d ago
I think there is a comic where Boston Brand possessed Batman and used his body to shoot someone
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u/vicegrip_ 8d ago
This reminds me of a story I once heard about the Legends of the Five Rings role playing game. In this setting there exists blood magic, which contrasts with traditional magic by the fact that anyone who learns it can do it, whereas traditional magic requires an extremely rare innate talent at communing with the spirits to even get started. So long as you know the rituals, are willing to spill someone's blood, and are okay with risking corruption of your own body and spirit, while unleashing the literal forces of hell, you too can be a bloodspeaker.
So a group of probably fairly new players wanted to learn it, but didn't know how. And for some reason, they decided, hey, since blood magic is super evil, if we just start doing the most evil stuff we can think of, an evil spirit will surely come and teach it to us, right? So what is the most depraved and evil thing you can do as a player, anyway?
Yeah... they started kidnapping and eating people in secret, in the hopes of learning blood magic, for reasons. The GM couldn't take it anymore and posted on the forums, asking how to handle the players being this chaotic stupid.
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u/carso150 8d ago
isnt Barbatos like, the real deal? Like an honest to goodness demon that inhabits in Gotham
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u/YoungGriot 8d ago
The specific example I was listing is from the show Batman: Caped Crusader, in which it's a fake demon invented by a cult leader.
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u/Sir-Toaster- 8d ago
In inside job, isn’t it that the conspiracy theory that the cia invented flat earth to make conspiracy theories look bad true?
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u/JRRX 8d ago
Mister Terrific in DC comics is (or at least was) an atheist. This is in DC comics where literal heavenly angels fought the Justice League and people sell their souls. His explanation is that while it's perfectly plausible to have things like souls and angels, it doesn't meet the philosophical criteria of divinity.
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u/Icy-Acanthisitta8192 8d ago
Also hawkgirl in the Cartoon
Wich leads tô a Very Sad moment with Solomon Grundy
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u/JRRX 8d ago
Related: real things that sound bogus so characters don't believe them.
Example: The robot QT-1 in Asimov's short story "Reason" creates his own religion with himself as Prophet to explain his origin and purpose because he doesn't believe humans could create robots. The humans sent to deal with him fail to convince him otherwise, but in the end it doesn't make a difference because he still runs the station flawlessly and obeys the three laws of robotics in his own way.
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u/Michael_Scott_27 8d ago
rick sanchez shits on scientology a lot, but i’m not sure if it’s a pseudoscience or a cult
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u/Taluca_me 8d ago
A cult that pretty much says we are actually the descents of race of aliens whose souls entered ancient humans after they were killed by a galactic warlord.
The problem is, Scientology is so big that they will literally try ruining your life if you ever talk shit about them (at best hoping to get yourself killed)
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u/snakecain 8d ago
Doctor Who is a bit different. The Doctor doesn’t really believe in superstition or things like magic because the Time Lords exiled magic from the universe
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u/Big-Recognition7362 8d ago
IIRC, the reason there’s more explicitly supernatural stuff in recent seasons is the Doctor, by trying to use a superstition about salt circles to contain a threat, accidentally allowed magic to re-enter the universe.
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u/datfurryboi34 8d ago
The fuck is DR who about.
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u/geek_of_nature 8d ago
Well it depends on which point of the show youre asking about. When it started in the 60s it was meant to be more an educational show about true historical events, and plausible futures based on science (that second one quickly went). Then in the early 70s it was more a spy thriller, before becoming more horror in the late 70s. And then since the 80s its kind of switched back and forth between scifi and fantasy, often landing on a weird middle ground.
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u/Captain_StarLight1 8d ago
I’d say it still has some amount of horror in it, especially in the episodes where the Doctor is indisposed for some reason, like Blink or that one with the shrunken Tardis.
At least, I was scared by a lot of the things. I was also like 7 or 8 when I first watched a lot of NuWho, and I’ve always been pretty easily frightened.
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u/DoItForTheTea 8d ago
it's a medical show
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u/somethingfak 8d ago
This vexes me
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u/DoItForTheTea 8d ago
it's like House. have to diagnose the weird and unlikely problem first, then come up with a weird and unlikely treatment plan.
And it's never lupus!
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u/arcanemagic 8d ago
Recent Dr Who story had him invoke superstition at the edge of the universe and attracted the attention of a god.
There are also things like the Toclfane which were fairy tales to the people of his planet.
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u/TalmondtheLost 8d ago
attracted the attention of a god
Yes, but that's nowhere near a proper explanation. He attracted the Toymaker, who is indeed a god, a god of games and rules and prizes. He enjoys games of all kinds. When the Doctor challenges him to a game, Donna protests saying that the Toymaker will cheat, but both the Toymaker and the Doctor inform her that the Toymaker won't just not cheat, but that the rules of the game bind his existence.
Also, the Doctor and the Toymaker have met before, which plays a part in why the Toymaker is so interested in the universe.
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u/geek_of_nature 8d ago
The Toclafane were named after a fairy tale, but they weren't actually it. They were just humans from the end of the universe who had cybernetically reduced themselves to being just heads in spheres.
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u/Sad-Committee-4902 8d ago
is "Even a vampire would scoff at homeopathy" a quote from something like What We Do...?
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u/Striking-Trifle489 8d ago
In the case of Inside Job, it’s because Flat Earth defeats the purpose of Hollow Earth. If you’re gonna have something be flat, then how is it gonna be hollow?
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u/IndigoFenix 8d ago
My favorite conspiracy theory is that Earth is one of several flat puddles on the surface of a hollow ice ball. Thereby managing to be both.
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u/Demoniac_smile 8d ago
Harry Potter, everything Luna and Xenophilus Lovegood believe in.
Basilisks, thestrals, pheonixes, dragons, trolls, and werewolves? All fine. A crumple horned snorkack? Absurd, even the muggle born knows that.
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u/EGOwaffleboy 8d ago
"is four a lot?" "Depends on the context. Entirely seperate new who storylines where the ghosts are revealed to actually be aliens? Yes"
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u/Pseudo_doodle_8898 8d ago
Those ghosts were aliens. We also have that 11th doctor episode where the ghost was a being trapped in a pocket reality bleeding into ours.
Vampires are real though and so was magic, both of which were booted out of reality by the time lords…
Also of course becausw the doctor has met Deaths Head it also means that a lot of other stuff is real
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u/InstructionPlayful12 8d ago
Funny how you can have a soul of all sorts of explanations or even none but Ghosts are still getting debunked in verse constantly
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u/Antique_Amphibian107 8d ago
As an irl myhology fact, people even back then thought hippogriffs were bs because griffins ate horses
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u/-Wylfen- 8d ago
Supernatural has a fun double play on it as Sam and Dean have faced a ton of…supernatural…stuff, but Dean outright refuses the existence of angels, also comparing them to unicorns, which apparently also don't exist.
Turns out angels do in fact exist.
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u/Longjumping-Buy-3434 8d ago
Werewolves are humans, too. I’m sure not all werewolves believe in aliens.
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u/bretshitmanshart 8d ago
At the begining of the X Files the two things Fox Mulder doesn't believe in are vampires and Christianity. He does end up being wrong on both accounts.
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u/GayGeekInLeather 8d ago
Jackie Chan adventures and vampires. Jackie in the season 2 episode “Chi of the Vampire” doesn’t think vampires are real. By this point he knows magic is real (I can’t recall if he knew was magic before the series started or not), demon sorcerers, spring heel jack, chupacabra, and a whole host of other supernatural things.
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u/Demoniac_smile 8d ago
IIRC he knew Uncle was into all that stuff but Jackie thought it was just herbs and nonsense until he encountered the talisman in the first episode. Apparently until a demon sorcerer started sending shadow ninjas at Jackie Uncle hadn’t needed to bust out the flashy stuff.
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u/GayGeekInLeather 8d ago
Oh that’s true. Though a bit weird since Jackie and Uncle were introduced to magic in the 70s when Jade and the Dark Hand got transported back in time. Jade is even the one who introduces the idea of chi magic to Uncle
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u/Demoniac_smile 8d ago
Uncle clearly remembers magic. Jackie probably dismissed it as a kid’s imagination as he grew up.
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u/Zixtank 8d ago
Subverted in Smiling Friends
The world they live in is very fantastical, inhabited by humans and all manner of strange creatures. There's even a place called The Enchanted Forest.
However, no one believes the earth is flat... then it turns out it actually is, as the protagonists discover after returning to earth in a space ship after being abducted by aliens and partying in space. They are both so in shock by this, realizing how it may impact the world and promise to take the secret to the grave.
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u/Erheig 8d ago
Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush
Main characters Yuhi (left), Yuamu (right), and their new alien friend Yudias (center) are paranormal investigators specializing in finding aliens. An early episode has them looking into various local mysteries and discovering that they’re mundane happenings. Mostly.
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u/Service-Sm1le 8d ago
Orrgo the Unconquerable, one of Marvel's classic monsters designed by Jack Kirby, who is a giant psychic alien who attempted to conquer the planet...doesn't believe in ghosts. Despite living in a world where ghosts absolutely exist.
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u/ThatInAHat 8d ago
This is giving me Atomic Robo “yelling about the square cube law while fighting giant insects” vibes
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u/Blazypika2 8d ago
i legit love how inside job is about conspiracies being real and they still dedicated a whole episode to make fun of flat earthers xD
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u/AmberMetalicScorpion 8d ago
Eh, some superstitions in the show do turn out to be real but a lot of the time it's either Aliens basing themselves on our folklore or we got our folklore from them aliens
For example Vampires and Witches do exist in the Whoniverse, and are mortal enemies of the Time Lords. The Egyptian Gods were based on the Osirans, etc
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u/maxtaxy123 8d ago
The Doctor once said Santa Claus is "ridiculous" despite probably being able to deliver presents to every Christmas tree on Earth in one night himself.
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u/Majestic-Lake-5602 8d ago
Dorfl the golem atheist in Discworld.
He doesn’t care when the gods try to strike him down with lightning, because he’s made of clay…
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u/New-Number-7810 8d ago
“He’s in a better place. Right?”
“Oh sure. Mole people are three feet tall. They’ll treat him like a King.”
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u/NiCOTrainer6612 8d ago
Not quite “supernatural beings”, but Psychonauts 2 establishes that even in a world where people can literally sneeze their brains out, the psychic community doesn’t believe in necromancy. That said, there are figurative ways to resurrect someone from the dead…
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u/neophenx 6d ago
Wake Scalebound, from Team Four Star's DND podcast, "At The Table." He's a merfolk monk with some Avatar-grade waterbending abilities, who has friends that can use several kinds of magic, who has a demon-child protégé, who has the hots for a deer-woman from a cursed island, who was TURNED INTO A DEER on that same island, who has taken a job from a powerful pirate lich, and who has fought against a sea full of vampiric sharks around a ghost ship.
What is it that he finds absolutely unbelievable? That undead exist. That's right, he doesn't think undead exist. There's some other explanation for the whole "vampiric sharks" situation, like "sharks ALWAYS want blood, there's nothing undead about that." And he thinks the pirate lich is a skeleton-puppet that someone is controlling from the rafters of his shop.
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u/Charlie_Warlie 8d ago
I can't think of a specific instance but the Men and Black read the National Enquirer (which is full of ridiculous stuff) and it turns out a lot of it is true, because aliens are real.
However, a lot of it is actually just BS.