what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me theme
We imagine what it would be like not to believed by anyone when we tell them truthfully about important events that have taken place. This is often featured from the perspective of a kid.
Examples
Nobody would believe Serova about detrimental effects of using warp drive, especially not Geordi, in tng7x09 "Force of Nature".
103 total · 9 choice · 57 major · 37 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x10 | choice | The story concludes with Paul not being believed when he confessed to having pushed his wife off a yacht to her death, as he had indeed done. He was instead written off as mentally unsound and promptly committed to an insane asylum. |
| ahp3x32 | choice | Herbert was trying, ineptly and insecurely, to reveal something he knew about a murder but neither the police nor the reporters would believe him. Note the story is entitled "Listen, Listen...!" after all. |
| ahp4x02 | choice | Because of his habit of make belief, nobody would believe Johnny when he told about the freezing man outside the window. |
| as1985e2x05 | choice | Earl was dead certain that his dream was a vision of the future. He discovered one thing after the other that matched what he had dreamed, so he had good cause to be convinced. Other people, however, had no such reassurance and simply thought that Earl was a nutter. |
| movie: Bad Channels (1992) | choice | Everyone dismissed the shock jock Dan O'Dare's desperate pleas over the airwaves for help in stopping an alien from collecting a number of beautiful women as an outlandish publicity stunt. |
| movie: North by Northwest (1959) | choice | however much Thornhill insisted he was not Kaplan, nobody would believe him |
| movie: The Lady Vanishes | choice | Iris was perplexed and flustered when she found that no one but herself professed to remember Miss Froy, the titular vanishing lady. |
| rbt1985e1x05 | choice | The little girl Heather tried to convince various skeptical people that she did indeed hear a woman scream from beneath the ground in the forest. |
| rbt1985e2x06 | choice | People understandably did not take Alice seriously when she kept insisting that her newborn was trying to kill her. In the end, however, the infant lethally electrocuted her as she laid asleep in her bed. |
| ahh1x24 | major | In the end, the mild-mannered George confessed to having strangled Lola, but everyone wrote him off as having lost his mind. |