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Phony Psychic

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Phony Psychic	comment	They have Tarot cards, Ouija Boards, convincing trance-states, Crystal Balls, Cold Reading, and the whole bit. What they don't have is any actual Psychic Powers. But that's all right! They're not out to commune with the spirit world but to part gullible victims from their money. The grift-speak name for a person that runs a psychic game is 'Reader'. And it ain't about Tarot cards. They are the profilers of the grift world. They use psychic trappings to refine the reader's understanding of how best to operate their mark's buttons. A reader learns more about where a mark's buttons are with a single side-long glance than most people will ever figure out about him. Certainly more than the mark does, anyway. Once they are clearly understood, the mark is moved into one of a number of specialized tales.
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Phony Psychic / int_101fbca1	comment	The Switch (1975) episode "Stung from Beyond" has a family of these who use fake sÃ©ances to con people into investing in the stock market.
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Phony Psychic / int_10861ce9	comment	A medieval age version exists in The Smurfs episode "Gargamel's Miss-Fortune".
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Phony Psychic / int_130974c3	comment	Razvel in Serial Killer Reincarnated In Another World plays with this trope in a funny way in that she does indeed have psychic abilities, thanks to her New Life in Another World Bonus. However, she claims that said Psychic Powers run basically every item on that trope's analysis page: pyrokinesis, telepathy, precognition, healing, and who knows what else besides. In reality, her only power is telekinesis, and a somewhat limited (albeit powerful) form of telekinesis at that, only being able to control an object she can see and only one object at a time. However, having been a cult leader in her old life means that she's experienced at pretending to have psychic powers: relying on lucky hunches, bluffs, and cold reading to fake telepathy or precognition, or "healing" people pretending to be suffering from incurable ailments, all of which convinces people she's far more powerful than she is.
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Phony Psychic / int_1361afec	comment	Played with in Jago: one of the protagonists had a brief career as a Uri-Geller-style psychic before being debunked... but she possesses genuine psychic powers (though not strong enough to be particularly useful), and allowed herself to be "debunked" so she could return to something resembling a normal life.
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Phony Psychic / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "Pure" had one, who claimed he could find missing/dead girls. Turns out, with the help of his manipulated wife, he was the one kidnapping and killing them. CSI also had a variation of this.
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Phony Psychic / int_16fd1a16	comment	On Rookie Blue a man comes to the police station claiming that he is a psychic and has information about the recent kidnapping of a witness. The man knows a lot of information that was never released to the public and the cops decide to check out his claims when other leads dry up. The psychic's help allows the police to save the witness but they also discover that the man is actually the estranged brother of the wife of the mobster that had the witness kidnapped. They figure that the wife wanted to get rid of her abusive husband so she gave her brother all that information knowing that the cops would never publicly admit that they got it from someone claiming to be a psychic. The episode ends on a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane note when a lot of the casual predictions the man made start coming true.
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Phony Psychic / int_1cc09117	comment	Misaomaru "Don" Kanonji from Bleach has all the hallmarks of this trope. He's unimaginably over-the-top in action and presentation, has a TV show, and claims to fight ghosts. The weird part: he actually has powers. He can see and interact with ghosts, and even fire off a comically small but surprisingly powerful energy ball from his hand. The problem is that he has no idea how to actually deal with ghosts, turning one into a Hollow through sheer ignorance in his first appearance.
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Phony Psychic / int_1deeca6c	comment	Matt's Monsters: Madame Bovary, in line with her 19th-century spiritist gimmick, claims to have supernatural powers, which are actually faked by her assistant Appendix. One episode, however, shows that she is really very adept in hypnosis.
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Phony Psychic / int_20191a57	comment	Bleak Expectations: The opening of series 3 has Pip Bin and Harry Biscuit attend a sÃ©ance held by Britain's favourite medium, Short Medium Large. Harry Biscuit scoffs that she's an obvious fake, but since he's Harry Biscuit he falls for her anyway.
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Phony Psychic / int_2101f81a	comment	In the Charlie's Angels episode "The Seance" the Angels encounter one of these. The psychic's assistant not only fakes spirit activity during the seances but hypnotizes their clients into revealing personal information (which is used in the seances) and into giving him valuable jewelry - which is then reported stolen since the victim doesn't remember doing this. After hypnotizing Kelly and finding out that she's an undercover detective, he makes her believe Jill is her childhood nemesis and that she should kill Jill.
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Phony Psychic / int_2212773a	comment	Spoofed in Angel when Lorne consults a genuine psychic who works at a psychic hotline.
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Phony Psychic / int_22211d68	comment	Bones had a phony psychic as the victim in â€œThe Psychic in the Soupâ€�. She was acquainted with recurring character Avalon, a self-proclaimed real psychic. They did milk the Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane stuff with Avalonâ€™s apparently accurate hints and a b plot involving Avalon saying the recently killed Sweets was communicating with her.
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Phony Psychic / int_22e860f4	comment	The show Psych is about a phony psychic who's on the right side of the law; he feigns psychic abilities but really uses his acute powers of observation to solve crimes. Shawn could have been a regular cop like his dad wanted but is too Brilliant, but Lazy to do so. The whole thing started when he reported information on crimes he deduced from televised evidence, the cops assumed he was in on them, and Shawn claimed to be psychic because the police found that more plausible than a jackass like him being a brilliant detective. It's pretty strongly implied that the chief is aware that he's faking, but is pretending not to in order to maintain Plausible Deniability when he skirts the edges of the law. Shawn also points out to his partner that, due to the loose laws surrounding psychics, the only way they can actually prove he's not psychic is if he directly tells them.
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Phony Psychic / int_23200e8c	comment	Most of the bad guys in Trick are running this scam. The ones who aren't are the guys handling the business end of the scam.
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Phony Psychic / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: Madame Lazoura, Carla's psychic. Carla being the highly superstitious person she is, she's unable to peg Lazoura as an obvious fake until she's outright told when the woman retires with her gains to Florida, sending Carla into a Heroic BSoD... until she realizes she can pretend to be a psychic herself and make some scratch.
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Phony Psychic / int_25d97c04	comment	A James Bond comic strip had a celebrity witch predicting disaster for an atomic-powered airship that was about to be launched. M cynically notes that such predictions probably come from her various highly-placed lovers, and if nothing happens she's take credit for having averted the disaster with her counterspells. Unfortunately SPECTRE is planning to bring down the airship, and don't take well to having their Evil Plan leaked beforehand.
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Phony Psychic / int_28f30dc9	comment	Fortean Times looks at psychic phenomena of all kinds (both historical and contemporary) with an open mind tinged with skepticism. Some of the cases they examine certainly do turn out to be faked.
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Phony Psychic / int_2c1809f5	comment	Totally Spies!: In the episode "Fashion Faux Pas", the girls meet a psychic named Tyresius who gives them a fortune that comes true, much to his surprise. This prompts Sam to call him throughout the episode where he makes even more lucky guesses which Clover and Alex figure out right away. It isn't until the end of the episode where Sam realize his predictions were pure luck when they see he also works at Balloon World as Tony the Clown.
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Phony Psychic / int_2c9a932f	comment	Amelie de Mort in the Vampirella story "The Betrothed of the Sun-God" pretends to be a medium and cons people into thinking that their dead relatives want the will changed to benefit her, after which she has her victims killed for the inheritance money, though she gets more than she bargained for when Vampirella and Pendragon visit her and Huitzilopochtli speaks through her for real.
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Phony Psychic / int_3095eb9f	comment	Rose Blackdeer of Revival is a fortuneteller by trade. Instead of supernatural ability, she uses drugged tea and hypnosis to persuade her targets of her power.
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Phony Psychic / int_31f488ef	comment	Lovecraft Country: Leti's mom worked as a fake spirit medium, and according to her was very skilled, even doing research with actual Voduon practitioners so her act seemed more convincing.
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Phony Psychic / int_36151c14	comment	An episode of Hawaii Five-0 had one of these as the Victim of the Week. Her killer was a woman whose father had committed suicide when the victim lied to him about his daughter being dead (in reality she had simply run away from home). The killer never actually intended to kill the victim, just subject her to an Ironic Hell by making her think she was being haunted by real ghosts.
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Phony Psychic / int_3683873b	comment	Miss Piggy's issue in the original miniseries of The Muppet Show Comic Book features Madame Rhonda, a con artist who runs a fortune-telling scam to trick people out of money.
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Phony Psychic / int_379aa7a7	comment	Illuminati: New World Order parodies them. You can dial 1-900-SUC-KERS to talk to your psychic buddy.
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Phony Psychic / int_396afdbd	comment	In SÃ©ance on a Wet Afternoon, Myra Savage holds regular seances in an upstairs room in her house, but she is more interested in publicity than money, so she hatches a scheme to kidnap Amanda Clayton, the daughter of wealthy industrialist Charles Clayton, then offer the distraught parents her services to locate Amanda. She tells the Claytons that she had a dream of a girl lost and surrounded by Clay, and mentions the names Caroline (Amanda's best friend at school) and Hedge (a reference to her stuffed hedgehog), both of which Amanda unwittingly told her herself. Mr Clayton is convinced Myra is a charlatan, telling her she's not the first psychic who has claimed to be able to locate their daughter, but Mrs Clayton is more receptive and attends a seance at which Myra pretends to communicate with Amanda.
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Phony Psychic / int_3b34143f	comment	Many, including Hermione, assume that Professor Trelawney, the (main) Divination Professor in Harry Potter, is either a phony or wildly exaggerating the usefulness of her powers and Divination as a whole. When the trio begins taking her class in the third book, she begins the first class by making wild accusations, spends most of the year predicting Harry's death, and Harry and Ron quickly discover they can BS their way through the class by making doom-and-gloom predictions. Ultimately subverted; Trelawney made the two main prophecies that we see in the series. Furthermore, a lot of her predictions, when stripped of their theatricality, are actually pretty accurate, Harry's death notwithstanding. Trelawney is however quite bad at correctly interpreting her predictions.
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Phony Psychic / int_3b88d68c	comment	All supposedly psychic people in The Divine Comedy are condemned to the fourth bolgia in Malebolge, the circle of fraud, which suggests Dante thought all psychics are phony. Such people are punished by having their heads on backwards.
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Phony Psychic / int_3f10d191	comment	The Jackbox Party Pack: If you win a game of Trivia Murder Party 2 while under the effects of Grandpappy Jack's Glasses, you'll get a visit from Dr. Kharhaldah, a self-proclaimed "licensed physician of the mystical arts" who offers to help save you from the "curse of supernatural madness". If you get his question right, he'll either offer to send you a Shockingly Expensive Bill or ask that you not tell the doctors he was here because he's not legally allowed to be in the hospital.
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Phony Psychic / int_42760d6b	comment	Mieruko-chan: Zig-zagged by the flamboyant ghost hunter Shindou Romm. He makes his money selling phony ghost tours and Protective Charms to the gullible public, but is an exceptionally powerful medium who comes to the rescue when a genuine ghost is causing trouble.
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Phony Psychic / int_43576f5	comment	In Supernatural, Sam and Dean Winchester run into an entire town of these in "The Mentalists". Lampshaded to no end, but particularly when Dean mentions that Pamela was one of the few genuine psychics they have encountered. There are actually some real ones as well, including the villain, who has summoned the ghost of a dead psychic to kill the impostors, while her equally psychic and ghostly sister tries to warn people about her.
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Phony Psychic / int_45a5beb2	comment	In the WordGirl episode "Fortune Crookie", a mysterious obelisk appears and claims that it can tell people's futures as long as the people pay it. The predictions are extremely obvious things that were inevitably going to happen anyway (e.g. it predicts that the school cafeteria will serve chocolate milk, but as Becky points out they have always served chocolate milk). The obelisk turns out to be a scam from Seymour Orlando Smooth to make money.
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Phony Psychic / int_48c2633f	comment	Repairman Jack helps Phony Psychic brothers stop a rival husband-and-wife Phony Psychic team who are trying to drive them out of business in The Haunted Air.
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Phony Psychic / int_49a87cb3	comment	The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII novel Lateral Biography TURKS ~ The Kids Are Alright concerns Kyrie, who claims to have the power to hear the whispers of the dead in the Lifestream in order to attract patrons to their detective agency. This brings her under the attention of the Turks, who consider beating her as a warning to make her stop doing this, but decide it would be unfair. It later turns out that she got the idea from knowing Aerith as a child, who actually had the power to hear the voices of the dead, which freaked her out too much to continue being her friend.
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Phony Psychic / int_4ab17360	comment	Miroku in Inuyasha is a genuine Buddhist monk with very real spiritual powers... whose favorite trick upon arriving in a town is to single out a large, prosperous-looking household and announce that it is "threatened by evil spirits," which he then generously offers to exorcize in return for a meal and a place to stay for the night. Every now and again one of these houses surprises him by actually harboring a spirit or two. Madame Exorcist plays this trope straight. She proclaims to be a professional at her job but Inuyasha and friends have their doubts about her legitimacy due to her ineffective powers and her old age. While she is somewhat competent when it comes to battling evil spirits, she comes off as a mediocre exorcist compared to the main heroes.
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Phony Psychic / int_4ccad611	comment	In Crime Doctor's Man Hunt, Natalie bribed sideshow fortune teller Alfredi to predict a violent death for Philip Armstrong in an attempt to scare him away from her sister.
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Phony Psychic / int_4ce56986	comment	Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. At least twice now, Kitboga has pretended to be psychic during a scambaiting call, using a combination of his own accumulated knowledge of how the scams work ("I sense your job will soon be in jeopardy!") and traditional tactics such as Cold Reading. The first time, it goes so well that the scammers basically just give up on trying to scam his character and start confessing their troubles. The second time, it's not clear if the scammer ever really buys it, but it doesn't end up hurting the bait either (it ends up lasting over 4 and 1/2 hours).
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Phony Psychic / int_4efed37e	comment	In Disney's Robin Hood (1973), Robin and Little John disguise themselves as fortune-tellers—with the intent of robbing Prince John of everything but his underwear and crown.
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Phony Psychic / int_4f410616	comment	In The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, Nicholas Benedict uses his prodigious memory and talent for observing human behavior patterns to pass himself off as psychic at the orphanage at Rothschild's Inn. His tricks include quickly memorizing the names of everyone there, memorizing the entire layout of the building, and seemingly predicting future events based on his observations of past behavior. He easily fools the younger children, though the older ones remain skeptical.
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Phony Psychic / int_4f9064f6	comment	Kung Fu Panda 2. Although she has genuine foresight, Lord Shen's soothsayer doesn't mind yanking his chain with this trope.
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Phony Psychic / int_54291151	comment	In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Pawlm Reading", a woman named Finola claims that she can read the minds of animals, and profits from it by pretending to help owners better connect with their pets. Blythe, who actually can communicate with animals, can tell she's a fake because her so-called readings are almost always the exact opposite of the animals are actually thinking (one recurring one insisting that their owners buy and feed them a specific brand of pet food that actually tastes yucky, to the point where Mrs Twombly ends up stocking up on said food). Blythe exposes Finola when she doesn't even recognise her own pet sugar glider Sweetcheeks when Blythe disguises him and then it's revealed Finola is an employee of the same pet food company and pretended to be a pet psychic to sell more of the company's failing product.
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Phony Psychic / int_5489f51f	comment	In Makai Kingdom, Pram the Oracle has a lot of real powers, being an Overlord, but prophecy isn't one of them. She "predicted" the future by reading ahead in the Sacred Tome. The prophecy that kicked off the entire plot was also a lie that Pram wrote into the Tome as a cruel prank on Zetta.
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Phony Psychic / int_54a7dc07	comment	Space: 1999: One of the episodes ("The Seance Spectre", of the second season) features as a villain a member of Moonbase Alpha that had played one of these for so long that not only he had made a small cult of personality, but he had become insane and started to believe his own lies, and when he's convinced that "the spirits" want the Alphans to live on a Death World that they are passing, he's willing to do anything (from creating false information to murder and ending up trying to force a second Breakaway) to make the Alphans go there.
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Phony Psychic / int_55ef2655	comment	In the Kenan & Kel episode "Mental Kel Epathy", after a bunch of coincidences that convince Kenan's family and Chris that Kel is psychic, Kenan decides to keep up the charade in order to profit from it.
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Phony Psychic / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 subverts it with Chihaya Mifune, who is all but stated to be this at first but turns out to be the real deal. Her "holy stones" turn out to be a sham, however.
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Phony Psychic / int_59ea5b9b	comment	In the Confessions, astrology is almost exclusively referred to as "that folly" and several anecdotes about twins and people born on the same day are provided to show that one's horoscope determines nothing about a person, even if a few astrologers have made accurate predictions by sheer chance.
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Phony Psychic / int_5af707ee	comment	Parodied in the Home Movies episode "Temporary Blindness", in which Coach McGuirk is believed to be psychic after going blind, and attempts to give a demonstration to an audience:
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Phony Psychic / int_625e571	comment	Law & Order: Criminal Intent had a psychic used by her male companion, who fed her necessary information.
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Phony Psychic / int_6274e926	comment	This is pretty much all Rapture from Jem ever does. Word of God is she doesn't actually believe in the supernatural however that doesn't stop her from trying to con people. She's given a Freudian Excuse of having lived on the streets with her bandmates for a while, so being a Con Man was a way to survive.
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Phony Psychic / int_65a79be3	comment	One of the books for Orpheus suggests a plot hook where one of these - a medium with her own television show and absolutely zero talent, as opposed to the Player Character "operators" - makes the Orpheus agents, already on the run for the suspected murder of the rest of their organization, the targets of a crusade.
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Phony Psychic / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In the episode "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future", the girls try to catch a fake psychic who uses her tricks to distract victims while her assistant picks their pockets.
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Phony Psychic / int_68369640	comment	Psychic Detective Yakumo is another genuine psychic who is not ashamed to pull a Phony Psychic con. In Yakumo's case, his one and only psychic power is the ability to see and communicate with the spirits of the dead; he makes money on the side by pretending to be able to tell which card a mark has pulled from a deck in his "office," which has a mirror conveniently placed to give him a clear view from behind his desk.
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Phony Psychic / int_68c969b8	comment	A Haunting in Venice: Joyce Reynolds is a phony medium who fakes her seances with the aid of her assistants Desdemona and Nicholas Holland. After examining Maxime's invitation, Poirot deduces Oliver sent it and is conspiring with Vitale. Vitale, who investigated Alicia's death, gave Joyce private details, while Oliver had hoped to use Poirot's incapability of explaining the supernatural as a plot for her next book.
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Phony Psychic / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: The Stupendous Yappi from "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", a hammy celebrity Police Psychic who even Mulder can't take seriously. Ironically, it's not that his predictions are wrong — they're just too vague to be of any possible use.
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Phony Psychic / int_6ba673f9	comment	New Tricks: Brian turns the tables on a fake psychic in "Dead Man Talking"; using cold reading techniques to reveal all kinds of incriminating information about him.
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Phony Psychic / int_6cd6c4e8	comment	Liv Moore of iZombie is an odd variation in that she is a phony psychic with real powers (and not a case of Not-So-Phony Psychic since she knows full well that she can see things). After becoming a zombie, she develops a Cannibalism Superpower: When she eats the brain of a dead person, she inherits their memories, which appear in the form of visions. She uses this skill to help the police, but since she can't tell them she's a zombie, she claims to be a psychic instead.
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Phony Psychic / int_6d0e5f62	comment	Tales from the Hood 2: In "The Medium", TV psychic John Lloyd records the chatter among his audience members before the show and uses the notes provided by his staff to present the illusion of psychic abilities.
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Phony Psychic / int_6d53eaec	comment	In the Book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar suspects that his Chaldean astrologers are pretty much this when he has a disturbing dream, so he refuses to tell them the dream and instead tests them by having them declare both the dream and its interpretation.
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Phony Psychic / int_6e33f3df	comment	The Beatles: The episode "We Can Work It Out" features a crooked soothsayer trying to take advantage of George being superstitious. Failing that, he traps the band in his crystal ball.
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Phony Psychic / int_6f76d71a	comment	Implied by the "Phone Psychic" career in The Sims games. No Sims have real psychic powers (though they can get magic in the first three games) and any random Sim can take the "psychic" career, so they're probably faking.
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Phony Psychic / int_704d43b3	comment	In the book of Deuteronomy, as a litmus test to determine whether a so-called "prophet" is really one sent by the Lord, God says that if the "prophet" declares something that doesn't happen when it should, then that was not a prophet sent by the Lord, but rather the person has spoken it presumptuously.
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Phony Psychic / int_7288f27	comment	The start of the Medium?/Ghoul legacy in Cultist Simulator has the player character a very successful, well-remunerated theatrical medium who uses Cold Reading and secrets gleaned from here and there to make a living. The dead eventually take offense and start actually speaking through them. This gets the Medium fired for babbling like a lunatic, and leaves them with the ability to eat the dead to obtain their memories and a nasty appetite that compels them to use this ability.
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Phony Psychic / int_72e68fc6	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice: Queen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in is revealed in the final trial to have no spiritual power whatsoever, making her claim to the throne illegitimate.
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Phony Psychic / int_73383fee	comment	Yasuhiro Hagakure in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is a professional psychic who's supposed to be good at his job, but considering he proudly proclaims only a 30% success rate in his predictions and charges a fortune for them... Ironically, depending on which ending you get, at least one of the two predictions he gives the hero comes true. Hagakure is actually something of a subversion. Although he has many of the characteristics of a Phony Psychic (including him even admitting that he has scammed some of his clients in the past), he himself is actually a legitimate psychic. In addition, the spin-off Ultra Despair Hagakure explains that the predictions he makes are incredibly detailed, to the point where he can predict the exact second something will happen. As a result, while his 30% success rate seems abysmal at first glance, considering the specificity of his claims as well as the average success rate of other psychics being implied to be much lower, he does, in fact, live up to his title of Ultimate Clairvoyant.
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Phony Psychic / int_77cafc9c	comment	In the Dirk Gently series, Dirk has tried to be a Phony Psychic on several occasions. The fact he's invariably accurate (but never manages to make any money at it, and at least once was arrested) annoys him intensely.
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Phony Psychic / int_78866bcf	comment	In Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, the "medium" Mr. Benton conspires with the butler Albie and his wife Clarine to fake visitations from Aunt Roo's deceased daughter Katharine. Clarine stands in Katharine's nursery, calling down the dumbwaiter shaft in a little girl voice, which completely fools Aunt Roo.
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Phony Psychic / int_7c3fed29	comment	In The Devil Commands, Karl takes Dr. Blair to see the medium Blanche Walters, whom Karl believes allows him to talk to dead mother's spirit. Blair easily finds and exposes the hidden speakers and projectors whereby Walters fakes her spirit manifestations.
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Phony Psychic / int_7f640c59	comment	The Sims 3: Supernatural introduces the Fortune Teller career, which has a Mystic branch and a Scam Artist branch. While the Mystic branch is real, the Scam Artist branch falls into this trope. The career descriptions for this branch reference faking being psychic, and the level 10 career level is Celebrity Psychic.
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Phony Psychic / int_844e6a90	comment	In Born Behind Bars, the orphaned Romani girl Rani stands on a street corner, using cold reading to tell fortunes for ten rupees.
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Phony Psychic / int_84782a62	comment	A Bit of Fry and Laurie: One sketch features a man who claims to bend spoons using the amazing power of...his hands. He is quite offended when called on this.
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Phony Psychic / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius Madame Olga was a grifter and fortune teller traveling with the circus. After her death, Agatha took up her stage name and position as the circus's fortune teller though she tended to feel out of her depth when it came to coming up with fortunes.
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Phony Psychic / int_8a728f1a	comment	A Drowned Maiden's Hair has Hyacinth Hawthorne, an elderly spinster who claims to be able to talk to spirits and stages elaborate sÃ©ances in which she pretends to fall into a trance, with the help of her sisters Victoria and Judith, who disapprove of what she's doing but go along with it because they really need the money. Hyacinth adopts Maud so she can impersonate the eight-year-old drowning victim Caroline Lambert, whose mother has promised a large sum of money to anyone who can manifest the spirit of her daughter.
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Phony Psychic / int_8c12ec97	comment	Talentless Nana: Nana Hiiragi claims to be a mind-reader, which is a believable claim in a Superhero School. In reality, all of her "mind reading" is just her being able to read people really well (and if she can't guess someone's thoughts, she can wave it away by claiming that her power doesn't always work well).
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Phony Psychic / int_8c8414e2	comment	Dragnet had a case involving a phony psychic swindler who was making a habit of taking different names and swindling people.
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Phony Psychic / int_8d50e6ff	comment	Local fortune teller Mabel in Kirby: Right Back at Ya! is a rare positive example. While she has the standard crystal ball setup, it's revealed that in actuality, she's more of an effective counselor to the other villagers, with her "powers" actually being information from the local barman Samo, who listens to the problems of his customers then relays it to Mabel, who then creates advice for them once they visit her tent.
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Phony Psychic / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost's Richard Malkin appears to be a "legit" Fortune Teller in the first season episode "Raised By Another." However, in the second season episode "?" he admits he's a fraud. It's still up in the air whether he had an actual psychic experience reading Claire in "Raised By Another." Miles genuinely has the ability to hear the dead, but semi-counts because of his history of telling clients what they want to hear for money, and using it to find a dead drug dealer's cash. In Hurley's backstory he won the lottery but became convinced he was "cursed" due to a string of bad lack that followed the win. In one flashback his dad takes him to a psychic who does a Tarot reading that confirms he's cursed. When she starts talking about doing a "cleansing" to free him Hurley realises that his dad paid her off.
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Phony Psychic / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk: In "Mr. Monk and the Psychic," Monk deals with a hack psychic named Dolly Flint, who got recruited without her knowledge by Harry Ashcombe to find his wife's body after he runs her car off the road (he can't find the body himself because it would look suspicious, so he needed to recruit someone to 'discover' it for him). In Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii, a Tie-In Novel to the series, Dylan Swift is a phony psychic who's on the wrong side of the law. Both Monk and Natalie dislike Swift, who they can't help but notice is spending a lot of time around a recent murder committed at the resort hotel they are staying at - Monk for one set of reasons (finding the truth, plus having a dislike for people who profit from others' grief) and Natalie for other reasons (namely, personal messages from Swift about her late husband). It turns out then that Swift, as popular as his celebrity status, is actually a master manipulator who wiretaps hotel rooms to get the information he needs for his shows, and committed the murder in an effort to cover this up.
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Phony Psychic / int_8e451070	comment	Absolute Trust: Aunt Wu of Makapu village, as Alec privately confirms: she's just good at Cold Reading and telling people what they want to hear. But her motives are surprisingly benevolent: she doesn't make any money from the fortune telling, but the inns and merchants do make money from her customers.
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Phony Psychic / int_8e82c366	comment	Though the title characters are not an example, The Real Ghostbusters have met their fair share of frauds and hucksters. The worst one is Dr. Venkman's own father, who sets up a few ghostbusting ventures in an effort to ride his son's coattails. Less visible, but no less repugnant, is Dr. Basingham, who brought real, malevolent spirits upon Ray's aunt Lois. (He's also a walking Take That!: his safari jacket deliberately echoes Jake Kong, Jr. of the Filmation's Ghostbusters team!) In one episode Venkman Sr. and Basingham even worked together for a plot that nearly resulted in an Eldritch Abomination destroying New York.
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Phony Psychic / int_911c755d	comment	In It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie; in the world where Kermit was never born, Miss Piggy's "acting career" is as a telephone psychic.
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Phony Psychic / int_914ba844	comment	In The Wizard of Oz Dorothy runs across a fortune-teller who tells her to close her eyes and then proceeds to look through her bag. He finds a picture of Dorothy and Auntie Em, and tells Dorothy that Auntie Em has fallen ill - a more benevolent example of the trope than many, as the result is to inspire Dorothy to head back home instead of running away as she'd intended.
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Phony Psychic / int_947a1ea8	comment	There's a Ghost Behind That Gal: In chapter 13, during a trip to Harajuku the girls meet "the Witch of the Vacant Lot", who tricks gullible young women into buying her shoddy "lucky charms" by telling them they're haunted. But when she tries this trick on Yuina and Hikari, Yuina thinks that the Witch can see Reiko, forcing her to play along.
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Phony Psychic / int_95450fd4	comment	The film Red Lights centers around a physicist and a psychology professor who specialize in debunking psychic phenomenon, and their attempts to prove whether or not a renowned blind psychic is the real thing—presupposing that he's not. The film goes into a lot of detail about the tricks that phony psychics use.
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Phony Psychic / int_98288223	comment	The Magicians (2016): Margo and Fen encounter an older woman pretending she is the Green Hood, a famed seer. Her seer act is pretty lame, and Margo sees through it almost immediately, though Fen takes a bit longer. She gets them to do yardwork for her in return for a prophecy until Margo has had enough. It turns out that the real Green Hood had used her house in dreams, and grew annoyed over the constant pilgrims coming in messing up her property, deciding she'd take advantage of this as a result.
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Phony Psychic / int_98daf5d9	comment	Waiting for God: The medium brought to Bayview by Jane. She claims to channel the spirit of Tom's late wife, who is not happy with his relationship with Diana. Then it's revealed that she's been fed information by Marion. After discovering this, Diana feeds her misinformation through Geoffrey, leading to her exposure as a fraud in front of a large audience. She also claims to channel the spirit of one of Diana's colleagues, who it turns out has just died.
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Phony Psychic / int_9a38e9a0	comment	My Life Is Murder: In "Fake Empire", when Kieran presents Alexa with another unsolved murder—a nurse stabbed in the back a week after proposing to his girlfriend—Alexa declines until Kieran mentions the involvement of clairvoyant Chloe Angel, who knows details about the case not released to the public. Ever the skeptic, Alexa is determined find the killer and prove that Chloe is a phony. She does.
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Phony Psychic / int_9a67b688	comment	One of the cases in Case Closed featured two of the suspects (who are Fengshui Master and fortuneteller respectively) planting listening devices inside the goods that they sell to customers in order to convince them of their psychic power.
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Phony Psychic / int_9e522749	comment	Raven's Home: In part 2 of "The Falcon and the Raven", Nia pretends to have a vision when she feels left out as the only non-psychic of the Baxters. In "Because" when Booker lets his psychic abilities slip, the Carver students wish to have more visions from him. But since the visions only happen once in a while, Booker pretends to have visions that the boy Nia likes would friend her and win the basketball championship. He is exposed as a "fake psychic" when he gets injured and revealed he only friended Nia to move up her list when ironically, he's a real psychic who made up those visions just to be famous.
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Phony Psychic / int_9e876c22	comment	Madame Tracy from Good Omens is a phony medium that puts on a show for Londoners looking to paddle in the occult while staying firmly in the metaphorical shallow end. To that end, she does Tarot readings with some of the more distressing cards removed from the deck and pretends to channel departed friends and relatives who offer vague platitudes about how nice it is on the other side. (She also keeps cabbage on the boil in her kitchen, as it's hard to have a really eldritch experience when everything smells like someone is preparing Sunday dinner.) Much to her surprise, she ends up channeling an actual ghost when Aziraphale temporarily possesses her body.
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Phony Psychic / int_9f78fda3	comment	Murder, She Wrote: The Victim of the Week in "The Classic Murder" is a phony psychic with a sideline in Blackmail. Turns out trying to blackmail a murderer is a bad idea.
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Phony Psychic / int_9fdbe934	comment	The High Aldwyn from Willow zig-zags the trope. He is quite capable of real magic but seems to find it easier to get the results he wants through cold-reading and mind-games. Also, he is a competent leader and unambiguously good, in spite of being the most manipulative character in the film, including the Big Bad.
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Phony Psychic / int_a0551eca	comment	One episode of So Weird had a phony medium get debunked by the genuine article.
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Phony Psychic / int_a1020699	comment	Operation Do-Over: Zigzagged. A palm reader who everyone else views as a fraud seems to be able to tell that Mason is a time traveler and comments on the "two paths" ahead of him. He spends a long time trying to track her down again for elaboration, only for the fortune teller to claim she's a fraud and that the "two paths" line is something she says to all of her customers. However, in the final scene, Mason spots her in 2021 and notes that she looks younger, and she winks mysteriously when she notices him.
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Phony Psychic / int_a1eb87a	comment	In Dinner at Deviant's Palace, set After the End, there is a fortune-teller whose schtick is built around half-remembered and misunderstood scraps of jargon from the old times, including "telephones", quantum mechanics, and stories about people hearing voices from the metal fillings in their teeth.
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Phony Psychic / int_a2b42653	comment	Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC has a chapter where Yuuko demonstrates the difference between a Phony Psychic who tries to ask for more money to give Watanuki some love and a real psychic who guesses Watanuki's name and ghost-seeing abilities without even talking to him. Yuuko also notes that it's perfectly all right to be a psychic without real powers, as long as they study and put effort into whatever method they use (the fake one was an astrologer who never studied the subject).
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Phony Psychic / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: In the book of Deuteronomy, as a litmus test to determine whether a so-called "prophet" is really one sent by the Lord, God says that if the "prophet" declares something that doesn't happen when it should, then that was not a prophet sent by the Lord, but rather the person has spoken it presumptuously. In the books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, God through those respective prophets dealt with various false prophets among God's people who were making "thus says the Lord" statements when God Himself hasn't spoken to or through them. In the Book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar suspects that his Chaldean astrologers are pretty much this when he has a disturbing dream, so he refuses to tell them the dream and instead tests them by having them declare both the dream and its interpretation.
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Phony Psychic / int_aa36ae9e	comment	RÃ³Å¼a of Shaman Blues can see ghosts and ward houses against them, but can't hear their voices. She nevertheless makes a lot of money by pretending to be a medium and "talking" with the ghosts that are haunting the possession, eventually promising to send it to the afterlife for extra money and then simply banishing it from the house. Eventually, one of the ghosts comes to complain to the real medium and RÃ³Å¼a's scam is revealed.
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Phony Psychic / int_b0766f14	comment	Horribly played with in Detective School Q. As a part of a plan to rebuild her business and save her family from ruin, a woman named Hanayo Ichinose faked her death, got plastic surgery and some time later tried to make herself pass as one of these, intending to stay close to her kids who thought she was dead. Her two older sons, however, mistook not!Hanayo for an accomplice of their greedy and evil aunt... and to protect themselves and their baby sister, they killed Hanayo.
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Phony Psychic / int_b183827e	comment	In the books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, God through those respective prophets dealt with various false prophets among God's people who were making "thus says the Lord" statements when God Himself hasn't spoken to or through them.
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Phony Psychic / int_b2e0c9be	comment	The Witchcraft core book has a fiction piece where a phony medium earns the ire of a lot of ghosts, and it's only due to the intervention of one of the Gifted that she's not torn to bits.
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Phony Psychic / int_b712435c	comment	The Leverage episode "The Future Job" has a Phony Psychic as the villain, and the episode is wholly recommended for the great detail they go into on his methods. It also is utterly hilarious: the team convinces the villain (who is very aware that he's running a con) that one of them is a real psychic.
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Phony Psychic / int_b8c8f953	comment	PvP had Brent and Cole attending a taping of Crossing Over With John Edward. Brent is picked as a target, and leads Edward on with a story about a deceased teacher and his sister; when Edward falls for it, Brent says, "Yes, all us Skywalkers are strong in the Force." When the edited show is broadcast, it just comes off as a success for Edward.
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Phony Psychic / int_b8e28f2e	comment	Good Omens (2019): Madame Tracy works as one of these, with all her "readings" being obvious fakery. At least until Aziraphale possesses her—then she actually channels a spirit.
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Phony Psychic / int_b9cf766a	comment	Impractical Jokers: Played for Laughs (of course) in an episode where Sal's punishment was to appear live on stage as a psychic in front of a crowd of strangers. He was not allowed to leave until he had actually made a correct prediction about someone in the audience; naturally, he failed miserably.
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Phony Psychic / int_b9f37aaa	comment	The Weather has a caller takes up this position in "Spooky Fog"; Ben turns to them for advice with his misfortune life, and they not only give him terrible advice, but they also refuse to let him see his cards, continually charge him extra money under the guise of the session running too-long, and encourage him to blow his non-existent money on his church, as well.
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Phony Psychic / int_bd447006	comment	Sherlock Holmes: James Lovegrove's story "The Adventure of the Deadly Seance" features multiple phony psychics. Watson believes the main one was clearly in contact with his late brother since she got so many details right, until Holmes points out she did nothing of the kind, she simply agreed with his interpretation of what she'd said. The novel The Red Tower by Mark A. Latham features a phony psychic who has ensnared one of Watson's friends. Said friend is convinced that when Watson speaks to her, he'll become a believer. Watson is a lot more sceptical in this case, noting to himself that, as Holmes's Boswell is something of a celebrity, the salient points about his brother are actually in the public record.
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Phony Psychic / int_bdfe3804	comment	In The Haunting of Hill House, Mrs Montague (wife of the parapsychology doctor researching the place) immediately makes up a very theatrical story about an immured nun and gold in the cellar through a session of Planchette (that little doohickey that picks out symbols on a Ouija board, but given a pencil and paper to write on). Her husband immediately points out that Hill House was never, ever a convent, nor did nuns ever visit. She's, of course, furious at being called out.
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Phony Psychic / int_be12d202	comment	Warlock (1989): The Warlock visits a medium after arriving in the present day to contact his master Satan. The medium in question is clearly a fraud, but since the warlock himself isn't, he just hijacks her body against her will to channel the devil.
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Phony Psychic / int_c0107963	comment	Murder, My Sweet: Jules Amthor admits that he is this, scamming gullible society ladies.
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Phony Psychic / int_c11dc7e6	comment	Less is Morgue has Erik D'Corah, MASTER OF THE MYSTIC! This insanely hammy Vegas magician claims to be able to predict the future and contact the dead, but his predictions are bizarre and he runs away screaming at the first sign of actual paranormal activity.
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Phony Psychic / int_c2297a9c	comment	Gilbert George from Judge Dredd posed as a psychic and was reputed to be extremely accurate, but it turns out (posthumously) that he was just using small and advanced surveillance equipment to learn what he needed to know.
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Phony Psychic / int_c2d17682	comment	Julian gives us Maximus, a Large Ham in a toga who would make Uri Geller proud. Or perhaps not, given that his advice is what prompts Julian to reject an excellent treaty and instead march to his doom.
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Phony Psychic / int_c511c682	comment	Asterix: Prolix in Asterix and the Soothsayer is a phony augur (a reader of entrails), and leads a very good life requesting various edibles to 'read', such as fish, boars and beer. This works wonderfully until he is captured by the Romans, who are ordered to kill all Gaulish soothsayers, leading him to have to prove to them that he's a conman, not a psychic. Unfortunately, all his predictions end up coming true.
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Phony Psychic / int_c5302528	comment	One episode of John Doe had a woman who honestly thought she was having psychic visions about a serial killer. Turned out that she herself had been abducted and wounded by the killer, but escaped, and promptly forgot most of her ordeal due to trauma and blood loss. Of course, the show already has a secret organization using actual psychics for remote viewing purposes.
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Phony Psychic / int_c7a52ee3	comment	In one episode of Extreme Ghostbusters, the Ghostbusters tackle a horde of ghosts who their equipment can't defeat. They're a part of the ghostly Pied Piper, who "gets rid" of them by reabsorbing them; he uses this in an attempt at extortion.
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Phony Psychic / int_cac1f772	comment	One episode of CSI saw one of these as the Victim of the Week. Turns out that because of sheer coincidence, the BS that she gave a police detective that asked her for help finding a dead girl's corpse ("She lies in Summerland (a New Age version of Heaven)") sounded exactly like the place where the girl's murderer had buried her body (a neighborhood named Summerlin) so out of sheer panic he went and killed her just in case. The episode milks the Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane of this confusion for all its worth, but Grissom still points out as the episode closes that a poor woman died because of it.
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Phony Psychic / int_cb6abea3	comment	Mai Valentine pulled a fake psychic act at first in the Duelist Kingdom arc of Yu-Gi-Oh!; in reality, she scented all her cards with unique scents so she'd know by scent which cards she'd draw. Joey figured out her trick when he closed his eyes and noticed the scents. Despite having caught a cold a few episodes ago from diving into the ocean in an attempt to recover Yugi's Exodia cards. Espa Roba also pulls a phony psychic stunt in the Battle City tournament, with help from his brothers spying on his opponents' cards and relaying them through a headset. (Apparently, he and his brothers pulled this trick when he worked as a psychic in a circus.) Before either of them was Kokurano, a student at Yugi's school. He posed as a psychic to impress girls and had pre-planned 'predictions' hidden in his clothes (something Yugi guessed). However, he also went as far as to make some of his own predictions come true, such as Anzu 'swooning over a great man' (he used chloroform on her), Yugi being crushed by 'countless letters' (he tried pushing a bookcase onto Yugi), and also straight up committing arson on the house of a student whose house he claimed would burn down.
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Phony Psychic / int_cc2a7289	comment	Bizarrely, Papa Lazarou of The League of Gentlemen, who is a Monster Clown that is Really 700 Years Old, has a psychic act is an obvious and not even remotely convincing fake.
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Phony Psychic / int_cfc45be9	comment	Spoonbenders: While his wife Maureen was a genuine psychic, Teddy himself is an absolute fraud. He plays the part of being a clairvoyant, when really he's a Con Man who knows how to read people and perform slight-of-hand.
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Phony Psychic / int_d0c75992	comment	Inspector Morse. A serial rapist escapes from prison and murders several former associates before being shot by police. Turns out the whole thing was engineered by one of his victims whom he failed to recognise. Knowing that the rapist believed his capture (which was entirely bad luck) had been due to betrayal, she convinced him she had psychic powers, described the incident where she was gang-raped and said the others involved in the rape had turned informant.
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Phony Psychic / int_d2b29bf2	comment	Madame Xanadu in Young Justice, although Kent Nelson tells her she does have the gift, she just doesn't know how to use it. When she finally returns in Phantoms, it's shown that she has become a Not-So-Phony Psychic.
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Phony Psychic / int_d47fbd8f	comment	X-Factor (2006): In Issue #35, the heroes are in a hospital to gain information from the comatose Hector Munoz whose son Darwin is missing. Lieutenant Weiss, the cop who called them, says he has dealt with plenty of fraudulent psychics who tried to use missing persons cases to gain media attention. His skepticism isn't helped when Monet reads Hector's mind and nothing turns up.
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Phony Psychic / int_d6f754eb	comment	Played for laughs in "Angel Down, Sussex" by Kim Newman; a young woman, Catriona, visits a psychic after World War I, and the psychic divines that she is seeking contact with a soldier, Edwin; the psychic assures her that her soldier felt no pain when he died and that he sends his love to her from the afterlife, and a ghostly, indistinct image appears. After a moment, Catriona points out that there's one problem with the psychic's reading: Edwin, the soldier who the psychic has made such direct contact with? Not dead, in fact currently parked outside. Turns out Catriona's a particularly savvy paranormal investigator and proceeds to deconstruct the psychic's act with devastating accuracy and reveal to her other patrons that she's a sham.
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Phony Psychic / int_d7e0d316	comment	Etra chan saw it!: Yuzuriha is a scammer who pretends to be a fortuneteller, she charges $200 to anyone who asks her for advice.
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Phony Psychic / int_d86d816d	comment	Of course, the same applies to the 2021 remake. Also see the original novel below.
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Phony Psychic / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe," Stan tries to debunk phony psychics after Kyle is convinced by one that his dead grandmother is disappointed in him. This being South Park, all of the idiot adults he tries to reveal the tricks to just think he has become psychic and encourage him to pursue this newfound "power." This leads as far as getting him his own (unwanted) TV show where he continues to try to demonstrate why all the psychics on TV are phony. In another episode, Cartman gets a head injury and wakes up in the hospital, where a string of coincidences convinces Police Sergeant Yates that he picked up psychic abilities. Cartman ends up believing his own hype and incorrectly implicates several random people in a string of serial murders. Kyle ends up tracking down the real killer but becomes Cassandra Truth until he ends up jumping off a roof so he can get a head injury and have a "psychic vision" of the real killer's location. Then it turns out he might be Real After All at the end.
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Phony Psychic / int_dcf7d02e	comment	In Private Actress, the main character Shiho is once hired to pose as one of these and pretend she can invoke the soul of a child actress's mother, so the girl will stop rejecting her soon-to-be stepmom. Shiho realizes that the stepmom is a borderline Wicked Stepmother and decides to protect the girl instead, managing to get the dad to call off the engagement.
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Phony Psychic / int_e045add0	comment	In Magicians, part of Karl's reinvention of himself as a 'street' magician involves a Phony Psychic routine complete with Cold Reading. He's not very comfortable with it to begin with, but when his would-be girlfriend leaves him when she learns he's not a real psychic and upon hearing the sad story of someone coming to see his act who wants to make contact with a loved one on the other side he breaks down and admits he's a fake. At the end of the movie, we then see that a much less-scrupulous magician has filled the niche he left behind.
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Phony Psychic / int_e0f585cc	comment	The Fortunes of Flossie: Protagonist Flossie is exceedingly superstitious and spends most of the comic seeking out fortune tellers to divine her future. The vast majority of those "fortune tellers" are either blatant conmen, boardwalk carnies, or else have been bribed into giving Flossie a reading that benefits a third party. The ones who do give her an accurate prophecy wind up doing so in spite of themselves since Prophecies Are Always Right.
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Phony Psychic / int_e3b8885	comment	Played for laughs in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum when Pseudolus pretends to be a soothsayer to distract Eronius, with Marcus Lycus feeding him fake clues. Lampshaded, naturally:
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Phony Psychic / int_e49cd75f	comment	Alta Mar: Part of Cassandra's plan to get revenge on her sister's alleged murderer.
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Phony Psychic / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "Things That Go Bump in the Night" we learn that the purported medium got her info about people in illicit ways, but the episode's end suggests her spiritual guide is real as Joyce seems to hear her as well. In "Second Sight", Barnaby is able to prove that Max Ransom and Jimmy Kirby are both faking psychic abilities. Barnaby also doesn't believe that "Romani Rose" has powers. Subverted when three other members of the Kirby family show the unexplained ability to see future events, see winning gambling numbers and foresee danger. The fact that this psychic talent seems to be In the Blood helps solve the secret parentage of one of the murder victims as well. In "The Witches of Angel Ridge", Hattie Bainbridge admits that she has resorted to information gathered by moles due to, in her words, her gift no longer coming through for her. This plays into the Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane situation at the end where she is able to talk down the murderer with the use of his dead lover's pet name for him: did she genuinely make contact with the dead lover or was this another titbit picked up from her moles?
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Phony Psychic / int_e68decb8	comment	The Pkunk from Star Control 2 are an entire race of relatively harmless Phony Psychics. Complicating things are the fact that it's implied that they actually do have some authentic psychic powers, and it's not always clear which of their statements are the real thing and which are nonsense. It's also not totally clear how much they buy into their own act.
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Phony Psychic / int_e6f01329	comment	The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, of all franchises, subverted this trope with a wizard character who claims to be psychic and can show visitors magical images of anything they want to see. The catch is that, while the wizard doesn't actually have any powers, the images he shows are real. What the wizard's customers are actually seeing are films taken by the wizard's assistant, who spends a lot of time flying around Grundo taping interesting sights and places, which are then projected onto a screen. The whole "magic powers" schtick is just a way to attract customers, and otherwise the wizard isn't actually conning anyone.
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Phony Psychic / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Three pre-New Adventures stories of Paperinik had him deal with these. In one he had to deal with a fake wizard who convinced people they needed to buy a lot of things that his accomplices would then sell them (he had been one of the victims as Donald), another had the fake challenge him to try her fortunes only to stage the events to try and convince him they worked so he'd fall in a trap (they worked... Only for him to overhear her talk about the plan with her accomplices due to one of the accomplices giving him a fortune cookie telling him to go back where they were talking), and in the third Paperinik had to debunk hundreds of fake mages who were scamming the whole Duckburg], and in the process had ruined his dating life and had got him stripped naked in public by a mob of fans that had mistaken him for one of the wizards. In a variant, the third one included an actual wizard (who proved it by flying in the last panels) as Paperinik's assistant, Stealth Hi/Bye appearing from nowhere to give him some useful tip (in their last encounter, Paperinik declared that he had proven that magic did not exist after the wizard said that now the actual ones would be able to work without indrance).
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Phony Psychic / int_ec1eac0e	comment	Empires SMP Season 2: Lizzie, under the disguise of "Mystic Mary", sets up a Fortune Teller stand at the Festival of the Rift with a Crystal Ball for the purpose of scamming fellow rulers out of their diamonds and selling them products from her empire.
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Phony Psychic / int_edd35d30	comment	In The Frighteners, Michael J. Fox's shady ghostbuster actually can see ghosts, but they're his friends, and he "employs" them in his cons. The ghosts haunt the place, he gets rid of 'em, they laugh all the way to the bank.
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Phony Psychic / int_ee848ba9	comment	One episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates had Hetty being hired by a woman to debunk the psychic her mother was seeing as a fraud. To complicate matters, the local police are also investigating the medium, for suspected blackmailing, and Hetty helps them set up a sting operation by fabricating a scandalous story about her "dead" husband's illegitimate child. The episode actually goes with Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane for the psychic's abilities, though she does make extensive use of the standard cold reading tricks, but the focus is on the blackmailing.
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Phony Psychic / int_efa49b17	comment	The Mentalist character Patrick Jane used to be a Phony Psychic, but he angered a Serial Killer who then killed his family. Now he helps the law as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation with Hyper-Awareness. As a result of his experience, he hates anyone who claims psychic powers, believing they're all frauds too.
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Phony Psychic / int_f2041376	comment	In an episode of Charmed, Phoebe applies for a position like this, noting that it would be the last place anyone would expect to find a real psychic like herself.
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Phony Psychic / int_f53fe2fa	comment	Mission: Impossible: Cinnamon poses as a psychic to convince a tycoon that his life is in danger, leading to a high-stakes poker game against Rollin in "The Psychic".
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Phony Psychic / int_f5bddacb	comment	Houston Gray in Grave Encounters, the purported psychic advisor to the titular Show Within a Show. As shown whenever they're not filming, he's actually just an actor Lance hired after he pitched his Paranormal Investigation Reality Show. In one scene, they have him fake a spiritual interaction where he "picks up" on the supernatural energy in the hospital, where he's just using info they've gotten from other people they've interviewed. What's more, while the rest of the crew all believe in ghosts, and are more disappointed than anything that they've never been able to find real ones and have had to stage all of their sightings, Houston is a genuine skeptic of the supernatural, and turns into a Flat-Earth Atheist once it turns out that the ghosts this time are real and actively malevolent.
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Phony Psychic / int_f7f25782	comment	Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Pee-wee goes to a fortune teller, Madame Ruby, to find the location of his stolen bicycle. At first, he demands that she divine why he's there, so she tells him, "You... want something." Her answer is so generic that it could hardly be wrong. She then takes his wallet and fishes through it to discover a picture of his bicycle, giving her further credibility. Eventually she claims him that his bike is in the basement of the Alamo because she spots a sign for Al and Moe's Bargain Basement. This sends Pee-wee on a wild goose chase for most of the film.
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Phony Psychic / int_fc29ccc7	comment	Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In "Mail Order Prophet", a man receives a series of letters from a psychic that successfully predicts future events. Turns out the psychic is a convicted conman who's writing thousands of these letters. Half the letters predict an event will go one way, while the other is the opposite. Since half the predictions are bound to come true, with each 'prediction' he just whittles his mailing list down to the few who have received a correct prediction each time, and so are willing to invest with him.
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Phony Psychic / int_fd8fc45c	comment	In Magic in the Moonlight, Sophie pretends to be a medium. Initially, the protagonist, Stanley, thinks that she is a fraud. Then he starts having doubts... Finally, he realizes that Sophie is really a fraud.
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Phony Psychic / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: "Li'l Gideon" Gleeful has actual occult knowledge as well as a mystic amulet that gives him telekinesis (until it's destroyed by Mabel in "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel"), but his mind-reading powers are fake, which is exposed in the season 1 finale. In "A Tale of Two Stans", Grunkle Stan describes his mother as a phone psychic and a pathological liar. Because of her, he knew right from the start that Gideon was a fraud.
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Phony Psychic / int_fdd941c3	comment	In Nightmare Alley, the phony mentalist and Fortune Teller Madame Zeena and her husband use a complex system of visual and verbal clues that allow her to accurately answer audience questions. She teaches this ability and Cold Reading to the main character Stan who later uses it in his own acts.
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Phony Psychic / int_fe1b5414	comment	Arataka Reigen, Mob's employer in Mob Psycho 100 is an out and out fraud, but has an edge due to having a legitimate esper to back him up, with a second esper joining as Mob grows more independent, on top of Dimple helping out once Reigen becomes able to see him. However, despite having no psychic powers and using Mob to deal with anything genuinely supernatural that they come across, he's genuinely dedicated to helping his customers and can usually solve their problems through mundane but surprisingly effective methods. He's also a surprisingly good mentor to Mob (sometimes), despite having no direct knowledge of how real psychic powers work. He eventually becomes slightly less phony after Mob's Super-Empowering gives him the ability to see lower-level spirits, but he still can't deal with them on his own.
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Phony Psychic / int_fe52f6ff	comment	The Corpse God of Dead Mount Death Play works as one, using hot readings (researching the mark with the aid of a hacker) for the bulk of his work. He does use his real powers to help people with their losses (and make a show out of a pen that moves on its own), but most of his uncanny accuracy comes from the hot readings.
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Absolute Trust (Fanfic) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Highlander Penance (Fanfic) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
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In the Bleak Midwinter (TheLoud) (Fanfic) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Two Step (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Phony Psychic
A Haunting in Venice / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Ed Wood / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Family Plot / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Grave Encounters / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
I've Got Your Number / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Lake Mungo / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Leap of Faith / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Memories of Murder / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Murder, My Sweet / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Night of the Ghouls / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Nightmare Alley (1947) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Nightmare Alley (2021) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Now You See Me / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Now You See Me 2 / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Pee-wee's Big Adventure / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Penn & Teller Get Killed / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Red Lights / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Terminal City Ricochet / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Day of the Beast / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Thirteenth Chair / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Warlock (1989) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
CSI	seeAlso	Phony Psychic
A Journal of the Plague Year / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
A Line to Kill / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
A Series of Unfortunate Events / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
All Dressed in White / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Bardic Voices / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Book of Daniel / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Book of Exodus / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Book of Ezekiel / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Book of Jeremiah / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Born Behind Bars / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Confessions (Saint Augustine) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Elemental Masters / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Falling Up (Silverstein) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Farewell, My Lovely / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Final Fantasy VII The Kids Are Alright A Turks Side Story / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
It Came from Beneath the Sink! / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Miriam Black / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Nightmare Alley / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Philogelos / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Phryne Fisher / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Sasaki and Peeps / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Spoonbenders / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Bluest Eye / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Divine Comedy / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Haunting of Hill House / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Mysterious Benedict Society / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Pale Criminal / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Power of Five / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Starbuck Chronicles / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Thirteen Problems / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Voidskipper / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Fortean Times (Magazine) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
DirtyLove	seeAlso	Phony Psychic
TheChipmunksParodyShow	seeAlso	Phony Psychic
LoveRoma	seeAlso	Phony Psychic
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The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal (Manga) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
There's a Ghost Behind That Gal (Manga) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Thrilling Adventure Hour (Podcast) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
GTA Radio (Radio) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Penny Dreadfuls Present (Radio) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Age Of The Troubleshooters (Roleplay) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Class Trials Season 3 (Roleplay) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
NTWF Mafia (Roleplay) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
A Bit of Fry and Laurie / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
AKBingo! / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Broadchurch / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Charlie's Angels / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Charmed (1998) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Cheers / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Crash Landing on You / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
CrÃ³nicas Marcianas / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Dead Still / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Drop Dead Diva / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Evasive Inquiry Agency / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Galileo / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Ghost Whisperer / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Good Omens (2019) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Hart to Hart / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Hogan's Heroes / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Honey West / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
iZombie / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Lewis / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Longmire / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Lovecraft Country / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Magnum, P.I. (2018) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Marley's Ghosts / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Midsomer Murders / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Misfits / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Mission: Impossible / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
My Life Is Murder / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
New Tricks / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Night Court (2023) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Psych / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Raven's Home / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Soy Luna / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Space: 1999 / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Square One TV / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Strange Empire / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Dead Zone / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Invisible Man (1975) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Magicians (2016) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Mentalist	seeAlso	Phony Psychic
The Mentalist / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Partridge Family / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Weather / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Thriller / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Trace / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Vienna Blood / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Waiting for God / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Illuminati: New World Order (Tabletop Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Predation (Tabletop Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Call of Duty: Zombies (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Devotion (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
King of the Castle (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Mystery Case Files (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Nancy Drew (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Paranormal Files (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Jackbox Party Pack (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Sims 2 (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links (Video Game) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Sims 3 / Videogame / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Cynical Reviews (Web Video) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Dhar Mann (Web Video) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Jenny Nicholson (Web Video) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Kitboga (Web Video) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Love Me To Death (Webcomic) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Mob Psycho 100 (Webcomic) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Nuzlocke Comics Fan Works (Webcomic) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Goof Troop / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Jem / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Matt's Monsters / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Robin Hood (1973) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Rolf Kauka's Once Upon a Time / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Real Ghostbusters / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Smurfs (1981) / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic

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