In Space Jam the basketball players, whose talent was stolen by the tiny aliens, ask a cliché fortune teller about their strange ailment. She actually finds out their problem (talent stolen by tiny little aliens to play a basketball game against Bugs Bunny), but because it sounds too weird, they don't believe her.

Liman Brocat in The Dilgar War is treated as crazy when he predicts that the Dilgar will come for the Brakiri too and openly compares Jha'dur to the mythical Deathwalker. Later subverted, as the epilogue shows that when he warned about the Shadow War the Brakiri listened, and his assassination served only to confirm he was right. Aesacus said the exact same thing as Cassandra, that Paris would cause the downfall of Troy, but since the people believed Aesacus, the baby was exposed in the wild. Paris, however, survived this ordeal, and became a shepherd. Eventually, it was Cassandra who recognized Paris when he had grown up, which enabled him to return to the royal palace in Troy and to be recognized by Priam as his son. This is somewhat ironic, considering that Cassandra, who had advocated Paris’ death when he was a baby, was also the instrument for his reinstatement as a Trojan prince.

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The story of Cassandra continues in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, where she is taken captive by the Greeks and brought to Agamemnon’s palace as a concubine. At the beginning of the play, Cassandra arrives at the palace and is greeted by a chorus of Elders who encourage her to enter. Despite their persuasion, Cassandra is hesitant and senses that something terrible is about to unfold. She then foretells that both herself and Agamemnon will die by the hand of his wife Clytemnestra.

In the conventional versions of the myth, Cassandra received her gift of prophecy, as well as her curse, from the god Apollo. The disregard for Cassandra’s prophecies resulted in tragedies befalling those around her and a gut-wrenching fate for Cassandra herself. Cassandra of Troy is mentioned in the works of various Classical authors, including Homer, Virgil, as well as the Greek tragedians Euripides and Aeschylus. Doctor Who: The Doctor. How many times has he charged around trying to get people to believe what he's saying? That he's talking about alien invasions and often dresses like a complete weirdo probably doesn't help his case. And unlike many other people on this list, he's usually not dealing with the same basic cast every episode.

Meanwhile, Cassandra took revenge on the Greeks by leaving behind a chest that invoked madness upon those who opened it. Cassandra’s Captivity and Death Cassandra and Ajax by Johann Heinrich. Source. Dillion, Matthew. "Kassandra: Mantic, Maenadic or Manic? Gender and the Nature of Prophetic Experience in Ancient Greece". openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au. Archived from the original on 2017-02-05 . Retrieved 2021-11-27. In New Hope University: Major In Murder, this is an official role in New Hope University's killing game, and is referred to by this name, complete with a reference to the Trope Namer, as a student who makes warnings but is ultimately not believed. The Cassandra this time is Morgan Lee, the Ultimate Painter(whose Split Personality is the Ultimate Vandal), who ends up being the first victim.