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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]] R2'', this is how Kallen reacts to Suzaku interrogating her with Refrain. Understandable, since Refrain would cause her to give up the Black Knights' secrets. More importantly, her mother has been addicted to the drug for years, so Kallen is understandably terrified of being subjected to its damage.
* Used humorously in an episode of ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''. Team Rocket demand that Misty hand over a water-type, when this happens:
{{quote| '''Jessie:''' Give us a water-type Pokemon, twerp!<br />
(Psyduck pops out of its Pokeball, with its usual dumb look)<br />
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* ''[[Kalifornia]]''
{{quote| '''Carrie Laughlin:''' Please don't let them be as boring as Brian's friends. Anything but that.}}
* ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]:'' Rico's "Oh, shit! Oh, no-no-no-no! Please, no-no-no! No, not that!" followed by Dark Helmet's Schwartz-assisted [[Groin Attack]].
** "Yes. ''That''."
* ''[[Shrek]]''.
{{quote| '''Gingerbread Man:''' "Not my gum-drop buttons!"}}
* Invoked in ''[[Max KeeblesKeeble's Big Move]]'': "I'm going to mete out a punishment to you that is so severe, future generations will refer to it as "The Keeble." They will beg on bended knee-- "Oh, please, sir! Not the Keeble, sir. I swear I'll never misbehave again, if you'll just spare me... '''''The Keeble'''''."
* In the 1932 Bela Lugosi film ''[[White Zombie (Filmfilm)|White Zombie]]'', when the evil zombie-master, Murder Legendre, suggests to the planter Beaumont that he can gain the heroine's affections by changing her into a zombie, Beaumont recoils shouting, "Not that!" He repeats the remark later, when learning that Lugosi has an avian familiar: "You! The vulture! No, no! Not that! Not that!"
* In 1940's ''Crimes at the Dark House,'' the [[Dastardly Whiplash]] [[Villain Protagonist]] Sir Percival Glyde (Tod Slaughter) declares to the blackmailing lawyer, Isidor Fosco, "Oh, I've been longing to sink my fingers in your fat, greasy little throat!" to which Fosco replies, "No! No! No! Not that! Not that!"
* In ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', when Mr. Banks is being drummed out of the <s>regiment</s> bank, as the younger Mr. Dawes prepares to flip his umbrella inside-out, one of the board members cries out, "No! Not that!"
* In 1980's ''[[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Flash Gordon]]'', Princess Aura utters the immortal line, "No! Not the Bore Worms!"
* From ''[[The Wicker Man]]'' remake: "No, no, not the bees!"
* ''[[Hairspray]]'' (2007): You almost miss it, but Penny shrieks "Not the jump rope!" as her mother threatens her.
* In Warren Beatty's [[Dick Tracy (Filmfilm)|Dick Tracy]], Big Boy Caprice tells his rival Lips Manlis that he looks dirty... he needs a bath... And as his men drag the luckless gangster away, he's screaming "Not the bath! Not the bath! Big Boy, not the ba-a-ath - ". Understandable, since the "bath" entails ''being drowned in concrete''.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Lois and Clark (TV)|Lois and Clark]]: The New Adventures of Superman'' episode "Top Copy".
{{quote| '''Mayson Drake:''' [after Lois saves her life] Keep that up and we may have to start liking each other.<br />
'''Lois Lane:''' [smiling] Anything but that. }}
* Not exactly the same wording, but when Jesse proposes a sing-off with Finn for Rachel's heart in ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]'', Rachel's horrified, breathy little "No!" expresses a similar sentiment.
* In ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]: [[Torchwood: Children of Earth (TV)|Children of Earth]]'', {{spoiler|Jack cries "Not him!" when the 456 expels its virus into the air, infecting Ianto.}}
* "No, '''not''' the mind '''probe'''!" line from the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' special "The Five Doctors".
 
== Literature ==
* Played horrifyingly straight in 1984. " {{spoiler|DO IT TO JULIA!!!}}"
** And spoofed brilliantly in [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]'s version of "High School Bigshot" when the smart kid gets caught writing a paper for the pretty girl {{spoiler|"She's the thought criminal! Put the rat mask on her!"}}
* Br'er Rabbit is possibly an ur-example (at least in American folklore) -- then Subverts it. {{spoiler|[[Briar Patching|Turns out, he's quite at home in the briar patch.]]}}
 
== Music ==
* [[Meat Loaf (Music)|Meat Loaf]] would do anything for love. Yes he would do ''anything'' for love. Oh he would do anything for love...but he won't do that.
** Arguably subverted, the only thing he won't do for love is betray his lover's trust.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[Kentucky Fried Movie]]'' example above is used in ''[[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'' during an early segment of his review of ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]''...
{{quote| '''Dr. Klahn:''' Show him ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]!''<br />
'''CIA Agent:''' No! No, please! Anything but that! }}
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Danger Mouse (Animation)|Danger Mouse]]'' episode "The Odd Ball Runaround"
{{quote| '''Danger Mouse:''' I'm taking the direct approach.<br />
'''Penfold:''' Direct approach! Oh no, no no! Not that! Anything but that, please! }}
* Used in the [[Robin Hood]] episode of the ''[[ALF (TV)|ALF]] Tales'' cartoon, when King Richard sentences Prince John and the Sheriff to 200 Hours of Watching the Home Shopping Channel. They are dragged off kicking and screaming, "No! No! Anything but that!"
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1bqrCN3tkI "NOT HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! NOT HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!"]
** This was a recurring gag in the [[Looney Tunes]] shorts ''[http://fliiby.com/file/595627/7faipxbjp7.html It's Hummer Time]'' and ''[http://www.jogyjogy.com/watch.php?id=19703 Early To Bet]'', both directed by [[Robert McKimson]]. The unnamed cat protagonist is put by his bulldog antogonist through a series of bizarre punishments, each of which he recoils from with a "No, no! Not that! Not '________'! Not that! NOOOOT THHAAAATT!"
** ''[[Superman]]: The Man of Steel'' #3 featured a dark [[Shout -Out]] to these cartoons when Magpie's version of "Happy Birthday" had a lit dynamite stick in a mook's mouth, as another mook sobbed the above line.
* [[The Lion King]].
{{quote| '''Scar:''' Sing something with a little...bounce in it.<br />
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** And earlier in the film:
{{quote| '''Zazu:''' Oh, NO! NOT THE BIRDY BOILER!}}
* In an episode of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Animation)|Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Tails is rescued from Robotnik's clutches by Sonic, but wants to stay and help fight off the baddies. Sonic convinces him to leave by threatening to tell everyone his real name is Miles if he doesn't. A mortified Tails screams, "NO!! NOT THAT!!" before flying away [[Efficient Displacement|THROUGH]] the nearest wall.
* The ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' movie ''Bender's Game'' had a scene where Bender, believing himself to be a knight of yore, started firing silverware at Fry, Leela's family and Zoidberg.
{{quote| '''Zoidberg''' Not the SPORK!}}
* In a ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' episode featuring a [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] style photo-workshop villain, one of his female henchmen reacts thus to a punishment of...being blinded with a camera-flash producing eye.
* [[Bugs Bunny]] in the spoof of ''1001 Arabian Nights''. As they prepare to throw him in boiling oil he says that's quite fine, but just as long as they don't throw him down that deep, dark hole. The hole of course is his way out of the place and he escapes once they throw him in.
* When Peter Venkman of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters (Animation)|The Real Ghostbusters]]'' encounters a phase-shifting ghost in "Drool, the Dogfaced Goblin", he sees a giant cockroach. Even after all the beasts he's encountered, cockroaches are still the only thing that terrifies him. (Then again, we are talking about New York...)
** ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters (Animation)|Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' later revisited the concept with "Fear Itself," a being that caused one's fears to actually materialize. {{spoiler|Again, the creature wasn't evil: When the Ghostbusters cornered it, they found a wizened, bug-eyed thing cowering before them. They decided to leave it alone.}}
* Ms. Wakeman says this in the ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' episode "Puppet Bride" after Little Acorn threatens to sing "the song" over and over.
 
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