Bearer of Bad News: Difference between revisions

* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Blood Angels]] novel ''Deus Sanguinius'', Mephiston meets Dante in the garden to bring him news—and Dante knows it's bad at once. Mephiston tells him that Vode, Gallio, and all Gallio's men are dead; Dante tries to deny the obvious implication, thinking of other possibilities than that they were killed by fellow Blood Angels.

** Later, Stele brings Arkio news of why the power plant failed and warns him that it was hard. Arkio is angry that he tries to shelter him—and then still more angry as Stele tells him that it was an attempt to kill them all by having the plant blow up. Arkio guesses the saboteur was a Word Bearer or other renegade, and Stele tells him it was not only a Blood Angel but his own brother.

* In [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Galatea in 2-D]]'', Roger proves to Donna that she's not going insane, but this entails that her ex-husband is trying to drive her insane. She is angry about the news.

* In Andy Hoare's [[White Scars]] novel ''Hunt for Voldorius'', Skall is desperate to avoid this.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** [[Genre Savvy|Uh-oh, I don't like the sound of that...]]

* This is Butch's main role in ''[[Recess]]''

** Randall can do this sometimes

 

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