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A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Bearer of Bad News]].
A [[Super-Trope]] to [[Bad News in
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'''Hawkeye''': They're giving you calisthenics over the phone? }}
* The police officers of ''[[Law and Order]]'' frequently asked relatives of victims to sit down.
* In ''[[
== [[New Media]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* During one page of ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'', Fox and Colin are given some heavy news. Fox says he needs to sit down, to which Colin replies 'You already are'.
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]],'' Haley had some difficulty trying to figure out how to tell Celia that {{spoiler|her boyfriend was dead (Albeit [[Death Is a Slap
{{quote| '''Belkar: ''' OK, that's IT! I can't take the euphemisms any more! {{spoiler|Roy is dead!}}}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Spoofed in the ''[[
* Played with in ''[[The Proud Family]]'', where the dad says they shouldn't bother sitting down 'cause they're just gonna stand up again before revealing something exciting.
* Barbara Gordon does this in ''[[The New Batman Adventures]]'' episode where she fear-toxin hallucinated that Gordon had turned against Batman and gotten both of them killed after she died in the tights. She intends to tell him the truth, and has him sit down before she starts. He cuts her off to maintain deniability, though, cuz he already knew.
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