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{{quote| "Boy, I'm glad I called ''that'' guy."}}

* In the infamous ''[[Steel (Film)|Steel]]'' movie, the titular character starts his crime fighting career by saving a couple from some muggers. Later on, when Steel is wanted by the police the same couple is called to pick Steel from a line up where John Henry Irons is present. The couple recognizes him, but they claim they had never seen him before. Likewise, a police officer Steel saved from an explosion by jumping on him claims John Henry Irons isn't Steel when taking a close look at him.

* Crops up memorably in ''[[Scent of a Woman]]''. Charlie Simms has been dragged around New York City by the retired, blind, and terminally irritable [[Colonel Badass|Colonel Slade]] who he is supposed to be babysitting. His fortitude pays off, however, when Slade unexpectedly [[Shaming the Mob|intercedes]] before the school's disciplinary committee which has been convened to force Charlie Simms to testify against his classmates or be expelled. The colonel's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4p9BQ3V9o speech] is the paradigmatic movie speech, beginning a bit [[Unaccustomed As I Am to Public Speaking|roughly]], moving into a [[Hannibal Lecture|withering indictment]] against the establishment, and ending in [[Rousing Speech|thunderous applause]].

 

* [[Thursday Next]] doesn't have to pay a diner waitress because of her heroic actions in a war in the past.

* [[Don Quixote]]: Hiliarously subverted by Andres and Tosilos, who come back [[Laser-Guided Karma]] not ''in defense'', but ''against'' our protagonist.

** Lacquey Tosilos appear at chapter LVI of the second part when Don Quixote is trying to [[We Help the Helpless]], and comes back in chapter LXVII to inform Don Quixote that all was a [[Shaggy Dog Story]].

 

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