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'''Kat:''' Damn straight!|''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''}}
Just like Pandora should have known better than to open her box, characters in fiction should know better than to ask questions, explore [[Haunted Castle
If these characters are in a horror flick, anyone showing the ''slightest bit'' of curiosity in [[Slasher Movies]] [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality|will die.]] Or release the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]. Or get their [[Genre Savvy]] friend killed as he complains that they shouldn't be there. Or gets them [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|captured]]. Etc. etc.
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* The first arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' manages to both subvert this and play it straight at the same time. Throughout the arc, you are led to believe that Rena and Mion are targetting Keiichi because he's asking questions about the curse of Oyashiro-sama. As you might imagine, that's subverted, but the truth was that Rena and Mion had nothing to do with the murders, but Keiichi's panic about it fueled his paranoia about it until he kills not only them, but himself too, making this one played straight as well.
** But subverted in Nekogoroshi-hen, the aptly-named "Cat-Killing Chapter". Interesting mystery, possible explanations, slight indication that it ties back to the main plot... but everyone decides it's not worth getting involved in.
* In the episode of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' involving the retrovirus ''Monkey Business'', the protagonists stumble across a box containing a receptacle of the virus and are told not to open it. Faye is intrigued and opens it anyway, and Spike's use of brute force and firearms to separate the receptacle from its
** Possible subversion, as this inspires Spike to plant said retrovirus ON the hostage!
* In ''[[Trigun]]'' (the manga, not anime) Vash and Knives follow a girl who appears on the ship into a closed-off medical room. Things go downhill from there.
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