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* Pretty much the moral of half of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s stories. The roleplayer jokes are that the only worthy treasure in a Lovecraft game are untranslatable crusty old books that permanently removes your character from play if you accidentally look at the pictures; reading any of it aloud may doom the reader, the group, humanity, the universe, all universes, or all that and beyond; that there are entire hierarchies of threats beyond that who will wipe out the merely-universe-killing threats without even noticing them, only to do the ultimate everybody dies (as soon as the stars are right). While the players have 1920's guns and would probably all die if they were against a single baby shoggoth, with the survivors going permanently insane. |
* Pretty much the moral of half of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s stories. The roleplayer jokes are that the only worthy treasure in a Lovecraft game are untranslatable crusty old books that permanently removes your character from play if you accidentally look at the pictures; reading any of it aloud may doom the reader, the group, humanity, the universe, all universes, or all that and beyond; that there are entire hierarchies of threats beyond that who will wipe out the merely-universe-killing threats without even noticing them, only to do the ultimate everybody dies (as soon as the stars are right). While the players have 1920's guns and would probably all die if they were against a single baby shoggoth, with the survivors going permanently insane. |
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* Slight subversion in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s book ''[[Tortall Universe|Trickster's Choice]]''. The main character is warned about the dangers of curiosity with this phrase. In response, she tells the other character 'and satisfaction brought it back,' with a short complaint that no one seems to ever remember the second part of the saying. |
* Slight subversion in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s book ''[[Tortall Universe|Trickster's Choice]]''. The main character is warned about the dangers of curiosity with this phrase. In response, she tells the other character 'and satisfaction brought it back,' with a short complaint that no one seems to ever remember the second part of the saying. |
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* In ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'', [[The Professor|Ogilvy]], [[We Hardly Knew Ye|Stent]], and [[Red Shirt Reporter|Henderson]] were all minor characters who were interested in the Martians and tried to talk to them. Needless to say, their plan [[Death Ray|didn't]] [[Violence Is the Only Option|work out]] [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life|very well]]. |
* In ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'', [[The Professor|Ogilvy]], [[We Hardly Knew Ye|Stent]], and [[Red Shirt Reporter|Henderson]] were all minor characters who were interested in the Martians and tried to talk to them. Needless to say, their plan [[Death Ray|didn't]] [[Violence Is the Only Option|work out]] [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life|very well]]. |
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== Live-Action TV == |
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* ''[[Freefall]]'': A robot reads a [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01807.png note] about an aggressive neural pruning program and instead of steering clear he looks it up. The program starts downloading into his head when he goes looking for it, threatening him with a mind wipe. |
* ''[[Freefall]]'': A robot reads a [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01807.png note] about an aggressive neural pruning program and instead of steering clear he looks it up. The program starts downloading into his head when he goes looking for it, threatening him with a mind wipe. |
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* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' gives us an example of this, both literally and figuratively in [http://explosm.net/comics/2043/ this strip]. |
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== Web Original == |
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