Curiosity Killed the Cast: Difference between revisions

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'''Kat:''' Damn straight!|''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''}}

== Film ==

* ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'': A non-lethal example. When snooping in a house where witches used to live, and informed that a virgin lighting the candle will return them to life, the clueless teen protagonist does just that, incidentally subverting [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]].

* Shane Acker's ''[[9]]'' is made of this trope. In the feature film version, it's because of 9's combination of being both very naive and very curious that over half the cast of the movie is killed before it's all over. Admittedly, 1's death was heroic suicide, but it was 9's curiosity that lead him to jam the talisman in the machine and wake it up in the first place.

* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]]'' (Stephen Sommers version): "You must not read from the book!" Too late...

* The first victim in ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' walks, unprovoked, ''directly into Leatherface's kitchen''. Each successive victim heads in looking for the others. Easiest massacre ever!

* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Curiosity killed the cat, you know!]]

* Just barely averted in ''[[Mystery Team]]''.

* Lampshaded in [[Eddie Izzard|Eddie Izzard's]] stand-up comedy routine ''Unrepeatable''.

* [[Dave Chappelle]] invoked this as a response to being told not to visit a strip bar:

== Web Animation ==