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Should not be confused with ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''.

== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Across the Universe (Film)|Across the Universe]]'': Right after Lucy finishes singing about how her boyfriend (in the Army) will be [[Tempting Fate|coming home to visit soon.]]

* ''[[A League of Their Own]]'': one of the girls gets a telegram telling her that her husband was killed in action. The man delivering the telegram [[What an Idiot|somehow didn't realize]] that he never bothered to find out ''which'' woman on the team was supposed to receive the letter, causing some angst.

* ''[[A League of Their Own]]'': one of the girls gets a telegram telling her that her husband was killed in action. The man delivering the telegram [[What an Idiot!|somehow didn't realize]] that he never bothered to find out ''which'' woman on the team was supposed to receive the letter, causing some angst.

* ''[[Big Fish]]'' has one, when the main character is sent on a suicide mission and doesn't return. We know he's alive, but his wife doesn't. Of course, the son he tells this story to assumes it's another one of his dad's tall tales. {{spoiler|it isn't.}}

* The 2009 movie ''The Messenger'' focuses on the men who deliver the notices.

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* [[The Messenger]] Guess what kind of messenger Staff Sergeant [[Ben Foster]] and Captain [[Woody Harrelson]] are.

* [[Red Tails (Film)|Red Tails]]. The jeep pulls up outside Sofia's home, two officers walk up to Sofia, and Lucas doesn't even bother giving us any dialogue here.

** Which is probably just as well, given that the dialogue would have been [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good|written by]] [[George Lucas]].

** Which is probably just as well, given that the dialogue would have been [[So Bad It's Good|written by]] [[George Lucas]].

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Brawl in The Family (Webcomic)|Brawl in The Family]]'' #200 had this at one point. It even shows up in the page image for [[What Measure Is a Mook]].

* ''[[Brawl in The Family (Webcomic)|Brawl in The Family]]'' #200 had this at one point. It even shows up in the page image for [[What Measure Is a Mook?]].

* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', while [[Hanging a Lampshade]] on [[The Joys of Torturing Mooks]] present in ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)|Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed (Video Game)|The Force Unleashed]]'', in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/20/ this strip].

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' subverts this with "I'm afraid I'm the bearer of some bad news. [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1200#comic Your husband is a hat]."