Didn't Want an Adventure: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Mr. Incredible:''' [[Burning Building Rescue|The building's getting weaker by the second!]] It's gonna come down on top of us!<br />

 

When the characters are in the middle of doing some particularly dangerous or adventurous activity and something's just happened that's warranted an [[Oh Crap]] response, the [[Genre Savvy]] [[Only Sane Man]], [[Straight Man]], [[Commander Contrarian]] or [[The Lancer]] points out how ''he'' never wanted to be there in the first place. Frequently said in the form of "''I'' wanted to [do something safer]," often followed by, "... but ''no'', you had to go and [do something else]!"

== Film -- Live Action ==

* In ''[[Juno]]'', Bleaker says he wanted to watch ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' on TV, but Juno wanted to make out instead, and [[One Thing Led to Another]].

* ''[[Independence Day]]'': One character says while kicking an unconscious alien, "I could've been at a barbeque!"

 

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote| '''Larry:''' Bob! Bob, are you okay?<br />

'''Bob:''' Mousetrap.<br />

{{quote| '''Chuckie:''' ''* sigh* '' All I wanted was a nice quiet trip to the museum -- no running away from grown-ups, no getting lost, no making trouble... just a nice, quiet trip. But, no, you guys always have to think of something scary.<br />

''pause''<br />

'''Chuckie:''' Um, yeah, that's about it.<br />

'''Tommy:''' Then LET'S GO! }}

* In an episode of ''[[South Park]]'', [[Deadpan Snarker|Craig]] does something along these lines when he gets trapped in [[It Makes Sense in Context|a part of Peru where things grow really really big.]]

* In one episode of ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'', even though they were given the opportunity to go on vacation, the team still went on a dangerous mission. X-R, the only one who wanted to take up the furlough, continuously stated throughout the episode, "I wanted to go to Mahambis Six!"

 

== Fan Works ==

{{quote| '''Zuko:''' I wanted to see ''[[Toy Story]]''.}}