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Examples that fit into one of the subtropes should be placed on the appropriate page; this page is for examples that don't fit elsewhere.
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== Film ==
* In the post-credits stinger of ''Captain America: Civil War'', the young [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] has to account for his returning home from his 'scholarship field trip' with Tony Stark with a black eye. He tells her that he got beat up by a guy named Steve who was from Brooklyn, 'and his gigantic friend, I mean this guy was ''huge''.' Aunt May thinks he's talking about an experience with schoolyard bullies. Peter's actually getting out of admitting that he was helping Iron Man fight Captain America and Giant-Man.
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== Real Life ==
* During the 18th century Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland, noblemen supposedly loyal to the English crown but secretly on the side of the rebels had to tread a very fine line, or risk having their wealth confiscated. Since in those days the word of a nobleman was almost sacred, and breaking it meant great loss of face, a common test of loyalty was to propose a toast to the king. This was in effect swearing loyalty to the crown, and many Scots nobles would have found this difficult or impossible to do.
:The way they got around was that in his own home, a noble with Jacobite sympathies could join in and even propose loyal toasts to the king by using special cups with the name "Charles Edward Stuart", or a shortened version thereof at the bottom, which would also be supplied to any other rebels around the table, but not the English visitors. So you could raise your cup and say: "To the king!" while looking straight at the name of the Jacobite Pretender.▼
▲The way they got around was that in his own home, a noble with Jacobite sympathies could join in and even propose loyal toasts to the king by using special cups with the name "Charles Edward Stuart", or a shortened version thereof at the bottom, which would also be supplied to any other rebels around the table, but not the English visitors. So you could raise your cup and say: "To the king!" while looking straight at the name of the Jacobite Pretender.
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