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* ''[[Paranormalcy]]'''s Faeries are well known for exploiting this trope in regards to [[I Know Your True Name|Named Commands]]—a 2-week course is mandatory to command a Faerie, and that isn't enough. Make it too explicit {{spoiler|"Do not touch her!"}} or too vague {{spoiler|"Go get her."}} and you'll regret it. Reth is probably the expert at this, since he can "misinterpret" each of his commands as {{spoiler|[[Stalker with a Crush]] [[Action Girl|Evie]]}}.
* Mike "Jenkins", in ''[[Paladin of Shadows|A Deeper Blue]]'', promises to not kill a terrorist that he was interrogating. After getting the desired information, he kept his word. Oleg delivered the killing blow.
* In the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''[[Clear and Present Danger]]'',<ref>but not the movie</ref> Jack Ryan says to {{spoiler|Colonel Cortez}} that he won't be prosecuted or face trial. True to his word, {{spoiler|Cortez}} isn't prosecuted. {{spoiler|He's
* In [[Alastair Reynolds]]' short story "Nightingale", the medical ship ''Nightingale'' promises the narrator that if she chooses to return planet-side with the evil Colonel Jax, who will die as a result, ''Nightingale'' will allow her and her fellow bounty-hunters to return "in one piece". {{spoiler|As in, Nightingale will suture them together into a [[Body Horror|single, monstrous body]].}}
* Q plays this trick on the Grand Nagus in the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novel ''I, Q''. He challenges the Nagus that he will say a number that the Nagus thinks of, and if he can't, he'll be the Nagus' servant. After Q guesses, the Nagus tells him the number he's thinking of, and after an... [[The Princess Bride (film)|overly familiar retort]], Q says that number. He never did say just ''when'' he'd say the number the Nagus was thinking of...
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{{quote|"No," answered Gille.
Olvar squinted, thinking with an almost visible effort. "No? But I... No. You said just, no -- meaning no, there isn't ''some'' truth... Powers alive, man -- you're not trying to tell me it was ''all'' true, are you? Literally true?"}}
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