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[[File:hijinks-fox.jpg|link=Hijinks Ensue|frame|This would qualify as [[Too Dumb to Live]] ]]
{{quote|'''Joshua the Groundskeeper:''' Who else saw you come in?
'''Troy:''' If we say "nobody", [[Genre Savvy|are you going to stab us with your bush scissors?]]
|''[[Community]]''}}
Something's bothering you. You did some poking around, and you discovered a clue that just doesn't match up with what you know about the situation at large. It's almost as if your team has stumbled upon some sort of [[Evil Plan]]. So you decide to run this information past your trusted ally, [[Sdrawkcab Name|Nialliv]]. He listens, perhaps admits that this does indeed sound suspicious, and then casually asks: "Have you told anyone else?"
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This moment is usually [[The Reveal]] for the audience that Nialliv is playing for the other team.
Sometimes phrased as "Does anyone else know about this?" or "Have you discussed this with anyone else?" The key words are always "anyone else." Occasionally one gets "Have you told [specific other person] yet?", where the other person is someone with the power to do something about
Compare [[Exposition Victim]].
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{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''20th Century Boys'' detective Chou has made a startling discovery about the the leader of an enigmatic cult named 'Friend'. Turns out the leader is actually {{spoiler|a childhood classmate of our peppy main character Kenji.}} Unfortunately he decided to discuss the matter with his assistant Yama first. Needless to say Yama turns out to be a member of said cult and "purified him." Making it even more tragic is the fact that Chou was [[Retirony|just one week away from retirement]].
* {{spoiler|Naomi Misora}} ''almost'' averts this in ''[[
** On the other hand, her failure to avert the trope results from Light reminding her of L, which not so subtly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] that the two are [[Not So Different]].
* Played with in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' episode 36. The villain, after being confronted by Conan alone, asks Conan if he told anyone about this, to which Conan responds that he {{spoiler|didn't--and also volunteers the information that nobody knows where Conan is, either. She doesn't kill him and Conan later speculates she wanted to be caught by a child; it's not explained what Conan would have done if that guess was wrong.}}
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** Plus, there's the fact that Yuta is immortal. Not much cause for him to worry about his wellbeing.
* BRUTALLY inverted in ''[[Eden of the East]]''. [[Big Bad|Mononobe]] plans to convert [[The Hero|Takizawa Akira]] to his side, and explains his [[Evil Plan]] to him. In a moment of [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|extreme genre-savviness]], Takizawa had called his [[Love Interest]] just before meeting up with the [[Big Bad]] and LEAVES HIS PHONE ON SO SHE CAN LISTEN IN! [[The Stinger]]? Mononobe thinks Takizawa can't do anything to avert his [[Evil Plan]], and let's him go when he can't convert him. [[Idiot Ball|WHAT AN IDIOT!]]
* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', Maverick asks Barnaby if anyone else was there when Barnaby learned of Jake Martinez's alibi for his parents' murder. In this case, the answer really ''is'' yes - Barnaby's partner Kotetsu was also present - but since Maverick {{spoiler|has the ability to alter people's memories}}, he's not really all that worried. It ''does'' help Barnaby in the long run, though, as Kotetsu proves to be much more of a [[Spanner in
== Comic Books ==
* Subverted in [[Batman]] comics - Lucius Fox tells Lex Luthor that he knows about Luthor buying large amounts of Gotham City for a fraction of the price, and informs him that yes, people know where he is and yes, he has made copies of the data. He still would have been killed by Mercy Graves if Batman hadn't been watching his back though.
* In ''[[Sin City]]'', after the escape from the Farm, Marv and Lucille are cornered by cops sent to the Farm. Marv wants to take them out, but Lucille [[Percussive Prevention|knocks him out]], telling him he's not going to get either of them killed. She then talks to the officers present about what is going on and finishes with "...so there's no reason to kill him." The head cop's response? "Yes there is, ma'am...once he's told us who ''else'' he's spoken to." Lucille is blown away moments later.
* Happens in James Robinson's ''[[Starman (
* A dreamwalker tries to avert this in [[Rising Stars]] when he finds out who'd been killing the other Specials. The killer, a Superman proxy, beats the tar out of the much weaker man and asks who else knows. The dreamwalker lies and says that he's told everyone... and is killed for his trouble. Luckily, a Special who could hear the recently deceased was able to get this information to another Special who had been investigating the murders as well.
* A while ago in the Superman books, a specialist for the CIA, using recently acquired alien language translation technology, was able to find out that the markings of a small craft that crash-landed in Kansas 30 years ago were Kryptonian. The man, being without friends or family, reported this to his direct superior, the President of the United States: Lex Luthor. One cut-away later, Lex nonchalantly tells his chauffeur to have maintenance clean up a "spill" on the carpet: a small red glob one can only assume is the man's remains.
* Ursula pulls a textbook example in ''Nexus'', as shown [https://web.archive.org/web/20100625154330/http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/42155.htm/ here].
* From [[Ex Machina]] [[Grand Finale|#50]]: {{spoiler|[[Parental Substitute|Kremlin]], drunk and holding a gun to his own head, threatens to expose the fact that Hundred [[Utopia Justifies the Means|used his powers to get elected as Mayor of New York]], thus killing his Presidential campaign. At first, Hundred tries to get him to put the gun down, then asks if he's shown the evidence to anyone. When Kremlin reveals he hasn't, Mitchell [[Moral Event Horizon|tells the gun to fire.]] }}
== Film ==
* In ''[[The Bourne Series (
* Very well justified to shocking effect in ''[[
▲* In ''[[The Bourne Series (Film)|The Bourne Supremacy]]'' when {{spoiler|Danny Zorn (Abbott's assistant) reveals to Abbott that he realizes the crime scene is a sham, and gets a dagger in the ribs for it.}}
▲* Very well justified to shocking effect in ''[[LA Confidential]]'' when Detective Jack Vincennes, while investigating a suspicious murder in co-operation with Detective Ed Exley, finds evidence of corruption within the police department. He can't tell other cops because of the corruption and so he goes to someone he has know for a while and can trust to be out of it {{spoiler|it is the Chief after all}}. Then they ask the question in a way that assumes that he has already told someone so both he and the audience isn't alarmed when casually asked "What does Exley make of all this?"
** Vincennes uses a variation of this trope to get his killer busted though. With his dying breath, he whispers a secret name known only to him and Exley (because Exley only ever told him). When the killer tries to investigate the significance of the name (thinking it might be a loose end), Exley immediately suspects it to be a message from Vincennes and realizes the man can't be trusted.
* In the movie ''[[Minority Report]]'', Danny Witwer gets to carry the [[Idiot Ball]] for revealing his suspicions to the [[Big Bad|wrong person]]. Admittedly he's in a world where it's supposedly impossible to commit murder, but as the killer points out, due to recent events, that's just changed.
** He also doesn't know that he's telling the [[Big Bad]] his suspicions. He just {{spoiler|figured out that someone else killed Anne Lively}}, not that {{spoiler|Lamar did it}} or why.
** Just before the [[Big Bad]] starts with the killing though, Danny lists a few things he already figured out about {{spoiler|the murderer}}, and they very much apply to the person he's just revealed his findings too. The [[Too Dumb to Live]] label is somewhat appropriate.
* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'': After Mr. Waternoose hears the full story of the incident from Mike, he asks, "Does anyone else know about this?"
** That's a terrific moment, due to the business headaches Waternoose has been dealing with since the opening of the movie. The line seems innocuous enough right up until {{spoiler|the Banishment Door shows up and Waternoose shoves Mike and Sully through.}}
* In the remake of ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' two [[Mooks]] bring General Thade out into the forest and recount a story of seeing something crash down, burning the trees as it went and they point out the destruction it caused. Trying to protect the secret that humans were once in charge, Thade names this trope and when they say no he does an interesting <s>monkey</s> ape flip backwards to stab them both.
* The opening of the film ''[[Red Dragon]]''. Late at night, FBI Agent Will Graham goes to meet with Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who had been assisting him in developing a psychological profile of a serial killer. Agent Graham tells Dr. Lecter that he suddenly realized that the killer was ''eating'' parts of his victims. Lecter replies, "Have you shared this information with the Bureau?"
* In ''[[The Ring]]'', [[Intrepid Reporter|Rachel]] confronts Samara's father about the [[Artifact of Death|Cursed Video]]:
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'''Rachel''': No one.
'''Mr. Morgan''': (brandishes an iron hook) Is that the only one?
'''Rachel''': I... made a copy.
(Implying that he knows about the Tape and what it does, and was willing to kill Rachel either to spare her a gruesome death or stop the curse from spreading right then and there. But since she made a copy ({{spoiler|and is thus saved, albeit unknowingly}}), killing her would be pointless.) }}
* In [[Beerfest]],
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'''German Messenger''': Oh [[Genre Blindness|absolutely no one]]. Only me. It's just me.
'''Wolfgang von Wolfhausen''': Dispose of him! }}
* ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'': Memnet comes to Nefertiri with the story of how Bithia drew Moses from the Nile. Nefertiri quickly asks, "Were you alone with Bithia?" before she kills Memnet.
* In ''[[Witness]]'', when Book finds out that the perpetrator of a recent cop murder is a narcotics detective, and upon further investigation realizes said detective was involved in the theft of confiscated drugs, he goes to Police Chief Schaeffer and, upon telling everything he knows, is asked whether he has told anyone else. When Book says no, Schaeffer tells him to keep it quiet. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the fact that Book trusts Schaeffer and, as a police corruption case, it would make sense to keep as few officers in the loop as possible.
* ''[[Double Indemnity]]'' contains a rare example in which the villain ([[Villain Protagonist|in this case also the protagonist]]) is not actually evil enough to kill the one person who has evidence against his partner-in-crime: instead, once he is assured that she has told no one else, he just convinces her to keep quiet about it.
* ''[[
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''(They both laugh)''
'''Selina:''' ''(laughing)'' "You know, for a moment there you really frightened me-"
''(Max whips around and shoves her out of the window)'' }}
* [[Played With]] to great effect in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'': Bruce Wayne's accountant has figured out Bruce's secret identity, and the first person he tells is Wayne Enterprises CEO Lucius Fox, in an attempt to blackmail Bruce. Fox puts the situation in perspective:
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* ''[[The Illusionist (
* [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s ''[[Sanjuro]]''. A slight variation in that the nine naive young samurai were certain they'd identified the
* Averted in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', when Sutler asks Finch if anyone else has read Delia's diary. Finch answers no, but Sutler just tells him he'd better forget about it.
* This is the main driving force of the movie ''[[Weekend
* In the 1997 adaptation of [[Ivanhoe]], a random message-bearing mook tries (unsuccessfully) to avert this:
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'''Mook''': "None but my master...who expects my safe return!" }}
* In the 1987 thriller ''[[No Way Out]]'', a technician that the protagonist took into his confidence in an attempt to delay the [[Big Bad]]'s plan has an attack of conscience and tells... the [[Big Bad]], after which this trope is played out verbatim.
* In ''[[The Island]]'', Gandu Three Echo tells Dr. Merrick he suspects there's something wrong with the place and heard some rumours. Dr. Merrick asks "Have you told anyone else about this?". After the predictable answer, Dr. Merrick wraps up the conversation and kills Gandu.
== Literature ==
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer
▲* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Legion'', when Bronzi discovers a Chaos-tainted soldiers, he reports it, is asked who knows, and is warned that they need to keep it close to the chest. {{spoiler|In this case, telling them that others know ensures that they get massacred, too.}}
* In Frederick Forsyth's novel ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'', the forger providing the Jackal's false papers tries to blackmail him, fatally assuming the assassin is merely an upper class dilettante dabbling in the drug trade. The Jackal skillfully asks a number of questions (disguised as an attempt to wriggle out of the situation, or ensure that he won't have to pay another bribe to an associate) which establish that the forger hasn't given his photographs to anyone else and that no-one will come to this location and find his body for some time.
* [[
* Comically subverted in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer
* In [[Vernor Vinge]]'s ''[[
* A variation is used in [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Safehold]]'' novel, ''Off Armageddon Reef.'' The villain is confronted about accusations of treason by his father-in-law (who, in his defense, was drunk at the time). The antagonist had no desire to kill his father-in-law, and was trying to convince the man to support him even as he plotted killing everyone ''else'' who suspected him.
** In ''How Firm a Foundation'', Urvyn Mahndrayn takes a detour from a business trip to inform {{spoiler|his cousin Trai Sahlavahn, who runs the powder-mill}} about some discrepancies in the shipping manifests for kegs of gunpowder delivered for the mill. Unfortunately {{spoiler|Sahlavan}} is the traitor who was diverting the gunpowder shipments. He asks Mahndrayn who else he's told, and Mahndrayn says that he wanted to check with {{spoiler|Sahlavan}} before alerting anyone else. It doesn't end well.
* A slight variation in ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (
* In [[Dean Koontz]]'s ''Brother Odd'', Odd Thomas questions a number of suspects in a [[Closed Circle]] murder case. One of them asks if Odd has told anyone else about a certain piece of evidence, then offers him something to eat. Odd [[
* [[The Chessmaster]] in the last ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' book pulls this off; it helps that the victim is a complete ''idiot'' about it. "I need to ''urgently'' tell the governor about the mole I placed in the terrorist organization, even though nothing's happening right now. This is on a strictly need-to-know basis, so don't tell anyone. Why no, no I ''haven't'' told anyone else. Leave a message? Sure! Here's the datachip with all the information, as well as the codes to decrypt it." (To be fair about this, the bad guy in question is {{spoiler|the governor's immediate deputy}}, and in fact the victim reports directly to him. Lack of suspicion is unsurprising.)
* Deeba falls for this in [[Un Lun Dun]].
* ''[[The Windup Girl]]'' by Paolo Bacigalupi. When a thirteen year-old girl discovers that two workers have become sick with a possible pandemic, the factory owner contemplates killing her to maintain the secret after asking this question. Instead he packs all three off to the hospital.
* ''Coma'' by [[Robin Cook]]. Medical student Susan has just discovered the reason behind the slew of operating room
* Invoked in a short story written by Brecht. A young boy cries in the street after being mugged. A man finds him there, and asks him why he hadn't called for help. The boy says he screamed as loudly as he could, but nobody heard him. The man then proceeds to rob the boy as well.
** [[Fridge Logic|Why?]] Did the second mugger [[Idiot Ball|expect the first mugger to have left the boy with anything valuable?]]
* Subverted in ''[[Low Fantasy|Joris of the Rock]]'' by Leslie Barringer: when young page Juhel overhears several nobles plotting treason, he tells Count Raoul of Ger. The count asks Juhel, "Have you spoken of this to anyone else?" ... and then swears him to secrecy. Raoul is basically the [[Big Good]] of this story, and uses his new knowledge of the scheme to defeat it. He only made Juhel keep silent so no one would think to eliminate the boy.
* Averted in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
▲== Live Action TV ==
* On ''[[
▲* Averted in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. Gaeta notices there's something wrong with the presidential votes and tells Saul, ''the man running the scheme''. (Not the man who thought of the idea, but still.) Fortunately, that man is not a villain, so when Gaeta suspects something's off, he freely tells Admiral Adama and the whole thing is solved.
▲* On ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'', Cole, in his role as a [[Big Bad]], asks this of one of his [[Mooks]] who reported some information to Cole that was incriminating to Cole's reputation. When the mook answers no, Cole [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|vanquishes him to keep him from telling anyone else.]]
** Note that this mook told him the information with plenty of other people in the room...so Cole kills them all.
** On the contrary. He left one of them alive, telling him "You I trust." This trusted lieutenant did go on to betray him. This trust makes Cole look like a [[Horrible Judge of Character]], though there's no way to tell whether the reporting mook or the other witnesses would have been any more loyal than the one he spared.
* ''[[
** The episode "Boom Town" starts with an unfortunate scientist telling the mayor that her upcoming nuclear power station project is terribly unsafe, almost as if it was intended to go wrong... Needless to say, he doesn't survive the conversation. Subverted in that the scientist hadn't told anyone else, but ''had'' put his findings on the internet.
** There's dozens upon dozens of examples in the original series, of course, way too many to list.
** Sarah Jane Smith fell into this trope a ''lot''.
* In the ''[[
* Invoked in the ''[[
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* In one episode of ''[[
* Averted in an episode of ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]''. When the main character girls go out into the forest with a police officer to trap a killer, he asks if they've told anyone else. Hannah says yes, she left a note so her mom won't worry. Afterwards another girl asks Hannah if she really did leave a note, Hannah says of course
* In the seventh season of ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[The X
* Used in ''[[
* Used in the pilot of ''[[Eureka]]'' when Beverley questions the wife of a deceased scientist with whom her shady organization had been working. The woman has heard too much and intends to start talking, but hasn't done so yet. Beverley overdoses her on some sort of medication hidden in her tea and plays it as a suicide.
* Jessica Fletcher of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' is a master at subverting this trope. Often when she only has a hunch and no concrete evidence of someone's guilt, she sets things up so that the perpetrator believes it's such a situation when in fact she has the cops ready and waiting. Played for drama.
* A variation of it in the ''[[
* In the ''[[
* ''[[The Event]]'' uses this big-time, when one guy is about to tell the government key information. Sure enough, his lifespan is measured in minutes.
* ''[[Neighbours]]'' did this in a situation that viewers still talk about even years after it happened. Shortly before he was due to leave on a holiday, Connor learned that the missing 'Robert' (who is really Cameron) is in a coma at a nursing home. He immediately went to tell Robert's identical triplet 'Cameron' (who is really [[Evil Twin|Robert]]) the good news. This was the last time he ever appeared on the show, and Robert was later seen driving Connor's car and digging up the front garden. In what is either a genuine subversion or a [[Retcon]], Connor was later 'proven' to be alive and well, first when police found his wallet in China, and later when he apparently sent Toadie and others gifts for St. Patrick's Day, also from China.
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** One of Hyeok's underlings at American intelligence agency DIS reports to [[The Heavy|Hyeok]] that the terrorist organization Athena has infiltrated DIS and that he thinks Hyeok's [[Puss in Boots|right hand, Andy]], is [[The Mole]].
** The audience knows from the start that Hyeok is currently head of Athena's operations in South Korea (and Andy is [[Number Two]]).
** Hyeok asks his underling, "
* The villain attempts this in ''[[
* ''[[
** In the episode when the groundskeeper finds that Jeff and Troy have discovered his secret illegal trampoline Troy becomes concerned this is playing out.
** Dean Craig Pelton is less savvy. When the "food" he bought for the campus Halloween party turned the student body into zombies, he notified the Army. When they arrived, the Dean foolishly answered, "No," when asked if anyone else knew about the zombies. An underling began to draw a gun but luckily another soldier realized the zombie plague was over so they went with Plan B.
* A [[Monster of the Week|Villian of The Week]] attempts to invoke this with Sam on ''[[
* Played with in the ''[[Due South]]'' episode, "A Hawk and a Handsaw". Fraser is undercover as a patient in a mental hospital and comes across evidence that the staff are illegally testing an anti-depressant that causes some of the subjects to commit suicide. When his partner, Ray, visits him, they're led to an empty room where they then begin to exchange all the information they've discovered before Fraser clicks in and asks Ray who he told regarding his whereabouts leading to this response, "Nobody, why? [he is grabbed by a thug with a gun] I misunderstood the question, I told everybody I know! I told the State's Attorney, I told the Sheriff, I even told my mother!" Different in that it's not the villain who asks this but one of the good guys realizing they're being spied on.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Subverted in ''[[Sovisa]]''. Aleksei reports to his captain about a strange signal that was sent from their ship. When the captain asks if he's told the rest of the crew yet, [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Aleksei simply shoots him point blank in the chest]] and [[Thrown Out the Airlock|ejects his body out an airlock]].
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
* Daniel Tosh has this act on his CD "True Stories I Made Up":
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== Video Games ==
* In the first [[Rainbow Six]] game, this happened to a medical expert you already rescued once. When she realizes the origins of the virus a [[Animal Wrongs Group|terrorist group]] plans to release, she calls one of your other advisors, who asked her this. After she says no, several terrorists come knocking on her doorstep.
* At the end of chapter 6 in [[
== Web Original ==
* Played straight [http://qntm.org/socks this] [[
* In ''[[Kaspall]]'', [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg284.html the only person they told was a trustworthy police sergeant] -- in fact, trustworthy enough [[Genre Savvy|to call them idiots for not reporting it earlier]].▼
* In [[Order of the Stick]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0830.html #830], {{spoiler|Tsukiko tells Redcloak that she's figured out that he's been deceiving Xykon; the ritual to 'control' the [[Eldritch Abomination|Snarl]] won't have the effect Xykon expects. Redcloak promptly order Tsukiko's undead thralls to sieze her (he'd used a 'command undead' ability on them when he'd entered the room) and orders them to devour her lifeforce, then eat her corpse. Then eat each other. Then commit suicide.}}▼
== Web Comics ==
▲* In ''[[Kaspall]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305022858/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg284.html the only person they told was a trustworthy police sergeant]
▲* In [[The Order of the Stick]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0830.html #830], {{spoiler|Tsukiko tells Redcloak that she's figured out that he's been deceiving Xykon; the ritual to 'control' the [[Eldritch Abomination|Snarl]] won't have the effect Xykon expects. Redcloak promptly order Tsukiko's undead thralls to sieze her (he'd used a 'command undead' ability on them when he'd entered the room) and orders them to devour her lifeforce, then eat her corpse. Then eat each other. Then commit suicide.}}
* ''[[Chirault]]'' had Ridriel along with the rest of the Mages' Council told (and not arguing) that whoever stole the [[Doomsday Device]] they accidentally made most likely used inside information. So in Chapter 15 she reported related evidence to a council member she requested to come alone. He asks for some details and finishes with "You have told no one else?" Guess who is {{spoiler|locked up and wears an [[Explosive Leash|explosive collar]]}} a few pages later?
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' Kathryn [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-08-26 gives] Leutenant Sorlie a "pro-tip" about volunteering such details.
== Western Animation ==
* In the third season premiere of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' {{spoiler|[[The Mole|Shockwave/Longarm Prime]] asked this of Blurr after he managed to [[It Makes Sense in Context|"run" his way from Saturn to Cybertron]]. Blurr answers yes. Needless to say, he's dead in under a minute. He puts up a better fight than most who fall to this trope, though: when Shockwave starts shooting at Blurr, Blurr uses his [[Super Speed]] to avoid and escape... but he doesn't realize the corridors have been booby-trapped with [[Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom]] until it's too late to avoid being crushed into a small cube}}. ''Still'' worried that TFA is going to be too kiddy?
** The real kicker? {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] has said that Blurr was supposed to have been animated with his spark still glowing because he was still alive. A ray of hope...until Cliffjumper follows orders and [[And I Must Scream|throws him down the incinerator]].}}
* In ''[[Freakazoid!]]!'', Roddy MacStew tells the board of his company that the Pinnacle Chip is flawed and will create the Freakazoid if a certain combination of keys is pressed, followed by delete. The [[Big Bad]] running the company asks him if anyone else knows about the flaw, before throwing Roddy out the (very high off the ground) window.
* Played with in the third episode of ''[[Exo Squad]]'', Phaeton's Finance Minister asks for a secret meeting at a factory to inform him that the Martian treasury has been looted. Phaeton cheerfully admits to having diverted the funds himself in order to secretly build weapons. The Finance Minister plays along and later hacks Phaeton's files so he can expose the full extent of Phaeton's crimes. The line is only used after this attempt fails.
* Used rather shockingly in the [[Grand Finale]] move for [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]. After spending the whole movie trying to get to his brother following a rather badly done scam, Eddy finally arrives. And this bit of [[Foreshadowing]] occurs.
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'''Eddy''' : As if.
'''Eddy's brother''' : Does ''anyone'' know you're here?
'''Eddy''' : Only these chumps who chased us here. }}
** While at first, this seems like a thing any big brother may ask, {{spoiler|this becomes ''very'' creepy a few seconds later when we find out just [[The Sociopath|what Eddy's Brother]] is [[Complete Monster|really like.]]}}
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