His Name Is--: Difference between revisions

Line 1:

[[File:~~MyNameIsWeiner_3111~~.gif|link=Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal|frame|[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?%20db=comics&id=2023#comic Suckers!]]]

[[File:MyNameIsWeiner 3111.gif|link=Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal|frame|[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?%20db=comics&id=2023#comic Suckers!]]]

{{quote|''"See? It happens every time! Just as they're about to tell you who the murderer is... they get killt!"''|''[[Mad Magazine|MAD]]'', "Kane Keen, Private Eye"}}

Line 41:

* One day, [[Batman]] discovers that his parent's killer, Joe Chill is still alive and kicking and a rising gang leader, and after tormenting him for a while, reveals his [[Secret Identity]] to Chill. Chill freaks out and goes and tells his mob (without revealing the name). His irate mob, realising that Chill essentially ''created'' Batman, shoot him to the point of near-death. [[What an Idiot!|It's only then that they realize that they didn't know who exactly Batman was]]. Chill nearly is able to croak it out, but Batman barges in at that moment.

** Also happens in the Hush arc, where {{spoiler|Batman's mechanic, Harold}} is about to reveal the identity of the person who {{spoiler|bribed him into betraying Batman}}, when he is shot in the head by the villian in question.

* Parodied in, of all places, a ''Disney'' comic book storyline, namely one by Italian writer/artist Silvia Ziche, known for having a thing for either single-panel jokes or ''[[Arc Fatigue|lo]][[Ending Fatigue|ng]]'' [[Story Arc|story arcs]]. During said storyline, ''Il Papero Del Mistero''<ref> ''The Duck Of Mystery''</ref>, better known as ''Papernovela''<ref> ''Duck (Soap) Opera''</ref>, Scrooge, acting as a typical "landlord" [[Soap Opera]] character, is about to tell his family the reward for solving his riddle, he... [[Like You Would Really Do It|he doesn't die]] [[Never Say "Die"|(nor it is said)]], but... ''he suddenly becomes voiceless.'' [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* Parodied in, of all places, a ''Disney'' comic book storyline, namely one by Italian writer/artist Silvia Ziche, known for having a thing for either single-panel jokes or ''[[Arc Fatigue|lo]][[Ending Fatigue|ng]]'' [[Story Arc|story arcs]]. During said storyline, ''Il Papero Del Mistero'',<ref>''The Duck Of Mystery''</ref> better known as ''Papernovela'',<ref>''Duck (Soap) Opera''</ref> Scrooge, acting as a typical "landlord" [[Soap Opera]] character, is about to tell his family the reward for solving his riddle, he... [[Like You Would Really Do It|he doesn't die]] [[Never Say "Die"|(nor it is said)]], but... ''he suddenly becomes voiceless.'' [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* Done in [[Tintin]] to great effect. The first one is played pretty much straight (before the victim is shot with something to make him go insane) in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' and the second one is played straight in ''The Secret of the Unicorn'' {{spoiler|but is ultimately subverted as the victim recovers}}.

Line 79:

'''King Arthur''': Oh, shut up. -- Well, does it say anything else?

'''Brother Maynard''': No. Just "Aaaarrrggghhhh" }}

* Variation in ''[[Star Trek]] VI: The Undiscovered Country'' - the Klingon conspirator on Rura Penthe has recaptured Kirk and Mccoy and Kirk asks him who's the mastermind. He replies "As you're all going to die anyway, why not tell you - [[His Name Is]]..." and then the two of them are beamed away, much to Kirk's aggravation.

* Variation in ''[[Star Trek]] VI: The Undiscovered Country'' - the Klingon conspirator on Rura Penthe has recaptured Kirk and Mccoy and Kirk asks him who's the mastermind. He replies "As you're all going to die anyway, why not tell you - His Name Is..." and then the two of them are beamed away, much to Kirk's aggravation.

{{quote|'''Kirk:''' Son of a - Couldn't you have waited two seconds? They were just about to tell us the whole thing!

'''Chekov:''' You want to go back?

'''McCoy:''' Absolutely not!

'''Kirk:''' [whispering] It's ''cold.'' }}

* Similar variation in ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]''. The [[Big Bad]] has the hero at gunpoint, and is just about to tell him the secret of how he controls the killer tomatoes before shooting ~~him -- when~~ the crazed parachuting flyboy from earlier in the film crashes into the room and runs the villain through with a sword.

* Similar variation in ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]''. The [[Big Bad]] has the hero at gunpoint, and is just about to tell him the secret of how he controls the killer tomatoes before shooting him—when the crazed parachuting flyboy from earlier in the film crashes into the room and runs the villain through with a sword.

* Subverted in ''[[Shrek|Shrek the Third]]'' when the king is dying. He cuts off mid-sentence and seems to die ''twice'' before he finally dies for real; the second time ends with "His name is--", but he manages to finish his sentence when before he actually dies.

* ''[[Whats Up Tiger Lily|What's Up, Tiger Lily?]]'' - a dying mook tells the hero "Beware of the man with...with...with...with..." into the fadeout.

Line 104:

** In Asimov's ''[[Foundation]] and Empire'', when Ebling Mis offers to tell where the Second Foundation secretly resides, Bayta blasts him dead because she knew the Mule was listening.

* A [[Real Life]] version of this trope is mentioned in ''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' by [[David Simon]], where a victim on being asked by police who shot him replied, "I'll tell you in a minute." Thirty seconds later he died.

* Happens in ''[[X Wing Series|The Krytos Trap]]''. Kirtan Loor, aware that [[Manipulative Bastard|Isard]] will have him killed soon, goes to the New Republic and offers to trade information about Isard's machinations in exchange for his life. They accept, Loor takes a speeder with a New Republic agent, and when they arrive, that agent's husband, who had unwittingly been one of Isard's [[Manchurian Agent~~|Manchurian Agents~~]], shoots Loor, tries to shoot his wife while [[Apologetic Attacker|babbling apologies]], and [[Shoot the Dog|is shot by her]]. Loor [[Dying Alone|dies alone]] while the agent weeps over her dying husband. Ultimately somewhat subverted, since Loor had a datacard on his person with some of the information he was prepared to tell them.

* Happens in ''[[X Wing Series|The Krytos Trap]]''. Kirtan Loor, aware that [[Manipulative Bastard|Isard]] will have him killed soon, goes to the New Republic and offers to trade information about Isard's machinations in exchange for his life. They accept, Loor takes a speeder with a New Republic agent, and when they arrive, that agent's husband, who had unwittingly been one of Isard's [[Manchurian Agent]]s, shoots Loor, tries to shoot his wife while [[Apologetic Attacker|babbling apologies]], and [[Shoot the Dog|is shot by her]]. Loor [[Dying Alone|dies alone]] while the agent weeps over her dying husband. Ultimately somewhat subverted, since Loor had a datacard on his person with some of the information he was prepared to tell them.

* John Dickson Carr's ''Dark of the Moon'' has one suspect go through this. Subverted in that she survives (though obviously she doesn't recover enough to say anything until after the killer's already caught) and {{spoiler|the fact that she was about to accuse someone of multiple crimes - including incest - that the accused ''didn't do''.}}

* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', it's zigzagged. Runningwind is dead and Fireheart sees Whitethroat, who he assumes to be the killer. Whitethroat is hit by a car after Fireheart realizes it wasn't him. Fireheart asks who killed Runningwind, and Whitethroat says who it was but Fireheart can't hear him over the noise of a passing car. Fireheart asks again, but Whitethroat dies just as he's about to say it, however he has a look of horror in his eyes. Then Fireheart turns around and sees the killer right there.

Line 123:

* Becomes a [[Running Gag]] in the ''[[Wayne and Shuster]]'' sketch "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga".

* In ''[[Castle]]'', Detective John ~~Raglan -- the~~ lead investigator into the unsolved murder of Beckett's ~~mother -- calls~~ her up and asks for a meet, as he has important information to deliver. He instead rambles nervously for a bit about coffee and Jacob Marley from ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', this giving the sinister conspiracy he's on the verge of exposing enough time to ensure that he never, ever tells anyone anything again just as he's about to spit it out.

* In ''[[Castle]]'', Detective John Raglan—the lead investigator into the unsolved murder of Beckett's mother—calls her up and asks for a meet, as he has important information to deliver. He instead rambles nervously for a bit about coffee and Jacob Marley from ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', this giving the sinister conspiracy he's on the verge of exposing enough time to ensure that he never, ever tells anyone anything again just as he's about to spit it out.

** Happens again in "Dial M for Mayor". The suspect, who is working for the [[Big Bad]] of the entire series, is pressed for a name. And then cracks. After an agonizing series of pauses and false starts and more pauses and significant looks, the suspect says, "His... name... is...", and suddenly a mysterious lawyer shows up, declares that he's been retained to represent the suspect, and that he's advising his client to exercise his right to remain silent.

* Happened every second or third episode of the ''[[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'' game show, with [[They Killed Kenny|a recurring character known as The Dying Witness]].

Line 190:

== Web Original ==

* Played for laughs in ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC|Rorschach and Deadpool]]''. The pair finds four different informants<ref>As well as a pizza boy and a random passerby, hell, even Rorschach</ref>, and Deadpool shoots every one of them as they finish saying the name of the trope. Purely because he finds their voices irritating.

* Played for laughs in ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC|Rorschach and Deadpool]]''. The pair finds four different informants,<ref>As well as a pizza boy and a random passerby, hell, even Rorschach</ref> and Deadpool shoots every one of them as they finish saying the name of the trope. Purely because he finds their voices irritating.