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A Stock Phrase where a character sees something strange or decides to go somewhere to investigate something.
It's usually a "[[Famous Last Words
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* ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]''. While exploring the hidden temple: "Holmes: I'm going down for a closer look."
* ''[[Beau Geste]]'' (1939): "I'm gonna take a closer look."
* ''[[Recess:
* ''[[Alien]]''. Promptly followed by one of the most frightening moments in movies.
** Slightly justified in that investigating the derelict ship was company policy, and because {{spoiler|Ash was trying to trick them into bringing a living alien specimen aboard}}.
* ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. Luke tells Han he's going to check out a meteorite crater, and immediately gets attacked by an ice monster. Unusually for this trope, this is just a coincidence, not an ambush by the thing he went to investigate.
* Subverted in ''[[Scream (
* Subverted by the [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] protagonist in ''There's Nothing Out There''.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the first episode of ''[[Ultraman]]'', Hayata sees two strange meteors and says the phrase as he moves in to investigate. Sure enough, he gets so close that he collides with Ultraman's meteor and crashes.
* In the [[Adam West]] ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' this phrase is used when they decide to find a supervillain's hideout, only to get captured.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' fighter pilots who encounter Shadow warships can expect a very quick death if they say this. Results vary a bit more on random wrecks or [[Negative Space Wedgie|Negative Space Wedgies]].
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Flesh and Stone", a blinded Amy and a group of soldiers who are standing guard in the woods<ref> ...consisting of treeborgs, in a spaceship, being hunted by psychotic stone angels, but that's not important right now.</ref> spy a bright light in the distance. [[Properly Paranoid|Soldiers being soldiers]], some are sent off to investigate. {{spoiler|The catch being that the light will [[Ret-Gone]] you out of existence, meaning more soldiers are soon sent to check out the mysterious white light, having ''no idea'' three of their former-comrades have already "gone for a closer look" before them...}}
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