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{{quote|''I can never go that fast again. If I do... I don't think I'm coming back''|'''Flash''', [[Justice League Unlimited]]}}
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''"I agree."''|'''Pyro''' and '''Wolverine''' in the second ''[[X-Men (
▲'''Pyro''' and '''Wolverine''' in the second ''[[X-Men (Film)|X-Men]]'' movie, after '''Jean Grey''' performs maneuvers to evade missiles. }}
A stock phrase used after the hero has done some daring do that obviously was very painful and/or taxing. In saying this, the Hero is acknowledging that he is not open to repeating the experience as he tries to recover.
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Contrast with [[Wasn't That Fun?]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* In a particularly [[Squick]]-y example from a Quizno's commercial, a talking oven tries to coax a guy into doing some unnamed act. The man looks down at his crotch and says, "I'm not doing that again. That burned."
== [[Film]] ==
* Used in the movie ''[[Jackass
* ''[[X-Men (
* ''[[Mortal Kombat (
== [[Jokes]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Gets used several times in ''[[
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'''Tobias:''' Ever.
'''Ax:''' Repetition of that activity would be a very bad idea. }}
** Ax also used this [[Stock Phrase]] ("I will not do this again") in a more dramatic, [[Shoot the Dog]] context, when the plan involved him capturing Chapman and interrogating him in the [[To the Pain]] style for hours on end.
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Jack Harkness casually drops this in while referring to [[Mister Seahorse|pregnancy]] in the ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' Herb gets talked into pretending to be gay and hitting on another guy. The attempt fails, and when he gets back: "I am ''never'' doing that again! I get enough rejection from ''women''!"
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Taken to an extreme by Sharwyn in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'': [[Death Is Cheap|"Dying was unpleasant, to say the least. Let's not do that again, shall we?"]]
* In ''[[Paper Mario (
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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== Web Comics ==
* [[Goblin Hollow]]: A teleportation incident [http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00169.html here]{{Dead link}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In a "Frogger" episode on ''[[Saturday Supercade]]'', Frogger used his tongue to prevent a fatal accident. Unfortunately, the only thing he can latch onto is a cactus and afterward, his tongue is painfully perforated with cactus needles. Cue trope title.
* In one ''[[Justice League (
** And when the Flash finally [[I Am Not Left-Handed|hits top speed]] to defeat the [[Big Bad]] and the rest of the [[Justice League]] pulls him from the brink, we get the page quote. Earlier in the same episode, this is his reaction to the way he took out his evil, Braniac-generated doppelganger (punching through its chest and vibrating until it exploded, knocking him for a loop in the process).
* In the ''[[Challenge of the Go Bots]]'' episode "Et Tu, Cy-Kill?" Leader-1 ends up having to fly in jet mode, at jet speeds, through a huge corridor filled with stone columns, dodging all of them. Afterward he [[Transforming Mecha|transforms]], falls to his knees, and says, "I couldn't do that twice."
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