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** Also happens with November 11's smoking rant.

* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', when Aion is badly wounded in a fight, he's told by his opponent "If you had to pretend to be a big shot, you should never have come to the front lines." When Aion reveals that he ''purposefully'' lost and acted as a decoy, he [[Evil Gloating|gleefully repeats the line]] to his fallen opponent right before giving him the final blow.

** Also, in the second episode, Edward tells a very distraught Rose, "Move forward. You've got a good strong pair of legs, Rose. Just get up and use them." He seems mad, seeing as how he only has one real leg. ''Much'', much later (in the first anime only, not the manga or second anime), Rose says to him, "You'll be able to come back on your own later, right? After all, you have perfect legs to walk with now." If, after forty-nine episodes, you remembered what Ed had said in the first place, then kudos to you.

*** Not so hard to remember, since Rose references it EVERY time she comes onto the screen. (Except for when she's mute.)

* ''[[Miss Congeniality]]'' uses the second situation. "It is not a beauty pageant. It is a ''scholarship program!''"

** Also, before her transformation, Sandra Bullock's character Gracie answers a question with "Yeah." Candice Bergen's character Kathy Morningside (the director of the pageant) corrects her, saying "Yes." At the end of the movie, when Gracie is pushing Morningside in the car, the ex-pageant winner says "Yeah, yeah." Gracie corrects her, echoing "Yes" before shutting the door in the shocked woman's face.

* A similar phrase was used in the stage musical ''[[Annie]]''. When the FBI takes Miss Hannigan away, she pleads to have Annie witness to how good she treated her and the other orphans. Annie responds with the one thing Miss Hannigan always taught her: "Never tell a lie."

* Played with in the film adaptation of ''[[The Secret Garden]]''; when Mary's name is called at the station in London, the children start singing the nursery rhyme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary". Later on in the film, Dickon starts singing it and Mary remarks that the children used to sing it at her on the boat from India. She then happily sings the rest of the song with Dickon.

** Cersei's "I shall wear [the bruise] like a badge of honor" after Robert hits her, echoed to her later by Ned, when she slaps him.

** {{spoiler|Theon}} spends most of ''A Dance with Dragons'' in a state of [[Stockholm Syndrome]] denying his identity due to the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of his captor, Ramsay Bolton; in his internal monologue he frequently repeats the line "You have to know your ''name''" in order to remind himself that he's supposed to be "Reek", not {{spoiler|Theon. At the end of his last chapter in the book he repeats the line to emphasize that he once again recognises himself as Theon.}}

** In ''Philosopher's Stone'', there's Ron's "Are you a witch or not?!" to Hermione; wayyy later, in ''Deathly Hallows'', she says the exact same thing to him.

** [[Harry Potter/Awesome|'Weasley Is Our King']]. The Slytherins were just ''asking'' for the [[Insult Backfire]] on that one.

* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Death has a catchphrase "There is no justice, there's just me," which he originally means in a very cynical sense. At some point though, as he gains more humanity, he delivers the same line when punishing an evildoer.

** Later uses are reference to and/or subversion of its use in ''[[Mort]]''. "There is no justice, just us!" is used as an excuse for letting "good" people live and "bad" people die. It's later echoed as "There is no justice, just me," reasoning for why the world isn't fair, when [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time|what seemed like a good idea]] turns out to have horrible consequences.

* In one strip of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin remarks that whatever his mom is making, he won't eat it. In order to convince Calvin to eat it, she claims that it's "boiled monkey brains", when it was actually stuffed peppers. However, she forgot to let the dad in on the trick, which led to it backfiring by causing the dad to react with disgust when he heard Calvin remarking that they were "boiled monkey brains" and state that whatever the dish was, he wasn't going to eat it, to the mom's exasperation.

 

* From [[Norse Mythology]]: When Hagen suggests to king Gunther/Gunnar to accept Walther's gift of 100 golden rings (instead of taking all his treasure), Gunther mocks him: "You are truly a son of your father Aldrian. He would talk a lot so he wouldn't have to fight." After Walther has killed the other eleven knights of the king, Gunther tries to make Hagen fight again. But Hagen says: "I am truly a son of my father Aldrian. He would talk a lot so he wouldn't have to fight."

 

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** "It may not be worth much now, but in a thousand years..." First by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Xanatos]], then by his much more moral father.

* In the first song of the [[Dr. Seuss]] special ''[[Halloween Is Grinch Night]]'', Grandpa Josiah repeatedly sings, "I wouldn't go out on a night like this for" a given amount of money that increases with each verse, such as "six dollars and sixty cents!". Later, the Grinch starts poetically talking about what a wonderful night it is in the same rhythm as Josiah's song, ending with "I wouldn't stay home on a night like this for sixty dollars and sixty cents!"

* Disney's ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]'' has an episode where Gantu is immediately rebuked for his idea of how useful an experiment would be. When 625 discovers something that could vindicate him, he's too angry to listen.