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== Fan Works ==

** Another example with the same characters: when Esteem thinks that the villains have won, he gives Twilight a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] deriding her efforts and telling her that all she'll be remembered for is her failure. Shortly after, while Twilight is {{spoiler|giving him a [[Karmic Death]]}}, she gives him a similar speech, telling him that all ''he'll'' be remembered for is his treachery.

** {{spoiler|After Celestia is [[Brought Down to Normal]], she refuses to answer to Terra's mocking nickname "Sunshine". After she regains her power, her reaction to Terra's stunned stuttering of her name is to smugly state, "Call me Sunshine".}}

* ''[[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.

* [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] book examples

** 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.

* 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 ''[[Discworld/Mort|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.

* ''Army Wives'', season 3 "M.I.A."

* ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]''. The message on Margaret's mother's answering machine is along the lines of "Victor? Margaret? I'm sorry that I'm not here now, but it's because I'm somewhere else. ''I say, I'm somewhere else.'' But I expect you'll both be up here soon, won't you? So I'll see you then. Hello?" At first, this is just somewhat charming and funny, the result of her being an old woman who doesn't really understand how the machine works. {{spoiler|Then she dies. Now read it again.}}

* The lesbian episode of ''Not Going Out'' has Lee inviting around a lesbian couple who have just moved in, justifying it as "offering a welcome hand of friendship". Later, when one of the women and Lucy spend the rest of the evening together, she explains that it's not romantic, but her "offering a welcome hand of friendship". It's [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Lee:

{{quote|'''Lee:''' Alright, you've made your point.