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== Literature ==
* [[Discworld (Literature)|Vimes]] has a moment or two of this in every book he stars in, but ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]'' and ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thud|Thud]]'' probably have the most.
* In the [[Dante Valentine]] series, Danny is forever begging Japhrimel to tell her things. He doesn't until it comes up in battle. When Danny asks why he didn't tell her sooner, he shrugs it off answering, "I did not want to trouble you with something so trivial." He abuses this excuse to the point Dante is often ready to scream.
* The crucial clue that [[Hercule Poirot]] needs to solve the mystery is usually something like this. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [[The ABC Murders]], when he summons the families of all of the victims precisely for the purpose of talking about the trivial things surrounding the murders, in hopes that there will be some small detail that connects all of them. {{spoiler|There is, but it turns out to be a [[Red Herring]].}}
 
== Live Action Television ==
* It seems like in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' every other episode or so features this -- the key turns out to be something that the patient would have gladly divulged (especially as an alternative to the humiliating but irrelevant parts of his life that they unearth while looking for the clue), but couldn't see that it would possibly be relevant.
* The ''[[Columbo (TV)|Columbo]]'' episode called "Lady In Waiting" has a wealthy woman kill her brother and make it look like she accidentally mistook him for a burglar after he tripped the alarm system. Her fiancé came to the house unexpectedly as her setup was unfolding. Only later did he realize (with Columbo's help) that {{spoiler|he heard the three fatal shots first, '''then''' heard the alarm sound}}.
* In the season one episode of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', "I, E.T.", the crew is desperately searching for an anesthesia to use on Moya located somewhere on an alien planet, only to find out, at the eleventh hour, from a befriended local that it's a common spice they used in their food.
 
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[SSDD]]'', Michael knows that British Intelligence created something called the Echelon Plug-in; he was given a copy of it. Unfortunately, Michael is generally treated like a [[Butt Monkey]] and has been so locked out of the loop that he doesn't know what the Oracle is or that it even exists. Of the group trying to prevent the Oracle from gaining control, Michael is the only person who is not from the future, but nobody else listens to him, so they don't know about the existence of the Echelon Plug-in. {{spoiler|When they ''finally'' tell Michael what the Oracle is, Michael makes a comparison of the two programs and the others realize that the Oracle and Echelon Plug-in are ''one and the same''. In other words, the Oracle already exists in Michael's time, which explains a ''lot''.}}
* Antimony Carver, from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. At the point of Chapter 33, she had enough information about {{spoiler|Jeanne, one of the Court's founders}}, whose information was [[Unperson|deliberately hidden or destroyed]]. This is even lampshaded at some point in Chapter 23 by Jones:
{{quote| ''"A lot of information about the origin of the Court has been lost or, in my opinion, deliberately hidden. If you have somehow come across information from that time, it could provide valuable insight. (...) However, such information is useless until properly investigated. When you feel you have uncovered the whole story, please, tell me about it."''}}
 
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