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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', where Sousuke orders a thermos full of a new form of liquid bioweapon. He brings it to school, go figure, and the entire campus is locked down. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. It turns out to only dissolve fabrics. ....''all fabrics''.
* Van Zant and Smitty's initial reason for killing people during the Majin Buu Saga of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' essentially amounted to this, as Zant wanted to kill as many people as he could due to the world ending with Majin Buu and wanting to go out with a bang. It's also viciously done in that not only did the end of the world end up not happening because Mr. Satan managed to teach Majin Buu right from wrong, but their nearly killing Mr. Satan as well as Bee the puppy when attempting to kill Majin Buu so they could kill more people ended up triggering the apocalypse due to Buu forcibly expelling his evil self, and then being absorbed by it.
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* There was also an episode of ''[[The Jetsons]]'', when George believes he's gonna die, and signs up for profitable but dangerous job that involves testing a prototype worker's uniform that is allegedly indestructible. He finds out the truth at the most inconvenient time and panics. Luckily the experiment still succeeds, only to fail for completely unrelated reasons.
* Inverted in an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' - the titular sponge is thought to have unknowingly eaten a deadly pie, which will end his life at sunset. Squidward, responsible for bringing a pie-shaped bomb to Spongebob, feels guilty enough to spend the rest of the day doing anything Spongebob wants. {{spoiler|It's eventually revealed that Spongebob never ate the bomb-pie, but rather a different pie. He saved the bomb, which he promptly trips and thus throws into Squidward's face, producing a nuclear blast.}}
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'': Helga Pataki gets kissed by a monkey and believes that she has contracted monkeynucleosis. She believes she's going to die and even soon finds herself on her death bed, her health failing. She decides to tell everyone exactly what she really thinks of them and give them her stuff. Eventually, she brings Arnold into her room to tell him her true feelings, but before she can her friend barges in and reveals that monkeynucleosis doesn't really exist and that Helga won't die after all. And thus, Helga's secret lives on.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' did a variation that involved the entirety of Quahog being affected with this trope: On April Fool's Day, the newscasters mention that a black hole had suddenly appeared and that in a few hours the Earth was to be sucked into the black hole, only for it to be revealed at the last possible moment that it was actually a very horrible April Fool's prank, and Peter admitted that his children should never have been born during what he thought were his last few moments in life, and guess what happens for the remainder of the episode.
* The second episode of ''[[American Dad]]'' had the family thinking they had be exposed to a virus that would kill them in a day, so they spend the time watching the first season of ''[[24|Twenty Four]]''.
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