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== Comic Books ==
* Used by Reed Richards in every single issue of Fantastic Four ever. {{spoiler|Slight, but only slight, exaggeration}}.
** To be fair to Reed Richards, most of the time he's dealing with shit so cosmically complex that "sufficient time to explain" would involve a several-hours long lecture series, and that's ''after'' his audience spent several years obtaining college degrees in various advanced sciences. Unless he's collaborating with a fellow supergenius like Victor von Doom or Tony Stark that day, he doesn't really have much choice in insisting that his audience just accept his premise and move on.
* A particularly galling comic book example occured in a plotline in the [[X-Men]] books, especially ''[[Cable]]''. Bishop, a time-travelling X-Man, was determined to kill an infant being protected by Cable because ... he never said, except that she threatened the future in some way. He constantly insisted that the X-Men would agree that she needed to die ''if only they knew'' what a horrible future her survival would lead to. But he just ''never'' had time to explain it to them. This made sense (or at least you could see how it made sense to him) when he was in a running gun battle with Cable. Made a little less sense when the X-Men caught him and held him onto him for a few hours before he escaped.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'': "Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."
* Parodied in the fourth iteration of the ''[[Scary Movie]]'' series, when the Tom Cruise/''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)||War Of The Worlds]]'' character says "We're leaving this house in 30 seconds, there's no time to explain", and a random passerby runs up to the window and screams "Alien Attack!". Tom admits that that pretty much covered it.
* Also parodied in the Norwegian ''[[Dead Snow]]'', when two of the protagonists are trying to keep the attacking nazi zombies from breaking into the house.
{{quote|-We've got to get to the shed!
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Ron gets increasingly more annoyed each time Hermione does this.
** Of course, Ron also gets annoyed whenever Hermione attempts a detailed explanation so its not surprising Hermione eventually fell back on 'Shut up and just do it.'
* This also happens in the ''[[The Pendragon Adventure|Pendragon]]'' series, where Bobby, Gunny, and Spader initially think that stopping the [[Hindenburg]] explosion would save the future but upon a trip to the future Bobby and Gunny find out that {{spoiler|stopping the Hindenburg explosion would allow Hitler to win World War II. Spader refuses to believe this, as he cannot conceive how they could know this. He might have understood if Bobby or Gunny had taken more time to explain things to him; however, they also had to stop someone else from stopping the explosion, and couldn't take the time to explain things to him. However, he might not have understood, as Spader typically is overcome by his own emotions.}}
* Painfully used in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' where there is no time to explain anything to Rand Al'Thor, on their long trek across the entire kingdom.
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** With good reason, in this case. If Rand had turned out ''not'' to be the actual Dragon Reborn, it would be better if he hadn't been told the whole story. False Dragons (usually self-deluded into believing they're the real thing) often cause an incredible amount of havoc before they're brought down, so it's better not to give him any ideas until they can be sure he's The One.
* In ''[[The Mysterious Benedict Society|The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey]]'', Reynie uses this to fend off questions from Joe "Cannonball" Shooter about why he and the other members of the Society aren't accompanied by any adults. It works quite easily, given that Cannonball is the sort of guy who is always on the move anyway.
== Live-Action TV ==
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