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* [[Those Wacky Nazis|The Nazis]] underwent a pronounced series of these. The first to twig was Fritz Todt in 1941. He was asked to chair an investigation to see if Germany's industry could supply it with the arms to win a war against the British Empire and the U.S.S.R. He found not only that it couldn't even come close, but that if the USA entered the war then the Third Reich was completely screwed. No one listened to him. It just went downhill from there.
* According to those who were present, the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and their Ambassador to Germany, Vladimir Dekanozov, had these when told about the the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101216063542/http://funnypicturesabout.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/funnypictureremarkableinstantwasher.jpg This hockey picture.]
* A ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' contestant [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6AnWkVwbgI (at 0:27 of the vid)], when she jumped on an answer without reading them all fully, and realized her error right after validating her answer.
* It's said that when Robespierre, head of the ''[[Trope Namer|original]]'' [[Reign of Terror]], realized that his own insanely strict policies were being used against him, you could see LAYERS of Oh Crap expressions on his face as he realized what was going to happen.
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