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* ''[[Metro 2033]]'' with the Dark Ones, they just want to find a way to help the humans out, but the telepathy caused people to go mad and thought they were out to kill them like other mutants. Needless to say Artyom realize this a bit too late as he plants the transmitter.
* In ''Arrow's Fall'', part of the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series, the novel's primary romantic tension is caused by Dirk assuming himself to be part of a [[Love Triangle]] consisting of himself, Kris, and Talia, and trying to pull an [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]], when in fact both Kris and Talia are trying to get her hooked up with Dirk. Dirk's stubborn refusal to discuss the matter with either of them sends him into a [[Drowning My Sorrows|breakdown]], and causes the resolution to be put off until after {{spoiler|Talia nearly dies and Kris ''does'' die}}.
** And even ''then'' communication still fails, as Dirk assumes that Talia will be mourning her 'lost love' Kris forever and, even after (despairingly) confessing his true feelings, still intends to avoid Talia for the rest of his life. If Talia hadn't used her empathic powers to link Dirk's mind directly to her emotions, she'd ''never'' have convinced him he was the one she was really in love with - goodness knows no amount of mere words seemed able to get through his skull.
* In the [[Agatha Christie]] novel ''Sparkling Cyanide'', Sandra Farraday knows that her husband Stephan is having an affair with Rosemary Barton, is afraid Stephan will leave her for Rosemary, and is prepared to kill Rosemary to prevent that from happening. Stephan, on the other hand, has grown tired of Rosemary and realized that Sandra is his real true love, but he's afraid that Sandra will leave him when she finds out about it, and is prepared to kill Rosemary to prevent the affair from becoming public. {{spoiler|Technically, poor communication didn't actually ''kill'' in this case, since neither Stephan nor Sandra was the murderer, but it very easily could have.}}
* ''The Key to Rondo'' could plausibly have instead been titled: ''Poor Communication Kills: The Novel''.
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