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== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'':
{{quote| '''Mrs. Incredible''': Remember the bad guys on those shows you used to watch on Saturday mornings? Well, these guys are not like those guys. They won't exercise restraint because you're children. They ''will'' kill you if they get the chance. Do not give them that chance.}}
* ''[[Megamind]]''. Titan has no use for banter or jibes. He is just a murderous, brutish thug.
* ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'', when Hopper comes back and the ants have not collected all the food yet:
{{quote| '''Hopper:''' You think this is a game? Well, guess what: you just lost.}}
* Inverted in "[[Finding Nemo]]" : at one point, the only way that Marlin and Dorey make it out of a dangerous situation without completely dissolving into panic is by pretending that it *is* a game.
 
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Crocodile Dundee]] II''. Mick Dundee is about to go up against some gangsters.
{{quote| '''Sue Charlton:''' Mick -- be careful. This isn't a game.<br />
'''Mick:''' Tis to me. }}
* ''American Ninja 4: The Annihilation'':
{{quote| '''Sean Davidson:''' This isn't a game, Gavin, those were ninja!}}
* ''Antitrust'':
{{quote| '''Milo:''' This isn't a game! In the real world, when you kill people they die -- for real!}}
* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'':
{{quote| '''Jim Rhodes:''' This isn't a game. You do not send civilian equipment into my active war zone. Do you understand me?}}
* ''[[Goldeneye]]'':
{{quote| '''Natalya Simonova:''' This is not one of your games, Boris! Real people will die! You pathetic little worm...}}
** Bonus points: more people probably know ''[[Goldeneye]]'' for [[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|the game]] than they do the film.
* ''[[Titanic]]'':
{{quote| '''Ruth:''' This is not a game. Our situation is precarious. You ''know'' the money's gone.<br />
'''Rose:''' Of course I know it's gone! You remind me every day! }}
* In ''[[Magnolia]]'', while he is participating in a TV game show, Stanley's teammates stress that [[Serious Business|this isn't a game.]]
* ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'''s tagline:
{{quote| ''It's not just a game -- anymore.''}}
* ''[[Tron]]'': When Kevin Flynn plays his first game, he at first has fun, but when he realizes that the games are to the death this dialogue describes it all:
{{quote| '''Sark:''' FINISH THE GAME!<br />
'''Flynn:''' [[Big No|NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!]] }}
* The teaser trailer for ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' plays a variation on this:
{{quote| '''Unknown program racing against Clu:''' It's just a game!<br />
'''Clu:''' Not anymore. ''(kills his opponent)'' }}
* ''[[Spy Game]]''. Inverted. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Clue is in the title:]]
{{quote| '''Bishop:''' Ah, Jesus Christ, you just... You don't just trade these people like they're baseball cards! It's not a fucking game!<br />
'''Muir:''' Oh, yes it is. It's exactly what it is. And it's no kid's game either. [[Serious Business|This is a whole other game. And it's serious and it's dangerous. And it's not one you want to lose.]] }}
* The tagline for the infamous ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]]'' movie was "This Ain't No Game."
* ''Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer'': Right after Reed Richards explains that Johnny Storm's encounter with the Surfer earlier in the film has caused him to begin randomly swapping powers with other members of the team whenever he makes physical contact with them, Ben Grimm grabs Johnny's shoulder and knowingly causes their powers to switch.
{{quote| '''Johnny:''' Oh, come on! We just said this is serious!}}
:: The fact that it's Johnny, who is usually the jokester on the team, who says this only further emphasizes how serious the situation really is.
* ''Hard Candy'': "Jeff, playtime is over. Now it's time to wake up."
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* [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novels:
** In ''Only in Death'', {{spoiler|after the loss of Gaunt}}, Rawne informs his officers to tell the men that if they slip up, they will make {{spoiler|Gaunt's}} [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifice]] [[Senseless Sacrifice|in vain]]. When they are shocked:
{{quote| '''Rawne:''' I'm not playing around because ''they're'' not playing around.}}
** In ''His Last Command'', when Gaunt orders Ludd to leave him, and Ludd objects that his orders were to stay with him at all times, Gaunt answers that that was fine when it was just a game, but it wasn't a game any more.
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' novel ''[[Blood Angels|Red Fury]]'', when Kayne speaks of how interesting the Chapters' gathering is, Rafen rebukes him: "This is not a game."
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Chuck]]''. Casey to Chuck, after the latter (a Geek Squad employee) claims he can defuse a bomb:
{{quote| "This is not an [[X Box]]. You are not an [[X-Men|X-Man]]."}}
* ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' has [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] Derek Reese thrust into a mentor position for a bunch of teenaged military cadets, who talk about their aspirations. He does not approve.
{{quote| "Best of the best. Counting kills, like it's a game. Like it's just a game. I remember one particularly fun day: A guy in my squad got his stomach blasted open in a fire fight. He spent six hours, holding his own guts in. His buddy carried him on his back to the nearest aid station, just praying that someone could put the dumb son of a bitch together again. The game, Pyle... the game is played with your buddy's life -- with the life of your squad, your platoon. The game is played by you, on behalf of the whole damned human race!"}}
 
 
== Video Games ==
* ''Spider-Man'':
{{quote| '''Spider-Man:''' This isn't a game, Mysterio! The symbiotes will destroy ''everything'' in their path unless I can stop them!}}
* On one [[Sidequest]] in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', Shepard has to convince a woman to stop working as an informant because her sister is worried about her. At one point, Shepard says "This isn't a game, Jenna. These people are dangerous!" which I found amusing because, [[Don't Explain the Joke|you know, it]] ''[[Don't Explain the Joke|is]]'' [[Don't Explain the Joke|a game.]]
* Naomi says a variant of it in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'' [[Lampshade Hanging|while images of the logos of all the previous canonical games come up on the screen]].
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* ''[[System Shock]] 2'', said by your [[Mission Control]]: "Why do you move so slowly? Do you think this is some kind of game?"
* ''[[Prince Of Persia The Sands Of Time]]''
{{quote| '''Prince:''' If you want to be useful, try finding a book that'll tell us how to get out of here.<br />
'''Farah:''' This isn't that kind of game.<br />
'''Prince:''' Game? She thinks this is a game! }}
* In a [[No Damage Run]] of ''[[Thwaite]]'', one of the villagers thinks the action is [[All Part of the Show|just an elaborate fireworks show]], and another has a hard time convincing him otherwise.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', which is based on a game, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0417.html we get a different differentiation]:
{{quote| '''O-Chul:''' This isn't the dungeon. In a war, people on the winning side still die.}}
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', the Castle warns Agatha that claiming to be the Heterodyne is not a game.
* In ''A Distant Soil'', [http://adistantsoil.com/2009/01/17/01172009/ Jason warns Liana of that].
* In ''[[Alien Dice]]'', when Chel says something like "This is only a game." to Lexx, he screams "I am playing for my life!"
* [http://daringnovelist.blogspot.com/2010/07/miss-leech-and-yard.html Miss Leech and The Yard] starts with the inspector informing the [[Little Old Lady Investigates]] that
{{quote| "Crime is not a game, Miss Leech. Withholding evidence is against the law."}}
* ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]''
** [http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-05/page-308/ here]
{{quote| '''Felicity:''' Stop playing around!}}
** [http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-05/page-311/ here]
{{quote| '''Nicodemus:''' You think this is a game?}}
** Inverted [http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/todays-dreamland-chronicles-657/ here]
* ''[[Megatokyo]]''
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== Western Animation ==
* Used in the ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' episode "Final Round":
{{quote| '''Aelita:''' This isn't a video game, William.}}
::Which is ironic, since Lyoko does look a lot like a video game. William really should have listened, though.
* ''[[Transformers Prime]]'':
{{quote| '''Jack:''' Miko, Raf was almost killed! This isn't a game; when are you going to get that through your thick skull?}}
** And the lesson ''still'' hasn't sunk through her thick skull.
* Intro to ''[[Da Boom Crew]]'':
{{quote| "This ain't no game no more baby... this is REAL!"}}
* ''[[Invader Zim]]''. In the episode "Nanozim" Dib and Zim face off in a nanobot battle within Dib's body. Gaz walks by and sees Dib controlling his nanobot, and asks what game he's playing. Dib screams "This is no game, this is my life!". Gaz tells him to use the "quarter-circle-back" cheat to transform, which works, half subverting the trope.
 
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