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* An ad for Cici's Pizza had a man stuck in line between a slow woman at the buffet and considered jumping ahead of her in line. He asks himself "What's the worst that could happen?" He imagines the woman and everyone else in the restaurant, including his grandmother, attacking him for being a "line jumper." The ad ends with him going ahead while the narrator says, "Totally worth it."

 

* Once in ''[[Inuyasha]]'' Kagome and Sango screamed as they were bathing in a ''[[Onsen Episode|onsen]]''. Inuyasha and Miroku rush to their aid... and see them naked. The girls smack them around for that and it ends with Miroku smiling that "It was worth the pain."

* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' ep. 23, "The Hot Spring Planet Tenrei": Gene get a tape of the female wizard to the [[Dirty Old Man|old wizards]], in return for caster shells. They watch the tape, where the woman strips (with a countdown on the screen). As the countdown runs out, the woman remarks "you must be the dumbest people alive", and the tape explodes. All three state "It was worth it".

** Of course, in hindsight, given the storyline from that point, it is likely he'd ''have'' to look at her ''eventually''.

 

* A dark example from ''[[Marvel Zombies]]'': Colonel America is fighting the [[Red Skull]], who takes advantage of the Colonel's missing skull portion (both are zombies) and tears out his brain, killing him. Spider-Man blows the Red Skull's head off of his neck with the Power Cosmic, at which point the Skull chortles, "So worth it... ''all'' of it... just for this..." before being crushed underfoot by a zombie Henry Pym.

* In an early arc of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'', which chronicled the first meeting of [[Black Canary]] and the Huntress, Oracle summed up the adventure thusly:

'''Black Canary:''' "Yeah, it was." }}

 

* In the 2005 film version of ''Casanova,'' Giacamo Casanova seduced a novice (essentially a nun in training). When other members of the church come in to try and find him, he's escaped, but they find a man's shoe under the novice's bed. They turn to her and say, "Eternal damnation for one night with Casanova." The novice turns around and mutters to herself, "Seems fair."

* A variation occurs in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' when Kay offers Officer Edwards the opportunity to join the eponymous organization, fight alien threats, and protect humanity. The catch is that Edwards must sever every human contact, and nobody can know that he even exists, ever. He asks if it's worth it, and, without hesitation, Kay replies, "Oh yeah, it's worth it. If you're strong enough."

{{quote|Arrest me, cuff me. ''So'' worth it.}}

 

* ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Complete Guide to Guys'': The infamous "Substitute Mummy Filled With Live Weasels" prank leads to the end of the Egyptian Empire. All parties involved agreed it was worth it.

* Merlin gives Empress Sharleyan a bit of a shock early in the fourth ''[[Safehold]]'' book, ''A Mighty Fortress,'' when he flies his recon skimmer through a hidden hatch without first warning Sharleyan it was there. It looked to her like he was about to fly right into the mountain. Despite her ire, and full intention to make Merlin pay, he proclaims it was, indeed, Worth It.

{{quote|The Marquis felt, then, that much of what he had gone through in the previous week was made up for by the expression on Hunter's face.}}

 

* ''[[Cheers]]''. Cliff tricks Carla into being nice to him by making her think he's a judge in a waitressing contest and humiliating her by having her give him foot massages. She naturally finds out and Norm states that Cliff is dead meat. Cliff invokes the trope.

* In ''[[Scrubs]]'':

''[klaxon]''

'''[[Bill Bailey]]:''' I took a fall, but it was worth it. }}

 

== Machinima ==

:* Sarge apparently says this at the end of anything that involves Grif almost dying, including spying on the Blues and cleaning up the base.

 

* [[The Lonely Island|"Think she mighta been a racist..." "DOESN'T MATTER, HAD SEX!"]]

 

* A ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip showed Calvin refusing to scratch an itch, only to be tortured by it until he finally gives in and scratches furiously. Euphoria! "Oh man, it was worth it!" Except... his skin now burns from all the scratching.

** Another strip had Calvin make a snowball and set his sights on hitting Suzie with it. She gives him fair warning not to and after contemplating his choices, throws it at her anyway, yelling that it was worth it right before Suzie chases Calvin down and throttles him.

** In a later strip, Garfield asked an alarm clock what time it was and it said it couldn't know because it wasn't wearing a watch. Garfield broke it and it said "It was worth it".

 

* Plasma weapons in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are [https://web.archive.org/web/20100602135722/http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/3/27/633737570370792860-PlasmaWeapons.jpg totally worth it] despite the [[Critical Failure|Gets Hot Rule]] that has a 1 in 6 chance of killing the user. Similarly, any spectacular but suicidal maneuvers taken by a losing player at the end of the game.

** Spells and psychic powers in Fantasy and 40,000, respectively. In 40,000, they have a decent chance to kill the user. In Fantasy, they have a decent chance to kill the user, his entire unit, and maybe a few random models in your army who happened to be in the same county as the offending wizard. Still worth it.

** BECOMING a Space Marine. Years of [[Training from Hell]], only to prepare you for a war you can [[Hopeless War|NOT Win]] and will [[Forever War|NEVER End.]] Was it worth it?

 

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Shepard can have a relationship with Tali'Zorah, the ship's engineer. Tali belongs to a race that has almost no immune system whatsoever - exposure to a normal environment for mere ''seconds'' can be fatal. As a result, sexual intercourse is something they take very seriously, and in ideal circumstances it takes place in special safe rooms (and both partners ''still'' end up with various minor ailments). The morning after the "encounter" between Shepard and Tali, she says the following:

{{quote|''"Just so you know, I'm running a fever, I've got a nasty cough, and my sinuses are filled with something I can't even describe. And it was totally worth it."''}}

{{quote|Did I ever tell you about the time I met Varok Saurfang? I asked him to sign my massive pectoral muscles. He backhanded me instead, which is why I sometimes forget things now. It was totally worth it.}}

 

* When [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=378 Marten slaps Faye's ass] in ''[[Questionable Content]]''. Gasping up from the floor afterwards: "I may have a fractured skull, but my point is proven! Also, did you see how her butt jiggled? '''Totally worth it.'''"

** He also said it of her expression earlier [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=107 when he pulled one heck of a prank on her.]<ref>The hidden joke, of course, is that [[I Never Said It Was Poison|nobody told Marten it came from eBay]].</ref>

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has [//pixietrixcomix.com/eerie-cuties/the-kissing-booth bonus story] involving Chloe in kissing booth ([[Fundraiser Carnival|for charity]]). Since she's a succubus who only recently matured enough to drain, but didn't learn to control this so far, boys with greyed skin and empty eyes sit or sprawl all around the booth... and there are more, seeing this yet willing to get her kiss, the last one actually exclaims "worth it" ''while'' collapsing. Of course, this was ''after'' an episode when she involuntarily drained other students, so at least they know this can be quickly fixed.

 

* This bash.org quote: http://www.bash.org/?900148

* When the [[Freelance Astronauts]] did their [[Let's Play]] of ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', actions that resulted in another player dying at the cost of the perpetrator's own are met with this reaction. Usually by pipes!.

* In a ''[[How It Should Have Ended]]'' episode for season 1 of ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', rather than being stopped by the Hound, Sansa [[Groin Attack|kicks Joffrey in the groin]] then knocks him off the bridge [[Mortal Kombat]] style. Of course, [[Reality Ensues]] and the end of the episode shows her head stuck on a spike next to {{spoiler|her father's.}} The disembodied head manages to whisper "Totally worth it" as the episode comes to a close. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=babT8hR924w Link].

 

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Amazon Women in the Mood", Fry and Zapp Brannigan pre-emptively decide "death by [[Unusual Euphemism|snu-snu]]" was worth it. Kif disagreed.

{{quote|"Goodbye, friends. I never thought I'd die like this. But I always really, really hoped."}}

* This is Zigzagged in one episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'', when Grim and Billy get the devious idea of putting The Mask of the Beast on Mandy; the mask sticks to the wearer and turns into a hideous monster each time they are rude and malicious (and by being civil and polite reversing). Grim tells Billy beforehand that he knows they're going to pay dearly for this, but it's going to be worth it. Turns out to be true enough; at the end of the episode, after the two of them have only made it worse by mocking her, she's become a demonic donkey-like creature, and has tied them up, [[Literal Ass-Kicking|and is kicking them both in the behinds]]. Grim still says it was probably worth it, but says he just hopes they both "don't have to sit down for a couple of weeks."

 

* If a group of friends play a competitive multiplayer videogame, at ''some'' point during the gathering, this will inevitably become [[Truth in Television]] when that one [[Scrub]] who's just in it for the fun [[Leeroy Jenkins|charges straight towards his heavily armed foe]] while [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwing swords]] everywhere and holding the trigger of the [[BFG]]. You have not lived until you've done all that, faceplanted at the feet of your heavily armed foe, and shouted ''"Totally worth it!"'' at the top of your lungs.

* The kid who got [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/awesome-kid-gets-detentio_n_462837.html this detention slip].

 

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