How Much Did You Hear?: Difference between revisions

'''Sam:''' N-nothing important! That is, a great deal about a [[MacGuffin|ring]] and a [[Dark Lord]], [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and]] something about [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|the end of the world]]...|''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]''}}

* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'', Faye's conversation with Ein about {{spoiler|her past life}} is overheard by Spike from a nearby bathroom.

* In the English dub of ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'' after Ranma defuses Ukyou's vengeful wrath by observing that she's cute.

* Played with in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]''. Kyon discovers his sister eavesdropping Haruhi when {{spoiler|she's outlining Mikuru the base of her plan for a type 2 [[Tenchi Solution]]}}. While Tsuruya wonders what she overheard, Haruhi doesn't really care about how much exactly she knows: she just cares that she doesn't tell anybody else.

* Employed for a [[Glurge|glurgescent]] moment in ''[[The Goonies (Film)|The Goonies]]'', wherein the rest of the gang enter during Mikey's heart-to-ribcage talk with a very dead pirate.

* Was done well in the movie ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (see the quotation above).

* ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'':

* In [[Astrid Lindgren (Creator)|Astrid Lindgren]]'s ''[[The Brothers Lionheart (Literature)|The Brothers Lionheart]]'', this happens to Karl Lionheart. He overhears some of the bad guys talking at their campfire, while hiding in a cave. In reality he can hear quite a lot. When they find him the next morning, he claims to have slept all night and not heard anything. "You can't be serious", says one of the bad guys, "have you really not heard anything of our partying and singing last night?" Karl squirms: "Well, maybe I sorta heard you sing a bit" - and they release him to (what they think is) his home.

* In the ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' episode "Heart of Gold," Inara engages in a confidential conversation with an associate of hers, and right after she gets finished, she looks up and sighs, facing away from the door to her shuttle.

* In an episode of ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'', Abed, in an attempt to mess with Troy's head, is pretending to be an undercover alien. At one point he pretends to send transmissions while hiding behind a bush Troy is sure to walk past. When Troy comes by and overhears him, Abed asks "how long have you been standing there?" to further the illusion that he's hiding something.

* Said in the RPG ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'' at the beginning of the game, after the [[Heroic Mime]] overhears the [[Knight Templar|Knight Templars]]' plans to steal the [[MacGuffin]] of the game. It does not go well for him.

* One Private Action in ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean the Second Story]]'' involves Claude or Rena overhearing Celine fretting in her room at the inn. Getting too close to the door causes them to trip (and reveals to the ''player'' just what she was worrying about), drawing her outside. She immediately asks if they overheard her, and they can choose to deny hearing anything or try and comfort her. (The best course of action is to {{spoiler|walk away before you get too close and trip, as she reacts negatively to both possibilties}}.)

* Used, [[Lampshaded]], subverted, and inverted in the [[Sprite Comic]] ''[[Bob and George (Webcomic)|Bob and George]]''. [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Dr. Wily]] was the usual victim.

* Done twice in the [[Web Comic]] ''[[Dominic Deegan (Webcomic)|Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire''. Both times, "Bob" was Dominic and "Chet" was Siegfried.

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', Hinjo confronts Shojo after hearing him talking to Roy about how they're working behind the Sapphire Guard's back and violating Soon Kim's noninterference oath, asking "Have you been lying to us?" Shojo says his answer "all depends... on how much you just overheard."

* Lampshaded straightforwardly in [http://www.multiplexcomic.com/archive.php?name=408 this] ''[[Multiplex (Webcomic)|Multiplex]]'' strip.

* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob (Webcomic)|The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]].'' Bob overhears Fructose Riboflavin muttering to himself about his tragic, secret motivation for everything he's done. Bob offers a word of sympathy. Riboflavin realizes Bob has been standing there, shouts, "That was not meant for your ears!" and launches himself at Bob. [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100911.html And crashes into a wall.] It's dark, you see.

* More of "What did you see?", but in ''[[DarwinsDarwin's Soldiers]]'' Shelton almost [http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=7319&view=findpost&p=9188683 asks this] after Agito implies he witnessed Shelton and Shakila [[Relationship Upgrade|upgrading their relationship]] in the closet.

* One episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' had a story to the West where the character Jade represented overheard Valmont's ancestor's plans. She averts the usual villainous capture by speaking in Chinese. The bad guys assume she doesn't understand a word of English and lets her go. [[So Long, Suckers!|Too bad she does.]]