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** The arc ''[[X Wing Series|In the Empire's Service]]'' had Wes Janson [http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1233/blz22.jpg do one of these] when he hears that they're flying against the 181st Imperial Fighter Group. Baron [[Ace Pilot|Soontir Fel's]] unit.
** The comic one-shot ''Force Fiction'' has Yoda doing a spit-take when he learned that Mace Windu planned on giving Qui-Gon's lightsaber to Anakin Skywalker.
* Stature [http://static.flickr.com/3337/3625823158_ac74f66a97.jpg responding to] [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Reed Richards]] claiming to know more about Pym Particles than Hank Pym does. (Pym's response, on the other hand, went "It's on, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]].")
* ''[[XXXenophile]]'' has the "squirt through the nose" version when a sexy but innocent girl [[No Social Skills|without social experience]] asks the main character out of the blue when they will have sex.
* In ''[[Birds of Prey]]'', Huntress can't hold her beer when she hears Lady Blackhawk, a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water|time-displaced WWII pilot]] who looks like [[wikipedia:File:Ladyblackhawk.PNG|this]], complain that no one will honor her senior citizen's discount.
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== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', Nobby gets told by a cadre of nobles that they want him to become king. Since he's gulping down brandy, smoking a cigar, and sitting in a chair with wheels at the time, the result is a [[Booze Flamethrower|rocket-powered spit-take]].
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''
** In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'': The morning before the end of the tournament, Hermione sits down to breakfast, opens her newspaper...and spits a mouthful of pumpkin juice all over it in shock. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|She then insists nothing's wrong.]]
** Very non-comedic example in ''Prisoner of Azkaban''—Harry spits out some of his butterbeer when Lupin explains [[Fate Worse Than Death|the Dementor's Kiss]] to him.
 
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