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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1197160/1/Shining_In_The_Darkness "Shining in the Darkness"], a [[Golden Sun]] fanfic by Feonyx:
{{quote|"Impossible," breathed Felix.
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“She…” Foster said.
“If they’re still talking about a homicide, we got us something.” I said.}}
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[The Parselmouth of Gryffindor]]'' has this exchange between Parselmouth!Hermione and the Horcrux inside Salazar Slytherin's locket:
{{quote|{''Hah!''} said the defiant Horcrux. {''Nothing a schoolgirl can do could harm me. Do your worst. You surely cannot cast the Fiend's Fire… and the only living Basilisk is—''}
{''In America,''} finished Hermione.
{''What? No! It—''}
{''That's <u>she</u> to you,''} said an acerbic Hermione, {''and if you are referring to the Great Basilisk of Salazar Slytherin, then yes, she is now my friend and currently on vacation in America.''}
{''That cannot be!…''}
{''Huh, people tend to say that a lot about my extracurricular activities,''} Hermione mused. {''I wonder why.''} }}
== Films -- Animated ==
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{{quote|'''Senna:''' It couldn't end here. It couldn't end like this. This was [[Dimension Lord|to be my universe]]. Everworld [[Take Over the World|was mine]]; it couldn't end like this.}}
* [[The Dragon|Ishamael]] says something along these lines each of the three times Rand "kills" him in the first three books of the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series. {{spoiler|He may have a point, though, since he survives the first two times and is quickly reincarnated the third.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Harry Potter and
* In most English translations of the Polish folktale "The Two Babies Cast Into The Water," the father of the two babies (who have been put through the [[Moses in the Bulrushes]] treatment by their [[Wicked Stepmother]]) screams exactly this trope when the stepmother lies to him that his former wife has given birth not to human children, but to a dog and a cat. (The two children survive their ordeal and grow up to become a [[Brother-Sister Team]], with [[Action Girl|the sister a little more competent than the brother]].)
* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Barrayar]]'' the villain's last words are "You're a Betan! You can't do--"
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