Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?: Difference between revisions

:*In ''[[The Last Continent]]'':

{{quote|Any true wizard, faced with a sign like "Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe," would ''automatically'' open the door in order to see what all the fuss was about.}}

* In ''[[Honor Harrington|Storm from the Shadows]]'', [[General Ripper|Admiral Byng]] says something to this effect, thinking that Michelle Henke and the Manticorans will not actually make good on their warnings to punish the Solarian aggression. It doesn't end well for him.

* In Norman Spinrad's [[Alternate History]] novel ''[[The Iron Dream]]'', the author analyzing the work of [[Meta Fiction]] around which Spinrad's story is framed notes that some fans may yearn for a decisive and iron-willed leader like the one depicted in the work of metafiction to save them from Soviet domination, but concludes that no rational person would ever stand such a clearly delusional, bloodthirsty tyrant. Considering that the in-universe author of the work of metafiction is ''[[Adolf Hitler]]'', well, I think you see Spinrad's point.