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[[File:ggmain20071203-cropped 6015.jpg|link=Girl Genius|frame|Fatherly pride is always worth it.]]

 

 

Every action has consequences. Some actions have particularly nasty consequences. Ones where you'll have to ask yourself after all is said and done, [[Was It Really Worth It?]]

 

See also [[Spoof Aesop]], [[Was It Really Worth It?]]. If they probably won't be around to say this afterwards, an alternative is [[I Regret Nothing]]!

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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".

* Quatre from ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has a totally unfunny version of this in his backstory. In this setting, spaceborn humans tend to be test-tube babies due to the genetic engineering required to acclimate them to space life. Quatre's mother insisted upon giving birth to her only son naturally - and she ended up dying in childbirth. When Quatre's father asked her if it was worth it, this was her response.

* In one of the few non-sexual examples, [[Omnicidal Maniac|Gendo and Yui]], at the end of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', seemingly planned the plot of the series in one giant game of [[Gambit Roulette]] to achieve an [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|oddly happy]] ending. Heck, this is even more blatantly spelled out in ''Rebuild of Evangelion''. Just [[Mind Screw|what the happy end is intended to be, however....]]

 

* 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 ==

'''Tex:''' Never mind, Tucker's in front.

'''Tucker:''' Meh, it was worth it. }}

 

* [[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.

** And a third time in an early strip where he and Hobbes go splashing through a puddle. Calvin's payment is soaked underwear to ride up his butt. Hobbes merely responds, "[[Deadpan Snarker|That's why I never wear the stuff.]]"

* The newspaper comic ''[[Baby Blues]]'' features a Sunday strip where little brother Hammie has a garden hose trained on unaware older sister Zoe. Their dad is standing right behind Hammie, and warns him that if he does what he's thinking he's in for some major time-out. Hammie contemplates this then declares "Totally worth it."

{{quote|'''Linus:''' That was worth one hit! Two hits, no! But that was definitely worth one hit!}}

 

** 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.

** [[Ramming Always Works|Ramming]] a Basilisk with a Vyper going at maximum speed. Totally 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>

'''Pintsize:''' Ith wath tothally worth ith. }}

* There were two ''[[Gone With the Blastwave]]'' strips in short succession, one of them with this exact wording. [http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=23 Read them here] [http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=25 and here.] Bonus points for several people fighting over doing the stupid thing in the second strip.

* [[Order of the Stick|Nale]] did it in the last panel of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0070.html this strip] after trying to [[Mind Screw]] Celia and make her think she'd [[Human Popsicle|been frozen in time for a thousand years.]]

* [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=060805 This Bob and George strip].

** [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=060806 And the strip that followed immediately after]

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': This is Agatha's attitude in the ''Cinderella'' play to being grounded. Of course, she was grounded after tricking Mamma Gkika's character into putting her fist through a hive of specially-bred quilting bees.

* In ''[[Ansem Retort]],'' after it's shown that Aerith totally has Axel whipped, Axel turns to the group, and warns them that if a single one of them makes the whip noise, he ''will'' figure out a way to kill them with a flower necklace. Riku makes the noise. Axel hangs him. With the necklace. Apparently, Riku thinks that it ''was'' worth it.

** You say that as if he isn't [[Butt Monkey|treated worse on a daily basis]].

** Was getting socked for sneaking a kiss from Sandy worth it? According to Swampy, [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb405.html "Oh God yes"].

** For the sake of an [[April Fools' Day]] gag, apparently sneaking in a look at [[Shower Scene|Pirta in the shower]] [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoaf2012.html wasn't worth it to Roger and Doc.]

* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' when the strip returns after a decade-long hiatus, [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061230.html Jean punches Voluptua,] something she'd been dying to do ever since the last panel of the previous version of the strip. Jean: "That was ''worth'' waiting a decade for!"

* [[Cyanide & Happiness]]: "All your fingers are broken." [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2409/ "Worth it."]

 

* 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!.

* One of [[Mastermind (web animation)|the Mastermind's]] minions dooms his last chance of not being blown up in Finland. Judging by the looks on his colleagues faces, they seem to agree it was Worth It.

* 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."}}

{{quote|'''Zapp:''' ''(contently)'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}v3ru-hvq7wA I had snu-snu.]}}

** In a later episode, Nelson had the same sentiment when laughing at Bart subsequently led to him crashing his bike into a tree.

* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Casa Bonita", where Cartman is told by the police he "caused a whole town to panic, alienated his friends, and is now going to juvenile hall for a week", all in the name of going to the eponymous establishment. When asked if it was all worth it, Cartman simply replies "...totally."

** Also, in "Super Fun Time", with the professional thieves.

* One ''[[American Dad]]'' episode has Stan (a CIA agent) meeting with his boss in Japan, where they both dress up as geishas. When Stan asks why they're meeting under such weird circumstances, his boss says, "Because I thought we could be secret ''[[A Worldwide Punomenon|asians]]''."

{{quote|'''Stan:''' A 16-hour flight for [[Incredibly Lame Pun|a bad pun]]? ''([[beat]])'' Yes. ''Yes.''}}

 

* 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].

* [[Was It Really Worth It?|The last few hours you spent browsing and/or editing this very wiki and the myriad links to other addictive sites like Cracked.com whereas you should have been sleeping or working?]]

** [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|FUCK]] [[Big Yes|YEAH!!!]]

 

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