You Do NOT Want to Know: Difference between revisions

And sometimes, it's just [[Too Much Information]].

 

 

If said by [[Mentors|a mentor]], it is likely to be an [[Awful Truth]]. If they experience enough such events, leads to a character who has [[Seen It All]].

{{quote|"I could say twelve words, and when I was done, the least you'd do is turn away and leave me alone forever."

He could tell that she was speaking the truth, and the fact that she had the power to do this, to send him away, dismayed him. "Then don't say them." }}

{{quote|'''Myn Donos''': "I want to make you smile with something [[Deadpan Snarker|other than a wisecrack]]. I want to know who you really are."

Her laugh, sudden and hard, startled him. "Oh, no, you don't." }}

{{quote|'''Wedge''': "Any of you understand that? Her mood swing?"

'''Tycho''': "I think I'd shoot myself before getting involved in this conversation."

* ''The Outcast of [[Redwall]]'' features a hare nicknamed Jodd. His [[Overly Long Name|full name]] results in this trope, and in the end we only hear ''part'' of it. {{spoiler|According to the official website's "Ask Brian" feature, it's ""Wilthurio Longbarrow Sackfirth Toxophola Fedlric Fritillary Wilfrand Hurdleframe Longarrow Leawelt Pugnacio Cinnabar Hillwether Jodrellio".}}

* ''The Golden Globe'' by [[John Varley]] averts [[Forbidden Fruit]] in this regard: to show that you don't want to know how Charonians have sex, you're given a description of their coming-of-age ceremony. For context, Charonians [[Good Thing You Can Heal|regenerate quickly]] and worship pain, and the ceremony itself is either [[Narm]] or [[Nausea Fuel]].

{{quote|'''Anghammarad''': "Neither Deluge Nor Ice Storm Nor The Black Silence Of The Netherhells Shall Stay These Messengers About Their Sacred Business. Do Not Ask Us About Sabre-Tooth Tigers, Tar Pits, Big Green Things With Teeth Or The Goddess Czol." [...]

'''Moist''': "The goddess Czol?"

'''Anghammarad''': "Do Not Ask." }}

* Subverted and inverted early on in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]], when Arthur takes the precaution of asking Ford, "if I were to ask you where the hell we were, would I regret it?" Ford cuts to the chase and tells him where they are. Arthur was probably happier when he didn't know.

* Used in a decidedly non-comedic fashion in ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'', when [[Shell Shocked Senior]] Camaris refuses to tell the protagonists about his mysterious past that led to a [[Heroic BSOD]], on the grounds that it's too shameful. He does confess it twice, once to a priest and once to [[The Wise Prince|Prince Josua]], and both emerge from the experience wishing they hadn't been told. At the end, it's revealed that he's {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Josua's father]]}}, and lived his life afterwards in misery over his weakness and the subsequent [[Death by Childbirth]] of the woman in question.

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* In ''[[Saints Row the Third]]'', the player character asks Shaundi what a "Feel Boss" is. She simply responds with: "You DON'T wanna know."

 

== Web Animation ==

'''El Disgusto''': Don't! Just don't.

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== Webcomics ==

* ''[[Nodwick]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100814074224/http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2006-10-18 theology] has this effect:

{{quote|'''Artax''': The ''more'' i learn about gods, the ''less'' i want to know.}}

{{quote|'''Roy''': Part of me wants to know a story behind that, while the other, smarter part of me knows it's better off in ignorance.}}

* [[Faux Pas]]

'''Fat Tony:''' No, what I said was he ''sleeps with the fishes''. You see...

'''Legs:''' Uh, [[Brain Bleach|Tony, please, no]]. I just [[Lost My Appetite| ate a whole plate of dingamagoo]]...}}

* In an episode of the ongoing ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'' series, the water of the Spring of Canathus turns Hercules, Icarus, Pegasus, Adonis, and Hades' minion Pain into infants, which results in Cassandra and Hades other minion Panic becoming [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]]s for the rest of the episode. When the curse is finally undone, Hades shows up, and at first, he asks why everyone is wearing diapers, but then he changes his mind and says he doesn't ''want'' to know, and leaves with his two servants. However, Hercules and his friends ''do'' want to know what happened, and after Cassandra tells them, they all beg and plead with her not to tell anyone.

* In an episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'', Grim gives Billy a gumball machine that yields a limitless amount of gum, but warns him never to swallow the gum. When asked what will happen if he does, Grim says, "Trust me, you don't wanna know. If I had skin, it would be crawling." {{spoiler|Billy eventually ignores this warning, and we find out that swallowing the gum causes "an unimaginably horrible rash from another dimension." Though Billy initially has bubbles and gum coming out of his body before it actually happens. The rash was what it said on the label.}}

* In the [[Tex Avery MGM Cartoon| Droopy cartoon]] "The Three Little Pups", Droopy is watching television with his two brothers in one scene; Wolfie tries to suck them up with a giant straw, only to grab the television instead (and end up with it lodged in his stomach). Two scenes later, Droopy and his brothers are watching television again, and Droopy [[Breaking the Fourth Wall| looks at the camera and says]], "Now don't ask us how we got the television set back..."

* In one [[Crossover]] episode of ''[[Static Shock]]'', a time-share Batman take-off villain accidentally sends Static into a future time, where he meets both Terry McGinnis (aka [[Batman Beyond]]) and the aged Bruce Wayne, along with his future self. At the end of the episode, he returns to his own time and is about to reveal to Batman what ''his'' future is like, but Batman interrupts him, saying that he'd "rather not know".

 

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