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Appeal to Obscurity
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Bob is arguing with Alice about how doing something will cause her to fail. To further his point, he gives an example of someone who did that thing. She will say that she's never heard of that person. He says: "Exactly!" Sometimes the point is that the person never became famous because they failed at something; sometimes it has more serious implications like death, a cover-up, or disappearance from history. See also Famed in Story. Contrast Undead Author. Additionally, this assumes that fame is the intended outcome. Someone with more reclusive tendencies will be less likely to be dissuaded by this appeal, or may find it more appealing instead. Not to be confused with the kind of appeal to obscurity that hipsters use, i.e. "popular music is all crap, so bands no one's ever heard of must be good." That is an inverse version of the Appeal to Popularity called Appeal to Minority. |
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Author! Author! (1982) | |
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Dork Tower: Igor educates Matt on the efficiency of Kickstopper. | |
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Used on Fillmore!, when Fillmore and Ingrid are interrogating an artist suspected of doing graffiti: | |
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Maybe more a kind of appeal to annihilation than an appeal to obscurity, but in Achille Talon there's a dialogue which goes along these lines: | |
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In the TaleSpin episode "Bearly Alive", when Baloo is expressing his intent to fly through the Bearmuda Trapezoid and go down in history, he compares himself to Amelia Airhead, Charles Limberger, the Kitty Hawk Kids and Oscar Wigglestomper. Rebecca asks who Oscar Wigglestomper is, and Baloo replies "He never did anything historic!" (This turns out to be a Brick Joke, when the aviators trapped in the Trapezoid include all the names Baloo mentioned, and Wigglestomper is unsurprised that Baloo doesn't recognise him.) | |
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On Star Trek: Enterprise, Archer has an example: "Do you know what Buzz Aldrin said when he landed on the moon?" Waitress: "No." Archer: "That's because Neil Armstrong got there first." | |
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Runaways, when the kids go on a trip to New York. | |
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Jonas: Used by the boys' father in "Forgetting Stella's Birthday". | |
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Castle Played entirely straight in the episode "A Dance With Death": In "Swan Song", Castle can totally see why a lead singer going solo would provide his bandmates motive for murder: |
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Parodied on The Simpsons; after Lisa fails her audition for first chair in the school orchestra and tells herself there's no shame in being second place, she has a dream about being a member of "Garfunkel, Oates, Messina, and Lisa", the second-most popular band in America. The group is sponsored by Avis Rent-a-Car and has a #2 single called "Born To Runner-Up". | |
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In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson defends S.H.I.E.L.D's policy of covering up supernatural events: Comes up again in "The Girl in the Flower Dress." Raina tells the pyrokinetic of the episode that he needs a code name. She demonstrates by asking if he knows who Steve Rogers is. When he says he doesn't know who that is, she tells him he's Captain America—a name everyone knows. |
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In The Last Hero, Cohen explains why he a) wants to do something that will ensure he's remembered forever, and b) has dragged a minstrel along to record it: | |
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In Baldur's Gate II, Haer'Dalis deflates Edwin's ambition for eternal life through godhood by this trope: | |
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Invoked by the titular character in Chopper when trying to provoke a fellow prison inmate into a fight. | |
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Doctor Who Novelisations: In The Silurians, a scientist uses this excuse to keep quiet about the Silurians, rather than go public and find his place in history obscured by journalists and politicians, by mentioning the controversy over who invented the radio (it wasn't Marconi). | |
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From the politically-tinged 1970s comic strip Conchy: | |
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And again for his review of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland: | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), the board of top military brass discussing extremely Insufferable Genius Robotnik's track record: | |
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Another Appeal to Obliteration by the God of Evolution in The Last Continent, although in this case it's an apology for an uncontrollable reflex rather than a threat. It just feels like a threat: | |
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This doesn't quite work in one strip of Candorville. Special Guest Stephen King argues that Charles Dickens's fictional portrayal of slum life taught more people more about the slums than [mumble]'s factual reporting. Lemont, unable to hear him, asks "Who?" King responds "Exactly," and both wind up confused. | |
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From the Animaniacs episode "Piano Rag": | |
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In High School Musical, Chad tries to convince Troy (they're both high school basketball players) that basketball practice is more important than singing: | |
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In Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Joan explains to Zoey why work isn't actually that important: | |
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Supernatural The changing-history version (see She-Hulk) is used when Balthazar prevents the sinking of the Titanic. And another one from the same conversation. |
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Holy Musical B@man! | |
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Discworld In The Last Hero, Cohen explains why he a) wants to do something that will ensure he's remembered forever, and b) has dragged a minstrel along to record it: A variant, the Appeal to Obliteration, occurred in Interesting Times. Another Appeal to Obliteration by the God of Evolution in The Last Continent, although in this case it's an apology for an uncontrollable reflex rather than a threat. It just feels like a threat: |
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He did this again in his review of Bio-Dome: | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon has a rant about how he has a long history of choosing wrong in technology wars such as VHS vs Beta, HD-DVD vs Blu-ray and iPod vs Zune. Amy asks what a Zune is, to which Sheldon replies, "Exactly." | |
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In the Relativity story "Legend of the Cheese Maidens," Ravenswood uses this trope to "prove" that the legend is true: | |
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A (probably justified) use in the Dinotopia miniseries: | |
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Used in Frisky Dingo, when Killface's son comes out of the closet and Xander, Killface's rival in the presidential election, wants to use the news against his campaign. | |
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On Wizards of Waverly Place, Agent Lamwood uses this tactic to threaten the Russos after he captured them. | |
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Early in Fen Quest, a noble is about to visit Fen's tribe and he fears a rival tribe may try to frame them for offending the noble. He voices his concerns to his brother Zizi, who recounts the last such incident: | |
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During Rerez's Worst Ever series when chronicling the disastrous launch of Google Stadia, he remarks at the end that he doesn't know if Stadia will eventually be a success or go the way of OnLive's Cloud Gaming Service. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: From his review of Scooby-Doo: He did this again in his review of Bio-Dome: And again for his review of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland: |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Vegeta in Oozaru form threatens to crush Goku like an Arlian. "A what?" "Exactly!" Used dramatically just before Freeza kicks the crap out of Nail, one of the few surviving Namekians: |
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On Schitt's Creek, after John gets guilted into giving a eulogy at a virtual stranger's funeral: | |
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Used in quite a disturbing fashion in one She-Hulk story. The Time Variance Authority doesn't just kill people, it prevents them from ever existing in the first place. Like Knight Man and Dr. Rocket—not that you'd have heard of them. | |
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New Tricks: In "The Fame Game", Steve is interviewing an agent who specializes in celebrity lookalikes, and who bemoans that reality television has made celebrities ten a penny: | |
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Played in some Harry Potter fan fictions regarding the "Eternal Glory" of the Triwizard Tournament. When asked to name one previous winner of the Tournament (which up until that year had not been held in the lifetime of anyone involved, including Dumbledore), the questioned will completely fail. The interrogator will then ask how that qualifies as "Eternal". | |
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A variant, the Appeal to Obliteration, occurred in Interesting Times. | |
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Used in Good Will Hunting as the professor and therapist discuss Will's future. They ask the bartender if he's ever heard of several people who've taken the path they don't want Will to take, including the professor's name. Finally, Robin Williams' character wins with this: | |
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In Mass Effect 2, Kasumi Goto offers a variant of this trope, referring to herself as "the best thief in the galaxy, not the most famous." Most thieves of course don't want to draw attention to themselves, so she's got a point. | |
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Steven Universe has Mayor Dewey use this when Steven doesn't recognize the name Ocean Town. It wasn't necessarily Dewey's intended point given that his next mention of Ocean Town to people got a 'Too soon', but it was close enough. | |
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In one series of Bloom County strips, Bill the Cat was arrested by the FBI for selling secrets to Russia. Steve Dallas - his lawyer - asked what the secrets were. (Keep in mind, this was when Ronald Reagan was still President): | |
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Chainsaw Man contains a very dark and strange example when Makima claims to Kishibe that the Chainsaw Devil eating another Devil erases them and the concept they represent from history. Kishibe doesn't believe her, but Makima asks if anyone but her remembers what the Nazis did to the Jews. Despite not being an obscure fact at all in real life, Kishibe has no idea what Nazis are (an ironic inversion of Hitler's own quote below), demonstrating to the audience Makima is right. | |
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In Smithson, Gemma believes former child prodigy Darryl O'Doyle, who became normal following a brain operation, only to suddenly start writing avant garde poetry as an old man, through automatic writing with his left hand, is faking the whole thing. When Chuck asks why anyone would pretend not to be a genius for sixty years, she names three (real) child prodigies, and asks if he's ever heard of them. He hasn't. | |
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During debates regarding the fact that female soccer stars in the US were paid far less than their male counterparts despite getting far better results, The Onion offered the headline "U.S. Soccer Federation Argues It Ridiculous For Female Players To Expect Same Pay As Huge Stars Like Daniel Lovitz, Djordje Mihailovic." | |
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In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Crisis Point", which is set around a holodeck program that's a parody of the Star Trek movies (rather than the series), Boimler refuses to take part, and Mariner says he probably wouldn't have been in it anyway because he's "kind of a Xon". (Xon being a Vulcan who was cut from Star Trek: The Motion Picture,) | |
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Life of Wily, an early Mega Man (Classic) sprite comic, features a unique delivery on the idea: | |
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Inverted on Dollhouse, when Echo is hired to help commit a robbery: | |
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All Grown Up! The episode "Brother, Can You Spare The Time?": Tommy has just won an award for a video he's shot, and his brother, Dil, keeps intruding on a video he's shooting about himself because he [Dil] is worried that the fame will go to Tommy's head. There's a later scene where Dil uses Gabe Ruth to further his argument, and he even takes the argument to a TV talk show. |
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From What a Girl Wants: | |
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In The Black Balloon (2007), Thomas and Jackie discuss an invasive weed Jackie likes. | |
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In Ultimate Spider-Man, this turns up in the Seinfeldian Conversation of two incredibly bored doctors checking on the comatose Doctor Octavius. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire has the annihilation variant when Roose Bolton and Jaime Lannister discuss the impending fate of a man who betrayed Jaime's father. | |
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In the I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC face-off between the Spirit and Wolverine, the latter's final jab at the former consisted of one of these: | |
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The Brady Bunch: Carol, trying to convince a discouraged Bobby not to quit his hair-tonic business, lists famous people who became great because they didn't quit, and ends with "Carl Mahakian." | |
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During Guru Larry and Wez's list of "5 Games You Never Knew Had Sequels" he is talking about how Zool 2 was intended to be an Amiga CD32 exclusive with the character being the console's mascot, but ended up in Development Hell and was replaced by Oscar. | |
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The Magic: The Gathering card Thrill of Possibility has the following flavor text: | |
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When Mira is talking about her arch enemy, Hanharr in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, depending on which option you choose to respond to her question and explanation, you can get something like this: | |
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Played with in Questionable Content, where the conversation looks like this from Raven's point of view, but is a Stealth Pun from Faye's: | |
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On A.N.T. Farm in the episode "TranplANTed", when Chyna wants to get her lunch from her locker and eat in the cafeteria, and Olive tells her its not safe for them out there. | |
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Saturday Night Live had a skit with Abraham H. Parnassus, an oil man (a baron, some have called him), appearing at his son's class to teach them the importance of CRUSHING THEIR ENEMIES INTO THE GROUND like he did to his rival H.R. Pickens. | |
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The Partridge Family: In "Mom Drops Out," a promoter tells Keith and Laurie what will happen if they break their contract with him. | |
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Jade has a governor telling an assistant district attorney to drop a case, or he'll "have as much of a future here as Jerry Brown," to which the DA responds, "Who’s Jerry Brown?" Also an example of Hilarious in Hindsight — while Jerry Brown was out of government at the time Jade was released, within a few years he made a comeback and successively served as mayor of Oakland and California attorney general, eventually becoming the governor of California himself again. |
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In the flash series Perfect Kirby, where Neil is talking about how Professor $1.99 is called that because he's cheap but still manages to make things work. His example is how they gave him a million dollars to make a hydrogen bomb. He spent most of it on candy but spent $1.99 making the bomb itself out of a pop can and other household items. | |
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Arthur, King of Time and Space: | |
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In Bad Mermaids Meet the Sushi Sisters, the spy Meri Pebble is terrified the Sushi Sisters will blow her cover. | |
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From his review of Scooby-Doo: | |
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Freaks and Geeks: The heroine doesn't want to go to college. She lists famous people who never went to college, and her guidance counselor adds, "Frank." When she says, "Who?" his response is "The guy who pumps my gas." | |
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Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay: When the Squad is having their Explosive Leashes injected, the technician tells them not to move because they don't want the apparatus triggering too early. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series One of the earlier ones: Bakura seems to get this a lot. |
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In Boardwalk Empire, an upset Eddie Cantor asks Billie Kent if she's ever heard of Lucy Danziger, Nucky's former lover who was Put on a Bus in season 2 after she abandoned Nelson van Alden with their out-of-wedlock baby, to remind her of the realities of being Nucky's fling. | |
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The game features a scene where the captive Guybrush Threepwood is trying to convince the Demon Pirate LeChuck not to kill him. At one point, it's possible to argue that if LeChuck kills Guybrush, there will be no more Monkey Island games, and hence LeChuck will wind up just another forgotten game villain. LeChuck scoffs at this, prompting the following exchange: | |
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The Curse of Monkey Island: The game features a scene where the captive Guybrush Threepwood is trying to convince the Demon Pirate LeChuck not to kill him. At one point, it's possible to argue that if LeChuck kills Guybrush, there will be no more Monkey Island games, and hence LeChuck will wind up just another forgotten game villain. LeChuck scoffs at this, prompting the following exchange: Bobbin Threadbare is the protagonist of Loom, a previous adventure game by Lucasarts. Sequels were planned to create a trilogy, but were never realized. |
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In MacGruber, bad guy Dieter von Cunth pulls one of these out when a minion says MacGruber is a harmless idiot. | |
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In Big Time Rush: | |
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Parodied in the South Park episode "Black Friday", when Stan tries to convince the goth kids that they don't want the PS4 to lose to the Xbox One like Betamax lost to VHS. | |
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Bobbin Threadbare is the protagonist of Loom, a previous adventure game by Lucasarts. Sequels were planned to create a trilogy, but were never realized. | |
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The Family Guy episode "Lois Comes Out Of Her Shell" has this exchange between Brian and Stewie: | |
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I Love Lucy: In "The Benefit", Ethel expresses her disappointment that Lucy will be performing at her club benefit instead of Ricky. | |
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Diagnosis: Murder: Dr. Sloan, while held hostage by domestic terrorists, managed to convince the revolutionary group to stand down and surrender to the Feds, rather than try to shoot their way out and likely get themselves killed, by invoking this trope. He pointed out that they would ultimately be forgotten as martyrs but if they stood trial, they would get 24-hour news coverage. | |
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Bad Movie Beatdown twice did it, regarding Driven star Kip Pardue and The Spirit protagonist Gabriel Macht. | |
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Men in Black: The Series: Agent K's way to make Agent J (and the viewers) understand a certain weapon's power was mentioning Earth's second moon. When J pointed out Earth had no second moon, the trope came into play. | |
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Phil of the Future: Lloyd says this after he found out the family being stuck in the past was a Necessary Fail. | |
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Deadpool (Vol. 4) #25 is set in the alternate future of 2099. When Deadpool's daughter Warda Wilson confronts him about the fate of her mother Shiklah, who tried to conquer the world, the following exchange occurs: | |
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Used in The Burns and Allen Show, both the radio and TV series. Gracie, when encouraging a young aspiring actress not to give up on her dreams: "Just look at what happened to (name)." "I've never heard of her..." "Of course you haven't! She gave up!" | |
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