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Bad News in a Good Way
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Bad news is not easy to deliver. Especially if the person you have to deliver it to is your boss and has a habit of killing underlings, or you just don't want to piss them off. So how do you deliver the bad news? Try delivering it in a good way! This is when bad news, often very bad news, is told in a way that's supposed to make it sound not quite as bad. Perhaps start it off with "a funny thing happened...", give it a positive spin, deliver it as a joke, or tell it in a cheery mood. It also works if bad news is taken as good news. A Sub-Trope of Breaking Bad News Gently. Compare Bearer of Bad News, Bad News, Irrelevant News, Comically Missing the Point, Distinction Without a Difference, False Reassurance, and Good News, Bad News. See also Dinner and a Breakup. |
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A variant. In Night Watch, Vimes receives note that one of his officers was killed, and asks who was sent to inform the family, hoping it wasn't Nobby Nobbs — he doesn't want a repeat of the "bet-you-a-dollar-you're-the-widow-Jackson" nonsense. | |
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Near the end of Narbonic, Mel and Artie have to inform Dave that he's actually a clone of the original Dave outfitted with memories five years out of date: | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog had news from Bad Horse delivered by letter, sung as an upbeat western folk song by a three-man chorus. This trope hits home when the chorus gleefully proclaims that Horrible's slip-ups have not gone unnoticed and now his only way into the Evil League of Evil is cold blooded murder. | |
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One episode of The Jetsons has a variation on this: | |
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Jib Jab does this for each year to a song in a nice upbeat manner. This one even has the singers be angels saying what happened to God having to do it upbeat because: | |
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From Titus: | |
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In a first-season episode of Cheers, Sam's brother Derek — whom he hates — is in town and coming to drop by, and Coach has a unique way of giving Sam bad news: And when Derek actually shows up: |
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In The Bad Seed Returns, Villain Protagonist Emma Grossman decides to take a test on the internet to find out if she is a psychopath, In the end the test ends by telling her "Congratulations, you are a psychopath", as if it were a good thing. | |
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An episode of The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" began with Bart getting knocked into a coma. How does Lisa break the news to her mother? "Remember how you said you wished we'd stop growing up?" Another episode has this dialogue between network execs and Krusty: Then there's the episode where Maggie runs away, with Homer running through several versions of this to tell Marge in advance, including "She was only a baby, it's not like we grew attached to her" and "They grow up so fast, one minute they're a baby, the next they're out on their own." In "Trash of the Titans": Then in The Simpsons Movie, we have this line: |
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Parks and Recreation: This trope is also in play when Chris breaks up with Ann. He delivers the news in his usual upbeat tone of voice, and it's so positively worded that she doesn't even realize he's just dumped her. |
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Modest Mouse has an album called Good News for People Who Love Bad News. The line itself comes from the song "Bury Me With It": | |
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The Will Sommers sketch from Horrible Histories features Henry VIII's court jester working the news about his fifth wife's infidelity into a comedy routine. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: The game "Scenes From a Hat" occasionally provided the prompt "the good news, and the bad news," which at least once resulted in this trope, with a performer giving a piece of "good" news that clearly telegraphs what the bad news is. | |
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Back at the Barnyard: In "Beady and the Beasts", Mrs. Beady moves in with the animals after Mr. Beady's mother kicks her out of her house. When she gets on their nerves, Otis suggests that Pig kick her out. Pig refuses, telling Otis that he's not good at giving bad news. What follows is a Cutaway Gag where Pig, dressed in a tuxedo, is standing outside a man's house. Pig sings to the man "You've been fired from your job so you can't pay the bills, and by the way, your wife is leaving, too!" | |
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In the Looney Tunes movie Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, when Daffy's ghost-hunting business goes bankrupt he gets a singing telegram telling him he's being kicked out of his office. | |
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Into the Woods: How does the Baker's Wife break the news to her husband that she lost the cow? | |
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From Hustle, Ash Morgan tells the team all the security safeguards in place at the bank they've been coerced into robbing. | |
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Borderlands 2 has Claptrap announcing some bad news in a cheerful voice then noting that he's not happy about it, it's just the default setting on his voice synthesizer. In a more serious case, Claptrap also read a eulogy for a Borderlands fan who passed away; Claptrap's character being what it is, it has this effect. The voice actor breaks character soon after and speaks normally for the rest. |
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Mr. Show brings you the "Bad News Breakers", where two adorable twin girls are brought in to tell people terrible news. | |
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Non-comedic example in the movie version of Glengarry Glen Ross when Blake is doing his motivational fear spiel: | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has used this multiple times. And also its failure here. |
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Bill Lumberg in Office Space: "Yeeeeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday..." | |
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Played straight at first, then subverted in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The Beast awaits the arrival of Belle to the dinner he demanded her to attend. When Cogsworth shows up, the Beast demands to know where Belle is. Cogsworth tries to tell him in a positive way, but eventually just gives up and admits, "She's not coming" — which sends the Beast into a rage. | |
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An episode of Scrubs features a daydream sequence with Turk reading the following poem: "And, of course, the always popular Resident Kabuki Theater." Reality, in the episode with the poem, is just as bad. When JD gives Turk advice on giving bad news ("My Na Na Na"), including thinking of the dancing gopher from Caddyshack to stop himself crying, and "no false hope", Turk quickly ends up Digging Himself Deeper: JD's entire family apparently does this; when someone has to give bad news to someone else("My Cake"), they do so while presenting a cake. When JD's brother shows up at the door with a cake, JD immediately knows something bad has happened; sure enough his dad has died. There's also the Dr. Toilet Imagine Spot. JD has an Imagine Spot about a bad news robot, unfortunately the robot breaks down and he has to tell it's kids. One of them promptly disintegrates him, ending the fantasy. |
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The following Cwen's Quest quote from the aptly titled page "Good News Everybody!" | |
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In a Dilbert comic, the Pointy-Haired Boss says he'll use humour in the workplace to ease tension. He then proceeds to tell a knock knock joke, in which the punchline is "not you anymore". Dogbert once taught classes about how to deliver bad news with humor. Here's one example: |
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Pippin has a scene where couriers come on to report cheerfully such news as: "Peasants revolt. King slays thousands." | |
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In Muppets from Space, Miss Piggy tells Kermit she has great news; Gonzo's been kidnapped by the government! Of course, the reason she thinks it's good news is because covering the story will help her burgeoning career as a TV news journalist. | |
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Married... with Children had the episode "Banking on Marcy", in which Marcy D'Arcy had a fear of public speaking. So she decides to start thinking of sex while speaking to distract her from her nervousness. This results in her delivering an address about how poorly the bank is doing, during which she nears (and reaches) orgasm, complete with a cigarette that appears from nowhere afterward. She subsequently got more speaking gigs for this exact trope, as everybody was so focused on how she delivered the bad news that they didn't care about the bad news itself. | |
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Discworld: | |
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World of Warcraft: "Good news, everyone! I've perfected a plague that will kill all life on Azeroth!" clearly a Futurama reference. Something of an inversion: It is good news for him but terrible news for the players. The above inversion is itself inverted (but still without playing it straight) when Putricide dies: "Bad news, everyone! I don't think I'm going to make it..." |
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The Daily Show featured a segment discussing government wiretaps. Given that it was discussing massive violations of privacy, it delivered the news under the title "Good news! You're not paranoid!" | |
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In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Bat Jar Conjecture", Leonard offers Sheldon a Batman cookie jar, revealing that he is blackballing Sheldon off the physics bowl team of which the two are members. | |
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Bridesmaids: 'We'd like to invite you to no longer live with us anymore.' | |
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Then in The Simpsons Movie, we have this line: | |
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Schlock Mercenary uses this in what is almost certainly a Shout-Out to Futurama, as listed below. | |
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Inverted in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, where there's been a series of incidents involving a man in a pony mask stalking young girls. One morning, Sōsuke tells Kaname that their friend Kyoko was a victim of the "Pony Man"; the serious way he delivers the news makes Kaname (and the audience) believe that poor Kyoko was raped or killed; however, it turns out that all he did was style her hair into a ponytail. Kaname promptly beats the crap out of Sōsuke for scaring her like that. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins has a minor quest where you inform the wives of soldiers that they have become widows. Now, the player can either deliver the bad news him/herself, or opt to have one of your party members do it. What happens when you get the team drunk, Oghren, to do it? | |
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Ultra Fast Pony. From "Pinkie's Day In": | |
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In a more serious case, Claptrap also read a eulogy for a Borderlands fan who passed away; Claptrap's character being what it is, it has this effect. The voice actor breaks character soon after and speaks normally for the rest. | |
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Lucky Star has Anime Tenchou apologize to a customer at Comiket how their booth is out of limited merchandise. It's not so much as what he says as to how he says it. | |
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In Going Postal, Moist doesn't threaten Hugo the hairdresser with legal action over the stolen letters. Instead he loudly declares, in front of the man's customers, that he has good news; he thinks they can probably resolve things without legal action. | |
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From a "What If?" column by Randall Munroe answering whether a person could survive a nanosecond on the surface of the Sun: | |
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In Victorious, Robbie and Cat briefly make a business of singing bad news to people to make it easier to take. It works fine until they're hired to tell Trina her date cancelled on her, who takes Robbie's guitar and smashes it into pieces. | |
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Blondie (1930): In one strip, Blondie Bumstead got into an accident that totaled the family car. She breaks the news to Dagwood by informing him that the car's Airbags are in working order. | |
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Richard II has the wonderful quote "too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill," spoken by King Richard to the man who just told him that his army is bleeped twelve ways from Sunday. Apparently he told his news in a good way — after all, Richard just told him to "Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour." | |
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The Office: 'We'd like to offer you a very generous redundancy settlement.' | |
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The Sisters Brothers: The brothers stop in the town of Mayfield, an Egopolis named for its beloved mayor, who pretty much put the town on the map. While there, they discover that said mayor is really a crime boss after the same target as them, and are forced to kill her and her henchmen in self-defense. After this happens, Eli tries to break the news to the townsfolk gently, but Charlie goes for a different approach: “Good news, everyone! You can finally change the name of your fucking town!” | |
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A Dinosaurs episode called "The Last Temptation of Ethyl" sees Fran's mother Ethyl suddenly keel over while watching TV. After some token attempts to revive her, Fran's husband Earl buries Ethyl in the backyard while his wife is at the beach. When Fran returns, Earl tries to break the news gently: | |
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From Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Quest of the Delta Knights: | |
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In the Christmas 2015 episode of The Now Show, John Finnemore announced he was going to focus on good news! Instead he presented bad news in a good way, acknowledged rather manically that maybe it was "not quite so good after all", and by the end was in despair. | |
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The Good Place: Chidi uses a simulator to figure out the best way to break up with Simone. One of his attempts goes like this; | |
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Negima!? has the frog Motsu, who will always say "in a good way" at the end of everything, often times very bad news. Often times it sounds something like "You'll be turned into an ermine. In a good way." | |
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Professor Farnsworth from Futurama has his catchphrase, "Good news, everyone!" The news in question would usually range from weird to bad to apocalyptic, with the occasional obligatory subversion of actual good news. Of course, the good news will usually be preceded by "Bad news, everyone!" or something of the sort. "Mother's Day" has: And of course: "Law and Oracle" revealed that Farnsworth got in the habit of doing this in a well-intentioned effort to make Fry feel good about his pointless job. Whether it actually worked is questionable, but this is Fry we're talking about. "Simpsorama" also implies Fry caught on eventually. |
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In Portal 2, Wheatley tries to gently break it to Chell that after being in suspended animation for decades, she might have "a very minor case... of serious brain damage". | |
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In The Room (2003): "I got the results of the test back! I definitely have breast cancer." | |
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Done at the end of an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, where the perpetually cheerful news announcer declares the end of tornado season. "Now the only thing to worry about is that giant tidal wave roaring across the plains!" | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights is the Trope Namer, as the Sheriff of Rottingham has to deliver the bad news about Robin Hood to Prince John. When John suggested he tell it in a good way, the Sheriff began laughing and talking about it cheerily, so as to try and lessen the blow. It didn't work. | |
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In the Books of Samuel in The Bible, when King David asks a Cushite officer announcing his victory over his son Absalom whether Absalom is still alive, the Cushite replies that he hopes all of King David's enemies end up sharing that young fellow's fate. This does not help David take it well at all. | |
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The Danger Mouse finale, "The Intergalactic 147," dealt with a mysterious white planet on collision course with the Earth. The TV news reporter is quite serious relaying the news, up until he turns it into a contest to name the planet. | |
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In The Outer Worlds, you get to see the rough cut of Chairman Rockwell's presentation announcing the Lifetime Employment Program: | |
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Invader Zim has a variation of this. Usually when something bad is about to happen, Gir is as cheery as always. Also a variation in episode 1: Also, from "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars:" |
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Modern Family had an inversion. Claire's preferred method of giving people good news seems to be making them think she had bad news. We don't find out exactly how she told out Phil she was pregnant with Luke, only that it started out, "thousands of children die every day..." | |
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From SpongeBob SquarePants: "Once, there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end." | |
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The Wizard of Id. The King, aware that his useless knight Sir Rodney is bringing news of his defeat, reminds him of the old Roman custom in which the bearer of bad tidings was put to death. A sweating Rodney replies with the 'joyous' news that one of the King's more awful provinces with its rebellious peasants, stinking swamps (etc, etc) has been given to the Huns to worry about. | |
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In the Beetle Bailey strip seen here Cookie tells Beetle he does not have to peel potatoes while on KP, and gives him a choice of peeling the carrots or onions. | |
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Blackadder: Series 1 The King BRIAN BLESSED! receives several messengers, bearing news: Rowan Atkinson incorporated this concept into stage comedy act with the Bearers of Good News, Bad News, Bad News That The Messenger Thought Would Be Good News But Didn't Read In Advance And Consequently Got Quite A Shock, Indifferent News (gestures languidly at the message) and Really Really Bad News (never seen, just throws the message in from offstage). |
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Doctor Who: Thanks to the way Tom Baker insisted on reading a line that was likely scripted straight, "Horror of Fang Rock" contains a truly wonderful moment where he announces to everyone stuck in The Siege that "this lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we might all be dead!!!" in the manner of someone announcing that he's brought along a picnic. Given that the Doctor is a bit of a Nightmare Fetishist, this isn't actually OOC at all. Another example comes in "A Christmas Carol," when the Doctor cheerfully notes that he'll get excellent readings from his sonic screwdriver when he gets it back from where it's lodged. In the mouth of a shark. |
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A Pearls Before Swine strip has Rat bouncing on a pogo stick to tell Pig that he lost all their money on the tracks and they're being evicted. | |
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From Portal: "Good news! I figured out what that thing you just incinerated did..." | |
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: In "We're Going to the Catskills!" Paulie approaches Midge and Rose as the Weissmans are finishing settling into their summer cottage, saying he has an exciting proposition for Midge regarding the Steiner swimsuit pageant that Midge has participated in every year, which is that she be the sash girl. Despite him sounding cheerful when initially pitching it, Midge is not thrilled because it basically means she's being demoted on account of her separation from Joel. | |
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When April in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) says she has to go to a neighbor’s house four miles away to call her boss, Casey responds, “Hey, you just saved yourself an eight-mile round tripper. You were fired.” April doesn’t take it well—either the news or Casey’s attempt at “sensitivity.” | |
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From Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the episode "Once More with Feeling." Just about every one of the main characters reveals or discovers a painful secret that damages their relationships with each other. If it wasn't the musical episode, it would probably be the most depressing episode without the death of a main character. | |
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One Family Guy Cutaway Gag infamously took this to an extreme, when the doctor hired Peter to inform someone they had AIDS with a barbershop quartet. A later skit had Al Jarreau on TV singing about 37 people dying in a car bombing in Syria. |
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In Dragon Ball Z, one of ways Krillin thinks of breaking the news of Goku's death to Chi-Chi is akin to this trope, simply coming out with the truth, then adding that, since he can easily be brought back with the Dragon Balls, it's not really that big a deal. | |
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In Majesty: The Northern Expansion, the mission "Urban Renewal" attempts this in the opening narration. | |
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One episode of The Critic had Jay dating an actress. When he sees her new movie, he discovers that she can't act, and in the episode of Coming Attractions where he reviews the film he tries to say so as nicely as possible ("God help her, she's trying.") Sadly she was only in it for the Casting Couch and promptly dumps him. | |
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Friends: The one where Eddie moves in. Chandler told Eddie a funny story about an ex. | |
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YuYu Hakusho's Botan is a Grim Reaper, and in the beginning of the series at least does everything related to her job in a very friendly and cheerful way. Yusuke lampshades this as being a very poor way to tell people they're dead. | |
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