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Bob has the situation under control, and is explaining it to his partner, Alice. While he initially thought everything was fine and going to plan, it's only once he stops to think about it and hears himself say it aloud that he realizes how much trouble he and Alice are really in. Essentially, a case of in-universe Fridge Logic (or Fridge Horror) catching up to the characters, can be Played for Laughs or drama. Can be triggered by the listening party's Let Me Get This Straight... putting a new perspective on Bob's explanation. The Oh, Crap! can also be simply that there really is No Time to Explain. Some situations go further with this, having the feared event happen directly after it's realized, which is a case of Five-Second Foreshadowing. The Placebo Eureka Moment is an inverse, in which the act of explaining leads to a solution rather just than a realization that there's a problem. Not to be confused with I Can Explain or Not Helping Your Case. Compare Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh..., You Answered Your Own Question, Delayed "Oh, Crap!" (when the character doesn't realize how screwed they are until after they're done explaining), Digging Yourself Deeper (when a character's already in trouble and doesn't realise they're giving away more than they should until it's too late, upon which this trope swiftly applies), I Never Said It Was Poison (when the realization is that there's something previously told by another character that doesn't fit the facts or make them fit all of a sudden), and Stopped Dead in Their Tracks (when this trope can result in a stunned stop reaction in another character). |
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Unraveled: Brian spends more than ten minutes discussing the vital traits that his new music genre will require to thrive in the wastelands of the Fallout series, he suddenly realises that he's spent all that time reinventing Ska. At the end of his video on Bowser's military organisation, Brian fills in some of the odds-and-ends characters: Throughout his video on when Mario can retire, all of Brian's projections have come to the conclusion that Mario can't retire until he's almost 90. At the end of the video, Brian tries one last time, using his own financial information, only to get the same result. Brian protests this conclusion, pointing out that if Mario can never retire, then he can never retire, at which point what he just said hits him, and the video ends with Brian out drinking. |
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A perfect example can be found in issue 8 of Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW), where after breaking through one of Dr. Eggman's bases and taking out some straggler robots, Sonic and Silver get some less than favorable info from one of the computers. | |
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Near the of The Frantics skit “Last Will and Testament�, the lawyer reads the section talking about what his client left for him. Not a boot to the head like all the other beneficiaries received, but a rabid Tasmanian Devil stuffed in his trousers. The lawyer gets understandably concerned as he’s reading it and begins shrieking in pain as the furry creature begins attacking him. | |
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In issue 247 of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), after yet another building in New Mobotropolis collapses due to something interfering with the nanites, Cream, after finding the Tails Doll, chews it out over its tendency to disappear... and in mid-sentence, recalls that its previous disappearances have corresponded with the other instances of buildings unexpectedly going unstable, and deduces that the doll itself is responsible. Her expression when this dawns on her says it all. | |
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Terror Island: In this strip, several characters are attempting to banish a demon. They gather everything they need except toothpaste when the demon traps them in a force field, leading to this. | |
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X-Men: In Uncanny X-Men (2018) #20, the X-Men are thrown when they hear their attempt to vaccinate against a mutant "cure" has led to dozens of human children getting sick and more are occurring. Captain America confronts them with the X-Men, saying they can handle this, having been dealing with Cap for several weeks on other matters, such as handing over mutant prisoners to turn over to the government and ensuring the X-Men are able to operate without oversight. Only for his reaction to make them realize the person they've been meeting hasn't been Cap... | |
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In Gene Catlow, Gene Catlow and CatsWhisker are discussing the First Animen, who are hostile to them. CW wonders how beings so ancient who have been in psychic contact with so many minds remained sane— and Gene realizes that they didn't. | |
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A rather charming one in The Belgariad when Jeebers, an elderly personal tutor of her little Imperial Highness Ce'Nedra, explains to the heroes that the emperor has the utmost trust in him. Which is exactly why "the princess knocked on his door deep at night, revealing to him that he got tasked to help her to disguise herself, then sneak her out of the palace without anyone else noticing, and to then escort her (alone) across half the country" ...in a time when people are murdering each other in the streets due to all sorts of politics. Which is when he notices in sheer horror that the emperor had nothing to do with it and that this was all rebellious little Ce'Nedra's idea. Poor guy. | |
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In the Honor Harrington novel At All Costs, there's an internal version when Admiral Chin wonders about the strange maneuvers of the Manticoran force that just hypered in behind her. Over the course of several paragraphs of narration, it dawns on her exactly which formation she is looking at... and what they're armed with. | |
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The 1980s Hardy Boys book "Blood Relations" has Frank and Joe convinced by Greg and Mike Rawley that their stepfather, Walter, is planning on killing his wife, Linda. Frank and Joe look into it when Linda is kidnapped, eventually bringing Walter to a house...where it turns out Linda, Greg and Mike are setting Walter up to kill him in "self-defense" for his fortune and using the Hardys to sell the plot. Frank reveals he'd already figured this out thanks to the Orgy of Evidence making this case so easy and shows up with a detective ally. But it turns out this "detective" is Linda's real husband and Greg and Mike's dad. The family gloats on getting away with it all...until it hits Greg that Frank had just said he figured this whole thing out before he came to the house. So if he knew this was a scam and "Dad wasn't a detective, why would he have trusted him to help?" They have five seconds to think about it before a couple of the Hardys' friends burst in to take Greg and Mike down just before the real cops arrive to arrest them all. | |
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In one episode of Puffin Forest, a group of players are on the second floor of a church about to set off a bunch of bombs they set on the lower floor of the church to kill some enemies when one of the players realizes that something isn't right with the plan but isn't quite sure what it is. Another player starts explaining the plan again before realizing they are still in the building they are about to blow up and shouts "RUN!" They all jump out the windows to escape the building and break their legs just as the bombs go off. | |
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The Rap Critic's list of the top nine worst lyrics of 2016 has him wrapping up by putting the entirety of B.o.B.'s "Flatline" at #1. His discussion of the song's failings culminates in a massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech at conspiracy theorists, accusing them of poisoning the discourse such that actual problems with government and corporate corruption and malfeasance can't be discussed rationally without being lumped in with raving lunatics. He then realizes that the proliferation of phony conspiracy theories to misdirect truth-seekers would be just what the people in power would want. This causes him to (sarcastically) go into raving Conspiracy Theorist mode himself. | |
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At the end of Atop the Fourth Wall's review of Sensational Spider-Man #0, Linkara mentions that some viewers believed that he was almost done with The Clone Saga before mentioning he's been skipping around stories before he lifted up the massive seven volume omnibus collection covering it and tells them that that doesn't even include the original saga, the Ultimate Clone Saga, the mini-series revision and others. This means he'd never run out of the Clone Saga. A split second later, his face drops and he shouts "DAMMIT!" | |
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Night Huntress: Main character Leila has been bound to someone so that if either dies, the other dies, so a shadowy group abducts that person and threatens to kill Leila unless Vlad kills Mencheres. When Mencheres realizes that Vlad didn't tell him about this in case he ended up with no choice but to go through with it, he's naturally upset. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, the Light Warriors are sailing on a ship they got from Bikke when a discussion on sea monsters attacking them ensues. Red Mage points out that such encounters are so common, most seafarers keep their ships ready... only to realize that maybe Bikke neglected to keep his ship ship-shape as he did with his own crew. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): In issue #101, King Danu, leader of the Knights of Order, declares to Twilight Sparkle that he intends to destroy anyone who has had contact with the Elements of Harmony. When Twilight regroups with her friends later, they try to figure out who that might include besides themselves. Mage Meadowbrook and Spike's comments cause the ponies to realize the next targets are the students, who had extensive contact with the Tree of Harmony at Twilight's school. | |
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In A Modest Destiny the Big Bad, after being pestered by the Hive that he needs to make a blood sacrifice now or the ritual will fail, he stabs one of them to death. When the ritual is still failing, the other members explain that as an undead he was barely a quarter alive. | |
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Dr. Havoc's Diary: In "Captain Dr. Havoc": | |
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It's more of an Explain Explain Oh My moment, but... Freefall has one somewhat like this. Florence is having a conversation with her friend Niomi about Uplifted Animals like Florence that segues into a discussion on terraforming. | |
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As Calvin and Hobbes indicates, Bill Watterson loves this trope: One storyline had C&H pushing the family car out of the garage so they could use the structure as a clubhouse, only to discover that the driveway is on an incline, which sends the vehicle careening into a ditch across the street. After they run away, Calvin's mother notices the situation, and begins to wonder aloud: In another arc, the family goes to the zoo, and Calvin gets lost when he starts following a woman who looks like his mom. As Calvin's parents try to figure out where he's gone, Dad hits upon an idea—"Maybe Calvin's at the tiger pit, since he likes tigers so much." After walking a bit, he laughs to himself: "Ha ha, maybe Calvin's in the tiger pit, since he likes tigers so much." He then realizes that that's a perfectly plausible scenario and breaks into a run. In one of the Transmrogrifier arcs, Calvin believes that he's been permanently transformed into an owl. He's delighted when Hobbes points out that this means he'll get to miss school the next day. Upon waking up, Mom points out that he's not an owl, and Calvin shouts with joy that he can...now go to school. In one Sunday comic, a leaf pile comes to life and tries to eat Calvin. Calvin fights back with a rake, and resolves to spread the leaves across the yard so the pile can't eat anyone else. The last panel is of Calvin's mom and dad talking. At the beginning of one story arc, Calvin notices his mom has showered rather early in the day, and from that alone he quickly puts together a rather disturbing conclusion... |
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In one Garfield strip, Jon demands to know what Garfield did with Mrs. Feeny's dog, along with a bunch of stamps, a box, and some twine...before pausing in shock as his mind begins to connect the dots. | |
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Discworld: Jingo: Vimes does one of these, when he works out how 71-Hour Ahmed got his name. The traditional Klatchian period of hospitality and protection is three days - 72 hours. What must you have had to do to be associated with a time just short of that period? When Vimes explains to Ahmed that he knows that the attempted assassination of the Klatch Prince wasn't arranged by the Klatchians themselves, but that it was a very bad frame-job, complete with an Orgy of Evidence and a lampshaded Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt... and realizes mid-explanation it looked like such a bad frame job because the Klatchians deliberately made it look like they were being badly framed. In Feet of Clay, there are two major plot threads that the Watch are investigating. The first is a set of murders connected to the city's golem population (golems here being mostly magical beasts of burden). The second is repeated arsenic poisoning of Lord Vetinari. Vimes, Angua and Cheery discuss these at a late stage of the novel, and it becomes apparent that it's surprising they actually managed to track arsenic in any meaningful way. It gets used all over the city for all kinds of things—rat poisons, paints... The same book also has an I, Claudius style inversion: when the nobles and Guild leaders learn that the rumours about the heir to the throne being a watchman have somehow moved from Captain Carrot to Corporal Nobbs, they protest "But he's an absolute tit", and then start thinking about what an absolute tit as king might mean for the other powers in the city, namely them. They conclude that he'd probably make a great king, with the right advisors. In Interesting Times, Rincewind learns that the revolution was spurred by the contents of a book titled What I Did On My Holidays, and finds a spot to read it himself. He finds it just describes things he finds rather mundane, like sausages made from "genuine pig product", and is completely unimpressed, but realizes that the book was written by his old traveling companion from The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, Twoflower the tourist, and he went above and beyond painting Rincewind as a great hero and magus. Once again putting Rincewind in the hot seat, just like old times. |
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The Muppet Show: In the Edward Burgen episode, the Muppet News Reporter comes in with a Muppet News Flash saying an embarrassing situation occurred when the Muppet News Reporter went on camera while forgetting to put on his pants...causing him to stop and look down behind his desk. In the Nancy Walker episode, Sam the Eagle gives an editorial about nudity, claiming that everyone is going around naked under their clothes. He then goes on to add that dogs and cats are also naked under their fur, and that birds too, under their feathers... And at this point, Sam stops, covers himself and runs off the stage. Before the opening credits of the episode featuring Harry Belafonte, said guest star has a word with Scooter: |
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The Tabletop episode on Chez Geek has this happen to Storm when he plays the card Guy on the Couch. Wil asks him to explain the card, which leads to thisnote To give this moment context, on the next player's turn, Guy on the Couch moves to the room of the player with the most Person cards in play. This meant that Storm almost instantly lost the card.: | |
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Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World features this trope in musical form courtesy of "Stars and the Moon." One of the show's four Singers (none of whom are named) reflects on her life and how, when she was young, she met two men who offered her immaterial treasures like love, truth, strength, summer rains, and the titular stars and the moon. But the singer wanted tangible wealth instead—"And I thought, you know...I'd rather have a yacht." She eventually met a young, rich man who promised her all of the luxuries she'd ever wanted and more—cars, houses, jewels, parties, furs—and happily married him, only to wake up one morning, look around, and realize that she'd given up on true happiness in the name of material possessions: "And I thought—My God...I'll never have the moon..." | |
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Played for laughs in this Penny Arcade strip: | |
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The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump: David's coworker Michael casts a spell to test if a sorcerer's flayed human skin substitute is being used for ritualistic purposes and it seems to exonerate the man. However, David quickly asks if the spell would have been ineffective if the "substitute" was real flayed human skin. Michael thoughtfully agrees that this would have nullified his test before horrifiedly realizing just where real flayed human skin would have come from and what it might be used for. | |
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Party Crashers: In "I got bullied in Mario Party 2...", Vernias asks Brent how the Bowser Bomb works before playing the Item Minigame. As the Nice Guy for not withholding information, Brent tells him that if he obtains the item, it would summon Bowser to steal all the coins of any player he runs into. While he's explaining this though, he realizes too late that both him and Nick were directly in Bowser's line of fire. | |
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The Order of the Stick: In "It Takes a Thief", the Order needs to figure out where Xykon is hiding during the siege on Azure City, when Belkar starts to complain. In "They've Had Time to Train, Too", Haley and the Azurite Resistance are running a stealth raid on a granary in Hobgoblin-occupied Azure City. Haley's already dispatched most of the hobgoblin guards and all they need to do to take the granary undetected is to finish off the wizard leading them, when the wizard fires off... In "The Comics Must Flow", Belkar is chugging spice in the middle of the desert. Seeing his eyes change color, Haley insists he read the warning label to avoid getting sick. In "Collect Call", when Roy and Belkar get arrested for not having proper entry papers, Durkon contacts them with Sending. After three sending discussions, Roy tells Durkon to find the others, saying that he hopes Durkon has enough sending spells. Durkon Sends again, telling Roy not to worry as he had prepared four sending spells... before he realizes that he just used them all up. In "Rising Suspicion", when the Order is walking around a bunch of fresh corpses that have been killed by vampires, Belkar comments that he hopes they don't turn into more vampires, but Roy tells him that it won't be a problem as a person doesn't become a vampire until three days after they died and he had broken the staff that had the spell to speed up the process. It's then that Haley realizes that Vampire Durkon's time spent researching the protection from daylight spell wouldn't make sense if he was going to be invading a subterranean city and that he had actually been learning the spell to speed up a vampire's rise. |
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Jingo: Vimes does one of these, when he works out how 71-Hour Ahmed got his name. The traditional Klatchian period of hospitality and protection is three days - 72 hours. What must you have had to do to be associated with a time just short of that period? When Vimes explains to Ahmed that he knows that the attempted assassination of the Klatch Prince wasn't arranged by the Klatchians themselves, but that it was a very bad frame-job, complete with an Orgy of Evidence and a lampshaded Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt... and realizes mid-explanation it looked like such a bad frame job because the Klatchians deliberately made it look like they were being badly framed. |
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In the parody of The Godfather, when "Vino Minestrone" is warned that he's endangering himself by refusing to go into the drug trade. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Kevyn learns that there is a right time and a wrong time to invoke this on someone here. The time to explain by feeding someone clues and letting them work out the enemy's plan themselves is not when you are in the enemy's territory and they know you're there. During the Under New Management arc, Kevyn and Tagon discuss their current mission; being blackmailed by Xinchub into hunting down Kevyn's sister Breya. If they don't, Xinchub will have the Toughs arrested for a number of crimes. When Kevyn remains unhappy, Tagon asks who Xinchub will send after Breya once the Toughs are imprisoned. Kevyn responds, "I don't know... Some unimaginative, trigger-happy rear admiral, I guess." (Beat) "Oh, crap. I can't believe I just now figured that out." |
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A subdued version is used in Scott The Woz when the group's attempt at warning people of the blue border in "Borderline Forever" fails miserably and they realize it may have had the exact opposite effect they were hoping for: | |
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xkcd: "How did the pole vaulters get up to our balcony?" | |
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In MAD, there are a few. In the parody of The Godfather, when "Vino Minestrone" is warned that he's endangering himself by refusing to go into the drug trade. Subverted in "Ecch-Men" In the parody of The Shining, Jack, talking with his predecessor as caretaker, has an example of this. |
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The Nostalgia Critic: This happens at the end of his review of A Simple Wish, where he rants about Mara Wilson's bad movies only to realize, as he describes what she looks like now, that she's currently watching him. She then proceeds to respond to his dissing of her movies from when she was a little girl by showing clips from some of the Critic's home movies from his own childhood. Another one happens in his review of The Nutcracker in 3D when Gielgud mentions that the Rat King and his men (who are depicted as behaving like Nazis) burn toys. |
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In Jon Lajoie's "WTF Collective", MC Uses Time Machines Irresponsibly does this: | |
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Something*Positive: Having put in a bid on a nice-looking house, Peejee brags to Davan that, with its severely reduced asking price and history of other buyers backing out at the last moment, she's certain to get it for cheap... before realizing that those were actually some pretty serious red flags that she'd completely glossed over. It later turns out that, while the house itself is fine, the neighborhood it's in is full of creeps, bigots, fundies and generally unpleasant neighbors. | |
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Marvel Team-Up: One issue has Spider-Man attack the Human Torch because he thinks the Fantastic Four have just tried to attack him. Johnny points out this isn't possible, since the rest of the FF are elsewhere doing their own things, and more to the point have no reason to attack Spidey (something he really should know). So the only explanation is that someone else with all their powers could have done that... at which point Johnny stops explaining and hurries back to the Baxter Building, where the Super-Skrull has escaped from the Can he'd been stuck in. | |
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The Superman Adventures: Issue #12 has Lois write a journal of progress being made in curing Superman of a lethal Kryptonian virus, becoming shocked when she's writing while on a plane and realizes what she's describing. | |
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In Interesting Times, Rincewind learns that the revolution was spurred by the contents of a book titled What I Did On My Holidays, and finds a spot to read it himself. He finds it just describes things he finds rather mundane, like sausages made from "genuine pig product", and is completely unimpressed, but realizes that the book was written by his old traveling companion from The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, Twoflower the tourist, and he went above and beyond painting Rincewind as a great hero and magus. Once again putting Rincewind in the hot seat, just like old times. | |
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New Avengers (2015): Monica Rappaccini and Andrew Forson, former leaders of AIM, crash the funeral of Roberto Da Costa, using a specialized time-bubble. Forson notes that the only way to shield one's self from the time-bubble's effects would be in some sort of specially pre-prepared equipment which his scanners couldn't pick up, like if, say, they were hidden behind adamantium shielding... such as the adamantium in Da Costa's coffin. Surprise! It's a trap. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Sound: The wedding planner called up before the Little Old Lady Job Justification Hearing, after realizing that essentially her job is in fact redundant. | |
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Paranatural: Chapter 5 sees a game of dodgeball—sorry, "hitball"—go awry when Jeff gets (sort of) possessed by a spirit named Hijack. Eventually the only people still on the field are Max, Johnny, Hijack!Jeff, and an unnamed student who taped several balls to her body to shield herself. Max then promptly...gets the unnamed student out. Hijack thinks about why he did that at first, but then it dawns on him. Max's internal narration describes Scrapdragon, and it eventually becomes apparent that it is not just describing Scrapdragon from memory, but describing the sight in front of Max at that very moment. This is followed by an illustration of a wide-eyed Max staring at Scrapdragon, suddenly realizing that he is in Scrapdragon's spirit realm. |
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Oxventure: Played for Laughs, since the players were well aware of Prudence's big Internal Reveal in advance: | |
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Brian spends more than ten minutes discussing the vital traits that his new music genre will require to thrive in the wastelands of the Fallout series, he suddenly realises that he's spent all that time reinventing Ska. | |
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At the end of his video on Bowser's military organisation, Brian fills in some of the odds-and-ends characters: | |
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In the Horus Heresy novel Unremembered Empire, when Curze is on the loose in the Temple of Hera, the entire forces at nearby Residence sets out to hunt him down. One of the members of the strike force, Gantula, wonders aloud whether Curze is a predator, using a wolf as his example. Then this happens: | |
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In Mission: Levity: "But how can there be gravity? The planet is too far away and there's nothing else there but that... ship..." | |
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Girl Genius: After a non-Wulfenbach Dreen suddenly appears to Gil and tells him he will go to Paris, he realizes what Dreen really are. In a discussion about who would be crazy enough to hijack one of Queen Albia's sea serpents, when Wooster recounts a past adventure from his undercover activities as an agent of Albia's spy service, he comes to a horrifying realization about the hijacker's actual identity. In the Franz Scortchmaw side-story, when Vip, the librarian who insists she's not a thief, reveals she has a sophisticated alchemy calibration tool, Lumi, the student Spark geeks out, because one of her professors has one exactly like it but won't let the students touch it because it's "one-of-a-kind". |
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Team America: World Police: Kim Jong-Il's translator, while interpreting for Kim during an arms deal, takes a moment to think about what he's translating. Unfortunately for him, this revelation is the second-last thing to go through his head. | |
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In "The Best Thanksgiving Ever" from Bear in the Big Blue House, following the pageant, Bear and the others smell something burning. | |
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The same book also has an I, Claudius style inversion: when the nobles and Guild leaders learn that the rumours about the heir to the throne being a watchman have somehow moved from Captain Carrot to Corporal Nobbs, they protest "But he's an absolute tit", and then start thinking about what an absolute tit as king might mean for the other powers in the city, namely them. They conclude that he'd probably make a great king, with the right advisors. | |
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Batman '66: Professor Overbeck while explaining why he doesn't think his brain regulator "could have been used to make a whole group of people... hysterical". | |
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A variation occurs in Animorphs #16: The Warning: | |
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In the parody of The Shining, Jack, talking with his predecessor as caretaker, has an example of this. | |
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In Dinosaurs' episode "The Greatest Story Ever Sold", when Earl and the other tree-pushers express their existential woes of not knowing why they exist, their boss Richfield tries to set them straight; | |
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Hollow Kingdom (2019): After he witnesses his neighbor eating her dog, S.T. comes to the conclusion that she has the same sickness his owner Big Jim does. The crow then remembers that he left Big Jim's dog Dennis alone with him and promptly rushes home. | |
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In Leftover Soup, Cheryl and Carol are discussing the ethics of being a parent while also being in a polyamorous relationship, when... | |
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Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: One Good Knight: Andie has this reaction when she realizes she's just explained why her mother would want to rig the Human Sacrifice lottery to get rid of Andie. | |
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"When Words Fail," a song from Shrek: The Musical, plays this trope for laughs. The titular ogre has realized his feelings for Fiona and tries to prepare a declaration of love. First, he imagines offering her a flower as a symbol of his dedication, only to completely lose the metaphor and comment "Oh, MAN, I'm in trouble." Shrek then tries again by comparing the imaginary Fiona to the moon, as it's "big and bright"—and promptly realizes that he just called her "big." This leads to Verbal Backspace as he tries to make up for it ("And by 'big' I don't mean 'chubby!' Obviously you're not fat!") and starts talking about his own weight problems and his genetic predisposition to—and there's the metaphor lost again. It becomes a sweet moment, though, when Shrek realizes that even if he does fail to express what he's feeling, Fiona will still understand the love behind his words. | |
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Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie's friend Gussie talks about how he's been writing down insults about his prospective father-in-law and Roderick Spode in a notebook which he misplaced. | |
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In the Rifftrax short "Reading: Who Needs It", a high school basketball coach and a teacher are discussing the fact that one of his players can't read: | |
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Alison does this in the season finale of Brains as she realizes the identity of the murderer: Professor Sherman. | |
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In Wizard's First Rule, first book of the Sword of Truth series, Zedd invokes this on a mob that's coming to burn him for being a witch. Zedd asks them why, exactly, they want to burn him, and they say it's because of his horrible magic powers. Zedd asks them to elaborate and be more specific. As they list all the different ways that they think Zedd can throw magical wrath around, the crowd slowly realizes that attacking someone who can shoot fire out of his fingertips might not be the brightest idea after all. | |
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In Ultimate X Men, Nick Fury comes to the Institure with Magician, a young mutant with immense powers that accidentally killed his own parents. Fury thinks Xavier can help the kid control himself rather than send him to prison. Magician is soon accepted with the team, proving himself in fights. Fury comes by wanting to recruit Magician for a mission and says the kid's parents have already signed off on it. A confused Xavier says Fury had told him the parents were dead, with Fury denying ever visiting or knowing who Magician was before seeing him on TV. This is the clue to discovering Magician is a Reality Warper who unconsciously created this whole illusion to become a hero. | |
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Darths & Droids: This happens to Annie when she finally tells Jim that she'd lost her job and in that same frame of time realizes it wasn't his fault entirely. Much later on, during the attack on the second Peace Moon, the Rebels come to an important realization: The Peace Moon is fueled by the Lost Orb, a source of unlimited power. And since it's fueled by a source of unlimited power, they'd never have a reason not to have their shield up at all times. |
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Inverted in The Boondocks, Riley, having repainted several street signs to carry the names of rappers he likes, is approached by Cindy, who's also interested in doing so. Riley, however, is lying low due to the police looking for the culprit, and starts to warn Cindy that if she follows suit, she'll get caught—at which point he gets the idea to have her take the fall for his misdeeds. | |
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Questionable Content: In "Delayed Entendre Recognition", Faye is justifying her claim that she's descended from Civil War pirates by saying her grandmother said their ancestors were "boarded by Yankee seamen all the time". As she says it, she realises that that's not what she meant. Two strips later, she tells Marten about telling Angus about her father's suicide. When Marten is surprised that she just told him, she replies "Well, yeah. I mean, I couldn't be all cryptic about it, that would be a really shitty ... thing ... to do ... to ... someone ..." In BRTOM, when Beepatrice questions whether Roko's attempts to find leverage against someone she's got a meeting with are appropriate for an AI rights volunteer: In "Self-Revelation", on Dora's first date with Jim, she tells him why she broke up with Marten, and how the relationship seemed to bring out her anxieties, concluding "I probably shouldn't be dating anybody right now. [Beat] Shit." |
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In Feet of Clay, there are two major plot threads that the Watch are investigating. The first is a set of murders connected to the city's golem population (golems here being mostly magical beasts of burden). The second is repeated arsenic poisoning of Lord Vetinari. Vimes, Angua and Cheery discuss these at a late stage of the novel, and it becomes apparent that it's surprising they actually managed to track arsenic in any meaningful way. It gets used all over the city for all kinds of things—rat poisons, paints... | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: In issue 247 of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), after yet another building in New Mobotropolis collapses due to something interfering with the nanites, Cream, after finding the Tails Doll, chews it out over its tendency to disappear... and in mid-sentence, recalls that its previous disappearances have corresponded with the other instances of buildings unexpectedly going unstable, and deduces that the doll itself is responsible. Her expression when this dawns on her says it all. A perfect example can be found in issue 8 of Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW), where after breaking through one of Dr. Eggman's bases and taking out some straggler robots, Sonic and Silver get some less than favorable info from one of the computers. |
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Pixie and Brutus: In one strip, Pixie tells Brutus that he found a movie on television about a character she thinks is named "Freddy Cougar". Half-asleep, Brutus reflexively corrects it to "Freddy Krueger". In the next panel, Brutus snaps wide awake as it sinks in that Pixie's innocence is about to be ruined by the horror film and he immediately headbutts the television. | |
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Hamilton: In "The Room Where it Happens", after Hamilton seemingly sacrifices New York's status as the US Capital, Burr realizes: Burr has a second, more tragic example in "The World Was Wide Enough" as he pulls the trigger: |
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Critical Role: As Nott deals the final blow to the incubus that had been hassling the party, Sam proudly proclaims she blows it up with an explosive crossbow bolt. His expression then turns to horror when he realizes that Caduceus, who was unconscious and had already failed two death saves, was in the blast radius as well. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: A comedic version in the Ciaphas Cain novel The Traitor's Hand. Cain is discussing Mauve Shirt "Jinxie" Penlan with the command staff when her reputation comes up, and... In the Horus Heresy novel Unremembered Empire, when Curze is on the loose in the Temple of Hera, the entire forces at nearby Residence sets out to hunt him down. One of the members of the strike force, Gantula, wonders aloud whether Curze is a predator, using a wolf as his example. Then this happens: |
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El Goonish Shive: A hilarious version with female Tedd and too reasonable Susan. And another, slightly more dramatic one with Elliot: "I care deeply about her and I want her always to be a part of my life! I don't want to hurt her! She's like a sister to me!" ...When talking about his then-girlfriend, Sarah. Later, Grace is sure that if Justin has a magic mark, he must know about it. In "Parable", Jay attempts to remember what her plan was when she created the shared dream, and suddenly realises that not only would she never use her dream spell like that, but her spell can't actually do that. |
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This happens at the end of his review of A Simple Wish, where he rants about Mara Wilson's bad movies only to realize, as he describes what she looks like now, that she's currently watching him. She then proceeds to respond to his dissing of her movies from when she was a little girl by showing clips from some of the Critic's home movies from his own childhood. | |
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Planetary: In the penultimate issue, before departing from a parlay he invited them to in the desert, Snow claims that he's about to kill Dowling and Suskind. The two villains note that for all of his bravado, Snow has only ever known one thing that they didn't know themselves. Then they remember what that one thing is, namely the location of an alien spaceship hidden beneath Earth's surface. Snow has just tricked them into standing on top of that ship and has it blast off, killing them. | |
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This happens twice to Todd in the Shadows during his review of One Direction's "Best Song Ever", as his criticisms fall flat and he starts to realize that he actually likes the song. | |
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Teen Titans: When District Attorney Adrian Chase is going after a tough mob, he brushes off Robin's concerns before returning home, where his wife tells him about the toy clown his uncle Arthur sent their son for his birthday. | |
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Camp Camp: "Romeo & Juliet 2: Love Resurrected" sees Camp Campbell put on a Fan Sequel to Romeo and Juliet with Neil as Romeo and Nikki as Juliet. However, Tabii decides to take Nikki out of commission so she can take her place as Juliet and kiss Neil, leading to this exchange... Throughout the episode "Into Town", Nikki just gets sicker and sicker until she eventually coughs up blood on Neil's shirt. Max doesn't know what's wrong with her, as they'd just been walking around town all day, and then it hits him: he dragged Nikki, a ravenous Nature Lover, out of nature. In the episode "Anti-Social Network", Neil creates chatbots so the other campers will leave him alone. When he realizes that the chatbots are becoming smarter, he worries that a Turned On Their Masters scenario is occurring and gathers the chatbots with Max's help, then remember they forgot one: |
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In Jasper in Deadland, after Jasper and Agnes reunite, reach Elysium and have their memories return, Agnes excitedly begins talking about how they can finally leave Deadland and go home to their families... before she realizes that returning to her life means returning to her abusive father, and she anxiously tries to convince Jasper to stay with her in Deadland. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In episode 3 of Great War in the Bizarre World, when the Queen explains that Darton leaves a mark on all who are under his control, she caps it off saying it's hard to explain. Then an X-circle mark appears on her belly, and Slowy asks if that's the mark he leaves. The Queen says yes, and it takes a Double Take for her to realize what just happened; she's corrupted shortly afterwards. | |
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Dumbing of Age: In an effort to make Sarah more open to change, Joyce starts listing off some of the positive Character Development they and their friends have undergone since the start of the comic. Then she gets to Dorothy and realizes that she's actually trending in a negative direction. | |
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Decker Shado ended up doing this when commenting on the title of the version of Gamera vs. Gyaos he's reviewing with That Long-Haired Creepy Guy. As when commenting on it, he criticizes the latter titular monster's name being spelled as "Gaes" and is immediately horrified. Creepy, an LGBT man, quickly gives out a Death Glare. | |
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The Outsiders: In a 2004 storyline of Outsiders (2003), the team learns that Bruce Wayne is financing them. Arsenal then reveals that Batman has been his secret source of info since the team started. Nightwing confronts Batman about the funding, the pair soon coming to an understanding. Nightwing thanks Batman for the info...and Batman says he has no idea what he's talking about as he hasn't spoken to Arsenal in a year. Nightwing contacts Arsenal, who's on a rooftop with a cloaked and masked figure in shadow. Arsenal tells Nightwing about Batman being difficult, only for Nightwing to tell him he's literally standing next to Batman in the Batcave. Before Arsenal can react, he's taken down by "Batman," who peels off the mask to reveal he's been Deathstroke all along. Arsenal demands to know why Deathstroke would be giving the Outsiders information that took down a bunch of villains only to stop as it hits him Deathstroke was just using the Outsiders to eliminate some competition. | |
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In Chess, one of the methods for dealing with a speculative sacrifice by an opponent is known as the show me method. If you can't see the point of the sacrifice, or even if you do see the point but don't think it will be all that effective, the recommended course of action is to accept it and continue playing natural moves, daring the opponent to show you their idea. Sometimes this works and the sacrifice fails. When it succeeds, however, you end up with this trope. | |
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In Clear Skies 2, we get this little exchange between two characters in an escape pod wondering why their captain is trying to ram a Titan. | |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, Daigo creates a monster that he then plans to send after two kids who accidentally come across the scene. His girlfriend, Melissa, tries to explain to him how it's actually better if the kids get away, because then they'd go alert their older brother (which is what the two want, since said brother is one of the superpowered kids they're hunting down). However, during her explanation, she looks over and realises that the monster has broken free of its restraint and is hurtling towards the children. | |
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In Timeline, one character is trying to convince the others that it is possible to travel to the past via a wormhole. Another character points out that it is impossible for a physical body to safely go through one. The first character retorts that the same can be said about a fax machine. The second character launches into trying to explain that the fax machine first has to convert the scanned data into a "stream of electrons", before realizing that the first character is talking about the same for the wormhole with a big, "Oh shit!" | |
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StacheBros: In "The Day Super Mario Died", Boo believes that Mario is dead after hearing such news from Luigi, but she tries to show him the bright side of being dead by helping him pull pranks on the Mushroom Kingdom. After their pranking, though, Mario is still bummed about believing he's dead: | |
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The Caves of Steel: When Lije and Daneel visit a premier roboticist, Lije asks him about Ridiculously Human Robots, how they would be different from humans, and how easy it is to spot them. The man starts to confidently say how unlikely it is, then pauses as he realizes that Daneel meets the signs he just described. The man is embarrassed that it took him so long to notice. | |
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Teen Power Inc.: In The Case of Crazy Claude, the kids initially think Claude and his lawyer/twin brother are one person with multiple personalities who keeps changing clothes. When they admit this misconception, Claude is insulted that they thought he would try such a ridiculous disguise and says he would have to be crazy to think it would work, before trailing off awkwardly when he realizes they did think he was crazy. In Fear in Fashion, the kids' latest boss, Dee Dee, takes on a Cool Big Sis role with them, encouraging their dreams (like Richelle's modeling aspirations) and praising their talents. She is just buttering them up to be Unwitting Pawns in a con game. Richelle is hit especially hard when she observes the others (save Sunny, who was always a bit suspicious) lamenting how they were fooled and muses about how they were silly to be fooled and at least Dee Dee wasn't all bad due to recognizing Richelle's potential to be a model, only to halt mid-thought as she realizes Dee Dee was manipulating her the same as the others. |
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In The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy 1978, Arthur and his friends find themselves on a ship manned by Haggunenons which, in the words of the titular guide, "would do for Charles Darwin what a squadron of Arcturan stunt apples would have done for Isaac Newton", giving the specific example that a Hagguneon who wanted to reach for the coffee might evolve into something with longer arms, but which is probably quite incapable of drinking coffee. (Incidentally, the same guide, which has the words "Don't Panic" written in large, friendly letters; notes that the best method of dealing with them is to "run away terribly fast".) The heroes then realize that one could be with them right now. Ford notes that it could even be the chair with two headrests that Zaphod and Trillian sat in earlier, which leads to this exchange: | |
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In It's Walky!, when Walky and Joyce are running a Trojan Gauntlet, Joyce comes up with the brilliant idea of buying some other random things, so the clerk will think they're using the condoms in a science project or something. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: While making their way through what they believe to be the future Lost Light, Skids and company come across Minimus Ambus' body and the Magnus Armor. Skids notes that the former had his hand cut off to prevent him from using his emergency teleport while the latter has been destroyed by a fusion cannon, aka Megatron's weapon of choice. Megatron's attempts to defend himself end up steering him right into this trope. | |
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During Tear Of Grace's playthough of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, after Brett's newest Captain defeats an enemy one in combat, several other enemy Captains flee the scene. Brett reads off the name of one of said Captains and stops mid-sentence when he realizes that his Implacable Man Nemesis Pigug the Shadow has come Back from the Dead yet again. | |
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Another one happens in his review of The Nutcracker in 3D when Gielgud mentions that the Rat King and his men (who are depicted as behaving like Nazis) burn toys. | |
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