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I Was Never Here
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You did not read this entry. It was never written. Check the security camera footage; it shows you were alone the whole time. You never got here, you dreamed it or were too tired/high/medicated and started to hallucinate. This phrase is not associated with The Men in Black, and No Such Agency would ever use it. There are no large number of variants. You don't need to compare with You Didn't See That. P.S. That Didn't Happen. |
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In Thud!, Mustrum Ridcully has gotten slightly more used to the bendy thinking of Ankh Morpork politics and regretfully informs Commander Vimes that there is no way in which he can help Vimes to get where he needs to be fast. Especially not if he leaves the coaches in the alley next to the University at eight P.M. sharp tonight. | |
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In The Last Son, this is Nick Fury's motto whenever S.H.I.E.L.D is involved in something. | |
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In Goldeneye, James Bond asks CIA agent Jack Wade why he chose to meet him in the Caribbean before he entered Cuba to track down Janus. Wade answers, "I am not here. The CIA has no knowledge, no involvement, nothing to do with your insertion into Cuba, if you catch my drift." | |
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At the end of the Starcraft demo (which is also the prequel to the main game), you are told that you did not just kill a bunch of Xenomorphs ... and the SpecOps unit was never here. | |
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Secret Six: Spy Smasher is trying to draw Amanda Waller into a trap with a fake nuclear attack, only to find The Wall sitting in her office with a gun. | |
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In the third chapter of The Glass Kingdom, the Zaldian State Sec march into a crowded restaurant and arrest Trixie and Lyra (who are both protected by Diplomatic Immunity). The next paragraph explains why they were willing to do that in full view of everypony. | |
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During the "reality show" style competition to be part of House's new team, Amber pulls this on Wilson and a patient when using the connected balcony between House and Wilson's office to sneak out of House's office. | |
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No Country for Old Men: Anton: "You didn't see me. I was already gone." Also, "That depends... Can you see me?" |
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Of course, The Simpsons spoofed it. In "Lost Our Lisa", Lisa somehow ends up right outside Area 51a. A map next to an information kiosk has a dot on it labeled "You are here. We are not." In "My Sister, My Sitter", Lisa has to babysit Bart, who makes her life a living hell by calling up random services. Lisa opens the door to find a military man who asks to see Lisa Simpson, who was reported to have seen a UFO. Lisa screams that she didn't see a UFO. The military man leans in threateningly and says, "That's right, you didn't." He then waves off a doctor with a syringe and leaves. |
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The Hire. In "Ticker" a country's military leader tries to stop a mysterious suitcase containing a heart transplant from getting to his dying president. When the suitcase gets there regardless, there's a shoving match between his Elite Mooks and the president's security detail, which ends when one of the latter says, "You were not here. This never happened. Tell your men to stand down." | |
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The Matrix: When Neo sells the bootleg disc to a client. The dialogue is heavy on Foreshadowing, for bonus points. | |
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Monsters, Inc..: "None of this ever happened, gentlemen. And I don't want to see any paperwork on this." | |
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In one chapter of Double Agent Vader, the rebel pilots throw a raucous dance party on the anniversary of the Empire's founding (their version includes the ceremonial destruction of an effigy of the Emperor). At one point in the party, Leia encounters General Dodonna, who tells her solemnly that he is not there and has no idea the party is even taking place. | |
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In Splinter Cell: Conviction, at the end of the White House level, and thus the game, when Army troops see Sam in the Oval Office preparing to deal with Reed, President Caldwell tells the Captain present that she was the only one he saw there. The soldier gets the hint. | |
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In the novel The Little Sister, a telephone conversation ends with this trope. | |
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The Pink Panther: In the first Steve Martin reboot film, a British secret agent who goes by "006" can't let anyone know he was ever in the city, so after shooting a whole gang with sleeping darts, he hands Clouseau all the credit for stopping the Gas Mask Bandits, a crew of criminals that all Europe is looking for, but who have nothing to do with the plot of the film. | |
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In an episode of Scrubs, Dr. Cox punched out Bob Kelso for chewing out Elliott, deliberately trying to reduce her to tears. In the following episode, Kelso revealed that he tried to press charges, but even though it happened in a lobby full of people, no one saw a thing. | |
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The Essential Guide to Warfare: A short story set during New Jedi Order sees Vergere discuss her motives with Tahiri while the latter is held captive by the Yuuzhan Vong. The enigmatic woman notes that Tahiri is drugged to forget the whole conversation anyway, ending with the line "and as the holos would say, I was never here." | |
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On Supernatural, this is what the Winchester brothers usually say when the police need to be called and the problem has been dealt with, because they're wanted for a number of serious crimes. | |
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Practically Archie's catchphrase in Absolute Power (BBC). He has never met the partners of Prentiss McCabe Media Relations, they don't have a lucrative government contract, and there isn't a large check in this unmarked envelope. | |
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On Season 3 of 24... | |
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Repeatedly spoofed in Discworld: Early on in Small Gods, Vorbis has a meeting with a general who has traveled a very long way for something that never happened, and which is in fact just one of many such meets that hasn't happened with Vorbis of late. In Interesting Times, Mustrum Ridcully has trouble wrapping his mind around the idea that he is not talking to Vetinari and they are not looking at a mysterious albatross, who has not come with an important message. In Thud!, Mustrum Ridcully has gotten slightly more used to the bendy thinking of Ankh Morpork politics and regretfully informs Commander Vimes that there is no way in which he can help Vimes to get where he needs to be fast. Especially not if he leaves the coaches in the alley next to the University at eight P.M. sharp tonight. |
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Used directly in Torchwood episode "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", when John Hart drops a mugger off the roof of a parking garage. His only words to the victim are "I was never here. Go." Notable in that he actually murdered the guy to draw attention to himself, but only wanted Jack's attention instead of the police. | |
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Superman: Doomsday. After Lexcorp engineers Dug Too Deep and released Doomsday who then goes on to kill Superman, Lex Luthor tells his loyal underling Mercy Graves to make sure no-one can blame him for the death of the world's most popular superhero. | |
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The VCR game of Clue- "I was never in Sumatra". | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: After Roger is framed for murder, he hides out in Eddie Valiant's office, to Eddie's chagrin. When he sees the Toon Patrol showing up to search the place for him, he hides inside a drawer in Eddie's desk and tells him "Remember, you never saw me!" | |
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Parodied in So I'm a Spider, So What?, when the titular spider accidentally destroys an enitre Ohts Kingdom fortress (one of several times she underestimates how much more powerful she is than humans), she scampers away declaring "I was never here!" Despite the fact that she's only imagining saying it, since as a spider she has no vocal cords to actually talk. | |
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In Bridge of Spies, subverted in the following conversation: | |
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Schlock Mercenary has a few, including Ellie U.N.S. deputy who was never aboard and never talked to Gen. Xinchub. | |
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, O'Brien shows Winston the picture of the old Party leaders (who are now unpersons), then throws it into a memory hole and says that it never existed and he does not remember its existence. The clear implication is that the Party can do this with any inconvenient object or person. | |
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In Exalted, Sidereals have a Charm called Avoidance Kata which retcons reality so that they were, indeed, never there. | |
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Subverted in Blue Thunder. One of the conspirators concludes their plotting with "This conversation never happened. If it gets back to me, I'll deny it." He then pulls open the drapes to find Blue Thunder hovering outside their window in Stealth Mode, recording the entire conversation. | |
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Played with in Outbreak. Lt. Daniels has, against orders, gone to the site of an outbreak of a deadly virus. His superior, General Ford, discovers this and also discovers that the situation is much worse than anticipated. Ford needs Daniels on the ground to battle the disease and doesn't want to waste time disciplining him, while Daniels is angry at how long it's taken for the military to respond to the situation. So: | |
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On Walker, Texas Ranger, after Alex and Sydney are kidnapped by a Mexican drug lord, the incompetent DEA agent insists that they only thing they can do is negotiate. An incensed Walker grabs him by the throat and snarls, "Negotiate this!" before storming out. When the agent turns to Trivette and Gage, demanding that they back him up, "You saw that! He assaulted me!", the other two deny seeing anything. | |
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Noah evokes this in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts after arriving in an abandoned warehouse with Mirage (due to Mirage unintentionally dragging him along), trying to convince Optimus that he never even saw the Autobots and even closes his eyes to prove it. Optimus is not amused. | |
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In House of Games, Margaret makes this clear to the con artist, Mike, before she kills him. | |
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The Men in Black who stalk around the titular protagonist's house in Serial Experiments Lain answer like this when threatened with police by her older sister. | |
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The X-Files characters were practically joined at the hip to this trope. Most notably with Mulder's informants (Deep Throat and Mister X). The former was kinder about letting everyone know the danger he placed himself in by giving up such information. The latter was downright violent about it. | |
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The Parable epic destiny from the fourth edition Dungeons & Dragons supplement Arcane Power is about this — since the whole concept of that destiny is based on the character's attempt to lay bare the illusion underlying reality and physically become an in-universe Ascended Meme, the specific powers granted by it all have the common theme of them "not really being there" (which at the highest level culminates in cancelling their death once per day because it turned out that what 'died' was just an illusory doppelganger after all). | |
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In an episode of NUMB3RS, Charlie has his security clearance taken away and is unable to officially work on FBI cases. Instead, Amita and Larry are asked to help. However, they don't have Charlie's level of genius, so he has to occasionally help out without the FBI finding out. After one such session, he leaves by quoting this trope. | |
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X-Men: The Early Years: In "Twinkies, Holdups and Other Things that Aren't Good For You", Hank bumps into Scott, Bobby and Warren as they're trying to hide Hank's dead lab rat (long story). | |
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In the Danger 5 episode "Kill-Men Of The Rising Sun", Pierre runs into an old friend with whom he has an unspecified past, presumably in some form of espionage. The friend asks if he remembers Shanghai. Pierre thinks for a moment, then responds with a cheerful "Of course not!" | |
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Seven Days in May: The military did not try to take over the United States. Also true in The Film of the Book. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges": In "In the Pale Moonlight", the entire episode is framed in flashback, as Sisko's private confession into his personal log. At the very end of the episode, following Sisko's chilling admission that he can live with everything he felt he had to do, he deletes the entire log so that the truth will never be revealed. |
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In Interesting Times, Mustrum Ridcully has trouble wrapping his mind around the idea that he is not talking to Vetinari and they are not looking at a mysterious albatross, who has not come with an important message. | |
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Sneakers: "What's really important is that none of this ever happened. This box doesn't exist." Bonus points for the line being spoken by the same man who gave us the trope naming line. | |
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In the X-Wing Series novel Solo Command Warlord Zsinj concocted a plan to brainwash dozens of New Republic citizens into unwittingly carrying out terrorist attacks throughout the galaxy, in a way that would drive divisions between the races of the New Republic. Fortunately the New Republic figured out the pattern of the sleeper agents and their targets and the plots were thwarted. At each incident a New Republic Intelligence agent assists in halting the attacks but officially there were never any intelligence agents present at any of the events and every sleeper agent was foiled by ordinary citizens, which is a better story for easing all the tensions. | |
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Dwight's assistant says this to Pam on The Office (US) when he gives her the evidence she needs to defeat Dwight's evil landlord schemes... except it kind of backfires because she doesn't get it, and Dwight sent him to plant the evidence anyway because he felt bad for her after witnessing her confess to Jim that she was once again failing at her job. | |
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Hitman: "We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened." | |
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Girl Genius: "Don't worry, no-one will even know that I was here. After all, it's not as though anyone will be left to say differently." |
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Sgt. Schultz on Hogan's Heroes has "I know NUSSINK! I see NUSSINK!" as a catchphrase - he's smart enough to realize that investigating would just make things worse for him. Sometimes he goes further and tells the heroes, "I know nothing! I see nothing! I was not here! I didn't even get out of bed this morning!" | |
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M*A*S*H: Frank starts an auction of the camp's waste, rationalizing that locals are taking it for free. Hawkeye has BJ buy the lot. After the auction Hawkeye arranges to have the garbage dumped on a visiting colonel responsible for keeping the hospital extra busy over the course of the episode. |
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Knight Rider: "A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist." | |
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Used in the film version of Get Shorty when Ray Barbone threatens Harry Zimm (and coerces him into shooting the dead Ronnie to frame him for the crime) in order to keep Chili from finding out that he's in LA. | |
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In an issue of Excalibur, Nick Fury attends the funeral of the team's ally and his old friend Brigadier Alysande Stuart, warning her twin brother Alistaire that the conspiracy to cover up her murder as a suicide goes much higher up than he realizes and that he should be careful lest the conspirators subject him to the same treatment. Fury closes by saying "I was never here" as he walks away...and given his frequent use of Life Model Decoys that might even be true. | |
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In episode 4 of Planetes, there's no official record of Colin ever being on the Toybox, or of the crew helping him recover his camera that he'd forgotten while touring a space wrecknote Due to the potential deadliness of even the smallest of debris, littering in space is a major felony. Of course, this also means that there's no official record of Ai socking him in the jaw, either. | |
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In the bad end of Emelia's scenario in SaGa Frontier, her final mission is to pretend that she never joined Gradius at all, a mission she accepted and why in other scenarios she no longer interacts with other Gradius members that she befriended before. | |
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In Air America: Also, at the end, when they steal the plane, Gene points that they can't possibly be stealing the plane, since the plane belongs to the US government, but the plane is in Laos, and "the US government doesn't exist in Laos, and neither does this plane." |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Davos Seaworth, sent as an emissary by the rebel Stannis Baratheon, is captured by the Lord of Sweetsister, who ponders whether he should hand Davos over to the ruling King for execution. He knows however that doing so could bring the wrath of King Stannis down on his head if the rebellion succeeds. He lets Davos go on his way with the promise that "If you are caught, you were never here." | |
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Big Trouble: After a nuclear bomb gets lost in the city and found by two lowlifes: | |
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In The Final Reflection, the protagonist is woken in the middle of the night by agents of Imperial Intelligence who take him away to a meeting with an anonymous superior. He is instructed that they were never there and that no such meeting took place. | |
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The Hunt for Red October: the Trope Namer. | |
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Exterminatus Now had Steve giving the Inquisition a lot of free alcohol with express purpose to make the memory of his bar's location fuzzy. | |
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In VG Cats, when the Wind Waker potions maker denies looking in Link/Leo's bag and seeing a bottled fairy in there, Link/Leo catches on immediately and threatens: | |
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Twice in the Transformers Film Series. In Transformers (2007), Agent Simmons is part of a we-do-not-exist MIB organization. However, one can find the folly of such organizations: Lennox tells him "I don't take orders from people who don't exist." at a climactic moment. You need to exist a bit more than Simmons does to be able to bring official pressure on members of lower organizations to obey you if you intend to be an Obstructive Bureaucrat. Noah evokes this in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts after arriving in an abandoned warehouse with Mirage (due to Mirage unintentionally dragging him along), trying to convince Optimus that he never even saw the Autobots and even closes his eyes to prove it. Optimus is not amused. |
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In Babe, Babe the pig and Ferdinand the duck have a conversation before they remember they aren't supposed to be having a conversation and end by telling each other they weren't there. | |
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Babylon 5: In the pilot, Sinclair tells Ivanova that she wasn't in his office to hear their latest instructions from Earth Central to vote against sanctioning the Narn Regime, and never ran into him before he left to go pirate hunting, so when she later voted for sanctions, he could claim it was a simple miscommunication. |
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Skipper from the Madagascar series with his catchphrase: "You didn't see anything." | |
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An inversion of sorts in Disco Elysium. Near the end of the story, when the Detective and Kim confronts the culprit behind the murder they are investigating, said culprit is ready and calmly waiting for them. If the Detective asks the culprit how they knew the two detectives were coming for them and the player previously chose to play Sad FM on the Detective's portable boomblaster on the way to their hideout, the culprit says that the sound of the approaching music was how they knew. This exchange then happens: | |
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Fawlty Towers: "You know nothing about the horse." | |
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Logan. A sympathetic doctor tries to help Logan (who is slowly dying of Adamantium poisoning) but as the villains are on their trail and have been killing off various witnesses, Logan just walks out of his clinic the moment he regains consciousness while giving this trope. | |
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In the Warhammer 40,000 novel Innocence Proves Nothing, Inquisition agent Danuld Drake says this to a starship security detachment he has instructed to dispose of two dead rogue psykers. | |
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Oddity Archive After the "unscheduled," profanity-filled "guest appearance" in the Public Domain VHS Distributors episode, Ben responds to the incident by saying, "That...never...happened!" | |
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Men in Black II: J and K are watching an episode of an old show that is describing something that happened to K years before. At the end of the episode, they see "You saw nothing" on the recording. | |
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Batman: Gordon of Gotham: After Gordon learns that his FBI contact is working with the villains, the man reveals that he used his vacation days to come to Gotham and his superiors have no idea that Gordon ever contacted him. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Frontios", the Doctor and his companions visit a human colony that's so far in the future that the Time Lords (the Doctor's race) would disapprove. At the end, the colony thanks him for saving them, and he tells them, "Don't mention it." His companion Turlough clarifies, "He means it. Literally." i.e. the Doctor doesn't want the colonists to let the Time Lords find out about it. In "The Caves of Androzani", Morgus has to make personal contact with the smugglers who until now have been working through his cut-out man, Stotz. They're naturally surprised to see the most wealthy and powerful man in the Androzani system is their boss. In "The Fires of Pompeii", when Metella asks the Doctor who he is, with his way with words, and his "temple containing such size within", he answers, "Oh, I was never here. Don't tell anyone." |
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For that matter, this is standard Men in Black operating procedure. | |
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Person of Interest: An Intrepid Reporter is talking to Zoe Morgan, who concludes their conversation with: "It's been a pleasure meeting you. But it's a shame we never met." And John Reese while saying Think Nothing of It. "Don't mention it. In fact, I'd rather you didn't." His Distaff Counterpart Sameen Shaw cites this trope when stopping to dig out the bullets she just put in a terrorist. "We were never here, remember?" His superior in MI6 tells a young Greer while sending him to kill a KGB mole, that "This operation doesn't exist." Greer responds dryly, "They never do." Subverted when he finds this isn't due to Plausible Deniability, but because his superior is covering for his own treachery, therefore this really is an unauthorized mission. Harold Finch breaks into a hacker's house and steals his software. When he's caught red-handed, Finch calmly points out how the hacker sold the software he's stealing to the Russian government to infiltrate US companies. |
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In Call of Duty: Black Ops, one of the intros for a stealth unit is "Erase all hostiles! We were never here!" | |
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JAG: In "Tribunal": | |
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In Common Sense, James is paid extra by Mitchell, a bookmaker that owes him money, in exchange for pretending they never met. After he's accepted the money, James has this to say as he leaves: | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. In Solid State Society the Japanese Prime Minister orders Aramaki not to raid the home of a radical politician because of the political problems this will cause. He orders in Section 9 anyway, but they find the man has been dead for months. After downloading his database for clues, Aramaki orders they leave everything as it was and not inform the authorities. Aramaki doesn't like it, but says they have no choice as Section 9 were never officially there in the first place. | |
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Chakona Space: In Chapter 3 of the Tales of the Folly series, Captain Foster tells Shadowchaser: "They are not here, you did not see them." regarding some rescued Rakshani recovering on his ship. | |
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The Guild Navigator from the Dune (1984), after telling the Emperor to kill Paul Atreides. "I did not say this, I am not here." | |
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On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after learning that Willow is illegally hacking a coroner's files to learn more about suspicious deaths, Giles gives the line: | |
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Lone Star (1996) has a variation - when Chet goes to Otis' bar the night a shooting happens, Otis comes up to Chet and tells him, "You were never here", and instructs him go out back so neither of them get into trouble. | |
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Conspiracy (2001). Throughout the movie Eichmann is shown taking extensive steps to ensure there is no evidence of the Wannsee Conference (fortunately for history, one of the attendees failed to destroy his copy of the minutes). | |
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Star Wars Legends: In the X-Wing Series novel Solo Command Warlord Zsinj concocted a plan to brainwash dozens of New Republic citizens into unwittingly carrying out terrorist attacks throughout the galaxy, in a way that would drive divisions between the races of the New Republic. Fortunately the New Republic figured out the pattern of the sleeper agents and their targets and the plots were thwarted. At each incident a New Republic Intelligence agent assists in halting the attacks but officially there were never any intelligence agents present at any of the events and every sleeper agent was foiled by ordinary citizens, which is a better story for easing all the tensions. The Essential Guide to Warfare: A short story set during New Jedi Order sees Vergere discuss her motives with Tahiri while the latter is held captive by the Yuuzhan Vong. The enigmatic woman notes that Tahiri is drugged to forget the whole conversation anyway, ending with the line "and as the holos would say, I was never here." |
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A recurring character in The Fast Show. "You ain't seen me, right?" In one case, going into a police station, impatiently awaiting the attention of the officer on duty, before delivering the catchphrase and walking out. |
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In Transformers (2007), Agent Simmons is part of a we-do-not-exist MIB organization. However, one can find the folly of such organizations: Lennox tells him "I don't take orders from people who don't exist." at a climactic moment. You need to exist a bit more than Simmons does to be able to bring official pressure on members of lower organizations to obey you if you intend to be an Obstructive Bureaucrat. | |
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Early on in Small Gods, Vorbis has a meeting with a general who has traveled a very long way for something that never happened, and which is in fact just one of many such meets that hasn't happened with Vorbis of late. | |
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In Transmetropolitan, Gary Callahan arranges for a meeting with Spider that leads to him threatening Spider, practically admitting he had one of his own staff murdered and revealing he only wants to be President to mess with people. He then reveals he had all of Spider's recording gear remotely deactivated and that Spider can't prove he said anything, or that he was even there at the meeting. Callahan finishes with this line. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager did a somewhat literal variation that doubled as a serious Mind Screw. At the end of an episode, as Janeway is questioning an alien who nearly took down her entire crew with his telepathic powers, he tells her he'd love to accommodate them... | |
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On Breaking Bad, Mike the Cleaner says this to Jesse after helping him cover up Jane's not-really-accidental drug-related death, after making him repeat "I woke up, I found her, that's all I know." | |
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On Jack Ryan, most of what Jack Ryan and Jim Greer did in their hunt for a terrorist mastermind never officially happened. The base in Yemen was manned by Yemeni troops only and was never a secret CIA facility. Jack and Jim never traveled to Yemen, France or Turkey. Jack did not save hundreds of lives and kill a notorious terrorist because he is just a bureaucrat doing logistics work for the State Department and not a CIA analyst tracking terrorists through Forensic Accounting. | |
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Artemis Fowl, the source of the page quote. Artemis's master plan finally becomes clear to Jon Spiro just as the boy vanishes along with any evidence he had been in the room with Spiro at all. Cue Villainous Breakdown. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "Like Angels Put in Hell by God", Dr. Fareed Bhansali was never at the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers to administer a levodopa transfusion to Daniel Molloy, who has Parkinson's disease. | |
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The possum from "Podunk Possum", from the What A Cartoon series, absolutely did not see any mysterious UFOs this evening, especially after being confronted with the MIBs' very shiny badge. | |
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Law & Order: UK. CP James Steel is suspended from the CPS after a defendant who's had his conviction overturned files a lawsuit. He and colleague Alesha Phillips are in the office, searching for proof of the man's guilt, when their supervisor George Castle appears. The latter two freeze in terror, only for George to quietly declare, "I'm still at the opera." | |
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