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It's What I Do

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Characters are the sum of their tropes. Sometimes they even recognize this about themselves. When another character makes a comment about their behavior that fits their character, they will usually respond with something like, "It's what I do."
Can be used in several ways:
A comedic "Duh!" moment, which is most often.
A Tear Jerker when they perform a Heroic Sacrifice.
A kind way to say, "Think Nothing of It" when receiving praise for heroic actions.
A villain berating the heroes for actually expecting something different from them.
A Jerk Justification.
An implication of using this line is that characters need to be consistent in their behavior, not just doing whatever is needed for the plot. But don't be too surprised if characters behave in a way slightly different from what you expect, as an Out-of-Character Moment can be the opposite of this.
The underlying implication is that the character doesn't necessarily WANT to do whatever it is they're doing, that it's not a special case just business as usual. It's their nature and they can't help it. Can express a desire for emotional growth, or the lack thereof if "What I Do" is something the character has spent a significant amount of time trying not to do or angsting over doing it.
Or, in the Type 2 case of a heroic sacrifice, the person being saved is someone who arguably doesn't deserve to be saved. The hero is expressing that it doesn't matter if the victim deserves to be saved; a trademark of someone suffering from Chronic Hero Syndrome. To not be the hero is unthinkable. However, since these heroes are very rarely stabbed in the back immediately after taking the bullet for a nemesis... well, maybe the victim did deserve to be saved. This situation lends itself to many a Heel–Face Turn.
Also see The Farmer and the Viper, which is when a villain makes a hero pay the price for not realizing this. Also Because I'm Good At It and Appeal to Inherent Nature.
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Adventure Time: The Lich is a pure Omnicidal Maniac without any sort of justification or higher purpose: he wants to kill everything because it's his mission to kill everything. When Finn accuses him of being "so evil it's boring", the Lich calmly agrees.
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The World Ends with You:
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Sluggy Freelance:
In the "Oceans Unmoving" story arc, Honest Stu always speaks his mind literally, to the point that he points out the irony that Calix and not he has to Walk the Plank when he could also have been blamed. In the next panel, he's standing next to Calix on the plank.
And also this:
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Batman: Arkham Knight. After Batman saves her life, Catwoman drops a big hint that they should go to a hotel together, but Batman says there's still work to be done.
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In Arrow, Sara Lance carries a lot of guilt over being a former member of the League of Assassins.
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House:
And also:
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Cheers did this twice at the end of one episode where Frasier brought his agoraphobia support group to the bar to acclimate them to a social situation. The group strikes up a friendship with Norm, Cliff, and Paul to the point where they mock Frasier together. Eventually, Norm convinces the group to pants Frasier. Oddly, this goes some ways towards curbing their agoraphobia, but Frasier takes the credit.
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Danielbeast in the lonelygirl15 episode "Lying Bastards": "I'm going to break into Alex's house. It's all I know how to do really, I guess."
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Dominic Deegan, just before Klo Tark sends Dominic off to battle Celesto Morgan at the end of the "Storm of Souls" Story Arc, and conjures up a set of clothes like what he normally wears:
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In Death Parade, this is used as a Jerk Justification for the arbiters' apathy towards their jobs and their callous disregard for the people they judge. Any degree of self-doubt is regarded as extremely unusual, and any pushback against this mindset seems to either confuse or rattle them.
Decim uses this as an excuse for pushing others several times. When he gets called out for his atrocious behavior, he gets a Heroic BSoD and begins to question his job more sincerely. However, he is then pushed back into the same behavior by his superior until the weight of his actions towards someone he cares about absolutely crushes him. Though he promises to change, it's unlikely the change will stick, given the rules Inherent in the System.
When Mayu expresses pity towards Ginti for saying this, it clearly throws him off-balance to the point where he is speechless for once, until his usual Hot-Blooded temper turns into something much more sinister and cold.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home: Peter-2/Raimiverse Spider-Man mentions this when reinforcing his point about the idea of Spider-Man: a hero who helps, not kills. In a similar situation, MJ, Peter 3's/MCU Spider-Man's girlfriend conveys this too, but through different wording:
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Eureka:
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In Bruges, discussing an assassination.
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Justice League
Darkseid betraying the Justice League and Brainiac in a fake Enemy Mine plan. When Brainiac says, "You deceived me." Darkseid replies coolly, "It's what I do."
In another episode, the Affectionate Parody of golden age heroes "Legends" had the Justice Guild contemplate that defeating the enemy would in fact, kill them as well. The immediate reply they gave was, "We died once to save this Earth, and we can do it again."
Doomsday, on his second appearance. When Superman asks him why he wants to kill him, his reply is "It's what I am. I don't care 'why'."
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Early in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, a trainer remarks "We Trainers will accept challenges anywhere! It's what we do."
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Mystery Men
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Evil Lord Harry Dread, from The Last Hero, allies himself with his enemies the Silver Horde for one last adventure. Later on he betrays them, but they don't hold it against him, because it's tradition.
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Discussed and torn apart by Yahtzee during his review of Thief (2014) after Garret uses this line, complaining that it makes him less of a realistic human being and more of a stale, stereotypical character archetype.
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In the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Telemain is often asked why he experiments with magic or wants to study the magic of wizards. As a magician, he always insistently gives this as his reason.
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Scrubs: JD is talking with a terminally ill patient about what death is like, which annoys Dr. Cox. When he leaves the room in a huff, the patient tells JD, "It's fun to annoy him, huh?" JD replies with a touch of deadpan, "It's what I do."
Turk has been known to say this on more than one occasion: "Well you know I do what I do what I do what I do."
One episode featured an online review system for doctors, which was used as a sly dig at fan reactions to the show. With Turk, he is shocked at how people dislike his catchphrase.
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Edge of Spider-Verse (2023): When James Watson asks Kraven the Huntsman why he's hunting Spinstress, Kraven gives his answer as this, in song.
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In Batman: Gotham Adventures #60:
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Discworld:
Evil Lord Harry Dread, from The Last Hero, allies himself with his enemies the Silver Horde for one last adventure. Later on he betrays them, but they don't hold it against him, because it's tradition.
Dr. Hix, the head of the department of Post-Mortem Communications, in Making Money and especially in Unseen Academicals. It's his job to be "evil" because of his department, so whenever he does something underhanded or says something nasty he points this out, often indicating his official skull ring. (Most of the things he actually does are poodle-poking at worst.)
Lord Vetinari is also known to occasionally remind people that he's the Tyrant when they protest that he "can't do that!"
In Sourcery, Rincewind asks Abrim "You employ the slavers?" and Abrim says "I am the vizier after all. It is rather expected of me."
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Final Fantasy XVI: At the end of the game, the Big Bad's last question to Clive is why they would fight and suffer all this way to save a dying world that will stay barren for centuries.
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Superman: Doomsday: Superman states that he has to fight Doomsday because "it's why I'm here."
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From Hot Fuzz, after Nicholas is told he's being involuntarily transferred because he's making everyone look bad:
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Dr. Hix, the head of the department of Post-Mortem Communications, in Making Money and especially in Unseen Academicals. It's his job to be "evil" because of his department, so whenever he does something underhanded or says something nasty he points this out, often indicating his official skull ring. (Most of the things he actually does are poodle-poking at worst.)
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Knights of the Old Republic II:
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The Twilight Zone:
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In Hobo With a Shotgun, Ivan walks around in ice skates to make his kicks deadly. Slick notes, "You're going to ruin your skates." Ivan smiles broadly and replies, "I ruin everything!"
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Wolverine: "I'm the best there is at what I do. What I do ain't very nice."
Deadpool: "Now I'm better at doing whatever it is Wolverine does!"
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Rusty and Co..'s Madeline the Paladin.
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In another episode, the Affectionate Parody of golden age heroes "Legends" had the Justice Guild contemplate that defeating the enemy would in fact, kill them as well. The immediate reply they gave was, "We died once to save this Earth, and we can do it again."
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Detective Comics #823 has Batman trying to help Poison Ivy, before discovering a recording of people she tortured and killed. When he yells at her for it, she just acts amused that he's angry because he should know who she is by now.
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This is the answer Garret gives in Thief (2014) when asked why he steals.
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American Dad! had this:
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The Devil's Advocate:
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In Codex Alera the Vord Queen explains this as her reason for trying to destroy Alera. It appears to be a genetic imperative for the Vord to destroy all other species. She also offers the same excuse to Invidia for betraying her, explaining that not betraying her just isn't in her nature, and she's welcome to keep working for her.
Discussed with regard to Invidia, too, to the effect that she can be counted on to betray her rescuers.
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
Buttercup says this when she's dressed as a monster in the rainy day episode of Powerpuff Girls "I'm a monster and I'm eating Joe! I do that."
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 The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
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In Doctrine of Labyrinths, this is Felix's most common jerk justification, especially for constantly bullying and belittling his brother Mildmay. He openly acknowledges that he's being an asshole (without actually apologizing for the most part because...well, it's Felix) and even admits that he hates himself for it, but claims it's simply part of his inherent nature and he couldn't change it even if he wanted to. Only in the fourth and final book of the series, after a large dose of Break the Haughty and a lot of soul-searching, does he begin to realize he can change for the better, and makes a genuine attempt to do so.
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Thor: Ragnarok: Loki's explanation in his play The Tragedy of Loki of Asgard about his past misdeeds:
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Spenser has sometimes been asked why he does the sometimes dangerous work he does. His answer is part "A desk job would kill me with boredom" and part "Because I'm good at it."
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The Venture Brothers
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 TheVentureBrothers
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Farscape. In "Twice Shy", the crew of Moya rescue Sex Slave Talikaa only for her to turn out to be a shapeshifting alien spider out to eat them.
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 Farscape
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The How Superman Should Have Ended ends with Batman and Superman chatting in a cafe:
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Jackie Chan Adventures - "Shanghai Moon"
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Stargate SG-1 had this from its resident Deadpan Snarker:
In the Show Within a Show Wormhole X-Treme, this is the O'Neill-a-like's signature line, which the actor practices:
In another episode ("The Other Guys"), SG-1 is trying to escape a Goa'uld, and hesitate when they learn that the Stargate is guarded by a lot of Jaffa. The scientist with them points out, "But you're SG-1!" Though the trope name goes unsaid, the looks on the team's faces clearly imply it. And their actions cement it.
"Revelations": O'Neill agrees to help the Asgard while Hammond and Carter still argue over it with the explanation: "It's what we do, isn't it?"
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Chowder
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Wily's Wittle Wub: Variant in that someone else says "It's what he does". Specifically, at the start of the Mega Man 8 arc:
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: When Sokka's trapped in a hole, he says, "Okay, Karma person or thing, whoever's in charge of this stuff. If I can just get out of this situation alive, I will give up meat... and sarcasm. Okay? That's all I got. That's pretty much my whole identity. Sokka, the meat and sarcasm guy."
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Kira and Dax are in a runabout trying to secure another that is out of control, and Dax just shot down Kira's more dangerous idea to attempt beaming onto it in warp.
Star Trek: Voyager had this in a story told by Chakotay in the Two-Part Episode "Scorpion", relating to how the Borg can not be trusted in an Enemy Mine situation because "It's my nature." Later in the same episode, both Chakotay and Janeway are shocked to find out that it was the Borg who started the war against Species 8472. Almost as if they expected something else from the one species known to attack and assimilate everything it encounters without exceptions? Duh!
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Lighter Than Some, a Covenant Engineer in the Halo novel Halo: Contact Harvest, was ridiculously friendly. When pressed by a human-made AI on why it was helping her, it would simply reply "Lighter Than Some," which she figured meant "I help because that is who I am." It helps that Lighter Than Some was also trying to be The Atoner because it was the first Covenant to kill a human.
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Mass Effect 2:
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 Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)
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Mass Effect 3: When you encounter Mordin looking over the Genophage-free female Krogan "Eve" he explains that he had to be the one involved because "Someone else might have gotten it wrong." In one of the multiple ways that story plays out Mordin performs a Heroic Sacrifice ensuring that the cure gets distributed around Tuchanka. As Shepard talks to him about what's going to happen, Mordin shrugs and says "Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong."
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Tales of Symphonia
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 Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)
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Mass Effect:
Mass Effect 2:
Invoked to an extent if you decide to destroy the Collector Base and are a Paragon. The Illusive Man is furious that Shepard did so, forgetting that he wanted to bring Shepard back from the dead exactly as they were.
Mass Effect 3: When you encounter Mordin looking over the Genophage-free female Krogan "Eve" he explains that he had to be the one involved because "Someone else might have gotten it wrong." In one of the multiple ways that story plays out Mordin performs a Heroic Sacrifice ensuring that the cure gets distributed around Tuchanka. As Shepard talks to him about what's going to happen, Mordin shrugs and says "Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong."
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Batman:
In Batman: Gotham Adventures #60:
Detective Comics #823 has Batman trying to help Poison Ivy, before discovering a recording of people she tortured and killed. When he yells at her for it, she just acts amused that he's angry because he should know who she is by now.
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Kwai Chang and Peter Caine in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues both protect the innocent and help people in need, but as the father is a Shaolin priest and the son is a cop, they have completely different approaches summed up in different "what I do" expressions.
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 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
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The Differentverse: Marble's explanation for some of Pinkie's behavior is "She's Pinkie Pie. She does that."
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The Mystara setting's supplement Tall Tales Of The Wee Folk accounts for why it's impossible to insult a satyr via this trope. Satyrs make no value judgements, attributing events and behavior to nature rather than moral or ethical cause; therefore, if you call one a "dirty little coward", he'll take no offense at all, but simply either agree or disagree that he's grimy, small, and afraid of danger.
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In the UK series of The Office, David says this in the first episode of the second series, soon after he has told the "black man's cock" joke, when the Swindon intake have not grasped that they're supposed to laugh at everything he says.
 It's What I Do / int_82439e5c
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 The Office (UK)
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Sports Night: In the first season episode "The Head Coach, Dinner, and the Morning Mail", Dan complains to Casey about using sound effects to rag on his alma mater for losing a game:
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 Sports Night
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As Light explains to Ryuuzaki in The Prince Of Death, he's a Shinigami, a God of Death — he kills people.
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 Death Note (Manga)
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Lost: In the season 5 finale, Ben Linus admits that, when he and Locke were in the cabin and Ben seemed to be having a conversation with Jacob, he was faking it. He says, with some regret, "I Lied. ... It's what I do."
 It's What I Do / int_8d817ccb
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 Lost
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Boy Meets World: Upon warning Corey that Topanga is about to become more beautiful after going to a salon, Shawn tells him that she'll dump Corey and hang out with other beautiful people because "It's what we do."
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 Boy Meets World
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Kyle Reese in The Terminator:
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 The Terminator
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Kill Six Billion Demons: This is the reason Jadis gives for everything she does. She has perfect, absolute knowledge of all space and time, including her own future actions, and as a result of this is completely unable to diverge from what she has Seen herself do. She acts (or refrains from acting) not to accomplish anything, but simply because... it's what she does.
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 Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic)
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A genre-defining moment in Time Bandits when the title characters discover that God has been onto them all along.
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In Stormbreaker, Mr Blunt (the head of MI6) gives this answer when Alex Rider asks him why they don't trust Darrius Sayle (the movie's Villain with Good Publicity). "Well, we don't trust anyone. It's sort of what we do."
 It's What I Do / int_9971755d
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Hermes' Bureaucrat Song in Futurama is practically an anthem for why he does what he does. Why is he an Obstructive Bureaucrat who is "anal retentive and weird", who "treats people like swine and makes 'em stand in line"? It's what he does!
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T.U.F.F. Puppy has the Stinkbug from "Law and Odor" who said "I'm the Stink Bug! I stink! It's what I do." when his dumb assistant kept making suggestions on how to smell better.
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Teen Titans:
One-off enemy The Source abducts cattle because they're the power source he needs to leave Earth in his spaceship. However, he plans to blow the planet up on the way out simply for no reason but because "It is our way."
Robin confronts Slade over his role in bringing about an apocalypse that's left the world in ruins (don't worry, it gets better)...
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Mal to River in Serenity:
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Maria uses this as a Type 2 in 7 Seeds when talking about how she and the other entertainers were brought to Ryugu Shelter to entertain and keep the people calm and content despite The End of the World as We Know It happening up on the surface or a terrible, deadly parasite breaking out and how they'll continue to do their jobs until the very last moment because it's what they got brought to the shelter for.
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Danger Mouse from "150,000,000 Years Lost" when he volunteers to go back in time with Professor Squawkencluck's time machine to bring back Penfold (who was sent back accidentally):
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Rika Shiguma from Haganai is a very perverted character, and for the most part is not afraid to show her interests to other characters. She will often also shout Unusual Euphemisms such as "Universe!" and "Excalibur!", and tries to introduce other members of the Neighbors club to her interests such as Boys' Love, video games, or mecha on mecha porn.
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In Hitman: Absolution, Agent 47's opening narration ends with: One day, I will think of this as just another job. After all, this is what I do. Here the trope works both as a starting point for the plot (his target being the closest to him) and grimly describes how this plot shall unfold; as 47 methodically does his main enemies, all of their family members, associates, key employees, security sub-contractors and regular staff, all of their informants and even favorite sports personalities. And, optionally, about half of standing force of the Chicago Police.
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In the Service
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Spoofed in a Robot Chicken parody of Kill Bill where Jesus takes the place of the Bride. When he takes on the one-eyed character of Elle Driver, he jabs her in her bad eye, healing it and returning her sight. She thanks him in surprise, and he smiles and says "It's what I do"... then immediately cuts her in half with his sword.
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Leverage
Later, in the season finale, we get:
In the season two episode "The Tap Out Job", Eliot drops the line again to make it clear that dishing out beatdowns is only part of what he does, explaining to Sophie why he's okay with Throwing the Fight to protect their client:
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Disco Elysium: Failing skill checks can result in the associated skill (and, by proxy, the protagonist) having a bit of a meltdown about it. However, at one point after several of these, a failed Logic check will instead result in Logic acknowledging that it's just a setback and no big deal, causing the other skills to get mad that Logic is handling it so much more gracefully than they did. Logic's response is "I'm just more level headed than you. That's my thing."
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Kingdom of Heaven:
And later, after raiding a peaceful caravan and killing Saladin's sister to provoke the war:
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Danny Phantom:
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Quoth Jack Sparrow in the first film:
 It's What I Do / int_bc1dc95a
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Transformers: Animated had Omega Supreme say this in a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Shadowchasers: Conspiracy; the assassin B.B. Hood has murdered the mobster Tranello Dominare, and is now confronting his fellow mobster Cattivo Fanciullo, who was also a target, but had the "good" fortune to arrive late. Naturally, Faunciullo is furious, but she has the jump on him, so he has to keep her occupied:
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Most of the mercs in the Team Fortress 2 videos say some version of this as an explanation as to why they have their positions.
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Goblins in the Castle: A species-wide version — Borg, the goblin king's counselor, explains to William at one point that they both help people out and play little jokes because "That's how we were made."
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In the Sci-Fi channel TV movie The Fallen Ones, the Big Bad is a fallen angel who wants to destroy mankind with an army of Nephilim giants. The about-to-be-killed mentor gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, pointing out that such an event is mentioned nowhere in the Bible or in any prophecy, and the Big Bad's entire plan is doomed to fail. The Big Bad simply replies "I have to try. It's what I do." At the end of the film, in an Ironic Echo, the hero says the same thing to the Big Bad after the Big Bad tells the hero that he couldn't possibly stop him.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the first part of the show's Grand Finale, Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow enact their season-long plan to betray Grogar by keeping the Bewitching Bell to themselves and use it against him. When Grogar realizes too late that the other villains are betraying him, this exchange occurs:
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Doctor Who:
"Nightmare of Eden":
"Voyage of the Damned":
"The Woman Who Fell to Earth":
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Kemo has two main traits. The first is saying anything about his hair. (It is very strange, even for anime hair.) The second is using the phrase "Attention, Duelists!" to begin every line of dialogue that he says. This is because he works as a tournament announcer, so it makes sense. But one time, when he was alone with Seto Kaiba and used the catchphrase, Kaiba questioned why he said it. Kemo responded by quoting this trope by name.
In "Concrete Giraffes", a parody of Marble Hornets and The Slender Man Mythos, Police Chief Kurt Russel asks why Jack Slenderman (the Cop Who Does Not Play by the Rules) ate all the children he was supposed to be rescuing. He replies with "It's what I dooo!"
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Blake's 7. Vila, the only member of the crew who never makes a pretext of acting out of revolutionary ideals has an opportunity to set up on a planet with a beautiful woman far away from Blake's Hopeless War against the Federation.
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In Person of Interest, during a flashback to just before he left the CIA, Reese's partner Kara Stanton said a line similar to this:
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From Pushing Daisies:
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In Van Helsing, Igor says this when questioned why he likes torturing things.
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Mark Henry would scream "That's what I do!" after assaulting people during his "Hall Of Pain" gimmick. This is also what he said after shoving away people trying to help him after he seemingly exhausted himself pulling two semi-trucks and their trailers.
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CSI: Ecklie, former less-competent CSI and now head administrator, has always been a thorn in the team's side, but as administrator, he gets actual moments of respect, like this one: Catherine had a memory card of evidence photos stolen from her and been grilled earlier by Ecklie for it; the photos appear on the television news.
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JAG: When applying to be the guardian of Mattie in the 9th season episode “A Merry Little Christmas� a social service worker comes and inspects Harm’s apartment.
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Joey says this as he volunteers to duel in the pre-Battle City Virtual World mini-arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! dub.
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In Sourcery, Rincewind asks Abrim "You employ the slavers?" and Abrim says "I am the vizier after all. It is rather expected of me."
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Andromeda
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This trope is used several times in The Ultimate Evil by Shendu to explain his past villainous actions to be a part of his nature as a demon. His brother Hsi Wu also uses this trope when he re-encounters Jade after pretending to be her friend.
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Number 5 of the Codename: Kids Next Door: "We're the Kids Next Door. We save kids. That's our job!"
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - "Hercules and the Lost Kingdom":
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It's What I Do
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, it goes in hand with the series' main villain, Muzan Kibutsuji's, immense ego as he compares himself with natural disasters, as in he might as well be a god, in his myopic view of how the Demon Slayers that are in the wrong from fighting against him at all; all the atrocities and deaths Muzan has caused is simply what he does and anyone should just put up with it and move on with their lives, just like humans can't really swear revenge on a volcano or tornado for killing loved ones, according to him.
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 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
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Chainsawsuit parodies this here with Hit Character, a character who is nothing but this trope.
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Seen in Dragon Age II, in the Mark of the Assassin DLC, when Varric makes a vague reference to his work as The Spymaster.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Also:
After the Initiative turns out to be involved in Mad Science, a disillusioned Riley Finn feels at a loss over what to do with his life. "Give me an order. It's what I do, isn't it? Follow orders?" So Buffy orders him to stop tormenting himself.
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In Stephen Donaldson's Mordant's Need, one of the heroes keeps getting into duels with the Big Bad's chief swordsman. He pauses to ask the swordsman why he doesn't simply overthrow the Big Bad (who is portrayed as an essentially impotent dupe of his supposed underlyings.) The swordsman replies with this trope.
 It's What I Do / int_e2ea40b
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1.0
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 The Mirror of Her Dreams
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In the Even Stevens movie, when Beans wants to use the remote control for one of Louis' pranks, Louis tells him it's not a toy, and that "this is my job - it's what I do".
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 Even Stevens
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"Bonnie and Clyde — We Rob Banks." Spoofed in the Warner Bros. cartoon Bunny & Claude—"We Rob Carrot Patches."
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In "Concrete Giraffes", a parody of Marble Hornets and The Slender Man Mythos, Police Chief Kurt Russel asks why Jack Slenderman (the Cop Who Does Not Play by the Rules) ate all the children he was supposed to be rescuing. He replies with "It's what I dooo!"
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Happens many times in House of Anubis:
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Star Trek: Voyager had this in a story told by Chakotay in the Two-Part Episode "Scorpion", relating to how the Borg can not be trusted in an Enemy Mine situation because "It's my nature." Later in the same episode, both Chakotay and Janeway are shocked to find out that it was the Borg who started the war against Species 8472. Almost as if they expected something else from the one species known to attack and assimilate everything it encounters without exceptions? Duh!
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MacGyver doesn't actually say it himself, because he's busy doing what he's doing.
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The catchphrase of Primetime Elix Skipper. "It ain't easy being me but this is what I do!" (Jerome "Do It" Pruitt had a similar catchphrase.
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An episode of The Batman saw the Dark Knight fall under the sway of Spellbinder, nearly handing over the episode's MacGuffin and revealing his identity in the process. When Bats is snapped out of it and Bats pulls the MacGuffin away, Spellbinder voices his disbelief that the hero had been faking. Quote the Batman, "It's what I do!" It was quite convincing.
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): At the climax, the Storm King breaks his promise to Tempest Shadow with this sarcastic line:
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In The Little Mermaid (1989), Ursula says this almost exactly shortly before launching into "Poor Unfortunate Souls":
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In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, when Larxene complains about Vexen referring to everything as an experiment, he points out, "I'm a scientist, experiments are what I do."
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Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn:
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Field of Dreams: For the entire film, J. D. Salinger expy Terence Mann has tried to justify why he doesn't write anymore. In the denouement, he relents.
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Deadpool: "Now I'm better at doing whatever it is Wolverine does!"
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In Gravity Falls, after Probabilitor introduces himself, he then states that he's going to eat Ford and Dipper's brains to add their intelligence to his own.
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The Punisher (2017). Karen Page tries in vain to persuade Frank Castle to stop mourning his dead family and start another life with someone else. Frank isn't having it.
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It's What I Do
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It's What I Do
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It's What I Do
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It's What I Do
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It's What I Do
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It's What I Do
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It's What I Do
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type
It's What I Do
 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Suicide Squad (2016) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 The Producers / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Thor: Ragnarok / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 300 / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Van Helsing / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 When Eight Bells Toll / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Haganai / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Claw & Warder / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Codex Alera / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Deathstalker / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Doctrine of Labyrinths / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Enchanted Forest Chronicles / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Goblins in the Castle / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Haganai / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Halo: Contact Harvest / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Lilith's Brood / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 The Executioner / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 The Murderbot Diaries / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 The Squire's Tales / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 DasAuto
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It's What I Do
 KJMackley
seeAlso
It's What I Do
 Boy Meets World / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Eureka / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Sherlock Holmes / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 The Office (UK) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Backstroke of the West (Web Video) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Garfielf (Web Video) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Cyanide and Happiness (Webcomic) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Dangerously Chloe (Webcomic) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Get Medieval (Webcomic) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Slightly Damned (Webcomic) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Problem Child / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Superman: Doomsday / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Elix Skipper (Wrestling) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do
 Mark Henry (Wrestling) / int_2916334d
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It's What I Do