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The Non-Answer is a response to a question that is so generic or vague that it's not really an answer at all. Usually, not only is the answer very vague, it is very obvious as well. This may be because there is no better answer, or the askee simply doesn't want to answer the question. Other times, the askee is bluntly trying to redirect the questioner's attention to what they consider to be the more important consideration. For instance, "Because I Said So" may not be considered an answer by a junior officer, yet the senior officer may be trying to reinforce the importance of following orders. Some seemingly Non-Answers can actually be quite profound in their simplicity, succinctly stripping away extraneous considerations. Often this overlaps with Double Meaning, where many people dismiss the apparent Non-Answer but miss the meaning hidden within. A favored technique for the Sleazy Politician or Obstructive Bureaucrat. Could lead to a "Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation situation. Compare Mathematician's Answer and Cryptically Unhelpful Answer. For when it's the creator of a work that gives an answer like this, see Shrug of God. Examples |
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In Fight Club, after the chemical burn scene, Marla asks what happened to the narrator's hand. Tyler has asked the narrator not to talk to Marla about him. | |
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One scene in Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia sees Selphie succeed in her quest to turn "booyaka" into a catchphrase among the group. This confuses Lightning, who thinks it's some kind of code she wasn't told about and treats it as a security matter. When she finally gets a chance to ask Selphie what the heck it means, Selphie just says "use it as much as you want!" and runs off. | |
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In Adventure Time we have Magic Man who gives us this gem. | |
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In A Little Lily Princess, when Sara asks Lavinia what the difference between "old-fashioned" and "traditional" is, Lavinia says, "One is better than the other." | |
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In Bojack Horseman, when Bojack is asked about his opinion of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict during a book signing for his biography, he's able to placate the audience with shocking grace. He proceeds to give a thumbs up to his agent Princess Carolyn, who shrugs her shoulders in confusion and acceptance. | |
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In Bleach: The following exchange is lampshaded by Souken when Uryuu asks if what Ryuuken said is true. Souken explains it's Metaphorically True but Uryuu's too young to understand that Ryuuken's only given an obvious and practical answer that completely side-steps the question of "hate" entirely. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: In "Saitama VS. Popeye", Saitama asks the rather apposite question "Who the hell are you?" and gets the answer "I am what I am, and that's all what I am." | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1: During the Death Eater meeting where Voldemort and his followers are discussing where and how to dispose of Harry Potter, the Dark Lord asks Pius Thicknesse, a member of the Ministry of Magic who is collaborating with them, his opinion. Voldemort even lampshades it. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo: In Grasscutter, Usagi is carrying the titular swordnote "Grasscutter" is a direct translation of "Kusanagi", which is a symbol of Imperial power and a magical artifact of major importance to hide it from the Big Bad. He ends up in a monastery and asks the abbot for spiritual guidance on what he should do: should he give the sword to the rightful but weak Emperor, or set himself up as a kingmaker and give it to someone he thinks would make a better ruler? The abbot answers that he should start building barricades and filling buckets, because the Big Bad's mooks are on the way, and they need to do all the prepwork they can to keep the sword from falling into the hands of the Big Bad. | |
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The people of Taveye in DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS give these to Harris. | |
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From Better Off Ted: | |
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In Shrek the Third, the evil Prince Charming interrogates Pinocchio, trying to find out where Shrek is, only for Pinocchio to confuse Prince Charming with Confusing Multiple Negatives and ambiguous answers: | |
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Karlsson on the Roof, who's like some kind of a modern, urban fairy looking like a smallish man with a propeller on his back, but acting childishly, will only answer to questions about his age by saying he's "at his prime". | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer vs. the 18th Amendment", Homer is using hollow bowling balls to smuggle illicit beer. When Marge asks why he has so many bowling balls, he admits that he can't lie to her — and then simply leaves without answering at all. | |
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In Spider-Man: No Way Home Peter has hired Matt Murdock as his lawyer; at one point a vandal throws a brick through Peter's window, and Matt (who the audience should be reminded is blind and has successfully kept his identity secret) catches it by reflex. Upon being asked how he could have possibly done that, Matt's explanation is, "I'm a really good lawyer." | |
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In an Inside Out bonus scene, Joy tries to get Riley out of being called on by the teacher by having her mumble an incomprehensible answer. When that fails, she tries the "answer a question with a question" trick, which stalls the teacher long enough for the bell to ring. Then, Joy uses the same trick on the other emotions. | |
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In Nichijou: When Sasahara is asked what the frilly thing is that he is wearing, he laughs and responds by saying how extraordinary life is. | |
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Tumblr: In the 2016 April Fools' Day site event, when Deborah is asked about her species, she dodges the question. | |
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In Naruto: | |
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8-Bit Theater: When Ranger dual wields his dual wield to wield four bows at once, Sarda asks the obvious question of how he's holding them in only two hands. Ranger's response? | |
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Half-Life 2: One of Dr. Breen's broadcasts mentions a "concerned citizen" asking why the Combine have seen fit to suppress humanity's reproductive cycle. Rather than give any kind of meaningful answer, Breen goes on a long-winded speech about unspoken questions and how instinct is the greatest enemy of humanity, never once addressing the why. | |
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Community: In "Introduction to Teaching", Jeff asks his "Fundamentals of Law" class if they have any questions. | |
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In Hamlet, Polonius asks Hamlet what he is reading. Hamlet's response: "Words, words, words." | |
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Return of the Secaucus Seven: Lampshaded by Chip and Irene when they're talking about the the senator they work for. Chip pretends to be the senator, and Irene pretends to interview him and asks him about the tomato, to which Chip gives long-winded answers that try to avoid taking a position on it, and even bringing up his apparent friendship with John F. Kennedy. Chip and Irene then tell Irene's friends how they went through several drafts of a speech about marijuana legalization, and the senator only approved a speech where he was shown to take no position whatsoever. | |
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Grange Hill: When Tucker and his mates sneak into the rival school Brookdale, and pretend to be pupils there, Tucker deflects the question asked by a teacher who confronts them. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21), the Yellow-Eyed Demon is very good at deflecting Sam's questions or only answering with an answer that he wants Sam to have. | |
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In the penultimate episode of Runaways (2017) season one, the members of PRIDE try to press Jonah for some details about the "energy source" he's supposedly drilling for. | |
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In the WordGirl episode "Mr. Big", WordGirl demands an explanation for what Mr. Big's product "The Thing", a plain white cube, does. Mr. Big keeps giving non-answers in an effort to not have to explain that the Thing doesn't do anything. | |
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Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: Whenever the Producer asks why something happens in the story, the Screenwriter usually just says "Because!" with no further elaboration. | |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. In "Scammers Expected $5,000 But Grandma Buys a Scooter," the scammer tells Kitboga's Granny Edna character that she is "with the Amazon server." Granny Edna tells him that he she has a question: "What is a server?" He tells her that this is the secure server by which she is getting the application form that is not available to anyone apart from her. "But what is a server?" she asks him. "The server is an Amazon server, ma'am. Amazon server," he tells her. She asks if he's talking about the people who give you food at restaurants. She says that she doesn't know what he means by "server," that he just keeps saying "server." She tells him that she's asking him for the fifth time, for $500, "What is a server?"note There are multiple factors at play here. The first is that the scammers themselves are often largely computer illiterate - as Kit has demonstrated in other videos, they often only know what is in their scripts. The second is that even if the scammer does know how to explain it, he wouldn't want to because it would give away too much about the scam. Finally, he doesn't want to spend time explaining stuff when he could be scamming. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Leonard Hofstadter's mother: | |
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Robin: Despite his reputation as a great liar, Tim's really better at giving answers that are metaphorically true or just straight up not actually answering the questions posed to him when he doesn't want to give away the truth. For a blunt example: | |
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Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate X Men: How can Wolverine, with an adamantium skeleton, pass in the airport without turning on all the metal detectors? "Three words, bub: I'm a professional". Spider-Men II: Miles Morales saved Barbara using his powers. She asked if he's a mutant, an inhuman, something else, all of the above... and he replied that needs time to figure out how to answer. |
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Space: 1999. At the end of "Mission of the Darians", Carter asks Commander Koenig if he'd make the same amoral decisions that the Darians (living on a Generation Ship that suffered a catastrophe) did to ensure their race survived. Koenig can only say, "Remind me to tell you sometime." | |
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Not Always Right is full of these. | |
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The War Game: | |
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Saints Row: The Third: STAG commander Cyrus Temple is absolutely terrible when it comes to public speaking or handling the media, being incapable of answering even the most basic questions without trying to dodge around the semantics of the question or reeling off some unrelated slogan or rhetoric. When pressed for a straight answer, Cyrus breaks down at the podium and flies into a hot-blooded rant before abruptly concluding the press conference. | |
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xkcd hid a joke about this in the gigantic scrolling strip with a character saying that the phrase sounds better than "because I'm rich enough for my goals to be arbitrary". | |
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In The Last Jedi, Vice Admiral Holdo is asked if the Resistance fleet has a plan to escape their pursuers. Rather than explaining the plan or even just saying there is one, Holdo gives what sounds like a canned speech about the power of hope. Poe interprets this as her deflecting the question to hide that there is no plan and responds as such. | |
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In Poker Night 2, Ash may sometimes ask Sam why he doesn't wear shoes, and Sam deflects from this with a response that doesn't really address matters. Max gives the game away after the fact anyway, though. | |
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In Lest Darkness Fall, Padway dodges inquiries about his religion (a touchy subject in sixth-century Ostrogothic Italy) by saying that he's a "Congregationalist", which he describes as "the closest thing to (name of questioner's religion) in my country". | |
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The Shivah enables you to respond to almost every question with a "Rabbinic Answer", which is essentially just answering the question with another question. To be fair, the point of these questions seems to be to make your interrogator realize the answer on his/her own... It only works sometimes though, as most of the time people react with impatience when you try it. | |
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In She's My Knight, when Miyoshi asks Ichinose if he's ever had a girlfriend: | |
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Teal'c was a master of the non-answer in Stargate SG-1. For example: | |
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Mass Effect 3: Used for comedy if you have both Padok Wiks and Eve on the ship. If you decide to boot Diana Allers off of the Normandy, Shepard doesn't even bother to give her a reason when asked; s/he merely replies, "What do you think?" Legion gives a few of these, indicating that he is not Just a Machine. When asked why he wears part of Shepard's armor, he'll "think" about it for a few seconds (keep in mind, this is a machine and his thought processes are much faster) before answering "No data available". In the third game, Shepard can view records of the original Geth-Quarian War and witnesses the first time a geth (a "simple farming Geth") picked up a weapon and used it on attacking quarians. Shepard will note it picked up a Widow rifle, the same gun Legion uses. Legion will evade, "... It's an efficient weapon." Then, when Shepard asks if Legion thinks there's any chance the quarians and geth can stop trying to kill each other, Legion merely responds "hope sustains organics. We admire the concept." |
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Zootopia: Judy is nervous about having to speak at a press conference, so Nick tells her that instead of answering the questions, she should respond by stating a different question and then answering that one. | |
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One panelist on a segment of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's VCPR is Florida's current state congressman and whenever he is fielded a serious question he, like any good caricature of a slimy 80's politician, refocuses the topic until it helps his reply, along with reassuring platitudes and campaign slogans, some Insane Troll Logic and a liberal dose of Ad Hominem against host Maurice Chavez's career. He even outright says that he's going to do this when Chavez brings up a strong point against him near the end: | |
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Not in-universe, but if you browse through the Phineas and Ferb wiki you can find the following 'information' about Ferb: How Phineas tells Candace that the Nose Lake Monster is real... she figures it out pretty quickly. |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Tom Siddell does this when he doesn't want to answer a fan's question. | |
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The Ricky Gervais Show: When Karl is explaining his first film pitch. | |
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Garfield and Friends: In one episode of the U.S. Acres segment, Roy tries to be elected farm leader. Bo asks about his position about the building of a new barn and Roy gives a long rant about how important the matter is, without actually answering the question. Bo sees this as what makes Roy a great politician. | |
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In a Meta example, Star Trek technical adviser Michael Okuda was asked how the Heisenberg Compensator note a critical piece of the transporter system, and probably the biggest challenge as far as creating a real-life transporter works. He replied, "It works very well, thank you." | |
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Titans (2018). A social worker who's a friend of Jason Todd but doesn't know he's Robin, points out a minion of the Joker and is puzzled when Jason is able to instantly identify him. | |
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Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister is not fond of giving straight answers. When pressed for one, he exaggerates this trope instead, talking for thirty seconds without saying anything at all. | |
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I, Robot: Every time Spooner asks the holographic projector of Dr. Lanning important questions, like why he killed himself and what is the ultimate logical outcome of the Three Laws of Robotics, the hologram simply replies with "That, detective, is the right question", inviting Spooner to find the answers himself. Justified in that if Lanning had tried to give Spooner a straight answer through more straightforward methods, V.I.K.I. would've put a stop to it. | |
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The Trenches: | |
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Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK: As Harry is unable to Portkey to the Quidditch World Cup due to his draconic magic resistance, he has to fly there himself, but has trouble navigating. Unfortunately for Sirius, who is trying to help him via mirror, the officials don't exactly know where they are either. The time-telling charm Tempus can give this, since telling time is a human invention and is very dependent on the caster's interpretation, location and language. If you don't cast it right, it might give answers like "Now, in this galaxy". |
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Pasila has an example of a ridiculously loaded question being deflated with a simple answer that's... well... | |
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In an early-season episode of M*A*S*H, Hawkeye and Trapper are trying to get an incubator for the hospital lab. After several failed attempts, they end up posing as journalists at a press conference, and we are treated to the following: After Hawkeye presses (and is rebuffed), Trapper is recognized: In a later episode, a patient refers to Hawkeye and BJ's "wait and see" responses regarding his friend's condition as "no-answer answers". For their part, the doctors admit this, however, the doctors are not intentionally being vague or obfuscating; as they themselves admit, in these kinds of situations the vague answer is the only answer, as the situation is just too unpredictable for them to be able to make a more definitive statement with any certainty. |
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On Lost, when Locke asks Ben how deep the Orchid station is, he simply says that it's "Deep." | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "No Small Parts", with the holodeck safeties on, Badgey is as cheerful as a clown, but Rutherford isn't sure if he remembers the murderous rampage he went on the last time he was turned on — and, when he asks if he's going to kill him when the safeties go off, Badgey just replies "Ha ha, I'm Badgey!". It's possible that the safety protocols prevent Badgey from lying, which might explain why his reply is suspiciously tautological and in no way answers the question. | |
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Red vs. Blue, when Lopez's disembodied head is somehow operating a mounted machine gun. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series used it in "Night of the Ninja." When Batman tells Robin that Kyodai is "good" at the martial arts, Robin asks how good he is. Batman reiterates, "Good." What Batman means by this is "Possibly better than me", since a young Bruce Wayne and Kyodai trained at the same school and Kyodai used to regularly kick Bruce's butt. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All when Phoenix asks an assassin to explain his meeting with his client in detail, he divulges into a speech about the reasons for meeting and the importance of trust, and Phoenix must point out that he hasn't truly answered the question. | |
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Tattered Capes Under a Shattered Moon: After Lillie asks him if his weapon teleporting was his semblance at work, Colin replies "Not really. It's just a little technique I picked up along the way." | |
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Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman once interviewed Home Secretary Michael Howard and when faced with an evasive answer, proceeded to repeat the same question 12 times. The government had carried out an inquiry into a series of prison escapes, and in advance of publication Howard had been very critical of the prison service and blamed it for the escapes (rather than, say, admit that the prison service was underfunded.) The result was the political interview as Overly Long Gag. See the Quotes page for a transcript. | |
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Newsnight | hasFeature |
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In Futurama, Bender and Zoidberg try to get Calculon as a backer for their film. Another episode had Planet Express taken over by a nameless Corrupt Corporate Executive who made Fry his partner. One scene has him teaching Fry "execu-speak." |
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The fic summary of Beyond the Borders asks how one stays grounded in the Kudzu Plot that is Kingdom Hearts, to which protagonist Rachel's answer is apparently "With great difficulty." | |
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Ultimate X Men: How can Wolverine, with an adamantium skeleton, pass in the airport without turning on all the metal detectors? "Three words, bub: I'm a professional". | |
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The Venture Bros.: Used every time someone asks why the Monarch hates Dr. Venture so much. | |
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The Bible: Karen Armstrong claims that the Biblical "I Am That I Am" is a Non-Answer. However, monotheists understand this as an expression of the idea that God exists by Himself for Himself, and is the uncreated Creator who is independent of any concept, force, or entity. Similarly, some view "Thou sayest it," the answer Jesus gives to Pilate's question "Art thou king of the Jews?", as a Non-Answer. Does Jesus mean "Yep, you said it; you got that right," or "That's what you say; I never made that claim"? (Jesus Christ Superstar understands it in the latter sense.). However, this does have to be weighed against his other statements (that he existed before Abraham, that seeing him is the same as seeing God, that he could forgive sins, that he is the judge, that he can grant eternal life etc.). "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's" (as an answer to whether the Jewish people should pay taxes to the Romans) is considered by some as a Non-Answer. The questioners were trying to trap Jesus into making a statement either way, at which point they would either declare him to be a Roman sympathizer to the Jews, or declare him to be a Judean revolutionary to the Romans. A more detailed examination reveals a deeper meaning (especially noting his question regarding whose image is on the coin that's used to pay the tax). Thus: It is fine to pay taxes (i.e. render the coin unto Caesar, since it has his image on it), but we should devote our whole lives to God (since we are made in God's image). Even Jesus' enemies were impressed at how he avoided that rhetorical trap. And in yet another layer of meaning, can anything, even coins with Caesar's face on them, be said not to belong ultimately to God? |
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Prince Nikolai from The Grisha Trilogy is notorious for this. It is quite useful in dealing with court politics. He even gives a non-answer when someone asks him about giving non-answers. | |
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In Dorm Life, Josh asks Danny B about his documentary: | |
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In the Starsky & Hutch episode "Deckwatch," Hutch's ex-girlfriend Laura tells a man who is holding her and her grandmother hostage that Hutch is her brother. When the man asks what his eye color is, Laura answers, "Blue. With a greenish tint. Brown, sometimes. They get darker." | |
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This conversation between Colonel Mustard and Wadsworth in Clue: | |
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In the Invader Zim episode "Germs", Zim becomes a germaphobe and begins carrying around a can of aerosol spray. GIR ends up taking it and running into a fast food joint. When Zim catches up with him and asks him where it is, GIR says "Where I left it. Want a bite?" | |
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Zits: When Connie asks Jeremy whether he was at Pierce's house instead of going to a movie like he claimed, Jeremy says that he's not going to lie to her. When Connie says that's not an answer, Jeremy replies that it's also not a lie and she can't punish him. He's wrong on that last point. | |
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Disco Elysium: Outside of talking about the lynching (where his testimony is limited by his perspective and somewhat verbose, but still direct and to the point), The Sunday Friend speaks entirely in non-committal technobabble and getting straight answers out of him about himself, the nature of EPIS, and the Mortalintern is impossible. | |
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In Hamilton, Angelica's telling of the night she first met Alexander in "Satisfied" has her ask him about where his family is from, to which he brushes off as unimportant and immediately moves the conversation to his future ambitions. As the meeting takes place at a ball where Continental Army soldiers on leave and other upper-class young adults were mingling, Angelica quickly deduces that Alexander's sidestepping means that he doesn't want to draw attention to his current social status, i.e., he's broke and trying to marry upwards. | |
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Maria no Danzai: When Kinugawa questions Maria on her last conversation with Shikimi before she started Skipping School, Maria realizes that she's in a bit of a pickle: she can't admit that she called Shikimi pitiful since Kinugawa might hold Maria responsible for Shikimi disappearing, she can't lie about what she said on the off chance that Shikimi shared it with Kinugawa before she died, and she can't refuse to answer without seeming suspicious. So what does she do? She tears up, expresses regret for being too harsh and not choosing better phrasing for her "warning" to Shikimi, and blames herself for her disappearance. Kinugawa buys her act and drops the subject without realizing Maria didn't really answer his question, leaving Maria to realize Kinugawa hadn't figured her out after all. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, this is how the postman responds to Anju's questions if you listen to their conversation about Kafei's letter (though if you listen to them again, the postman says it's a secret): | |
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In First Blood, when Rambo is asked what he hunts with his huge knife, he responds simply, "Game." | |
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In Sonic X, Eggman once sent his robots to pick up an impossible amount of supplies from the hardware store. | |
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In God of War III, Kratos seeks the Flame of Olympus, a power that will allow him to kill the gods. When he asks Hephaestus where it is Hephaestus asks him what purpose he seeks it for. Kratos responds with "For the purpose I have chosen." | |
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Doctor Who The Doctor often "explains" how the TARDIS can be Bigger on the Inside by saying it is "dimensionally transcendental". If asked what that means, he says it means "bigger on the inside". River Song's response to whether the Doctor can be trusted? "I absolutely trust him." Her answer to the follow-up question of whether he's a madman who's going to get them all killed? "I absolutely trust him!" When Bill Potts asks why, if he's an alien, the TARDIS acronym derives from English words (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space), the Doctor just says that people don't usually bring that up and doesn't answer. |
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Men in Black: During the recruitment test, J asks why they were there, and one of the military-trained recruits responds that Zed is looking for "the best of the best of the best, sir." J deduces, correctly, that none of the others knows why they're there either, and are following a "do what you're told" mentality. Given the results of the test, it's entirely possible that the recruitment process was just a going-through-the-motions act put on for the benefit of J and/or Zed. | |
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In the second Horatio Hornblower telefilm, Captain Pellew (A Father to His Men) and Captain Foster (a Fearless Fool) have a terse exchange over Foster's battle of the popgun supply ship vs. Spanish frigate. After Pellew declines to answer Foster's inappropriate and offensive inquiry of whether Pellew would have surrendered, Foster tosses the question to Hornblower. Though Hornblower is in awe of Foster, he has great respect for his captain and tries "I am pleased the Spanish have been deprived of our supplies." It doesn't work—Foster takes it as vindication and Pellew quits the room. | |
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In the first episode of Bar Karma, when Dayna asks James where he thinks Doug is, James answers "Somewhere between the beginning and the end." | |
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In Shadow of the Templar Jeremy is a master of this, as is Ethan. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club!: Monika's second poem, "Save Me", is pretty much impossible to understand when first encountering it. When the Player Character implicitly asks what it's about, she just ends up explaining how not every poem is "about" something. It's possible to figure out what it was about with knowledge gained later on in the game — and the answer is a really weird one and explains why Monika didn't want to explain it. | |
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Dumbing of Age: In two separate instances, Joyce asks a member of family whether they think her mother is truly a good person. In both cases, the person being asked gives a long, uncomfortable pause before avoiding the question or giving a vague statement. Significantly, the people being asked are Joyce's father and one of her older siblings, so the fact even they couldn't immediately say Joyce's mom is good with a straight face spoke volumes already. | |
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QI has an example given by host Stephen Fry that is immediately called out by a panellist, who asks how big a stalactite they're talking about is: | |
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In the movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Governor's song, "Dance a Little Sidestep" spoofs politicians' tendency to give these. | |
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LadyBugOut: When asked directly whether or not Ladybug and Chat Noir were affected by Oblivio's memory-wiping powers when they kissed, Alya replies that "I just left it up for people to decide on the post." Her efforts backfire, as her classmates quickly realize that her attempts to dodge around giving a straight answer effectively confirm what she's trying to hide: that they didn't have their memories, she knows they didn't, and is trying to conceal that information for the sake of pushing forward her own spin on the narrative. | |
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In A Chorus Line, the director asks the cast what they will do when they can no longer dance. Will they have anything at all to fall back on? They respond with "What I Did For Love," a song about having no regrets living a dancer's life, which in no way answers the question (except perhaps to reveal that they don't know and they're trying not to think about it). | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer From "Killed By Death": And in "Him": |
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In the Principia Discordia: | |
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Doom Protip: To kill the cyberdemon shoot at it until it dies. | |
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Hey Arnold!: Arnold's bus pass is essentially this. | |
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Family Guy: Meg comes downstairs with a dress on, in preparation for a prom. She asks Brian, "How do I look Brian?" Brian says, not wanting to either lie to her or insult her, "Ahhhhh... You sure do, Meg." The episode "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One" has Lois get into a mayoral debate with Adam West. When Lois attempts to give an actual detailed answer explaining her plans to deal with sex offenders, she gets interrupted for time and receives a negative response from the audience, while Adam West, upon being asked about garbage disposal, gives an incredibly long-winded answer about the very nature of questions and answers themselves, which leaves the people stoked. Lois, in response, starts dumbing down her answers, until they consist of nothing but "9/11 was bad!", which gets increasingly huge cheers. |
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Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale: | |
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In Dragon Ball Z: | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: | |
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Breaking Bad: After Skyler reluctantly agrees to help Walt launder his drug money, she makes him promise complete honesty to her involving his criminal activities, leading to Walt giving a lot of interpretive and technically correct answers to avoid giving straight answers that he knows she wouldn't like. For example, at the end of the episode "Face Off", when Gus is killed in a cartel suicide bombing after he threatened the lives of Walt's family, Skyler asks if Walt had anything to do with it. | |
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Spider-Men II: Miles Morales saved Barbara using his powers. She asked if he's a mutant, an inhuman, something else, all of the above... and he replied that needs time to figure out how to answer. | |
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Jeremie Belpois of Code Lyoko answered with a noise when Odd asked him if losing power is supposed to happen. | |
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As Babylon 5 prominently featured interstellar politics and intrigue, not to mention multiple cryptic alien races, mystics, prophets, and various magnificent and manipulative bastards with competing agendas and gambits, this was often played straight, and frequently lampshaded. A few examples: G'Kar tells Ta'lon that he has had a mind opening revelation. Ta'lon asks him what sort of revelation. The following conversation occurs: Kosh in particular did it so much that Sheridan sniped at him about it more than once. Perhaps the greatest non-answer on the show happened when Sheridan met the man who was, essentially, the highest ranking Mouth of Sauron for the Shadows. Sheridan tries to ask a simple question, and gets a mind bending reply that actually succeeds in throwing Sheridan off and making him forget the question he originally asked. |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: In "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2": In the fourth installment, the computer comes to life because the puppets want to figure out the answer to the question "What is the biggest thing in the world?". He never actually answers the question. |
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In Lilo & Stitch, Lilo is rather suspicious of Cobra Bubbles — ostensibly a social worker, but looks far more intimidating than he should. Her immediate questioning doesn't exactly bolster confidence. | |
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