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Troper, describe the trope Repeat to Confirm! Describe Repeat to Confirm, Aye, Sir! By repeating an order back to the one that gives it, one confirms that the order has been correctly received and understood, so any mistakes in communication can be fixed before the order is executed. It also impresses bystanders with the speakers' professionalism and steadiness, under stressful conditions. This practice can also be used to signal that the order has been executed. This is usually the case for orders that are easily performed and reversible, but makes it amply clear to the one giving the order that it has been executed. In some cases the order is repeated both as confirmation of receipt and then as to its execution. Care should be taken to perform this in a steady and confident way, otherwise it risks being interpreted as Parrot Exposition. It may appear in cases of Like a Surgeon. As Truth in Television, this is a type of standard military procedures, officially called "Read Back For Check" when used over radio. It is especially prevalent in the Navy and Air Force, both of which operate complex vehicles. For the same reason, it's also common in civilian aviation. |
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In The Addams Family episode "Lurch's Little Helper", Gomez asks Uncle Fester for a couple of tools and a screwdriver (as in the drink). Fester hands them to him and repeats the words. | |
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Occurs several times in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians aboard the Martian spaceship. "Fire retrorockets five and six." "Retrorockets five and six: fire." | |
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Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953 Film Serial). Dick Preston, the copilot for Cody's rocketship, does this all the time, except at the end of one chapter where Cody asks him to repeat some Technobabble he's just spouted off, only for Dick to admit that he can't. | |
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Looney Tunes In the short Rookie Revue, this occurs between a general and his men aiming and firing a cannon. None of them noticed they were pointing it at headquarters. This occurs between Hubie and Bertie in The Hypo-Chondri-Cat as they prepare to "operate" on Claude Cat. |
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Battle Beyond the Stars. After delivering his ultimatum to the peaceful world of Akir, Sador orders his crew to murder a few of them just to drive his message home. | |
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In Conquest (after a starship is partially infected with the Borg): | |
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In most naval films, including Tora! Tora! Tora!, Crimson Tide, U-571, and The Hunt for Red October, the captain will give an order, and the first officer or gunnery officer will repeat it. For example, almost every WWII submarine and PT boat movie features the lines, "Fire one!" "Fire one." "Fire two!" "Fire two..." In addition, Crimson Tide has the USS Alabama officers do this when they're conducting missile drills or authenticating nuclear launch orders. As should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, if you are potentially about to Nuke 'em for real, there is no room whatsoever for ambiguity. In point of fact, when it comes to any order pertaining to Nuclear Weapons, the XO's repetition of the order is not only to avoid ambiguity - the XO's verbal assent must be given in order for the order to be valid. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: In "Sparklepants," Zadie and JunJun do this with scissors and tape while assembling a disco ball at the Creation Station. | |
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Parodied in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where the King of Swamp Castle gives commands to a guard, and the guard repeats them back wrong. The two of them spend the next two minutes going back-and-forth with the king trying to get the guard to get the orders right. | |
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In Peter Pan, Smee repeats Captain Hook's orders as he calls out the coordinates for shooting down Peter and the Darlings. Smee even begins to repeat Hook's command to fire, but stops himself and plugs his ears in anticipation of the cannon firing. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road: Ace does this while hooking up the War Rig, to rev up the War Boys escorting (what should be) a routine supply run. | |
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Common in American Civil War and Western films such as Gettysburg, as the standard manual of arms required, first, a "preparatory" command which was repeated by the privates, then a firm command of "execution." As in "Fix—" "Fix—" "BAYONETS!" | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Justified in "For the Uniform". The Defiant's computer memory was wiped by a virus Michael Eddington planted, so a lot of systems aren't working right, including communications, which is a problem because due to the other malfunctions, the bridge will need to stay in contact with Engineering. O'Brien's solution is to put Nog on the bridge with a portable communicator and have him relay any necessary information to and from Engineering, which results in a number of instances of Nog audibly repeating Sisko's orders. In "Valiant", the Red Squad cadets do this to excess, subtly highlighting their inexperience at running a ship. |
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In S.W.A.T. (2003), after Hondo hears Street frantically yelling "Officer down!" into the radio: | |
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WarGames: This happens repeatedly at the beginning of the movie when two SAC missile crewmen receive an order to launch their missiles. Watch it here. | |
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Inverted(?) in Cool Hand Luke where men Working on the Chain Gang tell the "boss" (the screw in charge of the gang) what they're doing and he repeats it back to confirm that he understands, in order that the guards don't shoot the prisoners for some random sudden movement. | |
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In Galaxy Quest, and the Show Within a Show at its core, Gwen's character's role was to liaise between the captain and the computer, even though the computer can hear anything said on the ship and vice versa. When on the ship in real life, she is frustrated at the pointlessness of the job but insists on doing it anyway, since it's the only one she has. (Although it turns out to be slightly less pointless than it was on the show; while everyone can still hear the computer just fine, the extremely Literal-Minded Thermians have rigged it so the computer only responds to verbal commands when given by Gwen. Because, they presumably figured, why else would she have to repeat everyone else's commands?) | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series. In "The Deadly Years", Captain Kirk goes senile from Rapid Aging and keeps giving orders that he's already given before. At the end of the episode Sulu does a repeat to confirm, making him wonder if he's going senile again. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Justified in "For the Uniform". The Defiant's computer memory was wiped by a virus Michael Eddington planted, so a lot of systems aren't working right, including communications, which is a problem because due to the other malfunctions, the bridge will need to stay in contact with Engineering. O'Brien's solution is to put Nog on the bridge with a portable communicator and have him relay any necessary information to and from Engineering, which results in a number of instances of Nog audibly repeating Sisko's orders. In "Valiant", the Red Squad cadets do this to excess, subtly highlighting their inexperience at running a ship. |
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In The Fifth Element, there is a bridge officer whose job is to relay orders from the captain to the helmsman, who is only a few feet away but behind an apparently pointless sheath of transparent material. The computer repeats the order too, so the exchange goes like this: | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series. In "The Deadly Years", Captain Kirk goes senile from Rapid Aging and keeps giving orders that he's already given before. At the end of the episode Sulu does a repeat to confirm, making him wonder if he's going senile again. | |
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You Only Live Twice. Moneypenny uses this trope to (unsuccessfully) get Bond to say Those Three Words to her. | |
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Happens frequently in UFO (1970) aboard the Skydiver submarine in situations such as altering the ship's course, preparing to launch the Skydiver jet and surfacing. | |
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Occasionally parodied on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: | |
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Spaceballs: Lone Starr and Barf do this several times. Spoofed when they infiltrate Spaceball One: Shortly after... |
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