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Ah, rhetorical questions. Is there anything they can't do? ...Wait, don't answer that. A Rhetorical Question Blunder is what happens when a character asks a question that they didn't need an answer to... and then gets an answer anyway. That answer will almost always be contrary to the point they were trying to make. Occasionally this can lead down a slippery slope as the asker tries to salvage the original intention. Truth in Television is in play here. When you join a debate team, they specifically tell you not to ask rhetorical questions; it simply gives the other team the opportunity to answer it in a way that undermines your point. A related phenomenon is anthypophora, a rhetorical device where someone deliberately poses a question and then answers it themselves. Particularly common when dealing with someone who is Sarcasm-Blind. Related to Analogy Backfire and Name One. Often the answer is a Mathematician's Answer. Sometimes, when played for drama, the answer can be an Armor-Piercing Response. Despite the common use of the phrase when the asker sees this coming, this has nothing to do with Don't Answer That, which is a trope about Perp Sweating. Similar to I Was Just Joking where one makes a comment that wasn't meant to be taken seriously. See also Ask a Stupid Question... See About Rhetorical Questions for why rhetorical questions don't work well on a wiki. Blunt "Yes" and "Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal are subtropes. |
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When Faris joins the party in Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia, Steiner protests because she's a pirate. Vaan, who is a sky pirate, asks if he should leave too. Steiner's reaction indicates that yes he should, because Steiner hadn't realized just how many Loveable Rogues were in the party already. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Homura casually says that one should be careful disposing of a corpse, while in front of a middle school girl weeping over her best friend's lifeless body. Her fellow Magical Girl, Kyoko, blows her stack. And gets an I Am a Monster response, while referencing their effectively lich nature, while only looking human. | |
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Mort: Shortly afterwards, Mort is trying to figure out how Albert can be Death's manservant and asks if he's dead. Albert says "Do I look dead?" but goes ahead and answers the question directly as Mort starts giving him a slow, critical look to determine the answer to the question. |
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In Thud!, Fred Colon comments on the trouble in Koom Valley with the immortal question "War, Nobby, huh. What is it good for?" This being Discworld, where rhetorical questions never caught on, Nobby answers the question with things like "Freeing slaves?" and "Protecting yourself from a totalitarian aggressor?" | |
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In Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair, just after Raiko and Nobara restore power to the resort where they and some of their friends are holding a Halloween party, Mika ambushes them in order to try to scare Raiko. | |
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In the Sluggy Freelance story "KITTEN", Max spends most of a large comic near the beginning explaining to the audience who the characters are, providing an excuse to introduce some of Zoe's college friends to the reader for the first time. At the end, this turns out to be his answer to another character's question "Who the hell do you kids think you are?" | |
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Madagascar: When Marty admits he wants to go to the wild (which is also one of the few instances where the blunder is actually welcomed): After Maurice explains why Alex bit Marty, we get this exchange: |
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In Bleach, 3 Captains of the Gotei 13 "lost" their cloak during a fight, and have been called up by the Captain Commander Yamamoto to explain. | |
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Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, when Barbie/Princess Annika is confronting her Knight Templar Parents. | |
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The Return of the Pink Panther: After Clouseau gets in trouble over inadvertently ignoring a bank robbery: | |
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Batman: Arkham Knight: Batman and Catwoman are forced to go through one of Riddler's Death Traps together, leading to this: | |
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From Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Jane catches Frank in a rather compromising position with Tanya. | |
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After discovering how to build a durable shelter to survive on the planet where they're both marooned, Lt. Davidge of Enemy Mine sits down and proudly asks "Jerry, ol' buddy, where would you be without me?" Jerry, an alien who doesn't yet grasp the concept of rhetorical questions (and is stuck on this planet because he and Davidge shot each other's ships down), just answers honestly: | |
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In Three Jaguars, Artist asks Business Manager if she knows how long it takes to draw a comic. She retorts 60 to 75 minutes. | |
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales: At one point on his podcasts, J. Jonah Jameson will ask "what would you do if a masked man in a skin-tight outfit broke into your bedroom in the middle of the night?" We don't see what any of the answers he receives are, but after a Beat he screams "That was a rhetorical question! YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK!" | |
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In the videogame version of Meet the Robinsons, after Wilbur successfully steals his dad's time machine, he quips, "Is there anything Wilbur Robinson can't do?", to which his robotic friend Carl replies, "Well, there's clean your room, be on time, put your clothes away..." Carl continues listing things even after Wilbur has left. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: When Calhoun asks Felix if he thinks the Cy-Bugs will stop after devouring just one game, he excitedly blurts out "Yes!", forcing Calhoun to explain just how dire the situation is. | |
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At the start of his review of Cuphead | |
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Spacetrawler, on this page. | |
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Inverted in Stand Still, Stay Silent: During a mission, Sigrun seems to be asking Emil if Lalli looks scared to reassure him after he freaks out. It quickly turns out that she's really asking because she can't read Lalli as well as Emil can. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: While progressing through Freeway 42's underground biological research base, Ann comes across several egg-like substances. | |
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Guilty Gear: In the series' backstory, when Sol was training Sin, they had a discussion about what the latter's weapon of choice would be. Sin said he wanted something flashy that would stand out and let the enemy know exactly who they were fighting; Sol snarked "Why don't you just wave a giant flag around while you're at it?!" Sin took him seriously. | |
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The first Red Dwarf novel has the deceased Arnold J. Rimmer do this to himself when deciding that his status as living impaired need not stop his ambition: | |
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A lethal version in Commando. Matrix has burst into his daughter's room only to find a goon, Diaz, making it clear they have her hostage. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), after Sonic takes out one of Robotnik's vehicles, he rhetorically asks if Robotnik's got anything else. He actually does. | |
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In Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, Cabal wonders, probably not expecting an answer, why his brother's similes were always sexual, noting that it always bothered him. His brother Horst tells him he's answered his own question. | |
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Harry falls into this trap later, when visiting a Svartalf compound in a bit of a hurry, and asks if it would kill them to skip the security procedures just once. The guard looks at him like he's an idiot and calmly answers that, yes, letting someone who doesn't know the procedure for getting in could get him and everyone inside killed. That's why there is a procedure for getting in. | |
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In The Dresden Files, Harry derails a Fey Queen's attempt to seduce him by reminding her that he killed her cousin. Harry falls into this trap later, when visiting a Svartalf compound in a bit of a hurry, and asks if it would kill them to skip the security procedures just once. The guard looks at him like he's an idiot and calmly answers that, yes, letting someone who doesn't know the procedure for getting in could get him and everyone inside killed. That's why there is a procedure for getting in. |
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Garfield says this to a mirror in the January 28, 1985 strip when he asks it who the cutest cat of all is, and Nermal walks up soon after. This strip had Garfield doing his usual stand-up routine on the fence and asks the audience if they're feeling good, only for the audience to reply that things could be better, before Garfield angrily tells them that it was a rhetorical question, to which the audience tells him to ask another. |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian has an extended example: when Reg asks "What have the Romans ever done for us?", the other revolutionaries begin offering examples, eventually leading to: | |
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Discworld: Mort: Shortly afterwards, Mort is trying to figure out how Albert can be Death's manservant and asks if he's dead. Albert says "Do I look dead?" but goes ahead and answers the question directly as Mort starts giving him a slow, critical look to determine the answer to the question. Sourcery, right at the beginning: Moving Pictures has: Moving Pictures also has the same The Merchant of Venice gag as Neverwhere (below), with the troll who asked the question still insisting "Ah, but I would if I had blood. I'd bleed all over the place." In Going Postal, Mr. Groat informs Moist von Lipwig that he has to take "The Postman's Walk" if he wants to be accepted as the new Postmaster by the Order of the Post. Moist decides to go through with what he thinks is just a harmless initiation ritual, asking "What's the worst that could happen?" After a bit of thought, Mr. Groat responds "The worst that could happen is you lose all your fingers on one hand, are crippled for life, and break half the bones in your body. Oh, and then they don't let you join." In Thud!, Fred Colon comments on the trouble in Koom Valley with the immortal question "War, Nobby, huh. What is it good for?" This being Discworld, where rhetorical questions never caught on, Nobby answers the question with things like "Freeing slaves?" and "Protecting yourself from a totalitarian aggressor?" Lampshaded in Monstrous Regiment; at one point the squad is locked up by the enemy and Lt. Blouse is lamenting their position, saying "Oh, will I ever look my dear Emmeline in the face again?" Polly, normally a very sensible character, responds "I don't know, sir," forcing Blouse to point out "That was meant to be more of a rhetorical cry of despair than an actual question, Perks." A Running Gag is for Vetinari to ask "Look out the window and tell me what you see" and get pointless but true answers like "Fog" or "A small dog watching a man taking a piss in an alley." What he wants is some kind of comment on the view of Ankh-Morpork. |
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In Sequinox, when Chell and Yuki try to invite Sid out for milkshakes. | |
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Pocahontas has one between Governor Ratcliffe and Wiggins. For bonus points, Ratcliffe ends his monologue with another rhetorical question. Double bonus points when (if you read the ending credits) you realise Ratcliffe and Wiggins are voiced by the same person. |
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In World of Warcraft, this happens in a randomly occurring conversation between Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver and Ka'roz the Locust (probably a Shout-Out to the Full Metal Jacket example above). | |
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The Muppet Show: In the Lola Falana episode, Gonzo accepts an offer from a film studio in Bombay, India. After finding out the movie deal has fallen through, he starts begging Kermit for his job back. In the Beverly Sills episode, fed up with the ridiculousness of the opening numbers, Statler and Waldorf sarcastically ask if Kermit has a Chinese gorilla doing ballet lined up. |
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From A Miracle of Science: | |
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During the escape from Asgard in Thor: The Dark World, when Loki appears to be flying their ship into the side of a mountain: | |
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Kung Fu Panda. Shifu asks who could possibly be worthy of having the Dragon Scroll, the key to limitless power!!! There's a long 15-second pause, then Master Oogway says, "I don't know." | |
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Wicked: Glinda the Good Witch enters in the first song to cheers and halloos. She, smiling, replies "It's good to see me, isn't it?" They all respond, "Yes!" She (still smiling) answers, "You needn't respond; that was rhetorical." | |
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Penny Arcade here: | |
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In The Order of the Stick: | |
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Sinfest: Here: Implied here — "You been living in a cave or something?" is not answered "Yes", but the readers know it's true. |
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In Persona 4, Yosuke signs up Chie and the other girls for the Yasogami beauty pageant without their consent. The next day, Chie and the other girls sign him and the other guys up for the cross-dressing pageant in retaliation. Yosuke is not amused. | |
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In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, after Le Paradox gives his Motive Rant, he walks right into one, which Sly follows up on with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: When Petey advises Admiral Devereaux that an action is suicidal, Devoux is dismissive. | |
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Soul Eater: | |
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In Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell does this deliberately when Henry asks if he thinks "a king should huddle indoors like a sick girl," referring to a speech Cromwell once made as an MP which criticized Henry's wars in France as pointless and potentially financially disastrous if Henry were to be capture. Cromwell replies that would be ideal for fiscal purposes, and Henry is impressed that Cromwell sticks to his guns. Henry isn't the only one, though—it's just better not to ask rhetorical questions around Cromwell because he will answer them and rarely to the asker's liking. He even answers his own, as seen in his interview with Margaret Pole: | |
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The undefined-but-clearly-supernatural nature of Messrs Croup and Vandemar in Neverwhere is shown when Vandemar sticks a knife through the back of his own hand, doesn't bleed, and shows no pain. Shortly afterward, Mr Croup makes a comment about "Oh, Mr Vandemar, if you cut us, do we not bleed?" Vandemar's response is a carefully considered "No." | |
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Black Panther (2018): When Ross sees Klaue with his bodyguards, he snarks that they look like a boy band, and asks when their next single is coming out. Klaue eagerly says that they finished it recently, and offers him a link to the file. | |
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In Scott The Woz's video on E3 2021, Scott highlights the problem with Microsoft/Bethesda's showcases not having gameplay previews to back up their new titles announcements, asking, "Raise your hand if you remember the name of the new game by Avalanche announced in this press conference." Cue someone raising their hand right in front of Scott, much to his dismay. | |
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In the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold: At the end of Warrior's Apprentice Count Vordrozda asks the Council of Counts "If Lord Vorkosigan is so innocent, why is he not here?". At which point Miles makes his entrance. Lampshaded by Ivan, also waiting on the far side of the door without Vordrozda's knowledge, who observes to Miles that they won't get a better straight line if they wait all day. A Civil Campaign: Richars Vorrutyer gives a speech with a lengthy list of insulting rhetorical questions. Then someone answers him. Diplomatic Immunity: An annoyed Miles asks a rhetorical question about the lack of forensic thinking by the authorities on both sides of his current mystery. His batman (an ex-policeman) starts to answer, then stops and says "Was that a question, m'lord?". Miles replies "A rhetorical one, but do you have an answer?". In fact he has a very good one. |
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xkcd uses one here in the "Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal, asking whether it's more likely all of his friends have gone insane or the bridge is on fire. | |
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After Goku engages with Frieza in Dragon Ball Z Abridged Episode 28, this exchange occurs: | |
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In the Worldwar series, Soviet pilot Ludmila Gorbunova, forced to escort German panzer driver Georg Schultz to a combined position to fight the alien invasion, spots a destroyed T-34 and decides to get some satisfaction by asking him what he thought when he first faced those monsters, expecting anger or fear at the memory of the vehicle Soviet propaganda had described as invincible. Schultz answers by giving her a detailed analysis, admitting it had been a formidable enemy but also had some technical flaws and was used horribly. | |
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The Cinema Snob: In his review of If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?, this is the Snob's reaction to Reverend Estus Pirkle's anti-communist scare tactics. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the AI in Nick Fury's car is a little too Literal-Minded. In the middle of an attack, Fury keeps asking it to do things, and it keeps responding that the relevant equipment is damaged. Finally: In The Avengers (2012). Thor also interrupts Loki's Motive Rant with the question "You think yourself above [humans]?" Loki's response is a confused "Well, yes" as though that's obvious. Black Panther (2018): When Ross sees Klaue with his bodyguards, he snarks that they look like a boy band, and asks when their next single is coming out. Klaue eagerly says that they finished it recently, and offers him a link to the file. In Thor: Ragnarok, when Hulk is trashing his living quarters and throws a shield at Thor: During the escape from Asgard in Thor: The Dark World, when Loki appears to be flying their ship into the side of a mountain: |
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In The Talisman by Stephen King, the Big Bad considers the Bible verse "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" He concludes, "It profits him the world." | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Don Rosa played with the trope in "A Little Something Special". After Magica De Spell, Flintheart Glomgold, the Beagle Boys and Blackheart Beagle teamed up in a plan to steal Scrooge McDuck's fortune and failed, Magica and the Beagles went to South Africa and robbed Flintheart, who asked what he did to deserve that but quickly added a "Don't Answer That" command. | |
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In Thor: Ragnarok, when Hulk is trashing his living quarters and throws a shield at Thor: | |
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Bob and George: Anyone want to know why I named him Mega Man X? | |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure: When Lars learns Cruella wants to turn the puppies into canvases for his artwork, he asks her and her henchmen how they can do something like that. Each bad guy gives a suggestion. | |
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Die Hard: Hans, being who he is, proceeds to act like a perfect gentleman. |
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In Going Postal, Mr. Groat informs Moist von Lipwig that he has to take "The Postman's Walk" if he wants to be accepted as the new Postmaster by the Order of the Post. Moist decides to go through with what he thinks is just a harmless initiation ritual, asking "What's the worst that could happen?" After a bit of thought, Mr. Groat responds "The worst that could happen is you lose all your fingers on one hand, are crippled for life, and break half the bones in your body. Oh, and then they don't let you join." | |
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In Mass Effect, Urdnot Wrex has a penchant for these, particularly in his elevator conversations with Tali. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, during a sidequest where you traverse a virtual world, Shepard comes across recordings of the quarians before the geth drove them off their homeworld and wonders why the quarians are wearing their environmental suits. Legion, a friendly geth, responds that the recordings are based off Shepard's own memories and asks Shepard how many quarians s/he has seen without their suits. If your Shepard is male and romanced Tali in the second game, he replies: "Well...one." | |
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Randall does this to himself in the What If? about filling a swimming pool with saliva: | |
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Mass Effect: In Mass Effect, Urdnot Wrex has a penchant for these, particularly in his elevator conversations with Tali. In Mass Effect 3, during a sidequest where you traverse a virtual world, Shepard comes across recordings of the quarians before the geth drove them off their homeworld and wonders why the quarians are wearing their environmental suits. Legion, a friendly geth, responds that the recordings are based off Shepard's own memories and asks Shepard how many quarians s/he has seen without their suits. If your Shepard is male and romanced Tali in the second game, he replies: "Well...one." If he's still alive when you meet him in 3, Conrad Verner is up to his typical loony self. He asks if he can help, and Shepard rather snarkily tells him that s/he is building an ancient dark energy Prothean device to stop the Reapers, and asks in the same exasperated tone of voice if he can help. Conrad reveals that he wrote his doctorate on xenotechnology and dark energy integration. Shepard can only stare blankly before asking if he's serious. From Mass Effect: Andromeda, team-member Jaal will respond to a question about his race's biology by asking Ryder if they know how their own eyes work. If the player has chosen Sara Ryder, she'll respond with an explanation, much to Jaal's bemusement. In the aftermath of Andromeda, Ryder can respond to a comment from a romanced Peebee by saying "what am I going to do with you?" To which Peebee replies "I'm writing a list." |
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Circle: During the discussion about whether or not to kill Cancer Survivor Lady, the Black Man and the middle-aged Black Woman get into this back and forth. Black Man is smart enough not to press the issue beyond that. College Guy isn't. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has this conversation in the final battle: | |
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Exploited in one of the most difficult puzzles of Colossal Cave: "With What? Your bare hands?" is the rhetorical question asked when you forget to specify a weapon in an attack. After a few weeks of utter frustration trying to find a weapon that will slay a dragon, the player angrily types "Yes", more or less at random. Tada! | |
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: An instance happens between the Ethical Bug and Jack Horner when the latter has Perrito as a hostage and threatens to shoot him with a unicorn horn: Jack Horner pulls this on himself shortly before his death. |
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I, Robot: Del Spooner tries to define the difference between humans and robots: | |
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Girl Genius, with Agatha and Krosp, when she didn't know who and what he is yet. | |
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A back-to-back pair of particularly dark examples in Full Metal Jacket when Joker is riding in a helicopter with a psychotic door gunner: | |
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In his Top 5 video for 2020, after giving Battletoads (2020) third place on the Worst list: | |
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The Last Days of FOXHOUND: "Do I look like a masochist? Don't answer that." | |
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In Ghost Trick, Bailey the prison guard blunders over his own rhetorical question when he replies to a co-worker implying he's stupid with "What's that supposed to mean?", then explains apropos of nothing that it was just an expression of indignation. | |
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The Lion King (1994) does this with the lead-up to "Be Prepared," while Scar is criticizing the hyenas for their failure to kill Simba and Nala: | |
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The Skippy's List-inspired Things Shinigami Are Not Allowed To Do: | |
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Farce of the Three Kingdoms: | |
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Done hilariously in Army Men: Sarge's Heroes: | |
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Time Bandits has the embodiment of Evil thinking aloud: | |
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Inverted in Mastermind. When the Mastermind screams "WHAT?!", it is not because he is angry at someone, but because he wants them to repeat what they said. | |
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Ultimate Spider-Man: In their first meeting, Nick Fury drops in on Peter to explain how he and SHIELD can't go after Norman Osborn until they can legally prove he's a threat — which likely means after Osborn's attacked someone Peter cares about. Peter, at the end of his rope, goes into I Just Want to Be Normal mode. Fury replies that "optimism is a revolutionary act." Peter sarcastically asks if Fury got that from the guy who poked out his eye. Fury springs out of his chair, gets right in Peter's face, and says "Yes." Also, Jameson and Urich discussing an article that Urich has been working on: |
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Top Gun: As the naval aviators are introduced to the TOPGUN commanding officer, Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf, there's this exchange: | |
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A variation, featured in a round of "Scenes We'd Like To See" on Mock the Week; Peter asked Jesus, "Why do you always leave the door open when you enter a room? Were you born in a barn?" And Jesus answered, "Yes, actually, I was." | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: In the second book, Cersei threatens to kill a prostitute she thinks is her brother Tyrion's lover Shae if her sons Joffrey or Tommen come to harm. Tyrion protests that he would not harm his own nephews. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: | |
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Twice in the The Hunchback of Notre Dame II. Pheobus asks two of these to his Silent Snarker horse Achilles. First when Phoebus is getting reports on robberies involving the Circus The second time he reports that the circus is responsible for robberies, which does not delight Quasi or his family (Quasi due to being romantically in love with Madellaine, Esmeralda due to believing that Phoebus still holds prejudice views towards gypsies, and their son Zephyr due to admiring the circus), and they all angrily leave. |
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Six: The Musical: After singing "Heart of Stone", a heartwrenching song about how she stayed by Henry's side until the end even though she knew his love was conditional, Jane Seymour tries to further cement her place in the contest of "who had it worse" among the ex-wives. Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded, isn't impressed. | |
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Friendship is Witchcraft: When Sweetie Belle accidentally activates Rarity's one-use, self hugging sweater, this exchange occurs; | |
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During Kiyohime's interlude quest in Fate/Grand Order, she wonders aloud what she did to merit being attacked by wyverns... and immediately comes up with several reasons herself. | |
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The Emperor's New Groove after Kuzco fires Yzma for trying to rule behind his back. | |
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At the start of ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister!, Mahiro's genius little sister Mihari turns him into a girl. After learning that his sister slipped the gender-swapping drug into his food, the following exchange occurs. | |
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Similarly, one sketch in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life has Michael Palin as a Drill Sergeant Nasty-type commanding his men to march up and down the square. He asks the men if there is anything they would rather do than march up and down the square all day. One of them politely says he'd prefer to be home with his family. The sergeant lets him go. The other soldiers eagerly mention what they'd rather be doing. Finally, all the remaining men go off to the movies, leaving the fuming sergeant marching up and down the square all by himself, still seemingly oblivious to the fact that he didn't have to let them go. | |
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The Most Popular Girls in School: In Episode 6: | |
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In The Producers, Max Bialystock likes to ask rhetorical questions. It frequently doesn't go well. Right after Bloom meets Bialystock at the beginning of the movie: Later: |
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Scream, when everyone's in shock from Casey and Steve's deaths: | |
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In Little Shop of Horrors, when Audrey II reveals it can talk, it demands more blood. Seymour, who's fingers have become annemic from feeding Audrey II, says there wasn't anymore before asking "What do you want me to do, slit my wrists?". In response, Audrey II opens its mouth wide in anticipation. | |
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Serenity has one such example, where in the midst of an argument between the crew, Mal goes into schoolteacher mode: Earlier, Mal actually does this to himself: when Zoe is expressing moral concern over his having refused to take along a civilian while fleeing the Reaver attack, Mal points out that their vehicle could only carry four people plus their cargo, and rhetorically asks her if he should have kicked off River, or Zoe herself, or Jayne... then briefly pauses and considers "Oh, Jayne..." in a tone indicating that this wouldn't have been quite such an unthinkable act. |
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A rather tragic example from Forrest Gump, when Bubba is dying in Gump's arms. | |
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In an episode of Content Cop, iDubbbzTV repeatedly does this to demonstrate the fragility of Leafy's frequent "anti-insults," framing crude, insulting remarks as "honest" questions to implicitly plead ignorance and avoid backlash: | |
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Peanuts: This strip features a philosophical debate between Charlie Brown and Lucy. One sequence has Peppermint Patty being asked a famous rhetorical question in school: "How many angels can stand on the head of a pin?" After hours of pondering, she asks Charlie Brown what kind of a ridiculous question it is, and he tells her that it's just an old theological problem and there is no answer. She answers, "That's too bad...I put down 'eight if they're skinny, and four if they're fat!'" |
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M*A*S*H, after Hawkeye meets Major Houlihan, where they develop a deep and abiding contempt for each other: Justified in the sense that Mulcahy's response, while it is a literal response to Houlihan's question, is also making a larger point (reminding Houlihan that Hawkeye didn't exactly ask for the position, and would probably just as soon not have it).Fun Fact This line was actually improvised by René Auberjonois during a read-through; the director liked it and told him to keep it. |
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Happens in FoxTrot. Another Fox Trot example: |
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A similar joke happens in a Robot Chicken sketch, where he himself hits the person being stoned and says "Blammo!" | |
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In Analyze This, mobster Paul Vitti is interrogating a crony while threatening him with a pipe. | |
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The Mule: When Earl arrives at Laton's mansion, he is deeply impressed and jokingly asks who Laton killed for it. | |
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In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, when Sid is on the playground that Manny built for his yet unborn child. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Do you have a distinctive impression that Abraham didn't care to hear the answer to this question? In a (canonical) NP strip, Nanase asks how Grace would like it if Nanase had a magic watch that could make her look like Grace (she'd just found out that Grace can turn into a Nanase-form whenever she wants). Tedd (Grace wasn't there at the time) answers that she'd be thrilled. In fact, she wanted to give a watch like that to everyone she could turn into, she'd just assumed Nanase and Ellen would say no after everyone else she'd asked had. |
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Moving Pictures also has the same The Merchant of Venice gag as Neverwhere (below), with the troll who asked the question still insisting "Ah, but I would if I had blood. I'd bleed all over the place." | |
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YouTube Let's-Player HCBailly often jokingly asks NPCs questions where the first answer to jump into most viewers' heads is often X-rated, and immediately follows up with "Don't answer that, viewers." to discourage them from posting the naughty answers in the comments. | |
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In Between Failures, John commits one when he is trying to tell Thomas about having found a researcher for the team. Thomas' immediate reply is pretty good, though. | |
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Sara Peterson of Nobody Scores! gets one here: | |
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Strange World: At one point, Searcher Clade rhetorically asks Jaeger Clade how the latter is his father. Jaeger, fully aware that it has been a quarter century since he parted ways with the then-teenaged Searcher and having already met both his forty-ish daughter in law and teenaged grandson, starts in on The Talk. | |
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"Crocodile" Dundee: After Mick got a taste of using his hunting stories to mess with people. Or, |
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In The Avengers (2012). | |
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Sourcery, right at the beginning: | |
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Brütal Legend: Before Eddie's final battle with Emperor Doviculus, the latter tries to taunt him. It doesn't quite work. | |
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From PlayStation Access: | |
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In Nomine: Asking rhetorical questions to the Archangel Litheroy is generally disadvised, since he'll usually just give you an honest answer. Notably, he knows perfectly well what rhetorical questions are — he just chooses to answer them anyway, in part because he feels it's a good way to make the other party question their own assumptions. | |
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In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the AI in Nick Fury's car is a little too Literal-Minded. In the middle of an attack, Fury keeps asking it to do things, and it keeps responding that the relevant equipment is damaged. Finally: | |
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Cortana has one of these done to her in Halo 2 when the Chief and some Helljumpers are deployed onto Halo Installation 05 by HEV. | |
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In one issue of The Sandman (1989), Morpheus grants a 14th-century peasant immortality to see how he'll adapt to it, and the man agrees to meet Morpheus again in a pub 100 years later. When they see each other again in 1489, the man raves about all of the exciting technological advances that he's seen in the last century (including chimneys, playing cards and... handkerchiefs) and Morpheus sarcastically remarks, "Most impressive. What will you people think of next?" Not realizing that he's mocking him, the man responds "Something to get rid of fleas, with any luck..." | |
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Constance Verity Saves the World: When Connie finds a picture of her, Tia and Larry in their twenties, Tia asks "where does the time go?" | |
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In Captain SNES: The Game Masta, Golbez asks Samus a rhetorical question, which she gives an honest answer to ("It was a question with an answer.") When Golbez asks a follow-up rhetorical question, clearly believing Samus's answer to be impractical, Samus has an answer yet again, to Golbez's utter frustration. | |
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In The Book of Life, when Joaquin rides in to confront Chakal the Bandit King. | |
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Shark Tale: When Oscar assures Lenny that the accident that killed his brother wasn't his fault, we get this exchange: | |
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Money Shot: When Christine asks who would be into the weird porn that replaced her favorite porn site, her home AI analyzes and answers the question. | |
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Does Dr. Toadley in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story answer his own questions all the time? He most certainly does. | |
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From New Avengers: | |
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In With Fire and Sword, Helena rhetorically asks her Stalker with a Crush (after he's kidnapped her) whether she's the only girl in the world. He says yes. | |
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From a Chris Ray Gun video, where Chris tries to justify having never seen a circus tent. | |
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In the Star Wars Legends novel Wraith Squadron, Grinder and Tyria get into a fistfight after the former accidentally presses the latter's Berserk Button, only to be interrupted by Wedge Antilles walking in. Phanon tries to brush off the fight as "demonstrating the finer points of a hand-to-hand technique", but Wedge, visibly irritated, is having none of it. | |
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In one issue of Paperinik New Adventures, Urk is about to go on a suicidal mission to rescue his sister, and PK asks him to calm down. He furiously asks if PK has a sister... Which he has. Della Duck is not seen in the comic, and is pressumably missing. | |
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Honkai: Star Rail: In "You Already Know Me", Arlan is arguing with Asta because he refuses to give her encryption key back and let her make wasteful (but well-meaning) purchases for the space station. When she asks who gave him the right to manage her money, he retorts, "You did." She admits she might have done that but she doesn't count "buying an entire starnought fleet for security" as "wasting money". | |
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Black Friday: When Linda Monroe cuts in line to ensure that her four children each get a Tickle-Me Wiggly, Becky Barnes attempts to call her out on it. | |
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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: In episode 2, "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak", Sam and Max's Identical Ancestors Sameth and Maximus observe some Fantastic Racism, leading to the following exchange: | |
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From Mass Effect: Andromeda, team-member Jaal will respond to a question about his race's biology by asking Ryder if they know how their own eyes work. If the player has chosen Sara Ryder, she'll respond with an explanation, much to Jaal's bemusement. | |
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Alice in Wonderland: When Alice shrinks back to normal size after calling the Queen out, the Queen rhetorically asks what she was saying and the Cheshire Cat answers. But unlike many other examples, it's likely he knew it was a rhetorical question and he did it for a laugh. | |
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From Zero Punctuation: At the start of his review of Cuphead In his Top 5 video for 2020, after giving Battletoads (2020) third place on the Worst list: |
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In The War God's Own, Halashu asks who would be fool enough to claim that Bahzell Bahnakson is a Champion of Tomanak. Cue the War God appearing to say: "I would." | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie: When Sonic accuses Robotnik of kidnapping the President's daughter to force them to comply to his demands, the latter faux-innocently asks if Sonic thinks he's capable of something that underhanded. Robotnik's own robot goons immediately answer with a resounding "Yes!" | |
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The Communitree: Typing "find" in Giftcode Hunter without any other thing will make the game ask "Find? Find what? Girlfriends?" You can type that in and discover you already have one. | |
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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, after Fearless Leader learns that Moose and Squirrel have followed them to the real world. | |
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In one episode of The Goon Show, Seagoon sarcastically demands of Bloodnok, "Women, women, women - is that all you think about?" It takes Bloodnok no time at all to answer in the affirmative. | |
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In Disney's The Little Mermaid: | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982). Conan and Subotai go to rob the Tower of the Serpent, only to find Valeria there, intent on the same thing. She's not impressed by these so-called thieves who (unlike her) haven't even brought a climbing rope with them. | |
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