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Someone tries to make a point about something followed by someone else using this Stock Phrase to bring up a contradictory example. For example: Often makes correct use of something commonly used in an Analogy Backfire and/or lampshades Tempting Fate. Thus, it is usually the territory of the Genre Savvy and Deadpan Snarkers. Super-Trope to Hitler Ate Sugar. Hitler Ate Sugar is supposed to argue that doing something is evil because someone else who was evil did it, too. So Was X is supposed to argue that someone or something could be incorrect or just as dangerous as something else (the X). See also Appeal to Obscurity and You Know Who Said That?. Can overlap with Armor-Piercing Response. |
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Thursday Next: From Lost In A Good Book: | |
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The Kraken Wakes: Two reporters are discussing a brilliant but somewhat eccentric oceanographer who is claiming that the mysterious fireballs falling from the sky over the deepest parts of the ocean, the discolouration of certain currents from a spike in sediment levels and the disappearance of several bathyscapes is a result of Alien Invasion. It is, by the way. One of them points out that however crazy the idea sounds, the man does have an explanation for more of these inexplicable events that are equally inexplicably happening simultaneously than anyone else. His colleague has the following response: | |
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In Watchmen, an astonished Nite Owl doesn't understand how Ozymandias could be involved with the nefarious plot against costumed superheroes, when that character is such an incredibly good person as well as a vegetarian. Rorschach points out that Hitler was a vegetarian, too. | |
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A Little Lily Princess: In her route, Lavinia eventually admits to her deep-seated fear that she'l never be able to find a romantic partner because she's half-Indian. Sara then reveals this was also the case of her mother, only for Lavinia to bring up the fact that Sara's mother was French, which contradicts the new reveal about her in her eyes. Sara then points out that Mariette, her clearly mixed-race maid, is French also. | |
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From The Tourettes Guy: | |
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The Simpsons: In "Cape Feare", when Grampa suggests calling Matlock to find out who wants Bart dead. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: After Onni has been in Deep Sleep long enough that he's had to be hooked up on IV, the children from the house it which he's been staying think he's dead and ask their mother if they should bury him. Their mother tells them he's not dead, just tired and needing to sleep. | |
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Inverted in Hard Candy, when Jeff says that being outed as a pedophile would ruin his life. | |
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In Matilda, Miss Honey tries to show Miss Trunchbull how smart Matilda is: | |
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The Discworld novel Making Money makes this point regarding one of the Igors' "restorative concoctions." | |
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Holes: In the backstory, Madame Zeroni advised Elya Yelnats not to court Myra Menke, stating that her head was "as empty as a flowerpot". When Elya protests that she's beautiful, Zeroni retorts "so is a flowerpot". | |
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In Johnny Mnemonic, Johnny insists that trying to make a deal with the evil corporation is a good idea, explaining that they'd be willing to make a deal because they're corporate. | |
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From Dragnet episode "The Prophet", Brother William tries to convince Joe Friday of the benefits of drugs: | |
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From Lost: | |
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In Monk, on the episode "Mr. Monk Takes the Stand," the D.A. worries Evan Gildea will walk because of his lawyer Harrison Powell: | |
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Law & Order, the episode "Burned," after the prosecutors dig into a murder suspect's grandfather's past to see if the suspect's manic-depressive behavior runs in the family: | |
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From Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: | |
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In Stripes, when thinking of how to rescue their platoon from Czech soldiers: | |
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From the Marvel/DC Harry Potter Parody: | |
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Futurama: In "The Honking", when the Professor explains the goings-on at an allegedly haunted mansion, including a painting with moving eyes. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid, Otacon believes Sniper Wolf is not evil because she loves dogs. Snake points out that Hitler also loved dogs. | |
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Dogma: | |
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From The Jeffersons, during one of the many times George brags about his wealth: | |
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Necessary Roughness has a moment where Dean Elias confronts journalism professor Suzanne Carter over her relationship with her (40-year old) student Paul Blake. | |
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Sponge Bob Square Pants: In "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", SpongeBob fanboys over Kevin the sea cucumber, a famous jellyfish hunter. Kevin spends the episode abusing SpongeBob's naivete, eventually chasing and cornering him above a trench in a giant robotic jellyfish before revealing himself. When SpongeBob tells him he's his biggest fan, Kevin points to the bottom of the trench and says "So were they". In "Sandy, SpongeBob and the Worm", when SpongeBob tries to convince Sandy not to fight the Alaskan bull worm: |
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Two and a Half Men, episode "It's Always Nazi Week": | |
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In the Judge Dredd Spin-Off series The Simping Detective, Jack Point lights up a cigar in Sector Chief Daveez's office and makes it clear that he knows Daveez played a significant role in a criminal case he was investigating and covered it up. Daveez responds by grabbing Point by his jacket lapels and threatening him to drop the case, the exchange ends: | |
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Paired with an unsavoury family revelation in the second season of Blackadder: | |
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Doctor Who: "Robot": The same metaphor was revisited in the new series, "End of the World": |
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Tasting History with Max Miller: In the episode on historic pizza, Max admits that the 16th century recipe for "pizza", a sweet, rose-scented flatbread, has precious little in common with modern Italian pizzas of any kind, but also points out that the same holds true for Chicago deep-dish. | |
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Criminal Minds has an example. Having caught a man who hunts humans for food. and recovered his stash, The team still has trouble locating Tracy Lambert, whom he is believed to have abducted. At this point, there had been entire search parties organized to locate her but each one turned up fruitless. They bring in a pastor who knows the suspect and was actively trying to locate Tracy. The pastor tells him that God is in everyone, an assertion at which the murderer smiles and says: "So is Tracy Lambert." right then the pastor remembers that the suspect had been serving homemade food at the search party organized by the church. Cue Heroic BSoD and No-Holds-Barred Beatdown delivered at the hands of the pastor. Luckily(or unfortunately) the detectives enter and stop him. | |
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Mike, Lu & Og: In "Yo, Ho, Who?", when Mike asks Lu to accompany her to find pirate treasure, but Lu insists on sitting on her throne. In "Scuba Doobie Doo", Mike tries to reassure Lu when she complains of an "invader" (the mailman) coming to the island. |
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Family Guy: In "Pawtucket Pat", when Peter and Brian argue over whether to not to remove the town's statue of Pawtucket Pat after incriminating facts come to light. | |
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Zero Punctuation: The review of the 2013 Tomb Raider referred to Lara Croft's character development in the form of repeatedly bullying her with this line: | |
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In Jam, Tim voices concerns about the settlement in the Hibatsu building in that it's run like a corporation, with no regard for the lives of individuals. Don replies he doesn't care, because it's efficient. Tim points out that Nazi Germany was efficient, in response to which Don calls him out for invoking Godwin's Law. | |
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The Music Video Show has a rather dark example of this in the fifth season episode. | |
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