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What Does This Button Do?
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When it comes to curiosity, there are generally two main types. The first type is patient enough to wait for an explanation to be given, usually by an expert on a subject and/or its creator. Someone who can break it down into a more simplified language, to a point where it can be easily understood, what its benefits are, what dangers it may impose, and the like. The second type... does not have that kind of patience. Or insight. Or anything resembling restraint. They're willing to stumble blindly towards a control panel and start randomly pressing buttons. Usually, they'll ask the all-important question, "What Does This Button Do?" just before doing so, or just after doing so if the work emphasizes them being unthinking rather than reckless. This is the kind of thing that can result in self-destruct sequences being set off, Wave Motion Guns made to be even more dangerous without anyone who knows what they're doing to run them, all while someone with half a brain will scream warnings (and insults to their intelligence) just before things get wrecked. A very bad way to tempt fate. An even worse way is to leave the button unlabeled, among Billions of Buttons, or both. The proper response to anyone who asks this question is, "Don't Touch It, You Idiot!", although "What Were You Thinking?!" also crops up as a regular post-press reaction in either frustrated hiss or yelling flavours. Note, however, that Big Red Buttons are usually a Chekhov's Gun: even in the event that a curious character is prevented from pushing it, rest assured that you'll eventually find out what the button does. Compare and contrast Are These Wires Important?, for cases where the character is deliberately trying to make something malfunction, and Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock, when the button's placement means that it's highly likely to be pressed by accident. Beware! Savvy villains may leave them lying out in the open as Schmuck Bait... |
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In Watchmen, Laurie is exploring Nite Owl's aircraft and starts pressing buttons on the panel. She presses one and it turns off the lights. Then, she taps another button with the fire marked on it for the cigarette lighter. It's not a cigarette lighter. After the fire is put out and Dan mentions the air-to-air missiles, Laurie announces that she has just quit smoking forever. In a nice bit of Foreshadowing, Dan mentions that The Comedian did the same thing back 1977... In the film version she doesn't smoke, but still pushes the button just to see what it does. | |
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On Day 6 of the Limited Life SMP while his faction-mate Jimmy is interrogating Lizzie-as-Pearl (who's in another faction) about his late frog Judge Judy And Executioner (long story), Grian presses the button which triggers Pearl's Pit Trap on which both of them were standing — while Jimmy dies yelling at Grian for being an idiot.note For context about the Pearl situation, Pearl made the trap, but couldn't make it to the Day 6 recording session and had to be subbed in by Lizzie, who had no idea the trap even existed until Grian triggered it. | |
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The subject of Megamind: The Button of Doom. Having renounced his villainous ways, Megamind auctions off all his weapons and evil devices. At the end of the day, the only thing left is a Big Red Button. Megamind suggests it probably just opens the garage door. It turns out to activate a Humongous Mecha. Oops! | |
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In part 3 of the Father and Music episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood when his son (Jimmy Rogers) and his grandson (Alex Rogers) visits him. While playing the trolley, Alex was about to play with the trolley control switch, Fred reminds his baby grandson that it does not work unless the trolley is on the tracks. | |
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Beat, from The World Ends with You: "Yo, you show me a button, and I want to push it." To which Neku replies "They design traps like this with you in mind..." (What does it do? Nothing, unless you've solved the puzzle; if you have, the box opens, granting you a key needed to get past a barrier and progress.) | |
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Little Miss Whoops from The Mr. Men Show usually has problems with what button to push. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: In spite of Riff's best efforts, this is often what happens whenever Kiki gets in his lab. Double if there's sugar involved. | |
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Bleach: This shows up in the Beast Swords filler arc, where Senbonzakura finds himself in a room in the 12th division that has surveillance cameras all over Seireitei. He starts pressing buttons at random and ends up messing with the Shinigami on the cameras in various ways: Renji gets his bathwater superheated, Omaeda's barbecue explodes, Matsumoto's treadmill suddenly stops, and so on. | |
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A gag in Achille Talon has just a single button labeled "do not push". The main character gets more and more unhinged as he desperately tries to resist the temptation of pushing it until he finally gives in. It electrocutes the pusher. | |
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Kids Praise: Said word-for-word when a little girl named Hanna is checking out a machine Psalty invented that was supposed to stretch time. Turns out the machine travels through time instead; they found this out when she pressed it. | |
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At the beginning of Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan, De Cava wonders what the button on the locket does after Guybrush has handed said trinket over to him. It turns out that pressing the button initiates the Voodoo Lady's Grand Theft Me of De Cava as she tells Guybrush his next mission. | |
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In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Borderland", Trip creates a new captain's chair for Archer. As they're about to go on a mission he says they don't have time to go over the controls, "...but try not to hit that button." This is a Mythology Gag too, as the chair is a recycled prop from Star Trek: Nemesis that activates the seatbelts. ST:ENT takes place when they still have No Seat Belts. | |
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The Bugger Anthology: In "The Dalek Invasion of Funk", the Doctor finds a button labeled "Health & Safety Violation Alarm", wonders what the button does, and presses it. It activates an alarm, prompting all the nightclub guests to flee. | |
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The Simpsons: Bart Simpson on an invisible (read: made with transparent casing) computer. He manages to crash the hard drive to the point that it catches fire. | |
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Eureka: Fargo's GD personnel file contains the phrase "inappropriately pushed button" 37 times. In one of the episodes, Fargo finds a strange device and, naturally, turns it on. It turns out to be a force-field generator, whose field is constantly increasing in size, threatening to destroy Eureka. When Carter finds out that someone gave the device to Fargo, he berates that person, who claims he didn't think that Fargo would activate it. Carter looks at him incredulously and points out that it's Fargo they're talking about. |
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In the Back at the Barnyard episode, "Saving Mrs. Beady", the plot starts off with using the titular neighbor's car for Abby's driving lesson. She starts to play this trope, only to subvert is as she just activates the windshield wipers. Later in the episode she plays it straight when she accidentally crushes Peck in a hospital bed. | |
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Castle (2009): Detective Beckett often laments that Castle is prone to this — including one episode when his curiosity results in him believing he has been cursed by a Mayan mummy! | |
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Looney Tunes: "Lighter Than Hare" has Bugs Bunny's robot facing off against Yosemite Sam of Outer Space's robot: Bertie Mouse in the Warner Bros. cartoon "House-Hunting Mice" (the last button he presses causes him and Hubie to be taken to the cleaners by the house's remote-controlled units): In "Design for Leaving", Daffy turns Elmer's house into a "Push-button" home, with each button controlling a different gadget. The entire short is this trope with Daffy and Elmer testing different buttons and comical results therein. At one point, Elmer takes in interest in a Big Red Button that Daffy warns never to touch ("Not the WED ONE! Don't ever push the wed one!"). At the end of the short, curiosity gets the better of Elmer and he pushes the button. It's for a "In Case of Tidal Wave" device, and raises the house hundreds of feet into the air on a piston. Daffy then flies by in a helicopter, offering to install a blue button to get the house down. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): During their first off-planet adventure, the Turtles end up fleeing from some Triceratons in a flying car, with Mikey in the "sidecar". | |
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In Wreck-It Ralph, as Ralph is trying to figure out how Vanellope's racecar works, Vanellope asks, "What does this joystick do?", pulls it, and reverses, smacking Ralph in the face. She does this two more times. | |
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Justice League: Flash does this in "Starcrossed" (said button is in the cockpit of a Thanagarian gunship)... and blows a giant hole in the wall of Wayne Manor, almost killing Alfred. Batman immediately rounds on him, saying "THAT'S. NOT. HELPING!" | |
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In the pilot episode of Special Unit 2, Benson is patting down O'Malley and takes out his strange-looking gun. He tries to warn her about the infrared hairline trigger, but too late. She ends up blowing up a car with a single shot. | |
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In a mission of Grand Theft Auto V in which he steals a working Weaponized Car from the set of a spy movie, Franklin wonders aloud what a certain button on the dashboard does, and the player is invited to find out. It's the Ejection Seat, and the obnoxious starlet in the passenger seat goes flying out through the roof. | |
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Lampshaded on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978). | |
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Darkwing Duck: This is the attitude that Darkwing approaches the Ramrod with in the pilot. He is deliberately trying to disable it or at least break it — he ends up overloading it. The explosion is visible from miles and miles away. Gosalyn can be pretty bad about it as well. |
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RWBY: When Roman Torchwick takes control of a military airship in Volume 3, he invokes this trope while merrily wreaking havoc. It's downplayed, though; while the first button causes an offScreen explosion, ("Oh, fun!") the second button just dumps a squad of robots out, causing no serious harm. In Volume 9, the Curious Cat does this when shown Ruby's scroll. They've never seen technology before, and ends up taking multiple selfies while fiddling around with the scroll. |
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Paranoia: We need you to field-test this experimental device that R&D cooked up. Instructions? Sorry, they're above your security clearance, you'd have to be terminated if you saw them. What's left? Trial and error; in other words, repeatedly asking What Does This Button Do?, then pressing it and hoping the answer isn't "kill you horribly" (or worse). | |
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Yellow Submarine: Ringo and Fred are wandering around the Beatles' house looking for the rest of the band and they find a giant Frankenstein's monster with a lever next to it. Fred warns Ringo to leave it alone, but Ringo pulls the lever anyway, insisting "Can't help it, I'm a born lever-puller"note Pronounced "Liverpooler", although the proper term for someone from Liverpool is "Liverpudlian". The monster wakes up, but fortunately, it then drinks a potion and transforms into John. Ringo presses another button just after he's told not to do so. It is a panic button/ejector seat that puts him in the Sea of Monsters... (Ringo Starr himself said children all over the world asked him "why did you push the button?") |
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Mirai from THE iDOLM@STER: Million Live! has this as one of her lines when sent on jobs. This comes up again in one of the offers in Theater Days where Haruka mentions having to stop her from pressing random buttons when doing a radio show. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Maya presses the emergency buzzer at the KB office setting off an alarm. In the trial, Phoenix can claim that this is why the killer sounded the alarm due to curiosity for what the button does, only for Godot to point out the button is clearly labeled as an emergency buzzer. | |
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In The Demented Cartoon Movie, a Blah Guy comes across a set of three buttons, each with a picture beside it. The first is of a brick wall, the second is of a kamikaze watermelon, and the third is an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. He doesn't speak, but seems to do some thinking before he presses each one — yes, he does press the third one, which has predictable consequences. | |
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In The Last Continent, the sign on the pole propping open a dimensional portal window that is the faculty's only way back to UU has a sign saying not to remove it, not even to see what happens. Unfortunately, it doesn't also say "Or if you're Mrs Whitlow and are having trouble fitting the tea tray past it." | |
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Freefall: An example shows one of the least hazardous consequences — initiating automatic shutdown of the ship reactor. Which they had only just gotten working. | |
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In "Design for Leaving", Daffy turns Elmer's house into a "Push-button" home, with each button controlling a different gadget. The entire short is this trope with Daffy and Elmer testing different buttons and comical results therein. At one point, Elmer takes in interest in a Big Red Button that Daffy warns never to touch ("Not the WED ONE! Don't ever push the wed one!"). At the end of the short, curiosity gets the better of Elmer and he pushes the button. It's for a "In Case of Tidal Wave" device, and raises the house hundreds of feet into the air on a piston. Daffy then flies by in a helicopter, offering to install a blue button to get the house down. | |
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One episode of Married... with Children revolved around Al and the rest of No Ma'am trying to figure out what a button in the Bundys' kitchen did. The button itself was harmless enough*it controlled the light in Buck's doghouse; Al's electrician skills, less so. | |
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Discussed several times in Discworld. Wizards will always pull anything marked "Do Not Pull" just to see what all the fuss is about, and if you put a sign saying "End of the World Switch" on a lever in a remote cave somewhere, the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. Soul Music: The shop full of magical musical instruments, where the question was "What happens if I pick up this instrument and play it?" One of the scarier ones in the shop was the horn of either Heimdall or Gabriel. Hogfather: The wizards find a nailed-shut door in Unseen University, and naturally have Modo the handyman un-nail it. After Ridcully has explored the full capabilities of the B. S. Johnson bathroom behind the door, he has Modo nail it up again; but Modo leaves the nail-heads sticking out a little to make it easier next time the Gentlemen want it opened. In The Last Continent, the sign on the pole propping open a dimensional portal window that is the faculty's only way back to UU has a sign saying not to remove it, not even to see what happens. Unfortunately, it doesn't also say "Or if you're Mrs Whitlow and are having trouble fitting the tea tray past it." |
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World of Warcraft: The boss Mimiron is an inventor, fought in his main workshop. Behind the tank he's adjusting when you encounter him is a massive red button, which is labelled "Do No Press This Button". Pressing it triggers the self-destruct mechanism and the boss hard mode, with a short timer and flames everywhere, as well as provoking an angry rant from the boss on how stupid it was to press that button. In the Mogu'shan Vaults instance, the guide NPC, Lorewalker Cho, announces one section of the instance with "Ah, the ancient vaults of the Kings of Mogu'shan! Hmm... what might this button do?" Turns out it displays to Cho a history of the rule of the (evil) mogu emperors — and also conjures material phantasms that attempt to use your raid as object lessons in the brutality of said emperors. (You must complete this sequence to proceed, as the final set of phantasms are the next boss encounter, and open a secret passage upon their demise.) |
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The Mandalorian: The Child loves to play with the buttons and switches that control the Razor Crest, much to the dismay of the Mandalorian who has to keep telling the kid to stop doing that while they're flying as it causes the entire ship to shake. | |
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Space Goofs: In "Arctic Intelligence", when aliens are just about to leave Earth, Bud presses a button on their spaceship that releases a disco ball and more disastrously, another one that freezes everything, preventing the aliens from going home once again. | |
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Castle Hangnail: During the introductory tour of the castle, Molly is shown a device of uncertain purpose built by a Mad Scientist who used to occupy the castle; it features a button with a prominent label saying NEVER EVER PRESS THIS BUTTON — and the button has been pressed so hard it's stuck in the "on" position. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: When Batman and the Joker team up, the Joker asks this about every button in the Batmobile.note It might well be a Casting Gag, since the Joker's VA, Jeff Bennett, was also the dad on Dexter's Laboratory. Finally, when Batman warns him to especially not push the big red button, the Joker does, getting sprayed with sleep gas as a consequence. Even better, he does it twice. Batman smirks at the second one. Joker does this once more in the Cold Open of his Villain Episode "The Vile and the Villainous!" where after helping The Misfit defeat Kamandi and Prince Tuftan's forces over the ICBM missile, he (much to The Misfit's horror) presses the button for it. Cue Earth-Shattering Kaboom. |
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Mazinger Z: This series mixed this trope with Falling into the Cockpit, and deconstructed both of them (funny and ironic, keeping in mind that Mazinger Z was the first mecha show where the pilot fell into the cockpit). When The Hero Kouji sat in the Hover Pilder (the flying device that controls the Super Robot) for the first time, he knew absolutely nothing about piloting. His little brother suggested to him that maybe it was a really bad idea, and he angrily replied he only needed to figure out what each button did. So then he began pressing random buttons to ascertain which did what... and he nearly got himself and his brother killed. Mazinger-Z went on a rampage, destroying everything on its path, and it only stopped when Sayaka showed up and carefully explained to Kouji what he had to do (after getting baffled at the thought of someone doing something SO stupid). And it was way worse in the original manga version since Kouji activated Mazinger-Z in the middle of a big city. To be fair, though, the person who had built Mazinger-Z was dead, so it was not like if Kouji could consult someone about it at the time. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Rocket shows Groot an explosive device (with the yield of a nuke) and gives him specific instructions not to press the Big Red Button, as it would set the nuke off immediately, killing them all. Groot has trouble understanding. Luckily, when Groot has to press the button, the instant explosion one is cracked and possibly broken, meaning the right one is the only choice. | |
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In Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, after Skarr manages to escape Grim in a submarine, he notices a flashing button and decides to press it. It shoots out a laser that goes through Skarr's body, who laments having forgotten the button does that. | |
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Ratchet & Clank (2002), has a mission on the Blarg Tactical Station where it asks you if you want to "Press the shiny red button?" Doing so will cause the ship you're on to activate a self-destruct, and now you have to get out before it explodes. | |
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The Mr. Men story "Adventures with Minibeasts" ends with Little Miss Curious coming across Miss Inventor's Shrinkometer and wondering how it works, presses a button on it and makes Little Miss Tiny grow to the size of a giant. It may also be a Shout-Out to the Trope Namer. | |
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In the music video for The Young Ones' "Living Doll", Vyvyan says "What does this button do?", pushes a button on the mixing desk, and blows up the studio. | |
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Starship Titanic has a button that says, "Push button to disarm bomb." You can guess what it actually does. | |
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One section near the end of the game in Another World has the player riding a giant armed vehicle into a packed arena while armed guards fire on it. The player is then presented with a panel of buttons without context, which they're supposed to deduce the correct order in which to push them in order to activate the vehicle's escape pods, though it's much easier to just hammer on every single button (which also activates the vehicles' mounted laser cannons) until the scene ends. | |
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xkcd takes it a step further — finding out what the lever does leads to the question "Will it do the same thing if I pull it again?" | |
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Stargate: In Stargate SG-1, Dr. Jackson explains that him fiddling with alien control panels is acceptable, whereas Colonel Mitchell doing the same is stupid because "I know how to read 'that'." Likewise, McKay claims the rights to this trope in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Sunday" and berates two other scientists for using it, since he has the ability to fix whatever he might screw up, while they will usually turn to him for the same. Doesn't always turn out that way, but does in this episode. |
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Tomo from Azumanga Daioh once found a button that would kill Chiyo when pressed. She pressed it anyway. It was only in a dream, though (not that it alleviated Chiyo's anxieties about Tomo, anyway). | |
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Sal (a parasite Monster) from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, hence the line (when he was in Oblina's stomach), "One of these has got to be hunger. Which one?" | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Rocket shows Groot an explosive device (with the yield of a nuke) and gives him specific instructions not to press the Big Red Button, as it would set the nuke off immediately, killing them all. Groot has trouble understanding. Luckily, when Groot has to press the button, the instant explosion one is cracked and possibly broken, meaning the right one is the only choice. In Thor: Ragnarok, on finding the spacecraft they stole doesn't have any weapons because it's a pleasure yacht used by the Grandmaster for his orgies, Banner is told not to push any buttons, presumably for fear of activating some kind of Orgasmatron. However, when they're being shot at, Banner in desperation pushes the biggest button he can see. This activates the Grandmaster's birthday celebration fireworks which distract the craft shooting at them, causing it to crash. |
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In Thor: Ragnarok, on finding the spacecraft they stole doesn't have any weapons because it's a pleasure yacht used by the Grandmaster for his orgies, Banner is told not to push any buttons, presumably for fear of activating some kind of Orgasmatron. However, when they're being shot at, Banner in desperation pushes the biggest button he can see. This activates the Grandmaster's birthday celebration fireworks which distract the craft shooting at them, causing it to crash. | |
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Ling Xiaoyu says this in Panda's Tekken 5 ending. | |
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In Top Gear (UK), James May built a limousine from an Alfa Romeo and a Saab, creating a two-headed Frankenvehicle. Richard Hammond couldn't resist pulling a lever on the Alfa side... which uncoupled the steering and left the "Alfaab" fishtailing wildly while Jeremy Clarkson tried to regain control. | |
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In Chrono Trigger: The Musical, this happens when Frog, Ayla and Robo "defeat" Dalton and reclaim the Epoch: | |
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Isekai Quartet: When the Konosuba group finds a mysterious button, Aqua immediately wants to press it. Kazuma holds her back, pointing out it could do something dangerous. Megumin says she agrees with his logic but presses it anyway. Pressing it whisks the group away to the series' school setting. | |
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In Stargate SG-1, Dr. Jackson explains that him fiddling with alien control panels is acceptable, whereas Colonel Mitchell doing the same is stupid because "I know how to read 'that'." | |
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The classic The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Space Madness" ends with Commander Hoek, driven mad by... well, by space madness, brings Cadet Stimpy around the bend with him by ordering him to guard the History Eraser Button, with a very strict order not to let anyone touch it. Finding out what that button does is already tantalizing enough before the narrator decides to pile on the excruciating suspense. | |
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Mentioned in Mass Effect with the right party-members on Noveria where there is a button which sets off a deadly Neutron purge. Kaidan (or Ashley) will actually mention that it's always a good idea to RTFM before pressing any buttons, to Liara's confusion. Tali will offer the priceless advice "Nobody push any Big Red Buttons". | |
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In Mass Effect 3 there's a random button on Sur'Kesh that Shepard can repeatedly press, with no effect other than causing a nearby salarian to get incredibly annoyed. Eventually, the salarian informs Shepard that if they're so enamoured with that button, they should get their own feces analyser. | |
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One character in Finder's Stone trilogy thought the best way to learn what unknown magical devices do is to tell them all known stock command words and look what will happen. | |
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In the 1983 film WarGames, this concept is spoofed, when a tourist at NORAD is tricked by a military tour guide into pushing a big red button that simulates an emergency response, for comedic effect.note Complete with the "Challenging Stage" jingle from Galaga, which coincidentally was the game David was playing earlier in the film on two separate occasions. | |
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Mass Effect: Mentioned in Mass Effect with the right party-members on Noveria where there is a button which sets off a deadly Neutron purge. Kaidan (or Ashley) will actually mention that it's always a good idea to RTFM before pressing any buttons, to Liara's confusion. Tali will offer the priceless advice "Nobody push any Big Red Buttons". In Mass Effect 3 there's a random button on Sur'Kesh that Shepard can repeatedly press, with no effect other than causing a nearby salarian to get incredibly annoyed. Eventually, the salarian informs Shepard that if they're so enamoured with that button, they should get their own feces analyser. In Mass Effect: Andromeda, there's another random button on Kadara, with another salarian standing nearby asking you not to touch it. Not that it matters. It's broken. |
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In the novelisation for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, having forced his way into command of Enterprise, Admiral Kirk finds himself thrown when he realises he doesn't know which button unlocks the restraints on the captain's chair. It's played more seriously later when he worries that his unfamiliarity with the systems might have lead to the deaths from a transporter malfunction because he didn't fix the problem quickly enough. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: This exchange (although it might have been more panic than curiosity): In another episode, Perry of all people does this while riding in British Agent Double-00's car. Turns out it was the eject button. |
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Garfield and Friends In an episode, Garfield is trapped in a Haunted House and finds a rope hanging from the ceiling with a sign that says "DO NOT PULL ROPE." Naturally, he pulls on it and is dropped through a trap door. "There's your lesson for today, kids. When it says 'Don't Pull The Rope,' don't pull the rope." In a US Acres episode, Roy bought a rocket that could go to Saturn, but as he had to build it himself, it wasn't that well-built. Wade's forgetful cousin, Newton Duck, pressed the button even after Roy told him a hundred times not to press it. |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): After Diana and the Holliday Girls "borrow" an experimental aircraft in order to go join the fight against the Duke of Deception and try to prevent him from awakening the Titan, they pass an allied aircraft. When Diana talks about contacting them on the radio, Tilly Heyday pushes the giant red button covered in caution tape while cheerfully chirping "maybe it's the radio!" while the others, in horror, tell her not to. It turns out to be the button to turn the plane invisible. | |
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Star Trek: In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", McCoy, under the influence of cordrazine, passes out in the street of a Depression-era city. A tramp picks up his phaser, curious, and hits a button or two. Oops. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Half a Life", Lwaxana Troi is poking around the tactical console on the bridge, and asks the question of "Mr. Woof", who alarmedly says it is the photon torpedo launcher...! And his name is "Worf", not "Woof". In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Message in a Bottle", two Emergency Medical Holograms have to take control of a vessel being attacked by Romulans. As neither has been on the bridge before, the LCARS interface throws them into confusion and they have to make educated guesses on what to press. In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Borderland", Trip creates a new captain's chair for Archer. As they're about to go on a mission he says they don't have time to go over the controls, "...but try not to hit that button." This is a Mythology Gag too, as the chair is a recycled prop from Star Trek: Nemesis that activates the seatbelts. ST:ENT takes place when they still have No Seat Belts. |
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EDENS ZERO: Rebecca attempts to teach Shiki how to fly her spaceship, but he immediately starts pressing buttons, which makes them crash. | |
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During the Dr. Lugae and Barnabas boss battle in Final Fantasy IV, if you defeat Barnabas first, Lugae will pilot a new one afterward, and accidentally press a self-destruct button wondering what it does, despite the fact that he was the one who created that robot in the first place. | |
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In Starcraft II, when Tychus gets his hand on his very own Humongous Mecha, he invokes this trope twice. The first one is simply the big red "fire all cannons" button. The second is his Moment of Awesome. | |
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Subverted in Commander Kitty. CK freaks out when Nin Wah seemingly stumbles straight into this trope, but the keyboard is just a standard layout using an unusual font. | |
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In Pokémon Red and Blue, examining a statue in the Cinnabar Mansion causes the game to tell you there's a button on it, then asks if you want to press it. Once you press it, the game replies, "Who wouldn't?" | |
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Combattler V: In episode 16, Kotaro — a little kid of Hyoma's acquaintance — visited the Nanbara Connection. When Ropetto shows him the team's vehicles, Kotaro can't help to get in Hyoma's jet fighter, point at a random button and ask what it does. Ropetto tried to talk him out of touching it, but Kotaro pressed it anyway. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 1, while Alvis is informing the party about the traps scattered around the High Entia Tomb, Reyn wanders off, delivers the line, and pushes the button in front of him. Cue trapdoor sending everyone (and eventually Riki) to the Catacombs. | |
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Hogfather: The wizards find a nailed-shut door in Unseen University, and naturally have Modo the handyman un-nail it. After Ridcully has explored the full capabilities of the B. S. Johnson bathroom behind the door, he has Modo nail it up again; but Modo leaves the nail-heads sticking out a little to make it easier next time the Gentlemen want it opened. | |
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In The Fifth Element, the Big Bad promises his Swiss Army Weapons to the alien mercenaries in exchange for the MacGuffin he seeks. The container turns out to be empty; he gives them one weapon crate anyway for trying, but one discovers a little red button on the gun whose purpose Zorg didn't explain. That was his insurance in case he got ripped off. The alien presses it, which causes the gun to self-destruct, killing (almost) all of them. | |
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Kim Possible: Ron Stoppable. One major example is in A Sitch in Time whereby foolishly pressing the dangerous button he destroys an evil giant monkey statue. Another time Ron got into the control room of a powerful laser beam and proceeds to call it a precision instrument, before repeatedly pushing every button and lever on it, intentionally overloading it. |
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Batman: The Animated Series In "A Bullet for Bullock", Harvey Bullock asks this about one of the Batmobile's buttons. Batman half-grins and says, "Passenger ejector seat". Doubles as a Shout-Out to a rather similar event in which Batman duped the Joker with that button. In "Harlequinade", Harley Quinn is riding in the Batmobile and pushes what she thinks is the radio switch - deploying a drag chute that nearly causes the car to crash before Batman brakes to a stop. |
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Sequential Art: Pip does this by proxy before selling Mad Scientist equipment left by Evil Minions on EBuy. As to how much this helps, see the next comic. Later, Kat prevents the same squirrel girl from doing this after she looked once at a button. |
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At the start of Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, Johnny Rico is commanding a squad of rookie soldiers. The Ensign Newbie tries to activate his infrared and shoots off a backpack nuclear missile instead, blowing them all up. Fortunately it's a Danger Room Cold Open. | |
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Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000. In one movie, Servo greets a nuclear blast with the line "Oh, that's what that button does!" | |
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Odd Squad: In "Hold the Door", Olive begins to give a dramatic speech about how great Odd Squad is, but is interrupted by Ori asking "What does this do?" and then pressing the button in question, which causes green fire to spit out into the Lab's quarantine room and the glass wall to start cracking. Olive immediately rushes over to scold him and lead him back to the bullpen to continue the tour of Headquarters. Another Ori-related example occurs at the end of "Worst First Day Ever" when he presses the blue button that Odelia stopped him from pressing earlier when sucking all the Centigurps back into one being. Oprah rushes into the lab in a panic, asking him if he pressed the blue button, and Ori confidently states that everyone does that on their first day working at Odd Squad. The reactions of Oprah and Odelia show that he could not be more wrong, and Headquarters begins to rumble and warp in a similar manner to when the Time Sheep arrive. In "Now You Don't See Me", Otto does this but with string instead of a button and ends up activating a Bucket Booby-Trap full of invisible ink that's dropped on him, causing him to turn invisible. The opening of "Oswald in the Machine" has Omar eyeing the pencil-and-paper button on one of the desks in the bullpen of the Mobile Unit Van, and Opal asks what would happen if she pressed it. As it turns out, pressing the button causes the desk to retract into the wall, which sends all the papers, pencils and folders sitting on it to the floor. |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", McCoy, under the influence of cordrazine, passes out in the street of a Depression-era city. A tramp picks up his phaser, curious, and hits a button or two. Oops. | |
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One Archie Comics story has Mr. Lodge having trouble with his kitchen because every appliance is built into the wall, and the buttons are unlabeled. On Archie's suggestion, the two of them test each button which results in variations of The Door Slams You until Mr. Lodge gives up, has Archie gather firewood, and cooks lunch over a campfire in the kitchen. | |
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In Gotcha Force, Yuji will occasionally say this when one of his borgs is destroyed. Given that he does occasionally use borgs that specialize in kamikaze tactics, like the aptly-named Walking Bomb, the implication is (mostly) clear. | |
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A very common theme in Freeman's Mind. Freeman will frequently say variations on this as he recklessly presses any unlabeled button that the player would normally press in-game without question or justification. | |
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In One Piece, Franky goes searching through the laboratory of the world's most brilliant scientist for a ship that can take him to the rest of the Straw Hats. He comes across a "Pirate button", and... | |
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Rex in Toy Story asks this while pointing to a big red button on Buzz Lightyear's armor. Subverted in that it just plays a voice recording. In the same scene, Slinky Dog activates Buzz's laser, though without the line. | |
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Apollo 13. As the crew begins to prep for its re-entry, we briefly glimpse a piece of paper over a panel in the cockpit, simply marked "NO!". When all three men get back in the cockpit, Jim Lovell asks Jack Swigert about the note; Swigert admits that he was getting "kinda punchy" and didn't want to accidentally jettison the LEM with the other two men still inside. (This happened for real on the actual Apollo 13. The note part, not the jettisoning the LM part.) | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: At the end of the episode "Vicky Loses Her Icky", Cosmo finds the President's Big Red Button, exclaims "I don't know what it does!", and presses it to everyone's horror. Cue Earth-Shattering Kaboom... on Pluto. Cosmo's dialogue afterwards strongly implies that he knew what the button did all along, and merely invoked the trope to mess with Timmy. | |
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The VeggieTales movie Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space plays this straight within the Larrymobile. There's a panel of multicolored buttons that Alfred didn't take the time to label, and he tells Larry this while he's driving towards the city's water tower. Larry's trying to find the button for the 'Mobile's flight system, but Alfred can't remember which one it is until the last second. | |
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Lampshaded in the Father Ted episode "Flight into Terror". We're explicitly told that the Big Red Button dumps all the fuel, but for some reason, it's placed next to another Big Red Button, which is to be pressed when the plane is in trouble (in this case, an old priest in the cockpit going a bit mad and molesting the pilot). When the pilot asks Dougal to press the button... | |
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The first level of Bloody Zombies have you randomly deciding to activate a lever after killing an area of zombies. You then trigger a set of automated gears that starts chasing you, in an Advancing Wall of Doom moment you must outrun. | |
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ASDF Movie: Parodied in asdfmovie1, with the Pointless Button. The button is pointless. Again in asdfmovie9. In another episode, we have this where one character pushes a button and changes the world from black and white and into color, which promptly reveals that the characters are naked. Panic ensues. |
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Batwoman (2019): Luke Fox tells Kate Kane to press the Big Red Button on her right gauntlet to activate her cowl-cam. She does and a batarang slams into the wall. This trope is weaponized at the start of Season 2. Ryan Wilder has found the Batsuit and puts it on, but doesn't know how to operate it properly. After an attempt at taking down a couple of crooks involves her accidentally shooting off various Bat-gadgets, she tells a crook she's interrogating that she has no idea what a particular button on the Batsuit does and that if he doesn't answer her questions, they're going to find out together. |
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In the Invader Zim episode "Battle of the Planets", GIR is sent to distract Dib. He goes off and makes it look like he's going to do something evil and actually competent, when all he ends up doing is randomly pushing buttons on Dib's controls, saying, "What's this do? What's that do?" And somehow this manages to fulfill his given assignment regardless. | |
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Dr. Smith from Lost in Space is made of this trope. For all his raving cowardice, the man never met a button he wouldn't push. Probably the best example is when he finds a giant machine, stupidly activates it, and it produces an android which tries to kill him. The Robinsons destroy the android and forbid him to go near the machine again. So of course, he sneaks back and does exactly the same thing again. | |
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In the German comic Rudi, the button in question automatically moves the kickstand of a motorbike. Cue the Motorcycle Dominoes. | |
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In Ome Henk, the answer is almost always Stuff Blowing Up. | |
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In Season 9 of Hermitcraft, Doc exploits Grian's bad habit by hiding a horde of ghasts inside of the redstone device and make a sign that says "DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON!" in order to prank him for Secret Fools Day. The resulting prank is exactly what you expected. Several months later, Grian's habit (alongside with Scar tagging along) accidentally destroys Doc's tunnel bore, which leads to an Escalating War of pranks and the redstone robot fight between Grian, Scar, and Mumbo against Doc and Ren. | |
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In Undercover Brother, Conspiracy Brother sees a Big Red Button in the control room of The Man's base labelled "Atomic Core". He goes ahead and presses it anyway, starting the self destruct sequence. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy plays this trope straight, while subverting the Shmuck Bait element and averting the Chekhov's Gun of it: "[Arthur] reached out and pressed an invitingly large button on a nearby panel. The panel lit up with the words 'Please do not press this button again.'" At no point is this button ever mentioned again. | |
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Fire Force: When visiting Vulkun's home, Iris can't resist pushing the buttons scattered around his inventions. She even taps on some of Licht's more bizarre research items in his lab. | |
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At one point in Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, D-Team encounter a button with a timer and have to decide to press it or not. Sigma opts to press it while Phi saying there's no danger so they shouldn't. Not pressing it is exactly the best option, doing so will obliterate the entire base. | |
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Dr. Watson of all people is guilty of it in this fan comic. | |
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In Chrono Trigger, while searching for a way back from the post-apocalyptic future at Arris Dome, Marle says this exact phrase before pressing a button on Arris Dome's supercomputer that plays a recording of the Day of Lavos, the very day the world "ended", though she and her friends take it upon themselves to try and prevent this future. One could argue that pressing it has disastrous effects to the timeline... | |
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In Albion, you enter a dungeon with red and green pressure plates. The green plates have positive effects (they open doors that block your way or treasure rooms), while red ones more or less negative ones (they release monsters or open rooms with cursed items). At one point you enter a room with a blue pressure plate — and a party member, curious what it does, steps on it, which opens a trap door and sends the party crashing down below. | |
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In Penguins of Madagascar, Private can't stop pushing the buttons on Dave's submarine, each one sending them deeper into the ship. Later he presses another one to save the North Wind from Dave's death trap. | |
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Doctor Who actress Jenna Coleman often tells conventions about a time while filming in a power plant that her co-star, Peter Capaldi, out of curiosity, pushed a button which he found out too late activated an emergency shower. Capaldi claims he thought it was a door-opener. | |
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Men in Black: Jay is firmly instructed early in the movie to never, ever touch the red button. In the crisis of the climax scene, Tommy Lee Jones tells him to push it. It activates turbo engines that allow the car to drive on walls and ceilings to get through a traffic-clogged tunnel. | |
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Blake's 7: Played for Drama in "Cygnus Alpha". When our heroes first get hold of the Liberator, they have no idea how to operate the alien vessel and so must make educated guesses about every button. One sends them hurling across the galaxy at Ludicrous Speed, the next button does nothing at all. Then when Blake is in urgent need of a Teleportation Rescue, the button they thought would teleport him up does nothing, so they have to try buttons at random until it works. | |
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Jimmy Two-Shoes: In "Rocket Jimmy", Jimmy is messing around in Dr. Scientist's observatory, and we get this: | |
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Teen Titans; Tim Drake manages to smuggle a batmobile to California under the 'Batarang budget' and tells the group not to touch the blue button after being asked that question. A page later reveals it most likely contacts Batman, right after Kid Flash has managed to crash the car upside down. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops has Chizuka messing around with a button of a Humongous Mecha. The robot then fires laser beam that destroys an empty building nearby. | |
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In TRON: Legacy, Sam ends up zapping himself onto the Grid by ignorantly repeating the last issued command on the console. Even when faced with the warning message, he makes only a token effort to look for the indicated "aperture" before confirming the command. | |
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Done in Górsky & Butch, in a direct Dexter's Laboratory parody. (Unfortunately, the button was in the middle of a bomb that Gorsky was trying to disarm.) | |
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In the Halo 4 Spartan Ops mission "Gagarin", triggering the Red vs. Blue Easter Egg will lead to this exchange: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002): Buffy is trying to gain access to a control room at the docks. The only way seems to be a shorting out and sparking control panel. Using it sends her flying twenty feet through the glass of the control room so she can progress at least. | |
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In Genesis' music video for "Land of Confusion" starring Spitting Image dolls, Reagan presses "Nuke" instead of "Nurse". That earns him a slap on the back of the head from Nancy. | |
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Asked in Episode 15 of Bodacious Space Pirates when Marika brings the yacht club aboard the Bentenmaru to fill in for her quarantined crew. Answer: It fires the ship's main cannons. | |
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The Judge asks this in case 1 of Brendan Namron: Ace Attorney just before pressing the power switch of the flashlight — and getting hit by its light. | |
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Subverted in the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, at the very end, in the Great Glass Wonkavator, Wonka lets him know that he has pushed every button in the compartment besides the one with a red ring around it, which he encourages Charlie to do, claiming he doesn't know what'll happen, eventually revealing he actually knew it would lead them up and out of the factory. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew: | |
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Soul Music: The shop full of magical musical instruments, where the question was "What happens if I pick up this instrument and play it?" One of the scarier ones in the shop was the horn of either Heimdall or Gabriel. | |
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"Lighter Than Hare" has Bugs Bunny's robot facing off against Yosemite Sam of Outer Space's robot: | |
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In GEOWeasel, as Jimbob pokes around in the buttons of the flying machine, he accidentally hits the AOL instant messenger button. | |
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The controls in SimAnt included an unmarked white "mystery button" whose effects changed at random with each click. It might tell you a joke, rapidly play every single sound effect, let the spider shoot lasers from its eyes, or annihilate most of your colony. (There were plenty of other effects, some beneficial but on average, clicking the button was disadvantageous to the player.) | |
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Defied with a vengeance in the Give Yourself Goosebumps book, All-Day Nightmare. When you're re-abducted by the aliens who took your memory, you're given a chance to hit a red button on a control panel and try crashing their ship, but if you chose that option it turns out the aliens are Genre Savvy enough to anticipate what you're doing - which is why said button has a safety lock installed. The aliens then decides humans are too untrustworthy to be left alive and decide to launch an invasion to Kill All Humans - and you're Forced to Watch from the sidelines. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero doesn't even cover your screw-up. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Scooby Gang capture a taser blaster from the Initiative and try to figure out how it works. Willow suggests just pushing buttons to see what happens, but Xander replies that since they're fiddling with a "blaster", randomly hitting buttons is not high on his agenda. He then adds that if it were called the "Orgasminator", that would, in fact, be his desired approach. | |
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Likewise, McKay claims the rights to this trope in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Sunday" and berates two other scientists for using it, since he has the ability to fix whatever he might screw up, while they will usually turn to him for the same. Doesn't always turn out that way, but does in this episode. | |
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In GURPS, the Curious disadvantage causes your character to do exactly this, with a penalty to your roll if the button is big, red, and has "Do Not Press" written on it. | |
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In Harry Potter And The Invincible Technomage (a fanfiction in which Harry Potter is adopted by Tony Stark) the Dursleys and Harry go to a Stark International factory. Dudley decides to start pressing buttons and switches, and his father not only doesn't do a thing to stop his son but prevents some people from stopping the kid. The result? The Dursleys die, another family that was there dies, a technician dies, and the only survivor is Harry thanks to his magical powers. | |
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Family Guy: Lampshaded in an episode; Peter presses a button clearly marked "Do Not Press This Button". A small Asian man walks up to him, bows then kicks Peter in the head. In "Space Cadet", the first thing Stewie does is push a big red button in the space shuttle Chris is giving a tour of, saying, "Ooh, big red button, I don't care what it does!" |
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In Mass Effect: Andromeda, there's another random button on Kadara, with another salarian standing nearby asking you not to touch it. Not that it matters. It's broken. | |
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In Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Hunter comes across a button in Evening Lake, which he pushes, causing him to fall into a cage, which closes as the Sorceress is heard laughing. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Message in a Bottle", two Emergency Medical Holograms have to take control of a vessel being attacked by Romulans. As neither has been on the bridge before, the LCARS interface throws them into confusion and they have to make educated guesses on what to press. | |
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In the New World of Darkness's fanmade expansion Genius: The Transgression, this is represented with the Mere Mortal Law (a.k.a. Gilligan's Rule), or, in game-play terms, Havoc: Wonders, the inventions of Geniuses, will almost-certainly go haywire when touched, picked up or interacted with by an ordinary human. This effect is especially bad when an actual scientist does so. | |
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Wander of Wander over Yonder does this on Lord Hater's ship in the episode "The Prisoner". | |
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I'm Anton!: Mason, the CEO's son would often play with the machinery, often playing with the buttons which causes the machines to malfunction and hold up production. | |
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In Artemis Fowl, The Atlantis Complex, Mulch amuses himself on a long trip in a stolen shuttle by doing this repeatedly, activating the emergency braking system and dumping a load of "waste" on some very surprised fishermen. | |
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David curiously touches all the alien-buttons he sees in Prometheus. Heavily overlaps with Don't Touch It, You Idiot!. No, seriously, DON'T! | |
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Titan A.E.: Played with, in a way that suggests that the crew's Genius Ditz weapon specialist is savvier than he might at first appear. We never do find out what it does. | |
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Minilife TV: In "The Man With The Box Sketch", when Chris wonders what a button on his remote does, the platform that he and Ian are on is raised seemingly endlessly when he presses it. Fortunately, he manages to bring it back down by pressing the button again. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter's big sister DeeDee is the arguable Trope Codifier, having elevated this to an art form and having "What does this button do?" as her catchphrase. This would usually be the last thing Dexter would hear before one of his inventions goes awry. Even she lampshades it on occasion, such as one episode where Dexter's trying to sleep: Doing this has sometimes served as the solution to a problem. One episode has Dexter deliberately invoke it when his new supercomputer has turned against him. |
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Creep TV: When Courage enters the furnace room and sees a large dial, he wonders what it does. When he turns it, it turns off the water in the bathroom, which bores the poltergeist who was flushing the toilet and makes it go away. | |
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In The Portal, Thomas Smith pushes a strange button which causes him to fall into the basement where he finds the portal to the Dragon Realms. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Half a Life", Lwaxana Troi is poking around the tactical console on the bridge, and asks the question of "Mr. Woof", who alarmedly says it is the photon torpedo launcher...! And his name is "Worf", not "Woof". | |
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