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A character on the show has been less than forthcoming about information that would have certainly helped the protagonist figure things out faster. Often, there's a good reason — a Big Secret or an Awful Truth, for example. In reality, the writers just needed a way to protract the story or build the suspense. | |
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In The Snorks, a shady peddler known as the Snailsman shows up occasionally to sell items to the characters. Said merchandise has some kind of drawback and when the buyers complain about not being told, the Snailsman would reply that they never asked. | |
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Sherlock: Sherlock sees through everything and everyone in seconds. What's incredible, though, is how spectacularly ignorant he is about some things. For example, in "The Hounds of Baskerville", Sherlock is confused why John is calling Inspector Lestrade "Greg". John tells him that this is Lestrade's name. The annoyed Lestrade points out that Sherlock never bothered to ask through all the years they worked together. Sherlock never bothers to learn things every schoolboy knows, such as basic astronomy (like the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun). Why? Because it has no bearing on detective work. Later in the same episode he solves a case because of his encyclopedic knowledge of historical supernovas, so he might have just been messing with Watson there. | |
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In Night Watch Discworld all of the survivors of a particular battle decades before wear a lilac flower in memorial on the anniversery. When it comes out that another character who they know well was also there anonymously he remarks that he'd been participating in the tradition the whole time and they never asked why. | |
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Done for a laugh in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, although it does have some frustrating implications. Link's task in the second part of the game is rescuing the Seven Sages, who were magically sealed in paintings by the villain Yuga. Four of the seven didn't know about their special status. The only three who did were Osfala, an arrogant jerk who doesn't think he needs to worry about Yuga, Impa, who did take precautions to protect herself (Yuga implies that Impa was the last Sage he captured), and Rosso, a burly mountaineer. When he's freed from his prison, he casually remarks that he's known about his Sagehood for years, but never bothered to bring it up because it seemed so unimportant; if he'd told someone beforehand, he might have been able to be kept safe. However, given that Yuga not only has teleportation powers, but can trap people so long as there's a flat surface nearby, it would have been dang near impossible to defend against him. | |
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Narbonic: Here. Dave had a damned good reason for not wanting to mention the teleporter; it was specifically designed to provide The Alcatraz with supplies without risking escapes — it's "receive" only... | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica This is Kyubey's response when asked why he never mentioned that the process of creating a magical girl involves removing their soul from their body. In fact, that's his standard MO. He has never told an outright lie, not even when asked a direct question, but he never tells the whole truth either. He frequently decides to not divulge key pieces of information, like the one described above, or magical girls risking, if not being outright doomed, to turn into their enemies, witches, through The Corruption, whenever mentioning it might harm his goals. The one time he had to be deceptive — in ascribing motives to his antagonist Homura — he merely provoked another girl into speculating about her, then nodded and said nothing. One might chalk this up to his Blue-and-Orange Morality, and suggest that he doesn't understand why humans consider this information important... but he knows that they think it's important, and so he deliberately avoids it: "This is exactly why I didn't tell you. I always get the same reaction every time I say it." His unwillingness to explain anything extends even to the basic powers he grants the girls. For example, he neglects to mention Sayaka's Healing Factor until after she had been beaten within an inch of her life, and Kyouko and Madoka ask how she's still standing. He's the main source of exposition, by the way. There are major setting elements that the audience only has his word on. |
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In Doom, the squad crosses the LAX parking lot planning on hijacking a plane. They briefly discuss who will pilot it and none of the Marines can. They hijack the plane, with enemies trying to get in the cockpit, and then bring up the pilot question again. Jill volunteers and, when asked why she didn't speak up before, replies, "You didn't ask." | |
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A variation occurs in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where a rape victim refuses to give the detectives the identity of her rapist, with the statute of limitations ticking, because she's sure he's no longer a threat. When they find him, they discover he'd been involved in an accident and was paralyzed from the waist down, thus no longer a threat. If she'd told them that, they likely wouldn't have jailed her for obstruction. | |
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Done to the player in Zero Time Dilemma, regarding the existence of "Q", the fourth player on Q Team and the true identity of Zero. To the characters, it's perfectly obvious that there's an old man in a wheelchair sitting in on all of Mira, Eric, and Sean's conversations; however, because the cinematic angles are carefully positioned to exclude him, and all the prerelease used the name "Q" to refer to Sean instead of Delta, this will never occur to the player until the game is ready to reveal the twist. | |
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J-WITCH Series: Uncle gives this reply when Jackie, Jade and Tohru are bewildered to learn that he used to date Yan Lin. | |
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Breaking Dawn: Edward knew all along that Jacob and the other wolves are no actual werewolves, but shape shifters. | |
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A particularly sinister example comes from cult classic Return to Oz. The Nome King has transformed the Scarecrow into an ornament for his palace, and offers Dorothy and her friends the chance to play a guessing game to change him back. Of course, the penalty for losing the guessing game is to be transformed into an ornament yourself, which the Faux Affably Evil Nome King didn't even mention (although he does say that they risk something) until the first member of their party lost. When called on it, he gives them a reasonable second option they can take instead of the guessing game. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Nick Fury once showed up in one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Flying Cars to pick up Thor's civilian identity — yeah, S.H.I.E.L.D. knew who he was, anyway. When Thor made his transformation, Fury nearly lost control of the car, and exclaimed, "Why didn't ya warn me about the special effects?!" Thor's response: "Thou didst not ask." | |
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This was why Rei never told Asuka that she could speak German (well, read it anyways, her pronunciation is a little wonky) in Advice and Trust until the latter's birthday party. | |
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Used deliberately against one of the villains in Roadmarks. The retired Killer Robot Mondamay is placed under a compulsion to obey the villain's orders; the villain's plan fails due to a fact Mondamay knew all along but chose not to volunteer; the villain asks why he didn't warn him, and Mondamay replies, with exact truth, "You never asked me." | |
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In Ranma ½, this is literally Ukyô Kuonji's explanation for not revealing that Wholesome Crossdresser Tsubasa Kurenai was a boy she met while infiltrating an all-boy's school until after Ranma has been running around trying to "out-girl" him. For added bonus, she claims that since nobody asked, she figured they must have known — Akane immediately Lampshades how stupid an assumption that is. | |
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X-Men: Claremont did this with Wolverine's real name. From his first appearance all the way to the end of The Dark Phoenix Saga, his teammates only knew him as "Wolverine". The audience first learned it second-hand from a leprechaun, and first-hand later on in a conversation with his then-love interest. But the X-Men themselves only learned during a reconciliation with Alpha Flight that his name was "Logan". When asked why he didn't share this information, well... you can guess his answer. Wolvie was the living embodiment of this trope while Claremont was building him up. "You speak Japanese?" "You worked with them?" etc. For a while it was practically his Catchphrase. It was also turned around one time, when Wolverine was surprised ("I didn't know.") to learn that the Beast speaks Pashtun, and Hank replied.... |
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Bleach: Kisuke Urahara spams and subverts this trope. He's a Well-Intentioned Extremist Guile Hero. He'll do the right thing, sure, but he'll lie, trick and manipulate just about everything he says and everyone he meets. However, as Ichigo observes in Chapter 491, if Urahara is asked to give the information, he refuses rather than playing this trope straight and revealing it when asked. Ichigo gets really shocked when he finds out Yoruichi has a brother and asks why she never mentioned him before. She says she didn't think it was important and asks why she should just randomly tell people facts like that. |
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Minor occurrence in Mistborn with the Kandra OreSeur, when he doesn't tell Vin about a letter he knows is of interest to her. In this case, it's simple passive-aggressiveness; he's required to follow her orders, not to be helpful. Plus he's ticked off about his broken legs. | |
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In Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen books, Captain David Kaufman is US Army Air Corps pilot. He ends up getting captured by the Grik and is forced to watch as the other prisoners are being cooked and eaten one by one. Then the Japanese show up, and the Grik hand him over to their new allies. Naturally, the Japanese have no intention of treating Kaufman as their enemies would a POW (a true warrior doesn't get captured). The Japanese Number Two Sato Okado is the only one who treats Kaufman with any kind of respect (he recognizes that Kaufman didn't let himself be captured but was merely overwhelmed by the Grik). By that point, Kaufman is on the verge of insanity and has told his captors all they asked. Later, an American plane is sighted spying on the Grik-Japanese forces. Captain Hisashi Kurokawa orders his XO to question Kaufman about it and punish him if the prisoner withheld information. Kaufman admits he knew about the plane but thought it lost. When asked why he didn't mention it before, he answers with this trope. | |
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In Solatorobo, several hours into the game the main hero discovers that the boy he's been travelling since the beginning is in fact a girl. She uses this trope to justify not correcting him in the first place. | |
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In the live-action Death Note movie, this is Ryuk's explanation for why he hadn't told Light why, if you have a Death Note, your lifespan is hidden from a human who has traded for Shinigami-sight (which allowed Misa to discover who he is). In the manga and anime, he says he didn't know. | |
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From the TaleSpin episode "In Search of Ancient Blunders", while Baloo, Wildcat, and Myra are trying to get out of the pyramid... | |
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A justified version appears in Unavowed, with Melkhiresa, the knowledge demon (or rather daimon) as it is actually a limitation in its powers. A daimon might possess practically limitless knowledge and its raison d'être is to always seek out new information, but it cannot recall or divulge any of it by its own volition — it must be asked a direct question by its summoner before it can access what it knows. The Big Bad compares it to how a lexicon or a manual cannot read itself. | |
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Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana: After Delsus' refusal to give up the information he knows has led the party to fight a dragon, he will excuse himself with this. Subverted when the rest of the party promptly point out that they did ask. Repeatedly. | |
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Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, swordsman Karel asks Dart the pirate in their support conversations if he knows any strong enemies. Dart then tells him about a few he heard rumors about, only to find out they are all already dead. Then, in the final conversation, Dart remembers one more: a man named Karel, better known as the "Sword Demon", who only lives to kill and has done some pretty brutal stuff according to the stories. Karel answers that he cannot duel himself, leading to the following exchange: In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, after the player rescues Monica from a bandit fortress, the Knights of Seiros think that the bandits who kidnapped her were the same ones who attacked the other Officers Academy students in the previous mission. While the protagonist and her rescuers discuss the situation, she decides to simply tell them who the culprit was since they're so busy speculating that they forget to ask her directly. |
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An episode of Dungeons & Dragons (1983) has the group meet a tribe of tree-dwelling bear-like creatures. When they're surrounded by orcs, one of the bears surprises Eric by suddenly descending from the trees in Bamboo Technology elevator and tells him to hop in. Eric asks "Why didn't you tell us you had an elevator?" The bear replies "You didn't ask." | |
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On Girls, this is Adam's response when Hannah asks why he never told her about his problems with alcohol as a teenager. Naturally, this answers makes Hannah angry, but Adam angrily shoots back that it's not that she didn't ask about his alcoholism; it's that she never asks, about anything. | |
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On Greek, the exchange went something like this: | |
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Just about every episode of House features this trope, as the patient of the week and their relatives fail to provide crucial medical details and end up being misdiagnosed. In one episode, the team asks a vet so many questions that they have medical and non-medical histories going back to the patient's great-grandparents, leaving the patient with literally no excuse for not mentioning he once had an issue with nosebleeds and had his nostrils cauterized; which, of course, was the clue they needed. "Didn't ask", indeed. Also subverted in another episode where they're sure it's something but the patient continually insists that he's never been anywhere tropical, ruling it out. Finally House gets mad enough to where the guy defensively yells, "I've never been south of Florida!" only for House to glare and call him and idiot, and he weakly asks, "Florida counts?" Apparently no one had ever defined "tropical" enough for him to know. |
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The Talmud: One at least one "thought you knew that" example: Pirkei Avot also gives us the proverb "A shy student (i.e., one who won't ask questions) cannot learn." |
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An episode of Donkey Kong Country has Klump and Krusha hiding in barrels on Kaptain Skurvy's pirate ship while it sails off: | |
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Also done in Some Kind of Wonderful at the end when Watts, the tomboy, finally gets with Keith. When he asks "Why didn't you say anything?" to Watts, she answered "You never asked." | |
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Solid Snake does this multiple times (he says "you never asked") in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, so much it becomes a Running Gag. Details never asked about include: Snake's real identity; the fact that they're hiding a Humongous Mecha-Forgotten Superweapon-Elaborate Underground Base hybrid under the sea; and numerous lower-key pieces of information involving the personal lives of the characters. He seems to enjoy it greatly. At least Snake has a good reason not to tell Raiden his entire life story — he is a terrorist who had faked his own death. Plus, Snake is probably at least partially aware that Raiden is the brainwashed minion of the Ancient Conspiracy that he is fighting against, as well as having a personal connection to Solidus. |
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Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures gives us I.R.I.S., Questworld's A.I. user interface. | |
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Full House: An early Running Gag consists of Stephanie knowing information that her dad, uncle, or Joey needed to know earlier. When asked why she didn't reveal this news sooner, she would respond, "Nobody asked me." Early in the episode "Room for One More?" Danny praises Stephanie and Michelle for taking their responsibility seriously with taking care of "Scruffy", which belongs to a neighbor. Danny assumes that it's a dog, only for Michelle to enter with the pet in question — a warthog. |
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Thomas & Friends: In "Pop Goes the Diesel", Diesel goes to much bother to get a bunch of decrepid trucks for Duck, only to have them jammed on the tracks, so he has to help clear the mess. Duck then tells him he already has trucks, and didn't tell Diesel because he didn't ask. Also, because Diesel was boasting how revolutionary Diesel engines are. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: This is Tikki’s reaction when Marinette asks why she didn’t explain that the multiverse exists. Justified in that the chances of it actually being relevant are infinitesimal, so being asked is really the only realistic reason to mention it. | |
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Averted with a vengeance in A Hero. Dalek Sec does not accept that logic when confronting Kyubey on this. | |
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Naruto: Second variation in Episode 111 of Shippuden. Naruto decides he needs a fire element attack. One of his summoned toads casually mentions that he can use one. Of course, when asked why he never mentioned this before, the reply was that he never asked. The manga goes on for hundreds of chapters and only near the end is it learned that the tailed beasts actually have names. The shinobi typically consider them to be nothing more than mindless monsters or weapons, so they never thought to inquire about their names, which has led to a lot of deeply-held anger on the beast's part that none of the ninja ever bothered to ask them. |
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Examples from Supergirl stories: In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), when Superman tells Supergirl that he didn't know she could already use her X-Ray Vision, Kara answers: "You didn't ask". In Red Daughter of Krypton, when Supergirl demands to know why neither of her partners warned her that she'd die if she took her Red Ring off, Guy Gardner answers it wasn't an easy thing to bring up, i.e., she didn't ask. |
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In Spamalot, King Arthur needs to find a Jew. After some searching, his servant Patsy reveals that he is Jewish on his mother's side. When King Arthur asks why this information wasn't revealed previously, Patsy responds with, "That's not exactly the sort of thing you say to a heavily-armed Christian." | |
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Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero: In "The Bewildering Bout of the Astounding Automatons", Rippen asks why Larry didn't tell him the mop Larry gave him was an exploding mop. Larry says it's because Rippen didn't ask. | |
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In Eiga Sentai Scanranger, a story set in Japan has a member of the team dumbstruck to learn that their mentor can speak Japanese (whereupon she quotes the line). This isn't that big a deal to begin with, but it's even dumber because not only is the one who notices a Japanese guy who also speaks Japanese and English, the mentor knowing a second language doesn't even come in handy because a friendly alien uses her powers to enable everyone to understand each other. | |
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Paranoia: One official mission has the GM offhandedly mention that there's a bot in the middle of the briefing room. It is, in fact, a Vampire Bot 666, every bit as visibly lethal and Squicky as the name implies, but the GM is specifically instructed not to describe it in any further detail unless (a) the PCs think to ask or (b) it actually does something. | |
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In "Franklin and Sam" from Franklin, Franklin tries to hide the fact that he still sleeps with his stuffed dog Sam after his friends and particularly Fox comment that only babies sleep with stuffed toys after Bear's little sister Beatrice gets upset over missing her teddy bear. Finally, while sneaking Sam into their sleepover tent, he finds them all sleeping with stuffed toys. When he asks why they didn't just tell him, Fox's sheepish excuse is "You didn't ask." | |
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In The Awakening of a Magus, Voldemort is very displeased with Lucius after learning that Snape is not only alive after his remote execution attemp, but also teaches his son, Draco. Lucius' only justification is he didn't think to ask. In reality, Draco was fully aware from the start Voldemort believed Snape to be dead, and simply chose to keep silent. | |
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Fat Albert At the mall, Fat Albert tries on a whole bunch of clothing, but he states to the clerk that he's broke. The clerk angrily collects all the clothing back. | |
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A notable example is also given in the Janitor's name from Scrubs. It is revealed in the final episode that J.D. had never asked, "What's your name?". It is revealed in the final episode when asked to be Glenn Matthews; however, right after this revelation another person walks by the janitor and calls him Tommy. note Years later, series creator Bill Lawrence and the Janitor's actor Neil Flynn confirmed that the Janitor's real name is Glenn Matthews. | |
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In HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, when Tsubomi, Erika and the recently-recruited Itsuki arrive at the Great Heart Tree for the first time, Itsuki makes mention of the Cure Moonlight dream. Erika wanted to know why she didn't say anything about it and Itsuki really didn't think too much of it. To their credit, though, Tsubomi and Erika were going to ask Itsuki over it, but Itsuki's concerns over her ailing brother took precedence. | |
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How the Light Gets In: Multiple: Felicity is surprised to learn that Laurel gardens. Laurel inwardly muses that she, and indeed most members of Team Arrow, have really never asked any details about her life. A sort of third-person variant: Sara is dumbfounded to learn Oliver had no idea Mary attends physical therapynote Though she notes this isn't entirely his fault, as Laurel is simply a private person, especially when it comes to her daughter In Chapter 12, Thea casually offers to send Sara and Sam a private jet so they can return more quickly, only to get incredulous stares from everyone. |
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Baten Kaitos: On discovering that Mizuti is a "Child of the Earth" (part of a race of sorcerers), the heroes question why she never said anything. Her response: "You not ask." The trick here is that she actually told them as such outright twice — they just didn't pay attention. The main party accuses Savyna of being a spy. Instead of denying it, she simply says, "You only asked for my name, not who I was." |
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In the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "In Search of Crimes Past", Bolander discovers that the reason that the wrong man was jailed 16 years ago was because he didn't ask whether the victim was having an affair with the true killer's wife. He later wonders how many other cases he might have unknowingly stuffed up because he failed to ask the right question. | |
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Whateley Universe: Of the mystical "You must ask" type, in "Dissonance (Part 1)", where it would have averted a unfortunate situation: | |
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Subverted in the Discworld book Interesting Times: Rincewind meets Twoflower, a character he last met in the book The Light Fantastic. Twoflower talks about having a daughter, much to Rincewind's surprise, as they had spent a good length of time together without him ever mentioning it, despite Twoflower's insistence that he "MUST have done". Justified, His wife was killed by the main villain of the story when he destroyed the village where they lived, so Twoflower probably just tries to forget. Maybe he even left to travel the world to forget.. In Night Watch Discworld all of the survivors of a particular battle decades before wear a lilac flower in memorial on the anniversery. When it comes out that another character who they know well was also there anonymously he remarks that he'd been participating in the tradition the whole time and they never asked why. |
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In The Powerpuff Girls special "Twas The Fight Before Christmas", Princess tampers with Santa's naughty and nice lists so he would grant her wish to be a Powerpuff Girl for Christmas. He ends up removing her flight suit when he realizes he's been tricked, causing Buttercup to comment that she didn't know that he could give kids superpowers. Santa replied that no one had ever asked him before. | |
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Tangerine: Lake Windsor has a pond of koi (a beautiful type of fish). Paul knew that the fish were being eaten by local wild birds (ospreys), but didn't tell anyone until the general meeting in his house. When asked why he never said anything earlier, his answer is "No one ever asked me". | |
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Hayate the Combat Butler has an odd take on this. After 88 chapters, he reveals to the other girls that he's had a girlfriend in the past, and she's the reason that he's completely clueless about all the other girls all but throwing themselves at him, even the one who's actually confessed to him. Even later he reveals who this girl is, and everyone realizes that they know of her and one of them was actually seen as her best friend. The phrase is never actually spoken, but there are reaction shots with this being their expression. Given the amount of mistaken dialogue present, this could clear up most of the confusion of the story. One of the characters seems to have gotten smart about this. Granted, sometimes it's refused, even when one of the girls is asked directly, she can't answer. |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: In "Futures Trading", the Doctor sends a message to Dracula to ask him to use his giant moon laser to help the humans against the space dinosaurs, and he immediately complies. Naturally, the reason he didn't do this until more than a decade after the initial invasion was because they hadn't asked. They don't usually like the laser, after all, so best to wait until asked. (It is true that using it at just this time was the best way to save the day.) | |
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Justice: In Chapter 19, the Deckhands are indignant about Luffy letting Ace (of the Royal Flush Gang) join the core crew as a Pirate Apprentice. Played for Drama when Luffy answers with this trope; Ace asked to join, they didn't. And they haven't asked since they learned the truth because they're still apprehensive about the whole thing. | |
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Supergirl (2015) fanfic my youth is yours: During the Mxyzptlk chapter, Mon-El mentions it's too bad they can't get him to say his name backwards to banish him. He had assumed they knew about that rule (unlike in the show, where he was deliberately hiding it) and already decided it was too impractical. He does have a point; Kara at first dismisses it, but eventually figures out she can trick Mxy into writing it instead. | |
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A Posse Ad Esse has an example similar to the Scanranger one above, which is then subverted: | |
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Tiger & Bunny: Kotetsu just kind of forgot to tell all his coworkers (sans Antonio) — for at least a year — that he's a widower with a preteen daughter. They were understandably surprised. Especially Karina. | |
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Doc Scratch from Homestuck bases his whole existence around this. He claims that only he can know all the facts, and he's only saving time by not telling everybody everything. However, it's clear he has his own agenda, and he fulfills it by leading people to the wrong conclusions through Exact Words, leading up to a climactic payoff at the end of Act 5. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: After Roger handcuffs Eddie, Eddie informs him that he lost the key to the cuffs. Later, Eddie is sawing the cuffs and the tables rocks. Roger slips out of the cuffs to steady it. When Eddie realizes, Roger quickly puts his back on. | |
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Used quite often in J.D. Robb's In Death series about Roarke, Eve's billionaire husband, who went from Rags to Riches with roots in criminal activity: The first time this happened, when Roarke casually picked a set of locks. In "Naked in Death", Roarke mentions that DeBlass used to buy guns from the black market. When Eve asks why he didn't tell her before, he says she didn't ask. |
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In the Green Lantern miniseries Emerald Dawn, when Hal Jordan asks why the lantern never told him it could talk, it responded "No inquiry was made". Immediately lampshaded by Hal. | |
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Fenton in DuckTales (1987) never dared ask his prospective Love Interest out until he could get a promotion. Where she replies that she'd have dated him even if he'd just been a bean-counter. He asks her why they never did and she responds: "You never asked." | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: After Mantis and Nebula are unable to communicate with the children held prisoner by The High Evolutionary (and Nebula's shouting at them just causes them to cry hysterically), Drax is able to calm the children down by doing his impression of a monkey, and then is able to tell the children in their language to go to a safe place. | |
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In The Order of the Stick strip "Omission Possible", this is the first reason Durkon gives for not having told the evil spirit controlling his body that the keystone to the dwarven temple would crumble to dust if someone used it without the owner's permission. The second reason is "Also, I hate ye an' I want ye ta fail." | |
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In Croak, this is Pip's answer when Lex finds out about his climbing ability. She tells him that not everything has to be learned by asking. | |
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Claremont did this with Wolverine's real name. From his first appearance all the way to the end of The Dark Phoenix Saga, his teammates only knew him as "Wolverine". The audience first learned it second-hand from a leprechaun, and first-hand later on in a conversation with his then-love interest. But the X-Men themselves only learned during a reconciliation with Alpha Flight that his name was "Logan". When asked why he didn't share this information, well... you can guess his answer. | |
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SWAT Kats: T-Bone's answer to Razor asking why he never mentioned to his best friend and fellow Swat Kat that he can't swim. | |
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Black Butler: Ciel's reasoning when Sebastian asked why he never told him that he had asthma. | |
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On Red Dwarf, this exchange followed a self-destruct scare: | |
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In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Marvin reveals in passing that he could see The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything — for which the characters had been searching for some time — imprinted on Arthur Dent's brainwave patterns. His response to why he never mentioned it... In the radio series moments later, Marvin repeats it when he's asked why he didn't tell the others beforehand that the spaceship they've stolen belongs to the space fleet Admiral. (In the book, they've stolen Hotblack Desiato's ship which is programmed as part of a rock concert to crash into the sun. Here, Marvin replies "You said you wanted excitement and adventure and really wild things.") |
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This is a running problem in Differently Morphous. The Fluidics know a lot of important information their human friends are not aware of, but thanks to a near pathological aversion to "causing a fuss", they hate to volunteer anything. One of the biggest is that everybody knows they came to England as refugees, but with all the fallout from the Broken Masquerade nobody thought to ask what they were seeking refuge from. | |
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A "underestimation" variant from Gen¹³: When their housekeeper Anna comes to the kids' rescue, it's revealed that she is in fact a battle droid. When Freefall remarks that Mr. Lynch never bothered to tell them that, Lynch replies "It just never came up." | |
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In Murder on the Orient Express, this is the reason that the owner of the handkerchief found at the crime scene didn't admit to it; no one told her about it or asked it if it was hers. As soon as she does find out (or at least can admit she knows about it), she tells the detectives right away. | |
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In Labyrinth, one of the hurdles that Sarah has to overcome is knowing not only to ask, but how to ask to get any useful information; early in the film, when she laments that it's useless to ask Hoggle anything, he retorts, "Not if you ask the right questions!" It takes a while for the lesson to sink in properly. | |
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In the Ascendance Series, Sage tries to use this to defend himself when Amarinda confronts him about not telling her that he was Jaron. She is NOT mollified. | |
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In the Starfleet Corps of Engineers story Some Assembly Required, this is the Keorgans' response when Carol Abramowitz and Bart Faulwell demand to know why the danger facing the Keorgan capital wasn't explained in the report they were sent before arriving. | |
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Alistair feebly tries this as justification in Dragon Age: Origins for why he didn't mention sooner that he's the bastard half-brother of the recently deceased king. You can call him out on the cop-out if you're so inclined. | |
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Played horribly straight in The Lost Fleet. A character was involved in a monstrous secret project, and for security reasons, was conditioned to be unable to talk about it (or about the conditioning); this is gradually driving him insane. Fleet regulations require that he be allowed to speak of it to a fleet admiral, but only if the admiral orders him to speak, in a secure environment (with no other witnesses or recording devices). And since he can't talk about his problem, the odds that a fleet admiral would ask him about it are very slight. note It's suggested that the security forces that gave him the conditioning figured that eventually the burden would drive him to suicide. | |
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Slayers: Xellos often cheerfully informs the group of such hidden things when they finally ask him about them incredulously. Examples include the fact he used their entire planned heist as a distraction for his, his nature as a mazoku (demon), and numerous other such subjects. However, he does have limits: if he doesn't feel like revealing something, his trademark Catchphrase "That... is a secret!" is all anyone's going to get from him.This is very justified in Xellos's case, since he feeds on negative emotions and gets quite a bit of pleasure out of watching the others squirm. There's also the fact that his goals are often different from those of the group... When the group discovers that Xellos is actually evil, it turns out that Gourry was aware of the fact the entire time, but didn't say anything because he thought it was obvious. | |
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In The Koala Brothers Outback Christmas, this is Frank's stated reason for not mentioning that he had a photo of Penny the penguin. | |
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Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain: When Mollusk finds out that Serket let the Brain take a few drops of the Fountain of Youth for his peculiar intelligence, Mollusk asks why she never let him have any if that was all it takes. She implies that she would have if he had asked. | |
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In Invincible Iron Man, Tony Stark has been in a coma and Riri has been aided by an A.I. of him. When Tony is missing, a huge search is on with various twists and dead ends. Talking it over, it suddenly hits Mary Jane and Riri that they've failed to see if the A.I. knows about what happened. After a long pause under their gazes, the Tony A.I. states "To be fair... no one directly asked me before now." | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The original series: In the last few episodes, Zuko becomes more and more hostile in trying to get Aang to train. Aang, not understanding, asks what his problem is, then Zuko tells him about Ozai's plan to burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground. The others want to know why he didn't mention this earlier, and Zuko responds that they didn't ask — and that he was under the assumption that the plan was to stop Ozai before the comet arrived, which would make telling them moot and just another thing to stress Aang. This is just after Zuko yells at them for not taking the impending deadline to fight the Firelord seriously. The Gaang, prove guilty of this themselves, finally mentioning that they apparently have all discussed and agreed they're actually not doing it on the timetable he thought. The Legend of Korra: Played with in Book 2. After finding out Eska is insane, Bolin asks Korra why she didn't warn him that Eska "has the power to reach into my heart and crush my soul with her bare hands". Korra tells him she thought it was obvious. |
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The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show: Throughout "South Seas Scare" Scrappy attacks the monster in his typical fashion. Nearing the end of the short, however, Shaggy says that he wishes somebody would dump the monster back from the volcano it came out of. Scrappy asks why they didn't say so sooner, and proceeds to do exactly that, stunning Scooby and Shaggy. | |
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A Small Crime: Siv seemed to have neglected to tell Kit about their amazing healing abilities. | |
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Animated Inanimate Battle has this in episode 5 between Fireball and Apricot: | |
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Though never explicitly said, the ending to One Froggy Evening's sequel, Another Froggy Evening reveals that Michigan J. Frog's ribbit isn't a ribbit — he's speaking Martian, asking if they wanted to hear him sing. Since everyone who got him didn't understand him, he'd never sing... until Marvin the Martian gets him, who understands him fully and asks him to sing. | |
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In an early episode of Stargate SG-1, Teal'c neglects to mention that the writing on an alien planet is Goa'uld. When Daniel asks why Teal'c didn't say anything sooner, Teal'c replies "You never before inquired." | |
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Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: During the all All Hail Queen Mab story arc, it is revealed Mab has a daughter. When questioned about by Jyyras she simply responds "No one ever asked." | |
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Rise of the Minisukas: When Shiki demands to know why Leader never mentioned a blue-haired, red-eyed, mentally-unstable Minisuka, Leader dodges the question by pointing out that Shiki would know about it if she even attended the group's meetings. | |
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The original series: In the last few episodes, Zuko becomes more and more hostile in trying to get Aang to train. Aang, not understanding, asks what his problem is, then Zuko tells him about Ozai's plan to burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground. The others want to know why he didn't mention this earlier, and Zuko responds that they didn't ask — and that he was under the assumption that the plan was to stop Ozai before the comet arrived, which would make telling them moot and just another thing to stress Aang. This is just after Zuko yells at them for not taking the impending deadline to fight the Firelord seriously. The Gaang, prove guilty of this themselves, finally mentioning that they apparently have all discussed and agreed they're actually not doing it on the timetable he thought. |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Toko Fukawa doesn't share memories with her Split Personality Genocide Jack. This fact becomes key in the final trial where it's revealed that 14 of the 16 students (the other two having orchestrated the plot) all had their memories erased of the time they spent together in school, and that the Mastermind explicitly erased those two years in order to kickstart the Deadly Game by making them want to leave without knowing that the outside world is in ruins from the Tragedy, but since Genocide Jack doesn't share memories with Toko, she does indeed remember that the world pretty much ended. If nothing else, Genocide Jack's complete insanity could explain this one away. Kyoko Kirigiri has a tendency to withhold information out of pragmatic distrust/paranoia (supposedly any of the other students could be the mastermind). This trait is relatively harmless until the fifth chapter, where she reveals upon being pressed about the issue that she's had Laser-Guided Amnesia the entire game of what her talent was and didn't bring it up because she assumed no one would believe her. One wonders how much quicker they could have reached that particular plot twist if it had been established earlier that the mastermind can tamper with people's memories. |
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Cradle Series: Eithan is an Eccentric Mentor with a Mysterious Past. When he makes one Cryptic Background Reference too many, Lindon grumbles that he's eventually going to force Eithan to explain himself. Eithan just smiles broadly and points out that Lindon never actually asked about his past. There's a long pause as Lindon realizes that this is true — he's never even implied he wanted to know about Eithan's past. While they get interrupted at that moment and there isn't a good chance to talk for quite a while after, when Lindon does get a chance to pin him down, he explains the broad strokes without reservation. | |
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Inverted in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In "Trials and Tribble-ations" Captain Sisko has to explain to a couple of humorless agents from Temporal Investigations about his jaunt back in time to the days of Star Trek: The Original Series. They conclude that minimal damage has been done, but after they leave Sisko is told that Odo wants a word. | |
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A variant occurs in The Legend of Zelda fic Raising Link. After a fairy leads a nine year old Link to the Temple of Souls, Cia and Lana have to figure out what to do with him. The former wants to keep him there and raise him to be their lover, and while the latter secretly wants the same, she feels that Link would be better off at Hyrule Castle. Cia decides to trick Lana by bribing Ciela with sweets to say that she was the fairy who brought Link to the temple at the behest of the Great Fairy of Time and/or the Great Deku Tree. The next day, Ciela reveals to Cia that she actually was the fairy that brought Link to the temple. When Cia asks why she didn't say anything, Ciela responds that she was the one who made the offer (Ciela is a big fan of Cia's sweets). | |
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Halo. In the first game, when Master Chief finds out that the Halos destroy all life in the galaxy, and not just the Flood, he confronts 343 Guilty Spark on the matter, with Spark's reaction being "You didn't ask." Guilty Spark was legitimately confused as to why Master Chief didn't already know what the Halos did, since he was well on his way to activating them. After all, who would activate a Giant Doomsday Weapon without knowing what it did? | |
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In Mass Effect, while talking with Wrex about his past, he'll casually mention he's met and worked for Saren, the Big Bad. When asked why he didn't tell anyone sooner, well, you can guess what his response is. Not as egregious as some others on this list, since he genuinely doesn't have anything new to say, and didn't even realize who Saren was until he met up with you, but still... | |
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Idol Manager: In his ending, Fujimoto turns out to have invested in the idol group in part to be able to stay involved in the life of his Like a Son to Me, regardless of whether the latter liked it or not. After needing some amount of time to gain self-awareness of this fact, Fujimoto considers stepping away as a means to show more respect to his surrogate child's autonomy. The surrogate child points out that stepping away entirely on his own initiative is just as bad as imposing himself and that true respect of their autonomy entails asking for their input on the situation. Fujimoto gets a pleasant surprise when he goes ahead and asks his surrogate child how much they want him in their life. | |
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A dramatic one in HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, Iona finally asks Hime why she opened the Axia Box and is told that she was tricked into doing so. When she asks why she didn't say so earlier, Hime points out that she tried to, but she kept getting scolded at by Iona. After her Break the Badass moment last episode, Iona realizes that all of that could have been avoided if she stopped for five seconds to find out the reasons instead of constantly painting her as a villain. | |
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In On the Shoulders of Giants, Rabbi Noah Bergman gives this as the reason he never told his friend, an Asari with AI-phobia (He didn't know about the phobia) that he, himself, was an AI. It's more of a case of cultural differences, as AI's are considered no different from other citizens in the group Bergman is part of, and he's honestly confused as to why Tela (the Asari) is freaking out. | |
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In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, swordsman Karel asks Dart the pirate in their support conversations if he knows any strong enemies. Dart then tells him about a few he heard rumors about, only to find out they are all already dead. Then, in the final conversation, Dart remembers one more: a man named Karel, better known as the "Sword Demon", who only lives to kill and has done some pretty brutal stuff according to the stories. Karel answers that he cannot duel himself, leading to the following exchange: | |
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Wacky Races: In "Baja-Ha-Ha Race", the Mean Machine gets stuck on mud until a donkey pulls it out. To make sure his rivals won't be as lucky, Dick Dastardly buys the donkey. When Penelope Pitstop gets stuck, the seller calls another donkey to pull her car. Dastardly protests that the seller didn't say he had another donkey and the seller replies that Dastardly didn't ask and he has several donkeys. | |
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Ruby Pair: In "Welcome to Urth", this trope is Zim's justification for why he didn't warn Tenn about the acidic effect that Earth's polluted water has on Irkens. Later, the Computer uses the same justification for not warning him sooner that Dib was breaking into the base. | |
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In The Savior's Book Café Story in Another World, "God" can give his chosen saviors as many magical wishes as they want, but they always assume that they can only grant one wish. Tsukina is the first person to ask and he grants all of her wishes, being as specific to what she wants that she's able. | |
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Played with in ''Phineas and Ferb". In "Swiss Family Phineas", the family and Isabella winds up marooned on a deserted island. Dad asks Phineas and Ferb to find shelter while he and Mom fix the ship and Candace finds food. After Candance sees the luxury treehouse the boys built, she lists off a list of things they could have built to get them off the island. Phineas' response for each one is that "Dad didn't ask [them] to build a (insert method of transportation). | |
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Inverted in The Evil That Men Do. Holland phones the Big Bad to demand a ransom for his kidnapped sister. After the conversation ends, Holland hangs up and tells the woman with him that they need to clear out of the house right now. | |
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Persona 5 Strikers: Sophia casually reveals that she’s a powerful fighter shortly after the Phantom Thieves first meet her and that she's an AI once they return to the real world. Both times, when Skull asks why she didn't say so from the beginning, Sophia says that it's because nobody asked her. Referenced again later after Wolf deals with the pain of touching a Birdcage to glean the Trauma Cell's location: |
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In "The Town's Inn, Part 1" from Hotel Hell, Gordon Ramsay is pointing out to the innkeeper, Karan, the insanity of the idea of there being her personal wardrobe in his room. She says that the wardrobe is locked and he doesn't have to deal with it and he tells her "But you didn't tell me that when you took my money," getting him this response. | |
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In Divine Misfortune, it isn't until they agree to let Lucky into their lives do Phil and Teri find out that he has a Stalker with a Crush (his ex-girlfriend, the Goddess of Heartbreak) and a God of Chaos and Evil who has vowed to torture and kill everyone who ever makes contact with him, especially his followers. He insists that they don't have to worry about it and that he has it handled, but that doesn't necessarily make it all better. | |
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In an episode of A Different World, Terrell is accused of putting a paper sign on Charmaine's back that reads "digit ho" in math class. A student hearing (in a "mock trial" style) leads to the revelation that another student had done it out of romantic rivalry (not even involving Terrell). When Freddie, acting as his defense counsel, asks why he never mentioned he was innocent, his answer was that it was the only thing nobody asked, assuming he was guilty purely on his "gangsta" aesthetics.note He did, however, suggest that the label implied she'd "do anything for a math problem" and did call her a "ho" when ordered to apologize | |
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In Class of the Titans, Atlas reveals that he knows the location of Atlantis, which the heroes were searching for, having been raised there. He points out the location after Odie discovers it, prompting Odie to ask why he didn't just tell them. Atlas simply replies, "You Never Asked." | |
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Used in the Star Trek Expanded Universe novel Imzadi. The Guardian of Forever doesn't tell anyone that the timeline in which Troi dies is the modified one, and that she lived in the original one. Thus, attempts at changing or maintaining the timeline are actually having the opposite effects. When the characters realize this and ask the Guardian why it didn't tell them, it literally says, "You did not ask." In fairness, it was established in the original episode that the Guardian has A Thing about answering questions. | |
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In The Office, Andy explains to the camera that he never told Erin he was engaged to Angela because she never asked. | |
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Assuming the radio version of Yes, Minister is similar to the TV version... Incidentally, later Hacker does ask. Sir Humphrey goes out of his way to avoid giving a straight answer. |
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In one episode of Dad's Army, the platoon has to help a farmer's widow to gather in the harvest. Mainwaring assumes that Sponge, who is a farmer, knows how to operate a threshing machine; and asks him to demonstrate. Sponge responds that he is a sheep farmer and has never had to use one. When Mainwaring tersely asks why Sponge never said so before, Sponge uses this line. | |
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Shrooms: When Holly attempts to use Bernie and Ernie's phone and finds that it doesn't work: | |
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Girl Genius In the Franz Scortchmaw side story, when the adventuring party is discussing how someone appears to be helping them from the shadows, Humongous blithely says "It is the ghost man. He is hiding behind that rock." As Franz glares at him, he explains "Humongous sees many things! Usually no-one wants to hear about them." |
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Elbee's reason in Knights of the Old Republic for never mentioning a very crucial fact from #10 until 37 issues later. The Mandalorian warrior Rohlan Dyre weighed 17 kilos less after returning from picking up the unconscious war criminal Demagol, thus proving that Demagol has been impersonating Rohlan the whole time. | |
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Done in Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane when Aria asks Miriam if it's true that Beatrice was disinherited 5 years ago. Miriam is actually lying to protect Beatrice. | |
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In Reservoir Dogs, this is Mr. Blond's response to why he didn't mention earlier that he has spoken to Nice Guy Eddie. Mr. White deadpans, "Hardy fuckin' har." | |
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Death Note. Used by Ryuk whenever Light comes across a new Death Note rule that hinders his plans. This is entirely on purpose from Ryuk, as by his own admission everything he does is For the Lulz, and watching Light scramble to come up with new plans is very entertaining. | |
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M*A*S*H: In "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan", Cpl. Klinger's failure to inform Potter that Major Houlihan had gone to deliver a baby leads to the cast being subjected to the antics of Col. Flagg for the entire episode. Subverted in that they did ask Klinger; he was just too groggy to fully register the question and his answer — "She's having a baby" — made absolutely no sense out of context. | |
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The then-director of NCIS asks the head of the FBI when it's revealed that the FBI had a database of fingerprints of every known terrorist. Cue trope title. | |
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In Noob, Sparadrap didn't bother telling anyone that getting his avatar banned then starting all over again whith a new one did not get him rid of his Clingy MacGuffin/Artifact of Doom until his guild was about to out of its way to get him a new equivalent to the item that the artifact was replacing. Justified as it was his first time interacting with his guild after several days of levelling up under his brother's wing and he was told to not mention the Clingy MacGuffin/Artifact of Doom to anyone outside his guild. | |
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In Snatcher, Metal knows all about the circumstances around Gillian's discovery and revival. Gillian doesn't. Metal refuses to tell him until the beginning of Act 3, when Gillian becomes the highest ranking Junker operative following the Chief's death. | |
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Rise of Paonne and Renard Rouge: In Chapter 21, it's revealed there used to be a real Volpina in the past but Vixx never told Nathaniel before because he didn't ask. | |
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Red vs. Blue: When Gary effortlessly disables a bomb about to blow up the base the cast is standing in: And again when Grif's sister was supposed to replace the dead Blue captain: In the Season 14 episode "Get Bent", Church learns that the Female!Reds were able to renovate their base simply by asking Command for the necessary materials; |
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Subverted in Kim Possible with Ron Stoppable. His parents have a habit of making life-changing decisions without telling him, leaving him to find out when it's already happened (e.g., he didn't know his parents adopted a baby girl til he came home and found a crib where his room used to be, didn't know they were moving til the moving van came to pick him up). When he asks why nobody told him, his parents, rather than saying he didn't ask, say, "This is our way of telling you." It could almost be labeled as Abusive Parents, but seeing as how at least his father is otherwise pretty good with his son, it's more like Parental Neglect. Or Parental Obliviousness, since they really don't seem to understand that this is not a good way to break important news to their child. A more straightforward example occurs in "A Sitch In Time", after Shego escapes while Kim is primarily focused on Drakken: |
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At the end of the Recess episode "The New Kid", Gus is allowed to be referred to by his real name instead of "the new kid" after standing up to King Bob, to which King Bob replied that he only had to ask if he wanted his name that badly. The old new kid (real name "Morris") who had to put up with being called "the new kid" for three years, complains to King Bob about this treatment. Again, King Bob nonchalantly tells him that he should have said something. | |
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This is Bill's justification in Faking It for never telling Dipper that he and Cipher were the same person. | |
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I'm Nobody: Roxas does this to the point of almost being a Running Gag - he obtains a new ability or piece of information in a way that the rest of the Normandy Crew don't know, and then he busts out that something he obtained. Obviously the others ask him why he didn't mention it, and Roxas replies with this trope. It eventually gets Lampshaded when Axel complains that he uses this line for everything. | |
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One episode of Dinosaurs saw Robbie with a crush on his cute classmate Caroline. He wants to ask her to an upcoming dance, but a Jerk Jock gets there first. Convinced that she only likes the jock because of his strong build, Robbie starts eating "Thoronoids", angry, nasty creatures that instantly add a ton of muscle to his frame. Unfortunately, the Thoronoids also make him nasty and aggressive to everyone, including Caroline. When she finally confronts him for his behavior, Robbie tells him that she was clearly more interested in his rival — why else wouldn't she go with him to the dance? Caroline fires back that Robbie never bothered to ask her, leaving him humiliated. | |
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In the SheZow episode "SheZow For a Day", when Kelly tells Guy that he's on call 24/7, he jokes that isn't a real rule. Shelia slaps Guy in the face with a large book. | |
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In Robotix, Compucore gives the "I didn't tell you before because you didn't ask me" excuse twice when offering solutions to the problems of the Protectons and their human allies, the first time being when they revealed that a backup copy of Argus' mind could be used to restore him after his consciousness was delete and replaced with that of Terragar by the Terrakors. | |
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My Hero Academia: Izuku Midoriya is shocked when All Might casually admits that he was Quirkless before receiving the power of One For All. Since the admission was made after Midoriya's match with Todoroki, and All Might and Midoriya have known each other for a while, Midoriya asks why All Might hadn't told him, and All Might simply says you never asked. He does it again when its revealed that All Might was originally going to give his Quirk to Miro Togata, but he ended up meeting Midoriya first. This is a habit that he seems to have taken from his mentor/predecessor, Nana Shimura, as according to All Might and Gran Torino, Shimura also had a bad habit of not revealing important information simply because they never asked her. | |
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In Rush Hour, Jackie Chan's character is Obfuscating Stupidity by pretending to not understand English. A few minutes, a chase scene, and a held-at-gunpoint later, he demonstrates that he does speak English. And then this is reversed near the very end of the movie, with Carter thanking the Chinese flight attendant in Chinese. However, in the sequel it's revealed that his knowledge is very poor and spotty, and that he's more likely to accidentally insult your grandmother than say anything useful. Plus, all he really said was "thank you". That's not the same as speaking the entire language. |
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At the start of ''Vinyl and Octavia Engage in Roleplay'', it's briefly revealed that Octavia has gone to university. She says that she never mentioned it because it didn't come up. | |
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Daredevil (2015): A variant happens in "Penny and Dime". Matt is getting dressed for Grotto's funeral when Karen shows up. She quickly jumps in and puts Matt's tie on, explaining that she learned by tying her brother's ties. Matt notes that she's never mentioned a brother, and she counters that he never asked. It later gets revealed that she was responsible for his death, which would explain why she doesn't jump at opportunities to talk about him. | |
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In Chapter 4 of Bug Fables, when Team Snakemouth gets captured by Desert Bandits and were imprisoned, Kabbu reveals that, as a beetle, he can burrow them out of cell in no time. His teammates ask him why he never used this before. Kabbu's response? Incidentally, Kabbu is one of the few characters on this page who can pull this off without sounding like a jerk. He's a very sincere fellow. |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Seaplane!", Bob has to track his wife to Quippiquisset Island. Mr. Fischoeder tells him a convoluted way to get a ride there while mocking the concept that everyone just has a boat. During the process, Bob spots Mr. Fischoeder... on a boat of his own. | |
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In The Toy, Jack and bratty kid Eric are trying to break into Eric's father's printing press, when Eric casually mentions that he has the key. Jack asks Eric why he never told him he had the key and gets the stock answer, which Jack doesn't find particularly amusing. | |
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In the Bewitched epiode "Samantha's Shopping Spree," Samantha's puckish Cousin Henry transforms an insistent salesman into a mannequin during a trip to a department store with Sam, Endora, and Tabitha. Henry refuses to undo the spell, and neither Samantha nor Endora can lift it themselves. They lament that no one saw precisely what charm Henry used... at which point Tabitha chimes in that she did. When asked why she didn't speak up sooner, she replies "Nobody asked me." The curse is quickly undone, and order restored. | |
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In Macross Delta, Hayate asks why Commander Arad never mentioned that he knew Hayate's father. Arad drops this trope, to which Hayate replies "What the hell's with that response?" | |
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One Piece Luffy has a tendency of leaving out important details of his life, even to his closest crewmates, just because no one asked him about it. Luffy knew since childhood that Ace was the son of Gold Roger, but never mentioned it because he doesn't care. Sort of funny, considering how bad he otherwise was at keeping secrets. The same applies to the fact that Luffy himself is the son of Monkey D. Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionaries, and the grandson of Monkey D. Garp, a Marine Admiral; he just never thought it was relevant enough to tell people without being asked about it first. Justified in Dragon's case: Luffy doesn't even know who he was until Garp tells him in the Water 7 arc. Used for a joke too in One Piece Film: Red, when Luffy reveals that Shanks had an adopted daughter, Uta, but only because he was asked how he knew a celebrity like her. He also forgets to mention that Uta's powers put people to sleep and pull them into a dream world. A smaller example came in the Alabasta arc: After travelling across half the kingdom to get to the rebel based in Yuba, they find out it was moved to Katorea, a city near where they started. They could have been saved most of the trip if Eyelash(es) (the camel who Chopper was able to talk to) mentioned that the wagon full of guns that accidentally brought Chopper to Katorea was being used by the rebels. He was promptly kicked in the face by Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp for not mentioning this, scoffs it off, and is then kicked in the face again. |
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In Sankarea, the girl attached a GPS to Sanka. Professor Boil berates her for not telling anyone as they have been looking for her for the past few days. She causally replies in her defense, "no one asked me". | |
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Mauling Snarks: Why doesn't Taylor record her Super-Strength when applying for the Wards? The forms didn't ask for artificially-granted superpowers. The PRT deliberately avoids telling Wards about certain aspects of the job, like access key classes, access to the garage, and certain secret passages in the building, in order to encourage them to ask the right questions instead of waiting for information to be given to them. Besides, it's all there in the PRT informational app; they just need to look it up. Subverted both because they DID ask, but also because they didn't have security clearance to READ those manuals due to a paperwork oversight. |
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In the Trek episode of Futurama, we get this exchange between William Shatner and George Takei: | |
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In Planescape: Torment, Morte, a flying skull that accompanies you from the moment you wake up in the morgue actually served you in all your incarnations, and knows more about you than you do yourself. "You didn't ask" often comes up. Morte actually has a good justification for everything, including not mentioning "Don't trust the skull" being written on your back! |
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An 'April Fool's' Errand: When Hermes reveals to Hades that he has a holiday dedicated to him, it takes him completely off-guard. It is not until he finds out that it comes from Rome does the astonishment end, Hades not all that crazy about Rome and the name they gave him. | |
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This happens often to Henchman 21 and the other Monarch henchmen in The Venture Bros., so much so it's practically become a Running Gag in the show. | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: In Episode 27, Melani and The Proposal's crew stage a kidnapping of Reno's girlfriend, Dita, so that Reno could rescue her then propose to her. Dita proceeds to beat up her kidnappers, Bambang and Alan. Only then, Reno reveals to the others that Dita has a black belt in karate, saying that nobody asked before. | |
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In Poacher, when you complete the Underwater Boss Battle, Derek, who so far has been getting air from bubbles made by underwater plants, is finally about to choke, when Rebecca reveals that she can enable him to breathe underwater. She didn't do it earlier, because with her being a disembodied spirit, it didn't occur to her that regular humans need air to survive, and Derek literally couldn't ask, being unable to speak underwater until she gave him the power to do so. | |
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NieR: Automata has a more verbose version in one of its sidequests. Asked to find medicine for a sick moose, 2B and 9S head to the commercial district in search of a recipe. When they find a book, 2B's Pod tells them it contains the cure (and even which page it's on) before they've even opened it, and reveals that the book's data, cure and all, had been in its database the whole time. When an exasperated 9S asks the Pod why it didn't say that earlier, it replies, "A request for information was not submitted." | |
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X-Men 1970: A terrorist demands to know why Cyclops didn't tell them about his partner sneaking in the building. Cyclops' answer is, of course, predictable: | |
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In Get Smart, Max learns that Agent 99 has introduced herself to another man as "Susan Hilton". He jealously points out that she's worked with him for years and never told him. It's rare for 99 to say the punchline, but this was one such occasion. It turned out to be a mere code name. | |
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In the Teen Titans episode "The Quest", Robin figures out that the eponymous True Master is the old woman he keeps bumping into during his walk up the mountain path. Why does he learn this at the end? "You never asked!" (In fact, this is one of many ways she seems similar to Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid; see above.) | |
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Played for laughs in The Secret World, in which a conversation between two of the Sentinels reveals that the older of the siblings has been keeping secrets. | |
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In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, after the player rescues Monica from a bandit fortress, the Knights of Seiros think that the bandits who kidnapped her were the same ones who attacked the other Officers Academy students in the previous mission. While the protagonist and her rescuers discuss the situation, she decides to simply tell them who the culprit was since they're so busy speculating that they forget to ask her directly. | |
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In The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, a subplot involves taking a rich man's lazy stoner son with him on the voyage, basically to just get him out of the house. | |
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Muppet Babies (1984): In "Nice to Have Gnome You," after Piggy fails to get a straight answer from Fozzie and Rowlf as to which door leads to her book, she angrily decides to find it herself. Fozzie warns her not to go one way, saying that nobody ever does. Piggy snippily replies, "That's what I wanted to know in the first place!" and then proceeds to go the other way — only to fall down a trap door. Then we get this exchange: | |
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Tales of Graces: Pascal tells the party she's an Amarcian (a race where everyone is a Gadgeteer Genius) when suggesting they go to the Amarcian Enclave. Hubert angrily asks why she didn't mention it earlier. Pascal says the trope verbatim. Hubert is the only one frustrated by this. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: When the Emperor tells the history of the entire universe, the first question (after the two listeners pick their jaws from the floor) is: Magnus knew that Rogal Dorn was still alive, though not where. When the Emperor confronted him about him knowing and not telling them, Magnus was surprised that the Emperor didn't know because he's the more powerful psyker. |
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In the first Taxi movie, Daniel and Emilien are observing Krüger's workshop and waiting for it to close. After a few hours, Daniel mentions that Krüger has insomnia and his workshop is open 24 hours a day. Emilien asks why he didn't mention this earlier, and Daniel replies that he didn't ask. | |
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In Harkovast, Chen-Chen never mentions the fact she is a kung-fu master until the group get ambushed and she reveals her fighting skills. | |
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In Ergo Proxy, Re-l is complaining about the lack of power in Mosc Dome when her companion, the Robot Girl Pino, happily chimes in that the power is in fact working. | |
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Two in a row in The Princess Bride; although Westley did ask, this trope is referenced in the dialogue: | |
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In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), when Superman tells Supergirl that he didn't know she could already use her X-Ray Vision, Kara answers: "You didn't ask". | |
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In Young Justice (2010), the Justice League is none-too-pleased with the reveal that Captain Marvel had been lying about his age, and is actually just a kid. Billy points out that he didn't lie — they just never asked, and he never told. Wonder Woman, however, just says that a lie of omission is still a lie. | |
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Kotomine gets to do this a lot in Fate/stay night. Since he Will Not Tell a Lie he finds it highly amusing to mention, for example, 'Oh yeah, I do have an ulterior motive for saving Sakura. I wanted her to eat everyone and give birth to an evil. Shirou actually tries to avoid asking for awhile because when he does Kotomine tends to make him either look like an idiot or depress him. Kotomine tends to drone on at such length on the information he will reveal that if Shirou hasn't forgotten the question, he's reluctant to ask. | |
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In The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, Wittgenstein the supercomputer offers a completely ludicrous method through which space travel (not to mention easy air travel and safe permeation of Earth's atmosphere) can apparently be achieved, and Radio says "So why isn't anyone else down there?" to which Wittgenstein replies, "Because no one ever asked me to get them there!" | |
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In Eragon, while Brom and Eragon are looking for Jeod's house, they meet Angela the Herbalist. Brom politely asks her "Could you tell us which house Jeod lives in", to which she replies "I could", then he asks her "Will you tell us?", and she answers "Yes", until he finally asks her directly and gets the answer. | |
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Earth's Children: Due to the way the Clan communicate, Iza Cannot Tell a Lie...so when Ayla runs off with her allegedly deformed newborn son, intending to hide out in a cave for seven days until Brun is forced to accept him, Iza protects them by simply not mentioning where exactly Ayla has gone or what she's doing, and actively tries to avoid the subject. Unfortunately, Creb eventually figures something is up and asks her outright, forcing her to come clean and invoking this trope in the process. In The Shelters of Stone, Willomar casually reveals he never believed the Clan were just animals, as he’d encountered them so many times he realized they were sapient. When everyone asks him why he never mentioned this, he says it never really came up. |
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In the Anne of Green Gables novel, Anne of Avonlea, Gilbert Blythe publishes a bunch of "notes" in a local newspaper, heavily implied to all be deliberate and amusing falsehoods. One implies that a neighbor, Mr. Harrison, is engaged. Mr. Harrison's very indignant wife shows up as soon as she reads this. Anne points out that none of this would have happened if he hadn't pretended to be unmarried. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mid-Life Crustacean", SpongeBob and Patrick lure Mr. Krabs into going on a "panty raid" — and they do so, of all places, in Mama Krabs' house. | |
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In LostMagic, you Love Interest and Mysterious Waif sidekick Trista is one of the Sages. The Rune she shoves in your hand after a tedious boss fight would have helped a lot with said boss fight. | |
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Son of the Sannin: Kakashi willingly shows his face when Fu asks him. According to him, many people including his own teammates have tried to remove his mask by force or otherwise set up ambushes or schemes to see him unmasked, yet nobody even thought of just politely ask him to let them see his face. | |
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Boldores And Boomsticks: Team CFVY gets mad at Team JNPR for not telling them anything about what happened to Team RWBY, only for Nora to defuse them by pointing out that they didn't ask Ozpin. This causes one member to lose a bet they had made with another one. JNPR themselves had only asked due to concerning rumors being spread by Team CRDL, who happened to be the closest team to where Team RWBY had gone. | |
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Reversed in Batman (1989), when pre-Joker Jack is preening himself in the mirror: | |
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Used for a joke too in One Piece Film: Red, when Luffy reveals that Shanks had an adopted daughter, Uta, but only because he was asked how he knew a celebrity like her. He also forgets to mention that Uta's powers put people to sleep and pull them into a dream world. | |
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In Red Daughter of Krypton, when Supergirl demands to know why neither of her partners warned her that she'd die if she took her Red Ring off, Guy Gardner answers it wasn't an easy thing to bring up, i.e., she didn't ask. | |
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Marcille from Delicious in Dungeon is a half-elf, something the rest of her party only learn near the end of their adventure. When Laios asks her about this, she says she wasn't trying to hide it, she just never found a good opportunity to tell them. The World Guide adds that she felt if she was going to tell them, then she'd have to give her whole life story along with it and she didn't have the time for that. | |
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In Lost Girl, Lauren reveals to Kenzi (and the audience) that she spent time as a doctor in Afghanistan. note Whether it was with the military or Doctors Without Borders is not specified, but the latter is more likely. When Kenzi asks why she never mentioned that before, Lauren replies with this. Their (to that point) mutual animosity makes it a pretty good explanation. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Ticket Master", Twilight Sparkle is torn between who to give her second ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala to. When the frustration becomes too much, she gives her two tickets back to the pony who gave them to her with a note of explanation. The reply? "Why didn't you just say so in the first place?" followed by a ticket for everyone. At least partially justified in that those tickets are very valuable items (indeed, the entire plot of the episode is driven by the fact that everyone in town wants one but only one extra ticket is available) and Twilight had no real reason to suspect that she could get four more just by asking. In "Hearts and Hooves Day" Sweetie Belle reveals to Applebloom that a cure for the love potion that's causing the episode's problems only after Applebloom had had a panic attack about the potential chaos they had caused. In "Every Little Thing She Does" Starlight Glimmer tries to streamline her friendship lessons by casting a spell that makes Twilight's friends do what she asks them... and only what she asks them. |
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Doctor Who: "Remembrance of the Daleks": In "Rise of the Cybermen", Rose's response when the Doctor asks why he's only just hearing about Mickey's family history. He points out that she never said, leading her to admit they've been taking him for granted, which is why they don't protest at the end of the second part of this episode when Mickey decides he's going to stay in Pete's World to help Jake Simmonds take down the rest of the Cybermen. |
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In the [title of show] show, the cast ask Mindy why she didn't tell them Cheyenne Jackson shot her (they had been trying to catch her killer in front of her the whole episode). She replies with this. | |
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Blake's 7. Avon gives this trope in "Redemption", smugly pointing out that it will teach the others to ask questions in future instead of blindly following Blake's orders. | |
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Used a lot in Jimmy Two-Shoes as a Rule of Funny-based method of handwaving Ass Pulls. For example, when giant robots constructed by Heloise begin to destroy Miseryville and Lucius is unable to stop them (he fired Heloise earlier), Heloise just gives him a remote which instantly turns them all off. Lucius asks why she didn't use it, to which Heloise drops the trope's name. | |
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Variant: From the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch where English-Hungarian phrasebook writer Alexander Yahlt is on trial: | |
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Appointment with Venus: When Major Mooreland discovers that Nicola is the sister of the Suzerain, the hereditary ruler of Armorel, he asks why she hadn't told him earlier. She replies "I thought you already knew". | |
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Happens twice in The Avengers (1998). This second one is justified by the fact that Colonel Jones was handed a dead-end sideways posting after suffering a life-changing injury that limited his ability to undertake fieldwork, and is implied to be somewhat bitter about this. Especially since you'd think a man afflicted with permanent invisibility could have been found something meaningful to do for an intelligence agency. |
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Forever: In the pilot, Jo discovers that Henry was on the subway train that crashed, information he neglected to volunteer when she saw him mere hours afterward. When she asks him why, Henry's reply boils down to this, explaining that he didn't think it was relevant and he didn't want to distract her from her investigation. | |
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In Dragon Ball, Goku's response to Bulma and Krillin realizing the Red Ribbon Army was after him was "No one ever asked me about the Red Ribbon Army." | |
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AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative hides some important family relationships that somehow never came up in conversation in the span of several years. Boss says she has a daughter, but she never said anything in the previous game even though she adopted the girl three years prior. When others express their surprise, she tells them they never asked. Mizuki is good friends with both Shoma Enda and his older sister despite not knowing they are related. The reveal of the sister's identity takes her by surprise. It's Amame Doi, which explains her stake in the Half-Body Serial Killings. |
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Maria Campbell of the Astral Clocktower: Maria, while on probation for receiving Dark Magic against her will, never returns home for summer break. Her friends and love interest scramble to find her, to no avail, until they hear that she dismantled a criminal conspiracy in a city near the border. They go off to find her, but before they do they demand to know why the Ministry isn't panicking over having lost track of a valuable and dangerous asset. The Ministry, a bit smugly, explains that they didn't lose track of her; Maria informed them ahead of time what her plans were so that they wouldn't think she was fleeing the country, and has been sending them regular updates ever since. Nobody thought to ask them where she was. | |
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The Alice Network: Charlie asks Finn why he didn’t tell her that Eve often says the name “René� when she’s in her moods, given that this could be useful to Charlie, and he tells her that he works for Eve, not her. | |
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In The Elephant Man, Treves assumes and even hopes that John Merrick is an idiot. (If he is an idiot, it means he won't realize just how unlucky he is.) Merrick surprises Treves when it's revealed that he can read and recite an entire passage from Psalms from memory. When Treves asks him why he didn't tell him he could read his answer is, "You didn't ask." | |
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In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, this is more-or-less Spock's excuse for never mentioning he had a dangerously insane brother running around the galaxy. | |
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This seems to be an actual mystic rule binding the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone in The Sandman (1989). Even if they want to help a questioner — and they often don't — they can't unless the questioner asks the right questions. | |
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In The Infinite Loops, this was the reason Yoda managed to go for a long time without anybody realizing he was a looper. | |
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LadyBugOut: When asked why he's never offered to help her run the titular blog, Chat Noir uses this as his defense. He then attempts to guilt-trip her over it, only for Ladybug to turn the tables by pointing out that she did tell him about the blog right from the start, and he never asked her to get involved. | |
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In the South Park episode "My Future Self 'n' Me", Stan discovers that Butters had his future self appear several months ago. When Stan asks Butters why he never told anyone, he said no one had bother asking him. | |
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In the book Blood Bound in the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs, Mercy is trying to find out where Adam and Samuel went to look for the demon-vampire's lair after they went missing and Warren was left for dead. When talking with Darryl if Warren said where they were looking, Kyle, a human, states that Samuel had received a phone call right before they left the night they disappeared. In this case it was a matter that the werewolf's Fantastic Racism overlooked Kyle because he was human, Darryl didn't ask Kyle and never gave Kyle a chance to tell him when Kyle tried to bring it up. | |
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Erfworld: Wanda starts to give this answer when Parson asks why she hadn't disclosed her stash of canned spells. Parson rejects the answer before she can finish it. Parson is sensible enough to make the oft-neglected point that, as her superior and battle planner, she has an obligation to volunteer pertinent information. It later comes up again as part of Great Mind conspiracy planning: The level of secrecy just above "Need To Know" is designated "Need To Ask." |
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Born Free: There's this exchange between George and Joy Adamson when the former brings the orphaned cubs home: | |
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Used for humorous effect in Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed. Apparently, despite A's very unusual outfit and abilities, Matthew simply assumed his new friend to be a City resident on a solo trip, and A rolled with it for a while due to the truth being rather complicated. Glimmer has a You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! reaction to this revelation, and when Matthew tries to redirect the blame, A responds with this trope. | |
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During the pre-production of Gone Girl, the production team spent months trying to find the perfect town that could stand-in for the book's fictional town, and finally settled for Cape Girardeau. When David Fincher mentioned this to the book's author, she casually said, "Oh yeah, that is perfect. I was actually thinking of Cape Girardeau when I wrote it." Fincher was dumbfounded for about a minute before stating: "You know, these things don't have to be a fucking secret." | |
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The creators of The Legend of Korra were worried about breaking the unspoken rule that forbade openly gay characters until they realized it was only unspoken because no one had bothered to ask. So they went to the executives and Nick permitted the storyline, thus allowing the gay pairing of Korra and Asami, who get paired together into an Official Couple in the final moments of the Grand Finale. | |
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No Game No Life: Sora asks Steph what the chances are of drawing the ace of spades from a normal deck (minus the jokers) are. Steph says one in fifty-two. Sora says that normally that's correct... but if it's a brand-new deck, the ace of spades will be on the bottom, making it easy to draw intentionally. He admits that he didn't specify it was a brand-new deck, but then, she didn't ask. His point is that the reason she keeps losing is because she doesn't have enough information; she just accepts the rules as presented to her. | |
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In Lois & Clark, Jimmy tells Lois that he's going to have to look for another job since his rent was going up. Perry White hears about it and when Jimmy asks for a raise, White says Jimmy's work had been good for a while and he deserved a raise. When Jimmy asked why he hadn't gotten one, Perry tells him, "You never asked for one." | |
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Ne Zha: After Ne Zha chokes down the water demon's snot, the only antidote to his petrification attack, he asks how he's supposed to use it on Ao Bing and the little girl, since their mouths are already petrified. The water demon cheerfully explains that it can just be applied to the skin, and when a disgusted Ne Zha asks why he didn't mention that earlier the demon says that Ne Zha didn't ask. The next shot shows him with a noticeable black eye. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series uses this as the MTM's reason for not telling Calvin his data extractor would bring the mummies to life in "Pharaoh Andrew". | |
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In The Karate Kid (1984), Daniel is more than a little surprised to learn that it was the old handy-man, Mr. Miyagi, who had saved him from the five-on-one Kobra Kai massacre. | |
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In RPG World, Cherry is revealed to be an elf, after the strip had been running for several years, much to the surprise of the other characters. Mind you, her pointed ears are clearly visible in her first appearance. Though the early images are a bit inconsistent. | |
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Zig-zagged in the Punky Brewster episode "Growing Pain." Pepperoni pizza has made Glomer grow giant sized and it appears the flowers from Margaux's parade float are helping to reduce him. But as he tries to explain, Punky says "I don't want to hear another word about Margaux's dumb flowers!" Later in the parade, Punky sees the flowers reducing Glomer, so she asks him why he didn't tell her: | |
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Happens a number of times in Ace Attorney, particularly when the protagonist points out something a witness was seemingly hiding. A lot of the time this is down to the prosecution. For example, in the first game's second case: | |
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In The Demon Girl Next Door, Lico had been enchanting the cafe's food to give it an extra effect of relaxing the person who eats it and letting them forget their troubles for a bit. While not harmful in small amounts, eating too much of it becomes a problem. She never bothered mentioning the negative side effects of her magical cooking until it made Yuko hyperactive and forgetful after she ate a large amount of the cafe's leftovers. Even Shirosawa didn't know she was doing it. | |
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Urusei Yatsura: In one manga chapter, Ataru, Lum and several of their friends went camping. Lum was making lunch and everyone were happy... but Ataru. He — who usually eats ANYTHING and EVERYTHING he can have his hands on — adamantly refused to eat. His friends nagged him about rudely rejecting Lum's food... and then they tried it. Right away they dragged it away and asked him why he had not warned them that Lum's food is very spicy. His answer? They did not ask (and he did not want to warn them). | |
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The Princess and the Goblin: Irene and her new boyfriend Curdie play this trope almost word-for-word. After narrowly escaping the tunnels full of evil goblins, Irene wants to kiss Curdie to thank him for saving her life, but they are interrupted when Irene's caretaker, Lootie, starts calling after her, which reveals to Curdie that Irene is a princess — she hadn't though to say and he hadn't thought to ask. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Android 16's response, complete with smirk, when 17 asks why he hadn't mentioned he could detect power levels. 17 accepted the answer with a Touché. In Dragon Ball, Goku's response to Bulma and Krillin realizing the Red Ribbon Army was after him was "No one ever asked me about the Red Ribbon Army." |
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The Hands of the Emperor: This is why Cliopher never really told his family about his position as the chief of the imperial bureaucracy or his boss - they didn't ask (at least not insistent enough), and he considered telling them without being asked as boasting. | |
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In A Few Good Men, Kaffee and Galloway arrive at the possibility that the Code Red that resulted in Santiago's death and Pvt. Downey and Cpl. Dawson's incrimination was ordered by their lieutenant, Kendrick. Kaffee goes to meet them both to ask them if that's the case and they both confirm. Kaffee asks them why they didn't tell him before, to which Dawson replies, "You didn't ask us, sir." Kaffee is less than pleased. | |
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A Crown of Stars: In chapter 64 Shinji is going to play his cello in front of a crowd. He is supposed to have a partner playing the violin but he does not know who that person is. When Asuka shows up he is surprised and asks why she never told him she played violin. Asuka has a long answer and a short one. The short answer is he did not ask. | |
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In one of her earlier episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine gets the crew out of a difficult situation with some desperate refugees by mentioning she has the knowledge to help them. When asked why she didn't volunteer this earlier she gives this answer. Justified in that she was used to working with the Borg, who share a hive mind with access to all their information, so the concept of asking is still new to her. | |
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In a Fantastic Four comic, Ben finds out that for years, Reed has been taking a cut of the profits from each of his inventions and depositing it in a bank account in Ben's name. When Ben asks why Reed never told him about this, Reed's response is "I... assumed you knew." followed by several flashback scenes of the team meeting with their accountant for the annual financial review. Reed, Sue, and Johnny are all shown being very attentive and taking notes. Ben, on the other hand, is reading a magazine, playing with a Rubik's Cube, playing with a Gameboy, totally not paying attention... and Ben only found out because he was lamenting about not having any money. The team accountant, who was standing right there, told Ben that his money was just fine. The accountant said it in a very matter-of-fact manner, assuming Ben knew about it because for years, he'd been sitting in annual meetings where his finances were reviewed. | |
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Wander over Yonder: At the end of "The Box", one of the Lords of Illumination remarks to another that he didn't know he was a grandpa (as indicated from the World's Greatest Grandpa keychain that was among the items Sylvia forced the Lords to put into the box they used for Wander's test so he'd stop obsessing over the box's contents). He responds to the other Lord by pointing out that he never asked about his personal life. | |
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Nymph and the Corrupted Miraculous: Plagg's reason not to tell Adrien his name as soon as he remembered it. | |
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Boss says she has a daughter, but she never said anything in the previous game even though she adopted the girl three years prior. When others express their surprise, she tells them they never asked. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings when Frodo and Sam hook up with Gollum to guide them, Frodo asks Gollum to "take us to the Black Gate" of Mordor, which he does. They see how massive and impenetrable the entrance is, and when they are about to make a charge for it anyway, Gollum pulls them back and tells them there is another way in. Sam asks why he didn't mention this before. Well... you didn't ask... (See below under literature for more.) | |
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At one point in Narcissu, the protagonist finds himself broke and unable to pay for the gas he's just filled his car with. Just as he's about to floor it and attempt to escape without paying, his normally-silent traveling companion hands him enough money to pay for the gas, and reveals that she has quite a bit more stashed away. | |
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Books of the Raksura: Moon was Raised by Humans before rejoining a Raksuran court, so every now and then, the Raksura realize there's some blindingly obvious element of their society or biology that he didn't actually know about. Played for Drama when he spends the third book afraid that he's sterile; meanwhile, his Queen knows from his scent that it's not true and doesn't realize he ever believed it to be. | |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: In the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, when Sweet Surprise's marriage is revealed, she never wore her wedding ring at work (as it didn’t fit on her helmet) and never otherwise mentioned it because it never came up. | |
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In the Alternate Tail Series, when the main team learns that Levy's grandfather was a Wizard Saint, Mira aks her why she didn't meantion it sooner. Levy jokes that they never asked. | |
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In Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Tonks gives this explanation for why she didn't tell the player character that she can cast the Patronus Charm. | |
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Phoenix. In "Hair of the Dog", Sergeant Faithful has to liaison with an inspector from Homicide who keeps giving him attitude and sharing minimal information. At the end of the episode, the inspector demands to know why the Drug Squad shared crucial information on the case with Faithful and not him. As they're walking away... | |
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New Beginnings (Smallville): When Oliver Queen asks why Clark Kent never told him his real age during their first meeting, Clark replies Ollie never asked, and it was not relevant anyway. | |
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A variant appears in Dragonflight, the original Dragonriders of Pern novel. Lessa has the ability to speak to any dragon, not just her own Ramoth. She doesn't mention it to anyone because she has no idea that this is unusual until F'lar, her weyrmate, peevishly mentions a long-dead queen rider with the same gift. When Lessa tells him she can do it, he demands to know why she never told him — to which she rather scathingly points out that he never tells her anything, so how was she supposed to know it was important? If he had ever bothered to mention that being able to speak to all dragons was a rare gift, she would have told him sooner! | |
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In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Linus and Charlie Brown enlist Snoopy (and Woodstock) to help cook and serve the "Thanksgiving Dinner" to their friends, consisting of buttered toast, popcorn, pretzel sticks and jelly beans. Later, after Charlie and friends leave to go over his grandmother's house, Snoopy and Woodstock pull out a fully cooked traditional Thanksgiving dinner, complete with pumpkin pie dessert. Charlie or Linus never asked them if they had a dinner to serve! | |
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In Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, guest character Mistwalker is seen as a mostly harmless Witch Doctor. She proves to be anything but and does the bulk of fighting off the Black Hole Gang armed with her knowledge of the Death World she lives on. After the gang's been chased off, she explains to the heroes that she's led them back to their ship. Audra is shocked that Mistwalker can speak their language. Mistwalker shrugs it off. | |
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Full Metal Panic!: A variation of this appears in The Second Raid. During a mission where Mao and Kurz are escaping from the enemies chasing them, they end up getting into Sôsuke's car, resulting in a car Chase Scene complete with the enemy shooting at them. Both Kurz and Mao lament "if only we had the weapons to shoot back at them," and Sôsuke proceeds to ignore them. Then, they notice the enemy catching up, resulting in them realizing they need to lighten the car so they can go faster. They contemplate throwing out their kidnap target from the car. In fairness to Sousuke, evasive driving is a taxing job, and both of the other two have known him long enough that they should be aware he keeps weapons hidden everywhere. |
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It's a big plot point late in Mob Psycho 100 that Tome and the Telepathy were so unmotivated to pursue the stated goal of their club that they completely failed to realize that the boy who dropped out of the club at the very beginning, Takenaka, was a telepath the whole time. | |
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Michael Dorn noted that he would've voiced himself in the South Park episode "Fun With Veal" if he had been asked to; he wasn't asked. | |
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