History Main / CasualDangerDialogue

* ''Film/TheWindAndTheLion'' has pretty much every character nonchalantly commenting on their circumstances, whether it be kidnapping, imminent bloodshed or the threat of world war. At one point the protagonist, Moroccan rebel [[Creator/SeanConnery Mulai el Raisuli]], is warned not to risk his life in a hostage exchange. Raisuli responds "What does my '''life''' matter? I've nothing else to do!"

** [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]: River finally recognizes the Doctor when they're surrounded by dozens of armed and angry genocidal maniacs (not to mention a robot trying to steal the Doctor's head). They immediately go back to their [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple normal flirty means of conversing]].

* Lewa, the PluckyComicRelief in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', does this in just about every scene he's in. He decides to start telling his friends the story of the [[RuleOfThree three]] [[LittlePeople Matoran]], the [[BigCreepyCrawlies Rama swarm]] and the [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables basket of Bula berries]]... ''in the middle of a battle''. He even annoys Kopaka into a NotSoStoic moment with his seemingly pointless babble. As a matter of fact, pretty much all Toa have the ability to make lame jokes while fighting.

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': You pretty much go through the entire game listening to the hilarious banter of all of the characters while you are in combat as Pit (and in one chapter, Dark Pit). Well, that is unless you deactivate the character commentary in the secret options, but considering the hilarity of the characters in this game, why would you wanna do that?

** About just about everyone does this, since most are {{Deadpan Snarker}}s and TalkingIsAFreeAction. No mere action sequence is going to slow down the puns. Belkar is especially prone to it.

* Most of the ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' characters spend so much time snarking, that Marten's reaction to a psycho trying to kill his friend Steve while he's present (supposedly for being a bad boyfriend) is to remark that his hair is neither spiky nor blonde enough for this.
** In a later confrontation with the same attacker, Dora casually grabs Faye's ass, much to the latter's irritation. When asked why, Dora's response is that if she's going to die, she'd rather die happy.

** DeathIsCheap for the ''Schlock'' universe, and even accounting for that, Schlock knows Ebbirnoth's injury isn't as serious as it looks (the sniper thought he was delivering a deadly headshot to a being that keeps its brain in its abdomen); it can be regenerated with the help of nanobots. However, Ebby's eye is still a major sensory organ, so he needs a distraction from the pain, and Schlock is [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]].

** Basically, ''all'' of Team Kimba, except Lancer, who is stuck playing team leader. Their instructors in Team Tactics have been getting on their case about it. When attacked by a stream of lethal robots in a simulation of Crucible's supervillain lair, they pretty much have a contest to see who can come up with the best robot joke.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'''s title character and his RoguesGallery engage in this when they aren't [[WittyBanter bantering wittily]] or [[YouFightLikeACow trading insults]].

* Can anyone say ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''?

* An example of this cost some lives in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: an American commander, upon being told by the British 29th Infantry Brigade that things were "a bit sticky," ordered the unit to remain in place and continue to defend the river, not knowing that [[{{Understatement}} "a bit sticky" meant "outnumbered 70,000 to 4,000, ammunition virtually exhausted."]]
** Andrew Marr, ''A History of Modern Britain'':
--->'''Narration:''' Unfortunately, the American commander didn't realize that "a bit sticky" was [[StiffUpperLip stiff-upper-lip]] for "catastrophic."

* In 1982, British Airways Flight 9 encountered a cloud of volcanic ash that sand-blasted the aircraft's windows and choked all four of its engines with rock fragments causing them all to flame out. The aircraft was reduced to gliding over the ocean, miles away from the nearest airport (or indeed any land whatsoever), with little hope of relighting the apparently dead engines, and the point rapidly approaching where the only option left was ditching (a maneuver never attempted in a 747, and one that has far more often than not gone horribly wrong on other models of airliner). Amid their frantic attempts to restart the engines the crew did manage to find the time to make the following announcement (called "a masterpiece of {{Understatement}}") to the passengers:

* Captain Al Haynes, while guiding a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 DC-10 with no flight controls]] approaching the Sioux City airport, even cracked a joke. When told he was cleared to land on any runway, he laughed and replied "You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?" He did hit the runway, and 184 of 296 people on board survived. [[note]]If that seems like a large number of deaths, it should be noted that the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123 only other incident]] involving a comparable failure ended with the plane crashing into a mountain and only four survivors.[[/note]]
** That wasn't the only joke cracked during the crisis. While assisting the crew in the cockpit, deadheading[[hottip:*:riding as a free passenger]] captain Dennis Fitch told the crew, "We'll all have a beer when we get this thing down." Haynes' reply? "I don't drink, but [[INeedAFreakingDrink I'll sure as hell have one anyway!]]"

* ''Webcomic/TheWinxClubPlaysDungeonsAndDragons'': In the cover, Aisha, Musa, and Stella talk about how bored they are about fighting the MonsterOfTheWeek all of the time and the prospect of playing ''D&D''.

* Crack a joke or make a sarcastic comment about the danger.
* Crack a joke to get people's attention. (e.g. someone hanging from a cliff says "Hey guys? Over here!")
* [[IgnoredEnemy Argue or speak casually while the danger is going on]], usually about something tangential. Bonus points if the argument briefly stops for one of the heroes to shout "look out!" and then resumes shortly afterward. Points also awarded if a character in danger suddenly focuses on a complete non-sequitur to the action ("Your hair looks ''fantastic''!").
* Act as if the danger is real in their dialog, but speak calmly about it. See also ThisIsGonnaSuck and DangerDeadpan.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Holiday Special'', the heroes discuss the upcoming Winter Festival while fighting off a group of bandits. The bandits even join in.

* Captain Al Haynes, while guiding a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 DC-10 with no flight controls]] approaching the Sioux City airport, even cracked a joke. When told he was cleared to land on any runway, he laughed and replied "You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?" He did hit the runway, and 184 of 296 people on board survived. [[note]]If that seems like a large number of deaths, it should be noted that the only other incident involving a comparable failure ended with the plane crashing into a mountain and only four survivors.[[/note]]

* ''Characters/DeadpoolWadeWilson'': Deadpool, being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, has weaponized his to the point that his enemies have problems focusing on the task at hand. It's occasionally contagious: when working with the ComicBook/XMen, he caused [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]] [[GotMeDoingIt to spout off some bad puns]].

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker loves doing this. {{Depending on the writer}}, this is either a coping mechanism for fear (if he's cracking jokes, he's too distracted to be afraid) or boredom (he fights by instinct and thinks so quickly, battles might as well be in slow-motion, giving his upper thought processes spare energy to devote to a running commentary). Spidey, and thus the fans, refer to this type of dialogue as [[YouFightLikeACow "quipping"]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In the storyline ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is asking Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} advice on how to help a little boy as both heroines are stopping a gang of bank robbers (whom they are barely paying attention to).

** Happens at least once between [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsAsgardians Lady Sif]] in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', with her commenting that everything was under control and him asking with a grin if that was the reason everything was on fire. Plus:

** In the ''Film/IronMan'' movies, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is incapable of ''not'' saying sarcastically inappropriate things in the middle of life-threatening situations.

* Can anyone say ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}''?

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

'''Luke Cage:''' Uh, yes, actually.\\
'''Iron Fist:''' Yeah, I didn't know there was banter involved. I don't do banter.\\

* Remo Williams and Chiun of the ''Literature/{{Destroyer}}'' book series (to some extent, the movie as well) may be the most extreme example. Their combat arguments regarding Ung poetry, Remo's alleged unconscious seduction of flight attendants, who left the toilet seat up (all right, not that one, but they ''have'' covered toilets in more general terms), and suchlike are used to show that a few hundred soldiers firing assault rifles at them are barely worth paying attention to, let alone commenting on. If the threat's a yawner like the average Bond-style Dragon trying to repeatedly shoot, stab, poison, or bomb them, the authors sometimes (when writing from the attacker's perspective) don't even bother ''writing explicit lines of dialogue'' for the two, just to emphasize the disconnect and the frustration that an experienced, professional killer feels trying repeatedly to kill people who apparently don't even notice that they're being attacked.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

** It's well established throughout the series Hawkeye, at least, delivers wisecracks to prevent himself from cracking up due to the madness of the war, and he also is trying to keep up everyone else's morale. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs, as eleven... three years of trauma (and uncovering childhood trauma) takes their toll and he ends up in an asylum making jokes that are far more bitter and alienate everyone.

* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', Michelangelo and Donatello workshop combat-related one-liners while fighting the Foot Clan horde in the street.

->'''[[Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} Ronin]]:''' Yo, Cage, do they always talk this much during a fight?\\

** Taken to new heights in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', which is to be expected when you get [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy three]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries different]] [[Film/SpiderManHomecomingTrilogy incarnations]] of Franchise/SpiderMan teaming up together.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' is full of this. This is expected, as the whole show's purpose is to partner Batman with one or more heroes in every single episode. The most hilarious situations often involve ComicBook/GreenArrow, Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, and the ComicBook/BlueBeetle (both Jaime and Ted).

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33911125 Designated Duty]]'', Natasha and Sharon have a system where whenever they go out for a night of fun, one of them deals with the various people trying to kill them while the other fas fun. When Wanda accompanies them one night, which leads into a car chase, she is surprised by Natasha nonchalantly singing along to the song playing the car radio and offering her a drink from a flask while Sharon deals with the assassins.