History Main / DoesThatSoundLikeFunToYou

* ''IndependenceDay'': The president delivers one to the head scientist of Area 51 when the latter comments that the last 24 hours have been really exciting. The president doesn't believe the destruction of every major American city and the deaths of millions of people world-wide is "exciting". Possibly justified in that the scientist has been so caught up in everything going on with the captured spaceship and didn't know about the slaughtering of humans by the alien forces. He's also AmbiguouislyAutistic and probably a little bit mad.

* ''IndependenceDay'': The president delivers one to the head scientist of Area 51 when the latter comments that the last 24 hours have been really exciting. The president doesn't believe the destruction of every major American city and the deaths of millions of people world-wide is "exciting". Possibly justified in that the scientist has been so caught up in everything going on with the captured spaceship and didn't know about the slaughtering of humans by the alien forces.

* In the ''Wolfhound'' by Maria Semenova the titular hero gets to listen to some boasting of a little highlander he happends to travel with about how much fun will it be to slaughter the rival tribe. Sick of this, Wolfhound enquires if the kid had ever actually seen a settlement slaughterd to the last man. Unlike the kid, he did and then proceeds [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel to share his memory thereof]].

* Londo Mollari from Babylon5 provides a lighter example:

* One of the conversations in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory'' has [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] ask [[TeamFortress2 Heavy Weapons Guy]] for "the most awesome story [he has] with plenty of super cool senseless violence," with [[SamAndMax Max]] listening in glee. Heavy tells them a depressing story about a sparrow a young boy killed in his assassination camp, and how he heard its last breath before burying it in the snow. After hearing that, the two seemed to no longer see the Heavy's [[PsychoForHire profession]] as cool, and [[PennyArcade Tycho]], usually being a sociopath himself, [[ManlyTears was brought to tears]].

A younger, more naive, or just plain stupid character says something would be cool to a more experienced character who may or may not have been through the experience. The more experienced character then goes to lengths to explain just how not cool that experience would actually be. He or she then asks the {{Naive Newcomer}} if they still think it would be cool. Unless it's a subversion, the answer is generally a resounding "no".

-->'''Kid:''' "How'd you get the metal parts, mister? I want some!"
-->'''Lothar:''' Oh, you do, do you? Let me tell you a story. I was kidnapped, drugged and tortured as a group of scientists wanted to see what would happen if my genetically modified body was combined with bionics. So I was strapped down and injected with a chemical cocktail that caused horrific pain and pemanently bonded me to cold, unfeeling metal. The next thing I know I wake up in a blood rage and slaughtered my way through dozens of armed guards to emerge in the middle of nowhere, alone and half dead. [[TropeNamer Does that sound like fun?"]]
--> '''Kid:''' [[SubvertedTrope Oh, so like the opening of]] ''{{Guyver}}'' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint then? I love that anime!]]

A younger, more naive, or just plain stupid character says something would be cool to a more experienced character who may or may not have been through the experience. The more experienced character then goes to lengths to explain just how not cool that experience would actually be. He or she then asks the {{Naive Newcomer}} if they still think it would be cool. Unless its a subversion, the answer is generally a resounding "no".

Of course, frequently its subverted as the younger character places a rebuttal on exactly why it is still cool.

* Lothar Hex of {{Exterminatus Now}}, the TropeNamer, is shown giving a fairly horriffic one to a Panda kid in the above quote. Subverted in that the kid is as enthusiastic about bionics as ever, leading to Lothar kicking yet another innocent creature into oncoming traffic. [[KickTheDog Kick The Panda, anyone?]]

-->'''Jamilla:''' "How can you all be so flippant? You think Exterminatus is "cool"? All that terrible destructive power hanging over us in the sky. The power to reduce cities to ashes, mountains to dust. To annihilate entire populations in an eyeblink.[[hottip:*:And that's a ''watered-down'' version, the original Exterminatus being a PlanetKiller.]] The power of Gods in the hands of mortals. Its terrifying. How can you possibly consider that cool?"

!Examples

*** The ''Escape from Butcher Bay'' game shows exactly how he got the eyes. It had nothing to do with any surgeon. How canonic this is depends on {{YMMV}}.

-->And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."\\

* One of the conversations in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory'' has [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] ask [[TeamFortressTwo Heavy Weapons Guy]] for "the most awesome story [he has] with plenty of super cool senseless violence," with [[SamAndMax Max]] listening in glee. Heavy tells them a depressing story about a sparrow a young boy killed in his assassination camp, and how he heard its last breath before burying it in the snow. After hearing that, the two seemed to no longer see the Heavy's [[PsychoForHire profession]] as cool, and [[PennyArcade Tycho]], usually being a sociopath himself, [[ManlyTears was brought to tears]].

* One of the conversations in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory'' has [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] ask [[TeamFortressTwo Heavy Weapons Guy) for "the most awesome story [he has] with plenty of super cool senseless violence," with [[SamAndMax Max]] listening in glee. Heavy tells them a depressing story about a sparrow a young boy killed in his assassination camp, and how he heard its last breath before burying it in the snow. After hearing that, the two seemed to no longer see the Heavy's [[PsychoForHire profession]] as cool, and [[PennyArcade Tycho]], usually being a sociopath himself, [[ManlyTears was brought to tears]].

*** Well of course any good army is going to bust your ass about wanting to kill. Armies don't want kill happy drones, they want ''soldiers'' who know when to kill and when not to kill. Murder drones have always been a detriment to actual armies, since they don't obey orders and go off half cocked, getting themselves killed, along with their squad who had to go and try and rescue him.
**** The above is an optimistic coverage of the downside of having a murder drone around: they tend to alienate friendly locals, eviscerate the cutie ForTheEvulz, and sometimes get confused about which side they happen to be on/bored/decide to start in on their {{Nakama}} because they ran out of the enemy.' Basically? Murder drones have ''lousy'' targeting and no off switch.

-->'''Lothar:''' "So this is what it feels like to be Jeremy Clarkston..."

* Sometimes asked in {{Paranoia}}. Of course, there the only proper answer is that yes, it does found fun to you - after all, [[MaximumFunChamber Happiness Is Mandatory]].

*** Well of course any good army is going to bust your ass about wanting to kill. Armies don't want kill happy drones, they want ''soldiers'' who know when to kill and when not to kill.

* In the ''Wolfhound'' by Maria Semenova the titular hero gets to listen to some boasting of a little highlander he happends to travel with about how after he's reunited with his tribe he had been separated from in infancy they'll go and slaughter the rival tribe and how much fun will it be to torture them. Sick of this, Wolfhound enquires if the kid had ever actually seen a settlement slaughterd to the last man. Unlike the kid, he did and then proceeds [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel to share his memory thereof]]. The store works marvels on the kid.

*** Well of course any good army is going to bust your ass about wanting to kill. Armies don't want kill happy drones, they want ''soldiers'' who know when to kill and when not to kill.