History Main / IamSpartacus

* In Creator/AbbottAndCostello's service comedy ''Buck Privates Come Home'', a six-year-old orphan named Evey is discovered hiding out in an Army troop ship. She's discovered by the hated Sgt. Collins who intends to turn her over to the authorities. Behind his back, one of the soldiers makes a rude comment about Collins...
-->'''Sgt. Collins:''' ''[angrily]'' Who said that?\\

* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'': A variation occurs in "Let's Call It Quits." Roseanne and her fellow workers at the Wellman Plastic Factory get a new boss, Mr. Faber, who treats the women like slaves. Roseanne tries to get him to ease off, but he only agrees if she promises to treat him with respect (which he has done ''nothing'' to earn). She reluctantly agrees...only for Mr. Faber to keep on abusing the staff, bragging that since he "broke" the strong-willed Roseanne, he knows that no one else will dare to oppose him. A furious Roseanne [[ResignInProtest grabs her time card and punches out to quit]], prompting Faber to sarcastically applaud her and remind the other women that there are "two doors--one that pays, and one that doesn't." But one by one, each of the women stands up, takes her own punch card, and quits as well.

* ''Literature/TheTalmud'' in tractate Sanhedrin brings a couple of I Am Spartacus stories.
** It's kicked off by a story in which Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel brought together seven judges to declare a leap year but eight showed up and he demanded to know which one wasn't invited. This one isn't an example because one person simply took the fall for the real culprit, but it's followed by two examples.
** Rebbe was teaching and smelled garlic. He hated the smell of garlic (and everybody knew it, so there were no excuses), so he announced "Whoever ate garlic, leave." Rabbi Chiyya got up and left, but he was Rebbe's prized student and was obviously not the culprit - so one by one everyone else got up and left too, to save the real one from embarrassment.
** A woman came to the school run by Rabbi Meir, and stated that she had had relations (of a type equivalent to a binding marriage contract) with one of the students but didn't know which one. Rabbi Meir himself wrote her a bill of divorce, followed by every single one of his students, thus ensuring the divorce took place without embarrassing the student in question.

* Parodied twice in the first MTV episode of ''The College Humor Show''. First a rival company, having won Patrick in a bet, come to take him a way. When asked which is Patrick, Dan steps up, claiming to be him. He then nudges Sam to do the same, who refuses. Later, Rick asks who urinated in the ball pit (it was Amir), claiming that if no one comes forward, everyone is fired. Dan claims it was him and once again no one else steps up, resulting in Dan getting fired.

** When Spinelli accidentally calls the teacher mama, her friends all do the same thing in order to alleviate the humiliation, eventually leading to the whole class calling her mama.
** In one episode Mikey rips his pants and his friends do too in order to save him from being the only one embarrassed.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In S10 [=Ep11=], a reporter, whose story might have falsely implicated some sailors in a crime, is found dead which results in them being called in. They all confess to killing the reporter. Tony later [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the four sailors.

* In the french film ''La nouvelle guerre des boutons'', [[SettingUpdate an adaptation set during WWII,]] [[CanonForeigner a little Jewish girl named Myriam]] hide, under the CodeName of Violette, in the village of Longeverne while posing as the notions dealer 's goddaughter. She's denounced near the end, and [[LesCollaborateurs militiamen]] come to arrest her. One militiaman stops in the girls playground and ask is one of them is named Violette. One of the girls yell "I do!", followed by all the others, assuring they're all named Violette.

* In the french film ''La nouvelle guerre des boutons'', [[SettingUpdate an adaptation set during WWII,]] [[CanonForeigner a little Jewish girl named Myriam]] hide, under the CodeName of Violette, in the village of Longeverne while posing as the notions dealer 's goddaughter. She's denounced near the end, and [[LesCollaborateurs militiamen]]come to arrest her. One militiaman stops in the girls playground and ask is one of them is named Violette. One of the girls yell "I do!", follow by all the others, assuring they're all named Violette.

* ''Anime/WaveLetsGoSurfing'' has a recurring gag in which Masaki will jump excitedly out of the water, only to remember he is naked and sink awkwardly back down. The third time this happens, he is jumping at the opportunity to make a victory pact. Rather than act embarrassed, his other friends all rise from the water - equally naked - to join hands in making the same pact.

** Played straight in an issue that took place just before ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', wherein Spider-Man agrees to reveal his identity in front of the Daily Bugle so long as Jonah gives him the opportunity to address New York in his paper. He wrote a long article about what he does and why he does it and shows up the next day to unmask. Gathered in front of the Bugle are hundreds of people, ostensibly there to see Spider-Man unmask, and then -- someone yells "I'm Spider-Man!" Dozens of people in costumes of varying quality (including Aunt May!) take off claim to be Spider-Man, so that when Peter does do it, Jonah just yells at him to stop making jokes and take some pictures.

--->'''Negan:''' I am everywhere.

* Bio a.k.a. Orlando of the''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' was one of the slaves present at the trope namer. S/he recalls with bemusement how the Romans let him/her go just for standing up and saying his/her name, "everybody else apparently being named Spartacus".

-->-- ''Series/{{Community}}'', "Geography of Global Conflict"

* A variation appears in ''ComicBook/BatmanGothamAdventures'' #35. After a jury that includes Bruce Wayne finds a man guilty of kidnapping, he grabs a gun and holds it on his defense attorney, blaming her for the verdict. Bruce intercedes, saying that he should take the blame since he persuaded the rest of the jury of the man's guilt. Then the elderly witness says that no, ''she'' should take the blame, since she was the only one to come forward and testify against him. Then the forewoman says it's ''her'' fault, since she didn't tell the judge they had a hung jury. Then other members of the jury start coming forward and claiming responsibility. The man, confounded, decides to start off by shooting Bruce. [[BigDamnHeroes Enter Robin]].
* Bio a.k.a. Orlando of the''ComicBook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' was one of the slaves present at the trope namer. S/he recalls with bemusement how the Romans let him/her go just for standing up and saying his/her name, "everybody else apparently being named Spartacus".
* ''ComicBook/SlottAllredSilverSurfer'': Galactus arrives at Newhaven, a planet comprised entirely of refugees from worlds he devoured. An entire page shows every single Galactus refugee ''in the whole planet'' saying "Spare my world and I shall be your herald!" with every word of the sentence spoken by a different person. Finally, Galactus chooses the last person to utter the phrase: [[spoiler: [[LoveInterest Dawn Greenwood]]]].

* Spoofed on ''Series/{{Community}}'', where the study group is doing well in the Model UN competition Annie's roped them into, until they fall apart due to a smelly fart that no one will admit to. After melting down a bit, Annie tries to fix things by saying she did it, but then Jeff admits it. He's telling the truth, but the others assume he's trying to invoke the trope and all proudly say that they farted too. Annoyed, Jeff comments that he [[LampshadeHanging "wasn't doing the Spartacus thing."]]

* In opening the GrandFinale of ''[[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Spartacus War of the Damned]]'', Spartacus has his men attack multiple Roman cities. At each one, soldiers declare "I am Spartacus" in the hope of confusing Marcus Crassus. It doesn't work. And then at the very end, the last scene in the credits is the late Andy Whitfield reminding us all that ''he'' is Spartacus.

* A villainous variation occurs in ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. After interrogating a Saviour about the whereabouts of his boss, Negan, the man replies, "''I'm'' Negan." Later, when the real Negan is trying to break [[spoiler: Daryl,]] he points to each of his men and asks them who they are. Every one of them replies with "Negan".