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* In the Ed Brubaker comic ''Comicbook/SleeperWildStorm'', undercover agent Carver tells his comrades in the organization he's infiltrating that he'd ''love'' to have his ex-wife's new husband helpless in front of him...and to Carver's horror, helpful new guy "Pit Bull" makes this happen.

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* In the Ed Brubaker comic ''Comicbook/SleeperWildStorm'', ''ComicBook/SleeperWildStorm'', undercover agent Carver tells his comrades in the organization he's infiltrating that he'd ''love'' to have his ex-wife's new husband helpless in front of him...and to Carver's horror, helpful new guy "Pit Bull" makes this happen.



* ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'' had a shellshocked Rick Flag discover a Congressman was trying to blackmail the Squad into ensuring his re-election with the risk of exposure, so he set out to kill him. Amanda Waller gave Deadshot (who was not exactly stable at this point) the order to stop Flag from killing the Congressman by any means necessary. Deadshot did so -- by killing the Congressman himself.
** What Waller had never bothered mentioning that at the time, she was also in charge of ''{{Comicbook/Checkmate}}'' and had used that agency's resources to blackmail the Congressman in return.
* This exchange from ''Comicbook/MsMarvel2014'' issue #12, because poor Kamala really didn't know who she was dealing with:

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* ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'' ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' had a shellshocked Rick Flag discover a Congressman was trying to blackmail the Squad into ensuring his re-election with the risk of exposure, so he set out to kill him. Amanda Waller gave Deadshot (who was not exactly stable at this point) the order to stop Flag from killing the Congressman by any means necessary. Deadshot did so -- by killing the Congressman himself.
** What Waller had never bothered mentioning that at the time, she was also in charge of ''{{Comicbook/Checkmate}}'' ''{{ComicBook/Checkmate}}'' and had used that agency's resources to blackmail the Congressman in return.
* This exchange from ''Comicbook/MsMarvel2014'' ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'' issue #12, because poor Kamala really didn't know who she was dealing with:



* In one ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' {{yonkoma}} by Finnish doujin artist setz, [[LittlePeople Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]] muses to [[InterfaceScrew Seija Kijin]] as they're lying down in the grass, looking at clouds, [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1570025 that it would be interesting to see an upside down tree.]] Cue {{beat}} panel followed by this line:

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* In one ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' {{yonkoma}} by Finnish doujin artist setz, [[LittlePeople Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]] muses to [[InterfaceScrew Seija Kijin]] as they're lying down in the grass, looking at clouds, [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1570025 that it would be interesting to see an upside down tree.]] Cue {{beat}} panel followed by this line:



* ''Westernanimation/{{Mulan}}'' has the main character saying "I never want to see a naked man again." [[TemptingFate Cue a stampede of naked men.]]

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* ''Westernanimation/{{Mulan}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' has the main character saying "I never want to see a naked man again." [[TemptingFate Cue a stampede of naked men.]]



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* WebVideo/{{Rabbit}}
-->'''Rabbit:''' Alright… Well… This was traumatizing. Let me know if you want me to come back and cut your ears off.

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* WebVideo/{{Rabbit}}
-->'''Rabbit:''' Alright… Well… This was traumatizing. Let me know if you want me
''WebVideo/{{Rabbit}}'': In the first episode, Rabbit's job is to come back break the nose of a woman who wants a nose job, can't afford one, but has insurance that will cover reconstructive surgery. As he's about to leave the woman's appartment, he tries to joke a little and cut your tells the woman he can call him again if she ever needs her ears off.ripped off of anything similar. As the woman has enough of a complex about her physical appearance for the situation described above to happen, she decides she probably ''does'' need her ears ripped off, while Rabbit has been earlier shown to think she looks fine as she is.
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* In one episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Mike is placed on trial for [[ItMakesSenseInContext intergalactic]] [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds genocide]]. He is offered his choice of prosecutors: [[Literature/TheBible King Solomon]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen Hildegard of Bingen,]] [[UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson Thomas Jefferson]], or [[BigBad Pearl Forrester]]. Mike rolls his eyes and says, "[[SarcasmMode Oh yeah, I'm gonna choose Pearl Forrester--]]" Unfortunately for Mike, the judge is SarcasmBlind, and Pearl is only too happy to be appointed his prosecutor.

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* In one episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Mike is placed on trial for [[ItMakesSenseInContext intergalactic]] [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds genocide]]. He is offered his choice of prosecutors: [[Literature/TheBible King Solomon]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen Hildegard of Bingen,]] [[UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson Thomas Jefferson]], UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson, or [[BigBad Pearl Forrester]]. Mike rolls his eyes and says, "[[SarcasmMode Oh yeah, I'm gonna choose Pearl Forrester--]]" Unfortunately for Mike, the judge is SarcasmBlind, and Pearl is only too happy to be appointed his prosecutor.
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* The [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros.]] cartoon "The Hardships of Miles Standish" has an elderly gentleman telling the story of Miles' courtship of Priscilla in pilgrim days to his grandson. He tops it with "If that ain't the truth, I hope I get struck by lightning!" He does, and as he's singed, clinging to a beam from the roof, [[NoFourthWall he turns to us]] and says "Well, anyway, that's the way ''I'' heard it!" (which in turn is a ShoutOut to the then-popular radio sitcom ''Radio/FibberMcGeeAndMolly'' where, OncePerEpisode, a character called the "Old Timer" would show up, with his CatchPhrase being "That's ''not'' the way I heard it!")

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* The [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros.]] cartoon "The Hardships of Miles Standish" has an elderly gentleman telling the story of Miles' courtship of Priscilla in pilgrim days to his grandson. He tops it with "If that ain't the truth, I hope I get struck by lightning!" He does, and as he's singed, clinging to a beam from the roof, [[NoFourthWall he turns to us]] and says "Well, anyway, that's the way ''I'' heard it!" (which in turn is a ShoutOut to the then-popular radio sitcom ''Radio/FibberMcGeeAndMolly'' where, OncePerEpisode, a character called the "Old Timer" would show up, with his CatchPhrase catchphrase being "That's ''not'' the way I heard it!")
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* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', Forrest is being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Johnson for his actions in Vietnam. Forrest mentions being injured [[ShotInTheAss "right in the butt-ocks"]], and the President jokingly remarks that he'd kinda like to see that. So the LiteralMinded Forrest turns around and moons him.
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* In the ''Series/KillingEve'' episode "Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?" a boy named Gabriel makes the mistake of telling [[TheSociopath Villanelle]] he wishes he was dead, which she interprets as a MercyKill request. With no hesitation she promptly [[NeckSnap snaps his neck]].
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* Throughout the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series, Kyon continually wishes that he were living a normal life. In the fourth book (and in TheMovie), [[spoiler:Yuki provides just that. At least she's smart enough to give him an 'out' in case he doesn't like it.]]

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* Throughout the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series, Kyon continually wishes that he were living a normal life. In the fourth book (and in TheMovie), [[spoiler:Yuki provides just that. At least she's smart enough to give him an 'out' in case he doesn't like it.]]



* Shizuo does this to some extent in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' when he jokingly promises to introduce Kururi and Mairu to his younger brother, a famous actor, if they ever manage to kill their older brother Izaya.
* In ''LightNovel/ReZero'', after Subaru and Emilia have a falling out for the former disobeying her orders, Subaru wishes something would happen for a chance to prove himself. Unfortunately for Subaru, the Witches Cult just happen to be near the vicinity, adding more to his TraumaCongaLine.

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* Shizuo does this to some extent in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' when he jokingly promises to introduce Kururi and Mairu to his younger brother, a famous actor, if they ever manage to kill their older brother Izaya.
* In ''LightNovel/ReZero'', ''Literature/ReZero'', after Subaru and Emilia have a falling out for the former disobeying her orders, Subaru wishes something would happen for a chance to prove himself. Unfortunately for Subaru, the Witches Cult just happen to be near the vicinity, adding more to his TraumaCongaLine.
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* In ''Theatre/RichardII'', Bolingbroke (a.k.a. Theatre/HenryIV) says, "Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?" and Exton interprets this as an order to kill the already defeated King Richard. Henry develops a serious GuiltComplex about this and tries to [[TheAtoner atone]] [[ValuesDissonance by launching a crusade]].
* In ''Theatre/TheNormanConquests'' by Alan Ayckbourn, Ruth is amazed at the monumental emotional denseness of Tom, a veterinarian who is NotGoodWithPeople. She tells him she would like to strip off all her clothes, dance naked on the grass, and then hurl him down and make love to him, just to see his reaction. Tom takes this quite literally and later solemnly informs his girlfriend Annie that Ruth has been harboring a secret passion for him.

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* In ''Theatre/RichardII'', Bolingbroke (a.k.a. Theatre/HenryIV) says, "Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?" and Exton interprets this as an order to kill the already defeated King Richard. Henry develops a serious GuiltComplex about this and tries to [[TheAtoner atone]] by [[ValuesDissonance by launching a crusade]].
* In ''Theatre/TheNormanConquests'' by Alan Ayckbourn, Ruth is amazed at the monumental emotional denseness of Tom, a veterinarian who is NotGoodWithPeople.with NoSocialSkills. She tells him she would like to strip off all her clothes, dance naked on the grass, and then hurl him down and make love to him, just to see his reaction. Tom takes this quite literally and later solemnly informs his girlfriend Annie that Ruth has been harboring a secret passion for him.
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She says she wants them to sleep forever when asked how long. She very much wanted them killed.


** After a pair of guards fall asleep while guarding an important figure, Cersei Lannister sarcastically says they should be allowed to sleep. They're killed shortly later after this is interpreted as a kill order.
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** As recorded in 2nd Samuel chapter 23 (and also in 1st Chronicles chapter 11), David was in the stronghold in the cave of Adullam while the Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem, and remarks apparently to himself that he misses drinking water from his hometown well. In this case the desire is genuine but he doesn't expect it to actually happen. But one of his best warriors overheard, gathered a few other mighty men together, and broke through enemy lines to bring back Bethlehem well water, and the King was appalled that anyone would actually risk his life for that.

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** As recorded in [[Literature/BooksOfSamuel 2nd Samuel chapter 23 23]] (and also in 1st Chronicles chapter 11), David was in the stronghold in the cave of Adullam while the Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem, and remarks apparently to himself that he misses drinking water from his hometown well. In this case the desire is genuine but he doesn't expect it to actually happen. But one of his best warriors overheard, gathered a few other mighty men together, and broke through enemy lines to bring back Bethlehem well water, and the King was appalled that anyone would actually risk his life for that.
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'''Shepard:''' ''[[{{Beat}} [long pause]]]'' ... [[SarcasmFailure Really?]]

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