History Main / SayingTooMuch

* On ''Series/{{Elsbeth}}''' the title character states, "As a lawyer, the surest sign to me a client was guilty was how much they talked." So when someone in a murder case brings up way too much information on the crime or a suspect, Elsbeth realizes they may be the killer.

* On ''All-American'', Olivia is having it out with her parents on how she's been sober for a year but they still massively judge her. She does a rant on how her brother Jordan smoked weed and got into trouble and the parents just acted like it was fine and never punished him. At which point, their reactions make Olivia realize the reason Jordan wasn't punished was because their mother ''never knew'' about this in the first place.

* ''Literature/AmericaTheBook'' has [[FootnoteFever a footnote]] listing countries where the U.S. has carried out secret/illegal military operations, ending with "{{Cana|daEh}}-... we've said too much."

** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} cannot figure out how [[BigBad Karmang]]'s machines work, but she notices two large buttons sticking out like a sore thumb, and deciding to use a bit of basic psychology, she leans over them while shouting she at last knows how to shut off the machine. Karmang turns around right away and shouts at her to not push the black button:

* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': When Adrien goes to the police to report how Lila stole from him, he freely admits during the interview that he knew she was a ConArtist the whole time, but never came forward to expose her until now. He assumes that [[HonestyIsTheBestPolicy this honesty will prove that he's telling the truth]], [[DidntThinkThisThrough failing to consider]] that he just admitted to [[AccompliceByInaction standing by and letting her con his classmates]] for ''months''.

** PlayedWith; After his classmate Monoma isn't able to copy his Quirk, Izuku lets slip that he's a "late bloomer" and that it only came in recently. This works out in his favor, as Aizawa overhears this and accepts it as a reasonable explanation for his lacking control.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Teen Titans: Together for Tomorrow'': [[spoiler:Lois discovers Conner is Superboy after seeing him fly in civvies, and works out Clark is Superman. When she goes to confront Superman, Conner refers to him as "Dad" while hastily explaining why the secret identity leak isn't his fault. This shocks Lois, who still thought Clark and Conner were brothers as they said earlier. Conner keeps his mouth covered for the rest of Lois and Supes' conversation.]]

* ''Fanfic/IfWeFallDown'': PlayedWith in ''How to Save a Soul''. While Frisk repeatedly slips up in this fashion, Chara quickly picking up on these moments [[TooCleverByHalf keeps working against them]]; whenever they confront Frisk, Frisk immediately Reloads and redoes the conversation. [[spoiler:This changes in Hotland, where it takes time for Chara to notice and think about Frisk's slip-up; by the time they confront them, Frisk isn't able to Load to a point before that mistake.]]

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* In ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'' (2014), Grace ''absolutely'' has friends and under ''no'' circumstances [[spoiler:is in love with Mr. Stacks.]]

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': In the film version only, the impostor gives himself away like this. In the book, he does it on purpose; his plan has already succeeded, and he's just tying up a loose end.

* It ends up being a crucial plot point in ''Film/LAConfidential'' - [[spoiler:Capt. Dudley Smith reveals that he's the one who killed Jack Vincennes by asking Ed Exley to investigate a name Vincennes dropped as his last words - "Rollo Tomasi". Except that "Rollo Tomasi" happens to be a name made up by Exley for his father's unknown murderer; he'd told the story to Vincennes on the previous day. Vincennes does the same thing in his death scene when he tells Smith that he hasn't yet told Exley what he's found out, whereupon Smith deems it safe to kill Vincennes.]]

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': Ego the Living Planet has been looking for Peter for decades, takes Peter to the planet, gains his trust by [[spoiler:playing the part of long-lost dad]] perfectly. He's got Peter eating out of his hand, and almost ready to join up with the cosmos-spanning big plan. But then Ego blows it by [[spoiler:admitting he gave Peter's mom cancer to dispose of her]]. Cue Peter going from entranced and willing to [[spoiler:GunsAkimbo and unloading them on Ego.]]
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': [[spoiler:The AlternateUniverse Mr. Fantastic]] ends up getting the [[spoiler:entire Illuminati]] killed when he impulsively mentions how [[spoiler:Black Bolt's]] [[MakeMeWannaShout powers]] work to [[spoiler:Scarlet Witch]] in a misguided attempt to talk her down, giving [[spoiler:Wanda]] the idea to seal poor [[spoiler:Black Bolt's]] mouth shut so the sonic scream he was ''just'' about to unleash on his previously-unsuspecting enemy [[YourHeadAsplode recoils and blows up his own head]]. Everything just goes downhill from there.

* In ''Film/ReindeerGames'', after the wild robbery, [[spoiler: Rudy is about to be killed by Ashley and Gabriel. Rudy fires off on Ashley on how Nick (who he'd been impersonating) had truly loved her before dying in prison. Ashley snaps on how dumb Rudy is for doing this as "a guy takes a shiv and you just step up?" Rudy instantly asks how she knew that as Gabriel also realizes Rudy never said ''how'' Nick died. After a pause, Ashley pulls a gun to shoot Gabriel. Out comes a very much alive Nick to reveal he'd faked his death and he and Ashley were together on this the whole time.]]

* ''Literature/ErrorOfJudgment'': Dr/ Prince, while talking to his mistress about his wife, and how she supported him during the last malpractice scandal, he lets slip that's why he'll never leave her. This utterly disillusions his msitress, who suddenly has some damaging evidence to use against him.

* Done twice in quick succession, [[FourLinesAllWaiting but in entirely seperate story strands]], in the ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' novel ''The Last Druid''. First, Weka Dart's insistence that searching for the Darkwand in the Iron Creche is a fool's errand initially appears to be due to his reluctance for his mistress to find it and abandon him, but his repeated assertations that it's definitely not there eventually clues her in that he knows where it actually ''is''. Secondly, when Battenhyle confronts Belladrin Rish about evidence she's an enemy spy, he claims that she was seen with the body of the last man to suspect this. She's so taken aback by this that she blurts out that nobody was there, before hastily, but too late, amending this to that there was nothing to see.

** "[[Recap/AngelS05E16Shells Shells]]": In this context, "it" refers to [[spoiler:the goddess Illyria, about to be reborn via the sacrifice of our beloved Fred. Fred is the "her". In this case, Knox believes that only Fred was worthy to be Illyria's host.]]

* ''Series/TheFlash2014:'' In "Tricksters," Barry has a bomb on his wrist that will explode once he slows down. [[spoiler: Dr. Wells]] decides to help out by training Barry to phase through solid objects...but gets far too explicit and impassioned in [[spoiler: his]] instructions. Barry realizes that [[spoiler: he]] is speaking from experience, and this is the clue that finally convinces him that [[spoiler: he]] is [[spoiler: the [[BigBad Reverse-Flash]]]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that [[spoiler: his plan revolves around Barry being A) alive and B) really fast, so he must be protected at all costs.]]

** In "The Model Teacher", Miss Brooks is desperate to avoid having glamorous but ImmoralJournalist Stephanie Forester learn about [[LoveInterest Mr. Boynton]]. When Mrs. Davis mentions Mr. Boynton, Miss Brooks goes so far as to claim that Boynton is the school mascot, a schnauser. Unfortunately, Walter Denton arrives to drive Miss Brooks to school and ends up describing Boynton for Miss Forester. Miss Forester almost immediately decides to romantically pursue Boynton.

* In the ''Series/Supergirl2015'' episode [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E7TheDarkestPlace "The Darkest Place"]], Winn's protests to Alex that National City's newest superhero, the [[Comicbook/JimmyOlsen Guardian]] is innocent of the crimes he's been framed for makes her realize Winn knows Guardian's SecretIdentity, and it doesn't take much for him to reveal it to her.

** In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', this is a major FatalFlaw of the BigBad [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], which gets him into trouble several times where [[spoiler:he has a tendency to talk in a poetic sense which reveals far more information than he's supposed to know, such as referring to the victim of Case 1's bald head when he never took his hat off until he got smashed in the head with a wine bottle and knocked it off, meaning that only Phoenix and the murderer knew that the victim was bald. Later during Phoenix's murder trial for the incident, Kristoph refers to the playing cards at the crime scene having blue backs when the last round actually used a red set (Two different card decks were used to prevent cheating) since he stole an incriminating bloodstained card and replaced it with a card from the wrong deck, then finally claims said bloodstained card that somehow made it into the evidence is forged ([[VillainHasAPoint it was]]) only for Phoenix to point out that only the murderer would claim this knowing what happened to the real card that went missing.]]

** The funniest part about this: [[spoiler:As mentioned above, he spent most of the game doing this on purpose, ObfuscatingStupidity]] in order to manipulate the Investigation Team, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard only to be exposed when ]][[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard he does it for real.]]]]

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': In "[[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1277.html ETA]]", [[spoiler:Serini Toormuck]] refuses to give an estimate as to how long until Xykon gets through the current obstacle between him and the Gate, on the grounds that this would reveal more about the obstacle's nature than the heroes need to know. However, this fact is enough for Vaarsuvius to deduce the exact information the speaker is worried about, because there are only three scenarios in which said information would be useful: One, that there ''is'' no estimated time because Xykon is looking in the wrong place (already ruled out), two, that the obstacle is such that it's impossible for a serious amount of time to be wasted searching (Xykon would've found his goal and they'd all be dead by then if that was true), and three, that all parties would know how much time would be wasted searching despite the Order not knowing Xykon's current point or starting point [[spoiler: because ''all'' the dungeons must be searched before the Gate can be found, and the Order knows how many dungeons there are.]]
* ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'': Ruby [[SourPrudes doesn't want to admit that she has a libido]] (and the stress of the denial is pretty clearly getting to her), but Dillon manages to draw her into discussion of the book of {{yaoi}} manga which she recently gave him. [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/sticky-dilly-buns/you-can-really-feel-the-attraction She soon lets slip enough to show that she has been reading it]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark''

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldsBabesAndBullets': This is how the killer gets caught. [[spoiler:Professor O'Felix]] mentions that Professor O'Tabby probably fell asleep at the wheel, but Kitty reveals [[spoiler:O'Tabby was an insomniac and needed sleeping pills to deal with his caffeine addiction. He only would have been asleep if the sleeping pills had been put into his coffee, and O'Felix was making it after Kitty resigned]].

** When he attacks the turtles with a HumongousMecha, they try to defeat him by cutting off his main power pack. Stockman gloats that each limb of his mech has an individual power source. Don then deduces (And demonstrates) that this means the ArmCannon they chopped off earlier still works.

-->'''Leatherhead:''' The Shredder? You worked for the Shredder!? He was the Utroms' most hated enemy! You weren't intending to help me with the transmat! YOU USED ME!

* O.J. Simpson made this mistake while discussing his polygraph test with a reporter. When asked whether he had ever taken a polygraph test, Simpson replies with an emphatic "No." He then goes on to explain how he did go to the police station, did get hooked up to the machine, and watched the needles jump whenever his victims were mentioned.

** Simpson then goes on to discuss in great detail how he took a polygraph, and why he doesn't believe it "counts" as a "real" polygraph.

* ''[[https://salthaven.tumblr.com/post/190458693897/ A Lady's Scout (and the Salt within her Soul)]]'': Marinette deliberately {{invoke|dTrope}}s this after her classmates learn that she's Multimouse. While explaining to them that her exposure means she can't be a hero anymore, she adds "Especially when Ladybug's stalker--''[[PrecisionFStrike shit]]''." This sets up for Ladybug to reveal to the whole class that Lila has been lying to them about being her "best friend".

Hallucination Blitzo uses the song to trick Moxxie into talking about pegging again.

** Anytime [[ThoseTwoGuys Donald Drumpf Jr. and Eric Drumpf]] show up nowadays, [[OnlySaneMan Don Jr.]] will be attempting to downplay whatever the Drumpf scandal of the week is, when [[ManChild Eric]] will say something that just makes them look worse. Don Jr. then hands something, like a fidget spinner, over to distract Eric.

See also DidIJustSayThatOutLoud and OpenMouthInsertFoot.