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-->''"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."''\\
--'''GeorgeOrwell'''

-->''"Thanks for stating the completely obvious, by the way."''
-->''"No problem. It's nice to have a purpose."''
-->-'''Grey Warden''', '''Alistair''', ''DragonAge''

He strives to be MrExposition... But there's something wrong with his exposition. Most of the time, whatever he has to say should already be obvious -- both to the viewers and to any other character with half a brain. After saying anything, another character might state [[LampshadeHanging "Gee, you think?" or "No shit, Sherlock!"]]

In other words, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Captain Obvious states the obvious]]. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment This means that his statements]] [[ShapedLikeItself are self-evident]].

In some cases justified because Captain Obvious is also a RalphWiggum, or so puzzled by something he can't help but state, well, the obvious.

To be fair, [[{{FanSub}} amateur translations]] of anime/manga/visual novels have been known to make a fairly valid statement into something like this -- it's not the characters being stupid. Professional translations as well, although less frequently.

When what they say is prime fodder for a sarcastic quip, they just had to AskAStupidQuestion.

See also AsYouKnow, ThisJustIn, ShapedLikeItself. Sometimes, may be demoted to CommanderContrarian, a commander who disagrees. ItMakesSenseInContext is what fans will say when other people bring it up.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
*Try and count all the times someone says "He's no ordinary swordsman!" (or something similar) every time [[RurouniKenshin Kenshin]] disappears because he's moving so fast or knocking 6 enemies down at a time.
* The narrator and characters suffered badly from this in the early parts of ''JojosBizarreAdventure'', making the whole thing read like a SilverAge comic book at times. One example that has undergone MemeticMutation is [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment a panel of Speedwagon looking afraid while the narrator says "Even Speedwagon is afraid!"]]
* ''{{Inuyasha}}'' has an entire ''cast'' of Captains Obvious, with characters gleefully re-stating something that was just mentioned by another Captain Obvious. For example, if a character is returning from being away, they'd show the character approaching, then one character would say something like "Hey, it's Character Name" then someone else would say "Character Name is coming back!" and "It's good that Character Name is back now!", leading to a whole chorus making sure that the audience knows exactly what's going on, regardless of how obvious it is.
** Every time Kagome muses that Inuyasha is half-demon and "half demon means... half ''human,'' right?" as if it's a stunning new revelation in the first ten or so episodes, [[DrinkingGame take a shot]]. It took her quite some time to wrap her head around it.
*** [[OrderOfTheStick chief grukgruk half orc too. other half, also orc.]]
* '''Tekkaman''' the Space Knight's dub. In the original version he rarely speaks, [[LullDestruction but in the English version...]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURDGxx7FJo GOT TO GET THIS GIANT ARM OFF ME. IT'S SO HEAVY. MAYBE THE SPACE LANCE... OH IT SLIPPED.]]
*** The first time or two that he said "SPACE LANCE" might have counted as CallingYourAttacks, but I don't know about the other six...
* Used very often in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', usually when a monster is destroyed or a magic/trap card is used, so it happens virtually every move. Contributes to the show's [[InactionSequence Inaction Sequences]].
-->*Monster explodes*\\
'''Duelist''': Your monster has been vanquished!
* Mocked in ''YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''.
-->'''Téa:''' Now we're at the museum!\\
'''Yami:''' I ''know''.
** Or:
---> '''Tristan:''' In a few hours the sun will rise!\\
[Later, as the sun rises.]\\
'''Tristan:''' See, I was right about the sun!
*** That's ''actually what he said'' in the anime. Well, the first part anyway.
**** A bit of context: Téa and Tristan were stowed away on the boat to Duelist Kingdom. During the night, they had to sleep up on the bridge, out of the way, rather than in the warm suites inside the boat. Téa was complaining about how cold it was up there at night, and Tristan delivers the above line. The way he says it suggests that he was mocking her for complaining. Note that this whole exchange was [[{{Macekre}} different in the Japanese version]].
** And, from the movie:
---> '''Anubis:''' Shut up! You're going to die! And then you'll be dead! Because I killed you!
* Tetsuro in the new ''{{Guyver}}'' series sometimes falls into this. When he's not constantly shouting "son of a bitch!".
* Manta from ''ShamanKing'' has a tendency for this. It gets rather grating after a while.
* The Bronze Saints from Saint Seiya: Hades chapter have a tendency to repeat, WORD FOR WORD, what someone else just said.
* Spoofed in ''BoboboboBobobo'':
-->'''Guy Boy:''' I'll defeat you so bad you'll be defeated!\\
'''Narrator:''' Yes, he knew Hatenko's secret weakness! That defeating him would...defeat him!\\
'''Dengakuman:''' Wait, hold on! That's MY weakness!
* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' had an odd enforced version when Team Dai-Gurren were throwing rocks at Viral and his men:
-->'''Viral:''' Damn barbaric humans! Can't you beat us fist-to-fist you cowards?\\
'''Kamina:''' This rock ''is'' my fist!\\
'''Viral:''' A rock is a rock. It's not a damn fist!\\
'''Kamina:''' Is stating the obvious the best you got, dumbass?
* ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'':
-->[A ''giant'' cricket appears in front of them]\\
'''Kyon:''' What is this?\\
'''Koizumi:''' A camel cricket.\\
'''Kyon:''' Got it. Thanks, Captain Obvious...
* From ''{{Slayers}}: Super-Explosive Demon Story'':
-->'''Mook Disguised as Old Man:''' I have transformed these ordinary woodland creatures into astral-side demons! Cool, huh?\\
'''Gourry:''' This isn't a regular old guy, Lina!
** Gourry is the CaptainObvious of ''{{Slayers}}''. His role as such as repeatedly lampshaded and he constantly gets smacked by Lina for this (sometimes ''before'' he's even said anything).
*** Given that he thought the fact that [[spoiler: Xellos is a mazoku/demon]] ''was'' obvious, it seems safe to say that Gourry's conception of what is and is ''not'' obvious is...not the same as everybody else's.
* The quote from ''{{Naruto}}'' shown at the article opening. In that scene, Might Guy has brilliant lines such as "You surely are... someone I met before". This is fairly [[TheFool in character for Guy]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, the latter is actually a subversion, as the villain is using a body duplication technique that's based on another body, and that one's rhythms are slightly different from the villain's own... so while Guy can see the bad guy, his instincts tell him that it's someone else. And he's right.]]
** There's also when he looks at Gaara's gourd: "Nobody has noticed yet... but... that gourd is suspicious!"
** There's also the Asuma [[spoiler:vs Hidan]] fight. "Is he [[spoiler:immortal]]?" "No shit, Sherlock!"
*** To be fair, there are so many different abilites that it could have been regeneration or something. So it might be obvious if you discount ''any'' other possiblity.
* ''{{Bleach}}'': during the Kenpachi vs. Nnoitora fight. "He's got more arms!" Thank you, Ichigo. We'd be lost without you.
** ''Urahara'' temporarily surpasses Ichigo's stupidity in the new [[spoiler: Zanpakuto Rebellion]] arc, when [[spoiler: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the zanpakuto start rebelling against the shinigami.]]]] After several fight scenes, the new enemies completely devastating the Soul Society, Ichigo coming to his own (correct) conclusions, ''multiple'' {{InfoDump}}s, Urahara gives us this little gem: [[spoiler: "From the report, it seems that the majority of zanpakuto in Soul Society have begun to act against their shinigami."]]
* [[TheSmartGuy Fuu Hououji]] from ''MagicKnightRayearth'' is (in?)famous for this sort of thing, to Hikaru and Umi's frustration.
* In the ''DigimonTamers'' dub when Takato and Henry are going on about how the {{Monster of the Week}} is destroying the city, Rika remarks "What are you two, the obvious brothers?"
* Lampshaded in ''CodeGeass''. When Tamaki makes a remark like this, we get a little moment of contrast between C.C. and Kaguya in their responses to it:
-->'''Kaguya:''' Actually, that's an apt way of putting it.\\
'''C.C.:''' You're sure developing a useless ability there.
* And of course, from ''FateStayNight'', "[[MemeticMutation People die if they are killed]]", as seen above. Shirou Emiya's statement of the obvious was actually taken [[BeamMeUpScotty out of context]]. Sure, blame the fansub, but in context, [[spoiler:he was trying to explain to Saber how it was immoral for him to keep [[HealingFactor Avalon]] within him to keep him alive]], thus his statement above was born. Didn't stop FourChan and, by extension, the intarwebs from mocking Shirou.
* [[http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/silvercrescent17/shapedlikeitself.jpg This]] example from ''{{Shakugan no Shana}}'':
-->'''Kazumi:''' It's called a school festival. It's a festival organized by the school.
** Again, this makes sense in context, the context being ''the Japanese language''. The Japanese have a word for "festival", a word for "school", and a ''totally different'' word for "school festival". Sometimes obvious isn't as obvious as it appears...
* Some days, it seems like the only reason Luna is around anymore in ''SailorMoon'':
-->''[monster creates sea pillars and attacks Sailor Moon with them]''\\
'''Luna:''' Careful, Sailor Moon! That monster can attack with water!
* The first ''{{Pokemon}}'' movie should have a medal for the number of times the words "Mewtwo is a clone of Mew!", or something to that affect, are repeated.
** Hell, the later seasons of Pokemon are FULL of this. Characters frequently point out things that anybody watching the show can see.
*** Maybe they're adding the dialogue for those who are blind?
* [[{{Determinator}} Kazuma Kuwabara]] in ''YuYuHakusho'' tends to say things like, "This is dangerous!" while a tunnel is collapsing on top of the {{Idiot Hero}}'s {{Nakama}}.
* Ikuko of AngelDensetsu manages to get some pretty hilarious [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/angel_densetsu/c075/16.html moments]] with this. Bonus points for the [[DeadpanSnarker DeadpanSnark]].
* [[CloudCuckooLander Yui]] from {{K-On}}: "Fun things are fun."
* An early episode of ''{{Fist of the North Star}}'' has a drill instructor explaining to his men that "God's Army is the army of God". The line makes sense in Japanese, since he's explaining what the name "God's Army" means (Kami no Gun), but its pointlessly redundant in English.
* In {{Gankutsuou}}, a character looks at an envelope and reacts to it with: '13 Rue De Dauphine? That's M. Noisier's house!' (Name and address deliberately changed to protect the fact I can't remember them.) He then turns the envelope towards the camera, and there's a small, blurry address line; but the name 'M. Noisier' is perfectly legible in large letters across the centre of the envelope.

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Several issues of ''TheMightyThor'' back in the 60's had an advanced alien race send a "recorder" android along with him to an unknown galaxy to observe information. He said almost ''everything'' that was going on in the panel. Granted he was a ''recording'' android and everything, and he was probably making notes to himself, but still...
-->[Thor and the android get sent into a vortex of "biochemical molecules"].\\
'''Recorder:''' Observation: We have been plunged into a vortex of rapidly regrouping bio-versal molecules!
**There's also this gem, when masses upon masses foes made of said molecules attack Thor and the Recorder:
--->'''Thor:''' Begone, things of evil! Not all thy masses shall topple mighty Thor!\\
'''Recorder:''' Observation: it shall take more than platitudes to stem this mighty tide!
* Every SilverAge comic book character from every writer and every publisher, everywhere. Even the random bystanders. (See LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe.)
** For an example, see [[http://www.superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1265:here-let-me-describe-in-great-detail-the-building-about-to-collapse-on-us&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32 this cover]]..
** Mocked by [[http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/jay-pinkerton-unnecessary-exposition-comics/ Jay Pinkerton]].
* In the 1980's ''{{Astro Boy}},'' a cyborg called Inspector Holmes is shot in the only human part of him: his head. Astro's reaction? "You shot him! In the helaad! His head was the only part of that was human! You shot him in his head!"
* When the protagonist of {{CrossGen}}'s ''Mystic'' finally caught on that her [[ObviouslyEvil very obvious]] beau was one of the bad guys, he got one back at her:
--> '''Darrow:''' You always did have a fine grasp of the painfully obvious.
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[[folder:Film]]
* Legolas in the ''LordOfTheRings'' films, who was first titled "Captain Obvious" in ''Legolas: The Very Special Diaries''. In fact, almost every line from Legolas:
-->'''Legolas:''' Orcs!\\
'''Legolas:''' Goblins!\\
'''Legolas:''' A scout!\\
'''Legolas:''' Crebain from Dunland... Hide!\\
'''Legolas:''' Something draws near... I can feel it.\\
'''Legolas:''' Have you heard nothing Elrond just said? The ring ''must'' be destroyed!\\
'''Legolas:''' That is one of the ''mearas'', or else my eyes have been cheated by some spell.
** And one of the most infamous lines:
---> '''Legolas:''' The red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.
** And can we forget ''this'' iconic line?
--->'''Legolas:''' [[StupidStatementDanceMix They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!]]
*** This isn't as stupid as it sounds - in the book it was long unclear whether the orcs would turn towards Mordor or Isengard, and guessing wrong would be disastrous. Legolas made the statement as soon as he saw the band of orcs in the horizon, heading towards Isengard.
** To Aragorn, who has just survived a battle, fallen off a cliff, and been half drowned before being rescued from a muddy shore by a horse:
---> '''Legolas:''' You look terrible.
*** This may have been wit on his part.
**This one becomes particularly hilarious for anyone who has seen ''FatherTed'', because it was exactly the same response that ''[[RalphWiggum Dougal]]'' had to someone explaining they need to draw their attention away:
--->"Legolas:''' A diversion!"
*** Oddly enough, the one time it would've been both accurate and useful for him to shout whatever noun has entered his line of sight, Legolas refrains from informing everyone that "Ai! A Balrog! A Balrog has come!"
** Pippin also had his moment, too.
--->'''Pippin:''' Merry, the tree is talking.
*** This can be forgiven, at least partly. Its more likely he was just throwing out some mental sewage, due to the shock of being abducted by a walking, talking tree.
** How many scenes in ''Return of the King'' did Sam say "we're almost there" again?
*** Let's be fair: he was mostly saying that to try and keep Frodo's spirits up. Didin't work too well, but still...
** Everyone who takes a look at it, says ''out loud'': "{{Mordor}}". As if it could be anything else! (However, it does make a little more sense when you think about it. 1) You're faced with freaking Mordor. You kind of have to say ''something''. 2. You're faced with freaking Mordor. What can you say?)
* Ric Olié from ''StarWars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'', notorious for lines like "Enemy fighters straight ahead!" or "Coruscant... The entire planet is one big city."
**It doesn't start with him, either. The ''very first scene with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan'' has battle droids arrive and turn on their force fields. A second later, Obi-Wan says, "They have shield generators!" This is perhaps three to five minutes after the opening text crawl ends.
** And you have forgotten Anakin's line while he is fleeing:
---> '''Anakin:''' This is '''''TENSE'''''!
** The ''StarWars'' parody [[http://theforce.net/fanfilms/animation/thatprequelmovie/index.asp That Prequel Movie]] gives Ric Olié lines of this type, but sprinkled with extra ridiculous.
--->'''Olié:''' Invading droids can mean only one thing. An invasion... [[ShapedLikeItself of droids]].
***''DarthsAndDroids'' has an interesting take on Ric Olié: As voiced by the GM, ''all'' of his lines are completely obvious exposition, but the PC's in the game are so oblivious that they [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped would never notice it otherwise]].
---->'''R2-D2:''' \\
'''Anakin:''' What was that? \\
'''Ric Olié:''' [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0171.html It sounds like he's beeping in droid language!]]
** C-3PO demonstrates his usefulness:
--->[ground shakes violently]\\
'''C-3PO''': Sir, it's quite possible this asteroid is not entirely stable.\\
'''Han''': "Not entirely stable"? Well, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things! Chewie, take ''the Professor'' into the back and [[UnusualEuphemism plug him into the hyperdrive]].
** Even Vader gets 'em:
---> '''Vader:''' ''I see you've constructed a new [[LaserBlade lightsaber]].''
**It's a trap!
* Parodied in ''AustinPowers'' with Basil Exposition, who as well as the [[MrExposition more useful kind of filling-in]], on occasion displayed a tendency to state the blindingly obvious as well ("Thanks, Basil."). In particular, a deleted scene from the first movie has him helpfully pop up at the end to inform Austin and Vanessa that they've survived the destruction of Dr. Evil's secret base and have found themselves in a raft for some reason.
* At the end of ''IndianaJones and the Last Crusade'', a collection of grails are found along with an immortal knight who explains that only one is the Holy Grail and that "for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false grail will take it from you". After drinking from one of the grails, Donovan rapidly ages, becoming a skeleton in the span of about thirty seconds. Just in case Indy and Elsa didn't get the idea, the knight says "he chose... [[{{Understatement}} poorly]]."
** Indy himself gets to be one at the end of ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'': [[spoiler: "Their treasure was knowledge. ''[[ShapedLikeItself Knowledge]]'' was their treasure."]] You can see how he got to be a professor.
* Parodied or perhaps [[{{JustifiedTrope}} justified]] in the movie ''DumbAndDumber'' when Harry asks a lady who has also stopped at the gas station, "Skis huh? They yours? ...Both of them?"
* Referred to by name in ''[=~Dude, Where's My Car~=]'':
-->'''Mr. Pizzacoli:''' They said "the Photon Accelerator Annihilation Beam," ''you fool''!\\
'''Chester:''' Hurry, activate it, dude!\\
''[a small panel on the Transfunctioner reads "Photon Accelerator Annihilation Beam"]''\\
'''Chester:''' I think that's it, dude.\\
'''Jesse:''' Thank you, Captain Obvious!
* The cop in the passenger seat of the paddy wagon in ''TheDarkKnight'' has this role.
* The movie versions of ''{{X-Men}}'' are rather found of these.
-->'''Storm:''' Do you know what happens to a toad when it's hit by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.
** More annoying is the fact that they missed the perfect joke, as mentioned on the dvd-commentary.
-->'''Storm:''' Do you know what happens to a toad when it's hit by lightning? It ''[[IncrediblyLamePun croaks.]]''
'''Jean:''' Cerebro isn't targetting mutants anymore.\\
'''Storm:''' Who is it targetting?\\
'''Jean:'''Everyone else
* The SoBadItsGood ''StreetFighter'' movie had its moment when it's revealed that Guile came BackFromTheDead... somehow.
-->'''Sagat:''' ''Guile's... alive?''\\
'''M. Bison:''' '''''OF COURSE!!!'''''
** Yes, that's the origin of that meme, though it works [[TakeOverTheWorld the other way around]].
* Brendan Frasier has a bad habit of yelling whatever's going on. "Mummies!", "We're still falling!", "Lava!"
* In ''Fighting'' (or at least its trailer), one of the characters has the brilliant observation that "the only way I'm gonna lose is if somebody beats me". This is made all the more hilarious by the fact that the actor delivered it as though it were a really badass line.
* In ''ReservoirDogs'', there's the line about Mr. Blue:
-->"Either he's dead or he's alive. Either the cops got him or they didn't."
* ''Evolution'' -- A little-known movie about aliens that come to Earth inside a meteor, after which they evolve into a menagerie of outlandish creatures attempting to adapt to Earth's environment and pose a threat to humanity. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4cy-Qb73M When an aggressive alienoid dragon/bird creature gets barfed out by another dying alienoid dragon's mouth and flies away]]:
--> '''Harry''': "It's flying away? Is that a bad thing?"\\
'''Ira''': "Only if you're a human being."
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Every fantasy adventure book ever. "Watch out for his sword!" "(Insert Villain here) is assaulting the castle!"
**And any regal looking man who sits on the throne will introduce himself like this. "I am King (Name) of (Country). I rule over this country with benevolence."
* Car magazine ''[=AutoWeek=]'' frequently features quotes stating the painfully obvious accompanied by a picture of a CaptainAmerica lookalike in their "But Wait, There's More..." section.
* In ''The {{Dilbert}} Principle'', ScottAdams lists Master of the Obvious as one of the roles to take in a meeting. The Master of the Obvious gets lines such as "You need customers in order to have revenue!" and "We want a win-win solution."
* In CSLewis' ''[[{{Narnia}} The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'', the entire race of Dufflepuds are prone to this, with such astute observations as water is powerfully wet.
* In the fable ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', the kid who points out that the emperor is nekkid plays this role. In fact, he's the smartest person in the crowd ''because'' of his ability to state the obvious.
** Actually he was just too young to know that sometimes you have to play along with something stupid.
* The ''HarryPotter'' books have a few (most are lampshaded in-universe however), one being Harry saying "Ghosts are transparent."
** '''Cedric''': ''The cup is a portkey.''
** The Chinese translation says that Slughorn is saying Ron's name wrong when we can all tell that from the dialogue.
*** Possibly to avoid the situation of the English version in which fans allegedly wrote in to tell Rowling that she had [[CompletelyMissingThePoint mistakenly used Ron's film actor's name when Slughorn calls him Rupert]].
** "You can't break Unbreakable Vows."
** "Hermione, Neville's right...you ''are'' a girl..."
* In the second ''Midnighters'' book, Madeleine accuses Dess of being one.
-->'''Dess:''' You're a mindcaster.
-->'''Madeleine:''' And you have a fine grasp of the obvious.
-->''and''
-->'''Dess:''' You've been mindcasting this to me while I was asleep.
-->'''Madeleine:''' I expect that you must earn top marks at school, young lady. There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.
* ''{{Twilight}}''. Just read any of Bella's dialogue really.
**Just read any of the sentences at all. "I'm sorry," he apologized.
* Mulenz, a supporting character in the CiaphasCain short story ''The Beguiling'', was like this, to Cain's mild annoyance. "No wonder they made him an observer, I thought, nothing gets past this guy."
* In ''TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', this is humanity's [[PlanetOfHats hat.]]
--> One of the things that Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and restating the very, very obvious. As in: "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "[[PrepareToDie So this is it. We're going to die.]]"
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Counselor Troi on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' does this a lot. An alien will appear on the viewscreen and rant, rave, posture and threaten the Enterprise. Troi will lean over to the Captain and murmur, "I sense hostility..."
** Troi was following in the footsteps of Leonard [=McCoy=] of ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', who spat contemptuously at the medicine of previous eras, and yet, despite the miraculous 23rd-century technology that he possessed, seldom gave a diagnosis more detailed than "[[HesDeadJim He's dead, Jim!]]"
***This makes her...[[IncrediblyLamePun Counselor Obvious]]
** Data had his Captain Obvious moments too, as even the dead-serious TNG crew couldn't help but notice sometimes...
--->'''Data:''' ''[picking up a robotic arm]'' It appears to be a robotic arm.\\
'''Worf:''' [[LampShading Very astute]].
***Well, as a robot he's supposed to be super logical. When asked "What do you make of this?" he answered with the only thing he should've been able to answer with at that point.
** Also, in multiple ''Trek'' series, an enemy ship will go to warp, while the ''Enterprise'' (''Voyager, Defiant,'' etc.) is damaged, busy, or just not fast enough to keep up. After watching this happen, someone will ''always'' say "they're gone," even if they've also just reported the enemy ship's departure. Once every third episode, you were liable to see a situation like this:
--->[Zip! Phoom! Villains disappear as everyone watches on insanely big viewscreen.]\\
'''Paris:''' "They went to Ultrawarp Factor [[OverNineThousand Eleventy-Zillion]], Captain. [Pause] They're gone."
*** It they were looking at the status of long-range sensors, it might make sense. As in, the are not looping around for another attack.
** Shows up in the ''StargateVerse'' lately as well: Someone will always say "they're gone" after another ship departs via [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace window.]]
** ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'' spoofed Troi's solemn pronouncements with a similar moment where supercharged telepath Lyta Alexander simply commented, "Captain, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome they're pissed]]."
** Spoofed after a fashion in ''GalaxyQuest'' (is there anything that movie missed?) with Sigourney Weaver repeating ''everything'' the computer tells them, making her every bit as useful as Troi. It's even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] ("Look, I got one job on this lousy ship -- it's ''stupid'', but I'm gonna ''do it anyway''!!!!"). Then again, the computer would not respond to anyone else, so she still had her uses.
** In ''StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', when the ''Enterprise'' is trying to contact Regula One, Spock has this insightful comment, "There are two possibilities. They are unable to respond. They are unwilling to respond."
** In the original series episode "The Changeling", a space probe called ''Nomad'', convinced that its mission is to destroy all "biological units", mistakes Kirk for its creator. This buys the crew some time until Kirk lets slip that he is a biological unit. ''Nomad'' declares it needs to "reevaluate" and floats off. Spock's response?
--->'''Spock:''' Captain, it [[{{Understatement}} may have been unwise]] to admit to ''Nomad'' that you are a biological unit.
** In "The Savage Curtain", Kirk is told "if you and Spock survive, you return to your vessel. If you do not[[DramaticPause ...]] your existence is ended
** Kirk also has a tendency to repeat what was just said. From "[[StarTrekTOS Amok Time]]"
--->'''Kirk:''' By Vulcan biology, do you mean the biology of Vulcans?
*** Maybe not the best example, as Kirk is basically getting [[HumpOrDie The Talk re: Vulcans]] from [[TheStoic Spock]]. BuffySpeak in such a situation is to be expected.
** Here's another then.
--->'''Kirk:''' Insufficient data is not sufficient, Mr. Spock.
** In ''StarTrekVoyager'', a female Q pegs this trope as a trait of the entire Vulcan species.
--->'''Female Q''': The Vulcan talent for stating the obvious never ceases to amaze me.
* Samantha Carter, in her position as ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'''s designated [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]] had more than a few moments of this. Which was somewhat amusing during the first two seasons, where she actually held the rank of Captain.
** Ever-GenreSavvy O'Neill, upon hearing such statements, would often say "You ''think?''" At least, until gradual CharacterDerailment made it so that [[RalphWiggum very, very little was obvious to him]].
** Zelenka on ''StargateAtlantis'' is often dismissed as a Captain Obvious by [=McKay=] after coming up with some incredibly complex science idea which [=McKay=] already came up with. [=McKay=], though, also has his share of these, to the point that in a recent episode somebody called ''him'' Captain Obvious.
** In ''Children of the Gods'', the pilot episode of ''[[{{Stargate SG-1}} SG-1]]'', a doctor is performing an autopsy on a Jaffa, and pulls out the Goa'uld symbiote.
---> '''Doctor''': It's not human!\\
'''Jack''': You ''think''?
** Another ''Atlantis'' example: the team has just found a group of dead bodies. Sheppard says that he can't tell whether or not the Wraith killed them, to which Ronan replies "Something killed them." That'd be why they're dead, then, Ronan?
* In the season seven episode ''Birthright, Part 1,'' Bra'tac and Teal'c walk through a battlefield filled with dead Jaffa. Teal'c notes that there were two Goa'uld there with their respective armies. Bra'tac replies "This meeting did not go well." Really? Because when I see dead guys, I assume things were going ''great''!
* Parodied in ''FawltyTowers'':
-->'''Basil:''' Next contestant on Mastermind; Sybil Fawlty, best category; the bleedin' obvious!
* Jack from ''DaysOfOurLives'' has his moments.
-->'''Jack:''' Now that he's dead, there's no way he could be alive.
* In one sketch on the comedy-improv show ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', Colin Mochrie was given the job of playing a superhero named, literally, Captain Obvious. "I'm standing. I'm looking around. That's air going into my lungs..."
**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uxLWUOwEw
* "So, you're here to kill me," says [[spoiler:Arthur Petrelli]] in '''Series/{{Heroes}}''', after his son's been pointing a gun at his face for a minute or so.
** "Gabriel, ''you're'' here."
** No one is going to mention Tracy's-- no wait, Nikki's-- er, Jessica's (I mean really, who knows any more?) line to Matt early in the series? "Didn't I throw you through a window?" No, Jessica, that never happened.
* Carter alternates between this and CloudCuckooLander in ''[[HogansHeroes Hogan's Heroes]]''.
* Plenty of comedic mileage on ''RedDwarf'':
-->'''Holly''': A stasis leak is a leak, right, in stasis. Hence the name 'a stasis leak'.\\
'''Rimmer''': (trying to save his past self) I've come to warn you, in three million years you'll be dead!\\
'''Past Rimmer''': Will I really?\\
'''Cat''': (examining an arrow) Yep, this came from a bow alright.
* Many of the headlines featured on ''TheTonightShow'', such as this gem: "Starvation leads to health hazards". (Leno's reply: "Really? I find I'm feeling hungry all the time.")
* Once on [[RoyalCanadianAirFarce Air Farce Live]]: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwwZDRelKNk&feature=related seen here]]
-->'''Lisa [=LaFlamme=]:''' Dr Blide, are you sick?\\
'''Dr. Blide:''' Am I sick? Oh! Stop the press! The Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Lady Obvious!
* In ''{{CSI}}'', upon finding a severed head in the trunk of a car, Grissom delivered a particularly [[PungeonMaster groan-worthy]] [[GrissomOneLiner one-liner]]:
-->"[...] six to eight hours ago, somebody lost his head. And then... somebody lost his head."
* A particularly [[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame egregious]] example occurs in the ''{{X-Files}}'' episode "The Erlenmeyer Flask," in which a microbiology expert explains the rudiments of genetics -- material taught in any high school's freshman biology class -- to Agent Scully, a fully qualified doctor. While some viewers of the show might have needed the refresher course, Scully absolutely should not have, and turning her into TheRick for this kind of material just does her a disservice.
* Subverted and lampshaded often, severely, and, on occasion, simultaneously on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the best example likely being when Spike is nearly tearing his hair out by the unbleached roots telling the Scoobies over and over that the HellGoddess Glory just turned into Joyce's caregiver Ben. They miss the point every time.
** Darn that memory spell... What makes the situation funnier is that the other Scoobies (save for the comatose Buffy) actually get it near the end of the first go-around with a little help from Spike:
--->'''Willow:''' So... Ben and Glory... a-are actually the same person?\\
'''Xander:''' Glory can turn into Ben, and Ben turns back into Glory.\\
'''Anya:''' And anyone who sees it instantly forgets.\\
[About a half a minute later]\\
'''Giles:''' Excellent. Now. Do we suspect there may be some kind of connection between Ben and Glory?
** It kind of makes you wonder how many times he tried to get them to figure it out if he considered bitch-slapping Xander upside the head worth the pain.
* [[{{TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager}} "I know we're too young to get married but guess what? We're getting older every year."]]
* A major part of {{Demetri Martin}}'s stand-up routine ("Large Pad"), and by extension, ''Important Things''.
** Likewise, a recurring gag in Bill Engvall's stand-up. "Here's your sign."
* Subverted in the 1992 Australian mini-series ''Phoenix'', a fictionalised account of the car-bombing of a Melbourne police station. Some hours into the investigation, Inspector Jock Brennan asks forensic scientist Ian "The Goose" Cochrane what he's come up with.
-->'''The Goose:''' There was a bomb in that car, and it went off.\\
'''Jock:''' Are you having me on?\\
'''The Goose:''' Look, it could have been a mortar shell. The bomb could have been under a manhole cover and the car had nothing to do with it. There are solutions besides the obvious, you know.
** Jock is so furious he tries to get his superiors to throw The Goose off the case, only to be told that he's the Number One expert in post-bomb analysis in the Southern Hemisphere, so he'd better shut up and listen to him.
* ''{{Mythbusters}}'' often has someone reiterating what they've been doing, just in case you missed it. It alternates between individuals.
**Probably because there is a sizable segment of viewers who watch just for the kaboom. They need to be reminded how it works.
* Inadvertently inverted by one-time BBC snooker commentary: "For those of you watching in black and white, the blue's the one behind the pink."
* Dr. Huang from ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' is frequently found guilty of committing this trope.
* ''{{Firefly}}'': "It's a post holer. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment You dig holes for . . . posts]]." Well, ''yes'', Kaylee.
* ''{{House}}'' has this exchange:
-->'''Tritter''': You're rude.\\
'''House''': Wow. You're, like, a detective or something.
* ''BattlestarGalactica'' ("Daybreak") after Cavil's forces realise [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Boomer has taken Hera back to the Colonials]].
-->'''Cavil:''' Time for us to go on the offensive.
-->'''Simon:''' We must be cautious. Too much force could risk killing the child.
-->'''Cavil:''' Really? You think? Please continue stating the perfectly obvious; it fills me with confidence.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Weird Al's ''Albuquerque''.
-->[[ShapedLikeItself That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me!]]\\
Hey, you got weasels on your face.
* TheBeatles, in ''Come Together'', gave us such enlightening information as "He's got feet down below his knees" and "One and one and one is three". You don't say.
* The Talking Heads' song ''Once in a Lifetime'' has the lyrics "there is water at the bottom of the ocean." Obvious statement much?
* ''So Yesterday'' by Hilary Duff states that "If the light is off, then it isn't on" and "You can change your clothes (if you wanna)". [[SarcasmMode No, really?]]
* ''[[AwardBaitSong Forever Young]]'' from the second CareBears movie includes the line, "You'll be with me until/The sun shines through the night./It never will."
** Clearly someone's never been to the North Pole.
* In "Bad" by U2, Bono sings at the top of his lungs, "I'M WIDE AWAKE! I'M WIDE AWAKE! I'M WIDE AWAKE!" then softly croons the brilliant corollary, "I'm not sleeping." Yes, I gathered that.
* The song "All Or Nothing" by Whitesnake includes the line "My heart is burning/And the fire is hot".
* The classic 60s love song "Baby I'm Yours" (first recorded by Barbara Lewis) has the narrator say that he/she is "yours" until a number of impossible events happen (until the stars from the sky, until 2+2 is 3), then helpfully elaborate "In other words, until I die/the end of time/eternity."
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* In ''NonSequitur'' a recurring character named "Obviousman" swoops in dressed like a superhero to point out the (usually snarky) obvious to the oblivious. He is rarely thanked.
* The narration box often labels items in ''DickTracy'' that don't need to be described. After 90 years it's still informing readers of his watch-phone, and in 2009 it helpfully pointed out that a game of solitaire was indeed solitaire. (The game had nothing to do with the plot, naturally.)
* ''{{Spider-Man}}'''s narration box bangs the reader over the head with the obvious almost as often.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* [[ProfessionalWrestling Professional wrestler]]-turned-{{WWE}}-commentator Tazz is in the habit of calling his broadcast partners "Captain Obvious", when they sum up something that the viewers just saw fifteen seconds ago.
* {{TNA}} commentator Mike Tenay does the same thing whenever the wrestler Rellik is mentioned ("That's 'killer' [[SdrawkcabName spelled backwards]].") Eric Young later started parodying Mike Tenay on this, referring to Rellik as Rellik-that's-killer-spelled-backwards, as if the entire thing was the guy's name.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* The 4th Edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'' Monster Manual has an [[{{Narm}} infamously hilarious]] example where it requires a [=DC20=] Knowledge (nature) check to learn that bears ''attack with their claws''. MemeticMutation has extended similar gems of wisdom to fire ([=DC15=]: Fire is hot), water ([=DC25=]: When immersed in water, organisms with lungs cannot breathe) and bees ([=DC20=]: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES).
** Given the other creatures inhabiting the typical Dungeons & Dragons world, a less educated person might be forgiven for thinking that bears attack with death rays from their eyes.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* Inverted and parodied in ''The Bob and Tom Show'''s recurring "Mr. Obvious" skits. The premise in them is that Mr. Obvious, a the host of a radio call-in show, attempts to help today's caller with what looks to be a difficult problem until the caller reveals enough facts about his problem to make it clear that [[TheDitz he has no clue, he can't afford to buy one, and he refuses to rent-to-own]], and that the caller would have solved his problem by himself long ago if he weren't so bloody dense.
** Subverted in the "Sump Pump" episode, where the terrified caller tells Mr. Obvious that there's a bear under his house, and every time it rains he can hear it growling. Mr. Obvious has to explain that this is just the sump pump, pumping water away from the foundation. [[spoiler: So the caller crawls under his house to see ... followed by animal roars and screams of pain ... followed by dial tone. "Um ... well, that's all the time we have for today ..."]]
* Often used in the British ''Paul Temple'' serials, and although it can be slightly jarring at times, since it's radio.....
-->'''*Whilst in a burning building*''' "We'd better get out of here!"
-->'''*Gunshot*''' "He's been shot!"
-->'''*After finding someone face-down in a river*''' "They're dead!"
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Shakespeare's characters sometimes don the captain's braid, but often it's because of the limitations of the Elizabethan stage. To paraphrase another page on this wiki, if your actors are in the middle of a swordfight but they're only pretending to be using swords, it's probably helpful if the victim grabs at his chest and cries "O, I am slain!" so the audience knows what happened. Also, if your only set decoration is a big sign that says "Castle of Elsinore", the characters are going to have to provide a description of the castle in their dialogue if you want the audience to visualize it.
* The Musical version of TheWeddingSinger actually contains the lyric "People called him the wedding singer. He sang at weddings and so the name was that."
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Shirou in ''FateStayNight'' and the infamous "People die if they are killed!" What he's saying is that people ''[[DeathIsCheap should]]'' die if they're killed). Leaving aside [[BeamMeUpScotty mistranslations]], this is the guy who also says things like "having sex means getting naked". Arguments for Asperger's syndrome have been made.
* Many characters in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series, most notably the [[ExpositionFairy robot assistant]] from ''Adventure 2'', Omochao.
-->'''Omochao:''' Keep your health meter above zero!
** Taken to ludicrous levels in ''Sonic The Hedgehog (2006)'':
--->'''Sonic:''' [[LethalLavaLand The whole city is on fire]]!\\
'''Sonic:''' Lava shoots up from that fiery ground!\\
'''Sonic:''' That tornado is carrying a car!\\
'''Silver:''' I can't catch lasers with my telekinesis!
** In ''SonicUnleashed'' it's surprisingly not [[NinjaButterfly Chip]], but [[ClingyJealousGirl Amy]] who delivers the most Captain Obvious Lines. It's so bad, she's actually standing around during an important dialouge with the Professor, just to comment afterwards on Sonic's normal day-appearance with something along the lines of "Yes, you ''definitely'' look better like this!". And don't forget her great insight, that she could do something by helping the Professor. Half a game AFTER she actually started doing it.
** ''Sonic Adventure'': after a cutscene where the [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Egg Carrier]] transforms...
--->'''Tails:''' Wow, the ship just transformed. Did you see that?\\
'''Sonic:''' [Gives him the Captain Obvious Look] Now how are we gonna get to the bridge...\\
'''Tails:''' I hate it when he doesn't listen...
*** Well, he was actually commenting on how COOL he thought it was that the ship transformed, not on the actual fact itself. His line was more like "Wow! Did you see that? It transformed! That's so cool!" Tails is a lot into machines, so...
* Alyx Vance in the ''HalfLife 2'' episodes has a tendency to announce out loud every single thing she encounters, including the player's actions, new monsters, and Dr. Kleiner's screencasts. Sometimes her excessive talkativeness reaches the level of StopHelpingMe.
** She's probably trying to get [[HeroicMime a single word of response from Gordon]].
* Navi from ''TheLegendOfZelda: The Ocarina of Time'' is considered [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=42 quite annoying]] for [[StopHelpingMe repeatedly bugging the player to tell him/her the most obvious things]] (or things she's already recently said.)
** And even things that have /already/ happened. For example, standing on a ghost ship, reaching land, hopping off, and being greeted by "The ship is sinking! We have to abandon ship!"
** [[JonasQuinn Ciel]] in ''Phantom Hourglass'' significantly ups the ante, especially in the cutscenes following the introduction of the first two spirits.
--->'''Leaf:''' I am Leaf, the Spirit of Power. ''Blah blah blah.''\\
'''Ciel:''' Look, Link! It's the Spirit of Power, Leaf!
** And how could we forget [[TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap Ezlo]]? Run into a closed door, he will tell you that it's closed. ''Every time, even if it was an accident''. Open a Warp-Mark. He will tell you, that the explosion always frighteens him. ''Every time''. Come near a small tornado, which you obviously have to jump in to. ''He tells you to jump in and remarks what a great idea of his this is.'' God, this guy is ''[[StopHelpingMe annoying]]''!
* In ''MetalGearSolid'', while searching for one of the male hostages, the main character, Solid Snake, looks down through an air vent and upon seeing a female exclaims "A woman! Not him...".
** [[MemeticMutation A SURVEILLANCE CAMERA?!]]
*** This is actually repeated [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture nine in-universe years later]] but averts the usual {{Narm}} and may even be a TearJerker, as when [[spoiler:Snake returns to Shadow Moses he encounters the same camera... and then the long-dormant, frozen over camera falls from its wall mount]].
** Snake also has the tendency to say "LIQUID!" or "Liquid?" every time he appears or when someone else starts about him.
** "We've managed to avoid drowning!"
*** To be honest, 'drowning' is just taking water into the lungs, not ''dying'' from taking it in.
* In ''{{Halo}}'', after you come across a huge cave made out of metal with symbols engraved on it in a canyon which has been obviously cut out of the ground, [[MissionControl Cortana]] says "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere."
** On top of that, the cave is on a Halo, which is obviously not a natural formation itself.
*** In fairness to Cortana, the Halo ringworld, while an obviously artificial ''superstructure'', does have an ecosystem grafted on top of it, with wind and rocks and rivers and all the things that ''can'' make a "natural" cave.
* From [[http://www.startrekonline.com/faq here:]]
-->'''Q:''' Will you need to have to have an internet connection to play StarTrek [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Online]]?\\
'''A:''' Yes.
* [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] complained about a "puzzle" in ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' which is so painfully obvious any child who knew basic arithmetic could solve it, but nevertheless, to get on with the story, you had to talk to an NPC and have them explain the solution to you.
** That was more a case of [[DeadpanSnarker Joshua]] acting as Captain Obvious just for the sake of annoying Neku, who knew the answer -- the reason the story couldn't continue was the fact that Neku was [[spoiler: now partnerless]], and taking Joshua with him solved that problem.
* Increasingly, [[PhoenixWright Phoenix Wright]]'s inner monologue tends to spell out gags and hints in other characters' dialogue.
* A certain NPC from late in the game ''TheSuffering'' will tell the player to blast the remains of the fire demons or they will revive. But as long as this NPC is alive, they will blast the remains for you. In a more subtle way, the player can unlock diary and scrapbook pages (or even ticker tape) detailing the lay of the land. Much of this is ''after'' learning all relevant facts.
* Tsutomu in ''GotchaForce''. His habit of notifying you "This will hit!" after it hits the target is beyond baffling. He even ''says'' "Well, it's obvious!" at times, which still doesn't do anything to stop his steady stream of obvious comments. You half-expect him to say "I'm breathing oxygen!" at any moment.
* Crypto in ''DestroyAllHumans! 2''.
-->[The mothership explodes, Killing Pox and scattering the weapons all over Earth]\\
'''Crypto:''' "Uh-oh, that can't be good."
* Description of the Cursed Shield in ''FinalFantasyVI''
-->Is cursed.
* The Soldier in ''TeamFortress2''
--> '''Announcer''': Intruder Alert! Red Spy in the base!
--> '''Soldier''': A Red Spy is in the base?
--> '''Announcer''': Protect the briefcase!
--> '''Soldier''': We need to protect the briefcase!
** In the context that a Red Spy is loose in their base.
--->'''Blue Spy''': Tell me, did anyone happen to kill a Red Spy on their way here? ''No?'' Then we still have a problem... *lays a sniper with a knife in his back on the table*\\
'''Soldier''': And a ''knife''.
*** And let us not forget that:
---->"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!"
**** To be perfectly fair, Sun Tzu really ''did'' say that...
-----> "If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding." -- Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War; Chapter 10 -- Terrain'
* Subverted in ''DevilMayCry 3'', where [[BigBad Jester]] says the following line to Dante:
--> ''"You're not going to shoot me, are you? If you do, I'll die, you know."''
** Much later, Dante and [[spoiler:Vergil]] ''do'' defeat him, but the one who actually kills him is [[spoiler:Lady, his daughter.]]
* In Microprose's ''MagicTheGathering'' game, each town has a Wise Man who dispenses advice. Occasionally this advice is genuinely useful, other times it's related only to the back story -- and sometimes, when another village has given you a quest, he'll say "I see the people of ''[village]'' have asked you to ''[quest]''".
* Lampshaded in ''WH40k: [[DawnofWar Dawn of War]]: Dark Crusade'':
--> '''Ork sidekick:''' Boss! We're getting shot at!\\
'''Warboss Gorgutz:''' Ain't you the master of the obvious?
* Barry Burton in the original ''ResidentEvil'' though the {{GameCube}} version tones it down. Did you know that weapons are especially powerful against living things?
** Come to think of it, Ingrid Hunnigan from ''4'' is guilty of this, one of the many things lampshaded by the LetsPlays. "You need to get out of there." "You need to find out how to open that door."
* The opening level of ''ArmyOfTwo'' includes this gem: "You can die in combat."
* Nall from ''[[{{Lunar}} Lunar: The Silver Star]]''. He stated the obvious so often that the game's strategy guide [[LampshadeHanging came very close to making a drinking game out of it]].
* From a gameplay hint in [[LegoCrossoverGame Lego Batman]]: "Toxic waste is poisonous".
* Chuck from ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Football]]'', in the tutorials. In the actual commentary, he's much smarter.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* Teeg Dougland from the short-lived Limozeen cartoon in ''HomestarRunner''.
-->'''Singer:''' You know those guys from that band, Limozeen? Well they turned their tour bus into a space machine! They're still Limozeen...\\
'''Larry:''' We're still Limozeeeen!\\
'''Singer:''' [[RecycledINSPACE But they're in space!]]\\
'''Larry:''' But we're in space!?\\
'''Teeg Dougland:''' ''([[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay walks in]])'' I'm afraid I've got some bad news, boys. You're in space.
* Much of the dialogue in the Miramax version of ''TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' is this, mainly because it was half-heartedly thrown in for the sole purpose of LullDestruction. For example, we know Tack's in love with the princess because he makes her face out of thread in a very effective scene. Yet [[ExecutiveMeddling somebody]] decided he also needed to sing a horrible AwardBaitSong song about it!
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* [[http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=310 These]] [[http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=311 two]] ''BMovieComic'' strips.
*''AbsurdNotions'':
-->'''Jay:''' The lights went out!\\
'''Jag:''' Well said, my dear, but this isn't radio.
* "[[GirlGenius It's a talking cat.]]"
* ''[[http://explosm.com Cyanide & Happiness]]'' even made a superhero character (or at least a stick figure man) called Captain Obvious.
* Tom Siddell, ''GunnerkriggCourt'' author, sometimes writes some hilariously (and intentionally) redundant sentences in TheRant, such as "The background is white".
** [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=604 Laser Cows. Just like real cows. Only with lasers.]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
Captain Obvious is an OverlyLongGag on {{Uncyclopedia}} saying something [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obvious]] [[OnceAnepisode on every single Article.]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Captain Oblivious]] is probably also there, but he's not sure.
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[[folder: WesternAnimation ]]
* From the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Honking":
-->'''Leela:''' The tracks lead here!\\
'''Fry:''' Thanks, eagle eye.
** From the movie ''Bender's Game'':
---> '''Fry:''' So. It is down to this. [[DungeonsAndDragons A dungeon... and dragons]]!\\
'''Zoidberg:''' I didn't see it coming.
* In the ''ScoobyDoo'' episode "Spooky Space Kook", the gang enters a building which has a large sign that says "Machine Shop". Upon entering...
-->'''Daphne:''' It looks like a shop!
** Scooby gave us any number of "no fucking duh" moments.
* Subverted in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
-->'''Toph:''' Wait. It's a trap!\\
'''Katara:''' Really? No kidding. Is that why we're sitting in a wooden cage right now? Gee, how'd you figure out it was a trap?\\
'''Toph:''' Not for us, Katara. We're the bait. He wants Aang.
* In ''KimPossible'' after they spot a lot of helicopters:
-->'''Ron:''' Okay, that looks suspicious.\\
'''Kim:''' Thank you, Captain Obvious.
** Drakken has them to, after Kim and Ron escape from being chained to a wall ''without'' being guarded, he gives this insight:
--->'''Dakken''': ''They've escaped!''\\
'''Shego''': ''[[SarcasmMode No, really?]]''
* Flash in ''JusticeLeague'' after seeing the stuffed T-Rex in the Batcave
-->'''Flash:''' "That's a giant dinosaur!"
-->'''Alfred:''' "And here I thought Batman was the detective."
*Oh, boy. ''TransformersArmada.'' These kids probably had a lot to do with the ''{{Transformers}}'' fandom's dislike of human characters in general. A great deal of the time, their role in an episode was to spend half an hour giving statements like this:
-->'''Optimus:''' [Gets hit, falls down]
-->'''Alexis,''' [to Rad and Carlos, who are standing right next to her and watching the same fight] Oh, no! You guys, Optimus is ''down!''
-->'''Rad:''' Oh, no!
*The line from an episode of ''SouthPark'', which Cartman delivered like it was a huge exposition.
-->'''Cartman:''' If we're still alive in the morning, then we'll know that we aren't dead.
** Wasn't Cartman who said it, it was Randy, one of the many, many too dumb to live adults.
* A line from ''AmericanDad'':
-->'''Hayley''': They think you're Kevin Bacon!
--> '''Roger''': Yes, Hayley, I understand things that happen around me.
* ''Timon and Pumba The Series'' -- Timon and Pumba volunteer for a circus act and must follow orders from an odviously psychotic clown who puts them in ever more dangerous predicaments. After avoiding death numerous times, Pumba makes this comment. Pumba: "What I still don't know is, why is he called Mr. Meanie?" Timon: "......"
* In the LukeIAmYourFather [[TheReveal Reveal]] on ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
-->'''Number 1:''' But if you're ''my'' uncle, then that makes Grandfather ''my'' grandfather!
-->'''[[spoiler:Father]]:''' What are you -- President of the Obvious Club?
* "[[DonHertzfeldt I am a BANANA!]]"
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Los Angeles reporter Ric Romero became a punchline on Fark.com after reporting on the [[OldMediaPlayingCatchUp "new" phenomenon of blogging]] in October 2005 (almost a year after blogs led the way in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy media storm that basically ended Dan Rather's broadcast career]]). He's an easy "go to" name whenever someone else in the media reports breathlessly on something "new" that is already CommonKnowledge.
* During testimony she gave to a Congressional committee on smoking, a teenaged Brooke Shields commented, in [[{{Narm}} all seriousness]], "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
* U.S. President CalvinCoolidge, nicknamed Silent Cal, was one of the best {{Deadpan Snarker}}s we've ever had in the Oval Office, had this to say: "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
-->'''Reporter:''' "What did the preacher have to talk about, Mr. President?"
-->'''Coolidge:''' "Sin."
-->'''Reporter:''' "Well, what did he say about it?"
-->'''Coolidge:''' "He was against it."
* Clark Kellogg: "Your shooting percentage goes down significantly when your shot is challenged."
* Mercenary commander "Mad Mike" Hoare included a short essay on leadership in his book on the Simba rebellion in the Congo. In it he mentions the importance of reacting immediately when the bullets start flying, even if it's an obvious order like "Take cover!", as it makes the commander sound like he's on top of the situation. Having achieved this of course, the commander's next orders had better be more useful.
* SpencerPerceval, the only [[TheMenOfDowningStreet British Prime Minister]] to get assassinated, had the last words "I am murdered." Yeah, the man with the gun who just shot you was a good clue to that.
* In 1949 the BBC reporter John Snagge commenting the Boat Race opposing Oxford and Cambridge said : "I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge".
*NotAlwaysRight has several stories of the [[http://www.notalwaysright.com Captain Obviouses]] of the real world
*Brazilian sports narrator Galvão Bueno. "Went to the ground and fell!", "Inverted the ball to the other side!", "There are only three possible results: win, loss or draw"...
*College football commentator Brent Musberger. He has his [[http://www.fanblogs.com/ncaa/005660.php own drinking game]].
* Allergy warnings.
-->'''Can of sardines''': Contains fish.
** Honest-to-God truth (check it out if you don't believe it): Wal-Mart brand (Great Value) salmon actually says, on the back of the can, "Allergy Warning: Contains Salmon".
-->'''Jar of peanut butter''': Contains nuts.
-->'''Cheddar''': Contains milk products.
-->'''Can of "Pumpkin"''': Ingredients: Pumpkins. That's all it says.
-->'''Bottle of Aspirin''': Do not use if you are allergic to aspirin.
* There are a lot of scientific experiments like this. A major university has confirmed that "things are harder to see if they're far away". The reason that these exist is because sometimes obvious truths can be experimentally shown as untrue; Relativity is a good example.
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* ''TheOnion'' is fond of using this for humor, as in their article "[[http://www.theonion.com/content/news/investigators_determine_air_france?utm_source=a-section Investigators Determine Air France Disaster Caused By Plane Crash]]".
** The Onion's parodying, in part, the tendency of real news media to keep repeating the same threadbare information again and again as a breaking story develops, since they have nothing substantial to report at the moment, but they have to keep covering the story. For example, one MSNBC expert's analysis of a dark spot in a photograph was "it's definitey... definitely something that's ...there". He was probably trying to say it's not a spot on the lens, but ''still''...
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axtfB7QPTiw Thank you, Captain Obvious.]]
* Obviously, [[http://leohao.ru/browser.php?g=new&i=67 this guy]] was hanged by Captain Obvious for his crimes against the obviousness.
* AVeryPotterMusical: "You think killing people might make them like you but it doesn't. It just makes people dead."
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080306032117/http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Report.pdf The internet has a pivotal role in the lives of American teenagers.]] No shit, Sherlock.
* From the first sentence of ThatOtherWiki's article on the Seville Cathedral: "The Cathedral of Seville...is the cathedral of the city of Seville"
** Any time you see the phrase "this is likely a reference to..." on ThatOtherWiki, get ready for an eye-rollingly obvious statement.
** Also from ThatOtherWiki: "Ion exchange is an exchange of ions".
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