As You Know / Live-Action Films

• In About the Little Red Riding Hood, the She-Wolf explains that the late Big Bad Wolf was the Fat Wolf's brother and the Thin Wolf's friend... to the Fat Wolf and the Thin Wolf themselves. Twice. Such blatant use of the trope is necessary for the viewers, since the wolves look completely human due to budget limitations.
• Almost every Alfred Hitchcock film has an expository Infodump near the beginning, and they're almost always done in very heavy-handed "as you know" style. Another particularly obvious example is in Vertigo, when Scottie Ferguson and Midge Wood are discussing why he had to leave the police force — it's Title Drop.
• Aliens has the military variation, with the lieutenant informing the troops that "all we know is that there's still no contact with the colony" despite them being aware of why they're there - this has the double effect of curtailing the rampant speculation of the marines as to why there's no contact, and filling in the audience of the situation. His follow-up statement that a xenomorph may be involved comes as a surprise to the marines, but just confirms the audience's knowledge.
• There is a lot of this in the final courtroom scene of Amistad. Adams repeatedly refers to contemporary politicians by both their name and title, i.e.: "our president, Martin Van Buren."
• Avatar has the Corrupt Corporate Executive explain to Dr. Augustine — who has been there for years — why they are on Pandora, how much unobtainium is worth, and the Na'vi problem. Given his tone, though, he's probably doing this to remind her that he's the guy in charge, not her, and she'll have to use whatever he gives her.
• The Back to the Future trilogy:
  • The first film has to drop a lot of "As You Know" exposition on the audience, where characters discuss past events that we the audience will soon witness when Marty travels back in time. For example, Lorraine tells the story of how she and George met, which elicits a groan from daughter Linda: "You've told this story a thousand times." Once Marty travels to 1955, he finds himself embroiled in the events his mother is narrating.
  • In Back to the Future Part II, Lorraine recalls to her granddaughter how Marty lost his guitar skills in an automobile accident. Back to the Future Part III later shows Marty avoiding this accident.
• At the beginning of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Rufus brings several famous musicians from across history to his classroom. If the audience already knows who the musician is, he just introduces them by name, if they don't (i.e., the musician is from after 1991), he explains what they did, which is somewhat jarring. It's then played with:
  Rufus: And a special treat from the 23rd century, Miss Ria Paschelle. Miss Paschelle, as you all know, was the inventor of the statiophonic oxygenetic amplifier graphiphonideliverberator. Kind of hard to imagine the world before we had them, isn't it?
• Parodied during a flashback in Black Dynamite: "I am 18-year-old Black Dynamite, and you are my 16-year-old brother!"
• Blade Runner has an awkward early scene where Captain Bryant gives entry-level exposition about replicants to Rick Deckard, an experienced hunter of replicants. It's an odd exception to the rule, for most of the rest of the film does an excellent job of showing or implying rather than telling outright; for instance, the prohibitive cost of owning real live pets is alluded to repeatedly, but it's left to the viewer to figure out that real animals (besides pigeons, evidently) are scarce in this super-urbanized world. This could be an oblique reference towards the fact, in some versions, that Deckard is a replicant himself and may have no further knowledge above them. His whole history as hunter may be only faked.
• Done in Blazing Saddles just to set up a joke. Everyone in the town is gathered in the church to discuss what to do about the bandits ransacking the town - and the preacher begins by letting everyone know that bandits are ransacking the town. He even begins his speech by saying that he doesn't have to tell them any of this: sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, women stampeded, and cattle raped.
• Brassed Off: A brief one when Mrs Foggan looks curiously at a box belonging to Gloria, possibly for the benefit of the audience who are not familiar with brass instruments.
  Mrs Foggan: What's this, then?
  Gloria: It's just a flugel. (Beat) A trumpet.
• Cabin Fever: There's a deadly disease going around and at one point, only two healthy people are left in the cabin - everyone else having fled or being at death's door. Said characters decide to have sex; mid-way through the act (i.e. after penetration has occurred) the man asks the woman with surprise if she doesn't use condoms. Both parties involved would clearly be aware that they aren't using one. But the filmmakers need to be clear about it because it turns out the woman already (unknowingly) has the disease and as it's quite explicit that the sex was unsafe, we realize that she has sexually passed the disease to the man.
  Paul: Don't you use condoms?
  Marcy: It's okay. I'm healthy.
• In Cosmic Sin the pretty Wrench Wench is fitting an Icarus suit onto the Old Soldier while explaining what it is for the audience's benefit. Snark-to-Snark Combat ensues.
  Dash: Who do you think I am?
  Ardene: General Ford's drinking buddy?
  Dash: You never heard of the Red Rider of Puga, the Slayer of Eos?
  Ardene: Must have been before my time.
• Contagion (2011): Dr. Mears lecturing the various officials of the Minnesota Department of Health on Epidemiology 101.
• In The Dark Knight Rises, Daggett explains the function of the Clean Slate Drive to Selina even though she obviously knows what it does. Mitigated in that, not only does Daggett explain its abilities in a sarcastic tone of voice, he adds, "Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?", implying he had been lying about it all along and is now mocking Selina for having been stupid enough to believe such a thing could exist.
• In Noorie and Kabir's first conversation aboard the ship in Dil Dhadakne Do, in response to him trying to make small talk, she informs him of the recent dissolution of her engagement after her fiancé eloped with a hippie he met during his bachelor trip to Goa, something that has been gossip fodder for weeks at this point. Mitigated (she says this in an acid tone, implying that she is fairly sick of talking about it and seems to have assumed that he was passive-aggressively mocking her; she even lampshades it by scornfully asking, "But you already knew, didn't you?") and eventually subverted: Kabir genuinely didn't know, and she becomes far friendlier with him when he shows her honest sympathy and wordlessly offers her a shot.
• Disraeli is an early talking film from 1929. In the silent movie days filmmakers could just insert a title card to explain who a character was, but that easy shortcut went away with the transition to sound. So instead we get awkward exposition, like when someone asks Lord Probert "What does the director of the Bank of England say?", only for Lord Probert to answer "I say..." in order to let the audience know who he is.
• Flawless example in the movie Dragonfly: a speaker at a funeral says of the deceased, "From her colleagues at the university to her young patients here in Chicago Memorial's pediatric oncology ward, she will be sorely missed" — speaking to the deceased's family, her colleagues from the university and her associates from the pediatric oncology ward, none of whom needed to be informed what city they were in, what hospital she was associated with, or what field of medicine she specialized in.
• In Drinking Buddies, Kate goes back to Chris after they'd broken up. Up to this point, the audience is led to believe she dumped him for kissing another girl. However, when he sees Kate he says "we've been over this..." and goes on about how he had in fact dumped her.
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: "As you know, the Premier loves surprises."
• Averted in Evil Dead (2013), as significant bits of exposition are given to the audience in the form of the other characters telling David things he bloody well should know about his sister Mia like her drug habits, but doesn't because he ran off and left her alone with their mother who was suffering with dementia, the issues of which led her to becoming addicted in the first place.
• Some of the Invigilator's opening monologue in Exam comes off like this, explaining things that the participants should know, but the audience doesn't.
• In The Game (1997), a secretary reminds Van Orton that he is trying to be reached by a certain Elizabeth. She then reminds him that it's his ex-wife. He replies with a bitter "I know that!". After she is gone, he comments on how little he likes her for that.
• In the beginning of The Golden Compass, while Lyra spends minutes telling a pointless boasting tale, she doesn't have the time to show that she and her best friends are, well, best friends. Instead she just points this out by saying that they are.
• The first ten or so minutes of Gone with the Wind is packed with this kind of dialogue on Scarlet's ways with men, her pining for Ashley, her father's dangerous style of horseback riding, her father's Irish heritage...
• In The Great Escape Ives reminds Hilts that the problem in tunnel-making is not only digging but also shoring up with wood and getting the dirt out.
• In the old The Green Hornet Serials, after shooting an enemy with his signature Knockout Gas gun the titular hero always made a point of reminding anyone who happened to be with him at the time that "he's not dead, just unconscious".
• In The Hunger Games, the adaptation to film removes Katniss' first-person perspective and thus in-universe explanations. The film gets around this by featuring scenes with announcers explaining certain aspects of the games to new viewers. Justified in that every year, there will naturally be new viewers somewhere in Panem, the arena is different each year, and not everyone will be able to tell on sight that (for example) the stinging insects are tracker jackers, not just bees or wasps.
• At the start of Independence Day, the SETI worker locating the source of the signal says the distance means that it's coming from the Moon. (As the initials stand for "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence", they would have all known how far away the Moon is from Earth.)
• James Bond. In The Living Daylights this is done by having Saunders, the local MI6 station chief, being overtly patronizing towards Bond.
  Saunders: Now let's understand each other, Bond. General Koskov is a top KGB mastermind. His defection is my baby. He contacted me. I've planned this out to the last detail.
• Johnny Mnemonic: One of Johnny's clients in Beijing warns Johnny of the explicit dangers of a courier exceeding one's storage capacity, even though Johnny should already be aware of such risks when using his memory implant, so that the audience can pick up on this important exposition.
• Bill in Kill Bill bringing up his love for comic books.
• A Knight's Tale: After discovering that "Sir Thomas Colville" is actually Edward, Prince of Wales, Chaucer launches into an explanation of his ruthlessness and skill in battle. Wat cuts him off after a few seconds to point out everyone present is well aware of his reputation.
  Wat: We're English, Geoff, we know who he is!
• The Last Airbender is infamous for this, the result of a clumsy attempt to cram 20 episodes worth of material (totalling 460 minutes, or nearly eight hours) into a two-hour film. Aside from Katara narrating every scene of importance, a lot of characters explain or make references to vague things that would have presumably served as future plot points. This fell flat since the film did not get a sequel.
• Lights of New York, being the first talkie, made sure to have lots and lots of talking. The very first dialogue is an elaborate "As You Know", and it sets just the right mood for the rest of the film.
• Lincoln wears this trope on its shoulder from the very first scene, in which several Union soldiers recite to the titular president the Gettysburg Address verbatim.
• Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: Averted or played straight, depending on how you read the scene. At the beginning of the big card game, the dealer explicitly recites the rules of the game before starting. On one hand, you'd expect people who buy into a £100000 card game to know the rules, but on the other hand, with those stakes, making sure there are no potential misunderstandings concerning the rules before there's money involved is not a bad idea. And, since most of the film's audience will be unfamiliar with three-card brag, they need the rules explained, since the game is just similar enough to poker to make things very confusing otherwise.
• The Lord of the Rings:
  • The Fellowship of the Ring has Gandalf, upon seeing a Palantìr, says to Saruman — his superior — "They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing-stones".
    • Justified in that Saruman is behaving in a way that only someone who Doesn't Know would feel safe in behaving, and has asked a question that only someone who Doesn't Know would need to ask. Gandalf's As You Know is the most polite way he has to say "Because Sauron might be watching us right now, you idiot." If it had been anyone else, Gandalf would have just said that. Meanwhile, Saruman is just engaging in a bit of Obfuscating Stupidity as he leads up to some important news.
  • Saruman beats Gandalf at the As You Know game, though, hands down. At another point in the same encounter, there's this summary of things Gandalf knows at least as well as Saruman.
    Saruman: Concealed within his fortress, the lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.
  • There's even a point at which Saruman solemnly tells Gandalf, who's leading the Fellowship toward the mines of Moria, that "you know" what evil lurks beneath them (the Balrog) — except Saruman is in his tower, hundreds of miles away, talking to himself, so it's really more of an "As I Know":
    Saruman: You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum: shadow and flame.
  • In The Two Towers, Galadriel repeats back to Elrond his own prophecies:
    Galadriel: The strength of the Ringbearer is failing. In his heart, Frodo begins to understand. The quest will claim his life. You know this. You have foreseen it.
• Discussed, then defied in The Lost Skeleton Returns Again as aliens Kro-bar and Lattis explain their part in the previous film and why they've come back to Earth for this film.
  Kro-bar: And, as you know, our instruments tell us that they may be in great danger.
  Lattis: ... But we waste time explaining things we already know.
  Kro-Bar: We waste time acknowledging that we already know these things.
  Lattis: You're wasting time even saying that.
  Kro-Bar: Very well, Lattis, let us accept that we both waste time and cease this wasting of time!
• Master and Commander. The ship's surgeon Maturin acts as The Watson for the audience (just like in the original novels), so in one scene he asks what is meant by "the weather gauge". There's a disbelieving silence at his ignorance until Captain Aubrey replies with some amusement, "I shall explain to you again, Steven..."
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • The Avengers opens at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s research base, where something strange is going on with the Tesseract, allowing Nick Fury and Erik Selvig to recount what they were doing with the Tesseract starting with a "we talked about this".
  • Towards the end of Guardians of the Galaxy, Yondu has a line that in-universe is totally redundant, but helpfully explains to the audience why he abducted Peter Quill in the first place, and lays the groundwork for the sequel: he'd been hired to bring Peter to his biological father.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Gamora reminds everyone that they have been hired to fight an inter-dimensional monster for the Sovereign, because Peter asked why she's using a BFG rather than a sword. Later on the Sovereign admiral tells High Priestess Ayesha that the batteries are highly flammable.
  • In the beginning of Black Panther, King T'Chaka explains who Ulysses Klaue is and what he has done to his brother N'Jobu, despite knowing that N'Jobu knows exactly who this criminal is and that he has collaborated with him to get Wakandan weapons into the outside world. He presents this as if it were news to his brother, who has been working undercover as a War Dog in America for years, to lead up to the main point- confronting his brother about his betrayal.
  • In the first scene to Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hank tells Hope about the day her mother disappeared, though admittedly with more detail than he did in Ant-Man, and then recaps the climax of the first Ant-Man movie, hoping to use this scientific breakthrough to find and hopefully rescue Janet.
  • Captain Marvel: The Supreme Intelligence explains to Vers that the Kree Empire is at war with the shape-shifting Skrulls. Vers herself is a soldier in said war who's lived among the Kree for the past six years.
  • In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the villain goes on a long exposition to his minions about who they are, why they are all there, and what they're hoping to accomplish. This is done as a celebratory toast, but it still comes off as a little contrived and unnatural exposition.
• MonsterVerse:
  • In Godzilla (2014), when the Janjira reactor collapses and starts venting radioactive gas into the structure, Joe feels the need to remind his wife (and, by extension, the audience), that she has to hurry out of there, otherwise she "won't last five minutes, with or without the suits". Never mind that she's one of the (if not the) lead technicians at the plant and is probably more aware of the risks than he is.
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Sam Coleman starts doing this when expositing what the ORCA is to Mark Russell, and Mark cuts him off:
    Mark Russell: I know what the hell it is, I helped build the prototype!
• Mortal Kombat: The Movie:
  • Done effectively when Shang Tsung taunts Raiden by pointing out the limits to his dominion.
    Shang Tsung: ...until we reach the island, where you have no dominion.
    Raiden: My dominions are well known to me, sorcerer! Thank you.
  • Done much more clumsily later on as Shang Tsung explains to Goro, who should know the hierarchy of Outworld as well as the backs of his four hands:
    Shang Tsung: Princess Kitana is ten thousand years old! She is the lawful heir to the throne of Outworld!
• In Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Hercule Poirot tells Colonel Arbuthnott that in his opinion the late Colonel Armstrong should have been awarded the VC, "which stands, as you may know, for Victoria Cross and is awarded for valor."
• Early in North By Northwest, the Professor presides over a meeting of national security types and explains the situation, so that we in the audience can be ahead of Roger Thornhill, who is still clueless at this point. He explains what's going on (that Roger Thorhill's been mistaken for secret agent George Kaplan, that there is no such person as George Kaplan, and that the real secret agent is someone else entirely) in exacting and repetitive detail — to an assembly consisting of the only people in the world who already know all this.
• The Phantom (1943): The Tartar's guards explain to each other that the sound they're hearing is an intruder alarm and that their master will shortly send men out to capture the trespassers on his domain — just as he does every time somebody happens past.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: The two comic relief pirates, watching the main characters duke it out in an epic battle over the MacGuffin, wonder exactly how they got into this situation and briefly recap the whole movie up to that point for the benefit of anyone still watching. For extra points, they couldn't have possibly known everything they recapped.
• In Pride & Prejudice (2005), Mrs Bennet stresses to her daughters that if and when Mr Bennet dies, their daughters will be left without an inheritance and no roof above their heads if they do not marry well. However, Elizabeth exasperatedly groans that it's early in the morning, indicating that Mrs Bennet makes these types of statements frequently.
• The Princess Bride "You know, it's odd, but when I hired Vizzini to have her murdered on our engagement day..." This conversation is made even more awkward by being so close to Inigo's drunken "You told me to go back to the beginning" exposition rant.
• In The Film of the Book for The Reader, Michael's daughter asks "Where are we going" while they're on a train. He replies with "I said I'll tell you when we get there."
• Ready Player One:
  • When Parzival visits the Halliday Journals for the first time onscreen, the Curator launches into a prepared speech about their inner workings: what is stored there and where, how events from Halliday's life have been recreated in 3D, etc. This could be justified as information a new visitor would want or need to know - even something the Curator is programmed to tell all guests - but the Curator greets Parzival as a familiar and very frequent visitor to the archives, and the Curator is ultimately revealed to not be a program at all, but an avatar of Ogden Morrow, Halliday's one time friend and business partner.
  • During the Virtual-Reality Interrogation of Sorrento, Parzival takes a break from asking questions to check on the rest of the High Five and explain that they've hacked Sorrento's VR gear and trapped him in a near perfect simulation of his office. The people he's explaining this to are busy running the simulation in question.
• In Road to Morocco, when Jeff and Turkey are thrown in jail, Turkey gives a speech recapping all the events that have led up to this point in the story:
  Turkey: A fine thing. First, you sell me for two hundred bucks. Then I'm gonna marry the Princess; then you cut in on me. Then we're carried off by a desert sheik. Now, we're gonna have our heads chopped off.
  Jeff: I know all that.
  Turkey: Yeah, but the people who came in the middle of the picture don't.
  Jeff: You mean they missed my song?
• Parodied and lampshaded in Spaceballs, when Colonel Sandurz unnecessarily explains the Evil Plan to Dark Helmet, who turns to the camera and asks, "Everybody got that?" According to Mel Brooks, filmmakers are obliged to provide the audience with a minimum amount of plot. That was it.
• In Roxanne, this trope is used to explain the inevitable Fridge Logic that comes with transporting Cyrano de Bergerac into modern times: why doesn't he just get a nose job? In an early scene, CB visits the local plastic surgeon, who must remind him that he's allergic to anaesthetic, and therefore can't get a nose job.
• The 1964 political drama Seven Days in May includes a scene where the President of the United States explains to his best friend, a United States Senator — in a speech studded with repetitions of the phrase "you know" — the concept of the nuclear football.
  "You know who that gentleman is down there with the black box. There are five of them — you know that one of them sits outside my bedroom at night? You know what he carries in that box. The codes. The codes by which I, Jordan Lyman, can give the orders sending us into a nuclear war."
• Used painfully in Shark Attack 3: Megalodon when two coworkers explain their job to one another, laughing uproariously after every line to inform us that they are jovial people.
• In Smiles of a Summer Night, Fredrik's coworkers quickly summarize the characters' backstories and relationships to each other at the beginning of the film.
• In Spartacus, Batiatus greets Crassus, Glabrus, and their consorts by reeling off their names and personal histories to them (and the audience).
• Star Trek:
  • In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ambassadors spend several minutes describing each other's backstories and the purpose and history of the planet they're sitting on, which they must already have known, while a revolutionary army is taking possession of their city. There are a lot of other examples throughout the movie, but this scene is especially ridiculous because the fact that they're occupied explaining things to each other that they already know means they're caught unprepared by the insurgents.
    The Agony Booth: So what are the rules for this Dueling Infodumps game, anyway? Is this like Trivial Pursuit? Do you win pies? Big, indigestible, incompetently baked pies?
  • Used in Star Trek VI, when Valeris demonstrates that firing an unauthorized phaser aboard ship sets off an alarm. The reason it's particularly painful is that she's demonstrating it for Commander Chekov, the ship's Chief of Security and the one who probably set the system up in the first place.
  • Star Trek Into Darkness: Because the film begins In Medias Res with the crew on an action-filled away mission, Sulu has to tell his co-pilot that the shuttle wasn't designed for the heat of a volcano, Spock has to tell everyone that the volcano will destroy the planet, Uhura has to tell Spock that he might die, Sulu has to tell Spock that the shuttle wasn't designed for this amount of heat, Spock has to tell everyone that his device will detonate when the timer reaches zero, and Sulu and Scotty have to tell Kirk that the ship won't withstand the heat. They should've covered that in the pre-mission briefing, and some dialogue indicates they have.
• Star Wars:
  • A New Hope has one when Vader and Tarkin discuss the escape of the Falcon from the Death Star:
    Tarkin: You're sure the homing beacon is secure aboard their ship?
  • Used verbatim in one of the first lines of The Phantom Menace:
    Nute Gunray: As you know, our blockade is perfectly legal, and we'd be happy to receive the Ambassador.
  • Count Dooku pulls this in the middle of Attack of the Clones.
    Obi-Wan: Qui-Gon Jinn would never join you.
    Dooku: Don't be so sure. You forget... he was once my apprentice just as you were once his.
• Superman: The Movie. Lois Lane to a Native American chief she's interviewing.
  Lois Lane: As you know, my newspaper, the Daily Planet, is very interested in that dam, Chief.
• Towards the start of the western spoof Support Your Local Sheriff, the town leaders get into this territory as they hash over their dilemma regarding the local bandit clan, for likely the five thousandth time.
• Sort of done in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. In one story, a hitman lectures an elderly billionaire on how addictive the pharmaceutical that made him rich was. The strange thing with this was that, while the billionaire should have known this already, it seems bizarre that the hitman, even having looked into his client's past, would have researched such a trivial and tangential detail.
• Tevya: The setting is determined by an early line in which Fedye calls Khave "beautiful. Like the dreamy skies of our Ukraine."
• Transformers Film Series:
  • In Revenge of the Fallen Galloway recaps the events of the first movie over a secure video link. Or not so secure, since Soundwave is linked to the satellite and monitoring most broadcasts on Earth. He now knows exactly where the NEST base and the last Allspark piece is.
  • Occurs in Dark of the Moon, when the new intelligence director appears for her first scene and hurriedly informs somebody about all of the important things she is in charge of.
• In Underworld U.S.A., Driscoll delivers a long spiel to the members of his team on the operational structure of The Syndicate. As the consists of FBI Agents and federal attorneys who have been investigating organized crime for months (if not years), it would seem that this is information they should already possess.
• WarGames has an early scene that consists mostly of two senior-level military-industrial-complex types saying things they both must already know since they run the program in question. In the DVD commentary, the screenwriters point out that this is less bad if the characters are getting into an argument (which they were), since arguments are about the only time someone will say things the person he is talking to already knows.
• Watchmen journalists will explain things to characters who already know them.
  • During Adrian Veidt's introduction, a reporter begins the scene by explaining Veidt's past to Adrian himself. Justified, as reporters will often do this in real life to confirm that their information is correct.
  • During the press conference scene, another reporter stands up and explains the entire purpose behind the Doomsday Clock to Dr. Manhattan before actually asking the question. Since they're on live television, he's probably just doing it for the sake of the more ignorant members of the audience who are only watching because it's Dr. Manhattan on the telly.
• Wedding Crashers. John surely doesn't need Jeremy to explain exactly what the idea is behind crashing weddings, especially since they've been doing it for years.
• The Wolf of Wall Street offers an interesting variation on this trope. Jordan's voiceovers explaining things like how IPOs work, or why what he's doing is criminal, were not so much intended for the audience, who by 2013 were generally cognizant of these things, but for Martin Scorsese, who wasn't.
• Near the start of Wonder Woman (2017), Diana's mother Hippolyta and her aunt Antiope briefly discuss whether they should train Diana. Antiope argues that Diana should be able to defend herself in the event of an invasion, Hippolyta reminds Antiope that's why they have Antiope, who's their greatest warrior and their general. After Antiope brings up how the Amazons must be strong to protect themselves even if there is no imminent threat, Hippolyta then reminds Antiope that Diana is a child, not to mention the only one on the island.
• The X-Files: Fight the Future had to introduce Mulder and Scully for cinemagoers who hadn't watched the series, so Mulder spills his Backstory/woes to a bartender while Scully falls into this, telling Mulder about the last few years.
• X-Men Film Series:
  • The Wolverine: When Logan sees the old pit where he saved Ichirō, he is about to tell Mariko what had happened there... and she stops him; she already knows that story.
  • X-Men: Apocalypse: Scott's teacher begins her lecture with, "As everyone knows, the existence of mutants was first discovered during the Paris Peace Accords after The Vietnam War in 1973."
• You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah: Rabbi Rebecca explains what a mitzvah is to Stacy, which she would already know if she's been going to Hebrew school for years. Presumably this is for the benefit of any non-Jews watching.

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