History IronicEcho / LiveActionTV

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E22TackingIntoTheWind Tacking into the Wind]]", Kira pulls this on Damar during the Cardassians' HeelFaceTurn. For context, Damar's people, the Cardassians, have only recently withdrawn from a lengthy and brutal occupation of Kira's home world that was laden with Nazi parallels. Kira, a former Resistance fighter, is helping him out as part of an EnemyMine against the totalitarian Dominion. Even Kira wonders if this line was going too far.

** Played with between series. In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1EncounterAtFarpoint Encounter at Farpoint]]", upon meeting [[TinMan their android commander, Data]] for the first time, and hearing of his desire to be human, Will Riker ascribes him the nickname "Literature/{{Pinocchio}}". In the next series' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan The Measure of a Man]]", when Riker is forced into playing against Data in a court case which could, if Data loses, very well see him dismantled beyond repair (i.e., killed), he plays out a devastating scene culminating in switching Data off:
--->'''Riker:''' Pinocchio is broken. Its strings have been cut.
** Consider that this is, effectively, the same as knocking a person unconscious when they're sitting at a table minding their own business. Worse, in fact, given that turning him off effectively renders Data ''dead''...
** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E21HollowPursuits Hollow Pursuits]]", Troi talks a good game about the "healthy fantasy life" that's led Barclay to create a fantasy version of his real life on the Enterprise holodeck, in contrast to Riker's temper. This lasts up until she runs into her own holo-version, the "Goddess of Empathy", at which point Riker -- cheering up quite a bit -- steps in to stop her from ending the program or deleting Holo-Troi, throwing the "healthy fantasy life" line back in her face in the process.
** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E22TheMostToys The Most Toys]]", Data is held captive by an eccentric collector named Kivas Fajo. In order to force Data to accede to Fajo's desires Fajo threatens and eventually kills a crewmember of his trade vessel. After doing so, Fajo taunts Data for the android's inability to retaliate over the death:
--->'''Fajo:''' If only you could feel rage over Varria's death... feel the need for revenge... then maybe you could fire. But you're ''only an android.''
*** Then, after Fajo is placed in custody for his crimes and has his extensive illegally obtained collection returned to their respective owners, Data visits Fajo in the brig. Fajo bitterly remarks over how he has lost everything and is now in Data's collection, which he assumes gives Data "great pleasure." To which Data replies:
---->'''Data:''' No sir, it does not. I do not feel pleasure. I am ''only an android.''

** Done again in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent Descent, Part II]]". A young ensign points out that their tactical officer's calculations, if wrong, would bring them crashing into a planet's atmosphere, and the officer says, "Well, then I'll just have to make sure my calculations are correct, Ensign." Later on in the episode, when that ensign figures out how to use a solar eruption to destroy a Borg ship, the tactical officer points out that the flare could destroy them as well. The ensign snaps back, "Well, then I'll just have to make sure my calculations are correct, ''Lieutenant''." [[http://www.instantrimshot.com/ Rimshot]]!
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E11TheHunted The Hunted]]", the ''Enterprise'' is meeting the leadership of Angosia, a planet applying for entry into the Federation, before learning that Angosia has a group of {{Super Soldier}}s who are [[OutOfSightOutOfMind effectively shunned by society]], with the Angosian prime minister, Nayrok, brushing away Picard's concerns by saying that these are "matters of internal security, which is not your concern". Later, when the soldiers rise up and try to hold the Angosian leaders hostage, Nayrok pleads for Picard's help, but Picard points out "In your own words, this is not our affair" [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and leaves]], having seen enough of Angosia's {{hypocri|te}}sy and respecting the soldiers' right to decide their future against their government.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E141SpurOfTheMoment Spur of the Moment]]", David Mitchell mockingly tells his wife Anne that he is her true love and her adored one in 1964, the same words that Anne used to describe him before they eloped on June 13, 1939.

** In "Dead Run", the Dispatcher tells Johnny Davis that he is applying "time honored [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] standards" in condemning people to {{Hell}} for minor transgressions. After helping four such people escape to {{Heaven}}, Johnny recalls the story of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} journeying to Hell between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection to give the damned another chance and explains that he is using his own time honored Biblical standards.
** In "Button, Button", Norma and Arthur Lewis, the couple offered the titular button, are told that if they press it, they'll receive a large sum of money, but someone they don't know will die. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler: they've pressed the button and gotten the money, and are told that the button will now be offered to someone else. They're assured that it will be "someone you don't know."]]

* ''Film/TheChristmasThatAlmostWasnt'': Prune, after his Heel-Face Turn, sings a much happier "Why Can't Every Day Be Christmas?" originally sung by Whipple in the department store.

*** Later, as Scott drives his souped-up car to where TheDragon is terrorizing the other Rangers, and is about to crash into their vehicles…

* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E3SecretsAndLies Secrets and Lies]]": In 1954, when Shaw expresses displeasure at General Puckett building a nuclear bomb behind his and his team's backs to kill Godzilla, Puckett justifies his actions by throwing back in Shaw's face the words that Shaw originally used to convince Pucket that (scientifically) investigating Godzilla was worth redirecting 150 pounds of the country's uranium supply to begin with: Godzilla is "an existential threat to global security."

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'': In the episode "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", Ellen echoes the killer Moonface's signature "Sssshhhh...!" when she shoots Buddy at the end.

* On ''Series/SoRandom'' during the [=MC=] Grammar sketch:

'''Riker:''' ...Well, now that the ranks are dropped, Captain, I don't like you, either. You ARE arrogant, and closed-minded. You need to control everything and everyone. You don't provide an atmosphere of trust, and you don't inspire these people to go out of their way for you. You've got everybody wound up so tight, there's no joy in anything. ''And I don't think you're a particularly good Captain.''

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E11TheHunted The Hunted]]", the ''Enterprise'' is meeting the leadership of Angosia, a planet applying for entry into the Federation, before learning that Angosia has a group of {{Super Soldier}}s who are [[OutOfSightOutOfMind effectively shunned by society]], with the Angosian prime minister, Nayrok, brushing away Picard's concerns by saying that these are "matters of internal security, which is not your concern.". Later, when the soldiers rise up and try to hold the Angosian leaders hostage, Nayrok pleads for Picard's help, but Picard points out "In your own words, this is not our affair.", [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and he leaves]], having seen enough of Angosia's {{hypocri|te}}sy and respecting the soldiers' right to decide their future against their government.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E22TackingIntoTheWind Tacking into the Wind]]", Kira pulls this on Damar during the Cardassians' HeelFaceTurn. For context, Damar's people, the Cardassians, have only recently withdrawn from a lengthy and brutal occupation of Kira's home world that was laden with Nazi parallels. Kira, a former Resistance fighter, is helping him out as part of an EnemyMine against the totalitarian Dominion. Even Kira wonders if this line was going too far.
-->'''Damar:''' They weren't a part of this rebellion. The Dominion knew that. The Founder knew that. Weyoun knew that. To kill her and my son... the casual brutality of it... the waste of life. What kind of state tolerates the murder of innocent women and children? What kind of people give those orders?\\
'''Kira:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, Damar,]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion what kind of people give those orders?]]''

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' has a heart-breaking one with [[spoiler:Junior in regards to Walt]]: Why don't you just die already?