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Kirito: What was that again?
Sinon: It's a camera for live-streaming. Normally they only follow players in battle, but they must be coming around here now that there aren't many of us left.
Kirito: Huh? Oh crap. Then our conversation's been...
Sinon: Don't worry. We'd have to shout at the top of our lungs for the audio to get picked up. You might as well wave at it. Or is there someone you don't want to see this footage?
Kirito: No.. uh... You're the one who should be worried, right? Anyway, don't you think there's a good chance that people watching this will think we're both girls?
Sinon: Wh-Whatever, I don't mind. Those... if people who go for that kind of thing start gossiping about us, then at least people will stop hitting on me.

Zoro: We were just sleeping.
Hiyori: I'm so sorry, it was just so cold. But people back in the capital would have died to lay with me. Did you enjoy it?
Zoro: You're pretty chirpy in the morning, you know that?

    Audio Plays 
"Usually I'd say it's not what it looks like, but in this case, it doesn't even look like what it looks like!"
The Doctor in response to a spurious accusation of murder, Big Finish Doctor Who: The Iterations of I

    Comic Books 
"This—us—it's not what you think! She means nothing to me! She's just... just the victim!"

Supergirl: Superboy!? What the Hell are you doing?!
Superboy: Uh... This definitely isn't what it looks like, Kara!
Supergirl Vol. 5, Last Stand of New Krypton

    Fan Works 
"Uh... Mi... Misato!" he stuttered, trying to get the surprisingly calm redhead off him. "It... it's not what it looks like!"
Shinji Ikari, The Second Try, chapter 5

Shinji: This is exactly what it looks like. Asuka and I were making out so hot and heavy, we broke a chair.
Misato: Damnit. If you're going to fight, at least don't break the furniture.

Anna peeked into the boys' dressing room just in time to see her friend stradled atop Shinji, both wearing their plugsuits, though the way they were kissing, she had to wonder if the plugsuits were going to come off again. At Touji's outburst, the two lovebirds paused a moment and looked up, then quickly stood up and straightened themselves out.
"Aaagh!" screamed Touji. "It's true! You've turned kraut!"
"I-it's not what you think!" replied Shinji desperately. They all stared at him. He smiled weakly. "Okay, so it was what you think."

Mrs S, in her unstoppable rant mode, made a comment that I'd been getting quite a bit since Molly became my apprentice: "...You could do better, but I suppose it's all a mid-life crisis thing, to be with a younger girl."

Emerald: This isn't what it looks like!
Weiss: Really? Because it looks like you had a shower then borrowed my partner's clothing.
[beat]
Emerald: This is exactly what it looks like.
Weiss: I thought so. What, did you think we'd jump to the conclusion that you slept with him or something? He's been out of our sight for less than ten minutes. I doubt he's capable of convincing a girl to do that in so short a time, if at all.
Ruby: And it's Jaune.
Pyrrha: [sheathing her weapon] Y-yes. Who would leap to such baseless conclusions? Certainly not I. Ha ha.
White Sheep (RWBY), chapter 25

Jaune: Weiss, it was exactly what it looked like.
Weiss: Oh, is that so? And here I thought you were supposed to say it wasn't what it looked like. You were laid on the floor topless with Yang draped all over you.
Jaune: And we were covered in bruises, with my sword at my side, and Yang had me in a submission hold. I'm fairly sure just about anyone would see that as us sparring.
White Sheep (RWBY), chapter 34

    Film 

Varrick: You know Kate, it is not what you think it is.
Kate: Turns out nothing ever was.
Kate

(After Dale suggests they go to the authorities and explain that some collage kids have just messily killed themselves around their cabin, including one who dove headfirst into a live woodchipper)
Tucker: (Scoffs) That's a good idea Dale. 'Oh, Hiddy ho Officer! We've had a doozy of a day! There we were minding our own business, just doing some chores around the house when kids started killing themselves all over my property!'
Dale: Well, That's what happened, Tucker!
Tucker: You would have to be a moron to believe that, Dale! It doesn't matter what happened, what matters is what looks like what happened, and what looks like what happened… is pretty nasty.

    Literature 
We were in a church. I was a seven-foot-tall creature with horns and a spiked tail holding a pitchfork. And I was in a church.
I looked at the altar. I looked at the terrified priest, who was shaking so badly he couldn't cross himself.
<Sorry,> I said to the priest. <It's not what it looks like. Sorry,> I added, looking at the altar. <Boy, is this the wrong morph in the wrong place.>
Animorphs - Megamorphs #3

    Live-Action TV 
Vachon: It's not what it looks like.
LaCroix: How disappointing.
Forever Knight, "Ashes to Ashes"

Arne: Stewart... This is not what it looks like!
Stewart: I sure as HECKFIRE hope not, because it LOOKS like you're porking the love of my life!
Arne: Well, in that case... It is exactly what it looks like.

Eve: This isn't what it looks like...
Kara: This is the definition of things being what they look like!

    Video Games 
''"W-Wait! Th-This is just a misunderstanding...!"'
Akihiko Sanada, if the girls catch the guys during the Hot Springs Episode, Persona 3. Mitsuru, as Akihiko predicted, is too angry to listen.

"Oh jeez! You didn't do all that, did you, New Kid?"
Zzzzzz... AHHHH! Mayor <Player>! It's not what it looks like! OK, it's exactly what it looks like... But I was dreaming about work! I promise!

    Visual Novels  
Basically, this is what she just witnessed:
Me, with my shirt boldly unbuttoned. And a young blonde girl clinging onto me, her hand resting on my exposed chest.
Yep. No way in hell I was getting out of this. No further explanation needed.
Ren Fujii, Dies Irae

    Webcomics 
Faye: Now, the expected thing fer me to do here would be to flip out an' make a big scene, but given what I've seen of Marty's prowess with th' ladies I'm guessin' there's a perfectly rational explanation fer all this.
Hannelore: Explanation, yes. Rational, not so much
Marten: I would say "it's not what you think!", only I'm not even sure what I think this is.

Student: This isn't what it looks like, Mr. Knott.
Mr. Knott: I have... no idea what this looks like.

    Web Original 
This film has a "Misunderstanding" plot
In which a character is misunderstood!
They do something that someone takes the wrong way,
And that can never be good!
It will eventually turn out all right,
When the confusion has disappeared,
But until then that character will be hated
Until their name is cleared!

    Western Animation 
Archer: So... does this look as bad as it looks?
Archer

Randy: And just what the hell is this?!
Archer: Well, I'll tell you what it's not, which is, um, what it looks like.
Archer

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