Same as I Never Said It Was Poison: Saying Too Much

They literally appear to be the exact same trope. The only difference I see is there's a few more non-criminal examples in Saying Too Much, but other than that, they're both about someone revealing their guilt by saying something they couldn't know if they were innocent.

I would suggest merging the Saying Too Much examples into I Never Said It Was Poison, since that one seems to have seniority.

edited 26th Jul '11 8:04:23 AM by SleetWintergreen

No, Saying To Much has nothing to do with guilt. It's about letting something plot sensitive slip. It's the supertrope to I Never Said It Was Poison. There's no reason to merge them.

Honestly, how does these example fit into I Never Said It Was Poison:

• In the Alabasta arc of One Piece, Igaram says aloud that the royal guard currently fighting Sir Crocodile have used a Deadly Upgrade and will die shortly. Crocodile overhears this, and retreats to a rooftop to watch them die uselessly.
• Poor Hagrid is prone to this, especially when he's distraught or talking to the Power Trio. He lets slip the means to calm Fluffy the Terrible, the name of a warlock who helps immensely with a search he doesn't want them to succeed in, and several other pieces of relevant information over the course of the books. Often lampshaded by Hagrid himself immediately after 'I shouldn't have said that'.

Neither of them are guilty of anything. Neither are criminals. But they both said too much.

Might want to rewrite the Saying Too Much trope description then, since it specifically mentions perps, guilt and crime.

Yeah, I think it's trying to point out it's subtrope more than actually define itself. It's got a one sentence description. I'll clean that.

Did so. Also noted that it was a supertrope and fiddled with the format to list the subtropes together.

Locking.