Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Spoilers need reworked. 
, started by blackcat on Mar 7th 2011 at 9:13:58 PM
Should we talk about conspiracy theories involving this trope? If you're guessing I'm asking because of the "Epstein didn't kill himself" meme, you're right.
Removed re: KGB joke
- Damn. Who knows what they'd have done to him if he answered "±3" for the last question?
- He would have been wrong, because that only applies when solving equations.
- Thus he'd probably be shot for not knowing enough.
- He would have been wrong, because that only applies when solving equations.
- Somewhat predictably, Tabletop Game/{[Warhammer 40000}} does this.
Who, Where, Why? Cut for being a Zero Context Example
Don't ask me, I just fix wicks.
Scalon D. Dragon
I think in John M. Ford's "How Much For Just The Planet?" this was lampshaded by Klingon Lt. Aperokai (aka "Proke"), who had gotten genre savvy about the shenanigans the Direidi had been pulling on his crew and the Enterprise's crew too.
Once he and Uhura make it back to the hotel with the intent on getting to the bottom of them, they gets escorted to where Estervy and a few bakers are planning something big. Once Uhura and he figure it out, Estervy asks Proke "Do you know what this means?"
"I'm afraid I do," he says, "We know too much."
The voice of Flyter adds, "Couldn't have said it better myself."
Cue Uhura and Proke getting stunned with phasers to prevent the "surprise" from being ruined too soon.
Do instances wherein the individual or party that discovers the secret gets exiled or sent away rather than killed qualify? Like how in The Beginning After the End anyone who discovers that the Indrath committed genocide on the Djinn such as Mordain and Agrona are merely banished or exiled (especially since in both cases they threatened to go public with the truth in front of the guilty party as a threat)?