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Author: hszmv1

Jun 1st 2017 at 12:12:20 PM

@Fanra:  StopSnitching originates from a real world video that was circulated among inner city neighborhoods in Baltimore City around the mid-2000s, about doing this.

I would argue that this is not a kids only trope, as there are real life variants of this in the adult world as well.

* Subverted nicely in WesternAnimation/SpectacularSpiderman when the football team learns Harry Osborn was using performance enhancers during the schools winning season, most of the team threatens him with this.  In keeping in line with this seasons's CharacterDevelopment, team captain Flash Thompson does snitch.   His logic is Harry cheated and betrayed the team first, not him.

* In LiveAction/LukeCage, Misty laments that this is the rule of the street, and if she had a dollar for everytime she heard someone say "I didn't seen nothing".   Comes into play as most residents of Harlem who don't like the trouble Luke brought to the neighborhood still refuse to turn him in, least the be seen working with the cops.

* Sergeant Schultz of HogansHeroes had "I see nothing" as his [[catchphrase]].  Unlike other examples, this Schultz was not part of the crew doing wrong but the guy who was supposed to stop them.  The problem was that by the time he saw something, it had gotten so far out of hand that he would be transferred from the relatively safe position at a POW camp to the Russian Front for his incompetence.