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* First Downplayed in ''Literature/AGrimmQuest'', when Amy asks Remmington if he needs to go home which surprises him into getting his temper mostly in check. Later Played Straight, when Ash asks Cody why he should have revealed a secret that Michelle specifically asked be kept from him.
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--> '''Jiang Fengmian''': But they are the ones who will spend the rest of their lives together. If they do not care for each other, yet are forced into a marriage by their parents' wishes...
--> '''Yu Ziyuan''': Like us?
--> '''Yu Ziyuan''': Like us?
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'''Yu Ziyuan''': Like us?
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* ''Literature/HeWhoDrownedTheWorld'': While he's inflicting a CruelAndUnusualDeath on a rebel, Wang Baoxiang [[CardCarryingVillain brags]] about the depraved, conniving, evil things he's done to secure his power, only for Ma to throw back, "You regret it, though, don't you?" It infuriates him because she's [[BeingEvilSucks immeasurably correct]].
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* ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'': Bad Penny scores a point in conversation with Mech by firing a few of his words about the Superhero-Supervillain truce back at him, asking him a question that reminds all the heroes at the conference they'd forgotten the rules apply both ways.
--> '''Bad Penny:''' If the situation were reversed, would we have been protected by a truce?
--> '''Bad Penny:''' If the situation were reversed, would we have been protected by a truce?
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* In ''[[Literature/TheShipWho PartnerShip]]'', the "Loosies" on Angalia were the victims of a pretty serious FirstContactFauxPas and classified as unintelligent. Blaize, who was [[ReassignedToAntarctica assigned to oversee them]] and took over from a cruel man, idly taught one sign language and was soon asked a question that he paraphrases as "Why did Paunch Man throw ration bars in mud and treat us like animals, and why do you make stacks and hand them to us one at a time with proper respect?" He immediately dedicates himself to their welfare.
--> "Can you imagine how it felt to hear a question like that coming from somebody I'd been thinking of as - oh, like a trained spider to while away the hours of my prison sentence?"
--> "Can you imagine how it felt to hear a question like that coming from somebody I'd been thinking of as - oh, like a trained spider to while away the hours of my prison sentence?"
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* In ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'', Jiang Cheng's parents are almost always fighting whenever they are together. Things are tense when they are arguing about their daughter's ArrangedMarriage. Jiang Fengman believes Jiang Yanli should choose who she wants to marry. Yu Ziyuan appears bitter and pained when she asks if he is saying that because he doesn't want his daughter to end up in a [[AwfulWeddedLife marriage like theirs.]]
--> '''Jiang Fengmian''': But they are the ones who will spend the rest of their lives together. If they do not care for each other, yet are forced into a marriage by their parents' wishes...
--> '''Yu Ziyuan''': Like us?
--> '''Jiang Fengmian''': But they are the ones who will spend the rest of their lives together. If they do not care for each other, yet are forced into a marriage by their parents' wishes...
--> '''Yu Ziyuan''': Like us?
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* ''Literature/TheDemolishedMan'': At one point, Reich needs a favour from Jerry Church, who's in no mood to help after what happened to him the last time helped Reich with a swindle. Reich repeatedly asks Church "What do you want?" until Church has run out of insults to throw at him and submits.
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* In ''Literature/AccelWorld'', a surprisingly heartwarming instance of this occurs in the second volume. Kuroyukihime[=/=]Black Lotus reveals to Haruyuki[=/=]Silver Crow that she's realized the reason why he's struggling- that he fears defeat and believes that each failure reduces his overall worth as a person. Haruyuki mentally agrees with that, but is shocked when Kuroyukihime then asks him if he really thinks the bond between them is fragile enough that she'd give up on him just because he isn't able to win.
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* In ''Literature/FateZero'', Kirei Kotomine [[spoiler:finds his own father Risei dead of a gunshot wound inside his church]]. He informs his ally Tokiomi Tosaka of the news, and Tokiomi's Servant Gilgamesh notices that Tokiomi is more upset than Kirei is.
-->'''Gilgamesh''': You could at least attempt to appear a little upset.\\
'''Kirei''': ''(flatly)'' I am. I'm furious to no end.\\
'''Gilgamesh''': Furious, you say? Are you furious because [[spoiler:you were unable to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill him yourself]]]]?\\
''(Gilgamesh disappears before Kirei can respond.)''
-->'''Gilgamesh''': You could at least attempt to appear a little upset.\\
'''Kirei''': ''(flatly)'' I am. I'm furious to no end.\\
'''Gilgamesh''': Furious, you say? Are you furious because [[spoiler:you were unable to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill him yourself]]]]?\\
''(Gilgamesh disappears before Kirei can respond.)''
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* ''Literature/KazeNoStigma'': "So what are you doing with your powers now? I wouldn't call this protection, would you? And you're not defending anyone by trying to avenge the past. Tell me, who are you protecting now, Kazuma?"
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* In ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'', the world of Disboard is a world in which everything, from personal disputes to international conflicts, is settled by playing games. When Sora, along with Shiro, challenges Izuna to a particularly high-stakes game(the Warbeasts bet valuable territory, while Imanity bets their Race Piece, which grants them protection under the Ten Covenants), he asks Izuna a question that gives her a lot to think about.
-->"When was the last time you had fun playing games?"
-->"When was the last time you had fun playing games?"
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* In ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'':
** Sorata asks [[TheCasanova Jin]] why of all the women he rejects Misaki. Jin in turn asks Sorata if he's really meaning to escape [[QuirkyHousehold the Sakura Hall]].
** When Sorata follows Mashiro to the LoveHotel, she asks him why is he there (he had told her previously he was too busy).
%% ** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ryuunosuke Akasaka]] seems to like doing this.
** Sorata asks [[TheCasanova Jin]] why of all the women he rejects Misaki. Jin in turn asks Sorata if he's really meaning to escape [[QuirkyHousehold the Sakura Hall]].
** When Sorata follows Mashiro to the LoveHotel, she asks him why is he there (he had told her previously he was too busy).
%% ** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ryuunosuke Akasaka]] seems to like doing this.
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* In ''Literature/QualiaThePurple'', Alice asks Hatou if she actually thinks that she can keep Yukari's powers of seeing humans as robots a secret from the whole world for long, let alone keep her safe from people that might seek out and want to abuse Yukari for it. This hits Hatou especially hard as she and Yukari had already been targeted because of Yukari's eyes before. Alice's question is one of the reasons why Hatou initially encouraged Yukari to join JAUNT.
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* ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': "Ojou-sama, would your parents be proud of you as [[TranshumanTreachery you are now]]?"
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* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Mother's Rosary arc, Asuna's mother, Kyouko, is quite strict with Asuna, insisting that she transfer out of the SAO Survivors' school and submit to an ArrangedMarriage (or failing that, marry someone "better" than Kirito) for the sake of her future, something Asuna believes is for the sake of Kyouko's own ambitions. As Asuna gets up to leave the dinner table, she asks Kyouko a question that eventually causes Kyouko to realize how ungrateful she's been toward her own parents.
--->"You're ashamed of Grandma and Grandpa, aren't you? You're unhappy that you were born from a simple farming family, rather than some famous house with proper heritage."
** In the Alicization arc, Kirito helps Alice the Integrity Knight gradually begin to realize that her master, the Administrator Quinella, is using her and the other knights. Alice, however, insists that if Kirito and Eugeo overthrow Quinella, the two of them won't be able to fend off the Dark Territory's invasion of the human realm. Kirito, who's learned that Quinella's refusal to allow the existence of any armed force she can't control has doomed the realm, asks the following question.
--->“Then let me ask you this…If you fight with the full might of the Integrity Knights, do you believe that you can absolutely, without fail, fight off an all-out invasion from the Dark Territory?”
** Later on in the Alicization arc, Alice is quite upset to learn that [[BigBad Gabriel Miller]] can come back in another account even though his Emperor Vecta avatar was killed, [[spoiler:at the cost of Alice's superior/father figure Bercouli's life]]. Sinon then asks Alice the following question, before saying that while Kirito is also from the real world, his pain and suffering, which he endured to save Alice, is real.
--->“Then…would you say that Kirito’s suffering is false, too, Alice?”
** In the Mother's Rosary arc, Asuna's mother, Kyouko, is quite strict with Asuna, insisting that she transfer out of the SAO Survivors' school and submit to an ArrangedMarriage (or failing that, marry someone "better" than Kirito) for the sake of her future, something Asuna believes is for the sake of Kyouko's own ambitions. As Asuna gets up to leave the dinner table, she asks Kyouko a question that eventually causes Kyouko to realize how ungrateful she's been toward her own parents.
--->"You're ashamed of Grandma and Grandpa, aren't you? You're unhappy that you were born from a simple farming family, rather than some famous house with proper heritage."
** In the Alicization arc, Kirito helps Alice the Integrity Knight gradually begin to realize that her master, the Administrator Quinella, is using her and the other knights. Alice, however, insists that if Kirito and Eugeo overthrow Quinella, the two of them won't be able to fend off the Dark Territory's invasion of the human realm. Kirito, who's learned that Quinella's refusal to allow the existence of any armed force she can't control has doomed the realm, asks the following question.
--->“Then let me ask you this…If you fight with the full might of the Integrity Knights, do you believe that you can absolutely, without fail, fight off an all-out invasion from the Dark Territory?”
** Later on in the Alicization arc, Alice is quite upset to learn that [[BigBad Gabriel Miller]] can come back in another account even though his Emperor Vecta avatar was killed, [[spoiler:at the cost of Alice's superior/father figure Bercouli's life]]. Sinon then asks Alice the following question, before saying that while Kirito is also from the real world, his pain and suffering, which he endured to save Alice, is real.
--->“Then…would you say that Kirito’s suffering is false, too, Alice?”
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* ''Literature/YouLikeMeNotMyDaughter'': After several futile attempts by Ayako to make Takkun stop being in love with her, her daughter [[ShipperOnDeck Miu]] asks her "How long are you planning on running away for?"
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* At the beginning of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Bellatrix demands an explanation for how Snape could be loyal to Voldemort in light of all of his actions in the previous five books. Snape responds with two in a row: "Do you really think that the Dark Lord has not asked me each and every one of those questions? And do you really think that, had I not been able to give satisfactory answers, I would be sitting here talking to you?"
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