History ArmorPiercingQuestion / WesternAnimation

** Done earlier in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode 'A Better World' netween Justice League Batman and his EvilCounterpart Justice Lord Batman. The [[KnightTemplar Justice Lords]] took complete control of their world to eliminate crime, and Batman has this exchange with his counterpart after apparently surrendering to him, and (while parked at a stoplight) witnessing a citizen being taken away by the police for arguing over a restaurant check.

** Later in the same episode, the Girls track down Femme Fatale again at her latest bank robbery--and as usual, she's used the CallingCard of demanding the cash in Susan B. Anthony dollar-coins as part of her campaign against men. Femme Fatale initially thinks the girls are there to congratulate her, but they shut her up with one of these--"Susan B. Anthony coins, huh? Do you even ''know'' who she was?" Femme Fatale can't respond, so the girls give her a lecture about how Anthony broke the law against women voting in a time when it was illegal for women to do so- and despite that, wasn’t immediately brought to trial. Why? The judge wanted to go easy on her… ''because she was a woman.'' Susan ''demanded'' to be brought to trial, because she didn't want special treatment simply for being a woman (which Femme Fatale thinks she deserves), but to be treated the same as any man. This flummoxes the villain and sends her running, but the trio keeps up with more facts about Anthony--and enough punches to put her away easily.

** Later in the same episode, the Girls track down Femme Fatale again at her latest bank robbery--and as usual, she's used the CallingCard of demanding the cash in Susan B. Anthony dollar-coins as part of her campaign against men. Femme Fatale initially thinks the girls are there to congratulate her, but they shut her up with one of these--"Susan B. Anthony coins, huh? Do you even ''know'' who she was?" Femme Fatale can't respond, so the girls give her a lecture about how Anthony, upon breaking the law, ''demanded'' that she be brought to trial, because she didn't want the special treatment that Femme Fatale thinks she deserves. This flummoxes the villain and sends her running, but the trio keeps up with more facts about Anthony--and enough punches to put her away easily.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
** In "Fast Foodie", Cricket makes a wager with Bill he and Tilly can eat at the next-door Burger Clown every day for every meal and not suffer any consequences. Within a few days, Cricket is all bloated while Tilly is ill in bed; however, Cricket stops at nothing to eat the Burger Clown food and the instant he gets stuck in the play place slide, Bill asks him this which causes him to come to his senses.
--->'''Bill:''' Cricket, look at yourself! You're out of breath, you feel terrible, and you're stuck in a slide! Do you really wanna spend the rest of your life '''in a slide?'''
** In "Truce Bomb", Tilly meddles in on Gramma and Mr. Grigorian to get them to realize the error of their ways and call a truce, hoping they'll become friends and all is well. But when they start to become gloomy and depressed from such, Cricket asks this:
--->'''Cricket:''' I don't know, Tilly. They seem happy to you?

* Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. Albert says he will help Candance bust her brothers and proposes to use spy cameras, which Candance thinks is unnecessary.
-->'''Candace''': Spy cameras? Wouldn't it be easier to just show my mom what Phineas and Ferb make?\\

* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', when Grandpa Max spends an episode [[GoldFever obsessing over a sword he's been looking for his whole life for]], Ben as Fourarms brings tries to snap some sense into him when he brushes off Gwen's injuries:

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat'' episode "Catnapped," Rock Bottom captures Felix, mistaking him for Poindexter, and sends him to the Master Cylinder on Mars. Angrily, Felix (upon arrival on Mars) tells Cylinder he's going back to Earth. The Cylinder asks "How?" Cue the OhCrap look on Felix's face.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Equal Fights," StrawFeminist Femme Fatale convinces the girls that men are inherently bad, thus making them unwilling to help any man--even the Professor, their father, or the Mayor, who's asking them to save the city. Thankfully, Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane are on hand to talk to the trio about what's been happening. When Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup protest that "us girls gotta look out for each other," three more women emerge from the shadows and reveal that Femme Fatale is only a feminist when it's [[ItsAllAboutMe convenient for her]]:

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

-->'''Bill:''' Cricket, look at yourself! You're out of breath, you feel terrible, and you're stuck in a slide! Do you really wanna spend the rest of your life '''in a slide?'''

-->'''Cricket:''' I don't know, Tilly. They seem happy to you?

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Equal Fights," StrawFeminist Femme Fatale convinces the girls that men are inherently bad, thus making them unwilling to help any man--even the Professor, their father, or the Mayor, who's asking them to save the city. Thankfully, Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane are on hand to talk to the trio about what's been happening. When Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup protest that "us girls have to look out for each other," three more women emerge from the shadows and reveal that Femme Fatale is only a feminist when it's [[ItsAllAboutMe convenient for her]]:

-->'''Valley Girl''': Was she looking out for ''me'' when she, like, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stole my hairstyle?]]

** From an exchange between Iroh and Zuko, after finding Aang's Air Bison.
--->'''Iroh''': What do you plan to do now that you have found the Avatar's bison? Keep it locked in our new apartment? [[SarcasmMode Should I go put on a pot of tea for him?]]\\

** In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E2TheTrial The Trial]]", Steven is on trial on Homeworld for [[spoiler:his mother’s shattering of Pink Diamond]], but when he and Blue Zircon come to the realization that the alleged story of what happened makes little sense, the latter asks a very pointed question during her closing argument — [[spoiler:how was Rose, already a recognized threat for several centuries at the time of Pink Diamond's shattering, able to get close enough to kill her? There were no Rose Quartzes in Pink's army or entourage by this time that she could disguise herself as, and surely somebody in her entourage would've attempted to stop Rose, or at least warn Pink Diamond.]] [[spoiler:Yellow and Blue Pearl]] noticeably react when she asks [[spoiler:where Pink's Pearl was during all this, if not by her mistress' side, where she could have warned her.]]
--->'''Blue Zircon:''' [[spoiler:There were no Rose Quartz soldiers in Pink's entourage, and none in her guard — so how could a Rose Quartz, with no business being anywhere ''near'' Pink Diamond, get so close in the first place? Where were Pink Diamond's attendants? Her Agates, her Sapphires? And ''where was her Pearl?'']]

-->'''Blue Zircon:''' [[spoiler:There were no Rose Quartz soldiers in Pink's entourage, and none in her guard — so how could a Rose Quartz, with no business being anywhere ''near'' Pink Diamond, get so close in the first place? Where were Pink Diamond's attendants? Her Agates, her Sapphires? And ''where was her Pearl?'']]

-->'''Fourarms''': Grandpa, I think Gwen needs a second to catch her breath.\\
'''Grandpa Max''': No can do. Enoch may already have the sword.\\
'''Fourarms''': Ever since that alarm went off, [[WhatTheHellHero that sword is all you think about]]!\\
'''Grandpa Max''': You two have to keep your eyes on the prize and remember what's important here!\\
'''Fourarms''': We DO remember! Do you?

---> '''Peter:''' [''casually''] GoToYourRoom

** When Robin tries to convince Beast Boy that Terra is evil, he tells him if he and his teammates ever gave up on Robin when he was Slade's apprentice in the last season (despite that Slade blackmailed him).

** Terra throws a set of these to Raven to rile her up, but it's the last one which causes her to lose control of her emotions, giving Terra the upper hand against her.

** In "My Sister, My Sitter", Flanders calls Lisa to ask him to babysit her kids -- the morning ''after'' he and the other Springfield citizens accused her of being a dangerous psychopath who incapacitated Bart. Lisa then asks Flanders if he is concerned she might hurt his kids like she apparently did to Bart. After a {{Beat}}, Flanders [[NonAnswer refuses to answer and instead asks when she is coming over to his house]].

** In "My Sister, My Sitter", Flanders calls Lisa to ask him to babysit her kids -- the morning ''after'' he and the other Springfield citizens accused her of being a dangerous psychopath who incapacitated Bart. Lisa asks Flanders if he is concerned she might hurt his kids like she apparently did to Bart. After a few seconds, Flanders [[NonAnswer refuses to answer and instead asks when she is coming over to his house]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Butterballs", Kyle accuses Stan of exploiting Butters in his anti-bullying video in order to make money. Stan argues that his video could change the way people think about bullying and that it needs to be seen by everyone; Kyle retorts, "If it needs to be seen by everybody, then why don't you put it out on the Internet for free?" After a long silence, Stan's only answer is "What was the question again?"

** In "Hank After Dark", Diane is being criticized and accused of being a whiny feminist bitch for bringing to light numerous sexual harassment cases against famous talk show host Hank Hippopopalous. Later, when Diane and Hank privately meet, he shows her exactly why nobody wants to believe her.
-->'''Diane:''' I know who you are.
-->'''Hank:''' Everyone knows who I am. I'm Hank Hippopopalous. Who the hell are ''you?''
** Subverted in "Let's Find Out". A dopey quiz show takes a sudden swerve to a somber exchange between Bojack and Mr. Peanutbutter as tensions between the two keep mounting. In the exchange, Mr. Peanutbutter attempts an armor-piercing question, but is unprepared when [[ArmorPiercingResponse Bojack has an answer]].
-->'''Bojack:''' The truth is... I'm jealous.\\

** In "Head In The Clouds", Bojack insists the guilt he feels over all of his horrible actions means [[ItsAllAboutMe he's suffered more for it than any of the actual victims of his behavior]]. Diane immediately calls him out on that bullshit belief by bringing up one of his [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failures]]:

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Shriek", Bruce Wayne refuses to allow a section of Gotham City, which included the theater he'd gone to the night his parents were murdered, to be demolished. Terry [=McGinnis=] asks him why he wouldn't want it torn down, so that the painful memories would end, only to fall silent when Bruce asks "Do you want to forget what happened to ''your'' father?".

-->'''Fourarms''': Grandpa, I think Gwen needs a second to catch her breath \\

** At the end of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' episode, Solitary Alignment, George asks Ben if people doubt his heroic ability as much as they do George's, Ben agrees and stops fighting and they come to a compromise. Ben will get Ascalon if George is defeated.

* In "Joker's Favor," an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', everyman Charlie Collins, after a bad day, shouts at a speeding motorist who cut him off... that motorist happens to be ComicBook/TheJoker. In exchange for his life, Charlie agrees to do a "little favor" for the Clown Prince of Crime--a favor the Joker can cash in at any time. Charlie spends two years hiding from the Joker, but he still finds him and makes him help him with a plan to blow up Commissioner Gordon at a city banquet--and Charlie as well, [[ForTheEvulz just for the heck of it]]--by threatening Charlie's wife and son. When Batman saves the day, Charlie confronts the Joker, who laughs at him and then vows to kill his family if he's caught. Charlie then reveals that he found another one of the Joker's bombs, and threatens him with it. But the Joker's ''real'' deepest fear isn't death--it's the idea of dying at the hands of a "miserable little nobody" rather than Batman, and not pulling off a remarkable, memorable crime before he goes. Charlie reduces the Joker--a mass-murdering psychopath who's laughed at the Dark Knight himself--to a quivering wreck by asking him about this:
-->'''Charlie''': See? ''I'' can destroy a man's dreams, too! And that's really the only dream you've got, ''isn't it?''
** In "Mad Love", Harley Quinn captures Batman, hoping to kill him, thinking that will help improve [[MadLove her relationship]] with the Joker. As Batman [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews her out for being so gullible and weak-willed for so long]], Harley tries to rebut by arguing that the Joker is more sympathetic than people think.
-->'''Harley:''' He told me things! Secret things he never told anybody!
-->'''Batman:''' [[MultipleChoicePast Was it his line about the abusive father? Or the one about the runaway mom? He's gained a lot of sympathy with that one.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode ''Aftershocks, Part 1'', Terra has come back and is working for Slade. When she battles against Raven, Terra has her pinned downed and asks her a question that causes Raven to lose control of her emotions, which turns the tide in her favor:
--> '''Terra:''' Or is it that deep down inside you truly believed that I was your friend?
** The first season episode "Forces of Nature" features the trouble-making brothers [[MakeMeWannaShout Thunder]] and [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]], who run rampant in Jump City. Thunder has more of a conscience than his brother, but Lightning repeatedly insists that they're "just having fun." When the duo is tricked by [[BigBad Slade]] into releasing a giant flame monster, Lightning gets angry at Thunder's attempts to help the Titans and starts fighting him. But just as he has Thunder pinned down for the killing blow...

** In ''Giant Woman'', Steven is trying to get [[VitriolicBestBuds Amethyst and Pearl]] to cooperate so they can fuse into the eponymous Giant Woman. The two spend the entire time antagonizing each other, until Steven gets in trouble. After the two of them save him he asks.
-->'''Steven''': "That was so great how you worked together. Why don't you do that all the time?"
** In "Rose's Room", Steven, upset with the other Crystal Gems, spends most of the episode alone in the eponymous room. He finds that the room can give him (a simulation of) anything he wants, including a quadruple bunk bed and [[CutenessProximity a tiny pink whale]]. However, a poorly-worded request prompts the room to recreate all of Beach City for him; this turns out to be too big for the room to handle, causing AGlitchInTheMatrix. When he realizes what's happened, the simulation collapses altogether, and Steven is left falling into a black void.

** In "We Need to Talk", Greg realizes that Rose Quartz [[LovingAShadow can't tell the difference]] between ''loving humans'' and ''being in love with a human'', and becomes concerned about whether her affection for him is one or the other. When she doesn't take his concern seriously (confirming it in the process), he confronts her about it, which marks a turning point in both their relationship and Rose's own CharacterDevelopment:

** In "Keystone Motel", Steven ends up sharing a motel room with [[spoiler:Ruby and Sapphire]], who are both upset about [[spoiler:Pearl]]'s actions in the previous episode, but are at odds on how to deal with the matter. Both Gems are in a poor mood for most of the trip, and all of Steven's attempts to resolve their conflict are ignored or dismissed. Eventually, Steven becomes fed up with the whole thing, which is when the two realize how much of an effect their argument has had on him:

** In "Back to the Barn" Peridot is baffled when Pearl refuses to obey her orders, [[spoiler:as the Pearl Gems are a custom made ServantRace back on the Gem Homeworld]]. Pearl insists she is her own master, but is unable to respond when a confused Peridot asks [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife "Then what are you for?"]]
** In "Change Your Mind", Steven asks two of these to [[spoiler:Yellow and Blue Diamond]] in seperate scenes, prompting them to have [[HeelRealization Heel Realizations]].

** Speaking of Discord, in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]'', he manages to do this to ''himself'' when he asks Fluttershy if she thought he'd give up his WorldOfChaos for her sake. The moment he asks, he starts thinking about the question.

** In "28 Pranks Later", when Rainbow Dash finds out that the ponies of Ponyville faked an epidemic to get back at her for her town wide pranking spree, she tries to tell them off for scaring her, only for her friends to launch a barrage of questions at her.

** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom Part 2]]'', Discord notably pauses and looks uncertain after Shining Armor is drained and asks him "How could you do this?" (referring to Discord [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn siding with Tirek]]]]).

-->'''Harrow''': Would you?

** In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E10YesterdaysLie Yesterday's Lie]], just before saying goodbye to her mother, Luz lets it slip that she considers staying in the Boiling Isles to be the best decision she's ever made. Camila then gives a WhamLine when she asks Luz "You ''chose'' to stay there?" This accidentally lets Luz's true feelings show through and brings up that she has ConflictingLoyalty between the two realms -- the only reason that Luz wants to go back to Earth at all is because she loves her mother. Luz's life on Earth was awful, having a FriendlessBackground from being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and seen as a nuisance and the "weird kid" in school. Though Luz gives a promise to Camila that she'll come back to the Human Realm for good as soon as she can, Luz instantly regrets it, uncertain if she would be able to fulfill such a promise given how miserable she was on Earth, and how happy she is in the Demon Realm.