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* The original Digimon Inverts this with Izzy. His curiosity drives him to acquire knowledge and understand the digital world, and when he has that stolen he becomes a zombie until his partner snaps him out of it.

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' remake ''Series/TinMan'' has the young D.G. set off the film's events; she insists on following a singing voice into a dark cave with ominous writing about evil darkness, a creepy, exploding rock face, and then on going in deeper to help a "little girl" crying for help. Her older sister Azkadelia rightly guesses the little girl wasn't what she seemed, and was in fact a (or perhaps "THE") Wicked Witch who was [[SealedEvilInACan trapped there]]. She gets [[SharingABody possessed]] for her foresight, and gets (rightly) more than a little peeved at her younger sister, setting her on a wicked rampage.

** Possible subversion, as this inspires Spike to plant said retrovirus ''on'' the hostage when they're forced to let her go.
** Actually he doesn't realise it's gone. She picks his pocket to get it back, and [[spoiler:lives to regret it]]

* ''VideoGame/ThePath'': The entire premise of this psychological horror game.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "[[Recap/{{JusticeLeagueS2E5And6OnlyADream}} Only a Dream]]", Dream!Lois' determination to "find out what it is [that Clark is trying to conceal]" results in her death via PowerIncontinence.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' - Rigby. My God, Rigby. In "Just Set Up The Chairs", he cannot NOT connect the blue and red wires, which of course, unleashes the Destroyer of Worlds.

** As a quick summary, the linked article describes the catastrophic meltdown as not only stemming from shoddy design, but from its workers deciding to see what happened if [[TooStupidToLive they turned its few safety systems off]]. The emergency shutdown test ''was'' planned out thoroughly well in advance, but in a spectacular case of bad judgement it was postponed at the last minute for long enough that the experienced techs and supervisors that had planned and trained specifically for it had all gone off shift, and ''not'' long enough for them to come back in the next day, so the entire operation was performed by the poorly-trained night crew.

* The original Digimon Inverts this with Izzy. His curiosty drives him to aquire knowledge and understand the digital world, and when he has that stolen he becomes a zombie until his partner snaps him out of it.

* In the latter parts of the ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'' series, we have this with Reimu and the fact that bad things have happened because of her curiousity, the two being, 1),she crawls off into the "kitsune territory" and Ran is almost raped, leading her to be badly traumatized (20XXIV, Chapter 9 however, the door to their house was opened) and, 2), she drinks a kind of serum and the other kids drink it, reverting them to toddlers (20XXV, Chapter 35). The fact that Reimu has no sense of danger doesn't make this better.

* ''WebVideo/BenDrowned'': If only Jadusable's curiosity hadn't prompted him to accept the shady game cartridge from the old man, or posted anything to the internet, then the [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou reader's]] curiousity wouldn't have led them to open "The Truth.rtf", thus releasing Ben to the whole of the internet, and things might have gone a bit better for everyone involved.

* In ''VideoGame/AoOni'', a group of teenagers decide to explore a old abandoned house, and ends up being chased by big purple monster. Most of the versions, only the protagonist survives. (There are versions that gives the player option to save friends.)

** The core problem can be stated as this: burying it with ''no'' warning risks someone digging it up accidentally; buring it ''with'' a warning is basically saying "Hey, interesting stuff here" to anyone who is unable to actually ''read'' the warning. Even if they ''can'' read the warning, future cultures may assume it's just a scare tactic, like the "curses" inscribed on some ancient tombs.

'''Kat:''' You know what this means?\\

* ''ThePath'': The entire premise of this psychological horror game.

* ''CryOfFear'' has a pedophile who wrote a short poem about three children. Two of them went home, but the third one stayed, and was tricked into going close up to a bush. The final line concludes that, indeed, Curiosity killed the cat.

* Many character in the ''FatalFrame'' franchise are prone to this, heading into haunted places (some of them do so on purpose). Since those who die in this series become ghosts that players must fight to survive, it's safe to say few of them survive their encounters -- [[AnyoneCanDie even main protagonists aren't immune to this consequence.]]

** But the most obvious idiocy belongs to Cheryl in [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 the first one]], who hears a sound and goes out into the woods at night alone to investigate. She doesn't get ''killed'', per se, but what happens to her at the hands of the possessed trees is [[RapeAsDrama just as bad]].

** But the most obvious idiocy belongs to Cheryl in [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 the first one]], who hears a sound and goes out into the woods at night alone to investigate...
*** Which is probably why [[DudeNotFunny the trees thought]] [[BlackComedyRape she was asking for it]]...

* Shane Acker's ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' is made of this trope. In the feature film version, it's because of 9's combination of being both very naive and very curious that over half the cast of the movie is killed before it's all over. Admittedly, 1's death was heroic suicide, but it was 9's curiosity that lead him to jam the talisman in the machine and wake it up in the first place.

If these characters are in a horror flick, anyone showing the ''slightest bit'' of curiosity in SlasherMovie [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality will die.]] Or release the SealedEvilInACan. Or get their GenreSavvy friend [[DeathByGenreSavviness killed]] as he complains that they shouldn't be there. Or gets them [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty captured]]. Etc, etc.

* Slight subversion in Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness''. Aly is warned about the dangers of curiosity with this phrase. In response, she tells the other character 'and satisfaction brought it back,' with a short complaint that no one seems to ever remember the second part of the saying.

* The original Digimon Inverts this hard with Izzy. His curiosty drives him to aquire knowledge and understand the digital world, and when he has that stolen he becomes a zombie until his partner snaps him out of it.

** Actually he doesn't realise it's gone. She picks his pocket to get it back, and [[spoiler: lives to regret it]]

** In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', curiosity caused a lot deaths at least. In prehistoric times, monsters dove to the depths of the ocean and burrowed past the mantle, far away from human habitat [[spoiler: in search of radioactive material that was becoming scarce on the surface.]] A mining accident leads to the discovery of one of their eggs, which is brought up to the surface for study. [[spoiler: A surface where there are new sources of radioactive material to feed on.]]

* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'' this occurs to anyone who studies Reaper tech heavily. The inevitable side effect is indoctrination. This notably occurs in [[spoiler: The Arrival DLC, in which the Reaper invasion nearly occurs before anyone is ready.]]

* ''Webvideo/MarbleHornets'': A few years ago, a guy named Alex Kralie was shooting a student film of the same name. As he was filming, he started to notice a [[TheSlenderManMythos really tall guy in a suit]] occasionally lurking in the distance. As of now, Alex is on the run after a failed attempt to rebuild his life, [[spoiler:his friend Tim has gone insane and started stalking people while wearing a mask,]] and we have no idea what happened to anyone besides Jay and Tim. [[spoiler:As of late 2014, ''most of them (including Jay and Alex) are '''dead.''''']]

* Narrowly averted in [[http://stuartngbooks.com/images/detailed/18/quino_dejenme_2.jpg this]] ComicStrip/{{Quino}} strip.

* Many character in the ''FatalFrame'' are prone to this, heading into haunted places (some of them do so on purpose). Since those who die in this series become ghosts that players must fight to survive, it's safe to say few of them survive their encounters -- [[AnyoneCanDie even main protagonists aren't immune to this consequence.]]

* In ''[[{{Narnia}} The Magician's Nephew]]'', a young man cannot resist the temptation to ring a bell which is marked with a warning (and [[SchmuckBait tantalizing]]) poem. It turns out that this bell awakens the witch Jadis, who later becomes the first evil force in Narnia. The poem concludes by saying, in effect, "If you ''don't'' ring the bell, you'll ''never'' know what would've happened. [[NothingIsScarier You'll always wonder what would've happened, and it might drive you insane]]".

* ''Film/HocusPocus'': A non-lethal example. When snooping in a house where witches used to live, and informed that a virgin lighting the candle will return them to life, the clueless teen protagonist does just that, incidentally subverting AManIsNotAVirgin.

* In the latter parts of the ''Gensokyo20XX'' series, we have this with Reimu and the fact that bad things have happened because of her curiousity, the two being, 1),she crawls off into the "kitsune territory" and Ran is almost raped, leading her to be badly traumatized (20XXIV, Chapter 9 however, the door to their house was opened) and, 2), she drinks a kind of serum and the other kids drink it, reverting them to toddlers (20XXV, Chapter 35). The fact that Reimu has no sense of danger doesn't make this better.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'':
%%-->Curiosity killed the cat, you know!\\
%%'''Jack''': I know...

%%* Just barely averted in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.