History Main / HaveYouToldAnyoneElse

* ''Series/{{Supergirl(2015)}}'' – Mild-mannered reporter Kara Danvers goes to the Oval Office, where she notices some kryptonite by the window, which she is told is because it was recently attacked by Supergirl.

''(Kara gives Baker a large envelope. Baker puts it in his desk draw without looking at it.)''\\

* In ''Series/PokerFace'', Charlie carelessly volunteers the information that she hasn't told the FBI her deduction yet. As her suspects are a pair of nursing home residents it presumably didn't occur to her to think of them as a direct physical threat, but in fact they try to murder her on the spot and would have succeeded if the FBI hadn't arrived. She ''had'' been telling her contact her suspicions, she just hadn't told him the final clue she'd worked out.

* ''ComicBook/{{Transformers|2019}}'': During a stand-off between the Autobots and a group of Risers led by Ruckus, Senator Soundwave (who is secretly a high-ranking Rise member) arrives to ostensibly negotiate. He goes into the Rise hideout, promises to arrange an escape route for them, then [[SchmuckBait asks if any of them know anything of value]]. Ruckus is [[TooDumbToLive too stupid to catch the implication and blithely confirms that he does]]. Soundwave then casually makes an excuse to leave, and as soon as he's at a safe distance, he detonates the explosive spear he had snuck in with him, [[HeKnowsTooMuch killing everyone in the bunker to keep their knowledge out of Autobot hands]].

* In a short story written by Creator/BertoltBrecht, a young boy cries in the street after being mugged. A man finds him there, and asks him why he hadn't called for help. The boy says he screamed as loudly as he could, but nobody heard him. The man then proceeds to rob the boy as well. This raises the obvious question: [[FridgeLogic Why?]] Did the second mugger [[IdiotBall expect the first mugger to have left the boy with anything valuable?]]

* In the thriller ''Film/NoWayOut1987'', a technician that the protagonist took into his confidence in an attempt to delay the BigBad's plan has an attack of conscience and tells... the BigBad, after which this trope is played out verbatim.

* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'': Early in the story, a small-time crook, fresh from escaping a botched burglary that attracted a lot of police attention and left his partner dead at the scene, is brought to meet with the mob boss that ordered it. The boss takes the MacGuffin the crook stole, spends a couple minutes calming him down and telling him to relax, then quietly asks him "Get a chance to talk to your momma? Your friends? Your girl?" When the [[OhCrap now even more apprehensive]] crook replies no, the boss and his bodyguard jump him.

* In the 1987 thriller ''Film/NoWayOut'', a technician that the protagonist took into his confidence in an attempt to delay the BigBad's plan has an attack of conscience and tells... the BigBad, after which this trope is played out verbatim.

* ''Literature/PresidentsVampire'''s ''Red, White and Blood'': Taken UpToEleven when President Curtis sends his Secret Service detail out of the room so that he can confront his traitorous vice-president privately.

* ''Film/TheCourtJester'': A variant. Hawkins and Gene plan to kidnap Giacomo the jester and have Hawkins impersonate him. They express fake concern about whether he'll be able to get in and ask if he's sure no one at the castle has seen his fate. A few seconds after saying "Not yet", he gets a TapOnTheHead.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Had this happen to Roy when he tried to tell one of the top military brass about the GovernmentConspiracy with the Homunculi. Only to find out too late they were all in on it. [[spoiler: Fortunately they had left him alive with the threat of harm to his fellow soldiers. But this just allows Roy to rework his plan to take down the corrupted officials.]]

* ''Literature/MoonBaseAlpha'': In the audio recording of Dr. Holtz's last moments, [[spoiler:His companion asks him if the aliens have made contact with anyone else. When Holtz says no, that person makes it clear that he shuns FirstContact and forces Holtz to commit suicide--by threatening his family--in an effort to delay an interplanetary meeting.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', Rick Dicker asks Tony this before he erases Tony's memories of Violet to check if he needs to do likewise to anyone else.
* A non-villain -- and non-lethal -- variant in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' short ''WesternAnimation/JackJackAttack''; [[TheMenInBlack Agent Dicker]] asks [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter Kari]] if she's told anyone else about her disastrous attempt to look after a suddenly superpowered baby, as he's setting up a device to give her LaserGuidedAmnesia.