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* In the DresdenFiles novel "Ghost Story", Harry, currently a ghost, uses the undead version: "Centuries from now, who knows? Maybe magic will have the side effect of making you really good-looking and popular with the opposite sex - but I'm not holding my breath. I mean, you know. I wouldn't be. If I still had any."
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Not to be confused with CouldSayItBut. Compare InsultBackfire and AsymmetricDilemma.
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Not to be confused with CouldSayItBut. Compare InsultBackfire and AsymmetricDilemma. Compare and contrast ForgotHeWasARobot.
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* 7-Zark-7 on ''BattleofthePlanets'' was often given lines referencing his being a robot, such as 'My heart would be in my mouth -- if I had a mouth' (perhaps with a line about his non-existent heart added for variety).
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* 7-Zark-7 [[RobotBuddy 7-Zark-7]] on ''BattleofthePlanets'' was often given lines referencing his being a robot, such as 'My heart would be in my mouth -- if I had a mouth' (perhaps with a line about his non-existent heart added for variety).
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* 7-Zark-7 on ''BattleofthePlanets'' was often given lines referencing his being a robot, such as 'My heart would be in my mouth -- if I had a mouth' (perhaps with a line about his non-existent heart added for variety).
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* ''TheWizardOfOz'':
** In ''ReturnToOz'', the flying Gump says as they fall to their [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]][[{{Tradesnark}} (tm)]], "If I had a stomach, I know I'd be sick!"
** In the CutSong "The Jitterbug" from ''TheWizardOfOz'', the Scarecrow says, "I haven't got a brain, but I think I ought to worry."
** In ''ReturnToOz'', the flying Gump says as they fall to their [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]][[{{Tradesnark}} (tm)]], "If I had a stomach, I know I'd be sick!"
** In the CutSong "The Jitterbug" from ''TheWizardOfOz'', the Scarecrow says, "I haven't got a brain, but I think I ought to worry."
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* ''TheWizardOfOz'':
**In the CutSong "The Jitterbug" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', the Scarecrow says, "I haven't got a brain, but I think I ought to worry."
* In ''ReturnToOz'', the flying Gump says as they fall to their [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]][[{{Tradesnark}} (tm)]], "If I had a stomach, I know I'd besick!"
** In the CutSong "The Jitterbug" from ''TheWizardOfOz'', the Scarecrow says, "I haven't got a brain, but I think I ought to worry."sick!"
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* In ''ReturnToOz'', the flying Gump says as they fall to their [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]][[{{Tradesnark}} (tm)]], "If I had a stomach, I know I'd be
** In the CutSong "The Jitterbug" from ''TheWizardOfOz'', the Scarecrow says, "I haven't got a brain, but I think I ought to worry."
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* A variation of this is found in ''DoctorWho'', with the Fourth Doctor telling a girl [[{{Asexuality}} "You're a beautiful woman... probably."]]
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* A variation of this is found in ''DoctorWho'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', with the Fourth Doctor telling a girl [[{{Asexuality}} "You're a beautiful woman... probably."]]
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* From the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof":
-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': You need to show this patient [a sickly bird] who's the boss! Make her straighten up and fly right!\\
-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': You need to show this patient [a sickly bird] who's the boss! Make her straighten up and fly right!\\
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* From the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof":
Hoof", where Twilight Sparkle tries to convince Fluttershy to show a sickly bird some "tough love":
-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': You need to show this patient[a sickly bird] who's the boss! Make her straighten up and fly right!\\
-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': You need to show this patient
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* In ''HaloCombatEvolved'':
-->'''Cortana''': If I still had fingers, they'd be crossed!
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-->'''Cortana''': If I still had fingers, they'd be crossed!
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* From ''[[LegendsOfLaconia Halloween Romance]]'': "I defy any human being to fail to learn slow dancing. ''Then again, I'm technically not a human being anymore.''"
* From ''[[LegendsOfLaconia Halloween Romance]]'': "I defy any human being to fail to learn slow dancing. ''Then again, I'm technically not a human being anymore.''"
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--> "It has been over a few decades since i have eaten anything decent, it became so painful that the back of my stomach and my back were almost indistinguisable, that was the kind of life a live for so many years. Then again, i'm a skeleton so i don't have stomach or back. Yohohohohohoh.
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--> "It has been over a few decades since i have eaten anything decent, it became so painful that the back of my stomach and my back were almost indistinguisable, that was the kind of life a live for so many years. Then again, i'm a skeleton so i don't have stomach or back. Yohohohohohoh.Yohohohohohoh".
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* Brook on ''OnePiece'', [[DemBones who is a skeleton]], does this constantly:
** "My eyes have never beheld a more beautiful woman! Oh wait, ''I don't have eyes!''"
** "Yohoho! Skull joke!"
* Sid from {{Soul Eater}} loves [[CatchPhrase "That's the kind of man I was."]] Then do whatever he would have done while he was alive.
** "My eyes have never beheld a more beautiful woman! Oh wait, ''I don't have eyes!''"
** "Yohoho! Skull joke!"
* Sid from {{Soul Eater}} loves [[CatchPhrase "That's the kind of man I was."]] Then do whatever he would have done while he was alive.
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* Brook on ''OnePiece'', [[DemBones who is a skeleton]], does this constantly:
** "My eyesuse any opportunity he finds to deliver one of his "Skull jokes":
--> "It has been over a few decades since i havenever beheld eaten anything decent, it became so painful that the back of my stomach and my back were almost indistinguisable, that was the kind of life a more beautiful woman! Oh wait, ''I live for so many years. Then again, i'm a skeleton so i don't have eyes!''"
** "Yohoho! Skull joke!"
* Sid from {{Soul Eater}} loves [[CatchPhrase "That's the kind of man I was."]] Then do whatever he would have done while he was alive.
stomach or back. Yohohohohohoh.
** "My eyes
--> "It has been over a few decades since i have
** "Yohoho! Skull joke!"
* Sid from {{Soul Eater}} loves [[CatchPhrase "That's the kind of man I was."]] Then do whatever he would have done while he was alive.
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* Doc Scratch of ''{{Homestuck}}'' [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005697 will be]] keeping an eye, [[TheBlank which he doesn't have]], on the clock, [[TheOmniscient which he doesn't need]].
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* ''{{Dexter}}'' does this a lot when referring in voice over to his hypothetical emotions. Of his adoptive sister, he says "I don't have feelings, but if I could have feelings, I would have them for Deb."
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* ''{{Dexter}}'' does this a lot when in voice over, referring in voice over to his hypothetical emotions.lack of emotional reactions. Of his adoptive sister, he says "I don't have feelings, but if I could have feelings, I would have them for Deb."
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* ''{{Dexter}}'' does this a lot when referring in voice over to his hypothetical emotions. Of his adoptive sister, he says "I don't have feelings, but if I could have feelings, I would have them for Deb."
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* From the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof":
-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': You need to show this patient [a sickly bird] who's the boss! Make her straighten up and fly right!\\
'''Fluttershy''': She can't fly.\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': No excuses!
-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': You need to show this patient [a sickly bird] who's the boss! Make her straighten up and fly right!\\
'''Fluttershy''': She can't fly.\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': No excuses!
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* From 2007's BionicWoman:
-->'''Jaime Sommers''': You don't have to be so dramatic.
-->'''[[TinMan Sarah]] [[PsychoPrototype Corvus]]''':Don't I? Cause I thought I was just told by the one person who can save my life that she has better things to do. That ''feels'' pretty dramatic to me... not that I can actually feel anything, but I can intellectually imagine that that feels pretty dramatic.
-->'''Jaime Sommers''': You don't have to be so dramatic.
-->'''[[TinMan Sarah]] [[PsychoPrototype Corvus]]''':Don't I? Cause I thought I was just told by the one person who can save my life that she has better things to do. That ''feels'' pretty dramatic to me... not that I can actually feel anything, but I can intellectually imagine that that feels pretty dramatic.
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* Going with a bit of dark humor "This is an outrage, I won't stand for this! [[{{Beat}} ...]] And not just [[SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs because I'm in a wheelchair."]]
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* Going with a bit of dark humor humor: "This is an outrage, I won't stand for this! [[{{Beat}} ...]] And not just [[SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs because I'm in a wheelchair."]]
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* In the ''MaryokuYummy'' episode "Sound Advice," Baburu, seeing Hadagi pull out an accordion, comments, "It's times like this I wish I had hands to cover my ears."
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* This troper once [[NoSuchThingAsNotability remarked]], of a condom, "Well, I suppose it's better to have it and not need it than to need it not have it. Wait... that's not true at all."
* This troper once [[NoSuchThingAsNotability remarked]], of a condom, "Well, I suppose it's better to have it and not need it than to need it not have it. Wait... that's not true at all."
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* Sid from {{Soul Eater}} loves [[CatchPhrase "That's the kind of man I was."]]] Then do whatever he would have done while he was alive.
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* Sid from {{Soul Eater}} loves [[CatchPhrase "That's the kind of man I was."]]] "]] Then do whatever he would have done while he was alive.
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* This troper once [[NoSuchThingAsNotability remarked]], of a condom, "Well, I suppose it's better to have it and not need it than to need it not have it. Wait... that's not true at all."
* This troper once [[NoSuchThingAsNotability remarked]], of a condom, "Well, I suppose it's better to have it and not need it than to need it not have it. Wait... that's not true at all."
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* ''KimPossible'': In the episode where she first meets Felix, Kim is overly conscious of the fact that he's in a wheelchair (albeit an [[SuperWheelChair impressively tricked-out one]]), and keeps being [[DisabledMeansHelpless over-helpful]]. Fortunately, he's amused rather than resentful:
-->'''Kim:''' Felix, you go stand watch.
-->'''Felix:''' You mean, ''sit'' watch.
-->[Kim claps a hand to her mouth in embarrassment]
-->'''Felix:''' Kim? I'm just playing with you.
-->'''Kim:''' Felix, you go stand watch.
-->'''Felix:''' You mean, ''sit'' watch.
-->[Kim claps a hand to her mouth in embarrassment]
-->'''Felix:''' Kim? I'm just playing with you.
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This is a kind of wordplay joke you find characters using, on [[SelfDeprecation themselves]] or others, about how a common expression is very appropriate to the situation at hand... [[DistractingDisambiguation but not for them]], since they can no longer use it without it being technically incorrect or highly [[{{Irony}} ironic.]] Another way to do this is to "fix" the expression so that it works unironically, which changes the expression into a [[NotHimself suspiciously off]] statement for those who have no clue about the character.
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This is a kind of wordplay joke you find characters using, on [[SelfDeprecation themselves]] or others, about how a common expression is very appropriate to the situation at hand... [[DistractingDisambiguation but not for them]], since they can no longer use it without it [[{{Dissimile}} being technically incorrect incorrect]] or highly [[{{Irony}} ironic.]] Another way to do this is to "fix" the expression so that it works unironically, which changes the expression into a [[NotHimself suspiciously off]] statement for those who have no clue about the character.
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** According to Spike, Andrew is "a breath of fresh air, isn't he? Thank God I don't breathe."
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* There is this exchange between a disembodied character and an animated skeleton in ''A Modest Destiny'':
-->'''Hechter''': Your eyes are as beautiful as diamonds. Well... er... I assume.
-->'''Giggles''': I'm sure your eyes are pretty nice-looking too, wherever they are.
-->'''Hechter''': If I told you that you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?
-->'''Giggles''': I would, but I don't know where it is...
-->'''Hechter''': Your eyes are as beautiful as diamonds. Well... er... I assume.
-->'''Giggles''': I'm sure your eyes are pretty nice-looking too, wherever they are.
-->'''Hechter''': If I told you that you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?
-->'''Giggles''': I would, but I don't know where it is...
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* During one of the (better) guest speaker lectures re drunk driving at my school, the wheelchair-bound lecturer (whose name I ought to remember, since it was the second time he was here) brushed over one of these with a "That's what I stand for. Or sit for." He immediately went on to something else, so I think I'm the only person who caught it. But still...
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* Brook on ''OnePiece'', [[DemBones who is a skeleton]], does this constantly. For example: "My eyes have never beheld a more beautiful woman! Oh wait, ''I don't have eyes!''"
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* Brook on ''OnePiece'', [[DemBones who is a skeleton]], does this constantly. For example: constantly:
** "My eyes have never beheld a more beautiful woman! Oh wait, ''I don't have eyes!''"
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* In ''ReturnToOz'', the flying Gump says as they fall to their [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]](tm), "If I had a stomach, I know I'd be sick!"
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* ''TheWizardOfOz'':
** In ''ReturnToOz'', the flying Gump says as they fall to their [[DoomyDoomsOfDoomDoom]](tm), Doom]][[{{Tradesnark}} (tm)]], "If I had a stomach, I know I'd be sick!"
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* From the musical episode of BuffyTheVampireSlayer, we have [[spoiler:Spike's]] number, which goes, "If my heart could beat, it would break my chest," to [[spoiler:Buffy.]]
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* From the musical episode of BuffyTheVampireSlayer, we have [[spoiler:Spike's]] number, which there's a number that goes, "If my heart could beat, it would break my chest," to [[spoiler:Buffy.]]
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* In the original radio version and first book of ''TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Marvin says, "Well, excuse me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it. [[TheEeyore Oh, God, I'm so depressed.]]"
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* In the original radio version and first book of ''TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Marvin says, "Well, excuse me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it. [[TheEeyore Oh, God, I'm so depressed.]]"
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* Bender in ''{{Futurama}}'' often uses "Oh your God!" as an exclamation.
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** The robot Benderin ''{{Futurama}}'' often uses "Oh your God!" as an exclamation.
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* Once on ''TheSimpsons'' a gay character said to Lisa, "If I was a straight 8-year-old boy, I'd be so holding your hand right now."
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* Once on ''TheSimpsons'' ''TheSimpsons''
** Once, a gay character said to Lisa, "If I was a straight 8-year-old boy, I'd be so holding your hand right now."
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* ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Luthor, discovering who his kidnapper is, exclaims "Brainiac!", to which [[KillerRobot Brainiac]] replies "in the flesh, so to speak".
** Metallo uses the same joke in another episode.
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* ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Luthor, discovering who his kidnapper is, exclaims "Brainiac!", to which [[KillerRobot Brainiac]] replies "in the flesh, so to speak".
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* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Toph and her friends have never been shy about pointing out her blindness:
-->I've seen enough of Ba Sing Se. And I can't even see!
-->I've seen enough of Ba Sing Se. And I can't even see!
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* ''{{BIONICLE}}'': [[BigBad Makuta Teridax]] to [[GiantEnemyCrab Carapar]]:
-->''"You couldn't snap your fingers without help ... if you had fingers."''
* ''{{BIONICLE}}'': [[BigBad Makuta Teridax]] to [[GiantEnemyCrab Carapar]]:
-->''"You couldn't snap your fingers without help ... if you had fingers."''
