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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2919503/10/Luna-s-Hubby Luna's Hubby]]'' Luna's mother asks Algernon Croaker about one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.

--->'''Scientist:''' I never thought I'd ''see'' a Resonance Cascade, let alone ''cause'' one.
** Then later, when you encounter the water-dwelling alien creature for the first time:

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* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' - Any time that a fighter- hero or villain- attains a new level of strength. "I've never felt a power anything '''like''' this!!"

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-->'''Snape:''' The only reason I never pursued a Mastery in Dark Arts Defense is that doing so would require me to reveal to the Ministry how many illegal curses and hexes I know, as well as how many I have ''invented'' that are not publicly known. And I...have ''never heard of anything remotely like this''.

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* Used half-seriously in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'', where the [[CoolOldGuy old Autobot warrior Kup]] had continuously been playing TheMunchausen, comparing current situations to things that happened in his old war days. But when he sees Unicron attacking Cybertron, he's left speechless:

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* Invoked, then subverted, in ''Film/{{Quarantine}}'':

** Later played straight (or possibly double-subverted) when the virus turns out to be [[spoiler:a form of rabies that he's never seen before]].

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* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''. Two Eskimoes see two creatures coming out of a spaceship; creatures that look exactly like the ThemeParkVersion of a tall cactus, with arms and legs added on. One of them exclaims, "They're like nothing I've ever seen!"
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* Used straight at the beginning of the indescribably scary game, ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'', when the police detective describes what's happened to the female protagonist's grandfather...
--> ''Alex Roivas'': Yes, it's him... He's wearing our family ring. <''sobs''> I don't understand! Why are you showing me this?! Can't you check dental records or something? [[WhatTheHellHero What is wrong with you?!]]
--> ''Inspector Legrasse'': In my 30 years on the force, I've never seen anything like this... and no, we can't check dental records! There's... there's no head.

* Variants of this are used at least twice in ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. The first time is early in the game:
-->'''Scientist''': I never thought I'd ''see'' a Resonance Cascade, let alone ''cause'' one.

-->'''Scientist''': Did you see it? They say it was hauled from the Challenger Deep, but I'd swear that creature never swam in terrestrial waters until a week ago.

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-->'''Jones''': The way he has distorted his body...I've seen similar, but nothing quite like that.
-->'''Headmaster''': Coming from you that disturbs me greatly.

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Freeza keeps track of every BadassBoast and tallies every line of HeroicSpeech he hears. He's heard ''everything'', and we do mean everything, at least ten times, until he meets [[IdiotHero Goku]], who finally manages to surprise him.
-->'''Goku''': Imma deck ya in the schnozz!

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Scary-oke", this is Agent Powers' reaction to [[spoiler: Dipper accidentally summoning a horde of zombies.]]

* TruthInTelevision: The words you do not want to hear at the doctor's office and why other doctors envy people whose last names were Turner, Klinefelter, Tourette, etc...

* Used half-seriously in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'', where the [[BadassGrandpa old]] [[CoolOldGuy Autobot warrior Kup]] had continuously been playing TheMunchausen, comparing current situations to things that happened in his old war days. But when he sees Unicron attacking Cybertron, he's left speechless:

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* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Played Serious in ''Film/XMen1''. When they are examining Wolverine's x-rays and Jean is telling everyone about his adamantium covered skeleton, Xavier ominously says, "Experimentation on mutants isn't unheard of, but I've never seen anything like this before..."
** Likewise played serious in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. Especially horrifying is that it's coming from ''Wolverine,'' whose BadFuture self would be 191 years old and and has seen more fucked up shit in his life than most normal people could possibly imagine.
--> '''Wolverine:''' I've been in a lot of wars... ''but I've never seen'' anything ''like this''...

-->'''Hot Rod:''' Doesn't this remind you of anything, Kup?
-->'''Kup:''' Nope. Never seen anything like this before.
* Inverted in the movie ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', in regards to a giant burrowing worm-monster:
-->'''Earl:''': Hey, Rhonda, you ever hear of anything like this before?
-->'''Valentine''' (sarcastic): Oh, sure, Earl, everybody knows about 'em, we just didn't tell ''you!''

-->'''Angela''': So, you've never seen anything like [[TheVirus this]] before?
-->'''Lawrence''': No, I have never seen anything like this before...mostly because I'm a vet.

* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', New York's police commissioner claims "to have seen every form of combustion known to man", but the destruction of the containment unit (and the firehouse with it) "beats the hell out of [him]".
* [[NoNameGiven The Jeweler]] in ''Film/{{Help}}'' says the trope name after breaking all his tools trying to remove [[ClingyMacGuffin Ringo's ring]].
-->"Jeweler, you've ''failed!''"
* In ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' Richard Attenborough, playing a circus owner, sings "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" in which he enthuses over the rarity of Creator/RexHarrison's Pushmi-Pullyu.

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--> '''Anya''': Yes, 'cause it seems like we're always dealing with creatures from outer space. Except that we don't ever do that.

* The TV show ''The Zack Files'' had a character who kept trying to scientifically explain and document the weird paranormal stuff that constantly happened around Zack Greenberg. His catch phrase, upon seeing whatever freaky event was transpiring, was "It's like nothing I've seen before!"
* Used oddly straight, albeit without the stock phrase, in an early episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'': the coroner enthusiastically describes the condition of a corpse as "Weird. Like I may use her in a lecture weird." Turns out the body had been frozen, which doesn't really seem strange enough to justify the reaction.

* The good people of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' were constantly invoking this trope even when the thing in question was very similar to things they had already come across.
** This was PlayedForLaughs in an early installment of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. When the crew encounters an unusual nebula, Harry Kim comments "I've never seen anything like it" and Tuvok comms him to say that statements like that make the junior officers nervous. Later, when Janeway asks Tuvok for his opinion regarding a barrier, Tuvok says that he's unable to identify it and Kim comms "Kim to Tuvok. In other words, you've never seen anything like it. Oh, I promise not to tell the junior officers."
* [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] quotes this trope in "The Shakespeare Code" while examining a man who apparently drowned on dry land. An odd example, since he actually ''has'' seen an identical death in the Third Doctor story "The Mind of Evil".
* An episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' has the sentiment without the ominous undertones. Fisher is despondent (as usual) that he can't identify cause of death on a body because it doesn't match up with any of the usual suspects (stabbing, slicing, blunt force, etc.), but Brennan tells him that the uncertainty itself is telling. She's been ID'ing remains, including victims of genocide, for years, and has seen just about everything. If it doesn't line up with something she knows, it eliminates quite a bit.
* On ''Series/MyCatFromHell'', this is host Jackson Galaxy's basic reaction in "Feral Shop Cat" from Season 9 in which he encounters a couple with a cat they named after him for whom they actually ''moved to a new home'' in order to have a second floor to keep him on because he couldn't be with their other cats that he kept attacking.
* On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', this is basically the reaction of an agent in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, when he learns that one of his colleagues (whom he'd already described as a "creepy son of a bitch") shipped a pair of women's eyeballs to a transvestite sailor who then killed himself.
--> "And here I thought I'd SeenItAll."

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* [[Film/TheProducers "We've seen shit, but never like thiiiiis!"]]

** This gag was also used frequently in the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' games. The most famous is probably "That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen!" ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' had the line "That's the second biggest... no, wait, that ''is'' the biggest conch shell I've ever seen!"
** ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max: Moai Better Blues]]'' features a ShoutOut to the above gag, in the form of Max proclaiming "That's the second-biggest Bermuda Triangle I've ever seen!"
** ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen 6, Aliens Ate My Babysitter'' does this too with the "Second Biggest Sandwich I've ever seen!"
** Sent up in the first episode of WesternAnimation/KimPossible in which "Team Go" appeared: "That is the second biggest flamingo I've ever seen."

* If forced to think about it Wrestling/{{Tazz}} can probably think of something similar to whatever he may have to commentate on, even if it's dates back to some [[SmallReferencePools old irrelevant minor league wrassla]]. When he saw Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} though, he had nothing.[[/folder]]

* ''Film/XMen'':

* In ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' Richard Attenborough, playing a circus owner, sings "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" in which he enthuses over the rarity of Rex Harrison's Pushmi-Pullyu.

* In the original ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' Richard Attenborough, playing a circus owner, sings "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" in which he enthuses over the rarity of Rex Harrison's Pushmi-Pullyu.

* On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', this is basically the reaction of an agent in Ciudad del Oeste, Paraguay, when he learns that one of his colleagues (whom he'd already described as a "creepy son of a bitch") shipped a pair of women's eyeballs to a transvestite sailor who then killed himself.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when a meteorologist tracking a hurricane informs Marge; "This is the worst storm I've ever seen. And I've seen ''three'' storms." Naturally, Marge is horrified.

* Averting this is a running gag in ''ThePigsEar'', with resident DeadpanSnarker Cyril T. Wizard having "this is the third strangest/worst/whatever X I've ever seen" as his CatchPhrase. The first time we hear him say this is when [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination sticks a tentacle through a dimensional rift in the eponymous bar's men's room]], prompting Cyril to remark, "That is the third strangest thing I've ever seen in a pub toilet." It's probably best not to speculate upon what the first two might have been.

* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons'' when a meteorologist tracking a hurricane informs Marge; "This is the worst storm I've ever seen. And I've seen ''three'' storms." Naturally, Marge is horrified.

* Expressed ''constantly'' by the various sources of technobabble (mainly Ritsuko and the Bridge Bunnies) in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. A promo for the show's brief stint on {{Toonami}} actually contained this exact line.

* If forced to think about it Wrestling/{{Tazz}} can probably think of something similar to whatever he may have to commentate on, even if it's dates back to some [[SmallReferencePools old irrelevant minor league wrassla]]([[BiasSteamroller as in everyone who didn't work for]] Wrestling/{{WWE}} such as Wrestling/ExoticAdrianStreet). When he saw Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} though, he had nothing.[[/folder]]

See also ReadingsAreOffTheScale.

* [[NoNameGiven The Jeweler]] in ''{{Help}}!'' says the trope name after breaking all his tools trying to remove [[ClingyMacGuffin Ringo's ring]].

* Used straight at the beginning of the indescribably scary game, ''EternalDarkness'', when the police detective describes what's happened to the female protagonist's grandfather...

-->-- '''[[TheMunchausen Jan Jansen]]''' after seeing Hell, ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate 2]]''

* Anyone who tries to read the protagonist's fortune in the ''BaldursGate'' series gets spooked. [[spoiler: Apparently, none of them had ever seen a demigod before.]]

* A RunningGag in ''AHDotComTheSeries'' is Doctor What, who's SeenItAll, instead commenting that something is (e.g.) "The 27th strangest thing I've ever seen", and then listing some of the others.

-->--'''[[TheMunchausen Jan Jansen]]''' after seeing Hell, ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate 2]]''

* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', New York's police commissioner claims "to have seen every form of combustion known to man", but the destruction of the containment unit (and the firehouse with it) "beats the hell out of [him]".

* Parodied in TheFarSide. Two Eskimoes see two creatures coming out of a spaceship; creatures that look exactly like the ThemeParkVersion of a tall cactus, with arms and legs added on. One of them exclaims, "They're like nothing I've ever seen!"

* ''RegularShow'': Skips is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld incredibly old]] and has seen just about everything...but for some reason he can only hazard a guess at how to deal with a problem so mundane as getting rid of skunk stink(granted it was a wereskunk).

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2919503/10/Luna-s-Hubby Luna's Hubby]]'' Luna's mother asks Algernon Croaker about one of Voldemort's horcruxes, commenting "I've never seen anything like that, and I thought I'd seen just about every genre of magic there is."

** And to put the page quote in context, Jan Jansen is the resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[TheMunchausen Munchausen]] with a tangenitally related story for every occasion. Him being stumped produces a rash of comments from the other party members that the [[CueTheFlyingPigs end must be nigh.]]