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* ''Film/TheBansheesofInisherin'' is about the dissolving friendship between two men, Padraic and Colm, with the latter suddenly deciding he no longer has time to spend on the former. Naturally, Padraic refuses to accept that this is how things will end between them and tries to make amends. Colm, however, is having none of it and gives Padraic an ultimatum; if Padraic doesn't stop bothering Colm, he will cut off a finger for every time he talks to him. Naturally, everyone who hears this believes Colm is just bluffing or at least exaggerating. [[spoiler: As Padraic and his sister Siobhan learn the hard way, however, Colm is completely serious, and makes good on his ultimatum ''five times over.'' Of course, this ends up harming Colm more than anyone else, since it renders him unable to play the lute, [[{{Irony}} the very reason he cut Padriac out of his life in the first place.]]]]

* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'': After Harold gets arrested, he finds himself in a prison cell with a Black man. [[WhatAreYouInFor Harold asks "What are you in, for?"]], and the man answers "for being Black". By that he means [[RacialFaceBlindness the police were after a Black man wanted in a crime]] ''[[RacialFaceBlindness in another city]]'' [[RacialFaceBlindness and he got arrested, instead]].

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily:'' In chapter 25/episode 18, Damian Desmond gets a call from his butler, Jeeves, who tells him that his father was very concerned after learning that Damian was punched on his first day of school. Damian, however, doesn't believe him, saying his father couldn't care less about him. Given that it's quite common for children and even teenagers to think their parents don't love them, one could easily dismiss this as typical child angst. [[spoiler: It isn't. At all. When we finally meet his father, Donovan Desmond, in person, he makes a speech about how he considers even his children strangers, [[AbsuiveParents despite knowing full well that Damian can hear him.]]]]

** When Toph says that she is the greatest earthbender in the world, you better believe she can back that claim up. This is the girl who duelled King Bumi, who literally had a hundred years of experience on him, and she fought him to a draw! At age 12! Even earlier, she figured out how to subvert a WeaksauceWeakness of Earthbending by figuring out Metalbending, which none in history had done before.

** When asked to bend some metal bars, Bender declares that Bending is his middle name. Then he further clarifies that his last name is Rodriguez.

** When teaching Ruby Rose about leadership in Volume 1, [[BigGood Professor Ozpin]] states that he's "made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on this planet". In Volume 5, he reveals that he wasn't exaggerating. [[spoiler:The gods made both [[ResurrectiveImmortality Ozpin]] and [[CompleteImmortality Salem]] immortal for clashing reasons, which has led to their ForeverWar. After thousands of years of trying to earn humanity's redemption in the eyes of the gods, Ozpin really has made more mistakes than any normal human is capable of. However, he also [[GuiltComplex assumes far more responsibility]] than is genuinely the case; this contrasts [[BigBad Salem]], who [[NeverMyFault assumes none]] and was the person responsible for humanity's fall from grace in the first place.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Used twice. When the Wolf reveals that [[spoiler:he is [[TheGrimReaper Death]] to Puss, he clarifies that he does not mean it "metaphorically, or rhetorically, or poetically, or theoretically, or in other fancy way", he means it ''literally''.]] Later on, Kitty admits to Puss that when he told her [[spoiler:"Death was after [him]"]], she thought he was just being melodramatic.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} has [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan's]] approach to dealing with violent protestors:

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Used twice. When the Wolf reveals that [[spoiler:he is [[TheGrimReaper Death]] to Puss, he clarifies that he does not mean it "metaphorically, or rhetorically, or poetically, or theoretically, or in other fancy way", he means it ''literally''.]] Later on, Kitty admits to Puss that when he told her [[spoiler:"Death was after [me]"]], she thought he was just being melodramatic.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': [[spoiler: Late in the game, Nia outs herself as a Flesh Eater to Rex and confesses her love for him. Rex, who is in love with the currently-absent Pyra and Mythra, gives her a memetically infamous LovesYouAndEverybody response, which an amused Nia brushes off. However, the ending of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' would show [[{{Polyamory}} just how serious]] [[BabiesEverAfter Rex was when he said that]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "The New Normal", Anne's father remarks that his daughter is the poster child for hating responsibility. To drive the point home, we see a drawing (That Anne made herself as a child) proclaiming that he hates responsibility.

** In Part II, when Doc and Marty go back to 1955, Marty says "[[IRememberItLikeItWasYesterday It's like I was just here yesterday]].", to which Doc says that he ''was'' there yesterday. From the time Marty left 1955 at the climax of Part I (arriving on October 26, 1985, 1:24AM), to the time he returns with Doc to 1955 in the middle of Part II (leaving 1985-A at around October 27, 1985, 2:00AM), is a real-time passage of about 24 hours. Of course, another Marty had been there yesterday, and about five more days before that.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's father tells her that her mother's giant red panda form was quite destructive, big and almost took out half the temple. Given that when it is seen it is kaiju-sized he was underselling it if anything.

* [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinunderhill/2010/10/06/illiterate-clown-elected-to-congress/ Illiterate Clown Elected to Congress.]] Oh, Brazil...

* ''ComicBook/NewXMen'': When Quentin Quire apparently dies, Charlies Xavier realizes that he actually [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to a higher plane of existence]]. This is how he explains it:

* CEO of small satellite rocket launch company Rocket Lab, Peter Beck; once promised to eat his hat if the company every shifted from single-use disposable rockets to attempting to design reusable rockets. When the company did ''[[ExactWords exactly that]]'' Peter Beck filmed himself tossing his hat into a blender then giving it a taste.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Survivors", the crew encounters a godlike being [[SelfImposedExile living in self-inflicted exile]]: he had previously settled down on a planet with a human wife and when the planet was attacked by a hostile alien race known as the Husnock, his species' pacifist ways forbade him from fighting back...[[PacifismBackfire until his wife was killed]], after which he used his powers to "destroy the Husnock". Noticing the crew's nonplussed reaction he clarifies: he didn't kill most or all of the ''attacking'' Husnock, he killed every Husnock ''[[FinalSolution everywhere]]'', ''literally'' "destroying" them.