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-->'''Pompey:''' [[ImplausibleDeniability You know, technically, I'm just an innocent victim here.]]
-->'''Roy:''' Shut up.
-->'''Pompey:''' Shutting up, yessir.
** And again in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1256.html #1256]]: The heroes are trying to win Serini Toormuck over to their side by agreeing with her that the gods are basically selfish [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]]. Their [[ThePaladin paladin teammate Lien]] keeps disagreeing that the gods are good. Then she realizes that she's [[NotHelpingYourCase not helping]]:
-->I'm just realizing that it helps us if you agree with what's-his-name so I'm going to be shutting up now.

This is where a character "voluntarily" decides to be quiet, removing themselves from the argument/conversation. This can be through defeat (being proven wrong), threat, everyone [[{{Beat}} staring at them accusingly]] or suggestion, or simply because as [[SycophanticServant The lackey]] they were told to.

* Jessica Biel's character in ''Film/SummerCatch'' rambles endlessly to her love interest and eventually says, "I am going to shut up now."

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** PlayedForDrama in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]" after InsaneAdmiral Satie suffers a VillainousBreakdown while trying to smear [[TheCaptain Picard]] in a KangarooCourt: "I have nothing more to say."
** In Lt. Barclay's introductory episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E21HollowPursuits Hollow Pursuits]]", Picard [[FreudianSlip accidentally]] calls him "[[EmbarrassingNickname Mr. Broccoli]]". As Barclay excuses himself and Picard looks mortified, Data chimes in, trying to be helpful:
--->'''Data:''' Metathesis is one of the most common of pronunciation errors, sir. The reversal of vowel and consonant, "Barc" to "Broc"... ''[sees Picard's expression and turns away, pretending to be suddenly very interested in a control panel]''
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' gives us the following quote when Felicity's wearing an earbud so she can talk to Oliver inside a casino:
-->'''Felicity:''' [[ThatCameOutWrong It feels really good having you inside me.]] [[DiggingYourselfDeeper By "you," I mean your voice. And by "me," I mean my ear.]] I'm going to stop talking now.\\
'''Oliver:''' That would be my preference.
* In season 2 of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Jim lets Michael in on the fact he has feelings for Pam, and of course, Michael can't help but leak it to everyone, so Jim gets ahead of it and lets Pam know that he had a crush on her [[BlatantLies but no longer does.]] At the end of the episode, Pam tells Michael not to feel bad and Jim already told her about, but Michael again can't help himself:
-->'''Pam:''' No, really, it's okay. I know that Jim had, like a crush on me when he first started. But that was a long time ago, so--\\
'''Michael:''' It wasn't that long ago. It was on the booze cruise.\\
'''Pam:''' Jim had a crush on me on the booze cruise or he told you about it on the booze cruise?\\
'''Michael:''' ''[to self]'' Yehhh, okay, shuuttt it Michael. I'm done. That's it.
* One survey question on ''Series/FamilyFeud'' was to "Which [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs of the Seven Dwarves]] best describes your wife in bed." Both men at the podium refused to take the SchmuckBait. One of them was [[MemeticBadass a decorated Marine]].
* In the ''Series/NightCourt'' episode "Auntie Maim", the defendants are the contestants in a ballroom dancing marathon, the rules of which require them to keep dancing for several consecutive days and nights, without sleep, including during the court proceeding:
-->'''Judge Stone''': Well, isn't that kind of dangerous?
-->'''[[Creator/GaryOwens Bobby Baumgarner, DJ]]''': ''(into microphone)'' Hey, that's half the fun!
-->''Harry gives him a DeathGlare''.
-->'''Bobby Baumgarner, DJ''': ''(still into microphone)'' I'll shut up now!

--->'''Marco:''' ''[whining because [[CatchPhrase this is INSANE]]]''\\

* In ''Radio/TheGoonShow'', "Shut up, Eccles!" was Eccles's own CatchPhrase.

* Franchise/SpiderMan in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance''.

* Marie says this in ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' on the way to Paris when she explains that she tends to ramble when she's nervous. And she ''was'' nervous, because Jason had been stoically staring out of the window the entire time, not saying a word. Jason says he doesn't mind, though, and even asks her to keep going, saying it has been a while since he had a casual "conversation" with someone.
* ''Film/BuckarooBanzai'': Penny Priddy does this to herself when she gets excited at the press conference when she seems to understand the science Dr. Banzai is explaining. Buckaroo then subverts it.
-->'''Penny:''' Oh, oh, I get it! What you're saying is that oppositely charged particles collide and blow each other up in a burst of energy. Like a tiny Big Bang, like a... a... a... b-b-Baby Bang! ''[looks at the faces of the audience looking at her, feels self-conscious]'' Well, I'm, uh, probably just, uh, stating the very obvious. Shut up, shut up...\\
'''Buckaroo:''' No, no, it's not obvious at all. If it was obvious, everybody would be doing it every day.
* ''Film/HighAnxiety'': After Brophy finds out Thorndyke isn't the real killer by enlarging the newspaper picture until he can be seen in the background, the bad guys show up and plan to kill him, but Diesel points out the same picture is on the front page of every local newspaper and they can enlarge it as well. Montague comes with a ridiculous plan to buy every newspaper in the city before anyone can see it. Diesel and Norton just glare at him, and he eventually realizes how stupid he sounds and trails off.
* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', after awkwardly stumbling through his "icebreaker" Pac-Man anecdote, Scott shuffles away from Ramona with "I'll leave you alone forever now." She replies with a curt, "Thanks."
** '''AND THEN. HE STALKED HER. UNTIL SHE LEFT. THE PARTY.'''

* From [[Literature/TheBible The Book of Job]], Job gets an earful from God, and responds with "I put my hand on my mouth."

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1256.html #356]]: villainous lackey Pompey is cheering on the death of the police force when [[TheBigGuy Roy]] steps up behind him.

-->'''Bobby Baumgarner, DJ''': ''(into microphone)'' Hey, that's half the fun!

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0356.html #356]]: villainous lackey Pompey is cheering on the death of the police force when [[TheBigGuy Roy]] steps up behind him.

-->'''[[Actor Allusion Bobby Baumgarner, DJ]]''': ''(into microphone)'' Hey, that's half the fun!

* In one ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' comic, Batman has just apprehended a crazed serial killer who launches into a mocking NotSoDifferent lecture about how Batman is driven by the same bloodthirsty impulses the killer is and that it's only a matter of time before he gives into them. Batman calmly interrupts to point out that if this is true, his first victim is almost certainly going to be any crazed serial killer he happens to be next to, especially if the crazed serial killer in question is insulting him. The crazed serial killer decides that shutting up now is a good idea.

** After having had enough of Foghorn Leghorn telling them what to do, the person he has harassed throughout the episode will yell "[[BigShutUp AW SHUT UP!]]" while smacking him and he will reply "Okay I'll shut up, when someone tells me to shut up, I'll shut up..." while continuing to talk. One cartoon ends this way:
--->'''Foghorn Leghorn:''' Some fellas just have to keep their mouths flappin', but not me! I was brought up right, my pa used to tell me "shut up" and I'd shut up! I wouldn't say nothin'! One time, darn-near starved to death... ''[at this point, the cartoon starts to iris out to end, but the rooster stalls it briefly]'' Wouldn't tell him I was hungry! ''[cartoon finally ends]''

-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' You know, Perry the Platypus, that dress sort of suits you, if, you know, you just accentuate the positive, as they say... Um... I'm going to stop talking now, [[FoeYay I'm moving into a weird area]]...

* In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Molt starts babbling when the grasshoppers threaten the ant colony, and plays this trope when Hopper threatens him into silence.

** Willow is feeling ill after eating too much.

** PlayedForDrama in "The Drumhead" after InsaneAdmiral Satie suffers a VillainousBreakdown while trying to smear [[TheCaptain Picard]] in a KangarooCourt: "I have nothing more to say."
** In Lt. Barclay's introductory episode "Hollow Pursuits", Picard [[FreudianSlip accidentally]] calls him "[[EmbarrassingNickname Mr. Broccoli]]". As Barclay excuses himself and Picard looks mortified, Data chimes in, trying to be helpful:

--->'''Tara:''' Oh, baby, want me to rub your tummy? ''[to the others]'' She likes it when I... ''[quietly]'' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar stop explaining things.]]

Common phrases would be "I'll be quiet now" or "Okay, I'll just shut up" or simply silence. One key theme of this trope would be that they really do want to talk, but humiliation or perhaps painful humility stops them.

** From the musical episode, where they're trying to figure out who's made them all sing:

** After Willow's alternate dimension vampire self appears and Willow comments that she's evil, skanky, and [[{{Foreshadowing}} kind of gay]], Buffy comforts her that the vampire has nothing to do with the actual person.