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* Occurs in the climax of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheKnightsOnDinosaurs'', when Nobita and friends fends off the dinosauroid army in the Cretaceous Era only for the climax to be interrupted by the CometOfDoom marking the end of the [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed Cretaceous period]]. Both sides beats a hasty retreat until the situation calms down; when the Dinosauroids reappears Doraemon waves a white flag signalling a ceasefire before using a hologram gadget to reveal what actually caused the dinosaur extinction.

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* Occurs in the climax of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheKnightsOnDinosaurs'', when Nobita and friends fends off the dinosauroid army in the Cretaceous Era only for the climax to be interrupted by the CometOfDoom marking the end of the [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed [[TheDayTheDinosaursDied Cretaceous period]]. Both sides beats a hasty retreat until the situation calms down; when the Dinosauroids reappears Doraemon waves a white flag signalling a ceasefire before using a hologram gadget to reveal what actually caused the dinosaur extinction.
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* ''Anime/NadiatheSecretOfBlueWater'':

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* The commercial for VideoGame/MarioBros for the Platform/Atari2600 and Platform/Atari5200 has [[AdvertisingOnlyContinuity red plaid shirt Luigi]] under attack by Shellcreepers, Sidesteppers and Fighter Flies and ends with him waving a white flag while ducking into a pipe.

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* The commercial for VideoGame/MarioBros ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' for the Platform/Atari2600 and Platform/Atari5200 has [[AdvertisingOnlyContinuity red plaid shirt Luigi]] under attack by Shellcreepers, Sidesteppers and Fighter Flies and ends with him waving a white flag while ducking into a pipe.
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* The commercial for VideoGame/MarioBros for the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 and UsefulNotes/Atari5200 has [[AdvertisingOnlyContinuity red plaid shirt Luigi]] under attack by Shellcreepers, Sidesteppers and Fighter Flies and ends with him waving a white flag while ducking into a pipe.

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* The commercial for VideoGame/MarioBros for the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 Platform/Atari2600 and UsefulNotes/Atari5200 Platform/Atari5200 has [[AdvertisingOnlyContinuity red plaid shirt Luigi]] under attack by Shellcreepers, Sidesteppers and Fighter Flies and ends with him waving a white flag while ducking into a pipe.
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* In the web game ''X-tract Paperclip'' (made to promote Advertising/MicrosoftOfficeXP), [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftOfficeAssistant Clippy]] waves one after being defeated and buried under a pile of push pins at the end.
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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Rowf the dog sings the song "[[TheCatCameBack The Cat Came Back]]", which includes a bit where the protagonist loads the aforementioned cat into a cannon and fires it off, prompting all the neighbors to appear waving white surrender flags. [[spoiler:The cat survives and comes back.]]

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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Rowf Rowlf the dog sings the song "[[TheCatCameBack The Cat Came Back]]", which includes a bit where the protagonist loads the aforementioned cat into a cannon and fires it off, prompting all the neighbors to appear waving white surrender flags. [[spoiler:The cat survives and comes back.]]
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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Rowf the dog sings the song "[[TheCatCameBack The Cat Came Back]]", which includes a bit where the protagonist loads the aforementioned cat into a cannon and fires it off, prompting all the neighbors to appear waving white surrender flags. [[Spoiler:The cat survives and comes back.]]

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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Rowf the dog sings the song "[[TheCatCameBack The Cat Came Back]]", which includes a bit where the protagonist loads the aforementioned cat into a cannon and fires it off, prompting all the neighbors to appear waving white surrender flags. [[Spoiler:The [[spoiler:The cat survives and comes back.]]
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* An "Italian Army Knife" is said to feature a wine corkscrew, a pizza cutter, and a pop-up white surrender flag.


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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Rowf the dog sings the song "[[TheCatCameBack The Cat Came Back]]", which includes a bit where the protagonist loads the aforementioned cat into a cannon and fires it off, prompting all the neighbors to appear waving white surrender flags. [[Spoiler:The cat survives and comes back.]]
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** Around TheNewTens, amidst resurging controversies/riots over displays of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate symbols]], displaying a white flag with "The only Confederate flag that mattered." became an increasingly popular meme.
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* Gloriously defied in the climax of ''Film/SeventyOneIntoTheFire''. The North Korean GeneralRipper releases a couple of hostages from the South, telling them to raise a white flag, or else be destroyed when the North advances with a thousand soldiers and several tanks. The next morning, the heroes raises a [[ISurrenderSuckers South Korean flag]].
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* Occurs in the climax of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheKnightsOnDinosaurs'', when Nobita and friends fends off the dinosauroid army in the Cretaceous Era only for the climax to be interrupted by the CometOfDoom marking the end of the [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed Cretaceous period]]. Both sides beats a hasty retreat until the situation calms down; when the Dinosauroids reappears Doraemon waves a white flag signalling a ceasefire before using a hologram gadget to reveal what actually caused the dinosaur extinction.
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* In Episode 22 of ''Anime/CrossAnge'', after having her HeelRealization, Ersha heads for the Aurora brandishing ''her bra'' at the tip of her unit as a white flag.
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* In ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'', this was done in a comical way. When Fox McCloud is downed, he raises his white-tipped foxtail and waves it around like a white flag.
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* One ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' microgame requires the player to keep a spotlight trained on Wario as he moves around in an otherwise dark area. If the spotlight's still on him when the time runs out, Wario hoists a pair of white flags and you get credit for successfully clearing the microgame.

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* ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaMicrogames'': One ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' microgame requires the player to keep a spotlight trained on Wario as he moves around in an otherwise dark area. If the spotlight's still on him when the time runs out, Wario hoists a pair of white flags and you get credit for successfully clearing the microgame.
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** Since the gravitic senors that are used to detect wedges operate at faster than light speeds this allows for a surrender to be communicated more rapidly than it would using standard lightspeed communications, an important consideration when fights can take place as a distance measured in light-minutes.
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* Music/BlueOysterCult, ''White Flags''.

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* Music/BlueOysterCult, ''White Flags''.''[[Music/ClubNinja White Flags]]''.

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