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* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': EMIYA is slightly annoyed that his counterpart EMIYA Alter wields gunblades becomes he wishes he thought making them first.

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* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': EMIYA is slightly annoyed that his counterpart EMIYA Alter wields gunblades becomes because he wishes he thought making them first.
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* Fanfic/TheReasonWhyTheSecondMetaLiberationWarIsGoingToBeWeird: Izuku suggests to Re-Destro that he could use a sword coated in excess stress energy, leading to this response:

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* Fanfic/TheReasonWhyTheSecondMetaLiberationWarIsGoingToBeWeird: ''Fanfic/TheReasonWhyTheSecondMetaLiberationWarIsGoingToBeWeird'': Izuku suggests to Re-Destro that he could use a sword coated in excess stress energy, leading to this response:
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* Played for {{tearjerker}} effect in the ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' episode "Epitaph One". [[spoiler: The NeuralImplanting technology has been weaponized and the United States has collapsed into anarchy after [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld an attack from China]]. Topher, the scientist who helped develop the technology, is in his RoomFullOfCrazy and works out how it was done.]]
-->'''Topher:''' [[spoiler:An entire army in a single instant; that's all it takes. That's ''brilliant!'' Why didn't I think of that? (''sees Adele's expression'') Did I think of that? Did I? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Oh god... Oh my god... Oh my god...]]]]

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* Played for {{tearjerker}} effect in the ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' episode "Epitaph One". [[spoiler: The NeuralImplanting technology has been weaponized and the United States has collapsed into anarchy after [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld an attack from China]]. Topher, the scientist who helped develop the technology, is in his RoomFullOfCrazy and works out how it was done.]]
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-->'''Topher:''' [[spoiler:An An entire army in a single instant; that's all it takes. That's ''brilliant!'' Why didn't I think of that? (''sees Adele's expression'') Did I think of that? Did I? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Oh god... Oh my god... Oh my god...]]]]]]
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This is when a character suggests something to another character that they wish they'd thought up, or are even surprised they didn't think up first. Despite the opening this doesn't have to be a previously dim or [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} spacey]] character surprising a smart one (though that version may overlap with DumbassHasAPoint); simply suggesting something that in hindsight seems obvious can catch any character off guard. Compare GladIThoughtOfIt, where the character not only wishes they'd come up with the idea but tries to pretend they ''did'' come up with the idea.

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This is when a character suggests something to another character that they wish they'd thought up, or are even surprised they didn't think up first. Despite the opening this doesn't have to be a previously dim or [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} spacey]] character surprising a smart one (though that version may overlap with DumbassHasAPoint); simply suggesting something that in hindsight seems obvious can catch any character off guard. Compare GladIThoughtOfIt, where wherein the character not only wishes they'd come up with the idea but tries to pretend they ''did'' come up with the idea.
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* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': EMIYA is slightly annoyed that his counterpart EMIYA Alter wields gunblades becomes he wishes he thought making them first.
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* Fanfic/TheReasonWhyTheSecondMetaLiberationWarIsGoingToBeWeird: Izuku suggests to Re-Destro that he could use a sword coated in excess stress energy, leading to this response:
--> '''Re-Destro:''' [[spoiler:Notebook]], my boy. When it comes to creating support equipment, one has to consider not just "how good something is" but also whether it's economically feasible and whether the designs can work, as simplicity is important. Making things more complicated makes them more likely to be damaged in combat or malfunction.\\
'''Midoriya:''' [looks down]\\
'''Re-Destro:''' [dryly] However, this is a ''sword''. And I'm the richest person in the country. [to engineers] SO WHY THE HELL DON'T I HAVE A GIANT KATANA TO CUT MY ENEMIES DOWN WITH?!
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* In ''Film/{{RoboCop|2014}}'' (2014), this is the response of the [=OmniCorp=] PR man to the news that [=RoboCop=] is investigating his own murder.

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* In ''Film/{{RoboCop|2014}}'' (2014), ''Film/RoboCop2014'', this is the response of the [=OmniCorp=] PR man to the news that [=RoboCop=] is investigating his own murder.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 210, Mr. Cat starts his own game show where the objective of the game is to earn good karma by doing good things. [[NiceGuy Kaeloo]] is flabbergasted that [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] was the one to think of a game where the objective was to be a good person and not her, and wonders out loud why she never thought of this idea before.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' is centered around the characters playing a game. In Episode 210, Mr. Cat starts his own the game of the day is a game show started by Mr. Cat, where the objective of the game is to earn good karma by doing good things. [[NiceGuy Kaeloo]] is flabbergasted that [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] was the one to think of a game where the objective was to be a good person and not her, and wonders out loud why she never thought of this idea before.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 210, Mr. Cat starts his own game show where the objective of the game is to earn good karma by doing good things. [[NiceGuy Kaeloo]] is flabbergasted that [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] was the one to think of a game where the objective was to be a good person and not her, and wonders out loud why she never thought of this idea before.

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* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Mary has a moment of this, when thinking how nobody likes her.
--> '''Martha:''' Everybody likes Dickon.
--> '''Mary:''' No one likes me.
--> '''Martha:''' Well, maybe that's because you don't like other people.
--> '''Mary:''' I never thought of that.

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* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Mary has a moment of this, when thinking how why nobody likes her.
--> '''Martha:''' Everybody likes Dickon.
--> '''Mary:''' No one likes me.
--> '''Martha:''' Well, maybe that's because you don't
her. Martha suggests that Mary does not like other people.
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herself very much, and indeed she does not; Mary says that she had never thought of that.that before.
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* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': When George meets Julian, Dick and Anne at the very beginning of the series, she emphasises that she will not make friends with anybody just because they are her cousins, or silly things like that. Julian replies that they don't either, and they might not like her, of course. George looks surprised, as if she hadn't thought of that.
* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Mary has a moment of this, when thinking how nobody likes her.
--> '''Martha:''' Everybody likes Dickon.
--> '''Mary:''' No one likes me.
--> '''Martha:''' Well, maybe that's because you don't like other people.
--> '''Mary:''' I never thought of that.
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* ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': Dongtae asks [[spoiler:the Final Die why does it obey X instead of doing something for itself]]. It replies that it just didn't consider it, then determines it wants to [[spoiler:see everyone to have a chance to show their wishes and makes X follow own rules.]]
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* In the "Flying Sorcerers" arc of ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', the King of the Flying Sorcerers has a love of cakes and has Sweet Polly Purebred kidnapped to make him all the cakes he wants. When Underdog rescues her and the king bemoans not getting anymore cakes, Polly gives him a recipe so his people can make cakes without kidnapping chefs, leaving the king to wonder [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot why he didn't think of that in the first place]].

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* In the "Flying Sorcerers" arc of ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', the King of the Flying Sorcerers has a love of cakes and has Sweet Polly Purebred kidnapped to make him all the cakes he wants. When Underdog rescues her and the king bemoans not getting anymore any more cakes, Polly gives him a recipe so his people can make cakes without kidnapping chefs, leaving the king to wonder [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot why he didn't think of that in the first place]].
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* Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto has gone on record saying that he wishes he had thought of and created ''VideoGame/NiGHTSIntoDreams''.

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* Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto has gone on record saying that he wishes he had thought of and created ''VideoGame/NiGHTSIntoDreams''.''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Captain Hook does this when he's emotionally manipulating Tinker Bell into revealing the location of Peter's hideout, with the promise that he will help her get rid of Wendy.
-->'''Hook:''' What's that, my dear? ''You'' could show us the way? [[BlatantLies Why, I never thought of that.]] ''(aside)'' Take this down, Smee.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode 'Jailbird', when Negaduck uses a mystical gem to steal [[AllYourPowersCombined the powers of his fellow members of the Fearsome Five]], he uses Liquidator's water powers [[PartingTheSea to part the bay and make a clear path for himself to St. Canard]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode 'Jailbird', when Negaduck uses a mystical gem to steal [[AllYourPowersCombined the powers of his fellow members of the Fearsome Five]], he uses Liquidator's water powers [[PartingTheSea to part the bay and make a clear path for himself to St. Canard]].Canard]], taking away along with the advantages in his mutation his belief in his own creativity.

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