History Main / YesNoAnswerInterpretation

'''Tonks:''' You crazy? This is massive- Ministry appointed teacher tortures precious celebrity. This here, young Harry, is journalist gold.\\

* A variation in ''FanFic/HowTheLightGetsIn''. Dean and Nyssa went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to avenge [[spoiler:Laurel]]. Once this is over, Dean (who has minor injuries) asks if she's hurt. Nyssa just chuckles, clearly finding the question ludicrous. Dean takes that as answer enough and moves on.

--> “Excuse me,” said Gellert amiably, stepping in between Burro and the Emperor, “Are things about to get unreasonable?”\\
The Emperor, who towered above the griffon, turned to regard him, his expression impassive. “Step lightly around matters beyond your concern, little chieftain.”\\
“Taken as a yes. Excellent. I’m ''good'' at ‘unreasonable’.” Gellert cracked the knuckles on his claws.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9552519/14/Reboot Reboot]]'' Snape, Harry and Hermione kill the basilisk shortly before first year.

* In the first episode of ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', Rarity apparently models Twilight in a gimp suit off-screen. Rarity asks if she likes it, and when she's met with silence, she takes it as a no.

-->'''Lumiere:''' ''(nervously)'' Then again maybe not!

''([[spoiler:James Norrington]] [[DefiantToTheEnd responds by stabbing Jones before dying]])''\\

'''Pete''': 15!

--> '''Bandit:''' Can we declare that means yes?\\

** In strip [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0115.html 115]], Vaarsuvius is paralysed and Durkon is trying to ask [[AmbiguousGender them]] whether they're paralyzed or not, but since they are, all they can say is "Nunnh." Durkon keeps asking questions about what this answer means.

''(Waddles just looks at Mabel and snorts)''\\
'''Mabel:''' I'm not hearing a 'no'.

-->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': You're not still mad, are you?\\
''(Squidward opens jar in [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's direction)''\\
'''Patrick''': Yup, he's still mad.

-->'''Dr. Marmalade:''' Lord Reginald, are you all right? ''[shrieks and explosions are heard]'' I'm sorry, was that a yes?

* A variation in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8793565/chapters/20159878 How the Light Gets In]]''. Dean and Nyssa went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to avenge [[spoiler:Laurel]]. After its all over Dean (who has minor injuries) asks is she's hurt. Nyssa just chuckles, clearly finding the question ludicrous. Dean takes that as answer enough and moves on.

** In "Jellyfishing", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick give Squidward a jellyfish as a get-well present, as a way of apologizing for the trouble they caused the day before.

''[[[spoiler:Norrington]] [[DefiantToTheEnd stabs Jones and expires]]]''\\
'''Davy Jones:''' I'll take it as a "no".

* This was used in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Chimps Ahoy", when Lord Reginald is being tortured by Patrick's invention:

--->'''Foreman:''' [My employer now wants to purchase for] ''double'' the initial offer! What do you say to that?\\
''[Carl blasts the foreman in the face with his leaf blower]''\\
'''Foreman:''' ...I'll take that as a no.

* In ''VisualNovel/MyLittleInvestigations'', when Apple Bloom doesn't look convinced at Twilight Sparkle's promise not to tell anyone what she just told her, she promises it with a Pinkie Pie swear from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the show]]: "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." The response this gets is "That a yes?"

* In the first episode of ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', Rarity apparently models Twilight in a gimp suit off-screen. Rarity asks if she likes it, and when she's met with silence, she takes it as a no.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10622306/8/The-Day-The-Dursleys-Came-To-Hogwarts The Day the Dursleys Came to Hogwarts]]'' Harry's cousin fights with Draco, Crabbe and Goyle after Draco tries to get him to demonstrate "Harry Hunting."

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10914042/17/Sympathetic-Properties Sympathetic Properties]]'' Hermione goes through a goblin memory extraction process which leaves humans a little addled for a short time afterwards.
-->'''Dan Granger:''' Are you alright?\\
'''Hermione:''' Blueberry?\\
'''Dan Granger:''' I'm going to take that as a "yes."
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9552519/14/Reboot Reboot]]'' Snape, Harry and Hermione kill the basilisk shortly before first year.
-->'''Snape:''' It's done. It's dead. Now all we need to do is render the beast. I don't suppose you fancy helping us out with that mammoth task, do you?\\
'''[=McGonagall=]:''' Potions never was my best subject.\\
'''Snape:''' So that's a no, then?
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11567521/11/Is-Your-Great-Aunt-an-AI Is Your Great-Aunt an AI?]]'' [=GLaDOS=] mentions the possibility of performing various tests on Peter Pettigrew.
-->'''Gordon:''' Wow. Should I feel sorry for him?\\
'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' He betrayed two of his closest friends to their deaths, by all accounts, and condemned a third to prison with monster guards who suck the life and happiness from their surroundings more than the average corporate manager.\\
'''Gordon:''' ...I guess that's a no, right?
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11200456/4/Harry-Potter-and-the-Cetra-Heritage-Book-1-of-The-Cetra-Heritage Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage]]'':
-->'''Jenova:''' Voldemort? What a strange name. But mine is pretty strange, so I guess I can't talk. A friend of yours?\\
'''Harry:''' He murdered my parents and tried to kill me.\\
'''Jenova:''' So that's a no then.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11637611/4/The-Silent-World-of-Cassandra-Evans The Silent World of Cassandra Evans]]'':
-->'''Cassandra:''' Everybody says how nice and clever my Mum was but nobody talks about my Dad. Is it because he was a bit of a bastard?\\
'''Snape:''' James Charlus Potter, your father, was a brute and a braggart and a fool. He and his cronies, the princes of Gryffindor, liked to think that they were pranksters but they ruled this place through bullying and fear. I knew he'd never do right by my Lilypad but she could never see it. I knew he'd never marry...\\
'''Cassandra:''' So that's a yes then. You're not very Slytherin when you talk about my parents, are you.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12451827/4/Family-The-Second-Year Family- The Second Year]]'':
-->'''Harry:''' Uhm...Sue...is there any chance that you'd let me play against Slytherin?\\
'''Susan:''' Seriously? You seriously have to ask me that question?\\
'''Harry:''' I take it that's a no, then?

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13065793/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Bodacious-Bodyguard Harry Potter and the Bodacious Bodyguard]]'' Tonks helps rescue Harry and Dudley from the dementors.
-->'''Tonks:''' Oy, Dursley, can you walk?\\
'''Dudley:''' I, er...what?\\
'''Tonks:''' I'll take that as a yes.

* From ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'':
-->'''Davy Jones:''' [[CatchPhrase Do you fear death?]]\\
''[[[spoiler:Norrington]] [[DefiantToTheEnd stabs Jones and expires]]]''\\
'''Davy Jones:''' I'll take it as a "no".

* In ''Film/BeautyShop'', after Gina gives Elizabeth the bank teller a makeover in an attempt to get a loan:
-->'''Gina:''' Do you like it?\\
'''Elizabeth:''' Oh! ''[hugs]''\\
'''Gina:''' ''[laugh]'' I guess that's a "yes," or is that the way you fight?
* In ''Film/HoubaOnTheTrailOfTheMarsupilami'', [[TheGeneralissimo General Hermoso]] is making "a proposal he can't refuse" to the captured Marsupilami (despite him being a smart but non-talking animal), until [[TheDragon the Corporal]] nudges Marsu with the barrel of his gun, eliciting a pained squeal. Hermoso takes that as a "yes".
* In ''Film/TheExpendables'', Barney shoots [[spoiler:the team traitor Gunnar]]. He asks Barney if he's going to die. Barney just tells him that the shot hit him two inches above the heart. He takes that as a yes. [[spoiler:However, he shows up alive and healthy at the end of the film.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Dodger}}'', after Dodger beats up a man who was threatening his life, breaking his nose so he can't speak intelligibly, and drags him away to leave him on the street, he says: "You are a very lucky man. And if I ever see your face around here again you will have what we in the business call a very close shave. Understand? I will assume that was a yes."

* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** Used in the pilot episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S1E1ChildrenOfTheGods Children of the Gods]]". Jack answers Hammond's question in a reasonably confident tone of voice, but by this point Air Force personnel have been torn up pretty badly by the Jaffa both times they've met them, so you can understand Hammond not sharing Jack's confidence.
--->'''Maj. Gen. George Hammond:''' Colonel, you've had the most experience in fighting this hostile. Assuming you have to defend yourself in the field, are you up to it?\\
'''Col. Jack O'Neill:''' We beat 'em once.\\
'''Hammond:''' I'll take that as a "maybe".
** After beaming onto an enemy ship and coming under heavy fire, Colonel Mitchell announces his presence and asks the enemy soldiers to surrender. When they don't stop shooting, he says "That's a no" and starts returning fire.
* In ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', Arthur proposes to Guinevere who responds with TheGlomp. Arthur looks puzzled for a moment and asks "Is that a yes?" prompting Gwen to let him go and clarify that she did mean to say yes.

* ''Series/YesMinister'' practically oozes with those, especially by [[IdiotSavant Hacker]] on any of [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Sir Humphrey's]] ([[NonAnswer often deliberate]]) fits of vague, unfocused SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.

* Early in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC "Citadel", Shepard winds up in trouble (big shock) and Wrex (or James Vega if Wrex is dead) arrives to bail Shepard out. As the two of them defend their position from waves of mercenaries:
-->'''Wrex'''/'''James:''' Shepard, you've got a plan for getting us out of here, right?\\
'''Shepard:''' Wrex/James, ''please''. I'm a ''professional''.\\
'''Wrex'''/'''James:''' That's not a yes...\\
'''Shepard:''' It's not a no!

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** In strip [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0115.html 115]], Vaarsuvius is paralysed and Durkon is trying to ask [[AmbiguousGender them]] whether they're paralyzed or not, but since they are, all they can say is "Nunnh." Durkon keeps asking questions about what this answer means.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0512.html Strip 512]]:
--->'''Haley:''' Thanh, can you handle the granary guards by yourself?\\
'''Thanh:''' The anguished souls of a thousand unjustly slain Azurites will guide each swing of my blade.\\
'''Haley:''' I'll take that as a "Yes."
** Done by Gannji the {{lizardfolk}} on his latest meeting with Haley:
--->'''Gannji:''' So, no hard feelings on the whole kidnapping thing?\\
'''Haley:''' If anything happens to [my father], you'll make a very stylish handbag.\\
'''Gannji:''' I'm going to choose to hear that as, "We cool."
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', "The Bug, the Witch, and the Robot":
-->'''K'Z'K:''' You're a scientist, Riff! Calculate how much force it would take to bank-shot Torg's spine off the building across the street. Is ''this'' about enough?\\
'''Riff:''' ''[[BigNo NO!]]''\\
'''K'Z'K:''' I take it in this case, no means yes.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-01-16 The 01/16/03 strip.]]
-->'''Tagon:''' Massey, you've been with us since before Doyt came aboard. During that time have we done anything illegal?\\
'''Massey:''' Do you want me to sort the list by date, or do you want it grouped into "felonies" and "misdemeanors"?\\
'''Tagon:''' You could have just said "yes" and left it at that.\\
'''Massey:''' A couple of items may fall under "high treason" or "war crimes". I'll have to check.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The general (and chief cook) of the Corbetite Railway monks doesn't bother himself with niceties:
-->'''Brother Vadaxxus:''' ''You!'' In the ''stupid hat''. Are those ''your'' ships up there?\\
'''Martellus von Blitzengaard:''' ''Stupid-- I'' am the ''Storm King!''\\
'''Brother Vadaxxus:''' So that's a ''"Yes."''
* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2581 Maxima has some troubles]] with a new recruit that was previously entranced by the team's succubus.
-->'''Maxima:''' Until this is resolved, I don't want you two in the same room, understood?\\
'''Jabberwokky:''' ''[restrained]'' I want to punch her in the mouth and then kiss it all better!\\
'''Maxima:''' ''[massages her temples]'' '''''SIIIIIIIIIIGH''''' I'll take that as a yes.
* ''WebComic/DarthsAndDroids''

--> '''[[GameMaster GM]]''': Red Ten shoots desperately at the grille. Pete, do you want to roll, since you're controlling his X-wing?
--> '''Pete''': This is ''precisely'' the situation I have this bag of NPC dice for!
--> '''GM''': I'll take that as a--
--> '''Pete''': 15!

--> '''Jabba's droid''': You are a protocol droid, are you not?
--> '''C-3PO''': No.
--> '''Jabba's droid''': Do you mean no you are not, or no you are?
--> '''C-3PO''': Yes.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' are trying to reunite the members of the band Love Handel. They visit the old bass player, who isn't interested because he thinks nobody remembers him. They change his mind with a musical number about how fabulous he is. At the end, Ferb's MandatoryLine for the episode is "May we take that as a yes?"
* At the end of "Night Bears" from ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsWelcomeToCareALot'', Grumpy Bear asks Sweet Dreams Bear if she can send him again his dream with a never-ending food cabinet. She tells him to "Keep dreaming," leading him to ask if that's a yes or a no, and to start begging.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}:'' In "Roswell that Ends Well":
-->'''President Harry Truman:''' Bushwah! Now what's your mission? Are you planning to make some kind of alien-human hybrid?\\
'''Zoidberg:''' Are you coming on to me?\\
'''Truman:''' Hot crackers! I take exception to that!\\
'''Zoidberg:''' ''[sexily]'' I'm not hearing a no...
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': From the beginning of "Land Before Swine":
-->'''Mabel:''' Finally, we're alone, Waddles! What do you think, dance party?\\
''(Waddles just looks at Mabel and snorts)''\\
'''Mabel:''' I'm not hearing a 'no'.

* Played for drama in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. Aladdin, as Prince Ali, is bound, gagged, and thrown off a cliff into the ocean. In his struggles to get free, he manages to rub the lamp before he passes out. The Genie ''wants'' to free Aladdin, but after Aladdin tricked him into getting them out of the Cave of Wonders with no wishing, they agreed "no more freebies", so he can't save Aladdin without an actual wish. He reminds Aladdin of this, saying, "You have to say, 'Genie, I want you to save my life.' Got it?" He quickly interprets an unconscious head bob as a yes and saves Aladdin at the cost of a wish.

** And after Carl makes his feelings on the matter clear to the land developer,

** [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0899.html episode 899]]:

** [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1207.html Episide 1207]]:

* ''WebComic/DarthsAndDroids'' [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0899.html episode 899]]:

* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', Omi uses an object to split him into copies, which unfortunately suffer from CloneDegeneration. When one of the copies runs across a Shen Gong Wu as the same time as Jack Spicer, Jack challenges him to a Xiaolin Showdown. When the copy doesn't answer, he asks him he accepts. The copy just beeps his nose. Jack decides to take that as a yes.

-> '''Maj. Gen. George Hammond:''' Colonel, you've had the most experience in fighting this hostile. Assuming you have to defend yourself in the field, are you up to it?\\

-->-- ''Series/StargateSG1'', [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E1ChildrenOfTheGods "Children of the Gods"]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' has two examples in the beginning, with Carl being greeted with the construction foreman about his house.
-->'''Foreman''': [My employer now wants to purchase for] ''double'' the initial offer! What do you say to that?
-->''(Carl blasts the foreman in the face with his leaf blower)''
-->'''Foreman''':...I'll take that as a no.

-->'''Foreman''': This is serious! He wants your house!
-->'''Carl''': Tell him he can have our house!
-->'''Foreman''': ...Really?
-->'''Carl''': When I'm ''dead''! ''(Carl slams the door)''
-->'''Foreman''':...I'll take that as a maybe!

'''Hermione:''' So that would be a 'no'.

-->'''Gannji:''' So, no hard feelings on the whole kidnapping thing?\\

'''Hermione:''' You find what Remus was talking about yet?\\

'''Colonel Mustard:''' 'No,' meaning 'yes'!? Look, I want a straight answer. Is there someone else or isn't there, yes or no?\\

* In ''Film/TheExpendables'' Barney shoots [[spoiler:the team traitor Gunnar]]. He asks Barney if he's going to die. Barney just tells him that the shot hit him two inches above the heart. He takes that as a yes. [[spoiler:However, he shows up alive and healthy at the end of the film.]]

-->'''Messenger:''' At the least he shall deliver one twelfth portion of the treasure unto Bard, as the dragon-slayer, and as the heir of Girion. From that portion Bard will himself contribute to the aid of Esgaroth; but if Thorin would have the friendship and honour of the lands about, as his sires had of old, then he will give also somewhat of his own for the comfort of the men of the Lake.\\

--> '''Seven:''' We are Borg.\\

[[spoiler:'''Wheatley]]:''' ''[sarcastically]'' What do you think?\\

[[spoiler:'''Wheatley]]:''' [[RapidFireNo No, no, no, no, no, no, no!]] Didn't pick up on my sarcasm!

'''Wrex'''/'''James:''' That's not a yes...
-->'''Shepard:''' It's not a no!

** In strip [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0115.html 115]], Vaarsuvius is paralysed and Durkon is trying to ask [[AmbiguousGender them]] whether they're paralysed or not, but since they are, all they can say is "Nunnh." Durkon keeps asking questions about what this answer means.

--> "Thanh, can you handle the granary guards by yourself?"
--> "The anguished souls of a thousand unjustly slain Azurites will guide each swing of my blade."
--> "I'll take that as a 'Yes.'"

-->'''Maxima:''' Until this is resolved, I don't want the two of you in the same room, understood?\\
'''Jabberwocky:''' I want to punch her in the mouth and then kiss it all better!\\
'''Maxima:''' ''SIIIIIIIIIIGH'' I'll take that as a yes.

[[folder:Web Original]]

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10622306/8/The-Day-The-Dursleys-Came-To-Hogwarts The Day the Dursleys Came to Hogwarts]]'' Harry's cousin fights with Draco Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle after Malfoy tries to get him to demonstrate some "Harry Hunting."

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9552519/14/Reboot Reboot]]'' Snape, Harry and Hermione kill the basilisk shortly before the start of first year.

-->'''Announcer:''' Corrupted core, are you ready to start the procedure?\\

** Earlier [[spoiler:Wheatley]] himself pulls this trope with Chell.
--->'''[[spoiler:Wheatley]]''': And I just wanted to give you the chance to kill yourself, now, before you get to the lair. Just jump into that masher, just there, less a death trap, more a death option.\\
''[leaves or [[ShutUpHannibal shoots a mine into the monitor]]]''\\
'''[[spoiler:Wheatley]]''': Okay, I'll take that as a "no" then.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', a sunspot is messing with Static's powers, but unfortunately he has to deal with Hot Streak. He tries to trick Hot Streak into thinking that the sunspot has made him even more powerful, but the ruse falters. Static gives Hot Streak a chance to surrender, which he just laughs at. Static mutters that he'll take that as a no. Hot Streak responds "Wrong. '''This''' is a no!" and starts hurling fireballs at Static.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Done by Gannji the {{lizardfolk}} on his latest meeting with Haley:

* ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': In strip [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0115.html 115]], Vaarsuvius is paralysed and Durkon is trying to ask [[AmbiguousGender them]] whether they're paralysed or not, but since they are, all they can say is "Nunnh." Durkon keeps asking questions about what this answer means.

* Played for drama in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. Aladdin, as Prince Ali, is bound, gagged, and thrown off a cliff into the ocean. In his struggles to get free, he manages to rub the lamp before he passes out. The Genie ''wants'' to free Aladdin, but after Aladdin tricked him into getting them out of the Cave of Wonders with no wishing, they agreed "no more freebies", so he can't save Aladdin without an actual wish. He reminds Aladdin of this, saying, "You have to say, 'Genie, I want you to save my life.' Got it?" He quickly interprets an unconscious head bob as a yes and saves Aladdin at the cost of a wish.

''[[[spoiler:Norrington]] stabs Jones and expires]''\\