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9	* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'': Credenza and Raven have a bit of back-and-forth in Book 7, involving the line: "Of course. It's only okay when ''you'' do it." %%needs context
10	* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': ''[[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050419c Jesus, Dr. Light, it's only one button]]''
11	* ''Webcomic/{{Bobwhite}}'', [[http://www.bobwhitecomics.com/?webcomic_post=20090713 this comic]]. Marlene, a film major, has nothing but complaints about a movie they just saw. Georgie, unconcerned with the technical aspects, thought it was pretty good and doesn't see why Marlene's so worked up. They go to get a burger and suddenly their positions are switched.
12	* ''Webcomic/DailyJoJo'': In the third episode of "Tomorrow's Jo" (the first arc), Eunjo gives Wan some cookies, but he recalls that she was picking her nose and touching her feet, so he tosses the cookies in the trash when she's gone. In the fourth episode of "Masks On" (the fourth arc), Wan has adopted Eunjo's relaxed mannerisms. When Wan offers the new worker, Mijo, a caramel, she recalls that he was just touching his feet and tosses the caramel in the trash when he isn't looking.
13	* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', the session run by Pete begins with him explaining the GM has "some family emergency or whatever". At the start of the next session, the regular GM says Pete won't make it because "he said he had some kind of family emergency". Ben, still annoyed about the railroaded isn't-R2-awesome deathtrap, adds the "Or whatever."
14	* ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': As the punishment for the final game, X decides he would grant everyone [[FateWorseThanDeath the opposite of what their wishes are]]. During the challenge Dongtae manages to [[spoiler:make it so noone, not even Mooyoung, would want to play with X, which was X's entire wish to the Final Die.]]
15	* In [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2004-08-10 this]] ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' strip, Rachel, an athletic female friend of Gregory's, goes to break up a fight between him and [[spoiler:the bigot slaughterball player she used to idolize]], Brett Taggerty:
16	-->'''Rachel:''' I don't know what's going on in here, but I suggest you '''let go''' of my friend and explain yourself.\
17	'''Brett:''' ''(lets go of Gregory and raises his fist)'' Yeah? How about I break your '''face''' instead?!\
18	'''Rachel:''' I invite you to try, Taggerty.\
19	''(Brett promptly punches Rachel in the jaw, eliciting a "KRAK"; but in the next panel, he's got a bloody hand)''\
20	'''Brett:''' AAAAAGGH!\
21	'''Rachel:''' I break things with my face.
22	* ''Webcomic/EverythingIsFine'': [[spoiler: Before Officer Tom activates red status on Charlie, Charlie tells him "Just act it out! We can go back" Tom replies "I'm sorry, Charlie. There's no going back." Later on, a bludgeoned Tom tells Maggie, who had witnessed the prior event, tells her "I'll... I'll forget! We can go back!" Maggie replies "I'm sorry, Tom. There's no going back." before repeatedly bludgeoning his head to death with her claw hammer.]]
23	* From [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2013-04-22/comic/non-storyline/randoms/convention-flyer-twentythirteen/ this]] ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' comic:
24	-->'''Virus''': Do you feel kind of bad, deserting Lothar and Rogue like that?\
25	'''Eastwood''': Balls to that, this is what we pay them for.
26	-->''[Next Panel]'':
27	-->'''Rogue''': Think we should tell them they're running ''towards'' the big one?\
28	'''Lothar''': Balls to that, they don't pay us enough.
29	* ''WebComic/FaultyLogic'' uses the "malicious" variant in [[http://faultylogic.comicgenesis.com/d/20080405.html a single (long) strip]]
30	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
31	** When Agatha awakes on ''Castle Wulfenbach'', Moloch [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030514 covers her mouth and tells her]] "Quiet! Quiet! I'm not gonna hurt you unless I gotta, but I will if you act stupid. Now I'm going to take my hand away. I'm giving you one chance." When they [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080312 meet again in Castle Heterodyne]], she does and says nearly the exact same thing.
32	** When it turns out Princess Neena has stowed away on Agatha's airship, the [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20231020 same dialogue]] happens twice, reversed:
33	--->'''Agatha''': I do ''not'' want to make your mother ''angry''!\
34	'''Neena''': So ''don't tell her''! I've got seventy-three sisters! She won't even know I've ''gone''!\
35	'''Krosp''': ''[sarcastically]'' You ''really'' think that'll ''work''?\
36	[...]\
37	'''Rakehorn''': Her Majesty will ''not'' be ''pleased''.\
38	'''Krosp''': ''[amused]'' So don't tell her!\
39	'''Neena''': ''[nonplussed]'' You ''really'' think that'll ''work''?
40	* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'':
41	** The confrontation in the sewer between Delyn and Thaco when Thaco parrots Delyn's "Bleed for me" line after [[spoiler:pinning him on a broken sewer pipe.]]
42	** And again later, Minmax thinks that Dellyn's wooden sword shouldn't have been able to break his steel one. Dellyn says that '...there is a special place in hell reserved for those who die complaining about the rules.' After demonstrating just how broken his character is, Minmax says [[http://goblinscomic.com/03232010 'Careful Dellyn, I heard a rumor about those who die complaining about the rules.]]
43	** [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/09072010/ Third]] time's the charm.
44	** [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/06262005/ "I think I lost them."]] [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/07282006/ "I call dibs on his gauntlet(s)."]].
45	** [[spoiler:[[http://www.goblinscomic.com/10212011-2/ I find it astounding how often creatures mistake]] [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/10242011-2/ their own stupidity for a lack of fairness.]]]]
46	** "I'd be tempted to say that this is 'impossible', but that is a word used only by idiots who lack the patience and reason to consider their own surroundings." ... "Impossible!"
47	* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'':
48	** [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib058.html Harassed by men as freak lover]], [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib059.html Caspian tells a third-party he had to beat them up as freak lovers.]]
49	** [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib065.html Elnor blames her hangover on jostling]]; then [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib080.html the injured Roan begs her not to jostle him]]
50	* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Jean and Darla discuss that they haven't seen the dean of the science department around for a while, wnd wonder what he's up to. Jean comments, "Maybe he finally got a life." Cut to the Dean, in his home laboratory, preparing to create a monster, and declaring, "Now, I shall beget life!"
51	* In ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'', Walky tells [[http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20020504.html Joyce]] "You ''are'' beautiful, Joyce. It's the world that's ugly." Joyce later uses [[http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20020624.html this line on his sister]], Sal, in an attempt to talk her down from her [[FoeTossingCharge Homicidal Rage]].
52	* ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'' has "What are you doing?" "I want my ten damn mayhem points, that's what I'm doing." In context: The cast is playing an RPG one of them invented in which, among other things, getting your character laid is worth a guaranteed ten "mayhem points", which work like action points and are awarded directly by the GM for doing something awesome. In the first case, Ellen's character is putting the moves on Jamie's, but he declines for both in- and out-of-universe reasons. In the second, which takes place immediately afterwards, Nicole's character has proceeded to jump in and try to score with Ellen's.
53	* In the ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' [[BSideComics NPC]] story, "The Hctib Diaries", every time Hctib complains about his job or something the clipboard demon did to him, the clipboard demon sarcastically says, "You know we're demons, right?" Toward the end, the clipboard demon says that he and Hctib's wife [[spoiler:who's been sleeping with him]] are worried about him because of everything that's gone wrong and asks him how he's doing. After a {{beat}}, Hctib [[spoiler:[[HoistbyHisOwnPetard brains and slaughters the other demon with his own clipboard]]]] and yells, "YOUKNOWWE'REDEMONSRIGHT?"
54	* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': Between [[http://www.ma3comic.com/strips-ma3/a-musical-empire this page]] and the next:
55	-->'''Angel:''' By contrast, with Yuki and Sonya by my side, I'm ready to found a musical empire. I'll be like the genderfluid… I don't know… Julius Caesar.\
56	''[The next page, with Sonya having announced she's quitting the band and Yuki eager to rejoin Zii's band]''\
57	'''Angel:''' ''I'm surrounded by traitors!!! Traitors everywhere!!! I'm like the genderfluid Julius Caesar!!!''
58	* ''Webcomic/AMiracleOfScience'' has two, "That, gentlemen, is the sound of conquest" and [[spoiler:"Behold, the Martian invasion fleet."]] The first one is used by [[spoiler:Ben first in the flashback as a MadScientist trying to take over the moon, and later by Ben when he is confronting Haas.]] The second one is used [[spoiler:first jokingly by Caprice, but then seriously by Ben in the end]].
59	* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': "I love you." "Not enough." Note that ''both'' characters who say it are ironically echoing the other. Isn't time travel fun?
60	* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', Perrault tells November "You could always turn around and go home." Then, they meet Red. Somewhat later, following her through the woods, November repeats the line to Perrault.
61	* The ''Fire Red'' season of the original ''{{Webcomic/Nuzlocke Comic\|s}}'' has Gary's declaration from the start of [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue the original games]] that he 'picked the wrong Pokémon' in [[http://www.nuzlocke.com/comics/pokemon-hard-mode/page/36/ a much darker context]] with regards to how he meant it. In part of the epilogue, his Blastoise decides that he's finally taken enough of his crap, and blasts him out of his shoulder cannon into the distance after [[http://www.nuzlocke.com/comics/pokemon-hard-mode/page/17/ echoing the line back to him.]] He even finishes it up with a OneLinerEcho.
62	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
63	** In the prequel book ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]'', wizards repeatedly act condescendingly to Xykon, a sorcerer; wizardry, which comes through study, is like a "finely-tuned watch," while sorcery, which comes naturally, is unwieldy like "a rubber hammer." Later, when Dorukan uses the same line, Xykon [[spoiler:repeatedly hits him with Energy Drain spells, making Dorukan's own magic impossible while slowly killing him. Xykon points out that even if his magic is less sophisticated, the fact is that at a certain level of power no strategy can work against you, and right before killing him mocks that Dorukan can "keep [his] finely tuned watch -- Give me a sledgehammer to the face any day."]]
64	** Also, in the Greysky City arc, Haley derides Celia's ThouShaltNotKill attitude, and tells Celia to back up, because she was "going to betray [Celia's] principles all over the friggin place." Later, when Celia makes a deal so everyone lives [[spoiler:but Haley [[BerserkButton retroactively owed 50% of everything she ever stole]]]], Haley furiously asks if Celia knew what she had just done. Celia snaps back, "If I had to guess, I'd say that I betrayed your principles all over the friggin place."
65	** Haley tells the goblins she has good news and bad news. The goblin cleric fires off a spell, and, as Haley realizes what it means: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0512.html "OK, so I've got bad news, and I've got bad news."]]
66	** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0796.html "Stop]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0808.html talking!"]] From Thog to Roy, and then not too much later fired right back.
67	** Don't forget the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0795.html scene that just preceded it]], with Thog's [[spoiler:tusk]] getting broken, echoing [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0114.html this scene]] way back in the first dungeon.
68	--->'''Roy:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You! Broke! My! Sword!]]
69	** During the battle in the desert with Tarquin's gang, Elan says that Tarquin can't kill Roy without [[GoThroughMe going through him]]. Tarquin replies "You're still at full hit points, right? You'll live." When Elan [[spoiler: lets Tarquin fall from the airship]], the last thing he says to him is "You'll live."
70	* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': In chapter 5, Johnny mistakes Jeff for Isaac and tries to bully him to get information about the Activity Club. When he finds out Jeff doesn't know, [[https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-22 he says,]] "what a waste of good violence." During the Hitball game, when Jeff is [[spoiler:possessed by Hijack]] and giving Johnny a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, [[https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-66 he says these words]] right back.
71	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
72	** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-07-09 Lunesby delivers a fast version]] to "a little lost amorph" after Schlock tells a little lost smartcomm "It's okay, little dropped comm, don't be scared." (He thought he was talking to the [=SIs=] the things usually have.)
73	** Howard loves this trope, really. It's happened several times after the Lunesby example there; [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-05-26 here's another occurrence]], where Tailor asks for a demonstration of how fast Schlock can climb in a bag that's currently inside him, and where the [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-10-06 results]] of Tailor's work are demonstrated for Tagon.
74	** [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-19 "It's more sporting this way."]] Said by Tagon to his father Karl, then shot right back at him by his dad when the commander of the opposing [[spoiler:paintball]] force proved smarter than the younger Tagon thought.
75	* ''Webcomic/SketchComedy'': Susan [[http://thesketchy.com/ic/2013/05/09/fame unwittingly delivers]] an ironic echo to Karen. In sign language, no less.
76	* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'':
77	** In "Kiki's Virus", Dr. Schlock captures Kiki the talking ferret and threatens to dissect her, and she says "Don't hurt me! I'll be good!" Then Sam -- Kiki's former owner and now a vampire -- shows up and [[NeckLift picks up]] Dr. Schlock, prompting him to say the exact same thing.
78	** "Weird girl, Sasha" gets repeated over and over again by almost all the (sane) characters... and then Sasha gets a chance to throw it back at them : "Weird guy, Torg"
79	* In ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'', when Alison took issue with Max's family's treatment of the illegal laborers tending to their garden (in paying them a flat day rate under table rather than a more fair hourly rate), Max described it as [[http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-69-3/ 'creating an incentive structure'.]] Later, after Alison learned that Max was a biodynamic with the ability to [[SuperEmpowering enhance the powers of others]], and failed to convince him to willingly boost [[HealingFactor Feral's power]], she [[http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-86-2/ threw this line back at him]] as she [[AppealToForce physically coerced him]] to do so.
80	* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fancomic ''Tag Dream'' about a tag-team professional wrestling-style tournament, when Flandre and Meiling fight Sanae and Suwako, Flandre launches into a technique designed for fighting extremely physically tough Oni to use against the human Sanae. Meling warns her that they'll be disqualified if they kill an opponent, but Flandre says losing like that would be fine. Later in the match, with Sanae unconscious and receiving medical treatment, Flandre weakened by garlic, and Suwako systematically breaking Meiling's bones rather than pinning her, Flandre tells Suwako to stop or Meiling might die, and Suwako says losing like that would be fine.
81	* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''
82	** Towards the end of the first season, Ren is on a mission to kill Anaak because she's an enemy of King Jahad. When Endorsi (who's sort of higher in status than Ren because she's a Princess of Jahad but sort of lower and a lot less powerful because she's still just a Regular) defends Anaak and attacks Ren, Ren says "Now, this is self-defense" before striking Endorsi down. Then Princess Yuri Jahad (who's a High Ranker and definitely higher in status than Ren) shows up and threatens to kill Ren if he doesn't leave. Ren loses self-control and launches an unintentional attack at her; she {{No Sell}}s it and says "Now, this is self-defense" before striking back. (It's not clear she would have even heard his earlier line, though, but the echo is very clear.)
83	** Robdevil was hired as a bodyguard for the SpoiledBrat Prince on the basis of his claim to be the famous Regular nicknamed "Devil's Right Arm". During a competition of strength for Regulars, he steps forward and tells the previous highest scorer, Horyang, "Hey, pal. Have you ever seen a real devil? Let me show you one." before activating the SuperMode in his right arm and using it to take the lead in the contest. Later, after Robdevil has betrayed and beaten up Prince, Horyang shows up in their room and says "Hey, bruiser. Have you ever seen a real devil? Let me show you the one living in my right arm. Let's see who the real devil is." before activating the power in ''his'' right arm that originally inspired the nickname "Devil's Right Arm", and delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
84	* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Ben carries Gray to the hospital after the fight with Wolf. When Gerard questions why he took Gray to a hospital that was so far away, Alex flashbacks to the time in his past where ''he'' was the one carrying Ben to the same hospital.
85	* In the second arc of ''Webcomic/TheWotch'', Anne accidentally turns Jason into a [[ComicBook/XMen Jean Grey]] spoof, prompting Robin to tease him with, "At least you're hot. He he. I mean, you can provide a real distraction!" Nine arcs later, Robin is turned into a large-breasted girl to act as a crowd control diversion, prompting Jason to snark, "'At least you're hot.' 'You can provide a real distraction!'"
86	* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''. [[http://xkcd.com/55/ "My normal approach]] [[http://xkcd.com/881/ is useless here too."]] The first time it's a lighthearted joke about trying to solve love with math. The second time... not so much.
87	* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': "Doesn't it worry you that I'm not worried?"
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