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4->'''Mr. Incredible:''' The building's getting weaker by the second! It's gonna come down on top of us!\
5'''Frozone:''' ''I'' WANTED TO GO ''BOWLING!''
6-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''
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8When the characters are in the middle of doing some particularly dangerous or adventurous activity and something's just happened that's warranted an OhCrap response, the OnlySaneMan, StraightMan, CommanderContrarian, TheDragAlong or TheLancer points out how ''he'' never wanted to be there in the first place. Frequently said in the form of "''I'' wanted to [do something safer]," often followed by, "...but ''no'', you just had to go and [do something else]!"
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10Compare IDontThinkThatsSuchAGoodIdea and NotWhatISignedOnFor. Not to be confused with RefusalOfTheCall.
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13!!Examples:
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16[[folder:Comic Books]]
17* During the Club of Heroes reunion in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics, when it becomes evident that the world's greatest detectives are trapped on an island with a murder to solve, the Musketeer is quick to note that he wanted to play five-a-side rugby.
18* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/DemonKnights'', all Xanadu wants is a nice quiet drink. She and her husband are even prepared to share a table with Vandal Savage if it keeps things peaceful. But then a whole horde of dragons show up...
19* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: While most of the Holliday College professors seem perfectly fine with how often their expeditions and such turn into fist fights with Nazis, aliens or superpowered mummies Prof. Ainchent wants no part in it. Unfortunately for him he's also a decent pilot and crack shot so Dean Strikt sends him after his hapless colleagues when they go missing, usually when he's got much more relaxing plans in mind.
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22[[folder:Comic Strips]]
23* This is played differently on occasion in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' by Calvin's dad. "See, if we had gotten a dog like I wanted..."
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26[[folder:Fan Works]]
27* Zuko in [[http://limey404.deviantart.com/art/the-gaang-does-not-approve-WIP-169747592 this drawing]] of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the Gaang's]] reactions to ''Film/TheLastAirbender'':
28-->'''Zuko:''' I wanted to see ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Toy Story]]''.
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31[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
32* The page quote provider and former TropeNamer is Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''. Mr. Incredible and Frozone lie to their wives that they're going bowling, when in reality they're doing secret hero work. They end up in a tight spot and start arguing, prompting Frozone to shout "''I'' WANTED TO GO ''BOWLING!''"
33* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': As Orville takes off with Bernard and Bianca in tow, Bernard comments, "Sure wish we'd taken the train!" He repeats in the [[WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder sequel]] as they're riding Wilbur, "Miss Bianca, from now on, can't we just take the train?" [[note]]Since they were on their way from New York to Australia at the time...[[/note]]
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36[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
37* In ''Film/{{Clerks}}'', Dante's day is spent in the purgatory of serving a succession of customers while bemoaning the fact that he is "not even supposed to be here today."
38* In ''Film/{{Juno}}'', Bleaker says he wanted to watch ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' on TV, but Juno wanted to make out instead, and OneThingLedToAnother.
39* In the film ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'', Butch (Paul Newman) says to Sundance (Robert Redford), "Kid, the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's ''go'' someplace like Bolivia." [[spoiler:[[BolivianArmyEnding Bolivia doesn't work out too well, either]]]]
40* John [=McClane=] in ''Film/DieHard'' is huddled in an air vent, thinking about how he's going to try to beat a whole gang of bad guys and why he's even in the building: "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." Later, he snarks that he would rather be in Philadelphia than in his current situation, seeing as he wasn't hoping that his visit to LA would be ruined by armed gunmen.
41* ''Film/IndependenceDay'': Steven Hiller isn't happy to be dragging an unconscious alien through the desert after a combat mission, yelling: "I could've been at a barbeque!"
42* Early on in ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld,'' a migrant couple is forced off the road by the reckless driving of the treasure hunters. When they finally come to rest at the bottom of a gorge, the husband has this to say:
43-->"I said it before and I'll say it again: ''I'' didn't want to move to California."
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46[[folder:Literature]]
47* This is Rincewind's main character trait in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books he stars in; unlike whatever traveling companions he gets saddled with, Rincewind does not ''want'' to go on improbable, life-threatening adventures to stop TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. He would be just as happy staying at Unseen University and fetching bananas for the Librarian.
48* A recurring line in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' was that Bilbo would have preferred to have stayed at Bag End.
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51[[folder:Web Animation]]
52* ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'' never wants to go on the weird adventures that Pink and Blue always drag him into.
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56* ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'': Reynir's intention in hiding in that food crate was to get to see another safe bastion of humanity besides the one he had grown up in, ''not'' to end up a LittleStowaway to an expedition in a PlagueZombie ridden ForbiddenZone while not being TheImmune. The expedition's crew includes Tuuri, another non-immune whose backstory is extremely similar to Reynir's, with one of the differences being that she ''actually'' wanted to see the ForbiddenZone in question for herself. A grim reminder of why only TheImmune are usually allowed in that ForbiddenZone eventually happens, and Tuuri tries to cheer Reynir up about it by basically telling him "Hey, at least you got to see the place." Reynir has to remind her that the ForbiddenZone wasn't part of his plan when he left his home.
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59[[folder:Western Animation]]
60* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', the sled the characters are riding crashes:
61-->'''Larry:''' Bob! Bob, are you okay?\
62'''Bob:''' Mousetrap.\
63'''Larry:''' Huh?\
64'''Bob:''' ''I'' wanted to play Mousetrap -- you roll your dice, you move your mice. Nobody gets hurt.
65* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
66-->'''Chuckie:''' ''* sigh* '' All I wanted was a nice quiet trip to the museum -- no running away from grown-ups, no getting lost, no making trouble... just a nice, quiet trip. But, no, you guys always have to think of something scary.\
67''pause''\
68'''Tommy:''' Chuckie, are you through?\
69'''Chuckie:''' Um, yeah, that's about it.\
70'''Tommy:''' Then LET'S GO!
71** Grandpa Lou, when the parents take the babies to the movies to see ''The Dummy Bears in: The Land without Smiles'', responds with this almost verbatim.
72-->'''Lou:''' We should have gone bowling!
73* Arnold's Infamous catchphrase on ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' is "I KNEW I should've stayed home today!"
74** In one episode, he was prepared.
75* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', [[DeadpanSnarker Craig]] does something along these lines when he gets trapped in [[ItMakesSenseInContext a part of Peru where things grow really really big.]]
76* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', even though they were given the opportunity to go on vacation, the team still went on a dangerous mission. X-R, the only one who wanted to take up the furlough, continuously stated throughout the episode, "I wanted to go to Mahambas Six!"
77* Sokka laments in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "I'm just a guy... with a boomerang... I didn't ask for all this flying... and magic..."
78** There's also the time Aang (fruitlesly) tries to tell Zuko that it's a bad idea to pick up "giant glowing gems sitting on pedestals" in a TempleOfDoom surrounded by {{Durable Deathtrap}}s.
79--->'''Aang:''' You ''had'' to pick up the glowing egg, ''didn't you?''
80* From Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo]]'' ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject Project]]'' parody.
81-->'''Shaggy:''' I should be at home watching scary movies, not living in one! And eating some pizza.
82* WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse in ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'', when he takes the job of working with Dr. Frankenollie to pay for a trip date with Minnie:
83-->'''Dr. Frankenollie:''' Oh, don't be shy. It's not just a job. It's an adventure!\
84'''Mickey:''' I hate adventure!\
85'''Dr. Frankenollie:''' Perfect! You're hired.
86* This is the primary character trait of [[BigBad Bradford Buzzard]] in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', he sees adventures as life-threatening and finance-consuming. His FreudianExcuse for this is because when he was a kid, his grandmother forced him into life-threatening situations.
87* In the ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "The Long Lost Crown Affair," DM and Penfold are in an Aztec temple. As DM tussles with an alligator, Penfold complains "We could've had a day in Brighton!"
88-->'''DM:''' Penfold...I don't wish to know that!
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