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* This was how Lelouch stops Euphie's massacre in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10878822/1/The-Japanese-Are-Already-Dead The Japanese Are Already Dead]]'' after accidently Geassing her to "kill all the Japanese." He first stops her by saying the Japanese are already dead because everyone on the archipelago became Elevens when Britannia conquered them, then cements it by requesting that everyone joining the Special Area Zone refer to themselves as ''Japanians'' as a symbol of rebirth with the ''Japanese'' having died with the old government. Because there is no one that is ''Japanese'' in the vicinity, the Command in Euphie is put on hold, turning her back into her cheerful, kindhearted self.

** When Riley protests that Tyler Wittebane said he wouldn't go after her Aunt Camila only to invoke this after [[spoiler:she fails to kill Luz.]]
--> '''Riley''': [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo You said no harm would come to Camila]]!
--> '''Tyler''': No, no. I said no harm would come to Camila... '''should you succeed''', Riley. But you '''failed.''' [[YouHaveFailedMe Therefore, the deal is off]]. [[LampshadeHanging Learn to pay attention to what I say before you agree to something, child.]]
** When [[AntiHero Luz]] is about to stab Millie in the spine and cripple the witch after interrogating her, [[AintTooProudToBeg Millie reminds the girl she'd spare her after she told her everything she wanted to know]]. Luz counters that she only told her where the Wittebanes ''weren't'' not were they ''were'' right now, and that she's just going to try to kill her again later under her boss's orders. [[PragmaticHero Luz has to make sure that she can never pursue her again]]. [[spoiler:Millie is only saved by the timely arrival of Hunter the Golden Guard.]]

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44607043/chapters/121613383 A Price To Pay]]'': When Gabriel makes his wish, he only wishes that Emilie would be revived. He never mentions anything else, including that she would actually ''love him''. Thus, he and Adrien are horrified to discover in the new reality that, due to Gabriel bribing his way out of legal consequences for killing Tom Dupain, Emilie divorced him and now utterly loathes him and their son for their LackOfEmpathy.

-->''(Megatron is [[VisibleSilence visibly silent]])''\\

** When [[AntiHero Luz]] is about to stab Millie in the spine and cripple the witch after interrogating her, [[AintTooProudToBeg Millie reminds the girl she'd spare her after she told her everything]]. Luz counters that she just told them where the Wittebanes ''weren't'' not were they ''were'' right now, and that she's just going to try to kill her again later under her boss's orders. [[PragmaticHero Luz has to make sure that she can never pursue her again]]. [[spoiler:Millie is only saved by the timely arrival of Hunter the Golden Guard.]]

* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheBoilingIsles'': The House Elf oath to serve their family says that they must do do as long as they "walk this Earth", but as Ron points out, the Boiling Isles don't exactly count as ‘this earth’. He then proves that he's free of the binding by rearranging King's "minions", since he wouldn't be capable of following the orders of someone not in the family he's bound to if he was still under the oath, allowing them to free him ''before'' Harry attends Hogwarts, whereupon he takes up the janitoral position at Hexside.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6650670/9/A-Hunter-s-Tale A Hunter's Tale]]'', on the advice of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Mayor Wilkins]], Whistler decides that the current situation in Sunnydale is technically what it's supposed to be. Angel is going through hell (Because he and Buffy broke up), Buffy is devastated and heading to LA (for the same reason), and Acathla is out of commission (by being covered in protections and dumped in the ocean).

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37293364/chapters/93053299#workskin This One Time, At Cultivation Camp]]'': Whenever Vicky and Taylor ask about their progress, their mentor Ten Springs always insists they're "faster than average but he's seen faster". It's not until they meet the GodEmperor that they learn that said emperor is the only person Ten Springs has ever seen learn faster, and he learned in a single year what took his grandfather, Ten Springs, two centuries to learn. Admittedly it helps that they began learning in a manner that would either save their lives or cause them to explode, rather than a more traditional and slower method.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5979786/1/Farewell_Match Farewell Match]]'', boxer Ricky Redman faces a powerful alien in a match where "the loser dies". [[spoiler:Despite his best efforts, Ricky loses, only to be informed that, "You will die the death of obscurity, human. While your physical existence will continue, your name will be forgotten, and your former fame will fade into nothingness. You will never again throw a punch inside a ring! That, human, is your fate!" The crowd and his sleazy manager starts mocking him, but Ricky gets the last laugh by pointing out that they never said anything about throwing a punch ''outside'' of the ring, and beats the crap out of his manager.]] Or, in other words, it's [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E70AGameOfPool A Game of Pool]]", but with boxing and [[Series/TheTwilightZone1985 with the original ending]], [[BittersweetEnding but more bittersweet]]]].

* In Fanfic/OneForAllAndEightForTheNinth Izuku asks Tsuyu for the names of who had previously bullied her just for her looks due to her Frog Quirk. Tsuyu states she doesn't want him to be charged with vigilantism. Izuku clarifies it won't be vigilantism because that requires Quirk use and "a pipe wrench isn't a Quirk". When the topic comes back around later on Izuku confirms, when asked by Tsuyu, that he actually doesn't own a pipe wrench... but fellow Ennead member Mei Hatsume ''does'' and Momo Yaoyorozu can make more with her own Quirk.
** Chapter 18 of "One Good Friend is All it Takes" makes a ShoutOut to this when Izuku uses the same wording about the pipe wrench for a flashlight he had just used on Bakugo. That chapter's friend, who has a Quirk that causes temporary paralysis from shining a bright yellow light, had used it on Bakugo so many times his body involuntarily freezes up on its own whenever he sees a yellow light.

* In PeggySue story ''Fanfic/{{Warp}}'', Dean asks Vicky what tipped her off about her sister's feelings. Unwilling to reveal she's a time-traveller, she answers she figured it out because of the bank robbery, which is technically true but omits the physical and emotional abuse Vicky was put through in the original timeline.

* In ''Fanfic/PersephonesWaltz'', Sayaka makes a different wish [[ForWantOfANail than in canon]]: to find Madoka (who has been kidnapped and missing for days), with the unspoken assumption that she'd be powerful enough to free Madoka once she did. [[spoiler:Upon being kidnapped by Madoka's captor]], she realizes how naive this was.

* ''Webcomic/DadVillainAU'': As part of his reality-rewriting Wish, Gabriel declared that he would be the only person who would [[RippleEffectProofMemory recall the original timeline]]. Thanks to his phrasing, all of the kwami still remember what came before, as do animals like Jagged Stone's pet crocodile Fang and sentimonsters like [[spoiler:Felix, Kagami and Adrien]].

* ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian": When leaving a high school swimming pool, Gray Ghost trips and falls. When she's told that a nearby sign read "do not gallop", she tries to utilize this trope by saying she was trotting, not galloping.