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"It's nice to meet you China, where the sun sets. My name is Japan, I am from where the sun rises."
"Oh! Well, that wasn't very nice!"

Peridot: You outrank everyone on your team, they should be listening to you! You're a strong singular fully functional soldier, despite the fact you're defective!
Amethyst: Defective?
Steven Universe, "Too Far"

I keep looking into the future, when all of this has already been solved, as if it doesn't matter how you feel in the present. No wonder you think I don't care!
Sapphire, Steven Universe, "Keystone Motel"

"No fan of the Inkantation is a foe of mine. I don't see species."
Cap'n Cuttlefish, Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

Eddie: That's a marvellous meal, you ladies sure can cook! It's almost as good as my wife's cooking!
Cynthia: You have a wife?
Anna: Pfft, that's funny. What kind of woman would fall for a brute like you anyways? I bet she's probably...
Eddie: (interrupts, solemnly) My wife is dead.

Dexter: Man, I can't believe Kurt fired me from Mondo Burger. He yelled at me, he insulted me, he made fun of me...
Ed: Boy, you must really suck!

Girl: I love you.
Anakin: I love Me Too!
Jack

"Listen to us, I'm sure it seems very noble but you don't understand how cruel you are. Teasing us, calling us human when we can only live in these twisted forms, making us remember what we've lost. Now that is truly inhumane."
Younger Slicer Brother, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

Ari Curd: Thanks for beta-testing our new Googs VR tech! Did you have fun in there?
Panda: (traumatized) I- I thought I died...
Grizzly: (angry) He sacrificed his life!
Panda: Why did you do that to us?
Ari Curd: Why, for research, you sillies! Now, how about we start the real tour, then? What do you say?
Panda: ...Pass.
We Bare Bears, "Googs"

Well, I'll admit she's fun to be around... But can't she do something about her habit of saying everything that comes to mind with absolutely no social filter...?
Tomoya's opinion on Fuko not long after she just casually brought up the death of Nagisa, CLANNAD

Yuuji: Not to worry, I do have basic manners. I make sure to avert my eyes from any potentally shameful actions on your part.
Yumiko: Do you really not understand that even saying something like that is incredibly rude!?
Yuuji (narrating): I'd been intending to smooth things over, but seem to have poured oil on the fire instead. This is something I've been vaguely aware of for a while now, but it seems I have a bad habit of enraging women over the strangest little things. All the more pathetic because it's usually the result of well-intentioned words backfiring, rather than actual maliciousness on my part.

Satoru: Oh, glad to be—
Ayase: But that doesn't mean your tactless remarks are okay. Being frank and being flippant are two completely different things.
Satoru: I know. I'm making an effort to do better... or trying to, at least.
Satoru (narrating): It's not really a conscious habit, per se. The problem is that I myself say them without realizing how insensitive they are. It's probably because I never developed social skills...

Judy: That went so fast, I didn't get a chance to mention you, or say anything about how we —
Nick: Oh, I think you said plenty.
Judy: What do you mean?
Nick: "Clearly there's a biological component"? "These predators may be reverting back to their primitive savage ways"? Are you serious?
Judy: I just stated the facts of the case. I mean, it's not like a bunny could go savage.
Nick: Right, but a fox could?
Judy: Nick, stop it! You're not like them.
Nick: Oh, there's a "them", now?

Hayden Montag: [on Archibald Henderson] He was a magus, but at heart a simple farmer, likely barely able to comprehend, let alone control, his messy undoing.
Annabel Usher: ...I come from an agricultural family.
Carter: Yeah, my parents grow sunflowers.
[awkward pause]
Hayden Montag: ... I sense this situation is... socially awkward?
Annabel Usher: Och, no, not more than usual, to be fair.

She was a black woman in a black-and-white costume, and, when she chose to, she was composed of light. The Thing introduced her as the latest Avenger to the three, Nick, Logan, and Carol, who hadn't met her. "Carol Danvers, meet Captain Marvel."
Carol dropped her jaw, and then asked if Mar-Vell had retired, or suddenly gotten a new look? She meant it as a joke.
It wasn't taken as such.
"Carol, didn't you know?" asked Nick Fury.
"Know what, Nicholas?" she responded.
"Mar-Vell's dead."

Spider-Gwen: (about the Kingpin) What a pig.
Judy Hopps: Excuse me... Down here... Hi.
Benjamin Clawhauser: O. M. Goodness, they really did hire a bunny. Ho-whop! I gotta tell you, you're even cuter than I thought you'd be.
Judy: Ooh, ah, you probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny 'cute', but when other animals do it, that's a little...
Clawhauser: Hoo, I'm so sorry! Me, Benjamin Clawhauser, the guy everyone thinks is just a flabby donut-loving cop stereotyping you.

Caitlyn (an Enforcer): What, you don't have parents?
Sheldon: I thought [Amy] was a highly evolved creature of pure intellect, like me. But recent events indicate that she may be a slave to her baser urges. Like you.
Penny: I'm just gonna skip over that insult.
Sheldon: ...What insult?
Penny: Yeah, that's why I'm gonna skip over it.

"Tanisha spilled grape juice yesterday. Everyone laughed. I almost did too. But Mom always tells me to be kind, so I tried. I don't think it worked. I said: Purple is my favourite color. I thought Tanisha would smile. But she ran into the hall instead."
Unnamed Girl, Be Kind

“Teacher?”
The young elementary school instructor turned to face her charge, soothing the nervous wreck of a girl before her with a disarming smile.
“Yes, Ryuuko? What is it?”
“What does this mean?”
She furrowed her brows. “What does what mean?”
“This,” Ryuuko innocently continued, curling her hand into a fist with the back of her hand facing the elder and raising the longest finger in a ninety degree angle. “Junichi showed it to me.”
She never did quite understand why her teacher screamed in horror then, nor did she understand why she was made to sit in the corner for the rest of the day.

Butterscotch: Tsk tsk tsk, what must your mother think of you?
Beatrice: Oh, she doesn't think much - about anything, anymore.
Butterscotch: Oh, I'm sorry, did... did she pass?
Beatrice: No, not exactly.
BoJack Horseman, "Time's Arrow"

Jordan: Cookie, I trust those two, the younger one not so much but she can still be here.
Lucy: Okay, I’m going to order the cheese pizza for all of you.
Lincoln: Jordan, I think you should apologize to her.
Jordan: What the heck I said about her, I'm going to apologize, wait for me.

Cindy: Nice going, Scrooge-tron!
Jimmy: (to his classmates) Don't tell me you all believe in Santa!
Cindy: That's not the point! You didn't have to hurt Carl's feelings!
Jimmy: Well, I–I didn't mean to, I'm just looking for some straight answers here! I... I guess I'll just have to look somewhere else.

"She doesn't mean to be cruel. None of this is her fault. But... I can't say that it doesn't hurt."
Sara Crewe, thinking about Jessie Abbot, A Little Lily Princess

Jeff: See that guy over there? The one wearing the Gucci suit in a lightweight woven wool-mohair? We used to work together.
Abed: Cool! So, he's from your origins.
Jeff: This is all I need...
Abed: (to Alan) Excuse me, sir! You're all my friend needs.
Jeff: (Death Glare)
Abed: ...Your mouth isn't curved upwards; did I misread something?

"Love the lyrics. It's quite deep. Basically the core of growing up, you find you are not the center of the universe or the main character in some story. In fact you may be the bad guy in someone else's story."
YouTube comment on Motörhead and Ozzy Osbourne's "I Ain't No Nice Guy"

"Ok. B---, it sounds like what you intend as compliments are not being felt that way. That is important to know. C----, do you feel able to explain to B—- why these comments are upsetting?"

"I know you are no intending to be
But carring me olientar—offensive to me!"
Christmas Eve, Avenue Q ("Everybody's a Little Bit Racist")

Maria: Uu-! Got a sweet, got a sweet! Look, look, Mama, Mama! Happy Hallowee~n!
Rosa: Hey Maria, you can't just accept sweets from strangers, right?! Return it!!
Old Woman: It's alright, ho ho ho. She's a lovely young lady. How old is she?
Maybe there was no malice in those words from the old woman... But, it seemed that Rosa had taken that in an extremely humiliating way.

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