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Fighteer
MOD
(Time Abyss)
2016-02-09 18:03:59
It's a subversion if the "who said that" is somebody completely inconsequential.
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wrm5
Since: Mar, 2014

So, if a character asks You Know Who Said That?, but instead of using it to illustrate how important their point is, they're actually using it as Self-Deprecation because the "who" is some total nobody... is that subverted? Or still played straight?