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* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsFuturamaCrossoverCrisis'':
** After the Simpsons and the Planet Express crew have been captured by a [[Franchise/StarWars wampa]] expy and they ended up hanging upside down in an icy cave:
--->'''Lisa:''' Does this sort of thing happen to you a lot in your line of work?\\
'''Bender:''' Being totally boned? Oh yeah.
** When Amy is captured by Literature/PeterPan, that doesn't stop her from asking him "Say, where did you get those '''great shoes'''?"
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* ''Webcomic/HighSchoolLessons'': According to Rowan, doing this was her job in high school, in order to help her friends maintain their sanity.
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* ''Characters/DeadpoolWadeWilson'': Deadpool, being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, has weaponized his to the point that his enemies have problems focusing on the task at hand. It's occasionally contagious: when working with the ComicBook/XMen, he caused [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Beast]] [[GotMeDoingIt to spout off some bad puns]].

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* ''Characters/DeadpoolWadeWilson'': Deadpool, being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, has weaponized his to the point that his enemies have problems focusing on the task at hand. It's occasionally contagious: when working with the ComicBook/XMen, he caused [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]] [[GotMeDoingIt to spout off some bad puns]].
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* ''WebVideo/ShortsWars'': In "[[https://youtu.be/ghgaDRsCgOE wheredidriggygo.mp4]], Riggy makes jokes even when his clone is about to kill him. Justified, as Riggy had an escape plan that he puts into motion as soon as his clone leaves the room.
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* In ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'', Stephen Black attempts to speak in as calm a manner as possible despite being quite terrified as he requests the [[TheFairFolk Gentleman with Thistle-Down Hair]] rescue him from sinking into the bog he carelessly transported him into. He is aware that the Gentleman puts great stock in his good manners, and being mercurial, distractible, and without any apparent sense of empathy, might well abruptly tire of his company and leave him to die should he lose composure.
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* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33911125 Designated Duty]]'', Natasha and Sharon have a system where whenever they go out for a night of fun, one of them deals with the various people trying to kill them while the other fas fun. When Wanda accompanies them one night, which leads into a car chase, she is surprised by Natasha nonchalantly singing along to the song playing the car radio and offering her a drink from a flask while Sharon deals with the assassins.
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** Whenever anybody gets into a fight, they're unusually calm about it. "[[CatchPhrase I have a bad feeling about this]]", anyone?

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** Whenever anybody gets into a fight, they're unusually calm about it. "[[CatchPhrase I "I have a bad feeling about this]]", this", anyone?



* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and other ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters are fond of throwing little asides at the audience during tense moments. One notable example: in ''WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare'', Bugs is barricading a door with a monster on the other side and shouts frantically "ISThereADoctorInTheHouse" When [[BornInTheTheatre one stands up]], Bugs merely give him his CatchPhrase "Eh, what's up, Doc?" The CatchPhrase is also delivered with total cool when Elmer is pointing a gun at him. When they were first created, ''Bugs Bunny'' cartoons were funny because of all the responses the audience expected from a rabbit facing a hunter, casual flippancy wasn't even on the list.

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* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and other ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters are fond of throwing little asides at the audience during tense moments. One notable example: in ''WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare'', Bugs is barricading a door with a monster on the other side and shouts frantically "ISThereADoctorInTheHouse" When [[BornInTheTheatre one stands up]], Bugs merely give him his CatchPhrase catchphrase "Eh, what's up, Doc?" The CatchPhrase catchphrase is also delivered with total cool when Elmer is pointing a gun at him. When they were first created, ''Bugs Bunny'' cartoons were funny because of all the responses the audience expected from a rabbit facing a hunter, casual flippancy wasn't even on the list.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' gives us a moment during the fight between Stitch and Jumbaa. While the two of them are causing reckless destruction to the house, Lilo calls Cobra Bubbles, the social worker assigned to her wellbeing, and informs him that aliens are attacking her house and trying to steal her "dog", and hangs up in relief because her dog found the chainsaw. All said with the same tone of voice a kid would use to call a parent about a mild inconvenience that resolved itself.
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** Taken to new heights in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', which is to be expected when you get [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy three]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries different]] [[Film/MCUSpiderManTrilogy incarnations]] of Franchise/SpiderMan teaming up together.

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** Taken to new heights in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', which is to be expected when you get [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy three]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries different]] [[Film/MCUSpiderManTrilogy [[Film/SpiderManHomecomingTrilogy incarnations]] of Franchise/SpiderMan teaming up together.
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** Mostly averted in ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' where the fight scenes have very little frivolous lines. But played straight in Strange and Wong's battle against Gargantos, in which they casually talk about the customary of bowing.
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'''Sora:'' Feeling a little regret?\\

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'''Sora:'' '''Sora:''' Feeling a little regret?\\



''[[Axel charges energy and releases it in a fiery explosion, reducing the Dusks to nothing]]''

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'''Fang:''' [[LesYay Stop playing hard to get]], and get your butt over here! I ''know'' you're dying to get in on this!

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'''Fang:''' [[LesYay Stop playing hard to get]], get, and get your butt over here! I ''know'' you're dying to get in on this!


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** Sora and Axel idly engage in banter while both are surrounded by hundreds of Dusk Nobodies.
-->'''Axel:''' I think I liked them better when they were on my side.\\
'''Sora:'' Feeling a little regret?\\
'''Axel:''' Nah, I can handle these punks. Heh, watch this!\\
''[[Axel charges energy and releases it in a fiery explosion, reducing the Dusks to nothing]]''
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible sees Frozone chasing after a helicopter that's shooting at him... and the two shout out a quick exchange about Mr. Incredible's evening plans with barely any mind to the helicopter.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', Mr. Incredible sees Frozone chasing after a helicopter that's shooting at him... and the two shout out a quick exchange about Mr. Incredible's evening plans with barely any mind to the helicopter.
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* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has a cutscene where Eddie and Ophelia are having a conversation as mooks try to attack them, with the two of them telling each other which direction to deliver an OffhandBackhand.
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** Elan does this all the time, much to the other party members' chagrin. Well, this is Elan's designated role as the party's bard.

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** Elan does this all the time, much to the other party members' chagrin. Well, this is Elan's designated role as the party's bard. And he starts doing it even more after taking the Dashing Swordsman prestige class, which boosts his damage with a rapier whenever he makes a pun or one-liner while attacking.
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* Though it may be an artifact of the nature of the song, C.W.[=McCall's=] ''Wolf Creek Pass'' has this bit in a near deadpan:

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* Though it may be an artifact of the nature of the song, C.W.[=McCall's=] Music/CWMcCall's ''Wolf Creek Pass'' has this bit in a near deadpan:
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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':

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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' is infamous for this:

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-->'''DM:''' The things that lad reads...tch tch... "Jake Thunder: Super Spy." Absolute rubbish.



-->'''DM:''' The things that lad reads...tch tch... "Jake Thunder: Super Spy." Absolute rubbish.
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* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': Atropos gets a call from Dragon while she's in the middle of killing the Teeth. She doesn't let chatting on the phone slow her down. (Dragon isn't feeling very casual about it, but Atropos certainly is.)

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* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': Atropos gets a call from Dragon while she's in the middle of killing the Teeth.[[spoiler:the Teeth]]. She doesn't let chatting on the phone slow her down. (Dragon isn't feeling very casual about it, but Atropos certainly is.)
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* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': Atropos gets a call from Dragon while she's in the middle of killing the Teeth. She doesn't let chatting on the phone slow her down. (Dragon isn't feeling very casual about it, but Atropos certainly is.)
--> "Hi, Dragon," I said cheerfully, then brought my hand back down to the weapon. Two fingers pulled the red safety tab over, then my thumb clicked the trigger button. ...\\
"Atropos?" asked Dragon. "What just happened?"\\
"The B-team," I said lightly as I vaulted over the Jersey barrier. "Whoops, explosion incoming."
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** In the Season 4 episode "Chuck Vs The First Bank of Evil", while robbing the titular Macau bank (a distraction tactic to buy Vivian time to hack into the bank computers) Chuck and Sarah briefly discuss their upcoming wedding, and Sarah admits that she enjoyed trying out wedding dresses.
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** In "Cops and Robbers", when Castle and his mother are held hostage during a bank robbery, Castle comments, "Mother, I find I'm no longer satisfied with the customer service at this establishment. I think we should take our business elsewhere."
** In "Still", Castle does this while Beckett was trapped on a pressure-plate activated bomb;

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** In "Cops "[[Recap/CastleS4E7CopsAndRobbers Cops and Robbers", Robbers]]", when Castle and his mother are held hostage during a bank robbery, Castle comments, "Mother, I find I'm no longer satisfied with the customer service at this establishment. I think we should take our business elsewhere."
** In "Still", "[[Recap/CastleS5E22Still Still]]", Castle does this while Beckett was trapped on a pressure-plate activated bomb;
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* Characters in ''Fanfic/FireEmblemThreeHousesFifthPath'' frequently hold conversations during battle both with friends and enemies. One of the few times this doesn't happen is when Byleth fights the Death Knight, who doesn't talk all that much.
** This is lampshaded by Rhea in Chapter 19:
-->'''Rhea:''' Are you always this talkative in battle?\\
'''Byleth:''' Yeah, isn't everyone?
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E17DontDrinkTheWater Don't Drink the Water]]", Gi and Wheeler are trying to escape from lockup in the villains' lair when they're interrupted, forcing Wheeler to distract the henchmen so that Gi can escape. Immediately afterwards, Bleak grabs him from behind, holding his arms to his sides. Wheeler nonchalantly asks him and Rigger how things are going.
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There's some {{truth|in television}} to this. People in real life professions such as police or military become so used to life-threatening situations occurring every week, or even multiple times a day, that they end up engaging in Casual Danger Dialog all the time. For example, Evan Wright's nonfiction book ''Literature/GenerationKill'' has accounts of United States Marines under heavy machine gun and mortar fire and in the middle of pitched gun battles remaining calm under pressure. Even ordinary people can end up this way, as it's well-known that many people use humor or sarcasm as a way of coping with stress or fear; see GallowsHumor, StiffUpperLip, and StreetSmart.

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There's some {{truth|in television}} to this. People in real life professions such as police or military become so [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight used to life-threatening situations occurring every week, week]], or even multiple times a day, that they end up engaging in Casual Danger Dialog all the time. For example, Evan Wright's nonfiction book ''Literature/GenerationKill'' has accounts of United States Marines under heavy machine gun and mortar fire and in the middle of pitched gun battles remaining calm under pressure. Even ordinary people can end up this way, as it's well-known that many people use humor or sarcasm as a way of coping with stress or fear; see GallowsHumor, StiffUpperLip, and StreetSmart.
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* The Ghostrunner from ''VideoGame/{{Ghostrunner}}'' talks in a manner typical of a ghostrunner, treating droves of armed enforcers that he has to go through or his race against the time to reenable a sector's filtration system with nothing but a flat quip of three words tops. The best case happens after defeating TOM:
--->'''Zoe''': "Watching things from your perspective I nearly pissed myself. I bet being there in person was a thousand times worse."
--->'''Ghotsrunner''': ''[after having to dodge scores of lasers and shockwaves while scaling to a multiple stories height, getting electrocuted and thrown around by slashing through powered cables and components and briefly blacking out to come to senses in the middle of a free fall from aforementioned multi-stories height twice]'' [[BluntYes "Yes."]]

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* In episode 6 of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', an avalanche is careening towards the city security team. Sumiyoshi's reaction? "Yup."
* The title character in ''Manga/InuYasha'' does this regularly. One of the earlier examples has him calmly walking towards his gigantic wolf-like older brother muttering "yeah yeah, 'roar roar' to you too."

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* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': In episode 6 of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', 6, an avalanche is careening towards the city security team. Sumiyoshi's reaction? "Yup."
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': The title main character in ''Manga/InuYasha'' does this regularly. One of the earlier examples has him calmly walking towards his gigantic wolf-like older brother muttering "yeah yeah, 'roar roar' to you too."



* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In the storyline ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld'', Supergirl is asking Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} advice on how to help a little boy as both heroines are stopping a gang of bank robbers (whom they are barely paying attention to).

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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In the storyline ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld'', Supergirl ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is asking Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} advice on how to help a little boy as both heroines are stopping a gang of bank robbers (whom they are barely paying attention to).



* Examples from Fanfic/{{the Calvinverse}}:

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* FanFic/FlyFree has [[Manga/OnePiece Robin]] start off her first meeting with [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Zabuza]] by having some small talk after he tries to kill her. She starts off the second by offering him and Haku tea.

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* FanFic/FlyFree ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': As the Minisuka "Blue" attempts to murder her, Rei calmly asks why she is trying to kill her, and if her assassination attempt could be postponed since she has laundry to be done.
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has [[Manga/OnePiece Robin]] start off her first meeting with [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Zabuza]] by having some small talk after he tries to kill her. She starts off the second by offering him and Haku tea.

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