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** When Hawk returns to Washington DC after visiting his estranged father at their family home, he goes straight to Tim's apartment. Tim asks "Where have you been?", and Hawk answers "Doesn't matter. I'm home now." For Hawk, his lover Tim is his home, much more so than the house he grew up in or his own apartment in the city.

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": Lestat de Lioncourt tells Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lily that he disembarked in New Orleans because of the music and dancing, "but then there was food." While the local cuisine was served at this public gathering, as a vampire, Lestat would've eaten a couple of humans that night for his meal.
** Because of the homophobia which existed in 1910, Lestat can't overtly flirt with Louis during their first meeting, but he still conveys his interest in roundabout ways. Lestat is outright ''[[EatingTheEyeCandy leering]]'' at Louis and speaking with a sultry voice while recounting how he had "sampled" many New Orleans women, including those with [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin tones]]. Lestat is subtly expressing his desire to "taste" Louis because the latter is a [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive "cinnamon" Creole]]. Later, when Lestat says that he and Louis are "Destined to be very good friends," what he really means is that they're "Destined to be lovers."
** While reminiscing about a young violinist he once knew, Lestat describes him as "a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity" as he looks Louis straight in the eye and hands him a drink. It's apparent that Lestat deems Louis to be equally beautiful and sensitive as the violinist.
** Whenever Lestat and the topic of home (e.g. "I said to myself, 'Lestat, unpack your trunks, you're home'"; "Yes, I feel quite at home here") or New Orleans (e.g. "[Lestat] was in love with my city and wanted to know everything he could about it"; "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod There's no place for me other than New Orleans]]") are mentioned together, it indirectly points to Louis -- not New Orleans -- being Lestat's beloved home. [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill Episode 7]] features Lestat soulfully monologuing about New Orleans to Louis on the balcony, its connotation being that Louis is the product of the environment he grew up in, and Lestat finds him beautiful because of it.
--->'''Lestat''': There's not an inch of this city that wasn't built from the fierce wilderness that surrounds it. Hurricanes, floods, fevers. The damp climate on every painted sign, every stone facade. High windows, through which enameled bits of civilization glitter. Silhouettes emerging, wandering out to catch a silent flash of lightning. The silky warmth of summer rain. Desperately alive... and desperately fragile.

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* In a flashback of Annie and Eren sparring together in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', Mikasa's implied to be jealous through interrupting them and challenging Annie to fight her instead. The other trainees gather in excitedment at who will win, while Reiner asks: "Which one would you pick, Eren?" (note the choice of words). In response, he stares at them while thinking ''"Which one..."'' and the flashback fades out on that line, making it seem like the narrative was hinting [[LoveTriangle towards more]] than just the outcome of the fight. While likely meant as pure ShipTease in canon, it might have been a nod to official parodies where Mikasa and Annie are really portrayed as Eren's BettyAndVeronica.

* ''Film/ManOfSteel'': Not only does Zod's message ("You Are Not Alone") inform humans that aliens exist, it lets Superman know he's ''not'' the [[LastOfHisKind last]] Kryptonian.
** Also [[spoiler: [[Comicbook/LoisLane Lois]]]] greeting [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark]] on his first day working at the Daily Planet with "Welcome to the Planet" [[spoiler: as she already knows he's a HumanAlien]].

-->'''Jorah:''' The Dothraki claim that someday ghost grass will cover the entire world, and then all life will end.\\

* In the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe play ''Islander'', Eilidh lives on the island with her granny, while her mother is a teacher on the mainland. There is a song near the start in which Eilidh video-calls her mother over a very bad connection, and tries to tell her about her experiences that day, but her mother is still working. Eilidh has the refrain "Can you see me, can you hear me?" which isn't just about the call quality. This gets reprised by Eilidh's mother near the end, leaving a voicemail when Eilidh isn't speaking to her.

* Near the end of a neutral or pacifist run in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', monsters in the New Home area tell you a story about their king, Asgore. [[spoiler: Asgore had adopted a child that had fallen into the monster world and he raised him as his own. When the child had fallen ill and died, his son by blood, Asriel, took his fallen brother's body back to the village where had came from, but was attacked by the humans instead and he wound up dying as a result. Asgore flew into a fit of rage and vowed to obtain seven human souls in order to break the barrier that kept his people trapped so that he could extract revenge. With six souls already obtained, yours is the last one he needs to succeed.]] The last group of monsters tell you that you should be excited and happy because you will be "free" very soon. While the monster's version of "free" means that you will soon be killed and be freed from the physical world, it can also take on another meaning where you will be free from the underground and finally return home. Either version can fit depending on if you been playing peacefully or if you had killed a handful of monsters along the way.
** Another version of this happens in the Genocide route, where Asgore will ask the player upon their arrival what kind of monster they are. It can be seen as either A) he believes he's looking at another monster in the underground, but can't identify it, or B) a WhatTheHellHero moment.

* ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'': In [[https://www.handbookofheroes.com/archives/comic/you-are-too-prepared "You Are Too Prepared!"]], where Quest Giver is writing an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript illuminated manuscript]] and says, "The illumination must be perfect!", he's referring to the visual flourishes must be perfect. But the AltText uses "illumination" as in the amount of light:
--> "Quest Giver's bushy hairstyle imposes penalties to his Perception. That's why he can only see in areas that are brightly illuminated. :D "

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'s'' ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'': Chapter seven is named "The Matter of Brian". You'd think its title means "the topic of Brian", but after you've finished it and read about [[spoiler: a demon-possessed Tiffany transmogrifying Brian into a frog, then explaining to his employer that a pink balloon appeared in the room because his remaining ''matter'' had to become something]], you realize that, unfortunately for him, it ''also'' means "the part of Brian which occupies space and possesses mass".

* The [[Website/{{Reddit}} r/nosleep]] story "My boyfriend needs to be drunk in order to have sex with me" is, on the surface, about a trans woman who feels unwanted because of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and insists that they do it sober, for once. After unenthusiastically complying, the man "...got up from the bed, pulled away the maggots that clung to his flesh, and wiped away the streaks of slime from his belly. He then opened both windows of the bedroom, letting out the miasmal gases." Turns out that the narrator's "transition" was not "male-to-female", but rather "[[OurZombiesAreDifferent dead-to-living]]"...

* Chapter 4 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13189099/1/The-Legend-Of-Zelda-Ocarina-Of-Time The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time]]'' is titled "Torn Apart". The way the author names his chapters is by naming them after a phrase in that chapter. The way "Torn Apart" is mentioned in this chapter is when the Great Deku Tree is dying and Link's heart is metaphorically "torn apart". However, it may also be a reference to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe how Gohma died just moments before]].

* Q: How do you stop a rhino from charging A: Take away it's credit card. (alternately, unplug it)

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': A possibly unintentional one in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'': Jorah's last reply could equally well mean "Alright, let's drop the subject," or "You, too, will be dead one day."

** The so called "Hand of the King" has a figurative meaning akin to "right arm of someone", the name of the office indicating that he's acting as if the actual hand of the king was doing tasks, that is, he's working in his stead. This is open to some puns, like "when the king shits, it is the hand that cleans", which can be taken literally in the actual situation, but also figuratively according to the context (when the king does mistakes, it is the duty of the Hand to solve them before things become troublesome).

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": Because of the homophobia which existed in 1910, Lestat de Lioncourt can't overtly flirt with Louis de Pointe du Lac during their first meeting, but he still conveys his interest in roundabout ways. Lestat is outright ''[[EatingTheEyeCandy leering]]'' at Louis and speaking with a sultry voice while recounting how he had "sampled" many New Orleans women, including those with [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin tones]]. Lestat is subtly expressing his desire to "taste" Louis because the latter is a [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive "cinnamon" Creole]]. Later, when Lestat says that he and Louis are "Destined to be very good friends," what he really means is that they're "Destined to be lovers."

** While reminiscing about a young violinist he once knew, Lestat describes him as "a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity" when he looks Louis straight in the eye and hands him a drink. It's apparent that Lestat deems Louis to be equally beautiful and sensitive as the violinist.

** Because of the homophobia which existed in 1910, Lestat de Lioncourt can't overtly flirt with Louis de Pointe du Lac during [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder their first meeting]], but he still conveys his interest in roundabout ways. Lestat is outright ''[[EatingTheEyeCandy leering]]'' at Louis and speaking with a sultry voice while recounting how he had "sampled" many New Orleans women, including those with [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin tones]]. Lestat is subtly expressing his desire to "taste" Louis because the latter is a [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive "cinnamon" Creole]]. Later, when Lestat says that he and Louis are "Destined to be very good friends," what he really means is that they're "Destined to be lovers."
** Whenever Lestat and the topic of home (e.g. "I said to myself, 'Lestat, unpack your trunks, you're home'"; "Yes, I feel quite at home here") or New Orleans (e.g. "[Lestat] was in love with my city and wanted to know everything he could about it"; "There's no place for me other than New Orleans") are mentioned together, it indirectly points to Louis -- not New Orleans -- being Lestat's beloved home. [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill Episode 7]] features Lestat soulfully monologuing about New Orleans to Louis on the balcony, its connotation being that Louis is the product of the environment he grew up in, and Lestat finds him beautiful because of it.

** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", Lestat is looking at a dog when he says, "Back in your cage, sweetheart," but the person he's truly addressing is Claudia, who is a stowaway on a train heading to New York. He won't allow her to leave New Orleans because he's concerned about Louis' deteriorating mental and physical state, so he has boarded the baggage car to forcibly take her back [[GildedCage home]].
** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", Louis quips, "[[{{Pun}} The king's hair (heir) has betrayed the king]]" when he spots Lestat's discarded powdered wig, who is garbed as a French king at the Mardi Gras ball. Louis can be regarded as Lestat's heir because he's Lestat's vampire son (the French monarchy had practiced Salic law, so women were excluded from inheriting the throne), and Louis is indeed conspiring to murder his despotic maker during the after-party feast.

** Whenever Lestat and the topic of home (e.g. "I said to myself, 'Lestat, unpack your trunks, you're home'"; "Yes, I feel quite at home here") or New Orleans (e.g. "[Lestat] was in love with my city and wanted to know everything he could about it"; "There's no place for me other than New Orleans") are mentioned together, it indirectly points to Louis -- not New Orleans -- being Lestat's beloved home. Episode 7 features Lestat soulfully monologuing about New Orleans to Louis on the balcony, its connotation being that Louis is the product of the environment he grew up in, and Lestat finds him beautiful because of it.

** In the sixth episode, Lestat is looking at a dog when he says, "Back in your cage, sweetheart," but the person he's truly addressing is Claudia, who is a stowaway on a train heading to New York. He won't allow her to leave New Orleans because he's concerned about Louis' deteriorating mental and physical state, so he has boarded the baggage car to forcibly take her back [[GildedCage home]].
** In the seventh episode, Louis quips, "[[{{Pun}} The king's hair (heir) has betrayed the king]]" when he spots Lestat's discarded powdered wig, who is garbed as a French king at the Mardi Gras ball. Louis can be regarded as Lestat's heir because he's Lestat's vampire son (the French monarchy had practiced Salic law, so women were excluded from inheriting the throne), and Louis is indeed conspiring to murder his despotic maker during the after-party feast.

** Because of the homophobia which existed in 1910, Lestat de Lioncourt can't overtly flirt with Louis de Pointe du Lac during their first meeting, but he still conveys his interest in roundabout ways. Lestat is outright ''[[EatingTheEyeCandy leering]]'' at Louis and speaking with a sultry voice while recounting how he had "sampled" many New Orleans women, including those with [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin tones]]. Lestat is subtly expressing his desire to "taste" Louis because the latter is a [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive "cinnamon" Creole]]. Later, when Lestat says that he and Louis are "Destined to be very good friends," what he really means is that they're "Destined to be lovers."

** Whenever Lestat and the topic of home (e.g. "I said to myself, 'Lestat, unpack your trunks, you're home'"; "Yes, I feel quite at home here") or New Orleans (e.g. "[Lestat] was in love with my city and wanted to know everything he could about it"; "There's no place for me other than New Orleans") are mentioned together, it indirectly points to Louis -- not New Orleans -- being Lestat's beloved home.

* InUniverse in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. After beating a particularly powerful villain while being broadcast to the world, [[BigGood All Might]] pointed to the camera, saying "You're next." The masses watching the fight cheered as they saw it as a warning to other villains at large. [[spoiler:But for those in the know and Midoriya in particular, it meant that the age of All Might is over and now it's time for Midoriya to step in as his successor.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13688453/1/The-Fall-of-Atlantis The Fall of Atlantis]]'' is about the destruction of the ancient civilization, which in both the story and in canon was caused by Plagg. [[spoiler:It also describes the fall of the Kwammi Attlantis who, disillusioned by his selfish partner Calix and the warmongering nation he leads, tricks Plagg into destroying the island nation and all of its inhabitants]].

** In the sixth episode, Lestat is looking at a dog when he says, "Back in your cage, sweetheart," but the person he's truly addressing is Claudia, who is a stowaway on a train heading to New York. He won't allow her to leave New Orleans because he's concerned about Louis' deteriorating mental and physical state, so he has boarded the baggage car to forcibly take her back home.