History Main / HeWentThatWay

Sometimes combined with SarcasticConfession, if Alex doesn't trust Chuck then the chances are good that Bob really did go that way but Alex simply assumes Chuck is lying and goes the other way.

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!!Examples:

* In ''SchoolRumble'' this is said to distract Hanai from where Yakumo is.

* ''{{Asterix}}''
* A variant: In one {{Iznogoud}} story, the evil vizier tries to use the cursed water of a swamp djinn to becom Caliph instead of the Caliph; anyone who touches the water disappears into it. Of course, while trying to get the water to the Caliph, more and more people (and a camel) touch or even drink the water, and Iznogoud keeps repeating the name of this trope when people wonder where they went. Finally, the Caliph's goldfish keeper tries putting his charge in the water, and when he wonders where the goldfish went...

* ''{{DEBS}}''
* ''VampireInBrooklyn''
* Played with in ''{{Ladyhawke}}''
-->'''Soldier #1:''' Where is Navarre?
-->'''Phillipe:''' Navarre? Navarre? Ah, yes. Big man, black horse. I thought I saw him ride south, toward Aquila
-->'''Soldier #2:''' Ha, then we ride north.
-->'''Phillipe:''' It isn't polite to assume that someone is a liar when you've only just met them.
-->'''Soldier #1:''' And yet you knew we would. We ride south.
-->'''Phillipe:''' [talking to God] I told the truth, Lord. How can I learn any moral lessons when you keep confusing me this way?

* Cao Cao, of all people, pulls off a straight version while on the run from Lu Bu in ''RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''.

* [[spoiler: Tinder's sister]] from [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/ptitletswco1hy Murphy's law]] attempted this. It did not work.

* ''LooneyTunes'', particularly as a response to the question "Which way did he go, George, which way did he go?" One particularly noteworthy instance is when The Gremlin did this to a dazed Bugs Bunny--by pointing both hands in opposite directions.

* When [[{{WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender}} Aang]] and company break into the [[BigBad Fire Lord]]'s bunker [[TimedMission during]] the [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot Day of Black Sun]], they interrogate a passerby for Ozai's location and are told

* You can hilariously do this in Venetica after you blow up one of the Doge's ships, and then watch it burn. When a guard comes up to you and asks what happened you can respond with this, they buy it completely.

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* ''TomAndJerry'' has used this a lot. Tom doesn't seem to recognize Jerry when wearing a fake beard, and he seems less likely to attack a female mouse.

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* Gavroche and Javert in the 1978 adaptation of ''Les Miserables.''

* ''LooneyTunes'', particularly as a response to the question "Which way did he go, George, which way did he go?"

[[caption-width:200:[[VampireInBrooklyn Of course I didn't just shapeshift, he went that way.]]]]

* In SchoolRumble this is said to distract Hanai from where Yakumo is.

* ''LooneyTunes''

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "Revelation of the Daleks", the Doctor rounds a corner and comes face to face with two Daleks. Not missing a beat, he says "Ah. There you are. They went that way." and points. It doesn't work.

* When [[{{WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender}} Aang]] breaks into the [[BigBad Fire Lord]]'s bunker [[TimedMission during]] the [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot Day of Black Sun]], he interrogates a passerby for Ozai's location and is told

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[[caption-width-right:200:[[VampireInBrooklyn Of course I didn't just shapeshift, he went that way.]]]]

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[[caption-width:200:[[VampireInBrooklyn Of course I didn't just shapeshift, he went that way.]]]]

* Done in the bonus OVA for the third season of ''FullMetalPanic'' when Kurtz is running from Clouseau and asks Tessa to help him out in this way. It works but gets averted when he sticks around to explain why he was running in the first place. [[spoiler: He replaced a kissing scene from one of Clouseau's anime with footage of two pigs kissing.]] [[{{Understatement}} Clouseau was not pleased.]]
** [[RushHour Don't you]] ''[[RushHour ever]]'' [[RushHour touch a Black man's Anime!]] ([[HehHehYouSaidX Heh, heh... touch a black man's anime...]])

* When Aang breaks into the [[BigBad Firelord]]'s bunker [[TimedMission during]] the [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot Day of Black Sun]], he interrogates a passerby for Ozai's location and is told

* In the ''DoctorWho'' serial "Revelation of the Daleks", the Doctor rounds a corner and comes face to face with two Daleks. Not missing a beat, he says "Ah. There you are. They went that way." and points. It doesn't work.

Alex is either chasing or looking for Bob and comes across Chuck. Chuck points and says, "He went that way." Inevitably, Chuck either is in cahoots with Bob, who went the other way, or is actually Bob in disguise.

* Perhaps the most {{egregious}} example from TheAdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog is Sonic saying "I'm over there." to a robot, WITHOUT A COSTUME, after just walking up to him. [[WallBanger It]] [[RalphWiggum works]].

* [[ThisTroper]] saw a production of ''LesMiserables'' and in one scene, Marius begs Eponine to tell him where Cosette went. Naturally, the Marius-besotted Eppy points...

* This Troper saw a production of ''Les Miserables'' and in one scene, Marius begs Eponine to tell him where Cosette went. Naturally, the Marius-besotted Eppy points...

* In the ''ArabianKnights'' segment of TheBananaSplits show, Princess Nida often disguised herself and used this trick to send guards the wrong way.

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