History Main / IWarnedYou

->'''Bob:''' Do not take the ShmuckBait. If you do, [[ItGotWorse terrible things will happen]]. Do not [[TemptingFate tempt fate]].\\
'''Alice:''' [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What's the worst that can happen]]?\\

'''Bob:''' IWarnedYou.

Generally -- though not always -- {{Played for Drama}} if played straight. If PlayedForLaughs, expect TheCassandra to be an [[InsufferableGenius exagerratively smug]] or [[GoodIsNotNice jerkish]] in using this trope (a likely consistant trait that leant to no one listening to them in the first place) and at least one indignant victim to try and silence them (usually by yelling a bitter "[[BigShutUp Oh Shut Up!]]").

[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], TheCassandra has every opportunity to say IWarnedYou, but ''doesn't even bat an eye''.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''TheDarkKnight'' with:

* ''IRobot'' has "Somehow, 'I told you so' doesn't quite say it." when the robots start rebelling. Or words to that effect.

* Twice, pretty much word for word, in [[DarknessVisible Darkness Visible]]. The second time is a callback to the first.

* [[StatlerAndWaldorf Statler]] says this to Waldorf after using the EvilEye on him.

'''Azmuth:''' Your [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transformations]]. They will perish if they aren't restored to the Omnitrix [[TimedMission in 24 hours]]. And if they do, their powers wil be [[LostForever lost to you forever]]!

* ''TheSimpsons'': "Lisa the Vegetarian," after Lisa has twice quesioned the use of meat and her teacher/Lunchlady pressed the "Independent thought alarm."

* From the ''DoctorWho'' episode "School Reunion":

'''Alice:''' [[TemptingFate What's the worst that can happen]]?\\

* Twice, pretty much word for word, in DarknessVisible. [[spoiler: '''Lewis:''' You will see me in this office again, Wilson, even if it is only for sufficient time to say “I warned you” before the world ends!]]
[[spoiler: '''Lewis:''' Very well then, Wilson, stay and gibber in your precious office,’ I told him crossly. ‘But if we fail, consider this as me saying “I bloody warned you!]]

Generally -- though not always -- {{Played for Drama}} if played straight. If PlayedForLaughs, expect TheCassandra to be an [[InsufferableGenius exagerratively smug]] or [[GoodIsNotNice jerkish]] in using this trope (a likely consistant trait that leant to no one listening to them in the first place) and at least one indignant victim to try and silence them (usually by yelling a bitter "[[BigShutUp Oh Shut Up!]]").

* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib083.html after the fight]]. All the more annoying in that his warning had consisted of AVaguenessIsComing.

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Generally -- though not always -- {{Played for Drama}} if played straight. If PlayedForLaughs, expect TheCassadra to be an [[InsufferableGenius exagerratively smug]] or [[GoodIsNotNice jerkish]] in using this trope (a likely consistant trait that leant to no one listening to them in the first place) and at least one indignant victim to try and silence them (usually by yelling a bitter "[[BigShutUp Oh Shut Up!]]").

Generally -- though not always -- {{Played for Drama}} if played straight. If PlayedForLaughs, expect TheCassadara to be an [[InsufferableGenius exagerratively smug]] or [[GoodIsNotNice jerkish]] in using this trope (a likely consistant trait that leant to no one listening to them in the first place) and at least one indignant victim to try and silence them (usually by yelling a bitter "Oh ShutUp!").

Generally -- though not always -- {{Played for Drama}} if played straight.

* ''{{The Book of Eli}}: In the first fifteen minutes of the movie, when the raider shoves Eli.

* ''IRobot'' has "Somehow, IToldYouSo doesn't quite say it" when the robots start rebelling. Or words to that effect.

* ''{{Babylon 5}}'' episode "Severed Dreams"

* ''IRobot'' has "Somehow, IToldYouSo doesn't quite do it" when the robots start rebelling. Or words to that effect.

->''"I wouldn't want to play the "I warned you" card, but... '''I WARNED YOU!'''"''
-->-- '''Sadlygrove''', ''{{Wakfu}}'', [=S2E5=] "The Dragon-Pig"

->'''Bob:''' Do not take the ShmuckBait. If you do, [[ItGotWorse terrible things will happen]]. Do not [[TemptingFate tempt fate]].
->'''Alice:''' [[TemptingFate What's the worst that can happen]]?
->'''[[ItGotWorse Terrible things happen]].'''
->'''Bob:''' IWarnedYou.

Generally - though not always - PlayedForDrama if played straight.

[[folder: {{Film}}]]
* TheBookOfEli: In the first fifteen minutes of the movie, when the raider shoves Eli.
-->'''Eli:''' ''Touch me with that hand again and you're not getting it back.''

-->'''Bruce''': We all know how much you like to say "I told you so."
-->'''[[ServileSnarker Alfred]]''': Well, on that day, master Wayne, even I won't want to.
** And its IronicEcho:
--->'''Bruce''': This is the day you get to say "I told you so."
--->'''Alfred''': Today I don't want to. But I did bloody tell you.

-->'''Venkman:''' If you shut that thing off, we won't be held responsible.
-->'''Peck:''' On the contrary, you will be held ''completely'' responsible. (''To Con Ed worker'') Shut it off.
-->'''Venkman:''' '''Don't''' shut it off. I'm warning you.
-->'''Con-Ed Man:''' I never seen anything like this before. I don't know...
-->'''Peck:''' I'm not interested in your opinion. ''Just shut it off''.
-->(''Later, at the Mayor's office'')
-->'''Stanz:''' Everything was fine with the system, until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.

-->'''Grandfather:''' With Mogwai, comes much responsibility. I cannot sell him at any price.
-->[''Randall Peltzer acquires a mogwai anyway. Warnings about them are ignored and the gremlins run wild.'']

*** In fact, this occurred because Randall also didn't heed the grandfather's ''other'' crucial piece of advice: don't get a mogwai wet. It's the evil Mogwai (later Gremlin) Spike who sabotages the clock.

[[folder: LiveActionTV]]

-->'''Delenn:''' [''addressing the Grey Council''] Three years. [[CassandraTruth For three years I warned you this day was coming]], but you would not listen. Pride, you said, presumption. And now the Shadows are on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have fallen, even the Humans are fighting one another.
* [[StatlerAndWaldorf Statler]] says this to Waldorf after using the EvilEye on him.

->'''Mickey Smith:''' You see, what's impressive is we met her nearly an hour ago and I still haven't said "I told you so" yet.
->'''Rose Tyler:''' I'm not listening to this.
->'''Mickey Smith:''' Though I have prepared a little "I was right" dance which I can show you later.

[[folder:Theatre]]
* In the musical ''Woman Of The Year'', two characters sing a song about how great it is to be able to say "I Told You So."

[[folder:TruthInTelevision]]
* [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/I-Told-You-So.aspx "One of the few things in life more satisfying than saying "I Told You So" is being told not to say it."]]

[[folder: Web comics]]
* [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff "I warned you about stairs bro!!!! I told you dog!"]]

[[folder: WebOriginal]]

[[folder: WesternAnimation]]

-->'''Azmuth:''' Ben Tennyson, I warned you of the consequences of tampering with the [[TransformationTrinket Omnitrix]].
-->'''Ben Tennyson:''' I was just trying to...
-->'''Azmuth:''' Defy my instructions. Well, you have succeeded! The escape geno types...
-->'''Ben Tennyson:''' What?
-->'''Azmuth:''' Your [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transformations]]. They will perish if they aren't restored to the Omnitrix [[TimedMission in 24 hours]]. And if they do, their powers wil be [[LostForever lost to you forever]]!

--->'''Sparks:''' [''closing door''] It's not broken, you just...
--->[''the door fails to open'']
--->'''Sparks:''' You just press the... you ju... [[CaptainObvious The door's broken]]. Wha-wha-wha-what the hell?
--->'''Marco:''' ''Idiota! Cabeza de piedras!''

-->'''Skinner:''' Oh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.
-->'''Willie:''' I warned ye! Didn't I warn ye?! That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!
* In AmericanDad, [[spoiler:Stan once framed his wife for murder just so he wouldn't have to hear her say this]].
* Psycho, the minion [[{{Seers}} Seer]] of Dr. Killemoff in ''Toxic Crusaders'' usually says this after his CassandraTruth gets blown off by Killemoff as ridiculous and the good guys win.

* In ''{{The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe}}'' Santa Claus makes an appearance in Narnia, after 100 years of winter. Then Lucy turns to her sister Susan, and says: "Told you he was real...."

->'''[[ItGotWorse It gets worse]].'''

That statement, whether or not it uses the StockPhrase "IWarnedYou," is this trope, ''provided '''the warning took place'''''. If it did not, due to PoorCommunicationKills, NotNowKiddo, or the warning not reaching its intended recipient, but the StockPhrase is dropped anyway, the trope has been inverted, not played straight.

[[folder: Web comics]]
* [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff "I warned you about stairs bro!!!! I told you dog!"]]

[[folder: WebOriginal]]
* On ThisVeryWiki, the YouHaveBeenWarned page (which is more of a CassandraTruth), or [[PotHole pot-holing]] text to ShmuckBait.