History Main / IWarnedYou

** In "Family", Qrow Branwen is questioned by his EvilTwin sister Raven, who tries to be polite but gets testy when Qrow refuses to play along;
-->'''Raven:''' I told you Beacon would fall, and it did. I told you Ozpin would fail, and he has.

* Rayford Steele, near the end of ''Glorious Appearing'' in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book series, tells his wife Irene, who has been warning him about Jesus' SecondComing and the Rapture, that she is entitled to "one cosmic I-told-you-so".

** Also from ''Fire and Blood'': after an extremely nasty argument between his daughter Rhaenyra's and his second wife Alicent's sides of the family over [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe the legitimacy of Rhaenyra's sons]], King Viserys I Targaryen puts his foot down and declares [[NeverSayThatAgain anyone who calls his grandsons by Rhaenyra bastards]] [[TongueTrauma will lose their tongue for it]]. Several years later, when Rhaenyra asks her father-in-law, Corlys Velaryon, to make her second son Lucerys his heir, Corlys's nephew Vaemond protests he should be the heir because Lucerys is a bastard who can't inherit. Rhaenyra has Vaemond [[VigilanteExecution executed on the spot]] for his words, and Vaemond's family went to King's Landing to protest Rhaneyra's actions...[[TooDumbToLive and made the same mistake of calling the king's grandson a bastard in his presence]]. Viserys heard their petition in [[TranquilFury a stony silence]] and then ordered his guards to take them away and have their tongues cut out, insisting he had made it ''very'' clear what would happen to anyone who disobeyed his command on the subject.
-->'''King Viserys I Targaryen:''' You were warned. I will hear no more of these lies.
* 'Literature/{{Slapshots}}'': Jared Enoch spends a lot of time lecturing the coach whenever something that Jared asked about and the coach ignored (like practicing penalty shots) becomes important.

* ''Fanfic/FailureToExplode'': When Katsuki [[ForWantOfANail doesn't get into U.A.]], he's caught completely flat-footed, having arrogantly assumed that ''of course'' he'd get exactly what he wanted. His mother Mitsuki notes that both she and Masaru warned him that he needed to apply to other places so he'd have a 'Plan B' to fall back upon if his top pick didn't pan out, but he'd blown them off.

* Another Disney example is in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robin Hood|1973}}''. This is [[TheDragon Sir]] [[SmugSnake Hiss]]'s usual rebuttal to Prince John's traps always failing, as well as details that the Prince is too spoiled to acknowledge.

* Played for laughs in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'' during the flashback. A station hand cries out "Board! Board!", a man reading a newspaper ignores him... until a construction worker walks by with a 2×4, smacking the man and knocking him out. The other person's reaction? "Warned you. Warned you twice."

* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': DoctorWolfula is very quick to point out that he predicted [[the Shadow Demon would return, more powerful.]]

* In ''Series/{{Stargirl}}'' the Shade left the Injustice Society because he didn't believe the EvilPlan the rest were doing would work. He's introduced at the end of the first season watching a news report about its failure, addressing his absent former leader.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Odd Couple" when Tommy is staying at Chuckie's house for a long weekend. Phil and Lil warned that when they start living together, they'll fight all the time. The argument happens when Tommy can't do things his way when Chuckie does things different at his house. They both get fed up that they both have to do things differently like Chuckie is a neat-freak with his toys and Tommy leaves it as a mess.

* ''Fanfic/{{Confrontation}}'': When her bully Sophia won't leave her alone, Taylor warns her that she won't enjoy it if Taylor makes her ''stop talking''. Sophia dismisses the threat, but gets interrupted by a bug flying down her throat, sending her into a coughing fit.

In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' season 2 episode 5, Sadlygrove tries to warn Yugo, Amalia, and Evangelyne of the dangers of the Dragon-Pig's lair, as he's the only one with experience in DungeonCrawling. They pay him no heed, used to ignoring the IdiotHero... until the three are struck with a ForcedTransformation. Sadlygrove then gives them a well-deserved admonishment.

* ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': After leaving Harry with the Dursleys, Dumbledore relied on a protection spell that would prevent anyone from trying to remove Harry from the Dursleys' custody plus several monitors that told him about Harry's physical and mental state. Minerva told him numerous times that it would be much better if he actually went and checked on Harry ''himself'' instead of watching the monitors, but Dumbledore kept insisting that the monitors couldn't be wrong. He learns later that he [[DidntThinThisThrough accidentally shot himself in the foot]], as the Durselys were abusing Harry, but the protection spell canceled out the monitors (as Dumbledore would have removed Harry from their custody if he'd known about the abuse) and caused them to always say that Harry was fine. Once Minerva learns about this, she's ''furious'' with Albus and spends the next several weeks hexing him behind his back for not checking on Harry.
* ''Fanfic/TheDragonAndTheButterfly'': Astrid's first plan to get Hiccup to come back to Berk is to either kidnap him and take him by force or kidnap Mirabel and use her as [[IHaveYourWife bait]] and use her to lure him to Berk. Fishlegs is horrified and (after [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling her how horrible such a plan is]]) warns her that it wouldn't work, because both Hiccup and Mirabel have a Night Fury and an enormous family of magical people ready to defend them at a moment's notice. He's proven right when, after Dolores overheard this plan, she, Isabella, and Alma come and capture Astrid and Fishlegs.
* ''Fanfic/Ben10Unlimited'': A rare version where the one commiting the action is ''also'' the one giving the warning. Hamilton becomes extremely interested in the Ultimatrix, and becomes desperate to see and experiment on it. Waller already knows that Ben Tennyson won't willingly leave the Justice League, and believes that the Ultimatrix is too complex and alien for them to understand. Still, to humor Hamilton, she tries to recruit Ben...and he not only tells her no, but [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tells her all of the reasons why CADMUS is a bigger threat than the Justice League is]]. She expected him to say no, and isn't fazed. Still, she gives a subtle version to Hamilton when she tells him that Ben won't be joining (leaving the scientist near tears [[note]] Don't feel bad for him; the experiments he planned on the Ultimatrix might have killed Ben and what's more, he was planning on human experimentation to give the powers of Ben's alien forms to normal humans.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/LANoire'', [[spoiler:Cole is planning on investigating Elysian Fields which [=McKelty=], the captain of the Arson desk, finds that unacceptable]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Cole:''' We're about to visit Elysian Fields Development.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''[=McKelty=]:''' You're about to do what? Leland Monroe, he's a personal friend of the Mayor and the Chief. Are you out of your mind?! I'm warning you, Phelps.]]
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' would have this case when [[spoiler:Norman is planning of accusing Blake of being the Origami Killer]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Norman:''' I think you're the killer, Carter.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Blake:''' Watch your fucking mouth, Norman. You're about to make the biggest mistake of your life.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Industria}}'' have your AI dropping the "don't say I didn't warn you" variant when you insist in entering the titular location to find your missing love interest.
* In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'', you can use the hand icon on the change machine. The first time gives you a warning from the narrator, "Banging on the change machine will only activate its self-defense mechanism!" Trying again electrocutes Roger Wilco, who flops over dead, and prompting the narrator to say, "You were warned NOT to try to break into the change machine... but DID YOU LISTEN?!"
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'', you can muck around at night in the plazas where the guards will patrol. For reckless magic using or dagger throwing, you get a stern warning, but if you try this again, you get a HaveANiceDeath where the guard states he warned you.

* After two games of having his/her warnings ignored, [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard]] gets a few opportunities to say this in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' when the Reapers finally attack. However, it is up to the player whether to gloat or to simply get down to the business of saving the galaxy without recrimination. A common complaint was that you didn't get enough chances to say it.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver says this [[spoiler:if the player wipes on the Paragons of the Klaxxi boss fight, in reference to his saying that when the Old God Y'Shaarj returns, Kil'ruk, the rest of the Mantid, and anyone else with any sense would join him.]]
-->'''Kil'ruk:''' I did warn you, Wakener.
* The tablet that activates hard mode in ''VideoGame/LaMulana'':
-->Thou are forbidden from again laying eyes on this marker. Those who heed not this warning will suffer the pain of death.\\
Mongrel who disobeyed the warning. Taste bitter death. ''[giant glowing red skulls appear and smash]''

* Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://youtu.be/BAh6ay9QDtE The Happy Song]]," VillainSong of ''VideoGame/AlanWakesAmericanNightmare'''s SerialKiller Mr. Scratch, has this sentiment as a refrain.
-->''You knew I'm a psycho\\
I told you I'm a psycho\\
Really, I'm a psycho, heh heh heh heh heh heh\\
I told ya, I told ya!''
* In the No Mercy ending of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', the FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Sans the skeleton]], says this verbatim after the final blow is struck but before he dies, after cryptically spending the fight warning you against continuing. [[spoiler:If you proceed through the ending anyway, you'll find he was entirely right, as the world is destroyed by your player character and the only way to get it back is to sell your SOUL and permanently lose the ability to get the best ending.]]
* In the Weird route of ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', a parallel to ''Undertale'''s No Mercy route, [[spoiler:Spamton NEO, {{Superboss}} turned FinalBoss]], gives you a similar warning [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment in his own way]] at the end of Chapter 2. Specifically, that [[spoiler:if Kris/the Player thinks being a murderous, manipulative maniac in this way will get them the freedom they crave... they'll get it, but they will regret everything in the way ''so badly'' they shouldn't be surprised if they end up "[Crying] in a [Broken Home]", wishing they had let Spamton kill them when he still had the chance]]. As of the end of the same chapter, these consequences remain to be seen.

''[cue bad ending, where [[spoiler:Abe and Munch get attacked by the Fuzzles, Abe is executed and his head is displayed as a trophy, and Munch dies via having his lungs removed]]]''\\

''[electing "Yeah, I can be a better guide for those poor schmucks!" takes you back to level 3, with your Quarma set back to the way it was in level 3]''
* In Harebrained Schemes' ''VideoGame/{{Battletech}}'', following the [[spoiler:Castle Nautilus]] mission that [[ProperlyParanoid Sumire]] repeatedly told you not to get involved with [[WentHorriblyWrong Goes Horribly Wrong]], Sumire will resignedly comment that while she hates to say she told you so, she ''did'' tell you so.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'', if the player tries to climb down the hidden passage underneath the altar in the chapel, the game will warn "you really don't wanna go down there, there's a monstrous GiantSpider that'll end you" multiple times. If the player is persistent enough, [[YetAnotherStupidDeath a death]] will ensue with the narration starting as [[SarcasmMode "Well, what do you know, it's a giant spider."]]

--> '''Door:''' See, like I said, this place is dangerous.\\

* ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'': During the battle of the [[OurWormholesAreDifferent World Fountain]], Admiral Kuushana notices that Kayto Shields is trying to break through PACT's lines to reach the Fountain itself and realizes that something isn't right. She orders the fleet to move away from the Fountain, but Veniczar Fontana countermands the order, not willing to let this chance to finally bring down Shields [[spoiler:''and'' the Prototypes]] slip away. [[spoiler:Then Kayto fires a graviton torpedo into the Fountain, triggering a chain reaction which transforms it into a new star and annihilates half of Fontana's navy. When Kuushana and Fontana reconvene in the aftermath, she archly reminds him that she told him to move the fleet away.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' has a minor case in the Ilia route. Bishop Martel orders Niime to use a spell tome to make it rain and flood the rivers to push back the Lycian Army. Niime warns him that the effects of the tome may be unpredictable and could potentially ruin his plans, but he insists. The spell instead freezes the rivers, allowing Roy's army to advance faster, and when Niime points out that she repeatedly warned him that she had no idea what would happen, Martel angrily orders her to be thrown into the dungeon.

* ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'': "I warned you about stairs bro!!!! I told you dog!"
* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib083.html after the fight]]. All the more annoying in that his warning had consisted of VaguenessIsComing.

* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' has a lovely example [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0233.html from Julie to Angelika.]]
-->'''Julie:''' If you had ranks in Knowledge: Arcana, you would've '''known''' that would happen.

--->'''Belkar:''' ''[angry]'' What the hell is the point of '''facts''' if I don't get to gloat about knowing them first?!?
* Played with in [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1904 this comic]] of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' where [[spoiler:Chaos]] says the phrase (twice) word for word but then quickly acknowledges that no one can see or hear [[spoiler:her]] anyway.

* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Dorothy (Kevin's mom) dated Rudy's coach when they were in school. He proposed to her, but she turned him down, marrying Kevin's dad instead. As their marriage ended in a bitter divorce, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1104.html he likes to say "I told you so" whenever the two contact each-other.]]
* In ''Webcomic/EveryoneIsHome'', Cloud warns everyone to ''not'' trust Sephiroth just because he did a HeelFaceTurn. No one believes him and this lets Sephiroth poison practically ''the entire Smash roster'' with ease. Once Cloud is revived (being the last one, even), he is ''pissed off'' at what happened and begins shouting "I warned you!" at ''everyone'' for not taking his warnings seriously.

-->'''Dylan:''' Wait, did you see that?!
-->'''Dante:''' I hate to say "I told you so", but... I'm gonna anyway. ''Told you so''.

--->'''Delightful Children:''' ''(after the fact)'' Keep your stupid ice cream rules, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere we're getting out of here!]]
** Numbuh Five again in "Operation C.A.K.E.D.T.H.R.E.E, where her plan to steal the Delightful Children's cake is for Sector V build a giant robot so they could fight it against the giant robot the DCFDTL will likely have waiting for their arrival. In the climax, she's right.
--->'''Numbuh Five:''' "You see? What'd I tell ya? Giant robot!"

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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailTheTreasureOfManhattanIsland'': On their way to the Indian village, [[DirtyCop [=McBrusque=]]] and his men approach a room that is filled with deadly traps. Having gone through there earlier in the film, Scuttlebutt warns [=McBrusque=] not to go further, but is ignored. [=McBrusque=] and his men grab Scuttlebutt and charge into the room. They make it through, but not unscathed.
--> '''Scuttlebutt:''' (''comes out the tunnel, smoldering'') Told you it was dangerous, but did anyone listen? Nooo. Might as well been talking to a brick wall!
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', Toulouse is the only one who suspects that Edgar was the one to took them away from their home, but his siblings and Duchess find it ludicrous and laugh it off. Then when they return home, Edgar stuffs them in a bag and locks them in the oven, Toulouse has this to say:
-->'''Toulouse:''' I told you it was Edgar!\\
'''Berlioz:''' Aw, shut up, Toulouse!
* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Cogsworth ''savours'' this trope after Lumière letting in Maurice (against Cogsworth's heavy objections) angers the Beast and gets the former locked up:
-->'''Cogsworth:''' ''[snide]'' Ooh, couldn't keep quiet, could we? Just had to invite him to stay, didn't we? "Zerve him tea in ze master's chair, pet de pooch!"\\
'''Lumière:''' ''[sulking]'' I was trying to be hospitable.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', after the chickens have escaped, blowing up the pie machine and making a ''huge'' mess of the farm in the process, the only thing Mr. Tweedy has to say to Mrs. Tweedy is a gently-reproachful "I ''told'' you they was organised!" [[SoreLoser Enraged, Mrs. Tweedy gnashes her teeth and growls at him.]] But Mr. Tweedy, [[TheDogBitesBack fed up with his wife's abuse, drops what's left of the barn door on top of her]].
* Another Disney example is in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robin Hood|1973}}''. This is [[TheDragon Sir]] [[SmugSnake Hiss]]'s usual rebuttal to Prince John's traps always failing, as well as details that the Prince is too spoiled to acknowledge.
* ''WesternAnimation/YogiBearAndTheMagicalFlightOfTheSpruceGoose'': Dread Baron and Mumbly wish to be rescued and come with Yogi and his crew. Yogi's friends are against it, but after the Dread Baron and Mumbly "proven" that they have reformed, Yogi allows them to come aboard their plane. Soon after, the two fiends, not surprisingly, betray the crew and imprisons them.
-->'''Yogi Bear:''' Whatever you do, don't say "I told you so."
-->'''Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie, Doggie Daddy, Boo Boo, & Huckleberry Hound:''' We told you so!
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* {{Discussed}} in the ''Archie ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' series, after Great Battle Kukku dismisses Speedy's warnings to entrust the Babylon Rogues. Inevitably, things go pear shaped and Kukku bellows at Speedy to find out what the Rogues are playing at. Speedy considers saying "I told you so" but decides [[MeanBoss it's not worth time in the brig]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'': Nick Fury warned the heroes, back in ''Ultimate Power'', that if they left him out, terrible things would happen. And they happened indeed. He does not miss the chance to remind them of this.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', when 1955 Doc Brown finds the "Do not open until 1985" letter:

''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':

''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In "Family", Qrow Branwen is questioned by his EvilTwin sister Raven, who tries to be polite but gets testy when Qrow refuses to play along;

* In one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip, Calvin imagines himself as a volcano spewing lava into the air. The last panel reveals that Calvin is frantically gulping down water after having drunk a bottle of chili sauce, while being scolded by his parents.
-->'''Dad:''' I ''told'' you that chili sauce was hot!\\

* In this [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/916bh1/wedding_planners_of_reddit_whats_your_horror_story/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 grab bag of wedding horror stories from Reddit]], one story is about the submitter's mother who used to make wedding cakes. At one wedding, the mother of the bride wanted to use a Precious Moments car figurine as the cake topper. Unfortunately, it was too heavy for that, as it was made of ceramic and weighed a solid 5 pounds. The submitter's mom told her that, put some flowers on top of the cake instead, and left. An hour later, she got a call from the reception hall that the cake had collapsed because the mother of the bride had put the car on it after she left.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode [[LongTitle "Field-Tournament-Style-Up-and-Down-On-The-Ground-Manja-Flanja-Blanja-Banja-Ishka-Bibble-Babble-Flabble-Doma-Roma-Floma-Boma-Jingle-Jangle-Every-Angle-Bricka-Bracka-Flacka-Stacka-Two-Ton-Rerun-Free-for-All-Big-Ball"]], Truffles is exhausted at spending many days at a sports game where the teams haven't scored one point. Mung Daal tells her that the sport has no winners. Specifically, ''neither team is supposed to score a point'', but Truffles, in her rage, creates a chain of events that leads to the team she's leading actually scoring a point, which provokes a giant turtle monster to rise from the ground underneath the stadium and literally throw it in the trash at which, Mung reprimands her for destroying the sport, to which Truffles replies that she thought Mung was being figurative.

[[index]]
* IWarnedYou/AnimeAndManga
* IWarnedYou/FanWorks
* IWarnedYou/WesternAnimation
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]], the Master gives the Doctor a somber warning to flee Earth because he has an EvilPlan to wipe his former friend-turned ArchEnemy from existence. The Master then immediately points out that [[InHarmsWay this will only ensure the Doctor stays to find out what his plan is and stop it.]]

* In the Weird route of ''Videogame/{{Deltarune}}''', a parallel to ''Undertale'''s No Mercy route, [[spoiler:Spamton NEO, {{Superboss}} turned FinalBoss]], gives you a similar warning [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment in his own way]] at the end of Chapter 2. Specifically, that [[spoiler:if Kris/the Player thinks being a murderous, manipulative maniac in this way will get them the freedom they crave... they'll get it, but they will regret everything in the way ''so badly'' they shouldn't be surprised if they end up "[Crying] in a [Broken Home]", wishing they had let Spamton kill them when he still had the chance]]. As of the end of the same chapter, these consequences remain to be seen.