History Main / LethallyExpensive

* Shepard recruits Tali in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' after rescuing her from an important surveying mission gone south. Tali's entire squad (aside from herself and possibly one other soldier) is lost getting the data, which concerns a star destabilizing much faster than it ought to be.
-->'''Tali:''' That damn data had better be worth it. [[spoiler:([[AbortedArc It wasn't]])]].

** In ''Film/RogueOne'', [[spoiler:it is revealed that the plans for the first Death Star got to Princess Leia with the cost of the lives of everybody involved in the mission to steal them.]]

The importance of a piece of new information is underscored by relating the loss of life incurred to bring it to light.

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* Shepard recruits Tali in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' after rescuing her from an important surveying mission gone south. Tali's entire squad (aside from herself and possibly one other soldier) is lost getting the data, which concerns a star destabilizing much faster than it ought to be.
-->'''Tali:''' That damn data had better be worth it. [[spoiler: ([[AbortedArc It wasn't]])]].

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* While not exactly information useful at the time, [[http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/128148.jpg this image]] was taken when a Japanese bomb hit the deck of the USS Enterprise (CV-6). The Navy Photographer that took the photo was killed in the explosion, but the camera, and film survived, and can now be seen in many history books on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, particularly during the Battle of the Solomons.

* While not exactly information useful at the time, [[http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/128148.jpg this image]] was taken when a Japanese bomb hit the deck of the USS Enterprise (CV-6). The Navy Photographer that took the photo was killed in the explosion, but the camera, and film survived, and can now be seen in many history books on WorldWarTwo, particularly during the Battle of the Solomons.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' when Mon Mothma (who is a ValleyGirl for some reason) says "Our best spy, Wedge, died to bring us this information". Wedge points out that actually, he didn't and she replies "Oh! Wedge I totally didn't recognise you. Love your hair."

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' when Mon Mothma (who is a ValleyGirl for some reason) says "Our best spy, Wedge, died to bring us this information". Wedge points out that actually, he didn't.

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-->'''Tali:''' That damn data had better be worth it. [[spoiler:It wasn't]].

* In ''DC Special'' #29, the origin of the JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, a British agent tells [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the President]]: "We have received information--very ''reliable information'', obtained at the cost of many lives--and it is now ''clear'' that [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] plans to ''invade England''--within weeks!"

* {{Invoked}} in ''Series/BabylonFive'': Sheridan orders the rangers to leak some information to the shadows. However he is concerned that they won't believe it unless someone was:
-->'''Sheridan:''' "...willing to fight for it, willing to..." (he can't bring himself to say "die" in front of the very man he is ordering to his death.)
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Sisko and Garak hatch a plan to bring the Romulans into the war against the Dominion. One of Garak's contacts forges a data rod showing the Dominion leaders planning to invade Romulus, and Garak suggests Sikso tell the ambassador people died retrieving the data. [[spoiler: The ambassador sees through the forgery, but Garak assassinates him and implicates the Dominion, which was his back-up plan the whole time.]]

* In ''DC Special'' #29, the origin of the JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, a British agent tells [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the President]]: "We have received information--very ''reliable information'', obtained at the cost of many lives--and it is now ''clear'' that [[AdolfHitler Hitler]] plans to ''invade England''--within weeks!"

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-->'''Tali:''' That damn data had better be worth it. [[spoiler:It wasn't]]

-->-- '''Mon Mothma''', ''ReturnOfTheJedi''

* The page quote comes from ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', when Rebel leader Mon Mothma points out many Bothan spies had died to bring the information during the briefing for the Battle of Endor. [[spoiler:And only succeeded because the Emperor allowed it, or so he says.]]

* The crew of a hovercraft, the ''Osiris'', dies in a HeroicSacrifice to warn of an impending Machine invasion against Zion in "Final Flight of the Osiris," a digitally animated short story from ''TheAnimatrix''. This adventure is canonically noted at the start of ''[[TheMatrix The Matrix Reloaded]]'' when Niobe, a hovercraft captain, presents the ''Osiris's'' information for all to see at a captain's meeting.

* In ''DC Special'' #29, the origin of the JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, a British agent tells [[FranklinRoosevelt the President]]: "We have received information--very ''reliable information'', obtained at the cost of many lives--and it is now ''clear'' that [[AdolfHitler Hitler]] plans to ''invade England''--within weeks!"

* The crew of a hovercraft, the ''Osiris'', dies after succeeding to relay information of an impending Machine invasion against Zion in "Final Flight of the Osiris," a digitally animated short story from ''The Animatrix''. This adventure is canonically noted at the start of ''[[TheMatrix The Matrix Reloaded]]'' when Niobe, a hovercraft captain, presents the ''Osiris's'' information for all to see at a captain's meeting.

* While not exactly information useful at the time, [[this image http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/128148.jpg]] was taken when a Japanese bomb hit the deck of the USS Enterprise (CV-6). The Navy Photographer that took the photo was killed in the explosion, but the camera, and film survived, and can now be seen in many history books on WorldWarTwo, particularly during the Battle of the Solomons.

* Shepard recruits Tali in ''MassEffect2'' after rescuing her from an important surveying mission gone south. Tali's entire squad (aside from herself and possibly one other soldier) is lost getting the data, which concerns a star destabilizing much faster than it ought to be.

* {{Invoked}} in ''BabylonFive'': Sheridan orders the rangers to leak some information to the shadows. However he is concerned that they won't believe it unless someone was:

-->'''Tali:''' That damn data had better be worth it.

* Christopher Walken's butt-smuggled wristwatch from {{Pulp Fiction}}.

* In ''TheRocketeer'', when Howard Hughes shows Cliff the Nazi propaganda film, he says "Keep watching, kid. It cost a man's life to get this out of Germany."