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--> '''Sniper''': "That helmet's gonna make a nice bowl for your brains!"\\
[Sniper eats the brains out of the Soldier's helmet with a spoon like it's cereal.]

--> I mean *everything* literally.

--> '''Warden''': Do you have to be so literal?\\
'''Sten''': No, it's a choice, not a necessity.

'''Clive (drawing his sword):''' Mine's bigger.\\

--> I already told you, I don't know! Where His Holiness does his business ''is'' his business!

--> '''Sol''': You look ''really'' hot today.\\
'''Tang''': It will cool down now that night is falling. And this lab coat is lighter than it looks. I'm fine.

* In ''VideoGame/LEGOIsland'', when Mama Brikolini is asked what it was that brought her to the island, she replies "The boat, silly."

* The Boss in the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series occasionally shows signs of this. Take this instance in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'', for example:
--> '''Jack:''' Hey, kid, how'd you like to make some quick cash?\\
''([[NoNameGiven The Playa]] approaches Jack's table and [[ExactWords reaches for the money Jack had just been counting)]]''\\
'''Jack''': Evidently, you aren't familiar with the no-touching rule...
** This trope is lampshaded in a cutscene from ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell''

'''Yuri''': Not exactly.

* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Sachi has a way of reading everything in a very direct way. Considering she also has an unrelated issue with following every order she's told to follow, she can end up doing some pretty strange things that no one intended. She refuses to call Michiru anything but her name with a -sama on it much to her horror since she hadn't been serious when she made the request but phrased it too strongly.

* Creator/{{Egoraptor}}'s short [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/529003 Mr. Literal]] is about this type of character.

--->'''Kitten''': "Don't worry, my Lord! I can just use this lingua-technis mouthpiece instead so I can talk in binary!"\\
'''Emperor''': [[AC:What the shit?]]\\
'''Kitten''': [[AC: 01001001001111110001000101...]]

* Door from ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'' inherits [[WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice Rogal Dorn's]] literal-mindedness. In the first episode, he responds to the idea of "burning Boy's fear away" with "We are not throwing my son into a fire". Cue Big D threatening to make a metaphor physical and beat him with it.

* ''Webcomic/{{Beeserker}}'': Beeserker is this to a tee, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint interpreting common figures of speech as commands.]] This usually ends in a Scienceman being "up and split" [[BloodyHilarious (in half), or being given a break (in their spinal cord), among other forms of well-meaning brutalization.]]

* ''WEBCOMIC/{{Pupster}}'': Pupster tells Danny to "look at the bright side" and Danny looks into the sun in the sixth page of ''Pup, Pup, And Away''. Danny continues to be like that for the rest of the comic.
* The Sphynx from ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' also seems to [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page535.html suffer from this]]. But let's be fair, who wouldn't go looking for the Fire Department when they want to heat their house?
* ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' does it all the time. [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1878/ Also]], furries.
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'':
** Criminy has something like a bullet-proof glass wall between him and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 any]], even [[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe the most corny]] innuendo. He [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-09-06 doesn't even notice]] anything is amiss when they fall by scores. Including his own AccidentalInnuendo. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-07-19 Even during a discussion]] of his ChasteHero status.
** God can be one [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-05-30 too]].

-->'''Gil:''' Well, when I was a kid, we heard some of the older guys talking, but we were kind of... um... unclear on the concept, and, well...\\
'''[=DuPree=]:''' That is so just like you... soooo pathetic.
* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000615c Megaman interprets a comment about his being an idiot to mean that is his function.]]

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': "In this part of Manhattan, 'Kill my mom' was slang for 'Kill my dad.'" (This was what someone took too literally.)
* WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut made the comic "Head Over Heels", which features a co-worker that doesn't understand his peer's figurative speech.

* When Steven instructs White Pearl on doing something in ''Webcomic/AskWhitePearlAndStevenAlmostAnything'', she always takes it literally. For instance, when he said that she had to eat (not knowing that gems do not ''need'' to eat), she responds by trying to eat the box (this including the ''box itself'') of crackers she was holding.

* ''Webcomic/NoFuture'': Aeon is relearning everything from scratch after his memories were wiped. As a result, while he has a good grasp on language, metaphors tend to escape him. For example, after being told he sent someone running "with their tail between their legs", he'll exclaim that he didn't notice his opponent had one. He also has trouble with double meanings.
-->'''Andrew:''' You're shitting me.\\
'''Aeon:''' ''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Aeon:''' What does it mean when it's not literal?
* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'': In strip #1261 "Shake That", Megan hears "shake what your mama gave you" and goes and shakes a coffee mug that she received from her mother.

* Website/TVTropes: Most trope names are confusing for many reasons and might get different interpretations (usually literal ones) from readers. This is partly why the JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant page exist.
* ''Website/HectorsWorld'':
** In one episode, Tama thinks Constable Solosolave will inspect Ranjeet's foot when he says that something is "afoot".
** Sprat the fish thinks "strong passwords" have big muscles and "viruses" make computers sick.

* A feature of ''Blog/CakeWrecks'' is "Literal [=LOLs=]," when the cake decorators took their instructions too literally, with absurd results. One of the most infamous such is when a customer left a USB thumb drive, thinking the decorator would know to plug it into their computer and download the image for a reference. Instead they [[https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2009/1/23/the-problem-with-phone-orders.html created a very detailed cake version of said thumb drive]].

* Creator/{{Tobuscus}} has a series on Website/YouTube about adding lyrics to trailers. The lyrics themselves are about what's happening in the trailer.
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd:
** When reviewing ''Winter Games'', he wonders about what "Hot Dog Aerials" could be, and imagines a flying hot dog (as in, food) as well as a flying hot dog (as in, animal on fire).
** In the ''Bible Games 3'' episode, when he decides to "give his heart to Jesus". You can guess what happens.

* Sparadrap from ''Series/{{Noob}}''. A guildmate mentioning a PickUpGroup will conjure the image of a pick-up ''truck'' to his mind. In addition, he has trouble understanding that the same word can have a very different meaning in {{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPG and real life.

* ''WebVideo/SandersSides'': This is one of Logan's defining traits, especially in later episodes. This makes sense, considering he is a metaphyisical manifestation of logic.
* In WebVideo/SolidJJ's WebVideo/{{Stoogeposting}} series:
** "The Three Stooges don't have Uno":
--->'''Shemp:''' Well, the day I went, no dice!\\
'''Larry:''' Dice? I thought we needed cards.
** "The Three Stooges run for office":
--->'''Reporter:''' If elected to city council, what do you hope to bring to the table?\\
'''Curly:''' Huh? Nobody told me if this was a potluck! If I get elected, I'll budget for more snacks, I'll tell you that much!
* In the ''WebVideo/{{Jreg}}'' video "A Neo-Nazi With They/Them Pronouns," the titular character goes by they/them pronouns not because they reject the gender binary, but because they have five entities possessing their body.
* In the WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan video "Bowser's Salad Wrap", Bowser and Bowser Junior says they are so hungry they could eat a horse. Chef Pee Pee, their personal chef, incorporates horse into the salad wrap. [[note]]Though, considering throughout this era of the channel, Chef Pee Pee is known for cooking random animals (primarily cats) this wouldn't be literal in his mind.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/BearAndBreakfast'': When Hank delivers Oliver's letter to Beanie, she's surprised by its contents and calls Oliver a weasel for it. Hank, being a bear, thinks she meant it literally and tells her that Oliver isn't a weasel (although he resembles one), but Beanie clarifies that Oliver found the last page of the atlas they made when they were teens.

* ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk'': Even if Neil's informed of the meaning of idioms, they have a hard time getting them because they take them literally. Same goes for Amanda in Episode 2, who asks Lua to clarify what she meant when she asked them what "brought them here".

[[caption-width-right:330:When it's raining cats and dogs, [[Pun don't step in a poodle]]!]]

[[caption-width-right:330:When it's raining cats and dogs, don't step in a poodle!]]

--> '''Dalek Sec: I WAS BEING FIGURATIVE.'''\\
'''Dalek Caan: OH.'''

* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': Xenk is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy who has a straight moral codex of speaking clear and direct. He has serious problems catching up with the other Party members way of speaking, being not only SarcasmBlind but also misinterpreting figures of speech like "son of a bitch" or "having something off his sleeve" by taking them literally.

* Max in ''WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax'' has this, due to [[spoiler: his Asperger's Syndrome]], as detailed in the RealLife section.