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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Shifu, after learning that Po can be trained using his BigEater tendencies, takes him through a series of exercises using food as a motivator, culminating in a long fight over a single dumpling. After Po bests him, he tosses the dumpling right back at Shifu and says, "I'm not hungry."

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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', Shifu, after learning that Po can be trained using his BigEater tendencies, takes him through a series of exercises using food as a motivator, culminating in a long fight over a single dumpling. After Po bests him, he tosses the dumpling right back at Shifu and says, "I'm not hungry."
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* ''AudioPlay/JanTenner'': When the usually paranoid Forbett is friendly towards someone he suspected of being an enemy in disguise, such as during the heroes' visist to Seytania's planet, it's usually a dead giveaway that something is off.
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** Mom and Dad tend to be hard on Calvin when he breaks something in the house, usually because of the repairs and his lying about it. During the car arc, Calvin thinks they'll kill him for rolling the car into a ditch by accident, and runs away into the woods with Hobbes. When Mom sees the car in the ditch and realizes what it must mean, she runs to find Calvin in the woods. Her first reaction is to ask if he's okay. She tells him the car is fine, she's more worried about ''him'' because the car could have easily run him or Hobbes over, or if he had gotten injured in the woods no one would have known where to find him. Dad apparently had the same reaction offscreen, much to Calvin's surprise as he and Hobbes discuss this in bed.
** The break-in story arc is one of the few occasions in which Calvin is depicted as [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/06/16 anything other than an explosive ball of hyperactivity]] -- the contrast is quite jarring.
** The last Rosalyn arc is a rare one where Calvin actually behaves in her presence, to the point where his parents think she must be joking when she said that she and Calvin played a game and he went to bed with no troble. Even Hobbes is shocked when Calvin asks him calmly to check his homework as he works to get it done before it gets done. The reason? Rosalyn said that Calvin could choose any game he wanted, and went along with it when he made her a mask for Calvinball.
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* Sometimes, when a real, serious injury or accident happens, announcers drop kayfabe and explicitly tell the audience it is not part of the show. Most infamously, this happened when Wrestling/OwenHart died in an accident at ''Over the Edge'' 1999, and most recently when Wrestling/JerryLawler had a heart attack during an episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''.

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* Sometimes, when a real, serious injury or accident happens, announcers drop kayfabe and explicitly tell the audience it is not part of the show. Most infamously, this happened when Wrestling/OwenHart died in an accident at ''Over the Edge'' 1999, and most recently when Wrestling/JerryLawler had a heart attack during an episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''.
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* EveryoneHasStandards (OOC if the persons call out someone else on a fault that's no different from their own vice)
* ExplainExplainOhCrap (OOC if a character is explaining midway something that seems innocuous at first until putting it into words [[FailedASpotCheck under a specific context,]] [[LateToTheRealization gives them a belated, shocking realization]] about the thing they were talking about, and changes the context and/or true weight of the issue from their perspective, thus leading to a change in attitude from apparent ignorance to SeriousBusiness on the spot.

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* EveryoneHasStandards (OOC if the persons call person calls out someone else on a fault that's no different from their own vice)
* ExplainExplainOhCrap (OOC if a character is midway through explaining midway something that seems innocuous at first - until putting it into words [[FailedASpotCheck under a specific context,]] context]] - [[LateToTheRealization gives them a belated, shocking realization]] about the thing they were talking about, and changes the context and/or true weight of the issue from their perspective, thus leading to a change in attitude from apparent ignorance to SeriousBusiness on the spot.
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* CaptainObvious (OOC if a character who is normally too smart and sophisticated to talk down to their peers or associates without looking unprofessional, foregoes the façade in order to get to the point immediately. The same can apply to a character who conversely starts of as [[CaptainOblivious too oblivious to figure something out]] [[LateToTheRealization until later on.]] This can also overlap with PunctuatedForEmphasis so that they are loud and clear with their point.)

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* CaptainObvious (OOC if a character who is normally too smart and sophisticated to talk down to their peers or associates without looking unprofessional, foregoes the façade in order to get to the point immediately. The same can apply to a character who conversely starts of off as [[CaptainOblivious too oblivious to figure something out]] [[LateToTheRealization until later on.]] This can also overlap with PunctuatedForEmphasis so that they are loud and clear with their point.)
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* NowAllowedToHug.
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* CracksInTheIcyFacade: A closed off character has early indicators that they will undergo CharacterDevelopment later.
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* TranquilFury (if the characters normally are not angry or express their anger)

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* TranquilFury (if the characters normally are not angry or express their anger)anger more boisterously in less dramatic situations)

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