History Main / SayingTooMuch

* In ''Fanfic/{{Fermeture}}'', Marinette tries to arrange a reunion with her former partner Chat Noir, who she hasn't seen since they both lost their powers five years ago, as they never learned each other's secret identities. She uses the Ladyblog to ask him to meet her at their "favourite spot", assuming he'll recognize it as the Eiffel Tower on Christmas Eve before midnight, and ends up waiting there with her former crush Adrien, who's also waiting for someone -- Marinette assumes this to be Chloe, who she overheard talking with Adrien on his cell phone a couple of weeks earlier. Midnight passes, and Marinette believes she's been stood up (or that Chat didn't see the invitation to begin with) and prepares to leave, but when she mentions Chloe and the phone call, Adrien explains that the call was just Chloe telling him about the blog post in which Ladybug asked Chat Noir to meet there tonight.

* ''Fanfic/InYourWildestDreams'': After Pyrrha has a nightmare about the time she accidentally ended a friend’s career on the tournament scene, Jaune tries to comfort her, only for his attempt at a heartwarming speech to end with her staring blankly at him. Thinking he accidently made things worse, he tries to apologize for being too saccharine, only for her to ask how he knows her friend's name is Ashley, since she never told him. After trying his hardest to explain it away, he's forced to admit that he has a DreamWalker semblance and was present within said nightmare.

* An amusing (for fuzzy values of amusing) incident happened when Stauber/Rampton wrote their book about spin doctors, "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You!". They were pondering about a tacky title and came up with this one. About ten seconds later (spin doctors know more than the NSA) the PR guys from the Toxic Sludge Dept. stormed their office to convince them that toxic sludge is indeed good for you, alerting them there was even more of a stink going on than they already knew.

** When Artie was first given his human form as part of an attempt to rescue Dr Narbon from Mell, or possibly the other way round, he was too embarassed to tell Mell who he was, so claimed to be "Nick Cecida". He'd almost decided the deception was pointless and he should just come clean, when he reacted with incredulity to her claim to have a boyfriend, then blurted out "You're dating Caliban?" based on her description. Not for the last time, he was left wondering why being superintelligent didn't stop him being ''stupid''.

* The second variation was seen in ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', when Helen was preparing to tell Dave [[spoiler:that he's a latent mad genius]].
-->'''Helen:''' There's something I have to discuss with you... Artie made me promise.\\

* In ''Series/{{Castle}}'''s pilot, the brother of one of the victims, when asked about an alibi, provides alibis for the three murders. Castle feels downhearted, but Beckett points out that, while it is possible he'd know his alibi for his sister's death, the fact that he was prepared for ''all three murders'' (without even asking when the other victims were killed) is quite suspicious. [[spoiler:He did it.]]

* ''[[https://salthaven.tumblr.com/post/190458693897/ A Lady's Scout (and the Salt within her Soul)]]'': Marinette deliberately invokes this after her classmates learn that she's Multimouse. While explaining to them that her exposure means she can't be a hero anymore, she adds "Especially when Ladybug's stalker--''[[PrecisionFStrike shit]]''." This sets up for Ladybug to reveal to the whole class that Lila has been lying to them about being her "best friend".

* ''[[Fanfic/ThinkBeforeYouSpeakMHA Think Before You Speak]]'':

* ''[[Fanfic/WhatYouKneadNaruto What You Knead]]'': One of the reasons why Kakashi hesitates to approach Naruto after the Sandaime's four-year gag order expires is that he'll accidentally blurt out something he shouldn't, such as noting his StrongFamilyResemblance to his father.

* ''Fanfic/WitchingHour'': When Gaz (who is a princess in this [[HistoricalAU Medieval AU]]) is really stressed out about the rumors that she's a witch, she snaps at her handmaiden Gretchen for almost dropping her bathing oils. The girl apologizes and begs Gaz to not give her boils or turn her into a frog, unintentionally implying that she also believes Gaz is a witch and making her even more angry. Fortunately for Gretchen, she just gets [[GetOut told to leave]] rather than being punished.

** Katsuki stumbles headlong into this after his KarmaHoudiniWarranty at Aldera runs out. Since he [[ForWantOfANail didn't make it into U.A.]], the staff is no longer willing to give his misbehavior a free pass, intervening when he tries attacking Izuku. He protests to his mother that it never mattered ''before'', unintentionally revealing that this wasn't the first time he'd assaulted his former friend.

See also DidIJustSayThatOutLoud.

* Every once in a while in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', witnesses may make a slip of the tongue and mention information none of the parties at court know. For example, the final witness in the third case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' makes an off-hand comment about the instruments that can be heard in the song the victim heard at the moment of his death. Except, the song in question is played with different instruments than those described by the witness. [[spoiler:This ends up proving the defendant's innocence and places guilt on another person, a person the witness tried to cover for...]]

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler The Time Meddler]]", the Doctor has disappeared in 1066, and in order to find him Steven interrogates a suspicious monk who swears up and down he hasn't seen him. Steven asks the Monk kindly to keep an eye out for him and asks "Do you remember the description I gave you?" to which the Monk responds by listing off the Doctor's physical traits — long white hair, a walking stick, and [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel strange-looking]] clothes. Steven leaves to tell Vicki that he's confirmed the Monk has seen him, as he never gave him a physical description.
** In incomplete serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]", Professor Chronotis blurts out his real identity (the extremely powerful and dangerous Time Lord outlaw Salyavin, who is [[MacGuffin being sought by the villain as a vital component to his plan]]) in a sudden slip of the tongue at the exact point when the villain thinks Salyavin is gone forever, is patching things up with the Doctor and is just about to give up on his plan and go home — basically, the ''worst'' possible time. Since this is a case of the character having his brains splattered across the wall by the IdiotBall (as he'd kept his identity a secret for over 700 years until then), the novelisation alters this to have the companion figure it out and announce it to the Doctor (and the villain, whom he is comforting after a VillainousBreakdown), thinking Salyavin is a danger to the Doctor and not realising that Salyavin being alive is crucial to the villain's plan, and plays it for excruciating DramaticIrony.

** In incomplete serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]", Chronotis blurts out his real identity (the extremely powerful and dangerous Time Lord outlaw Salyavin, who is [[MacGuffin being sought by the villain as a vital component to his plan]]) in a sudden slip of the tongue at the exact point when the villain thinks Salyavin is gone forever, is patching things up with the Doctor and is just about to give up on his plan and go home — basically, the ''worst'' possible time. Since this is a case of the character having his brains splattered across the wall by the IdiotBall (as he'd kept his identity a secret for over 700 years until then), the novelisation alters this to have the companion figure it out and announce it to the Doctor (and the villain, who he is comforting after a VillainousBreakdown), thinking Salyavin is a danger to the Doctor and not realising that Salyavin being alive is crucial to the villain's plan, and plays it for excruciating DramaticIrony.

'''Clara:''' No; I was in Victorian Yorkshire- ''[cue OhCrap]''

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]]: The [[EldritchAbomination entity]], after managing to posses Sky's body, steal the Doctor's voice and paralyze him, and convince the rest of those onboard that the entity is in the Doctor now, ends up being so smug about this that it flaunts the fact too much. Even if almost everyone else was too paranoid and thick to notice "Sky's" sudden smugness, the hostess figures it out when the entity uses some of the Doctor's catchphrases, which she'd noticed him saying before the trouble started...

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]]: The [[EldritchAbomination entity]], after managing to steal the Doctor's voice and paralyze him, ends up being so smug about this that it flaunts the fact too much. Even if almost everyone else was too paranoid and thick to notice "Sky's" sudden smugness, the hostess figures it out when the entity uses some of the Doctor's catchphrases, which she'd noticed him saying before the trouble started...

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Homelander learns his child is still alive when Stillwell commiserates with him over his loss while giving a version of the baby died which is different from the one Dr. Vogelbaum told him.

** Loras does this in "Kissed by Fire" when he reveals his secret betrothal to Olyvar.
** In "Two Swords", after Brienne calls Renly "our king" while speaking to Margaery, the Tyrell lady gently, but sternly, reminds Brienne that Joffrey is king now. Brienne would get her head chopped off if Joffrey ever found out that she is still faithful to Renly's memory.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the final episodes of season 4, Spike, using "[[YokoOhNo the Yoko Factor]]," has successfully turned Buffy and the Scoobies against one another by exploiting the existing tensions within the group. In the next episode, Spike, having realized that he gave the information necessary for Adam's plan to Willow, and now Willow won't be speaking to Buffy, meets up with Buffy and tells her that just because they had a falling out doesn't mean they can't focus on decoding the info; as Spike wasn't around to see their falling out, Buffy puts two and two together and realizes that Spike set them up.

* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Whenever Piper and Leo's son Wyatt travels back in time he has a habit of telling his family too much about what will happen to them in the future. Sometimes it's minor things like mentioning that his younger brother will swallow a marble at some point, but in the SeriesFinale he accidentally gives away that Phoebe will marry her current love interest when he instinctively calls the man "uncle" in front of everyone.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': In "Staring at the Future", Cyborg casually informs Nightwing (Robin's future self) that he is building a time machine in order to get him and Beast Boy back from their "BadFuture". Nightwing, who likes how things are, disagrees and calls his fellow ex-teammates in order to stop them.

* CounterProductiveWarning.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': In "Staring at the Future", Cyborg casually informs Nightwing (Robin's future self) that he is building a time machine in order to get him and Beast Boy back from their "BadFuture". Nightwing, who likes how things are, disagrees and calls his fellow ex-teammates in order to stop them.