History Main / TheyKnewTheRisks

* Lieutenant Alex is blamed for the death of Private Bob under his command and says that Bob knew the risks when he volunteered.
* Lieutenant Alex [[SurvivorGuilt blames himself]] for Bob's death and is told that Bob knew the risks.

This is usually a '''DeathTrope'''. Unmarked spoilers below!

!! Examples

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* A CatchPhrase on the "Super Chicken" segments of ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' was Super Chicken telling his sidekick Fred "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it" when things got bad, although it never got more dangerous than NonFatalExplosions. It was even on his ThemeTune.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'': J. Edgar Hoover says this about a field agent after the latter is [[HollywoodAcid horribly burned the slime of a Shoggoth]]. Made worse by the fact that [[MercyKill Hoover just shot the agent himself]] as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwB0xn9o20E&t=1m30s agent was hysterical with pain]].
* In both [[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 video game]] [[VideoGame/GoldenEyeWii adaptations]] of Film/GoldenEye, this is said of 006's death at the Facility during the Runway mission. [[spoiler:Only it turns out Alec's NotQuiteDead.]]

* [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/01/01/episode-367-address-verification-shmaddress-verification/ Spoofed]] in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater''

*** In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' this isn't stated outright with [[spoiler: Matthis]] and James tries to handle [[spoiler: the man's]] death as stoically as he can, subverted with [[spoiler: Agent Fields' death]] as M explicitly stated that [[spoiler: the agent]] was not meant to come in harms way because [[spoiler: she had an office job.]]

* When Hazel accuses Ozpin of sending his sister Gretchen to die and cites this as his reason for siding with Salem, Oscar defends Ozpin by saying Gretchen willingly signed up to be a Huntress knowing it would be dangerous. Hazel doesn't buy it, and it's later revealed that this is because he'd discovered something Ozpin was hiding from everyone, including Gretchen and Oscar: [[spoiler:Salem, queen of the Grimm, cannot be killed, making the conflict with her and her minions a ForeverWar that can only be stopped if she wins]].

* In ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'', Captain Amelia ends her eulogy for her second-in-command Mr. Arrow with this statement.

* In ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', when the UU faculty fear Mrs Whitlow is about to be eaten by sharks, the Dean says she knew the risks when she took the job. This seems doubtful, as the Senior Wrangler points out:

* VideoGame/MassEffect2 involves the security mechs on a space station going rogue and attacking people. The player character, having fought his or her way to the one escape shuttle, can express a desire to go back and search for other survivors, but the two with him/her state that the player character is more important, and everyone on that station signed on willing to die to save him/her.

---> '''Bond''': ''Bond to MI6. The base is destroyed. 006 is dead.''

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* The second form of this trope is often given to the protagonist to help them get over their Pokémon's deaths in many a [[Webcomic/NuzlockeComics Nuzlocke Challenge]].
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* A CatchPhrase on the "Super Chicken" segments of ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'' was Super Chicken telling his sidekick Fred "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it" when things got bad, although it never got more dangerous than NonFatalExplosions. It was even on his ThemeTune.

* ''{{Freelancer}}'': Lord Hakkerra invokes this after Ozu dies on a mission.

* The second form of this trope is often given to the protagonist to help them get over their Pokémon's deaths in many a [[NuzlockeComics Nuzlocke Challenge]].

* ''EndersGame'': The pilots who die invading the Bugger homeworld.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "I Am The Night", Batman arrives too late to prevent Gordon from being shot. Part of Dick's attempt to talk him out of the resulting [[TenMinuteRetirement depressed apathy]] is pointing out that Gordon knowingly accepted the risks of being a cop.

* One of the first ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' strips had Pig recount seeing a woman crushed by a ceiling tile at a bingo game, saying "She knew the risks of playing the game."

* In the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/LicenceToKill'', M says this of Leiter when Bond is angry that M won't take action against the people who destroyed Leiter's life.
** Though Bond promptly retaliates that Leiter's ''wife'' certainly didn't, to which M can only change the subject.

* In ''TreasurePlanet'', Captain Amelia ends her eulogy for her second-in-command Mr. Arrow with this statement.