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* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** [[GentleGiant Android 16's]] response, complete with smirk, when 17 asks why he hadn't mentioned he could detect power levels. 17 accepted the answer with a {{Touche}}.

* ''Literature/BreakingDawn'': Edward knew all along that Jacob and the other wolves are no actual werewolves, but ''shape shifters''.

** Early in the episode "Room for One More?", Danny praises Stephanie and Michelle for taking their responsibility seriously with taking care of "Scruffy", which belongs to a neighbor. Danny assumes that it's a dog, only for Michelle to enter with the pet in question -- a warthog.

** Also subverted in another episode where they're ''sure'' it's something but the patient continually insists that he's never been anywhere tropical, ruling it out. Finally House gets mad enough to where the guy defensively yells "I've never been south of Florida!" only to meet the team's glares and then weakly ask "That counts?". Apparently no one had ever defined "tropical" enough for him to know.

* In a documentary ''Meltdown: Three Mile Island'', Vice President of Metropolitan Edison Jack Herbein gives this response when the governor demands to know why he wasn't informed that radiation had been released into the atmosphere. The governor is understandably dumbfounded, and concludes that Metropolitan Edison can't be trusted to give any accurate information as to what is going on.

-->'''Danny''': T-That's a pig. You didn't tell me Scruffy was a pig.
-->'''Michelle''': Well, [[LampshadeHanging you didn't ask]].

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': In one manga chapter, Ataru, Lum and several of their friends went camping. Lum was making lunch and everyone were happy...but Ataru. He -- [[BigEater who usually eats ANYTHING and EVERYTHING he can have his hands on]] -- adamantly refused to eat. His friends nagged him about rudely rejecting Lum's food...and then they tried it. Right away they dragged it away and asked him why he had not warned them that Lum's food is ''very'' spicy. His answer? They did not ask (and he did not want to warn them).

* Less "joke" than "morality tale," but one old story talks about a teenager from a wealthy family who expects a car as a graduation present, as is the tradition with rich people in his town. On graduation night, his parents present him with a book instead; he's so angry that he [[DisproportionateRetribution storms out the house and refuses to speak to them for years.]] When he finally comes back decades later -- usually because one or both of the parents have died -- he finds the book sitting on his table, untouched. He opens it...and discovers either a check for the exact amount of money for his dream car or the title of ownership for it. Since he never bothered to ask ''why'' his parents gave him another gift and was an UngratefulBastard instead, he lost everything. A variation (which goes heavier on the {{Glurge}} factor) has the present be a Bible instead, with the moral of opening your heart to Jesus and His word to discover salvation.

* In the ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' epiode "Samantha's Shopping Spree," Samantha's puckish [[TheGadfly Cousin Henry]] transforms an insistent salesman into a mannequin during a trip to a department store with Sam, Endora, and Tabitha. Henry refuses to undo the spell, and neither Samantha nor Endora can lift it themselves. They lament that no one saw precisely what charm Henry used...at which point Tabitha chimes in that ''she'' did. When asked why she didn't speak up sooner, she replies "Nobody asked me." The curse is quickly undone, and order restored.

** In "Every Little Thing She Does" Starlight Glimmer tries to [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint streamline her friendship lessons]] by casting a spell that makes Twilight's friends do what she asks them...and ''[[ExactWords only]]'' what she asks them.

* ''Fanfic/ImNobody'': Roxas does this to the point of almost being a RunningGag - he obtains a new ability or piece of information in a way that the rest ofthe Normandy Crew don't know, and then he busts out that something he obtained. Obviously the others ask him why he didn't mention it, and Roxas replies with this trope. It eventually gets {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Axel complains that he uses this line for everything.

* Done for a laugh in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', although it does have some [[FridgeLogic frustrating implications]]. Link's task in the second part of the game is rescuing the Seven Sages, who were [[PhantomZonePicture magically sealed in paintings]] by the villain Yuga. Five of the seven didn't know about their special status. The only two who did were Impa, who ''did'' take precautions to protect herself (Yuga implies that Impa was the last Sage he captured), and Rosso, a burly mountaineer. When he's freed from his prison, he casually remarks that he's known about his Sagehood for years, but never bothered to bring it up because it seemed so unimportant; if he'd told someone beforehand, he might have been able to be kept safe. However, given that Yuga not only has teleportation powers, but can trap people so long as there's a flat surface nearby, it would have been dang near impossible to defend against him.

* Solid Snake does this ''multiple'' times (he says "you never asked") in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', so much it becomes a RunningGag. Details never asked about include: Snake's real identity; the fact that they're hiding a HumongousMecha-ForgottenSuperweapon-ElaborateUndergroundBase hybrid under the sea; and numerous lower-key pieces of information involving the personal lives of the characters. He seems to enjoy it greatly. At least Snake has a good reason not to tell Raiden his entire life story -- he ''is'' a terrorist who had faked his own death.

* This happens often to Henchman 21 and the other Monarch henchmen in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', so much so it's practically become a running gag in the show.
-->(The Henchmen are trying to see in the dark.)\\
'''Henchman 21''': Dude I can’t believe we didn’t get blown up. We’re like those guys on TV who never get shot. Yeah we’re like main characters.\\
'''Henchman 24''': Don’t jinx it! See anything?\\
'''Henchman 21''': No I can’t see squat with these tinted goggles on.\\
'''Henchman 24''': Douche, use the night vision. What’s wrong with you? (he hits 21 on the side of his head and 21′s night vision goggles turn on)\\
'''Henchman 21''': I can see everything! This is so cool, when did we get these?\\
'''Henchman 24''': Like, 1994.\\
'''Henchman 21''': Why don’t I know this stuff?!

*** Used for a joke too in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmRed'', when Luffy reveals that [[spoiler: Shanks had an adopted daughter, Uta,]] but only because he was asked how he knew a celebrity like her.

** Luffy knew since childhood that [[spoiler:Ace was the son of Gold Roger]], but never mentioned it because he doesn't care. Sort of funny, considering how bad he otherwise was at keeping secrets.
*** The same applies to the fact that Luffy himself is the son of Monkey D. Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionaries, and the grandson of Monkey D. Garp, a Marine Admiral; he just never thought it was relevant enough to tell people without being asked about it first. Justified in Dragon's case: Luffy didn't even knew who he was until Garp tell him in the Water 7 arc. Used for a joke too in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmRed'', when Luffy reveals that [[spoiler: Shanks had an adopted daughter, Uta,]] but only because he was asked how he knew a celebrity like her.