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''""Hat." We thought of "authentic Native American headdress" before we thought of "hat"."''

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''""Hat.->''""Hat." We thought of "authentic Native American headdress" before we thought of "hat"."''
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''""Hat." We thought of "authentic Native American headdress" before we thought of "hat"."''
-->-- '''Marshall Eriksen''', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''
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The trope is for character realising this in-universe, not reviewers pointing it out



->''"So... we could... have avoided... ''ALL of this''... if we ''just'' told [[Characters/PokemonScarletAndVioletKieran Kieran]] the truth!"''
-->-- '''Creator/JoshScorcher''' on ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet: [[DownloadableContent The Teal Mask]]''
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-->-- '''WebVideo/JoshScorcher''' on ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet: [[DownloadableContent The Teal Mask]]''

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-->-- '''WebVideo/JoshScorcher''' '''Creator/JoshScorcher''' on ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet: [[DownloadableContent The Teal Mask]]''
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->''"So... we could... have avoided... ''ALL of this''... if we ''just'' told [[Characters/PokemonScarletAndVioletKieran Kieran]] the truth!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/JoshScorcher''' on ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet: [[DownloadableContent The Teal Mask]]''
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->'''ComicBook/DoctorStrange:''' I'm so sorry about you and your friends not getting into college, but if they rejected you and you tried to convince them to reconsider, there's nothing else you can do.\\

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->'''ComicBook/DoctorStrange:''' ->'''[[Characters/MCUStephenStrange Doctor Strange]]:''' I'm so sorry about you and your friends not getting into college, but if they rejected you and you tried to convince them to reconsider, there's nothing else you can do.\\



'''[[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Peter Parker]]:''' When you say "convince them", you mean, like, I could have called them?\\

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'''[[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker '''[[Characters/MCUPeterParker Peter Parker]]:''' When you say "convince them", you mean, like, I could have called them?\\
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->''[following a falling-out with Frida caused by a failure to find a book that disappeared from a messy bedroom]''\\

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->''[following a falling-out with Frida caused by a failure to find a book that disappeared from a her messy bedroom]''\\
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->''[following a falling-out with Frida caused by a failure to find a book that went missing in her messy room]''\\

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->''[following a falling-out with Frida caused by a failure to find a book that went missing in her disappeared from a messy room]''\\bedroom]''\\
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->''[following a falling-out with Frida caused by a failure to find a book that went missing in her messy room]''\\
'''David''': You could just learn to tidy your ''own'' flippin' room!\\
'''Hilda''': He's not wrong.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'', "The Ghost"

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->'''Col. Trautman:''' Seems like bailing you out of trouble's got to be a life-time job for me.
->'''Rambo:''' There wouldn't be no trouble except for that [[DirtyCop king-shit cop]]. All I wanted was something to eat, [[BullyingADragon but the man kept pushing]], sir!

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->'''Col. Trautman:''' Seems like bailing you out of trouble's got to be a life-time job for me.
->'''Rambo:'''
me.\\
'''Rambo:'''
There wouldn't be no trouble except for that [[DirtyCop king-shit cop]]. All I wanted was something to eat, [[BullyingADragon but the man kept pushing]], sir!



-->--- '''Pagan Min''', ''VideoGame/FarCry4''. [[EasterEgg He's absolutely right.]]

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-->--- '''Pagan Min''', ''VideoGame/FarCry4''. [[EasterEgg He's absolutely right.]]
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->'''Alien:''' ''"We are sorry that we mistook your actions as an attack.[...]They have explained your situation and the effects from our disposal of radioactive waste on your planet. We apologize for this.[...]Part of our planetwide treaty was for us to work together and dispose of all the weapons of destruction left on the planet."''\\
'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' ''"I get it...and dump it into our Sun. Well... Thanks for taking it elsewhere. I wish you all good luck with everything...and when you guys are visiting Earth, look me up. But in the future ask questions first, ''then'' shoot."''
-->-- ''ComicBook/SupergirlWednesdayComics''
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-->-- WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic, review of ''Film/SuicideSquad''

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-->-- WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic, review of ''Film/SuicideSquad''
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->'''ComicBook/DoctorStrange:''' I'm so sorry about you and your friends not getting into college, but if they rejected you and you tried to convince them to reconsider, there's nothing else you can do.\\
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'''[[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Peter Parker]]:''' When you say "convince them", you mean, like, I could have called them?\\
'''Doctor Strange:''' Yeah.\\
'''Peter Parker:''' I could do that?\\
'''Doctor Strange:''' You haven't called the--\\
'''Peter Parker:''' I mean, I got their letter, and I assumed that that was--\\
'''Doctor Strange:''' I'm sorry. Are you telling me that you didn't even ''think'' to plead your case with them first before you asked me to ''brainwash the entire world''?
-->-- ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''

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->'''Applejack:''' Y'know, this all could've been avoided if y'all just came to me in the very beginning.
->'''Sweetie Belle:''' That's what ''I'' was trying to say!

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->'''Applejack:''' Y'know, this all could've been avoided if y'all just came to me in the very beginning.
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'''Sweetie
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->''"[[LetMeGetThisStraight So]], from the VERY START... you could have TOLD me where the portal was, WHAT the portal key is, WHY I am immortal, WHAT happened to my mortality, AND the fact that it's in this Fortress?! Morte, [[IllKillYou I'll *KILL* you...]]!"''
-->-- '''The Nameless One''', ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''
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->'''Sonic:''' WHAT?!?!\\
'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, these... no-good trolls stole my [=PlayStation=] account password! And they said they would only give it back if I sent a-uh video if me shoving my medallion [[AssShove up my HAT.]] So I did.\\

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->'''Sonic:''' WHAT?!?!\\
''WHAT?!?!''\\
'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, these... these no-good trolls stole my [=PlayStation=] account password! And password, and they said they would only give it back if I sent a-uh video if a, uh… ''video'' of me shoving shovin' my medallion [[AssShove up my HAT.[HAT].]] So I did.\\



'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, I found out that's true. That's the uhh... the only way to do... that! So I didn't have to do that with my, uhh, my medallion. Hmm.\\

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'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, I found out that's true. That's the uhh... the, uh… the only way to do... do that! So I didn't have to do that with my, uhh, with, uh… my medallion. Hmm.\\



'''Sonic:''' NOOOO!

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'''Sonic:''' NOOOO!''No!''
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'''Sonichu:''' Yeah these...no good trolls stole my [=PlayStation=] account password! And they said they would only give it back if I sent a-uh video if me shoving my medallion [[AssShove up my HAT.]] So I did.\\
'''Sonic:''' Dude, you can just ''call'' [=PlayStation=] network to reset your password!\\
'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, I found out that's true. That's the uhh...the only way to do...that! So I didn't have to do that with my uhh my medallion. Hmm.\\

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'''Sonichu:''' Yeah these...no good Yeah, these... no-good trolls stole my [=PlayStation=] account password! And they said they would only give it back if I sent a-uh video if me shoving my medallion [[AssShove up my HAT.]] So I did.\\
'''Sonic:''' Dude, you can just ''call'' [=PlayStation=] network Network to reset your password!\\
'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, I found out that's true. That's the uhh... the only way to do...do... that! So I didn't have to do that with my uhh my, uhh, my medallion. Hmm.\\

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ATT. About in-universe characters realizing this so the Suicide Squad is the only one that counts as portraying it as in-unviverse.


->So correct me if I'm wrong, but if this dream team was never put together; the one 'You Were Right' about... '''NONE OF THIS BULLSHIT WOULD BE HAPPENING!''' I'd be in bed right now! It's almost like [[ApocalypseHow all of this]] is ''entirely'' '''[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom YOUR GODDAMN FAULT!]]'''
-->-- WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic towards Amanda Waller in his review of ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''

->So, let me get this straight: Timmy’s great destiny was to stop a jealous mastermind, who wouldn’t have been a jealous mastermind unless he heard that Timmy had a great destiny. In other words, ''if they didn’t fucking build him up, none of this would have happened! Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy'', '''''you dumbasses!'''''
-->-- WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic on ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue''

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->So ->'''Nostalgia Critic''': "You were... that [[BigBad Enchant-Bitch]] out there. The one that's destroying the city. I'm sure you're aware of her! She was part of a team. A Super team. Am I correct?"\\
'''Amanda Waller''': "...Yeah?"\\
'''Nostalgia Critic''': "And there was a name, a name for this certain team if I recall that you gave it, correct?"\\
'''Amanda Waller''': "...Yeah."\\
'''Nostalgia Critic''': "And... what was the name of that team, again? The one you gave. I can't remember."\\
'''Amanda Waller''': *Mumbles Quietly* "...Suicide Squad."\\
'''Nostalgia Critic''': "What was it again?"\\
'''Amanda Waller''': *Mumbles Louder* "Suicide Squad."\\
'''Nostalgia Critic''': "Still didn't get it."\\
'''Amanda Waller''': *Exasperatedly* "Suicide Squad."\\
'''Nostalgia Critic''': "WAIT A MINUTE! '''THAT''' can't be it! Because she's part of the team 'You Were Right' About! So
correct me if I'm wrong, but if this dream team was never put together; together, the one that 'You Were Right' about... About... '''NONE OF THIS BULLSHIT WOULD BE HAPPENING!''' HAPPENING! I'd be in bed right now! now!''' It's almost like [[ApocalypseHow like... all of this]] this... is ''entirely'' '''[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom YOUR GODDAMN FAULT!]]'''
FAULT!]]''' (quietly) ...Right?
-->-- WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic towards Amanda Waller in his WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic, review of ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''

->So, let me get this straight: Timmy’s great destiny was to stop a jealous mastermind, who wouldn’t have been a jealous mastermind unless he heard that Timmy had a great destiny. In other words, ''if they didn’t fucking build him up, none of this would have happened! Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy'', '''''you dumbasses!'''''
-->-- WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic on ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue''
''Film/SuicideSquad''

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