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  • The Annoying Orange has an onion actually named Captain Obvious. He does exactly what you'd expect him to do.
  • After Bob of Alice and Bob gets moved three spaces back in a Candy Land-esque board game.
    Alice: "Bob, you just got moved three spaces back. I think we're in a board game."
    Bob: "'Yeah, I kinda figured.' (People love to state the obvious)"
  • In The Angry Video Game Nerd episode on AVGN games:
    Nerd: "You know, there's been many games based on the Angry Video Game Nerd... which is me."
  • In Brad Jones' Demo Reel, Admiral Crackers suffers a drug overdose. Braddie says he blames the heroin addict (who left her bag out in the open), and Gretchen says "You think?".
  • This picture from Cheezburger.
  • Clippy/Clippit, the Microsoft Word assistant. "It looks like you're writing X."
  • From Cracked, regarding Harry "Breaker" Morant:
    "But one thing is for sure: Morant was either justified in the execution of two unarmed African prisoners and a German missionary, or he wasn't. We here at Cracked will stand by that statement adamantly."
  • div_y Bypass The Class
    Bypass The Class: they made it so whenever you eat food you regenerate health
  • Formula 1: During the 2019 McLaren Grill the Grid video Lando Norris rings in to answer when the questioner has only said that the F1 driver they're supposed to be identifying "was born in-" Carlos Sainz looks incredulously over at his laughing teammate and says "I know someone who was born." Unsurprisingly Carlos wins the round.
  • Froge from Froghand considers this to be the case with one of Steam's selling points:
    "Steam syncs all your games". No shit. No fucking shit. If I log onto Google, it syncs all my preferences. If I log onto Neocities, it save all my sites. If I log onto my VPN, it saves my account information. If I log onto e621, it saves all my porn. No fucking shit that Steam saves all my games - that's what it's supposed to do! If it didn't, and I spent money on a product that I couldn't even use on my own account, then that would be scam, and then they would lose all of their business in a day because they didn't deliver on the goods that they are legally supposed to deliver.
  • Used in Egoraptor's flash series Girl-chan in Paradise:
    Kenstar: Wow, she's so beautiful...
    Yusuke: You're only saying that because she looks exactly like a pretty girl.
    Kenstar: That would be why I said it.
  • A lot of the Hydraulic Press Channel's appeal derives from Lauri's extremely deadpan, broken-English, Finnish-accented way of stating the obvious, like when something explodes under his press.
    Lauri: (while filming a rollercoaster ride using his GoPro) "I think my filming is bit shaky!"
  • The Irate Gamer falls into this at times, such as when he pointed out that if you get past level one, you'll advance to level two. He also likes to circle things that are in plain sight, notably main characters, enemies, and items that everyone can see.
  • In 40 Fascinating Facts about Money! by Matt Santoro, Matt mentions committing murder, and does an Evil Laugh. He then says, "That's not right".
  • The Other Wiki's article about ghost shirts: "The vests did not work as promised, and consequently 153 Lakota Sioux died, with 50 wounded and 150 missing at the Wounded Knee Massacre."
  • In one list episode of Outside Xbox, Andy claims that the statement "The enemies in The Evil Within are not very pleasant" won him an Obvious Statement Award.
    Andy: (tears of joy) Can't believe I finally took home an Obvy!
  • A lot of streamers and Lets Players fall into this trap. Since a lot of people put them on as background noise or the person doing the video can't be silent for more than a few seconds, this often leads to the them pointing out the obvious. This comes off as rather patronising to people who are watching and can clearly see.
  • Nearly everyone that is allied with Winnie the Pooh in Pooh's Adventures. They often state the obvious of what's going on. One example is in Spongebob and friends go on a Quest for Camelot, where the knights bring in Lionel's body, one of them thinks that Kayley would be heart broken.
  • Third Rate Gamer makes fun of The Irate Gamer's Captain Obvious sayings and circling of things in plain sight. TRG circles very easy to see things, to the point of circling the main character in Cool Spot with six arrows pointing at it. He also points out things the viewer can plainly see, like mentioning that each stage is harder than the last.
  • Captain Obvious is an Overly Long Gag on Uncyclopedia saying something obvious on every single Article. Captain Oblivious is probably also there, but he's not sure. His (Captain Obvious') biography may be found here. (Click the link to read it).
  • The Weather: The transitional blurbs give a lot of "helpful" information, such as "A tornado is bigger and stronger than any one person", "When a thunderstorm is born, it's wet and makes a bang", and "If the sun is up in the sky, then you know it's day."
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: "Oh my god, a giant rock! It's a rock and it's giant!"
  • The Questden Interactive Comic AsteroidQuest's bonus material has an article for a certain alien race to maximize their chance of surviving decapitation. One paragraph about using Sign Language (since you're now deaf, mute and blind) warns about stating the obvious:
    Don't worry about any international hand signs for "please help my head is gone". [You are], in fact, already making the international sign for "help my head is gone". Your head is actually fucking gone and that is pretty much a better signal than silly hand gestures could ever hope to be.
  • Code Bullet uses one of these in Making Hill Climb Racing Part 2.
    Evan: People aren't as heavy as cars are.
    Caption: Fun facts with CB
  • Zero Punctuation: Discussed in his review of Duke Nukem Forever:
    "The development of Duke Nukem can best be equated to some guys trying to build a house opposite a boat on a river. Unfortunately, legendary superhero Captain Obvious wasn't available to explain that the boat is always going to have moved on by the time the house gets finished, isn't it?"
  • An old meme you can still find floating around involves a picture of a 'protestor' (more than likely a troll) at a right-wing rally against gay marriage, holding a huge sign that simply said "Homosexuals Are Gay".

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