Exact Words / Web Animation

• Battle for Dream Island Again: In "Catch These Hands", the challenge is for the contestants to play charades while in trash compactors, but as soon as the host, Puffball Speaker Box, catches FreeSmart lip-reading each other, she gives the team a penalty by forcing a blindfold upon Book and changing Ruby's current phrase, and warns the team that if they "lip-read again, there'll be bigger consequences". Later, their compactor is rolling down a hill, with Book now inside, and about to crash into a tree — with the blindfold, Book can't read her phrase, and she's worried that if she reads lips, she'll break the rules. Eventually, when she decides to take it off, she crashes into the tree, destroying the compactor — and once she looks up to read her phrase, it's "LIPS". As the host catches her in the act of reading "LIPS", she punishes Book by brutally stabbing Book with multiple knives until all that's left of her is shreds of paper.
• In episode 4 of Charlie the Unicorn, the pink and blue unicorns who antagonize Charlie promise him that if he enters the cavern on the moon, they'll never bother him again... because they're going to blow it up.
• In episode 24 of Dr. Crafty, Sarah Sanderson from Hocus Pocus says that the sisters would love to have co-host Nurse Worse for dinner. They mean this literally as a few seconds after being resurrected, they eagerly surround Nurse commenting on how "plump and juicy" she is and saying she'll keep them fed for centuries. The Sanderson Sisters lean in to eat Nurse like a trio of hyenas on a zebra and would've actually consumed Nurse had Dr. Crafty not intervened.
• Etra chan saw it!:
  • When Etra TV invited Tokusa and Tsutsuji to meet with their estranged mother, Akane, Tokusa initially refuses before Tsutsuji agrees to meet with her. Upon reuniting with Akane, Tsutsuji denounces Akane's abuse on live television and debunks Akane's "sob story" as Blatant Lies. She makes it clear that she wants to "meet" with Akane, but not "forgive" her.
  • When Akamatsu and Yuri divorced because he cheated on her with Azami, Yuri loses custody of the house she designed with the only consolation being any possession but the safe holding their savings. Yuri complies, in which she orders the house demolished and takes everything but the safe, which was emptied before Akamatsu and Azami return home.
  • When Akane found out there was no inheritance for her despite being told otherwise, her brothers Katsura and Tachibana tell her that their father Tokusa spent all his money on an expensive retirement house. However, the latter one tells her that despite this, Tokusa did leave her everything as he promised, and by everything he meant all his remaining debts.
  • When Tachibana and his family refused to move out of Katsura's house for multiple times, Katsura decides to let them to stay there as much as they want. However, a few days later, several people from a moving company start moving everything from the house, causing Tachibana to complain to Katsura, but he makes it clear that they can stay in his house, as long as they pay the rent, because he and his own family has already moved to a new house.
  • Tachibana and Yuri spend half a year renovating a decrepit old house the former's father Hiiragi owns, only for Hiiragi to announce that he's kicking them out so his daughter Akane and her husband Akamatsu can live there instead. So, they give Hiiragi his house back. Exactly the way it was before they moved in.
• Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged: When giving a press statement about his father's death, Rufus says "I loved my father as much as he loved this city and its inhabitants." Remember that his father, the just murdered President of the corporation that rules most of the world, didn't see any issue with ordering an entire section of Midgar dropped on top of another section just to kill six people, pointless, catastrophic loss of life and billions in property damage be damned. Rufus really did love his father as much as he claims — as in, he never loved him.
• In Hunter: The Parenting, Door sometimes mentions his 'old mining days', which seems to allude to a past as a miner. He's actually a former EOD technician for the US Military, and the mines he worked with were landmines.
• The If Pokédex Entries Were Literal series runs on this trope.
• In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Reasonable Authority Figure Descius makes Big Bad Karamazov promise that no blood shall be spilled on Terra's sacred ground. Karamazov agrees, then goes to his fellow Inquisitors and promptly tells them to burn all the suspects.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • Lopez builds some very slow-moving robots, with the reasoning:
    Lopez: You said you wanted a DAY of victory. At this speed, they will win in exactly 24 hours.
  • In Seasons 11 and 12, beyond claiming that they were the greatest soldiers in the galaxy, Felix never actually lies to the Blood Gulch Crew, instead using half-truths.
  • In Season 13, when Felix and Locus hijack a prison ship and invite the prisoners to work for them. Felix tells them that if they fight against the people of Chorus, they will go free and rich. Then he tells the prisoners who will join him to put their hands on the prison bars while those who won't join will be let off the ship. And he does let them off the ship... by opening the air locks in the cells, sucking all of those not grasping the bars out into space.
  • In Season 15, Locus, now on his own after betraying Felix in Season 13, has sworn off ever killing anyone again to atone for his past actions. However, he also notes that other alternatives are still on the table:
    Carolina: I thought you swore off killing?
    Locus: I did swear off killing. But you don't need your kneecaps to live.
• RWBY:
  • When Team RWBY are assigned to their field mission in "Search and Destroy", Dr. Oobleck instructs them not to bring any bags as he's packed all the essentials. Once they've reached their destination, he tells them that they must do exactly what he tells them from this point forward. When he spots Ruby's bag, he calls her out for it by stating that he told her to leave all her bags at school. She points out that he hadn't instructed them to listen to him at that stage. He concedes the point.
    Oobleck: ...She's not wrong.
  • While fighting Tyrian in "Punished", Qrow orders Team RNJR not to get close after a few members try to do so only to be swatted back by Tyrian. Ruby decides to help her uncle in a different way by positioning herself high up from afar to try and shoot at Tyrian with Crescent Rose. It doesn't work; she narrowly misses him the first time, and he blocks them all with his stinger the second time.
  • In Volume 8, Team RWBY activates the Relic of Creation and are warned by its spirit not to complain that what the staff creates isn't what they wanted when he gives them exactly what they ask for. Ozpin warns them in advance that the request has to be tightly worded and include blueprints because the spirit functions according to Exact Words. What they say is much more important than what they want. Team RWBY successfully navigates this for their first request to save Penny's life, but then get cocky. Weiss and Yang take over the second request, openly choosing to "let's try the quick version"; the evacuation route they create in the Void Between the Worlds is impressive, but includes no safety features, no mechanism for locking out the villains or preventing people from falling into the Void, and makes the exit gate to Vacuo one-way only, so no Huntsmen can return to help fight Cinder when she attacks.
  • The curse of immortality the Gods placed upon Big Bad Salem was phrased, "So long as this world turns, you shall walk its face." When she grew tired of her immortality, she decided to stop the world from turning... by destroying it.
  • After being let out from his prison cell in "Worthy" and regaining his weapon, General Ironwood is asked by Jacques Schnee if he's going to open his cell too, with Ironwood replying "Sure thing". He opens Jacques' cell for him by using his weapon to vaporize both it and Jacques in the process.
• Spooky Month: In "The Stars", Skid and Pump break into Susie's room and use her computer before she barges in and finds them. Skid shouts 'Let's get the hell outta here!', to which Pump steals Susie's homework, a scale model of the gates to Hell, before both jump out the window.
• Strong Bad Email:
  • In "stunt double", Strong Bad claims that Dangeresque 3 will be "in 3D", with the visuals implying that he means anaglyphic 3D. When it finally came out, it was instead 3D in a polygonal sense due to being a part of the Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People series.
  • In "virus", Strong Bad's computer gets infested with hundreds of thousands of computer viruses that apparently infect the Flash cartoon itself. That leads to this exchange, in which Strong Sad catches Strong Bad doing this:
    Strong Sad: Did you get a virus?
    Strong Bad: No...
    Strong Sad: Did you get 400,000 viruses?
    Strong Bad: Yes... very yes!
  • In "shapeshifter", Strong Bad wishes for the power to turn into "almost anyone in the world". He tries to use this power and turns into the King of Town's right half.
    Strong Bad: Oh, I get it. I can turn into almost anyone.
• Stupid Kids: In "DaniGamer001", Dani tries to be a YouTuber with little success of gaining views on his videos, Bazsi promises him that he'll get views for him — and he does, but now Dani's videos are filled with dislikes and hate comments.
  Bazsi: I said I will get you views. Your video will suck regardless.
• In the Team Fortress 2 short cartoon "Expiration Date", Engineer, thinking they're all going to die soon, tells Soldier he can teleport all the bread he wants since what they do doesn't matter anymore. Cue Soldier taking this as an instruction and spending three days doing nothing but running bread through the teleporter.
• Tonin has many instances of this:
  • In Tonin - O Ninja Que Veio da Roça, Vilano-san, the main villain, asked a spirit to make his body resistant to harm. The spirit said he'd only do it if Vilano defeated him in a card game. Vilano only agreed on the condition that each one would draw one's own cards. Instead of drawing cards from the spirit's deck, he drew cards from his pocket, getting himself a better hand. When the spirit protested, Vilano reminded him about the agreement about drawing one's own cards.
  • In the sequel series Tonin - A Vorta dos Que Num Foi, Tonin and his friends were stuck in the future and the spirit was their only chance to return. Being an oracle, the spirit said his only duty was of answering questions. The spirit also told that he's bound to this duty until Tonin dismisses him. Tonin then challenged the spirit to send them back to the past, promising he'd never ask any questions from that day onwards if the spirit succeeds. Once they went back in time, Tonin pointed out that, since they've gone back several years from the day he promised to stop making questions, he still has all that time back to make questions without going back on his word.
  • Years later (from Tonin's perspective), he went back to the day he made that deal and asked the oracle how could there have two of him in two different places at the same time but, since they were in a period of time the oracle no longer had to answer questions as per the agreement, the oracle refused to answer. Tonin argued it was the other Tonin who made the deal but the oracle explained they were the same Tonin. Tonin then asked how this could be possible. By doing so, he unwittingly answered the question he initially refused to.
  • In the threequel series Tonin - O Ninja dos Inferno, Tonin sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for the power to defeat Vilano-san and Pai-Meio. The terms of the agreement stated that the Devil would be able to collect the soul once Vilano and Pai-Meio would no longer be able to pose a threat. The two villains were eventually killed. When the Devil tried to collect the soul, it was argued that Vilano and Pai-Meio being dead doesn't mean they'd never be able to pose a threat again. Considering the world where the story took place, the argument makes sense.
  • In order to reach the Devil to strike the deal in the first place, Tonin had to, once again, outsmart the spirit. The spirit was unwilling to help Tonin in any way other than doing his job (answering questions). Tonin then asked if he'd make a good deal with the Devil. Since the only way to know was having Tonin meet the Devil, the spirit had no choice but to take Tonin to hell. Also, when Tonin proposed the deal to the Devil, Tonin offered his "arma". ("Arma" could be either the Brazilian word for "weapon" or the way Brazilian unsophisticated country people say "alma", the Brazilian word for "soul".) The spirit, who served as witness for the deal, said that either Tonin and the Devil reached for an agreement on which meaning the word "arma" would be employed for the deal, or the deal would be null and void. Unable to convince the Devil to take anything from him as a "weapon", Tonin agreed to offer his soul.
  • In Tonin - A Saga Final, a witch tries to avoid a witch hunter by magically disguising her appearance, but he sees through her disguise and offers her a deal: if she teaches him how to disguise himself, he'll leave her alive somewhere nobody will lay their hands at her. After she fulfills her end of the bargain, he leaves her alive, but tied at a stake where nobody would lay anything other than fire.
  • Also, hoping to have the same near-invulnerability his father won in the deal from the first season, Vilano Segundo (Vilano the Second) sought the same oracle, who had him play a cheese eating contest against The Chosen One. If Overlord Jr. wins, he'll gain said near invulnerability; if he loses, he loses his life. Being somewhat of a Chaotic Neutral and considering the villain was alone while The Hero had lots of friends in the place where the contest was held, the oracle granted the villain temporary protection from harm until the contest was over. The oracle also ruled that the first contestant whose pile of cheese was eaten would be the winner; no cheese could be wasted; no cheese could be vomited; there was no time limit; and the villain would win by default if he had no opponents. The Hero shared his cheese with his friends because shared food isn't wasted food and there was no rule saying who had to eat his cheese. The villain then stabbed The Hero to death to invoke the win by lack of opponent rule because there was no rule saying he couldn't kill the opponent. Because of the oracle's protection, nobody could kill the villain until the contest was over. Once the villain was declared the winner and the oracle declared the contest over, one of the good guys killed the villain before the oracle granted the powers. (The protection being over once the contest was over.) Nobody mentioned it in the series, but since the powers came with vulnerability to cheese, the hero's friends could have hit the villain with the remaining cheese if the villain had been granted the powers.
• Walrusguy: In "Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe", when Gwonam wakes up from a coma, he asks Link to use his sword to kill him so he can go back and see Dino Time. Link says that he can't do it because it's his smart sword and it won't hurt anyone friendly (in fact, it makes them sing Baby Got Back).
  Gwonam: Well, fine Link! You can sit and spin!
  Link: Hey, that's not friendly! In fact, I think you're a dick!
  Gwonam: NOW you can kill me!^note And yes, it works.

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