GRIGORY: Don't you ever listen? I'm a doctor, not a magician. You'll kill him.
-Doctor Who "Revelation of the Daleks Part One"
i don't know the proper editing etiquette here. i'd appreciate it if someone would add these to the page.
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Burns: "I'm a doctor, not an entertainer."
MASH, Season 5 episode 17 "End Run"
Winchester: "I'm a surgeon. I'm not a circus roustabout."
Mash, Season 6 episode 10 "The MASH Olympics"
Harris: "Look, you're a surgeon, not a psychiatrist, now why don't you just leave me alone?"
MASH, Season 8 episode 7 "Nurse Doctor"
Winchester: "Surely, Colonel, there is something we can do. We are physicians, not spectators."
MASH, Season 8 episode 9 "Mr. and Mrs. Who"
Houlihan: "That suits me fine, mister 'I'm a doctor not a woman', because there's a stack of bedpans outside of post-op with your name on 'em."
MASH, Season 8 episode 10 "The Yalu Brick Road"
Pierce: "Us, put in cement? We're doctors, not dentists."
MASH, Season 8 episode 3 "Cementing Relationships"
Winchester: "You don't understand. I'm a doctor, not a social worker!"
MASH, Season 9 episode 19 "The Foresight Saga"
Pierce: "Sorry. We're in medicine, not transportation."
MASH, Season 10 episode 3 "Rumor at the Top"
Winchester: "I'm a surgeon, not a Hindu philosopher."
MASH, Season 10 episode 13 "A Holy Mess"
Winchester: "I'm a surgeon, I'm not a mannequin."
MASH Season 10 episode 20 "Picture This"
JD: "I'm not a child. I'm a doctor"
Scrubs, Season 4 episode 1 "My Old Friend's New Friend"
Potter: "I am a doctor, not a hotel keeper."
After MASH, Season 1 episode 8 "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
PENLEY: I couldn't hit the side of the mountain. I'm a scientist, not a gladiator.
Doctor Who, The Ice Warriors Episode 5
This trope is inverted in the Sherlock episode "The abominable Bride". WATSON: Then you would be reminded ... quite forcibly ... which of us is a soldier and which of us a drug addict. HOLMES: You’re not a soldier. You are a doctor. WATSON (stepping closer to him): No, an Army doctor, which means I could break every bone in your body, while naming them.
Should we have a seperate "I'm x, not y" for something like "I'm old, not deaf," "I'm married, not dead," or the like? Or is this trope meant to cover? The explanation here seems to be more about professions.
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Have something of an invoked example thought not quite sure, from Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable. After Kira's fight with Jotaro and Koichi, he masks himself as a hapless bystander to Josuke and Okuyasu. Josuke offers to patch him up, and Kira, seeing that Jotaro is about to recover, implores Josuke to hurry up and heal him. However, Josuke points out that he's a high school student and he doesn't even look like a med student, revealing that Kira would only be so quick to believe him if he saw him use Crazy Diamond