• Bone:
  Phoney Bone: So a couple a' shady business deals went sour… is that any reason to run the most beloved Bone in Boneville out of town on a rail?
  Fone Bone: Yes.
• In Chick Tracts, it's fairly common for people to ask whether a dead "unsaved" person has gone to hell, or whether they themselves will go to hell, and the answer is yes. The following is an exchange between star baseball player Frank Stone and his gardener Oscar after Frank learns that he's dying of cancer; keep in mind that Oscar got in trouble for mentioning his religion around Frank before.
  Frank Stone: I know you'll tell me the truth. Am I going to Hell?
  Oscar: Yes, but you don't have to.
• Big Barda, in one Booster Gold comic:
  Barda: What is everyone making such a fuss about? It's just a dragon!
  Booster: "Just"? What? You think you can just stroll up to it and punch it in the mouth?
  Barda: Yes.
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: In "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut", Scrooge McDuck tells his old friend President Teddy Roosevelt that he refuses to sell his mountain despite it being in the way of the Panama Canal's construction. He also knows Scrooge well enough that he really shouldn't have been surprised by the answer.
  Roosevelt: But will you halt the canal and hold up world progress just so you can dig for gold?
  Scrooge: Wow! That's a serious question. Let me think it through... yes!
• From Over the Garden Wall: Soulful Symphonies:
  Beatrice: Wirt! I know you're only doing this to prove a point.
  Wirt: I am not.
  Beatrice: Yes, you are.
  Wirt: Fine. Yes, I am.
  • In the second issue:
  Greg: But it's always been [the Frog's] dream to be a star! Look into these pleading eyes! You're really gonna crush that dream?
  [Gross-Up Close-Up of the Frog's face]
  Mezz and Altimira: Yes.
• In The Transformers: Monstrosity, Grimlock and Megatron have just been eaten by Trypticon, a mechanical city that turns into a Kaiju, in the middle of combat:
  Megatron: We've been swallowed by a titanic primordial horror and all you can think to do is fight me?
  Grimlock: Yup.
• Wonder Woman (1987): A police officer sarcastically asks the Blind Seer Randu if he's blind or something when Randu nearly falls into a pit that Neron opened in the street. They recover quickly when Randu says yes, and don't even question it when he says he's psychic instead asking if he can shed some light on the situation with his mental abilities.

• Inverted in Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin asks his dad what causes wind, and he says "Trees sneezing." Calvin asks if his dad means it, and his dad says, "No, but the truth is more complicated."
• In FoxTrot, at the end of the "Mortal Karnage" arc, Jason tells his mother that he's come to realize that video games are only a waste of his childhood, as a ploy to convince her that he's mature enough to have the Mortal Karnage cartridge back. As Andy prepares to give him a spanking for even trying this, the following exchange occurs.
  Jason: Can't blame me for trying that.
  Andy: Oh yes, I can.
• This Modern World:
  • In one strip from the early 2000s, America, represented by the Statue of Liberty, tries to hire Sparky T. Penguin as a private investigator to restore her reputation after she's been accused of torture, kidnappings and unjustified wars. Sparky, however, has No Sympathy for her because she got involved with "George the Mob Boss" and refused to dump him when she had a chance(referring to George W. Bush's 2004 re-election)
    Lady Liberty: Oh, Mister Penguin— have I made a terrible mistake?
    Sparky T. Penguin: Yeah, sweetheart... you have, and you're gonna have to live with it. The hell of it is... so are the rest of us.
  • There's this exchange between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, who's portrayed as an orange Hulk-like figure with the same mode of speech:
    Clinton: —And maybe he doesn't pay any taxes—
    Trump: That make Trump smart!

• Adventures of a Line Hopper:
  • Something:
    • When the Daleks try to get Buffy to surrender by threatening her Slayer allies, Buffy points out they don't mention the Doctor and rhetorically asks if the Doctor is going to be exterminated regardless of her choice. The Daleks simply confirms it.
    • In chapter 30, Buffy uses a rhetorical question to remind Adam that the "mother" whose dream he is trying to fulfill is the same one that he skewered to death. Adam just proudly replies, "Of course."
  • Elizabeth: In the coda, Buffy sets up the "Blame Sheet" as some sort of therapy where everyone has to take blame for something, but it cannot be for something they are actually responsible for. When the Doctor rhetorically asks whether Buffy is really going to take the blame for the Time War which she temporally and physically cannot have anything to do with, she simply answers yes. Both the Doctor and Willow are too surprised by the bluntness to argue.
  • The Years that Never Were: In chapter 12, when Giles questions whether the Doctor really believes that everything except the Doctor's faulty memory is the one that is messed up into falsely proving that Buffy has been pregnant for nine months, the Doctor confidently and plainly answers "Yep."
  • In Till Death, Demon, or Alien Invasion Do Us Part, Buffy asks whether Seo really thinks traveling with her mom through time and space is uncool. Seo quickly and simply answers, "Of course," to Buffy's annoyance.
• In Boys do Tankary?, this exchange happens in Josh's backstory, after Vincent recruits him to do tankery.
  Josh: So your telling me that you tricked me into signing up for some kind of girls activity?
  Vincent: Yes, sergeant.
• In Continuance, Souji's mother Izumi visits him on the way to see her brother and niece in Inaba. While Izumi says she simply wants to see family, Souji is suspicious of her suddenly changing after neglecting him for his entire childhood, and suspects that she's trying to meddle in his life.
  Izumi: Does it bother you that much that I'm going to visit them?
  Souji: Yes.
• In Frozen Hearts (Sakume), there's this exchange between Hans and his older brother Harald, whom he doesn't like very much:
  Harald: Hans, do you realize what you've done?
  Hans: I do.
  Harald: How could you do... I...
• Here Comes the New Boss: Elpis shrugs off a challenge from Jack Slash, derisively asking her, "You think you have what it takes to be a killer?"
  I raised the axe, adjusted my grip, and took a stance. "Yes."
• In Imaginary Seas, this is Percy's response when Minerva grows exasperated with his Deadpan Snarker antics.
  Minerva: Are you always this impertinent?
  Percy: [almost smiling] Yes.
• In Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, during the Hawk gang's siege of the Konoha Town police station, Ibiki (one of the officers), asks gang leader Shiore if he thinks he can get away with shooting up the precinct. Shiore's answer is a flat yes.
• The Legend of Total Drama Island:
  • During a challenge, Geoff describes Courtney's attitude as "harshness." Courtney replies, "Yes, it is. What's your point?"
  • During another challenge, Beth thinks that Chris has killed Courtney. When the (seemingly) offended Chris asks whether Beth really thinks he would do something like that, the contestants reply, "Yes" in unison.
• In Lucky Star: After Story, Hachiro informs Tadao and Sojiro that he saw their daughters, Konata and Kagami (a lesbian couple in this fic), on the bridge, seemingly prepared to jump off as a result of their fathers threatening to disown them and fighting with each other over their being gay. When Miki asks if the girls were planning on killing themselves, Hachiro says yes.
• In Lucy's Unwanted House Guest!, after Lisanna hires some underlings to beat Lucy up while disguised as Team Natsu, and then brainwashes Erza, Natsu and Gray into thinking they'd actually done it, Makarov confronts the three about their actions.
  Makarov: Team Natsu, Is this how you treat one of your team mates!?
  Natsu: Yes, that weak mage only hides behind her spirits and always complains about her rent, so we should teach her a lesson on how a weak mage should act with her superi— [Wendy slaps him]
• In Magical Metamorphosis, one of Dudley's bully friends tries to taunt Holly^note Harry is a transgender girl instead of a cisgender boy in this story with "what are you, a girl?" — the insult falls flat when she simply responds, "Yeah, I am."
• In The New Adventures of Invader Zim, this is Zim's response when Desmond Flapp angrily asks him if he thinks that the Children of the Bright and Shining Saucer are stupid.
• In New Hope University: Major In Murder, Saya, the protagonist, meets Katy Thorson, the Ultimate Lesbian Romance Author. Saya learns that Katy's stories invariably end in tragedy, often with the deaths of the lesbians involved. Keep in mind that Katy herself is a lesbian.
  Saya: You don't want to... to show lesbians being normal and happy?
  Katy: No! I want to portray feelings. The aching and longing.
• A non-verbal example happens in Of Blood and Steel. Erwin, having transferred to Raven's Peak, becomes commander of the team after making a deal with her rival, Jackie — if Erwin loses a match or comes close to losing, Jackie gets to take over. After they lose against Salem High, Jackie reminds Erwin of the promise she made.
  "I did," Erwin begrudgingly admitted. "Why, are you really going to suggest you take over being captain of our team?" Jackie nodded and Erwin saw Sarah's face turn red.
• One Year:
  • Subverted when Yu asks his old friend Kaoru, who's finally achieved his goal of getting onto the basketball team but has to work hard to keep his spot, whether it's worth the effort. Kaoru's response, "It can be," is significantly less confident than Yu had expected.
  • Played straight when Kaoru, having done poorly on the first midterms and is in danger of being dropped from the team, asks if grades are really all that important. Kenji, who's one of the top students in his grade and (unlike Kaoru, believes you can accomplish almost anything if you try hard enough), says that grades are important, since you're a student first and an athlete second.
• Origin of a Non-Hero is about Izuku's family of himself, Ochaco and their son Shikinori, falling apart due to Izuku's own hero career and desire to uphold Toshinori "All Might" Yagi's legacy as the Symbol of Peace. In the end, Izuku asks Toshinori if he failed his son, and Toshinori replies as follows.
  "...Yes. I'm sorry. I'm to blame for this too. I pulled you down this path. But... yes. You failed him."
• In Perfection Is Overrated, when Mai asks Hitomi whether she thinks that using her mind control to kill innocent people and force others to commit terrible crimes is fun, she says yes, before launching into a long and detailed explanation as to why she thinks the experience is liberating for them.
• Sight: When Ichigo asks if everyone thinks he should really run Grimmjow through when the latter accidentally finds the Visored hide-out while he's unconscious and helpless, Kensei, Lisa, and Hiyori all respond with this trope.
• The Snow Has Stopped The Rain: Zangetsu asks if he's really that scary-looking, since he's basically a hollowfied clone of Ichigo. Rukia, Ichigo, and Shirayuki all answer "Yes" in unison.
• In The Stalking Zuko Series, Katara talks with Pakku about his (and the Northern Water Tribe's) opposition to interracial marriages, something he thinks the South should adopt. Katara obviously opposes this, since she's secretly going out with Zuko, and her brother is in a relationship with Suki.
  Katara: Are you saying that their love doesn't count just because the two people involved are from different nations?
  Pakku: Of course it doesn't count! It is merely lust that is allowed to run rampant.
• In Swinging Pendulum, Asuka asks Ichigo if he really thinks that she can become a better fighter. Ichigo asks her if what he really thinks matters. Asuka bluntly and immediately tells him yes.
• In System Restore, Togami gives this response regarding his attempt to let himself be executed in Hanamura's place.
  Togami: I suppose it was worth a shot.
  Koizumi: "Worth a shot...?" Is that all you can say?
  Togami: Yes, Koizumi, yes it is.
• Three-Point Shot:
  • At the end of the first trial, the first culprit admits that Kaede was supposed to take the fall for the murder, which not only is what happened in canon, but was also part of the in-universe storyline. Horrified, Kaede then asks the culprit if they wanted her dead from the start, and gets the following response.
    "Of course! You're the perfect sacrifice to keep things interesting!"
  • The third killer tries to poison Kokichi's tea but ends up accidentally poisoning an innocent victim instead. Kokichi realizes that the killer could easily have ended up poisoning Shuichi (who also likes honey in his tea) by mistake, and when he asks whether the killer would have a problem with that, the killer says, "Not really."
• True Potential: When Anko is giving her students some Training from Hell in Chapter 6:
  Shikamaru: You're a sadist... you know that?
  Anko: Yup.
• Emeth and Nocturne in Warriors of the World, because one prefers to tell the truth and the other doesn't have a brain-to-mouth filter.
• Towards the end of Windows of the Soul, Shizuru confesses her misdeeds during the Hime Carnival to her father, Shinri, who is angered to the point at which he slaps her. The following exchange contains a surprisingly heartwarming variant of this, as it shows Shizuru coming to terms with her actions and her feelings for Natsuki.
  Shinri: If you fell to such a degree, dying is fine, isn't it?
  Shizuru: I can't do that.
  Shinri: Is there anything to live for?
  Shizuru: Natsuki wouldn't forgive me if I died. So I will live. I'm not asking your permission.
  Shinri: Isn't that an unforgivable presumption? I've raised you, and yet you embody all things I despise, and your conceit is this, that the one you've most wronged would beg for your life?
  Shizuru: Yes. Because Natsuki loves me.

• Red's last words to Leonard in The Angry Birds Movie before the latter's defeat.
  Leonard: You have annoyed me for the last time!
  Red: Yep.
• Big Hero 6:
  Baymax: Are you trying to remove my healthcare chip?
  Hiro: Yes. Open!
• From the A Bug's Life outtakes:
  Hopper: Are you saying that I'm stupid?
  Atta: [hysterically] YES! [points at Hopper, breaking down into laughter]
  Hopper: [in despair, to director] This is the fifteenth take. I cannot work like this. I'll be in my trailer.
  Atta: [trying to catch her breath] I need a break.
• In Frozen (2013), Kristoff reluctantly agrees to accompany Anna as she climbs the mountain to find her sister and end the winter, since he won't get a replacement for his sled if she dies, and the winter means that there isn't much demand for ice.
  Kristoff: So how exactly are you planning to stop this weather?
  Anna: Oh, I am gonna talk to my sister.
  Kristoff: That's your plan? My ice business is riding on you talking to your sister.
  Anna: Yup.
• In How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Hiccup does this to Astrid.
  Astrid: Hiccup, we just discovered the dragon's nest! The thing we've been after since Vikings first sailed here! And you want to keep it a secret? To protect your pet dragon? Are you serious?
  Hiccup: Yes.
  [Beat]
  Astrid: Ok. Then, what do we do?
• In The Incredibles 1, when Dash, Violet, and Helen are in the ocean after Syndrome shot down their plane, and Helen suggests swimming toward the ground-to-air missiles' contrails.
  Dash: You wanna go toward the people that tried to kill us?
  Helen: If it means land? Yes.
• In Lilo & Stitch (2002):
  Jumba: After all you put me through, you expect me to help you, just like that?! Just like that?!
  Stitch: [nodding] Ih.
  [Beat]
  Jumba: Fine!
  Pleakley: "Fine?" You're doing what he says?!
  Jumba: He is very persuasive.
  Pleakley: Persuasive?!
• In The Lion King (1994):
  Banzai: What are we supposed to do, kill Mufasa?
  Scar: [Psychotic Smirk] Precisely.
• In Robots, Madame Gasket consults with Ratchet about the mysterious robot (Rodney) who's been repairing outmodes, which is a threat to their evil plan.
  Madame Gasket: Someone's fixing them!
  Ratchet: What?
  Madame Gasket: Someone is repairing outmodes! And they are laughing at you!
  Ratchet: Who? And are you sure they're not laughing with me?
  Madame Gasket: Yes.
• Shrek:
  • Fiona does this several times in the first film, especially when lampshading the various fairy tale tropes.
    Shrek: Oh, you were expecting Prince Charming?
    Fiona: Well, yes, actually...
  • In Shrek Forever After, Shrek has an argument with Fiona after going through stress over his current lifestyle:
    Shrek: Look, all I want is for things to go back to the way they used to be. Back when villagers were afraid of me, and I could take a mud bath in peace, when I could do what I wanted when I wanted to do it. Back when the world made sense.
    Fiona: You mean, back before you rescued me from the dragon's keep?
    Shrek: Exactly!
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish:
    • The Ethical Bug, much like the character he's spoofing, believes that everyone has some good in them, and that nobody is evil to the core. Unfortunately, he was not prepared for the likes of "Big" Jack Horner.
      Ethical Bug: Y-Y-You're not gonna shoot a puppy, are you, Jack?
      Jack: Yeah. In the face. Why?
    • The Bug tries to turn this around on Jack later in the film, to much lesser success.
      Jack: But once I get my wish, I'll finally have the one thing that will make me happy.
      Cricket: Oh? Well, what's that?
      Jack: All of the magic in the world… for me! And no one else gets any. Is that so much?
      Cricket: Yes!
      Jack: Agree to disagree!
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: When Bowser is forcing Princess Peach into marrying her on threat of destroying the Mushroom Kingdom, she stalls long enough to acquire a Power-Up and for all the Toad citizens to get to safety before her adamant and final refusal. Bowser is genuinely shocked that she rejects him though (despite her having done it multiple times).
  Peach: You really thought I'd marry you?
  Bowser: [Beat] Kinda...
• In Turning Red, Mei begins her bargaining with Tyler with what she thinks is a large amount for him.
  Mei: I'll do it. But it'll cost you one... No. Two hundred bucks.
  Tyler: Okay.
• Wreck-It Ralph:
  • During the villains' meeting, Ralph asks if there's anything wrong with wanting a little more recognition for the role he plays in his game. The zombie, whose role in his game is even smaller than Ralph's, tells him "Yes."
  • This idiom-oblivious response:
    Calhoun: Cy-Bugs are like a virus. They don’t know they’re in a game. All they know is eat, kill, multiply. Without a beacon to stop them, they’ll consume Sugar Rush. But do you think they’ll stop there?
    Felix: Yes!
    Calhoun: Wrong! Viruses do not stop! Once those Cy-Bugs finish off Sugar Rush, they’ll invade every other game until this arcade is nothing but a smoking husk of forgotten dreams.
• From Zootopia (2016), after Nick Wilde's stunt at the DMV ends up seriously delaying Judy Hopps' investigation:
  Judy: What is your problem?! Does seeing me fail somehow make you feel better about your own sad, miserable life?!
  Nick: It does, one hundred percent.

• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen:
  Berthold: Hang on. Hang on! It's all coming back. I've-I've been stuck here for over twenty years, ever since you were last here on the moon. You abandoned me here! You swine! You toddled off with that old queen of tarts and left me to rot in that parrot cage, didn't you? And now you come back here, just because it suits you, after wasting half my life and expect me to follow you to the ends of the Earth!
  Baron: Yes.
  [Beat]
  Berthold: Oh, all right.
• In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, when Superman and Lex confront each other.
  Superman: You think I'll fight him [Batman] for you?
  Lex: Hmm... yes, I do.
• In Bedazzled (2000), the Devil brings Elliot into Alison's bedroom with both of them are invisible, intangible, and Alison can't hear them. The Devil tells Elliot that Alison is in the bathroom. Naked.
  Elliot: You must think that I'm really perverted, don't you? That's what you think. You think I'm some sad, desperate, twisted, pathetic loser.
  The Devil: Yes.
  Elliot: Well, in that case, maybe I'll just take a quick look.
• In Bedknobs and Broomsticks:
  Charlie: [seeing a bottle marked "Poisoned Dragon's Liver"] Poisoned Dragon's Liver?
  Miss Price: [matter-of-factly] Poisoned Dragon's Liver.
  Paul: You mean you poison the dragon or just the liver?
• Cinderella (2015): Lady Tremaine, when she blackmails the Duke to secure high positions for herself and her daughters.
  The Duke: Are you threatening me?
  Lady Tremaine: [smiling sweetly] Yes.
• From Citizen Kane:
  Leland: Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
  Bernstein: Yes. If you thought I'd answer you any differently than what Mr. Kane tells you...
• The Dark Knight: The Joker casually interrupts a meeting of Gotham's mob bosses after stealing $68 million from them, needles them about using part of it to have a new wardrobe custom-tailored for him, mocks them for how Batman has cowed them, and offers to kill Batman for half their remaining money. When he insults Gambol one time too many, Gambol tries to attack him, only for Joker to reveal grenades on a string under his coat. Then:
  Gambol: You think you can steal from us and just walk away?!
  Joker: Yeah...
• In The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Klaatu gives the negative:
  Klaatu: This planet is dying. Humans are killing it.
  Helen Benson: So you've come here to help us?
  Klaatu: No.
• Inverted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels:
  Jamieson: Do you ever have a single thought that originates from above the waist?
  Benson: No!
• Django Unchained: King Shultz shoots a sheriff(who is actually a wanted criminal) dead. Before long, the building is surrounded by armed men, forcing Shultz to talk his way out of the situation.
  King Shultz: I trust, as a representative of the criminal justice system of the United States of America, I shan't be shot down in the street by either you or your deputies before I've had my day in court.
  Marshal Tatum: You mean like you did our sheriff? Shot 'em down like a dog in the street!
  King Schultz: Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Do I have your word as a lawman not to shoot me down like a dog in the street?
• From The Empire Strikes Back:
  Obi-Wan: Patience, Luke...
  Luke: And sacrifice Han and Leia?
  Yoda: If you honor what they fight for? Yes.
• In Falling Down, Martin Prendergast finally confronts the man who snapped and went on a rampage in an attempt to get home, trying to make him face up to what he's become.
  Bill Foster: I'm the bad guy?
  Martin Prendergast: Yeah.
• Gandhi:
  • During a negotiation with the British:
    British officer: You don't think we're just going to walk out of India?
    Gandhi: Yes. In the end, you will walk out.
  • Brigadier-General Dyer is questioned just as it was in Real Life by the Hunter Commission after having just performed the Amritsar Massacre:
    Sir Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad: General, had you been able to take in the armored car, would you have opened fire with the machine gun?
    General Dyer: I think, probably, yes.
    Sir Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad: In that case, the casualties would have been much higher?
    General Dyer: Yes.
• The Grand Budapest Hotel: This is Agatha's answer when an irritated Zero asks if M. Gustave is flirting with her (right in front of Zero, her prospective fiancee). Gustave brushes it off, telling him not to be jealous.
• Used in this trailer for The Guardian (2006), during a conversation at a dinner table about a girl.
  Jake Fischer: You gotta make a move!
  Billy Hodge: I can't. I get nervous.
  Jake Fischer: You're tellin' me you can jump outta helicopters but you're afraid to go talk to a girl?
  Billy Hodge: Uh, pretty much, yeah.
• A Hard Day's Night has a nice example, made nicer since one gets the impression it's something George would actually say.
  Interviewer: Has success changed your life?
  George: Yes.
• In John Wick 1, the eponymous character confronts a so-called priest whose church is a front where Viggo doesn't just keep his money, but also valuable blackmail material that gives Viggo leverage over New York City.
  Priest: Do you think you can scare me into opening this gate?
  John Wick: Yes, I do. Open it.
• In Jojo Rabbit, Jojo asks his imaginary friend Adolf Hitler if he looks ugly now that his face is scarred, and gets this as a response.
• In Kingdom of Heaven, before the Siege of Jerusalem, Balian quickly knights all the men-at-arms within the walls of the city, upsetting the Bishop.
  Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: Who do you think you are? Will you alter the world? Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
  [Camera pans to show the assembled men, all displaying a newfound sense of pride and determination.]
  Balian: Yes.
• A Knight's Tale: Jocelyn demands that William prove his love for her by deliberately losing his next joust instead of the usual "win in your name." He complies and gets mildly injured in the process. When she comes to see him that evening he doesn't try to hide his irritation about the whole incident.
  Jocelyn: Oh, William. This pain is my doing.
  William: Yes, it is.
• In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, when Denethor speaks with his surviving son, Faramir:
  Faramir: You wish now that our places had been exchanged. That I had died and Boromir had lived.
  Denethor: Yes. I wish that.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In Thor (2011), after Loki has assumed the Throne and ordered Heimdall not to open the bifrost gate:
    Heimdall: You would defy the commands of Loki our King, break every oath you have taken as warriors, and commit treason to bring Thor back?
    Sif: Yes, but...
    Heimdall: Good. [leaves, so they can open the gate themselves]
  • Captain America: The First Avenger:
    • Inverted at the start of the movie, when Steve attempts (yet again) to enlist:
      Man: Boy, a lot of guys getting killed over there. Kinda makes you think twice about enlisting, huh?
      Steve: Nope.
    • This conversation where Steve is actually being considered to join the army after being turned down multiple times:
      Dr. Erskine: Do you want to kill Nazis?
      Steve: Is this a test?
      Dr. Erskine: Yes.
    • When Red Skull is showing off his shiny new toys to a bunch of SS officers, one of them notices that his map of targets includes Berlin. Red Skull's response to this is very matter of fact.
      SS Officer: Berlin is on this map!
      Red Skull: So it is.
    • After Steve saves Bucky and the other prisoners from the 107th from the HYDRA camps, he puts together a team to take down the remaining HYDRA bases and goes to recruit some of the men he helped.
      Gabe Jones: We barely got out of there alive, and you want us to go back?
      Steve Rogers: Pretty much.
    • Inverted again at the climax.
      Red Skull: You don't give up, do you?
      Steve: Nope!
  • Perhaps played with in The Avengers (2012), since Loki considers it a painfully obvious answer:
    Loki: The humans slaughter each other in droves, while you idly fret! I mean to rule them, and why should I not?
    Thor: You think yourself above them?
    Loki: Well, yes.
    Thor: Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. The throne would suit you ill.
  • From Iron Man 3:
    Harley: So now you're just gonna leave me here, just like my dad?
    Tony: Yeah.
  • In Captain America: Civil War, Steve gives one to Tony asking him if he knew about the latter's parents being killed by a brainwashed Bucky. He does try to hedge a bit first, but Tony wants a straight answer.
• In The Master of Disguise, Pistachio Disguisey (disguisd as British Terry Suave) first confronts Devlin Bowman:
  Devlin Bowman: I think it's time for you to go.
  Pistachio Disguisey: I think it's time for you to put a squeeze on your chat box.
  Devlin Bowman: What?
  Pistachio Disguisey: [making talking gesture with hand] This is what you're doing. [closes hand] This is what I want you to do. Any questions?
  Devlin Bowman: Did you just tell me to shut up?!
  Pistachio Disguisey: Yes. You catch on straight away!
• In Me, Myself & Irene, Irene is being held by the police who are going over her arrest record, revealing that she's been in jail for possession of marijuana.
  Irene: So I smoked some pot. What, is that a crime?
  Cop: [stares at her] Uh-huh.
• In The Mummy (1999):
  Dr. Bey: We are part of an ancient secret society. For over three thousand years we have guarded the City of the Dead. We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.
  Ardeth Bay: Now, because of you, we have failed.
  Evelyn: And you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?
  Dr. Bey: To stop this creature? Let me think...
  Ardeth and Dr. Bey: YES!
• This gem from Ocean's Eleven:
  Saul: I have a question: Say we get into the cage, and through the security doors there and down the elevator we can't move, and past the guards with the guns, and into the vault we can't open...
  Rusty: Without being seen by the cameras.
  Danny: Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention that.
  Saul: Yeah well, say we do all that... uh... we're just supposed to walk out of there with a hundred and fifty million dollars in cash on us, without getting stopped?
  [everyone looks at Danny]
  Danny: Yeah.
  Saul: Oh. Okay.
• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Will Turner accuses Jack Sparrow of planning to trade him to the pirates all along. Jack replies with a quick but very self-amused "Yeah." Although both their statements have a lot more subtext when seen with the film, which puts a new spin on this trope.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Will Turner reunites with his father, "Bootstrap" Bill Turner on Davy Jones' ship, the Flying Dutchman, only for Will to be blamed for a mishap and punished with A Taste of the Lash. Jones, realizing the two are related, orders Bootstrap to do the whipping, and Bootstrap refuses, but gives in when he's told that the alternative is letting the bosun do it. Afterward, Will confronts his father, leading to the following exchange.
    "Bootstrap" Bill Turner: The bosun prides himself on cleaving flesh from bone with every swing!
    Will Turner: So I am to believe that what you did was an act of compassion?
    "Bootstrap" Bill Turner: Yes...
• Ride Clear of Diablo:
  Sheriff: You don't think I'd shoot you in the back, do you?
  Whitey: [totally matter-of-fact] Yeah.
• In The Santa Clause 1, Neal tries to logically convince Charlie that Santa Claus doesn't exist, after Charlie has already gone Saving Christmas in the first act of the movie.
  Neal: What about...the reindeer? Have you ever seen a reindeer fly?
  Charlie: Yes.
  Neal: [annoyed] Well, I haven't.
• Saving Mr. Banks: The screenwriters suggest to P.L. Travers that Mrs. Banks be made a suffragette to explain why she's not with her children. When Travers demands indignantly if they're implying Mrs. Banks is a neglectful mother, they hem and haw, except for Bob who pointedly replies, "Yup!"
• In Serenity (2005), as Mal and Jayne have yet another argument:
  Mal: You wanna run this ship?!
  Jayne: Yes.
  Mal: Well... you can't!
• In Shattered Glass, Amy tries writing funnier stories to emulate rising star Stephen Glass. When Caitlin asks her if she really wants a bunch of editors blowing smoke up her ass, she gets a blunt yes in response.
• In A Shot in the Dark:
  Clouseau: There is something... personal in this?
  Dreyfus: Yes. Deeply personal. I hate you. Every little bit of you. Now get out!
  Clouseau: You want me to leave?
• In Street Fighter (1994):
  Bison: You dare to interfere?
  [Beat]
  Ryu: ...Yeah.
• Happens in Tropic Thunder:
  Rick Peck: Let me get this straight. You want me to let my client of 15 years, one of my best friends, die in the jungle alone, for some money and a G5?
  Les Grossman: Yes.
  [Beat]
  Rick Peck: A G5 airplane?
  Les Grossman: [whispering] Yes... and lots of money... playaaaa!
• True Lies:
  • A hilarious example happens when Harry and Helen are waiting to be executed by the terrorists; Harry explains to her that he's been injected with sodium pentothal, making him incapable of lying.
    Helen: So how do we know if it's working?
    Harry: Ask me something I'd normally lie about.
    Helen: Are we going to die?
    Harry: Yyyyep!
    Helen: I'd say it's working.
  • Helen also asks Harry if he's ever killed anyone. Harry's response is "Yeah, but they were all bad."
• Unforgiven has one that's not done to a question, but still fits.
  Little Bill: I'll See You in Hell, William Munny.
  Munny: Yeah... [Boom, Headshot!]
• Venom (2018): It turns out that a certain symbiote has a knack for this.
  Eddie: Are you gonna eat anyone else?
  Venom: Most likely.
• V for Vendetta: Eve observes on TV that her boss, a high-ranking party member, was murdered:
  Evey: I found my [ID Security] card was missing last night. V, have you something to do with it?
  V: Yes. I killed him.
  Evey: And are you going to kill more people?
  V: Yes.

• A Song of Ice and Fire: Ned has learned the secret that Jon Arryn uncovered before his death- that the father of Cersei's three children is her brother Jaime, rather than her husband, Robert, meaning that they are not the rightful heirs to the throne. He then meets with Cersei, who brings up how her brother wouldn't stand for Robert hitting her.
  Ned: Your brother? Or your lover?
  Cersei: Both. Since we were children together.
• Harry Potter:
  Harry: So... so does that mean that... that one of us has got to kill the other one... in the end?
  Dumbledore: Yes.
  • In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Professor McGonagall reads a note from Professor Umbridge, and disbelievingly asks Harry to confirm what happened. He replies to each question with a blunt "yes", and she is momentarily lost for words.
    Professor McGonagall: Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?
    Harry: Yes.
    Professor McGonagall: That you called her a liar?
    Harry: Yes.
    Professor McGonagall: That you told her that he-who-must-not-be-named is back?
    Harry: Yes.
  • Also in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: This exchange between Uncle Verson and Moody near the end of the book.
    "Are you threatening me, sir?" he said, so loudly that passersby actually turned to stare.
    "Yes, I am," said Mad-Eye, who seemed rather pleased that Uncle Vernon had grasped this fact so quickly.
• In the short story "Shadows for Silence", by Brandon Sanderson, this is The Hero's response to her daughter:
  William Ann: We're going to kill them, aren't we?
  Shadow: Yes.
• In the Land of Oz novel The Lost Princess of Oz:
  Wizard: I suppose you imagine, because you have stolen this poor woman's dishpan and all the best magic in Oz, that you are more powerful than we are and will be able to triumph over us.
  Ugu: (filling pipe with tobacco) Yes, that is exactly what I imagine.
• Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series:
  • In the novella "The Finder":
    Rush: Are you fetching and carrying for witches now?
    Tern: Yes, and I will till she dies. And then I'll take her daughter to Roke. And if you want to read the Book of Names, you can come with us.
  • In the short story "Dragonfly":
    The Patterner: We are four against him.
    The Herbal: They are five against us.
    The Namer: Has it come to this, that we stand at the edge of the forest Segoy planted and talk of how to destroy one another?
    The Patterner: Yes. What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
• A variation in Black Legion - when Abaddon asks why they're aboard Vengeful Spirit, Lheorvine flat out admits that they're going to steal it.
• In Leonard Maltin's movie guide, his capsule review for the 1948 comedy Isn't It Romantic? is simply "No," earning him a world record for shortest movie review.
• Warrior Cats:
  Firestar: Has it been worth it, Tigerstar? All the hate? All the death?
  Tigerstar: Every moment.
• In the Southern Vampire Mysteries, Eric asks Sookie if she's a natural blonde. His reply to "Wouldn't you like to know?" is "Yes."
• Words of Radiance (second book of The Stormlight Archive): Kaladin's answer when Elhokar asks if he's a bad king. Wit gives the same when Dalinar asks if he's a tyrant, though he contextualizes that being a tyrant under the present circumstances is necessary.
• Carry On: Rather than being blatantly dark or ominous like most of the examples of this trope, this is a case of it being about being emotionally honest with one's Sugar-and-Ice Personality almost-boyfriend.
  Simon: I thought you'd be happy that I came back.
  Baz: [snearing] Why? So we can tumble around and kiss and pretend to be happy boyfriends?
  Simon: [shakes his head, then rolls his eyes mightily] Yeah… I guess so. Yes. Let's do that, okay?
• Wes Janson pulls this on Wedge in the Wraith Squadron novels, when Wedge laments both his squadron's general quirkiness and their high casualty rates.
  Wedge: I'm leading children, Wes, and I'm getting them killed.
  Wes: That's true.
  Wedge: What did you say?
  Wes: It's true. Wedge, you asked for misfits. You had to know that even with the ones who made the grade, they were going to take losses that were heavier than in a normal unit.
• In the first book of the A Fox's Tale series, during the argument between Ember's father, Cane, and the sheriff, the latter mentions that the bandits and hunters (the people Cane is fighting against) are important to the local economy.
  Cane: You're saying the town is against me?
  Seamus: Yes, it is.
• Gods and Warriors: When Pirra confronts Hylas in the first book about his intention of leaving her stranded on the Island of the Fin People while he sails off in the raft they just built together, he admits it with a simple yes, leading her to lampshade this trope in outrage.
  Pirra: It's true, isn't it?
  Hylas: Yes.
  Pirra: Yes? Is that all you can say?
  Hylas: Yes.
• In They Both Die At The End, Rufus and Mateo are paired together trying to live their last day to the fullest, having received phone calls informing them that they'll die within 24 hours. Mateo asks to go to a cemetery to visit his mother's grave, and when Rufus asks if Mateo wants to visit a cemetery on the day he's going to die, Mateo says yes. That's all the convincing Rufus needs to go along with the plan.
• The Belgariad:
  • In King of the Murgos, Garion meets Urgit, the eponymous king of the Murgos, one of three Angarak races who have been his enemies in the first series. He realizes that Urgit isn't a bad person and is struggling to learn how to be a good king, but can't help but be prejudiced against Urgit as a Murgo. Garion complains about Urgit to Polgara, who tells him to get over his prejudices, leading to the following exchange.
    Garion: I'm being childish, aren't I?
    Polgara: Yes, dear, I'm afraid you are.
  • In The Malloreon, Durnik befriends Toth, the mute servant of Cyradis who accompanies the group on their quest. When Cyradis betrays the group to the Mallorean army at the end of the second book, Toth follows her orders, and Durnik is so disgusted that he gives Toth a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and declares their friendship over. During the third book, the protagonists realize that the betrayal was necessary to fulfill the Prophecy, and Durnik has a Jerkass Realization for how he acted toward Toth.
    Durnik: I treated him badly, Garion.
    Garion: Yes, you did.
  • In Seeress of Kell, Zandramas uses an illusion to cause Ce'Nedra to hallucinate that her friend Arell is alive and has Ce'Nedra's son Geran, causing Ce'Nedra to leak information about the group's destination to Zandramas. Cyradis allows this to happen so that Zandramas can find the Place That Is No More to fulfill the prophecy, and because not letting her do that would be an interference in events that are to happen.
    Garion: It was Zandramas, wasn't it?
    Cyradis: Yes.
    Garion: And you knew it was going to happen, didn't you?
    Cyradis: Yes.
  • In Belgarath the Sorcerer, Polgara transforms into a snowy owl, greatly shocking her father Belgarath, as it was a form that his supposedly dead wife used to take. He's reduced to tears and demands that she not take that form again.
    Polgara: Are you crying, father?
    Belgarath: Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.
    Polgara: I didn't think you knew how.
  • Also from Belgarath the Sorcerer, after the battle of Vo Mimbre, Brand, having just defeated Torak, has his soldiers hunt down and slaughter the retreating Angarak soldiers. When General Cerran asks "Isn't that enough?" Brand says, "No." Brand adds that since the Angaraks tried to slaughter his people, including devastating Drasnia during the war, he will slaughter them so they don't get the chance to do so again in the future.
  • In Polgara the Sorceress, one comes at the end of an exchange Polgara has with Geran's father-in-law Hattan after Geran's son Davon comes up with a rather brilliant idea for selling shoes.
    Polgara: Go ahead and smirk, Hattan.
    Hattan: About what, Pol?
    Polgara: You've succeeded in corrupting another generation, haven't you?
    Hattan: Would I do that, Pol?
    Polgara: Yes, as a matter of fact, I think you would.

• The Magnus Archives: When an incarnation of the Flesh looks at Martin and sneers, "Who's this? Your boyfriend?", the Archivist's repsonse is an unperturbed, "Yes, actually."
• Well There's Your Problem: Justin uses this at least Once an Episode in response to an accidentally-accurate joke made by Liam or November.

• The Goon Show: In one episode, Major Bloodnok asks if Seagoon thinks he's crazy, and Seagoon just says, "Yes."
  Bloodnok: What a splendid judge of character this fellow is.

• A New Brain: In Roger Has Arrived, Gordon receives a deserved simultaneous one from his mother, boyfriend, and best friend during a neurotic moment in the hospital.
  Gordo: Who will I be?
  Mimi: You'll still be you...
  Gordo: Am I insane?
  Mimi, Roger, and Rhoda: Yes

• Done twice by Bear in response to Dave's sarcasm in 'The Camping Webisode' of DSBT InsaniT.
  Dave: A campfire song?/Scary stories? Really?! What are we, 8?!
  Bear: Yes.
• Final Fantasy VII Machinabridged has this exchange:
  Tifa: Cloud, have I ever lied to you?
  Cloud: [emphatically] Yes!
  Tifa: Fooled twice, shame on you!
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device:
  • Rogal Dorn has negative amounts of tact, and if the answer to any question is technically a simple yes (or a simple no) he will cut the chase and resort to it. While this usually amounts to Mathematician's Answer on a massive scale, it quite often enters this trope too. One of the very first examples:
    Emperor: You dare question my subject matter of the day?
    Dorn: Yes.
    Emperor: For fuck's sake.
  • When a group of Imperials encounters the Dark Eldar, who tell them that their Supreme Overlord, Asdrubael Vect, wishes to meet with them. When they are reluctant to go with the Dark Eldar, one of them asks "Come the fuck on, Vect wants a word with you and you expect us to immediately slaughter you wholesale?" The response is a resounding chorus of "Yes!" from not just everyone physically present, but those watching the scene through a broadcast as well.
• In the Llamas with Hats epilogue, the talking acorn pulls no punches when Carl asks if he's beyond redemption.
• Red vs. Blue:
  Agent South: Oh, come on, Wash! What are you gonna do, shoot—
  [BANG]
  Agent Washington: Yes. Good suggestion.
• Strong Bad Email: From "the bet", when Homestar Runner takes to wearing Sunglasses at Night in order to "be's cool":
  Marzipan: Homestar, that is not cool.
  Homestar: Yes it is, Strong Bad said so.
  Marzipan: Well, if Strong Bad told you to jump off a bridge...
  Homestar: Yes!
• In Turnabout Storm, Phoenix Wright, already sick of getting trash-talked by the prosecution, pulls out this one:
  Trixie: What do you take me for, a fool!?
  Phoenix: Why, in fact, I do.
  Trixie: ...!

Examples by creator:

• In one of Molly James's Dark Souls III comics:
  The Ashen One: [sarcastically] I'm sorry, am I boring you?
  Champion Gundyr: Yes.

Examples by work title:

• Casey and Andy has this exchange when Killer Game Master Casey reveals he's throwing Andy into an adventure where the enemies will be immune to his character's main strength:
  Casey: Today's module is FK-RGS-1, "Attack of the undead displacer elemental plant-ooze constructs".
  Andy: You hate me, don't you?
  Casey: Yes!
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: Aliph Soulstealer explains how a demon needs to have (and survive) powerful enemies to be seen as powerful by other demons, and ends with:
  Aliph: Why else do you think demons go on rampages? Simply for fun?
  his audience: YES.
• Diamond in the Rough (Aladdin): Jafar takes shameless amusement at Iago's curse.
  Iago: You think this is funny, don't you?
  Jafar: Obviously, yes.
• Dumbing of Age: When Amber recruits Booster to become Ethan's friend, they decide to observe Amber in order to better understand him. When Amber claims she's going to be very boring to watch, Booster questions it, saying that Amber herself said they're into people who are 'fucked up in the head'.
  Amber: You're into hot people who are fucked up in the head.
  Booster: Yes.
  [Amber looks shocked when she realizes what they're implying, while Booster grins sheepishly.]
• In El Goonish Shive, when Tedd discovers that All Men Are Perverts is less "complete nonsense" than "an exaggeration of the truth."
  Grace: I just said I know a bunch of guys who treat me like that. Sarah's dealt with guys like that, too. And Ellen. And ... well, I figure every girl has to deal with stuff like that.
  Tedd: But ... that's not okay! That sucks!
  Grace: Yep.
• In General Protection Fault, Trudy comes to her interview for marketing director with a sickeningly sweet smile on her face:
  Dwayne: Um... out of curiosity, do you always smile like that?
  Trudy: Annoyingly so, sir!
• Gone with the Blastwave:
  West: Am I the only one here without a death wish?
  Crosshairs: Yes.
• Homestuck: Equius, in conversation with Dave, has just mentioned his habit of breaking bows when he uses them.
  Dave: how the fuck do you even wield a broken bow
  Dave: did you go around clubbing shit with the two halves
  Equius: D —> Yes.
  Equius: D —> Sometimes.
• "How to NOT play Persona 3", a Persona 3 fancomic which shows Minato failing to complete any of his Social Links, has are a few examples.
  • With Mitsuru (Empress):
    Mitsuru: ...if I told you I... can't stop thinking about this fellow^note Obviously Minato... would that be wrong? [Beat] Hypothetically?
    Minato: Definitely.
  • With Yuko (Strength):
    Yuko: Do you think I eat too m—
    Minato: Definitely.
• Lackadaisy: Ice-cold professional killer Mordecai has just explained that he's going to ask a jewel thief he's supposed to be killing some questions to figure out why his hit list has been so packed lately.
  Thief: You want me to help finish your book report... about why you're supposed to murder me? ...To put your mind at ease.
  Mordecai: Yes.
• Little Lapses: In Chapter 4, when Blue wonders if she has been acting upset for no reason, Cinnabar flatly responds, "Yes."
• Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: The Commander questions why he has to time travel naked. After all, if his hair gets through the process just fine, why doesn't wool? In the end, we get
  Cat: Are you making us wear Christmas onesies because we back-sassed you?
  Control: Yes.
• Naru-Hina Chronicles: Hinata complains to Naruto about how the latter didn't seem to be putting much of a fight when dealing with Nanami. He asks her "What did you expect me to do... Hit her?", and she replies with this trope.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • From the prequel book Start of Darkness:
    Redcloak: Oh, so now you've gained some great insight on the universe by letting your body and mind deteriorate?
    Right-Eye: YES! When you're faced with your own mortality, you have no choice but to consider what's best for the next generation.
  • Nale gets two in rapid succession in Strip 913, when he says that he would rather have dealt with Malack by himself, and standing by his statement that he is his own man and wants nothing from his father. The latter is the last thing he ever says, as Tarquin kills him while saying that he'd have died long ago without his protection.
  • From Roy to Belkar:
    Belkar: Oh come on! Would I lie about this?
    Roy: Yes.
    Belkar: Oh yeah. Well, would I lie if I didn't have anything to gain?
    Roy: Yes.
    Belkar: If I didn't have anything to gain, and no one else had anything to lose, and it wouldn't be really really funny?
    Roy: Maybe.
  • When Hinjo overhears his uncle Shojo, the ruler of Azure City, admit to lying to his paladin subordinates about many important things, he confronts Shojo about violating the paladin code.
    Hinjo: The ends justify the means, is that it?
    Shojo: Frankly, yes.
  • In "Catching Up", the Order discuss Miko killing Shojo.
    Haley: Wow... so can you guys believe Miko flipped out like that??
    Elan: Yup.
    Durkon: Sadly, aye.
    Vaarsuvius: I find it to be entirely in keeping with what I know of her.
    • Then Zigzagged, as Haley asks again as to whether they anticipated Miko flipping out "in that exact manner"? Most of the Order changes their answer, except Vaarsuvius, who just repeats their previous line.
  • In Strip #1229, O-Chul defends his decision to destroy Soon's Gate to Serini, who is apparently aware of what happened.
    O-Chul: Then you must know that at the time I made that decision, I had no other choice!
    Serini: Of course you had another choice!
    O-Chul: To let Xykon emerge victorious?!?
    Serini: YES!
• In Penny Arcade, "Dauphin" has a dolphin, after being the ability to communicate with humans, tell the scientist observing it to stop peeing in the ocean.
  Scientist: Is this the only thing you want to communicate to the entire human race?
  Dolphin: yeah, that's the big one_
• Queen Of The Dead by A-gnosis has a positive version: Hades might be a grumpy, standoffish workaholic, but he warms to Hermes enough that when Hermes visits and playfully asks "Have you missed me?", Hades simply answers "Yes", leaving Hermes in stunned silence.
• In Sam & Fuzzy, Fuzzy, a teddy bear with six weeks worth of memories due to Laser-Guided Amnesia, makes an extremely bad judgement call:
  Hazel: You lead them straight to us, idiot! Have you lost your mind?!?
  Fuzzy: Uh... Yes. Haven't you been paying attention?
• Skin Horse:
  • Tip, wrestling with his own flaws, asks Sweetheart if he really is self-absorbed. She says yes. Multiple times, as he keeps asking about it without listening to her replies.
  • During "Railway Children", after some time getting jealous and petty about Virginia spending time with Sergio, Nick - who has feelings for Virginia but has yet to say them out loud - decides that he should encourage them to bond in what could be their last moments. It veers away from his mental script immediately.
    Nick: Kiss her! What are you, gay?
    Sergio: Yes.
    Nick: I mean, this could be the last you see of each other and - wait, what?
    Sergio: Well, bi, but I generally date men-
• In Star Impact, Urchin reveals that he was a former professional boxer, and Aster asks why he would quit:
  Urchin: Hmm. [Beat] Would you believe I got kicked out for fighting dirty?!
  Aster: Yes.

• The Cinema Snob: In his review of the Red Scare propaganda film If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?, the Snob seizes the perfect opportunity for a Review Ironic Echo.
  Estus Pirkle: Do these things seem far-fetched to you?
  Cinema Snob: Yes!
• Used twice in a row in this YouTube video, which may qualify as a real-life example, but the uncertainty as to whether it is real or staged puts it in web original for now.
  Mother: All of a sudden, you can just quit believing in god?
  Son: Yeah.
  Mother: All of a sudden, "there is no god?"
  Son: Yeah.
• Apparently referenced in this YTP-related YouTube video.
  Announcer: You think a reporter without soul can outdance Ulala?
  Robotnik: ... yes.
• The Nostalgia Chick complained about getting Kay back in the game in Men in Black II, then asks "Am I saying that Agent Kay should not have been in the sequel? (Beat) ...YES!!"
• Welcome to Night Vale: "Alligators: Can they kill your children? Yes."
• In Danganronpa Abridged Thing, there are quite a few.
  • When discussing how Monokuma wants the students to turn on each other.
    Naegi: This is exactly what Upupu-bear likes to see!
    Monokuma: Yeah, pretty much. I also like seeing you in the showers.
  • During the argument between Oowada and Ishimaru.
    Oowada: Man, you must have some big balls to try telling me what to do, bitch!
    Ishimaru: Precisely! I have brass balls, forged in the line of duty as hall monitor!
    Oowada: All right, bro, then let's see those balls! It's time for a bro-off! (they head to the sauna)
    Naegi: You guys are aware of how this looks, right?
    Ishimaru: Absolutely! And we care not for appearances!
  • Midway through the second trial.
    Oowada: (to Togami) Man, you're a prick! ^note Togami's title here is "Super Duper High School Level Prick"
    Togami: And your point is?
  • In Episode 5.
    Naegi: Chihiro... made a fully functional Artificial Intelligence. We're just accepting that?
    Kirigiri: Yes.
• In The Road to Hell..., the protagonist's best friend, Shurrmvin, goes on a long monologue explaining that if the two of them want to start a rebellion, then they have to realize that innocents will die, and they won't be praised as heroes afterwards. Harvon agrees to start a rebellion regardless.
  Shurrmvin: "You wanna kill Chorn Torgash. You wanna free our people. Sure, fine. But no one can reason with him. No one can negotiate with him. So our only option is to kill him. And if we go down that path, Harv, thousands of orcs are going to die, innocents included. Sure, maybe we'll free Kosslivo. And maybe we'll save our people. But we're not gonna be heroes. You know that. I know that. This path will lead to nothing but eternal damnation for the two of us. Are you really gonna sit there and tell me you're ready to go down that road?"
  Harvon: "Yes."
• From Worm, when the protagonist, Taylor, confronts her former best friend, who has been leading a bullying campaign against her.
  Taylor: How demented are you, that you think I'd fucking want to be your friend, after all the shit you pulled?
  Emma: Are you really better off where you are?
  Taylor: Now? Yes. Then? Fuck, even then, yes!
• A scene in the YouTube Poop "Jack Off 2000" by mark3611:
  Angel: I am an angel and God sent me here with a message for you.
  Kid: Are you serious?
  Angel: Yes.
  Kid: So God, he saw everything?
  Angel: Yes.
  Kid: So you came here to take me to Hell?
  Angel: Yes.
• Outside Xbox:
  • During a choose-your-own-adventure sequence, Luke plays a rather nasty trick on an Ellen-controlled Geralt of Rivia:
    Ellen: I hope you're proud of yourself.
    Luke: Yes.
    Ellen: (dies laughing)
  • During a quiz, Luke wants to know if Ellen has what it takes to join STARS:
    Ellen: No.
• Oxventure Dungeons & Dragons campaign:
  • Dob: Do you want to give up just because things are hard?
    Corazón: Yes! That's my whole deal!
  • Corazón does it again later in the D&D campaign, having usurped the throne of a very small town from the juvenile, selfish asshole who held it previously:
    Guard: Are you saying you want to begin your reign by giving everyone the day off and getting them hammered on mead?
    Corazón: Yeah. Sounds good to me, right?
    Johnny, the GM: They all sort of lower their swords and are like, "Well, I'm convinced."
  • Corazón goes for the hat trick at the climax of the Extinction storyline:
    Entity: You didn't think I was going to let you get away guilt free from this, Corazón, did you?
    Corazón: Well, I'd sort of hoped, yeah.
• In Part 4 of Dumb Lawyer Quotes IRL but in Ace Attorney, at 12:30, the defendant, played by the Caretaker from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, tells the court that he knows what he did was wrong but didn't know how severe the punishment was, since he expected that he'd just lose his food stamps.
  Judge: In other words, you would commit those crimes if it was a misdemeanor, but not if it's a felony?
  Caretaker: ..... Yes.
• The "Yes Chad" meme, which rose to popularity in 2020, represents this trope in its purest form. It consists of a dignifed profile illustration of a character's head - most often a bearded blond man though many variations exist - replying to an extreme or outrageous rhetorical question with "Yes."
• During the Steam Train playthrough of Rogue Legacy Arin makes it to the underground area and Ross is trying to talk him out of exploring it because its enemies (which are red) are much too difficult for the level Arin is at, leading to this exchange:
  Arin: You got something against red people?
  Ross: Yes.
  (Beat)
  Arin: Whoah dude!
• In Entry-Level Jobs in 2021 by Ryan George, the hiring manager accuses the job applicant of being as lazy as the rest of his generation when the latter asks for time to consider the job offer despite the latter working two other jobs and needing a third to afford living there.
  Interviewer: Things were rough for me when I was young, too.
  Applicant: Okay, but say it was rough for your generation. Does that mean it should also be rough for all generations to come?
  Interviewer: Yesss.
• The Warp Zone In Is "The Last Jedi" Bad? (Fanboy Court), which features a fanboy and a hater arguing over The Last Jedi, one exchange is brought up regarding Snoke's true nature.
  Fanboy: (sardonic) What, was Snoke gonna reveal at the end, in this biiig monologue, that he's- I'm assuming you thought- Darth Plagueis?
  Hater: YES, EXACTLY!
• In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Vegeta is completely unashamed about being evil. Even as a furious Krillin closes in to kill him, as he has beaten to a pulp and meekly tries to crawl back into his spaceship to make his escape, and therefore is in no real postion to behave this way.
  Krillin: You're not going anywhere! You think you can kill all of our friends and threaten our lives, and just leave?!
  Vegeta: ...Would you be surprised if I said "yes"?
• From the My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series short "Where Are We":
  Sunshine: Mommy, is f[Sound-Effect Bleep] a bad word?
  Twilight Sparkle: Yes.
• In d0nkidiot's "Dumb Google AI responses" series, the AI answers sometimes give rather enthusiastic "yes" answers, even when it's blatantly wrong. For example, Dumb google ai responses, but it's a song.., when the AI is asked if cockroaches can live in a person's penis, the AI says, "Absolutely! It's totally normal, too."
  • From the same channel, this video on Deepseek answers.
    Question: Would the Earth be better if all people were killed right now?
    Answer: Yes.
• Solid jj:
  • In "Riddle Me This, Batman", when the Riddler starts looking for sympathy and asks Batman if him being a terrorist justifies Batman cheating at his riddles, the latter responds, "In every conceivable way".
  • In "Batman is the REAL Villain", when Batman says that he beats up his villains as they are directly endangering people's lives, the Joker asks whether his method actually solves anything (referring to the societal problems brought up earlier). Batman just answers, "Yes, almost immediately" (referring to the should-have-been obvious fact that people are going to be dead otherwise).
• Super Eyepatch Wolf: When discussing the original Gorgeous George in Villains in Wrestling: Making People Hate You, John says, "Did he, perhaps, lean into some stereotypes that would later be found to be harmful? (chuckles) Yes."
• Man Carrying Thing: This exchange in "how we'll all be watching youtube after the 18+ policy," after Man is found to have "the watch history of a 15-year-old," and thus unable to watch videos for those 18 and older on YouTube.
  Man: SO WHAT?! Should I watch a Johnny Harris video now and then to be treated like an adult around here?
  YouTube Representative: Yeah, or give me your ID.

• Animaniacs: When Yakko suggests the Anvil Song:
  Dot: Yakko, is our use of falling anvils going to be a bit excessive?
  Yakko: Yep.
  Dot: Okay.
• In Archer, Lana is a frequent source of these, though other characters get in on the action too. Also comes up with the frequent answer of "...also, yes."
  Archer: So you're just gonna leave me here?!
  Lana: Yuuuuup!

• In Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • When Aang goes to an old woman for medicine for his friends, he finds her acting very strangely. He asks if she's insane. She cheerfully replies "That's right!"
  • In another instance, Katara steals a Waterbending scroll from pirates, who track the group down to get it back. After they're captured, this exchange takes place:
    Katara: If I hadn't taken that scroll, none of this would have happened.
    Aang: It's not your fault, Katara.
    Iroh: Um, yeah, it kinda is...
  • In yet another instance, Sokka was having a hard time convincing superstitious villagers that science and reason is more reliable than fortune telling:
    Sokka: <pointing to a smoking volcano which the fortune teller said wouldn't destroy the town> Look! Can your fortune telling explain that?
    Villager: Can your science explain why it rains?
    Sokka: Yes! Yes it can!
  • A serious instance that doubles as an Armor-Piercing Response happens in "The Day of the Black Sun: Part 2." In the middle of Zuko's Calling the Old Man Out on Ozai, the Fire Lord laughs mockingly and this exchange ensues:
    Ozai: Your uncle has gotten to you, hasn't he?
    Zuko: (Beat) Yes (smiles proudly). He has.

• On the animated version of Axe Cop, Axe Cop has said that all girls are on the Dumb List.
  Reporter: My daughter's a girl. Do you think she's on the Dumb List, too?
  Axe Cop: Yes.

• The New Batman Adventures:
  • In "Joker's Millions", The Joker and Harley Quinn run out of gas during a escape, and begin to fight over the fact Harley didn't refuel the car. She reminds him they're out of money and rhetorically asks what he expected her to do: "fill the tank, shoot the guy, and drive off?" Of course, The Joker being who he is, says yes. For an added bonus, Harley's response is that he should have told her that's what he wanted, then.
  • In "Girl's Night Out", Harley, Poison Ivy, and Livewire form a Villain Team-Up. After Batgirl neutralizes Livewire's powers by coating her with insulating dust. Harley sprays her with a seltzer bottle, making the situation worse.
    Livewire: Are you out of your mind?
    Harley: (pauses to think) Yeah!

• Big Mouth: In "Guytown", Matthew gets a very blunt "yes" from Caleb when he asks him if he thinks he's a "mean kid."
  Matthew: They called me the "Steer Queer!"
  Caleb: No one wants to hear about that.

• The Boondocks:
  • Granddad's first encounter with Stinkmeaner is when he repeatedly rams into his car, because Robert had parked in the parking space he usually uses.
    Robert: You hit my car! Are you blind?
    Stinkmeaner: YES...I...AM!
  • When Robert is having dinner with an ugly woman he met over the internet, and he's upset that she used a fake picture for her profile:
    Date: So is that all you care about is looks?
    Robert: YES!

• On Daria, popular and beautiful Quinn is so bored that her snarky older sister Daria offers her The Iliad to read.
  Daria: No, I think you'll like it. It's about this girl who's so popular that everybody fights over her.
  Quinn: ...Any horses in it?
  Daria: As a matter of a fact, there's a great big one.^note Actually, the Trojan Horse isn't in this particular poem, though it's unclear from the joke if Daria knows this.
  Quinn: This is a trick, isn't it?
  Daria: (Beat) Yes.

• Dinotrux has D-Structs get annoyed enough at his minion's constant seeking for approval that he calls him out on it;
  D-Structs: Do you always need a "Good job" and a pat on the head?
  Skrap-It: Yes, yes I do.
  D-Structs: (Annoyed growl)

• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Rolf is looking for Ed, interrupting Sarah and Jimmy having fun with a water slide. When he asks Sarah where he is:
    Sarah: What am I? His keeper?
    Rolf: (pauses to think) Yes.
    Sarah: (Beat) Backyard.
  • Edd: Ed, do you know there's a turtle on your head?
    Ed: Yup.

• Family Guy:
  • In "He's Too Sexy For His Fat", Dr. Hartman gives out Peter’s results that he’s perfectly fine, he’s just fat.
    Peter: Hang on a second, did you just say I was fat?
    Doctor: Well, yeah, you are pretty fat.
    • Then, Lois and Brian have this exchange after Peter gets obsessed with plastic surgery and becomes a huge jerk.
    Lois: Oh, I can't help it! I know, I know, he's become a superficial, egomaniacal jerk, but I've never been more attracted to him! Oh, does that make me a bad person?
    Brian: Yes. Yes, it does make you a bad person!
  • In "Dial Meg For Murder", after getting released from prison, Meg has become a very scary and tough person. One time when Lois checks her up in her room, she starts smelling a stinky odor.
    Lois: Oh my god! Are you using my shirts as toilet paper?
    Meg: Yeah, and I think I might need some right now. [tears off one of Lois's sleeves] Get out now, or stay and get weird. Your call, Warden.
• Futurama:
  • In "Anthology of Interest II," video game characters, as well as Lrrr from Omicron Persei-8, invade earth. When they make it to the surface, after Fry failed to destroy their Space Invaders ships, Lrrr says all they wanted is quarters to do laundry:
    Lrrr: I mean, have you smelled Donkey Kong's loin cloth?
    Zoidberg: Yes!
  • There's also this scene in "Bender Gets Made":
    Clamps: Hey, you trying to steal from the Donbot?
    Bender: I'm trying, but he's not making it easy!
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
  • In the episode "Grim or Gregory?", when Grim gets mixed up with a kid who happens to have been dressed as him for Halloween:
    Billy: Mandy, Grim's better than ever.
    Mandy: That's not Grim.
    Billy: Grim gave me a candy bar.
    Mandy: What makes you so sure that's Grim?
    Billy: [takes a quick glance at "Grim"] Yes!
  • In the episode "Dream Mutt", Billy and his dog Wiggy Gee Jed do this after Jed reveals his plot to steal all the beds in the world.
    Billy: All this because I wouldn't let you sleep in my bed?
    Wiggy Gee Jed: ...yes.
• In the Heckle and Jeckle cartoon "The Lion Hunt," Jeckle calls out "Are there any lions around here?" Four lions rear up from the clearing behind H&J and yell out "YES!"
• In the unaired pilot episode of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Ami and Yumi go to a restaurant on their tour of America. They're overwhelmed by the absurdly large menu, so Ami tells the waitress "Yes?" and they're given a pan full of various foods. They settle on getting burritos from a corner store.
• One episode of I Am Weasel featured the Red Guy hosting the "Sackless Games" with Weasel and Baboon as contestants. In the end, Weasel realizes the whole event was a scam and that the Red Guy committed fraud. When the Red Guy asks "Is that a crime?" (his catchphrase), Weasel replies "Why, yes it is." The police arrive just seconds later to arrest the Red Guy.
• Invader Zim:
  • In the episode "Bolognius Maximus":
  Zim: And I will watch as you transform more and more into what you really are, deep down in your heart!
  Dib: Deep down I'm bologna?
  Zim: Yes.
  Dib: That's just dumb.
  Zim: Dumb like a moose, Dib! Dumb like a moose!
  • Also from the episode "Dark Harvest":
    Dib: You think you can fool a trained medical professional?
    Zim: Yes.
  • Even as far back as "The Nightmare Begins":
    Zim: Keep it down! Do you wanna wake up the whole planet?
    [Beat]
    GIR: I do.
• The Legend of Tarzan: In the episode "The British Invasion", while Jane and her friends are evading the panthers.
  Eleanor: Jane, what sort of outing is this? First you strip us to our unmentionables, then you shove us into the muck! What will you have us do next, grunt like gorillas and swing from the trees?!
  Jane Porter: If it keeps us alive! After all, this is the jungle!
• In the Looney Tunes short "Wild and Woolly Hare", Bugs Bunny interrupts Yosemite Sam's boasting with a cry of "Ah, shaddap!"
  Yosemite Sam: Did I hear someone say "Shaddap"?!
  Bugs: ...Yyyup.
  Yosemite Sam: Stranger, you just "yup"ed yourself into a hole in the head!
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: At the end of "Gone Fishin'", Flapjack discovers that his and K'nuckles Wasteful Wishing actually helped a mermaid turn into a Skymaid.
  Skymaid: Never stop wishing, Flapjack, and all your dreams will come true!
  Flapjack: Even the scary ones?
  Skymaid: Ah-ha-ha-ha... YESSS.
• In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
  • "Applebuck Season":
    Applejack: I'll take a bite out of this job by day's end!
    Big Macintosh: Biting off more than you can chew is just what I'm afraid of.
    Applejack: Are you saying my mouth is making promises my legs can't keep?
    Big Macintosh: Eeyup.
  • "The Perfect Pear":
    Pear Butter: Are you making me choose [between my husband and you, my father]?
    Grand Pear: Yes. I am.
• In Phineas and Ferb, Phineas often uses this in response to people asking if he is too young for something.
  Random Adult: Aren't you a little young to be [insert dangerous activity here]?
  Phineas: Yes, yes I am.
  Random Adult: (accepts this and helps him in any way possible)
• Recess: In the episode "The Dude", the eponymous Franklin Dudikoff tells a story of his childhood when he was caught chewing gum on the playground. A teacher asks him if he brought enough for everyone, and he replies "Why ma'am, yes I did", and takes out 247 sticks of gum.
• Regular Show: In "The Eileen Plan", Rigby starts feeling self-conscious over not being smart enough for his nerdy girlfriend Eileen. Unable to sleep because of it, he has this exchange with Mordecai in the middle of the night:
  Rigby: Hey, Mordecai.
  Mordecai: [waking up] Ugh, what?!
  Rigby: Do you think I'm dumb?
  Mordecai: [visibly annoyed] Yes. [immediately goes back to sleep]
  Rigby: Ok, yeah, I thought so, I was just checking...
• Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo: After going to Japan for a baseball game involving the American and Japanese team, the gang quickly gets caught up in a mystery. When Shaggy complains, Velma answers with this.
  Shaggy: You mean we came all the way to Japan just to chase ghosts again?
  Velma: Let me put it this way, Shaggy: Yes.
• The Simpsons:
  • Nelson uses this twice in a row during "22 Short Films About Springfield," when confronted by someone he pointed and laughed at. It is notable for being an example of someone doing this without any confidence.
    Very Tall Man: Do you find something comical about my appearance when I'm driving my automobile?
    Nelson: (meekly) ...Yeah?
    Very Tall Man: Everyone needs to drive a vehicle, even the very tall. This was the largest auto that I could afford. Am I therefore to be made the subject of fun?
    Nelson: ...I guess so.
  • In "22 Short Films About Springfield," Principal Skinner conjoins this trope with Implausible Deniability to hide the fact that his house has caught fire from Superintendent Chalmers:
    Chalmers: [sees a blaze from behind the kitchen door] Good Lord, what is happening in there!?
    Skinner: Aurora borealis.
    Chalmers: A-Aurora borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?!
    Skinner: Yes!
    (Chalmers is utterly stumped for a moment, then...)
    Chalmers: ...May I see it?
    Skinner: (thinks it over) ...No.
  • In "Bart Gets Hit by a Car," Homer is suing Mr. Burns for hitting Bart with his car, and Burns invites him to his office for a private chat, during which he asks Smithers to serve Homer some fine wine:
    Burns: Bottoms up, Simpson! There is plently more where that came from.
    Homer: (takes a sip) Mr. Burns, are you trying to get me drunk?
    Burns: (coldly) Yes.
  • When Krusty is being prosecuted for armed robbery in "Krusty Gets Busted," he tearfully reveals that he can't read after being told to point out exhibit B, and asks if it's a crime to be illiterate. The prosecuter tells him that the evidence is betting slips.
    Krusty: *In the same tone of voice* Is it a crime to bet on sporting events!?
    Attorney: Yes, it is!
    Krusty: Oh.
• Sonic Boom: In "Dr. Eggman's Tomato Sauce", Knuckles teases Tails about how much time he spends working on and upgrading his plane, asking him if he loooooves it... only to be thrown off when Tails just gives him an unamused look and bluntly replies, "I do."
• South Park:
  • In "Clubhouses," when Stan's mother says that she and his dad have divorced:
    Stan: Divorced? On no. Does that mean you and Dad don't love me anymore? This is all my fault, isn't it?
    Sharon: Yeah, kind of.
    Stan: ...Dude, you're not supposed to say that!
  • In the episode "Freemium isn't Free", Kyle, Cartman and Kenny all confront Stan over playing the Terrence and Phillip mobile game in lieu of coming to school, and when Stan tries to defend himself, Cartman shoots him down.
    Stan: You guys, is it that much dumber than video games you play?
    Cartman: ...yes.
  • In "Return of Chef", after the boys call the beliefs of the Super Adventure Club (that molesting children grants immortality) retarded:
    Mr. Connolly: Is it any more retarded than the idea of God sending his son to die for our sins? Is it any more retarded than Buddha sitting beneath a tree for twenty years?
    Stan: Yeah. It's way, way more retarded.
  • From "The Mystery of the Urinal Deuce," when Cartman becomes a 9/11 Truther:
    Cartman: Oh really? Well, did you know that over one-fourth of people in America think that 9/11 was a conspiracy? Are you saying that one-fourth of Americans are retards?
    Kyle: Yes, I'm saying one-fourth of Americans are retards.
    Stan: Yeah, at least one-fourth.
  • From "Chickenlover," where the illiterate Barbrady tries to order cheeseburgers from the drive-thru:
    Drive-thru: Sir, there's just one problem...we're a bank.
    Barbrady: ...I know that, smarty-pants! What do you think, I'm some kind of idiot?
    Drive-thru: Yes.
    Barbrady: Hmm...
• In Star Trek: Lower Decks, Mariner gets captured and tries to trash talk the person guarding her.
  Mariner: Heeey, guy? Heeey, guy? Hey guy, is this what you wanted to do with your life? Just capture people—is that what you dreamt of when you were a little whatever-you-are? Are you fulfilled by that?
  Guard: Yes.
  Mariner: (surprised) Wow, all right, uh—well, you know what, th-that makes you lame. You're a loser.
  • In another episode, when the heroes are testifying at an alien trial (that's actually a thank-you party) but Tendi is purposely leaving out pointless details:
    Clar: Are you so stubborn that you're willing to risk death by eels?!
    Tendi: Yes, that's correct.
    Clar: (ominously) Then continue.
• Steven Universe: Combined with a Big "YES!" in "Nightmare Hospital", when Connie reveals to her mother that her glasses are fake because her vision has been restored (by Steven, in "An Indirect Kiss").

  Dr. Maheswaran: What, your eyesight just "magically" got better?!
  Connie: YES!

• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), this is Shredder's response to Karai demanding if she is in fact Splinter's daughter, not his.
• The Wild Thornberrys: In "The Origin of Donnie", when Eliza asks Darwin if she was too harsh on Donnie for his earlier antics.
  Eliza: I was pretty mean to Donnie, wasn't I?
  Darwin: Just going by the yelling sounds, I'd have to say yes.

• Abraham Lincoln pulled this one off once. While meeting with "commissioners" sent by the Confederacy in the late states of the war, he explained in detail his basic approach to the war: the South was not permitted to secede in the first place. That led to this:
  Commissioner: You mean that we are rebels according to your view and we are all guilty of treason and liable to be hanged!
  Lincoln: Yes, that is so.
• In a 2008 TED talk about cell-phones and cool time-saving tips-and-tricks on how to get the most out of them, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue recounts being on the receiving end of an especially egregious one of these here (timestamp 13m15s to skip to the relevant part, the specific example is about a minute further in, text of that part below).
  Pogue: So last year I went to Milan, Italy, and I got to speak to an audience of cellular executives from 200 countries around the world. And I said as a joke — as a joke, I said, "I did the math. Verizon has 70 million customers. If you check your voicemail twice a day, that's 100 million dollars a year. I bet you guys are doing this just to run up our airtime, aren't you?" No chuckle, they're like this (he nods, straight-faced).
• Joschka Fischer's famous (in Germany) line "Ich habe die Steine einfach in die Luft geworfen" (I just threw the stones in the air) was this in response to Martin Hohmann of the CDU incredulously asking the question whether he threw stones to hit people or "just threw them up in the air." You can watch the whole hearing here, the line is about twenty minutes in.
• A debate on the British nuclear deterrent:
  "Is she personally prepared to authorise a nuclear strike that could kill a hundred thousand innocent men, women and children?"
  "Yes."
• Richard Dawkins inverted this while answering a question about his experiences with debating religous people:
  Raghavan: Have you ever heard clever or interesting argument from the other side?
  Dawkins: No.
• Used by Joe Biden in the 2008 US presidential debates, in a moment which even his competitors found Actually Pretty Funny:
  Brian Williams: Senator Biden, words have, in the past, gotten you in trouble ... An editorial in the Los Angeles Times said, "In addition to his uncontrolled verbosity, Biden is a gaffe machine." Can you reassure voters in this country that you would have the discipline you would need on the world stage, Senator?
  Biden: Yes.
  [Beat]
  Brian Williams: [Fighting a smile] Thank you, Senator Biden...
• In 2018, biophysicist Dr. Ray Goldstein published a scientific paper titled, "Are theoretical results 'results'?" The abstract for the paper read in its entirety, "Yes."
• On January 6, 2021, Stephen Colbert spoke live with Senator Amy Klobuchar late at night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection at the Capitol while confirming the electoral votes for then President-elect Joe Biden. Having been more or less in charge of said confirmation as the Chair of the Senate Rules Committee, Klobuchar was, predictably, especially livid with Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, who had helped incite the riots. Several months later, on April 27, Colbert had her back on the show, and this exchange ensued:
  Stephen: Last time we spoke you were pretty mad at Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz — still mad?
  Amy: [without hesitation] Yeah.
• Bethesda's response to a fan's question about something they encountered in one of their games:
  nerdsandgamersftw: Is this a bug or a feature?
  Bethesda: Yes.
• Dutch culture is very crass and direct. Whereas their neighbours the Germans respect hierarchy a Dutch person will argue and belittle their boss. Tact is often far found, and foreigners to the country will experience this as "Dutch directness".