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->Obi-Wan: Patience, Luke...\\ Luke: And sacrifice Han and Leia?\\ Yoda: If you honor what they fight for? Yes. -->-- StarWars: TheEmpireStrikesBack
->Gambol: You think you can just steal from us and walk away?\\ TheJoker: Yeah. -->-- TheDarkKnight
To whoever is asking the question, a more appropriate answer would probably be either a no, or maybe a maybe, or in some cases RhetoricalQuestionBlunder no answer at all. Instead, however, it's answered with a TitleDrop Blunt Yes, or whatever else would be equivalent to "yes" in its own context.
Maybe this reflects on differences between the asker and the answerer in terms of views toward the subject they are discussing. Maybe it implies that the answerer has a very blunt personality, such as that of a DeadpanSnarker, for instance. It can mean both, even, and by its very nature often does.
Compare with InsultBackfire, since it is often caused by similar things. Often associated with BrutalHonesty. See also FlatWhat and LittleNo. Compare MathematiciansAnswer.
TruthInTelevision, of course, especially in online discussions, given the sheer diversity of opinions, and in turn, higher rate at which what one would consider an inappropriate response, another considers quite fitting.
!! Examples:
- NeonGenesisEvangelion: Shinji reacts to Misato's questions like this after being returned to NERV Headquarters in Episode four.
- In FanFic/TurnaboutStorm, VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright, already sick of getting TrashTalk trash-talked by the prosecution, pulls out a nice one.
-->WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Trixie: What do you take me for, a fool!?\\ Phoenix: Why, in fact TakeThat I do.\\ Trixie: ...! /folder
- VForVendetta: Eve observes on TV that her boss, a high-ranking party member, was murdered:
-->Eve: I found my [ID Security] card was missing last night. V, have you something to do with it?\\ V: Yes. I killed him.
- The page quotation, from StarWars: TheEmpireStrikesBack is above all else an example of this reflecting on differences in attitudes; Luke is loyal to his friends even at the expense of duty, and Yoda is inclined to condemn this.
- TheJoker does this in TheDarkKnight this when a mobster confronts him about his prior theft from Gotham's organized crime community. [(Context viewable here.)] This would reflect both on the differences in attitude (the mob is... relatively less chaotic than Joker) and bluntness. (Joker's DeadpanSnarker personality comes into play in that scene as a whole.)
-->Gambol: You think you can steal from us and just walk away?\\ TheJoker Joker: Yeah.
- In the Film/StreetFighter movie:
-->Bison: You dare to interfere?\\ [[[:Template:Beat]]]\\ Ryu: ... yeah.
- In the LiloAndStitch movie:
-->Jumba: After all you put me through, you expect me to help you, just like that?! Just like that?!\\ Stitch: Ih.\\ [[[:Template:Beat]]]\\ Jumba: Fine!\\ Pleakley: "Fine?" You're doing what he says?!\\ Jumba: He is very persuasive.
- Later in the same scene is when the audience learns that "Ih" translates to simply "Yes".
- In Film/TheLordOfTheRings:
-->TheUnfavorite Faramir: You wish now that our places had been exchanged. That I had died and Boromir had lived.\\ Denethor: KickTheDog Yes. I wish that.
- In TheMummy:
-->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!
- Used in [this trailer] for a movie called The Guardian, during a conversation at a dinner table about a girl.
-->Jake Fischer: You gotta make a move!\\ SociallyAwkwardHero 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.
- In Film/Template:Serenity, as Mal and Jayne have yet another argument:
-->Mal: You wanna run this ship?!\\ Jayne: Yes.\\ Mal: LameComeback Well... you can't!
- In TheIncredibles, when spoiler:Dash, Violet, and Elastigirl are in the ocean after Syndrome shot down their plane, and Elastigirl suggests swimming toward the trail the missiles left.
-->Dash: You wanna go toward the people that tried to kill us?\\ Elastigirl: If it means land? Yes.
- In the 2000 remake of Template:Bedazzled, 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 Film/HowToTrainYourDragon, Hiccup does this to Astrid.
-->Astrid: Hiccup, we just discovered spoiler: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.\\ [[[:Template:Beat]]]\\ Astrid: Ok. Then, what do we do?
- In TheLionKing:
-->Banzai: What are we supposed to do, kill spoiler:Mufasa?\\ spoiler:Scar: Precisely.
- Happens in TropicThunder:
-->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.\\ [[[:Template:Beat]]]\\ Rick Peck: A G5 airplane?\\ Les Grossman: [whispering] Yes... and lots of money... playaaaa!
- From Film/CitizenKane:
-->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...
- This gem from the OceansEleven remake:
-->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.
- Inverted in DirtyRottenScoundrels:
--> Jamieson: Do you ever have a single thought that originates from above the waist? --> Benson: No!
- In BedknobsAndBroomsticks:
--> Charlie: (seeing a bottle marked "Poisoned Dragon's Liver") Poisoned Dragon's Liver? --> Miss Price: (matter-of-factly tone) Poisoned Dragon's Liver. --> Paul: You mean you poison the dragon or just the liver? /folder
- Template:Cheers. In "Diane Meets Mom" Diane is shocked after Frasier's mom (played by TheSopranos Nancy Marchand) threatens to murder her if she doesn't break it off with Frasier. She goes to Sam for advice.
--> Diane: Sam, I have to ask you a question. Promise me you won't make a joke out of it. --> Sam: Yeah, I promise. what's up? --> Diane: Do you think I'm crazy? --> Sam: Yes. --> Diane: Ha! ha! Now that we've gotten the joke over, will you please help me? This is a strange question, but it's important. Do you think I'm crazy? --> Sam: Yes.
- On Series/Template:Community, when Britta asks Jeff if her name was recently made into a verb with negative connotations:
-->Jeff:...Yes.
- May not be a straight example, as she asks if her name is being used to mean "make a tiny mistake". Jeff's hesitation seems to imply that tiny would not be his choice of words.
- RealTimeWithBillMaher involved Bill mimicking sarcastic anti-government questions before answering them with a BluntYes.
-->Bill: I mean, how stupid is it when people say "SarcasmMode oh that's what we need, the federal government telling Detroit how to make cars, or Wells Fargo how to run a bank, you want them to look like the post office?"\\ [beat]\\ Bill: Yeah. I mean, a place that take a little note from my hand from LA on Monday, to give it to my sister in New Jersey on Wednesday, for 42 cents? Well let me be the first to say that I would be THRILLED if America's healthcare system was anywhere near as functional as the post office.
- From BuffyTheVampireSlayer, when Cordelia and Buffy are competing for the title of homecoming queen:
-->Buffy: You're *paying* people for votes?\\ Cordelia: Is that any more tacky than your oh-I'm-so-soulful-and-vulnerable headshots?\\ Buffy: ... Yes.
- From Fringe NaiveNewcomer Agent Jessup asks about MadScientist Dr. Bishop.
-->Jessup: Is he insane?\\ Peter Bishop: Oh, yeah.
- DoctorWho The Doctor does this twice to The Editor in The Long Game.
--> Rose: So all the people on Earth are like slaves? --> Editor: Well, now, there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved? --> Doctor: Yes. --> Editor: Oh! I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm going to get? "Yes"? --> Doctor: Yes. /folder
- In a CityOfHeroes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope vigilante-to-villain tip mission, you try to convince TheDitz Flambeaux that her boyfriend's not who she thinks he is...
-->Flambeaux: What do you think I am, stupid?\\ You: Yes. Quite. /folder
- Used twice in a row in [this] Template: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] YoutubePoop YTP-related Template:Youtube video.
-->SpaceChannel5 Announcer: You think a reporter without soul can outdance Ulala?\\ AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog Robotnik: ... yes. /folder
- In PhineasAndFerb, Phineas CatchPhrase often uses this in response to people asking if he is JustAKid too young for something.
-->Random Adult: Aren't you a little young to be [insert dangerous activity here]?\\ Phineas: Yes. Yes, we are.
- In FamilyGuy:
-->Peter: Hang on a second, did you just say I was fat?\\ Doctor: Well, yeah, you are pretty fat.
- Also, in Dial Meg For Murder:
-->Lois: Oh my god! Are you using my shirts as toilet paper?\\ Meg: Yeah, and I think I might need some right now.
- TheBully Nelson from TheSimpsons uses this twice in a row during "22 Short Films About Springfield," when confronted by someone he pointed and laughed at.
-->Very Tall Man: Do you find something comical about my appearance when I'm driving my automobile?\\ Nelson: ... 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 an early episode of TheSimpsons, Homer is suing Mr. Burns for hitting Bart with his car, and Burns invites him for a private chat:
-->Homer: Mr. Burns, are you trying to get me drunk? -->Burns: Yes. /folder
- Oh, Joe Biden. You are a [classy, classy man.]
