Shut UP, Hannibal/Newspaper Comics

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Examples of a Shut UP, Hannibal reaction in Newspaper Comics include:

  • Lampshaded in Peanuts, when Charlie Brown is being attacked by Lucy, and he begins to explain to her how violence is never the answer to anything. Lucy just slugs him and says "I had to hit him quick-- he was starting to make sense!"
  • In a Doonesbury strip, Uncle Duke, then U.S. ambassador to China, delivered a magnificent (although deceitful) one to a tour guide who kept trying to guilt-trip him about how often foreigners had destroyed Chinese cultural sites.

Duke: Now, hold on a minute, Zhang! -- Who was it that built these palaces in the first place?!
Zhang: The people, sir! The emperors enslaved them and ...
Duke: Exactly! And that enraged the emerging egalitarian sensibilities of the western nations! So they put the offending edifices to the torch!
Zhang: Oh... I guess I owe you an apology, Mr. Duke...
Duke: I guess you do!