curiosity killed the cat theme
Someone performs ill-advised, unnecessary, dangerous investigations or experiments in order to satisfy their own personal curiosity.
10 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh2x22 | choice | The central theme alluded to in the title was revealed early and came back in the end with panache: A mysterious door in Bonnie's ancestral home sorely tempted Dave's greedy fingers and he could just barely keep a lid on it not to give his game away. When he finally came into possession of the house in the end, he excitedly opened the door and barged headlong through it plunging to gruesome and prolonged death at the bottom of an abandoned elevator shaft. |
| ahp5x12 | major | The morbid fate of Mr. Laffler pointedly illustrated the old maxim that curiosity killed the cat. |
| apuleius180tgainset1 | major | A central point in the story is the fact that Psyche disobeyed her husband because she had a cat-killing urge to find out who he was. This was later spelled out after Psyche could not resist opening the box that was said to contain some of Proserpina's beauty. |
| ftt1982e6x02 | major | Things ended tragically for the mermaid Pearl when she followed through on her desire to explore the human world on the surface. |
| futurama4x15 | major | The Planet Express crew members could not resist from peeking in paper packages they oughtn't have peeked in. |
| rbt1985e2x09 | major | As Charles knew he would, Richard couldn't resist the temptation to activate the mysterious coffin. He laid down in the place indicated. Thus he sealed his own fate when the coffin activated a sequence of pre-programmed events that would culminate with Richard's living inhumation. Meanwhile, Charles' recording then activated to gloat at Richard's fate. |
| shortstory: The Man who Saw the Future (1930) | major | For investigating a field from which emanated strange thunderclaps, the ever-curious Henri Lothiere was charged with sorcery and blasphemy by the Inquisition and ultimately burned at the stake. |
| ahh2x06 | minor | When harry barged in through Mrs. Logan's door to tell her off for being a nosey neighbor there was an implication that her nosiness could have landed her in deep shit. |
| tftc1989e4x14 | minor | Cynthia's nosiness about the youth restoring nectar indirectly led to her demise. It is unclear as to whether the story title refers to this or something else. |
| tz2002e1x36 | minor | Mario nearly died investigating the caskets, and he blamed his obsessive curiosity for the event. |