What could be more more Egregious than Cannot Spit It Out, you ask? There's a crisis and information is needed. There's someone, perhaps many someones, who have this information right on hand and it would simply take five minutes to explain. In fact, the hero outright asks for it. Politely. A lot. "You'll have to figure it out yourself." Commonly uttered by Time Travellers since solving people's problems for them would change history... except when it doesn't. Time Travel is funny that way. Example: