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{{short description|Informal fallacy of generalization}}
An '''overwhelming exception''' is an [[informal fallacy]] of [[faulty generalization|generalization]]. It is a generalization that is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications which eliminate so many cases that what remains is much less impressive than the initial statement might have led one to believe.<ref name="Fischer1970">{{citation |title = Historians' Fallacies: Toward A Logic of Historical Thought |publisher= HarperCollins |isbn= 978-0-06-131545-9 |year=1970 |___location= New York |oclc= 185446787 |series= Harper torchbooks |edition= first |first= D. H. |last= Fischer |author-link= David Hackett Fischer |page= 127 |url= https://archive.org/stream/HistoriansFallaciesTowardALogicOfHistoricalThought/historians_fallacies_toward_a_logic_of_historical_thought#page/n149/mode/2up}}</ref>
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:The false implication is that their foreign policy always helps other countries.
The rhetorical use of the fallacy can be used to comic effect, as in the below examples:
* "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health
:The attempted implication (fallacious in this case) is that the Romans did nothing for them.
*"Well, I promise the answer will always be ''yes.'' Unless ''no'' is required." – ''[[Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa]]''
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