Since Charlie's satirical caricatures of the prophet Mohammed enraged many Muslims (not just the murderous pair), it may surprise us to learn just how satirical Muslims themselves can be.
So the location of Imagining Ned, a major new exhibition pulling together art, artefacts and films inspired by the noble outlaw / murderous criminal, is hardly a surprise.
"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him", the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart tells us, while death in The Black Cat arrives suddenly and unexpectedly, apparently as much a surprise to the murderous narrator as to us ("I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain").
The studio describes the film as an action thriller replete with murderous double-crosses and a surprise ending a la "The Usual Suspects". Dembitzer described Zeik as a New York playwright and classics scholar in his 30s who decided to try his hand at writing action screenplays.
It wouldn't surprise me if Ethan Couch, the murderous drunk-driving teen with "affluenza," ultimately lands some kind of TV deal.
"I spent most of my time in France last season but I saw bits and pieces of him on the television, and anyway, I'd played enough games against members of his family to get the general idea," said Jonny Wilkinson yesterday on being asked whether the murderous physicality of England's new outside centre had taken him by surprise.
Given the extent to which sand, tar or murderous thugs get in the way of petroleum production, it's no surprise that Shell's engineers see salvation in natural gas.
Given the comfort zone in Ms. Fowler's performances, it is no surprise that critics cited the heart and the loneliness in her murderous meat-pie-maker and, yes, the warmth of her teapot characterization.
Any self-respecting group of murderous radicals needs to broadcast their ideology, so it's never really a surprise when we hear how much propaganda the Islamic State churns out.
It may come as a surprise to fans of Inspector Morse but Oxford in the 1300s, Pinker tells us, was 110 times more murderous than it is today.
