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* {{spoiler|Garcia's ill-fated}} [[Mexican Standoff]] with Roberta in ''[[Black Lagoon]]''.

* Subverted in the second season of ''[[Sorcerer Stabber Orphen]]'': Ellis tries it on the [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Majic, but fails and is knocked out. {{spoiler|Played straight immediately afterwards: Orphen tries it again, [[Warrior Therapist|combining words and magic fighting]], and he is successful.}}

* Ox does this with Kim in the ''[[Soul Eater]]'' manga when she's enjoying being a "true" witch a bit too much (for the uninformed, this is not a conscious decision, but an effect of the Morality Manipulator). It works, in spite of his [[Combat Pragmatist]] of a partner deciding she was too much of a threat to his meister and [[Good Thing You Can Heal|stabbing the girl]].

** If this is one tactic tried on the [[Face Heel Turn|Face Heel Turned]] Kid (possible, as emotional connection is bound to be Liz's angle) it would be great - because the somewhat [[Cute and Psycho]] Patti would think nothing of ''shooting'' some sense into him. He's a mini [[Physical God]] (if not an [[Eldritch Abomination]]), though, so he can take it.

* Subverted in ''[[Jekyll]],'' when Claire tries to resurrect the "dead" personality of her husband by pleading with [[Psychopathic Manchild|Hyde]] for help and calling him "Tom." Hyde replies by giving her a long explanation of how [[Evil, Inc.|Klein & Utterson]] [[Split Personality Takeover|"killed" Tom Jackman]] in the first place, making it very clear that [[That Man Is Dead|the dead personality isn't coming back.]] But just to make sure, he asks the K&U executives to switch off their security cameras for half an hour while he [[Moral Event Horizon|makes sure that Tom wouldn't want to come back even if he could.]] {{spoiler|Once they do, Hyde remarks "Suckers," and reveals that he isn't interested in hurting Claire or her children- [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|in fact he wants to help them]].}}

** More to the point, when Tom Jackman's personality does return, it's because {{spoiler|''Hyde'' brought him back.}}

** Also used in the [[Big Finish]] Doctor Who drama called "The Skull of Sobek", wherein Lucie and the Eighth Doctor are chosen as the champions of the two big bads, who have been feuding for centuries. The Doctor won't have anything to do with it, but Lucie falls prey to her big bad's mind control and becomes hell-bent on killing him. During the ensuing fight (though it's probably more accurately described as a chase because the Doctor won't hurt Lucie and in the end she didn't land any blows anyway), he never actually uses the phrase "I know you're in there somewhere," but he says just about everything else you might expect.

* A rare non-magical version pops up in ''[[Criminal Minds]]''. Reid begs the kinder personality to take control of the UnSub with multiple personalities who's about to kill Reid. This fails, and he ends up killing the UnSub. Then, as the guy lies dying...

{{quote|'''Tobias''': ''[after Reid shot him, regarding his evil personality]'' You killed him.