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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Locksley! When I get my hands on you, I'm going to carve your heart out with a '''spoon'''!"''|'''[[Alan Rickman|Sheriff of Nottingham]]''', ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]''}}
|'''[[Alan Rickman|Sheriff of Nottingham]]''', ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]''}}
 
This trope is when a threat -- usually a death threat -- is played for laughs by being a bit, well, odd. This can include a threat that's unnecessarily long and convoluted, and the one making it gets a bit lost; or a threat that simply [[Noodle Implements|incorporates some really bizarre elements]]; or a pathetically nonthreatening sort of threat ("Do X, or I'll... [[Poke the Poodle|give you some really evil looks when your back is turned]]!").
 
Sometimes, [[Fridge Logic]] makes the more bizarre elements [[Fridge Horror|even more terrifying]]. It's one thing to threaten someone with a sharp knife; those cut pretty quickly and can be almost painless (at first). However, goingthreatening afterto someone'''Cut His Heart Out with a spoonSpoon''' dictates hours of potential digging into a person very crudely to get the same effect.
 
Rusty cutlery seems to be a particular favorite, though.
 
This trope is usually seen in comedy, for obvious reasons. See also [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]], for when these bizarre threats are actually ''effective''. [[To the Pain]] is usually invoked if played seriously, "[[I'll Kill You!]]" when it's not so convoluted. "[[I Will Tear Your Arms Off]]!" is a specific [[Sub-Trope]].
 
{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* From 2019: Christina Applegate threatens her misbehaving, rowdy car passengers (at first assumed to be children) by threatening to ''eat'' them, which makes sense when you see it's actually the M&M guys [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7FIka-jYM8 See it here.]
** This is, in fact, a common type of [[Black Comedy]] in M&M commercials. For example, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ix24IV-VEg in this one], the Russian mobster's threat sounds pretty weird until you see who he's talking to.
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': [[The Napoleon|Ed]] says some random things whenever someone hits his [[Berserk Button]]. "I'll break off your legs and stick them on your head!"
** "I'll turn you all into fish!"
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' mixes this, the [[Cluster F-Bomb]] and [[Sound Effect Bleep]], for:
{{quote|"I'M GOING TO TEAR OFF YOUR [Beep] AND SHOVE THEM RIGHT UP YOUR [Beep][Beepbeep][Beeep], AND THEN [Beeepbeepbeepbeeep][Beep] ON YOUR [Beepbeepbeep][Beeep] WITH [Beeep beep][Beeep] IN THE [Beep][Beeepbeeep] AND [Beepbeepbeepbeepbeep] YOU'LL [Beeepbeepbeep] SO THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO [Beep] SIDEWAYS!! [Beep]"}}
*:* Don't forget:
{{quote|'''Kaiba:''' Time for a trip to the recycle bin, Phantom. And then once you're in the recycle bin, I'm going to right click on it and select "empty recycle bin". Because otherwise, you'll just be taking up unnecessary space. In other words, I'm going to kill you.}}
*:* And:
{{quote|'''Kaiba:''' Oh, there'll be food, all right. So much food that you'll be STUFFED.
'''Joey:''' Was that supposed to be a threat?
'''Kaiba:''' I can't even remember anymore. }}
*:* Also:
{{quote|'''Kaiba:''' Look, I don't know what the [beep] is going on here, but you're on notice. I don't take kindly to kidnapping and attempted murder. But since you have a God card, I suppose I can allow you to be in my tournament finals. However, try anything funny and I'll probably issue you a stern warning and wag my finger at you. ''Then'' you'll be sorry.}}
:* In the ''actual'' series, specifically episode 020 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''; in Jaden's first duel with Blair, after her temptress monster steals control of Sparkman and Avian, [[Women Are Wiser| Burstinatrix]] appears and orders them to "Get back here before I tell the entire deck!" It would likely make more sense to actual Duel Spirits...
** While on the subject of Abridged series, in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' Gohan snaps after Piccolo dies:
:* Also, during the Battle City arc of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|the original series]], when Joey offers Mai advice in her duel against Jean Claude Magnum (which would violate the tournament rules, by the way) she tells him to, "Just keep your big mouth zipped or I'll stick your Duel Disk in it!"
** While on the subject of Abridged series, in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' Gohan snaps after Piccolo dies:
{{quote|'''Gohan:''' I'M GOING TO EVISCERATE YOU AND USE GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT AS A CONDOM, WHILE I FORNICATE WITH YOUR SKULL!!!
'''Nappa:''' What?
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'''Old Geezer''': What a damn buncha cowards. }}
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
 
== Comics ==
* Vincent to Edaniel, in ''[[Bizenghast]]'': "I am going to kill you right in the face."
* [[Warren Ellis]] seems to have a talent with these. Take this example from ''[[Planetary]]'':
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* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', the Carnifex of Aurelia threatens to pop Cluracan's eyes out with his thumbs and then piss in his sockets. A guard confirms that he's seen him do this.
* [[Garth Ennis]] tends to have his characters follow these kinds of threats by actually carrying them out.
** Jody from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' threatens a [[Mook]] by saying he will "rip off yore head and have T.C. shit down the neck stump". Then he rips the guy's head off. Then T.C. shits down the neck stump.
** Pittsy, a psychotic mobster from ''[[Punisher MAX]]'' threatens a CIA operative by saying he'll ''"cut [his] balls off and put 'em in a paper cup."'' The agent is next seen clutching his bloody groin with one hand and holding a blood dripping paper cup in the other.
* In an early ''[[Garfield]]'' strip, Jon does this when he sees Garfield climbing on the drapes.
{{quote|'''Jon''': Be careful there, Garfield. Hanging on the drapes can be very painful. 'CAUSE I'M GONNA BREAK YOUR LEGS IF YOU DON'T GET OFF THEM THIS INSTANT!}}
** Another classic, Jon says that Garfield can have one bite of the roast chicken. Garfield proceeds to shove his mouth around [[Big Eater|the entire chicken at once]].
{{quote|'''Jon''': You swallow and I'll tie a knot in your neck.}}
** Garfield has, on multiple occasions, threatened to remove Jon's lips. Once, he apparently made good on his threat.
 
 
== [[FanficFan Works]] ==
* In ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-7871/Kei+Gee+Thanks+for+all+the+Love.htm thisGee, Thanks for all the Love]'', a ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]/[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfic, Willow informs Severus Snape that if he ever hurts Xander again, Buffy will remove Snape's spine with an ice pick.
* One [[Gorillaz]] fic featured Russel informing Murdoc that if he didn't apologise to 2D, Russel would strangle him (Murdoc) with his own tongue. Murdoc didn't, so Russel ''did'' - [[Overly Long Tongue|this being Murdoc, it was within the realm of physical possibility]].
* ''[[Bag Enders]]'': "If you don't tell me what's going on, I'll make you watch the entirety of ''[[Flipper]]''. Twice."
* In the ''[[Goof Troop]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6434038/1/Teaching_Respect Teaching Respect]'', PJ tells his father Pete what will happen if he starts abusing Peg and Pistol:
{{quote|'''PJ:''' And if you even ''try'' swapping me for them, I'll punch you so fucking hard you'll be shitting your own teeth!}}
* In ''[[Oh God, Not Again]]'', when Harry and Lockhart reach an agreement of sorts regarding the whole ''Obliviate'' thing, Harry adds that if he tries to steal one of his accomplishments, he'll beat him to death with a paper napkin.
{{quote|'''Lockhart:''' CAN''Can'' you beat someone to death with a paper napkin?
'''Harry:''' *shrugs* I'll have fun trying. }}
* The ''[[Naruto]]''/''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' cross-over parody fic Ocarina of Konoha (found [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2958594/1/Ocarina_of_Konoha here]), Kyuubi's weapon of choice is a spoon. Until it is later upgraded after the timeskip to a spork.
* The ''Naruto'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3721427/1/Being_Found Being Found]'' has at least one of these in each of the last three chapters.
** In chapter 13, after Naruto nearly kills himself while using a dozen exploding clones to utterly disintegrate the revived first and second Hokages:
{{quote|'''Tsunade:''' "And if you ever, ever, try something like what you pulled on the roof again, I'll rip out your spleen through your armpit, and shove it back in through your nose."}}
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'''Shikamaru:''' "That's not physically possible."
'''Naruto:''' "Won't stop me from trying to prove you wrong." }}
* Another ''Naruto'' fanfic, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5288868/1/Uprooted Uprooted]'', has this little gem from Tsunade (directed at the Third Hokage):
{{quote|"But, as the Head Iryo-nin of Konoha Hospital, I can override you in medical matters. I will declare you unfit for duty, make you eat hospital food until Naruto-kun comes back, make you attend therapy where you will have to keep daily diary of your innermost feelings and play with a pink, squishy ball and wear green paper gown the whole time, carry out painful rectal examinations on you, let my interns use you as a practice dummy when they first learn acupuncture, confiscate all contraband literature and the new, experimental medication just might have the unfortunate side effect of erectile dysfunction."}}
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' darkfic ''[[Mistakes]]'' has a [[Shout-Out]] to the far darker [[Gorn]] fic ''Debt''. when China tells America to leave him alone or "[[I Will Tear Your Arms Off|I will rip your arms off with my bare hands]] and beat you to death with the wet ends".
 
== [[Film]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]], from ''[[Robin Hood]]: Prince of Thieves]]'': "I'm gonna cut his heart out with a spoon!" Exclaimed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Sheriff's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the trope, asking why he doesn't use a more suitable implement. The Sheriff snaps, "Because it's ''dull'', you twit! It'll ''hurt'' more!"
** When he does kill the Dragon with a sword, the last words he says to him: "Well at least I didn't use a spoon."
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'':
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* Wat in ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'' does this rather passionately if not very eloquently:
{{quote|Uh, betray us, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain.}}
* ''[[Airheads]]'': "I'll stab off your neck... With my dick!"
* ''[[Team America]]: World Police]]'': "If you don't [comply], we [The UN] will be very angry. And we will [[Strongly Worded Letter|write a letter]], telling you how angry we are."
** Chris is a bit more specific in his threats to Gary. "If you fuck us out there I'll rip out your balls and shove them up your ass so the next time you shit, you'll shit all over your balls!" Or, "If you fuck us out there I'll drill holes through your dick so the next time you piss it comes out in all different directions!"
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'': "I'm going to kill you with my teacup." He does, too. Riddick then turns to the remaining [[Mooks]] and wordlessly holds up a can opener key, placing it in the same spot that his cup was sitting before. The mooks panic and flee.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] Sergeant Hartman says some winners in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', such as "You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!'' and, "I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull fuck you!"
** Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' by an angry tow-truck driver; "If I catch you on my turf, I'll rip off your head, vomit down your neck, rip out your heart, show your heart to your head, and shove 'em both down your neck-hole, to which I previously alluded."
*** Double Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' BY the aforementioned [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] Sergeant Hartman actor R. Lee Ermey playing a "Colonel Hapablap" threatening to "tear you up like a Kleenex at a snot party", and then "corpse you up and mail you to mama."
** Also parodied in the Meg Ryan/Matthew Broderick vehicle, ''Addicted to Love'', when the aforementioned actors' characters play "MST3K" while observing their former loves via a optical-projection.
* In ''[[Ratatouille]]'', Skinner catches Linguini messing with the soup, and threatens to have him drawn and quartered, "after you take him to the duck press to squeeze the fat from his head!" It should also be noted that one of the chefs can apparently kill a man [[Noodle Implements|with his thumb]].
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'''Shep:''' Let me guess, you're gonna pound my face, break every bone in my body, then you're gonna drag my body down a gravel road, and feed my remains to a wart hog. Is that about right?
'''Troublemaker:''' What are you, nuts? This is the 90's, we're gonna sue you. }}
* In ''[[State and Main|Stateand Main]]'', the movie producer Marty ends a phone call with "I'm gonna rip out your heart and piss on your lungs through the hole in your chest. And my best to Marion."
* ''[[Hancock]]'' features a few:
** "If you don't move, your head is going up his ass." (And then [[Ass Shove|he proceeds to]] [[Not Hyperbole|do just that]].)
** "I'm gonna shove ''your'' head up ''his'' ass, I'm-a shove ''your'' head up ''his'' ass, and you...you drew the short straw; I'm-a shove your head up ''my'' ass."
** "I will break my foot off in your ass, woman!"
* In ''[[The Presidio]]'', Lt. Col Caldwell states quietly that he's going to beat up a drunk blowhard in a pool hall with his thumb—this RIGHT''right'' thumb... because the left is too powerful for him. Of course, since Our Intrepid Hero is an army man, the ensuing smack down is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. In the same movie, Sgt. Major MacLure tells someone to shut up, on pain of "I'll shove your head so far up your ass, you'll be talking out of your armpit."
* ''[[Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny]]'' offers Tim Robbins delivering: "I'm going to cut out your eyes and your balls, and put your eyeballs in your ballsacks and your balls in your eye sockets!"
* In [[Mel Brooks]]' remake of ''To Be or Not to Be'', Frederick Bronski, after learning that his wife and a dashing Polish flier were having an affair before the war started, and about to go and potentially give his life by pretending to be a Nazi spy he'd killed, forgives the pair—in the event that he doesn't return from Gestapo headquarters. "However if I ''do'' come back, you're in a lotta trouble!"
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{{quote|"All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little whiny bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob."}}
* In ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]'': "I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a Popsicle!"
* In ''[[Reno 911!]]'' [[The Movie]], a Homeland Security agent threatens Jones & Garcia with "...I'm gonna fill a tube sock with oranges, then I'm gonna beat you with it until I juice them! Then I'm gonna drink the juice in front of you! And you're gonna ask me "Why?", but I'm not gonna answer you!"
* In ''[[Best in Show]]'', the Larry Miller's character attempts to talk his son down from the roof by stating, "I will gouge your eye out with my thumb! I shit you not, my friend!" In the previous scene, Miller revealed that his job is trying to talk jumpers down, but "they all jump."
* ''[[The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon]]''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* In Ralph Bakshi's ''[[Wizards]]'', Avatar explains to the newly-reformed Necron 99 (now renamed "Peace"), that if he betrays the party, Avatar will do something that will, "Take twenty years to kill you, and you'll be screaming for mercy in the first ten seconds."
* From ''[[Twenty21 One(game show)||21]]'': Cole Williams: "If I see you in here again, I will break your cheekbone with a small hammer. And then I will kill you."
* ''All OVERover'' ''[[Pineapple Express]]'':
{{quote|'''Robert''': You assholes do exactly as I say, or I will take you outside and fuck you in the street!
'''Dale''': No! Don't fuck us anywhere! }}
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* In ''[[Deuce Bigalow|Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo]]'', the titular character has a misunderstanding with a bartender which results in the following masterpiece deadpan one-liner from Norm Macdonald:
{{quote|'''Bartender''': Ahh, perhaps you don't understand. Ahh... if you don't pay me now, I'm going to uhh... take this swizzle-stick, and uhh... I'll be shoving that right up your pee-hole. }}
* In [[The Seventies]] spoof ''[[J-Men Forever!]]'', one of the <s>G-Men</s> J-Men indignantly turns down a bribe.
{{quote|"I'm going to have you wrapped in the U.S flag and burned personally by the President, in high-octane American gasoline!"}}
* This is actually hinted at in the ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy]]''. I ''really'' don't want to know [[Noodle Implements|what the Joker uses that potato peeler for...]]
* ''[[The Whole Nine Yards]]'': when displeased with his lunch order, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski hits the waiter with this gem, apparently inspired by something [[Bruce Willis]] actually said on Matthew Perry's answering machine:
{{quote|"I'm gonna keep the Coke and the fries but I'm gonna send this burger back. And if you put any mayonnaise on it, I'm gonna come over to your house, I'll chop your legs off, set fire to your house, and watch as you drag your bloody stumps out the door."}}
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{{quote|'''Grosman''': My fist is going to be so far up your ass that every time you have a fart it's gonna have to tiptoe past my wedding ring.}}
* In ''[[Dans Une Galaxie Pres De Chez Vous]]'', the movie based on the Quebecois space adventure comedy, the exasperated captain (usually a [[Benevolent Boss]]) has finally lost his patience with the [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] case that is the ship's scientist:
{{quote|'''Capitaine Charles Patenaude, waving around a discarded blender''': Brad, pull something like that again, and I will cut you to pieces, I will put you in this blender, I will press "Smoothie" and [[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|I. WILL. DRINK. YOU.]]}}
** The blender [[Makes Sense in Context]]. The quote, however...
* In ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', Yzma's initial plan to kill Kuzco is as follows:
{{quote|'''Yzma''': I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless little flea. Then, I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself. And when it arrives ([[Evil Laugh]]), I'LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!}}
* [[Mama Bear|Eve]] from ''[[Alpha and Omega]]'' loves these. When one of the wolves in the pack is hurt, she wants to track down the attacker, tear his tail off, and shove it down his throat. As if they wasn't bad, when her daughter goes missing, she gives this little speech to the other pack:
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** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Then Agent 23 ruins the threat by stapling a report to Larabee's head.]]
 
== [[Literature]] ==
 
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
== Literature ==
** When Susan Sto Helit has a stint as a [[Magical Nanny|nanny]] in ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', she threatens her charges with things like "If I catch you being twee again, I'll knot your arms together behind your head." She finds that these actually worked better than believable threats.
** Possibly because Susan is Death's granddaughter, and has enough supernatural capability that the children may actually ''believe'' said threats. This is a woman who can stop time for herself, turn invisible, and has managed to turn a fire poker into a magical artifact. I'd do what she said too.
** Also, when the Great God Om found himself [[Brought Down to Normal]] in ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'', he took a while to abandon the over-the-top threats that had always worked before: "Your intestines to be wound around a tree until you are sorry!" and "May your genitals sprout wings and fly away!"
** Another fine example, from Sergeant Jackrum in ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'': "...there's no rule to stop me beating seven kinds of crap out of you... And that may take me some time, sir, because until now I've only ever discovered five types of crap."
*** There are [[wikipedia:Bristol Stool Scale|seven kinds of crap]].
**** And then the student became enlightened.
** A two-parter from <s>Sam Vimes</s> John Keel in ''[[Discworld/Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'': "...you try it on one more time and you'll need to use both hands to pick up a spoon and you'll need to pick up a spoon, Ned, 'cos of living off soup by reason of having no damn ''teeth''!"
** One of the dire threats of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night in ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards! Guards!]]'' involves toasting the offender's figgin on a spike. The power of this threat mostly hinges on not finding out that a figgin is a (fictional) type of pastry containing raisins.
*** The Watch, who ''do'' know what a figgin is, are very confused when their prisoner runs away screaming after an innocent offer of a snack.
*** According to the history books, Mad Lord Snapcase was "hung up by his figgin" when he was overthrown some time before the current timeline. "This meant that either the language had changed a little over the years, or there really was some horrifying aspect to suspending a man alongside a teacake."
** In ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'' Granny Weatherwax tells Nanny Ogg's bratty grandson "If you don't shut up, I will personally rip your head off and fill it with snakes." The little boy is merely amused by this threat.
*** Interestingly, in "The Sea and Little Fishes" later on in the time line, Nanny Ogg tells her grandson—probably the same one—that if he doesn't stop crying, she'll never give him candy again. The shock shuts him right up.
** In ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' one of the "ladies" whose float Rincewind hides on at the Galah screams at a troublemaker: "I'll stick my hand down yer throat and pull yer trousers up!"
** In ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men Atat Arms]]'', Carrot threatens Dr. Whiteface, head of the Fools Guild. He threatens to follow Sargent Colon's orders to the letter, the orders Carrot got just before going to the guild. When Whiteface threatens to call his guards, Carrot calmly informs him that that will only make it easier for him to obey those orders. He then adds that, if it helps, he'll feel slightly ashamed to do so. Whiteface backed down. The orders? "If there's any trouble, we're leaving right away." Colon had seen people bluff with bad hands, he'd never seen someone bluff with no cards.
** In ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', the Red Army are not very good with making effective threats, to the point where Rincewind summarizes their threats as "Slightly bad things please happen to our enemies!"
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Shagga son of Dolf's repeated threats to anyone and everyone that he will "chop off your manhood and feed it to the goats." In spite of the rather obvious lack of goats in the vicinity. Used so often it becomes a [[Running Gag]].
** He actually gets to do it on Grandmaester Pycelle in the second book. {{spoiler|As it turns out, 'manhood' referred to someone's ''beard''.}}
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* Notable examples from the war novels by [[Sven Hassel]] include "I'll pull your arsehole up over your ears!", "I'll have you shaved with the big razor!" (sentenced to decapitation), or the crowning one:
{{quote|"He's going round telling the world you're nothing but a cleaned-out rabbit's head, stuffed with sauerkraut, and if you're lucky enough to get back from the front he's going to see to it you get deported to a cowshit-stinking hole in South Bavaria where the entire population consists of village idiots."}}
* In the ''[[Redwall]]'' prequel ''Martin the Warrior'', Captain Clogg throws a fit of rage when Badrang sets fire to his ship, and screams "I'll cut yer 'ead off an' throw it in yer face!" (Technically possible if one assumes he doesn't mean that head, but since this is a children's book it's unlikely that was the intended meaning. [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Then again ...]])
** Mellus attempting to revive Hon Rosie in ''Mariel of Redwall'': [[How Dare You Die on Me!|"No! Don't die! If you die, I'll kill you! Oh, I'm sorry, dear."]] Similarly, in ''Marlfox'', Dippler informs an unconscious Dannflor that if he dies, Dippler will never speak to him again. Dann promptly wakes up and bursts out laughing at the uselessness of the threat.
** In ''Pearls of Lutra'' a pirate captain tells an incompetent follower that "When we get out of this I'm gonna hang you upside down over the side of the boat and let the fishes nibble your 'ead off, though they'll be out o' luck if they expects to find any brains in there!"
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* In ''[[The 13 Clocks]]'', the [[Card-Carrying Villain|Duke]] threatens to "slit you [[Unusual Euphemism|from your guggle to your zatch]] and feed you to my geese." He's quite serious.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
 
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Babylon 5]]''. We never know what ''exactly'' Mr. Garibaldi imagined doing to Mr. Bester, but we can get the idea from the latter's comment after he read Garibaldi's thoughts:
{{quote|"Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi... but you're welcome to try, any time, anywhere."}}
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* Moriarty, in the 1st episode of the second season of ''[[Sherlock]]'', says, "I will turn you into shoes!"
** Well, first he'll find you and skin you, then he'll make you into shoes.
* Jayne, from ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', makes one of these when he talks about the "chain of command" being the one he beats you with if you argue with him.
** And let's not forget the wonderful threat Book made in "Our Mrs. Reynolds".
{{quote|If you take sexual advantage of that girl, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|child molesters, and people who talk at the theater.]]}}
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** So long as the firing squad doesn't shoot to kill, it's doable.
* This is the primary [[Running Gag]] of Coach Hines, a recurring character on ''MADTV''.
* In one episode of ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', Charles Emerson Winchester III had a good one:
{{quote|I want him drawn and quartered, and then I want the pieces arrested!}}
** Hawkeye is responsible for this gem:
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*** Turns out Josh is rather unimpressed, leading to one of his many CMOF.
** Leo gets in on the action when CJ arranges for a presidential photo op with a goat:
{{quote|'''Leo:''' If the President's wearing a hat, or that thing's wearing a Bartlet button, [[Snakes Are Evil|I'm hiding snakes in your car]].
'''CJ:''' Come on, don't say that! Not even as a joke!
'''Leo:''' You're never gonna know where they are or if you got them all out. Gonna lay their eggs right in the glove compartment. }}
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' had a memorable moment with Uncle Phil [[Locked in a Room|Trapped In An Elevator]], trying to borrow a [[Jerkass]]'s cellphone to reach Aunt Viv (who is in labour at the moment):
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{{quote|'''Oscar:''' **To a [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|curious fanboy]]** If you dare finish that sentence, I swear to God that I'll [[Eye Scream|gouge your eyes out]] with a screwdriver. Then I'll [[Groin Attack|cut your dick off]] and sharpen it until I can ''stick it on your neck'' to give you a tracheoechtomy. Finally, I'll scrape your skin off with a potato peeler and I'll ''squeeze'' it so I can send threatening letters to your whole family written '''''with your own BLOOD'''''!! }}
 
== [[Music]] ==
 
== Music ==
* Although not a direct threat, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "Virus Alert" warns of a computer virus that will allegedly, among other things, "translate your documents into Swahili, make your TV record ''[[Gigli]]'' / neuter your pets, and give your laundry static cling."
** Also, listen to "One More Minute" by the Al... this time it's subverted in that it isn't threats to anyone else, but what he would rather do instead of being with his ex. Actions preferred: ripping out his intestines with a fork, putting an icepick under a few of his toenails, diving into a swimming pool with double edged razor blades, and the clincher: "I'd rather rip my heart right out of my ribcage with my bare hands and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'til I die."
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* [[Voltaire]] gives us, "What if I were to cut you up and mail each part to a different town?"
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In an early ''[[Garfield]]'' strip, Jon does this when he sees Garfield climbing on the drapes.
{{quote|'''Jon''': Be careful there, Garfield. Hanging on the drapes can be very painful. 'CAUSE I'M GONNA BREAK YOUR LEGS IF YOU DON'T GET OFF THEM THIS INSTANT!}}
** Another classic, Jon says that Garfield can have one bite of the roast chicken. Garfield proceeds to shove his mouth around [[Big Eater|the entire chicken at once]].
{{quote|'''Jon''': You swallow and I'll tie a knot in your neck.}}
** Garfield has, on multiple occasions, threatened to remove Jon's lips. Once, he apparently made good on his threat.
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* The Rock actually had one of these as a [[Catch Phrase]]: "The Rock's gonna take your candy ass down to the corner of Know Your Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive, and check you into the Smackdown Hotel!"
** As well as the fan-favorite, "The Rock's gonna take your little [beloved object], [shine it up real nice/dust it off], turn it sideways, and shove it straight up your candy ass!"
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** Keep in mind, he was threatening to do this by taking over the pilot's mind with his magical moon-powers. Also I'm pretty sure the moon was turned into blood at some point in his threat. Either way, it apparently didn't work.
 
== [[Radio]] ==
 
== Radio ==
* From ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'':
** Arthur's reaction to his house being knocked down:
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{{quote|'''Slartibartfast:''' Come now or you will be late!
'''Arthur Dent:''' Late? What for?
'''Slartibartfast:''' Late, as in the late [[Surname FirstThe Name SurnameIs Bond, James Bond|Dentarthurdent]]. It's a sort of threat, you see. I've never been very good at them myself... }}
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
 
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has this memorable example from the flavor text for the card [https://web.archive.org/web/20090129163559/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=6104 Hatred]:
== Table Top RPG ==
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has this memorable example from the flavor text for the card [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=6104 Hatred]:
{{quote|"I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry, and still you will not have suffered enough!"}}
* A traditional version in [[Dungeons and& Dragons|D&D]] (due to the ease of resurrection at higher levels) is "If you die, I'll drag your corpse to a cleric and have you resurrected and then kill you!"
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', you can make these quite often, but the most notable example is when you are confronted by an old guy offering cryptic advice, and can give the following response:
{{quote|"If you've got a straight answer ANYWHERE in that bent little head of yours, I want to hear it pretty damn quick or I'm going to take a large blunt object roughly the size of Elminster AND his hat, and stuff it lengthwise into a crevice of your being so seldom seen that even the denizens of the nine hells themselves wouldn't touch it with a twenty-foot rusty halberd! Have I MADE myself perfectly CLEAR?!"}}
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** It was turned back around on him most entertainingly in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' when {{spoiler|Zidane knocks ''him'' down to keep him from attacking Squall.}}
** While the SNES translation of ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' had to bowdlerise some elements, it was able to get away with Locke threatening people [[Insistent Terminology|who call him a thief instead of a treasure hunter]] by having him threaten to rip the person's lungs out (while in the GBA translation his threat it to simply beat the crap out of you).
* In ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]'', Duke homages ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'' as he tells the second boss "I'll rip your head off and shit down your neck!" After you win the fight, Duke does exactly that. While reading the newspaper. [[ThemeDiegetic TuneTheme Cameo|And whistling the game's theme.]]
* None of the characters in-game react to it like this, but [[Badass|Shepard's]] furious "Give me a name or I will cut your balls off and sell them to a Krogan!" is definitely one of the funniest lines of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
* In ''[[Persona 3]]'' the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] that makes up the [[Tarot Motifs|Devil Arcana]] delivers a few of these in order to frighten you into not telling people that you're talking to him, ranging from uploading your personal information to a dating site for prison convicts to threatening you with Ding Dong Ditch.
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* A disturbing, if no less comical example lies in [[Conker's Bad Fur Day]], where a boss threatens to finish Conker off by [[Ass Shove|shoving the squirrel up his butt]]. The boss just happens to be a giant, talking mountain of feces.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In Joff's ''[[Life and Death]]'' on [[Drunk Duck]], Death tells an almost-victim that if he ever tells anyone about meeting Death, he'll kill him. The man replies, "Weren't you going to kill me some day anyway?" and Steve says, "Yes, but I'll kill you AFTER I remove your organs ''with a damp sponge''."
* A ''[[Cyanide and& Happiness]]'' comic had the delightful; "Touch me again, and I will kill you so hard you will ''die'' to death".
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' has more than a handful.
** Belkar Bitterleaf was threatening a horse that had tackled him when the party was attacked. "I owe you a world of hurt, horse, and I always pay my debts. One day, when you least expect it, you're going to wake up as glue. And not the good stuff either, the cheap white paste that the weird kids eat!"
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** Agatha with her [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081112 appreciation] of Tarvek's proposal to "sort out" Gil.
* In a ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' strip appropriately named "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/ I Hope You Like Text]", Tycho makes an extremely long and convoluted threat to Gabe for [[Older Than They Think|insisting Warhammer is a ripoff of Warcraft]], the gist of which is [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|"I will kill myself, take over Hell, drill my way back to Earth, incinerate you, and destroy the world."]] The speech is generally considered Tycho's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** The fans loved it so much, the Penny Arcade website now has a hoodie you can buy with the entire threat printed on the back. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130918040802/http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pah070071 And it is awesome.]
* Used straight and then dragged out in [http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?ep=1&id=70 this strip] of ''[[A Modest Destiny]]''.
* From ''[[Narbonic]]'':
{{quote|'''Helen:''' Talk, or I'll drop you into an oil drum full of shaved gerbils and Jell-O.
'''Dave:''' I'm already '''in''' an oil drum full of shaved gerbils and Jell-O. }}
* From ''[[Picatrix]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822094248/http://www.picatrix.net/index.php/2008/04/25/page-188/ "And the third one, ooooooh, I still daydream about that one. About how much I would love to disembowel him with a rusty spoon."] The dreamy sparkle in Winnie's eyes as she says this (about her horrible luck with boyfriends) is [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|truly disturbing]].
* ''[[Something *Positive]]'' has many examples:
** "DO NOT FUCK WITH ME, LITTLE MAN! My patience has long since been taxed and I will not hesitate to pull the oily rag you call a soul from your body, set it aflame, and jam it back down your gullet!"
** "Yes, Jhim, very mad. In fact, I think if you'd done that, I'd have had to do something to show you how displeased I was, like finding where you sleep tonight, stake you through the heart with my penis and ejaculate steaming white hate into your blood."
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** "If one spore's missing from my science project, I'll punch open your chest and fuck your still-beating heart." "Uh, Miss? You don't have a dick." "So you DID destroy my science project!"
* ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' features Hunter threatening a stalker [http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20061029.html thus].
* In ''[[Cwen's Quest]]'' a young Cwen in a moment of full on freak out threatens to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110402000949/http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=413930 "eat" a raccoon to death].
* In [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=970901 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip, the [[Killer Rabbit|cute talking bunny]] of the strip threatens to neuter his owner with a spoon. Ouch.
** And in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160130123202/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030105 another strip]:
{{quote|'''Torg:''' My New Years resolution is to avoid having Gwynn stick a fork in my head.
'''Gwynn:''' Maybe I'll use a spoon. It'll hurt more. }}
* ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110809013602/http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/retro/20041022.shtml makes itself relevant again.] The Secret Lawyers Society is so disappointed with Lyle that they're going to slowly decrease the temperature of the room until he has to put his hands in his pants pockets.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' gave us the gem: "I will re-enact General Sherman's march to the sea, using your face as Georgia."
** Marten's mother chipped in the delightfully open-to-interpretation: "If you hurt my boy I will introduce you to a whole new realm of suffering. We're talkin' stuff that would make Hieronymous Bosch shit his britches, capisce?"
* In ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire|Buck Godot Zap Gun for Hire]]'', the trope name is, due to the peculiarities of Hoffmanite culture, a perfectly viable threat.
** While Hoffmanites may be able to make good on the spoon threat thanks to their great strength, there's probably only one race in the galaxy that considers [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428210003/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080717 "I'll floss his teeth!"] to be a viable threat.
* The ''[[Touhou]]'' fancomic ''[[Touhou Nekokayou]]'' has [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic79 Tenshi threaten Marisa] with [[Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It|"I'm gonna hit you so hard, your descendants will feel it!"]] (They ''do.'')
** [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic88 "I'LL KILL YOU UNTIL YOU DIE *AGAIN* !!"] (directed at a ghost)
** [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic25 "Mind your own business if you want to remain not on fire!"]
* ''[[Queen of Wands]]'', [http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20060115.html here]:
{{quote|'''Kestrel:''' Angela's one of my best friends, and [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...|if you do anything, and I mean ANYTHING to hurt her?]] I will rip your heart out. [[Groin Attack|Via your urethra]].
'''Seamus:''' Ha! Yeah, I know, I... You aren't joking, are you?
'''Kestrel:''' As serious as a hemophiliac in a razor factory. }}
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'''s Dan McNinja does this in the last frame of [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p12 this page] to {{spoiler|a crew of pirates who have just informed him that they have kidnapped his son}}:
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* From [http://sodiumeyes.com/2010/06/07/traumatic-reading/ Sodium Eyes], a strip full of odd analogies:
{{quote|...so you better get one thing straight in those whimpering skunk fetuses you twice-inbred Sasquatches dare call brains. If even one of you hemorrhaging shit-apes so much as blinks wrong, I'll see to it personally that you're lapping rat bile off an AIDS-infested twat rag by the end of the week. Got it?!}}
* [[Bug (webcomic)Martini|Bug]] shows us some [https://web.archive.org/web/20130519144621/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/execute/ discontinued methods of execution], which were discontinued for good reason.
* From ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'': [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=180 "And if I catch you back here by God I'll make you sit in the corner MYSELF."] And ''this'' after the threat of a [[Strongly Worded Letter]].
{{quote|'''Superintendent:''' He'll think twice about '''that'''.
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* From ''[[Buttersafe]]'''s comic "[http://buttersafe.com/2008/10/02/the-threat/ The Threat]": "If you say one more thing about my bike, I will punch you in every genital you own."
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[Doom House]]'', the only line spoken by the Doll (over the phone) is a bizarre, falsetto... well, it's ''a'' threat, that much is obvious. Something to do with putting Reginald's hair in a bowl.
* Sarah in the ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "CAMP PLAY": "Get any closer and I will ''breathe'' on you!"
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** "You make ''one'' more comment about '[[Discworld|rat-onna-stick]]', PPC boy, and ''I will eat your soul."''
** "TWO WORDS, YOU [[Plant Aliens|MANURE-CONSUMING EXCUSE FOR A SPOTTY WHITE TOADSTOOL]]! ''LAWN MOWER!"''
** "One false move from yew, sir, one word outta yore mouth wot I don't like, an' I'll cockblock yer by kickin' it till ye 'ave a falsetto wot'd make [[Justin Bieber]] jealous." In the same [[MS TingMSTing]], a reluctant riffer was threatened with being forced to hang around with resident [[Enfant Terrible]] Molly.
** "Are you aware of the number of live eel larvae the nasal cavity can accommodate? Make me listen to [[Berserk Button|one more comment about my name]] and you'll find out."
* Parodied in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon]''
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* [http://www.pajiba.com/videos/the-100-greatest-movie-threats-of-all-time.php This video] is about 80-90% this trope, containing many examples listed in the film folder (and many that aren't), including the trope namer.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
 
* On the [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|Ghosts of Sargasso]] episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', [[The Big Guy|Brock Sampson]] acquires a [[Family-Friendly Firearms|walkie-talkie]] and uses it to threaten the [[Ghost Pirate|"G.P."]] Captain with...
== Western Animation ==
* On the [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|Ghosts of Sargasso]] episode of [[The Venture Brothers]], [[The Big Guy|Brock Sampson]] acquires a [[Family-Friendly Firearms|walkie-talkie]] and uses it to threaten the [[Ghost Pirate|"G.P."]] Captain with...
{{quote|"Hey Captain, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|I've got your key. I hope you're hungry.]] 'Cause I'm gonna feed it to you." }}
 
 
* In ''[[Sealab 2021]]'', con man Master Loo is being challenged to a fight by one of the main characters when we begins ''[[Power Floats|levitating]][[Power Glows|and glowing green]]''. He deapans the following:
{{quote|"See the way my body's glowing? Yeah. A lot of people can't do that. Okay, you want some? You want some of the glowing? Look, man, your soul? I'm gonna totally chew on it, and floss with your spirit. I read that somewhere. But I'll do it."}}
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* ''[[Drawn Together]]'': "Then Ling-Ling kill you slow and use skull for sex, then as decorative birdhouse!"
* The early-00's ''[[Action Man]]'' cartoon did contain one gem of a line: "If he comes back, I'll rip his head off and shove it up his nose... Wait, his nose is on his head, THAT WON'T WORK!"
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'':
{{quote|'''Mandy:''' You're gonna do it, or so help me, I will pull your stupid cloak through your eyes and use it as reins to ride your bony butt back to the darkest pits of the Underworld FROM WHENCE YOU CAME!}}
** Later in ''[[The Movie|Big Boogey Adventure]]''
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'''Sergei''': No, Smith. From the third or perhaps fourth harvest of revenge plants, I will make stew and season it perfectly, with revenge! }}
* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'': In the episode where Mark made his debut, an episode of [[Show Within a Show|Crash Nebula]] that Timmy, AJ and Chester were watching, had enemy aliens holding a bunch of astronauts hostage and threatening them that they'd suck out their brains with a straw. Later, Mark used the exact same threat against AJ and Chester when he kept them captive before Timmy came to the rescue.
* The grand battle scene against Dr. D's robot army in [[Phineas and Ferb]]: ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension|Across The Second Dimension]]'' is set to an original song titled ''Robot Riot'', which packs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27AJ8QqAg0Y some choice threats in its lyrics]. Granted, they are threats against [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|robotkind]], but they're still really colorful. Eg:
{{quote|"I'm gonna rip you up and put you back together in a new configuration just to mow my lawn."}}
 
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