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* In the original manga of the [[Hentai]] series ''Bondage Fairies'', main heroine Pfil is invited into the home of a trio of sisters while on a missing-stag-beetle case. While there, she accidentally stumbles upon {{spoiler|a detached stag beetle leg. The sisters realize that they've been found out, and they knock Pfil out and take her captive, starting the plot.}}

* In ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'', Osamu Sugo leaves the Missing Link F-1 team after knowing of his boss Smith's plans to use Asurada, the computer system created by the protagonist's father, as a weapon of mass destruction. He soon disguises himself as Knight Schumacher, in order to keep an eye on Hayato, as well as Smith and his men. During his racing duel with his rival Bootsvorz, Smith attacks Osamu from behind with his helicopter's missile for exposing said secret. Osamu gets better, but ends up injuring his eye.

* Averted in [[~~Mai~~-HiME]]. Akira is duty-bound to kill Takumi if he finds out she's a girl, but not only is unable to go through with it, but even saves his life by giving him his medicine.

* Averted in [[My-HiME]]. Akira is duty-bound to kill Takumi if he finds out she's a girl, but not only is unable to go through with it, but even saves his life by giving him his medicine.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Baki kills Hayate after he sees him meeting with Kabuto, learning that the Sand and Sound Villages are conspiring to destroy the Leaf Village.

** This also happened to {{spoiler|Kabuto. He and his mother figure were spies for Root, but Danzo decided they had become a liability and set them up to kill one another. This was the catalyst for Kabuto's [[Face Heel Turn]].}}

* Bell Matera of ''[[~~Striker S~~ Sound Stage X]]'', who was immediately [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide|forced to commit suicide]] the moment he figured out what [[Night of the Living Mooks|the Mariage]] were seeking.

* Bell Matera of ''[[StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'', who was immediately [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide|forced to commit suicide]] the moment he figured out what [[Night of the Living Mooks|the Mariage]] were seeking.

* In ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' Marty gets his [[Your Head Asplode|Head Asploded]] before he can tell Arnage and Veyron more about his employer.

* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Shinichi Kudo comes across a mysterious black man extorting from another man, but he fails to see the black man's partner, who sneaks on him and knocks him out cold with a lead pipe. The two tries to force feed him with a poison pill...but the pill [[Fountain of Youth|only shrinks him into a body of a child]] and assumes the alias of Conan Edogawa.

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** Another would-be blackmailer victims include Miss Blanche from ''Cat Among the Pigeons'' and Leopold from ''Hallowe'en Party''. Other characters who "knew too much" include Donald Ross from ''Lord Edgware Dies'' and Mrs Upward from ''Mrs McGinty's Dead'' - as well as the principal murder victims in ''Three Act Tragedy'', ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]'', ''Cards on the Table'', ''Evil Under the Sun'' and ''A Caribbean Mystery''.

** An example of the second variant comes in ''Why Didn't They Ask Evans?''. Bobby Jones witnessed the death of a man who [[Make It Look Like an Accident|stumbled and fell off a cliff]], then tells a woman claiming to be the man's sister that his last words were [[Title Drop|"Why didn't they ask Evans?"]] This is enough to convince the conspirators that Bobby has to be killed, which is in turn enough to convince Bobby that the man was murdered, "Evans" knows something important, and he should investigate...

** An example that's neither a blackmailer nor the principle murder victim is Salome Otterbourne in ''[[Death on the Nile]]'', who witnesses the murder of Louise Bourget (see above), goes to tell Poirot, and gets to invoke [[His Name Is]] before being shot dead by the killer.

** An example that's neither a blackmailer nor the principle murder victim is Salome Otterbourne in ''[[Death on the Nile]]'', who witnesses the murder of Louise Bourget (see above), goes to tell Poirot, and gets to invoke [[His Name Is--]] before being shot dead by the killer.

* Syme in ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' lauds the principles behind [[Newspeak]] to Winston, explaining in great detail how it helps the Party perfect its control over the general populace. Despite being thoroughly loyal to the Party, he is eventually made an "unperson" due to this understanding. [[Lampshade Hanging|A fate Winston himself is able to see coming]], predicting that Syme will be "Vaporized" several chapters before it actually happens.

* Defied in ''[[Honor Harrington|Crown of Slaves]]''. Some Solarians suggest offing {{spoiler|Thandi Palane}}, but their much more reasonable boss points out that trading the slim chance Palane would squeal for the absolute certainty of horrific vengeance raining down from her new friends, who are three of the most knowledgeable and hardened killers in known space (read: [[Memetic Badass|Victor]] [[God Mode Sue|Cachat]], [[Genius Bruiser|Anton Zilwicki]] and [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|Jeremy X]]) is an ''extremely bad trade''. Leaving aside the fact that out of their entire gang, Palane was their #1 go-to person for assassinations in the first place.

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* Used several times per season in ''[[24]]'', usually overlapping with [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]].

* ''[[UFO]]''. A continuing duty of SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation) is to suppress information on UFO incidents to prevent worldwide panic over the knowledge that beings from another world are [[Human Resources|harvesting human organs]]. Their methods include intimidation (ranging from beatings to government pressure on the employers of the witness), conscription into SHADO, [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|amnesia pills]], and even murder.

* In the [[Mission Impossible]] episode ''The Town'', Phelps stumbles across a [[Town with a Dark Secret|town of Russian spies]] and discovers the fact. They intend to make his death look like natural causes. Fortunately, he has four brilliant colleagues.

* In the [[Mission: Impossible]] episode ''The Town'', Phelps stumbles across a [[Town with a Dark Secret|town of Russian spies]] and discovers the fact. They intend to make his death look like natural causes. Fortunately, he has four brilliant colleagues.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Gunfighters'', Johnny Ringo is in Tombstone looking for fellow [[Magnificent Bastard]] Doc Holliday, and the barkeep recognizes him, and [[Too Dumb to Live|threatens to go to the Earps]].

** This was the Doctor's justification for kidnapping Barbara and Ian. Couldn't have them knowing about the TARDIS and screwing up the timeline, after all. [[Sarcasm Mode|Because two humans would definitely be capable of reproducing such advanced technology after being inside of it for a few minutes.]]

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** In Season 2, {{spoiler|Marie}} kills Reza just as he is about to clear his own name and find out who moved the funds for Syed Ali.

** In Season 3, the reason why the [[Big Bad]] forces CTU to execute {{spoiler|Ryan Chappelle}}.

** In Season 7, the villains kill {{spoiler|Dubaku}} after he is captured because he has information on them that he is using as blackmail to prevent being subject to [[You Have Failed Me]] and [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]].

** In Season 7, the villains kill {{spoiler|Dubaku}} after he is captured because he has information on them that he is using as blackmail to prevent being subject to [[You Have Failed Me...]] and [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]].

* Parodied in ''The [[Blackadder]]''. Edmund desperately tries to call off his plan to assassinate Dougal McAngus, who may have evidence proving his brother is an illegitimate child. When he tries to tell Percy that "He knows too much!" Percy, momentarily forgetting just why they are killing him (Dougal had stolen three titles from him), menacingly replies "That is why he must die!"

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* In the ''[[Hitman]]'' series, this is pretty much the only reason 47 will kill an innocent (in canon), as his existence is already very volatile and he cannot afford letting anyone (other than a select few) know about him.

* In ''[[Half Life]]'', the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit are sent in to combat the aliens and kill all the scientists and security guards. Later on, Black Ops is sent in to kill the HECU survivors. Finally, the G-Man nukes the entire base at the end.

* This sets up the plot of ''[[~~Robinsons Requiem|~~Robinson's Requiem]]'': you and several other Robinsons have discovered that AWE banishes or kills any agents who have potentially contracted alien diseases or virii while exploring unknown planets. Unfortunately for you, AWE finds out that you've learned this [[Awful Truth]] and decides to send all of you to the [[Death World]] Zarathustra.

* This sets up the plot of ''[[Robinson's Requiem]]'': you and several other Robinsons have discovered that AWE banishes or kills any agents who have potentially contracted alien diseases or virii while exploring unknown planets. Unfortunately for you, AWE finds out that you've learned this [[Awful Truth]] and decides to send all of you to the [[Death World]] Zarathustra.

* Before the Rank 8 fight in ''[[No More Heroes]]'', Travis interrupts Shinobu's presentation before her class. She sighs, tells him to meet her outside, then draws her katana as he leaves. When they meet up, she's complaining about how hard it is to lead two lives... at which point Travis makes the connection: "You killed them, didn't you?"

* ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors|Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors]]'': {{spoiler|Ace's motivation for killing Clover, Snake, Musashidou, Nijisaki, and the Ninth Man are them knowing about his own past. Though, it was also to obtain his '9' bracelet which would put him at an advantage.}}

* In ''Sonny'', this is the reason the [[Mega Corp|ZPCI]] board the White November in the first game and destroy the village in the second game. In the former, Sonny kills the soldiers after they take out [[The Obi-Wan|Louis]], escaping on a lifeboat after recieving the [[MacGuffin]]. In the latter, Sonny and his crew fight the leader of the troops briefly before fleeing on an old train.

* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', if you convince Veronica to leave the [[Knight Templar|Brotherhood of Steel]] for the Followers of the Apocalypse in her personal quest, {{spoiler|several fanatical Paladins will massacre a Followers outpost and then try to go after Veronica since they see her as a heretic (which to be fair, she is) who ''might'' end up spreading knowledge about the Brotherhood that they're devoted to keeping secret. After fighting them off, Veronica is left horrendously traumatized, but she's sure that she made the right choice in leaving the Brotherhood.}}

* ''[[LA Noire]]'' has an example. {{spoiler|[[Dirty Cop]] Roy Earle sells out [[By-The-Book Cop]] Cole Phelps by revealing his affair with Elsa Litchmann as he knows that if he keeps on moving the ranks, the Suburban Redevelopment Fund and its conspiracy will be exposed. However, it only encourages Cole to investigate Elysian Fields, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|much to Roy's dismay]].}}

* ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' has an example. {{spoiler|[[Dirty Cop]] Roy Earle sells out [[By-The-Book Cop]] Cole Phelps by revealing his affair with Elsa Litchmann as he knows that if he keeps on moving the ranks, the Suburban Redevelopment Fund and its conspiracy will be exposed. However, it only encourages Cole to investigate Elysian Fields, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|much to Roy's dismay]].}}

* In ''[[Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath]]'', after being {{spoiler|captured and revealed to be a Steef, Stranger immediately procceds to kill D. Caste Raider and his gang, ''using only his bare hands''.}}

* ''[[~~Blaz Blue~~: Continuum Shift]]'': {{spoiler|This, coupled with [[Protectorate]] issues, turns out to be the big motivation behind Captain Hazama's attempt on the life of Makoto Nanaya in Jin's story. Makoto turns out to be big friends with Noel Vermillion and Tsubaki Yayoi, both of whom had big roles to play in Hazama's [[Plan]], so getting her as far away from them (like, say, Ikaruga) is high on his priority list. Unfortunately for him, she winds up finding out that Noel Vermillion is a Murakumo unit, an artificially created being with the purpose of using the Eye of the Azure to destroy the Master Unit. As if that wasn't enough, she winds up falling into an alternate timeline where Noel didn't exist and Tsubaki wound up dead, which ironically is fuel Hazama used to facilitate Tsubaki's [[Face Heel Turn]], and the first thing she does is [[Ironic Echo|block an attempt on Jin's life by Hazama]]. The knowledge of Murakumo Noel is dangerous enough, but the possibility that the events Makoto witnessed could abort or reverse Tsubaki's change in alignment mean that, to him, it's not worth chancing her staying alive.}}

* ''[[BlazBlue: Continuum Shift]]'': {{spoiler|This, coupled with [[Protectorate]] issues, turns out to be the big motivation behind Captain Hazama's attempt on the life of Makoto Nanaya in Jin's story. Makoto turns out to be big friends with Noel Vermillion and Tsubaki Yayoi, both of whom had big roles to play in Hazama's [[Plan]], so getting her as far away from them (like, say, Ikaruga) is high on his priority list. Unfortunately for him, she winds up finding out that Noel Vermillion is a Murakumo unit, an artificially created being with the purpose of using the Eye of the Azure to destroy the Master Unit. As if that wasn't enough, she winds up falling into an alternate timeline where Noel didn't exist and Tsubaki wound up dead, which ironically is fuel Hazama used to facilitate Tsubaki's [[Face Heel Turn]], and the first thing she does is [[Ironic Echo|block an attempt on Jin's life by Hazama]]. The knowledge of Murakumo Noel is dangerous enough, but the possibility that the events Makoto witnessed could abort or reverse Tsubaki's change in alignment mean that, to him, it's not worth chancing her staying alive.}}

* In ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' Conviction {{spoiler|while Sam is interrogating Galliard, a man working for a mysterious group named Megiddo, he learns about Megiddo controlling multiple locations, but before he has a chance to obtain more information, Galliard is assassinated by a shooter to protect Megiddo's identity. The shooter responsible for assassinating him later dies in a car bomb explosion, assumed to be arranged by Megiddo, so the shooter can't reveal Megiddo's identity, [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|if he is ever caught]] by Fisher.}}