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Compare [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]], [[Torture Always Works]], and [[Dramatic Gun Cock]], which also relies on making death threats during interrogations.
Watch out for [[Unhand Them, Villain!]] when a bad guy does this. Not to be confused with [[Dramatic Dangling]].
A subtrope of [[Enhanced Interrogation Techniques]].
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* Subverted in ''[[Tango and Cash]]'': the protagonists try this on a Mook. It doesn't work. Then Tango attaches a grenade to his head and starts to take the pin away slowly with [[Good Cop, Bad Cop|Cash trying to dissuade him]]. {{spoiler|It works. [[False Roulette|The grenade turns out to be fake]].}}
* In ''Bringing Down the House'', Charlene (Queen Latifah) holds an (ex) boyfriend over a balcony until he apologizes to the girl.
* Painfully subverted in ''[[Mission Impossible]] 3''. Ethan has the [[Big Bad]] captive in an airplane and after initial interrogation fails, he opens a hatch in the floor and hangs his hostage down the hatch such that he feels the massive winds in his face, meanwhile cutting the zips holding him in his seat. The [[Big Bad]] doesn't crack and worse, he learns Ethan's name from the others shouting at him to stop.
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** In another episode, the Flash tries interrogating someone this way. An unimpressed punk points out that "[Flash is] no Batman," at which point the Flash drops him, creates enough of an air cushion to prevent him from splattering, and finds the man much more willing to talk.
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider Man]]'' episode "Shear Strength," Gwen is being held hostage by The Master Planner, and Spidey attempts to get information out of the captured Tinkerer by dangling him off a building. Tinkerer unwisely calls his bluff, and Spidey really ''does'' drop him, only to save him with a webline at the last minute so he'll talk. The best part is Spidey realistically points out that his reflexes might not be enough to pull that trick off a second time.
* One ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch revolving around Ted Turner becoming [[Captain Planet]] sees him smash through the window of a corporate office while two [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|executives]] are contemplating dumping polluted waste in the Grand Canyon. Turner then proceeds to hold one of the two men out the window until he agrees to sign a clause agreeing to not dump waste in the Grand Canyon, at which point Ted Turner would agree to [[Unhand Them, Villain!|let the guy go]].
* In ''[[TMNT 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Leonardo--who by then is going through a "hard-core" phase--attempts this once with an informant in order to get information on the Purple Dragons.
* In ''[[Iron Man Armored Adventures]]'', War Machine tosses a villain out of a transport helicopter to get him to reveal the whereabouts of Tony, Gene, and Pepper. The first time War Machine catches him, he refuses to crack, so he drops him a second time, this time catching him so the ground is actually in sight. With the prospect that War Machine will keep this up until they close the distance, he breaks.
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