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== Inversions ==
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* In one episode of ''[[Princess Principal]]'', the person that the team was supposed to help defect asks whether a member of the team – who is pointing a pistol at him – plans to kill him. That team member says "no"... immediately before pulling the trigger.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Near the end of the first volume of ''[[Runaways]]'', the team realise that one of them is a mole for the Pride but have no idea who. When Nico comes up, Alex points out that she's one of their most powerful members and could have hurt them ages ago if she wanted to.
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* Captain Von Trapp says something similar to Rolfe in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' when Rolfe threatens to shoot him, but in this case he's doing it to convince Rolfe that Rolfe doesn't have it in him to kill someone and should just hand over the gun.
* Anthony Perkins uses this line of reasoning in ''[[The Black Hole]]''. It actually holds true... for a while.
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* Dumbledore in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'': "If you were going to kill me, you would have done it when you first Disarmed me, you would not have stopped for this pleasant chat about ways and means."
** Dumbledore accuses Malfoy of being half-hearted in his assassination attempts.
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Peace Out":
{{quote|'''Wesley''': If you really believed that, you'd have killed us already.}}
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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* In the prologue story to one edition of ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'', the mage Mercedes finds out that her lover Gericault is one of the Nephandi (an [[Eldritch Abomination]] worshiping cult of mages). Mercedes attacks him and knocks him to the ground, where they have the following exchange:
{{quote|'''Gericault''': Let me up.
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=== [[Web
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071221083737/http://www.spinachchin.com/short/aleppo/virus_2.html The Highway Virus Series: DNA Oil]''
{{quote|''"They would have killed us already, if they were going to," the female said, although her voice wavered''}}
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', the Player can have a random encounter with "[[Shout-Out|Mel]]", a highwayman who tries to stick you up with a sawed-off shotgun. The Intelligence-tied response basically calls him out on it, stating that a real raider would have just killed and looted.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]'' there is a flashback to the final battle between the [[Batman: The Animated Series|original Batman and Joker]]. Batman, [[Moral Event Horizon|enraged by Joker's latest crime]], threatens to break him in two, but the Joker flippantly responds that he would have done that years ago if he "had the guts for ''that'' kind of fun." Then he shanks Batman in the leg.
** [[Continuity Nod]]: That leg never DOES get better...
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=== [[Real Life]] ===
* This is also one of the [[Memetic Badass|Chuck Norris facts]].
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