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{{quote|If we get out of here, I swear I'll never drink whiskey again... Let's say a hundred... no, fifty... Three days, that's a promise.|Captain Haddock, [[Tintin (Comic Book)]].}}
 
This is a line in the form "I swear if X, I'll Y". This is ''not'' [[The Promise]], as it is frequently a throwaway line, or may very well go uncompleted. It also has a formulaic conditional element that is not typical of [[The Promise]]. X is most commonly worded as "If I/we survive this" or "If this crazy shit works out", and Y is frequently "I'll kill you!" though almost anything than go in either space. Related to [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]. Might end up [[Tempting Fate]].
 
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'''Simon:''' I mean to say... <br />
'''Kaylee:''' To Hell with this. ''[[Dramatic Gun Cock]]'' I'm gonna live! }}
* ''[[North Byby Northwest]]'' has Thornhill promise to Eve that if they survive the final confrontation on Mount Rushmore, they'd go back to New York on the train.
* Played with in ''[[Bill and Teds Bogus Journey]]'': when Bill and Ted are in Hell Ted says if they get out of this alive then Bill gets his album collection. When Bill reminds him that they're already dead, he replies "They're yours, dude."
* [[Rush Hour|"Lee, I'm gonna kill you if we don't die!"]]
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== Literature ==
* In the 5th [[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]] book, just before his trial Harry promises himself that he'll donate 10 galleons by putting it in a fountain if he gets acquitted. He ends up emptying his entire moneybag into it.
** In the 7th book, we get Ron going "If we die for them, I'll kill you, Harry!"
* In the entire ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' series, Garrett (a minor, almost throwaway character) tells Kate, (another minor, almost throwaway character), "If we make it through this, I'll follow you anywhere, woman."
* In [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' ''Busman's Honeymoon'', the Dowager Duchess reveals how Bunter came to work for [[Lord Peter Wimsey]]: during [[World War I]], when they were in a tight spot together, Lord Peter had said he would hire Bunter if they got out of the war. This meant that Bunter showed up when Lord Peter was suffering from severe shell shock, and took over.
* Played with in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision of the Future]]''. Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade are in mortal peril when he asks her to marry him. "You mean if we get out of here alive?" she says. "No, I mean regardless." "[[Now or Never Kiss|...Yes. I will.]]"
 
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* In an episode of ''[[Golden Girls]]'' Blanche makes a deal with God to have less sex if Rose survives her heart attack.
* Similarly, in an episode of ''Cheers'', Sam swears to God that if a pregnant ex-lover's baby isn't his, that he'll never have sex again (which he almost immediately cuts down to a couple of months or so). When Sam gets what he wanted, however, Carla warns him of the consequences of reneging.
* In a late episode of ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'', Max and 99 are caught in death-trap with no apparent means of escape. Thinking they are about to die, Max realizes that he's in love with 99 and declares that if they could get out he'd marry her. She immediately thinks of a way to escape and they get married a few episodes later.
* In the ''[[Supernatural]]'' episode "Jus in Bello," after Dean refuses to participate in a virgin sacrifice, the virgin in question (Nancy) says, "If we survive this, I'm gonna have a whole lot of sex." Then she looks at the deputy next to her and says, "But not with you." {{spoiler|Unfortunately, she never really gets the chance, since Lilith kills her and everyone else pretty quickly.}}
* There's an entire episode of ''Taxi'' (Louie Sees the Light) dedicated to this one, where Louie makes a promise to be the best person that he can be if he survives surgery. It's almost a deconstruction.
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== Video Games ==
* Wrex gets a classic in ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]'': "If we die in here, I'll kill him!" ("him" being Joker, the pilot).
** ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'' has Jack's "If I die, I'm haunting you, Shepard." In the third game, she tells one of her {{spoiler|biotic students}} "If you die on me, I will kick your ass!"
* From ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'':
{{quote| Sarge: If we survive this, I'm gonna kill the both of you...slowly.}}
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