Ineffectual Death Threats: Difference between revisions

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[[File:death-threat-elmo.jpg|link=Sesame Street|frame|Yeah, I doubt it.]]

{{quote|''"You know, Angel, coming from you, idle threats are so... well, idle."''|'''Lilah Morgan'''|''[[Angel]]'', ''"Supersymmetry"''}}

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{{quote|''"You know, Angel, coming from you, idle threats are so... well, idle."''|'''Lilah Morgan''', ''[[Angel]]'' ''"Supersymmetry"''}}

Characters make death threats that they never seem to carry out. It's not uncommon to have people say "[[I'll Kill You!]]" all the time, only to have fights that never quite go that far, only stopping at wounding and/or maiming. Granted, "I'll '''seriously wound''' you!" doesn't sound quite as badass (though even that can be pulled off [[To the Pain|effectively]]), but at least it's more threatening than a [[Strongly Worded Letter]].

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'''Fry:''' ''(beating Zoidberg with his own severed arm)'' You bastard! I'll kill you, you bastard! }}

** Or when Fry drank Bender's last beer, or the time...

* In ''[[~~Re Boot~~]]'' [[The Hero|Bob]] once threatened to ''dismantle'' Mike the TV. He even has [[Do-Anything Robot|Glitch]] turn into a ''screwdriver'' as part of the threat.

* In ''[[ReBoot]]'' [[The Hero|Bob]] once threatened to ''dismantle'' Mike the TV. He even has [[Do-Anything Robot|Glitch]] turn into a ''screwdriver'' as part of the threat.

* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' the Monarch makes all sorts of bombastic (but unfulfilled and non-intimidating) death threats to Rusty Venture throughout the entire series. He does, however, manage to kill or defeat his other enemies every so often.