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== Live Action TV ==

* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'', the Enterprise is confronted by a powerful alien vessel that announces its intention to destroy our heroes, and goes on to say -- "we assume you have a deity... or deities," and politely offers to give the Enterprise crew time to make "whatever preparations" they deem necessary. An unusually explicit example of this trope, where the opponent says "prepare to die" and clearly ''actually means it''. And they're all the scarier for that.

** In an episode of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Where_Silence_Has_Lease~~ Where Silence Has Lease], the Enterprise-D encounters a similar situation, but the alien claims that between a third to half of the ship's crew will be killed as part of the alien's experiments about death. Picard tries a [[Take That]] and starts the self-destruct sequence. {{spoiler|Subverted in that the alien's experiments related to monitoring how humans reacted to the ''imminent threat'' of death without actually intending to kill them. Double-subverted in that the biggest threat to the ship and the crew in this context was ''Captain Picard himself'', since he threatened to kill the ''entire'' crew, as opposed to letting the alien choose which of them would survive.}}

** In an episode of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', [[wikipedia:Where Silence Has Lease|Where Silence Has Lease]], the Enterprise-D encounters a similar situation, but the alien claims that between a third to half of the ship's crew will be killed as part of the alien's experiments about death. Picard tries a [[Take That]] and starts the self-destruct sequence. {{spoiler|Subverted in that the alien's experiments related to monitoring how humans reacted to the ''imminent threat'' of death without actually intending to kill them. Double-subverted in that the biggest threat to the ship and the crew in this context was ''Captain Picard himself'', since he threatened to kill the ''entire'' crew, as opposed to letting the alien choose which of them would survive.}}

*** {{spoiler|The ending reveals that it's actually a TRIPLE subversion: Picard knew that the alien was actually interested in how humans react to the threat of imminent death, and calls the alien out on it, and gets the alien to confirm he was right by appearing to him.}}

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' often uses the more family-friendly "Prepare to be [[Never Say Die|destroyed]]!"

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