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{{quote|[[You Got Spunk|Yeah, you got spirit kid]], I'll give you that. More than your old man, anyway. In the joint, Chill told me about the night he [[My Parents Are Dead|killed your parents]]. He said your father begged for mercy. ''Begged''. Like a dog.|'''Carmine Falcone''', ''[[Batman Begins]]''}}

{{quote| [[You Remind Me of X|You remind me of your mother.]] [[You Got Spunk|Now there was a woman with some spirit in her.]]}}

* In ''[[DMZ (Comic Book)|DMZ]]'' a military commander that main character Matty Roth hates taunts Matty at one point by {{spoiler|teasing Matty about his dead reporter girlfriend}}.

* For both her parents and Chase, never bring up Gert's sad fate from ''[[Runaways (Comic Book)|Runaways]]''. Chase gets violent. Her parents start a small scale genocide.

* ''[[The Lion King (Disney)|The Lion King]]'': when Scar thinks that Simba is at his mercy he tries to twist the knife by whispering: "''I'' killed Mufasa.".

* In [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] movie, ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]'', Camille does it after the general says "I knew your family, I must have been the last person to see them alive..."

** Not to mention the General saying that the look on her face was just like the [[Rape Asas Drama|look of fear on her mother's.]]

* Memorably used in ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]'', except with less of the beatdown effect and instead just provoking Maximus' [[Implacable Man]]. Commodus cements his [[Moral Event Horizon]] by casually bringing up Maximus' wife's gang-rape and the crucifixion of his son while Maximus is surrounded by the Praetorian Guards. The facial expressions of the Praetorians don't budge, but they allow Maximus to leave without Commodus' permission and give him a small nod of respect as he goes. {{spoiler|And then in the final [[Duel to Thethe Death]] the Guards [[Give Me a Sword|refuse to give Commodus a sword]] after he gets disarmed by Maximus.}}

* This occurs in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the [[Philosopher's Stone (novel)|Harry Potter and Thethe Philosopher's Stone|Philosopher's / Sorcerer's Stone]]'', when Harry, upon meeting Voldemort for the first time, is taunted that he will die like his parents, that they died "Begging [Voldemort] for mercy." Not quite the same, but it gives Harry strength.

* In an unusually [[Genre Savvy]] moment from an [[The Brute|animalistic]] [[Complete Monster|sociopath]], Gregor Clegane from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' waits until the moment that he is about to kill someone before pushing their [[Relative Button]].

* Happens with pets instead of relatives in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090403055213/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071220 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip.

{{quote| '''Jane:''' Before you go, for the record? I ate your monkeys. ''Aw'', I bet you wish you could smack me with your widdle magic now!}}

** No prizes for guessing [https://web.archive.org/web/20141022035115/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071221 what Gwynn does next].

* As part of [[Evil Twin|Nale's]] backstory in ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', he once tried to usurp power from [[The Man Behind the Man|his father]]. During the conflict, Nale killed several children of his father's friend/adviser Malack. When the two run into each other again, Nale's first comment to Malack is "Malack. How's the family?" Malack [[Curb Stomp Battle|goes]] ''[[Unstoppable Rage|berserk]]''.

* Evidently, contract killer Richard Leonard Kulinski, also known as "The Iceman" was extremely protective of his family. Between this, and the fact that he was, yannoy'know, a hitman, people who threatened said family tended to disappear. Violently.