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Alice is [[Berserk Button|incensed]]. [[Heroic Second Wind|With her last reserves of strength, she gets up and beats Bob.]] See also [[You Killed My Father]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** Not to mention the General saying that the look on her face was just like the [[Rape As Drama|look of fear on her mother's.]]
* Memorably used in ''[[Gladiator (Film)|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 The Death]] the Guards [[Give Me a Sword|refuse to give Commodus a sword]] after he gets disarmed by Maximus.}}
* In [[Star Wars|Return of the Jedi]], [[Big Bad|Darth Vader]] threatens to turn [[The Hero|Luke Skywalker]]'s [[And Your Little Dog, Too|sister Leia]] to the [[The Dark Side|Dark Side]]. Luke reaches the [[Rage Breaking Point]], flies int [[Unstoppable Rage]], and [[Curb Stomp Battle|defeats him]]. Cue [[What Have I Done]] and an internal [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]].
** And with Anakin's motives for turning to the dark side in the first place explored in the prequels, it also counts as a [[Not So Different]] moment; it was the fear of losing his only remaining family (wife and child for Anakin, sister for Luke) that drove both of them.
* When a young Bruce Wayne confronts [[The Don|mob boss]] Carmine Falcone in ''[[Batman Begins]]'', he casually relates Joe Chill's [[Unreliable Narrator|highly untrue]] version of how Chill killed Wayne's parents for little purpose other than to [[Kick the Dog]] as his [[Mooks]] are about to drag Bruce out of the building.
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* This occurs in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the [[Harry Potter and The 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.
** Insulting Harry's parents is a very effective way of getting him to fly off the handle. Pushing that button was, after all, [[Title Drop|Aunt Marge's big mistake]].
** In the final book, [[The Dragon|Bellatrix]] taunts Molly Weasley about {{spoiler|Fred's death}} while targeting Ginny, resulting in: "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|NOT MY DAUGHTER,]] [[Precision F
* 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]].
** In ''A Dance With Dragons'', Stannis' army {{spoiler|gets caught in the middle of marching by an immense snow storm. Bogged down for weeks, some soldiers resort to [[No Party Like a Donner Party|cannibalism]] to survive. When caught, they are sentenced to die by burning at the stake. One of the soldiers involved intentionally taunts the executioner about eating the executioner's cousin so that he will be killed quickly by a slit throat instead.}}
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