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* Some members of the ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' community love to invoke this trope when it comes to [[Upper Class Twit|nobles]] and certain other pests. Since you can't just order them to be killed, this is pretty much your only option.<ref>Well, or just locking their bedroom doors so they starve to death, but sending them to pull a lever to drop themselves into a magma sea is [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|much more entertaining]].</ref>

** It's also been invoked on a much larger scale: building a [[Pointless Doomsday Device]] to destroy the ''entire fortress''. Often used when {{spoiler|monsters from the depths of hell}} are swarming in. [[Dead Baby Comedy|Or]] [[Black Comedy|when]] [[Bloody Hilarious|it's]] [[Rule of Funny|funny]].

* In ''[[Carmageddon]]'', if you kill a pedestrian by hitting them with an object (like a pole or parked civilian car) you get an extra bonus and the words "Nice shot, sir."

* This trope is used by the Origami Killer in ''[[Heavy Rain]]''. Killing boys by leaving them trapped in a ditch that fills with rainwater is certainly more elaborate than most. The same applies to the trials that the Origami Killer leaves for his victims' fathers, which, among others, {{spoiler|include heading to a power plant, crawling through a vent with glass on the bottom, and then navigating through a maze of electrical condensers to get the next clue}}.