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''To ling'ring sufferance.''|'''Angelo''', ''[[Measure for Measure]]''}}

 

* In ''[[All He Ever Wanted]]'', [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Prussia]] doesn't even wait to threaten his rival Austria's beautiful ex-wife Hungary with raping her if she doesn't help him. As the "good" [[Complete Monster]] he is in the fic, he just brings her into Austria's cell and forces him to watch as he brutally beats, rapes and tortures her "for Austria's sake".

* ''[[All You Need Is Love]]'' has a male on male example. When [[Death Note|Light/Kira]] goes to [[Enemy Mine|L and Naomi Misora for help on a pressing issue]] L wastes no time in giving this ultimatum:

* In Lessons Learned on [[Sesame Street]], ([[Canon Defilement|yes, that Sesame Street]]) {{spoiler|Elmo, having been subject to humiliation at Maria's hands all day, does not pull out when she has him have sex with her. She gets pregnant as a result of this ([[Artistic License Biology|because monster semen is supposedly 100% accurate]]), and Elmo tells her that if she does not want him to tell her husband Luis about this, she and her daughter will have sex with him whenever he wants}}.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Casablanca]]'', there's a scene with a young Bulgarian couple trying to buy passage to Lisbon from Captain Renault. He wants either an enormous sum of money or sex with wifey. In the end, Rick helps them raise the money by letting them win at roulette. As opposed to most examples on this list, Captain Renault apparently always does keep his word, and is willing to take the money if they do happen to have it.

* The 1940 version of ''[[The Thief of Bagdad]]'' has a slightly coded version: the Princess learns that her blinded love will recover his sight the moment the villain "takes her in his arms".

* The titular [[Villain Protagonist]] of the Nazi film ''Jud Süß'' does this to the [[Love Interest]] of one of the film's "heroes," after which his victim [[Driven to Suicide|drowns herself]]. This act ultimately leads to his undoing.

* This happens in the remake of ''The Getaway'' with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, who play a couple (literal 'couple') of cat-burglars. The guy had been stuck in a Mexican jail (NOT nice) for a while, and suddenly got released. However, now a crooked cop wants him to pull [[One Last Job]], and the plot starts rolling... anyway, towards the end, the cop betrays them (of course) and in the process reveals that the female half of the couple actually slept with him in order to get her hubby out of prison. He's ''not'' happy, but it does work out in the end... which makes it a rare example where it actually went through - albeit 'offscreen.'

* In ''[[Cape Fear]]'', Max Cady confronts Bowden's wife Peggy on the houseboat and explains how he can legally get away with raping her by describing it as one of these if she reports it. For the record, [[Hollywood Law|he is incorrect]] and it ''does'' still count as rape.

'''Cady:''' Reasons don't make any difference, you look that up. And as far as blackmail is concerned, you only ''think'' I'm going after Nancy. You're just playing it safe. And your husband, he's gonna appreciate your noble gesture, but he ain't never gonna forget it! So, all in all...I don't think you're gonna say too much about this, are you? }}

** {{spoiler|Of course this was never his real intent. Propositioning the wife was just a diversion so he could rape the daughter.}}

** And {{spoiler|we find out that Ellen and Tigh are both Cylons.}}

* On ''[[Farscape]]'', there is a variation where Aeryn tells Crais he can have anything he wants if he saves John from certain death. He immediately jumps to the obvious.

'''Aeryn:''' You take what you want Crais and I won't stop you. }}

** Also averted in that, while Crais does eventually save John, he claims his living ship Talyn made the decision. Which he did not need to say, since as a ship Talyn could not communicate with anyone but Crais, and therefore Crais could have slept with Aeryn without anyone besides him (and Aeryn) being the wiser. Later he tried to begin a normal relationship with Aeryn.

* In the ''[[Inspector Morse]]'' episode "Death is Now My Neighbour", one of the female characters agrees to sleep with an Oxford Don when he promises to give her husband the job of Master of the College if she does. Afterwards, he laughs at her and tells her that since her husband slept with his wife years ago, he never had any intention of letting him be Master.

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'''s musical episode, the villain is a demon that can force anyone to sing and dance. He causes several impromptu performances, which cause the victims to dance faster and faster until they combust. During the inevitable major confrontation, he simply forces anyone who attacks him to dance away. When they realize kleptomaniac teenager Dawn must have stolen his summoning amulet, he threatens to force everyone in Sunnydale to dance until they burn, unless she returns with him to his dimension to "be his queen", as she consented to do by activating the amulet. {{spoiler|However, Dawn told the truth when she said she didn't summon him. Xander thought a singing demon would be amusing. The demon looks Xander up and down and tells them to forget it.}}

** Earlier, in season four, it was played for laughs between Spike and Harmony.

'''Harmony:''' Oh, you mean will I have sex with you? [[The Ditz|Sure!]] }}

* This sort-of happens on ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]],'' except it's ''Marian'' that's providing the ultimatum. Thinking that Robin is dead, she tells Guy that she will "willingly" marry him in exchange for King Richard's life. Guy decides to have his cake and eat it too, and tells the Sheriff that he will help assassinate the King and then : "I will take (Marian) by force."

== Theatre ==

* In [[the Musical]] version of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', he even has a wedding dress for the occasion, and the [[Death Trap]] scene is changed to him trapping Raoul in his Punjab lasso and threatening to hang him.

 

== Video Games ==