Shame If Something Happened: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* After Kaname is kidnapped in an episode of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]|Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu,]]'', Sousuke walks into the female gang leader's hideout. An [[Extended Disarming]] later, Sousuke plays the trope for ''all it's worth,'' dangling the gang leader's little brother from the hideout's rafters and rattling off a list of the "most precious things" of all the other gang members (sickly mothers, little sisters, exotic fish, etc.), causing them to disperse in tears.

* Subverted [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesomely]] in ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]''. The Normal People, who have The Children in an [[Psychic Static|ECM]] field try to get Minamoto's computer password by threatening Kaoru, {{spoiler|''[[Memetic Mutation|just as Minamoto planned]]''. The password Minamoto told them was actually a trigger for an emergency ECCM unit, freeing Kaoru to use her powers.}}

* The villain in ''[[The Lincoln Lawyer]]'' uses this.

* A deleted scene from the movie ''[[After the Sunset]]'' has the local gangster telling professional thief Max, "I love the view of the water from your house." Max corrects him, "You mean the view of my house from the water" (which actually isn't much better, as both lines indicate that he knows where Max lives). The gangster assures him that his first statement was correct, leaving Max to worry about his and his fiancee's safety should he tangle with the man.

* In ''[[The Sentinel]]'', the villain outright threatens his henchman when he tries to renege on their plan to assassinate the president. "We're not going to kill ''you''. We're going to kill ''her''." (holds up picture of man's wife) "And then we're going to kill her." (holds up picture of man's daughter) "And then we're going to kill her." (holds up picture of man's other daughter.)

* In a non-Pratchett involved example, Payne Harrison's ''[[Storming Intrepid]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Aa meeting between the US President, the Vice-President (President-Elect), and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, formerly the head of the KGB and [[The Chessmaster]] behind the events of the plot.}} Said plot has revolved around an anti-nuke [[Kill Sat]] that the Americans have. {{spoiler|The GS says that if the US insists on rebuilding the destroyed weapon, Russia will simply have to find alternate delivery methods. Then he shows a KGB colonel next to a red, white, and blue barrel in Red Square. And another photo with the same man, in normal clothes, next to the barrel in Washington, DC. He notes how ''small'' it's possible to make nuclear bombs nowadays, small enough to fit in a barrel...}}

* inIn "the trialchildren's novel ''[[Trial By Journal]]'' by journal"Kate Klise, the bad guy uses this to get the wrongfully accused guy's lawyer to quit. she quits to protect her two kids.

* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the seventhDeathly [[Hallows|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]] book'', {{spoiler|this was how the Death Eaters got Luna's father to sell out Harry.}}

* The Romulans specialize in this in the ''[[Star Trek Novel Verse]]'', particularly the "nice family" variant. D'deridex pulls it on Valdore in the ''[[Star Trek Enterprise Relaunch]]'', Sela on a Kevratan rebel in the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation Relaunch]], and Koval on Pardek in the novel ''Rogue'' (according to a later story in [[Star Trek: Titan]], Koval actually went through with the threat and murdered Pardek's young daughter).

* ''[[A Mere Interlude]]'' by [[Thomas Hardy]]:

* Parodied in a Swedish cop comedy show called ''[[S.W.I.P Snutarna]]''. One [[Story Arc]] parodies ''[[The Godfather]]'' with one family being an apple mafia and their neighbours wanting to keep their apple trees (includes a hilarious scene that parodies the horse head, where a man wakes up to find his bed filled with apples). Anyhow, one member of the apple mafia family threatens the neighbours. "''Lovely apple trees you've got. It would be a shame if someone was to... [[Inherently Funny Words|scrump]].''"

* Parodied in a ''[[Mad TV]]'' "Miss Swan" sketch. A mobster tries to extort money out of her by threatening her beauty salon. He demonstrates what could happen if she doesn't pay by "accidentally" knocking a glass jar on the floor. However, Miss Swan is such a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] that she finds that to be entertaining, and begins destroying other things in her store for fun. The thug has to quickly step in and stop her before she destroys her television.

* ''[[Law and& Order: UK]]'': James Steel confronts his nemesis, confronting him with irrefutable evidence of his guilt in several murders and urging him to have the decency to plead guilty and not torture the families of his victims with a lengthy trial. The man responds by casually asking, "He's eight, isn't he? Your little boy? Ethan? Gradley Street, Edinburgh. Beautiful house they've got. But busy roads, though. On his walk to school." Although stunned to realize just how much of a [[Complete Monster]] he's dealing with, Steel keeps it together long enough to coldly bid the man farewell and walk out of the room.

* In ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'', [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2186 T. Rex] apparently says this kind of thing all the time out of genuine concern, unaware of how it sounds.

== [[Web Originals]] ==

* ''[[That Guy With The Glasses|Paw]]'': Paw adds this subtext to a scene in his [[Let's Play]] of ''[[King's Quest V]]''.