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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Mori asks enemy esper Kyouko how her grandfather is in Osaka. She immediately gains a look of barely concealed terror.
* Played with and ultimately averted in the ''[[RWBY]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''[[Service with a Smile]]'': When gangsters from Junior's club start showing up at Jaune's coffee shop, his neighbors warn him to expect a demand for him to pay a "protection fee". There is a moment early on when one of Junior's gang marches into "Jaune's" and slams his hand down on the counter, saying, "You know what I'm here for." With all the earlier lead-ups to it, the reader is primed to expect a demand for protection money, but no... [[Bait and Switch|he's there for the daily four o'clock coffee take-out order.]] Jaune eventually comes to know most of Junior's men by name, and later in the story, Junior claims the coffee itself is the fee, even though he and the Red Axe Gang pay for it.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Subverted in the [[Backstory]] to the
{{quote|"I know who you are, he said. I know where you live. I know what kind of horse you ride. I know where your wife has her hair done. I know where your lovely children are, how old are they now, my doesn't time fly, I know where they play. So you won't forget about what we agreed, will you?" And he smiled.
** Also from ''[[Discworld]]'', the kind of behavior that led to the disbanding of the Ankh-Morpork ''Guild of Fire Fighters'', who were paid per fire extinguished. "The penny really dropped after 'Charcoal Wednesday'". The guild also had people take out fire protection insurance policies, with encouragement along the lines of "that thatch roof there, would go up like a torch with one carelessly thrown match, ''know what I mean''."
*** The error, in hindsight, was paying them on commission.
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{{quote|'''Rhys''': {{spoiler|I do look forward to meeting Lady Sybil again. And your son, of course.}}
'''Vimes''': {{spoiler|Good. They're staying in a house not ten miles away.}} }}
*** Especially embarrassing for Rhys, because once he and Vimes had had a second to think, both of them realized that Rhys couldn't possibly have known where Sybil and Young Sam were unless he,
** Nanny Ogg walks right into it in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]''. When the witches find themselves on the balcony of the castle with the evil ruler they're trying to overthrow, Nanny looks into the crowd and, spotting some of her huge family starts waving and calling out to them. The Duke says "I shall remember their faces", but Nanny doesn't get the implication.
** In ''[[The Truth]]'', the Patrician comments that it would be a shame if something were to happen to William de Worde. It takes Drumknott a second to realise that he ''really does'' think it would be a shame if something were to happen to William de Worde.
* People like that often wander into Aziraphale's book shop in ''[[Good Omens]]''. However, once they've been bade a polite farewell, they never ever come back. Crowley also successfully subverts this trope to persuade Aziraphale to help him stop the Apocalypse, not by threatening but by pointing out how many nifty Earthly things will be lost if the world ends.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Nation]]'', one of the [[The Men in Black|Gentlemen of Last Resort]] casually mentions another character's birthplace, mother, and several other minor details. That character mentions that it felt like the start of a threat, and the fact that no actual threat followed was not comforting.
*
* One book in the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' series turns this sort of sideways when the local Mob wants to get a foothold in the Deveel Bazaar, and has Skeeve & Co. extort "protection money" in roughly this fashion. And then, when it becomes clear that such an exclusive contract would not be mutually beneficial, Skeeve & Co start setting up the sort of "accidents" that the protection money was supposed to prevent. Naturally, the Deveels are Not Happy about these incidents (after all, they ''paid'') and start demanding refunds from the Mob for substandard protection.
* In Kim Newman's "Soho Golem", a local gangland boss attempts to secure psychic detective Richard Jeperson's cooperation in the investigation of the rather horrific supernatural execution of one of his colleagues by intimidating him with a threat of this nature. Jeperson's response is to cheerfully laugh in his face and to inform the gangster that his threats are meaningless; not only has Jeperson come across too many nastier things in his time to be intimidated by some thug, but the supernatural nature of the threat mean the rules the gangster lives by no longer apply here, and he's dependent on Jeperson's goodwill to remain in the land of the living, not the other way around.
* In the children's novel ''[[Trial By Journal]]'' by Kate Klise, the bad guy uses this to get the wrongfully accused guy's lawyer to quit. she quits to protect her two kids.
* This is actually subverted in the original novel of ''[[The Godfather]]''. Everyone in the neighbourhood fears Don Fanucci because of his alleged ties to a more powerful criminal organization. Vito Corleone correctly dismisses this because Fanucci does all of his own collecting instead of sending [[Mooks]]. Thus, instead of buckling under to Fanucci's demands, Vito confronts and kills him instead, knowing there will be no repercussions.
* In ''[[
* In the early 20th century novel ''A Candle in Her Room,'' the third-generation protagonist Nina finds herself confronting the wicked Dido. The person Melissa loves most in the world is her great-aunt Melissa, who became her guardian after the deaths of her parents, and in order to compel Nina to do what she wants, Dido starts talking about what a terrible thing it would be if elderly Aunt Liss were to stumble on the stairs or something equally dangerous.
* 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).
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Millie from ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809184824/http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/03/04/ozy-and-millie-866/ can't quite pull this off.]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809155122/http://ozyandmillie.org/2003/08/20/ozy-and-millie-1246/ The government can.]
* ''[[Dead Winter]]'' has this happen. A shady [[Chessmaster]] coerces hitman Monday Blues into his service with a few off-hand comments about a hunting trip in somewhere in Pennsylvania. {{spoiler|Blues decides to play along, then begins viciously hunting down the keystones in his would-be employer's organization, intending to ultimately kill the man at the top.}}
* In ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', a beaver makes this threat against Kevin's tree house. Kevin responds by threatening the beaver's dam in a similar manner, forcing him to back off.
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* In April 2006, the Motion Picture Association of America actually used this in a letter to Swedish State Secretary Dan Eliasson, with thinly-veiled threats of trade reprisals and/or a smear campaign against Sweden.
* [[Rooster Teeth]]'s Geoff Ramsey recalled this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxl1eX11hHk coming from his young daughter], coupling this trope with [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]].
* This is how some commentators [https://twitter.com/sams1stdaughter/status/1187796927125032960 characterized] [[Donald Trump]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20191022032729/https://3ci6gd82qqe3lh3ugujrds6j-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/18918566_web1_191010-BIR-trump140-HEROS57.jpg efforts to bully] [https://www.noozhawk.com/article/daryl_cagle_ukraine_extortion_and_donald_trump_20190925 other countries] [https://web.archive.org/web/20191022032124/https://3ci6gd82qqe3lh3ugujrds6j-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/18918566_web1_191010-BIR-trump140-HEROS45.jpg into doing things for him] during his term as President of the United States.
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