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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.
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* 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.
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* 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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