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[[File:Creepers by TurnThePhage 5706.png|link=Minecraft|frame|[[Action Bomb|A shame indeed...]]]]
{{quote|''[[Oh, Hi There.|Oh, hello]], [[troper]]s. Why, isn't this a [[Shameless Self Promotion|very well-written article]] we have here? It would be just ''[[And That's Terrible|terrible]]'' if someone were to, say, [[Wiki Vandal|scrawl ethnic slurs]] [[Poke the Poodle|all over it]][[Tempting Fate|...]]''}}
The Good Guy and the Bad Guy have a meeting. The Bad Guy makes an offer. The Good Guy rejects it outright because he's the Good Guy.
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This is also a common [[Stock Phrases|stock phrase]] used by thugs (usually [[The Mafia]]) in protection rackets. "You've got a nice (noun) here. It'd be a shame if anything were to ... ''happen'' to it."
The [[World War II]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] version is "You still have family in [[The Old Country]], don't you?"
Often parodied: the [[Big Bad]] will threaten the hero with [[Poke the Poodle|some minor inconvenience]], and it will be treated with the [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|same seriousness]] as a death threat, if not more seriously.
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