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[[File:Creepers_by_TurnThePhage_5706.png|link=Minecraft|frame|[[Action Bomb|A shame indeed...]]]]
''[[Oh, Hi There.|Oh, hello]], [[
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 generally gets the Good Guy back to the bargaining table, and shows just how bad the Bad Guy is. It also calls attention to the resource level of the Bad Guy and his criminal conspiracy.
This may lead to an [[And Your Little Dog, Too]] situation, making the Good Guy much more likely to take the Bad Guy down than if they [[
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."
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
See also [[Terms of Endangerment]] and [[Interrogation By Vandalism]]. If the Bad Guy's threat actually gets carried out, it often leads to [[I Have Your Wife]]. If one doesn't want to look bad, he can use a [[Monster Protection Racket]] instead.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', [[The Mafia]] {{spoiler|kidnap Sayu, Light's little sister, and tell it to her father with a speech to this effect.}}
* 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.}}
** Since "ECM" and {{spoiler|"ECCM"}} are pretty obscure acronyms and sound pretty similar: The ECM is an [[Anti
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', {{spoiler|[[Magnificent Bastard|King Yomi]]}} managed to do this on [[The Smart Guy|Kurama]] and get away with it, revealing that not only had he already done extensive research on Kurama and his [[Morality Pet|human family]], but that he'd taken measures to {{spoiler|[[Blackmail|ensure that Kurama will be forced to work for him]]}}.
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Yomi}}:''' Humans love to travel don't they? It would be a shame if a plane were to crash. Although I doubt a story about middle-aged newlyweds dying on their honeymoon would even make it on the evening news.<br />
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*** The error, in hindsight, was paying them on commission.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]'': the statue of General Tacticus that Vimes finds in a ruined city in the middle of the Klatchian desert. The words at the bottom read: "I can see your house from here." This was both a boast ''and'' a threat.
** Carcer in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'' and his line "I can see your house from up here". Considering Sam Vimes' reaction, this ''definitely'' counts as [[And Your Little Dog, Too]].
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thud|Thud]]'': After two troll thugs working for the troll crime boss Chrysophrase tell Commander Vimes that their boss wants to see him, Vimes tells them "Well, he knows where I live," to which one of them remarks meaningfully "Yeah, he ''does''." [[Berserk Button|Not a good idea.]] Later, Chrysophrase insists to Vimes that he never gave orders to make any threats, and had the infractors... [[You Have Failed Me|dealt with]].
*** In the same book, {{spoiler|the Low King of the Dwarfs unthinkingly snaps at Vimes "You stand here defying me with a handful of men and your wife and child not ten miles away--" and to his credit quickly realises this was a mistake, especially once he learns dwarf extremists have ''already'' targeted said wife and child once.}}
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* Parodied in a Swedish cop comedy show called ''S.W.I.P Snutarna''. One [[Story Arc]] parodies ''[[The Godfather (Film)|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]].''"
** "Scrump" may be inherently funny, but it's also a British pastime, generally involving small children pinching apples from people's trees, hence its relevance.
* Lana Lang in S6 of ''[[Smallville]]'' does this with one of Lex Luthor's scientists with regards to his family, home and livelihood. Of course, Lana being [[
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'', when it's actually the ''good guys'' doing the persuading, complete with the "Nice place you got here" shtick. The duo pulls the [[Poke the Poodle|parody version]], which is met with worry from the object of their persuasion.
** And again, in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' by [[The Atoner|the White Ranger]] when he tries to threaten the resident bad-girl into returning a [[Serious Business|children's]] [[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series|trading card]] by revealing to [[Big Bad|his father]] that her cover was blown. Funny how it's the former bad guys who are okay with pulling this stuff...
* On ''[[Leverage]]'', Nathan et al learn a hard lesson on why it's not a good idea to piss off the wrong people while passing through a town to help someone.
{{quote| "Too bad you won't be here next week when the [victim]'s house burns down."}}
* ''[[Police Squad!]]!'' had an episode with a mob protection racket; this trope was one of the few that the episode played straight.
* One ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' short involved a bread salesman; Mike and the bots decided to add some subtext to one scene with a grocer.
{{quote| '''Salesman:''' G'morning, Mr. Marco.<br />
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* ''[[Peep Show]]'': "Nice packet of Crunchy Nut you've got here, pretty expensive as I recall..."
* On ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'', Papa Lazarou's exceptionally creepy "makeup speech" eventually turns out to be one of these about a woman he's kidnapped.
{{quote| "You know, the thing a lot of people don't realize about makeup is that you can tend to overdo it. It's much better to have too little, and then add on. I learned my skills from [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|my wives]]. Each one of them has something different to offer. ''Your'' wife, for example, knows a great deal about curling eyelashes. You didn't know that, did you? Perhaps you should have paid more attention to her. I ''know'' I did."}}
* ''[[Foyles War]]'' contains two examples in the same episode... both of which are rather awesomely thrown back in the faces of the people trying to intimidate our heroes:
** Number one has an arrested black marketeer casually mention to Milner that many of the people he works with won't be pleased that Milner has arrested him, and that Milner should 'be careful' and 'watch his back'. Unfortunately for the black marketeer, he made this comment in front of the desk sergeant as well, giving Milner a reason to calmly add two more charges to his sheet -- obstruction and threatening a police officer. {{spoiler|Even more unfortunately for the black marketeer, someone else later ''does'' try to kill Milner, thus putting the black marketeer in the position of Chief Suspect. The marketeer ends up having to frantically backtrack and plead that he didn't have anything to do with it, honestly}}.
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