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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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* In the crime/horror movie ''[[Se7en]]'', villain John Doe taunts Detective David Mills by talking about how lovely Mills' wife Tracy is. Of course, this is subverted in that {{spoiler|John Doe has already killed Tracy in order to enrage Mills and get Doe exactly what he wants -- his own murder, at Mills' hands.}}
* In ''[[The Castle]]'', the firm that is trying to buy the main characters' house send a man around after he refuses their offer. He makes vaguely threatening comments that leave the main character riled up, and later trashes his car. When they try it on his neighbour, a Kuwaiti man, he replies: "You send someone 'round to see me, make threats, I send someone 'round to see you, blow up your car." They decide to leave the Kuwaiti man alone.
** The man later tries it
* ''[[Die Hard]]'': "That's a very nice suit. It would be a shame to ruin it."
* The villain in ''The Lincoln Lawyer'' uses this.
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'''Lois:''' Are you ''threatening'' me!? }}
* Played with in episode 4.08 of ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]''. Lieutenant Roosevelt remarks that Jax has a beautiful family and naturally, it would be a shame if anything happened to them. However, he's not threatening Jax, just emphasizing that getting into the drug business could cause his loved ones serious harm - by this point the Sons have already been witness to multiple assasination attempts by their cartel's competition.
* The episode "Damned If You Don't" of ''[[American Gothic]]'' inverts this trope: when Buck comes to collect on a debt, and mentions him having "a lovely daughter...how old is she now, fifteen?" Carter believes (helped along by the sheriff's smarmy turn from [[Affably Evil]] to [[Squick|downright pedophilic]]) that this is a blatant threat to his daughter's life if he turns Buck
* 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]].''"
** "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.
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{{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."}}
* ''[[Foyle's 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
** Number two has Sam overhear a conversation that perhaps she shouldn't have between a suspect and a third party at her new job in a map-making facility. Later that night, the suspect surprises her as she's leaving to go home, suggesting that it ''really'' would be better for her if she forgot all about that conversation, and that he really wouldn't want anything bad to happen to her as a result of it. Sam calmly replies that she'd actually forgotten all about the incident already, "but since you're so worried about it you've come out here to try and bully me, I'm going to mention it to everyone I can." She then rides off without a backwards glance, leaving the suspect with an [[Oh Crap]] expression and the feeling that this possibly wasn't one of his better ideas.
** {{spoiler|Curiously, the men making 'hints' turn out to be uncle and nephew. Having your threats casually dismissed must be genetic.}}
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