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* White Knight, a good guy (relatively), in the series ''[[Generator Rex]]'' implies to Agent Six that he will do this to Rex if the teenager refuses to obey orders.

* Subverted in the pilot episode "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" of ''[[The Venture Bros]]''. The [[Big Bad]] is getting some acupuncture when his [[Mook]] comes in and tells him that Doctor Venture is unveiling a new invention. Having received this information, the [[Big Bad]] grabs some acupuncture needles out of his body and throws them at the mook, seemingly killing him. As the [[Big Bad]] is reading the newspaper article about Doctor Venture, the mook speaks up and the [[Big Bad]] looks up from the paper to see the mook thanking him for curing his shoulder pain and also his smoking habit.

* Megatron does this to Starscream in the finale of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' soon after his [[Batman Gambit]] of having Omega Supreme's control codes uploaded into the [[Undying Loyalty|fanatically-loyal]] Lugnut (after he punched Starscream when the [[Reliable Traitor|latter tried to take the codes for himself]]) succeeds.

** Another factor that adds to this trope is after Lugnut gets the codes, Starscream points out that the Omega Supreme clones are useless without his Allspark fragment. Megatron responds that he already retrived some Allspark fragments from inside the original Omega Supreme.