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* In ''[[Fairy Tail (Manga)|Fairy Tail]]'', after {{spoiler|Mest}} is revealed to be the final member of Grimoire Heart's 7 Kin, he teleports next to [[Token Mini-Moe|Wendy]], grabs her, and then {{spoiler|pulls her out of the way of an attack form the ''real'' 7th Kin. It turns out he was a spy, but for the ''mage council.''}}
* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)|Fushigi Yuugi]]'', after {{spoiler|Miaka runs away from Tamahome out of shame by the pretense that she had been raped by Nakago}}, Amiboshi shows up, raises his dagger, and aims at Miaka.... or rather the huge ass polecat that was behind her.
* At one point in ''[[Samurai
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Similar to the ''[[Claymore (Manga)|Claymore]]'' reference above, an issue of Marvel Comics' ''[[Conan]]'' had an ally pull his dagger when Conan revealed he was carrying the [[MacGuffin]]. Cocking his arm back, he announced that he was doing something he should've long since. Conan started to warn him off, and then the blade flew past him to impale a fat lizard. The look on the Cimmerian's face as the other fellow held up the meat for their dinner was '''priceless'''.
* [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6514922.html Here], a [[Transformers|Decepticon]] is [[Strange Bedfellows|given a gun]] by an Autobot while the latter tries to switch off a Transformer zombie signal. After it's off, the Decepticon shoots - a zombie that evidently didn't need the signal and had gotten really close to the Autobot
* Subverted in an early ''[[X Wing Series]]'' comic. Two New Republic pilots holed up in a cave have been found rather suddenly by a New Republic agent, who holds a blaster on them as they work through suspicions. A pilot [http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1038/swrstro206.jpg tells the agent] that [[Look Behind You!|there's a predator creeping up behind her]]; she asks if he really thinks she'll fall for that. The pilot tells his friend to reach for his gun, so one of the two has a chance to wing it, if the agent doesn't fry them. The [http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1452/swrstro207.jpg next page] has the agent [[Badass Back|firing behind herself without looking]], hitting the predator. "I believe you," she says.
* During the [[Batman|Club of Heroes]] reunion that turned sour with the murder of host John Mayhew, el Gaucho literally stabbed the robot scorpion creeping up on the Musketeer, recognizing it not only as deadly, but as the calling card of his enemy Scorpiana.
* Subverted in the ''[[Sin City]]'' story, "A Dame to Kill For," where {{spoiler|1=Ava appears to have Dwight McCarthy at point blank range and instead aims upward and shoots Manute in the face.}} She then claims mind control so as to regain his already once-misplaced trust. It doesn't work, as evidenced by the last page where {{spoiler|Ava}} has a bullet through her head.
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* Lampshaded in the German police-spoof ''[[Der Wixxer (Film)|Der Wixxer]]''. The protagonist was trapped in a bathtub and was attempted to kill á la ''[[Saw (Film)|Saw]]''. He manages to defeat the trap, upon which a suspect (whom the building belongs) enters the room, sternly glancing at the protagonist, approaches him slowly and ominously, pulls up his sleeves, complete with a Now-I'm-Going-To-Finish-You-Off - expression. Then, totally out of the blue, he quips, "Jesus Christ, what's going on here?!" and helps him out of the tub.
* [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Predator (Film)|Predator]]''. Dillon has been annoying the rest of the team for the entire mission so far, including demonstrating dangerous incompetence. In a lull in the jungle action, Mac gestures to him to come close and turn around. Dillon does, and Mac's combat knife takes careful aim at the base of Dillon's neck. There's a stab. Dillon jumps and sticks his pistol in Mac's face-and Mac displays the scorpion he had just picked off Dillon's back, now impaled on the knife.
** [[Shout
* In ''[[Resident Evil (Film)|Resident Evil]]'', the Red Queen offers to provide a code to let the party escape a lab they're trapped in if they kill Rain Ocampo, who's infected with the T-virus. Rain kneels down and orders the others to accept the deal and kill her by cutting her head off with a fire axe. As she and the Red Queen shout for Alice to do so, Alice raises the axe high in the air and... hits the television monitor the Red Queen is shouting through, cutting her off, and refuses to kill Rain.
** Used in ''[[Resident Evil Apocalypse (Film)|Resident Evil Apocalypse]]'', where a STARS sniper is shooting zombies from his rooftop position. L.J. comes into his view who unawarely attempts to open a deserted car, while the sniper takes aim at his head and fires...to hit another zombie directly behind L.J.
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* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]''. Michael approaches handcuffed Jin with an ax. He looks angry. He's going to kill him! Nope. He's going to chop the cuffs open.
** In a later episode, Ana-Lucia approaches tied-up Sayid with a knife. She's going to kill him! Nope. She's going to cut his ropes and free him.
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** "[[Doctor Who
** The older Amy's introduction in "The Girl Who Waited" involves stabbing a Handbot over Rory's shoulder.
* Kate Lockley pulls a really violent version of this on ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', stabbing both him and his vampire spawn with a (very long) wooden stake. The other vampire dusts, but Kate reveals that she deliberately avoided Angel's heart.
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