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When [[The Hero]] objects to the situation, it's [[Get It Over With]]. Sometimes the villain will attempt to goad him into it by daring him to [[Strike Me Down With All of Your Hatred]].
Compare [[Finish Him!]], where a superior orders it without its being necessary, or unpleasant to the superior at least, [[Kill Us Both]], where one good guy is just barely restraining the villain and tells his teammates to kill them both rather than let the villain escape, and [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]], where it's the villains that don't take the direct approach in offing the hero when the opportunity arises. [[Opposite Tropes|Opposite]] of [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]].
=== '''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.''' ===
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falls) I'm learning to live with a lot of things. }}
* [[Star Wars]]:
** In ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing|Palpatine]] urges Anakin [[Finish Him!|to kill Count Dooku after defeating him.]] {{spoiler|He does by beheading.}}
** In ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', however, he does the same thing to Luke after defeating {{spoiler|Darth Vader}}, [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|but he refuses.]]
** Also from ''[[Return of the Jedi]],'' a rare variation: [[Strike Me Down With All of Your Hatred|"Strike me down, and your journey to the dark side will be complete!"]]
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== Video Games ==
* Subverted in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', in a mission where you defeat the leader of a gang in his own saloon. If your party includes the Krogan mercenary [[Heroic Sociopath|Wrex]], he will insist on just [[Kill Him Already|killing the leader]], before interrogation. You will interrogate him, but if you choose to spare his life, Wrex will just go ahead and [[Coup De Grace|shoot him]] anyway (though it's more of a "[[Sawed
** [[Cowboy Cop|Garrus]] is also an advocate of killing enemies rather than giving them a chance to escape justice; the game's [[Dialogue Tree|Dialogue Trees]] and [[Karma Meter]] allow the player to either agree with him or gradually talk him around to a different point of view.
*** ''Mass Effect'' gives the player quite a few opportunities to dispense with the talk and [[Kill Him Already|gun down defeated enemies]]. The best was the (renegade) end of Bring Down the Sky.
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