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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Subverted in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', where Vicious does this to Gren (with a literal scorpion, and a big old bowie knife) during the war on Titan to gain his trust, only to frame him for Vicious' spy activities.

* In the second episode of ''[[Claymore]]'', Claire throws her [[BFS]] at a lizard behind Raki—barely missing him in the process—when he admits to being hungry. Dinner!

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Deryni]] Rising'' Morgan kills a Stenrect crawler that was inches from Kelson's hand. A lady-in-waiting sees him draw and use his sword, but not the creature; she screams, guards come, and Morgan's [[Hero with Bad Publicity|reputation]] is invoked.

** Earlier, in ''Ghostmaker'', Rawne (who despises Gaunt and wants him dead) sneaks up on Gaunt while he's sleeping, holds his knife to Gaunt's throat, and quickly brings it up—so he could throw it into the eye of an Ork that was sneaking up on them. Slightly subverted in that Rawne ''would'' have killed Gaunt, but the Commissar apparently having nightmares of Tanith burning convinced him to stay his hand.

* In ''[[Ranger's Apprentice|Erak's Ransom]],'' Will saves a child from a poisonous snake in this way.

* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode "A Small Matter of Pygmies". A man under a basket approaches Hadji (who's tied to a stake) and pulls out a knife. Hadji squirms to try to escape, and the man cuts the rope tying Hadji to the stake. He was the pygmy the protagonists had earlier saved from being sacrificed.

* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', everyone fears that Bobby's "pet" raccoon has given Ladybird rabies, which causes friction between Hank and Bobby when each of them is concerned for their own pet's well-being more than the other. At the end of the episode, Ladybird shows up and Bobby is prepared to shoot her if she ''is'' rabid in order to protect his father. As she leaps at Hank, Bobby fires; initially it looks like he missed, but [[Exactly What I Aimed At|he reveals]] that he shot the raccoon, which was sneaking up on Hank. (For the curious, it turned out not to be rabid.)

* In the ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Ancient History" Shadow Thief binds [[Green Lantern]], [[Hawkman]], and Hawkgirl so they can see a flashback of the past romance between Chay-Ara Hol and Bashari, an ancestor of John Stewart. In order to prevent history from repeating itself and to reclaim Shayera, Shadow Thief gives Carter his mace to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]. Hawkman raises the weapon over Green Lantern - and frees him.

** ''Superman'' saves Vandal Savage from a monster this way in ''Hereafter.''

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