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...Or do they? Alternatively, [[My Death Is Just the Beginning|their death could be just the beginning,]] and they are using this opportunity to set their [[Xanatos Gambit]] in motion as being spared would be great but their death leads to other benefits. Then again it could be the latest move in [[Xanatos Speed Chess]], as a [[Secret Test of Character]], or even as the final step in their [[Batman Gambit]]. Of course, [[Thanatos Gambit|they could also just be doing it to screw over their enemy even in defeat.]]
 
Either way, it is crucial to them that they be killed, and if the potential killer be reluctant, they may try to provoke them in any way they can, whether through a particularly vicious [[Break Them Byby Talking]] or perhaps revealing (or lying) that [[I Have Your Wife|they have his wife]].
 
Please don't confuse with [[Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter]]. Contrast [[Get It Over With]], where the character usually ''doesn't'' want to die but sees it as a foregone conclusion. See also [[Strike Me Down Withwith All of Your Hatred]].
 
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** From ''A New Hope'':
{{quote| '''Obi-Wan:''' If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.}}
* In the film [[Se7en]], the villain John Doe pulls a powerful [[Strike Me Down]] (although more accurately described with [[Strike Me Down Withwith All of Your Hatred]]; also a [[Batman Gambit]].
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* From [[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]], a [[Thanatos Gambit]] is set in place {{spoiler|by Dumbledore}} when he urges {{spoiler|double agent Snape to kill him - as he is already fatally wounded - to solidify his cover}}.
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Dumbledore''': Severus, please}}.}}
* In ''[[The Elenium]]'', a mortally wounded Martel asks for Sparhawk to finish him off. Sparhawk tells him there's no need.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Luther (TV)|Luther]]'', {{spoiler|Ian Reed}} tries to make the title character do this because he doesn't want to live with the shame of having his crimes exposed. Luther, however, decides to give him [[Cruel Mercy]] instead.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* This line is invoked twice in ''Jedi Knight: [[Star Wars: Dark Forces Saga (Video Game)|Dark Forces II]]''. The first is when Kyle has to choose between the Light or Dark Side {{spoiler|when Jerec has captured Kyle's pilot Jan Ors and goads him into killing her to get Kyle to turn to the Dark}}:
{{quote| '''Jerec:''' Strike {{spoiler|her}} down and realize your true power as a Dark Jedi - your true power! }}
::Second time is in the Light Side ending, after Kyle has defeated Jerec. Again, Jerec is trying to goad Kyle into tapping into his dark side potential:
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Drow TalesDrowtales]]'': {{spoiler|Syphile: "Go ahead mother. Do what you do best. Do the only thing you know"}}.
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', Belkar keeps provoking Miko into fights so that he can try to pull this on her and make her fall from paladinhood. Mostly because [[For the Evulz|it would be funny.]] When she finally ''does'' fall, it actually @#!*% him off - both because he can't kill a paladin and {{spoiler|she does it by killing Lord Shojo, the only person he has any respect for that we know of}}.
* Near the end of the Battle for Gobwin Knob in [[Erfworld]], Wanda is lying broken and beaten before Prince Ansom and begs him to strike her down, just to let her touch "them" (the Arken Pliers). Ansom is so creeped out by it that he leaves her where she is without attacking again. Things might arguably have gone much smoother for him shortly there-after if he had just done as she asked at first. But then again, maybe not...
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