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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Good, I can feel your anger. I am defenseless. Take your weapon. [[Trope Namer|Strike me down with all of your hatred]] and [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|your journey towards the dark side will be complete]]!"''
|'''[[Big Bad|Emperor Palpatine]]''', ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Return of the Jedi]]''}}
So the hero has a chance to kill the [[Big Bad]], or some other villain, but the villain actually wants this. He practically goads the hero into doing so. Often it's because [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]], or the villain is invoking [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] and wants to push the hero [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|off the Slippery Slope.]] The latter motivation is pretty much exclusively the province of [[The Corrupter]].
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Whether this works or not depends largely on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]], but it does make for great dramatic tension no matter what. Heck, at least part of the time, the villain is [[You Wouldn't Shoot Me|taunting the hero because they know he won't do it]]. Of course, this also means that the success or failure of this gambit hinges on whether or not the hero has any preexisting qualms about killing. Said villain might try this on an [[Anti-Hero]] (especially with [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|more extreme cases]]) and get his ass handed to him, due to the hero's [[The Unfettered|lack of such moral restraints.]]
[[Genre Savvy]] villains beware, this can also easily backfire if the hero realizes what the villain is trying to trick him into doing precisely
Can overlap with [[What You Are in the Dark]]. Compare with [[The Power of Hate]] which is a focus of the power hate gives. Contrast [[Get It Over With]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', it turns out Johan did this to his sister Nina during the first episode, killing their foster parents and enticing Nina to shoot him. [[Foregone Conclusion|Obviously, she did]]. {{spoiler|It eventually turns out he wants the protagonist [[The Messiah|Dr. Tenma]] (since he saved Johan and allowed him to continue being...[[Complete Monster|who he is]]) to shoot and kill him to prove that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|human lives aren't equal]].}}
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== Fan
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3460966/1/Difficult_to_Fight_Against_Anger Difficult To Fight Against Anger]'', Warren Mears taunts {{spoiler|Willow}} by suggesting that, when he was raping {{spoiler|Tara}}, he got the impression that she {{spoiler|[[Post-Rape Taunt|isn't all the way gay]]}}. This is completely intentional, to get {{spoiler|her}} to lash out at him {{spoiler|with magic}}, so he can {{spoiler|[[Mega Manning|absorb her spells]]}}. He even says "[[Shout-Out|Strike me down with all of your hatred!]]" at one point. This ''is'' [[Geek|Warren]], after all.
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