Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred: Difference between revisions

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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]].

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.]]

 

 

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 ==

* Kurt Godel in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.

** Later, {{spoiler|Dynamis}}.

 

 

* 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.

 

{{quote|'''Travis:''' ''Come on, prez! Unleash your hate! Your anger! Everything! I'll take it all, '''and fucking kill you with it!'''''"}}

** And before then by Pizza Batt.

* In ''Star Wars: [[The Force Unleashed]]'', the Light Side Ending has Starkiller defeat Palpatine in a boss battle. Palpatine groans and says, "You were destined to destroy me. Do it. Give in to your hatred!" When Kota manages to talk Starkiller down, Palpatine gets really pissed and blasts Kota with Force Lightning for interfering.

** In the second game, Darth Vader dares Starkiller to kill him when Vader is defeated. {{spoiler|If you try it, Vader's Dark Apprentice will jump in and kill Starkiller.}}

* In ''[[Dawn of Sorrow]]'', Celia attempts this on Soma Cruz, in a gambit to make him the Dark Lord. Whether she succeeds or not depends on if Soma has a certain amulet equipped. If she does, it leads to a [[Bad End]] and a new game play mode where Soma is the final boss.

* In ''[[The Legend of Spyro]]: The Eternal Night'', Gaul tells Spyro to finish him after being defeated. When Spyro doesn't attack, Gaul calls him a coward and [[Evil Laugh|laughs at his "weakness"]]. Unfortunately for Gaul, while Spyro might not have finished him off, [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark Spyro]] is more than willing to and completely obliterates him.