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== General ==
* It's incredibly common for villains, at varying levels of desperation and hostage-have, to try and invoke this trope when they're threatening to do something really nasty. It usually doesn't work except with the [[Draco in Leather Pants]] crowd, but they're trying and that's what counts.
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* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fanfic ''[[Mistakes]]'' portrays the relationship of Imperial Japan and Korea this way; Kiku beats Yong-Soo for misdemeanours such as speaking in Korean or questioning the Emperor, and then makes him thank him for the "lesson". Kiku [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|genuinely believes this is the right thing to do]], but of course that doesn't help.
* [[Tess of the D'Urbervilles|Alec D'Urberville]] is not above playing this card. Except he plays it as "[[Rape as Drama|Why did you make me lust after you?]]"▼
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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** [[Jacqueline Wilson]]'s ''Lola Rose'': Lola's mother is due to go to the hospital for an operation. The night before, she drinks heavily while her daughter tries to stop her. After being ignored, Lola accidentally-on-purpose drops the bottle of alcohol. Her mother belts her across the face, then they both burst out crying. May well be [[Justified Trope|justified]] in this case, since the operation is for breast cancer, putting everyone in the family under extreme stress.
** [[Jacqueline Wilson]]'s ''The Suitcase Kid'': Andy is extremely late coming home from school after she decides that she can't stand her dysfunctional family life. Her mother slaps her when she finally does come home, bursts into tears, and lays an enormous guilt trip on Andy, despite the fact that her mother's emotional manipulation, [[Parental Favoritism]] towards her new boyfriend's children and general lack of concern over Andy's best interests go a long way towards explaining why Andy didn't want to come home in the first place.
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** Oddly, she's sort of correct—he knows damn well ''she'' doesn't have any right to punish him, especially not for the reasons she cites, and doesn't particularly think this is correct or that just plain suffering is a ''good'' idea, but between his abusive childhood and his experiences being expected to be [[The Hero]], he only seems to have positive self-esteem when he's going through something hellish for day-saving reasons. Which is probably why he doesn't try harder to get some other authority figure to intervene—that and his justified conviction that no one ever comes to save him from abuse.
* In the [[Stephen King]] book ''[[Misery]]'', Annie Wilkes pulls this on protagonist Paul Sheldon. Just replace "hit" with [[Axe Crazy|"chop off foot with axe and cauterize the wound with a blowtorch"]].
* In the S.E. Hinton book ''The Outsiders'' After Ponyboy yells "YOU DON'T YELL AT HIM!" at Darry for yelling at Soda, Darry inadvertly slaps Pony against the door. Darry looks at his hand, then looks at Ponyboy. All three brothers are shocked. Darry then says, "Ponyboy!" And as Pony is charging out the door, Darry yells in a desperate attempt to get him back inside the house, "Ponyboy, I didn't mean to--" and the youngest one disappears.
* In [[The Twilight Saga]] Emily refuses to return Sam's affection. He eventually loses his temper, becomes a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|wolf]], and claws half her face off. He then feels so bad about what he did that she decides to accept his love. Christ, those books are messed up...
** And let's not go into all the emotional abuse between Edward and Bella. "Do you want to start a war" indeed.
▲* ''[[Tess of the D'Urbervilles
== Live Action TV ==
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