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== Literature ==
* When [[Harry Potter]] confronts [[Big Bad|Voldemort]] for the first time in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Philosopher's Stone (novel)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', [[Fan Nickname|Voldy]] starts by telling him "you'll meet the same end as your parents... they died begging me for mercy...." But when Harry doubts that version, Voldemort quickly agrees that Harry's parents did indeed fight courageously... and still goes on to describe how they died.
** Which, ironically, ''did'' involve Lily begging for mercy before she died... mercy for him to spare Harry's life.
** The [[Emotion Bomb|Dementors]] force Harry to hear his parents' final moments every time he gets near them.
* In Dean Koontz's version of the ''Frankenstein'' myth, at one point Victor Frankenstein tells one of his modern-day enemies, a female police officer, that he killed her parents personally and her father (also a cop) begged for mercy. She just shrugs and mentions that she's sure he begged for her mother's life, anyway, by this point her contempt for Victor is so total that he can't get to her at all.
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