Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''You had friends there, as I recall. [[I'm a Humanitarian|Tasty ones]], too...''|'''Rampage''', ''Beast Wars''}}

 

 

 

However, it is important to note that this trope often has the tendency to backfire on the villain in question. Not only relevant to the dangers that [[Evil Gloating]] can cause, a villain who mercilessly mocks the hero about how he just butchered their [[True Companions]] has a tendency to cause an [[Unstoppable Rage]] or just give the hero that [[Heroic Resolve|extra incentive]] to fight back that he needs to put the villain to his end. And woe to the villain who inadvertently awakens a [[Mama Bear]] or [[Papa Wolf]] by gleefully telling them they just killed their kids...

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'''Buttercup:''' You can die too, for all I care! ''[shoves him over the side of a hill]'' }}

{{quote|'''Peter:''' I'm the bloke who changed the course of your life, mate. When you was a narc back at Long Beach you were getting too close to us, so we put a contract out on you. I handled it myself. Ran your car right off the road, '''bam!''' But of course it wasn't you, was it? I pulled back this mop of blood-soaked hair to see this woman's face. Your wife, right? ''(pause)'' She didn't die right away. Took a bit of time.}}

** Needless to say, since Riggs is a [[Determinator]], and this revelation is essentially Riggs' [[Berserk Button]], it doesn't turn out well.

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'':

** One team of unsubs tortured women to death and then sent DVDs to their families.

* In the ''[[Highlander (TV series)|Highlander]]'' episode "Innocent Man", Sheriff Crowley does this to Duncan MacLeod: "Your friend died on his knees, begging for his life."

* In the Sky One production of ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', the psychopathic banshee assassin tells Moist while attacking him that one of his previous victims {{spoiler|the brother of Moist's love interest}} died pathetically. The guy's death is shown at the very beginning, and the banshee's claim isn't really true.

* Fuminori does this to Kouji in ''[[Saya no Uta]]''.

* Seymour does this in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' when he describes how he slaughtered {{spoiler|the Ronso tribe.}}

* In the Safe Ending of ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]]'', {{spoiler|Ace decides to tell Snake how great it was to kill his sister. This results in Snake, after taking six shots from Ace's gun, getting up and pinning Ace down inside an incinerator that's about to turn on, killing them both.}}

* There's a couple of rather nasty one for the Human Noble origin in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'': {{spoiler|"Your parents died on their knees. Your brother's corpse rots in Ostagar; and his brat was burned on a scrap heap, along with his Antivan whore of a wife. And what's left? A fool husk of a son likely to end his days under a rock in the Deep Roads". You can find out later that Fergus is alive, though it will hardly be obvious.}}

{{quote|'''Ancient Black Dragon:''' Did you...did you really think a Disintegrate spell would kill me?

'''Vaarsuvius:''' It was the spell you requested, was it not? Besides, I wanted you to experience what it felt like for your baby when I '''shredded him into a trillion lifeless specks of ash.''' Incidentally, he mewled helplessly while I did so. }}

*** Well V was always more [[Character Alignment|lawful neutral]] than good...

**** Or even true neutral.