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** Dragon Ball loves this trope. The Red Ribbon Army is known for its low tolerance for failure. For his failure to collect Dragon Balls, Commander Blue is used as a measuring stick for new baddie Tao Pai Pai. Commander Silver is likewise condemned for his inability to retrieve Dragon Balls. Freeza holds his army in line with fear of this. He promised this punishment to Zarbon if he failed to retrieve Vegeta. When facing off with Trunks, he kills one of his lackeys who is scared to face Trunks after all the other [[Mooks]] are sliced up effortlessly. |
** Dragon Ball loves this trope. The Red Ribbon Army is known for its low tolerance for failure. For his failure to collect Dragon Balls, Commander Blue is used as a measuring stick for new baddie Tao Pai Pai. Commander Silver is likewise condemned for his inability to retrieve Dragon Balls. Freeza holds his army in line with fear of this. He promised this punishment to Zarbon if he failed to retrieve Vegeta. When facing off with Trunks, he kills one of his lackeys who is scared to face Trunks after all the other [[Mooks]] are sliced up effortlessly. |
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*** On the topic of the Red Ribbon Army, their definition of failure is... well, just say that anything even slightly wrong is a failure, sometimes with the successes expected to be beyond the impossible. For instance, Commander Red, when he is talking to Colonel Silver, mentioned that a soldier who ended up losing an eye from being unable to efficiently dodge Red sicing his pet cat at him was "no longer with them", implying that he executed him because he couldn't evade the cat efficiently. |
*** On the topic of the Red Ribbon Army, their definition of failure is... well, just say that anything even slightly wrong is a failure, sometimes with the successes expected to be beyond the impossible. For instance, Commander Red, when he is talking to Colonel Silver, mentioned that a soldier who ended up losing an eye from being unable to efficiently dodge Red sicing his pet cat at him was "no longer with them", implying that he executed him because he couldn't evade the cat efficiently. |
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** Parodied in the case of Emperor Pilaf, who in his first appearance decides to kill Shu for farting in his presence,<ref>It was actually Pilaf who farted.</ref> but changes his mind shortly after when Mai comes in and mentions a lead on finding the dragon balls. |
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* MetalSeadramon from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' kills Scorpiomon after he fails to capture and incapacitate all 8 of the kids (Joe and Mimi escape). Though it must be said Scorpiomon failed ''big time'' and multiple times before MetalSeadramon did him in, and that MetalSeadramon was probably the least [[Bad Boss]] out of all the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' villains. |
* MetalSeadramon from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' kills Scorpiomon after he fails to capture and incapacitate all 8 of the kids (Joe and Mimi escape). Though it must be said Scorpiomon failed ''big time'' and multiple times before MetalSeadramon did him in, and that MetalSeadramon was probably the least [[Bad Boss]] out of all the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' villains. |
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** Machinedramon also kills WaruMonzaemon after he's defeated by the kids, and Puppetmon shoots Blossomon and Mushroomon after they let TK slip away. And the most famous, Myotismon's killing of Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon when they fail at being evil. Myotismon did this ''a lot'' actually. Very few of his minions survived till the end of the arc and at least half of them were killed by him for this reason, and most of those that did were absorbed to fuel his [[One-Winged Angel]] form. |
** Machinedramon also kills WaruMonzaemon after he's defeated by the kids, and Puppetmon shoots Blossomon and Mushroomon after they let TK slip away. And the most famous, Myotismon's killing of Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon when they fail at being evil. Myotismon did this ''a lot'' actually. Very few of his minions survived till the end of the arc and at least half of them were killed by him for this reason, and most of those that did were absorbed to fuel his [[One-Winged Angel]] form. |
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