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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Marik Ishtar from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series]]'' has to following evil monologue:▼
{{quote|With his help I shall defeat you and then conquer the world! [[Evil Laugh|Ah-hahaha!]] [[Distracted By the Shiny|Oh hey look a bird!]] [[Pet the Dog|Isn't it just the cutest little guy]]-- I mean no! In my new world all birds will be enslaved! ''Especially this one!'' And he shall be named Mr. Tweetums, because it is ''very evil!'' Ah-hahaha! Now be gone Mr. Tweetums. I am trying to stalk my nemesis.}}▼
** He also likes Joey, who will be killed last.▼
** Evil Bakura quotes the ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]'' exchange with Pegasus.▼
* For ''[[Baccano!]]'s'' Ladd Russo and Lua Klein, nothing says [[Mad Love|love]] like "I'll kill you last."
** Ladd also says something along those lines to Graham Spectre ("No, I won't...I like brazen and impudent guys that only I'm able kill"), at which point Graham [[Ho Yay|starts fanboying him like nobody's business]].
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** This might help explain his somewhat ambivalent attitude toward his [[Hot-Blooded|second]] and [[Gentle Giant|third]] sons. After one goes all [[Omnicidal Maniac]] on you and [[What Have I Become?|turns you into]] an [[I Am a Monster|immortal]] [[Catch Phrase|monster]]....
* In ''[[Aura Battler Dunbine]]'', when the bad guys arrive on Earth announce their plan to conquer it, they say they will spare the city of Boston out of respect for one of their pilots who came from there.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' fic ''[[A Cure for Love]]'' Light says the following to L [[Open Mouth, Insert Foot|without really thinking about what he said]] [[Murder Is the Best Solution|because killing people who annoy him has almost become an automatic response]]:
{{quote|'''Light''': [[Friendly Enemy|You're not trying to do something stupid are you?]]
'''L''': I'm not doing anything stupid, Light. Apart from speaking to you.
'''Light''': [[Kill You Last|Good, because I would hate to kill you.]]
'''L''': [[Deadpan Snarker|Mmm... I'm sure you would.]] }}
▲* Marik Ishtar from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
▲{{quote|With his help I shall defeat you and then conquer the world! [[Evil Laugh|Ah-hahaha!]] [[Distracted By the Shiny|Oh hey look a bird!]] [[Pet the Dog|Isn't it just the cutest little guy]]-- I mean no! In my new world all birds will be enslaved! ''Especially this one!'' And he shall be named Mr. Tweetums, because it is ''very evil!'' Ah-hahaha! Now be gone Mr. Tweetums. I am trying to stalk my nemesis.}}
▲** He also likes Joey, who will be killed last.
▲** Evil Bakura quotes the ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]'' exchange with Pegasus.
* In the B-Movie
▲== Films ==
▲* In the B-Movie, Evil Alien Conquerors, said conquerors tell a normal human, when he helps them, that he will die painlessly. It's something of a [[Running Gag]], to the point that he eventually waves them off with a parting "Die painlessly" to theirs.
* In the ''[[Saturday Night Live|Coneheads]]'' movie, this is what Mr. Conehead says to the woman who sabotages her driving exam in an attempt to start an affair with him. He won't sleep with her, but promises she'll be on the protected list once his people invade.
* [[Transformers Film Series|Megatron makes the offer to Sam]]: "Give me the Allspark, and you may live to be my pet."
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{{quote|''Wicked Witch'': The last to go. She'll see the first three go before her.}}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* [[Ur Example]]: In ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', when Odysseus gives his name to the Cyclops as "Noman", the Cyclops says that he will eat "Noman" last.
* A rare heroic version in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]'': just before [[Humanity on Trial]], Kip is assured that he and Pee-wee will be allowed to live out their lives. Kip asks that they be returned to Earth if humanity loses, which may have been a factor in deciding to spare for now—although they intend to re-evaluate later.
* In ''[[
* Inverted by Virigar [[Our Werewolves Are Different|the Werewolf King]] in [[Ryk Spoor]]'s ''[[Jason Wood|Digital Knight]]'', when he tells Jason Wood, "I'm minded to let you live for a while.... So you will suffer all the more while everything you value is destroyed before your very eyes!"
* In the book ''Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter'' the main vampire—though not exactly a villain—would say, every time he and Abraham Lincoln met, and he didn't kill him—or the vampire would save him—he'd ask why and the vampire would say "Some people are just too interesting to kill." Then in the end, when Abraham Lincoln died {{spoiler|and the vampire brought him back as a vampire himself, he said, "Some people are just too interesting to let die."}}
* [[The Onion]]'s ''Our Dumb Century" features Hitler saying this about the Japanese.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': After {{spoiler|
* In ''[[The Onion]]''
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Friends]]'' has this exchange from Phoebe: ''When the revolution comes, I will have to destroy you all... except you, Joey.''
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has [[Foe Yay|Sylar informing Mohinder]] "I wasn't begging for my life... I was offering you yours."
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', season 6: While drowning sorrows and bemoaning their (lack of) love lives together, Spike tells Anya that she's the only one he wouldn't bite if he didn't have his [[Restraining Bolt]]. He respects women who say exactly what's on their minds (even if they happen to be off their rocker like Drusilla).
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' has [[Omnicidal Maniac]] Gig, who mentions if he gets control over the hero's body he will destroy everything, ''"except maybe those hotpods. Those are good. I'll keep those."''
* Saren ''attempts'' to [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] this in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' by making organics useful to the [[Big Bad]].
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* [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Axenos]] from [[Wizard 101]] inverts this trope by combining it with [[Mercy Kill]]. Since the player (accidentally) releases him, he thanks them and promises to kill the first [[Fate Worse Than Death|so they would be spared from witnessing the horrors he'd bring about on the Spiral]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[PvP (webcomic)|
▲* In ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'', after horrifying him by [[Story-Boarding the Apocalypse]], Scratch reassures a quivering Skull that ''his'' death will be painless.
* ''[[VG Cats]]'' plays with this [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=199 here] with the [[Path of Inspiration|The Church Of The]] [[One-Winged Angel]] [[Final Fantasy|Of Latter-Day Summons]].
{{quote|''"So if I join, I'll be saved?"''
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* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' uses this when Snow Song is thinking about how she'll destroy the town in a restaurant, but then the waitress gives her some chocolate cake on the house:
{{quote|'''Snow Song''': ''None'' of these drones will be spared... Except for her.}}
* In ''[[8-
{{quote|"Look, I don't do this... uh, ever. But you guys are basically like kittens stuck on a leaking lifeboat in a typhoon. Just run."}}
** Also, upon stumbling upon the Dark Warriors trying to steal the [[Cosmic Keystone]]s to defeat him and gain ultimate power, Sarda asks them if they even know how to use them. Bikke tosses his keystone at Sarda, becoming the first person in the series to land any sort of hit on him:
{{quote|"You're a quick thinker ''and'' spiteful. I can respect that. You won't be killed, Bikke."}}
* ''[[Cuanta Vida
* ''[[Bob and George]]'': [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/041121c For being entertaining opponents]
* [http://buttersafe.com/2009/02/12/children/ This] ''[[Buttersafe]]''.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
{{quote|'''Gil''', to Tarvek: "I ''am'' Gilgamesh Wulfenbach - heir to the Empire and defender of the [[Alternate History|Pax Transylvaniana]] - and I ''will'' crush this whole [[Ancient Conspiracy|Knights of Jove]]/Storm King ''mess'' of yours. Ooh, don't worry - I'll let ''you'' escape. ''You'' can go ''skulking around'' with your little ''plans'' - after all, I'll ''always'' need someone to ''[[The Scapegoat|take the blame]]''."}}
** Castle Heterodyne eventually uses the "I will kill you quickly" line on {{spoiler|Professor Tiktoffen, while crushing him to death.}}
* A posthumous variant is employed in ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', in which {{spoiler|Mr. Blank}} states that he made {{spoiler|Mr. Black}}'s death as quick and painless as possible because the person in question "had earned it"... [[To the Pain|But the person he's talking to is]] ''[[To the Pain|not]]'' [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|going to be in for the same treatment]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has Stewie, who has said this to Peter (Your death shall be quick and painless) when he turned off the mind-numbing Teletubbies show, and again to Flappy (Good news! I've decided not to kill you!) to let him know that his pancakes were satisfactory.
** In "Petarded", Peter says "When we retarded guys take over you will beg for mercy, and we will consider it".
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* In the fourth episode of ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', Amon ambushes Korra and has a golden opportunity to {{spoiler|take her bending away}}, but doesn't take it because {{spoiler|that would make her a martyr}}. Instead he gives a [[Breaking Speech]] explaining that he'll save her for last.
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* This is supposedly one of the reasons to worship [[Cthulhu]]. Upon his rising, cultists will be devoured first, sparing them what happens next.
* Seen on [[Image Boards|4chan]]: "youfunnyguyikillyoulast.jpg"
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* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', [[Big Bad]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] Omega discussing his plans to conquer the universe with [[Mission Control]] Vic.
{{quote|''"Then, the universe will be mine, and I'll CRUSH EVERY LIVING SOUL INTO DUST!!.... Um... except for you, Vic. You can be assistant crusher."''}}
▲* In ''[[The Onion]]''`s "Our Dumb Century", this is the Nazis' response when (as the headline says) ''Non-white Japan allies with White Supremacist Nazi Germany in Well-Thought Out Scheme''.
* Dane Cook has a stand-up act about [[Because You Were Nice to Me|befriending]] the [[Loners Are Freaks|creepy loner]] in your office so that this happens when he inevitably snaps and goes on a rampage with a shotgun.
* On [[Atop the Fourth Wall]], because he defeated someone who was a nuisance to it the Entity ''does'' save Linkara for last and lets him run and hide after {{spoiler|it absorbs everyone else}} - but it's waiting when he comes back out.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The author of ''A Hundred Little Hitlers'' (about Neo-Nazis), who is Jewish, apparently impressed one Neo-Nazi so much that he told her when he annihilated all the Jews, he'd spare her.
* This trope most likely lay at the heart of the cynical German-Japanese military alliance during [[World War II]] from at least the Nazis' perspective (but possibly the Japanese as well). A paranoid, virulently racist, white supremacist country decides to team up against other enemies with a nation they probably deem subhuman when it gets down to it. [http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000120.html This article] from ''[[Our Dumb Century]]'' puts it best.
** Hitler also made offers of this kind to the UK during the early phase of the war, generally along the lines of "[[We Can Rule Together|Britannia can rule the waves and Germania the earth]]." The UK ignored them (they didn't even acknowledge they had received them), which is essentially a diplomatic way of saying, "f*** off."
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