You Can Have My Gun When You Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands
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Attack on Titan Season four - The Loop
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| | Darwin Mayflower: I'll impale your friends, your family, and the bowwow y'all took to the prom! | |
A character threatens another with something that not simply fails to scare them, but in fact they would consider a favor. For example, proverb "I'll Kill You!" to the Death Seeker, or describing the tortures yous could use to the person who is Too Kinky to Torture, or telling someone "I Have Your Wife" to be met with the response that Y'all Can Keep Her.
Compare Insult Backlash and Attack Backfire. Oftentimes a Sub-Trope of Tempting Fate and the related Be Conscientious What You Say, Threat Backlash is also a common effect of telling someone they accept to Go Through Me, responding to someone else's threat with You and What Ground forces?, or using virtually any Stock Phrase featuring the words "over my dead torso" or "from my cold, dead fingers". Also a common response to challenges on the lines of "Oh yeah? And what are you lot gonna do about information technology?" when the threatened person treats this every bit if it were a real request for information, to be answered with a practical sit-in of more or less devastating forcefulness, accompanied by the answer "This".
This ane has a few variations:
- The person beingness threatened is non existence funny, just very Literal-Minded or socio-linguistically tone-deafened. The Comically Serious will frequently give this kind of response. May also be acquired by or overlap with Blunt Metaphors Trauma. Depending on the size and menacingness of the threatened, this one can also be a example of Exercise Not Taunt Cthulhu.
- The person beingness threatened knows it's a threat, but decides to take information technology at the Verbal Words face up value for comic effect at the other's expense. About common when the person threatened is a Trickster or Deadpan Snarker. Can still be fatal.
- The person making the threat is either grandstanding or bluffing, and at present finds they have to follow through, possibly to their own defeat, if they're fifty-fifty given time to respond at all.
- The person making the threat means it literally, even if they might exist hoping it doesn't have to come to that: not quite such a straight play, but still straight-ish. May lead to an Oh Crap moment on the threat-issuer'due south part.
- Not infrequently sighted subversion: the person on the receiving end of the threat is trying to exploit the fact that it will be taken in Exact Words terms, and is actually Briar Patching. And so, of class, it turns out this i can backfire, or at least misfire, likewise (meet the Futurama example).
Examples of Threat Backfire include:
Anime and Manga
- In Total Metal Panic!, the I'll Kill Yous! to a Death Seeker variant appears between Sousuke and Gauron. Sousuke, who is sick and tired of Gauron repeatedly not dying when he's supposed to, constantly yells that he'll impale him out of frustration. And Gauron, being As well Kinky to Torture and a depraved thrillseeker, responds to this with ecstasy and joy, normally along the lines of: "OH, I'M Then HAPPY KASHIM!"
- Near the end of Tsukihime (manga and canon road), Shiki tries to intimidate Ciel into cooperation by threatening to tie her up and rape her. Her response?
| | Ciel: *blushing* Your proposition is intriguing, merely I'll laissez passer. | |
- In Black Cat, at that place's Train'due south first meeting with Creed. Railroad train, being annoyed that he's assigned a partner, disdainfully tells Creed that he doesn't need him, and pretty much threatens him to shove off or he'll kill him. Unfortunately, Creed is a masochist. Cue Creed constantly stalking Train and bothering him.
- In Fairy Tail, during the Luxus arc, Evergreen threatens to turn many of Fairy Tail'south female person mages into dust if Erza doesn't submit to her. Erza immediately responds by pointing dozens of swords at Evergreen, and praising Evergreen for valuing victory above her own life.
- In chapter 516 of Naruto, after Kabuto brings Deidara and Sasori back as revenants this exchange occurs:
| | Sasori: (referring to Kabuto) The Akatsuki must have gone to hell in a hand basket to be taking orders from such a ragged fool... | |
Comic Books
- In Undercover 6 #20, Catman's infant son gets held earnest, and the hostage-takers threaten to drib him off a building. For every one of his team he kills in the side by side v minutes, they volition allow his son to live for one twelvemonth. Subsequently long deliberation, Catman tells them to become alee and driblet his son, and that he is going to hunt them all down. He and then goes on a pre-emptive Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- A sleazy piddling pitter-patter is cornered past Boba Fett and Fett's ex-married woman Sintas and tries to use a hostage to save his life. Information technology doesn't go quite every bit planned.
| | Pizztov: Driblet your weapons, or I will be forced to kill this abrasive female. | |
Moving picture
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: Austin takes Scott Evil (Dr. Evil's son) earnest.
| | Austin: It seems the tables accept turned again, Dr. Evil. | |
- From Hudson Hawk:
| | Darwin Mayflower: I'll kill your friends, your family, and the bowwow yous took to the prom! | |
- From Men in Black:
| | Bug: Place projectile weapon on the ground. | |
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- Likewise:
| | Dr. Weaver: You lot don't want to swallow me. I'thousand a very important person on my planet. Like a queen, a goddess even. There are those who worship me. I'chiliad not saying this to print you, I'm only warning you information technology could start a war! | |
- Spider-Homo:
| | Doc Ock: (entering the carriage) He'south MINE! | |
- In Ruthless People, two clueless kidnappers snatch Danny De Vito'southward wife and threaten to kill her. Since he was planning on doing that himself it isn't much of a threat.
- And, of grade...Star Wars:
| | Greedo: Jabba'southward through with you. He has no utilize for smugglers who drop their shipments at the beginning sign of an Royal cruiser. | |
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- And and then Han inverts it on Greedo:
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- In Revenge of the Sith, when Obi-Wan and Full general Grievous face off on Utapau:
| | Grievous: I've been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku himself. | |
- In The Matrix series:
| | Seraph: I need to speak with him. | |
- In the 2009 Star Trek:
| | "Cupcake": Perchance you tin't count, farmboy, but in that location's four of us and only one of y'all. | |
- In The Dark Knight Saga, Lucius Play tricks to accounant Reese, who is threatening to expose Bruce Wayne as Batman: "Let me get this directly: You call up that your customer, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Expert luck." Somewhat subverted in that his failure to successfully blackmail the visitor didn't stop him from threatening to reveal the hole-and-corner anyway; the Joker took care of that.
- In Unstoppable, Galvin threatens to fire Frank if he tries to chase down the runaway railroad train. Problem is, Frank was 13 days away from getting laid off, so he doesn't care if he loses his chore a picayune before than he was planning.
- Happy Gilmore: Shooter McGavin gets nailed this way multiple times.
| | McGavin: I eat pieces of shit like you lot for breakfast. | |
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- So, later.
| | McGavin: Yea, and Grizzly Adams had a beard. | |
- In the horror film "Midnight Movie" the cop tells the killer that if he wants to get to the girl behind him, "Yous'll have to go through me." The villain obliges. Literally.
- In the first Transformers flick, Sam Witwicky was arrested due to going to the junkyard and presumably for stealing a car (which the police were ironically responding to his call about someone stealing his machine). While being interrogated at the constabulary station, the Sheriff asks Sam if he was on drugs, but denies it, although the constabulary human seems to find incriminating bear witness of pills in him (although the pills were actually his dog's painkillers, which his parents backed him up). The Policeman then tries to threaten to bust him upon letting him get free, merely for it to backfire when Sam Witwicky asks him if the policeman was on drugs.
- Towards the end of The Rocketeer, equally Cliff Secord fights film star Neville Sinclair who'southward really a Nazi spy, aboard a Nazi zeppelin:
| | Cliff: (after punching Sinclair) Where's your stuntman now, Sinclair? | |
- In The Stinger of the The Avengers. Although it probably wasn't intended as a threat or alert, it sounds similar it to the audience.
- In Dreamworks' The Route to El Dorado, two Spanish con men (Tulio and Miguel) find the city of golden and are mistaken for gods. Immediately taking reward of this, they warn that they are non to be trifled with, or else they volition bring their wrath upon the city. "And you don't want that, practise you?" Unfortunately, that's exactly what the High Priest wants - for the gods to cleanse the city of the wicked and visit their wrath upon the non-believers. Moments later on, a series of coincidences makes it look like Miguel and Tulio crusade and then avoid a volcanic eruption, so their cover isn't blown yet. (It's implied that the chief knew the truth nigh them, but he figured that they could put an end to the human sacrifices that the high priest gets a boot out of.)
- Mulan starts off with the Huns scaling the Wall of People's republic of china. Immediately, one of the guards lights the signal to alert China of his presence. But when he tells Shan Yu nigh what he had done, Shan Yu is really happy to hear that, as he wants China to feel afraid of him.
Literature
- In the Discworld novel Interesting Times, Cohen the Barbarian does this quite often—killing people that have said in substance: "I'd rather dice than..."—because the barbarians' concept of honor is rather devoid of subtlety. To the point that Cohen's companions beginning warning people beforehand to not say this kind of thing around their leader. As Cohen states in exasperation, "Why are they proverb this if they don't hateful it?"
- Unknown spy story: the Soviets produce a moving picture with a await-alike of a south-due east Asian leader having sexual practice with women. After showing the leader the movie and threatening him, the leader asks for a copy of the movie, knowing that the spectacular sexual abilities of the actor would but increase his standing among his people.
- O. Henry's 1910 story "The Ransom of Cherry-red Chief" is a perfect example. Ii men kidnap a rich homo'due south son, but when they send the ransom note, the father decides to allow them keep the kid for a while. The child, who calls himself 'Cherry-red Chief' is a terror, forcing the 2 kidnappers to play games and being a general nuisance. When they return the boy, the father has to actually distract his son from chasing afterward them as they flee out of town.
- In Neverwhere, Richard tells Croup and Vandemar that if they desire Door, they'll have to kill him first. Vandemar is (quite unironically) delighted: "Thanks!"
- In the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, a shadowy group chosen the Rakshana kidnap the titular character's blood brother, and tell Gemma that if she gives the grouping her magic, they'll let him go. This is after a phenomenally bad day. Then, Gemma snaps, and informs the Rakshana that their plan has backfired: upwards until and so, she's been polite and played prissy. And at present, the only thing keeping her from boot all of their asses is the fact that her brother is notwithstanding live. If they kill him, she'll kill them. They call her on this, and she kicks their asses without killing them.
- In Proven Guilty of The Dresden Files, Harry confronts what turns out to be a White Court vampire during a horror convention. When Harry starts getting threatening, the vamp smugly says that Harry wouldn't dare take a chance The Masquerade by using magic in public. Harry responds that he's in the phone volume, nether "Wizards." The vampire becomes notably less smug.
Live Activity Boob tube
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Buffy versus Dracula"), Xander, who has been Renfielded, tells Riley that if he wants "The Chief" "you will have to get through me first". Riley flatly responds "Okey-dokey" and punches him out of the style.
- On Dan for Mayor Mike believes (rightfully) that Dan acquired Mike's fiance to intermission off their engagement. To get revenge on Dan, he buys the bar where Dan is working just so he can fire him. Dan is quite happy nigh it since he was going to quit afterward that day, and this way he is owed severance pay which he would not get if he quit on his own.
- On NCIS, Gibbs is threatened in the usual mode past a gangster: "...I'll kill your brothers, your uncles, your begetter. And subsequently their funerals, I'll kill y'all." Gibbs responds, "No brothers, no uncles, my father passed years ago. I do have three ex-wives, whose names and addresses I will gladly fax on to y'all..." "huh. He hung up."
Theater
- A Very Potter Sequel: Draco orders Crabbe and Goyle to milkshake Ron and Hermione to win Harry over.
| | Draco: Thinking about being my friend yet, Potter? | |
Video Games
- In Tales of Monkey Island, McGillicutty captures the MerLeader and threatens hir with decease by drowning if s/he doesn't turn over the MacGuffin. The threat proves less than constructive and McGillicutty is as well crazed to realize information technology.
Western Animation
- Briar Patching backfire: in the start episode of Futurama, Fry is upset at the fact he'south been assigned the job of "commitment boy";
| | Fry: What if I refuse to do information technology? | |
- In The Venture Brothers, a villain threatens Dr. Venture with the expiry of his sons, shouting, "GIVE ME THE HAND OF OSIRIS!" Doc's response? "Give me caput." This horrifies the villain.
- The Justice League episode, "Divided Nosotros Autumn" provides this instance:
- One of Family Guy's Cutaway Gag bits had a slave trader getting annoyed past the slaves constantly asking "Are nosotros there notwithstanding?" Finally he yells "If you don't stop it I'one thousand turning this ship around correct now!"
- The Penguins of Republic of madagascar, when Skipper has stolen the batteries from Julien'due south boombox to close him up:
| | Skipper: Yous can have this battery when you pry information technology from my cold dead flippers! | |
- Grandpa Marsh is a Death Seeker on S Park.
- "Death:"
| | Cartman: Yous piece of crap! I'll kill you! | |
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- "Quintuplets 2000":
| | Officer: Freeze, asshole! | |
- Cheryl from Archer causes this in a few occasions: threaten to kill her and she'll probably rip her top off in anticipation of her world's gushiest orgasm.
Real Life
- The KGB one time tried to blackmail the French delegate, by threatening to betrayal him with pictures of him having sexual activity with other men. His response? "Go ahead, I don't care. Everybody knows I'm gay."
- For reference, homosexuality (or, at least, gay sex) was illegal in the Soviet Spousal relationship. They likely causeless that all other nations would take the same views (even though they saw them all as "imperialist pigs").
- This was really a valid bribery tactic during the Cold War and western security agencies viewed homosexuals equally a security risk because of that. Information technology just didn't happen to work in this example.
- ↑ the bug who has taken Edgar'south grade
Source: https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Threat_Backfire
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