History Main / IWillPunishYourFriendforYourFailure

** In Case 5 of the first game, the BigBad [[spoiler: Damon Gant]] forces the accused [[spoiler: Lana]] to work for him under the threat of [[spoiler: her little sister Ema]] getting prosecuted for a crime she thinks she's committed.
** In the second game, Maya gets kidnapped by [[spoiler: Shelly de Killer]] in order to force Phoenix to get Matt Engarde a "Not Guilty" verdict, [[spoiler: when Engarde was really guilty. Well, he didn't actually kill Juan Corrida personally, but he did hire De Killer to kill him. [[SadisticChoice Phoenix is forced to decide between getting Engarde acquitted, in which case an innocent young woman is found guilty and executed, or getting Engarde declared guilty, in which case Maya is killed.]]]] The only way out is to TakeAThirdOption and [[spoiler: get de Killer to betray Engarde.]]

* Officers Tenpenny and Pulaski pull this in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', threatening to make sure [[spoiler: Sweet]] dies if CJ doesn't do what they want him to do. Later [[spoiler: Toreno]] pulls this as well but is less malicious about it, [[spoiler:and ultimately frees Sweet once CJ has done enough for him]].

* Literature/VanasHeritage: Vladr threatens As'Saif to kill one of his subordinates if he fails watching Nirvy. He fails and Vladr stands by his words.

* Literature/Vanas Heritage: Vladr threatens As'Saif to kill one of his subordinates if he fails watching Nirvy. He fails and Vladr stands by his words.

** After [[spoiler:Jesse]] attempts to escape the neo-Nazi compound, [[spoiler:Andrea]] is killed for it, and they threaten to kill Brock if he tries again.

* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': Whenever Jaune's sisters did anything wrong (such as fighting with each other, or stalking their mother through the halls, or ''asking for food''), their mother would punish Jaune for it by locking him in "[[PunishmentBox the Hole]]" for days or weeks. This has resulted in two clear consequences: Jaune's sisters are heavily dependent on him, seeing him as their shield and protector even though they are far stronger than him, and Jaune has gotten it into his head that everyone else can get what they want so long as ''he'' is punished enough. [[spoiler:This results in him walking unarmed into a meeting with people who already tried to assassinate him once, because he thinks that once he's dead there will be world peace... not realizing that his death will drive his sisters insane and start a world war]].

* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' sees such a threat [[MindScrew turn very strange later on]]. In Voldemort’s first appearance, he tells Enoby to kill Harry “Vampire” Potter, warning her that if she doesn’t, he will kill Draco, Enoby’s boyfriend. Much later on, Voldemort reappears, this time in the guise of [[Franchise/StarWars Darth]] [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Valer]], and declares that he’ll kill both Enoby and Draco for her failure, but when she begs him not to, he changes the terms, so instead Enoby has to kill Vampire “[[MortonsFork or I shall kill him anyway]]”.
* In ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'', [[SmugSnake Kluge]] warned [[TheMole Nakajima]] that if he failed him, he’d get his girlfriend and her little sister killed.
* In the VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} fanfic ''Fanfic/BlueSky'', [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] uses Atlas and P-Body to capture the entire population of the town Chell has settled in, threatening to kill them if Chell does not cooperate and do the testing.]]

* In ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', Mei (who is helping [[CuteClumsyGirl Mai]] practice for an upcoming idol performance) notices that Mai keeps getting distracted by something and slaps the culprit. Since Mai is getting distracted by Mei, the friend getting punished is herself. Mai, not wanting her beloved big sister to take her screw-ups out on herself, dances like her life depends on it.

** The [[Literature/XWingSeries X-Wing]] series novel "Wedge's Gamble" reveals that not only was Captain Needa [[YouHaveFailedMe executed]] by Darth Vader for allowing the ''Milennium Falcon'' to escape, but that several of his family members disappeared as well in the following weeks. Needa's cousin Virar - who was in the Imperial Academy at the time - managed to survive the purge but was given a low priority dead-end assignment.
** Later, in the novel "The Bacta War" Imperial Intelligence [[BadBoss director]] Ysanne Isard targets the family members of freighter crewers who surrender to the Rouges, and when Sair Yonka and his star drestroyer defect to the Rogues begins killing the families of the crew members she could get her hands on. Horrorfyingly, she reveals this was not the first time she has killed families of Imperial soldiers when the soldiers defect or fail her.

* The children's book ''Literature/TheWhippingBoy'' is based on the 15th century real-life practice of punishing a companion to a prince as the royal line was considered divine and only another from the royal line could do the punishing on pain of death. In real life, a whipping boy would be a lifelong companion to the prince so that their emotional bond would make the whipping a real punishment for the prince. In the book, the whipping boy was chosen to start a new life in the castle with the young prince, who was a RoyalBrat. This trope is played with, however as [[spoiler:when the two are kidnapped, the whipping boy is more educated than the prince, so believing the prince to be the whipping boy, he is the one punished]].