History Main / ImpliedDeathThreat

--> '''Oprah:''' Something very odd has happened to my friend's pool. I need you to fix it so I can swim, or else I will get ''very grumpy.''
--> '''Otto:''' Was that you being ''not'' grumpy?
--> ''[Oprah begins taking a pool noodle out from behind her]]
--> '''Otto:''' [[OhCrap Ohh no.]]
--> ''[Oprah rips the pool noodle in two]''
--> ''[Olive and Otto panic and immediately book it downstairs]''

-->'''Octavian''': My father died on this floor. ''Right there''. Stabbed 27 times. ''Butchered'' by men he called his friends. ''Who'' will tell me that is not murder? ''Who'' will tell my Legions, who love Caesar as I do, that that is not murder?! ''[The soldiers draw their swords and the chamber falls deathly silent]'' Who will speak against the motion?

'''Nivor''': Only joking, princess. Children are much too common for my sophisticated palette.

* In an in-game story segment from the first edition of ''TabletopGame/FengShui'', the unnamed Killer who is the protagonist of these segments is captured after a battle gone straight to hell. He wakes up in a rather stylish interrogation room with a one way mirror along one wall. In walks Inspector MacAllister, a cop working for the Ascended, who lets our assassin know where he stands in no uncertain terms:
-->'''MacAllister:''' Now, son, you're gonna answer a few questions. And the folks behind that one-way mirror there are gonna listen to them, and very carefully decide whether to let you leave here breathing. Got my meaning, son?

* ''Literature/WilderGirls'': An all-girls school has been placed in quarantine, and they have supplies dropped in. Hetty is chosen to join the girls who pick up the supplies. She can't believe it when their chaperone, Ms. Welch, throws away about two-thirds of the food, even though the girls have very little to eat as it is. Welch claims it's because most of the food is either spoiled or has pesticides (in reality, [[spoiler:Welch doesn't want the girls to be UnwittingTestSubjects of researchers and is trying to sabotage tests by throwing away contaminated food]]).

-->'''Wilson:''' I want you to give him a message for me. I want you to tell him if he phones my home one more time, or if he comes within sighting distance of my home one more time, he's going to find himself staring down the barrel of a 357 some dark night on a lonesome road, and it'll be the last one he ever stares down. Can you remember that Frank?

'''Commodus:''' The little bee told him everything.

* ''Film/{{Nikita}}'': "Row 8, Plot 30."

* ''Sinners and Saints'' (2010). The CowboyCop shows the villain a polaroid photo of a victim who's been burnt alive. The villain says that the cop ought to be very careful "because a man who could do something like that, you never know what he's capable of." So the cop shows more polaroids, this time of the villain's henchmen he killed in a prior shootout. "If I was that guy, I'd be pretty fucking concerned about what ''I'm'' capable of."

-->'''Luthor:''' No, I don't think we'll be turning around Ms. Lane, which means that we do have some time to ''kill''. [[AffablyEvil How about that interview?]].

->''[[AC:"We're a lot alike, you and I. You tested me. I tested you. You killed me. I—oh, no, wait. I guess I haven't killed you yet. Well. Food for thought."]]''
-->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}}''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' trailer

** Vaarsuvius gets very annoyed at the rest of the Order while he's [[BalefulPolymorph stuck in the form of a lizard]], and the first thing he does after being restored is to effortlessly Disintegrate a dragon that had been threatening them:

* Schlock of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' issues a few of these.

--->'''Breya:''' Oh, I know exactly how boys can be. I'm a [[HiredGuns mercenary admiral]], and I've got a company full of [[TestosteronePoisoning testosterone factories]] looking to earn some extra money roughhousing. My guys come with [[PoweredArmor full power armor]], [[BFG personal artillery]] and air support. What do your boys play with?

* In ''VideoGame/ThreeStrikes'' General Parrish drops his AffablyEvil act immediately once he realizes Princess Rosa won't follow his ideal of using the drones to continue to wage war with Osea, sneering at her that she's nothing more than a pretty face to win over the hearts of the people and that he could find someone else to assume the throne. And since she backed General Labarthe, whom Parrish discovered to be TheMole for Osea, she's now a threat, and all threats 'have to be eliminated' for the good of the kingdom.

** In ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', the Duchess's bodyguard explains to the late king's doctor that the king died on natural causes, and these natural causes can be brought on by unwise opening of the mouth.

* In the WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien episode "The Purge", Ben gives one to Driscoll and the Forever Knights after defeating the former in a fight.

** He tells Ate'na that she looks like a smart woman, but here she is [[DoNotTauntCthulu interrupting him in his own temple.]]

* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': During breakfast with his family, Prince Frederick of the Plaid Kingdom declares his refusal to go through with his ArrangedMarriage to [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]], confident that his brothers' happier engagements to the other Pastel Kingdom princesses will secure his father's AltarDiplomacy between the two kingdoms even without him marrying Gwen. [[AbusiveParents King Leland's]] response to this is to chuck a knife through the bagel Frederick is holding, which pulls it from his hand and pins it to the wall. Then Leland explains, while holding a terrified Frederick up by his shirt collar, that the other girls would back out of their engagements in solidarity with their jilted sister -- so Frederick ''will'' marry Gwendolyn, or else he'll "be trading places with that bagel."

* In ''Film/Joker2019'' Arthur Fleck tells Murray Franklin that he killed some people because they were "awful," then later in that conversation, tells Murray, "You're awful," implying that he considers Murray as deserving of death as his other victims. [[spoiler:Not long afterward, he fatally shoots Murray in the head]].

* The [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoExamples/ImpliedDeathThreat Video Example]] for WesternAnimation/WordGirl has her ''physically folding a large bar of steel into a small, crude ball live on broadcast'' as to what would happen if the Villains were doing any crime. In other words, she literally broadcasts the fact that she literally allows the villains to live.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh, after Pegasus separates Mokuba's soul from his body, he tells Seto Kaiba that he will release him on the condition that he beats both Yugi and himself in a duel. Kaiba agrees, before delivering one to him in turn.