History Main / NastyParty

** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' the imprisoned Blofeld arranges a birthday party for himself in Cuba, attended by most members of SPECTRE, and lures Bond to it so that, as the high point of the festivities, he can be killed with a nanotech weapon programmed to recognise him by his DNA. Unfortunately for SPECTRE, the MadScientist who created and programmed the nanotech was secretly working for Blofeld's rival DiabolicalMastermind Lyutsifer Safin, and instead programs the nanotech to kill all the SPECTRE members and spare Bond, combining this trope with MakeWayForTheNewVillains.

* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' features the titular villain explaining his villainous plot, Operation Grand Slam, to a group of foreign crime lords just before releasing poisonous gas into the room. Since he didn't need them for his plan anyway, it seems like he built the insanely elaborate room (complete with rotating furniture and scale models) purely to gloat about his scheme. For plot purposes, it's to provide an eavesdropping James Bond with the details. [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} The original novel]] explains it by having Goldfinger explaining his plan to the other crime lords so that he can borrow some of their manpower to help with the job in exchange for a cut of the profits. The ones who don't agree with the plan suffer an 'accident' on their way out of the building, and the others survive to participate in the heist.

* Literature/TheBible: In Mark 6:21-29, Salome, the daughter of King Herod's wife Herodias, danced for King Herod at his birthday party. The King was so pleased by her dancing that he offered her whatever she wanted, up to half of his kingdom. At her mother's insistence, she asked for head of John the Baptist on a platter. Though conflicted about doing so, Herod had John the Baptist killed and his head brought to the girl.

* ''Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket'' first episode ("[[Recap/LupinIIIS2E1 The Return of Lupin III]]") features the gang -- including the [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Inspector Zenigata]] -- reuniting after they all get invitations to a cruise ship. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a ploy by a former criminal mastermind who's out to get revenge on Lupin.

* St. Olga of Kiev. After her husband was killed in treachery by Drevlians, a tribe in the Kievan Rus, she ascended the throne to hold it down for her 3-year-old son. The Drevlians decided to demand she marry their Prince, the murderer of her husband. She invited them to arrive by boat, which they did. Then the local Kievan people picked the boat up and hauled the Drevlians to a pit and dumped them, where they were buried alive. She then invited another party of Drevlians who were unaware of the fate of the first diplomatic party. The 2nd party was invited to bathe and then appear as guest of honor. The bathhouse was set alight after they had entered the house. Then she sent ANOTHER message, the Drevlians AGAIN still unaware of the fate that awaited them, this time asking them to prepare great quantities of mead so that she may mourn her husband in the city where he was slain. They did so, but after the party, when the Drevlians where all drunk, she caroused her followers to slay them all. They did so. That night, over 5,000 Drevlians were massacred. She then gathered up an army and went to finish the job. It went well until a siege began and lasted for a year without much success. Then she negotiated the siege ended by the Drevlians gifting her birds, 3 pigeons and 3 sparrows from each house. Her soldiers then attached pieces of sulfur to the birds and set them aflame, after which the birds returned to their nests. The city burned and Olga's army slew many which fled, enslaving many survivors and leaving the remaining to pay tribute. She then continued fending off marriage proposals and then passed on power to her son, whose long military campaigns meant she continued to be the active power of Kiev for a long, long time. The Anti-Catelyn Stark.

* The ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Surprise Party" features a house party whose attendants turn out to be ghosts of the party-goers who died in a house fire that was instigated by the owner of the house after said owner [[FieryCoverUp started the fire to cover up his murder of one party guest that he killed in an altercation and one other guest]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses due to the other murdered guest witnessing the initial murder]]. [[GhostlyGoals They have intended to kill the house owner to avenge themselves should he return]], but, after encountering the owner's son, who had not only murdered his father and burned his will upon learning that the owner had planned to donate the plot of land where the burned house is and put his desire of donation in the will but [[LikeFatherLikeSon acts the same way the owner did under the same circumstance in the house party up to instigating a]] FieryCoverUp as well, [[SinsOfOurFather they settle for the owner's son as their revenge target instead]] [[KillItWithFire by burning him alive]].

* ''Literature/GestaDanorum'' details the story of Amleth, the inspiration for Hamlet, who avenges the murder of his father by his uncle Fengo. At a memorial feast held on the occasion of Amleth's presumed death, Amleth unexpectedly returns. The rest of the court gets drunk, due to Amleth plying them with drink, and fall asleep. Amleth then pulls tapestries down over them and using hooks he had made earlier with which he claimed he'd avenge his father's death, he fixes the tapestries in place. He then sets the place alight while going off to kill his uncle in a sword-fight, through switching their sword with one fixed in the scabbard.

* ''Literature/GestaDanorum'' details the story of Amleth, the inspiration for Hamlet, who avenges the murder of his father by his uncle Fengo. At a feast held to celebrate Amleth's presumed death Amleth arrives. The rest of the court gets drunk, due to Amleth plying them with drink, and fall asleep. Amleth then pulls tapestries down over them and using hooks he had made earlier with which he claimed he'd avenge his father's death, he fixes the tapestries in place. He then sets the place alight while going off to kill his uncle in a sword-fight, through switching their sword with one fixed in the scabbard.

* [[Literature/GestaDanorum Gesta Danorum]] details the story of Amleth, the inspiration for Hamlet, who avenges the murder of his father by his uncle Fengo. At a feast held to celebrate Amleth's presumed death Amleth arrives. The rest of the court gets drunk, due to Amleth plying them with drink, and fall asleep. Amleth then pulls tapestries down over them and using hooks he had made earlier with which he claimed he'd avenge his father's death, he fixes the tapestries in place. He then sets the place alight while going off to kill his uncle in a sword-fight, through switching their sword with one fixed in the scabbard.

* In ''Film/Coherence'', a party for friends quickly goes wrong when alternate universes cause them terror.

** Referenced as a strategy in ''Literature/InterestingTimes''. However, Cohen points out it would not be appropriate for their situation, as they are up against 700,000 enemy soldiers. He also notes at great length that he would never use poison; his preferred method is to get everyone drunk and then cut their heads off. One of Cohen's fellow octogenarian barbarians says they could still pull it off, if they did something easy for dinner, "like pasta". Apparently the barbarians don't consider this tactic to be dirty or dishonorable at all since anyone stupid enough to fall for [[TheOldestTricksInTheBook the ol' "invite them to a feast, get them drunk and slaughter them" trick]] was definitely TooDumbToLive anyway.

* Used in the ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book "Literature/GravePeril", in which the leader of Chicago's vampires invites everyone she hates to a party so she can kill them all. This was incredibly risky as SacredHospitality is ''very'' important in the supernatural circles and breaching it would be construed as an act of war. She planned to force Harry a SadisticChoice of either breaching her hospitality (so she could kill him without any political backlash) or allowing her to kill an innocent in a manner that will destroy a powerful anti-evil weapon. She did ''not'' expect him to burn the entire mansion down around her.

** Soooo, you think you've got clever with a quick elopement (or whatever) and a quiet, secluded handfast or wedding or bedding (or whatever), possibly in the hope that it might reduce the potential bloodshed ''because'' you made a point of skipping the whole reception of death thing entirely, and that time should (maybe, perhaps?) reduce the likelihood of it kicking off? Sorry, but no: the politics make a point of bringing the party of blood and gore to you, anyway. And, it's ''because'' you tried to get a little too clever with this, and thereby annoyed most of the Great Houses by skimping on the usual permissions, rituals, and roles. Isn't that right, Rhaegar and Lyanna?

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]" sees The Master, in the guise of newly-elected Prime Minister Mr. Saxon, calling a meeting of all his ministers just to gas them to death.

* The Banquet of Nyköping in 1317. The Swedish King Birger had invited his younger brothers, Dukes Valdemar and Erik, to Castle Nyköping to feast at Christmas, as a token of forgiveness after ''they'' pulled a (non-lethal) NastyParty on him at his court in Håtuna few years earlier. [[SchmuckBait Valdemar and Erik happily agreed]]. After everyone had gotten drunk, king Birger imprisoned his brothers, put them in the oubliette of the castle with a PreMortemOneLiner (see below), and (so tradition says) threw the key into the nearby river. The dukes died from starvation. A large medieval key ''was'' found near the castle in 1847.

* UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler supposedly organized a Nasty Party a couple times, once reacting to a begging epidemic in one of his domains by inviting all of the beggars to a huge Christmas party, locking them in, then setting the place on fire. There was also the time, early in his first reign, when he invited nearly all of Wallachia's [[AristocratsAreEvil ruling nobles]] to a fancy Easter feast. During the feast, he asked them, almost idly, "How many rulers of our nation have you known?" The nobles responded that they'd all known anything from half a dozen (for the youngest) to more than they could remember, all of them taken down by their own backstabbing and conniving. [[TooDumbToLive One of these nobles had been Vlad's own father.]] The enraged Vlad called in his troops, told them that they were ruining the nation by their treachery, and worked them and their families to death building a new castle for him. He promised that the survivors would be [[ExactWords "Raised above all other men."]] And they were... [[CruelAndUnusualDeath He had them impaled.]]

* It has happened so many times in Islamic history. As sources can be unreliable, many stories are probably made up: the importance of SacredHospitality in most Muslim societies, and especially in Arab culture, is such that an accusation of a breach of hospitality is considered most foul, and thus a pretty standard aspersion to cast on one's ([[WrittenByTheWinners defeated]]) political enemies (roughly equivalent to the Roman historians' habit of accusing leaders they disliked of unmanliness or sexual immorality--or both). That said, these accounts are generally considered at least somewhat reliable:

* In ''Film/TruthAOrDare2012'', young British boys and girls travel to an isolated cabin after being promised a night of heavy partying. Instead of the fun they hoped for, they meet a killer out to reap vengeance on them for the death of his brother.

* In ''Film/TruthAndDare2012'', young British boys and girls travel to an isolated cabin after being promised a night of heavy partying. Instead of the fun they hoped for, they meet a killer out to reap vengeance on them for the death of his brother.

* The Banquet of Nyköping in 1317. The Swedish King Birger had invited his younger brothers, Dukes Valdemar and Erik, to Castle Nyköping to feast at Christmas. After everyone had gotten drunk, king Birger imprisoned his brothers, put them in the oubliette of the castle, and (so tradition says) threw the key into the nearby river. The dukes died from starvation. A large medieval key ''was'' found near the castle in 1847.

** In 1811, when Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Egypt (although "governor" is hardly the right word, since by that time he was ''de facto'' independent of the Sultan in Istanbul), lured the leaders of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mamluk]] ruling class to a banquet in the Citadel of UsefulNotes/{{Cairo}} (his HQ). He had them go down a dead-end, trapped them, and had them all shot.