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* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch, the [[AntiHero main]] [[VillainProtagonist character]], in his Zero guise, does this to [[spoiler: Euphemia, about her half-brother, Clovis.]] in episode 8. "He begged pathetically for his life with the same tongue that ordered the death of countless Elevens," but he was still her brother. Extra tragic considering that Lelouch is actually [[spoiler: also their half-brother, and Clovis and Euphie loved him more than any of their other siblings did.]]

* ''Series/BreakingBad'''s has this as possibly Walter White's biggest and cruelest KickTheDog moment in the entire series. [[spoiler:After letting Jesse be taken to be tortured by the neo-nazis, still angry over Hank's death, Walter decides to stop Jesse just long enough to tell him that he saw his girlfriend, Jane, overdose and choke to death. He mentions that he could have saved her, but decided not to. Jesse]] is so broken by this revelation that he doesn't even try to fight back anymore.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': Sephiroth taunts Cloud about how he enjoyed slicing up Cloud's mother Claudia and says she died begging him to spare her son, sending Cloud into a murderous rage.

* Happens in the ''Series/{{Tracker}}'' pilot. Rhee gloats that Cole's daughter "went slowly", and Cole responds with "So will you" and proceeds to make the life force collection very slow. Apparently it's more painful when done slowly.

* ''Film/LethalWeapon2''. Martin Riggs, the protagonist with a dead wife issue is about to be killed, and Peter van Horscht sits down to tell him a couple of things.

** Needless to say, since Riggs is a {{Determinator}}, and this revelation is essentially Riggs' BerserkButton, it doesn't turn out well.

* ''Film/ThePatriot'': Tavington immediately recognizes Martin when he visits the British camp under a white flag. He gloats about killing Martin's teenage son, which Martin actually did witness first-hand, but Tavington is simply doing so in an attempt to provoke a violent response from Martin.

* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin Vol 1]]'': When Clyde Rawlins finally gets to confront Edmund Dorrance, who had killed his wife and children, Dorrance gleefully starts describing their deaths when he realizes who he is, then when Rawlins lunges at him, continues describing their deaths as he beats Rawlins to death.

Sometimes the villain does this to mess with the heroes' emotions, or because he wants to frighten them, or [[IShallTauntYou provoke them]], or [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims he enjoys reliving the memory]], or he just plain loves causing pain and can't resist the chance to confront the hero with this source of anguish. Villains who love to BreakThemByTalking thrive on this.

* Gauron from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' loves to do this. He's shown doing this to a minor character, and does this in a more notable instance to Sousuke during ''TSR''. Towards the minor character, Gauron laughs and tells the guy that he's the last one, and that some of his comrades died crying and begging for their life. This pisses the guy off enough to send him into a berserk rage. Too bad he's just a small side character that ends up getting blown up. And in ''TSR'', Gauron volunteers a (fake) detailed description of how Kaname died to Sousuke. Including how her cute uniform was in tatters, but that she never begged for her life, and that her last words were "I'm sorry" to Sousuke. This pisses Sousuke off to the point where he [[spoiler: shoots the hell out of Gauron]]. Which was exactly what Gauron wanted, the ManipulativeBastard.

* Heroic version in ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'', when Edward taunts Victoria about how he tore James to pieces and burned his body, in order to enrage Victoria enough to break cover and attack him recklessly.

* In the ''Series/TheMentalist'' Season 3 finale, Jane encounters a man he believes is Red John, the serial killer who murdered Jane's wife and daughter years earlier. A variation in that what he tells Jane isn't about how his family died (easily obtainable information that would actually prove very little) but how they smelled on the night they died, which only the killer would know. [[spoiler:Turns out to be a subversion in that the man in question wasn't Red John himself, he was a Red John associate who had presumably been fed these details so he could pass for the real thing.]]

* In ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', the Kurgan gloats over killing Connor's mentor. "Ramirez was an effete snob who died on his knees..." he says, and then reveals a terrible secret that was kept from Connor for almost 450 years [[spoiler: that the Kurgan raped "Ramirez's woman" after he killed him . . . the woman was actually Connor's wife]] - it's ''that'' part that hits home. [[spoiler: The Kurgan then deduces (correctly) whose lover his victim was, and claims she never told Connor because the Kurgan was a better lover . . . the more likely reason was to prevent her husband getting himself killed in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against an enemy who had killed an opponent with over 1000 years more sword-fighting experience than Connor.]]

** Inverted by a vampire who, knowing that Roy feels guilty over the death of his baby brother, decides to taunt him by asking for more information about the accident that killed him:
--->When you found his dead body after you failed to warn your mother, how many pieces was it in? More than five?

* PlayedForLaughs ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''. The Serpent Sisters giddily want to tell Jack Horner how they'd done a lot of murder to steal the map to the Wishing Star, but Jack keeps shutting them up before they can elaborate.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Ronan [[ButForMeItWasTuesday does not even remember]] killing Drax's family, although he later claims he has since recalled and that their death rattle was pathetic. He's probably lying just to infuriate Drax.

* Just before the Sonya vs. Kano fight from ''Film/MortalKombat'', Kano taunts her by brandishing his Raptor knife, and mentioning how he used it to [[GlasgowGrin put a big smile on Sonya's partner, "ear... to ear,"]] before murdering him.

* Randall of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead: Michonne'' not only tells [[spoiler:Sam and her family how he killed their father]], but he even cruelly jokes and laughs about it to their face.

* ''Webcomic/DominicDeeganOracleForHire'': Jacob Deegan, an accomplished {{necromancer}}, takes great pleasure in pulling this on Dominic. We don't hear exactly what he did to the victim, but judging by the VomitDiscretionShot in the next panel it was pretty grim.

* ''Film/DiaryOfAHitman'' (1991). Forest Whitaker plays the eponymous hitman, who's hired to kill the ex-wife of the client, ''and'' her baby. The hitman isn't happy about this, so taunts the client with this trope when it's time to pick up his payment (as it happens, [[HitmanWithAHeart he hasn't killed either one.]])

** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': During the Future Trunks Saga, Goku Black, [[spoiler: being an alternate version of Zamasu who used the Dragon Balls to pull off a GrandTheftMe on an alternate version of Goku, does this to the "main" Goku, revealing that after stealing the alternate Goku's body, the very first thing he did was kill the other Goku, and then his family.]]

** When Harry confronts [[BigBad Voldemort]] for the first time in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', [[FanNickname Voldy]] starts by telling him "you'll meet the same end as your parents... they died begging me for mercy...." But when Harry doubts that version, Voldemort quickly agrees that Harry's parents did indeed fight courageously... and still goes on to describe how they died.

* In ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'', Swami [[spoiler:tells Altair that, right before Altair's son, Sef, was killed, Swami told Sef that it was on his Altaïr's orders, so that he died thinking his father had betrayed him.]]

* ''Film/LethalWeapon2''. Martin Riggs, the protagonist with a [[StuffedIntoTheFridge dead wife issue]] is about to be killed, and Peter van Horscht sits down to tell him a couple of things.