History Main / YouWillBeSpared

--> '''Cell:''' Don't worry, I'll save you daddy for last. Hear that [[ParentalSubstitute Piccolo!]]

* In ''MouseHunt'''s "[[ChristmasMode Great Winter Hunt 2012]]", the player assists an embittered mouse and receives a note of thanks, including the line "When we mice finally overthrow your world and become the rightful rulers, I will be sure to make sure the other mice treat you well."

--->It seems I have you to thank [[spoiler: for my resurrection.]] Though your world will suffer slowly, I grant ''you'' a quick death."

--->You impress me, Kryptonian. More, your valor has touched my heart. Oh yes, there is still some small part of me that knows mercy. I will end your pain... with something special I've been saving for just this occasion. ''(Darkseid draws a Kryptonite knife)'' I'm going to carve out your heart and put it on a pike in my throne room.

In [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/10/18 this]] ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes strip, a bug-eyed monster in one of Calvin's [[MrImagination "Spaceman Spiff" adventures]] tells Spaceman Spiff:

** [[spoiler: After bumping Lily and her family to top of Voldemort's hit list, Severus Snape begged him to spare her (though ''not'' James, whom he hated, or Harry, who was Voldemort's primary target and had no chance of being spared), in part due to his unrequited love for her. It almost worked; Voldemort did offer Lily the chance to step aside, but since she insisted on protecting Harry, he ended up killing her anyway. When Dumbledore found out about this he ''royally ripped Snape a new one'' for apparently thinking he could pull some manner of ComfortingTheWidow on Lily after being complicit in the deaths of her husband and child. On the other hand, the fact that she had a choice is what made the protective magic work that shielded Harry from Voldemort after her death]].

** [[spoiler: After bumping Lily and her family to top of Voldemort's hit list, Severus Snape begged him to spare her (though ''not'' James, whom he hated, or Harry, who was Voldemort's primary target and had no chance of being spared), in part due to his unrequited love for her. It almost worked; Voldemort did offer Lily the chance to step aside, but since she insisted on protecting Harry, he ended up killing her anyway. When Dumbledore found out about this he ''royally ripped Snape a new one'' for apparently thinking he could pull some manner of ComfortingTheWidow on Lily after being complicit in the deaths of her husband and child.]]

** [[spoiler: After bumping Lily and her family to top of Voldemort's hit list, Severus Snape begged him to spare her (though ''not'' James, who he hated, or Harry, who was Voldemort's primary target and had no chance of being spared), in part due to his unrequited love for her. It almost worked; Voldemort did offer Lily the chance to step aside, but since she insisted on protecting Harry, he ended up killing her anyway. When Dumbledore found out about this he ''royally ripped Snape a new one'' for apparently thinking he could pull some manner of ComfortingTheWidow on Lily after being complicit in the deaths of her husband and child.]]

* UrExample: In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', when Odysseus gives his name to the Cyclops as "Nobody", the Cyclops says that he will eat "Noman" last out of thanks for giving him the wine. (It may or may not have been the giant's sick idea of a joke.) This also doubles as a [[KickTheDog kick the dog moment]] to make him evil enough that the audience can enjoy him getting brutally blinded later. Capturing, enslaving and killing intruders wouldn't make him particularly bad in the eyes of Homer's audience (eating them is a bit over the top, though). Deliberately insulting the holy laws of hospitality by expressly making this Odysseus' "guest gift" is sacrilege though, and that's a completely different matter.

* UrExample: In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', when Odysseus gives his name to the Cyclops as "Noman", the Cyclops says that he will eat "Noman" last out of thanks for giving him the wine. (It may or may not have been the giant's sick idea of a joke.) This also doubles as a [[KickTheDog kick the dog moment]] to make him evil enough that the audience can enjoy him getting brutally blinded later. Capturing, enslaving and killing intruders wouldn't make him particularly bad in the eyes of Homer's audience (eating them is a bit over the top, though). Deliberately insulting the holy laws of hospitality by expressly making this Odysseus' "guest gift" is sacrilege though, and that's a completely different matter.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]], The Doctor meets a woman in 2059 whom he knows is critically important to history. She reveals that the reason she's in space is because she was spared by a Dalek [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth during their invasion of Earth fifty years earlier]]. She never knew why, but The Doctor knows that it's because of her importance to the future; she's a "fixed point in time", and even the Daleks know better than to mess with those.

-->'''Matrix''': Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?]]

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Commando}}'': Col. John Matrix (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) tells this to Sully, a wise-cracking bad guy. What's lost in MemeticMutation, however, is that it's [[DeadpanSnarker plainly obvious]] that Matrix isn't serious when he speaks the line.[[note]]Sully had just finished taunting Matrix and joking that his daughter would be gang-raped.[[/note]] Later, Sully gets the picture during a HighAltitudeInterrogation:
-->'''Matrix''': Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
-->'''Sully''': Yes. That's right, Matrix, you did!
-->'''Matrix''': ILied. ''(Drops Sully to his death.)''

* In ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'', Sarda shows mercy to the AffablyEvil Dark Warriors:
-->"Look, I don't do this... uh, ever. But you guys are basically like kittens stuck on a leaking lifeboat in a typhoon. Just run."

-->"You're a quick thinker ''and'' spiteful. I can respect that. You won't be killed, Bikke."

-->--'''Villager:''' You said we'd be forgiven!
-->--'''Tavington:''' And indeed you may! [[spoiler: But that's between you and God]].

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' - Peter and Kitty Pryde hit the mall on their first date and joke about the modern miracle that is the corn-dog on a stick. Kitty quips that when the mutants take over the world, the inventor of the corn-dog will be spared. She has to explain she was kidding when Peter looks nervous. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Little did they know....]]

** Hitler also made offers of this kind to the UK during the early phase of the war, generally along the lines of "[[WeCanRuleTogether Britannia can rule the waves and Germania the earth]]." The UK ignored them (they didn't even acknowledge they had received them), which is essentially a diplomatic way of saying, "f*** off."

* ''Franchise/TransformersFilmSeries''

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* This line from Dr. Robotnik in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''...
-->''"Perhaps due to your change of heart, I'll exterminate you '''somewhat''' painlessly..."''

* Though he never actually tells her, Cat R. Waul of ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' planned on sparing Tanya Mousekewitz after he and his gang killed and ate every mouse in town, because he liked her singing voice.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': Two kids unwittingly released a ghost bent on revenge against the family of one of them. He spared the kid as thanks.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' - Peter and Kitty Pryde hit the mall on their first date and joke about the modern miracle that is the corn-dog on a stick. Kitty quips that when the mutants take over the world, the inventor of the corn-dog will be spared. She has to explain she was kidding when Peter looks nervous. [[ForeShadowing Little did they know....]]

* "You... and you, will die slow." *Points at Gordon* "You... It'll be quick." *Points at Bullock* "And you... We're cool."

* At the end of the director's cut of the third ''Film/{{Riddick}}'' movie, Riddick confronts Krone as he's praying in the Lord Marshal's private chambers, having taken up Riddick's former post after betraying Riddick and leaving him for dead. Riddick promises to kill Vaako first and Krone second if he tells him where he can find Vaako. Krone launches into a long-winded rant instead of answering him, prompting Riddick to kill him ahead of schedule.

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