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| 15 | [[caption-width-right:250:"Now that I have you in my clutches, prepare for your... ''dinner''!"]] |
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| 17 | ->'''Dr. Evil:''' Scott, I want you to meet Daddy's nemesis, Austin Powers.\ |
| 18 | '''Scott Evil:''' What? Are you feeding him? [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why don't you just kill him]]? |
| 19 | -->-- ''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'' |
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| 21 | When the villain has the hero captured, he will not [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shoot him on the spot]]. Instead, he treats the hero as a [[SacredHospitality guest in his home]] and offers him a [[GildedCage luxurious bedroom]] and a lovely meal. The hero might attempt to take a CutleryEscapeAid during the meal, or dampen the festivities by saying saying "ImNotHungry". |
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| 23 | This is generally in an effort to convince the hero to join them in a WeCanRuleTogether scenario, and will feature a [[StoryBoardingTheApocalypse sales pitch describing villain's scheme]]. The hero may be provided with formal dining attire: a tux for the gent and [[GoGoEnslavement a good-looking, well-fitting dress]] for the lady, with [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe a bath]] if needed. This may explicitly be so the villain can ogle her. |
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| 25 | This differs from general AffablyEvil behaviour, where the [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu villain is likely to be genuinely friendly]] rather than faking it. Treating the hero as a guest is a demonstration of unassailable power, confidence, and [[WickedCultured civility]]. It ratchets up the tension with the ever-present threat of unpleasantness should the hero step out of line. |
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| 27 | The hero will ultimately be placed into the DeathTrap device upon their rejection. This will present the hero with an opportunity to escape, as per a BondVillainStupidity plot |
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| 29 | Compare CaptiveDate, where one side of a romantic evening would rather not be there but isn't allowed to leave. The discount version of this trope is KidnappersKFC, when a kidnapper can only afford fast food for himself and his hostage because he's running from the cops. |
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| 33 | !!Examples: |
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| 37 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 38 | * ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' has Imzat of the New Earth Federation treating Jamil and Tiffa to a nice dinner to discuss the old war and the place of Newtypes in the Federation's planned new world. Unsurprisingly, neither of them actually eat. |
| 39 | * Sumireko of ''Manga/AkumaNoRiddle'' invites Haru and Tokaku to a formal dinner, which [[SerialKiller Otoya]] [[WorfEffect tries]] to crash. The fancy dining room reveals itself to be [[spoiler: an armory]] and [[spoiler:Sumireko proves to be a cyborg.]] |
| 40 | * In episode 6 of ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars'', Baron Febdash appears to be a hospitable host to Lafiel and Jinto until the dinner itself, where his villainous intentions are made known. |
| 41 | * In ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'', Muraki kidnaps the shinigami [[TheEmpath Hisoka]], then forces Hisoka's partner [[AlmightyJanitor Tsuzuki]] to have dinner with him if he wants to see his partner again. |
| 42 | * In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', Tyki invites Allen and his friends to sit down at the huge table and dine with him. Pity that none of them [[ImNotHungry feel like eating]], what with the whole place slowly disintegrating which would eventually lead to them dying. |
| 43 | * [[BigEater Miaka]] of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' falls victim to this twice. To be fair, she tries not to. |
| 44 | ** During the rather light first instance, she broke into Kutou Palace with two Seishi to find the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho and Tamahome; she is captured but manages to escape, and Yui lures her ex-best friend to her with food. Miaka tries to talk some sense into her, and the trope turns straight when Miaka sees [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Tamahome]]. |
| 45 | ** The second instance is much darker. The [[MacGuffin Shinzahou]] had been stolen, and Miaka takes it upon herself to get it back from Nakago. When she arrives at the Seiryuu camp, she catches a delicious whiff of food and finds Nakago alone inside the tent with the item. He invites her to dinner, and things get [[AttemptedRape worse]] after the conversation that ensues. |
| 46 | --->'''Nakago:''' You're welcome to join me if you want.\ |
| 47 | '''Miaka:''' Don't make fun of me! Give me back the Shinzahou you stole from us!\ |
| 48 | ''(Cut to Miaka eating dinner)''\ |
| 49 | '''Miaka:''' ... is what I'd like to say, but my stomach takes over. |
| 50 | %%* In ''Manga/HaouAiren'', Yishan does this to Kurumi. |
| 51 | * In ''Manga/HoshinEngi'', Choukoumei invites Taikobo and Supushan to dine with him before testing if Taikobo is worthy of being his rival with a fight against his sisters. |
| 52 | * In episode 10 of ''Literature/IsThisAZombie'', the King of Night is preparing food, and when Ayumu and Haruna break into his apartment to try and rescue Yuu, he ends up making them stay for dinner, while also discussing with Ayumu if he likes being immortal. |
| 53 | * ''Anime/{{K}}'' has an interesting twist, with enemies who do end up as teammates - Kuroh follows his target, Yashiro, back to his room, intending to "fulfill [his] master's wishes and slay the evil king," (whose actions Shiro is framed for). After a chase scene, they realize they're hungry... and Kuroh cooks for them, and they all eat together. |
| 54 | * ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': In the movie finale ''Fright to the Finish'', King Dedede and Escargoon kidnap Tiff and try to make her tell them how to access the Warp Star, by trying to tempt her with lots of food. |
| 55 | * Late in the run of the original ''Manga/LupinIII'' manga series, Lupin encounters a scientist whose secrets he intends to steal. So, he invites him to dinner to discuss it. |
| 56 | * ''Anime/MazingerZ'': In a storyline of the Gosaku Ota manga, [[TheDragon Baron Ashura]] kidnaps [[TheHero Kouji Kabuto]]. Then Ashura treats him like a guest and invites him to have dinner with him to talk him into joining him (Kouji even was provided with a tuxedo). In one moment Ashura asks Kouji if the meal is to his liking and Kouji replies it would be more to his liking if he was not handcuffed. Ashura retorts he is not SO stupid to let him free. |
| 57 | * In the ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' anime, when Caren enters Gaito's castle, he invites her for dancing and partying with Noel and Coco, the kidnapped princesses she was going to rescue. [[spoiler:It's a trap, the ''real'' Noel and Coco being stuck in PeopleJars in his throne room, while these two are actually Mimi and Sheshe.]] Nice thought, though. |
| 58 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'': Relena is kidnapped and then treated like a queen by Mariemeia Kushrenada and her group. |
| 59 | * In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', the Nazis attempting to use Nina as bait to lure Johan to them first treat her to a nice dinner at one of the members' mansion. |
| 60 | * One episode of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' has Gali feeding the heroes food and water. The meal isn't rigged, but he uses the distraction to sucker-punch them. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has Fate sit down for tea with Negi, although this quickly devolves into them berating the others' taste in beverages, until Negi throws the table and sucker punches him. |
| 62 | %%* ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 63 | %%** In the Alabasta arc, Sir Crocodile did this to Princess Vivi, exposing his entire plan to depose her father and overthrow her country of Alabasta. |
| 64 | %%** In a flashback in the Zou arc, Capone Bege does this to Sanji's group as [[spoiler:he's taking them to Big Mom]]; this time the locale is ''his own body'', thanks to his Devil Fruit powers. |
| 65 | * Zigzagged in ''Literature/OurLastCrusadeOrTheRiseOfANewWorld'': After a surprise encounter with Iska at a theater in a neutral nation Alice and Rin proceed to a pasta restaurant where they are seated at a table reserved by Iska. While the tension remains high, Alice and Iska make a connection based on their mutually shared preferences for pasta. They eventually part ways opting to pretend the diner never happened. |
| 66 | * The anime series ''Anime/SpiderRiders'' has Spider Rider Hunter Steele and spider Shadow being treated quite well when taken prisoner by the series BigBad Mantid. Though it's later revealed to have all been a deception. |
| 67 | * ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': In the second arc's tea party, [[spoiler:Beatrice captures Rosa and ties her to a chair before promising to grant anything for Rosa if she'll accept her existence. She then decides on her own that she knows what to grant Rosa and treats her to a lovely banquet... that is made from the remains of her siblings]]. She actually brags about it being made [[FromMyOwnPersonalGarden From Her Own Personal Compressor]], among other things. |
| 68 | * In ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'', after [[spoiler:Orion captures Mamoru]], he tells his second-in-command to invite him to dinner. [[spoiler:Mamoru]] spends the time eating up because he didn't know when he'd be able to eat next. |
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| 71 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/AlanFord'' notably spoofs this trope in the volume ''Rich Mission'': the VillainousGlutton Mr Trip has just captured Alan and Count Oliver and invites them to join him in his private pool where he offers them a large plate full of pastries. Being perpetually broke and hungry, the two wolf down everything in seconds, much to Trip's dismay. |
| 73 | -->''"Mumble... I see that the local air helps you build up quite an appetite."'' |
| 74 | * In ''[[ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire Athena Voltaire and the Immortal Power]]'', Major Klimt has dinner with a captured Athena and colleagues aboard her airship. |
| 75 | -->'''Athena:''' Why the fancy dinner ''now?''\ |
| 76 | '''Klimt:''' We are nearing our destination. Perhaps I merely want to gloat. Or persuade Herr Lang to cooperate again. Or perhaps I just wanted a little "girl talk", as you Americans say.\ |
| 77 | '''Athena:''' ''[Sarcastically]'' Terrific. We can braid each other's hair later. |
| 78 | * Pictured above is a scene from issue #87 (1969) of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'' in which Crystal and Sue are trying to escape Doom's castle, only to run right into the dictator's personal dining room. Despite the fact that he was trying to kill them before, he now treats them as honored guests. EvenEvilHasStandards, especially when it comes to getting three square meals, apparently. |
| 79 | * In one issue of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', a decade and a half later, an at-that-point deposed Doom has a run in with the X-Men. He asks Storm to have dinner with him. She agrees, as it's a distraction, something Doom ''knows'' (and is in fact checking on the other X-Men via screens at his end of the table), but both of them are actually enjoying the charade so much they almost don't want to end it. |
| 80 | * Considering his disdain for Earth's heroes, Doom tends to entertain them a lot. In ''ComicBook/SavageAvengers'', he invites ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian to dine with him. Conan is insulted at first that Doom refuses to eat with him. When he asks why Doom wears a mask, Doom answers, "I was injured." Conan's response of "So you are vain," ultimately prompts Doom to remove his mask in front of Conan. |
| 81 | * During ''ComicBook/FallOfX'' Doom also invites members of the X-Men, including the team's newest member [[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]], to dinner. He even arranges to have halal dishes prepared for Kamala. |
| 82 | -->'''Ms Marvel''': Doctor Doom knows about me. I don't know how I feel about that. |
| 83 | * In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', when Spider-Man swings by the Kingpin's building for no reason while contemplating his life, Elektra shows up and invites him in... where Kingpin offers him pizza and a partnership. |
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| 86 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 87 | * In ''Fanfic/TheGodsAwaken'', [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]] arranges to have one of his servants make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Eda, Lilith, and King whilst they wait for Luz and Amity to return with the Necronomicon. |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/AGrowingAffection'' has the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Blood Drinker Demon, Doraku]], sits down for a nice meal with Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Lee, before he makes them his slaves. He even invites them to try and escape. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': Lampshaded by Fuyutsuki when Ra's Al Ghul is explaining his evil scheme: |
| 90 | -->'''Fuyutsuki:''' If you mean to detail your nefarious plan to me, shouldn't we be eating dinner? Or did you plan to aim a laser at my crotch? |
| 91 | * ''Fanfic/ATeachersGlory'' has Zabuza sit down to a (non-poisoned) picnic with Asuma and Anko before they fight, because Asuma believes getting accurate information on Mist is more important than immediate killing Zabuza. |
| 92 | %%* In ''Fanfic/{{Ugly}}'' Light treats L to [[FoeRomanceSubtext a candle-lit dinner.]] |
| 93 | * ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'': While Valerie is recovering in [[VillainousCrush Shendu's]] hideout, he makes her dine with him on Chinese takeout at one point. |
| 94 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4550798/1/Plan-B Plan B]]'', an alternate take on how Kitty Pryde was rescued from the Breakworld Bullet at the end of Creator/JossWhedon's ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' Kitty Pryde is rescued from the Bullet in the distant future, and then sent back through time via Doctor Doom's time platform. Unfortunately she winds up in Doom's castle. Fortunately, Doom is grateful for her for saving Latveria (along with the rest of the world) from the Bullet, and treats her to dinner while waiting for his private jet to fuel up so he can fly her back to the States. |
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| 97 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 98 | * After Mr. Incredible defeats the first Omnidroid in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', Syndrome invites him to have dinner with Mirage, keeping his identity a secret for the time being. On the second flight to the island, he's provided with prawns in cocktail sauce and mimosa cocktails. |
| 99 | * ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse'': All three dragons offer to share their meals with Treeshaker before their fight to the death -- the first two because he pretends to be a mere guest, the third because he's simply good-mannered despite knowing Treeshaker had killed his brothers. The first two times, Treeshaker sits down with the dragons but rejects their offer of eating rocks, crystals and ores. The third time, he drinks the dragon's wine before the monster even arrives, rendering his offer moot. |
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| 102 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 103 | %%* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', Prince John does this to Robin near the beginning; Robin and his men likewise entertain the Sheriff, Guy, and Marian somewhat later. |
| 104 | * Parodied in the quote at the top of the page in ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]''. Scott is baffled as to why his father is not shooting his Archenemy on the spot and is instead sharing a meal with him. |
| 105 | * In the ''wuxia'' ''Film/TheBellsOfDeath'', the protagonist, Wei-Fu, is invited by the main villain, Bandit Lord Tso, for a feast in the bandits' fortress, nevermind Wei-Fu had killed both of Tso's CoDragons prior to their meeting, since the Bandit Lord is offering Wei-Fu a WeCanRuleTogether deal. Things nearly turns ugly for the hero when Wei-Fu gets to meet the Bandit's leading concubine, which turns out to be Wei-Fu's sister that he thought was killed five years earlier. |
| 106 | * In ''Film/TheBlackHole'', Dr. Reinhardt invites the visiting crew of the ''Palomino'' to dinner, although it's only a ''safe bet'' that he's a MadScientist at that point: |
| 107 | -->'''[[TheCaptain Captain Holland]]:''' It's only dinner.\ |
| 108 | '''[[RobotBuddy V.I.N.CENT]]:''' "[[DeadpanSnarker ...said the spider to the fly.]]" |
| 109 | * Subverted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Colonel Philips brings Arnim Zola a steak dinner during his interrogation. Zola suspects that it might be drugged and refuses it, claiming vegetarianism on medical grounds. [[labelnote:note]]His line that meat "disagrees" with him is also subtle foreshadowing for his later BrainUploading.[[/labelnote]]Philips shrugs and eats it himself. |
| 110 | -->'''Zola:''' You are trying to intimidate me, Colonel. |
| 111 | -->'''Philips:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I bought you dinner.]] |
| 112 | * Subverted in ''Film/{{Congo}}''. Captain Wanta invites (then demands) that his prisoners partake of coffee and cake. They mostly ignore this and start 'negotiating' (e.g. bribing) their release, but when the universally despised Herkermer Homolka tries eating a slice of cake, Wanta not only orders him to stop, he makes him spit it out again. |
| 113 | -->'''Captain Wanta:''' Mister Homolka; stop eating my sesame cake. ({{Beat}}) '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop-eating-my-sesame-cake!]]''' |
| 114 | * ''Film/DeathRing'': After abducting Matt, Vachs has him brought to a formal dinner so he can be introduced the [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the men who will be hunting him]]. |
| 115 | * ''Film/Desire1936'': The Spanish criminals out for the stolen jewel, the American everyman in possession of the jewel, and the [[LoveRedeems redeemed love interest]] who stole the jewel sit down for a classy meal. [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow Each side suspects that the others know that it knows]], so they have a nice chat about whether there has to be a war and if America will have the sense to stay out of it. Everyone's looking for an opportunity to turn it into a showdown. |
| 116 | * Inverted in the campy ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze''. Captain Seas invites our heroes to dinner and only reveals himself as the villain ''after'' the meal. |
| 117 | -->'''Seas:''' Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed your dinner...because it's going to be your last. ''(waiters all produce guns)'' |
| 118 | * ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': Darth Vader: "We would be honored if you would join us." Said after he casually blocks laser blasts with his hand. Laser blasts that [[MemeticMutation Han shot first]]. With after-dinner torture, too! Though they don't end up having the dinner onscreen, ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a skit showing what happens when they do. It's awkward. |
| 119 | ** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the Podcast/RiffTrax: |
| 120 | --->'''Chad Vader''': Brunch, anyone? |
| 121 | * ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'': Upon learning of the balloonists' presence on the island, MadScientist Sheila Frankenstein dispatches her henchmen to fetch them and bring them to her house. Upon their arrival, she shares a fine bottle of cognac with them (presumably the budge of the film didn't stretch to actual food). |
| 122 | * In the movie ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'', the serial-killing antagonist kidnaps Clarice Starling's antagonistic former boss. After drugging and subduing both the man and Starling, he dresses the woman up in an elegant gown and has a fancy candlelight dinner with both of them. Then again, [[spoiler: he's actually removing portions of the man's brain, cooking them right there at the table, and feeding them to him.]] |
| 123 | %%** The scene where Landa sits and enjoys a strudel with Shoshonna. Her reaction when he finally leaves tells it all. |
| 124 | * In the ''Film/JamesBond'' {{parody}} ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'', Steranko insists on eating dinner with Michael after he's been captured. Unlike other examples, he is mostly serious because he does not need the hero dead, simply out of the way. |
| 125 | * Inverted in the ''Film/InfernalAffairs'' films, where top cop Wong has a habit of welcoming gangsters into custody with take-out. |
| 126 | * Film/JamesBond is particularly prone to this; perhaps he just seems a pleasant dinner companion. |
| 127 | ** ''Film/DrNo''. The {{Trope Maker|s}}. After Bond and Honey Ryder are captured by Dr. No's guards, Dr. No invites them to dine with him. He and Bond have a leisurely conversation, with Dr. No explaining his background and plans, complimenting Bond's intelligence and trying to recruit him to join SPECTRE. Bond responds by insulting him, so Dr. No orders his guards to torture him. Justified in this instance, since Dr. No is trying to understand Bond better. |
| 128 | ** As mentioned in the description above, ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. While Bond is being kept prisoner in Goldfinger's compound, he is brought out to Goldfinger's front porch and the two drink some Mint Julip. Justified in that Goldfinger is keeping Bond alive as part of a gambit to trick his handlers into thinking Bond has control of the situation. Thus the appearance of the two having a friendly chat over drinks keeps any investigators from looking any deeper into Bond's situation to realize he's being held captive. |
| 129 | ** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. James Bond travels to Scaramanga's island with the intent of killing him and rescuing Bond's partner [[Creator/BrittEkland Miss Goodnight]]. Scaramanga welcomes him to the island, gives him a guided tour and invites him to lunch ([[MsFanservice with Miss Goodnight wearing a bikini rather than evening wear]] - which would be almost as absurd since they're not having dinner). During lunch, Scaramanga challenges Bond to a duel to the death, and Bond accepts. |
| 130 | ** Subverted in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Stromberg invites Bond to join him for dinner so that Bond will be sitting right in the sights of the gun attached to the underside of the table. Bond figures it out, gets clear in time and returns the favor down the firing tube. |
| 131 | ** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}''. Over dinner Kamal Khan has an amiable discussion with Bond over how he's going interrogate him--he prefers a can't-miss TruthSerum combo that results in permanent brain damage. It's not this conversation but the [[ForeignQueasine stuffed sheep's head with the eyes still intact]] that puts Bond off his meal. That and how TheDragon is [[DeathGlare Death Glaring]]. "I lose my appetite which I get stared at." |
| 132 | * In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Valentine shares a lovely dinner with whatever guests he sways to his side. This helps the Prime Minister to follow him, while the Swedish Princess says he's completely insane. Later, Valentine more directly invokes the trope by eating with an undercover Harry. Their main course is... [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds McDonald's]]. This dinner also has a practical side, as [[spoiler: the wine Harry ingested contains a special gel that allows him to track Harry's movements.]] |
| 133 | * ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'': Rom invites Jane to dine with him while she is his captive on his riverboat; with the understanding that if she refuses, he will drop her friend into the river to be eaten by crocodiles. |
| 134 | * Inverted in ''Film/MiamiBlues'' when Detective Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward) appears at suspect "Herman Gottlieb's" (Alec Baldwin) apartment to brace him, invites himself to dinner ("Pork Chops? I'll put my teeth in for that!") and proceeds to needle him throughout the meal. ("So -- where'd you do your time?") |
| 135 | %%* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': |
| 136 | * ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'': Barbossa "asks" the captured Elizabeth to have dinner with him. While other villains might do this to take advantage of the heroine, to show that they are civilized, or to just plain gloat, Barbossa is pretty original in that he's so hungry due to his curse, he just wants to watch someone eat. |
| 137 | %%** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' features Beckett and Will having tea together to discuss alliances, with Davy Jones spoiling the mood. |
| 138 | %%** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'': Played with during Jack Sparrow's audience with the king in that Jack may or may not be hanged when it is over. |
| 139 | * ''Film/Posse1975'': While holding Marshal Nightingale hostage in the presidential suite, Jack Strawhorn shares a meal with him, with them the two of them even discussing what to have for dessert. However, because Nightingale has his hands cuffed behind him, Mrs Ross is forced to feed him. |
| 140 | * ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'': Ellen (Sharon Stone) took up Herod's (Gene Hackman's) offer of dinner. She went, [[YouKilledMyFather loaded for revenge]] but got spooked by Herod's BreakingSpeech and [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim the ultimate ramifications of succeeding]]. |
| 141 | %%* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' has a dining scene among enemies. Let's just say [[ImAHumanitarian it doesn't end well]]. |
| 142 | * In ''Film/TheShadow'', the second time Lamont Cranston encounters Shiwan Khan, the villain is eating dinner at a small restaurant. He invites Lamont Cranston to eat, having already ordered for him. Inverted during their first meeting where Lamont is the host and offers Khan a drink while discussing murder and mayhem. |
| 143 | * There's a scene from ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' that goes like this: protagonist [[OnlySaneMan Turk]][[DeadpanSnarker ish]] has screwed up a deal he had with LondonGangster Bricktop, which cost Bricktop a lot of money. Turkish runs back to his office, hoping he can get there and take all the money he has in his safe and flee the country. Bricktop and his goons are already there. Rather than killing Turkish, Bricktop has Turkish make everyone some tea, has a surprisingly civilized conversation where he explains what Turkish has to do to make up for this, and then, just before leaving, forces Turkish to open his safe and give everything inside to Bricktop. |
| 144 | * In ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'' Curtis is treated to this, at gunpoint, when he reaches the front of the eponymous train and confronts [[BigBad Wilford]]. A steak and a WeCanRuleTogether speech almost make him [[spoiler:agreee to step into Wilford shoes]]. |
| 145 | * In ''Film/SpyKids1'', the spy parents eventually manage to escape from their cell and make their way to the main room, only to find Floop waiting there with a dinner and holding a timer: |
| 146 | -->'''Floop''': Fifteen minutes to escape. With your reputations, I was expecting something a ''little'' more impressive. ''Finally'', we can eat! |
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| 149 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 150 | * ''Literature/AlexRider'' series: Alex dines with almost every one of the {{Big Bad}}s in each book, mostly as a FauxAffablyEvil gesture before they plan to kill him. |
| 151 | ** Taken to its logical extreme in ''Skeleton Key'' where General Sarov more or less tries to ''adopt'' him and treats him like his now-dead biological son, after Alex ends up getting captured. Much of the book is the BigBad letting (or rather, forcing) Alex to live with him in his luxury home, getting him to take part in various activities (like horse riding) and telling Alex WeCanRuleTogether. And dining with him. He even forbids his {{Mooks}} and TheDragon from harming him (the latter [[RevengeBeforeReason glefully disobeys]]). When Alex finally foils his EvilPlan and puts himself at his mercy, [[spoiler: he chooses to shoot himself rather than kill him.]] |
| 152 | %%** ''Eagle Strike'' has this with Damian Cray. Damian only does so because Alex "amuses him". |
| 153 | %%** ''Scorpia'' has this with Julia Rothman, but while she's clearly evil, she doesn't seem like an enemy of Alex at the time. |
| 154 | %%** ''Snakehead'' has this with Major Yu. An odd case, as while he's Alex's enemy, he makes it a point to tell Alex that he sees him as a WorthyOpponent. |
| 155 | %%** ''Crocodile Tears'' has this with Desmond [=McCain=]. Like Major Yu, he sees Alex as a worthy opponent and decides to be nice to him before he tortures him for information. |
| 156 | %%** ''Scorpia Rising'' has this with Razim. Razim does so because he wants to taunt Alex and Jack about defeating them as [[TaughtByExperience "he won't make the same mistakes as others have"]]. Just when it seems like this won't be case as Jack steals a knife from the table and uses it to escape, it turns out that was [[TheChessmaster also part of Razim's plan to send her into a trap.]] |
| 157 | * OlderThanFeudalism: Joseph subjects his brothers to something rather like this in the Literature/BookOfGenesis. Joseph is a good guy who intends his brothers no harm, but the brothers, who had previously sold him into slavery, ''think'' this is what happened when they realize who he was. It's also extended in time, with the brothers dining and staying with Joseph ''twice'' before he tells them who he is. |
| 158 | * ''Literature/BooksOfTheRaksura'' has a decidedly dark variant when Moon and [[spoiler:the [[NonhumanHumanoidHybrid Raksura-Fell hybrid]] Shade]] are stuck in a lair of the AlwaysChaoticEvil Fell: the "dinner" is a pile of corpses from the last town the Fell raided, and when [[spoiler:Shade]] refuses to eat, the FauxAffablyEvil captors offer to butcher Moon for their meal instead. [[spoiler:Shade placates them by taking one bite, but is left traumatized by the experience.]] |
| 159 | * In ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', the chapter "In Which He Spends A Quiet Night At The Elms" has Drummond spending a night as the guest of the Big Bad. The invitation is issued rather forcefully (he's abducted at gunpoint), but the rest of the event is one of at least surface civility, because Drummond has something the Big Bad wants. |
| 160 | * Used in the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' ([[FakeUltimateHero HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]) novel ''Duty Calls'', as the antagonist, [[spoiler: Radical Inquisitor]] Killian invites Ciaphas to dine with him and his ally Metheius, partially to boast but also to try to recruit him. Cain is understandably a little discomforted at eating with Killian, but plays along, commenting that Killian is the sort of megalomaniac who seems to need this sort of validation of his cleverness. |
| 161 | %%* In the ''Literature/{{Corum}}'' series by Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Arioch does this to Corum. |
| 162 | * In Creator/StephenKing's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series, the legend of "Oriza" is that Oriza invited her father's murderer into her castle to talk peace over dinner. He's afraid she'll hide a weapon in her clothes, so she suggests that they dine naked (to which he immediately agrees: Oriza is a hottie). Midway through dinner, she throws a sharpened ''plate'' at him, severing his head (making this an inversion: she's considered the hero). |
| 163 | * In Creator/TimPowers' ''Literature/DinnerAtDeviantsPalace'', the climactic sequence is a formal sit-down dinner for the villain, the hero, and a few dozen of the villain's underlings, complete with waiters and engraved invitations. |
| 164 | * Early in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Dracula plays host (and after Jonathan realizes he's a prisoner) and jailer to Jonathan Harker, and provides him with delicious meals. Although it's more than likely that Dracula does not eat... food, he's apparently a SupremeChef (or else his "brides" are), since there are no human servants at the castle. |
| 165 | * In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/DeathMasks'', Harry is captured by the demonic Nicodemus. When he comes to, Nicodemus has set out a full breakfast spread... only Harry's tied up and suspended under a running stream (cutting him off from magical energy). [[MagnificentBastard Nicodemus prepares for things like this]], and all Harry has to do to join him for breakfast is [[DealWithTheDevil make a little arrangement]]. |
| 166 | * In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', the bridge crew and Spartans of the ''Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice'' are invited to refreshments by Governor Jiles, leader of an insurgent human community, while they discuss receiving repairs for their vessel. Also FromMyOwnPersonalGarden, as Jiles comments about the asteroid's hydroponic gardens. A {{subversion}} of the usual connotations, however, in that Jiles originally intended to just raid their ship, take anything valuable, and take them prisoner and/or kill them without a meal. The meal was meant more as a "peace offering" after Vice Admiral Whitcomb demonstrated the power of their ship's plasma weaponry and made it clear he was willing to blow the insurgents up before they got close ([[GambitPileup which he couldn't effectively do because he only had one or two working turrets, but Jiles didn't need to know that]]). |
| 167 | * ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': |
| 168 | ** Inverted: the protagonist hero in ''Honor Among Enemies'' not only invites captured enemy naval officers to dine with her, but actually involves one of them in a planning session to take out a pirate. |
| 169 | ** In ''Storm From The Shadows'', Mike Henke is invited to dinner with Eloise Pritchart, President of the Republic of Haven. As with the earlier example, it's a pleasant dinner, especially since it's a setup for Pritchart using Mike as her emissary to deliver a truce offering to Manticore. |
| 170 | * A pervasive trope in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' trilogy. Meals in the Capitol are so opulent that it would take days to gather the ingredients in Katniss' home district, where starvation is common. The implication is [[spoiler:that the Capitol is so overwhelmingly powerful that any rebellion will be easily crushed, possibly by starvation. The delicious meals the Tributes are given are a reminder that they'd better play along]]. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue'' by Creator/CharlesStross has the secret agent protagonist captured by the evil billionaire who's trying to resurrect a shoggoth. The next morning, he and his lovely CIA agent contact are treated to breakfast by the billionaire and his wife. Justified as [[spoiler: the billionaire has invoked the tropes of James Bond movies as a geas. He plans to keep the agent locked in the trope of the solitary agent going it alone against the megalomaniac until no one else can possibly intervene, at which point he breaks the geas, kills the agent, and takes over the world before anyone can stop him]]. |
| 172 | * In Richard Connell's short story, "Literature/TheMostDangerousGame", General Zaroff treats Rainsford to a glass of champagne and a filet mignon, although this is ''before'' he find out the Zaroff is a madman who hunts humans for sport. |
| 173 | * In the second ''Literature/{{Neogicia}}'' novel, the protagonist Saly gets abducted by the leader of an enemy faction who wants to find out more about one of her BioAugmentation induced powers. Since he wants her in top shape for this, he has her sleep in a nice room, has servants dress her in nice clothing and give her a good meal. The incentive he has in case Saly refuses to demonstrate? A MercyLead to escape his castle. |
| 174 | * "Heroic" example: when Literature/NeroWolfe invites a suspect for interrogation or a police force rival who's interfering in his investigation, he usually makes sure to treat them to a meal, and maybe a visit to his orchids in the greenhouse. Differentiated in that Wolfe very much ''does'' believe in SacredHospitality, and generally only extends that kind of invitation - when it isn't entirely social - to people he honestly expects to be better off afterwards. (Whether they'll be happy about it being a quite different matter.) When a guest, he's equally careful to extricate himself before taking actions that may harm his host. |
| 175 | * An OlderThanSteam "heroic" example: early in the ''Poem of the Cid'' (the epic on which ''Film/ElCid'' is loosely based), the Cid invites the Count of Barcelona to eat dinner with him after the count is defeated and captured in battle. When the count says he isn't hungry, the Cid tells him that if he eats he will be given treasure and sent home on a fast horse, and if he does not eat he will not be ransomed and will languish in chains. He decides to eat. |
| 176 | * In ''Literature/RangersApprentice'', in the fifth book Will [[spoiler: stops Skandians from raiding by inviting them to a dinner with the lords and ladies at the castle.]] |
| 177 | * A very well justified example in the ''Literature/{{Replica|MarilynKaye}}'' series. The organization was very nice to Chris when they captured him. Because if they could corrupt him, they'd have an agent close to Amy and Andy. And if he uses the opportunity to escape, they really don't care. He's NotWorthKilling. |
| 178 | * Done in some versions of ''Myth/RobinHood'', when Robin's band kidnaps some unfortunate priest or sheriff and forces him to sit down and eat (and sometimes bunk) with them, after which they empty the man's wallet for payment. |
| 179 | * In ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Guan Yu, sworn brother of Liu Bei, is forced to surrender to Liu's enemy Cao Cao. Cao has Guan appointed to high rank of nobility and presents him with every gift imaginable in order to win him over. Eventually, however, after "thanking" Cao by defeating two generals serving another warlord, Yuan Shao, Guan leaves Cao's forces to rejoin Liu, killing several of Cao's men on the way. |
| 180 | * In ''Literature/TheShipWho Won'', after Keff's captured by Mage Chaumel, Chaumel shows off where and how he lives and hosts a dinner with other mages, whose purpose is really to show off Keff as his prize. Between the rampant TamperingWithFoodAndDrink and being yanked around constantly so mages can question him and keep him disoriented, Keff barely gets a bite to eat and when he finally has enough of this treatment and protests it he's bombarded with horrific visions, until [[TokenHeroicOrc Plennafrey]] rescues him. |
| 181 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 182 | ** Although one of the most basic moral norms in the series' world is the "guest right" -- that no matter how much you want someone dead, if he eats bread and salt at your table, you must not harm him -- there is someone who doesn't care in the slightest about basic morality. Cue the Red Wedding, in which [[spoiler: no less than a viewpoint character is murdered by her brother's new father-in-law, immediately after watching her son and all his guards brutally killed.]] |
| 183 | ** Roose Bolton gives a travel-weary [[spoiler: Brienne]] a clean change of clothes, a nice, warm meal, and polite conversation, and then, with just as much politeness, [[spoiler: turns her over to be gang-raped and killed.]] |
| 184 | ** The other dinner guest is [[spoiler: Jaime,]] who Roose really does want to get on his side if possible, since he's been badly hurt while in the custody of some people technically working for Roose, and has the power to bring a whole lot of trouble down on Roose's head depending on what he says to who about it. Roose plays nice, but also makes the threat clear in some subtle ways, like serving food that [[spoiler: Jaime can't eat without help]] because it's all stuff that requires two hands to cut. |
| 185 | * In ''Literature/SonOfTheBlackSword'', this is ''inverted'' when Omand, the Grand Inquisitor, shows up uninvited for dinner at a minor nobleman's house, makes completely polite conversation, casually inquires after the nobleman's absent daughter, and [[ShameIfSomethingHappened her future career.]] |
| 186 | * ''Literature/ASorrorFierceAndFalling'': When [[TheProtagonist Henrietta]] gets caught by R'hlem's army and taken to him, R'hlem treats Henrietta to a meal. |
| 187 | * ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': In ''Empire of Ivory'', after King Mokhachane has Laurence brutally beaten for refusing to give up intelligence on the Atlantic slave trade and the poor guy nearly dies of infection as a result, Prince Moshueshue tries a different tack--he waits for Laurence to heal up before calling for him again, and sits him down for drinks. Unlike most examples of this trope, Laurence willingly answers Moshueshue's questions, and so the prince gets quite a bit of valuable information that goes on to influence the events of later books. |
| 188 | %%** As does Napolean's treatment of [[spoiler: Granby]] in the fifth, to the point that Laurence lampshades it a bit. Napoleon himself is presented as quite affable, and probably not even evil so much as... ''determined''. |
| 189 | * In volume 4 of ''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', the {{Yandere}} BigBad forces Kyousuke to eat breakfast with her. She is not at all concerned by the fact that she had to beat him into unconsciousness several times before he complied. |
| 190 | * Used by the Macellarius bloodline in a ''Literature/VampireTheRequiem'' introduction short story. The Macellarius are uber-AffablyEvil types who are enormously obese vampiric cannibals, gorging themselves on their enemies as they conquer the Requiem. In an odd twist, the Macellarius leader invites two potential converts to dinner, selects one to join the bloodline and has the other killed and eaten as a welcome feast. |
| 191 | * This happens in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader''. On "the island of the voices", the Narnians suddenly find themselves surrounded by invisible "dufflepuds", claiming to be holding weapons, who demand that Lucy goes into a magician's room to remove the enchantment making them invisible. When the Narnians agree to this, the dufflepuds warmly invite them into their house to dinner and to stay the night, before Lucy fulfills their demand the following morning. |
| 192 | * The 1980s educational book ''Write Your Own Adventure Programs for Your Microcomputer'' suggests this as a puzzle in a spy-themed adventure game: the BigBad has captured the protagonist, taken away their weapons, and invited them to dinner. Over dessert, he shows them the remote control for his world decimator weapon. The book's suggested solution: [[spoiler:The player [[PieInTheFace throws the dessert in the villain's face]], grabs the remote control, and escapes.]] |
| 193 | * ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'': In ''Red Leech'', Duke Balthassar has Sherlock, Virginia and Matty sit down with for an meal which, for the most part, proceeds quite civilly as he attempts to find out how much they know about his scheme. After the meal, he orders them [[FedToTheBeast thrown to his Komodo dragons]]. |
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| 196 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 197 | * In ''Series/Batman1966'', Mr. Freeze forces Batman and Robin to dine with him before attempting to kill them. |
| 198 | %%* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': |
| 199 | %%** Leoben's revenge against Starbuck in the third season is quite a prolonged version of this trope. It's creepy as hell. |
| 200 | %%** At four months, that's not even the longest one. That record goes to [[spoiler:Cavil holding the newly-resurrected Ellen hostage for eighteen months after Saul killed her.]] |
| 201 | %%* On ''Series/BreakingBad'', Gus invites Walt to his house to cook dinner with him. He later invites Jessie over, while Walt and Jessie are plotting to kill him with poison. Even though Jessie could easily slip ricin into his food, Gus manages to subtly coax him into abstaining. |
| 202 | * In ''Series/ChildrenOfTheStones'', Rafael Hendrick "invites" Matthew and his father to dinner before trying to brainwash them. |
| 203 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 204 | ** Inverted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]], where it's the hero (The Doctor) who has the villain (Margaret Blon) cornered. She persuades him to take her to dinner at her favourite restaurant as a LastRequest, and spends the evening pleading for his mercy while intermittently attempting to kill him. |
| 205 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], minor villain Joshua Naismith captures major villain the Master (being stupid enough to think he can hold an insane, genius, and at this point super-powered Time Lord captive) whom he treats to a Christmas dinner of turkey. Due to the unusual circumstances of the Master's recent resurrection, his intense hunger means he devours the whole turkey in a matter of seconds. |
| 206 | ** When the Sheriff believes that Clara is the leader of the rebels in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood "Robot of Sherwood"]], he invites her to dinner. Over dinner, she persuades him to spill all the details of his plan. |
| 207 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E5KissedByFire Kissed by Fire]]", Jaime Lannister knows what this trope implies after he's captured by Lord Bolton, a man [[FlayedAlive not noted for his kind treatment of prisoners]]. |
| 208 | -->'''Bolton:''' I should send you back to Robb Stark.\ |
| 209 | '''Jaime:''' You should. Instead you're sitting here, watching me fail at dinner. Why might that be?\ |
| 210 | '''Bolton:''' Wars cost money. Many people would pay a great deal for you.\ |
| 211 | '''Jaime:''' We both know who would pay the most.[[note]]Jaime's father, Lord Tywin; the richest man in the Seven Kingdoms.[[/note]] |
| 212 | * ''Series/Hawkeye2021'': In episode 5, "Ronin", Kate Bishop finds Yelena waiting for her in her apartment. Yelena offers her macaroni and cheese and, despite the tension (notably due to Yelena's stated goal to kill Clint), their conversation goes into FriendlyEnemy territory. |
| 213 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 214 | ** Towards the end of season 2, Sylar breaks into Dr. Mohinder Suresh's apartment in an attempt to force the geneticist to find a cure for Sylar's loss of superpowers. Sylar takes Mohinder's adopted daughter hostage and gives Mohinder a suggestive phone call ("''Hello'', Mohinder..."), voicing vague threats. But when a horrified Mohinder arrives home, Sylar greets him amiably and pleasantly asks Mohinder to sit down and offers him breakfast. |
| 215 | ** In season 4, Sylar crashes the Petrelli's Thanksgiving dinner, and while he had sworn to kill Angela, he first comments that he's starving and practically inhales a pie. He's about to carry out his threat to kill Angela when Peter intervenes in time. |
| 216 | ** During the first appearance of Mr Linderman, who after half a series of build-up as a notorious mobster, is revealed to be an AffablyEvil individual who when not masterminding evil schemes, can often be found in the kitchen of his casino, cooking desserts. When Nathan decides to pull a gun on him, Linderman's response? |
| 217 | --->'''Linderman''': Now you don't get to have any of my pot-pie. |
| 218 | * During the ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' TV movie ''Loyalty'', the traitor invites Hornblower over for dinner after having taken him and a landing party prisoner. He intimates that there is no way he could have caused all the various problems that have been plaguing the British forces in the movie, most notably the French forces finding out key parts of the Brits' plans. Hornblower states that he needs to know who the traitor is, as it [[JustBetweenYouAndMe would be cruel to let him die not knowing who betrayed him]]. |
| 219 | * ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Miss Denby catches Patricia sneaking around by the gatehouse with Denby's bag. In the next scene with them we see Denby and Patricia were simply 'having a nice tea' while Denby was interrogating Patricia in the nicest manner possible. Patricia was visibly horrified the entire time, because who knows what Denby would have done if she really tried to flee or fight? |
| 220 | %%* ''Series/ICarly'': In "iStill Psycho", Nora and her family invite Carly, Sam, Freddie and Gibby over for dinner. |
| 221 | * ''Franchise/KamenRider'': |
| 222 | ** In Episode 30 of ''Series/KamenRiderSkyrider'', one of Neo Shocker's monsters “invites” Hiroshi to a birthday party, which is a trap meant for him. |
| 223 | ** In ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'', Sonozaki Ryubee thinks it's a great idea to have one last family dinner before he starts the Gaia Impact. This includes [[spoiler: his daughter Saeko (who recently teamed up with Isaka to betray him and was nearly assassinated by his forces), his alienated wife Shroud (who has been working to destroy him ever since he stole her son), and that son, Philip (half of the Kamen Rider that's been battling his forces all series, who he previously mindwiped and used as a tool to make Gaia Memories). Oh, and he's going to kill Philip for the Gaia Impact.]] |
| 224 | %%** Mari and Takumi get this treatment in ''Series/KamenRider555'' when summoned to Smart Brain to convince them to hand over the Faiz Gear. |
| 225 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'': |
| 226 | ** At the start of the third season Ben treats Kate to a pleasant breakfast on the beach, explaining that he wanted to give her something nice as "the next few weeks are going to be very unpleasant." |
| 227 | ** In the afterlife, Keamy is a [[AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks loan shark]] putting the screws to Sayid's brother. At the forced meeting where he threatens Sayid, he offers to cook him up some eggs, any style. |
| 228 | %%** In the season 5 finale, "The Incident", the episode opens with a seemingly innocuous scene of two men having breakfast together on the beach, and it isn't until the end of the scene that the viewer finds out that the 2 men are actually [[spoiler: mortal enemies who have been trying to kill each other for centuries.]] |
| 229 | * In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Reveille", Ari, whilst holding [[spoiler: Caitlin]] hostage, has a meal with her outside a house on a picnic table. He tries to stir up some {{Foe Romantic Subtext}}, but [[spoiler: Kate]] doesn't go for it. |
| 230 | * ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Being an EvilBrit, John Greer naturally offers Grace Hendricks [[BritsLoveTea some tea]] after taking her captive. Being a FieryRedhead, she refuses to touch the tea throughout her interrogation. |
| 231 | %%* The title character of ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' dines with his evil captors a LOT. Naturally, it's always YourFavorite. |
| 232 | * ''Series/SquidGame'': The night before the sixth game of six is going to start, the three remaining contestants are all fed a large fancy dinner, complete with dressing them up in formal evening wear and fancy silver platters for the rich delicious food. This is right before they're all being forced into one last DeadlyGame, so there's still some uncomfortable tension in the air. |
| 233 | * ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'': |
| 234 | ** ''Series/StargateSG1'': In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S6E12UnnaturalSelection Unnatural Selection]]", after the Replicators capture SG-1, they allow the team a night's sleep and treat them to a really nice and extremely creepy meal. The Replicators don't hide the fact that they're only keeping SG-1 alive so that they can enjoy [[MindRape mind-raping]] them ("Could there be any other reason we would keep you alive?"), so the quality of the meal doesn't make any sense in-story, unless the replicators were 'seasoning [=SG1=]'s minds' with it; but the trope probably just leaked out of the writers' brains. |
| 235 | ** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': |
| 236 | *** In the pilot episode, the Wraith Keeper introduces herself to Sumner; she offers him food which he refuses, prompting her to wonder why would he resist his hunger when it's "distasteful". Predictably, [[ToServeMan the corpse of her previous meal]] is still sitting at the table. |
| 237 | *** In season 5, when the team sits down to talk with Todd, he offers them a fruit bowl, saying that they picked it up on their travels and hoping that they're "[[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor as delicious as the farmers who grew them]]". |
| 238 | * A variation in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E9HideAndQ Hide and Q]]", Q offers Riker and his compatriots refreshments before beginning his DeadlyGame. Riker partakes of a glass of lemonade. Worf, conversely, pours his drink out and tosses the glass aside. |
| 239 | -->'''Q''': "Drink not with thine enemy." The rigid Klingon code...That explains something of why you defeated them. |
| 240 | %%* Happens as a Bond parody in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. |
| 241 | * During ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]" episodes, the MadScientist villain Annorax captures Chakotay and Paris and serves them a meal made up of the last vestiges of [[RetGone the many civilizations he wiped out]]. The sheer number of the dishes on the table is a testament to how much he's done, and Paris is visibly sickened. |
| 242 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 243 | ** In the Season 4 finale, the angels kidnap Dean and put him in "Heaven's Waiting Room," as Dean calls it: an ornately decorated Victorian-style room with a couple of bowls of bacon cheeseburgers ([[YourFavorite one of Dean's favorite foods]], though it's never directly stated) so Zachariah can convince him to [[spoiler:sit back and let the Apocalypse happen. Castiel eventually rebels and gets Dean out of there]]. |
| 244 | ** In Season 5, Dean tries to ambush TheGrimReaper, who's taken a breather in a Chicago pizzeria. Instead, Death [[SummonToHand reclaims his scythe]] and firmly tells Dean to sit down and have a slice of deep-dish. [[spoiler:Death also reveals that he's being forced to comply with the BigBad's schemes and gives Dean some much-needed help against their [[EnemyMine common enemy]].]] |
| 245 | * ''Series/SWAT2017'': In the first episode of season 5, "Vagabundo", the AffablyEvil villain of the week, Arthur Novak, gets Hondo locked up by some corrupt Mexican cops and then arranges for him to be released for a lunch meeting so Arthur can persuade him to [[WeCanRuleTogether do something for him]]. Hondo [[NoSell no-sells]] the meal, even though Arthur makes pains to note this is rude in the Mexican culture to which Hondo is a visitor; Hondo goes on to subvert one aspect of the trope by unexpectedly giving in to pragmatism and attempting to do the villain's bidding, attempting to persuade the [[DamselInDistress damsel]] of the week to sell the villain her farm. Ultimately negotiations break down and the villain has the damsel kidnapped at the end of the episode, forcing Hondo to prepare to rescue her. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 249 | * Music/JonathanCoulton's "Skullcrusher Mountain": |
| 250 | -->"Would it kill you to be civil?\ |
| 251 | I've been patient, I've been gracious\ |
| 252 | And this mountain is covered with wolves\ |
| 253 | Hear them howling, my hungry children\ |
| 254 | Maybe you should stay and have another drink and think about me and you" |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 258 | * ''Radio/BleakExpectations:'' While holding Pip Bin captive and torturing him for a prolonged period, Mr. Benevolent takes time out for a tea and biscuit break. Of course, the minute that's over, he goes right back to the bizarre tortures. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 262 | * This is part of the Dark Lord's Code of Honor in the ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRolePlayingGame'', initially described in the ''Pyramid'' article "[[http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=2919 Call No Man Happy Until He is Dread]]" and then in the second edition of the game proper: |
| 263 | -->Provide visiting heroes who aren't yet scheduled for the death-trap with comfortable lodgings, submissive servants, and a change of clothes... |
| 264 | [[/folder]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 267 | * ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': Asura is found by [[OldMaster Augus]] after sustaining heavy injuries in his battle against [[EvilGenius Kalrow's]] forces. Rather than finishing Asura off, Augus brings him to a hot spring, and the two relax, get stinking drunk and oogle their beautiful attendants as Asura recovers his strength. Once that happens and Augus is certain Asura [[BloodKnight can give him a good fight]], he makes his challenge official. |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': In the recurring [[FictionalDocument in-game book]], ''A Game at Dinner'', all of the other spies fully expect the dinner to be part of a plot to reveal and kill them by King Helseth. They're not wrong, but this being [[MagnificentBastard King]] [[BatmanGambit Helseth]], [[spoiler:it [[BluffingTheMurderer doesn't play out]] in [[CarryingTheAntidote the way they thought]]]]. |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/FarCry4'': Despite the violent introduction that Ajay Ghale (the player) receives from Pagan Min at the beginning of the game, Pagan is uncomfortably friendly towards Ajay for no currently apparent reason. Likewise, their introduction is followed by Ajay receiving nothing short of a VIP treatment (dinner included) from Pagan, complete with a precarious atmosphere. [[spoiler: Needless to say, even after leaving his estate against his request, joining his archenemy the Golden Path, killing off large swathes of his army often single-handedly, and turning the tide of the civil war rocking his country in favor of the Golden Path to the point of an imminent coup, he still manages to retain at the end of the game enough of a stoic attitude to basically reprise the dinner from the game's prologue only to ask for a chance to explain himself to Ajay what he didn't get to explain prior due to Ajay escaping. In addition, if Ajay stays in the dining hall during the first dinner at Pagan's request and waits for his return, he will explain himself, this time ''without'' the need for the civil war in the country to escalate further.]] |
| 270 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', halfway through the game, Emperor Gesthal invites the party to his castle to have a feast and reassures them that his kingdom is too ravaged from the Espers' attack to fight the party, so he wants to help them calm the Espers. He also tells the party that Kefka will be punished for his crimes. [[spoiler: This is just a big fat lie since later on, Kefka attacks a village to get more Espers and he meets up with Geshtal on the Floating Continent so they can get more power.]] Interestingly enough, what the party actually does and says during the feast is largely up to the player, and depending on how successful they are at humoring Gesthal, they can get a variety of useful items as a reward. |
| 271 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', Ardyn is resurrected in the Magitek Research laboratory of Vestrael, and and he is greeted with a meal composed of artificial food. When Ardyn discovers that he is dinning with a mad scientist, he utters the classic quote "YoureInsane". |
| 272 | * Referenced in ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' during Movie Night if Ryder suggests a charm offensive after the crew starts arguing about what ''they'' would do if they were in the movie. |
| 273 | -->'''Liam:''' Yeah... yeah-the old "dinner and drinks to show off my villainy". |
| 274 | * When VideoGame/ProfessorLayton and Luke arrive at the big, ominous manor in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', [[spoiler:Anton]] has dinner and makes idle chit-chat with them before showing them to their rooms. He then ties them up in his basement. |
| 275 | * ''VideoGame/RaveHeart'': Count Vorakia Estuuban imprisons King Arcturo, but also makes sure to feed the latter well and respect his vegetarian diet. This is an example of pragmatism rather than politeness or moral standards, since [[spoiler:Vorakia needs Arcturo alive and healthy in order to absorb the latter's psionic powers]]. |
| 276 | %%* In ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'', Henry Stauf arranged his dining room like this as part of the party he had arranged for the six guests he invited to his house, complete with an unusually green cake and halloween-themed plates and chairs. However, Stauf himself hid away in the Attic, waiting for the guests [[spoiler: to bring him the seventh, a boy named Tad.]] If that wasn't enough, cutting the cake itself was one of Stauf's many puzzles for the guests to solve. |
| 277 | %%--> Brian Dutton: "I guess our host wants us to fend for ourselves." |
| 278 | * ''VideoGame/TrailsInTheSky'' reveals the first game's ArcVillain at the climax of the penultimate chapter, who turns out to be [[VillainWithGoodPublicity a military hero that they met earlier in the game]], [[spoiler:Colonel Richard]]. The final chapter has the heroes, Estelle and Joshua, win a dinner party in the Queen's castle, and said villain invites them to chat over drinks, unaware that they eavesdropped on him earlier. During their meeting, he expresses admiration for Estelle's father and how he saved their country from a huge war in the past, appreciating the chance to talk to his children. Unlike most examples of this trope, his intentions are totally sincere, and Estelle is taken aback at how nice he turned out to be afterwards. [[spoiler:However, his blind hero worship does play into his villainous motivation, as Richard believed that without Estelle's father, the country had no hope of defending itself without resorting to a mysterious and dangerous superweapon, and this ends up being the climactic conflict.]] |
| 279 | %%* The Crooked Man, AffablyEvil, does this to Bigby Wolf at the end of the fourth episode and start of the fifth in ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs''. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 283 | %%* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', the warriors ''think'' Garland is doing this, when in fact he's an AffablyEvil HarmlessVillain. |
| 284 | %%* ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'': When your would-be assassin is a hot chick in a bunnygirl outfit and disarmed to boot you can probably be excused for deciding to indulge in this trope. |
| 285 | %%* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' does this [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0185.html here,]] with reference to this page. |
| 286 | * King Johann invites ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' to dinner to discuss negotiations and explanations after Dominic has foiled half his plots and made serious setbacks. And then the dinner turns out to be an illusion over an EldritchLocation (which is exceptionally frightening because Dominic is usually immune to magic illusions). And then THAT turns out to be an illusion, because Dominic is actually in a cage while Johann is magically dissecting his brain. |
| 287 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', when Ariel's squad arrives in Felde, the colony presided over by [[TheChessmaster chessmistress]] BigBad Snadhya'rune, the latter arranges for Ariel and Faen to come sit at the head table with her. Snadhya is - officially - a neutral party in the District War, and a VillainWithGoodPublicity besides, but Ariel is still extremely distrusting of a woman whose clan is the Sarghress' main opponent. Snadhya, however, immediately begins a charm offensive, assuring Ariel that she is not a threat, speaking of her admiration for the Sarghress and even pointing out that the two of them share their signature color, [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]]. It seems to be going halfway decently, and then [[AxCrazy Kalki]] chops Ariel's arm off. The other guests react accordingly. |
| 288 | -->[[spoiler:Zhor]]: You sick, twisted spawn! Nothing - NOTHING provoked this! |
| 289 | * In ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'', Silas Morth invites Jamilla to dinner after finding out she's a spy. He even adds complimentary drugs to the wine to make her a more compliant sacrifice. |
| 290 | * The Thin Man in ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'' [[http://flipside.keenspot.com/comic.php?i=1809 treats Maytag to dinner]] after abducting her and a man named Rhodes. This being Flipside, Maytag was [[{{Fanservice}} wearing next to nothing]] when the Thin Man's minion abducted her. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Maytag being Maytag,]] she doesn't really mind all that much, especially since she can tell her fellow prisoner (and dinner guest) [[http://flipside.keenspot.com/comic.php?i=1793 has no ill intentions toward her.]] |
| 291 | %%* Parodied in the [[UrExample ur-context]] of a ''Dr. No'' spoof in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1384.html this]] ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' |
| 292 | * ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': |
| 293 | ** During ''Wielder of Names'', GodEmperor Nadia Om catches Allison, who wields the [[CosmicKeystone Master Key]] prophesized to be used by TheChosenOne to kill her, sneaking into her palace. Rather than killing Allison and taking the Key off her cooling corpse, Nadia has Allison dressed up, given a one-person banquet and then a personal guided tour around her palace. [[spoiler:It quickly turns out Mottom doesn't want Allison dead, nor does she want the Master Key, [[PragmaticVillainy as taking it would immediately turn the other Demiurges against her]]. Instead, at the end of the tour, she offers Allison her entire empire because she's too bound by TheChainsOfCommanding and wants to be free of it all.]] |
| 294 | ** Much later, during ''Breaker of Infinities'', Allison ends up hosted by fellow GodEmperor Jadis, who graciously offers Allison a nice nutritious breakfast in her atrium. [[spoiler:In contrast with Mottom, Jadis has no ulterior motives (at least from her point of view); she simply [[LeaveYourQuestTest wants Allison to give up her quest]] because she foresees a whole lot of suffering in Allison's future and wants to spare her from it.]] |
| 295 | * In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' near the end of the siege of Azure City, Haley and Belkar attempt to retrieve [[spoiler: Roy's body]] from the battlefield but find that he and [[spoiler: O-Chul]] are guests at a tea party hosted by the extremely powerful but childlike Monster in the Darkness. (Yes, [[spoiler:Roy is dead. O-Chul is paralyzed.]] It's that sort of tea party.) Haley and Belkar have to carefully play along through the meal (and Belkar has to ''cook'' the meal) before they can attempt to escape. |
| 296 | %%** Played almost perfectly straight when Elan's father invites Elan and Haley to a formal dinner, except for the fact that Elan hasn't realized his dad is a villain yet. |
| 297 | %%** Appears in, of course, a Bond parody in the entirely print only ''Snips, Snails and Dragon Tails''. |
| 298 | %%--->'''Roy:''' Do you expect me to eat this?\ |
| 299 | %%'''Belkar:''' No, Mr Greenhilt, I expect you to diet. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 303 | * ''Webvideo/CriticalRole'': |
| 304 | ** Inverted[[note]] in that the heroes invite the villains to dinner[[/note]] in in Campaign 1. As of Episode 24, Vox Machina knows that [[spoiler: the Briarwoods, the couple that slaughtered Percy's entire family]], are "irredeemably evil"...but instead of killing them outright, they sit through an ''incredibly'' tense banquet with them at the palace. |
| 305 | ** In campaign 2, the Mighty Nein are invited to dine with Trent Ikithon, a powerful arch-mage of the Cerberus Assembly and the manipulative villain from Caleb's backstory who now wants to reconnect with his former "protegee". |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 309 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Jimmy Neutron and Jet Fusion are once offered a meal this way by Professor Calamitous before Beautiful Gorgeous tries to kill them. Since the whole thing was a parody of James Bond movies, this is to be expected. |
| 310 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 311 | ** The protagonists think they're experiencing this trope when they are arrested in Omashu. [[TheWonka The eccentric king]] proclaims their sentence: "THROW THEM... a feast!" [[spoiler:It turns out they're actually being tested by the king, who turns out to be Aang's childhood friend.]] |
| 312 | ** Azula invites Zuko and Iroh to the Earth King's palace under the pretense of serving the Earth King tea, but when she reveals her ploy to them, they attempt to escape. [[spoiler: Iroh makes it out to fight another day, but Zuko gets caught by Dai Li agents when he tries to challenge Azula.]] |
| 313 | * ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' short "Dial M For Monkey" has the supervillain Simian who invites Monkey to dine with him and proceeds to seduce him to help him destroy the human race. |
| 314 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In "A Very Possible Christmas", when Kim, the Possible family and Shego rescue Ron Stoppable and Drakken when they were stranded near the North Pole due to Drakken's latest scheme backfiring, Drakken invites the Possibles to join him for Christmas dinner. Not that he's gloating or anything, but just because it's Christmas. |
| 315 | * In ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'', the tyrannical Scarlemagne finally captures Kipo after almost two seasons of pursuing her. His first course of action is to give her a fancy ballgown, treat her and her father to a sumptuous dinner, have a civil chat about his plans for ultimate dominion... and it's enforced by a row of humans with crossbows. Kipo does her best with it and tries to connect with Scarlemagne the same way she does any other enemy. [[spoiler:She makes a surprising amount of headway, but has to rely on her backup plan in the end.]] |
| 316 | %%* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Keep Calm and Flutter On". First, it's inverted when Fluttershy invites her friends over to have dinner with [[MadGod Discord]] as a sign of their friendship. Then it's subverted in that Discord tries to use this opportunity to snatch the girls' Elements of Harmony. But then it's subverted again when [[BecomingTheMask Discord starts to seriously consider becoming Fluttershy's friend]]. |
| 317 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Doofenshmirtz reveals to Perry (whom he's caught in a trap again) that it's his birthday (which factors into his latest scheme). While he explains his EvilPlan, he offers Perry a slice of birthday cake, which Perry accepts. |
| 318 | ** In another scene, Perry attacks Doof in a train's dining cart. This is part of Doof's plan, since a special agent like Perry would know that you can't just make a scene in a fancy dining environment, thus trapping him by societal convention. [[spoiler:Perry and [[GuestStarPartyMember Agent Lyla]] get out of it by stealing some of Doof's fries, annoying him in a socially acceptable way until he attacks first, justifying their retaliation.]]. |
| 319 | * Played with in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss2E2CollectHerSupperVillain Supper Villain]]". Mr. Smith wishes to melt Professor Utonium's head with a ray-gun (actually a hairdryer with a bubble-wand taped to it), while his wife expects (more like ''demands'') the good Professor (and everyone else) to dine. Of course, this leads to everyone else eating quickly while a nervous Utonium eats as slowly as humanly possible. |
| 320 | -->'''Mrs. Smith:''' (just when the Professor swallows the last pea on his plate) Now, who wants dessert?\ |
| 321 | '''Professor:''' I DO!!! |
| 322 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Star Wars'', after [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Han and Leia are taken captive on Cloud City]], they are forced to have dinner with Darth Vader, Lando and Boba Fett. Needless to say, the ambiance is a bit strained. |
| 323 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' The episode "Three Courageous Hearts" has She-ra dropped into another dimension - the Sixth Dimension - by Shadow Weaver, with the intent of trapping her there forever. After travelling for a while, She-ra comes upon a stone dwelling that has a table filled with food. It belongs to the BigBad of the Sixth Dimension, Salistica, and he insists that She-ra dine with him in order to get any answers out of him as to where she is and how she can get out. Salistica proves not to be trustworthy but She-ra gets out in the end anyway. |
| 324 | * In the 2018 reboot, ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', Glimmer and Catra are taken captive on board Horde Prime's ship, after which he serves them a dinner feast with various alien dishes. After Glimmer takes a few bites of a gelatinous dish, Horde Prime tells her that it is a rare delicacy, as the world it came from no longer exists. He then livestreams Galactic Horde robots attacking the Rebellion on the screen behind him, upsetting Glimmer and angering Catra. |
| 325 | * 1973/74 ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' episode "Menace of the White Dwarf". After the supervillain Raven accidentally captures Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog, he has his android doubles serve them a meal and shows them around his base. |
| 326 | * ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'': In "The Last One Standing", Maniac and Blair are brought in to dine with [[spoiler:Daimon Karnes]], where he explains why he went renegade. |
| 327 | * ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' has Tobey, who is determined to take her out for ice-cream if he ever defeats her. |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 331 | * During World War II, both British and Germans developed the practice of treating important prisoners of war who might have valuable information to fine meals and otherwise excellent treatment, especially early on in their captivity. This was, of course, a calculated trick, so that [=POWs=] might slip up and reveal potentially useful information when [[InVinoVeritas softened up by good food and good wine]]. This did yield some valuable information: for example, a high-ranking German general accidentally revealed key details about the V-2 program while in hospitable British captivity. |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
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