->''"Blackmail's such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion'. [[XtremeKoolLetterz The 'X' makes it sound cool.]]"''
-->-- '''Bender Bending Rodriguez''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

->'''Oliver Queen:''' Felicity, are you hacking into the Merlyn Global mainframe?\\
'''Felicity Smoak:''' "Hacking" is such an ugly word. No, I'm... ''[pauses, can't come up with a better word]'' yeah, totally hacking into the Merlyn Global mainframe.
-->-- ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', "[[Recap/ArrowS1E22DarknessOnTheEdgeOfTown Darkness on the Edge of Town]]"

->'''Godwin:''' It's time we rebrand your CatchPhrase.\\
'''Jack Atlas:''' "REBRAND"?\\
'''Godwin:''' Rebrand is when you take a property that the general public are sick to death of seeing, change it slightly and promote it as something completely different.\\
'''Jack Atlas:''' THAT SOUNDS BOTH INSULTING ''AND'' MANIPULATIVE!\\
'''Godwin:''' I like to call it good marketing.\\
'''Jack Atlas:''' WELL NOW I THINK IT SOUNDS GREAT!
-->-- ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', "Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds One Shot"

-> '''Leon:''' Fuck you! This is no ritual. This is terrorism!\\
'''Salazar:''' ''[Scoffs]'' Isn't that a popular word these days?\\
'''Leon:''' What? "Fuck"?\\
'''Salazar:''' No, Mr. Kennedy! "Terrorism"!
--> '''[[https://youtu.be/HxVAQYpNmUQ?si=y1sco9sAmT93q-F6 Bentley Bros Productions]],''' ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''

->'''Ricky:''' But that's blackmail!\\
'''Lucy:''' Oh come now, let's not call it that.\\
'''Ricky:''' That's what it is!\\
'''Lucy:''' I know, but let's not call it that.
-->-- ''Series/ILoveLucy'', "Bullfight Dance"

->'''Ro:''' I'm Ro. I rule this planet.\\
'''Blake:''' [[PuppetKing Do you?]] I thought it was a Federation colony.\\
'''Ro:''' I dislike the word "colony".\\
'''Blake:''' Which word would you prefer?\\
'''Ro:''' I rule here, and you're my prisoners.\\
'''Blake:''' I dislike the word "prisoner".
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E4Horizon Horizon]]"

->'''Warren:''' Okay, okay. I'll go get my keys. Though I don't know why I'm so nice to you two.\\
'''Scott:''' (rolling eyes) I believe you being nice had nothing to do with it. If I remember correctly, the word you're looking for is blackmail. Oh, yes it's coming back to me now. Something about you gluing Professor Xavier's favorite pipe back together. You broke it and I caught you gluing it with Hank's special glue in the kitchen.\\
'''Warren:''' Blackmail is such an ugly little word and so harsh. We are going to get so much mileage out of this from Bobby. I think I'm going to have him wash my car first. I'll come up with something more humiliating later.
-->-- ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears''

->'''Steven:''' You're spying on us?\\
'''Lapis:''' Well, I wouldn't call it spying, because that would make me feel bad.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E17CantGoBack Can't Go Back]]"

->'''Grandmaster:''' Revolution? How did this happen?\\
'''Topaz:''' Don't know. But the Arena's mainframe for the Obedience Disks have been deactivated and the slaves have armed themselves.\\
'''Grandmaster:''' Ohhh! I don't like that word!\\
'''Topaz:''' Mainframe?\\
'''Grandmaster:''' No. Why would I not like "mainframe?" No, the "S" word!\\
'''Topaz:''' Sorry, the "prisoners with jobs" have armed themselves.\\
'''Grandmaster:''' Okay, that's better.
-->-- ''Film/ThorRagnarok''

->'''Mr. C:''' This essay you turned in was ''[[PlagiarismInFiction plagiarized]]''?\\
'''Jeremy:''' ''NO!'' Nothing like that, Mr. C! I bought it off the internet, so it's probably been used hundreds of times. You could think of it as a re-purposed, vintage, crowd-sourced effort.\\
'''Mr. C:''' ''(holding the zero-grade essay)'' I can't wait to tell that one in the teachers' lounge.
-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''

->''Don't think of it as selling your soul. It's more like you're bequeathing it to me.''
-->-- '''FlavorText on Unholy Indenture (attributed to Vilis)''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->''I practice what some would call "an organ harvesting operation"— which, personally, I find to be a very offensive and bigoted term to describe non-consensual organ arbitrage.''
-->-- '''WebVideo/SsethTzeentach'''

->'''Sammy:''' If he's making this kind of money by lying to everyone, we're entitled to a slice of it. It's called hush money.\\
'''Fiona:''' You're gonna blackmail him?\\
'''Sammy:''' No! I'm not gonna blackmail him. I'm just gonna go to Sydney with him and I'm gonna demand money in return for not telling anyone what he's really doing.\\
'''Fiona:''' That's the exact definition of blackmail!
-->-- ''Series/{{Frayed}}'', Episode 3

->'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' 'Respected'?! Says the woman who writes about how short my skirt is every other day, then blackmails my friends to get me to pull her fat out of the fire?! ''[...]''\\
'''Catherine Grant:''' And I'm not blackmailing anyone. I merely asked Lana to ask her friend to help me.
-->-- ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker''

->'''Ryunosuke Naruhodo:''' You, you can't get away with that! You've consistently preyed on people's weaknesses...\\
'''[[spoiler:Mael Stronghart]]:''' And what? Threatened them? Are you sure it wasn't just bargaining?
-->-- ''[[VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve]]''

->'''Dorien:''' I've been ''monitoring'' her calls.\\
'''Tracey:''' "''Eavesdroppin''", you mean.\\
'''Dorien:''' I thought "monitoring" sounded less Jewish.
-->-- ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'', "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS5E9EastSideStory East Side Story]]"

->'''Rose:''' And now you're some kind of... freelancer.\\
'''Jack:''' That's a little harsh. [[InvertedTrope I like to think of myself as a criminal.]]
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]"

->'''Doctor Stockman:''' ''"So it's blackmail, then? Extortion."''\\
'''April:''' ''"I like to think of it as more of an insurance policy."''\\
'''Doctor Stockman:''' ''"Semantics."''
-->-- ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW'' #98

->''"Come now, don't use such a nasty word like 'evict'. It's more like an upgrade to a better location."''
-->-- '''Yasuo Jochi''', ''VideoGame/Persona5''

->''Oh, I don't think it's blackmail. Angela just does what I ask her to do so I won't tell everyone [[spoiler: that she's cheating on Andy with Dwight.]] I think for it to be blackmail, it would have to be a formal letter.''
-->-- '''Phyllis''', ''Series/TheOffice''
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