History Main / SicEm

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. A shadowy guy in a throne room tells a minion "You know what must be done." She replies, "My blades shall be bathed in the blood of those responsible." Cue {{Cliffhanger}} ending. Much later (after a long subplot featuring this mysterious foe), we [[OnceMoreWithClarity see him replying to this line]] with, "Uh, actually, I want you to bring them here alive for trial."

(points to shadowy figures - his new QuirkyMinibossSquad or TheDragon)

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* ''Film/DraculaUntold'': Vlad invokes this with his bat army against the Ottomans. [[spoiler:And later his vampire army.]]
* ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': Darth Vader assembles bounty hunters to hunt down Luke, Leia, and Han.

** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' has it twice, oddly enough.
--->'''Osato''': [To SPECTRE Number 11, AKA Miss Brandt, re: Bond] Kill him!
*** And after [[YouHaveFailedMe Miss Brandt is fed to the piranhas]] for cocking this up...
--->'''Blofeld''': [To Osato] Kill Bond! Now!
** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': The DiabolicalMastermind Kananga does it twice with his minions.
--->'''Kananga (calm)''': If he finds it, kill him.\\
'''Kananga (concerned)''': At any cost - ''any'' - Bond must die.
** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'':
--->'''Karl Stromberg''': [To TheDragon Jaws] James Bond. And the woman is Major Amasova, a Russian agent. Let them get to shore... and then kill them.
** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'':
--->'''Drax''': [To TheDragon Chang] Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him.
** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'':
--->'''Elliot Carver''': Mr Stamper, would you please kill those bastards!
** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''_
--->'''Greene''': I need help eliminating...a pest.

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* ''Series/TheArmstrongAndMillerShow''. Several sketches in which a man has a perfectly amicable conversation about some mundane matter, wishes whoever he's been talking to a cheerful goodbye, leans over a desk microphone, and says in his best Bond villain voice, "kill them".
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* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII Throne Of Baal'', Sendai sends minions when you invade her lair.
* In the final boss fight of ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'', Tokkentakker sends [[spoiler:Umlaut, the jester skull who's opened each stage]], to fight you while he prepares.
-->'''Tokkentakker:''' "[[spoiler:UMLAUT!]] GET HIM!"
-->'''[[spoiler:Umlaut]]:''' "At last we meet!"
* K. Rool in ''Donkey Kong 64''.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', on learning Cecil is seeking to become a paladin, Golbez calls in Scarmiglione and dispatches him to stop Cecil's party. What makes this effective is that Scarmiglione and his zombie minions are resistant to Cecil's dark sword. What makes it not effective is that the same can't be said of the mages sent to [[strike:spy on]] accompany Cecil to Mt. Ordeals.
** The "sic 'em" scenes have their own {{Leitmotif}}, "Somewhere in the World".
* The final stage of ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'' is a classic sic 'em: the camera is in the Emperor's control room while your efforts are broadcast on a [[TheBigBoard big board]]. You get to watch him [[BossBonanza send his commanders out to face you one by one]] and become increasingly pissed as you keep killing them (in addition to the little off-duty mannerisms of the bosses themselves). It culminates in you walking off-camera to break in there yourself. This scenario was so iconic that Treasure's recycled it in a few of their games since then.
* Most of the cutscenes in ''VideoGame/{{Karateka}}'' have the BigBad doing this.
* Every time you collect a [[MacGuffin map piece]] in ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', [=LeChuck=] is shown chastising Largo [=LaGrande=] for allowing Guybrush to find another map piece and commanding him to go and get him. Possibly subverted in that Largo never shows up.
%%* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', between chapters.
* Saddler dispatching Krauser in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', [[AxCrazy Zazz]] and [[BigEater Zomom]] of the Deadly Six are introduced this way, with Eggman sending them to attack Sonic. Averted with the other members: [[OldMaster Zik]] volunteers, Zeena and [[StrawNihilist Zor]] seemingly just bump into him, and Zavok [[EvilIsNotAToy hijacks the plot]] to become the BigBad long before Sonic gets to fight him.
* In ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesShreddersRevenge'', the cutscene at the end of Episode 3 shows Shredder [[SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands monitoring the heroes' progress on a video screen]] as he gives out one order: "Destroy the turtles!".
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* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' Season Ten has this:
-->'''Sigma''': [[TheBrute Agent Maine]], isn't that the soldier from the freeway? The one who shot you in the throat? I thought so. Sic 'em."
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** A similar scene (only with the EvilOverlord in shadow as usual and the new kid seen) is our first glimpse of Azula at the end of season one.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', after Sonic first comes to Robotnik's attention, he hires bounty hunters Sleet and Dingo.
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* Zagato from ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' has a whole [[TheWarRoom chamber]] to hold audience with his minions every time the Knights overcome the latest foe, just so he can point at one of them ominously and summon them into service. It first appeared ''immediately'' after the girls arrived on Cephiro, and the narrative takes the time to focus on each and every one of Zagato's subordinates (seen only in silhouette, hidden behind waterfalls) as they dispense with their thoughts on the new development... making the audience wonder why they didn't ''all'' go out at once, and easily [[CurbStompBattle thwart the Knights while they were still inexperienced]], instead of facing them (and get beaten, naturally) one at a time.
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'', occasionally.

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* [[spoiler:Inverted]] in ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'' - [[spoiler:It's the BigBad himself who gets the short end of the trope after shooting [[CombatPragmatist Violet]] in the back. Since he'd shot the eye of the father T.rex earlier and earned the ire of his babies in the process, [[FedToTheBeast Violet in no way hesitates in her order for them to "finish him."]]]]

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* Darth Vader assembling bounty hunters in ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
* A rare heroic example in ''Film/TheFugitive'': Sam Gerard concludes his famous speech to his various Marshalls and police helpers with, "Your Fugitive's name is ''Doctor'' Richard Kimball. Go get him!"
* Film/JamesBond
** ''Film/DrNo''. When Professor Dent goes to tell Doctor No that Bond knows about Crab Key, No orders Dent to kill Bond and gives him an AnimalAssassin tarantula to carry out the deed.

** In ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' the DiabolicalMastermind Kananga does it twice with his minions.
--->'''Kananga (calm)''': If he finds it, kill him.
--->'''Kananga (concerned)''': At any cost - ''any'' - Bond must die.
** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''

** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''

** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''

** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''

* ''Film/TheMatrix''. After Neo, Morpheus and Trinity escape him, Agent Smith gives an order to the other agents: "Find them and destroy them!"
* Parodied (what else?) in ''Film/TopSecret''. Upon being informed of an escape, the Nazi commander who is thus informed does not say a word. Rather he looks down at the dossier he's been shown and uses a RUBBER STAMP to imprint 'Find Him And Kill Him' on it.
* ''Film/{{Legend 1985}}''. When Darkness first summons Blix he tells him to find and destroy the unicorns, because they are responsible for the sunlight that can destroy him.
* In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', Vlad invokes this with his bat army against the Ottomans. [[spoiler:And later his vampire army.]]
* Used as a SequelHook in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'': After Thor humiliates and kills Zeus [[spoiler: TheStinger shows Zeus, alive and angry, calling up Hercules for revenge.]]

* In ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', [[AxCrazy Zazz]] and [[BigEater Zomom]] of the Deadly Six are introduced this way, with Eggman sending them to attack Sonic. Averted with the other members: [[OldMaster Zik]] volunteers, [[DarkChick Zeena]] and [[StrawNihilist Zor]] seemingly just bump into him, and Zavok [[EvilIsNotAToy hijacks the plot]] to become the BigBad long before Sonic gets to fight him.