Threatening Tropes - Television Tropes & Idioms

Here are tropes which deal with threats given out by badass, habitually violent characters, characters who had their Berserk Button pushed or are just too hot-headed. Now start looking at these tropes or else we Tropers will kill you!

Compare Violence Tropes and A Tortured Index. See also Anger Tropes.

Tropes:

And Your Little Dog Too
Anger Born of Worry (Usually, a threat is implied to a character who puts themselves in danger)
Angry Fist Shake
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Appeal to Force
Audit Threat
Badass Boast
Badass Creed
Battle Cry
Blackmail
- Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word
Break-In Threat
Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
- I Will Tear Your Arms Off
Dark Shepherd (threatening people to do good and moral deeds)
Death Glare (if a stern, angry face is threatening than just mere words)
Don't Make Me Destroy You
Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off (if the threat is implied)
The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Empty Cop Threat
Freudian Threat
Give Me a Reason
Go Through Me
Happiness Is Mandatory (giving out a threat to others who are not happy)
Hidden Heart of Gold (threatening others not to tell them about his benevolent side)
High Altitude Interrogation (threatening to drop a character from mid air)
Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It
Hostage for MacGuffin
How Dare You Die on Me! (sometimes, threatening people not to die)
How Would You Like to Die?
I'd Tell You But Then I'd Have to Kill You
If I Can't Have You
If I Wanted You Dead
If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
I Have Your Wife
I'll Kill You!
Implied Death Threat
I'm Your Worst Nightmare
Ineffectual Death Threats
In the Name of the Moon
Is That a Threat?
I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
I Will Show You X
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Just Between You and Me
Mandatory Motherhood (A threat is implied to a character who refuses to have babies).
Make an Example of Them (Threatening others to follow the rules by punishing one of the followers).
My Name Is Inigo Montoya
Paranoia Gambit
Pre Ass Kicking One Liner
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Prepare to Die
Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
Scare 'Em Straight
Scarpia Ultimatum
See You in Hell
Shame If Something Happened
Shotgun Wedding
Sleep with One Eye Open
Shoplift and Die
Stop or I Will Shoot
- Stop, or I Shoot Myself! (threatening to kill himself in a hostage situation)
Strongly Worded Letter
Taking You with Me (if the threat is implied)
Threat Backfire
To the Pain
Trouble Entendre
Verb This!
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
We Will Meet Again
With Us or Against Us
- Join or Die
Woman Scorned
You Have Been Warned
You Have No Chance to Survive
You Killed My Father
You Leave Him Alone
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry

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