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Vaggie: I know your game, and I'm not going to let you hurt anyone here, you pompous, cheesy, talk-show shitlord!
Alastor: Dear, if I wanted to hurt anyone here...    I would have done so already.   

Grey O'Shea: I'm willing to bet this is the first time you've had to point your weapon at someone. You're shaking.
Rick MacFarlane: You're not exactly in the position to be questioning my competency with a firearm.
Grey: Well, if you would get it out of my face for five seconds, I could explain that I want to help—
Rick: What if I don't believe you?
Grey: Buddy, if I really wanted to kill you, I could do so at any time.
Rick: Funny, doesn't look that way right now.
(Grey shoves Rick's gun hand upwards, takes the gun, and twists Rick into an arm lock.)
Grey: How 'bout now?
Terra pages 91 and 92

Gunn: That Angel talking? 'Cause it sounds a lot more like Angelus.
Angel: Oh, if I were Angelus, half of you would already be dead, just for the fun of it.
Spike: (menacingly) One of us already is. We havin' fun yet?
Angel, "Power Play"

Dorian: I wouldn't poison a good wine, Avon. If I wanted you dead there are much more direct ways of achieving it. I could snap my fingers... (He snaps his fingers. Soolin Quick Draws her gun and aims it at Avon) And you're dead. Fast isn't she?
Blake's 7, "Rescue"

Jason: Again, I mean you no harm.
Jeremiah: I'm just supposed to take your word for that?
Jason: If I wanted to harm you I could have killed you six times already standing here. I've been watching your house for near a week now and could have attacked at any time. I could have approached your wife or daughter. I haven't done any of those things.

It's an odd distinction to say "Sascha Vykos tried to kill me." Actually, most Sabbat know that Sascha Vykos rarely tries killing a mortal. If it wanted you dead, you'd be dead; otherwise, Sascha's just torturing you. In fact, in Andy's case, Sascha did kill him - Andy just can't admit it yet.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Mexico By Night

"Poisoned? No, no, merely drugged. Isn't it obvious that if I wanted you dead, then you'd be dead – along with Arvos and your friends? But such bravery! I showed you what I could do, and yet you came on. Or are you simply stubborn? Stupid, maybe? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you're brave, for I've no time to waste on fools."
Faethor Ferenczy, Necroscope II: Wamphyri

Friedkin: You really hurt me.
Mona: I'm sorry. You were scaring me, just like those men (gestures to the security team training guns on her) are scaring me right now.
Friedkin: Well, they need to be here right now, in case you, like, turn into a bear or something.
Mona: Why would I turn into a silly little bear? If I wanted to kill you, I'd turn into an aircraft carrier right now, and this whole place would be destroyed.
Friedkin: ...Please don't do that.

"But that is the past. So let it be known that if our resources were not critical, and our not numbers not decimated, and our troops not out-gunned... [shoots a rock next to him] ...I would atomize you."
Megatron (he almost means it) to Starscream, The Transformers Megaseries, "Spotlight: Megatron"

"There was a rumor, you know, that you hated me. But I thought about that. If you hated me, you could've finished me off the other night."

Militant 2: So you one of them sneaky brothers, huh? Or maybe you an undercover pig! Or maybe you just a federal hitman!
Black Dynamite: If I was, you cats would already be dead.

"What are you worried about? If I wanted to kill you you'd be dead already. Get in."
Virgil Scollozzo, The Godfather

Van Pelt: Stop your cringing, woman; I could've shot you at any moment.
Sarah: Then why didn't you?
Van Pelt: You didn't roll the dice. Alan did.

Dr. Leo Quantum: Why did you ask to see me? If this is an escape attempt...
Lex Luthor: I'd already be free.

"Scream, and all your staff die. I could have killed you earlier on, but I didn't."

Siegfried: How do I know you're not with CONTROL?
Max: If I were CONTROL, you'd already be dead.
Siegfried: If you were CONTROL, you'd already be dead.
Max: Well, neither of us is dead, so I'm obviously not with CONTROL.
(Beat)
Starker: ...That actually makes sense.

"We do not want to conquer your planet. Only, save it. We could have destroyed it long ago, if that had been our aim. Our principal purpose is friendly."

"I know this is going to be a challenge for you, but try not being an idiot for five minutes. If I were a maleficer, I'd have sucked you dry downstairs and told everyone you died in the workshop. It's not like anyone would have been suspicious. Anyway, if I were a maleficer, I'd just suck all of you dry and have the whole school to myself."
Galadriel 'El' Higgins, A Deadly Education

“No offense,” Rachel says, looking from one of them to the other, “but how do we know you’re not controllers?”
“It’d make a hell of a lot more sense than the story they just told us,” Marco mutters. “Well, except for the part where Tobias is half alien. That practically explains his entire personality.”
“I’m not a controller,” Elfangor says. “Aximili?”
<He’s right,> Ax says. <Alloran’s capture was the single greatest intelligence loss in the history of the andalite species—> Elfangor winces— <So if the yeerks had captured a second andalite, one who knows this planet far better than Alloran ever did and had up-to-date expertise on the workings of the andalite fleet…> Ax tilts his stalk eyes in an andalite shrug.
“If they had, we’d know by now,” Jake finishes. “Mostly in the form of us all being dead already.”
Elfangor smiles. “Precisely.”
—"What if Elfangor and Loren raised Tobias?", All Assorted Animorphs AUs

<I could have killed Marco, you know.> As I spoke, I eased my way back into the entrance of the main sewer pipe, barely rippling the surface. If I could just get back to that little branch… <I didn’t. And Eva could’ve killed you.>
Rachel growled, low and sharp. She slammed another paw against the wall.
<Maybe I shouldn’t be telling you this, but she had a dracon beam in her hand when we bumped into you guys. She didn’t even try to fire it. Didn’t even point it your way.>
I scooted backward again. Slowly, slowly. Leaving almost my entire body along the floor, feeling my way with one bunch of coil and then wiggling my spine to pull it up the bricks. Moving backward away from her, six inches at a time.
The heat signature of another paw swipe overhead, a deadly comet cutting across the colder air.
<Shut up!> Rachel shouted.
<Do you know why that is? Why Eva didn’t even risk a warning shot?> As much as anything, I was hoping the thought-speak would distract Rachel from whatever small noises I had to be making now. It wasn’t like mouth-sounds; you couldn’t triangulate someone’s direction by listening. You could guess at approximate distance, but that was all.
<Blah, blah, blah.> Rachel took another swing at random. <I am not listening to a fucking snail only brave enough to talk to me while hiding inside my cousin’s skull.>
Internally, I smiled. That one would’ve landed, if I’d actually been Essa 412. <Seems like a weird call for Visser One. If she was Visser One, that is.>
Eleutherophobia: Escape from L.A.

If I wanted you dead, Pesci, you would be. Listen to Prosciutto and you can grow out of being a mammoni.

"Guys, relax. If I was going to gas you, you'd already be laying on the floor, peeling your skin off, starting with your eyelids."
Jonathan Crane, Titans (2018), "51%"

Mike: (over the cellphone) I'd like you to exit your vehicle and start walking towards us.
Walt: And then what? I'm gonna need some... some kind of assurance.
Mike: I assure you, I could kill you from way over here if it makes you feel any better.
Breaking Bad, "Full Measure"

Violence will not end in your favor. You have no plan, no trap. I am smarter, more prepared and more powerful than all of you. I know of Whitestone. I know your tricks and I know your weaknesses. If I wished you destroyed right now, I could have done it a thousandfold already. So, consider the fact that we're even having this conversation is me putting forth a lot of effort and intent to have this discussion. No rash actions.
Raishan, Critical Role

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