History Main / AndYourLittleDogToo

->''"I'll get you, my pretty -- [[TropeNamer and your little dog too!]]"''

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', people do this to the Winchesters pretty often (in the form of "I'll kill your brother" or ShameIfSomethingHappened), and [[BerserkButton it's always a bad idea]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' - If you're ever associated with John Constantine, chances are you're already dead.
** A perfect example was during the ''Reasons to be Cheerful'' arc. John's demonic children attempted to kill everyone that John has ever met and knew. That includes his family, close friends, and those he hasn't seen for a long time. They almost succeeded. They didn't kill any dog, [[spoiler:but they did kill a rabbit.]]

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': When Electro gets mad with Spider-Man, he promises him that they'll find out who he is, and then he'll fry every single member of his family.

* At one point in Fanfic/TwilightSparklesAwesomeAdventure, [[NominalHero ADMIRAL Awesome]] announces his plans to kill Enemy Boss Leader's family and all his friends, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forgetting that he already killed them years ago]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which was in fact Enemy Boss Leader's reason for joining the Enemies in the first place]].

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': When Electro got mad with Spider-Man, he promised him that they'll find out who he is, and then he would fry every single member of his family.

** Invoked by Troi in "Face Of The Enemy", when she impersonates [[PoliticalOfficer Major Rakal]] of the Tal Shiar, the Romulan SecretPolice. Upon pulling rank against Commander Toreth, she tells the crew that anybody who would disobey her would see their families punished, too.

* Debbie in ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'' uses the line "I'll get you, and your little hand too!" as she drives away from Fester in a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

-->"[[AC:This will happen to your kids too.]]"

->''"I'll get you, my pretty -- [[TropeNamers and your little dog too!]]"''

->''"I'll get you, my pretty -- [[TropeNamer and your little dog too!]]"''

->''"I'll get you, my pretty -- and your little dog too!"''

Sometimes there's a particular reason for this obsession, such as {{Blackmail}}, [[RevengeByProxy vengeance]], or some other [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse Offer The Hero Can't Refuse]], but for the most part, it's a plot device used by the writer to get the hero involved.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. However it backfires in "The Most Toys" when [[BadBoss Fajo]] threatens his minion Varria to force the android Data to comply with his wishes. It works, but that only inspires Varria to turn against Fajo, given that he would kill her over something so trivial. Fajo kills Varria during their escape and threatens to kill more if Data doesn't comply again, but Data reasons [[ZerothLawRebellion perfectly logically]] that the [[BatmanGrabsAGun only way to stop Fajo from doing this is to kill him.]]

* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', at least Mai is provoked this way when the first MonsterOfTheWeek targets her ill and weak-willed brother Takumi. Later events, in a subversion of this trope, imply that this is the standard method of "initiation" for most [=HiMEs=], with the monster attacks carefully planned by the PowersThatBe specifically to attack their loved ones to draw them into fighting.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Dabi's entire career as a supervillain is revealed to be a calculated method of giving his father [[spoiler:Endeavor]] a mix between a HopeSpot and LaserGuidedKarma: he'll let his father build his life back up again, then when he's on the verge of stability, rip away everything and everyone he cares about the most, even if they're not directly related. When called out on the wanton destruction by the heroes, he says it's WorthIt if the casualties hurt [[spoiler:Endeavor]] that much more.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Dabi's entire career as a supervillain is revealed to be a calculated method of giving his father [[spoiler:Endeavor]] a mix between a HopeSpot and LaserGuidedKarma: he'll let his father build his life back up again, then when he's on the verge of stability, rip away everything and everyone he cares about the most. When called out on the wanton destruction by the heroes, he says it's WorthIt if the casualties hurt [[spoiler:Endeavor]] that much more.

->'''Darwin Mayflower:''' I'll kill your friends, your family, and the bitch you took to the prom!\\

->'''Darwin Mayflower: I'll kill your friends, your family, and the bitch you took to the prom!\\

-->-- ''Film/HudsonHawk''

* In Darby Conley's ''Get Fuzzy'', a cat named Whitey threatens Bucky Katt with this when the latter can't pay back the large sum of money he owes. [[ThreatBackfire It backfires on Whitey]], because unlike other examples of this trope, Bucky happens to be a [[TheSociopath sociopath]]:

* [[spoiler:In [[http://e621.net/post/show/118119/ this]] video on e621, the dog not only died. King died first.]]

* ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'': Queen Elizabeth refuses to abdicate, until the (french) villain puts a gun to the head of her beloved dog. Only then, she gives in.

* In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Rosette and Chrono probably would have never gotten into the demon-hunting business at all, much less try to stop [[WhiteHairBlackHeart A]][[TheChessmaster i]][[{{Satan}} o]][[CardCarryingVillain n]]'s plans, if it hadn't been for him kidnapping Rosette's brother in the first place. (That being said, he ''did'' have a good reason to go after Joshua.)

* In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Rosette and Chrono probably would have never gotten into the demon-hunting business at all, much less try to stop Aion's plans, if it hadn't been for him kidnapping Rosette's brother in the first place. (That being said, he ''did'' have a good reason to go after Joshua.)

When the villain targets an innocent for the sole purpose of [[KickTheDog showing how evil he is]], and that innocent just happens to be something the hero [[{{Protectorate}} cares a lot about]] -- [[VillainBall which justifies the hero kicking butt over it.]]

* This is the one thing that consistently works on [[TheKirk Captain Kirk]]. In one ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode, Klingons find that torturing Kirk himself is useless, but torturing ''Chekov'' snaps him instantly; in another, the PsychopathicManchild points a gun at ''Spock'' to get Kirk to comply. It works.