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* Parodied in an issue of ''ComicBook/ActionComics'', in which ComicBook/LexLuthor, whose building (along with the rest of Metropolis) was recently replaced by a 64th century version of itself by Brainiac 13, is being shown what all the buttons on the control pad next to his seat in the [=LexCorp=] board room do:
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}}'': Parodied in an issue of ''ComicBook/ActionComics'', in which ComicBook/LexLuthor, whose building (along with the rest of Metropolis) was recently replaced by a 64th century version of itself by Brainiac 13, is being shown what all the buttons on the control pad next to his seat in the [=LexCorp=] board room do:
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It must be noted that the villain doesn't necessarily need to kill every meeting-attendant. If he is the more pragmatic sort, he will spare some select members, usually [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou the ones he still needs for his plan]]. Or he might even kill just one person, usually the one who is having second thoughts and/or is most outspoken against his plan/leadership. Either way, such cases serves not only as exposition, but also as a way for the villain to display a clear message to his partners/subordinates: "Do as I say, and YouWillBeSpared. Cross me and you're next on the chopping block." If it hasn't happened earlier, this will usually be the moment that cements the villain as a BadBoss.
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It must be noted that the villain doesn't necessarily need to kill every meeting-attendant. If he is the more pragmatic sort, he will spare some select members, usually [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou the ones he still needs for his plan]]. Or he might even [[ThrownFromTheZeppelin kill just one person, usually the one who is having second thoughts and/or is most outspoken against his plan/leadership.plan/leadership]]. Either way, such cases serves not only as exposition, but also as a way for the villain to display a clear message to his partners/subordinates: "Do as I say, and YouWillBeSpared. Cross me and you're next on the chopping block." If it hasn't happened earlier, this will usually be the moment that cements the villain as a BadBoss.
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* Pulled off twice by [[spoiler:[[BigBad Utsuro]]]] in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}''.
** First, he convinces the Harusame to [[AlphaStrike turn against their elders]] while he's in a meeting with them. Being [[spoiler:[[CompleteImmortality immortal]]]], he casually walks away naked.
** At the end of the same arc where the above takes place, he gathers for a meeting with the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Tendoshu]], where he reveals his EvilPlan to [[spoiler:[[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the Earth]] by [[FalseFlagOperation starting a war with the entire universe]], using the Tendoshu themselves as scapegoats after Utsuro's lackeys [[PhlebotinumOverload blow up the Altana Gates across several planets]]]]. While it is not shown how the meeting ends, Enshou later reveals that [[spoiler:the Tendoshu's ship was found crashed on Earth, the Tendoshu themselves [[AndIMustScream still alive and in pieces]] after having taken Utsuro's blood]]. The implication is that [[spoiler:Utsuro deliberately crashed their ship after slashing them apart, before leaving the crash site to move on to the next stage of his plan]].
** First, he convinces the Harusame to [[AlphaStrike turn against their elders]] while he's in a meeting with them. Being [[spoiler:[[CompleteImmortality immortal]]]], he casually walks away naked.
** At the end of the same arc where the above takes place, he gathers for a meeting with the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Tendoshu]], where he reveals his EvilPlan to [[spoiler:[[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the Earth]] by [[FalseFlagOperation starting a war with the entire universe]], using the Tendoshu themselves as scapegoats after Utsuro's lackeys [[PhlebotinumOverload blow up the Altana Gates across several planets]]]]. While it is not shown how the meeting ends, Enshou later reveals that [[spoiler:the Tendoshu's ship was found crashed on Earth, the Tendoshu themselves [[AndIMustScream still alive and in pieces]] after having taken Utsuro's blood]]. The implication is that [[spoiler:Utsuro deliberately crashed their ship after slashing them apart, before leaving the crash site to move on to the next stage of his plan]].
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': [[BigBad Darth Sidious]] ends the Clone Wars by calling a meeting of the Separatist Council on Mustafar and then sending in the newly minted Darth Vader to make sure they are [[DeadlyEuphemism "taken care of."]]
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "Aliens of London"]]: In a variant, General Asquith is murdered by the Slitheen who have secretly taken over the British government, in the Cabinet room, after they reveal themselves to him. They don't tell him anything, either. All of this is witnessed by Harriet Jones [-([[CatchPhrase MP, Flydale North]])-], hiding in a nearby closet.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "Aliens of London"]]: In a variant, General Asquith is murdered by the Slitheen who have secretly taken over the British government, in the Cabinet room, after they reveal themselves to him. They don't tell him anything, either. All of this is witnessed by Harriet Jones [-([[CatchPhrase MP, [-(MP, Flydale North]])-], North)-], hiding in a nearby closet.
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* ''Series/TheGifted2017'': Season 2 opens with [[BigBad Reeva Payge]] and the [[CoDragons Frost Sisters]] attending a meeting of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle, who call them out on the former's approval of the latter's extremist actions in the previous season. Deciding that the others are [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer useful to her plans]], Reeva proceeds to paralyze them with her [[MakeMeWannaShout powers]], allowing the Frosts to execute them. This paves the way for Reeva to assume supreme leadership of the organization.
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* ''Series/TheGifted2017'': Season 2 opens with [[BigBad Reeva Payge]] and the [[CoDragons Frost Sisters]] attending a meeting of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle, who call them out on the former's approval of the latter's extremist actions in the previous season. Deciding that the others are [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer useful to her plans]], Reeva proceeds to paralyze them with her [[MakeMeWannaShout powers]], powers, allowing the Frosts to execute them. This paves the way for Reeva to assume supreme leadership of the organization.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', the Magic Council gets bombed by Jackal right when the chairman decides that he and his fellow councilmen need to take action against Tartaros.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', the Magic Council gets bombed by Jackal [[HavingABlast Jackal]] right when the chairman decides that he and his fellow councilmen need to take action against Tartaros.
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-->'''Green Goblin:''' ''[[PreMortemOneLiner Out, am I?]]''
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abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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** In ''All This And Gargantua 2'', [[spoiler:the Sovereign carries out ThePurge of the Council of Thirteen by assassinating most of its members and then summoning the rest to an emergency meeting, where he lays out his scheme to destroy the space station ''Gargantua 2'' before sealing the teleconference booths and pumping in poison gas.]]
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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'': As the Saints-Ultor conflict escalates, the Ultor board of directors puts increasing pressure on the CEO Dane Vogel to resolve it ASAP. Rather than go after the Saints, however, Vogel decides to off the board instead, giving him complete control over the MegaCorp, and leaks the location of the board's next meeting (an offshore yacht) to the Saints. This results in [[PlayerCharacter the Boss]] boarding the yacht and gunning everyone on it down, just as Vogel had expected.
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!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''
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The villain has formulated an EvilPlan so dastardly and Machiavellian that the audience is unlikely to pick up on it on their own. Naturally, the villain wants to keep the details from the heroes, but it is important that the audience know what's going on. In this case, the villain will discuss his plan with a random group of subordinates, a group of business partners (or partners-in-crime), hostages, his family, or some other group. He will gleefully lay out every last detail of his plot with an evil [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment glee]].
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The villain has formulated an EvilPlan so dastardly and Machiavellian that the audience is unlikely to pick up on it on their own. Naturally, the villain wants to keep the details from the heroes, but it is important that the audience know what's going on. In this case, the villain will discuss his plan with a random group of subordinates, a group of business partners (or partners-in-crime), hostages, his family, or some other group. He will gleefully lay out every last detail of his plot with an evil [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment glee]].
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* Downplayed example in the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' movie ''WesternAnimation/OperationZERO'', where during a massive gathering of the KND's RoguesGallery, [[BigBad Grandfather]] returns and announces his plan to defeat the Kids Next Door with an army of Senior Citizombies to roaring applause. They continue to applause when he states he'll start with everyone that used to be a kid... until they realize that includes all of them.
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*** To twist the knife further, he tosses in a gas mask that's useless against the new toxin to watch them fight over it.
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** Although Michael himself reasons immediately after that Zasa doesn't have the ambition or ability to pull off an attack like that, and is simply an accomplice - he is right, a Sicilian Don called Lucchese arranged it.
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** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', in a scene apparently staged for the sole purpose of allowing Film/JamesBond to sneak in and [[ExactEavesdropping overhear]] it through a hole inside his model of Fort Knox. The original novel invoked ThrownFromTheZeppelin during this scene instead.
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** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' has the eponymous Auric Goldfinger use a DeadlyGas to kill all of the gangsters who financially backed him up after explaining his plans to them, in a scene apparently staged for the sole purpose of allowing Film/JamesBond Bond to sneak in and [[ExactEavesdropping overhear]] it all through a hole inside his model of Fort Knox. The original novel invoked ThrownFromTheZeppelin during this scene instead.
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** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', Bond is lured at a Spectre party in Cuba, which was organized for Blofeld's birthday [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll from Blofeld's own high security prison cell]] in the UK. Bond gets spotted and showered with a gas... that ends up killing all the present Spectre agents around him instead of him. It turns out the bio-technological weapon Heracles used on them was reprogrammed by the ''other'' villains of the film to destroy Spectre instead of Bond, to Blofeld's total surprise.
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** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', Bond is lured at a Spectre party in Cuba, which was organized for Blofeld's birthday [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll from Blofeld's own high security prison cell]] in the UK. Bond gets spotted and showered with a gas... that ends up killing all the present Spectre agents around him instead of him. It turns out the bio-technological weapon Heracles that was used on them here was reprogrammed by the ''other'' villains of the film to destroy Spectre instead of Bond, to Blofeld's total surprise.
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** Ernst Stavro Blofeld does this to a few of his {{Mooks}} in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' (one of the henchmen was stealing money, and he gets zapped to death) and ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' (a henchman who was supposed to kill Mr. White gets his eyes gouged out by Mr. Hinx, then his skull bashed, and finally, [[NeckSnap his neck broken]]). In both cases, the other henchmen can only watch in horror as the guy gets killed.
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** Ernst Stavro Blofeld (TropeNamer of BlofeldPloy, which is used in such situations) does this to a few of his {{Mooks}} in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' (one of the henchmen was stealing money, and he gets zapped to death) and ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' (a henchman who was supposed to kill Mr. White gets his eyes gouged out by Mr. Hinx, then his skull bashed, and finally, [[NeckSnap his neck broken]]). In both cases, the other henchmen can only watch in horror as the guy gets killed.
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** ''Film/AViewToAKill'' does the zeppelin kill. Zorin wants his investors to put up $100 million each into his company, which will wipe out Silicon Valley. One of them refuses to pay Zorin that much, so Zorin has May Day drop the guy out of the zeppelin.
-->'''Max Zorin:''' [[BondOneLiner Anyone else want to drop out?]]
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-->'''Max --->'''Max Zorin:''' [[BondOneLiner Anyone else want to drop out?]]
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* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'': in chapter 5 of the second season (''The Enemy Within''), this can happen if playing the [[spoiler: Villain Joker path]]. Bruce arrives to a board meeting of Wayne Entreprises, only [[spoiler: for [[ComicBook/TheJoker The Joker himself]] to also arrive with [[ComicBook/HarleyQinn Harley Quinn]] and murder everyone in the board with a weaponized version of the Lotus Virus (while also releasing it across the Wayne Tower), with Bruce being spared(by forcing a gas mask on him) because he wants to see him suffer and be seen as "his ultimate enemy"]].
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* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'': in chapter 5 of the second season (''The Enemy Within''), this can happen if playing the [[spoiler: Villain Joker path]]. Bruce arrives to a board meeting of Wayne Entreprises, only [[spoiler: for [[ComicBook/TheJoker The Joker himself]] to arrive with [[ComicBook/HarleyQinn Harley Quinn]] and murder everyone in the board with a weaponized version of the Lotus Virus (while also releasing it across the Wayne Tower), with Bruce being spared(by forcing a gas mask on him) because he wants to see him suffer and be seen as "his ultimate enemy"]].
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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with WalkThePlank. Or EndingFatigue in a TabletopGame. Or [[TwoByFore beating someone to death with a two-by-four]]. And certainly not with getting ''[[FullBoarAction boared]]'' to death.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: The Master kills his entire [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Cabinet]] in his role as Prime Minister. In a variation that plays even more to office fantasies, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERd_EnQqtKE he doesn't explain anything; he just insults them (hilariously) and then gasses them to death.]] Read the full exchange on the [[Quotes/BoardToDeath quotes page]].
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** ''Film/Shazam2019'': A mystically empowered Dr. Sivana enters the Sivana board room where he murders his brother, his father, and the entire board room by summoning the SevenDeadlySins.
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** ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'': General Ludendorff barges in on a meeting of the German High Command, who are preparing to accept an armistice with the Allies, and exposes them all to the new toxic gas developed by Doctor Poison, wiping them out.
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