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* ''Mindstar Rising'' by Creator/PeterFHamilton. Greg Mandel breaks into the residence of a hacker, knocking out the guard on the door and confiscating his high-powered stun gun. He then uses the gun to fry the hacker's expensive computer equipment to encourage him to talk faster.

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* ''Mindstar Rising'' by Creator/PeterFHamilton. ''Literature/MindstarRising'': Greg Mandel breaks into the residence of a hacker, knocking out the guard on the door and confiscating his high-powered stun gun. He then uses the gun to fry the hacker's expensive computer equipment to encourage him to talk faster.

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* This is the reason The Dude's rug gets pissed on at the beginning of ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.
-->''"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!"''

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* This is ''Film/TheBigLebowski''
** Jackie Treehorn's "Asian-American" thug pisses on
the reason The Dude's rug gets pissed on at as punishment for not paying back his debt, not realizing that he's got the beginning of ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.
-->''"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!"''
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** Walter destroys a new sportscar in an attempt to intimidate an adolescent into admitting where he got the ransom money, shouting, "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" It turns out, [[spoiler:it's not the kid's car]].


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* ''Film/DevilInABlueDress'': Bar owner Joppy is established to be very protective of his marble countertop. When an enraged Easy needs to get some information out of Joppy, he starts hammering on the counter. Joppy quickly folds.
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* ''VideoGame/RobocopRogueCity'': Robocop would eventually corner the StarterVillain [[TheQuincyPunk Soot]] in his private concert during the ''Soot's Final Encore'' main quest. As the Torch Head leader is high on Nuke at the time, getting punched and thrown around would not make him flinch, but shooting up his amps and tossing around his collection of guitars is what breaks him.
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* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': Of a sort. Befitting Scott's nature holding the Starborne origin, he'll often walk into areas someone he's talking to cares about and threatens to die there. Given that his death causes a supernova with the destructive force of a charged creeper, he often gets his demands.

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* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': [[DiscussedTrope Of a sort.sort]]. Befitting Scott's nature holding the Starborne origin, he'll often walk into areas someone he's talking to cares about and threatens to die there. Given that his death causes a supernova with the destructive force of a charged creeper, he often gets his demands.

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'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': [[CaptainObvious I don't think he did it accidentally at all!]]

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'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': [=McNinja=]:''' [[CaptainObvious I don't think he did it accidentally at all!]]all]]!


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* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': Of a sort. Befitting Scott's nature holding the Starborne origin, he'll often walk into areas someone he's talking to cares about and threatens to die there. Given that his death causes a supernova with the destructive force of a charged creeper, he often gets his demands.
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* Played for laughs in ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. When Gareth is extremely possessive of his stapler, and has labelled it "Garet", Tim seizes it and dangles it out of the office window.
--> '''Tim:''' I'm going to let this go, unless you stop acting like a fool.
--> '''Gareth:''' Well, you won't, so...
--> '''Tim:''' (Letting it go) Well, I have, so...
--> '''Gareth:''' What if that kills someone?
--> '''Tim:''' They'll think you're the murderer. It's got your name on it.
--> '''Gareth:''' Why would a murderer put his name on the murder weapon?
--> '''Tim:''' To stop people borrowing it?

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* In ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'', Mac sends Gin to steal a vase containing a secret microfilm. When she returns with the film, he refuses to tell her what the contents are, so she holds it out of the window of their getaway car, as they make their escape; he tells her immediately.



* In ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'', Mac sends Gin to steal a vase containing a secret microfilm. When she returns with the film, he refuses to tell her what the contents are, so she holds it out of the window of their getaway car, as they make their escape; he tells her immediately.
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* In ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'', Mac sends Gin to steal a vase containing a secret microfilm. When she returns with the film, he refuses to tell her what the contents are, so she holds it out of the window of their getaway car, as they make their escape; he tells her immediately.
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* ''Film/Shaft2019'': [[ParentChildTeam Shaft's son]] nixes his usual JackBauerInterrogationTechnique when they confront a money launderer for information, so he shoots her phone and designer handbag to make her talk.
-->'''Shaft:''' Now, since I can't whoop your ass, I'm gonna have to beat the shit... out of your shit.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', When Courage's past enemies capture Muriel, they try to get her to scream to summon him. Muriel refuses to budge until Katz starts doing laundry...with the colors mixed with the lights at the wrong setting.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Collect Her", Lenny Baxter is a collector of Powerpuff Girls merchandise who eventually [[LivingDollCollector captures the girls themselves]]. To get him to tell where he has them stored, the Professor and some kids start tearing open all the collectibles he has, ruining the collectors' value and causing Lenny ''physical pain and nausea''.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Collect Her", "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss2E2CollectHerSupperVillain Collect Her]]", Lenny Baxter is a collector of Powerpuff Girls merchandise who eventually [[LivingDollCollector captures the girls themselves]]. To get him to tell where he has them stored, the Professor and some kids start tearing open all the collectibles he has, ruining the collectors' value and causing Lenny ''physical pain and nausea''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Driving Miss Hazy", Lori accidentally lets slip that she's sabotaging Lena's chances at passing her driving test. To get her to spill the beans, Lincoln threatening to rip her favorite Bobby sweater.



** A parody came when Homer was utilizing ShameIfSomethingHappened on Mister Burns, coupling it with PokeThePoodle when that "something" is setting a glass on his desk without a coaster. Naturally, it gets the desired reaction.

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** A parody came when Homer was utilizing ShameIfSomethingHappened on Mister Mr. Burns, coupling it with PokeThePoodle when that "something" is setting a glass on his desk without a coaster. Naturally, it gets the desired reaction.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': After Steven notices Peridot take something from the Moon Base, he snatches it from her and locks her in a car, demanding she tell him what it is. When Peridot insists it is nothing special and "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not important at all]]", Steven says if that's the case then he'll just go ahead and smash it, which gets her to cave and confess it is a Diamond Communicator and she was planning to use it to contact Yellow Diamond.

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