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* From ''DrMcNinja'': "Oops. I just accidentally poured out '''AAAAALL''' of your dish detergent." [[CaptainObvious "I don't think he did it accidentally at all!"]]
** Gordito's new at interrogations.
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* From ''DrMcNinja'': ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'':
--> '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': "Oops. I just accidentally poured out '''AAAAALL''' of your dish detergent." "
--> '''[[KidSidekick Gordito]]''': [[CaptainObvious "I don't think he did it accidentally atall!"]]
** Gordito's new at interrogations.all!"]]
--> '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': "Oops. I just accidentally poured out '''AAAAALL''' of your dish detergent.
--> '''[[KidSidekick Gordito]]''': [[CaptainObvious "I don't think he did it accidentally at
** Gordito's new at interrogations.
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* On MysteryScienceTheater3000, Crow is inspired by the episode's movie to torture Mike by pouring beer all over his most precious possession. Since Mike's most precious possession is an antique beer stein, he's not too upset. He then takes it further by noting that ''Crow himself'' is a precious possession, and Crow immediately demands that beer be poured all over him.
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* ''VForVendetta'' - the original comic - has V take Lewis Prothero, formerly a death camp commander, hostage and threatens him with the incineration of his collection of priceless dolls unless he tells him everything that happened at Larkhill. And then he does it anyway, driving Prothero insane and depriving Norsefire of its major voice of propaganda.
* ''VForVendetta'' - the original comic - has V take Lewis Prothero, formerly a death camp commander, hostage and threatens him with the incineration of his collection of priceless dolls unless he tells him everything that happened at Larkhill. And then he does it anyway, driving Prothero insane and depriving Norsefire of its major voice of propaganda.
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* ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': In the episode "Dolls," the detectives are tracking a mentally unstable man who kidnaps young girls, dresses them up as china dolls, and keeps them locked up until they die of starvation. He's also something of a doll collector, so when they finally track him down, Munch starts smashing his dolls to convince him to reveal where his current captive is.
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* In ''[[Discworld/FeetOfClay Feet of Clay]]'', Detritus uses this to coerce a troll drug smuggler (and pottery merchant) into assisting the Watch.
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* This is the reason The Dude's rug gets pissed on at the beginning of ''TheBigLebowski''.
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* In ''BadBoys 2'', Marcus and Mike get the location of the Haitian gang's hideout by doing this to Icepick's shop.
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Often PlayedForLaughs (see GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique), with a common punchline being the victim's retort that "that wasn't even mine". However, nobody actually ''does'' this in real life except for maybe your parents throwing something of yours in the trash. The police ''especially'' does not do this - It's illegal to destroy property.
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Often PlayedForLaughs (see GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique), with a common punchline being the victim's retort that "that wasn't even mine". However, nobody actually ''does'' this in real life except for maybe your parents throwing something of yours in the trash. The police ''especially'' does do not do this - It's it's illegal to destroy property.
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Often PlayedForLaughs (see GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique).GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique), with a common punchline being the victim's retort that "that wasn't even mine". However, nobody actually ''does'' this in real life except for maybe your parents throwing something of yours in the trash. The police ''especially'' does not do this - It's illegal to destroy property.
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* In ''FallingDown'', William Foster keeps asking the Korean shopkeeper the price of his items, and smashes them if he feels the price is too high.
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** Homer himself attempts this during "Hungry, Hungry Homer". He razzes Marge's hairdresser by unscrewing caps and dropping things on the floor (only to get a confused reply from the hairdresser). He tries again to the owner of the local baseball team but is immediately intimidated into undoing his vandalism.
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* '''Fanboys''' - when caught breaking into Skywalker Ranch, they threaten to destroy the original Yoda puppet when cornered by Ray Park.
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* '''Fanboys''' ''Fanboys'' - when caught breaking into Skywalker Ranch, they threaten to destroy the original Yoda puppet when cornered by Ray Park.Park. Taken to extremes when one of the guards then threatens to destroy an original Millennium Falcon model in retaliation. The
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* ''Toy Story 3'' (2010). After Ken refuses to tell her how to turn Buzz Lightyear back to normal Barbie goes to town on his accessories and wardrobe.
-->'''Ken''': No! Barbie, not the ''Nehru jacket''!
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* ''Toy Story 3'' (2010). After Ken refuses to tell her how to turn Buzz Lightyear back to normal Barbie goes to town on his accessories and wardrobe. \n-->'''Ken''': No! Barbie, not the ''Nehru jacket''!\n He manages to hold out until Barbie threatens his precious Nehru jacket.
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* In ''Series/SonicTheHedgehog'', Snively tortures Antoine by cooking escargot ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous in margarine]]''.
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* In the ''PowerpuffGirls'' episode "Collect Her", Lenny Baxter is a collector of Powerpuff Girls merchandise who eventually 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.
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* In the ''PowerpuffGirls'' episode "Collect Her", Lenny Baxter is a collector of Powerpuff Girls merchandise who eventually 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.has, ruining the collectors' value.
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* Law&Order does this sometimes, mostly on CriminalIntent with Goren acting clumsy and 'accidentally' knocking over something priceless when the person being questioned is within catching distance. He never breaks anything, it's just a trick to get the person to tell him what they know and get him out of there before he does break something.
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* ''Devil in a Blue Dress'' (1990): Easy Rawlins bashes the beloved marble countertop owned by his barman friend with a hammer to force him to tell the truth about the job he's been given.
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* ''Devil in a Blue Dress'' (1990): Easy Rawlins bashes the beloved marble countertop owned by his barman friend with a hammer to force him to tell the truth about the job he's been given. Also shows up in TheFilmOfTheBook.
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* In XKCD, our hero gets out of visiting his librarian girlfriend's family by slooowly destroying the spine of a hardback book (that he bought himself).
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** If that was one of the extremely rare 12" figs, it was likely a ShoutOut to the "ThreeGeeks" Comic "Bring Me the Head of Boba Fett". Which is probably online somewhere.
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Usually only used by heroes on characters that show a distinct [[KitschCollection regard for possessions]] [[TheCollector over human life]], so it seems a bit like they deserve it. However, when push comes to shove, villains are vastly more likely to actually go through with the threat.
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* Used in ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', where Lois tries to interrogate the boys to find out who lit her dress on fire and put it in the toilet. One of her methods is to go through the room and begin throwing things into the trash, and another threat was to smash the television with the hammer. Does she ever get an answer? No, because it was actually ''Hal'' who did that!
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** Oh, it's not just that. They also threaten to take a Brillo pad (steel wool) to Tim's shiny shoes. ''[[SeriousBusiness They threatened the shiny shoes.]]''
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** And it wasn't even Norm's block of wood: it was one that The Lobe bought himself. Norm just has a deep respect for carpentry. And it really was a ''very'' nice block of wood.
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* An option in ''TheGodfather'' video game, where the player can extort shop owners by smashing up their stores.
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* An option in ''TheGodfather'' video game, ''Game/TheGodfather: The Game'', where the player can extort shop owners by smashing up their stores.
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* ''A Piece of Resistance'', a novel by Clive Egleton set in a [[AlternateHistory Soviet-occupied Britain]]. The protagonist breaks a landlady's Dresden china heirlooms to get her to reveal where she's hiding the people he's after.
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* TheSimpsons parodies this, as always, with a private eye visting Skinner. When he doesn't get any information he reshuffles the pages on his desk. When Skinner blandly says he can reorganise them the eye uses a stapler. Cue the No.
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* TheSimpsons parodies this, as always, with a private eye visting visiting Skinner. When he doesn't get any information information, he reshuffles the pages on his Skinner's desk. When Skinner blandly says he can reorganise them them, the private eye uses a stapler. Cue the No.BigNo.
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* In ''[[http://samlandstrom.com/metagame.aspx Metagame]]'' by Sam Landstrom, D_Light interrogates an Analyst by smashing some of his computer equipment. The Analyst estimates that the destruction of just one monitor will reduce his efficiency by 0.5%, which is a huge blow for someone created to be obsessed with work.
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* In ''[[http://samlandstrom.com/metagame.aspx Metagame]]'' ''{{Literature/Metagame}}'' by Sam Landstrom, D_Light interrogates an Analyst by smashing some of his computer equipment. The Analyst estimates that the destruction of just one monitor will reduce his efficiency by 0.5%, which is a huge blow for someone created to be obsessed with work.
