History Main / PolitenessJudo

--->'''Shepard:''' Well, I could have done that.

--->'''Marisa:''' That's it, now just tell me your weak point, please.
--->'''Yuugi:''' I'm one of the four Devas of the Mountain, Yuugi the Strong. My weak point is fried beans, of course[[note]]this is actually a roundabout BadassBoast, since the youkai that are weak to fried beans are oni, some of the most powerful youkai in existence. If Patchouli is Marisa's partner in this scene, she has a quiet freakout after this line[[/note]].
--->'''Marisa:''' [[LampshadeHanging Huh, I wish they'd all been this cooperative.]] Too bad I don't have any fried beans on me.

--->'''Flemeth:''' Such manners! And always in the last place you expect. Like stockings.

---> '''Aloth:''' You ''can't'' be serious.

* In one of the first episodes of Machinima/RedVsBlue, Donut being sent on a wild goose chase ends with him [[CaptureTheFlag sucessfully taking the Blue Team's flag]] from [[ThDitz Caboose.]]

* In one of the first episodes of Machinima/RedVsBlue, Donut being sent on a wild goose chase ends with him [[CaptureTheFlag sucessfully taking the Blue Team's flag]] from Caboose.

* The telephone conversation between Jane and Susan, regarding attendance at Jane's aunt's funeral, in the ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' episode "Sex, Death & Nudity" is a masterclass in this technique.

* In ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', a [[PlayerCharacter Watcher]] with a high enough [[TheSixStats Resolve]] score can infiltrate a group of cultists without bloodshed...by simply asking nicely if they can borrow another cultist's mask.

---> '''Aloth:'' You ''can't'' be serious.

* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', some officers from Japan's Self-Defense Forces are trying to get Koyemshi to let them investigate [[HumongousMecha Zearth]] and gain a better understanding of it, but Koyemshi refuses. Tanaka then gets on Koyemshi's good sign by [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics addressing him as "Koyemshi-san"]], and politely asking him to investigate the robot. When he refuses her again, she withdraws her request and instead asks to simply observe the children piloting it as their guardians. Koyemshi's a bit impressed, and agrees to let them take a look inside.

** Slit Mouthed Woman approaches you and asks whether she's beautiful. Saying no will enrage her to kill you horribly because her ego is fragile. Saying yes will do the same because the Japanese word for "pretty" (kirei) pretty much sounds like a word meaning "to cut" (kire) and she is also apparently fueled by puns. If you say, [[INeedToGoIronMyDog "I'm sorry, but I have to be somewhere else right now,"]] [[JapanesePoliteness she will bow and apologize for delaying you.]]

See also: DuckSeasonRabbitSeason; PassiveAggressiveKombat, MinnesotaNice, JapanesePoliteness, and ComplimentFishing. Not to be confused with VerbalJudo. Also not to be confused with [[SugaryMalice Verbal Jiu-Jitsu]].

See also: DuckSeasonRabbitSeason; PassiveAggressiveKombat, MinnesotaNice, JapanesePoliteness, and ComplimentFishing. Not to be confused with VerbalJudo.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/DeduceYouSay", Daffy Duck (as "brilliant detective" [[SherlockHolmes Doorlock Homes]]) is unable to subdue the Shropshire Slasher with brute force. Porky Pig (as his assistant, Dr. Watkins) simply asks the Slasher to please give himself up, and the Slasher agrees instantly. When his mother (who apparently had the foresight to ''name'' him "Shropshire Slasher") comes in and scolds him, [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas he escorts her home,]] saying, "I promised the nice man I'd turn myself in, mother." "You were always such a good boy, Slasher."

* In Discworld/IShallWearMidnight, Tiffany follows up a [[StealthHiBye sudden appearance]] in Letitia's room with a few remarks on her guard's unprofessional attitude, goes on to note that people are much less likely to scream for help [[TalkingIsAFreeAction if someone is talking to them]], then speculates that it may be due to this trope.

See also: DuckSeasonRabbitSeason, PassiveAggressiveKombat, MinnesotaNice, JapanesePoliteness, and ComplimentFishing. Not to be confused with VerbalJudo.

* During a conference in America, journalists shot footage of Israel and Palestinean Leaders Ehud Barak and Yassir Arafat getting in a politeness brawl about which one of them would let the other go through the door first. While polite, in middle-eastern culture it is the superior person who has his guests enter before him. Once they started to give each other slight nudges to the elbow and pats on the shoulder, only their friendly smiles cover up that they were apparently just inches from getting into a fistfight.

* In ''Manga/Bokurano'', some officers from Japan's Self-Defense Forces are trying to get Koyemshi to let them investigate [[HumongousMecha Zearth]] and gain a better understanding of it, but Koyemshi refuses. Tanaka then gets on Koyemshi's good sign by [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics addressing him as "Koyemshi-san"]], and politely asking him to investigate the robot. When he refuses her again, she withdraws her request and instead asks to simply observe the children piloting it as their guardians. Koyemshi's a bit impressed

--->"There! ''That's'' how you get rid of a monster, '''''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny YOU BIG, FAT, DOODOO-HEADED NINNIES!]]'''''"\\

* FanFic/DrawnWithTheNight: Klein is forced to go before [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Celestia]] at the toy fair, something he really doesn't want to do after being forcefully brought into Equestria and viciously interrogated and imprisoned by Twilight and Luna and thinks that angry accusations in public would give them the excuse they need to drag them back to Equestria at best, or silence him permanently at worst. When he appears at the princesses' table, he engages in an elaborate and archaic show of reverence, and politely but firmly tells them to stay out of his life, all while addressing them in an extremely sycophantic tone. The bowing mortifies the princess, and the cold shoulder proves to have more of an impact on them than screaming and yelling would.

* "Your Obedient Servant" from ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''. It consists of Burr and Hamilton sending increasingly heated letters to each other, airing various grievances and building up to their eventual duel... and each letter ends with "I have the honor to be your obedient servant, [signature]"

* ''VideoGame/{{Academagia}}'': It has least a few examples this trope in the various Adventures and Events, but the most {{egregious}} example is a game mechanic. With a very high Calligraphy skill your character has access to an Action called Create Formal Invitation. When this action is used on another student it's possible to create a written request so elegant in form and content that it compels the recipient to agree, basically allowing you to control them for up to two days! The only way to gain more control over another character is through [[MindManipulation Mastery spells]], and that's a [[TheDarkArts highly prohibited]] form of magic. Furthermore, unlike most other available ways to force {{NPC}}s to do specific things, it won't worsen your relationship or be considered a hostile act.

* {{Hellsing}} - The Catholic ChurchMilitant shadow organization Iscariot land in undead-infested London and run into the Protestant-backed Hellsing, with whom they butt heads at every excuse necessary. One tense dialogue later and Iscariot finds themselves ''escorting'' Hellsing head Integra because she was that damn good at asking nicely.

* In an episode of WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy when Peter and his friends where fighting with the British man who bought their bar, they at one point show up wearing [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution union outfits]] claiming their gonna take back their bar by force, the owner tells them he's going to have to... ask them to leave, when they refuse he say's he'll have to resort to using his British politeness cut to them happily leaving the bar.