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''Manga/Naruto'':

* ''Manga/Naruto'':

* In ''Anime/RebornToMasterTheBlade'', the BloodKnight and protagonist Inglis usually takes a very cavalier attitude to her enemies, even when they fully intend to wound or even kill her. This is because Inglis finds the thrill of fighting in itself ''extremely'' entertaining, especially so against challenging opponents. The moment you harm or threaten her first cousin and the Knight she is squire to, Rafinha, however, Inglis will immediately drop all pleasantries, stop holding back, and threaten to do the worst things she can manage to you if you ever lay a hand on her. On a much less serious and macabre note, Inglis is very protective of Rafinha against any potential male suitors, both being tasked by her uncle to guard her cousin and believing she's much too young to be in a relationship still.

* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Titus Pullo is sentenced to die in the arena, but refuses to anything and just sits there dejectedly, waiting for the gladiators to kill him. This flummoxes the gladiators, who seem at a loss at what to do... until one of them starts {{Trash Talk}}ing the legion Pullo served with, most of whom died earlier in the season. ''Bad move''. Pullo goes on an epic rampage and kills all but one of the gladiators there. Finally, when Pullo is too wounded and exhausted to resist or even stand, the last gladiator goes to finish him off, only for [[VitriolicBestBuds Pullo's friend and fellow legionnaire Vorenus]] to jump out of the stands [[BigDamnHeroes and save him]].

* ''LightNovel/AlderaminOnTheSky'': Princess Chamille hits Ikta's button when she indirectly insults his mother.
* ''LightNovel/BlackBullet'': If you value your life, ''don't'' harm a hair on Enju or Tina (or any Cursed Child, for the matter). You ''don't'' want to know what Rentaro will do to you.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': Several years before the story begins, [[VillainOfTheWeek J. Geil]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and murdered Polnareff's sister. This provoked the Frenchman into tracking him down and exacting his revenge. When he finally meets J. Geil, Geil [[KickTheDog taunts him about the encounter]] in order to provoke Polnareff.

* In ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' alternate universe series ''ComicBook/RenewYourVows'', Peter Parker has a young child named Annie. Harming or threatening her is a '''[[PapaWolf VERY. BAD. IDEA.]]''' ComicBook/{{Venom}} gave it a try. [[ThouShaltNotKill Spidey]] ''dumped a flaming building on him.'' [[spoiler:It also gives Spidey the HeroicSecondWind he needs when the BigBad has him imprisoned in a power-absorbing chamber. No other superhero was able to break out of them until he did.]]

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Epic}}'', Mandrake does not take kindly to [[spoiler:Dagda's death]].

* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Juwon insults Jake's brother Kenny by calling him the "bad apple" and "flaw" of Manwol, Kenny's old group that permanently disabled him when he tried to leave. What follows is Jake getting very frosty, dropping a PreAssKickingOneLiner, and defeating Juwon so soundly that it destroys his entire fighting philosophy.

* In ''Manga/BlackClover'', the Witch Queen tricking Asta into killing his friends is what finally causes Vanessa to unlock her Red Thread of Fate magic and break her control.

** Carmilla pushes [[Characters/Castlevania2017DraculasArmy Dracula]]'s button by openly asking why he didn't turn his wife Lisa if he really loved her and comparing the woman to a pet, and Dracula is ''simmering with rage''.
** Most insults roll off of [[Characters/Castlevania2017Protagonists Trevor Belmont]]. However, insulting his family to his face by accusing them of being black magicians who brought evil to the land and picking a fight with him for being a Belmont will surely get you smacked around by him.

* The main villain of ''Film/{{Outcast}}'', an EvilPrince, after usurping the throne by killing his father, then forcefully took over command from the Emperor's PraetorianGuard units. When said unit's captain tried to reason with him, the prince tells him to know his place, threatening that he will have the captain's children nailed to walls in pieces as well as making the captain's wife pleasure '''ALL''' his men.
* In ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', Camille does it after the general says "I knew your family, I must have been the last person to see them alive..."
** Not to mention the General saying that the look on her face was just like the [[RapeAsDrama look of fear on her mother's.]]

* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Darth Vader threatens to do something terrible to [[TheHero Luke Skywalker]]'s [[AndYourLittleDogToo sister Leia]] (either kill her or turn her to the [[TheDarkSide Dark Side]]). Luke reaches the RageBreakingPoint before Vader finishes his sentence, flies into an [[UnstoppableRage rage]], and [[CurbStompBattle defeats him]]. Cue WhatHaveIDone and an internal IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim.
** [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Anakin slaughters an entire Tusken village after seeing what they did to his mother]].

* In ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', Moo presses this for both Tiger and Holly at the end of the second season. With Tiger, he taunts him about having to fight and kill Gray Wolf, and for Holly, he says that her father is completely gone and he wishes she could have seen how pitiful he looked at the very end.

* In ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'', Yuan's is pushed twice. The first is a taunt; saying that Yuan's family will be following him into death provokes him into a reckless attack that almost gets him killed. The second time, the same villain suddenly becomes Genre Blind and reveals that he killed Yuan's mother when he already has Yuan beaten. Cue Heroic Second Wind.

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} kidnaps Superman's cousin to brainwash her into becoming one of his minions. At the end of the history, he has been beaten up and nailed to the Source Wall (the physical edge of the universe) by an absolutely enraged Superman.

-> [[YouRemindMeOfX You remind me of your mother.]] [[YouGotSpunk Now there was a woman with some spirit in her.]] [[YourMom A total whore, though.]] [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims What fun I had]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil with her before the end...]]

->''Do you remember me?''
->''I killed your family''
->''And now I am going to kill you too''

* In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Darth Vader threatens to do something terrible to [[TheHero Luke Skywalker]]'s [[AndYourLittleDogToo sister Leia]] (either kill her or turn her to the [[TheDarkSide Dark Side]]). Luke reaches the RageBreakingPoint before Vader finishes his sentence, flies into an [[UnstoppableRage rage]], and [[CurbStompBattle defeats him]]. Cue WhatHaveIDone and an internal IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim.
** And with Anakin's motives for turning to the dark side in the first place explored in the prequels, it also counts as a NotSoDifferent moment; it was the fear of losing his only remaining family (wife and child for Anakin, sister for Luke) that drove both of them.
*** [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Anakin slaughters an entire Tusken village after seeing what they did to his mother]].
*** In the end, he tosses Emperor Palpatine to his death [[PapaWolf after having enough of him electrocuting Luke]], sacrificing himself to save his son.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': When Scar thinks that Simba is at his mercy, he tries to twist the knife by whispering: "''I'' killed Mufasa.".

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Alice is incensed, and it gives her the HeroicSecondWind she needed to beat Bob to a pulp. That said, heroes should beware, as villains often use this as a means of provoking heroes into making a crucial mistake, such as getting a hero to leave their hiding spot in order to attack the villain, only to find that doing so exposed them to a whole bunch of mooks the villain brought along who actually know how to shoot, since they weren't trained at the [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy Stormtrooper Academy]].

** In ''[[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]]'', this button gets triggered again when Goku Black, [[spoiler: having been revealed to be an alternate version of Present Zamasu, reveals that after he used the Super Dragon Balls to [[GrandTheftMe switch bodies with Goku]], [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied the very first thing he did after killing Goku was go on to slaughter his family]]]]. Goku promptly flies into an UnstoppableRage and briefly manages to beat Black into the ground. To note, this marks one of the few times in the series, especially as an adult, where Goku actively tries to ''kill'' someone rather than simply defeat them.

* In ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', Jolly Jumper is pretty much Luke's only family, even calling the horse brother most of the time. During a short story where someone (revealed to be the Daltons) kidnapped Jolly Luke is shaking down people at gun point for info. Another short story starts with Luke beating the crap out of someone in a saloon only to reveal it's because Jolly Jumper is missing.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', a particularly vicious mobster decides it would be a good idea to dig up Frank Castle's family, desecrate the bones and film it. [[GoneHorriblyRight It certainly makes]] [[TranquilFury the Punisher angry.]]
* For both her parents and Chase, never bring up Gert's sad fate from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. Chase gets violent. Her parents start a small scale genocide.
* In ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' alternate universe series ''ComicBook/RenewYourVows'', Peter Parker has a young child named Annie. Harming or threatening her is a '''[[PapaWolf VERY. BAD. IDEA.]]''' ComicBook/{{Venom}} gave it a try. [[ThouShaltNotKill Spidey]] ''dumped a flaming building on him.'' [[spoiler:It also gives Spidey the HeroicSecondWind he needs when the BigBad has him imprisoned in a power-absorbing chamber. No other super hero was able to break out of them until he did.]]

** In ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'', three alien criminals shoot Kara's adoptive father and threaten her mother. Kara proceeds to stomp all over them, while shouting there is no place in the ''universe'' where they can be safe from her.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Circe wasn't even the one who killed Hippolyta, but she still uses her death to inflict a couple weeks of bad dreams centered around it on Diana and Donna and then tries turning into a badly beaten and mangled Hippolyta during her fight with Diana while goading her about her mother's death. In this case Circe is trying to evoke the trope, by doing everything she can to goad Diana into beating her to death. It doesn't work.

* The ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' fic [[http://www.tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/revengeanemergencystorybytammyb.htm "Revenge"]] is a good example with Roy. John isn't a blood brother, but Roy considers him family still. He gets into a full on fistfight with the guy who kidnapped and tortured Johnny when the guy follows him to the station after rescuing John. Shows up other times in the overall series as well, like when John's evil uncle tries to rape him.

* ''FanFic/CatchYourBreath'': During the Commencement Arc the second Spiral Zetsu taunts Kei while she's paralyzed on the ground and reveals that it is the one holding her brother hostage. Kei's mother immediately attacks in a rage, having overheard the taunt, and is killed by it shortly afterward.

* Subverted in ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour''. While fighting an injured Franchise/WonderWoman, Badra gloats that she will go after her mother and daughter next. Diana attacks in a fury... and realizes she was idiotically baited into a dumb, reckless charge a fraction of second before being pummeled.

* In the ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' Vortigern taunts Arthur by noting that Arthur is bright, motivated and driven in spite of having been raised in the worst of environments after Vortigern murdered Arthur's parents. He wonders how much more Arthur would have achieved if he'd been raised by his actual parents as the rightful heir to the throne rather than as a bastard child in a brothel. He asks "What gave you such drive?" Later during their final battle Arthur tells him "You want to know what motivate me? You did. You put me in that brothel. You cut me on the streets. You created me."

* Subverted in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster''. Freddy Krueger throws Alice into a BadFuture nightmare where she still works the same dead-end job until she's old and grey, before he shows her [[YourSoulIsMine how delicious he finds teenagers' souls]] by serving up a "soul pizza". Freddy eats Alice's previously deceased brother Rick in front of her by devouring his soul purely to be a dick to Alice, but she's way too horrified to react with immediate rage.

** While it seems Draco has had enough time to learn this by ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' he insults Harry's mother and Mrs. Weasley in one go while Harry is holding George back from attacking him. Predictably they both pummel him until Madame Hooch pulls them off. Of course this gets Harry, George ''and'' Fred, who was being held back by the more level headed players, kicked off the Quidditch team so Draco was probably exploiting this trope to get exactly what he wanted.

** In ''A Dance With Dragons'', Stannis' army [[spoiler:gets caught by an immense snow storm in the middle of marching. Bogged down for weeks, some soldiers resort to [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty cannibalism]] to survive. When caught, they are sentenced to die by burning at the stake. One of the soldiers involved intentionally taunts the executioner about eating the executioner's cousin so that he will be killed quickly by the executioner (who slits his throat) instead of burning alive.]]

* One of the relatively rare cases of a hero doing this to a villain shows up in Season 3 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The Mayor, the ArcVillain of that season, has basically adopted Buffy's EvilCounterpart Faith as a daughter, and shows true affection for her. Buffy has to fight with Faith and puts her into a coma during the battle. After the Mayor has turned himself into [[ScaledUp a giant snake demon]] during the season finale, Buffy taunts him about what she did to Faith in order to get him to chase her directly into a trap set by the good guys.

* Former [[http://snapjudgment.org/texas-ranger Texas Ranger Bob Favor]] spent much of his career repeatedly tracking down a criminal named David Myer who managed to break out of every prison he was ever put in. They had [[FriendlyEnemy a strangely cordial relationship]], until Myer speculated that he could get leverage over Favor by kidnapping one of his children. Favor immediately pulled the car over and told him "This is just between us, but if you ever mention my family again, I'll kill you where you sit." Myer seemed to get the message.