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--> '''Maleficent:''' Stand back! [[YouFool You fools]]! ''(scares the guards off, then disappears in green flames laughing)''

* The Disney version of ''RobinHood''.

* In the Star Trek novel ''Literature/HowMuchForJustThePlanet'' the evil queen says "Seize them! Oh, I do love saying that! Seize them again!"

* In the Star Trek novel ''How Much for Just the Planet?'' the evil queen says "Seize them! Oh, I do love saying that! Seize them again!"

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* ''PrinceOfSpace''

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* TheScarletPimpernel

* ''MortalKombat'': Shang Tsung tries this when the heroes have infiltrated the Black Tower to rescue Sonya under the guise of the brown-robed monks. But Princess Kitana, who is also among them, stops them in their tracks with a "STAY WHERE YOU ARE!" before denouncing the BigBad for trying to "interfere with the Tournament" and win it by treachery.

* ''TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' has the line 'Sieze Him! Take Him! Sieze Him! Take Him!' spoken by Zig Zag the film's LargeHam and primary antagonist.

* ''{{Animorphs}}'': Visser Three says this all the time.
* In [[{{Discworld}} ''Guards!Guards!'']], the Palace guard is at one point to seize Vimes. GenreSavvy as they are, they [[MookChivalry question the wisdom]] of [[ConservationOfNinjutsu attacking a lone person]], who might even start swinging on the chandelier.

* In the Tortall book, Wolf-Speaker, Rikash says(in an 'it makes sense in context way') "Get that SQUIRREL!!"

* From the HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy radio series:
-> '''Hig Hurtenflirst:''' ''(to foot warrior)'' Well then just seize the prisoners.
-> ''Foot warrior falls over''
-> '''Hurtenflirst:''' Prisoners.
-> '''Arthur''' and '''Lintilla:''' Yes?
-> '''Hurtenflirst:''' Seize each other.

->"My trusted lieutenant will be trained to strut around in black robes intoning things like "Seize them!" and "Evil will triumph!" in a booming, sepulchral voice."

->-- ''Harvey Birdman; Attorney at Law''

A uniquely aristocratic command, shouted by particularly melodramatic villains.

TheBaroness has stumbled across TheHero in an alley. TheEvilPrince has discovered The FiveManBand infiltrated his DeadlyDecadentCourt. The EvilChancellor has crashed the revolutionaries meeting.

The Good Guys are outnumbered. The BigBad is there with an army of {{Mooks}}. They do the only logical thing. They run!

This phrase is usually preceded or followed by some of these other StockPhrases:

* Close the gates!
* He's getting away!
* I'm [[SurroundedByIdiots surrounded by imbeciles]]!
* Must I do everything myself?
* [[YouFool Fools!]]

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* ''{{Animorphs}}'': Visser Three says this all the time.
* In [[{{Discworld}} ''Guards!Guards!'']], the Palace guard is at one point to seize Vimes. GenreSavvy as they are, they [[MookChivalry question the wisdom]] of [[ConservationOfNinjutsu attacking a lone person]], who might even start swinging on the chandelier.

* In the Star Trek novel ''How Much for Just the Planet?'' the evil queen says "Seize them! Oh, I do love saying that! Seize them again!"

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* ''PrinceOfSpace''

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* From the HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy radio series:
-> '''Hig Hurtenflirst:''' ''(to foot warrior)'' Well then just seize the prisoners.
-> ''Foot warrior falls over''
-> '''Hurtenflirst:''' Prisoners.
-> '''Arthur''' and '''Lintilla:''' Yes?
-> '''Hurtenflirst:''' Seize each other.

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* In the ending sequence of ''VideoGame/WingCommander IV'', Admiral Towlyn [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbOkVdl7b0#t=1m58s demonstrates how to be a melodramatic villain]].

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* ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "A Clone of My Own". The Near-Death Star Robots, and...
-->Guard: Get them! I mean, seize them!

-->'''Bureaucrat 1.0:''' Guards! Bring me the forms I have to fill out to have her taken away!

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* ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Steel Sky"
* ''{{Farscape}}''. John Crichton is infiltrating a Peacekeeper base [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguised as an officer]]. It's later revealed that Scorpius can see heat, and this vision showed that Crichton wasn't even the right species.

->"Zombie guards, sieze him! Tell me that's not fun to say."

* The Wicked Witch of the West in TheWizardOfOz, in the castle as the Scarecrow, CowardlyLion and Tin Man escape with Dorothy and Toto.
* Played for laughs in ''Three Amigos'' by Steve Martin, when surrounded by the BigBad's {{Mooks}}.

* In the ending sequence of ''WingCommander IV'', Admiral Towlyn [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbOkVdl7b0#t=1m58s demonstrates how to be a melodramatic villain]].

* {{Digger}} caught this from the hyenas at one point.

->-- ''The AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockB''

* Fools!

* ''{{Farscape}}''. John Crichton is infiltrating a Peacekeeper base [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguised as an officer]].
-->BigBad Scorpius: Guards, that man is an imposter. Seize him.