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* In ''ComicBook/TankVixens,'' standard the standard PVC strategy is to make their soldiers literally drop-dead sexy so [[ToWinWithoutFighting everyone's too scared to fight them]]. Their weapons, while fully functional, are considered to be more fashion accessories than tools of warfare (and bear a deliberate resemblance to weaponized sex toys).

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* In ''ComicBook/TankVixens,'' standard the standard PVC strategy is to make their soldiers literally drop-dead sexy so [[ToWinWithoutFighting everyone's too scared to fight them]]. Their weapons, while fully functional, are considered to be more fashion accessories than tools of warfare (and bear a deliberate resemblance to weaponized sex toys).
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DontTryThisAtHome. Seriously. When a tense situation is escalated, it is ''very hard'' to de-escalate. And the worst possible thing you can do in an argument is turn an "embarrassed in public" situation into a "someone is going to get murdered" situation.

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DontTryThisAtHome. Seriously. When a tense situation is escalated, it is ''very hard'' to de-escalate. And the worst possible thing you can do in an argument is turn an "embarrassed in public" situation into a "someone is going to get murdered" situation. Also, if you carry around a weapon just to threaten people with it, getting arrested is the ''best-case scenario.'' At worst, you have [[TooDumbToLive an embarrassing story to tell Saint Peter.]]
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DontTryThisAtHome. Seriously. When a tense situation is escalated, it is ''very hard'' to de-escalate. And the worst possible thing you can do in an argument is turn an "embarrassed in public" situation into a "someone is going to get murdered" situation.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, when the oldest daughter of an Assassin [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/16/Strandpiel leaves home to start a new life as a trainee Witch]], her mother, a well-known and instantly recognisable big-name Assassin, deliberately dresses Rebecka up as a younger edition of herself, right down to a large sword on one hip and a coiled whip on the other. The reasoning is that a red-haired girl in [[AdventurerOutfit Howondalandian veldt khaki]] with obvious weapons to hand is not likely to be molested. People who know what [[FieryRedhead Johanna Smith-Rhodes]] looks like, but who have never seen her in the flesh, will be warned off. The reasoning falls through when Rebecka encounters a Zulu warrior in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/47/Strandpiel a most unlikely place]] - one who ''does'' mistake her for her mother, and who is aware of exactly what Johanna did to earn the title of '''The Red Death''' from his people. Trouble ensues.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, when the oldest daughter of an Assassin [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/16/Strandpiel leaves home to start a new life as a trainee Witch]], her mother, a well-known and instantly recognisable big-name Assassin, deliberately dresses Rebecka up as a younger edition of herself, right down to a large sword on one hip and a coiled whip on the other. The reasoning is that a red-haired girl in [[AdventurerOutfit Howondalandian veldt khaki]] with obvious weapons to hand is not likely to be molested. People who know what [[FieryRedhead Johanna Smith-Rhodes]] looks like, but who have never seen her in the flesh, will be warned off. The reasoning falls through when Rebecka encounters a Zulu warrior in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/47/Strandpiel a most unlikely place]] - -- one who ''does'' mistake her for her mother, and who is aware of exactly what Johanna did to earn the title of '''The Red Death''' from his people. Trouble ensues.



* Early in the "4 Hunters Finale Rematch" of ''Minecraft Manhunt'', LetsPlay/{{Dream}} scares all the Hunters off by threatening them with a stone axe, an iron chestplate, and a shield, which isn't a full loadout but still more than any of the Hunters have. Of course, if they could see his stats, they'd know that his threats are a bluff because he has ''one heart of health and barely any hunger'', so they could just kill him in one hit despite his equipment.

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* Early in the "4 Hunters Finale Rematch" of ''Minecraft Manhunt'', LetsPlay/{{Dream}} WebVideo/{{Dream}} scares all the Hunters off by threatening them with a stone axe, an iron chestplate, and a shield, which isn't a full loadout but still more than any of the Hunters have. Of course, if they could see his stats, they'd know that his threats are a bluff because he has ''one heart of health and barely any hunger'', so they could just kill him in one hit despite his equipment.
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* Bo's chief thug Ronnie in ''Film/GetShorty'' has a habit of pulling back his shirt to show the HandCannon tucked into his belt, which is usually plenty enough to ensure compliance from whomever he's shaking down. This, however, proves to be an ''incredibly'' stupid thing to do when [[BullyingADragon threatening Ray Bones, a violent mafioso whose own gun is already out and at the ready]], so an unimpressed Bones simply [[TooDumbToLive pops four bullets into Ronnie's chest before he can draw his weapon]].

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* Sam in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice: The Devil's Playhouse'', when you try to use the gun on anything you are not supposed to, Sam states that "I don't need to shoot anybody, it's enough they know I have a gun."

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* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'':
** In ''Save the World'' episode "The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball", Leonard Steakcharmer threaten
Sam in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice: The & Max with a gun. All of Sam's attempts to calm Leonard down don't work. What does work is Max pointing out that Leonard's weapon is nothing more than a harmless cap gun which causes the duo to no longer fear him.
** In ''The
Devil's Playhouse'', when you try to use the gun on anything you are not supposed to, Sam states that "I don't need to shoot anybody, it's enough they know I have a gun."

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