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The opposite of Defiant to the End, this is when the hero of his own accord begs for mercy, or bows, kneels, cowers, or does pretty much anything covered under Kneel Before Zod. Usually, this may happen if the hero's Subterfuge Judo has failed. Technically, this trope isn't morality-sensitive, but heroes tend to be a lot less interested in submission, so it usually is done for the benefit of a villain. Compare Villains Want Mercy, the inverted trope where villains, having ended up defeated and cornered by a hero, will try to beg or bribe the hero into letting them go or, if they are faced by a particularly angry Anti-Hero, for their life to be spared. Such situations pretty ubiquitously is meant to show that the villain, despite any bravado they might usually project, is a two-faced Dirty Coward when the chips are down. Compare to Too Desperate to Be Picky, which may overlap if the beggar is acting against their own standards out of desperation. A Fair-Weather Foe might do this if they think it will get them something out of their enemies. Often overlaps with Face Death with Despair as the villains try to weasel their way out of a doomed scenario, many times to no effect. It comes in two main types. |
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In Higehiro, instead of chastising Sayu's mother for her horrible treatment of her daughter, Yoshida tries to reason with her that it's a parent's responsibility to keep their children away from harm, then prostrates himself before her, begging her to be a more responsible parent to Sayu. This spurs her son Issa to do the same thing, causing her to have a breakdown. | |
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Heralds of Valdemar: Winds of Fate: When Starblade k'Sheyna relives his torture in his nightmares, one scene he and we both see is Starblade kissing Mornelithe's feet in adoration. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): When his plan to use the Freedom Fighters to topple King Scourge backfires, a terrified Miles Prower immediately starts begging for his life when Scourge corners him on being the only one who'd orchestrate such a plan. This serves as proof that despite his claims of maturity and sneering disdain for his prime universe counterpart's supposed childishness, the antithesis of Tails is at his core a treacherous coward. | |
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In the Grossology episode "Pinkeye and the Brain", after several failed attempts to get information about the Bureau of Grossology from Lance Boil, Roger turns in his dignity card and begs him to tell. When Boil still refuses, he breaks; bawling and wailing about Ty and Abby neglecting him from their work and mocking him for his eye infection. | |
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Forum of Thrones: The prisoner in the court scene during the beginning of the first chapter is pleading for Harren Hoare to spare him, or to allow him to join the Night's Watch. It only makes Harren punish him more severely. After being revealed to be a deranged child-murderer and after receiving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, Otis Shiff is reduced to a crippled and pathetic shadow of a man that desperately begs to be spared. It does not work out well for him. |
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In Dragon Quest VIII, Yangus proves he ain't too proud to beg after his old friend Red steals the party's horse, kneeling before her and pleading that she return the poor mare. Red doesn't realize why he's so determined to get the horse back, being blissfully unaware that the mare is actually the cursed princess Medea. | |
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Suikoden V straddles the line at one point during a Side Quest to capture and recruit the cocky thief Raven. The Oboro Detective Agency, having dealt with him before, helps to easily ensnare the thief. When approached about joining the rebellion, Raven pretends to be bargaining from a position of power, demanding that Oboro bow and beg him to join. Without missing a beat, Oboro gets on his knees and calmly requests he join, pissing Raven off because he can't believe his 'rival' capitulated so easily, but can't tell whether or not he's mocking him or being completely serious about it. | |
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Done in Bleach fanfic A Protector's Pride, by Ichigo, to get help from Yamamoto, after plan A (Ask Nicely) didn't work. Notably, plan B (Beg for help) also yields no results, and Ichigo is forced to seek help elsewhere. While it turns out Yamamoto had a valid reason for denying said request (he was trying to avoid a catastrophe, which happened still after Ichigo got his help from Urahara), helping would have been much better both in the long and short run, as it would have preserved friendly relationship AND Yamamoto would have been in a position to warn Ichigo against doing the exact wrong thing that led to said catastrophe. | |
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In Black Rat, Takashi ends his life on his knees begging the Black Rat for mercy. It avails him not. | |
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A Brighter Dark: When trying to convince her father to spare Felicia's home village, Corrin ends up begging him with every fiber of her soul, in contrast to her usual defiant and headstrong nature. While it isn't enough on its own, it does convince Garon to allow her to think of a way to pull it off. | |
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A less dark example from Kingdom Hearts II: when Sora tries to get Saïx to take him to see Kairi, Saïx demands that Sora show him how important Kairi is to him. Sora responds by getting down on his hands and knees and saying "please." Saïx still says no. Even more powerful with Japanese cultural connotation, as he is doing a bow known as Dogeza (土下座), which is reserved for when you've really fucked up, because by doing that act you saying you are worth nothing and purposefully and willingly putting shame and humiliation on yourself. |
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The Queen's Thief: In The Queen of Attolia, Eugenides' desperate begging to be spared having his hand cut off doesn't help at all. Yet, it turns out to have haunted the queen ever since. Later in the book, this exchange occurs, referencing the above example (paraphrased) |
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Address Unknown: In his final letter to Max, Martin begs for Max to abandon his scheme and stop writing him. Max refuses. | |
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Dragon Quest III: After being confronted and beaten once, Orochi beats a hasty retreat back to Zipangu and tries to reassume the queen act, demanding in a hushed voice that the Hero keep their mouth shut and she'll call it even. | |
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Euphoria: Cal Jacobs, when Jules reveals herself to him at the chili cookoff, finds her when she's alone and says he knows she can destroy him by revealing they had sex. He outright begs her not to, unaware Jules has no intention of doing so. | |
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Mega Man (Classic): Whenever Dr. Wily's last machine is destroyed, he drops to his knees and begs for mercy. In the first few games, Mega Man seemed to comply, but in later ones he's wised up and Wily has to resort to other methods to get away. | |
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: Near the end, Elizabeth (at the encouragement of William) went on her knees and pled for Olive to stay with them/her. | |
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Team 8: Tsunade is intrigued by how very motivated a main branch Hyūga clan member seems to be about pleading for her to heal Naruto, and decides to put them off by demanding six months' indentured service as payment; surely their pride will make them baulk. Hinata agrees immediately. | |
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In the final volume of Blade of the Immortal, two of the deadliest warriors in the series, Makie of the Itto-ryu and Giichi of the Mugai-ryu face off. The battle ends when Makie feigns weakness and slices off Giichi's right hand which, combined with the damage he'd already accumulated over the series (including his left foot being split in half) leaves him unable to fight on. While Giichi's friend Hyakurin is ready to challenge Makie to try and protect him, Giichi is fully aware that Hyakurin doesn't even have a ghost of a chance, so he bows down in front of Makie, admits that she is the strongest warrior, and begs her to just take the win and leave them in peace (especially as Hyakurin is pregnant). While Makie is initially disgusted by his selfishness at begging for his life after slaying so many Itto-ryo warriors, she confesses that she doesn't have a moral high ground either and walks away. | |
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At the beginning of Cuphead, when the Devil offers the titular character and his brother Mugman a chance to beat him in a game of craps at his casino for his treasure, Mugman realizes that this is a bad idea, but Cuphead is too blinded by greed to listen to his brother's warnings when he bets their souls on the game... and then loses. When the Devil is about to claim their souls, Cuphead and Mugman kneel down and beg for their lives to be spared. The Devil agrees to let them go, on the condition that they must collect the Soul Contracts of other characters who have lost to him, and you know how this will turn out... | |
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And Then There Were None (2015): Vera tries to bargain with Wargrave to save her wretched life. Wargrave patiently indulges her... then gives her a subdued "The Reason You Suck" Speech, kicks away the chair keeping her from hanging, and then leaves her to her (well-deserved) fate. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): "Lithia" ends with Major Mercer begging very loudly not to be shoved into a cryo-tube. He gets louder when he finds out the one sentencing him to this knows his name because she's his fiancee, whom he thought was long dead. | |
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Pinocchio: Lampwick does this as he's turning into a donkey while begging for Pinocchio to help him. | |
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This can potentially happen to any character from Injustice: Gods Among Us: The victory animation for Regime!Superman has him tell his opponent "Kneel before me!" and the defeated opponent complies as he is surrounded by Superman's Gas Mask Mooks. | |
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Scarface (1983): Frank Lopez desperately pleads for forgiveness from Tony after failing to assassinate him. It sort of works, as Tony chooses not to kill him, but ultimately fails when Tony instead gets Manny to do the job to make his demise ironic. | |
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In The Sadist, Charlie forces Carl to get on his knees and beg for his life at gunpoint. | |
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Loved and Lost: After Prince Jewelius pins the blame on them for the invasion of Canterlot and sentences them to exile, all of the Mane Five (even Applejack and Rainbow Dash) tearfully beg for him to show them mercy. | |
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In Mystery Men Captain Amazing, who has the best reputation of all heroes, actively bargains to be the villain's assistant upon capture. | |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Near the climax of "Summit to Save Earth, Part 2", the evil spirit Zarm forces the Planeteers to "fight" him one by one – which is virtually suicide – in front of their Team Mom Gaia, whom he had captured much earlier. While the four older Planeteers, who have elemental powers, do try to attack him – not that it has any effect on him – Ma-Ti refuses to fight, knowing full well that the Heart Ring cannot do anything to someone as heartless as Zarm. He, in turn, ridicules the boy, and prepares to kill him with an energy blast. Gaia, herself on the verge of death, tries begging for her youngest Planeteer's life, but gets flat-out ignored. She and Ma-Ti are soon saved due to Commander Clash's intervention, but at the time, she had no way of knowing it would happen. | |
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In L'Orfeo, Orpheus begs Charon to let him pass and is initially devastated when he's refused entry. | |
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In Trigun Vash first kneels and bows his head to the ground to keep some thugs (including one pretending to be him) from killing his friend. The thugs tell him they'll go away if he strips naked and barks like a dog. He does. They keep their word and leave him and the girl be. But then shoot Vash as they're driving away. They then go back on it and kidnap the friend. However, this turns out to be a bad idea on the thugs part. | |
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In Mister B. Gone, Jakabok alternates his narration with either dire threats or pitiful groveling to get the reader to release him from the book. At the end he reveals that if he had been released, the reader probably would have been a bloody smear immediately after... if they were lucky. | |
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Supernatural When God!Mode Castiel (who just killed an archangel) demands that the Winchesters and Bobby bow down to him at the end of Season 6, a pragmatic Bobby calmly agrees and kneels rather than risk his wrath, then prods the more reluctant Sam and Dean to go along with it. He even offers to go further with it if Castiel wants. Two on top of each other from the Season 8 episode, "Goodbye Stranger". Dean pleads with Castiel when Castiel is beating him to death, appealing to the "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight. At the same time, Castiel begs Naomi for Dean's life since she's the one forcing him to attack Dean through mind control. He's already Fighting from the Inside with everything he's got (and it's not working very well), so he doesn't have much further recourse. In Season 11, Castiel begs for mercy from two of his brothers when they torture him — while he's already suffering from a painful curse. He doesn't even have the information they want. |
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Ja Wangnan from Tower of God falls on all fours in front of Viole when he realizes that he can take him to the next floor and starts begging. Hon Akraptor and Kang Horyang follow suit. | |
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On Trial: Several times, Cassandra's treatment gets so bad that she's crying and begging them to stop. | |
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In the fifth episode of Minecraft: Story Mode, a villainous one comes from Aiden near the end after he's lost his sword during the Battle in the Rain with Jesse. His voice completely transitions from loud insane screaming to panicked pleading; with Jesse not so much as saying a word, he gives back the enchanted flint and steel he stole earlier and kneels before them. He then begs not to be left behind in the city as it's being destroyed; Jesse can choose to take him away to safety, roughly throw him into the waterfall that takes him to safety (without telling him it'll do so, making him think you're giving him a Disney Villain Death), or leave him behind. The first two options will result in Aiden being arrested, but if you do the first one, he'll seem genuinely remorseful and the right dialogue options can prompt him to become The Atoner. (The second option will just have him give you a silent Death Glare as he's led away.) | |
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My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: If you're going to beg for your life to not be cut short at the hands of the Doom Slayer, expect it to fail. A Saber named Marley tried it... and all he got was an extremely pissed off Slayer marching up to him and blasting his brains out with his Super Shotgun at point-blank range. | |
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World's End Harem: Shion Hoshino was the most beautiful and most popular girl at school and one of the few people who don't bully Shota Doi. However, on two occasions, Shion shows that she has no sympathy for Shota for the bullying he suffers. First, when Shion and her two friends saw Shota being stripped of his clothes and bullied on the school rooftop, Shion just sat down and ate her lunch while ignoring what was happening to Shota. Second, when Shion explains to his class why Shota will be absent because of his disease, she gets a phone call from her boss and just leaves, not offering him a single word of condolence. So five years later, when Shion Hoshino reveas to Shota Doi that she could not become a celebrity in this new society, she begs for his help in becoming a celebrity. Shota just tells her to strip; shocked, Shion asks if he's joking, he admits that he is. In the anime, as he leaves, Shota tells Shion she can't expect him to help her after all what she did. Shion had resorted to stripping up to her underwear and having sex with Shota on the school rooftop in front of three girls to get his help. | |
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In The Hair Bear Bunch episode "Raffle Ruckus," Hair Bear is so weary from being the zoo owner (which he won through a raffle he staged) that Bubi suggests he beg Mr. Peevly (the zoo's actual keeper) to take it back. "No one makes Hair Bear beg!" he states firmly. But when the phone rings with another possible complaint from the animals, Hair starts crawling out the cave on his knees to Peevly's office. | |
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Ultimate Marvel: The Ultimates: After Valkyrie breaks free of Mastermind's illusions and decapitates him, Pyro tried to beg for mercy, even invoking his time with the X-Men. It didn't save him from dismemberment. Ultimate X Men: After falling prey to The Dog Bites Back at the hands of his son, Magneto frantically grovels to Xavier as the latter turns his own powers against him before hurling him into space. |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars; Darth Maul pleads for mercy after being defeated in his last appearance in the original run of the series. Unfortunately, his opponent Darth Sidious doesn't believe in mercy. | |
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Both Dream and his opponent Hunters in Minecraft Manhunt are not above pleading and bargaining for their lives when they're put on the run. | |
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A non-heroic version would be Masao from the anime version of Shiki. In fear for his life, he goes to his sister-in-law's house and begs her to offer him shelter. In the end she invites him inside... right before beating him with a pole and staking him to death. | |
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Agent June Stahl in Sons of Anarchy. The Season 3 finale ends with her in the driver's seat of a car and Opie in the back with a gun to her head, while she cries and begs him to not kill her, right up until he pulls the trigger. | |
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Abraxas: Empty Fullness: In "Damnatio Memoriae", the creature that would form the middle head of King Ghidorah desperately pleads for his brothers' lives when the Makers are cutting into them, causing them to scream in agony. | |
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In Hobo with a Shotgun, Slick tries to placate the Hobo when he's got his shotgun pointing at his crotch. Doesn't work. | |
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The ability to grovel/supplicate/GENUFLECT (otherwise known as "Dogeza" in Japan) is a funny and welcome addition to the third entry of Way of the Samurai. Not only it is useful for ending most fights prematurely, it is also required to recruit one particular follower. | |
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In with the Old, Out with the New has a villainous example from Kano. After Sonya proceeds to beat Kano within an inch of his life, he begs for mercy. Given that Kano had kidnapped, tortured and raped Cassie, Sonya, understandably, isn't offering any. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, for the Downer Ending to end all Downer Endings. | |
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Bowsette Saga: Bowsette is captured by an old Lakitu named Jugem who incapacitates her by attacking her injured ribs. She eventually resorts to begging for mercy before she passes out from the pain. | |
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Maleficent: During the christening, after cursing her ex-lover's infant daughter to die on her 16th birthday, in retaliation of him drugging her and stealing her wings, Maleficent forces King Stefan to beg on his knees for his daughter's life, before she places in a curse escape clause. | |
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Shadows over Meridian: When Jade catches Vera's team in Chapter 27, the teary-eyed Tinsley begs her to show mercy so that the badly wounded Alan would get medical treatment, showing how much the upbeat girl has been pushed to her breaking point by everything they've endured, and her crush's condition further convinces her that surrendering is the only option left. When Metalbeak had Jesekiel Bexley at his mercy, the old man remained defiant in his conviction that his cruelties to the Mogriffs were justified, but when Vera appeared, he swallowed his pride and begged Metalbeak to spare his granddaughter. |
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Superman II: When General Zod and his followers storm the White House, he demands that the president kneel before him. However, he deduces that the man that steps forward and kneels isn't actually the president. | |
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Action League NOW! uses this trope for a funny exchange in "Voice of Treason," as a garage door is about to crush the League. | |
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In Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Optimus Prime is ready to sever Unicron's connection to the Earth when the world eater begs him not to, that he can give him anything. Prime tells him to stuff it. | |
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Under somewhat similar circumstances, this is also done in Suikoden II when Apple gets on her knees and begs Shu to join your cause when realises that she alone cannot act as the army strategist. You have the option of telling her not to, or joining her in a Pose of Supplication. Whichever option you choose, it really pisses Shu off, and he kicks you out of his house. | |
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At the climax of Story Mode of Mortal Kombat 9 there is an interesting example that is kind of both A and B. When Shao Kahn arrives to merge his realm with Earth, out of the surviving four heroes, only Raiden remains. Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade are too beaten to stand up to Shao Kahn and are easily dashed aside, and Liu Kang has died trying to kill Raiden. As the triumphant Emperor steps forward, Raiden falls to one knee and consigns the Earth to him. It's kind of like A, since the elder gods have decreed that merging the realms without victory in a Mortal Kombat tournament is forbidden, so Raiden could be seen as supplicating the Emperor's ego and drawing him into a trap. However, it could also be considered B, as at this point Raiden's faith that the elder gods will do anything to help the Earth is more or less gone, and he could be simply trying to hand over the Earth to Shao Kahn without the need for any more killing. Either way, the elder gods finally do intervene at the last possible second, but the victory is a bittersweet one indeed. | |
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In the 1988 The Supergirl Saga, Zaora of the Phantom Zone criminals goes from boastful and proud to begging for her life when Superman subjects her to fatal radiation exposure of Green Kryptonite to execute her for her crime of genocide. She ends up dying along with General Zod and Quex-Ul, the latter of whom strangled Zod as they both died together. | |
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In the Farscape Grand Finale miniseries Peacekeeper Wars, Crichton is about to unleash his wormhole weapon, and asks Scorpius, who has been dogging him for years, if he really wants to see the weapon. Scorpius, for his part, is more than happy to get to begging if it means the culmination of his life's goal. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Avatar State", Aang begs General Fong not to threaten Katara in order to trigger his Avatar State. Later in "The Puppetmaster", when Hama bloodbends her, Katara tearfully pleads with her to stop. |
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In Hellsister Trilogy, Black Adam reacts violently when Mordru orders him to submit to him... and then promptly falls on his knees and begs to be spared when Mordru proves he can destroy him at any given time. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Move Along Home", when Quark believes he'll be forced to choose which of four crew members to sacrifice in an alien game, he falls to the floor, pleading with the aliens in question not to force him to make that decision. (It turns out they were never in any real danger, but Quark doesn't know that.) Quark again in "Profit and Loss", when he pleads with Odo to release a pair of Cardassian defectors. Odo does, although he's adamant that he's not doing it on Quark's behalf. |
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In God of War Ragnarök, Heimdall has been nothing but the embodiment of smug pissantry for much of the game, and tries to mask much of the damage and panic in his boss encounter as dumb luck, but this briefly falters once Kratos violently spears his arm to the wall and twists it, leaving Heimdall screaming at the top of his lungs for him to stop. To his surprise, Kratos actually does, offering Heimdall the chance to walk away with no further quarrel... which Heimdall takes as some kind of insult to his pride, prompting him to retaliate even harder. | |
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Inverted at the end of Mass Effect 3: Citadel when Shepard has the option to convince The Dragon that her inevitable escape-from-prison-and-seek-vengeance scheme just isn't worth it. | |
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In Tales of Symphonia, there's a side quest where Yuan is looking for a ring he lost. When he eventually realizes the protagonists have it, he demands it back. They insist that he actually ask nicely, and in a rare moment of swallowing his pride, Yuan goes a step further and humbly begs them to give it to him. Rather than a dark moment for the protagonists, it's a significant Pet the Dog moment for Yuan, since the ring turns out to be his engagement ring to Martel, which he's worn for four thousand years past her death. | |
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Balibo: Roger begs for his life as the TNI prepare to execute him. It doesn't work. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: The current picture shows one of Coyote's cleverer moments. When Annie refuses to indulge one of his (seemingly) random whims, the Reality Warper Animalistic Abomination Great Gazoo does the one thing no one would expect a being of his stature to do: beg. It works. | |
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Starkiller of The Force Unleashed does this to Darth Vader in order to save Juno's life. Juno stops it herself. | |
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In A Marriage Of Convenience, When it looks like their marriage isn't necessary anymore, Hans privately begs Elsa not to annul it. To show how desperate he is, he takes his shirt off and shows her all the scars he's received from his brothers and makes it clear he might not survive if he'll ever be sent back. He is desperate enough that he even offers to be a servant. Thankfully, Elsa tells him she's not going to annul the marriage. | |
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In Thunder Cats 2011 One stockaded Lizard prisoner, Made a Slave for the crime of scavenging the Cats' crops, begs for mercy from protagonist Prince Lion-O, only for his defiant compatriot to cynically spit that you Can't Argue with Elves. Lion-O asks the angrier one to elaborate, whereupon he launches into a Motive Rant/Screw You, Elves! speech explaining his race's oppression by the Cats in fuming detail. This inspires Lion-O to successfully plead with his father for their release. | |
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Reacting to The Loud House: In Making the Grade, Lynn Sr. begs Principals Huggins and Ramirez not to report Lisa's destruction of her (at the time) classmates' school projects. When the title card for "No Such Luck" shows up, the Loud sisters share a collective Oh, Crap! before begging Joe not to show the episode. It doesn't work. In No Such Luck Part 2, Rita begs the principals not to report the luck incident. They are on the fence, but Huggins admits they can try to be fair. |
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As Tom Reagan is about to put down Bernie Bernbaum in Miller's Crossing at Miller's Crossing, Bernie breaks down into primal sobs and pleads for his life. It's harrowingly pathetic, and it does work in getting Tom to spare his life... the first time. | |
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David Xanatos in Gargoyles is perfectly willing to ask Goliath politely for help rescuing his fiancee. It's just he'll save it for Plan D, after plans A through C don't pan out. (Plan E, after Goliath turns him down, is even more desperate — "plant a tracker on Goliath and follow him so I'm there if he changes his mind.") | |
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Starscream has pulled both varieties, and is quite good at it. | |
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Saito in The Familiar of Zero, to stop the inquisition, but only once Louise is threatened. | |
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In Miserable, at least two of the band members (Allen and Jeremy) resort to begging the giantess not to eat them. (Kevin never saw it coming, so he never got the chance, and while A.J. still struggled a little bit, he seemed pretty resigned to his fate.) It fails. She ignores their pleading and devours them without a hint of remorse. | |
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Quirrell aims to teach Harry that begging is worth it if it gets you results. | |
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Subverted in Vinland Saga: A rich landowner says he's willing to finance Thorfinn's expedition... if Thorfinn begs him on his knees. Thorfinn immediately does so and submits to the man's demands (after several years as a slave, Thorfinn should Know When to Fold 'Em), which causes him to throw off the deal (he wants to hold power over people, and willing victims just aren't any fun). | |
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Merle Dixon from The Walking Dead (2010) TV series initially bawls and begs Jesus to save him. Then he gets defiant. "I ain't never begged ya before an' I ain't gonna beg ya now!". Gareth begs Rick not to kill him and the other hunters when they're captured after a failed assault on the church. It doesn't work. |
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When the final confrontation in the manga version of Death Note reaches its conclusion, Ryuk refuses to help the defeated Light Yagami and writes Light's name down right in front of him, exactly as he promised he would in the very first chapter. This gives the oh-so proud "God of the new world" exactly forty seconds to desperately beg for his life. In the anime, as he's laying on the warehouse ground riddled with bullet holes, he desperately calls out for Misa and Takada, begging to know where they are. Either way, Light ends the series going from a total egomaniac who thought he had everyone on puppet strings to a terrified young man with just mere seconds to live. | |
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Hal in Series 4 of Being Human (UK) voluntarily kneels while begging Cutler not to destroy humanity. It doesn't really have the desired effect. | |
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In Glue, James pleads for his life while Alone with the Psycho before trying to escape. Too bad he's unsuccessful and the scenario has to repeat itself. | |
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Superman: In Superman (1939) #172, Superman is stripped of his powers and passes on the title to Ar-Val, a young man from Kandor. Early in Ar-Val's career, Luthor and Brainiac escape. Superman, knowing that they threatened Lois and Lana, goes down on his knees to beg Ar-Val to protect them. Ar-Val, having already heard that Luthor was shot in the escape, chastises him for wasting his time. | |
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In Children of the Glades, assassin Creote gives a stomach churning No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Helena, who is soon reduced to begging for mercy. | |
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The Transformers (IDW) comics: Tarn begs for his life when Megatron is preparing to kill him. It doesn't help. This example is especially pathetic because Tarn had previously mocked his own victims for doing the same thing, clearly expecting them to have dignity while dying horribly. When he realizes that Optimus Prime intends to kill him and won't be dissuaded, Galvatron immediately drops any facade of stoicism and spends his last moments uselessly screaming "I SURRENDER!". In a more tragic example, when the Decepticon Loyalists storm Cybertron's space bridge, Tracks tries to get Needlenose, leader of the attackers and Tracks's brother, to stop the assault. He's quickly reduced to desperate begging and when Needlenose still refuses to listen, he tries to forcibly pull Needlenose away. He gets shot for it and as he bleeds out, he once again begs for Needlenose to stop. Needlenose simply kicks him and continues the attack. |
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Batman: The Animated Series: "Joker's Favor" reveals that, for all his daring heists and death-defying stunts, the Joker himself will beg given the correct circumstances. When Charlie Collins catches the Joker outside the police station after spending the episode under the clown's thumb, he threatens to use one of the Joker's own bombs to blow the villain up. While at first Joker thinks Charles is bluffing, he's quickly disabused of that notion and begins calling for help from Batman of all people. Played with in that the bomb was actually a fake and Charlie was trying to force the Joker to give up the information he had on Charlie's family. But then Joker didn't know that... | |
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I Am War: Celestia begs Excolotis, the god of war, for help because as a peaceful goddess she doesn't know how to lead an army let alone train one. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders has this happen twice, with the "begging" actually being a warning to the opponent. Near the end of Jotaro's fight with Anubis (a sword Stand that is possessing Polnareff), as Polnareff starts to push the sword into Jotaro's abdomen, Jotaro says it'll be "murder" if he pushes the blade any farther in. Anubis sadistically mocks Jotaro for begging for mercy, but Jotaro uses Star Platinum to punch the blade to pieces, then says that he was warning that Anubis would be murdered if he tried that. Not long afterward, Mariah has used her Stand, Bastet, to magnetize Joseph and Avdol, resulting in them being attracted to each other and large amounts of metal being drawn to each of them. Like in the previous example, Joseph begs Mariah to turn off her magnetism, but she refuses, confident that she's already won. Joseph then reveals that she sealed her fate by not doing so, before allowing himself and Avdol to be drawn toward each other, with Mariah caught in between. The end result is Mariah being crushed between two large hunks of metal and defeated by her own power. |
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In Superman vs. Shazam!, Black Adam angrily attacks Karmang when the sorcerer informs him that he has been summoned to serve him. However, Adam quickly drops to his knees and begs for mercy when Karmang easily crushes him with a simple spell. | |
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Deadly Class: The main character is shown as a homeless beggar at the beginning of the series. Another older beggar tries to steal his shoes and begs for mercy after being caught. | |
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A variation of this (it doesn't involve the character's own life) plays an important part of the backstory of Amon Garcia, a secondary antagonist in the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. As a child, he was torn between jealousy towards his younger brother (the biological son of his adoptive father, and thus the heir to the family's oil empire) and loyalty to his family. When his brother grew gravely ill, he considered doing nothing and letting him die. Loyalty won out; he found the only merchant who sold the medicine that could save his brother and shamelessly begged for it. (Apparently, the merchant gave in.) | |
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The Good Place: Played for Gallows Humor. Janet the AI cheerfully explains that she isn't human, doesn't feel pain, and can't die, but, as a security failsafe, she's programmed to beg desperately for her life whenever anyone is near her reset button. | |
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The first chapter of morphE has 8 characters wake up in a mansion and forced to pair off and fight to the death. Billy is thrown into the ring and is recognized as a TV celebrity by the host. He begs for his life and is given support in the fight which helps him survive. In recent chapters, he has been shown playing along with his captor in order to gain leverage. When it comes to survival, Billy has no shame. | |
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One Piece: In the Punk Hazard arc, Tashigi begs Law to release her and Smoker when she gets her original body back. Smoker is disgusted at the very idea, but Tashigi remarks that it's not just their lives at stake, but also their men's lives, as well as the children experimented on by Caesar Clown. She's not begging out of fear, but because they need to stay alive to save them. Ten years ago, Doflamingo blackmailed King Riku of Dressrosa into paying him ten billion Belly in exchange for leaving the country alone. Aware that he stood no chance to ward off Doflamingo if things got violent, King Riku agreed to his demands and begged his citizens to lend him all of their money without telling them the truth of the situation, merely asking them to trust him. He even got on his knees and bowed his head, which all the citizens saw via a video Transponder Snail, which finally persuaded them to give up their money. Unfortunately, Doflamingo would then use his String-String Fruit powers to control both King Riku and the soldiers and force them to go on a rampage across the country, which made it look like King Riku was trying to rob his own citizens. Once the citizens lost faith in King Riku, Doflamingo and his elite executives conveniently showed up to save Dressrosa from their "tyrannical king". |
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Night of the Owls: When an assassin comes for high-ranking Deputy Sheriff Michael D. Davis while he's taking a bath, Davis can only say, "Please don't." | |
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In Holyland, Yuu does this in chapter 88. | |
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In Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Seong-hui/Seonhee begs Ichiban and co. to buy her time while she burns down the Geomijul's money printing facility, even bowing to them as she does so. Saeko points out that someone as proud and headstrong as her bowing means she must really be desperate for their help. | |
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Ultimate X Men: After falling prey to The Dog Bites Back at the hands of his son, Magneto frantically grovels to Xavier as the latter turns his own powers against him before hurling him into space. | |
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In the ending to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Mullock has Abe captured, bound and dangled over a meat-grinder in the floor. Abe reacts to this predicament by thrashing his legs around and tearfully pleading for his life. To be fair on him, he's a Non-Action Guy, and... Well, it's a meat-grinder. | |
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Straight from The Iliad, after Achilles has killed Hector and then... not paid Due to the Dead, Hector's father goes to Achilles and gives a speech, culminating in: | |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, a secretary in the Exchange Corporation does this, albeit without the pose, when you begin your rampage during the struggle for power in the Telosian Exchange. You can let her go or kill her (for Dark Side points). | |
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The Lone Dragon Emperor: Shortly after Raynare fearfully explains to Issei their plan to steal Asia's sacred gear, she breaks down and pleads for him to let them go, saying that this isn't what Asia would want. Enraged, Issei gives them the ultimatum: Leave Kuoh and never return, or they will regret it. Raynare's three companions and Freed later kidnap Asia to steal her sacred gear and learned the hard way that Issei wasn't bluffing. Sirzechs asks Issei to fight Riser in order to save his sister from a miserable life. Issei tells him to get on his knees and apologize to his parents, considering him responsible for the Kuoh disaster. Sirzechs complies. |
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Shadows Over Hell: Blitzo doesn't enjoy it, but he gets down on his knees in front of Verosika to get the latter to treat Loona better, much to Verosika's surprise. | |
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In the Revenge of the Sith novelization, as Anakin has him disarmed and at his mercy, Count Dooku begs Palpatine to spare him, claiming they had a deal. In actuality, he's begging his Master, Darth Sidious, not to discard him in favor of Anakin, but to no avail; Anakin soon succumbs to temptation and takes Dooku's head off. This was intended to be in the film, but Christopher Lee rejected the lines as out of character. | |
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Coast Guard boss Kaizai in Wa ga Na wa Umishi is not too proud to beg ordinary fisherman to stop interrupting a rescue, much to the surprise of the fisherman who had demanded that he go on his knees. | |
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Afflicted heroes in Darkest Dungeon often time try to beg with the enemy or the heir to be let go as they take stress damage. Specifically, the Bounty Hunter has a unique quote of this, and meanwhile the Man-at-arms will try to bargain with the enemy to spare the others. Likewise, most of the different heroes will beg not to be chosen when the Heart of Darkness unleashes its "One hero dies, you choose which" One-Hit Kill attack, Come Unto Your Maker; others, however, either Face Death with Dignity or outright volunteer. | |
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The now-iconic scene in A Clockwork Orange, when Alex is undergoing The Ludovico Technique to "cure" him of his sadism. It's commonly regarded as one of the most effective and chilling uses of Not So Stoic in film. | |
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Scrooge, at the end of his spiritual journey in A Christmas Carol. His cold and uncaring haughtiness has already been irreparably shattered. | |
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In the bad ending of Wing Commander III you're given the option to beg for mercy. The Big Bad kills you anyway. | |
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The Unicorn Chronicles: In Dark Whispers (the original book 3), Ian, while trapped in the Rainbow Prison, asks Felicity for directions to his wife. She demands that he beg, which he does, because he knows that unless she helps him, he will die, his friends will die, and Martha will never see her daughter again. Felicity takes great joy in this, forcing Ian to crawl and kiss her feet. | |
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Matilda in The Full Matilda does this so that the senator will not move back to the South, crushing her father's dreams of owning a nice house. She ends up sleeping with the senator. | |
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Zombieland has a particularly funny example as Tallahassee is threatened at gunpoint by Little Rock, who managed to steal away his shotgun. Tallahassee mocks her at first for not knowing how to use it, but one loud warning shot to the sky has him immediately shrieking out "Don't kill me with my own gun!" | |
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Game of Thrones: Cersei Lannister is quickly reduced to begging when Tywin declares his plans to place her in a new Arranged Marriage. After being very gravely wounded many miles from help, Sandor Clegane is forced to tearfully beg his companion for a Mercy Kill. In "High Sparrow", Janos Slynt starts crying and pleading when he finally realizes Jon is serious about executing him. Jon executes him anyway. Played with using Hizdahr, who willingly kneels before Daenerys to plead for his father's body, but stands tall when facing incineration by her dragons. Then when Dany comes to his cell, he kneels at once and begs for his life, explaining he wanted to die bravely but would rather not die at all. Gendry when he's leeched by Melisandre, immediately begs Stannis to stop her — even using the much fought-over royal address to sway him — even though Gendry dislikes highborns and wants to be done serving them. His willingness to beg makes sense because unlike most characters on the show, he's a commoner so has no noble pride to cling to and is used to being mistreated by more powerful figures. (And spent previous seasons having to submit to different masters or captors to survive.) Despite looking down on Walder Frey (or "The Late Walder Frey") throughout most of the series, Catelyn still tearfully pleads with him to spare Robb's life, even offering herself in his place. It doesn't work. After seven seasons of being a Magnificent Bastard, Littlefinger is rocked when he realizes too late he's been set up by Sansa and Arya for a public trial. Realizing he has no allies, he falls to his knees and asks for mercy for the memory of their mother, who he loved. Given how she died in part because of his conniving, it's no wonder they don't listen. |
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An example comes from Babe where Fly, a sheepdog, swallows her pride to politely ask the sheep (who she saw as stupid and nothing but inferior to her) just what happened the morning that Maa was killed, so she could prove her adopted son Babe's innocence. | |
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In the movie Bent, Max is willing to do whatever the guards ask of him if it means he'll have a chance of getting out of the Nazi concentration camp sooner. | |
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In FoxTrot, Roger did this when asking for his job back. It was more that Pembrook made him, but Roger was still willing to do it. | |
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In Twilight of the Red Tsar, more than a few victims of Stalin's purges beg for their lives when they realize their fate. It doesn't work. | |
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Electro makes Spider-Man do it in one arc; after Taking a Level in Badass, the villain is a serious threat (attempting to use water to short circuit him fails, as he can turn it to steam before it reaches him, and he can control electricity enough to fry the synapses in a person's brain) and he's Drunk with Power. After curb stomping the hero in public, he demands Spidey beg for his life, and Spidey actually does it. (Seeing as the torture makes him feel like his brain is on fire; when Spidey recovers, he's mad and goes after Electro with an insulated costume with Nate Summers backing him up.) | |
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Wisdom and Courage: During the climax, Link is on the receiving end of a savage No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Veran, who decides to twist the knife even further by threatening to cut out his right eye. The Primal Fear immediately hits Link, who begs her not to do so; in response, Veran takes sadistic pleasure in the fact that she actually got Link to plead for mercy before proceeding to gouge out his eye For the Evulz. | |
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Subverted in The Princess Bride; the Dread Pirate Roberts spared Wesley for asking to be spared, with a simple a polite "please, I have to live". (Roberts had been more used to shameless and pitiful groveling, and sincerity was new to him.) | |
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Saving Private Ryan: "Stop! Listen to me, listen to me! Stop! Stop! No, no! Stop, sto-" - Pvt. Mellish when he's pinned down by a German soldier and about to be stabbed in the chest. No Big Damn Heroes or last-second miracle: these end up as his last words. | |
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The Suicide Squad: The moment Starro manages to capture and hold The Thinker, who had been experimenting and torturing Starro for at least 30 years, The Thinker feebly and pathetically begs for mercy. It doesn't work. | |
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Spice and Wolf has Holo negotiate with a group of other wolf gods to save Lawrence's life. We don't see the event itself, but mud on her knees implies that she begged them. | |
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The Incredibles: Mr. Incredible begs Syndrome not to shoot down his family's airplane. | |
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Left Behind: In "Glorious Appearing", False Prophet Leon Fortunato, when he is made to stand before Jesus Christ and to bow before Him and confess Him as Lord, ends up begging pitifully to be spared his fate in the Lake of Fire alongside the Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia, even renouncing his association with both Nick and Satan and pledging his allegiance to Jesus. Unfortunately for Leon, Jesus isn't changing His mind. | |
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Corypheus The Elder One of Dragon Age: Inquisition does this when being defeated in the Final Battle causes him to lose control of the Orb of Destruction. After spending the game mocking the faith of others in absent gods, he hypocritically begs Dumat and the Old Gods to save him. | |
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Death Proof. When Stuntman Mike has kidnapped Pam and trapped her in his car, she reacts angrily at first and threatens to kill him. When she realizes she can't escape, she tearfully begs Mike to let her go and that she won't tell anyone. He mocks her situation before giving the death blow. | |
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Accel World: Played for dark drama with Noumi at the end of the Dusktaker arc. Having suffered a devastating blow from the repowered Silver Crow while in an all-or-nothing match, Taker finds himself a barely functional heap on the ground, helpless and begging someone, anyone to share points with him to keep him from losing his powers. That this is the exact situation Noumi claims he put his abusive brother in (and his screams of terror and begging were fond memories for Noumi) serves as a dark echo for someone who spent the entire arc mocking any sign of weakness in the heroes. Haru, Taku, and Chiyo take no pleasure in this display, and Taku tels Haru to end it by finishing Noumi off with the laser blade. | |
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Blackadder Goes Forth: In "Goodbyeee", Captain Darling is told he's being deployed to the trenches for the upcoming "Big Push" after spending the series up to that point safely at army headquarters and miles away from the front. Knowing exactly what this means he desperately tries to beg General Melchett to reconsider and let him stay. It doesn't work. | |
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Doctor Who: "Utopia": The Doctor pleads for the Master to stop and think instead of stealing the TARDIS and escaping, but it doesn't work. In "Journey's End", the Daleks drop the TARDIS into the fiery core of their space station — with Donna still inside it. This is the Doctor's reaction. "The Magician's Apprentice": The Doctor tearfully begs the villain on bended knee to stop the Daleks from exterminating his companion, Clara (aside from being a dramatic moment in its own right, this is also a watershed moment for the entire season as it establishes the Doctor's growing love-driven paranoia over Clara's safety). The Doctor also has plenty of examples of the Pragmatic Hero variety of this trope. For example, in "Spyfall", The Master does his Kneel Before Zod schtick, and the doctor complies, but her attitude is more "ok, fine, can we get on with it already?" |
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In Digimon Adventure 02, as part of an elaborate ruse by the Digimon Emperor, team leader Davis is convinced that all of his friends have been captured and will be mauled by a rampaging Digimon unless he gets down on his knees and begs for mercy. Oddly for a kids show, Davis complies immediately and without embarrassment and is never judged for it - on the contrary, it's Davis' immunity to pandering or attacks on his personal pride when more important things are at stake that allows him to save everyone in the final battle of the series. | |
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Silas and Elish from the Fallocaust series fall into this where Sky and Jade are involved. | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: Tamlin is usually quite proud, but in the first book he's willing to beg when it comes to Feyre's safety. He pleads with Rhysand not to tell Amarantha about her and prostrates himself before him at his request. And when Amarantha is beating Feyre to death, Tamlin desperately begs for her to be spared. | |
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"Grovel" is a God Reel technique in God Hand. Gene sinks to the Pose of Supplication and begs the enemies not to hurt him. The audience mocks you... and the Dynamic Difficulty sinks to the lowest possible level. (This doesn't work in Hard Mode, because the Dynamic Difficulty is locked on Level Die.) | |
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A pragmatic variety in Safehold — prince Nahrmahn knows perfectly that Emperor Cayleb is pissed off with his nation and if the Empire of Charis decided to attack them, Emerald would have no chance of surviving it, so he goes and begs Cayleb to allow him a Heel–Face Turn. It works. | |
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Examples from Superman comics: In All-Star Superman, Solaris's final line, after being firmly beaten by Superman, is simply "Mercy." Superman, having been informed by time travelers that Solaris will survive, and one day be repurposed to help humanity, simply says in response "You'll live", before punching Solaris hard enough to create a mushroom cloud. In the 1988 The Supergirl Saga, Zaora of the Phantom Zone criminals goes from boastful and proud to begging for her life when Superman subjects her to fatal radiation exposure of Green Kryptonite to execute her for her crime of genocide. She ends up dying along with General Zod and Quex-Ul, the latter of whom strangled Zod as they both died together. In Superman vs. Shazam!, Black Adam angrily attacks Karmang when the sorcerer informs him that he has been summoned to serve him. However, Adam quickly drops to his knees and begs for mercy when Karmang easily crushes him with a simple spell. |
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Suikoden: Suikoden V straddles the line at one point during a Side Quest to capture and recruit the cocky thief Raven. The Oboro Detective Agency, having dealt with him before, helps to easily ensnare the thief. When approached about joining the rebellion, Raven pretends to be bargaining from a position of power, demanding that Oboro bow and beg him to join. Without missing a beat, Oboro gets on his knees and calmly requests he join, pissing Raven off because he can't believe his 'rival' capitulated so easily, but can't tell whether or not he's mocking him or being completely serious about it. Under somewhat similar circumstances, this is also done in Suikoden II when Apple gets on her knees and begs Shu to join your cause when realises that she alone cannot act as the army strategist. You have the option of telling her not to, or joining her in a Pose of Supplication. Whichever option you choose, it really pisses Shu off, and he kicks you out of his house. |
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In Tangled Fate, Ranma first refuses to become the new ruler of Greyfalls only for Setarial to kneel and beg for the Solar Exalted to take the throne and protect the city. The martial artist is so stunned from seeing a goddess willingly forsaking her pride for her mortal worshippers' sake that she comes back on her decision and agrees to receive the crown. | |
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Star Trek: Generations has two: The first is Downplayed and non-villainous, and occurs when the Enterprise is trying to rescue two El-Aurian transports from an energy ribbon. After the first one is destroyed and the inexperienced Captain Harriman realizes that he has no idea what to do, he swallows his pride and asks the veteran Captain Kirk for help, which he's practically jumping to provide. The second is played much straighter and scarier. After Soran KO's Geordi, he holds Data at phaserpoint. Data, whose recently-installed emotion chip is malfunctioning, is overcome by fear and begging for his life. |
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Second Wind: Don Krieg gets this twice, and both times proves to be an Ungrateful Bastard immediately afterwards. First, the canon situation where he's starving to death, and begs for food. Sanji obliges, much to the protests of the other chefs, and is rewarded with a barely blocked lariat. The second time, Luffy has punched his armor so hard that it's dented, caving in on Krieg and cutting off his air supply. He begs for Luffy to remove it, and the rubber man complies... after snarking at Krieg. As soon as Krieg gets his breath back, he charges at Luffy... only to get one-shotted. | |
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The Ultimates: After Valkyrie breaks free of Mastermind's illusions and decapitates him, Pyro tried to beg for mercy, even invoking his time with the X-Men. It didn't save him from dismemberment. | |
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Manga-Waido: Ms. Makita is usually a stuck-up housewife, but becomes a sobbing, begging wreck around Yoko's father. The reason was that the man's bear-like build and the scar on his face made him easy to mistake for a Yakuza thug. | |
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The ending of Oldboy (2003). After a particularly nasty revelation, Oh Dae-su forgets all about getting his revenge, begs the antagonist not to let Mido know the secret that would ruin her life and then, unprompted, cuts out his tongue just to show how much he has nothing further to add. | |
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In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Gary Oak goes off to beg a trainer-turned-novelist named Casey Snagem to train him after he suffers a devastating defeat against Paul, even entering a Pose of Supplication while he does so. This is notable because up to that point, Gary had dismissed Snagem's views about what meant to be a Pokémon Master, but now he's eating his pride and acknowledging him as a strong trainer and the person who can help him find what he's missing. | |
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Dragons: The Nine Realms: After his dragon got seriously hurt protecting him from the Big Bad Jörmungandr, Ex-Big Bad Buzzsaw begs the riders to help his dragon despite considering them his enemy. | |
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In All-Star Superman, Solaris's final line, after being firmly beaten by Superman, is simply "Mercy." Superman, having been informed by time travelers that Solaris will survive, and one day be repurposed to help humanity, simply says in response "You'll live", before punching Solaris hard enough to create a mushroom cloud. | |
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Season 3 of Lois & Clark has a resurrected Lex Luthor learning Clark's secret and forcing him to beg so he won't kill his parents. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Bad Girls", Wesley's craven pleading is directly contrasted with Giles' snarky defiance in the face of a hideous demon and his vampire minions. | |
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Kingdoms of Ruin: Once it's clear her magic has been negated and that her pupil was about to be killed, Chloe gets into a Pose of Supplication to beg The Emperor to spare Adonis' life and only kill her. | |
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Down And Out: Grace towards Amelia when seeking treatment for Simon's injuries, after every other attempt to convince her to help. | |
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The Ur-Quan Kzer-za from Star Control 2 are every inch as Affably Evil as they sound. Surrendering to them and begging for mercy, while it leads to a Nonstandard Game Over, still means they simply return you to the slave-shielded Earth and pardon your race instead of holding them accountable for violating the terms of their surrender (as you most likely weren't even aware Earth had surrendered). | |
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In Doom Eternal, Hellpreist Deag Ranak, when confronted by the Doom Slayer, immediately begins grovelling and offering his genius at creating weapons in exchange for his miserable life. We're not sure if he's sincere or not, because Doomguy chops his head off mid-sentence. | |
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Universe Falls: In "The Stanchurian Candidate", Amethyst is still mad at Stan after the events of "Not What He Seems", and initially refuses to help with his campaign for mayor of Gravity Falls. Steven's idea of taking "drastic measures" to convince her is to cling to Amethyst's leg and beg, whine, and wheedle until she agrees to help. | |
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In the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Dying Detective", Holmes pleaded for help from someone he suspected of having infected his nephew with a deadly disease that he (Holmes) had apparently contracted, even offering to abandon the investigation. Holmes was feigning illness, as a ruse to get the suspect to admit both the original crime and the subsequent attempt to infect Holmes, with Watson hidden in the room to serve as witness. | |
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In the sixth Gor novel Tarl does this, bringing on a Heroic BSoD since he never thought he'd be the type to do that. Stalling for time occurs throughout the series as well. | |
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In Breaking Bad, after Jack and his men kill Gomez and have Hank at gun-point, Walt tries to save Hank by offering his entire fortune and pleading Hank to let the incident go. Hank has to inform him that even if he was willing to let it go, Jack wants him dead anyways due to him being a DEA agent and would never spare him no matter what Walt offers him, following which he's killed. | |
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Early in Tales of the Abyss, Colonel Badass Jade kneels down to humbly beg Luke for his assistance in reaching the Kimlascan king with their peace treaty. Luke is actually the hero, although at that point in the game he was still a Jerkass, and Jade manages it without losing a great deal of dignity, despite very nearly sounding humble until after Luke tells him to knock it off (which is impressive for the game's foremost Deadpan Snarker). Mostly, the scene serves to underscore the seriousness of their mission. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Claudia only does this twice. The first is when she implores Lestat to save her First Love with an Emergency Transformation (this is impossible because Charlie is already dead, but she later requests that Lestat make her a vampire companion to love). The second is her tearfully pleading for Lestat to let Louis go whilst he is violently abusing him. Both times are in tragic vain, and Claudia never begs Lestat for anything again. "The Thing Lay Still": During the after-party feast, the Socialite in the blue gown and one of the MacPhail twins plead for the lives, but the hungry vampires don't grant their human prey any mercy. |
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The Last of Us Series (Once Upon a Time, The Last of Us): When Emma and Ruby corner Robert, he instantly begs for his life and tries to bargain with her. When Emma slaughters her way through the Fireflies, several of them plead for their lives and even Mal, their leader, is reduced to begging when it is clear that Emma can't be talked down. |
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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore begs for his life when he's unarmed and being approached by Snape with wand in hand, pointing at him. This fact scares Harry, which makes him believe the situation is hopeless, which seems to be confirmed when the plea for mercy goes unheard. It's only in the next and last book when it's revealed that Dumbledore was actually begging for Snape to fulfill his promise to kill him, as he was dying of a painful curse anyway and this act would make Voldemort and the Death Eaters believe Snape was on their side. | |
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In The Button, Eobard Thawne spends a second boasting about how awesome he is in the final issue, before really getting to see Doctor Manhattan. He then begins freaking out and begging for mercy. | |
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Among the Invictus in Vampire: The Requiem begging is used as an occasional gambit when a lower-ranking Vampire fails at some task. If you can't assign blame or weasel your way out, then you can always prostrate yourself (publicly) in front of the Elder, wail about your worthlessness, beg for mercy, tear your clothes, demand some horrible punishment, etc. This might (emphasis on might) fluster the Elder enough to say that the failure wasn't that bad, and avoid losing face by actually punishing you. Or he could just tell you to stop being a drama queen and show some dignity. | |
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All For Luz: Emilia does this to Luz during her murderous Roaring Rampage of Revenge claiming she didn't personally kill anyone and was never on board with the slaughter of Luz's team in the first place. Fortunately for the former leader of Foxtrot, Luz believes her and lets her escape with her life. Kennedy, the ringleader of the massacre, does this when he's at Luz's mercy in chapter 12. Unlike Emilia, he gets no second chance. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation In "Q Who", Picard asks Q to save them from the Borg. After a moment, Q acquiesces and sends them back to the Alpha Quadrant. | |
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Cobra Kai: It's not explicitly stated whether he's stalling for time or he actually means it. During tryouts at Kreese's class, Brucks is getting a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Hawk (yes, the same Brucks that had no problem with repeatedly making fun of Eli's "lip" before). Having not gotten anywhere near landing a hit on his former victim, he has no problems begging for a let-up. What he gets instead is ten good hard punches and a Spiteful Spit. | |
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