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Appeal to Force

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Appeal to Force	comment	Most modern societies are built on the principles that justice is blind and no man is above the law. As much as those principles are great, they rely on someone being willing and able to enforcenote keeping in mind that the root of "enforce" is "force" the law. This trope is what happens when there's nobody who can or will. Maybe someone has a bigger army than the police, maybe they have a remote-control nuke buried underneath a city, maybe they have superpowers that render them nigh-invincible, maybe it's an isolated situation where no greater authority is aware or able to respond. In any case, the strongest one around can do whatever they want because there is nobody who can enact justice upon them. One character might just lean on another temporarily, or they might live their whole life using force wherever they can. More formally, this is known as the "Argumentum ad Baculum"note Literally "appeal to the stick" or Appeal to Force, whose logic goes: "Agree with me, or I will hurt you." The fact that this is obviously not valid doesn't stop it from being persuasive. The phrase "talk shit, get hit", while crude, is one of the most common real-life applications of this. Some political theorists consider this to be the basis of all law and ethics. The idea is that laws are just rules enforced by the threat of violence — they don't have to be good or noble, they just have to threaten you if you break them. Hence why anyone can get away with useless, inefficient, and silly laws if the legislators have the weapons. Needless to say, this argument is rather on the cynical side of the sliding scale, and one of the most popular themes of a totalitarian dystopia, though that doesn't necessarily make it untrue. Of course, there's a catch. Unless you have the ability to live without sleeping and eating, sooner or later you have to put down the weapon, and somebody just might slit your throat from behind. If your gang of supporters will avenge your death... then you need to keep your gang happy, without risking them gunning for your spot. Also better hope you never get sick, old, or otherwise suffer Badass Decay. Following lines of logic for your security will quickly lead you to re-invent the military aristocracy and other basic sociology concepts, which passes beyond the scope of this article. We also note that while it's easy to force people to do what you want, nature is not so pliable: you can't threaten a hurricane to end, food to appear after a crop failure, etc. Frequently the next step if Screw the Rules, I Make Them! does not work, and related to Screw the Rules, They're Not Real! in that you're rejecting the need to make a true "argument". Other related tropes include Fisticuff-Provoking Comment, Talk to the Fist, Hobbes Was Right, Mutually Assured Destruction, Shoot the Shaggy Dog, Sexual Extortion, Questionable Consent, and Sword of Damocles. Supertrope of, among other things: 2 + Torture = 5 The Coup Military Coup Klingon Promotion Might Makes Right An Offer You Can't Refuse Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
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Appeal to Force / int_10bc0a19	comment	Captain Vimes tries this in Night Watch, but it backfires. When asked who his authority is, he says it's "Mr. Burliegh and Mr. Stronginthearm!", meaning the manufacturers of his crossbow. But he's gone back in time, and they haven't started making crossbows yet...cue Click Hello.
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Appeal to Force / int_1104b72b	comment	Forms the basis of society in the Battlegrounds of Citadel, large regions of North America that have had normal government overthrown by a series of superpowered individuals or gangs, only to have the new rulers overthrown in turn, etcâ€¦
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Appeal to Force / int_135f4195	comment	Invoked in the first novel: Duke Leto Atreides's rising popularity in the Landsdraad might have annoyed the Padishah Emperor, but Shaddam IV did not conspire to have House Atreides destroyed until it succeeded in training a small military force - with the potential to become much larger - that rivaled the Emperor's own Elite Army, the Sardaukar, in fighting prowess.
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Appeal to Force / int_13626ff7	comment	In Robert Howard's Kull stories, Kull at one point announces that he will rule by virtue of his battle axe unless some noble wishes to challenge him to combat. There was a touch of wish fulfillment in that story.
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Appeal to Force / int_13a61240	comment	The Rise of Skywalker: Undead Emperor Palpatine repeats the gambit from A New Hope, this time armed with an entire fleet of star destroyers that each carry a planet-killing Wave-Motion Gun.
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Appeal to Force / int_17bfcf60	comment	Present twice times in the backstory of the Homeworld series. The first time is when in the ancient times the Galactic Council had been called to settle a territorial dispute between Hiigara and the Taiidan Empire and favored the latter: when the Hiigaran found the Second Great Hyperspace Core (that allowed the ship with it to just go everywhere in the galaxy bringing a fleet with it) they just laid waste to the Taiidan homeworld, with the implied threat that they could do it to anyone. This backfired horribly, as the Galactic Council set on them the Bentusi, who had the First Great Hyperspace Core and enough firepower to destroy their fleet. Then, with the Hiigaran utterly defeated and the Bentusi traumatized by the battle into disarming themselves, the Taiidan Empire was left as the single strongest military power of the galaxy: the Council ordered to leave the now harmless Hiigarans alone, but the Taiidan continued burning Hiigaran worlds until the surviving Hiigarans accepted to cede their homeworld and leave in exile on a desert planet.
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Appeal to Force / int_18a87ee4	comment	Forum of Thrones: This is implied to be Hobert's backup plan in case he would not manage to secure Raylansfair for House Lowther. The presence of Argella Durrandon and her troops kind of ruined this plan for him, but even without her, it is highly questionable if it would have ever succeeded. Aegon Targaryen has absolutely no legal right to the kingdoms of Westeros. However, what he does have are three adult dragons, capable of raining fire and death down on the woefully underequipped Westerosi armies, establishing him as a major power player only weeks after his landing.
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Appeal to Force / int_1af341a1	comment	Late-game meetings with the Dark assembly in the Disgaea games can seem a bit this way, especially if you're using New Game+. If your proposal gets denied, your insanely overpowered team can beat the senators into submission without breaking a sweat. And if you have beaten Baal, they recognize that you have a nuke and don't even dare to object proposals made by a main character.
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Appeal to Force / int_1bb6d4b5	comment	Subverted in Get Backers' IL arc: The hacker Makube X tries to threaten the God of Infinity Fortress with a literal nuke (not concerned about the fact that Tokyo would be destroyed in the process) but is defeated by the titular heroes. As Kazuki points out, it never would have worked — no matter how powerful you are, God always holds all the cards.
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Appeal to Force / int_1e015a5d	comment	The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader keeps changing the terms with Lando Calrissian, knowing that with the Empire holding all the cards, he doesn't have to keep his word. This backfires, as Lando decides that if Vader won't keep his word to him, then he's got no reason to hold up his end, either, and so helps Leia and Chewbacca escape.
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Appeal to Force / int_1e1b50e2	comment	Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes), is one of the works best known for using this theory to explain Real Life. Hobbes argued that people either had the choice of living in a "state of nature" (i.e. lawless chaos) or giving up some rights in return for security from a state powerful enough to enforce laws, with the latter being the better option. Along with forming social contract theory, this was innovative by stating in no uncertain terms that the state's authority rests ultimately on force, rather than divine right, justice, or any other ideal political theorists usually appealed to. Those might be well and fine but amounted to very little without force to back them up.
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Appeal to Force / int_210767ac	comment	People studying or writing about medieval history frequently make significant emphasis on "claims to the throne", fundamentally the idea that being descended from a previous title-holder makes one more worthy of the title than the incumbent. Such claims are even the basis for mechanics in some video games like the Crusader Kings series. The truth is, claims were really just propaganda to justify trying to seize the throne to potential co-conspirators: these things were usually settled on the battlefield. Notably, King Henry VII Tudor of England, the final winner of the Wars of the Roses, had no discernible claim to the throne whatsoever: he was a distant, matrilineal descendant of an illegitimate son of Edward III Plantagenet, and was crowned primarily because he was the leader of the coalition that defeated and killed the incumbent Richard III (though he did subsequently marry Richard's niece, Elizabeth of York, to strengthen his claim).
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Appeal to Force / int_23553960	comment	This is also pretty much the grand scheme in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which involves Skull Face planning create and handing out nuclear weapons that he still has the off-switch for all of them, infecting the world with parasites that will kill anyone who tries to speak English, allowing him to use Metal Gears and nukes to replace it as a global language. Resulting in his own vision of world peace.
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Appeal to Force / int_28f28baf	comment	Scanners: When the psychic protagonist Cameron Vale infiltrates ConSec's computer system through the telephone lines, Revok's mole within ConSec orders a computer technician to wipe their whole system in an attempt to hurt Cameron. The technician initially refuses to do so because that kind of data loss can only be authorized by the company's board of directors. The mole's response is to shove a gun in the guy's face.
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Appeal to Force / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto, Pain wanted the nuke in the form of a powerful jutsu.
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Appeal to Force / int_3106477d	comment	The Phantom: In the first issue of the 1989 comic book series, a group of bandits posing as British soldiers raid an African village and are summarily crushed by the titular hero. When the bandit chief protests they are authorized by the Queen, the Phantom coldly replies he is the only authority figure that they should be worried about.
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Appeal to Force / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): The episode "Final Exam" featured a disgruntled student who invents a cold fusion bomb and threatens to destroy a major city unless his demands are met, including have certain people he dislikes executed in view of him. They do execute one person. In the episode "Final Appeal", a time traveler uses a similar bomb to threaten the US Government of 20 Minutes in the Future, where the world has banned complex technology, to keep the ban, while another time traveler argues that it should be lifted. After he allows himself to be sent to the past without his Time Machine, his device activates and explodes, destroying Washington, D.C.
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Appeal to Force / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: Kyril Sutherland isn't a bully who craves to possess, dominate or impose his values on others, but he is definitely an Anti-Hero since he has no qualms about explicitly or implicitly threatening people with force, either to achieve his objectives or get any belligerents out of the way. The fact that he is a nigh-unkillable individual of dreaded repute helps a lot. Consider this exchange in Chapter 13 of the original:
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Appeal to Force / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: By holding two council seats, General James Ironwood commands both the Atlesian military and huntsmen, giving him disproportionate power within his kingdom and facilitating his influence of foreign councils, such as in Volume 2 where his reports convince the Vale Council to transfer Vytal Festival security from Professor Ozpin to himself. After Beacon's fall, his increasing authoritarianism sidelines his fellow councillors, leaving resistance to Robyn Hill's Happy Huntresses until the heroes arrive in Volume 7. Once he succumbs to paranoia, his control of Atlas becomes absolute, ruthlessly targeting opposition, shooting allies for disagreeing with him, and coercing both villains and heroes alike to achieve his goals.
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Appeal to Force / int_35f0d56a	comment	In Sid Meier's Pirates!, you aren't allowed to enter a port if you have bad relations with either the port or its controlling power. You could sneak in, but it's usually easier to open the port at gunpoint. In the PC and console versions, the player can land troops and play a turn-based strategy game against the defenders. In the mobile version, this has been replaced with a mini-game where you shell the city defenses.
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Appeal to Force / int_366a284d	comment	In Fist of the North Star, society has collapsed after the nuclear war and the only law left is "the strongest does however he pleases". Gangs of bandits roam around the wastelands, raiding and pillaging convoys and villages and killing weak, helpless people.
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Appeal to Force / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia: Depending on the edition, The Computer is either a mad dictator, hopelessly senile, or a well-intentioned maintenance system that's been reprogrammed one time too many. Regardless, the entire society it maintains accepts its Insane Troll Logic and obeys immediately because anyone who disagrees with it (or even just seems unhappy with its pronouncements) is shot. Or worse. Some editions of Paranoia include quotes from The Computer in the margins or to take up white space. One recurring quote is "Have a Nice Day or I'll Kill You." In the adventure "Hunger," The Computer decides to replicate some of the worst falsehoods of Soviet and Maoist science and apply them to food production. As the people in charge of one such facility, the Troubleshooters watch as the delicate algae ecosystem dies and food production drops to zero. Reporting this, of course, is disagreeing with The Computer, making you a traitor. The adventure is intended to end with a Complex-wide famine with only one solution. In the adventure "Whitewash," a low-security Infrared (black) hallway is accidentally painted over with high-security Ultraviolet (white) colors, leaving an entire sector's labor force unable to get to work. So many people report the situation that The Computer decides they must all be part of a massive conspiracy and executes them. A literal case of "Say that white is black, or I'll kill you."
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Appeal to Force / int_383c39a5	comment	With This Ring: When Swamp Thing disagrees with the Mayor of Gotham City about whether Abigail Cable should face criminal charges, the mayor's arguments are along the lines of "if you threaten us, we'll add more charges against her," while Swamp Thing's arguments are pretty much, "I amâ€¦ Still capable ofâ€¦ Levelling this city."
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Appeal to Force / int_3d5c05c9	comment	Bob the Angry Flower believes that if everybody had a nuke, then nobody would ever argue with each other. It doesn't work.
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Appeal to Force / int_40c7c051	comment	In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths the Crime Syndicate, made up of superpowered criminals, is so powerful that the police won't act against them and the President will acquiesce to whatever demands they make of him.
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Appeal to Force / int_43ce5692	comment	In Django Unchained, Candie tries to get Django to blow his cover by discussing phrenology, even sawing the skull of his father's favorite slave open while talking on the "inferiority" of black brains in an attempt to disgust Django. It doesn't work, so he moves on to threatening to bash in Broomhilda's skull with a hammer. That works.
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Appeal to Force / int_48b694ee	comment	Nedroid: When Reginald is taken hostage:
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Appeal to Force / int_49a0a477	comment	In Snow Crash, Raven's habit of motorcycling around with a stolen Russian warhead rigged to explode when he dies ensures that everyone "tries to make him feel welcome."
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Appeal to Force / int_4a9ecddc	comment	In I, Claudius, Caligula summons soldiers to hear him give a speech — including soldiers who had disobeyed him, ready to have them executed, telling that particular group to not worry about weapons or armor. His uncle, Claudius, manages to drop a hint to one captain. Caligula quickly changes his tune when those guards let it be seen that they are carrying their swords underneath their tunics.
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Appeal to Force / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape: This is how the Lady of Pain is the Shadow Dictator of Sigil. Simply put, nobody has enough power to dethrone her, and most are afraid to try, given what tends to happen to those who defy her. (Not that there haven't been any who have tried, given how valuable Sigil is, but she's crushed all challenges thus far). Lothar is a powerful, eccentric, and immortal Necromancer who lives in Sigil and pretty much ignores the existence of the city's civil service and mortal authorities through this trope. Since the only being in Sigil who could regulate his activities is The Lady, and Lothar doesn't do anything that warrants her attention (he collects the souls of the already dead, which does not involve killing people or disrupting the order of the city), the rest of Sigil leaves him alone. Demon Lords rule layers of the Abyss this way. Demons are way too chaotic to have any proper government, so the strongest demons are the rulers, plain and simple. Guys like Demogorgon and Orcus are constantly fighting bloody wars in an effort to gain more territory and followers.
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Appeal to Force / int_4da11f30	comment	Return of the Jedi shows that thermal detonators (literally nuclear fusion grenades) make for great negotiation tools.
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Appeal to Force / int_4e9aa9f9	comment	A minor example in Twins (1988), when Arnold Schwarzenegger's Martial Pacifist character tries to talk reason to the thug attacking his twin brother. The thug is, to put it mildly, unreceptive.
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Appeal to Force / int_56fa0ea4	comment	AI leaders like to invoke this trope in Civilization. "Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" is heard from anyone with the technology. In Civilization V, once you get nukes, any other leader whom you talk to will have "AFRAID" as the status regardless of his or her disposition towards you. This is especially useful if you build nukes before everyone else and then manage to push a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty through the UN, leaving you the only one with them. Civs in Civilization V will also be "afraid" if your army wildly outguns theirs (at least twice its strength) and is nearby. City-states can be intimidated in much the same way to give up money or units. The Autocracy ideology in Civ V has a tenet that takes City-State intimidation a step further — with Gunboat Diplomacy, you gain a hefty amount of influence each turn with City-States you could successfully demand tribute from. It's amazing how quickly a city is willing to ally with you when you've got a few divisions parked outside their front door.
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Appeal to Force / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Token Evil Teammate Belkar has been on both ends of this trope. Roy convinces him early on that he can't kill teammates for XP on the basis that Roy will kill him if he tries. Much later, Belkar uses it to convincingly pass as a zombie.
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Appeal to Force / int_57bad31c	comment	In My Huntsman Academia, Weiss has to talk Izuku down from overworking and hurting himself when he offers to get a job on top of his already busy schedule and tendency to break his own limbs. She makes him hold to his promise not to strain himself by threatening to hurt him if he doesn't.
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Appeal to Force / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Done in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater's secret theater "The Ultimate Weapon." Naked Snake "cheats" playing rock-paper-scissors with The Boss by using a bizarre combination of all three gestures. So she trumps him by nuking him with a Davy Crocket at point-blank range. This is also pretty much the grand scheme in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which involves Skull Face planning create and handing out nuclear weapons that he still has the off-switch for all of them, infecting the world with parasites that will kill anyone who tries to speak English, allowing him to use Metal Gears and nukes to replace it as a global language. Resulting in his own vision of world peace.
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Appeal to Force / int_59da62aa	comment	The Courier in Fallout: New Vegas has a lot of dialogue options where they convince an NPC to take their side of a particular argument by threatening them with violence and/or bodily harm. The Terrifying Presence perk takes the trope to the extreme; the perk gives special dialogue options where the Courier will make a threat that scares or provokes the NPC to attack, ending the conversation with an immediate chance to make good on the threat.
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Appeal to Force / int_5bb406f8	comment	Laconia from The Expanse was founded on the belief that humanity's expansion among the stars can only end in ruin if it won't be guided by one—and only one—man, that man of course being their High Consul Winston Duarte. It's ridiculous to think that just one person could keep control over every human colony scattered over 1300 star systems, but try to argue about that when Duarte has control over ancient shipyards able to construct dreadnoughts, just one of which is capable of eliminating whatever it points at in a blink of an eye and able to absorb more firepower than 2 powerful fleets combined can dish out and come out without a scratch. Except for a few damaged sensors, which eventually help the underground destroy the ship and prove that fear of swift retribution was the only thing keeping hundreds of comm channels across the Solar System from speaking out against Laconia and their irresponsible actions against aliens known for eradicating a civilisation far more advanced than humanity.
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Appeal to Force / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Tagon's mercenaries have been legally commissioned to hunt and kill attorney-drones. People tend to get very upset when you gun down their lawyers, but as Captain Tagon says to one such upset client: "Get as mad as you want. You'll have a hard time suing me." During the CSI Affectionate Parody, Harrick says that while they have enough evidence to hold Schlock, they have to let Tagon go. Grizzly comments that Tagon can go back to his mercenary company and return in force to break his sergeant out, which is why the judge is "visiting friends" in a bunker on the other side of the planet. This is how Kevyn overcomes the problem of getting everyone in without an invitation.
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Appeal to Force / int_5cd1aa89	comment	Nineteen Eighty-Four introduced and popularized the concept of 2 + Torture = 5 in order to demonstrate how totalitarian dystopias are dependent on this trope. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Party, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Party says of such and such an event, "It never happened" â€” well, it never happened, even though the facts say so in your face. If he says that two and two are five â€” well, two and two are five. Those who fail to accept the self-contradictory lies of the Party are sent off to Room 101.
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Appeal to Force / int_5e4ba6dc	comment	In Overlord you could be a nice evil dictator and let the peasants worship you in peace or you could randomly kill them and ransack their homes because you know they can't offer any real resistance.
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Appeal to Force / int_6108ba8d	comment	The Last Jedi: Kylo Ren and General Hux are arguing about who gets to be Supreme Leader of the First Order with Snoke dead. By which we mean, Kylo Ren says he's Supreme Leader, Hux starts to argue about it, and Ren gives him a Force-Choke to shut him up. (Which makes this Appeal to the Force...)
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Appeal to Force / int_6536962d	comment	Leo Caruso, one of two playable characters in A Way Out, has dialogue/action options that involve violence, be it through weapons or physical means, and/or threatening someone. Justified, as he grew up alone with no parental guidance or education, and ended up turning to crime.
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Appeal to Force / int_66704af2	comment	Slow Life in Another World (I Wish!): Slave trader Yaschis arranges a competition between protagonist Itsuki and mob-connected local fop Dardarill: whomever first comes up with the purchase price for the beautiful female slave Wendy gets to keep her. Itsuki wins, and Dardarill calls in his goons to try and settle the matter by force.note In his defense, Yaschis clearly favored Itsuki pretty heavily, even letting him cover part of the price by selling him the sales rights to a bullet vibrator he invented. Fortunately, Itsuki anticipated this and brought backup of his own: his battle slaves Aina, Solte, and Shiro.
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Appeal to Force / int_6a4ff794	comment	In chapter 5 of Savior of Demons, Goku, in trying to understand why Frieza is the way he is, asks him why he couldn't just change the rules — after all, he's so strong, nobody could tell him no, right? Frieza tells him that it would be suicidal, even for him, suggesting that he's not the biggest fish in the galactic pond, at least in terms of influence.
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Appeal to Force / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons, the players themselves can let their characters' power go to their heads and decide that the laws of the land don't apply to them since they can kill any number of guards, paladins, or anything else short of (or in some cases, far exceeding) gods sent to stop them. And, of course, the DM can always say Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies.
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Appeal to Force / int_6c8e383c	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic you have to pose as a Sith wannabe trying to get into the Sith Academy on Korriban. You'll come across a Sith student having some 'fun' with a couple of hopefuls. One of the ways to get him to back off is to simply threaten to kill him. He'll even be rather impressed with you and be rather friendly for the short time you know him. He will still try and kill you, but that's just how the Sith work, sorry chum.
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Appeal to Force / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Near the end of Farscape's final story arc, John Crichton casually strolls into a high-level diplomatic meeting between the Scarran Emperor and Peacekeeper Commandant Grayza (as well as their lackeys among the Charrids and Kalish) on the Scarran capital moon, Katratzi. At first not killing him simply because they're stunned he arrived, the Scarran Emperor asks why they should let him live another minute. Crichton then pulls open his coat to reveal that he is carrying a homemade nuclear bomb, which forces the Emperor to call off his guards. Crichton then starts merrily strolling around the room while detailing the various deadman switches that the bomb operates on...then starts walking around on tables as he explains that the reason he has come is that he can't keep running forever, so he's settled for a new plan in which he will sell wormhole technology to the highest bidder among the assembled galactic political superpowers: in exchange for the bidder's protection he'll basically sell them galactic dominance. Crichton was, of course, lying. His real plan was to gain access to the Katratzi to rescue Aeryn from Scarran custody, and then, to plant the nuclear bomb in a vital area of the base and "blow up the Death Star".
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Appeal to Force / int_6ed7a5ec	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones: A recurring theme. Aegon the Conqueror didn't seize the kingdoms because he had any claim or right, he seized them because he could. Power may come from knowledge, the gods, or be derived from the law, but ultimately a swordsman decides whether the king, the priest, or the rich man live or die. Though ironically given his line about armies to Tywin, Tyrion later realizes that, despite losing nearly every battle he fought against the Stark-Tully alliance, Tywin still ultimately defeated them in the war by playing a better political game. Renly decides to make a claim for the throne based on right of conquest like his big brother Robert. By law, his claim is weaker than Stannis', but Renly's charisma provides him with a bigger support, which in turn is used to press said claim. Defied by Tommen when he balks at hacking his way through the Faith Militant just to talk to the High Sparrow. Ramsay Bolton casually stabs his father Roose to death mid-conversation, then tells the House maester to announce that Roose was "killed by our enemies". House of the Dragon: It is repeatedly mentioned that what makes the Targaryens exceptional (and in charge) is that they have dragons, something no other house (save the Velaryons, and later the Targaryens-Hightowers) can boast. Rhaenyra and Viserys note that without the dragons, House Targaryen becomes much more vulnerable, which is exactly what ends up happening.
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Appeal to Force / int_72c0abac	comment	In Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th, during a game of strip poker, the pizza delivery guy doesn't want to lose a piece of company clothing because it's against rules. He complies after Officer Doughy whips out his gun and gives him a Death Glare.
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Appeal to Force / int_74365738	comment	In Going Postal, Archchancellor Ridcully mentions that the Unseen University has a whole pond full of frogs that were once people who tried to sue the University.
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Appeal to Force / int_75149ccd	comment	X-Wing Series: In The Bacta War, Imperial Intelligence Director Ysanne Isard's increasingly brutal tactics after the New Republic captures Coruscant from her gradually alienate the very allies she needs to maintain her grip on power. One remarks that a soldier working for Isard had just two outcomes: death by the Rebels, or death by her. Played for Laughs at the end of Solo Command. Gara Petothel, an ex-Imperial Intelligence operative who was a member of Wraith Squadron under her "Lara Notsil" pseudonym, sends Han Solo's task force a message for her Love Interest Myn Donos under her new pseudonym "Kirney Slane". Han orders the message forwarded to Myn and not reported to New Republic Intelligence (Petothel is wanted for espionage but pulled a Heelâ€“Face Turn and helped them beat Warlord Zsinj), on the grounds that this is "somebody named Kirney Slane" and not Petothel. The communications officer protests and Han offers to have Chewbacca come up to the bridge and explain things to him.
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Appeal to Force / int_753a01c0	comment	Thrasymachus, one of the characters in Plato's The Republic takes it a step further-he doesn't just say that law is the will of the strongest, he actually defines justice in those terms.
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Appeal to Force / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: Invoked in the first novel: Duke Leto Atreides's rising popularity in the Landsdraad might have annoyed the Padishah Emperor, but Shaddam IV did not conspire to have House Atreides destroyed until it succeeded in training a small military force - with the potential to become much larger - that rivaled the Emperor's own Elite Army, the Sardaukar, in fighting prowess. Defied on a large scale in the franchise overall. Not only will use of atomics on living targets bring the wrath of the rest of the universe down on you but the most (directly) powerful faction turns out to have no military to speak of at all; guaranteed trade and economic growth is far more important than a few million lives here or there. Further, most of the players recognize that politics and power are actually a complicated web of balances and counterbalances, and blatant use of raw power rarely produces the results you intended. The Bene Gesserit especially understand this, and Leto II took it further. In the Dune world, a direct-approach power player is almost surely being manipulated by someone else toward some end he doesn't even imagine. The Beast Rabban, for example. Less so in the prequels (written by Herbert's son and Kevin J. Anderson), as shown by the rabid House Moritani that has no qualms about attacking anyone who so much as looks at them sideways, completely ignoring Landsraad rules (including Kanli). How does The Emperor respond (especially since their actions were openly endangering the Imperium)? By shaking his finger at them. It's no wonder that they get bolder and bolder. By the end, the ruler of the House is openly threatening the Emperor with a nuke. Luckily, his Dragon turned out not to approve of his boss's methods. Paul Atreides is another exception, though with somewhat more finesse than Rabban; he ultimately takes over Arrakis using an army of fanatical soldiers, a tactical application of atomic weapons, and in the end a Duel to the Death. After becoming Emperor, Paul wages a religious war of conquest that results in dozens of planets being sterilized for refusing to bow down to him as Emperor. Paul didn't want to do this, but his core following, made up exclusively of religious fanatics, wouldn't have had it any other way. Though notably he only gets away with this because he has sole control over the spice trade, which prevents the Spacing Guild from moving any troops but his, preventing the great houses from ganging up on his smaller but better army.
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Appeal to Force / int_7668653a	comment	Played for laughs in Mass Effect 2. A woman on Omega is trying to get back into a district that is under quarantine due to a plague killing non-humans. When Shepard shows up, the guard lets them right through and answers the woman's complaint with, "You don't have a grenade launcher, lady. Get lost."
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Appeal to Force / int_76b8cb10	comment	Crops up on occasion in the Fallout series. The central conflict In Fallout 3 is between the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave, both of whom rely on superior technology and firepower to claim dominion over the Capital Wasteland. The Courier in Fallout: New Vegas has a lot of dialogue options where they convince an NPC to take their side of a particular argument by threatening them with violence and/or bodily harm. The Terrifying Presence perk takes the trope to the extreme; the perk gives special dialogue options where the Courier will make a threat that scares or provokes the NPC to attack, ending the conversation with an immediate chance to make good on the threat.
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Appeal to Force / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: In the slums where Akira and Sheryl come from, this is virtually the only law. And the Unscrupulous Hero Akira knowing this, is a Slave to PR about trying to be The Dreaded in order to keep himself or Sheryl and her gang from being messed with. Eventually after footage of Akira winning a David Versus Goliath battle spreads, Sheryl takes advantage of it to force all the other slum gangs under her.
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Appeal to Force / int_7ac9ac71	comment	Alexis Carew: If you're a Space Pirate and Alexis has you at gunpoint, do not think that the tiny young woman in New London Royal Navy uniform will bend if you try to negotiate away her ultimatums. She will shoot you in the head without a word and ask your Number Two.
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Appeal to Force / int_7afbbdc2	comment	How I Killed Your Master: #055
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Appeal to Force / int_7de1376e	comment	Done by Granny Weatherwax in Wyrd Sisters when she threatens to boil a demon alive unless it tells them what the hell is going on. The demon (who had spent their last questions being a Literal Genie and intentionally answering in as obtuse a manner as possible) weakly protests this is against the rules but quickly relents when it's made very clear Granny isn't joking.
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Appeal to Force / int_812165e3	comment	One of the methods of control in the Tropico series. Provided you have a large enough army you can remain in control of your Banana Republic pretty much indefinitely. You can also invoke this in #4; building a nuclear program will prevent the USA and USSR from invading your island.
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Appeal to Force / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Worf, as security chief, is quite famous for doing this continually. A classic example is in the very first episode, where Q appears on the viewscreen, causing Worf to leap the tactical console and nearly fire his phaser right at his image. Lampshaded by: In the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q puts the Enterprise crew on trial, the accusation being that humanity was once and still might be a "dangerously savage child-race". Picard says they will successfully defend themselves against the accusation if the trial is fair. Q replies that the trial will be absolutely equitable, and then promptly orders that Picard and crew be summarily executed if they enter any other plea besides guilty. Subverted in that Q is just trolling them: he actually does want them to pass the test, but he can't pass up an opportunity to mess with their heads for his own amusement while they do it. In "The Ensigns of Command" Data uses this to prove a point while attempting to convince a group of colonists that they must evacuate their world before the Sheliak, a rigid and xenophobic race who regardless have an entirely legal claim to it, arrive and "remove them" with lethal force. The colony's leader refuses to budge, preferring to rally his people to fight, and when Data persists in opposing him, he attacks the android and disables him. After he's repaired, Data decides that the leader has indeed proven that actions speak louder than words, so he announces that he intends to destroy the aqueduct that the colony is built around, stuns all the guards that the colonists place around it without them even being able to get a shot off, then destroys the aqueduct with one shot from his hand phaser, to prove that if one android with a sidearm can do all that, the Sheliak (who are coming in the thousands in armed spaceships) will wipe the colonists out from orbit without even noticing their defiance. The colonists give in and begin the evacuation. The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Learning Curve" has Tuvok put some of the ex-Maquis crew members through Starfleet boot camp aboard ship after some discipline problems. Kenneth Dalby, the guy who started the whole thing, resists and says he'd rather do things "the Maquis way." Chakotay promptly lays him out with a left cross and tells him "the Maquis way" is Dalby and the others obeying Tuvok or Chakotay will kick their asses.
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Appeal to Force / int_819e9a86	comment	In Eraser, Kruger tells The Mafia that The Mafiya are buying secretly-developed weapons from a government contractor. They don't care until he mentions that it's happening on their docks. Since it's their turf, they head to the docks but are stopped by heavily-armed guards. The Mafia guys pretend to be members of the dockworkers' union, demanding their cut. The guard captain simply tells them to get lost and indicates his assault rifle. He gets distracted by Kruger making noise and is promptly beaten down by the mob.
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Appeal to Force / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: This trope is repeatedly Played for Laughs, as Kaeloo (who has the power of Hulking Out) and Mr. Cat (who owns several assorted weapons) will cheerfully threaten other people into doing whatever they want by threatening bodily harm if they object.
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Appeal to Force / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Carried over into Galactic Civilizations, except instead of nukes (which are kind of weak compared to orbital railgun strikes and doom rays) you have "Terror Stars" (star destroyers in the most literal sense) or fleets of dreadnoughts with black hole guns.
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Appeal to Force / int_86c3beca	comment	This is the principle by which Baron Wulfenbach rules Europa in Girl Genius despite only being a mere Baron (roughly equivalent to a lieutenant commanding an entire army)- he has the most powerful military (including an entire fleet of airships, the allegiance of the Jagers and the Dreen among other deadly creatures, and a host of destructive technology captured from other defeated Sparks) so nobody in Europa can oppose him. He's a very benevolent tyrant who rules by only two rules: anyone who finds anything relating to The Other must turn it over to him immediately, and "Don't make me come over there" (i.e "do what you want as long as you don't start a war"). But when you cross him, he will kick your ass.
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Appeal to Force / int_8894d386	comment	The Patriot (2000). When Benjamin Martin tries to reason with Col. Tavington about his brutal conduct by citing the Rules of War, Tavington responds by aiming a pistol at his head and asks him if he would "like a lesson in the rules of war". Then he points it at Martin's children. Tavington's own superior is disgusted with his methods, though he still eventually decides they're necessary to defeat the rebels, and thus save his career (not that it works).
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Appeal to Force / int_8adae002	comment	I, Claudius: In Episode 10, "Fool's Luck", Claudius explains to a delegation from the Senate that he has been put on the throne by the Praetorian Guard and has no more choice in the matter than the Senate does. To drive this home, the scene is book-ended by the Praetorians and Caligula's personal guard marching in and out of the room in full panoply, something Claudius never ordered.
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Appeal to Force / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	The Empire's continual appeal to force typically just engendered more resistance to their rule. As stated by Leia in A New Hope: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
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Appeal to Force / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Light Yagami takes full advantage of the Death Note to kill criminals and those who would interfere with his plans, working as an anonymous God and walking deterrent. Within six years, all wars stop and the global crime rate drops by 70% because everyone's scared of being killed by Kira.
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Appeal to Force / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events jokes on this when discussing the Gordian Knot.
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Appeal to Force / int_8fbd67b8	comment	A French Village: A lot of times German officials simply ignore French objections when they break the Armistice's terms, since there's nothing that can do about it as the Germans have the power.
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Appeal to Force / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: This is a valid legal argument in the Clan justice system. As they are a Proud Warrior Race, any decision not already settled through battle or a Trial can be nullified through a Trial of Refusal, in which the defender essentially fights their accuser(s) for the right to undo the decision. Because the Clans aren't complete idiots, however, they built the system so that the odds you face are equal to the degree by which you were found guilty: A "he said, she said" situation Decided by One Vote boils down to a 1 vs 1 duel between accuser and defender. A 16-person council finding one side unanimously guilty, meanwhile, means 17-to-1 odds as the defendant has to put down the prosecutor and everyone else who agreed with them. Though a victory with 17-to-1 odds isn't very impressive so there's usually a considerable amount voluntary reduction in force before the fight actually starts. Outside of the Clans, "bigger army diplomacy" has been generally accepted as the way things are, even in the Inner Sphere. The formation of the Ares Conventions are noted In-Universe to have formalized warfare as a valid form of conflict resolution, by laying down clear rules for what is and isn't acceptable during a conflict, and caused centuries of open warfare until the formation of Star League (who would go on to use the same argument to 'convince' the Periphery realms to join it).
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Appeal to Force / int_90f42a9b	comment	This is largely the basis around which the Aes Sedai from The Wheel of Time organize their hierarchy: with a few notable exceptions, more powerful channelers always outrank less powerful ones, wisdom and experience be damned.
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Appeal to Force / int_950b8e88	comment	Enter the Farside: Shaun is more than capable of hurting anybody with ease, so he intimidates and uses small displays of force to get that idea across to people, without actually having to hurt them at all. As long as people are aware that he can, they know better than to try anything.
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Appeal to Force / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Muscular took this trope and built his entire life philosophy around it. According to him, if someone has the strength to do something, then that action was correct. He kills dozens of people? He had the right to do so. Some heroes tried to stop him, but only managed to take out his eye before being killed? Trying to stop him was wrong, but destroying his eye was right. And so on.
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Appeal to Force / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Stannis Baratheon insists that he should be king because he's the eldest brother. Younger brother Renly points out that he has the largest army, claiming he's just doing the same thing as their eldest brother Robert (neglecting to mention that Robert was part of a coalition acting against a tyrant, Renly is just a power-hungry jerk). Meanwhile, the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister is furious that her father is refusing to withdraw his forces from Harrenhal (where they're strategically placed to threaten any force that moves against the Lannisters) to directly defend the capital from the Baratheons. Her brother Tyrion points out that their father can afford to ignore her royal commands, as he has a very large army. Ever since the divine right of kings was initially challenged 15 years previously when a coalition of lords overthrew The Caligula and installed a new regime, the idea has germinated that kingship is just defined by a combination of force of arms and political ratification. When a second civil war breaks out, more and more people start to realize that all you need to be able to do is convince enough other people that you're able to win the throne, and you'll have a decent chance of doing so (meanwhile, the pre-rebellion dynasty only held the throne in the first place because they used to have dragons and burned anyone who didn't give fealty to them). The trope comes up quite prominently in the history of Westeros as well. Aegon Targaryen the First, who invaded the continent and became the first king of the Seven Kingdoms, might not have had a very large army, but he did have three very large dragons. Several incinerated armies and castles later, Aegon and his sisters were the unopposed rulers of most of Westeros. Aegon's younger son Maegor the Cruel invoked this. After his brother Aenys I died Maegor claimed the throne. When a Grand Maester protested that his brother's children came before him, Maegor decapitated the Grand Maester. Also lampshaded when two members of the royal family are accused of adultery. Mace Tyrell (who's not one of the brightest men in the kingdom) is nevertheless smart enough to keep his entire army on hand during his daughter's trial. She's treated a lot more gently than her rival, Cersei, who was foolish enough to send her army and (plus the more skilled members of her bodyguard) off on a wild goose chase to other parts of the kingdom. Invoked quite openly by Balon Greyjoy. When asked by what right he claims rulership of the North, he responds, "By right of conquest." This is part of his culture, what the Ironborn call "paying the iron price." It's regarded as more honorable to take something by force than it is to purchase it. (This was actually a principle of international ''law'' until recent times.)
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Appeal to Force / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In "War Is The H-Word", Bender has a bomb implanted inside his body and it will "detonate the instant the robot unwittingly speaks a certain word", wiping out an entire planet. It's the one word he uses more than any other: ASS. After finding that out, he starts a game of "Make Bender happy or he blows up the planet!". This trope also happens in "Bender's Game" (Screw the Rules, I Have A Big Stick) when Leegola tries to convince the peaceful centaurs to join in the fight against the Evil Overlord and agrees to their contest for leadership... Tedious Debate! Later Leegola shows up leading the army:
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Appeal to Force / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents! has Jorgen von Strangle, the self-proclaimed strongest fairy in the universe, who uses this sometimes. One of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts had him using this to win every award at a fairy award show.
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Appeal to Force / int_a9570fac	comment	In Victoria's generally post-apocalyptic, Scavenger World America, Azania exerts a powerful appeal far beyond its borders: its functioning modern economy, medicine, and advanced technology are attractive to many, and so are its women-friendly policies and its tolerance of LGBT people and other minorities. The country's chief enemy, the reactionary, fundamentalist-dominated, anti-technological, and moderately-to-heavily misogynist Northern Confederation, realize that its ideas will be more appealing to many than their own, and that Azania, even without actively interfering in their politics, functions as an example and beacon of hope to their dissidents. So rather than debating politics, they contrive an excuse for war, intending to crush their ideological opponents with military force and thus silence all dissent. (In case you're wondering, the Confederates are supposed to be the heroes.)
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Appeal to Force / int_ac067cfe	comment	This exchange from Sinbad the Sailor:
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Appeal to Force / int_ac6d1fe6	comment	In My Fellow Americans, the fugitive ex-Presidents hitch a ride with some illegal aliens being smuggled across the border. They're discovered by both the INS (in ordinary police helicopters) and the Government Conspiracy (in military attack helicopters) at the same time. There's some Jurisdiction Friction between the two groups, which a conspiracy chopper deftly solves by firing a missile across the INS's nose.
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Appeal to Force / int_ad8541c9	comment	Encyclopedia Brown: The canonical reason why none of the bullies and petty criminals whom Encyclopedia defeats retaliate against him is because his friend Sally beats up anyone who tries.
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Appeal to Force / int_ae54c340	comment	Reign of the Seven Spellblades: In volume 2 (episode 11 of the anime), Joseph Albright refuses to accept his defeat by Oliver in a fair Wizard Duel,note He has a Freudian Excuse: the last time he lost to someone, at chess, his father tortured him for most of a day and murdered his opponent's entire family. and conjures up a swarm of giant bees to force everyone present to let him wipe the defeat from their memories so he can tell people he won. The protagonists are having none of that, and come up with a plan to destroy the bees so that Nanao can take Albright down in single combat.
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Appeal to Force / int_af42a07f	comment	There's a scene in Serenity when a guard at the bank the crew is robbing asks for a password. Jayne fires his machine gun.
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Appeal to Force / int_b1e46e9a	comment	Adventurers!: "That doesn't make much sense." "I have the most powerful handgun ever made. It doesn't have to."
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Appeal to Force / int_b2ac2311	comment	In a Peanuts storyline from 1974, Sally starts carrying around Snoopy when she goes to the playground to drive away bullies. She calls it "Speak softly and carry a beagle." Eventually, she changes it to "speak loudly and carry a beagle" and tries to take over the playground. This works until Snoopy gets distracted by seeing his first sweetheart and ditches her.
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Appeal to Force / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: A recurring theme. Aegon the Conqueror didn't seize the kingdoms because he had any claim or right, he seized them because he could. Power may come from knowledge, the gods, or be derived from the law, but ultimately a swordsman decides whether the king, the priest, or the rich man live or die. Though ironically given his line about armies to Tywin, Tyrion later realizes that, despite losing nearly every battle he fought against the Stark-Tully alliance, Tywin still ultimately defeated them in the war by playing a better political game. Renly decides to make a claim for the throne based on right of conquest like his big brother Robert. By law, his claim is weaker than Stannis', but Renly's charisma provides him with a bigger support, which in turn is used to press said claim. Defied by Tommen when he balks at hacking his way through the Faith Militant just to talk to the High Sparrow. Ramsay Bolton casually stabs his father Roose to death mid-conversation, then tells the House maester to announce that Roose was "killed by our enemies".
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Appeal to Force / int_b3e81703	comment	Arthur, King of Time and Space: Arthur says he hates dealing with bullies, since "one must use their own methods against them because it's all they understand." However, when innocents are harmed, he and his knights are more than willing to give those who harmed them a taste of their own medicine.
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Appeal to Force / int_b96cfdc2	comment	The Faraway Paladin: In the backstory, Will's adoptive family members Blood, Mary, and Gus made a Deal with the Devil: be turned into undead so they could guard the demon lord's prison forever, but become the servants of the god of undeath, Stagnate, if their attachment to this duty ever waned. They became attached to Will and so the Echo (avatar) of Stagnate came for them... only for Gus to spectacularly blow the avatar away with a Fantastic Nuke, on the grounds that a deal made out of desperation didn't count. It doesn't work—Stagnate had a second Echo prepared just in case—but it was worth a try.
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Appeal to Force / int_ba666650	comment	Done in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater's secret theater "The Ultimate Weapon." Naked Snake "cheats" playing rock-paper-scissors with The Boss by using a bizarre combination of all three gestures. So she trumps him by nuking him with a Davy Crocket at point-blank range.
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Appeal to Force / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: Throughout the film series, there is one reason why the pirates go crazy with performing Loophole Abuse of the Pirates' Code instead of going "we're pirates, duh, screw the Code!"; and that is Captain Edward Teach, the Keeper of the Code, who will make sure they are very, very dead if they so much as voice that thought.
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Appeal to Force / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: One of the dangers of authorizing an inquisitor's use of Exterminatus. The command is used when a world is found irreversibly corrupt, damaged, or infested, and is only used as a last measure, however there might be the occasional hiccup, and an entire world lost. Although Inquisitors are just as susceptible to being on the receiving end: they don't have a nuke, merely the authority to procure one. To perform Exterminatus, they need either the Space Marines — who are autonomous and deadly enough to reverse the trope against the Inquisitor with a minimum of hassle — or the Imperial Navy — who are commanded and equipped by organizations powerful enough that any individual Inquisitor isn't going to take them on. Only the most respected Lord Inquisitors have private warships capable of performing Exterminatus, and, let's face it, they won't make bad calls like that given the penalty for failure in the Imperium. Used heroically after the First War for Armageddon, following which the Inquisition and the Grey Knights decided that surviving residents of the planet would be sterilized and worked to death in concentration camps. The Space Wolves leapt to the civilians' defense, making their objections to the intended genocide known rather violently and effectively (in numbers alone they outman any other Space Marine chapter, especially the Grey Knights, having never spun off successor chapters). There's still bad blood between the various organizations over the whole mess.
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Appeal to Force / int_be19e7a4	comment	In Strong Female Protagonist, upon learning that Max had the ability to supercharge the abilities of other biodynamics, Alison sought him out to convince him to provide a boost to Feral, who had earlier agreed to be Strapped to an Operating Table as a perpetual organ donor. When Max refused Alison's request regardless of how she spun it, she eventually resorted to physical coercion.
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Appeal to Force / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: It is repeatedly mentioned that what makes the Targaryens exceptional (and in charge) is that they have dragons, something no other house (save the Velaryons, and later the Targaryens-Hightowers) can boast. Rhaenyra and Viserys note that without the dragons, House Targaryen becomes much more vulnerable, which is exactly what ends up happening.
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Appeal to Force / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm touches on the trope a few times. One recurring problem noted about the Avengers is that their sheer power, combined with a tendency to do whatever the hell they like regardless of the rules and take out leaders they take a dislike to, ends up creating several of their enemies and spurring several others into action on the grounds that the Avengers will come for them anyway. And in the case of Victor von Doom, who cites this tendency as why he used to send his (much less distinct) Doombots to attack them every now and then to get their measure (now, he just observes), it's depicted as a case of Villain Has a Point. Harry's noted to absorb this tendency as he gets more powerful, doing what he thinks is right rather than what is necessarily legal/by the rules. While he's naturally prone to doing that, there's a distinct element of 'my way or be laminated to the highway' about him. He gets called up for it on more than one occasion. And the chief practitioner of it is Doctor Strange, when he's too short on time or energy to bother manipulating people - and by that, we mean in the sequel he uses the Tesseract to bully the Council Elite of Skyfathers (the pantheons of Earth) into compliance. Also mentioned several times is his challenge to the White Council over the matter of a young Wanda Maximoff, throwing down the gauntlet (which none of them dared pick up). While a number of characters agree that it was good he stepped in to protect her, they question his methods, particularly because they dented the White Council's ability to use this themselves to protect humanity.
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Appeal to Force / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7: While the Terran Federation uses all the tools of a soul-crushing sci-fi dystopia like brainwashing, torture, censorship, and propaganda, the High Council is not above thinking that Murder Is the Best Solution. When Albian legally demanded their independence, the Federation hid a Doomsday Device on the planet and threatened to detonate it if they rebelled. When Saurian Major rebelled, half the population were deported and La RÃ©sistance wiped out with biological weapons. Once Agravo had been mined of all useful minerals, the Federation evacuated the skilled personnel and left the others to die a slow death when their resources ran out. As it turns out an industrial accident kills them first. Gauda Prime was designated an agricultural world, but when it was discovered to have mineral wealth on the land that the Federation settlers legally owned, the High Council declared it an Open Planet where all law & order was suspended. Anyone who refused to leave could then be legally murdered. When Servalan herself becomes President, she commits mass genocide just to blackmail the Auronar into cloning children for her. And they say Babies Make Everything Better...
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Appeal to Force / int_cac1f772	comment	During the CSI Affectionate Parody, Harrick says that while they have enough evidence to hold Schlock, they have to let Tagon go. Grizzly comments that Tagon can go back to his mercenary company and return in force to break his sergeant out, which is why the judge is "visiting friends" in a bunker on the other side of the planet.
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Appeal to Force / int_cf3e7a82	comment	The Superman story Must There Be a Superman? revolves around the titular hero being disturbed by the implication that he has been hindering humanity's social progress by bullying the world. After all, nobody is strong enough to stop him from pounding whatever or whoever he dislikes into paste.
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Appeal to Force / int_d0d29cfe	comment	In I'm Not Rappaport, when Midge tells Nat to go away and get off his bench, Nat asks where it is that it says that it's his, that he doesn't see a plaque. "It says right here," replies Midge, holding up his fists.
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Appeal to Force / int_d109f322	comment	In one episode of Andromeda, Hunt finds an old High Guard station controlled by teenagers. After he enters his command code, the hangar unlocks, and he finds dozens of slipfighters, each of which has armed with a Nova bomb. Tyr looks at them and tells Hunt that he could have his Commonwealth back... today. Hunt, though, claims that it wouldn't be a true Commonwealth, merely a dictatorship held together by the threat of annihilation. Though, having been Taught by Experience in the pilot, he does keep one of the bombs, just in case, and later uses it against the Magog worldship.
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Appeal to Force / int_d5b84b32	comment	In Spore, once you reach the Space Age you can cause a planet-wide extinction with nothing bad happening to you. You can even use this as a strategy when trying to take planets.
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Appeal to Force / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: This is actually the ultimate goal of Kuze's plan. Once the rebels have nukes, the government can't refuse to grant them independence. However, the Government Conspiracy plans to just drop a nuke on the revolt and claim it was the rebels messing up building a homemade atomic bomb.
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Appeal to Force / int_d82fe290	comment	In The Han Solo Trilogy, one of Han's Space Cadet Academy classmates defected to the Rebellion after the Empire put down a peaceful protest by incinerating it with a starship's engines.
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Appeal to Force / int_d8ba9a46	comment	Discussed in Dr. Strangelove. When asked why the Soviets would build the Doomsday Machine, a device that could wipe out all life on Earth, the doc explains that the aforementioned implications would deter any attack on the Soviets by enemy powers. Unfortunately, the Soviets failed to tell the rest of the world that they just plugged in the Doomsday Machine (they wanted to wait and make the announcement Monday), leading to The End of the World as We Know It.
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Appeal to Force / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris: One opinion modifier is 'Relative Power of Empires', which increases the more powerful your forces are compared to the other. Granted, it's unlikely to succeed by itself, but if you can a get positive enough modifier, that means your fleet is also strong enough to just force them to submit in a more direct manner. Many war goals don't involve conquest or genocide, but instead force the loser to concede in political matters, such as joining a hegemony or imposing an ethic on a rival. This is the creed of Barbaric Despoilers: What's yours is mine, if I can take it. Having a Colossus allows an empire to declare Total War without limits, and likewise allows other empires to do the same to it; a state of affairs normally limited to Fanatical Purifiers, Determined Exterminators, Devouring Swarms and Driven Assimilators. In other words, the Colossus represents the breakdown of galactic "international law" in favor of this trope.
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Appeal to Force / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends The Empire's continual appeal to force typically just engendered more resistance to their rule. As stated by Leia in A New Hope: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." In The Han Solo Trilogy, one of Han's Space Cadet Academy classmates defected to the Rebellion after the Empire put down a peaceful protest by incinerating it with a starship's engines. X-Wing Series: In The Bacta War, Imperial Intelligence Director Ysanne Isard's increasingly brutal tactics after the New Republic captures Coruscant from her gradually alienate the very allies she needs to maintain her grip on power. One remarks that a soldier working for Isard had just two outcomes: death by the Rebels, or death by her. Played for Laughs at the end of Solo Command. Gara Petothel, an ex-Imperial Intelligence operative who was a member of Wraith Squadron under her "Lara Notsil" pseudonym, sends Han Solo's task force a message for her Love Interest Myn Donos under her new pseudonym "Kirney Slane". Han orders the message forwarded to Myn and not reported to New Republic Intelligence (Petothel is wanted for espionage but pulled a Heelâ€“Face Turn and helped them beat Warlord Zsinj), on the grounds that this is "somebody named Kirney Slane" and not Petothel. The communications officer protests and Han offers to have Chewbacca come up to the bridge and explain things to him. Called out directly by a disguised Grand Admiral Thrawn in Tatooine Ghost. As an object lesson to an overly zealous stormtrooper commander who had tortured civilians, Thrawn punches him out and then asks him if that made him like Thrawn better. He then states that the new doctrine of the Imperial Remnant isn't ever-increasing brutality, it's Pragmatic Villainy. As shown in The Thrawn Trilogy (written earlier but set about a year later), while Thrawn is willing to be a Bad Boss who executes subordinates for failure and even depopulate entire planets if he finds it necessary, he does carefully weigh the practical pros and cons beforehand: the subordinate he killed on-screen had failed due to incompetence and then tried to pin it on his supervising officer (and in a Call-Back to this incident, he later promotes another man for being creative when faced with a similar problem, even though the attempt failed).
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Appeal to Force / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: Two examples from "The Train Job": As Jayne Cobb would say: "You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you know who's in ruttin' command here!" Turns out to be an example of a Defied Trope: Simon knew he'd try and do this so he pulled a "Screw the Rules, I have tranqs!" gambit by injecting Jayne with an anaesthetic while patching him up from an injury. Jayne's bid for power occurred just as the anaesthetic started to kick in, resulting in him falling asleep before he could complete his take-over. The crew was extremely relieved by Simon's foresight. Mal also pulls this at the end of the second episode while dealing with Adelai Niska's dragon Crow. Mal gives him a big speech about how they're cancelling the job but returning Niska's money. Crow gives Mal a big speech right back about how he's going to hunt down and torture Mal to death. Mal simply says, "Darn," and kicks him into the ship's engine intake. Mal then grabs the next goon and starts to give him the same speech; the mook very quickly agrees to Mal's terms before he can finish the spiel's first sentence. "Safe" has this with the â€œweâ€™ll blow a new crater in this here moonâ€� scene, but theyâ€™re banking on the settlers not realizing the ship has no guns. (That said, they do have Jayne and he has big guns and probably grenades.)
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Appeal to Force / int_ee27871c	comment	Miss Scarlet & The Duke: Played for laughs in one episode. Eliza tries to get information out of the clerk at a messenger service but is stonewalled when he refuses to violate client confidentiality. Then she sees her Friend on the Force William "Duke" Wellington outside, who happens to be a very large Scotsman. William proceeds to demand at the top of his lungs that the clerk "bring me that message now, or I will break every bone in your body, and then arrest you for assaulting a police officer!" The clerk is so frightened he breaks down crying, embarrassing Duke.
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Appeal to Force / int_eed321b1	comment	Ars Magica: The Order of Hermes includes several such provisions in its Code. Justified in that magi, especially in the Order's early days, tend to be suspicious of outside authorities and didn't want to be barred from pursuing their own grievances. Wizard's War is a formalized framework for magi to attack each other, even to the death, so long as the War lasts only one lunar month and the aggressor provides a further month's notice. Some magi have used it to exact justice that they couldn't get under the Code, but it can be waged for any reason or none — however, the threat of an enemy's entire Master-Apprentice Chain and other allies joining the War ensures it's never done lightly. If a magus is prosecuted for a violation of the Code of Hermes, declares Wizard's War on the prosecuting principle, and kills the magus in question, the charge is dismissed. This is even true if the prosecuting principle is a Quaesitor (the judges and lawyers of the Order), though only the mightiest magi can expect to triumph in this. Magi can also resolve disputes through the formal, non-lethal Wizard Duel certamen. Outcomes are legally binding and refusal of a duel is equivalent to a forfeit, unless it would violate the refuser's rights (which is a difference from Wizard's War).
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Appeal to Force / int_ef076a36	comment	The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Learning Curve" has Tuvok put some of the ex-Maquis crew members through Starfleet boot camp aboard ship after some discipline problems. Kenneth Dalby, the guy who started the whole thing, resists and says he'd rather do things "the Maquis way." Chakotay promptly lays him out with a left cross and tells him "the Maquis way" is Dalby and the others obeying Tuvok or Chakotay will kick their asses.
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Appeal to Force / int_fa897130	comment	Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom: When Iggins refuses to tell Gaz which house is giving out the rare Mondo Deluxe Poop Candy Bars unless she bows down and admits he's the superior gamer, she neck-lifts him with one hand and threatens to maim him even worse than she did the last time they met. He immediately caves and tells her where it is.
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Appeal to Force / int_fb36f8bd	comment	In Infernum, attaining new positions in the hierarchy of a House requires increasingly-complicated mechanics to simulate the politicking involved in taking control of an empty dominion. This trend abruptly reverses itself when you reach the level of Head of House, which has only one requirement: "Last Demon Standing."
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Appeal to Force / int_fdbace96	comment	The heroes pull this in the ending of Gravity Falls. When Dipper and Mabel are about to take the bus home at the end of the summer, the driver says that Mabel can't bring her pet pig because animals aren't allowed on the bus. Grunkle Stan makes a show of putting on his brass knuckles and Grunkle Ford lifts his coat to show off his gun. The driver decides there's no problem with letting a pig ride on the bus.
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