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The classic, instantly recognizable ransom note made from individual clippings of letters or words glued onto a piece of paper. In modern fiction, distorted phone voices have the same meaning. The Real Life justification is, of course, that handwriting is identifiable. A largely Discredited Trope in modern fiction, given the prevalence of computers, telephones, etc. for convenience of covert communication. A modern criminal is more likely to simply type up a message and print it.note Although note that some printers will leave a watermark on every piece of paper they print stating their serial number. It's also possible to use forensics to analyse the exact chemical composition of the ink used (which will vary based on who made it and when they made it) to narrow down the suspects, meaning a printed letter can be traced just as easily, perhaps even easier. note Having said that, because this trope has been used in Real Life, most national police forces are prepared for it by maintaining a database of widely-available newspapers & magazines, because sometimes the clipped letters are distinctive enough to be able to track down where they came from. The modern crook has little use for taking the time to create a note that can accumulate fingerprints and DNA evidence, not to mention result in a suspicious pile of hacked-up magazines. |
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Wonder Woman (1942): After Dr. Psycho's supposed death in custody, a sinister note threatening Steve Trevor's life is found "written" using cut out words that claims to be from Psycho. | |
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In Danganronpa 3 - Despair Arc episode 4, Nagito Komaeda posts a threat letter in Hope's Peak Academy like this saying "POSTPONE THE PRACTICAL EXAM OR BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN." | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise. In "Silent Enemy", Captain Archer discovers an alien spy device on board Enterprise, and uses it to deliver a Badass Boast to the unknown aliens monitoring it. The aliens then broadcast back a demand for Enterprise's surrender, using an edited version of Archer's words. | |
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In an episode of House, Wilson is seen "clipping coupons." When House's beloved guitar is "kidnapped" and the cut-and-paste note shows up demanding ransom, it's not exactly a mystery as to who did it. Not that Wilson's actually trying to hide his involvement or anything... House later comes across Wilson nonchalantly reading a newspaper with big holes cut out of it. | |
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Played straight in an episode of Psych, when Mr. Yang sends one to the SBPD as part of a Criminal Mind Game. | |
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In Great Teacher Onizuka, Miyabi makes one revealing Urumi's secret and posts it in the school. Uchiyamada does one exposing Onizuka later. It's pretty clear who wrote it in both cases. | |
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The episode of The Simpsons where "someone" is trying to kill Bart, and we see Marge with a big pair of scissors, cutting out something that says "DIE". She says, "Bart, I'm going to get you...! [insert gasping horror here] ...some ice cream at the store, since I'm saving so much money on diet soda!" | |
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The bad guys in Live Free or Die Hard cut together clips of various U.S. presidents speeches to present their message. | |
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In Inspector Gadget 2, Dr. Claw sends Gadget such a letter to lead him into a trap, signed A Concerned Citizen. Gadget concludes that the citizen must have terrible handwriting. | |
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In The Big Lebowski, the nihilists make a cut-and-paste ransom note about kidnapping Bunny Lebowski. Given the film's deliberate invocations of old film noir tropes, it's played fairly (the message is sent as a fax) straight, despite the film being set in the early 1990s. | |
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In the first episode of 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Cruella gets a hold of some of the puppies and decides to send Roger and Anita a ransom note. We see her stitching it together on a sewing machine! Later when Roger is on the phone with the police, he says that he's certain it's Cruella because "who else sends ransom notes that are dry clean only?" | |
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Cipher Academy: Each student in class 1-A introduces themselves by filling out a blank "introduction crossword", so that its answer spells out their name. Throughout the early manga chapters, each student's crossword is shown to the reader. The crossword of one of the students, who is called "Anonymity Requested" and insists on hiding her identity, is filled not with her handwriting, but with cut-out characters. | |
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In the Broad City episode "Friendiversary," Ilana starts her scavenger hunt with a note made from words cut out of magazines. | |
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The Riddler writes some of his riddles this way in Batman Forever. | |
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In Séance on a Wet Afternoon, the ransom note Phony Psychic Myra Savage directs her husband Billy to put together for the parents of the young girl they have kidnapped with preliminary instructions for the Ransom Drop is pasted together from words cut out of a newspaper. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: One arc involves Hobbes sending Calvin anonymous coded insults using this; Calvin's mom eventually scolds Calvin for cutting up magazines without asking permission first, and he figures it out. While he's angry at Hobbes at first, he forgives him after Hobbes gives him the idea to similar letters to Susie. In another storyline, Calvin and Hobbes hold Susie's doll Binky Betsy for ransom, sending her a cut-and-paste note in this style (quote at the top of the page). |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "Beat With a Schtick", Bloo misunderstands something the newest resident says and concludes that he wants to beat him up. Consequently, Bloo tries everything he can to leave the house and settles for expulsion. He confesses everything he'd ever done including putting hot sauce into everyone's food and framing "Jolly Buttons". Mr Herriman is shocked by this and explains that they had Jolly deported. Bloo says "I know. He still sends me postcards" He then holds up a note composed with letters cut from a magazine. It reads "I Will Get You." In "Crime After Crime", Coco holds Mr. Herriman's carrot stash in exchange for a written apology for falsely sending her to her room without supper. She sends one of these notes to Mr. Herriman, telling him to meet her on the roof if he wants to see his carrot stash again. This being Coco, the message says "COCO COCO COCO COCO COCO COCO COCO COCO COCO", with different Cs and Os cut out and pasted onto the paper. |
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The F.B.I.: In "The Forest of the Night", the extortion notes are made from letters from common magazines, and the envelopes are addressed with cut-out letters. | |
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In Medaka Box, has Medaka remembering every single newspaper and their different editions. | |
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Utopia: Geoff attempts to blackmail The Network with a note made from the newspaper headlines calling for him to step down. It does not fool them for a second. | |
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-1020, an indestructible, self-replenishing kit for making cut-and-paste notes which periodically becomes animated and makes its own ransom notes. If the person the note is addressed to opens the envelope the victims named in the note will disappear into the thin air, and will then reappear out of thin air once the ransom demands are met. The ransom demands are often strange, and don't seem to do anything to benefit the entity making the demands, with the notable exception of the time it was clearly trying to engineer an escape attempt. | |
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Appears with some justification in Magical Diary: Wolf Hall, since electronics are generally banned at the Wizarding School so printers aren't an option, and the characters had been recently cutting-and-pasting out of magazines anyway to make collages. | |
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In Making Money, Moist's old partner-in-crime Cribbins is more familiar with the Ankh-Morpork Times newspaper from having made this sort of note than from actually sitting down and reading it. | |
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The lads at Penny Arcade once sent Game Developers a ransom note like this. | |
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Columbo: In "Candidate for Crime", Nelson Hayward sends a death threat to himself made up of words cut from the newspaper as part of his plan to convince the police that his life is under threat and that the murder he committed was actually a case of Murder by Mistake aimed at him. In "Negative Reaction," Paul Galesko makes the standard ransom note with newspaper clippings in order to fake the kidnapping, then uses the cut-up newspapers as part of the frame job by leaving them in Deschler's hotel room. However, this proves to exonerate Deschler, as the maid tells the police she came through and cleaned earlier and saw no newspapers. Paul argues that the maid must have lied, but Columbo counters that that doesn't work either, because if the maid never came into the room, extra clippings from the newspaper would have to be on the floor. |
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Blaze: After kidnapping a baby from a rich family, Blaze spends a good part of chapter 13 putting one of these together for his ransom note since "that is how they always do it in movies". He has to start over a few times when he reconsiders the best way to word his demands. | |
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Defied in Persona 4, where the protagonist does receive two threatening letters late in the game, both from the same sender. The sender was clearly aware of this trope, as it's a simple Type-and-Print letter. | |
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Many of Persona 5 Video Game Interface Elements use this, fitting this game's theme being about Phantom Thief. | |
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On My Name Is Earl, several years before making The List, Earl and the gang stole a box of silverware from the library. Said silverware was very old and (somewhat) valuable, and everyone in the group wanted it for themselves. Earl excuses himself to the bathroom and takes magazines to make one of these, saying that he has the silverware, and unless the librarian gives him ransom money at a particular time and place, he's going to kill the silverware. (Earl never was the brightest crayon in the box...) | |
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In GTO: The Early Years, Eikichi gets a sketchy part-time job cutting out letters from newspapers, which are implied to be used for ransom notes. | |
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An episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has the Mayor sent one of these by Sedusa in a Shout-Out to the Lebowski example above. | |
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In A Haunting in Venice, the blackmail note received by Rowena was made up of words cut from newspapers. | |
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In Max Payne 3, after Rodrigo's wife Fabiana is kidnapped by the Comando Sombra, he receives a cut-and-paste note from them telling him to bring three million dollars to the local stadium in exchange for her. The kidnappers craft a second note demanding five million dollars after Max and Passos lose the original ransom money to the Crachá Preto, which can be found in the form of a Clue two chapters later. | |
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The villain in Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers sends a series of anonymous poison-pen messages composed from letters cut out of newspapers, and at one point tries to throw off the investigation by arranging for one of the cut-up newspapers to be found in another person's room. | |
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In Things to Come endless world war causes society to break down to such an extent that a newspaper is shown with all the words printed in random fonts, implying that a complete letterpress font with all the letters in it couldn't be found. The newspaper looks incredibly creepy as a result, which very effectively portrays societal breakdown. | |
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The logos for Clerks and Clerks II look like this, the former using letters from magazine and product logos, the latter using letters from fast-food logos. | |
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The Big Heat (1988) has a ransom note written in this manner early in the film. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hermione receives a threatening one from an irate and gullible subscriber to Witch Weekly who believed Rita Skeeter's Malicious Slander portraying Hermione as The Vamp. | |
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Is At Your Service", Monk (while undercover as Paul Buchanan's butler) solves the murders of Paul's parents thanks to a charred letter in the fireplace. Then he flips through the magazines belonging to his predecessor Edward Stilson and he notices the gaps in the pages. | |
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Persona Many of Persona 5 Video Game Interface Elements use this, fitting this game's theme being about Phantom Thief. Defied in Persona 4, where the protagonist does receive two threatening letters late in the game, both from the same sender. The sender was clearly aware of this trope, as it's a simple Type-and-Print letter. |
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The Brittas Empire: In "Reviewing The Situation", Julie is revealed to have gotten a note mainly made out of newspaper clippings, mainly telling her that there is no place to run and that they are going to get her. It turns out to have come from her former boyfriend, who's asking her to marry her. | |
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Goof Troop played with it once: Pete ripped out half the note, "I'm going to get you", and was scared straight, until Goofy pointed out the other half, "...a new hedge clipper". | |
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In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, Xu Shu is fooled by one that is supposedly from his mom. | |
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Rosemary & Thyme get one in "In a Monastery Garden" which they initially mistake for a parking ticket. It warns them to "stay away from the herb garden or you die." | |
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Murder in the Alps: The Heir has the blackmail letter Vincent Freeman gives to the murderer. Several of the letters Anna receives from the Dada Killer in The Dada Killer are made in this fashion. |
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There were at least two humorous letters of this kind sent to Top Secret (and subsequently published), containing demands of ransom for the safe return of supposedly kidnapped editors. | |
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In Fury, when the trial doesn't seem to be going well, Joe takes active measures to get a conviction. He makes this kind of note, and encloses his ring, in an attempt to "prove" he died in the fire. | |
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Whodunnit? (UK): In "The Rajah's Ruby", Captain Nickerson receives a note made up of words cut out of the Times newspaper warning that the eponymous ruby is going to be stolen. The note turns out to be one of the more important clues in unraveling the mystery. | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Blackjack" had the character the episode is named after send Spongebob notes in this style, in the form of making it sound like Blackjack was out to get Spongebob. Of course, this was all misconstrued for figurative when it was all literal, and the episode's ending just makes it all the more laughable. | |
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An audio variation in Person of Interest, where the Machine communicates by cutting and pasting audio clips of different people saying different words or phrases. | |
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In Money Movers, Mr. Darcy receives a cut-and-paste note warning him that someone is planning to rob the counting house. | |
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Funky Squad: In "Little Girl Lost", the ransom note for the Senator's daughter is made from letters cut from a newspaper. Ponch detects a strange odour on the paper which the lab later identifies as brewer's malt. In "The Carnival is Over", a threatening cut-and-paste letter arrives for the Squad at police HQ: sent from the postcode of the most likely suspect. However, when they haul him for questioning, they receive another mechanical clown phone call, meaning he can't be the culprit. |
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South Park played this once when a pervert starts dropping cut-and-paste notes every time he... uh... does something really nasty to the hens in town. These hints are all bleeding obvious... but since Barbrady is 100% illiterate, he just sees a bunch of signs and letters all scrambled all over the sheet. It's The Plan to get Barbrady to learn to read. And then it fails spectacularly when Barbrady reads Atlas Shrugged and decides reading sucks. | |
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Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): Tak leaves one behind when she abducts GIR in The Rematch. Skoodge questions why she'd even bother making one if she was just going to sign it anyway. | |
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Who's Harry Crumb?: The title character is investigating in a kidnapping and the ransom note is this kind of letter. | |
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The blackmail demand Justin's brother receives at the start of They Might Be Giants is composed of letters cut out of the newspaper. | |
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Troubled Blood: In 1985 the cops got a cryptic cut-and-paste note claiming to know where Dr. Margot Bamborough, who disappeared without a trace in 1974, was buried. Detective Cormoran Strike eventually deduces that the note was written by the author of a sensationalist, libelous book about the case, published that same year. | |
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At the end of the Strong Bad Email "cliffhangers", such a note is left by the Lappy-nappers. | |
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"A Price Above Rubies" from The Mentalist has one reading "You'll get a call in 2 hours. Take the jewels where you are told. No cops, or your aunt dies." | |
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In The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, the Giant's story is a mish-mash of lines cut out and pasted from other fairy tales. | |
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In Fantastic Mr. Fox, the farmers and the animals each send the other a cut-and-paste note. Neither side understands why, because they already know each other's identities. They even sign their names. | |
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