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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
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This trope is when a threat — usually a death threat — is Played for Laughs by being a bit, well, odd. This can include a threat that's unnecessarily long and convoluted, and the one making it gets a bit lost; or a threat that simply incorporates some really bizarre elements; or a pathetically nonthreatening sort of threat. ("Do X, or I'll... give you some really evil looks when your back is turned!") Sometimes, Fridge Horror makes the more bizarre elements even more terrifying and Squickier. It's one thing to threaten someone with a sharp knife or even a gun; those cut pretty quickly and can be almost painless (at first; ever heard of the term "clean cut"?). However, going after someone with a spoon dictates hours of potential digging into a person very crudely to get the same effect. Rusty and/or dull cutlery seems to be a particular favorite, though. This trope is usually seen in comedy, for obvious reasons. A Super-Trope to I Will Tear Your Arms Off. See also Cool and Unusual Punishment or Cruel and Unusual Death, for when these bizarre threats are actually effective. To the Pain is usually invoked if played seriously, I'll Kill You! when it's not so convoluted. See Freudian Threat for when the threat focuses specifically on a character's naughty bits. If the threat actually does involve a heart, it's an Attack on the Heart. Compare Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement and Flowery Insults. |
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Once in a while, Kane dips into the Purple Prose. The results are entertaining. In one interview while he was promoting his old-school slasher flick See No Evil, he advised the female interviewer, who claimed to have endured light hazing from her mostly-male counterparts, to try: She tried it out with one of her coworkers in the studio, who said back dryly: |
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In the eighth and final episode of Umineko: When They Cry, one Psycho Lesbian Reality Warper Bernkastel and her fellow Psycho Lesbian Reality Warper Lambdadelta are trading these threats around like Boss Banter. The first example sums it up, really: | |
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From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978): Arthur's reaction to his house being knocked down: Also: |
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Double Homework: When Morgan is giving Amy lessons on how to mug people, some of her attempts fail because they're too long-winded, or because she uses the word "please" while trying to be threatening. In Amy's epilogue, Amy's mom tells the protagonist that if Amy doesn't come back from college in one piece, she'll break him into the same number of pieces she's in. Subverted in that he's is pretty intimidated anyway; being threatened by a monarch is never anything to sneeze at, after all. |
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In the run-up to WWF's WrestleMania VI, Ultimate Warrior gave a long, rambling interview about how he was going to hijack Hulk Hogan's plane on the way to the event and fly it into the ground. To this day, it's still one of the biggest "WTF?" moments ever in wrestling. Yes, even ranking above The Gobbledy Gooker hatching from a giant egg, Robocop rescuing Sting, and Mae Young giving birth to a hand. Keep in mind, he was threatening to do this by taking over the pilot's mind with his magical moon-powers. But he did end up beating Hogan clean for the belt, which is just as improbable as him using mind powers on an airline pilot and turning the moon blood-red. |
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In one interview while he was promoting his old-school slasher flick See No Evil, he advised the female interviewer, who claimed to have endured light hazing from her mostly-male counterparts, to try: She tried it out with one of her coworkers in the studio, who said back dryly: |
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A traditional version in Dungeons & Dragons (due to the ease of resurrection at higher levels) is "If you die, I'll drag your corpse to a cleric and have you resurrected and then kill you!" Averted in the later editions where one has to want to be resurrected for the spell to work. |
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In ATOM GRRRL!!, Big E has a ridiculously over-the-top one: | |
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The bridge to BROCKHAMPTON's "HEAT", beautifully screamed by JOBA. It also gets a Call-Back in "BOOGIE". |
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The infamous torture skit at the beginning of Wu-Tang Clan's "Method Man": | |
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Team America: World Police: "If you don't [comply], we [The UN] will be very angry. And we will write a letter, telling you how angry we are." Chris is a bit more specific in his threats to Gary. "If you fuck us out there I'll rip out your balls and shove them up your ass so the next time you shit, you'll shit all over your balls!" Or, "If you fuck us out there I'll drill holes through your dick so the next time you piss it comes out in all different directions!" |
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The Undertaker, during his biker gimmick days, once threatened someone, "I'm gonna kick your teeth so far down your throat, you'll be able to chew your own ass off for pissing me off!" | |
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Magic: The Gathering has this memorable example from the flavor text for the card Hatred: | |
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It also gets a Call-Back in "BOOGIE". | |
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During Gangrel's match with "Retrosexual" Anthony Greene at Beyond Uncharted Territory Episode 2, April 10, 2019, someone in the crowd yelled, "Tear his heart out Gangrel!" | |
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The Rock actually had one of these as a Catchphrase: "The Rock's gonna take your candy ass down to the corner of Know Your Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive, and check you into the Smackdown Hotel!" As well as the fan-favorite, "The Rock's gonna take your little [beloved object], [shine it up real nice/dust it off], turn it sideways, and shove it straight up your candy ass!" In Mick Foley's second book, Foley Is Good And The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling, he writes about how unrealistic and unproductive these kinds of threats are. |
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In Fangirls, Lily threatens to cut Harry's kidnapper's eyelids off with a set of toenail clippers. | |
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In Mick Foley's second book, Foley Is Good And The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling, he writes about how unrealistic and unproductive these kinds of threats are. | |
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Also, listen to "One More Minute" by the Al... this time it's subverted in that it isn't threats to anyone else, but what he would rather do instead of being with his ex. Actions preferred: ripping out his intestines with a fork, putting an icepick under a few of his toenails, diving into a swimming pool with double-edged razor blades, and the clincher: "I'd rather rip my heart right out of my ribcage with my bare hands and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'til I die." | |
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