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Deadly Euphemism
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When death or impending death is referred to only in code words, which becomes chilling when the audience realizes what they are referring to. Usually used by sinister conspiracies, powerful gangsters, Dystopian bureaucrats (see also Double Speak), genocidal maniacs, Paths of Inspiration, or Scary Dogmatic Aliens. Occasionally also invoked by "good guy" operations, too (spy agencies, etc.) but less frequently. In some cases, such as with a sick dog needing to be euthanized or a vicious sentient drawing about to be defeated, the words 'destroyed' or 'erased' may be used, not as a euphemism, but rather because the word 'killed' is insufficient. Usually refers to those who have suffered a Fate Worse than Death, or an individual who has been killed and wiped from all records. Or they just don't acknowledge them as people to begin with. This is similar to Never Say "Die", but isn't associated with censorship; violent deaths will be shown, or someone will explain the real meaning of the euphemism (that is, if it's necessary to do so, since in most cases the speaker will use a tone of voice that makes it clear). It's also the supertrope of Trouble Entendre and Released to Elsewhere. These terms are particularly susceptible to the euphemism treadmill; as people forget that terms like "execute" and "liquidate" were ever euphemisms in the first place, they need to come up with more and more baroque ways of talking around the subject. The opposite of this would be No Longer with Us. Sometimes used in conjunction with Technical Euphemism. As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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Story Shuffle 2: Double Masters: In "All Downhill", in reference to a threatening beast: | |
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In The Long Walk, a fatal endurance walk is the main plot, being shot is referred to as "buying a ticket". | |
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The Eiger Sanction (1975), 'sanction' being their word for assassination. | |
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Sly Cooper: In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves during the intro level, Dr. M kills one of his henchmen for failing to change a security code and then asks for a janitor over the radio. Apparently he kills henchmen so often that they know exactly what it means when he says one of them "got sloppy" or had "poor performance." In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Sly does this accidentally when discussing the fate of Toothpick who was abandoned in the Wild West era. All Sly knows is Toothpick "went deaf and faded into obscurity", while the accompanying pictures show Toothpick working on the railroad tracks as part of a chain gang while a train hurdles toward him. |
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In Sunless Skies, every time a Judgement is killed, it's logged as "An Exchange of Courtesies" in the records. This is in part because of the way they kill each other (by use of a reality-defining form of language), and in part because the Judgements are really embarrassed that they aren't any better than those below them on the Great Chain and don't want anyone to find out. | |
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The Wild Storm: Zealot is introduced having just finished an "interview", or in layman's terms, "having taken out a group of bad guys via incredibly violent means". | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): During Judgment In Infinity the Adjudicator keeps referencing his "judgement", but Diana quickly realizes that this is just a word he uses to refer to the torture he inflicts on worlds before destroying them. | |
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Tree of Aeons: The highest punishment handed down in Aeon's territory is for the condemned to receive "Aeon's Mercy". What that actually means is that they are completely at Aeon's mercy and he can do whatever he wants to them; his usual practice is to execute them via destructive medical experimentation and use blood magic on the remains to create enhancement pills for his soldiers. Hardened criminals are known to break down crying and begging to be spared from Aeon's Mercy. | |
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StarCraft: Protoss don't annihilate planets, they purify them. | |
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In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Korekiyo Shinguji is always looking for girls who he thinks would make good friends for his beloved sister. Problem is, his sister is dead. So in order for her to meet all these new friends he's found for her, they'd have to be dead too. | |
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The original Homeworld has a cutscene noting the fate of the captain of a captured Taiidan ship by stating that "the subject did not survive interrogation". It's not clear if it's an euphemism for 'we tortured him so much during the interrogation that he died on us' or 'when he told us why they burned down the planet we were so furious we killed him'. It could very well have been both. | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Voldemort encourages Bellatrix Lestrange to murder her niece, Nymphadora Tonks, by telling her that even the mightiest trees sometimes get diseased branches that require pruning. | |
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Realm of the Elderlings: Justified in Assassin's Apprentice, when Fitz attempts to contact the king regarding whether or not he should continue with his orders to kill his latest target. Since he doesn't want the messenger to understand what he's talking about, he says that the prince still wants to "give him the gift", but after feeling out the situation, Fitz doesn't think it appropriate. Unfortunately for Fitz, the messenger brings it up to the prince, who quickly figures out what Fitz was asking about and is, shall we say, less than pleased at the attempt to subvert his authority. | |
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Subverted in LEGO City Undercover. While Chase is working for mob boss Vinnie, Vinnie often cautions Chase to follow his orders and points out that people who didn't are sleeping with the fishes or bought the farm. Meaning they got fired and now have to work the night shift at an aquarium or bought an actual farm that Vinnie warned them was a bad investment. | |
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In The World Ends with You, no one dies; they get "erased." The Players are already dead; they're all playing for a second chance at life. | |
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Played with in Sluggy Freelance, when Torg and Riff are hired by a sinister figure to arrange a "dirt nap" for somebody. They start by digging an out-of-the-way grave...at which point Sam shows up, to take a nap in dirt, as vampires do. The sinister figure owed Sam a favour for fitting his wife with cement shoes (they're a great workout for your calves!). Also this. |
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"One-way ride" is an euphemism used by The Mafia as a gangland hit: lure their victims in a car, take them to a remote location, usually a forest, where they'll be disposed of (either en route or after arriving). | |
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In the Ninja Burger card game, a ninja who has lost all his Honor "apologizes to his ancestors — in person". This is also mentioned if the total Honor in play falls below a threshold; then it's the manager who has to go "apologize to his ancestors," meaning his position comes open, triggering the endgame. | |
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Apocalypse Now has one in the opening, the real life euphemism: Terminate with extreme prejudice. | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: Ulysses Klaue is on the phone with a client he's very unhappy with. At the end of the conversation he warns the customer that if things don't go how he wants, "The next missile I send you will come much faster." | |
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Lampshaded in Thunderstruck, where Stella Wincott correctly anticipates this trope: "I'm sure you have some other word for it. Some nice, sanitized euphemism for killing. Well, go ahead." | |
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In Goldfinger, while visiting Auric Goldfinger's estate, James Bond asks Goldfinger what happened to Jill Masterton, his attractive secretary. Goldfinger cryptically states that she "left his employment." Only when Tilly reveals that Jill was murdered by Goldfinger does Bond realise what exactly Goldfinger meant. Much later, Bond ends up dwelling on the use of the word "hit" among the mob, which is preceded by a genuinely funny moment where Goldfinger (who normally comes across as nearly emotionless) claims with a straight face that two separate gangsters fell down the stairs and died. |
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When deciding how to take care of a burglar in Bottom, Eddie lampshades the trope by suggesting: "Why don't we give him the old fish fingers? They've been in there for months, they're absolutely lethal." Before Richie reminds him that they've been eaten already, which is what caused the toilet to be unflushable for the last three days. | |
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Bones has an episode in which Booth and Brennan are unsure of whether a murder actually occurred or not. To avoid letting any of the potential victim's family members know of their suspicions, they continually refer to him as having been "translated". | |
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Power: Tommy is always threatening to "Cancel Christmas" for someone. And more often then not he actually does it. | |
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Taken: In "Beyond the Sky", Owen Crawford is brought to the crashed alien ship in Pine Lodge near Roswell by two young boys and their father who discovered it while out hiking. After performing a quick reconnaissance of the ship, Owen exits and gives the three of them a threatening look. He later tells his superior officer Colonel Thomas Campbell how he learned of the crash and that he took care of it. The clear implication is that he killed the boys and their father but this is never confirmed. | |
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In Polandball, "remove kebab" is a rallying cry to eliminate Muslims. (Whether the comic itself advocates or opposes this sentiment varies from artist to artist.) | |
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Umineko: When They Cry: Kasumi, Ange's evil aunt and eventual guardian says that she and her bodyguards will "have tea" with Ange; later on, we find out what she really means that she will beat her to death. We eventually find out that when characters in the early arcs talked about "opening the door to the Golden Land", they meant blowing up Rokkenjima with the 900 tons of explosives stashed under it. |
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The Simpsons: Fat Tony and his gang talk like this quite often. When, for example, Tony orders Louie to "take care" of a woman who has been annoying him, Louie worries whether his boss meant for him to take care of her or...take care of her. ("If I get it wrong, he's gonna take care of me!") In "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer": "The Fat Blue Line": after an unproductive meeting with the mob lawyer in prison, Louie asks Fat Tony if he wants him to kill the lawyer and Fat Tony stresses not to with different wording, but Louie keeps interpreting it as "kill him." Tony basically gives up and finally says, "Whatever you think I want you to do, do the opposite!" In "A Fish Called Selma" there was a rumor spreading around about washed-up actor Troy McClure committing sexual acts with fish at an aquarium; Fat Tony tells Louie that Troy "sleeps with the fishes", Louie assumed he meant he was dead and is disgusted when Tony tells him the rumor. Inverted in "Bart of Darkness", wherein Bart and Lisa suspect Ned Flanders of murdering his wife, and their suspicions are apparently confirmed when Rod and Todd ask where their mother is, and Ned sadly tells them: "She's with God now." (Maude had actually gone on a religious retreat, and Ned was sad because he'd accidentally killed one of her plants.) On one occasion, in "Lisa the Skeptic", when Mr. Burns lets a damaging fact slip: Downplayed in "Das Bus", when Bill Gates offers to buy out Homer’s fledgling internet business — only it turns out the phrase "buy him out" means using hired goons to trash Homer’s home office in front of him. Played with in the "Funeral" short on The Tracey Ullman Show when Homer and Marge tell the kids that their elderly uncle Hubert passed away, and Bart takes pleasure in using this trope... |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. occasionally uses "crossing off" to refer to killing an enemy. | |
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In Sister Act, Deloris has just walked in on her mobster boyfriend Vince executing his treacherous limo driver. When he cheerfully acts as if nothing is wrong, emphasizing that everything's fine, she quickly plays along and then leaves. He isn't fooled by her supposed complacence and tells his goons to "bring her back for a chat." | |
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In Home (2015), after his bungling threatens to bring the Gorg to Earth, the other Boov threaten Oh with being "erased". | |
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In the Eureka episode "A New World", Allison warns her fellow time travellers that if the military learn they've altered history, they will be isolated and "sanctioned". | |
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In Urinetown, anyone who refuses to use the pay toilets, or otherwise causes trouble, is shipped off to the eponymous town. | |
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The Mandela Magazine: Subverted. Cesar's Alternate tells Mark that it has a present and a surprise for him (implying that it's going to ambush him like in the original series). He opens the door and the Alternates are there waiting for him...to throw him a party. Surprise! | |
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Tales of the Bounty Hunters: In "Payback" Kritkeen's orders stipulate that if his effort at "Redesign" for the Aruzan people fails, the planet must be "alleviated of the potential for further evolution". After puzzling over it, Dengar realizes this means to wipe out all life on the planet. | |
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Looney Tunes: In "Racketeer Rabbit," Bugs Bunny appropriates the stolen bank money from robber Rocky and his minion Hugo. Bugs refuses to tell what he did with the money so Rocky tells Hugo to "take him for a ride." Hugo takes Bugs with him but only Bugs comes back. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V: In the Option C ending, after having taken care of every other loose end, the protagonists have the last loose end, Devin Weston, Bound and Gagged in the trunk of his own car, parked on a cliff overlooking the bay. Michael spends some time giving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, capping it off with a complaint about "off-shoring". Cue the protagonists pushing the car off the cliff with the loose end trapped inside. | |
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Played with in the radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), where Hig Hurstenflurst explains his use of "revoked" to Arthur by spelling it out as "k-i-l-l-e-d." This is part of a larger legal wrangle where (for various reasons) the representatives of a cloning agency were trying to get murder redefined in law. They'd managed to have the word legally changed, but not the spelling. Earlier in the series, Slartibartfast threatens Arthur that he will be "late" as in "the late Dent Arthur Dent" unless Arthur comes with him. |
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The Overwatch dispatcher from Half-Life 2 speaks almost entirely in these. "Sterilize" is her usual euphemism for "kill on sight". She seems to favour medical terms. | |
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The Night Unfurls: A number of characters note how bad it would be for anyone to be handed over to Kyril Sutherland's "tender mercies", for they either die without fanfare or die a Cruel and Unusual Death. In the remastered version, Vault reassures his compatriot Hicks that he'll "deal with" the Hunter when the time comes. His other compatriot Kin wants him to clarify, of which Vault means by giving the Hunter a choice to join up or be cut down. He brings the euphemism up one more time when he is in the Black Fortress, right after sending the Hunter away to face Olga alone as an Uriah Gambit. Implied in Chapter 7 of the remastered version. Kyril warns Chloe, Olga's loyal vassal, not to test his patience by antagonizing another member of the camp, or else he will "rescind his amnesty". Although he gave a more specific warning to her before (do it, and she will be left behind), Olga knows that the Hunter only needed herself, not Chloe, and she wouldn't be able to do anything should the Hunter decide to kill her servant. |
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Used tragically in The Shawshank Redemption, as Brooks, unable to readjust to life outside prison, writes back to tell his friends in prison that "I've decided not to stay" before hanging himself. | |
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In RWBY, Salem asks Cinder what she did with the Staff of Creation. Cinder says she "added more flames to the fires of Atlas". Cue Watts, Cinder's rival for Salem's attention, desperately trying to escape the burning command office to no avail. | |
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The Little Prince: The snake describes the deadliness of its bite with metaphors. | |
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Likewise, in the remake Nikita, Division refers to killing their own agents/trainees/prisoners as "canceling" them. | |
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In A Father's Wrath, nobles who proclaim themselves members of the Flower Society aren't concerned about plants. They're nobles who are proclaiming that they go around deflowering virgins by force, drugs, magic, and trickery, just for laughs, which is a very effective character assassination on their victims. | |
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In Detroit: Become Human, The government labeled the android extermination camps as "Recycling Centers". Granted, androids are legally property in this universe. | |
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In one episode of Camp Lazlo, after Lazlo has a bad encounter with Gretchen, he hires someone to take care of her. It turns out Lazlo meant it literally, as he was hoping that doing something nice for her would make things better, but when Lazlo sees a movie where "taking care of someone" means killing them, he realizes he may have accidentally hired someone to kill Gretchen. It gets subverted when it turns out the person tasked with "taking care" of Gretchen was just going to prank her. | |
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In Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Phony Psychic Myra Savage tells her husband Billy that their son Arthur has encouraged her not to return the daughter of the wealthy industrialist whom she told Billy to kidnap (the better to promote her services as a medium to the girl's parents and bask in the resulting publicity), and that instead, he wants the girl "to be with him". This is revealed as a euphemism for murder when a furious Billy tries to break through Myra's delusions by forcibly reminding her that Arthur was a Tragic Stillbirth. | |
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La Femme Nikita: "Canceled". "Abeyance operatives". For such a cold and calculated organization Section 1 do like euphemisms, and they don't seem to even try to hide their meanings. Likewise, in the remake Nikita, Division refers to killing their own agents/trainees/prisoners as "canceling" them. |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: From "Kept Busy", implied this, because a Sorcerous Overlord is talking about a minion that betrayed him, so death is the only "release" that makes sense: | |
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In Never Let Me Go, "completed" is the term used when the clones die — and by "die", we mean "have had all their vital organs harvested for transplant into non-clone people". | |
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Idiocracy uses "Rehabilitation" as the name of a demolition derby show, which is implied to always be fatal for the unwilling participants. | |
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In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves during the intro level, Dr. M kills one of his henchmen for failing to change a security code and then asks for a janitor over the radio. Apparently he kills henchmen so often that they know exactly what it means when he says one of them "got sloppy" or had "poor performance." | |
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In Real Genius, when a member of the think-tank won't go along with Decker's plan: | |
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In Tekken: The Motion Picture, Kazuya tells Nina to remind Heihachi to "clean his (Heihachi's own) neck". Note that the Japanese idiom "wash your neck" effectively means "I'm going to kill you and take your head as a trophy, so get ready"; the Tekken movie suffered from an infamously bad "Blind Idiot" Translation and rendered the phrase directly into English with no explanation, which just didn't sound right. | |
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There are several instances in Romance of the Three Kingdoms of threats of being "dealt with according to military law" - by which is typically meant execution. | |
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The 100: Prisoners in the Space Station the Ark are executed by being Thrown Out the Airlock, so the people on the Ark have come to adopt "floating" as a euphemism for execution. Notable when some of the people sent to Earth call for a presumed murderer to be hanged by saying "I say we float him!" | |
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In Burning (2018), Ben tells Jong-su about his unusual hobby of burning abandoned greenhouses, which he describes as a deeply thrilling experience. When Jong-su asks him if he doesn't worry about getting caught, Ben replies that the police don't treat this sort of crime seriously, and that he has already set his sights on a specific greenhouse very close to Jong-su. While the conversation is creepy enough on its own, it gets even more disturbing when Jong-su's childhood friend Hae-mi, whom Ben has been dating, disappears shortly afterwards, and Jong-su discovers evidence suggesting that Ben's story was merely a metaphor for killing young women who have been deemed worthless by society. | |
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The SCP Foundation does not kill. It "terminates". Sometimes people get killed. Their style guide explains the difference. The only major exception to this rule is the Foundation's Ethics Committee, which never use euphemisms, stating that their job is to deal with the "Cold, harsh truth" There's also the technical terminology "K-class scenario", which refers to the extinction of the human race at best. |
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Super Paper Mario: "Princess Peach, do you take Bowser to be your lawfully wedded husband 'til your games be over?" | |
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In Season 7 of 24, a terrorist dictator takes control of the White House and captures the president, her daughter, and a bunch of other hostages. The president asks him to release the hostages, since she's the one that he wants. He shoots one of the hostages and asks if she'd like him to "release" any more of them, starting with her daughter. | |
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Discworld: The Guild of Assassins prefer the term "inhume" (an obscure term for burial). They also refer to the victim as "the client." The guild prides itself on its professionalism and sophistication; no gentleman wants to be killed by being hit over the head with a club by a two-dollar thug, after all. In Men at Arms, the phrase "Inhumed with Extreme Impoliteness" is used and implied to be Discworld's version of "Terminated with Extreme Prejudice". In Hogfather, Lord Downey uses the lovely phrase "removing inconvenient razorblades from the candyfloss of life." In Guards! Guards!, when the unnamed chief assassin is asked for help by Wonse (because of This Is Your Brain on Evil), he muses that the only kind of help he can think of to give was usually only requested to be given as a "surprise present" to someone else. He's disturbed to realise that that's probably exactly what Wonse was asking for. |
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1408: The room keeps asking Enslin if he wants to take advantage of their "express check out service", i.e. commit suicide. | |
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Whenever the Seven Deities of Asura's Wrath go out "saving souls," they're slaughtering humans for their Mantra, when they undergo an "exorcism," they're taking out their own ships to destroy a threat on board, and when they attempt a "purification," they're straight up killing someone. | |
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The Soulmate Timeline has Kyubey be fond of referring to the fate of Magical Girls as 'maturation', especially when he talks to others about it. As a result, they don't tend to realize him talking about helping Magical Girls mature "into the beings they're supposed to be" is not a good thing for them. | |
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In Skin Horse, underlings at Anasigma are frequently threatened with "extirpation". Unfortunately, none of them know what "extirpate" means", and those doing the threatening aren't authorized to explain (which is convenient, because none of them seem to know either). It's eventually revealed that extirpation involves putting someone's consciousness into a Lotus-Eater Machine that simulates a walnut farm and then separating their brain from their body when Dr. Lee narrowly escapes the second part. | |
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In the ancient past of Final Fantasy XIV, when a person felt that they had completed their purpose in life to the best of their ability, they would "return to the star" to continue the cycle of Reincarnation within The Lifestream, since the people of the past were so abundant of aether that they were The Ageless. When someone calls it dying, another person of that time admits he hadn't heard the word "die" in a long time. | |
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In World of Warcraft, Algalon the Observer talks about "re-origination" as the consequence of a world's failure to measure up to the standards of his masters, the Titans. "Re-origination" refers to the complete destruction of all life in a world followed immediately by the remaking of life in the world according to the Titans' original blueprints. | |
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In Splinter Cell, while Lambert does sometimes say "kill" or "eliminate", he will more often use the phrase "fifth freedom", which is the in-universe code for "license to kill". | |
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In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, President Funkhouser "exiles" the Vice President into outer space for treason after finding out that he was a part of a conspiracy to commit a coup against her. | |
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Hellsing Ultimate Abridged: A repeated one is Alucard's use of "going for a walk", which usually means he's gonna do something really, really bloody, full of mayhem, and likely very expensive. It gets to the point where Integra ordering him to go for a walk is immediately and correctly understood as "the Godzilla Threshold has been crossed, go and fuck everything up right now" | |
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Robin (1993): When Strader Pharmaceuticals hires contractors to "clean up" after an illegal experiment the job is killing all the people who survived being targeted by the company to test a new drug, make sure their bodies are never found, kill the drug dealers used to sell the drug to the unsuspecting victims, and kill anyone looking into these victim's illness and deaths. | |
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In EarthBound, the first truly difficult area you need to transverse is called "Peaceful Rest Valley". Rest assured, if you don't do a bit of level grinding, didn't grab a Teddy Bear or two, and didn't figure out the rolling HP Meter mechanic, the Territorial Oaks and status-ailment-inducing robots will guarantee Ness is resting in peace before he can get anywhere near Happy Happy Village. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Eddie learns of Acme's death when Lt. Santino tells him "The rabbit cacked him last night". The substance for killing toons is called "the dip." Judge Doom also uses the word "execute" to describe what he is going to do to Roger after the rabbit is found guilty (though this term has been used for so long to mean “put someone to death,� it’s barely seen as a euphemism anymore). |
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Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: "Disavowed" is a Kree euphemism for "turned into protein sludge". The Ultimates: Bruce Banner has been thrown from a helicopter, so he'll either change into the Hulk, or dies if he doesn't. The soldier responsible informs Captain America that "The mail has been delivered, Captain". |
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The Machineries of Empire: Magistrates in the authoritarian Hexarchate Galactic Superpower prefer to call it "processing" when they ritually torture people to death to maintain the Background Magic Field. In "The Battle of Candle Arc", Jedao is relieved when Captain-Magistrate Korais unenthusiastically dispenses with the euphemism. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Welcome to Winfield", The Grim Reaper Griffin St. George tells the people of Winfield that he is in the reclamation business. After a while, they realize that he means the reclamation of souls. He later says that he has come for Matt Winnaker because his number is up and it is his time. | |
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Metompsychosis Union: The liberator says to "Dispose" of the pair of guards the escaping group had knocked out. Before they can be killed and eaten as the group was about to do Tilo, who had been recruited at gunpoint, steps in to have them removed from the hall non-lethally since they were his co-workers less than an hour previously. | |
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Ronan the Accuser of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) has taken it upon himself to "cleanse" the galaxy, a possible reference to real-life religious extremism. | |
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One of the traps in The Forest is named the "Happy Birthday" trap. | |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers: When Mickey asks Captain Pete where Goofy is, he responds that Goofy's "being fitted for a halo". | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: "Demoned Away" (onikakushi, with oni replacing the kami in kamikakushi; "spirited away") is a euphemism for killed that is frequently used in the series. "Transfering out" is another common euphemism. It refers to Satoko's brother Satoshi, who mysteriously disappeared a year ago. Subverted with Satoshi as he's actually in a Convenient Coma. There are other variations that the characters used too, usually not in the anime, though. |
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The often parodied and referenced euphemism in The Godfather "He sleeps with the fishes." | |
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In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Sly does this accidentally when discussing the fate of Toothpick who was abandoned in the Wild West era. All Sly knows is Toothpick "went deaf and faded into obscurity", while the accompanying pictures show Toothpick working on the railroad tracks as part of a chain gang while a train hurdles toward him. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: In the Dead Money Downloadable Content, the arc villain Father Elijah has captured you and a few others, slapped bomb collars on you and forced you to participate in a casino heist. He promises that after the heist he’ll “let all of you leave�. Leave the mortal realm that is! | |
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Yellowstone: In the Yellowstone ranch, whenever a ranch hand wants to quit but has seen too much, the management will "drive him to the train station," which involves driving him to the Wyoming state line and dumping him in a gorge. Just before executing one such man, Lloyd tells him he'll be "riding that long, black train." | |
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James Bond: A (sort-of) good guy does this in The Living Daylights, when General Pushkin — the new head of the KGB, who was nearly assassinated due to General Koskov's scheming — orders that Koskov, upon being found, is to be put on the first flight back to Moscow... "in the diplomatic bag". Exactly what happens to Koskov after this is not shown, so it could be killing him before sending his body back, sending him back secretly to be killed or that he is being Put on a Prison Bus, but regardless of what it actually means, Koskov does not look especially happy. Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies, after learning that his wife has betrayed him to Bond, says he will "make her an appointment with the Doctor", by which he means hire an assassin to kill her. Subverted by MI6 and Bond, who rarely if ever use any such language, with the Judi Dench version of M outright using the word "kill" when discussing her orders (The World Is Not Enough, et al). |
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Home Movies: the kids sometimes think they're hearing such a euphemism, like when a news reporter said she wanted to "do a piece on them". | |
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Played for laughs in The Well of Moments, where a former collector's demise in the previous book is called a "piano lesson". | |
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In The Summer You Were There, Shizuku Hoshikawa is suicidal at the start of the story, and is planning on killing herself after deleting her web novel. She refers to the act using various euphemisms, such as erasing herself. | |
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Sneaky Pete: Professional Killers are called "house painters," and killing people for money is called "painting houses" because you "paint" the walls with blood. This comes from the supposed real-life euphemism used by the mob, as claimed by Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran in his memoir I Heard You Paint Houses. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: When Kevyn is informed that none of their assets are close enough to save them from an enemy battleship: And then there's the All-Star. Subverted in the case of the Qlaviql Tricameral Assembly: Petey goes with "removed from office" rather than "torched" because in his eyes "it has a less criminal ring to it"... or rather, because he never actually did vaporize them; he just teraported them away right before impact to give them a new assignment and let everyone else think he blew them up. They do prove incompetent enough at first Petey sometimes regrets not doing so. |
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, "Unperson" is the Newspeak term for a person who must be erased from history, making it look like they never existed at all... usually because the person has been arrested and executed. The Ministry of Truth edits newspaper and broadcast archives to remove all mention of such a person. | |
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Black Butler: In the anime, the main villain desires to "purify" humans of their sins (i.e., kill or brainwash them into an Empty Shell), and often repeats the following Madness Mantra: | |
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Red Dwarf: The Department of Alterations in "Back to Reality" change people. That is, they change living people into dead people. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: "Common mercy" and "particicution" are used as terms for two kinds of public execution, with "salvaging" for executions as a whole. | |
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Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, "Gothamazon": Joker sees some cops who survived an explosion and tells Man-Bat, who's just been seen dropping people to their deaths while flying: | |
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Hostile Waters provides a non-sinister example when a deceased member of the sub's crew is said to be "still on patrol". | |
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In the Disney version of Peter Pan, Captain Hook announces that the bomb he planted will cause Peter to "be blasted out of Never Land — forever!" | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Freeza gives his brutal beatdown of Vegeta and is about to kill him, saying that it's time to "send [him] crying home to mommy." | |
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Captain America: The First Avenger: Schmidt decides, after some Nazi officers refer to him as "Red Skull" (a name he despises) when chewing him out after discovering his plans to go rogue, to "show them his weapons." | |
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Spirit Hunter: NG: Seiji is fond of using these to explain in a faux-innocent way what he or his minions have done to people that cross them. It even includes the classic 'sleeping with the fishes' when it concerns a man who lives by the shore. Kakuya doesn't outright say that she kills anyone — merely that they disappear, or that she'll 'break' them (the latter making sense since she's a doll herself). |
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In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, after learning that the Meriff is blocking the signal to Helios, Jack tells the players that he plans to have a "talk" with him. All the characters begin to lampshade the use of this trope, but Jack then clarifies that he really is just planning to talk with the guy. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: The First Avenger: Schmidt decides, after some Nazi officers refer to him as "Red Skull" (a name he despises) when chewing him out after discovering his plans to go rogue, to "show them his weapons." Avengers: Age of Ultron: Ulysses Klaue is on the phone with a client he's very unhappy with. At the end of the conversation he warns the customer that if things don't go how he wants, "The next missile I send you will come much faster." A rare use by the good guys in Item 47, when a SHIELD agent orders another to neutralize (kill) two civilians simply because they got their hands on some alien tech. The agent ordered to do the kill however, ultimately interprets the order differently. |
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One More Time, One More Chance plays with this. While it's not exactly deadly, the word "maltreatment" is nonetheless a serious one. | |
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In The Umbrella Academy (2019), the Commission occasionally refers to assassinations as "corrections", since the purpose of these assassinations is to prevent the alteration of the timeline. | |
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Vow of Nudity: When the other villagers learn of Faelar’s extensive treachery, they unanimously vote to give him “the silent treatment,� a punishment Haara considers surprisingly lenient until she learns what the phrase means in their culture: knocking the victim unconscious, cutting out their tongue, placing them in a public gallows, and waiting until they wake up and attempt to speak before dropping them to their death. | |
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Transistor, set in the expansive cyberpunk city of Cloudbank, uses "the Country" as a euphemism for the afterlife, thus characters who are killed are referred to as "going to the Country." Meanwhile, the main antagonistic force are the Process, out to "process" all of Cloudbank, including its residents, in an Assimilation Plot. By the end of the game, with every resident of Cloudbank having been processed except Red and the Man in the Transistor (who was partially processed but still retains his free will,) Red chooses to commit suicide with the Transistor, and the final frame of the game is Red and the Man in the Transistor meeting in the literal Country. | |
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Die Hard has this famous ad-libbed line: | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Shendu (as a spirit possessing Valmont's body) told that the reports on his "demise" had been exaggerated. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Shinon, an archer who fights for the Greil Mercenaries, uses "feathering" to refer to shooting people with arrows(which are feathered, hence the name), usually fatally. | |
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In The Black Company novels, there's a part where Lady is running roughshod over a client city's entrenched priesthoods. A delegation is sent to her to demand that she free various prisoners; she tells her lieutenant something like "Tell them they've been released. They'll get the message." | |
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Harvest Festival 64: When you arrive in town, the villagers inform you that you're lucky, because one of them just "moved out", leaving his house empty. Once you can access the beach on the third day, you can find a body floating in the sea. | |
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Parodied in a sketch That Mitchell and Webb Look where Alan, a henchman for the Evil Genius Leslie complains about Leslie's overuse of euphemisms. | |
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X-Wing Series: Subverted. At one point, Warlord Zsinj decides to parachute his subordinate, Captain Darillian, into a situation screwed up by the heroes to salvage it, and muses loudly about whether or not it might be time for the subordinate in charge to retire. Darillian inquires if the Warlord would like him to "arrange something" seeing as he's already going there. The Warlord stares at him for a while, then bursts out laughing and explains that, no, he wasn't being euphemistic; he actually meant honest-to-God retirement, the kind where "you move to a house in the country, grow marigolds and write your memoirs". This time. | |
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Robin Robin: Cat's Villain Song, "The Purr-fect Place" is about how Robin doesn't "fit in" as either a bird or a mouse, and how Cat has a place where Robin will fit in. She is, of course, referring to her stomach, and she makes this clear by the end of the song. | |
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Mass Effect: Harbinger refers to the Collectors' mass-abduction of human colonies as "harvesting", and orders his troops to prepare their captives for "ascension". It's revealed that the Reapers, the overall Big Bads of the trilogy, are built using Human Resources gathered from the organic civilizations they wipe out. | |
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This exchange in Equilibrium: | |
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Centaurworld: The first half of "The Last Lullaby" has the Woman (and the Elktaur) use several of these just as she's about to execute her former husband. However, once she has her Shut Up, Hannibal! moment, she makes it clear in no uncertain terms that the Elktaur will die for his crimes. | |
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The Simpsons: When Krusty is holed up at the Simpsons' house, the mob throws a can of fish through the window. Krusty gets the message; pay them the money owed or they'll kill him. Then he points out the can is "family sized", their way of saying they're perfectly happy taking out the Simpsons in the process. | |
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Used repeatedly in Brazil. "Information retrieval" is jargon for "interrogation by electric torture" (which the interrogated party is charged for, no less). When somebody dies, each bureau uses a different euphemism, such as "deleted," "inoperative," "excised," or "completed." | |
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In Clonus, when a clone is taken to be killed for his organs, the other clones are told he's "gone to America." | |
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The Lord of the Rings: In Return of the King, the attack on Minas Tirith starts with Gothmog giving the order to "Release the prisoners." Cue severed Gondorian heads flying over the city walls. | |
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asdfmovie 9 has an exchange where someone takes the command to "take out the dog" the wrong way. | |
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The Logomancer: When Ardus tells Nick Knack about he'll deal with the leader of a group of thieves, Ardus says he'll "make him an offer he can't refuse", and Nick takes it as this trope, but he means it literally, as his job involves negotiations. | |
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Played with in the "Funeral" short on The Tracey Ullman Show when Homer and Marge tell the kids that their elderly uncle Hubert passed away, and Bart takes pleasure in using this trope... | |
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Though Final Fantasy IX doesn't explicitly shy away from mentioning death, a few characters still use these, most notably the Black Mages, who claim some of their community has "stopped." Given the short time they've been alive, this is not so much a cover-up as it is them struggling to comprehend such a thing. The speech overlaying the ending scenes is another notable example because even many of the people playing the game did not pick up on the euphemism until someone else told them. The speech is Vivi's Final Speech, and he referred to his impending death and Zidane's uncertain fate as he knew it as saying goodbye. | |
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Girl Genius: When Zola runs into Agatha while in disguise as the Queen of the Dawn someone suggests that maybe she'll even get to sing for the Heterodyne. In response Zola draws her gun while saying "Oh, I'll give her a song" before Terebithia snags the gun. | |
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Watch_Dogs. Villain Clients: When dealing with a freaking slaver, don't assume that "Take care of her" means protect the liability. You can shoot the guy who says he did it to protect his client, but he has kids. | |
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The 1997 Blade Runner video game by Westwood Studios also uses the film's euphemism of "retirement" when referring to replicants. | |
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In It (2017), the clown-shaped Humanoid Abomination Pennywise refers to the children he targets as "floating", once outright telling an intended victim, "Time to float!" Turns out that his lair is littered with floating corpses, whole and partially eaten; when he Mind Rapes Beverly into a coma with his Deadlights, she floats too. | |
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A rare use by the good guys in Item 47, when a SHIELD agent orders another to neutralize (kill) two civilians simply because they got their hands on some alien tech. The agent ordered to do the kill however, ultimately interprets the order differently. | |
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In the Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons, Stable 99 is ruled by an ultra-radical matriarchy, with males being used solely for breeding and recreation, and once they reach the age of 21 they are... retired, i.e. taken to the Medical Bay and "given a shot"note which is yet another euphemism, meaning euthanization. No wonder the unoffical Survival Mantra of the Stable is "don't think about it". | |
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I, Claudius: A senator talks of how a friend dying of an illness said he had been "called to Rome," because so many people had been summoned to Rome by Caligula to be executed it had become this trope. | |
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In LOCAL58’s "Contingency", these are used in order to tell all American citizens to commit suicide for the sake of patriotism. Some of the phrases used include "act", "take action", and "take the final and greatest liberty of all", but when it starts discussing the usage of a firearm, the implications are done away with. | |
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Leia Organa's impending execution in A New Hope. "I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated." | |
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John Wick: "I need a dinner reservation for X" is a code word used by those in the underworld to mean "I need X bodies disposed of and the evidence destroyed." Likewise, "Your membership in the Continental has been revoked" means "We're going to kill you for breaking our rules". | |
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In Death Note Kira frequently uses euphemisms such as "tonight's judgments," "punishments," or "cleansing the world" for mass killings of criminals. When Teru Mikami takes up the mantle he tends to use the term "delete", emphasizing just how meaningless human life really is to him. | |
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Agent 47 of Hitman — especially in the World of Assassination Trilogy — displays a masterful grasp of innuendo and doublespeak when describing his line of work, even when under disguise. Whenever he poses as his neutral Go-to Alias "Tobias Rieper" and is asked what he does for a living, answers include "corporate liquidator" and saying he's in "the retirement business". | |
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On the short-lived series Kidnapped, the assassin used by the bad guys is referred to as The Accountant, and they routinely order him to "close the account" on a particular person. | |
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String Tyrant The dolls wandering the halls aren't trying to transform you into one of them, they just want to "play" with you. The player as a doll uses play as their fight command. | |
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In Forced Perspectives, when the conspirators have to dispose of someone who knows too much, it's referred to as "taking his blood pressure". | |
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: In "The Computer Walks Among Us," Velma's school computer turns malevolent, causing her to be suspended from school. As the computer bears down on the gang, it repeats "I must delete!" | |
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With Monster Hunter: World, it's become something of a joke among players that, in game, "research" really means "track to its home, kick in the door, murder it, and fashion a new hat from its organs." Because so many missions send you out to "research" monsters that are an immediate threat to expedition personnel and operations, with the explicit objective of removing that threat. While you can often capture the monsters instead of murdering them, Elder Dragons can't be captured. So when you're sent to "research" of one them, murder is your only option. | |
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In The Lion King (1994), Mufasa tells Simba "One day the sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king." Simba doesn't seem to understand Mufasa's meaning, and he gleefully looks forward to being king, never considering that his beloved father will be dead then. It comes as a brutal shock to him when Mufasa dies sooner than anyone (except Scar) expected. | |
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In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Room for Growth", upon learning that Delta Shift is seeking to alter the Cerritos' computers to earn a better room, Mariner groans that they should "go join the Maquis". Since the group, by this time, was completely and utterly wiped out, she most likely meant it in this way. | |
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In Hogfather, Lord Downey uses the lovely phrase "removing inconvenient razorblades from the candyfloss of life." | |
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The Terminator: Sarah delivers one to the Terminator when she finds a way to finally destroy it: "You're terminated, fucker!" | |
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ReBoot often used "erase" and "delete" in place of death: since this show is inside a computer, this is appropriate given what erasing and deleting do to actual code; there's really no attempt at hiding what those words actually mean in this show. | |
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In Nobody Hutch was an "Auditor" for the US government, whose job was identifying trouble makers in the various intelligence agencies and eliminating them. | |
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The Wheel of Time: A male channeler who has had his powers burned out of him (which usually results in his suicide within a few months) is referred to as "gentled," while a female would be "stilled." The Age of Legends survivors prefer the term "severed". |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: "And I guarantee to give you, without a penny's charge, the closest shave you have ever known." | |
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In Plastic Memories, Giftias are being "retrieved". This boils down a form of euthanasia, after which their bodies are sent back to their manufacturer for reuse. | |
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Assassin's Creed Origins has the "Headache Remedy". It's effects are rather permanent, though given that it's a heavy blunt weapon. | |
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Paper Mario: In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, when Koops is reunited with his father Koopley, he says "For ten long years we all thought you'd... you know! We thought your game was over!" Super Paper Mario: "Princess Peach, do you take Bowser to be your lawfully wedded husband 'til your games be over?" |
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"The Death of Koschei the Deathless": Prince Ivan is cut into pieces by the titular villain and brought back to life by his sorcerer brothers-in-law. After he has been resurrected, Ivan and his in-laws refer to his death as a "long sleep". | |
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In Mulan, Shan Yu and the Huns managed to figure out that a village was being protected by the Imperial Army by analyzing a doll they had found. Shan Yu orders the Huns to fight the Army rather than moving around them, adding "besides, a little girl will be missing her doll. We should return it to her." | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): During Judgment In Infinity the Adjudicator keeps referencing his "judgement", but Diana quickly realizes that this is just a word he uses to refer to the torture he inflicts on worlds before destroying them. Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, "Gothamazon": Joker sees some cops who survived an explosion and tells Man-Bat, who's just been seen dropping people to their deaths while flying: |
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In Men at Arms, the phrase "Inhumed with Extreme Impoliteness" is used and implied to be Discworld's version of "Terminated with Extreme Prejudice". | |
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The Les Misérables musical frequently uses "sleeping" rather than "dead" (i.e., "Please stay 'till I am sleeping," from Fantine as she's dying) in the songs." Also, most of the sinister feel is absent, as the meaning is immediately clear from context and there are plenty of times where they say "die" instead. | |
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The characters of Watership Down have two forms of Deadly Euphemism: the more generally used is to 'stop running', while the other is a mythological reference: to 'meet the Black Rabbit.' | |
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The Irishman is based on a book called I Heard You Paint Houses (also a line in the film), a phrase supposedlynote as in outside of that book, no one had ever heard it before Mob code for doing assassinations, in that the red blood of the victim is spattered all over the wall. | |
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There was a Sliders episode where they land on a world where people can get free money for a chance to be killed. They use euphemisms and the main characters aren't aware why they're getting the money. | |
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In Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire, when Louisa Dem Five's friend Oort is killed, she holds a "New Hong Kong wake" ... during which she secretly poisons his murderer with a drug overdose. | |
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In The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult, the members of the titular cult refer to suicide and death in general as "being Here-Nor-There." | |
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Casual Geographic has made a career out of this. Highlights include "getting a 404 on your birth certificate", "canceling your life subscription", "becoming past tense", "connecting to God's WiFi", and "going to the cookout in the clouds". In this particular case, it isn't just for comedy purposes, but also a way to get around TikTok content guidelines. | |
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Reverse: 1999 is no stranger to various euphemistic ways to refer to awful fates. The primary one is "sift out," which is being erased from existence by the supernatural "Storm." As a mafia boss trying to keep her activities secret from her family, Schneider oftentimes uses code words like "pigeon trade" (assassination contracts), and buys bullets to deal with the "neighbors" (rival gangsters). Rabies, a sentient bundle of magical straw that was Was Once a Man makes sure his enemies will "never be sick again"—by killing them through poison and vicious strikes. |
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Futurama parodies this when Donbot decides Bender (who's scabbing at a factory where the employees are on strike) is going to "have an accident". It goes right over Joey Mousepad's head: | |
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Hi-Fi RUSH: Anyone whose Project Armstrong procedure goes wrong is labeled a "defect", which leads to them being "recalled". Chai, who's otherwise an Idiot Hero, quickly realizes what "recalled" means when he's labeled defective and the security robots attempt to kill him. | |
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In The West Wing, President Bartlet has to have it explained to him why they're sending in a "CIA wet team" for an operation in a landlocked country. "Wet" does not refer to an aquatic specialty, but that they are expected to get wet with blood. | |
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Wrong is Right. The Florida Man has been told about a Ghaddafi-like figure who's just acquired a couple of suitcase nukes to destroy New York and Jerusalem, so he uses Trouble Entendre to order his assassination. The CIA director pretends not to know what the President is talking about. | |
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The Batter, the main protagonist of OFF, is on a mission to "purify the world." At the end of each battle, you receive the message "adversaries purified", but you seem to just destroy them. Fair enough, most of them are specters, so perhaps by defeating them the Batter exorcises and thus "purifies" them. But the message "Zone Purified" pops up at the end of zones, and you have the option to go back to a zone you have already completed to find out what that means. Turns out a "purified" zone is a post-apocalyptic, empty hellscape completely devoid of life with the exception of hideously powerful, hostile monstrosities far more horrifying than any of the specters. It is intentionally left ambiguous whether or not the Batter is a Well-Intentioned Extremist delivering a Mercy Kill to a world that is too corrupt and broken, but there is absolutely no ambiguity whatsoever on the fact that "purifying the world" means ending it. | |
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Used at the beginning of Code Geass when Prince Clovis orders a "planned urban renewal" of the slums in Shinjuku to rid the area of any stragglers in their search for Lelouch and C.C. | |
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The titular "New n Tasty" of Oddworld: New n Tasty is the in-universe code name for the latest product soon to be released by the food manufacturing company Rupture Farms; the game starts off with a Mudokon slave working at Rupture Farms 1029, their biggest meat packing factory, discovering what New n Tasty is: the company plans to genocide his entire species to sell as delicious food snacks for the other races. | |
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In The Bible, Jesus has a tendency to refer to the dead as "sleeping" and use "sleep" or "rest" as a euphemism for death. This causes some confusion at one point: His friend, Lazarus, falls ill and dies, and He tells His disciples that Lazarus is asleep and He's going to go wake him up. The disciples take him literally and think that Lazarus sleeping well was a sign of recovery, so Jesus has to flat out tell them "Lazarus is dead." However, this has sort of the opposite effect the trope usually has, as Jesus is trying to point out the impermanence of death, a metaphor he completes by actually resurrecting the person he's referring to back to life. | |
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The Marvellous Land of Snergs: When Baldry tells all who challenge Lord Gunthorn have gone away, Sir Percival asks where to. Baldry blithely answers they went to the nearest graveyard. | |
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Parodied in Darths & Droids here: There's also the "Peace Moon" in general. Because gigantic planet-destroying weaponry is apparently the only way to keep the peace. Nute Gunray manages to solve Naboo's tidal problems... permanently (namely, move the planet and reduce most of it to a volcanic wasteland, killing vast swathes of the planet's population). The euphemism flies right over Jim's head. |
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Mortie from Night Nurse takes people for a "ride" when he wants to get rid of them for good. | |
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The Giver uses the term "released," which is short for Released to Elsewhere. Subverted in that the euphemism has been in place for so long that nobody knows it is a euphemism save the Giver (and later his successor, the Receiver) because nobody save him has any concept of death; to everyone else, that's the only correct term. | |
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An optional choice in The Walking Dead: Season One. If you choose to be a dick and threaten the cancer patients in Savannah, Lee will use words such as "My friend (his gun) here asked you a question" and "Because this is your other option" (pulls out his gun). | |
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Parodied in one The Saint story, in which Simon tells Heroic Comedic Sociopath "Hoppy" Uniatz to "get rid of" a couple of defeated villains. Simon genuinely meant "get them out of my sight then let them go", but Hoppy interpreted "get rid of" as a euphemism and killed them both. When he finds out, Simon isn't particularly upset. | |
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Final Fantasy: Though Final Fantasy IX doesn't explicitly shy away from mentioning death, a few characters still use these, most notably the Black Mages, who claim some of their community has "stopped." Given the short time they've been alive, this is not so much a cover-up as it is them struggling to comprehend such a thing. The speech overlaying the ending scenes is another notable example because even many of the people playing the game did not pick up on the euphemism until someone else told them. The speech is Vivi's Final Speech, and he referred to his impending death and Zidane's uncertain fate as he knew it as saying goodbye. In Final Fantasy X, summoners go on a pilgrimage to defeat Sin and do so with the Final Aeon, which occurs every ten years or so due to Sin always returning. The summoner then performs the Final Summoning and Sin is defeated at the cost of both the summoner and their guardian-now-converted-Aeon's life. Tidus doesn't know about it and promises Yuna all the things he wants to do with her once her pilgrimage is over while Yuna just smiles and goes along with it. It isn't until Rikku tells the truth that Tidus realizes all the euphemisms he had missed and suffers a minor Heroic BSoD. Final Fantasy XIII has the "Purge," in which citizens who are supposedly contaminated by elements from Pulse are "deported" or "relocated" to there, being referred to as "brave Pulse pioneers." In actuality, the Purge is cover for the mass execution of any of these citizens who are unable to escape. As the character Lightning explains — "Sanctum logic. They conjured up the Purge to eliminate a threat. I mean, why carry the danger all the way to Pulse? Why not just stamp it out here? Execution masquerading as exile. That's all the Purge ever was." In the ancient past of Final Fantasy XIV, when a person felt that they had completed their purpose in life to the best of their ability, they would "return to the star" to continue the cycle of Reincarnation within The Lifestream, since the people of the past were so abundant of aether that they were The Ageless. When someone calls it dying, another person of that time admits he hadn't heard the word "die" in a long time. |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Phyrexians do not horribly mutilate people beyond all recognition, give them cybernetic enhancements, and reshape their bodies. They compleat them. And no, that's not a typo. | |
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Saint Young Men has "Going home". Played for laughs, considering that the main characters are Buddha and Jesus. | |
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Portal 2 introduces the Turret Redemption Line. | |
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Probably makes up 50% of the dialogue of the HK-50 droids in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. For example, from the one you meet in the Justified Tutorial: | |
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Robb Returns: Tywin Lannister's "extreme displeasure", which would result in the heads of everyone who took up arms on his land without his permission finding their heads on spikes. All of them. Starting with whichever Septon who gave them permission. And their executioner would have a blunt sword. | |
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Suicidal Overconfidence: After beating Bitsy to death off-screen, Wilson Fisk comes out of his office while wiping blood off his hands and informs Helen that her boss "has had herself an accident." | |
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Father Ted did the "take care of" variant, when Ted realised exactly how his psychotic friend was going to take care of a large quantity of rabbits. | |
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In What it Means to Be a Hero, the scientist who experimented on Nezu is stated to have met with an "unpleasantness" later. | |
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In Slime Forest Adventure, The Pirate's father (who was himself a pirate) killed his mother. He found that rather rude of his dad, so he "sent him to apologize" to her. | |
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Star Trek: Federation has part of its plot in the late 21st Century, when the genocidal political movement Optimum used the term "contained" — "As in containing the spread of contagion." | |
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In the mobile Pokémon: Magikarp Jump, you train the titular fish to jump good until they hit their level cap. Once this is done, it will get retired after its next tournament run and get replaced by the next generation. You might notice you also have a "Forced Retirement" stat, though... There are certain events that cause your Magikarp to be lost forever, and the first one you're likely to see involves your fish being preyed upon by Pidgeotto. It can be kind of a shocker to get struck with those events, given the lighthearted nature of the game and the series in general. | |
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In the TRON universe, the death of a program is called "deresolution" and programs who are killed are said to have been "derezzed." This crosses over with Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" as within the Grid, deresolution is equal to death. | |
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In Cloud Atlas, Fabricants—cloned waitresses in dystopic 22nd Century Korea—are told about "exaltation," which they believe is a honorary retirement ceremony but is actually where they are slaughtered for meat to feed to other Fabricants. | |
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Jupiter Hell: As revealed by the terminal messages you see throughout the game, "Processing" is CRI management's term for quietly killing off troublesome employees. One message has a request for leave answered with an affirmative and a summons to Processing to get them ready to leave, in a way that makes it quite clear that the poor sod in question is being Released to Elsewhere. | |
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In Kindergarten, being expelled is this. Or being a guinea pig like Billy was. | |
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In Syndicate (2012), "unusual and innovative lobbying techniques" are used to describe a multiple murder and putting of people into comas. | |
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In Footnotes In Gaza, the Palestinians refer to terrorist attacks as "operations". | |
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Super Sentai: Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger also uses "deletion" but in this case it refers to a specific form of Deader than Dead. The extraterrestrial criminals are not only executed, but their remains are sterilised so that no clone can be made... unless they left genetic material elsewhere... Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger and Tokumei Sentai Go Busters: Both Alienizers and Metaroids are "deleted" rather than killed. |
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Maximum Ride: The School "retires" those creations which have outlived their usefulness. Max, being a snarker, lampshades it. In an odd example, the term "expired" is more than just a euphemism: experiments have literal expiration dates. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Subverted in one episode: "Bubble Buddy" has a winged soul say of the episode's title character, "He made me experience high tide!" Yes, the speaker drowned in an underwater lagoon, and he's a cartoon fish; none of it is supposed to make sense. |
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In Warhammer 40,000, the books about the Horus Heresy, Horus uses the word 'illuminate' to describe killing. | |
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Unsounded: Beadman and Nary discuss the assassination Beadman's hired out to Nary as "that other matter" without ever mentioning any words which actually describe what he's been hired to do or whom he's been hired to do it to. | |
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Chernobyl: Animal Control Squad — the officers tasked with killing all animals in the Exclusion Zone. Bio-robots — Men. Specifically, men who are going to be sent up to clear the "Masha" roof, which is so intensely radioactive it killed the actual robots they tried to use. |
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Jug Face: Those killed by the Pit are said to be " taken." | |
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Batman (1989): The Joker is quite fond of these (fitting, given his history as a mobster): "If this clown could touch Grissom, I'd have handed him his lungs by now." "If we can't work out our differences, why, we'll just shake hands and...that'll be it." "Time to pay the check." "Hair color so natural, only your undertaker knows for sure!" Now comes the part of the show where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives." There's also a milder example when Rabid Cop Eckhardt, explaining how two hoodlums Batman has captured were physically incapacitated, says that they "slipped on a banana peel." |
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Replicants in Blade Runner are "retired," which really means "hunted down and executed." | |
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Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges insist they're simply going around "dispensing justice". Unfortunately, as their catchphrase goes, "The crime is life; the sentence is death." | |
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In Final Fantasy X, summoners go on a pilgrimage to defeat Sin and do so with the Final Aeon, which occurs every ten years or so due to Sin always returning. The summoner then performs the Final Summoning and Sin is defeated at the cost of both the summoner and their guardian-now-converted-Aeon's life. Tidus doesn't know about it and promises Yuna all the things he wants to do with her once her pilgrimage is over while Yuna just smiles and goes along with it. It isn't until Rikku tells the truth that Tidus realizes all the euphemisms he had missed and suffers a minor Heroic BSoD. | |
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In The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, when the protagonists Bonnie and Sylvia overhear Miss Slighcarp discussing the planned murder of their parents, she refers to it as simply "the event." | |
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Jeff the Killer of Creepypasta fame has "GO TO SLEEP" as his catchphrase for when he, well, puts people to sleep. | |
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Doctor Who: The 7th Doctor serial "Ghost Light" describes death as "going to Java", with anyone who's said to be going to Java either dead or is going to be killed pretty soon. "Bad Wolf": The Doctor and Rose wind up on deadly game shows that use these, leading to the two not realizing that it means another contestant is going to get killed until they see it happen. On Big Brother, it's eviction, while on The Weakest Link, well, look at the title. "School Reunion": The scary black teacher (one of the Krillitanes) tells a student that she's moving up to his class because "Milo's failed me." Milo, as in the student from early in the episode who the Doctor was questioning in class, and who isn't seen again... The Krillitanes, who disguised themselves as school teachers, got rid of the human teachers when their plan was ready. Or as their boss put it, they took early lunch. The Alternate Universe Cybermen introduced in "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel" refer to killing as "deletion", and to assimilating humans into their ranks as "upgrading". Given how the rest of the show doesn't shy from discussions of mortality, this probably reflects on the net-speak nature of the Cybermen rather than any censorship. This is supported by "The Next Doctor". The Cybermen are explicitly incapable of understanding certain human concepts. When a human ally of theirs claims she will do her best, she has to explain it as "operating at peak efficiency". It's probable that the Cybermen have no real concept of death (for whatever reason) and deletion is the closest analogue to it they can come up with. "The Girl Who Waited": "Do not be alarmed, this is a kindness." Of course, what they don't realize is that they are actually just doing their job, but in the wrong way. "Time Heist": Ms. Delphox, the bank manager of the place the Doctor and company are being made to rob, is very fearful of her boss, the owner Karabraxos, discovering her failure because she will be "fired". This isn't a loss of a job, but being tossed into the incinerator beneath the bank. Oh and Delphox is Karabraxos' clone and this isn't the first one the owner's "fired". "The Ghost Monument": Crossing over with Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide", Angstrom says that her homeworld of Albar is being "cleansed". |
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The Hostile Takeover (Swann) trilogy uses the phrase "orbital reduction of target" for Orbital Bombardment. | |
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In Legacy of the Aldenata, the Darhel will go to extreme lengths to avoid any words referring to death or violence. | |
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Goodfellas: "He's gone." "What do you mean?" "Well, he's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it..." | |
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In the Crusader games, the summary execution of a WEC official on the orders of a more senior official was termed "Early Retirement". | |
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Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: "Disavowed" is a Kree euphemism for "turned into protein sludge". | |
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CampCamp: When Daniel says ascend, he's really talking about murdering the kids with poisoned Kool-Aid. | |
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In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf series, it is revealed that Psyches go through what is called "degeneration" a year after they have been released from the collective consciousness of the Psyches, which means that their bodies break down and die within a matter of hours or days, and the only cure for them is to return to the collective. | |
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In Star Wars: Battlefront II, the Imperial player receives a reward for the 'pacifying' Kashyyyk. Apparently, the only good Wookiee is a passive Wookiee. | |
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Being "Walked down the alley" by Chris and Snoop in The Wire. | |
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The famous "Dead Parrot Sketch" from Monty Python's Flying Circus has the complaining customer let off a hurricane of these to describe the ex-parrot. | |
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Being a series for kids, Pretty Cure All Stars obviously can't straight up say "die", but that doesn't stop Fuu-chan in New Stage 1 from using the words "delete" and "reset" with the same intentions, and his actions are still very much played as horrifically straight as it can, especially once Ayumi questions if he's behind the disappearance behind the neighbor's dog and her own mother. | |
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In True Lies, Harry says "you're fired" right before he discharges the missile entangled with the villain into a building. | |
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Invoked in Baccano!: When the Russo family boss is fed up with a small time business double dealing him one too many times, he suggests his nephew, the Axe-Crazy hitman Ladd, to go have a "chat" with them. Even Ladd is gleefully aware that if he's sent anywhere, it's only to kill people, but his uncle reiterates that all he's suggesting Ladd to do is go over and "talk" to them. | |
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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron: A rare heroic example. God has commanded you to "purify" the Fallen Angels. That said, Lucifel straight up tells you to kill them. | |
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Survivor Dogs: Alpha uses the euphemism "end" when he asks how they should get rid of the Fierce Dog pups: | |
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Beast Wars uses the term "slagged" to refer to "blown up" or "killed". | |
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In Severance (2022), the titular procedure effectively creates a Split Personality that only exists in the office. Thus, "retirement" means that that personality (the "innie") stops being activated for work and thus effectively ceases to exist. | |
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Used comically in the Bill Murray film The Man Who Knew Too Little, where the titular Man thinks he's acting in a play when he tells the assassin's bosses that a woman had "Gone #1" and subsequently "Flushed". | |
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In Heavy Object the Stalk Killer Unit specializes in transporting "paint" to the battlefield. Said paint is used to disguise the thousands of illegal landmines they spread to delay pursuers. | |
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Implied in David Near's Laughing Jack's "Halloween Story Time", after he appears in Mary's room and threatens to kill her, Laughing Jack says they "played" together for a while, before her father runs in with a knife to kill the attacker but accidentally ends her daughter's suffering instead. After the story's end, Jack threatens his audience to leave before he has similar fun with them too. | |
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A Darker Path: After her encounter with the Slaughterhouse Nine, Atropos posts on PHO about holding a "party" for them, which got wild enough that several of them had to "lie down," and the Siberian had to "pop out." | |
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In Casablanca, sarcastically lampshaded by Captain Renault: | |
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In the Wild Cards series, people who die gruesomely of the eponymous Takisian retrovirus are said to have "turned the Black Queen". People who survive in various states of Body Horror are called "Jokers". | |
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Evillious Chronicles: In "Gift From The Princess Who Brought Sleep", until the bridge, it's impossible to tell that the singer has mass-murdered everyone in her town, starting with her husband. And even after The Reveal, she continues to refer to death as 'sleep'. | |
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In Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, the bad guys are very fond of saying they're about to "cut your thread" rather than simply kill you. | |
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Aladdin: After Jafar tricks Aladdin into handing over the magic lamp, he decides to give the boy his reward... or as he puts it to Aladdin as he draws a huge serpentine dagger, "your eternal reward!" | |
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The Ultimates: Bruce Banner has been thrown from a helicopter, so he'll either change into the Hulk, or dies if he doesn't. The soldier responsible informs Captain America that "The mail has been delivered, Captain". | |
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The Warriors: Gang members use a lot of slang to refer euphemistically to their antics. Fighting is called "bopping," and someone who gets killed is said to be "wasted." | |
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At the end of Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the gang's cover story for the fate of Commander Rourke is that he had a "nervous breakdown" and "went all to pieces". That's one way to put being converted to crystal and getting smashed to splinters, all right. | |
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The Crusader from Diablo III occasionally uses some variant on "I have questions for..." or "I need to have words with..." when discussing characters that he intends to kill. | |
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In My Country: A former Afrikaner policeman explains they would be told to "make a plan" regarding an anti-apartheid activist, which meant simply "murder them". | |
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Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past: In anticipation of Harry's visit after being beaten nearly to death by Vernon Dursley, Goldfarb the goblin prepares a list of "discreet removal specialists". He's surprised by Harry's decision not to make use of them, until Harry simply explains that he would prefer a more drawn-out and aboveboard vengeance, at which point Goldfarb is impressed by the artistry. | |
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In Logan's Run, Logan 5 (a Sandman) is explaining his job to Jessica 6: | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: "Salvaging": execution by hanging. Particicution: being tortured to death by enraged Handmaids (the term is a dark reference to ParticipACTION, a Canadian public exercise program). | |
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, when Koops is reunited with his father Koopley, he says "For ten long years we all thought you'd... you know! We thought your game was over!" | |
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A (sort-of) good guy does this in The Living Daylights, when General Pushkin — the new head of the KGB, who was nearly assassinated due to General Koskov's scheming — orders that Koskov, upon being found, is to be put on the first flight back to Moscow... "in the diplomatic bag". Exactly what happens to Koskov after this is not shown, so it could be killing him before sending his body back, sending him back secretly to be killed or that he is being Put on a Prison Bus, but regardless of what it actually means, Koskov does not look especially happy. | |
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MARZENA, other than the common Spy Speak, Narrator Writer Anika From Bremen will commonly edit out certain explosive terms to make them more fluffy looking to the audience. For example, Jewish becomes either Jedish or Jayish, the word Muslims is replaced by Mooktoo, and the H-Man is the H-Man, you cannot write down his name. | |
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Portal: GLaDOS uses the term "euthanized", in reference to both test subjects and also to inanimate objects. Or so the player assumes. "Baked" was another one, although she's pretty straightforward about what the green stuff at the bottom of some test chambers will do to test subjects: "The floor here will kill you, try to avoid it." Portal 2 introduces the Turret Redemption Line. |
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The immortal elves in Tales of MU don't like to talk about dying. The pale-skinned surface elves "take leave" when ennui sets in. Their dark-skinned cousins "greet the goddess". | |
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Fleisch: "We bring meat for Dr. Jackson." | |
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In The Atrocity Archive, Bob mentions to Mo that the Laundry has an agreement with Donald Knuth to keep volume four of The Art of Computer Programming from being published, which is why it spent so long in Development Hell: "He doesn't publish it, and we don't render him metabolically challenged." | |
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The Garden of Evening Mists: Yun Hong and Yun Ling weren't prisoners, they were "guests of the emperor". And Yun Hong wasn't a Sex Slave, she was a "comfort woman". | |
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Steel Crow Saga: The Warden of one prison refers to her death row inmates as "guests". Lee, a prisoner who narrowly avoids execution, finds it a bit twee; nonetheless, the Warden is a Consummate Professional who shows no animosity towards the "guests" and avoids causing them any undue hardship. | |
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Meta example: Stellaris is often plagued with late-game lag, as the sheer amount of renders and calculations in the background keeps on increasing, especially those connected to pops, who can number in the thousands eventually. The most direct way to deal with this is, obviously, by reducing the number of renders and calculations, as many players often describe it. Especially those belonging to other empires. Preferably with a Colossus. | |
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Aguirre singles out a man for assassination to his crony by noting, "That man is taller than me. That may change." | |
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In Force 10 from Navarone, Capt. Mallory and Sgt. Miller are part of a team being parachuted behind enemy lines. In addition to the team's primary mission of sabotage, they have an additional task: locate a traitor among the Yugoslav Partisans and... "cope". | |
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Conspiracy (2001): As befitting a film about the Holocaust, uses terms such as "deportation," "evacuation," and "resettlement" frequently. Defied by SS officer Rudolf Lange who has already massacred thousands of innocents and so has no interest in helping the others pretend that their hands are clean. |
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Midsomer Murders: From "Murder on St. Malley's Day'': | |
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Lights of New York: Hawk instructs the bootleggers to murder Eddie, first saying "Make him disappear", and then delivering a Large Ham in form of later parodied "Take him... For... A ride". | |
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Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger and Tokumei Sentai Go Busters: Both Alienizers and Metaroids are "deleted" rather than killed. | |
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In the Firefly episode "Heart of Gold", Nandi tells Mal why she quit being a Companion, which involved smashing a dulcimer during practice out of frustration. She then tells him about the pimp who owned the House of Gold brothel before she took over. | |
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In Squid Game, players who don't complete a challenge following the rules or in the allotted time are "eliminated". On the first day, the players learn that being eliminated means being killed. | |
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Hey Arnold!: In "Old Iron Man", Grandpa enters a triathlon with his competitive friend Jimmy. During the swimming portion of the race, they get lost in the ocean and worry they're about to die and begin exchanging euphemisms. In "Grandpa's Birthday", Grandpa (worried that he's going to pass away on his 81st birthday) uses the phrase "Buying the farm" to Arnold; the latter takes it literally at first. |
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A one-off example in Fire Emblem: Awakening, after Anna has taken advantage of Tiki's celebrity status for a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: | |
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The Professional: Leon refers to his assassination victims as "clients" and his occupation as a "cleaner". | |
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Final Fantasy XIII has the "Purge," in which citizens who are supposedly contaminated by elements from Pulse are "deported" or "relocated" to there, being referred to as "brave Pulse pioneers." In actuality, the Purge is cover for the mass execution of any of these citizens who are unable to escape. As the character Lightning explains — "Sanctum logic. They conjured up the Purge to eliminate a threat. I mean, why carry the danger all the way to Pulse? Why not just stamp it out here? Execution masquerading as exile. That's all the Purge ever was." | |
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Kirby: Triple Deluxe: When Taranza realizes his once-friend Queen Sectonia is too far gone, he asks Kirby to give her her "final beauty sleep". | |
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A bizarre one happened at the 2011 Extreme Rules event. After the show, John Cena came out and informed the crowd about the real death of Osama bin Laden. However, he said it in the strangest way possible. The US hadn't "captured and killed" bin Laden, they had, according to Cena, "Caught and compromised [him] to a permenant end." | |
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Cyberpunk 2077 brings us a few terms, courtesy of the game's Future Slang: "Flatline", referring to an EKG machine's Flat Line when the person it is plugged into is deceased. "Zero" as in "Zero biometric readings" which, as you can imagine, a dead body shows on any biometric scan. Militech, one of the game's resident Mega-corporations, likes to use several versions of these when discussing those that they have in custody which they would rather not go through the process of detaining them; most of them revolve around how their more sordid activities have a notable...lack of witnesses in their confrontations with criminals. Arasaka, another Mega-corporation, likes to make use of the word "termination" and variations thereof when referring to employees who have been caught with their hands in the proverbial cookie jar, or have outlived their usefulness. |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: A retired actor cheerfully refer to "bumping off" people who annoyed him or stood in his way. Patsy Straightwoman repeatedly points out he does just mean he killed them. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Nemesis", the Defenders and the Kradin refer to the killing of an enemy as "nullifying" them. The theme of the episode is how soldiers are conditioned to hate and kill their enemy, so the use of euphemisms is likely a part of this. | |
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In Revenge of the Sith, the Big Bad Darth Sidious tells the leaders of Separatists Alliance he sent his new apprentice Darth Vader to their HQ to "take care of them". They don't take the hint. | |
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Breaking Bad Subverted in Season 2, when Skinny Pete gets robbed by two meth heads. Walt refuses to accept this and hands Jesse a gun, telling him to "handle it" and get the money back. What happens is a comic tragedy of errors that ends with Jesse almost dying, and one of the meth heads murdering the other, but Jesse does manage to get the stolen money back. Walt is horrified when he hears one of the meth heads got killed (assuming Jesse did the deed), clarifying that was not what he meant when he told Jesse to "handle it". Late in the series, Saul suggests that Walt might have to send Hank "to Belize". Belize is where Mike supposedly fled to escape prosecution but Saul has by that point figured out that Walt has killed Mike. Walt is furious at the suggestion and tells Saul that if he brings the matter up again then Saul is the one who will be "going to Belize". Later still, after Jesse attempts to burn Walt's house down after realizing he poisoned Brock, Saul suggests that Walt is dealing with "an Old Yeller-type situation." |
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In Within the Wires, what goes on in the Extensive Studies Lab is referred to only as "Carpentry". Because between the use of anaesthetics and jaw restraints, all you can hear are noises that sound like carpentry. The smell of sawdust is how you can tell if actual carpentry is taking place. | |
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Citizen of the Galaxy opens on a brutal slave planet, where many crimes are punishable by "shortening" — that is, beheading. | |
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The Mask: Subverted in "When Pigs Ruled the Earth"; while trapped in a future where anthropomorphic pigs rule the Earth, Peggy and Stanley are told that they will be "terminated", and assume the natives are out to kill them. As it turns out that just means they will be fired from the city-enveloping corporation (which they, being from another time, don't actually work for) and exiled. | |
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Justified in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony: Holly Short is trying to recover a demon that's been kidnapped by humans, and her commanding officer Ark Sool gives her an "unofficial recommendation" that if the humans try to reveal the demon's existence to the world, she should "take the least complicated and most permanent course of action." Sool knows that, as a law enforcement officer, there'll be a scandal if he orders one fairy to kill another, so he words his instructions in such a way that, if Holly has no choice but to kill the demon, all the fallout from the scandal will hit her career instead of his. | |
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Played with in The 51st State: A small-time gangster asks his henchman to "take care" of someone. Later on, the gangster finds that person's dead body. "I told you to take care of him, not to take care of him!" It may be a Shout-Out to a similar misunderstanding in Pulp Fiction. | |
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead: It's emphasised to Jimmy that the job he's been hired to do is just "an action", and not "a piece of work". From context it's pretty obvious that the former refers to intimidation and beating, the latter for a hit. "Buckwheats" turns out to be slang for slow death by being shot up the ass. |
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Burn Notice: One of Mike's voiceovers in "Hard Bargain" uses one while describing hostage rescue tactics, including why he's mixing up a batch of thermite. | |
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In Hotel Rwanda, the phrase "Cut the tall trees" is used by RTLM Hutu Power radio to signal the beginning of the extermination of the Tutsi people. Bone-chillingly, this phrase was used in real life too. | |
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The Dracula Dossier: Edom doesn't order your player-characters killed if they Learn Too Much, they "issue an indulgence". (Possibly an allusion to Van Helsing's justification for using the Host as anti-vampire weaponry.) | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: When Flame has Anode and Lug at gunpoint, he starts using these, which irritates Anode just as much as the fact he's planning to kill her at all. Apparently Flame has a problem with needlessly euphemistic language, since his boss scolds him for it later. | |
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Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies, after learning that his wife has betrayed him to Bond, says he will "make her an appointment with the Doctor", by which he means hire an assassin to kill her. | |
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Supreme Commander, the Aeon plan to convert everyone into The Way, and cleanse the galaxy of non-believers. | |
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Some social media users have begun saying "unalive,"note apparently cribbed from Deadpool, who in an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) lampshaded his inability to say "kill" on that show as opposed to words like "dead" or "kill," to evade censorship on platforms like TikTok that forbid references to death. Another variant that came up around the same time is "unsuscribe living." | |
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In Guards! Guards!, when the unnamed chief assassin is asked for help by Wonse (because of This Is Your Brain on Evil), he muses that the only kind of help he can think of to give was usually only requested to be given as a "surprise present" to someone else. He's disturbed to realise that that's probably exactly what Wonse was asking for. | |
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