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Interrogation by Vandalism
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A character needs to get information from someone, but Cold-Blooded Torture or the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique would make them seem too nasty, or would simply be ineffective. So instead they threaten to destroy... the priceless Ming vase! Usually only used by heroes on characters that show a distinct regard for possessions over human life, so it seems a bit like they deserve it. However, when push comes to shove, villains are vastly more likely to actually go through with the threat, and will typically choose an item with sentimental value to their target, such as a Tragic Keepsake. Often Played for Laughs (see Torture for Fun and Information), with a common punchline being the victim's retort that "that wasn't even mine". See also Shame If Something Happened, Cool and Unusual Punishment, Contrived Clumsiness. Examples |
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Almost Naked Animals: Bunny forces Howie to tell Duck to turn off the machine that is speeding up the earth's rotation (It Makes Sense in Context) by threatening his Dirk Danger doll. | |
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In the Zoey 101 episode "Zoey's Balloon", Lola and Quinn have the man who knows the student who discovered Zoey's balloon secret held hostage and force him to reveal who it is. When the student refuses, the girls destroy his one-of-a-kind Galaxy Wars figurines until he finally tells them. | |
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Cowboy Bebop (2021). In "Darkside Tango", Jet and his ex-partner Fad go visit a man who lost his teeth falling down the stairs during their last encounter. This time they remove his expensive false teeth and start pulling the teeth out one at a time until he talks. They then hold the teeth hostage as insurance he won't tip off the man they're looking for. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In the episode "Dolls", the detectives are tracking a mentally unstable man who kidnaps young girls, dresses them up as china dolls, and keeps them locked up until they die of starvation. He's also something of a doll collector, so when they finally track him down, Munch starts smashing his dolls to convince him to reveal where his current captive is. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo: in The Hidden, inspector Ishida is trying to get information from a shady merchant who deals in western works of art and has a collection. Usagi makes him talk by pretending to be very clumsy around the priceless collection, nearly breaking a statuette in half. | |
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In one episode of Rescue Me, Tommy begins dropping Sheila's expensive house decorations on the floor until she tells him what happened when he was unconscious. She still doesn't tell him, but she makes up a pretty believable lie. | |
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Angel: Gunn once tortured a guy into handing over a priceless scroll... by juggling a set of priceless orbs. | |
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In one episode of House, Wilson takes House's guitar as blackmail to hold interviews for a new diagnosis team. House retaliates by moving one of Wilson's patients to a new room and not saying where. Hilariously, throughout the entire episode, the patient is referred to as being "stolen" while the guitar is referred to as being "kidnapped." | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied, as always, with a private eye visiting Skinner. When he doesn't get any information, he reshuffles the pages on Skinner's desk. When Skinner blandly says he can reorganise them, the private eye uses a stapler. Cue the Big "NO!". Homer attempts this technique during "Hungry, Hungry Homer". He razzes Marge's hairdresser by unscrewing caps and dropping a hairnet on the floor (only to get a confused reply from the hairdresser). He tries again to the owner of the local baseball team but is immediately intimidated into undoing his vandalism. A parody came when Homer was utilizing Shame If Something Happened on Mr. Burns, coupling it with Poke the Poodle when that "something" is setting a glass on his desk without a coaster. Naturally, it gets the desired reaction. |
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The Big Lebowski Jackie Treehorn's "Asian-American" thug pisses on the Dude's rug as punishment for not paying back his debt, not realizing that he's got the wrong Lebowski. Walter destroys a new sportscar in an attempt to intimidate an adolescent into admitting where he got the ransom money, shouting, "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" It turns out, it's not the kid's car. |
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Ah! My Goddess: In episode 9 of the 2005 series, Sayoko tortures Keiichi by smashing toy cars in front of him with a small hammer. She notes that this technique seems to be particularly effective against him. Note that the toy cars are hers to begin with, and it's implied that she bought them just for this purpose. | |
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In Late Shift, the protagonist may interrogate someone by smashing their valuables with a golf club. | |
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In Entrapment, Mac sends Gin to steal a vase containing a secret microfilm. When she returns with the film, he refuses to tell her what the contents are, so she holds it out of the window of their getaway car, as they make their escape; he tells her immediately. | |
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In How to Rob a Bank, Jason regains control of Jessica, and manages to coerce a few answers out of her, by threatening to smash her PDA, which holds the codes she needs for opening the safety deposit boxes. | |
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Parodied on Peep Show: | |
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It wasn't an interrogation, but in X-Statix, Vivisector was tied to a chair and forced to watch as his prized book collection was burned. He had recently been administered the mutant cure, and his powers can be activated by emotional distress; the idea was to see if he had truly been cured (he had). | |
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Pie in the Sky: In "A Matter of Taste", Margaret Crabbe is abducted and locked in a cellar by the villain of the week, who thinks she knows the location of a collection of vintage wines he smuggled into the country. When it looks like things are going to become violent, she grabs a wine bottle to use as a club, and the villain calls his mooks off — because he's worried about the bottle getting damaged. Having found his weak point, Margaret proceeds to take merciless advantage. In "Doggett's Coat and Badge", Henry Crabbe gets increasingly annoyed as the person he's trying to help refuses to tell him what's going on. Eventually, he threatens to break the man's 50,000-pound wine collection one bottle at a time until the man starts cooperating. "I've never seen a puddle worth 50,000 pounds before." The man folds immediately. |
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In LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures, in an episode with An Aesop about the danger of holding grudges, Awful Alvin successfully gets LarryBoy to his Rage Breaking Point (thus making him vulnerable) by filling the Larrymobile with chocolate syrup. | |
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Happens at least twice in The Dresden Files. In the short story "Last Call", Murphy knocks some delicate geodes off a shelf while Harry questions the shop owner. (She gleefully declares herself "the good cop.") In the novel Small Favor, Harry is trying to get past an administrative assistant who is insisting that her boss is out of the building. He asks his vampire friend, Thomas, to "give her a visual." Thomas promptly twists a pair of heavy barbells together, while Harry details what else he can break. In the short story *It's My Birthday, Too* Harry interrogates a cobb (small fae who repair shoes) by damaging and threatening to throw away a pair of nice shoes. Since the cobbs want to make or repair shoes but cannot repair any shoes that have been thrown away (since they are then considered trash) this is surprisingly effective. |
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: Played for laughs. The ludicrously racist Homeland Security Agent Ron Fox tries to use these to get witnesses to talk, wasting grape soda for a black guy and spilling a bag of coins for Jewish people. The movie takes it to another level when the stereotypes turn out to be somewhat true: a random black guy watching the grape soda be spilled says "Ask if he got any kool-aid!" and Goldstein starts grabbing the coins off the table after Fox leaves. | |
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In Metagame by Sam Landstrom, D_Light interrogates an Analyst by smashing some of his computer equipment. The Analyst estimates that the destruction of just one monitor will reduce his efficiency by 0.5%, which is a huge blow for someone created to be obsessed with work. | |
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A hilariously trivial example from The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Penny wanted to throw Leonard and surprise birthday party and when Sheldon balks, she threatens to find a random vintage comics and doodle in it. It still takes Sheldon a moment to realize she was blackmailing him. | |
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Freakazoid!: Happens when The Lobe coerces Norm Abrahms into helping with his evil scheme using a block of precious wood and a nasty-looking, rusty, rugged chainsaw. And it wasn't even Norm's block of wood: it was one that The Lobe bought himself. Norm just has a deep respect for carpentry. And it really was a very nice block of wood. Arms Akimbo sells "Oops Insurance" — he moves around the room, destroys something and then goes "Oops" until the proprietor pays him off. Later in the episode, he apparently blows up a building this way. |
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48 Hrs.: Reggie starts to trash the redneck bar until he gets the information he wants. | |
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In one episode of Kenan & Kel, when Kel refuses to Kenan a secret he knows, Kenan simply takes out a bottle of Kel's Trademark Favorite Drink orange soda and starts pouring it on the floor. | |
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One of the first Thieves' Guild quests in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has you threaten shopkeepers to break items they're fond of (A Dwemer urn and a goddess' statue respectively) to get them to pay their protection money. | |
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In Soul Eater, Gopher tortures Kid by vandalizing his body. He plays on Kid's OCD by doing things like drawing an asymmetrical pattern on his stomach in permanent marker and scratching one of Kid's body parts and not the other. He only tried this because he noticed Kid's OCD and that the usual "beat him til he talks" technique wasn't working. | |
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Used in Neverwhere. The Marquis de Carabas uses an antique vase to guarantee his safety when negotiating with the art-loving Psycho for Hire Mr Croup. The interesting bit? Mr. Croup was genuinely concerned by the threat... He wanted to destroy that beauty, and not let anyone else do it. | |
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Gaia has Viviana slash a painting with an Absurdly Sharp Blade. | |
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In xkcd, our hero gets out of visiting his librarian girlfriend's family by slooowly destroying the spine of a hardback book (that he bought himself). | |
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Downplayed on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Detective Goren is always walking around grabbing things in the suspect's home, office, etc. Sometimes it leads to Eureka Moments, but usually it just annoys the person. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Collect Her", Lenny Baxter is a collector of Powerpuff Girls merchandise who eventually captures the girls themselves. To get him to tell where he has them stored, the Professor and some kids start tearing open all the collectibles he has, ruining the collectors' value and causing Lenny physical pain and nausea. | |
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An option in The Godfather: The Game, where the player can extort shop owners by smashing up their stores. | |
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The Wolf Among Us: In episode 2 Bigby threatens to destroy several items in Georgie's club with a cricket bat. Whether or not he does is up to the player. | |
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In the first season of The Umbrella Academy (2019), Hazel and Cha-Cha abduct Klaus and torture him for hours trying to get information on Five, but he mostly just really enjoys it. They finally get somewhere when Hazel realizes that they should threaten to destroy his drugs. | |
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In Revenge of the Bridesmaids, the bridesmaids trying to break up the wedding get the maid of honor to admit the bride is faking The Baby Trap by threatening to stain her expensive sweaters. | |
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In Adventures of the Gummi Bears series finale, Duke Igthorn finally gets Grammi to give him the real Gummiberry Juice formula by threatening to burn the Great Book of Gummi. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Snively tortures Antoine by intentionally butchering French cuisine. | |
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In The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #6, Marion escapes from the mansion of a mob boss by holding a pistol to his treasured (and irreplaceable) recording of opera singer Enrico Caruso and threatening to shoot if anyone attacks her. | |
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A more serious version in Altered Carbon. Kovacs finds that the body he's been downloaded into belonged to a cop called Ryker. He starts to slice his body up with a knife until Detective Ortega breaks down and admits that Ryker used to be her lover. | |
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In Wolves of the Calla, Enciro Balzar pressures Calvin Tower by threatening to burn Tower's most valuable books. | |
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Zuko pulls a successful Blackmail By Vandalism ploy in the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Waterbending Scroll," getting the pirates to help him find Aang by threatening to burn their valuable scroll. | |
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Gallipoli: One of the diggers finds he's been ripped off when he's sold an expensive souvenir in Cairo that's being sold for a pittance elsewhere. They return to the shop where, despite the shopkeeper protesting that he didn't sell the item, Mel Gibson's character starts 'accidentally' breaking things until the shopkeeper gives back the money just to get rid of them. As they're leaving the shop, the digger who was ripped off belatedly realises it was actually another shopkeeper who was the culprit. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, Kasumi's loyalty mission has a combination of this and Shut Up, Hannibal!, where Shepard can interrupt the villain's ranting by casually shooting one of his priceless statues. | |
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V for Vendetta (the original comic) has V take Lewis Prothero, formerly a death camp commander and currently the "Voice of Fate" for the government's radio broadcasts, hostage and threatens him with the incineration of his collection of priceless dolls unless he tells him everything that happened at Larkhill. And then he does it anyway, driving Prothero insane and depriving Norsefire of its major voice of propaganda. Prothero's concern for the dolls is in stark contrast to his callous disregard for the human beings he disposed of in similar incineration chambers. | |
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Steven Universe: After Steven notices Peridot take something from the Moon Base, he snatches it from her and locks her in a car, demanding she tell him what it is. When Peridot insists it is nothing special and "definitely not important at all", Steven says if that's the case then he'll just go ahead and smash it, which gets her to cave and confess it is a Diamond Communicator and she was planning to use it to contact Yellow Diamond. | |
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Faceless: While interrogating the effeminate fashion photographer Maxence, Private Investigator Sam Morgan gets answers out of him by ripping his designer shirt. | |
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In The Goodies episode "Scoutrageous", the two renegade Scouts whittle Tim's staves until he relents (they also damage his hat). They also threaten to take a Brillo pad (steel wool) to Tim's shiny shoes. They threatened the shiny shoes. | |
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Batman: In "Officer Down", Nightwing and Azrael are interrogating a dealer of stolen art at his gallery. | |
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Played for laughs in The Office (UK). When Gareth is extremely possessive of his stapler, and has labelled it "Garet", Tim seizes it and dangles it out of the office window. | |
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Les Innommables: Inverted when Tony is kidnapped by an antiques collector, who clearly loves his treasures (talking about a ceramic figurine that was dipped daily in the blood of a just-killed man to attain its unique color). Tony gets up and swings his chair into the kidnapper's trophy shelf, causing him to faint. | |
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The Loud House: In "Driving Miss Hazy", Lori accidentally lets slip that she's sabotaging Lena's chances at passing her driving test. To get her to spill the beans, Lincoln threatening to rip her favorite Bobby sweater. | |
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In the Kim Possible episode "Oh No, Yono", Monkeyfist manages to escape the museum by having his monkey ninjas pitch priceless pottery so that Kim and Ron have to catch them. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: When the Rogues Gallery put Batman on trial, the District Attorney hired to "defend" him makes Poison Ivy crack on the witness stand by ripping the petals off a flower. | |
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In Primal, Loffler demands Frank tell him where he has hidden the navigation map, and starts shooting Frank's parrots one by one: threatening to move on to kill Rafi when he runs out of parrots. | |
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A related trope shows its head in the Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? episode "Scavenger Hunt" where Carmen correctly predicts that apparently chucking a Fabergé egg into the river where Zack and Ivy have cornered her will distract Ivy enough to let her make her escape. The player calls Carmen out on this afterward, and Carmen claims that since both Carmen and the player both knew that Ivy would undoubtedly save the egg it was never really in any danger. | |
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On Mystery Science Theater 3000, Crow is inspired by the episode's movie to torture Mike by pouring beer all over his most precious possession. Since Mike's most precious possession is an antique beer stein, he's not too upset. He then takes it further by noting that Crow himself is a precious possession, and Crow immediately demands that beer be poured all over him. | |
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The Professionals In "Killer With A Long Arm", Doyle is interrogating a Greek restaurant owner, and decides to carry out the Greek tradition of plate-smashing. He cracks when they get to the Limoges china. In The '90s remake episode "Miss Hit", our heroes get an uncooperative detective to talk by tossing his 78 records to each other ("Who's 'Glenn Miller'?"). As they leave they throw the last record to the detective, which he drops causing it to shatter. |
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Bob's Burgers: In "The Unnatural", Tina threatens to break Linda's collection of porcelain babies if she doesn't tell the truth about her hocking Bob's new espresso machine to pay for Gene's baseball lessons. | |
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Used in Malcolm in the Middle, where Lois tries to interrogate the boys to find out who lit her dress on fire and put it in the toilet. One of her methods is to go through the room and begin throwing things into the trash, and another threat was to smash the television with a meat tenderizer. Does she ever get an answer? No, because it was actually Hal who did that! | |
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In Regular Show, Mordecai & Rigby are plagued by a park vandal who keeps spray painting all over the park. When they track him down and end up going into his dimension, everything is pure white, making it impossible for the two to even tell that they were in the vandal's living room, much less where everything was. After bumping into a few things, they take a can of spray paint and start spraying all over the place to highlight everything, much to the vandal's annoyance. When the vandal refuses to talk, Mordecai tells Rigby to keep spraying. | |
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Toy Story 3: After Ken refuses to tell her how to turn Buzz Lightyear back to normal, Barbie goes to town on his accessories and wardrobe. He manages to hold out until Barbie threatens his precious Nehru jacket. |
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In Bad Boys II, Marcus and Mike get the location of the Haitian gang's hideout by doing this to Icepick's shop. | |
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In Day of the Evil Gun, Warfield gets Noble to drop his Obfuscating Insanity by starting a fire under his wagon and not allowing him to move it until he spills what he knows about the Apache. Later, Forbes uses an almost identical tactic against the storekeeper in the cholera town: soaking his store in kerosene and threatening to drop a lit match unless he he tells him where the Apache camp is. | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog, When Courage's past enemies capture Muriel, they try to get her to scream to summon him. Muriel refuses to budge until Katz starts doing laundry...with the colors mixed with the lights at the wrong setting. | |
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In Kiss Me Deadly, Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) starts smashing valuable 78 r.p.m discs of classic opera performances treasured by down-on-his-luck opera singer Carmen Trivago (played by real-life opera singer Fortunio Bonanova) in order to extract information from him. | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Race of Superhumans and A Letter to ALF", Sheldon tries to get Missy to learn algebra by threatening to cut the hair off her Cabbage Patch Doll. All that does is make Missy punch him in the face. | |
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In Feet of Clay, Detritus uses this to coerce a troll drug smuggler (and pottery merchant) into assisting the Watch. Though that was more a case of "accidentally" smashing a rather valueless statue, thereby revealing a massive cache of drugs, and using that evidence of trafficking to blackmail said smuggler into cooperating. | |
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The Frog from Red 2 is extremely fond of wine and an avid collector of old vintages. When the protagonists capture him for information, Katya smashes two of his bottles to pressure him. He's upset, but doesn't break. | |
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Nick Carter in Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet manages to get vital information from Irma after he starts cutting off feathers from her fancy hat and slowly destroying her boa. | |
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In Fort Apache, The Bronx, two cops start smashing in the headlights of a pimp's car in order to get some information from him. | |
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Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl: An informant gives you a lead, but he's not being entirely sincere, and the only way to get him to tell you the truth (and get the best ending) is to smash his priceless car. | |
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Longmire: In "The Cancer", Branch interrogates some teenagers by confiscating the case of beer they had bought illegally and starting to empty each can on to the ground till they tell him what he wants to know. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob and Squidward think that Mr. Krabs is a robot. They start destroying Mr. Krabs' electrical appliances, because they think that they are his robot friends and that would make him confess that he's a robot. In "New Leaf", Krabs tries to prove that Plankton's new knick-knack store is a front for his patty-stealing by breaking some of the merchandise. |
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Boston Legal: A man confessed to a priest after kidnapping a small child. Brad Chase tries to get the priest to betray confidentiality by threatening to damage a priceless wood door with an axe. Then the priest tries to stop him by holding his hand in the way of the swing... | |
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Witchblade: When crooked cops within the department are looking for Sara, they interrogate her friend Gabriel by destroying his antique merchandise. | |
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Blake's 7: In "Cygnus Alpha", a cult leader captures Blake with a bagful of teleport bracelets. He doesn't know what they are, but realizes they must be valuable to Blake, so starts crushing them one at a time to encourage Blake to talk. This is a more serious example of this trope because the teleport was Blake's only means of getting off the planet. Blake does talk, but when he refuses to cooperate in other ways he's subjected to more brutal forms of persuasion. In "Bounty", Blake starts destroying Sarkoff's antique collection to make Sarkoff reassume leadership of the planet Lindor. (Sarkoff assumed Blake was a Federation assassin, and was resigned to his death, but not the loss of his antiques.) Subverted in "Games". Federation guards are smashing up Belkov's control room to encourage him to reveal the location of the Mineral MacGuffin. Belkov pleads with them not to touch his computer, the only thing he values. A guard promptly tries yanking out its circuits, only to suffer fatal electrocution. Well he did warn them not to touch it... |
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Person of Interest: Reese interrogates a gang courier by taking a blowtorch to... the money the courier was supposed to be delivering. Both he and the courier know that the courier's boss will assume that the burned money was stolen by the courier rather than destroyed. | |
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Origins SMP: Of a sort. Befitting Scott's nature holding the Starborne origin, he'll often walk into areas someone he's talking to cares about and threatens to die there. Given that his death causes a supernova with the destructive force of a charged creeper, he often gets his demands. | |
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Fanboys: When caught breaking into Skywalker Ranch, they threaten to destroy an original Millennium Falcon model when cornered by Ray Park. Taken to extremes when one of the guards then threatens to destroy the original Yoda puppet in retaliation. It fails when one of the fans tries to threaten an Ewok head and nobody cares. | |
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Devil in a Blue Dress, Easy Rawlins bashes the beloved marble countertop owned by his barman friend with a hammer to force him to tell the truth about the job he's been given. Also shows up in The Film of the Book. | |
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Employed in an episode of Battlestar Galactica (2003), when Kara and Lee are interrogating a would be assassin, ripping the wad of banknotes they found on him while pointing out that paper money is worthless now. In a somewhat realistic application of this trope, this turns out to be just the opener and they gradually upgrade to To the Pain and Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. | |
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Walking Tall (2004): Chris and Ray tear Booth's very tricked out pickup truck apart while he watches, ostensibly to search for any drugs he migth have concealed, including cutting bits and pieces of it off with a circular saw. It doesn't work. Booth decides to just laugh it off, figuring that his boss will get back at them for it. | |
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In the Australian series Mission Top Secret, Big Bad Neville Savage uses this to interrogate a museum curator. He was even using fakes, which made stark contrast with his decision to execute the curator and his son (along with the heroes' "mentor") later in the same arc. | |
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Las Vegas: Ed Deline and Jack Keller do this to get info from an effeminate artist by destroying his paintings, virtually giving the guy a heart attack in the process. Subverted in the same episode when Ed tries this approach with another artist. It's a modern art painting however, leading the guy to quip that it can't actually be ruined. Used by Ed and Danny while questioning an escort service manager. |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike got the geek trio to work for him by holding their Boba Fett action figure hostage. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "A Lot Going on Upstairs", Lois traps Peter and his friends in the attic, and they try to get her to let them out by threatening to poop on her wedding dress. | |
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Shaft (2019): Shaft's son nixes his usual Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique when they confront a money launderer for information, so he shoots her phone and designer handbag to make her talk. | |
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RoboCop: Rogue City: Robocop would eventually corner the Starter Villain Soot in his private concert during the Soot's Final Encore main quest. As the Torch Head leader is high on Nuke at the time, getting punched and thrown around would not make him flinch, but shooting up his amps and tossing around his collection of guitars is what breaks him. | |
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In Burn Notice, Michael once did this while pretending to be a criminal. | |
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Yeralash has an episode where a few boys come to a girl who refuses to do their homework for them, and punish her by tying her up and starting to cut up her posters of actors and music bands. She actually whimpers as if she's being tortured... until the boys get to one that proves to be a Berserk Button. Then, she breaks free and literally throws them out. | |
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Justified: In "Hammer", Raylan questions the clerk in a smoke shop. He keeps picking and dropping bongs till the man tells him what he wants to know (he does pay for what he broke before he leaves the store). | |
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Law & Order: UK: In the episode "Paradise", the detectives and CP Alesha Phillips have arrived at a store that is believed to be a front for a local mobster's operation. When the shop owner feigns ignorance, the detectives begin "accidentally" knocking over the equipment, all the while offering fake apologies, until the guy gets fed up and tells them what they want to know. | |
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