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Threat Backfire

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Threat Backfire	comment	A character threatens another with something that not only fails to scare them, but in fact they would consider a favor. For example, saying "I'll Kill You!" to the Death Seeker, or describing the tortures you could use to the person who is Too Kinky to Torture, or telling someone "I Have Your Wife" to be met with the response that You Can Keep Her!. Compare Insult Backfire, Attack Backfire, Unishment, and Screw Your Ultimatum!. Often a Sub-Trope of Tempting Fate and the related Be Careful What You Say, Threat Backfire is also a common effect of telling someone they have to Go Through Me, responding to someone else's threat with You and What Army?, or using virtually any Stock Phrase featuring the words "over my dead body" or "from my cold, dead fingers". Also a common response to challenges along the lines of "Oh yeah? And what are you gonna do about it?" when the threatened person treats this as if it were a real request for information, to be answered with a practical demonstration of more or less devastating force, accompanied by the answer "This". This one has a few variations: The person being threatened is not being funny, just very Literal-Minded or socio-linguistically tone-deaf. The Comically Serious will often give this kind of response. May also be caused by or overlap with Blunt Metaphors Trauma. The person being threatened knows it's a threat, but decides to purposely take it at face value for comic effect at the other's expense. Most common when the person threatened is The Trickster or Deadpan Snarker. Can still be fatal. The person being threatened has run out of fucks to give and does not even register the threat as words being strung together to form a sentence, much less as some horrible consequences that are about to befall them. Bonus points if the one making the threat is thrown completely off their game at this non-reaction. The person making the threat is either grandstanding or bluffing, and now finds they have to follow through, possibly to their own defeat, if they're even given time to respond at all. The person making the threat means it literally, even if they might be hoping it doesn't have to come to that: not quite such a straight play, but still straight-ish. May lead to an Oh, Crap! moment on the threat-issuer's part. Not infrequently sighted subversion: the person on the receiving end of the threat is trying to exploit the fact that it will be taken in Exact Words terms, and is actually Briar Patching. And then, of course, it turns out this one can backfire, or at least misfire, too. The target of the threat is so much more powerful than the one making the threat that it's a case of either Mugging the Monster, Bullying a Dragon, or Do Not Taunt Cthulhu. The thing being threatened is something the target of the threat would actually want. Super-Trope to Blackmail Backfire, which is when the threat is a blackmailing attempt. See also Machiavelli Was Wrong, for when fear as a general means of control doesn't work. Could be the result of Threatening to Cut Ties if the person being threatened decides it's better to cut ties.
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Threat Backfire / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: Sherlock and Moriarty face off properly for the first time:
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Threat Backfire / int_117116ef	comment	The Penguins of Madagascar, when Skipper has stolen the batteries from Julien's boombox to shut him up:
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Threat Backfire / int_117430ad	comment	From The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper:
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Threat Backfire / int_12ffd3e9	comment	From the series finale of Megas XLR.
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Threat Backfire / int_135faa14	comment	Lavaeolus in Eric leads a raiding party through a fortress's secret door and at once recites a prepared speech demanding that the enemy force surrender. As the only person in the room he's penetrated is a small child on a potty, his well-rehearsed demand rather falls flat.
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Threat Backfire / int_13be67c	comment	Book Three of The Last Son has Superman turning it around when Doctor Doom threatens to go public about his secret identity:
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Threat Backfire / int_1463a028	comment	On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, FBI forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang decides to help an addict get clean with a controversial drug that's not been cleared in the U.S., knowing it's a risk. The boy helps the detectives trick the doctor who got him hooked on drugs in the first place to get on tape confessing to murder and assault. When the man threatens to reveal what Huang did, Huang relates he already reported himself, being put on unpaid leave by the FBI and his license suspended for 30 days but as far as he's concerned, "it was worth it".
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Threat Backfire / int_14c51337	comment	ST☆R: Strike it Rich: After capturing Hina, Ichika notes that she can't claim legitimate defense for her fight with Nozomi since there's no evidence and tells her that "[her] life is between [their] hands". This completely fails to intimidate Hina who calmly counters that "[their] life is in [her] hands". Her response sent chills down Nozomi, Ichika, and Hana's spines, since she probably isn't bluffing.
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Threat Backfire / int_16cc6c87	comment	Seven Psychopaths: Early in the film, one of the psychopaths Marty interviewed for research as he writes the titular script, Zachariah, threatens Marty that if he doesn't add a secret message for Zachariah's disappeared-and-also-a-Serial Killer girlfriend, he will kill Marty. By the time he calls Marty during The Stinger to say he will carry his threat because he did not add the message Marty is so fed up with life from his friends being killed by the film's events that he does nothing to defend himself. Zachariah for his part eventually notices Marty's depression, apologizes, and hangs up.
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Threat Backfire / int_187d570b	comment	Devil May Cry 5: At the very start of the in-game Goliath boss fight, Nero quickly returns the giant demon's threat by twisting the word "sorry" in another context:
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Threat Backfire / int_192d8971	comment	In an episode of Homeland, Saul and Carrie try to blackmail information out of a rich Middle Eastern man. Their first threat, exposing him as gay, doesn't work, possibly because part of him wants to come out anyway.
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Threat Backfire / int_1a262ab5	comment	In Darby Conley's Get Fuzzy, Bucky owes a large sum of money to feline mobsters, who send a cat named Whitey to collect. Whitey's threat backfires◊ because, unlike other examples of this trope, Bucky happens to be a sociopath:
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Threat Backfire / int_20948a39	comment	In Tales of Monkey Island, McGillicutty captures the MerLeader and threatens hir with death by drowning if s/he doesn't turn over the MacGuffin. The threat proves less than effective and McGillicutty is too crazed to realize it.
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Threat Backfire / int_2196de57	comment	In a Treehouse of Horror episode, Maggie is revealed to be Kang's daughter and he and Kodos have come to take her away. After Jerry Springer fails to solve the problem, they give an ultimatum:
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Threat Backfire / int_222f03d3	comment	In another episode, because of a comedy of errors, Peter sent a letter to ABC that read "bring back Coach or I'll kill Craig T. Nelson". Cut to one day later and Mr. Nelson arrives at Peter's home, hands Peter a gun and says a resigned "do it".
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Threat Backfire / int_2268de37	comment	On Grimm some of the nastier Wesen like to reveal their Game Face to their human victims before they kill them. Usually the victims are so freaked out by seeing a monster straight out of a horror movie that they are too stunned to fight back. However, a number of humans close to Nick know about Wesen and have become accustomed to seeing Wesen in their true form. A Wesen who tries this trick on Hank gets a shotgun butt to the face. One who tries it on Juliette gets a kick to the groin and a frying pan to the face. Things go even worse for the attackers when they try it on Nick who is a Grimm. When Nick sees a Wesen transform it triggers a supernatural reaction that lets the Wesen know exactly what Nick is. Most Wesen are utterly terrified of Grimms so the confrontation usually ends with the attacker freaking out and begging Nick not to kill him/her.
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Threat Backfire / int_22aa22cc	comment	In Dreamworks' The Road to El Dorado, two Spanish con men (Tulio and Miguel) find the city of gold and are mistaken for gods. Immediately taking advantage of this, they warn that they are not to be trifled with, or else they will bring their wrath upon the city. "And you don't want that, do you?" Unfortunately, that's exactly what the High Priest wants - for the gods to cleanse the city of the wicked and visit their wrath upon the non-believers. Moments later, a series of coincidences makes it look like Miguel and Tulio avert a volcanic eruption, so their cover isn't blown yet.
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Threat Backfire / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: During Sam and Diane's argument at the end of season 2, Diane tries to warn Sam not to kick her out of the bar, because she won't come back. Since Sam is beyond angry with her, he just coolly stares at her. Happens again during an argument at the end of season 4, when Diane dares Sam to fire her, believe he won't. She doesn't even finish saying this before he does, so Diane starts refusing to leave, due to her fixation on getting the last word. When Sam calls back the event a season later, he makes clear that he didnâ€™t want to push his luck by calling the police on her. During "Veggie Boyd", Cliff gets into a sulk over some napkins that've been going around the bar, which rattle off Little Known Facts, which Cliff sees as his territory. He eventually tries declaring that the bar must choose between him or the napkins. This is met with resounding silence.
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Threat Backfire / int_24b89d55	comment	Elias, sick of having his performance interrupted, threatened "The next person who interrupts me is a dead man!". Which, naturally, summoned The Undertaker. In a similar vein, during one episode of Smackdown where he was in charge, Paul Heyman concluded his monologue by saying, "Thereâ€™s not gonna be a man alive whoâ€™s gonna stand in my way." Obviously, that caused Undertaker to attack him.
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Threat Backfire / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "Today I Am A Clown", Santa's Little Helper sires a bunch of puppies, which look like him with tufts of the mother's poodle-like fur accenting it. Bart and Lisa trying to get rid of them (in a box labeled "Free Puppies", no less), and run afoul of Snake: In the episode "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish", after Marge ruins Burns' attempt at running for governor, Burns threatens Homer by swearing that he will destroy all of Homer's dreams and desires. After he leaves, Marge reassures Homer by telling him that his dreams and desires are so small and petty (which is true - Homer once found endless entertainment in constantly raising and lowering a bed, for instance) that Burns can't destroy them all. Subverted in "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": when the bullies of Springfield Elementary notice Bart carrying a Boy Scout uniform, they grab it and play "keep away" from Bart with it. Bart, who really does not cares about being a Boy Scout (at least at the moment) tries to walk away. So they threaten to beat the crap out of him unless he pretends to want the uniform back. Bart goes through the motions of trying to get the uniform back with the most deadpan delivery possible. In a Treehouse of Horror episode, Maggie is revealed to be Kang's daughter and he and Kodos have come to take her away. After Jerry Springer fails to solve the problem, they give an ultimatum:
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Threat Backfire / int_26ef42e7	comment	In Kevin & Kell, Kell, recently terminated from Herd Thinners, decides to set up her own company to rival it (after some encouragement and funding from the Rabbit Council). Her former boss, RL, calls her when he finds out and threatens to crush her company and devour her. She's thrilled that RL sees her as a threat.
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Threat Backfire / int_2a8943c0	comment	In the Miraculous Ladybug fanfic to lose someone, Lila Rossi makes her canon threat that she will destroy Marinette and make her lose all of her friends with her lies and Marinette answers back that the class needs her more than she needs them before walking out of the bathroom. Skip to several weeks later and Lila's latest plan (convince Alya and some other goons to tear apart Marinette's sketchbook in retaliation to Mari "bullying" Lila) hits a very severe snag when Mari points out that the sketchbook was the one she used to fulfill all of the class' personal requests and her work as class president, and now not only will she have to cancel all of the planned class trips, but they also destroyed all of the clothing, webpage, music set and comic book designs she was doing for them for free and she will not make them again without being paid the proper price for them (which, with her high quality, is in the ballpark of thousands of dollars at the least) and they stop treating her like shit with the most absolute sincerity before walking away.
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Threat Backfire / int_2bbcacd9	comment	In the Looney Tunes cartoon A Street Cat Named Sylvester, as Tweety tries to hide from Sylvester, a bedridden Hector the bulldog tells him to stay with him, saying that Sylvester "will have to get you over my dead body," to which Sylvester, hearing everything, says, "Okay, buster, I can arrange that!" He then tries to crush Hector with a fridge, only to miscalculate his aim so that the fridge lands on him instead, resulting in him being bedridden, too.
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Threat Backfire / int_2c1809f5	comment	In the Totally Spies!/Ranma Â½ story How I Learned to Love the Wild Horse, Clover becomes very impressed with Ranma (despite the girls thinking he's a supervillain) after he tells off Mandy and, at her own urging, asks Clover on a date.
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Threat Backfire / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: The episode, "Divided We Fall" provides this example: Done even earlier by Vandal Savage in the episode 'Hereafter'. Superman is shot 30,000 years into the future, where he and Savage are the only remaining people on Earth. When Superman hears how Savage killed the Justice League, he beats him downnote Supes's powers have been drained by future-Earth's red sun, but he's still considerably tougher than Savage before lifting a rock and declaring: This one works on a couple levels. First, Savage is correct that it wouldn't affect him. Second, he's gone through thousands of years of My God, What Have I Done? after causing the complete extinction of the human race, and would almost certainly be a Death Seeker if it were at all possible for him to die. Basically, there is no level on which the threat is effective.
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Threat Backfire / int_2ea6ae26	comment	In Star Trek: Picard, Picard relates that when the attempts to aid the Romulans evacuating their doomed homeworld hit a political brick wall, he told Starfleet to either help or accept his resignation. Picard admits he meant it as a bluff as he figured there was no way Starfleet would endure the public relations mess of cashiering one of their most revered officers who had saved the Federation a dozen times. To his shock, Starfleet didn't hesitate to accept Picard's resignation and calling the evacuation off.
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Threat Backfire / int_2edbea4a	comment	In The Fantastic Four, after his lair gets invaded by Doctor Doom, the Jeweler tries to get him to back off by threatening to kill Alicia Masters. Doom responds by leaning over to take a look at Alicia (someone he's never even met and couldn't care less about) and then deadpanning, "So?"
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Threat Backfire / int_2f1933a4	comment	On The Outpost, the once-noble Garrett is captured by the Prime Order who (with drugs, a supposed "secret nurse aide" and faked evidence) convince Garrett that Gwynn is not the true Queen and send him after her. After being captured, Garrett mocks Gwynn on how the Prime Order know the truth about her and will use it to undermine her. Of course, his threat is hollow as he doesn't realize the entire "fake Queen" story was all a trick to brainwash him. Garrett tries to sway Janzo to his side by talking of Gwynn a false Queen and Janzo is safer with him. Janzo clearly sees Garrett isn't in his right mind and, after all he's already been through, just brushes off the idea of his life in danger.
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Threat Backfire / int_2fe64106	comment	In the horror film Midnight Movie, the cop tells the killer that if he wants to get to the girl behind him, "You'll have to go through me." The villain obliges. Literally.
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Threat Backfire / int_2feff3ce	comment	On Grey's Anatomy, Weber's AA sponsor is checked in, having relapsed and wants him to help her "die with dignity." When he naturally refuses, she first threatens to go over his head but he points out how "I'm married to the owner of the hospital and I mentored the chief surgeon." She then crosses the line by stating she will out him as an alcoholic to any doctor he sends in. He immediately brings in Meredith and Maggie, both of whom already know all about Richard's past problems, and snaps that "I trust them completely so feel free to share anything you want."
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Threat Backfire / int_3095b3a0	comment	Cyanide and Happiness: One strip has a mobster telling a man "That's a nice family you've got there. It would be a Shame If Something Happened...." The man takes him completely literally and muses "What a nice thing to say."
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Threat Backfire / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In chapter 516 of Naruto, after Kabuto brings Deidara and Sasori back as revenants this exchange occurs:
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Threat Backfire / int_3504b58e	comment	In one interaction in Mortal Kombat 11, Sheeva threatens to rip Geras to bits, but she doesn't realize she's threatening someone who can't die.
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Threat Backfire / int_36c89d24	comment	In Hannibal, Will Graham's threat to Freddie Lounds only gives her more material to work with in making him look mentally unstable.
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Threat Backfire / int_37a8549	comment	Karma Overbalance spins off The Karma of Lies in this fashion. During her final chat with Lila, Ladybug implied that she'd visited the future and seen Lila meeting a terrible end. While this Paranoia Gambit was meant to make Lila consider changing her ways, she instead decides to return to Paris, intending to bring Marinette down. Unfortunately for all involved, Lila then runs into Adrien and attempts to recruit him into her anti-Marinette scheme; Adrien, blaming her for completely destroying his life, promptly strangles Lila to death, leaving Marinette horrified at the unexpected outcome of her gambit and leaving her the Sadistic Choice of either using the World-Healing Wave to undo Lila's death (with Adrien pointing out that Lila will just lie and get away with everything again) or leaving it as is and dealing with the fallout. Karmic Backlash, another recursive fic of The Karma of Lies, takes it even further to the extent that Lila succeeds. Not only does she steal the Miracle Box, leaving all the Miraculous at her disposal but this starts a chain of events that undoes all the gains Marinette made in The Karma of Lies and destroys her whole life permanently. This trope is zigzagged as Lila does end up being brutally murdered by the next girl she tried to destroy, just as Marinette predicted.
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Threat Backfire / int_38f1727d	comment	On Lucifer, the title character is up front on how he's the Devil come to Los Angeles but no one believes it. Thus, when someone threatens him with a gun, his reaction is to literally laugh it off as nothing can harm him. Subverted if Lucifer is with Chloe as, for some reason, her presence does make him vulnerable to harm. Lucifer discovers that Pierce is actually Cain, the world's first murderer, condemned with eternal life. When Pierce is walking away, Lucifer threatens to tell everyone the man's secret. Pierce scoffs to go right ahead as "no one even believes you're the Devil."
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Threat Backfire / int_39c20861	comment	It's impossible to count the number of times on Highlander that an Immortal just smirks when someone threatens to kill them.
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Threat Backfire / int_3e374b30	comment	Similarly in The Dark Knight Rises, Catwoman tries to escape by holding a gun to Dagget's head. When Bane's henchmen continue to advance anyway, we get this exchange:
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Threat Backfire / int_3ee90f99	comment	Happy Gilmore: Shooter McGavin gets nailed this way multiple times. Then, later.
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Threat Backfire / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's mom once told him the all-too-common parental threat that making faces too often would cause his face to freeze that way. She should have known better than to try that with Calvin. It actually encouraged him to do it more. Calvin wonders what Hobbes would do if Calvin threw a water balloon at him. Hobbes tells him to think of the worst thing he can imagine, then imagine something a hundred times worse. Calvin says, "You'd do that?" and Hobbes says no, he'd do something even worse. Calvin soaks him with the water balloon anyway, explaining, "He piqued my curiosity."
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Threat Backfire / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: In Proven Guilty, Harry confronts what turns out to be a White Court vampire during a horror convention. When Harry starts getting threatening, the vamp smugly says that Harry wouldn't dare risk The Masquerade by using magic in public. Harry responds that he's in the phone book, under "Wizards." The vampire becomes notably less smug. Also, just as a general point and principle, Harry tends to do this to every wannabe warlock and uppity vampire that he runs across, as they tend to have egos bigger than their powers. For instance, in one of the short stories, Harry runs across Darth Wannabe, who is a pompous idiot with a dark mark tattooed on his forearm. Said idiot keeps trying to challenge Harry to a duel over a semi-imagined slight. In response, Harry pulls out his .44. They quickly lose their sneers.
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Threat Backfire / int_43576f5	comment	In the Supernatural episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep22), Jake was not really thinking when he defies the King of Hell.
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Threat Backfire / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: In the episode "Won't you Pimai Neighbor?", a group of Buddhists are pestering the Hills because they believe Bobby is the reincarnation of their leader. Hank eventually tells one of them to back off or he'll get rough, but the Buddhist just calmly accepts he will be beaten up, which unnerves Hank further and leaves him be.
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Threat Backfire / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novel Interesting Times, Cohen the Barbarian does this quite often — killing people that have said in substance: "I'd rather die than..." — because the barbarians' concept of honor is rather devoid of subtlety. To the point that Cohen's companions start warning people beforehand to not say this kind of thing around their leader. As Cohen states in exasperation, "Why are they saying this if they don't mean it?" and they actually take along the one guy they meet who says "I think I'd rather live" because they recognize he's Too Dumb to Fool and deem him useful. When the Klatchian leader in Jingo is told that the Morporkians believe he will run away after "tasting cold steel" he licks his blade and asks why that would make him run away. Lavaeolus in Eric leads a raiding party through a fortress's secret door and at once recites a prepared speech demanding that the enemy force surrender. As the only person in the room he's penetrated is a small child on a potty, his well-rehearsed demand rather falls flat. In Lords and Ladies, the Queen of the Elves threatens to take Granny Weatherwax's mind, her strength, and leave one small part of her that remembers who she is but is powerless. Granny retorts that this is called "becoming old" and happens anyway. And if that's the best threat the Queen's got, it just shows how little she understands mortals.
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Threat Backfire / int_46e6d72f	comment	The Sandman's famous entrance in ECW included him busting himself open by smashing a beer can against his forehead, making himself bleed before he even got into the ring. This nullified any threats his opponent might have made about making him bleed.
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Threat Backfire / int_47abde9	comment	On Dan for Mayor Mike believes (rightfully) that Dan caused Mike's fiance to break off their engagement. To get revenge on Dan, he buys the bar where Dan is working just so he can fire him. Dan is quite happy about it since he was going to quit later that day, and this way he is owed severance pay which he would not get if he quit on his own.
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Threat Backfire / int_47fbbad7	comment	A Very Potter Sequel: Draco orders Crabbe and Goyle to shake Ron and Hermione to win Harry over.
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Threat Backfire / int_48086cec	comment	In Secret of Mana Theater, the author gets tired of Elliot's attitude, especially badmouthing him and the viewers.
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Threat Backfire / int_4925a67	comment	In Shrek 4D at Universal Studios, when Lord Farquaad is about to send Fiona over a waterfall:
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Threat Backfire / int_49340431	comment	Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Detective Peralta has arrested a perp with no evidence to support holding him, risking the possibility of the case falling apart and the perp having sufficient claim to sue the police department for millions. Towards the end, when the perp's alibi that he was at a nightclub appears to be substantiated, he gloats that he's going to buy said nightclub with his lawsuit settlement winnings and erect a massive statue of Peralta right in the middle. Peralta immediately points out that he's exactly the kind of guy who would love having a massive statue of himself right in the middle of a nightclub, thus making that a pretty lame threat. Police union boss O'Sullivan tries to blackmail Holt into something by threatening to put out rumors Holt is gay. Holt dryly points out he has a rainbow flag on his desk, his marriage to another man is well-known and, oh yes, he came out thirty years earlier. O'Sullivan tries it on Rosa only for her to relate she too came out to her family and the department a while ago.
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Threat Backfire / int_4f1f3628	comment	Played for laughs on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody when London and Maddie go head-to-head in a competition.
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Threat Backfire / int_50e2e357	comment	In Star Trek (2009):
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Threat Backfire / int_52a63d61	comment	The yakuza boss's wife in Back Street Girls thinks that her husband is cheating on her with the idol group he's managing, so she tries sending them innocuous but dangerous animals (such as a softshell turtle, which has a bite that can take off fingers) to one who had publicly stated she wanted a cute pet as well as thinly-veiled death threats (in the form of a straw doll with a knife buried in its chest) to another. She isn't clued into the secret that the idol group is composed entirely of yakuza/mob enforcers, however, and a Gilligan Cut jumps to the group happily eating the turtle and fawning over the high-quality knife while commenting that their fans are finally sending them gifts they really like.
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Threat Backfire / int_564871a	comment	In the Blue Bloods episode "Men in Black," Jamie Reagan and Vinny Cruz arrest the previous mayor's daughter and her friend after catching them in the act of smoking pot on a park bench. The former tries to invoke the "Do you know who I am?" card, but Jamie, who himself is the son of the current police commissioner and who's never used his father's pull to get his way, smirks and tells her, "I don't really care."
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Threat Backfire / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: In another strip, when Belkar and Haley's father Ian release an allosaurus to save a pair of gladiators from execution, Belkar warns Ian that if he tells Roy it was his idea, he'd find a sharp way to make sure Hayley stays an only child.
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Threat Backfire / int_58d80a4a	comment	When the Klatchian leader in Jingo is told that the Morporkians believe he will run away after "tasting cold steel" he licks his blade and asks why that would make him run away.
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Threat Backfire / int_58f28be1	comment	In The Godfather, the film producer wasn't intimidated by the threat that "either his brains or his signature" would end up on the paper. Corleone's men famously found a more persuasive tactic.
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Threat Backfire / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In a Genocide run of Undertale, any attempts at threatening Burgerpants will get you nowhere. He's been beaten down by his job to the point that he truly does not care about being threatened at all, even though you're an Omnicidal Maniac at that point.
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Threat Backfire / int_5cc1f6b9	comment	In Ruthless People, two clueless kidnappers snatch Danny De Vito's wife and threaten to kill her, not realizing that he was planning to murder her the same day. He refuses their ransom demands and becomes increasingly irritated when they hesitate to follow through on their threats.
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Threat Backfire / int_5d4da197	comment	Spider-Man 2:
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Threat Backfire / int_5db577ba	comment	In The Dark Knight, Lucius Fox to accountant Reese, who is threatening to expose Bruce Wayne as Batman: "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck." At first, this convinced him not to reveal the secret, but Reese decided to reveal it when the Joker was killing people while hunting for Batman. Of course, by this point the Joker had decided that the world was more fun with a masked Batman in it, so he puts a hit out on Reese. Bruce saves Reese in his civilian identity, and Reese remains quiet.
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Threat Backfire / int_5e1213a8	comment	In Neverwhere, Richard tells Croup and Vandemar that if they want Door, they'll have to kill him first. Vandemar is (quite unironically) delighted: "Thanks!"
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Threat Backfire / int_60f02ddb	comment	In the American Dad! episode "Frannie 911", Roger gets kidnapped and Stan's response is...complete and utter indifference. He even manages to negotiate the ransom down to a handful of pocket change, but still doesn't pay it. However, it turns out that Stan knew the whole thing was a Faked Kidnapping orchestrated by Francine (she was making the calls from her cellphone, and the Smith household has Caller ID); that said, the terrible way Roger treated her throughout the whole ordeal demonstrates to Francine exactly why Stan hates him.
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Threat Backfire / int_63c1175b	comment	Ultra Fast Pony: From "A Library With No Twilight": From "How to Control Freaks:"
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Threat Backfire / int_647aeede	comment	Error of Judgement: When Prince threatens to blacklist Stiehl all over again, Stiehl just gets more determined to testify and retorts that the people in the town he currently lives in reply respect him and have never heard of Prince, so his efforts would amount to nothing.
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Threat Backfire / int_694ab80	comment	Batman Beyond: In "Payback", Terry suspects that the titular villain is linked to a teens' counseling center, so he goes to a session and makes some complaints about Bruce in order to bait Payback into attacking him. When he is confronted by Payback, Bruce isn't fazed by him at all.
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Threat Backfire / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers (2012): In The Stinger. Although it probably wasn't intended as a threat or warning, it sounds like it to the audience. Banner in general gets guns pointed in his face several times throughout the movie, which he just laughs off. Him getting shot would be much worse for the shooter than for him. This is a Running Gag in Thor: The Dark World: At the climax of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Big Bad tries to get Natasha to stop uploading all of SHIELD and HYDRA's secrets onto the internet on the grounds it'll reveal all her dirty secrets as well. Natasha doesn't stop. Later on, this means she has to go up against a senate committee, and warned that after all she's done they could very well arrest her then and there (especially if she keeps mouthing off at them). Natasha calmly tells the committee they're not going to, and then walks out telling them if they do change their mind they know where to find her. They do not arrest her.
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Threat Backfire / int_69e47d85	comment	A similar variation in Dragon Age: Origins â€“ Awakening if your Warden Commander in the expansion is the same one from the original. Early on, your Warden is established as the ruler of a portion of land in your country. Your estate receives a letter from a noble, informing you that his daughter is kidnapped and begging you to pay the ransom for him because he can't get the money quickly enough. When you arrive at the meet, the bandit leader is angry that someone other than the noble showed up, and your Warden can casually mention "yeah, he couldn't make it, so he sent the commander of the Grey Wardens instead." The bandits get worried, and you can almost see one of them losing bladder control as he yelps out "The one who killed the Archdemon??", but the leader says "well, make any moves and we'll kill the girl!" Your character can basically shrug and say "Really? There's a river of blood behind me. Well, if that's what you want," which causes half the bandits, including the ones holding the girl, to run like hell. Bonus points if your Warden is an Arcane Warrior. Of course, the rest of the bandits decide to fight you. Guess how that ends. You can play it straight and, rather than intimidate the bandits with your past accomplishments and complete nonchalance at a normally high-stakes, high-risk situation, tell them that you're going to kill them no matter what. With nothing to lose, they immediately kill the girl, then turn on you.
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Threat Backfire / int_6bbde1c8	comment	In Overwatch, if Zarya and Zenyatta are on the same team, they may engage in pre-battle dialogue in which Zarya tells him "I have my eye on you, Omnic," as Zarya distrusts Omnics (sentient robots, basically) due to personal reasons. Zenyatta mistakes this for a Declaration of Protection and kindly informs her that he will "watch [her] back in return."
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Threat Backfire / int_6c27a422	comment	In Money Train John and Charlie find Patterson's threat "I'll fuck ya dead" more confusing than intimidating. In private, Charlie asks John "do you think he's gonna fuck us before or after we're dead?" They later make a complete joke out of it by saying how they have to stay a step ahead of "That necrophiliac Patterson." A subversion causes the climactic heist on the money train: when the Loan Shark who gave Charlie money arrives to get it or hurt Charlie, Charlie is so shellshocked from how bad things have gotten with his lifenote John loaned him the money, but a pickpocket stole it and John refused to believe him when he tried to explain and told him to never talk to him again that he is okay with the loan shark's retaliation. Seeing that threatening Charlie is not going to work, the loan shark threatens to hurt John instead, making Charlie very desperate.
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Threat Backfire / int_6c9193a1	comment	In The Venture Brothers, a villain threatens Dr. Venture with the death of his sons, shouting, "GIVE ME THE HAND OF OSIRIS!" Doc's response? "Give me head." Sure that Venture just misheard him, the villain declares "I'm about to KILL your sons!" to which Venture nonchalantly replies "Join the club!". This horrifies the villain.
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Threat Backfire / int_6cb2d709	comment	Also, just as a general point and principle, Harry tends to do this to every wannabe warlock and uppity vampire that he runs across, as they tend to have egos bigger than their powers. For instance, in one of the short stories, Harry runs across Darth Wannabe, who is a pompous idiot with a dark mark tattooed on his forearm. Said idiot keeps trying to challenge Harry to a duel over a semi-imagined slight. In response, Harry pulls out his .44. They quickly lose their sneers.
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Threat Backfire / int_7260f96d	comment	User Friendly. There are thirty officers in this building!
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Threat Backfire / int_735a44a9	comment	In Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, a Monster of the Week captures some of the Kyoryugers and tries to intimidate their teammates with the Hostage Situation. Daigo immediately blows him off, snarking that the monster is an idiot for capturing superheroes — he'd worry about random bystanders, but he trusts that his friends have the strength to take care of themselves.
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Threat Backfire / int_75149ccd	comment	In X-Wing: The Bacta War Ysanne Isard tries to retain her subordinates' loyalty by making examples of their entire families if they turn traitor. In one case, however, a freighter captain remarks that Isard'll be doing him a favor if she has his wife executed.
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Threat Backfire / int_75e9b784	comment	In the Dies Irae spin-off Interview with Kaziklu Bey, the being known as Methuselah threatens Reinhard and the whole of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden with complete annihilation should they give chase or try to stand up to him. Unfortunately for him, he seriously underestimated just what kind of person Reinhard is and just how monstrously powerful he really is. What follows is a battle that can best be described as an all-out war. It only ends when Reinhard finally stops playing around and actually starts trying, shooting down Methuselah in a single blast.
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Threat Backfire / int_761813a6	comment	Band of Brothers: To keep him in line, Captain Sobel arranges some obviously frivolous charges against Winters, and tells him he can either lose his weekend pass, which he never uses anyway, or face court-martial. Winters requests trial by court-martial, which winds up revealing Sobel's pettiness to the higher-ups and gets Sobel Kicked Upstairs to non-combat training dutiesnote The actual incident in Real Life was a little more complicated, but Winters specifically tried to go out of his way to avoid confronting Sobel, figuring that the company didn't need the power battle. Sobel forced the issue with the summary punishment (which Winters didn't like because it implied he was a bad officer), and Winters refused to back down as Sobel expected. Three weeks later, things were better for everyone except Sobel.
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Threat Backfire / int_7668653a	comment	Variation is the Mass Effect 2 DLC Lair of the Shadowbroker. The person Shepard's pursuing takes a hostage and demands Shepard back off Or Else. One possible response is Shepard listing off the decisions s/he has made that have resulted in mass casualties/genocide/unleashing hostile aliens, and then asking if she believes Shepard won't be willing to shoot a single hostage is really her plan. On assorted occasions, various characters make threats about coming after Shepard. Usually just before Shepard shoots them in the face.
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Threat Backfire / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: When Tokagero possesses Ryu and threatens to kill him, Anna outright threatens to send him to Hell if he does go through with it. Tokagero tells her point-blank that the thought of going to Hell doesn't scare him; having been born into poverty and forced to eat his own mother's corpse to survive, he already lived through Hell.
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Threat Backfire / int_7a87eeb2	comment	In Miraculous! Rewrite's version of "Syren", Master Fu overhears Adrien threatening to quit unless Plagg starts spilling secrets. Naturally, he responds by taking the Ring back. Adrien's protests that he didn't really mean it don't help, either, as Fu points out that he still disarmed himself in the middle of an akuma attack.
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Threat Backfire / int_7e4805b6	comment	In Knives Out, Walt tries to convince Marta to refuse Harlan's inheritance. He presents his threats to have her mother deported as an offer to help, pointing out that the family could hire top lawyers and provide whatever resources were needed to get her legal residence. Marta replies that, under the terms of the will all the family money belongs to her, so the best way to protect her mother is to take the inheritance.
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Threat Backfire / int_8067b45b	comment	In My Science Project, Ellie warns Sherman that if he touches the orb, he'll end up in another dimension. Sherman is delighted and immediately touches it, causing a time warp that engulfs the school.
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Threat Backfire / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: The mirror universe version of Sulu threatens Spock if he doesn't carry out the Empire's secret orders in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Mirror, Mirror" with an Implied Death Threat. In return, Spock tells Sulu that his operatives would avenge his death and some of them were Vulcans. Sulu's facial expression says Oh, Crap! as he realizes just how dangerous attacking Spock would be for him. In Star Trek: Picard, Picard relates that when the attempts to aid the Romulans evacuating their doomed homeworld hit a political brick wall, he told Starfleet to either help or accept his resignation. Picard admits he meant it as a bluff as he figured there was no way Starfleet would endure the public relations mess of cashiering one of their most revered officers who had saved the Federation a dozen times. To his shock, Starfleet didn't hesitate to accept Picard's resignation and calling the evacuation off.
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Threat Backfire / int_85d1a843	comment	In How to Train Your Dragon 2, Astrid tries to play up Hiccup's legend as a dragon tamer in front of Drago Bludvist to make him back down. Instead, Drago treats Hiccup as a rival that needs to be eliminated and is that much more motivated to kill him.
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Threat Backfire / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius's Franz Scortchmaw side story, the Dragon of Mechanicsburg is part of an adventuring party comprising three humans and the giant clank Humungous. A rival adventurer says she may not be able to harm Franz, but if he acts against her, his human friends will be killed. Franz's response is to warm up his Breath Weapon while saying "Meh. They're really more just people I work with, ya know?" Subverted, because Humungous does take the threat seriously, and surrenders on behalf of the entire party while holding Franz back.
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Threat Backfire / int_86fa025f	comment	In The Transporter 3, the Big Bad Jonas Johnson is holding the daughter of Environmental Agency Minister Tomilenko hostage to force him to sign a contract with Ecocorp. While he is complying to ensure the safety of his daughter's life, he's far from harmless and when they try to threaten him with the safety of his daughter to silence his demand to speak to her he coldly threatens them right back, calling Jonas by name, and reminds them exactly how much power he has a Ukrainian government official. Jonas' Oh, Crap! face says it all:
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Threat Backfire / int_89f4bc45	comment	Around about the start of the InVasion angle, when The Undertaker was in his American Badass persona, he threatened "Stone Cold" Steve Austin that he would "make [him] famous" if he messed with his family. This comment inspired Diamond Dallas Page to start stalking Taker's wife Sara as part of his plan to get into Taker's head and upset him because, as DDP explained in his promo when he revealed himself as the stalker, he wants to be famous.
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Threat Backfire / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	A New Hope:
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Threat Backfire / int_8bbda387	comment	Towards the end of The Rocketeer, as Cliff Secord fights movie star Neville Sinclair who's actually a Nazi spy, aboard a Nazi zeppelin:
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Threat Backfire / int_8cbe0b7c	comment	A Wolf Amongst Lions has Arya Stark found by Tywin Lannister and taken as a "ward" of his house. While arranging a marriage between Arya and Jaime, Tywin (as much as he won't admit it) soon grows fond of the girl. When Arya, her brother Bran, and Robb Stark's wife are abducted by the Freys, they send a message to Tywin to back off and leave their lands and include two of Arya's severed fingers. Within moments, a royally pissed-off Tywin vows to wipe the Freys and all their allies off the face of the Earth. He's soon firing off letters to his bannermen declaring war on House Frey. His final letter is to Walder himself, unsigned and containing a single line: And soon the rains weep o'er their halls with not a soul to hear.
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Threat Backfire / int_8d7f29ec	comment	On Glee, Sue tries to force Principal Figgins to back one of her insane plans by threatening to post a video Figgins made years earlier of an embarrassing flight attendant tryout. At first, Figgins seems cowed but later ends up refusing to aid Sue. When Sue threatens to leak the video, Figgins scoffs that he already put it up on You Tube and it got only three views.
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Threat Backfire / int_8d8100ab	comment	In an episode of Lost, Hurley is in prison. When he has an Imagine Spot that he's underwater and a scuba diver is trying to drown him by breaking the window to the cell and calls for help, the prison guard threatens to send him to the mental hospital. Hurley thanks the guard and hugs him, then is taken to the mental hospital.
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Threat Backfire / int_8d81bb26	comment	On NCIS, Gibbs is threatened in the usual way by a gangster: "...I'll kill your brothers, your uncles, your father. And after their funerals, I'll kill you." Gibbs responds, "No brothers, no uncles, my father passed years ago. I do have three ex-wives, whose names and addresses I will gladly fax on to you..." "huh. He hung up." Gibbs was bluffing since his father is still very much alive and whatever issues he has with his ex-wives, he would never let any harm come to them. Another NCIS example: In "Bloodbath" (Season 3, Episode 21, original airdate April 25, 2006), McGee has to protect Abby from someone who wants her dead (she is testifying in a trial.)
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Threat Backfire / int_8ddf0a16	comment	In Angels with Dirty Faces, a high-ranking gangster calls the cops on Rocky after he admits to kidnapping a corrupt lawyer. The problem is that it turns out Rocky also stole some highly incriminating documents that could put the gangster and all his associates away for good for embezzlement, bribery, and racketeering.
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Threat Backfire / int_9089a9b1	comment	In the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, a shadowy group called the Rakshana kidnap the titular character's brother, and tell Gemma that if she gives the group her magic, they'll let him go. This is after a phenomenally bad day. So, Gemma snaps, and informs the Rakshana that their plan has backfired: up until then, she's been polite and played nice. And now, the only thing keeping her from kicking all of their asses is the fact that her brother is still alive. If they kill him, she'll kill them. They call her on this, and she kicks their asses without killing them.
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Threat Backfire / int_90b916ba	comment	In Batman: The Animated Series Bane confronts Killer Croc proclaiming he will be the one to defeat Batman which Croc declares over his dead body. Bane opts to grant his wish as he injects himself with Venom and cue No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Croc.
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Threat Backfire / int_90e2f673	comment	In BattleTech, just before an enemy force touched down on the planet Twycross, the local commander of the Falcon Guard, Ravil Pryde, complained to a technician that one of the lasers was malfunctioning on his mech- as soon as his computer cycled to it it was automatically firing. He threatened the technician with reassignment somewhere else if he failed to fix it before the upcoming battle. As Twycross is regarded as a very unpleasant planet to live on due to being a desert world known for constant, heavy winds that blow huge sandstorms across the surface of the main continent, the technician did not regard this as much of a threat. When Ravil went into battle against the attacking Archer's Avengers, his laser misfired, hitting their dropship as it was landing. This attack violated the safe conduct Ravil had previously guaranteed for the landing, and the Avengers proceeded to attack all out, destroying the entire Falcon Guard and killing Ravil in the process.
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Threat Backfire / int_90feccf9	comment	In Latchkey Kingdom, Present Lady tells Willa that if she's naughty, she'll get nothing but coal. Unfortunately for Present Lady, the winter is cold, Willa is in charge of taking care of herself, and she has a coal furnace. Present Lady leaves with a black eye and a lot less coal, and Willa gets what her friends think is an awesome present.
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Threat Backfire / int_92916f5a	comment	In Shrek, Shrek warns the fairytale creatures that have settled in his front yard not to get comfortable there because heâ€™s going to go see this Farquaad guy and get him to get them back where they came from. They cheer wildly at this idea.
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Threat Backfire / int_9291b6ba	comment	Immortal Souls has this little exchange between the main character and the Hero Antagonist. Considering Desmond is both a Jerkass and has No Sense of Humor it's hard to tell whether he's being obtuse or intentionally antagonistic.
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Threat Backfire / int_95b62321	comment	One of their early encounters in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight has Len threaten Kit with venting, basically the story's equivalent of death threat. This falls flat because contrary to Len's suspicion, Kit really doesn't know anything and thus is only intimidated by the threat's delivery.
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Threat Backfire / int_974f7efb	comment	The Drew Carey Show sees Mr. Wick attempt to force Drew to sell his house by threatening to build a mall around it — only to learn that it was an ultimately empty threat given the plans would put a movie theater, an ice cream shop, and a lingerie shop around Drew.
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Threat Backfire / int_98dbcf15	comment	A diplomatic example in The Wind and the Lion
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Threat Backfire / int_9910cc85	comment	In Disney's Mulan, the Big Bad Shan Yu invades China. As a guard explains to him a few seconds later, he immediately alerts China of his presence using a signal fire. He turns out to be happy about it, and he uses the fire to burn an imperial flag.
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Threat Backfire / int_9a7088bc	comment	The mirror universe version of Sulu threatens Spock if he doesn't carry out the Empire's secret orders in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Mirror, Mirror" with an Implied Death Threat. In return, Spock tells Sulu that his operatives would avenge his death and some of them were Vulcans. Sulu's facial expression says Oh, Crap! as he realizes just how dangerous attacking Spock would be for him.
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Threat Backfire / int_9b20c46e	comment	In Lords and Ladies, the Queen of the Elves threatens to take Granny Weatherwax's mind, her strength, and leave one small part of her that remembers who she is but is powerless. Granny retorts that this is called "becoming old" and happens anyway. And if that's the best threat the Queen's got, it just shows how little she understands mortals.
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Threat Backfire / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The leaders of the World Government keep raising the bounties of the Straw Hats Pirates because of how much they want them dead. Seemingly unbeknown to them, pirates see bounties as testaments of both notoriety and strength, to the point that some sea dogs have been known to make up fake bounties in the past to intimidate other people to their advantage. As such, the Straw Hats and Luffy in particular see them as irrefutable proof of their might. For that reason, a pirate being threatened by a World Noble really doesn't do much either, especially if they had a high bounty to begin with.
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Threat Backfire / int_9e6cec94	comment	At the climax of Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Raymond Calitri gets the drop on Detective Castlebeck and gets ready to shoot him. Castlebeck tries to get him to think it over by pointing out that it would cause a Cop Killer Manhunt (Calitri is also a person of interest in a lot of other crimes, explained in a minor Jurisdiction Friction sub-plot). Calitri supplies further proof that he is a Ruthless Foreign Gangster by telling Castlebeck he does not cares and only Memphis Raines pushing Calitri over the edge of the walkway saves the detective.
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Threat Backfire / int_9efaac8d	comment	Karmic Backlash, another recursive fic of The Karma of Lies, takes it even further to the extent that Lila succeeds. Not only does she steal the Miracle Box, leaving all the Miraculous at her disposal but this starts a chain of events that undoes all the gains Marinette made in The Karma of Lies and destroys her whole life permanently. This trope is zigzagged as Lila does end up being brutally murdered by the next girl she tried to destroy, just as Marinette predicted.
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Threat Backfire / int_a2073312	comment	Destroy All Humans! 2: In the last level, Crypto threatens to use his anal probe on the Big Bad, who calmly shrugs it off on the ground he already takes a weekly high colonic.
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Threat Backfire / int_a2abcb5e	comment	On Keeping Up Appearances, during an outing with Hyacinth that's gone terribly wrong, Elizabeth tells her brother Emmett that if he doesn't stop grumbling, Hyacinth won't invite him anywhere again. As he hates Hyacinth, this just makes him complain much louder.
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Threat Backfire / int_a4955380	comment	On Judging Amy, the slimy lawyer of an abusive couple specializes in threatening judges with some shady rulings of their past and he'll bring them up to make them look racist, sexist, etc. He tries it on an elderly judge (Kathryn Jooster), claiming that the father is Latino and the judge has removed eight children from abusive person of color couples. The judge holds him in contempt. Even as he's handcuffed, the lawyer tries to press it.
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Threat Backfire / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power': Galadriel tries to secretly escape Numenor only to be greeted by Elendil at the docks, who was expecting Galadriel to try something. He nicely informs her that if she tries to escape, he will alert his watchmen to which Galadriel responds by threatening Elendil with cutting his throat before he does that. Elendil is not impressed or intimated at all, because for him is like dealing with his own children, and compares Galadriel to them. And once he speaks in Quenya with her, she calms down completely, finding an ally in Elendil.
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Threat Backfire / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	In Oglaf, the vampire Navaan tells Ivan that she's going to kill him... but first she's going to have sex with him. When his response is a delighted smile, she backs off in confusion: all her other victims have been lifelong virgins for whom sex is a genuine Fate Worse than Death.
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Threat Backfire / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Factory", the shareholders of the factory where Nicole works threaten to move her desk to a bathroom stall if she doesn't return to their meeting in two minutes. Nicole points out that since they're not allowed bathroom breaks, that would technically be an improvement.
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Threat Backfire / int_ad1c31d5	comment	Used very darkly in Lovecraft Country. At the end, the Big Bad threatens the protagonists: they will never be safe in America. Because it's the time of Jim Crow and the protagonists are African-American, they burst out laughing; they're not safe anyway.
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Threat Backfire / int_aed912f3	comment	For the Glory of Irk: Xia attempts to intimidate the Syndicate Chairman through a show of force, but unfortunately for her, her assistant Sym misunderstands her orders to "send a message" and literally sends an angry message, before informing Xia that she doesn't actually have the authority to launch any real attacks. In the end, the Chairman is only left deeply confused by the whole situation.
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Threat Backfire / int_b0675efc	comment	Gone with the Blastwave: At one point, Crosshairs is told that if he doesn't talk, the interrogator will kill Pyro. Because Crosshairs needs a good run-up to give a shit whether he lives or dies, to say nothing of other people, this proves...less than effective.
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Threat Backfire / int_b3697e66	comment	In Dave, when Dave starts acting on his own initiative, rather than just following Bob's orders, Bob threatens to fire him. Dave calls his bluff and offers to inform the press immediately. Bob quickly realizes that he has no power in the situation other than revealing the attempted stealth coup, and he'd have a lot more to lose than Dave if it became public.
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Threat Backfire / int_b3f687d1	comment	Nearly happens to Jason in one FoxTrot when he goes to science camp for the summer. His councilor, who has been incredibly nasty to him all summer, is a nerdy high schooler named Morton. Jason had been planning to get his revenge by trying to set Morton up with his sister Paige, whom Jason considers completely horrible. Morton, however, considers Paige a goddess and worships the ground she walks on. As Jason is leaving camp, Morton practically begs Jason to help him get together with Paige, causing Jason to rethink his revenge plans...
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Threat Backfire / int_b41d31f4	comment	Star Wars Tales #7, "Outbid but Never Outgunned": A sleazy little creep is cornered by Boba Fett and Fett's ex-wife Sintas and tries to use a hostage to save his life. It doesn't go quite as planned.
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Threat Backfire / int_b8b584cf	comment	In one Zits strip, Walt, who was doing the laundry, was getting really sick of Jeremy sending his socks down the laundry chute wadded up and inside out, and eventually lost his temper:
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Threat Backfire / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: During the Luxus arc, Evergreen threatens to turn many of Fairy Tail's female mages into dust if Erza doesn't submit to her. Erza immediately responds by pointing dozens of swords at Evergreen and praising Evergreen for valuing victory above her own life.
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Threat Backfire / int_b9c1650d	comment	Scarlet Lady: When Volpina takes a building full of people hostage, she's shocked by Scarlet Lady blithely dismissing the threat. She simply doesn't care about the lives of innocent civilians, not when she can 'bring them back' with her Miraculous Cure. Even threatening Adrien doesn't work; when Volpina seemingly takes him hostage (secretly using an illusion), Scarlet Lady declares this to be a 'win-win' scenario — either she saves him for a "romantic moment", or lets him die and gets praised after reviving him for 'her sacrifice'. Volpina is completely stunned at how callous and self-centered Paris's 'heroine' really is. Prime Queen also gets a taste of this when she takes Lila and Alya hostage. Once again, Scarlet Lady is completely dismissive towards her threats, casually declaring that she can just bring them back after they die. This time, however, all of Paris gets to witness her callousness.
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Threat Backfire / int_ba71bf57	comment	A good example happened when Gord threw an obnoxious pain-in-the-ass out of his gaming store and told him never to come back. The guy shouted he was never coming here again and Gord responded "I just said that."
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Threat Backfire / int_bc7736c8	comment	In Suicide Squad, Amanda Waller is usually good at getting people to back down. But she finally meets a match when therapist Simon LeGrieve announces he's finally had enough and is quitting the staff.
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Threat Backfire / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Growth Spout", when Mr. Krabs resorts to stealing food from his employees' homes to feed Pearl's growing body, Squidward threatens to call the police after he caught Mr. Krabs stealing his gourmet food. When Mr. Krabs threatens to fire him, Squidward dials 911. When even stating that if he goes to prison, no one will take care of Pearl is not enough to hang up the phone, Squidward demands Mr. Krabs give him his gold tooth. In the episode where Spongebob runs away after he's called "idiot boy" for accidentally causing some mishaps, Mr. Krabs asks Sandy, Patrick, and Squidward to help him look for Spongebob so that the Krusty Krab can be profitable again. Everyone is intent on looking for Spongebob, with the exception of Squidward, who voices his happiness at the thought of Spongebob being gone forever. When Mr. Krabs threatens to fire him if he doesn't help look, Squidward says he can go right and do it, as he would consider getting fired a great favor. Mr. Krabs only gets Squidward to help by promising him a fabergÃ© egg.
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Threat Backfire / int_bd3b42ed	comment	In an early The Wizard of Id strip, a witch flies into the Wizard's laboratory and threatens to inflict great misery if he cuts into her territory. The Wizard's wife Blanch comes downstairs and asks what he's doing, with the Wizard telling the witch that she's too late since his marriage to Blanch is already a greater misery than anything the witch could ever do.
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Threat Backfire / int_bf24c7bb	comment	Chernobyl: Near the very end of the series, Aleksandr Charkov is giving Legasov the whole spiel about how he will be Unpersoned for embarrassing the Soviet Union, and how he will die utterly forgotten and erased, with utter confidence that Legasov wouldn't dare do anything other than let it happen. This falls utterly flat because one, Legasov is basically already dead from rad poisoning, and two, Charkov's wording is such a perfect example of the "reputation above reality" mindset that caused everything to begin with that Legasov can't help but just laugh.
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Threat Backfire / int_c03c2b44	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End has a threat backfire for a simple reason. Barbossa and Elizabeth are pressured by Sao Feng by the threat that he will "kill this man" who he assumed was a spy of theirs; Barbossa simply says "Kill him. He's not our man!" Will is the first one to figure out the ramifications of this.
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Threat Backfire / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Daring Don't" when Daring Do is confronted by her Arch-Enemy Ahuizotl, he demands that she give him the Ring of Destiny. Daring Do turns his threat on its head by mockingly flirting with him and acting like the ring in question is their engagement ring. Rainbow Dash, a fan of Daring Do, gets a knowing smirk out of this exchange.
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Threat Backfire / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor is very good at these. When you spend your free time battling galaxy-destroying madmen and monsters, it comes naturally. Such as this instance from "The Doctors Wife". Then in the episode Deep Breath, it was Clara's turn when the Monster of the Week tried interrogating her.
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Threat Backfire / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black: When a flying saucer lands next to a farm and the farmer investigates the crater: Also:
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Threat Backfire / int_c74a0802	comment	Played with (and ultimately averted) in Rob Reiner's adaptation of Misery. Annie withholds Paul's pain meds until he burns up the only copy of his book Fast Cars, in manuscript form. He tries to save it by falsely claiming he's made other copies and that burning it up won't mean anything to him, but Annie knows too much about him—mainly, that he never makes more than one copy of a new manuscript out of superstition. When he still fails to comply, she proceeds with an oblique threat to "accidentally" set him on fire instead. That works. (In the novel, Paul doesn't have the presence of mind to consider this tactic, as he is in horrific pain, but later is grateful he didn't because he realizes that to thwart Annie in her efforts to destroy the "bad book" might've resulted in a worse fate for him.)
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Threat Backfire / int_c9bd2c4e	comment	The climax of Legacy of Kain: Defiance has the Elder God threatening the vampire Kain with an And I Must Scream fate of being buried beneath a mountain of rubble until he goes mad with hunger and prays for the release of a death that will never come. Kain's response:
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Threat Backfire / int_ca08598f	comment	In The Wire, a moment happens where Burrell threatens Cedric Daniels' career if he doesn't drop the Barksdale case. Daniels is not fazed:
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Threat Backfire / int_cb6abef3	comment	The Avengers (2012): In The Stinger. Although it probably wasn't intended as a threat or warning, it sounds like it to the audience. Banner in general gets guns pointed in his face several times throughout the movie, which he just laughs off. Him getting shot would be much worse for the shooter than for him.
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Threat Backfire / int_cbe3e313	comment	In True Lies, when Harry decides to use Omega Sector's resources to bust his wife and the used car salesman that's stringing her along, Gib, his partner threatens to go to the head of the agency over how he wants to use top secret government funds to solve a domestic matter, Harry threatens to do the same to him. When Gib says that he has nothing to hide, Harry snaps back: "What about that time you blew a six-week operation because you were too busy getting a blow job?" Gib immediately starts following Harry's lead.
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Threat Backfire / int_cc8fd137	comment	In The Last Samurai, the American ambassador trying to negotiate a trade deal with Omura to supply arms to the Japanese military complains negotiations aren't proceeding quickly enough and makes an implied threat of negotiating with Omura's competitors. Omura retorts that he can easily negotiate a trade deal with France or Britain to provide weapons for the Japanese army, and the ambassador backs down.
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Threat Backfire / int_cd8905f6	comment	Baccano!: When Victor assures Huey that he's about to undergo the worst experience of his life, Huey takes it as a challenge.
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Threat Backfire / int_d27cc225	comment	The Ultimate Evil: When Nat threatens to kill Shendu in the 24th chapter, he responds with a more effective threat.
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Threat Backfire / int_d29c5171	comment	NapolÃ©on: After NapolÃ©on Bonaparte's humiliating defeat in Russia, France is at war with a new coalition already consisting of Britain, Russia, and Prussia. The Austrian foreign minister, Count Metternich, visits Napoleon in Paris to witness French military strength first-hand. Napoleon makes a display of showing off his new regiments and stressing his family relationship with Emperor Francis, but Metternich is unconvinced, prompting Napoleon to finally threaten to "reduce Vienna to rubble" if they join the Sixth Coalition. It clearly didn't work out and just made him seem desperate and too dangerous to remain in power from the Austrians' perspective.
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Threat Backfire / int_d3381e70	comment	At the climax of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Big Bad tries to get Natasha to stop uploading all of SHIELD and HYDRA's secrets onto the internet on the grounds it'll reveal all her dirty secrets as well. Natasha doesn't stop. Later on, this means she has to go up against a senate committee, and warned that after all she's done they could very well arrest her then and there (especially if she keeps mouthing off at them). Natasha calmly tells the committee they're not going to, and then walks out telling them if they do change their mind they know where to find her. They do not arrest her.
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Threat Backfire / int_d3634dbb	comment	Downplayed but present in Casablanca when Rick holds Louis at gunpoint, ordering him to call the airport to hold the last plane to Lisbon for Victor Laszlo (Louis was actually calling Strausser to alert him to Rick's plan).
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Threat Backfire / int_d6fa84c7	comment	On Silicon Valley, Richard is outraged to discover partner Colin has been using his gaming mics (which run 24/7) to collect and record private information of gamers. They use the mics to gather a thick file of Colin admitting to everything from drug use to embezzlement and threaten to reveal it to his investors. Colin immediately hands the file to the investors himself, to demonstrate how powerful his data mining setup is. They're far too pleased with the profit potential to care about anyone's personal ethics.
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Threat Backfire / int_d7e0d316	comment	Etra chan saw it!: Akamatsu and Azami threaten to disown Tokusa if he and his wife Karin don't apologize to them for making them miss the former's mother's funeral, even though they've been ignoring their phone calls. Tokusa doesn't care about being disowned at all, since he disliked their attitude since the beginning. Yuzuriha threatens to break up with Tachibana when he tells her off for splashing beer at his sister, Karin, mistaking her for a girl he's cheating on her with. He responds by breaking up with her. Hiiragi was having a one-sided relationship with Akamatsu. When confronted about this, he threatens to quit his job if he doesn't leave his wife. Akamatsu has no problem with it, and it's treated as a voluntary retirement.
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Threat Backfire / int_df80151a	comment	Tanabata Manga: Yomeko threatens to divorce Tanao if he refuses to give her money to buy expensive stuff. Unfortunately for her, Tanao already submitted the papers because he found out that she was cheating on him with another man.
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Threat Backfire / int_e293455a	comment	In Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Buffy versus Dracula"), Xander, who has been Renfielded, tells Riley that if he wants "The Master" "you will have to go through me first". Riley flatly responds "Okey-dokey" and punches him out of the way. The final battle between Buffy and the Master in "Prophecy Girl":
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Threat Backfire / int_e5dde8d5	comment	In Unstoppable, Galvin threatens to fire Frank if he tries to chase down the runaway train. Problem is, Frank was 13 days away from getting laid off, so he doesn't care if he loses his job a little earlier than he was planning. He then threatens to fire Will. Since it's his first day on the job, Will really doesn't have anything vested in it either and just quips it would be a shame as he was "just starting to like" being a train conductor.
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Threat Backfire / int_e5fb535b	comment	From The Life and Times of a Winning Pony:
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Threat Backfire / int_e6695c62	comment	Hudson Hawk, as quoted above.
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Threat Backfire / int_e6b8dcc3	comment	A dark version in Ronin (1998) as Gregor meets Russian gangsters, one of whom is the boyfriend of gorgeous skater Natacha. Gregor tells them he has a sniper in the arena when Natacha is performing and that if the Russians don't pay up fast, she'll be killed. Too late, Gregor realizes the boyfriend has absolutely no qualms about letting his "love" die rather than pay more money.
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Threat Backfire / int_e82c9823	comment	Black Cat: Train's first meeting with Creed. Train, being annoyed that he's assigned a partner, disdainfully tells Creed that he doesn't need him, and pretty much threatens him to shove off or he'll kill him. Unfortunately, Creed is a masochist. Cue Creed constantly stalking Train and bothering him.
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Threat Backfire / int_ea4f62db	comment	One of Family Guy's Cutaway Gag bits had a slave trader getting annoyed by the slaves constantly asking "Are we there yet?" Finally he yells "If you don't stop it I'm turning this ship around right now!" In another episode, because of a comedy of errors, Peter sent a letter to ABC that read "bring back Coach or I'll kill Craig T. Nelson". Cut to one day later and Mr. Nelson arrives at Peter's home, hands Peter a gun and says a resigned "do it".
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Threat Backfire / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: Gohan is fighting Cell and is at a distinct disadvantage. However, he knows that he can beat Cell if he goes into an Unstoppable Rage and warns Cell of this, hoping to get him to back down. Unfortunately, Gohan fails to consider that Cell is the kind of person who wants him at full strength for the sake of a challenge, and Gohan's revelation just makes Cell determined to keep pushing Gohan's buttons until he snaps and unleashes his hidden power. It works.
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Threat Backfire / int_f48a16fb	comment	When The Roses Bloom Again: When Draco's son Lucius declares that "My father will hear about this!", Harry just smiles, musing that "I don't suppose your father ever told you what happened when he tried to cross me, did he?" He even offers to supply the parchment.
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Threat Backfire / int_f5799bd9	comment	The standard response when somebody threatens to leave an Internet forum or other online group, particularly if they're not well-known: "And nothing of value was lost." Alternately, "Yeah, sure, see you next week," implying the threatening party will just slink back at some point. Some forums have admins who, by policy, give these people a helpful whack with the ban hammer on the way out to make sure they follow through. Same for when a terrible customer says "I'm never shopping here again." The store staff will still try and placate them as best they can, but in their heads, they're thinking "Good." Especially if the cashier didn't actually do anything wrong and the store is unlikely to be affected by one person not shopping there. If the store staff still have their jobs the next day and one less terrible customer, this threat is more likely to be laughed at as soon as the person leaves than actually work. A good example happened when Gord threw an obnoxious pain-in-the-ass out of his gaming store and told him never to come back. The guy shouted he was never coming here again and Gord responded "I just said that."
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Threat Backfire / int_f6c05e8e	comment	On Friends, on the day before Monica and Chandler's wedding, Ross threatens Chandler that he would kick his ass if he ever hurts Monica; however, Chandler's only response is to burst into laughter in disbelief, followed by everyone else laughing too. Ross is understandly annoyed.
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Threat Backfire / int_fb2991d8	comment	On Justified Quarles approaches US Marshal Raylan Givens in a bar and threatens that one day he will shoot Raylan dead. As Quarles is leaving Raylan fires a round into the ceiling and tells Quarles that this day is as good as any to have a shootout. Quarles backs down. Raylan threatens Wynn Duffy by throwing a bullet at him and saying that "the next one will be coming faster". Duffy and Quarles use that bullet with Raylan's fingerprints on it to frame him for murder. In general, Raylan reacts very badly to threats against himself or people he cares about. As a result, someone who threatens Raylan will have that threat backfire on him fairly quickly.
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Threat Backfire / int_fb7c549b	comment	Feralnette AU: Lila runs headlong into this when she learns that Felix is nonbinary. She's so eager to exploit this that she immediately starts threatening to forcibly out them. Not only does this prove to be too much for Alya to self-justify, causing her 'best friend' to call her out, Mrs. Mendeleiev is clearly unamused once she learns about the incident.
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Threat Backfire / int_fc2d494	comment	The above workplace version shows up repeatedly on Not Always Working. In all three cases, the Reasonable Authority Figure replies to the threat with "Okay, go pack your stuff", and after frantically trying to backpedal, the threat-makers are shown the door. Here, an engineer threatens to quit because other people with better credentials are making more. Here, one threatens to quit because a latecomer to a project was awarded bonus pay for working on the project. And here, a school's vice principal threatens departure because the IT sysadmin came in late (with permission) the day after pulling an all-nighter.
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Threat Backfire / int_fcf34eec	comment	Full Metal Panic!: The I'll Kill You! to a Death Seeker variant appears between SÅ�suke and Gauron. SÅ�suke, who is sick and tired of Gauron repeatedly not dying when he's supposed to, constantly yells that he'll kill him out of frustration. And Gauron, being Too Kinky to Torture and a depraved thrillseeker, responds to this with ecstasy and joy, normally along the lines of: "OH, I'M SO HAPPY KASHIM!"
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