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Unhand Them, Villain!

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Unhand Them, Villain!	comment	So, the villain has taken a hostage, and to make sure the hero understands that this is serious, the villain is holding the hostage off a roof or over some other height. Usually, in this case, the villain just has one simple, quick request: they want the code, or the MacGuffin, or the hero's surrender. The hero gives in to the demand, and then says something along the lines of "Now let him/her go!" Poor choice of words, it turns out, because just this once, the villain is going to comply. Immediately and literally. They let go, and the hostage goes plummeting towards whatever they were being held over. This happens so reliably that asking a villain to let a dangling hostage go, without being very specific, probably qualifies you as Genre Blind. Even so, this trope is almost always played completely straight. We can only conclude that the sight of a hostage held in the air is the hero's cue to grab the Idiot Ball. Typically, the hostage will survive, but it may require a very well timed Big Damn Heroes moment or just plain luck. Variations can occur, as particularly cunning villains may find other, less obvious ways to turn a demand that a hostage is released into a request to kill them. Antiheroes have their own special variation, where they hold a bad guy over a ledge to get information, and then when the bad guy demands he be let go... well, you know the rest. Sometimes, someone's plea to let them go starts at a survivable drop and quickly turns negative once they get higher up. This can be a type of Literal Cliffhanger. For pretty much the exact opposite trope, see Take My Hand!. The extremely literal version of a villain complying with You Said You Would Let Them Go. And the extremely literal version of this would be An Arm and a Leg. When the villain has no real reason to kill their hostage and seems to do it just for the sake of the gag, this is a case of a Villain Ball. See also High-Altitude Interrogation and The Comedy Drop.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_100d4e39	comment	Happens in Aladdin: The Series, when a Monster of the Week grabs Genie:
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_10b03dcf	comment	In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman confronts the Joker; they are separated by a pool of water. Joker's holding a guard hostage, and Batman orders Mistah J to let the guard go, which the Joker does. After he kicks a generator in the water and moves the guard over the water. If you sequence break by cutting power to the pool before heading to it, the guard's already dead.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_10e9182d	comment	Tales from the Crypt: "Dead Right" — When your enraged husband is standing over you holding a knife in the air, yelling "Put the knife down!" might not be the best choice of words.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): When Eros has gone a bit mad and is standing as a giant holding Steve Trevor Diana makes the mistake of thinking Eros won't kill him due to his portfolio as a love god who is supposed to be allied with the Amazons and tells him to let Steve go. Unfortunately the reason Eros has gone unhinged is that Steve has died twice but is still running around and Eros considers him an imposter trying to steal Diana's love so Eros drops him to his third death.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Provides an example of the hero getting yelled at to let someone go, while she's grappling with Poison Ivy after tackling her out of a fourth story window. Ivy freezes up momentarily when she realizes she's just asked Diana to drop her from such a height, and Diana does as Ivy's meta-human abilities mean that Di doesn't have to worry about the fall killing her.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_1beda93b	comment	Riff from Sluggy Freelance demands this of the demon K'Z'K when it dangles Riff's mom off the edge of the Empire State Building. He immediately realizes "Drop my mom now!" probably wasn't the best choice of words.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_1c2dca78	comment	This happens in the Disney/Walden Media movie version of Prince Caspian. When some Telmarines are about to dump Trumpkin, Bound and Gagged, into the river, Susan shoots an arrow and orders them to "drop him". They do so - unsurprisingly, into the river, and the boys jump in to save the dwarf while Susan dispatches the soldiers. Trumpkin is suitably unimpressed and treats Susan to a bit of snark once they're all back on dry land.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck: Played for laughs in "Chuck Versus The First Date":
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_27ca193f	comment	Ruby-Spears Superman: In "The Hunter", the Hunter kidnaps Lois Lane and takes her to the Daily Planet's roof. When Superman tells him to let her go, he replies, "Your wish is my command." and throws her over the side. Superman saves her, of course.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: In "The Return", Supergirl abducts Lex Luthor and flies off. He screams at her to let him go and she says, "Keep fighting me, Lex, and I just might." He then looks down and realizes they are hundreds of feet in the air.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_2e87f53b	comment	In Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Jango Fett is holding a senator over the edge of the balcony of his penthouse apartment. A police ship appears and orders Jango to release the senator. Jango complies.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_310b792f	comment	The Astounding Wolf-Man: Thrillkill, fancying himself Genre Savvy, drops his hostage over the edge of a building, believing Wolf-Man will focus on saving her and thus leave him with an opportunity to escape. Unfortunately for him, Wolf-Man tackles him off the building, beats him up in a Free-Fall Fight, and catches the hostage before she can hit the ground.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_33c4d830	comment	Sidekick Girl knows not to say this, but Illumina doesn't, as seen here.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_3495152f	comment	There's a heroic example in Hancock:
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_34caa86d	comment	Motive: A variant. In "Purgatory", the killer is holding a lit lighter standing over a man who is tied to a chair and soaked in petrol. Vega tells her to "put the lighter down". She complies by dropping the lighter into the pool of fuel at the victim's feet.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_34d050c6	comment	The pilot of Darkwing Duck, with Gosalyn being held high in the air by the villain's vulture (or condor or something) to force Darkwing to give up the code for a weapon. She was saved by Launchpad, who was following the events and reacted appropriately.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_36570e3	comment	The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has Peter making this mistake when Green Goblin takes Gwen and holds her over the roof of the clock tower. This starts the chain of events that ultimately leads to Peter's I Let Gwen Stacy Die moment.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): When Eros has gone a bit mad and is standing as a giant holding Steve Trevor Diana makes the mistake of thinking Eros won't kill him due to his portfolio as a love god who is supposed to be allied with the Amazons and tells him to let Steve go. Unfortunately the reason Eros has gone unhinged is that Steve has died twice but is still running around and Eros considers him an imposter trying to steal Diana's love so Eros drops him to his third death. Wonder Woman (1987): Provides an example of the hero getting yelled at to let someone go, while she's grappling with Poison Ivy after tackling her out of a fourth story window. Ivy freezes up momentarily when she realizes she's just asked Diana to drop her from such a height, and Diana does as Ivy's meta-human abilities mean that Di doesn't have to worry about the fall killing her.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_3d6b812b	comment	Matinee. In the B-Movie Show Within a Show MANT!, A woman's husband is mutated via radiation into a giant killer ant rampaging across Chicago. He picks up a car in his mandibles. Cue close-up of a terrified driver as the car is shaken from side to side. The wife shouts, "Bill, put him down!" Car smashes to the ground. Everyone winces.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, Hange performs a High-Altitude Interrogation on Pastor Nick while utilizing this trope.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_3fbd173e	comment	Sam Starfall, from Freefall, does it to himself and as a result gets dropped into a garbage bin by the people who caught him cheating at cards, here, complete with a Lampshade Hanging.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_40ffbc49	comment	Played very straight in the pilot episode of Night Man. A member of the group hiding weapons prototypes from corrupt government officials planning to sell them to America's enemies is kidnapped and dangled off the side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_42a8f33b	comment	A variation occurs in A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) when Count Olaf has Sunny hanging in a cage. Violet tells him to let her go... that's the exact order he relays to his underling. Needless to say, the children had him hold that order in a hurry.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_45a29545	comment	The Secret Saturdays: In "The Vengeance of Hibagon", Professor Mizuki is holding a crime lord over the edge of a building when Drew orders "Let him go, Mizuki!". Mizuki comments on the poor choice of words before dropping him.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_469771d2	comment	The Powerpuff Girls: In one of the Time Travel episodes, the girls grab Mojo Jojo as he's falling into the town volcano. Mojo can be heard off-screen screaming, "Put me down! ... No, don't put me down!"
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, there is a quest where you are sent to take a cultist prisoner. He surrenders, then grabs you and tries to throw you off the flying ship. Luckily, your backup arrives, and dangles him over the edge, prompting him to yell
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_4a11fc06	comment	In The Lone Ranger, Butch Cavendish grabs Rebecca as a hostage during the final battle. When the Ranger orders him to let her go, Cavendish threatens to drop her off the side of the moving train. Subverted when the Ranger tells him to do it as she always seems to land on her feet. And then the trope turns out to be invoked: when Cavendish tosses her off, she lands right on Silver.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_4c095a1f	comment	In The Transformers episode "The Search For Alpha Trion", as the Decepticons dangle Optimus Prime over a vat of acid. Elita One saves him by freezing time and pulling him to safety.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_4e588869	comment	In Darwin's Soldiers, Jayden tells Trinity to let Kiara go. Trinity obliges...and then drop-kicks Kiara into a tree.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_4f7dff22	comment	In the Relativity story "August Moon," this trope at first appears to be played straight... but it turns out to be a mental projection created by the villain.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5178149f	comment	Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In "Legends of the Dark Mite!", Catman is auctioning off a wild Sumatran tiger. Batman demands that Catman "Release him!". Catman obliges by opening the cage and letting the tiger loose on Batman. In "The Long Arm of the Law!", Kite-Man has Plastic Man's family tied to a kite that he is flying into a thunderstorm. Batman tells him to "Release the hostages!" and Kite-Man releases the tether line, sending the kite soaring into the storm.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_55c8f4c2	comment	During the fight in Binary Break episode 2:
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_56c9ee78	comment	Semi-heroic example in Max Keeble's Big Move: when Max tells the nerds to "let the bullies go" after threatening to throw them in a dumpster, they comply... by dropping them in the dumpster.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5755b96a	comment	The Azurite captain from The Order of the Stick should have probably picked a different Badass Boast than "You'll never take this city while I'm alive, monster!" As it is, the Death Knight's reply is "Terms accepted."
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_57ef8a9b	comment	The Hot Rock: When Dortmunder is conducting a High-Altitude Interrogation on Greeberg by having Chicken hold him over an elevator shaft, Abe says that Dortmunder doesn't have the guts to go through with it. Dortmunder tells Chicken to put him down, and Chicken promptly drops Greenburg down the shaft.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5ad2b4e9	comment	Self-inflicted version: In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Ghoul captures Dana on a ledge in a several-story nightclub. While struggling with him, she tells him to let her go. He does, and she falls two stories onto a strobe light.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5c0e4258	comment	In SWAT Kats, Madkat takes a hostage on the roof of a skyscraper. The Enforcers order him to "put him down" and Madkat drops him over the side. Razor and T-Bone save the hostage in time.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5c622d7f	comment	Played with in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening because the act is done by the hero; Dante catches Lady's ankle when she's falling off the tower, causing her to hang upside-down. She orders him to let her go, and he asks if she even thought that through. She makes him let go by shooting him, then stops her fall with a Blade Brake using her rocket launcher's bayonet.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5d4da197	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5d4da197	comment	Spider-Man 2: Peter tries this when Doc Ock takes Aunt May hostage. He seems ready to hand her over, then drops her, forcing Spidey to use his webbing to grab her.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5d4da197	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5db577ba	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight: The fight between Batman and the Joker at the party for Harvey Dent ends with the Joker taking Rachel hostage, first holding a gun to her head then shooting out the window behind them and hanging her out of it by one hand. When Batman says "Let her go.", Joker gives him a WTF look, says "Very poor choice of words!", and drops her. Fortunately for her, she slides down the angled windows below for a bit before truly falling, giving Batman enough time to dive out, grab her, and break their fall enough with his cape that when they land on a car, the impact isn't fatal.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5db577ba	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_6ff593f	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_6ff593f	comment	Fate/Long Night: When the Mother's Champion beats up Shinji and then starts strangling him, Sakura asks him to let him go, but it doesn't work until she uses a Command Spell, at which point he complies by hurling Shinji into a wall hard enough to crack it. Sakura notes she should have worded that more specifically.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_6ff593f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_77e22425	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_77e22425	comment	In the Pinky and the Brain episode "Brain Noir," Brain is climbing out of the water and grabs the hand of someone reaching out to help him. Then he realizes that the person in question is his archnemesis Snowball and yells, "Get your hand off of me!" Snowball, not unexpectedly, complies.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_77e22425	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_77e22425	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_79328e7	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_79328e7	comment	Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races for example: "Let her go, Zorro!"
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_79328e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_79328e7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7c038c18	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7c038c18	comment	In Phineas and Ferb, this happens to Doofenshmirtz, Perry, and Newton the Gnu at the hands of Dr. Diminutive.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7c038c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7c038c18	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7cf5a07	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash episode "All Doll'd Up", Rag Doll captures Barry then has him bound to a chair and teetering on the edge of a building. Ralph and Iris come to rescue him, where Ralph tells Rag Doll to "Let him go!" Of course, Rag Doll's answer is a nonchalante "Okay" before letting Barry fall.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7cf5a07	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7cf5a07	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7dbb8816	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7dbb8816	comment	In The Toxic Avenger, when Toxie confronts the hit-and-run driver Bozo in Bozo's car, the youngster tells Toxie to "give him the wheel" so he can drive straight. Well, Toxie dislocates the steering wheel and hands it over. Cue Oh, Crap! look on the driver's face - and a collision-induced explosion.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_7dbb8816	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_85ac65dc	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_85ac65dc	comment	In Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, the Djinn traps Father Gregory in his hellish home, suffering at the cross like Jesus. When Morgana wishes for the Djinn to release him, the Djinn drops Gregory's tortured body to the floor. Morgana protests that he didn't fulfill the wish and the Djinn responds by releasing Gregory from his life.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_85ac65dc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_8ae58e98	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_8ae58e98	comment	Black Dynamite: Two Swole picks up grandma Graham and her little grandson Keith. When Black Dynamite tells him to let them go, Two Swole responds by tossing them in the air.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_8ae58e98	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_8ae58e98	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Dynamite (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_8ae58e98
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9b602c3f	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune: When King, Chapter 1's Arc Villain, angrily grabs his son Lancer once the party confronts him, his response to them telling him to "let [his son] go" is to threaten to drop Lancer... off the castle roof.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9b602c3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9b602c3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Deltarune (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9b602c3f
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9ca2535c	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9ca2535c	comment	In Forever's End, the Black Demon is holding Hyuuga over a cliff edge, and Epoch tells it to let him go. Splat.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9ca2535c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9ca2535c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9cc59f9c	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9cc59f9c	comment	Buck Godot makes this mistake here.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9cc59f9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9cc59f9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9cc59f9c
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9dab421d	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9dab421d	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Will demands of Barbossa that he release Elizabeth. However, he "failed to specify when or where" to quote Barbossa, resulting in her being forced to walk the plank. They were near a deserted island though, so she didn't drown.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_9dab421d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a6cdace8	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a6cdace8	comment	The Dreamland Chronicles: The pirate laughs and observes Alex doesn't really want it.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a6cdace8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a6cdace8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a725fd30	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a725fd30	comment	The end of Blofeld in the opening of For Your Eyes Only:
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a725fd30	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a725fd30	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a9f06cb6	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a9f06cb6	comment	This happens at the end of the VeggieTales episode "Sweetpea Beauty" when the mirror drops Sweetpea from the top of the castle. Prince Larry saves her, though.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_a9f06cb6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_aa572fcb	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_aa572fcb	comment	In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW), Raphael makes the mistake of saying this to the Rat King (in this incarnation a god of chaos) as he's holding a child by the leg over a drop into the east river. Michelangelo, after rescuing the child, lampshades the stupidity of saying that, bringing up The Dark Knight as a reference.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_aa572fcb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ab42c63a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ab42c63a	comment	Played for humor on an episode of Get Smart. The Chief yells, "Drop that Control agent!" to some henchgirls holding Max out a window; Max later points out that his words could have multiple interpretations.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ab42c63a	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ab42c63a	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Smart	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ab42c63a
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_af2a147e	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_af2a147e	comment	This happens near the end of Enchanted, while Robert attempts to protect Giselle from dragon-form Queen Narissa:
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_af2a147e	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_af2a147e	featureConfidence	1.0
Enchanted	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_af2a147e
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_b0cf0ed6	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	"Danger Mouse On The Orient Express" starts off with DM and Penfold on holiday in Venice where the Grand Canal is disrupted with a highway construction in progress. Penfold is plucked from the ground by a crane hook operated by Baron Greenback's henchman Stiletto. As DM intervenes, he and Stiletto fight for control of the crane hook, which catapults Penfold out of the frying pan and into the fire—Baron Greenback's hideout.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_b0cf0ed6	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_b0cf0ed6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_b5a087d7	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken has a heroic (of a sort) version. Ted Turner, having dressed himself as Captain Planet, forces someone to sign a pledge not to dump any more sludge by holding them out of a skyscraper window, after which he will let them go. The guy complies, and Turner releases him.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_b5a087d7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bac475ee	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bac475ee	comment	Made a brief appearance in The Crow movie, when Eric confronts Top Dollar, the underworld crime boss whose operations Eric has disrupted with his quest for revenge. Top Dollar is holding Eric's young mortal friend Sarah hostage on the roof of an abandoned church, and Eric follows him up to the roof, then shouts "Let her go" as he approaches Top Dollar. For his part, Top Dollar responded by shrugging and saying "All right," then gave Sarah a shove towards the side. She's fine since it's an angled roof, but Eric is naturally distracted and instinctually goes to help her, giving Top Dollar an opening to start attacking him.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bac475ee	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bc7736c8	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bc7736c8	comment	In one issue of Suicide Squad, Amanda Waller sent Deadshot to stop the other villain Rick Flag from killing a Senator, with the orders that "Rick Flagg must never be allowed to kill the Senator, by any means". Deadshot made sure he'd never be able to kill the Senator - he killed him himself. I guess that teaches you not to give vital jobs to the Axe-Crazy Psycho for Hire...
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bc7736c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bc7736c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Suicide Squad (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bc7736c8
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c13792a1	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c13792a1	comment	In God of War III, when Zeus grabs Pandora, Kratos tells him to put her down. He complies by pressing her over his head and throwing her down. She isn't seriously hurt though.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c13792a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c13792a1	featureConfidence	1.0
God of War III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c13792a1
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c29f1036	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c29f1036	comment	A less-fatal version of the "let me go" variation is used in The Prince of Egypt, in which Moses does this to Tzipporah, releasing the rope with which she's tied and allowing her to fall into a pool of water. She later returns the favor.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c29f1036	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c29f1036	featureConfidence	1.0
The Prince of Egypt	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c29f1036
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4282b71	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "A Flurry of Emotions" features a non-villainous variant when Twilight realizes Flurry is levitating everyone and everything in the hospital room. When she demands she put them all down, Flurry, being an infant, simply drops everything, and Twilight has to use her own magic to keep everything from crashing onto the ground.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4282b71	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4282b71	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4282b71
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4b82575	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4b82575	comment	Underworld (2003): In Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Viktor seizes a dissenting (human) silver mine owner by the throat. The man croaks "Let me go." Viktor complies, hurling him headfirst into a massive stone pillar and splattering his brains. Underworld: Awakening has a heroic (put loosely) version of this. Selene is using a High-Altitude Interrogation on a mook who let her escape from the facility so they could use her to find Subject 2. After the mook explains this and tries to get some mercy by saying he "let her go", Selene quips "now we're even" and drops him.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4b82575	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4b82575	featureConfidence	1.0
Underworld (2003)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c4b82575
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c5779830	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c5779830	comment	In Black Scorpion, Breathtaker is holding Russo aloft on a catwalk in the chemical plant. Black Scorpion arrives and yells "Let him go!", to which Breathtaker replies "With pleasure" and immediately tosses him over the railing.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c5779830	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c5779830	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Scorpion	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_c5779830
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_cd899ed6	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_cd899ed6	comment	Happens twice in the Grand Finale of Action Man (2000). The first time this trope is played completely straight; Action Man demands Professor Gangrene lets Rikkie go while the former threatens to throw the latter out of the airship. Gangrene is more than happy to comply with this request. The second time, when Quake threatens to throw Fidget into a lava pit, Action Man is more careful with his choice of words and specifically demands he puts her down safely on the ground. Not that it stops Quake from throwing her into the pit anyway.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_cd899ed6	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_cd899ed6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ce50887e	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ce50887e	comment	Also done in the original series, in a much more straightforward way. When King Piccolo is confronting the king of Earth on his airplane, he grabs the king's first mate and holds him over the edge. The king demands that Piccolo let him go, and Piccolo does just that, letting the man fall to his death.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ce50887e	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ce50887e	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Ball (Manga)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ce50887e
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d642b0d5	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d642b0d5	comment	Sonic Lost World: In the opening cutscene, Sonic and Tails are chasing Eggman as he's making off with a capsule filled with innocent animals, and Sonic orders him to "Drop the critters!" Eggman replies, "If you insist," and proceeds to do just that.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d642b0d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d642b0d5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d8520b74	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d8520b74	comment	In Sam and Max: Culture Shock, Sam and Max get information out of Jimmy Two Teeth by holding him out the window. When Jimmy demands that Max put him down, Max, as befits his status as a Heroic Comedic Sociopath, drops him.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d8520b74	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d8520b74	featureConfidence	1.0
Sam & Max: Freelance Police (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d8520b74
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d9af8733	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d9af8733	comment	Freddy pulls this one in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. When the heroes show up to save Joey, who's tied up over a fiery pit, Nancy (who, having fought Freddy before, should really know better) shouts "let him go, Krueger!" Of course, Freddy replies, with a sarcastic bow, "your wish is my command": Joey's sent plummeting into the pit, and is only narrowly saved by the rest of the group.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_d9af8733	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dc217e32	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dc217e32	comment	Heroic example in PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines: During the Big P PokÃ©mon Race, Iris is riding on Ash's Charizard, and after spotting two snipers in wait at the entrance of the canyon as the competitors approach, they dive in to attack them, with Charizard grabbing one of them and flying away. When the thug begins to yell to be let go, Iris looks down below and seeing a river, quickly says: "You heard him, let him go!", and Charizard nonchalantly drops him.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dc217e32	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dc217e32	featureConfidence	1.0
Pokémon Reset Bloodlines (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dc217e32
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dedab746	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dedab746	comment	Referenced and defied in the Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic fic Where I Reign. Hakuei, who is currently possessed by Arba, is able to break through the possession enough to see what is happening outside her mind and is horrified to see Arba holding her younger brother Hakuryuu over the ocean by his throat. She starts to invoke this trope but then stops herself.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dedab746	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_dedab746	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e484b5e6	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e484b5e6	comment	Near the end of Batman: No Man's Land, The Commissioner Gordon's wife orders The Joker to drop the baby he's holding, with him at gunpoint. He does, so she has to drop her gun to catch the baby, giving him an opportunity to kill her with a Boom, Headshot!.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e484b5e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e484b5e6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e7a27429	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge: When Destroyah grabs Mothra, Rodan says, "Hands off the bug!" She says, "Okay" and throws her into him.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e7a27429	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e7a27429	featureConfidence	1.0
TheBridge	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e7a27429
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e82c9823	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e82c9823	comment	Done by Creed in the Black Cat manga. When Chronos came to destroy the Apostles of the Stars and rescue Rinslet, Creed took her hostage and told Naizer to face the Werewolf alone. Naizer requested that Creed let her go if he wins, to which Creed agrees. After Naizer defeats the Werewolf, he tells Creed to keep his promise. Creed keeps his promise, literally, and drops Rinslet off of the tower.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e82c9823	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e82c9823	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Cat (Manga)	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_e82c9823
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_eb59224d	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_eb59224d	comment	Whenever Stephanie is kidnapped by Robbie Rotten in LazyTown, this command is used, one of which had Sportacus forcing Robbie to let her go.
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_eb59224d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_eb59224d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_eccf374a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_eccf374a	comment	In the 32nd episode of The Silverscale Arena, after Ridley grabs Interstella and holds her over a great height, Lop demands that he let her go. Ridley finds that to be a great idea and does just that- by dropping her from that height to her death.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ef7b3325	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_ef7b3325	comment	Played with by Doctor Doom in the "Unthinkable" arc of Fantastic Four. Doom is holding Franklin hostage in hell, and holding the arm of Valeria. He promises to let Sue's child go if she'll do what he wants, and when she acquiesces, he releases Valeria's arm. She's in no immediate danger, though. The current author was deconstructing Doom's Noble Demon habits.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_f2d501d6	comment	Molly from Runaways shows an awareness of this trope. When a giant is holding one of her friends she follows the demand that the giant put the friend down with "And not, like, down your throat."
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman: Happens in "The Apprentice" when the Joker is attempting to drop his sidekick Prank into a vat of the same toxic waste that transformed him into the Joker:
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_f3c3ca42	comment	The Tick: Done in "The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo" when Arthur is captured by some mooks. Of course, Arthur can fly, but he isn't particularly happy about The Tick's choice of words either way.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_f3ef0f86	comment	A variation in The Arctic Incident. When Briar Cudgeon has Artemis as a hostage and is told to put Artemis down, he responds by cocking his gun and sneering 'I'll put him down all right.'
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_f74b5f80	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Unhand Them, Villain! / int_f74b5f80	comment	In one episode of Babylon 5, Delenn demands that the Streibs release their prisoners, and they do: into outer space.
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_f90f1b9f	comment	In Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, "Adventures In Squirrelsitting", Fat Cat holds Tammy and Bink by their tails, and demands the Maltese Mouse in exchange. Said artifact is given up, followed by the demand, and the literal fulfillment. Monty catches Bink (with an assist from Dale), and Chip catches Tammy, setting her up to be the Clingy Jealous Girl for an episode.
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Better Watch Out / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Black Adam (2022) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Black Scorpion / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Commando / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Commando (1985) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
8mm / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
For Your Eyes Only / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Max Keeble's Big Move / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
The Crow / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
The Crow (1994) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
The Dark Knight / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
The Hot Rock / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
The Lone Ranger (2013) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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Shangri-La / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Ecce Romani / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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Shangri-La / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
T2 Trilogy / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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Motive / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Video Game) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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Bounty Hunter (Video Game) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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This Is The Police 2 (Video Game) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque : La Série Abrégée (Web Video) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Sword Art Online Abridged (Web Video) / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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Ben 10: Omniverse / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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Darkwing Duck / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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The Batman / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
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