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* In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', [[Complete Monster|Kivas Fajo]] tries this on Data. After having kidnapped him as a trophy of sorts and killing a woman Data became friends with, Data has the villain at gunpoint. He believes Data is incapable of doing it, and goes on to claim he'll just keep killing people if Data doesn't behave. [[Subverted Trope|Data declares that he can't let him live]], and pulls the trigger... right when he's beamed back to the ''Enterprise''.
* ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' has another cruel subversion of this trope.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''D'Alessio:'''}} [[Tempting Fate|Oh, tough guy! What, are you going to shoot me just for mouthing off]]?
{{spoiler|'''Jimmy:'''}} Well, I wasn't going to do, but you kinda talked me into it. *BANG* }}
* ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'': At the end of "Did You See the Sunrise?", Magnum confronts Ivan, a Russian agent who's about to walk free after murdering a POW, masterminding an attempt to [[Brainwashed and Crazy|turn Magnum's friend TC into an assassin]], and killing one of Magnum's friends with a car bomb in a misaimed shot at Magnum. Ivan is unconcerned, chiding Magnum that he's far too honorable a man to shoot someone in cold blood. Right? '''[[Shoot the Dog|Wrong]]'''.
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** Alternatively, Shepard can find another way to kill people who say this.
{{quote|'''Eclipse Guard''': "I've got nothing more to say to you. If you shoot me..."
''(Shepard [[Destination Defenestration|pushes the mercenary out the window]].)''
'''Shepard''': ''"[[Bond One-Liner|How about 'Goodbye'?]]"'' }}
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Reconstruction.'' "Oh ''come on'', Wash. [[Famous Last Words|What are you gonna do, shoot m-]]"
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110924052038/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man This article] opens with this trope: Repo man tries to repossess a plane. Militia points a gun at him, ignored. Fires a shot in the air, ignored. Bluff called.
{{quote|Popovich's first rule of firearms is pretty simple: The man who tells you he's going to shoot you will not shoot you.}}
* ''[[Girl Genius]]''
** Tarvek [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160725 figured out] the Smoke Knight threatening him with a knife was sent to capture, rather than kill.
{{quote|'''Tarvek''': …So that weapon is —
(he gets stabbed in the biceps)
'''Mister Obsidian''': Still ''extremely pointy''. }}
** Then there was an amusing scene in England when Tarvek pointed a gun at one sneaky conspirator and his minion. They decided to bet on a misguided notion that "these continental science heroes are always wittering on about the sanctity of human life". After which one of them serves as teaching aid and another learns that Tarvek is more of a [[Card-Carrying Villain|card-carrying]] [[Anti-Hero]] type.
== Western Animation ==
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* When a madman with a gun threatens the boys of ''[[South Park]]'' while they're pretending to be superheroes, Mysterion actually tells his friends to leave, walks up, presses his own forehead against the barrel of the gun, and ''dares'' the man to shoot. Not that he really had to worry because he reveals in the same scene that {{spoiler|he can't die. Turns out Mysterion was Kenny. and the [[Running Gag]] of him dying and coming back was a legitimate superpower.}}
== Western Animation ==
* Used with a twist in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' when Hank and Dean are [[Brainwashed and Crazy]].
{{quote|'''Brock''': "You two don't want to shoot me. [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|You know what I'll do to you if you do.]]"}}
* ''[[Beast Wars]]'': "[[Subverted Trope|You SHOT me!]]" For context, Silverbolt, a Maximal, invokes the trope with Blackarachnia, a Predacon, though admittedly one infatuated with him. She shoots him in the leg just to prove him wrong. He rationalizes this as a good thing, though, since she could have shot something important.
* In ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'', J and K end up in this position several times, with J holding the gun on K. Inevitably, J can't bring himself to shoot his partner, but he usually finds [[Take a Third Option|another solution]].
* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' two-parter where Stewie simulates killing Lois, ends with Lois holding Stewie at gunpoint, but can't kill her baby.
* When a madman with a gun threatens the boys of ''[[South Park]]'' while they're pretending to be superheroes, Mysterion actually tells his friends to leave, walks up, presses his own forehead against the barrel of the gun, and ''dares'' the man to shoot. Not that he really had to worry because he reveals in the same scene that {{spoiler|he can't die. Turns out Mysterion was Kenny. and the [[Running Gag]] of him dying and coming back was a legitimate superpower.}}
* In [[Bob's Burgers]] Calvin Fischoeder in the episode [[Bob's Burgers/Recap/S04/E22 World Wharf II: The Wharfening (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town - Part II)|World Wharf II: The Wharfening]] repeatedly says that {{spoiler|Felix Fischoeder}} won't kill him and Bob. He even does it in a taunting manner.
== Real Life ==
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