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* The Advertising/WilkinsCoffee ads made by Creator/JimHenson, in which a Muppet named Wilkins offers Wilkins Coffee to another Muppet, Wontkins. Wonktins typically refuses and gets hurt for it - often fatally. One ad has Wilkins shooting Wontkins with a cannon and then turning it towards the camera, essentially threatening the audience into buying their coffee.

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* One banner ad for ''Webcomic/LuciPhurrsImps'' shows an imp holding up a cat with the caption "Read ''Luci Phurr's Imps'' or we eat the cat!"

* Many guests on ''Caged Heat Radio'' make jokes at the listener's expense but Wrestling/KevinSullivan and Steve Coorino in particular threatened bodily harm on those who did not tune in.

Compare AppealToForce and DisproportionateRetribution.

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->'''Wilkins:''' Care for a cup of Wilkins Coffee?
->'''Wontkins:''' No, I don't like coffee.
->''[a hand holding a gun reaches into the frame and shoots Wontkins dead at point-blank range]''
->'''Wilkins:''' This has been a public service!

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->'''''Wilkins:''' Care for a cup of Wilkins Coffee?''
->'''''Wontkins:''' No, I don't like coffee.''
->''(a hand holding a gun reaches into the frame and shoots Wontkins dead at point-blank range)''
->'''''Wilkins:''' This has been a public service!''

--> '''Crazy Ernie''': If no one comes down and buys a car from me in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right! I'll club this seal to make a better deal! And you know I'd do it too... because I'm crazy!

-->[-"Captain Fishface has got ''your'' children. To get them back undamaged, write to this address enclosing three thousand box tokens from Captain Fishface products... "-]

* Around election time in ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}} 4'', the [[AnnouncerChatter in-game radio station]] Tropico News Today sometimes runs the advertisement "People are demanding elections, and El Presidente demands your vote! Vote El Presidente-- '''or else.'''"

* InUniverse on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' In "Douche and Turd", P. Diddy's "Vote or Die" campaign is taken to its literal extreme -- if you don't vote, P. Diddy will hunt you down and kill you.

-->"If you vote for me, all your dreams will come true...BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, YOU'LL NEVER DREAM AGAIN!"

-->'''Bee:''' Hey, boys and girls, remember to ''bee'' yourself...and don't fuck with us, or we'll sting you all at once and kill you.

-->'''''Wilkins:''' Care for a cup of Wilkins Coffee?''
-->'''''Wontkins:''' No, I don't like coffee.''
-->''(a hand holding a gun reaches into the frame and shoots Wontkins dead at point-blank range)''
-->'''''Wilkins:''' This has been a public service!''

* InUniverse on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' In "Douche and Turd" P. Diddy's "Vote or Die" campaign is taken to its literal extreme - if you don't vote, P. Diddy will hunt you down and kill you.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' bully Nelson Muntz runs for Class President on the platform of "vote for me or else."

* From Film/{{UHF}}:

-> '''Crazy Ernie''': If no one comes down and buys a car from me in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right! I'll club this seal to make a better deal! And you know I'd do it too... because I'm crazy!

* Advertising/SegataSanshiro, a Japanese martial arts mascot for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. Many of his commercials depicted him breaking into random houses and beating up anybody who wasn't playing a Saturn. He could be anywhere, whether out of an alley, or at a dance club, or even disguised as SantaClaus. Thankfully he wasn't all mean; he saved civilians in a burning building once, coached a soccer team, is sweet to his girlfriend, and in his last commercial [[spoiler:made a HeroicSacrifice for Sega by catching a missile and flying it into space.]] In fact, only two of his commercials have him act in tune of the trope, but they still kinda stand out, considering his own BraggingThemeTune imply that he's still doing that off screen.
* The infamous ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' ad campaign, which simply promised in large, bold letters "Creator/JohnRomero is about to make you his bitch."

* Advertising/SegataSanshiro, a Japanese martial arts mascot for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. Many of his commercials depicted him breaking into random houses and beating up anybody who wasn't playing a Saturn. He could be anywhere, whether out of an alley, or at a dance club, or even disguised as SantaClaus. Thankfully he wasn't all mean; he saved civilians in a burning building once, coached a soccer team, is sweet to his girlfriend, and in his last commercial [[spoiler:made a HeroicSacrifice for Sega by catching a missile and flying it into space.]]

* In Japan, the advertisement of SegaSaturn involves Advertising/SegataSanshiro, a judo expert that comes to anyone who's having any sorts of activities aside of playing Sega Saturn, for him that's a sin that deserves the punishment of being beaten to pulp. Surprisingly, it worked and let Saturn live longer in Japan, compared to its state in America. And even more, it fell into EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, he only did that to the earlier two commercials, aside of that, [[MundaneMadeAwesome he's doing a lot of wacky awesome commercials with bombastic]] BraggingThemeTune (though the lyrics refer that he indulges in the trope), but it still assured him to be [[MemeticBadass a legend amongst many gamers]].