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* One ''Magazine/{{Spirou}}'' cover shows someone holding a pair of scissors open around the paw of a ComicBook/BillyTheCat plushie, with a CutAndPasteNote stating "Buy this magazine or we cut Billy the Cat".

* In-universe example: VideoGame/WeHappyRestaurant features a machine that brainwashes people from everywhere accross time and space and forces them to come to your restaurant and eat your horrible food.

* 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. This was based on a real campaign during the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, although obviously P. Diddy is not known to have pursued anyone with a 9mm.

* There's the classic "[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Natlamp73.jpg If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog.]]" cover run by ''Franchise/NationalLampoon'', which showed an appealing dog with a large hand-gun pointing at it.

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

-->'''LondonGangster:''' Use Low Suds Mold, or we send the boys round.

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* Several ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' {{Sunday Strip}}s had a television set which presses up against viewers' faces while broadcasting commercials berating them for not having bought the product already. When they run away in terror, it chases them down.
-->"Wear 'Rambo' brand jeans... or you're SCUM!"
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* For a long time, advertisements for [=DirectTV=] all followed the same line of showing, through a line of InsaneTrollLogic and [[RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts Rube Goldberg-esque events]], how not having [=DirectTV=] would ruin your life entirely (such as being bored with regular cable would make you a deficient juror, [[RageAgainstTheLegalSystem which would make the man your judgement put in jail decide to break out and seek revenge...]]).

** In the same episode ("It Might as Well Be String", parodying the advertising industry), Bill and Graham explain that housewives have finally gotten wise to the BlatantLies of advertising, so they have to resort to threats instead. In another add, a housewife refuses to use the advertised cleaning agent, so Bill and a couple of thugs [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender rough her up until she relents]].

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** In the scene following this ("It Might as Well Be String", parodying the advertising industry), Bill and Graham explain that housewives have finally gotten wise to the BlatantLies of advertising, so they have to resort to threats instead. Bill appears in an advertisement where when a housewife refuses to use the appropriate cleaning agent, [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender Bill beats her up with the help of a couple of thugs until she relents]].

Compare AppealToForce, DisproportionateRetribution, PublicServiceAnnouncement. InvertedTrope of OurProductSucks.

Compare AppealToForce, DisproportionateRetribution, PublicServiceAnnouncement.

* One ''Magazine/{{Spirou}}'' cover shows someone holding a pair of scissors open around the paw of a ComicBook/BillyTheCat plushie and a CutAndPasteNote that says (in French): "Buy this magazine or we cut Billy the Cat"

* One ''Magazine/{{Spirou}} cover shows someone holding a pair of scissors open around the paw of a ComicBook/BillyTheCat plushie and a CutAndPasteNote that says (in French): "Buy this magazine or we cut Billy the Cat"

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* This is another aspect of bad advertising - a sort of odious moral blackmail - held up for derisive deconstruction on ''name-and-shame-those-crap-adverts'' website ''Website/AdTurds''.

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* 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.