History Main / AintTooProudToBeg

* Both ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}'' and his opponent Hunters in Minecraft Manhunt are not above pleading and bargaining for their lives when they're put on the run.
* ''WebVideo/WhenPostingGoesWrong'' had an episode detailing the "[=HIVLiving=] Incident."[[labelnote:For the uninformed...]]The short version is that a Tumblr blogger claimed to be a half-Chinese woman living in India who was, among other things, HIV+. She was in fact a white American college student who didn't have HIV but used the lie to scam money out of people and win arguments.[[/labelnote]] The episode included readings of the chat where Alix, the person behind the [=HIVLiving=] blog, was confronted by another Tumblr user. After ''hours'' of BlatantLies and trying to weasel her way out of trouble, she was finally caught in an absolutely undeniable lie, and her whole story very quickly fell apart. She then went into full-on grovel mode, begging the other user not to doxx her or make her findings public--even after she was told multiple times that they had no intentions of doxxing her, they just wanted her to publically acknowledge her deception, apologize, and refund the money she'd raised under false pretenses. The grovelling goes on for hours and gets rather pathetic. It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for her. ''Almost''.

* In ''Glorious Appearing'' from the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book series, False Prophet Leon Fortunato, when he is made to stand before Jesus Christ and to bow before Him and confess Him as Lord, ends up begging pitifully to be spared his fate in the Lake of Fire alongside the Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia, even renouncing his association with both Nick and Satan and pledging his allegiance to Jesus. [[HeelFaceDoorSlam Unfortunately for Leon, Jesus isn't changing His mind.]]
* In the climax of Creator/DJMacHale's ''[[Literature/ThePendragonAdventure Pendragon]]'' series, [[spoiler:the terrifying, superhuman BigBad Saint Dane, when finally defeated by the Travelers,]] is reduced to a sobbing, groveling wretch begging to have his life spared.
* In ''[[Literature/TheQueensThief The Queen of Attolia]]'', [[spoiler:Eugenides']] desperate begging to be spared having his hand cut off doesn't help at all. Yet, it turns out to [[spoiler:have haunted the queen ever since.]]

* In the French-Belgian comics ''LesPetitsHommes'' ''Les Prisonniers du temps'', the hero begs the villain not harming him, telling that the villain can kill all the others if he wants. Just kidding. Actually, they were now ghosts for each other, so the villain had no way to harm anyone, and the hero was just having fun.

* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'': If you're going to beg for your life to not be cut short at the hands of the Doom Slayer, expect it to fail. A Saber named Marley tried it... and all he got was an extremely pissed off Slayer marching up to him and [[BoomHeadshot blasting his brains out with his Super Shotgun]] [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange at point-blank range]].

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** Cersei is quickly reduced to begging when Tywin declares his plans to place her in a new ArrangedMarriage.

** After seven seasons of being a MagnificentBastard, Littlefinger is rocked when he realizes too late he's been set up by Sansa and Arya for a public trial. Realizing he has no allies, he falls to his knees and asks for mercy for the memory of their mother, who he loved. Given how she died in part because of his conniving, it's no wonder they don't listen.

* When the final confrontation in the manga version of ''Manga/DeathNote'' reaches its conclusion, [[spoiler:Ryuk refuses to help the defeated Light and writes [[VillainProtagonist Light]]'s name down right in front of him, exactly as he promised he would in the very first chapter. This gives the oh-so proud "[[AGodAmI God of the new world]]" exactly forty seconds to desperately beg for his life.]] In the anime, as he's laying on the warehouse ground riddled with bullet holes, he desperately calls out for Misa and Takada, begging to know where they are. Either way, Light ends the series going from a total egomaniac who thought he had everyone on puppet strings to a terrified young man with just mere seconds to live.

* In an episode of ''Anime/OutlawStar'', an assassin, Yase, hired by the [[BigBad Kei Pirates]] to take out Gene Starwind tries this tactic on "Twilight" Susuka before firing his wrist weapon at her. Suzuka deflects all of his shots before taking him out once and for all.