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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'' proves it really is DarkerAndGrittier by having the ''hero'' do this to the villain. In a desperate attempt to get information out of Wilson Fisk, Matt Murdoch tells Fisk that he can keep his love Vanessa out of the country forever with one letter sent to the right office. Unfortunately, all of the people who could have told Matt how [[BerserkButton bad of an idea it was to use Vanessa against Fisk]] are dead. And that is not a coincidence. Fisk basically beats Matt's face in, then delivers his own counter-threat against Matt and his friend Foggy.

** The World Government is also very fond of this tactic, as [[spoiler: researching the Poneglyphs]] can and ''has'' resulted in the WG [[SaltTheEarth hunting down and destroying everyone and everything related to said act.]]

* ''Series/AlexRider'': [[spoiler:Duplicate!Alex wants to kill everyone Alex loves as revenge for ruining Dr Greif's plan.]]

* ''Film/TheHobbit'': [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmIndependentVillains Smaug]] takes some pleasure in barbecuing literally everything that opposes him, or vaguely related to those who oppose him -- ''especially'' if he knows the first group cares about the second group's well-being.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': When Trent Ikiton finds out that the Mighty Nein are hiding out at the Lavish Chateau, he mobilizes a taskforce to bring them in. [[spoiler:Astrid and Eodwulf]] warn the Nein ahead of time that they have to leave... and that they should bring their loved ones with them, strongly implying that Trent would have been more than willing to abduct Jester's mother and [[spoiler:Veth's husband and four year-old son]] if he thought it would harm the Nein.

* In ''Film/ThePatriot'', it is Col. Tavington's pathological targeting of Benjamin Martin's family that turns the protagonist from a mild-mannered pacifist to a furious hatchet-wielding 'ghost' who empowers militia forces and inspires his compatriots to victory.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': At the end of Volume 3, [[spoiler: Adam specifically swears to make it his mission to destroy ''everything'' Blake loves to punish her for abandoning him and the White Fang, a threat he makes good on by [[AnArmAndALeg slicing off Yang's arm]], which forces Blake on the run just as he wanted. Sun follows her home, determined to have her back, and gets injured when they fight Adam's subordinate Ilia, which reinforces Blake's belief that she needs to be alone. After Sun [[YouAreNotAlone gives Blake a lecture on how her abandonment of her friends actually causes them more pain than their enemies ever could]], Blake's parents reveal the content of the intel Blake and Sun managed to recover from Ilia: that Adam plans to overthrow the White Fang leader, Sienna Khan, and then launch a full-scale assault on Haven Academy, destroying it just as he destroyed Beacon. At this point, Blake finally decides to stop running and begins making plans to take back control of the White Fang from Adam.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Dabi's entire career as a supervillain is revealed to be a calculated method of giving his father [[spoiler:Endeavor]] a mix between a HopeSpot and LaserGuidedKarma for [[spoiler:the life-threatening training he put him through as a kid]]: he'll let his father build his life back up again, then when he's on the verge of stability, rip away everything and everyone he cares about the most, even if they're not directly related. When called out on the wanton destruction by the heroes, he says it's WorthIt if the casualties hurt [[spoiler:Endeavor]] that much more.

* Mrs. Deagle in ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' literally threatens the little dog too, in an extended {{homage}} to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome attempts to kidnap Jack-Jack when his master plan fails. When that doesn't succeed, Syndrome flees to his escape jet but continues to rant that he will get Jack-Jack eventually which triggers Bob's Papa Wolf instinct and he throws a car at Syndrome's jet causing his demise.

* In ''Anime/WeissKreuz'', to get back at Ran "Aya" Fujimiya for his part in killing their boss, the Schreient girls kidnap his comatose little sister Aya-chan and hold her hostage, intending to kill her in front of him. This results ''directly'' in Aya rejoining Weiss to hunt them down and kill them.

* In ''[[ComicBook/SecretSix Villains United]]'', Mockingbird keeps Cheshire and Deadshot in line by threatening to kill their respective children.
* In ''Super Crooks'' by Creator/MarkMillar, the Bastard is considered the most terrifying super-villain on Earth, even in retirement. A story is told of how one guy thought he was over the hill and ripped the Bastard off. A typical villain might kill the guy. Another might kill his family. The Bastard hunts down and murders ''every single person'' this guy has ever known. Family, friends, his drug dealer, his pharmacist, his former employers, right down to grade school classmates, a total of over ''200'' people. ''Then'' he kills the guy.
* ''ComicBook/SWORD2009:'' A Knull-possessed Kid Cable is ranting about how he's going to take over Frenzy and make her hunt down and kill all her loved ones after she rips off his robot arm. It has no effect on her, because she comes from an abusive family, and has only ever loved one man, and he didn't love her back. And that man is Cable's dad.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': When Electro gets mad with Franchise/SpiderMan, he promises him that they'll find out who he is, and then he'll fry every single member of his family.

* The Team Rocket trio's obsession with Ash's Pikachu in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' since really, aside from a bad attitude about Poke Balls, Pikachu wasn't much different from any other Pokemon. Yet the threat makes them the main villains regardless.

* At the end of the third chapter of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', Doomguy returns to Earth only to find the cities burning and a rabbit with its head speared on a stake. In the extra chapter, ''Thy Flesh Consumed'', it's revealed that this rabbit was Daisy, Doomguy's pet rabbit.

->''"I'll get you, my pretty -- [[TropeNamer and your little dog too!]]"''
-->-- '''The Wicked Witch of the West''', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''

->''"I'll get you, my pretty -- and your little dog too!"''

** In "The Most Toys" when [[BadBoss Fajo]] threatens his minion Varria to force the android Data to comply with his wishes. It works, but that only inspires Varria to turn against Fajo, given that he would kill her over something so trivial. Fajo kills Varria during their escape and threatens to kill more if Data doesn't comply again, but Data reasons [[ZerothLawRebellion perfectly logically]] that the [[BatmanGrabsAGun only way to stop Fajo from doing this is to kill him.]]
** Invoked by Troi in "Face Of The Enemy", when she impersonates [[ThePoliticalOfficer Major Rakal]] of the Tal Shiar, the Romulan SecretPolice. Upon pulling rank against Commander Toreth, she tells the crew that anybody who would disobey her would see their families punished, too.

* ''ComicBook/{{Sword}}:'' A Knull-possessed Kid Cable is ranting about how he's going to take over Frenzy and make her hunt down and kill all her loved ones after she rips off his robot arm. It has no effect on her, because she comes from an abusive family, and has only ever loved one man, and he didn't love her back. And that man is Cable's dad.

* The ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeon Master's Guide]]'' lampshades this as a tactic for a DM to develop a campaign setting called "Hitting the [=PCs=] Where It Hurts" -- having the son of a blacksmith they befriend become kidnapped by slavers, for example, or having a peaceful village they love to visit be in the path of an evil cleric's invading army. It also warns not to overdo the tactic, however, or otherwise the [=PCs=] [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies will never grow attached to anything for fear of putting it in danger]] (the "murderhobo" phenomenon is thought to have originated precisely because of {{Killer Game Master}}s doing this too often).

* If players in ''VideoGame/FableII'' didn't have sufficient motivation to stop Lucian before, they will once he [[spoiler:murders the player's spouse, children, and dog.]]
** Keep in mind this is ''after'' he [[spoiler:kills your sister]].

* Done accidentally in ''Literature/TheIliad'': With [[AchillesInHisTent Achilles sulking in his tent]], his [[HoYay very good friend]] [[KissingCousins and cousin]] Patroclus donned Achilles' armor to bolster morale and strike fear in the enemies hearts. Hector wasn't deterred, fought and killed "Achilles". Hector killing Patroclus caused Achilles to come out of his tent, return to battle full of UnstoppableRage, and whoop Hector's ass. Before maliciously desecrating Hector's corpse.

* In the third ''Literature/YoungWizards'' book, ''High Wizardry'', the [[BigBad Lone Power]] (a.k.a. {{Satan}}) tells Dairine that It's going to punish her by instigating a nuclear holocaust on Earth, and, well... It ''[[LittleMissBadass really]]'' [[LittleMissBadass shouldn't have done that]].

* In the Creator/DaleBrown novel ''Wings of Fire'', the Libyans kill [[spoiler:Paul [=McLanahan=]]] and abet [[spoiler:Pavel Kazakov's henchwoman]] killing [[spoiler:Wendy [=McLanahan=]]].
** In ''Air Battle Force'', General Gryzlov threatens Patrick [=McLanahan=]'s friends, bases, crews, aircraft, and son. He tries to make good on this in ''Plan of Attack'', but doesn't completely succeed.

* ''Literature/DyingOfTheLight'': When Jaan's less-than-wise attempt to stop a duel leads to him being challenged, the challenger's [[HeterosexualLifePartner teyn]] starts raving that now they're going to kill Jaan and Garse and Dirk and Gwen and Arkin. Jaan ignores him, and continues with the dueling ritual.
* In the ''Literature/{{Drenai}}'' novel ''Waylander II'', Morak gleefully points out during his final duel with Waylander that he's already shot Waylander's actual dog, and instead relishes aloud the thought of paying a visit to Waylander's daughter after he wins.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Mr.15 threatens Eric's entire social circle during their battle at Mount Heios. He states that will use Tiza for breeding stock, Nolien as raw materials, and Basilard as a punching bag as well as detailing the "invasive and demeaning experiments he had planned for [[LoveInterest a certain elf girl]]". After seeing the horrific things Mr.15 had already done to his protégé, Zettai, Eric resolved to kill him dead. [[spoiler: Even after Mr.15 mana mutates, and thus no longer has any idea who he is or what threats he's made, Eric says that he can't risk Mr.15 ever coming back.]]
* ''The Algebraist'', by Creator/IainBanks. A GalacticConqueror wants the cooperation of an alien species, so proceeds to space hundreds of men, women and children from the human colony he's just conquered, [[AndIMustScream immobilised yet fully conscious]]. Unfortunately the aliens have BlueAndOrangeMorality so their response amounts to: "Yes, and what do this have to do with us?"

* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse''/''Literature/LandOfOz'' mash-up ''The Wonderful Doctor of Oz'', the Wicked Witch swears "I'll get you, Doctor, and your 'fam', and your ridiculous tin dog too."