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* [[StarCraft Protoss]] don't annihilate planets, they ''purify'' them.
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* Ethnic cleansing. Just as bad as it sounds.
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*** The Assassins are tend to be WickedCultured and/or AffablyEvil - they consider themselves to be providing a service to the "client" by inhuming them in a stylish and dignified manner (and at great expense to the contractor). No gentelman want to be killed by being hit over the head with a club by a two-dollar thug, after all.
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*** The Assassins are tend to be WickedCultured and/or AffablyEvil - they consider themselves to be providing a service to the "client" by inhuming them in a stylish and dignified manner (and at great expense to the contractor). No gentelman gentleman want to be killed by being hit over the head with a club by a two-dollar thug, after all.
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*** At least in the USA, the term "inhume" is almost unknown and normally the meaning is guessed at as the opposite of exhume. Which is correct. It also makes it more interesting as it appears as if the Guild invented the word to avoid saying "killed".
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* This trope isn't limited to human deaths by any means. Some people euphemistically refer to hunting/trapping as "harvest," in an apparent attempt to imply that animals are no different from any other natural resource. Nuisance animals are "managed" or "controlled," not "killed."
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*** The Assassins are tend to be WickedCultured and/or AffablyEvil - they consider themselves to be providing a service to the "client" by inhuming them in a stylish and dignified manner (and at great expense to the contractor). No gentelman want to be killed by being hit over the head with a club by a two-dollar thug, after all.
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*Subverted on an [[BLAMEpisode episode]] of {{WesternAnimation/TheMask}}, that parodied PlanetOfTheApes. Characters are told that they will be "terminated", and assume the natives are out to kill them, but as it turns out that just means they will be fired from the city-enveloping [[MegaCorp corporation]] (which they, being from another time, don't actually work for).
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* In WorldOfWarcraft, Algalon the Observer talks about "re-origination" as the consequence of a world's failure to measure up to the standards of his masters, the Titans. "Re-origination" refers to the complete destruction of all life in a world followed immediately by the remaking of life in the world according to the Titans' original blueprints.
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'''Bobby''': Wait a minute, you're just going to throw me off this roof and that's
supposed to be Urinetown?! Death is Urinetown?!\\
supposed to be Urinetown?! Death is Urinetown?!\\
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'''Bobby''': Wait a minute, you're just going to throw me off this roof and that's
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* In ''{{Urinetown}}'', anyone who refuses to use the pay toilets, or otherwise causes trouble, is shipped off to the eponymous town.
-->'''Bobby''': So what's it like, this "Urinetown" that I've heard so much about?\\
'''Officer Barrel''': Perhaps better for us to "show" you.\\
'''Bobby''': Wait a minute, you're just going to throw me off this roof and that's
supposed to be Urinetown?! Death is Urinetown?!\\
'''Officer Lockstock''': That's one interpretation.
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* In ''{{Urinetown}}'', anyone who refuses to use the pay toilets, or otherwise causes trouble, is shipped off to the eponymous town.
-->'''Bobby''': So what's it like, this "Urinetown" that I've heard so much about?\\
'''Officer Barrel''': Perhaps better for us to "show" you.\\
'''Bobby''': Wait a minute, you're just going to throw me off this roof and that's
supposed to be Urinetown?! Death is Urinetown?!\\
'''Officer Lockstock''': That's one interpretation.
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* The ''StarTrek'' novel ''Federation'' has part of its plot in the late 21st Century, when a genocidal political movement used the term "contained" -- "As in containing the spread of contagion."
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*** There's actually a point where "vaporized" '''is''' said to be a literal use:[[spoiler:O'Brien]] tells Winston that "we shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere."
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*** There's actually a point where "vaporized" '''is''' said to be a literal use:[[spoiler:O'Brien]] use: [[spoiler:O'Brien]] tells Winston that "we shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere."
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*** There's actually a point where "vaporized" '''is''' said to be a literal use:[[spoiler:O'Brien]] tells Winston that "we shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere."
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**** Which is pretty handy, since in English, that's what "inhume" means.
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** Somewhat subverted in that nobody knows it is a euphemism save the Giver because nobody save him has any ''concept'' of death.
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** Somewhat subverted in that nobody knows it is a euphemism save the Giver (and later his successor, the Receiver) because nobody save him has any ''concept'' of death.
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*** Of course, quite a few courts considered cutting your throat before you were burned a ''lesser penance''. Witch hunters were payed by the bonfire.
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*** Of course, quite a few courts considered cutting your throat before you were burned a ''lesser penance''. Witch hunters were payed by the bonfire.
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** Classic Doctor Who also gives us an example: 7th Doctor serial describes death as "going to Java", with anyone who's said to be going to Java either dead or is going to be killed pretty soon.
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** Classic Doctor Who also gives us an example: The 7th Doctor serial ''Ghost Light'' describes death as "going to Java", with anyone who's said to be going to Java either dead or is going to be killed pretty soon.
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* The SCPFoundation does not kill. It "terminates".
** Their style guide explicitly tells writers that "terminate" is overused and only meant for when the Foundation specifically ordered a living creature (they also specify that inanimate objects are destroyed, not terminated) killed. But, yeah, still an example.
** Their style guide explicitly tells writers that "terminate" is overused and only meant for when the Foundation specifically ordered a living creature (they also specify that inanimate objects are destroyed, not terminated) killed. But, yeah, still an example.
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* The SCPFoundation does not kill. It "terminates". \n** Their style guide explicitly tells writers that "terminate" is overused and only meant for when the Foundation specifically ordered a living creature (they also specify that inanimate objects are destroyed, not terminated) Sometimes people get killed. But, yeah, still an example.Their [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/how-to-write-an-scp#toc5 style guide]] explains the difference.
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** Somewhat subverted in that nobody knows it is a euphemism save the Giver because nobody save him has any ''concept'' of death.
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* ReBoot often used "erase" and "delete" in place of death. Since this show is [[{{Cyberspace}} inside a computer]] this is appropriate given what erasing and deleting do to actual code. There's really no attempt at hiding what those words actually mean in this show.
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* ReBoot ''{{ReBoot}}'' often used "erase" and "delete" in place of death. Since this show is [[{{Cyberspace}} inside a computer]] this is appropriate given what erasing and deleting do to actual code. There's really no attempt at hiding what those words actually mean in this show.
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* In the middle and early modern ages, trials for heresy (later also extended to those for witchcraft) would end with the clerical judges handing over those found guilty to the secular authorities, commending them to their mercy. Of course the secular authorities invariably executed them, usually by burning at the stake.
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* In the middle and early modern ages, trials for heresy (later also extended to those for witchcraft) would end with the clerical judges handing over those found guilty to the secular authorities, commending them to their mercy. Of course the secular authorities invariably executed them, usually often by burning at the stake.stake.
** Though if one confessed and renounced one's heresy, and did not return to it, one could usually escape with a lesser penance. Relapsed heretics, however...
** Though if one confessed and renounced one's heresy, and did not return to it, one could usually escape with a lesser penance. Relapsed heretics, however...
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*** In French, "inhumer" means "to bury".
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*** A similar example would be "undertaker", although here it is just dealing with the disposal of dead bodies, not causing them to be dead. The word is a "false friend" for German-speakers, as it sounds like a literal equivalent of "Unternehmer" = entrepreneur.
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** Similar with "giving no quarter".
* Another old favourite: "while attempting to escape". Lampshaded in the scene in ''{{Casablanca}}'' where Captain Renault says that he and Major Strasser had not yet decided whether Ugarte had committed suicide or had tried to escape.
* Another old favourite: "while attempting to escape". Lampshaded in the scene in ''{{Casablanca}}'' where Captain Renault says that he and Major Strasser had not yet decided whether Ugarte had committed suicide or had tried to escape.
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*ReBoot often used "erase" and "delete" in place of death. Since this show is [[{{Cyberspace}} inside a computer]] this is appropriate given what erasing and deleting do to actual code. There's really no attempt at hiding what those words actually mean in this show.
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*ReBoot often used "erase" and "delete" in place of death. Since this show is [[{{Cyberspace}} inside a computer]] this is appropriate given what erasing and deleting do to actual code. There's really no attempt at hiding what those words actually mean in this show.
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* ''FatherTed'' did the "take care of" variant, when Ted realised exactly how his psychotic friend was going to ''take care'' of a large quantity of rabbits.
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* If it is said that someone, generally in the armed forces, is not taking prisoners, what do you think happens to the people they capture? A catch and release program? Disarming them and sending them on their way? Maybe... but probably not.
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** Memorialized in the {{Catch-22}} quote: "They're going to disappear him? They can't disappear him! That's impossible! It's not even good grammar!"
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** Memorialized in the {{Catch-22}} quote: "They're going to disappear him? They can't disappear him! That's impossible! It's not even good grammar!"
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*** Various places in South America, and it's not an official euphemism, but used by the public to refer to the sudden and clandestine nature of the kidnappings and executions.
*** And then it became an official term: the crime against humanity of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforced_disappearance enforced disappearance]]''.
*** And then it became an official term: the crime against humanity of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforced_disappearance enforced disappearance]]''.
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*** Various places in South America, and it's not an official euphemism, but used by the public to refer to the sudden and clandestine nature of the kidnappings and executions.
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* In the [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] society in ''{{Homestuck}}'', the less useful members of the populace - such as, say, [[WheelchairWoobie the disabled]] - are in risk of "culling".
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** Also [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/051206 this]].
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* In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, ''Never Let Me Go'', "completed" is the term used when the clones die.
