History Main / GetItOverWith

The reasons for this scenario vary depending on the story. Maybe the defeated character is gravely wounded; they have no reinforcements and [[TheCavalryArrivesLate can expect no rescue]]; perhaps they [[LastStand face an overwhelming force]] they have no hope of triumph over. Either way, the defeated character is waiting for their final moments. But the victor is taking an [[WhyIsntItAttacking unreasonably long time]]. DefiantToTheEnd, cue the scream from the defeated character: [[LastRequest "JUST GET IT OVER WITH THIS!"]]. Bonus points if the defeated character asks the victor why they're taking so long to finish them.

* In ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'' when Dinin is surrounded by enemy soldiers, he fully expects to be killed and, being an AlwaysChaoticEvil drow himself, isn't even angry about it. However, he asks to be killed quickly and without pain. When the answer is "No," he is ready to fight to the death. Then he learns it's "No, I won't kill you at all." Despite his unrepentant evil, this [[FaceDeathWithDignity calm, absolutely sober way he faces his death as a consequence of his lifestyle]] for Dinin.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In Creator/JimButcher's novel ''Literature/SmallFavor'', when Harry defeats the gruff at Union Station, it tells him to finish it. Twice. Whereupon Harry says he does not kill unless necessary, much to the shock of the gruff, who had assumed he was actually in Winter Court.
%% (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) ** In ''Literature/TurnCoat'', Harry pulls this on the skin-walker, shocking it.
* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. Mack Bolan has been [[OneManArmy taking down one Mafia family after another]] despite everything the mob and police can throw at him. When he gets to San Diego, the mob boss there can only say, "I knew you'd get to my territory sooner or later. So go ahead. Kill me." [[BoomHeadshot Bolan does.]]
* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''First & Only'', Flense threatens to shoot Dorden, whom he is [[HostageSituation holding hostage]], if Gaunt mocks him. Dorden tells Gaunt to mock on, so he can be shot rather than listen to Flense's "garbage."

* In Andy Hoare's ''Literature/WhiteScars'' novel ''Hunt for Voldorius'', when Voldorius reveals he knows that Malya [[TheMole sent information to his foes]], she tells him to kill her. He reveals worse plans.
%% (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) * In Stephen Hunt's ''The Kingdom Beyond the Waves'', Bull says this not about death, but being assimilated into the Daggish.
* In Creator/RickRiordan's ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Last Olympian]]'', Percy interrupts a (divine!) quarrel to tell them that if they mean to kill him, they should get on with it.
* Literature/NightLords's ''Lord of the Night'': When the Inquisitor summons Mita -- for execution or mind-wipe, she assumes -- she tells him during the meeting to do it and get it over with.
%% (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) ** In the BackStory, when the Night Haunter's assassin hesitated, he told her "Now do your job and be done with it."

--->"What am I to do?" said John.\\

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''The Scarlet Citadel'', Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, facing a giant snake, stands still out of instinct; reason would have told him to get it over with by provoking the snake into an attack.

** ''The Deluge'': As Andrzej Kmicic, who's not a hero yet, duels Michał Wołodyjowski, a deceptively short MasterSwordsman, he gets a CurbStompBattle and is reduced to begging to be spared the humiliation. Wołodyjowski obliges (and then leaves before Kmicic is ''quite'' dead, allowing the [[RedemptionQuest rest of the plot]] to happen).

** In ''A Clash of Kings'', the rangers want captive wildling warrior Ygritte executed, to which Jon Snow objects and wants to spare Ygritte's life because she yielded, but Qhorin Halfhand gives this task to Jon. Jon Snow tries to ready himself to execute her, which he is reluctant to do both on account of her gender and because she had surrendered. Ygritte, who faces death with equanimity although it's plain she'd rather not die, finally tells him to hurry up and get it over with because she "can't stay brave forever." Jon can't bring himself to kill Ygritte and saves her life by letting her go.
** Tyrion is in his cell waiting for execution. When someone opens the door, he says, "Come on you son of a whore, are you afraid of a dwarf?" However it's his brother come to rescue him, so Jaime just says that's no way to talk about their mother.

%% (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) ** Another example occurs in ''A Storm of Swords'':

* An even-darker variation of this occurs in Creator/PeterDavid's novelization of ''Film/SpiderMan1'', during a moment that's quite a bit of an AdaptationDeviation from the film. Upon realizing that Uncle Ben's killer is the same man he could've stopped earlier, an emotionally-devastated Peter Parker makes no attempt to stop the carjacker from shooting him, and mentally tells him to just pull the trigger already. When it turns out that the carjacker is out of bullets, Peter screams out in anguish, causing the carjacker to back away from him in terror and fall out of a window to his death.

-->''Johnnie found that tears were streaming down his face and that he could not stop them. "Go ahead!" he cried, his voice misbehaving. "Get it over with! He never meant any harm! So kill him quickly . . don't play cat-and-mouse with him." He broke down and sobbed, covering his face with his hands.'' [snip]
-->''The officer looked distressed. "What are you talking about, son? We aren't here to hurt him. We have orders to bring him in without a scratch on him--even if we lost men in the process. Craziest orders I ever had to carry out."''
* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'':

** When Bevel Lemelisk, the designer of the Death Star--who [[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]] had painfully killed and [[BackFromTheDead cloned back to life]] again and again for missing the flaw that got the Death Star destroyed--is finally executed by the New Republic, his last words are "Do it right this time."

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novel ''The Killing Ground'', in their third ordeal, Leodegarius defeats Uriel and Pasanius, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown knocking Pasanius unconscious and leaving Uriel unable to rise]]. Uriel, angry that this man, who should have fought beside them, is going to kill them, tells him to get it over with. Whereupon Leodegarius tells him that the ordeal is to ''lose'', because the only way they could have defeated him [[SecretTestOfCharacter was the use of warp-based powers]]. Failure has shown that [[IncorruptiblePurePureness they don't have them]].
** In Creator/DanAbnett's novel ''Literature/{{Titanicus}}'', when cornered by a skitarii, one of Cally Samstag's soldiers says to GetItOverWith. The skitarii, startled, says it had just sent for help -- and then asks whether [[FriendOrFoe they took it for an enemy.]]

A situation where a defeated character in a battle to the death requests to be killed by the victor.

This scenario has two outcomes, either the character is promptly executed, or spared. If spared, it turns out that the defeated character's life [[YouWillBeSpared was never in danger to begin with]]. Perhaps [[WorthyOpponent their enemy is honorable]] and/or [[SparingTheAces impressed by their courage]], the defeated character passed a SecretTestOfCharacter, or perhaps it's because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou they need the defeated character]]. Or maybe [[FriendOrFoe they were mistaken about who was their enemy]], because of [[WouldNotShootAGoodGuy the way they were lied to about this character]]. (Or perhaps they know that [[CruelMercy they'd rather die than suffer the humiliation of having to live with the loss]].)

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Hiei says: "Just kill us if you're going to. Just spare us the sound of your voice."
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': During the preliminary fights of the Chunin exams, Shikamaru says this to Kin:
-->"If you're so tough get it over with. Stop wasting my time."
* In ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''/''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'': Miriya, after Max knocks away her knife with a rock:
--> "I lost to you again! This is a shame I cannot endure. End my life... please."

** BigBad Captain Morgan is revealed to have been a part of Captain Kuro's backstory, when Kuro massacred an entire ship that Morgan had been part of the crew of, leaving only Morgan alive. Morgan then pulls this, only for Kuro to reveal that he needs Morgan alive as part of his plan to fake his own death. Thanks to hypnosis, Morgan doesn't remain aware of this long.
** Daddy Masterson also does this after losing a duel with Yassop, a member of Shank's pirate crew and Ussop's father. Yassop spares him upon realizing that Masterson had a daughter; having abandoned his own family to be a pirate, Yassop reasons that "One [[DisappearedDad useless father]] like me in the world is more than enough", and further justifies it by pointing out that pirates don't have to kill unless they feel like it.
* Mugen says these exact words at least twice over the course of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo''.

* At the conclusion of their final battle in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[TheStoic Ulquiorra]] is left maimed and under the heel of Ichigo's berserk SuperpoweredEvilSide. Rather than have a VillainousBreakdown, he instead looks calmly up at Ichigo and throws Ichigo's earlier NotSoDifferentRemark back in his face.
--> '''Ulquiorra''': I see. No mercy, hm? [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim How very Hollow-like.]] Go on. ''Do it.''
* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler: Hanyuu to Takano:]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Hanyuu''': Shoot, Child of Man!]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': [[spoiler:Rorschach]] does die after it, although in this case, he actually had to convince his killer that he couldn't be reasoned with.
-->''What are you waiting for? Do it. DO IT!''
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' #1, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080323173656/http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ01/DisplayOQ01.html?page=6 spoken by Redlance when he's about to be sacrificed by humans]]. [[spoiler:He gets rescued.]]

%%* Marv from ''ComicBook/SinCity'', as described below in film.
* Rose Walker from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''; to make a long story short she is a vortex of the Dreaming and it is within Morpheus' obligations to kill her, and after apologizing for the nth time she just tells him to shut up and do it. Played straight in that her grandmother, the original vortex, appears to take her place.
* Exeter says this to Ethan in ''ComicBook/{{Scion}}'' after one fight of theirs goes badly for him, but Ethan spares his life.
* SS officer Hoepper in ''ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight'': Red Snow. He [[spoiler:faces down a ravening pack of vampires, knife drawn, and tells them, "Well. Let's get this over with."]]
* The title character in ''ComicBook/LobsterRandom'' does this. On the first panel he appears in.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge''. Believing that ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is about to murder him, Rodney Marlowe tells her to get it over with. Annoyed, Kara tells him to stop spouting stupidity.

* ''Fanfic/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkWorm'': When Danny aka "The Dark" has [[spoiler:Hookwolf]] pinned and about to be crushed, he offers the chance for AnyLastWords, and is told, "Just do it!"

* ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'' has the crew of the USS ''Bajor'' have this reaction when an Undine fleet doesn't attack them right away. (Which is about when they realize that these Undine are of a different tribe.)
-->'''Tess Phohl:''' Why aren't they attacking? They've got us dead to rights: we're well within firing range and we've got a cinder's chance in the Northern Wastes of taking them all out.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10271213/11/Harry-Potter-Savior-of-the-World Harry Potter, Savior-of-the-World]]'' future-Harry tells Voldemort to "just get on with it already" when he attacks the Burrow during Bill and Fleur's wedding.
* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', John traps a number of adventurers neck-deep in mud and Ringo goes to talk to them. While he's standing there wondering what to say, one of the adventurers says to him, in effect, "Hurry up and torture us and get it over with already!" Since Ringo is an ActualPacifist, his response is a FlatWhat.

* ''Fanfic/BetweenMyBrotherAndMeMorsOmnibus'' has Yusho tell Yvonne to "Do it. Now." but is interrupted by Yuya appearing. At first, one assumes that, given how he's looking at the mark on Yvonne's hand -- which allows her to turn someone the mark touches into a puppet -- he wants her to transform him into a puppet (for whatever reason). [[spoiler: Actually, he's requesting that Yvonne kill him to get him ready to be the Dark Signer of Wiraqocha Rasca which she does after their duel finishes.]]

* ''Fanfic/GreyjoyAllaBreve'': [[spoiler:[[RoyalBrat Joffrey]] has this reaction when [[TortureTechnician Ramsay Bolton]] visits him in his cell, after sending him tons of threatening letters and photos. Instead, after some time, Ramsay leaves... ''not'', as Joffrey thinks, because he's planning to do something horrific, but because he [[SympathyForTheDevil was beginning to pity Joffrey]], and knew that actually torturing him would not be worth the effort.]]
* ''WebVideo/PowerRangersBootlegUniverse'' sees [[spoiler:Zack tell Rita to "Get on with it" when she finally gets to him.]]

* Probably the best moment in the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' movie, when Karai and The Foot Clan sneak into the office of a big businessman, Winters, voiced by Creator/PatrickStewart.
-->'''Max Winters''': If you're going to kill me, could you make it quick? I have a shareholders' meeting in ten minutes that I'd really rather miss.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGahoole'': Ezylryb gets beaten by [[BigBad Metalbeak]] and [[TheDragon Nyra]] in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. As Metalbeak pins him down, Ezylryb glares at him and dares him to do it.
-->'''Ezylryb''': Be done with it then.
* ''WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseBatmanDeathInTheFamily'' can see [[spoiler:Jason as Red Robin tell this to Two-Face as Harv's about to shoot him if the viewer has Harvey's coin come up scarred side. In reaction to this, Harv decides on CruelMercy instead, giving a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jason and concluding that letting Jason live with his failures is a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
* ''Animation/FiringRange'' is about a telepathic tank that attacks on sensing the enemy's hostility or fear, using the things he's most afraid of to identify fatal weaknesses. One soldier becomes so exhausted trying to stay alive that he collapses in front of the tank and tells it to just go ahead and kill him. The tank doesn't move and he bursts into laughter, realising it won't attack because it doesn't sense his fear. [[ExplainExplainOhCrap Until he remembers]] his earlier fear of being crushed under its tracks...

* At the end of ''Film/{{Zulu}}'', after a full day of [[LastStand desperate fighting]], the Zulu have gathered on the surrounding hills, chanting. The commanding British officer gets sick of their apparent taunting and shouts for them to just attack already, what are they waiting for? Whereupon their Boer guide explains that that is actually a salute, for their courage... and everyone breaks down laughing with relief.
* A deleted scene from ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' shows a furious Harleen Quinzel confronting Joker for not taking her as his lover after everything she had done for him. She pulls out one of his guns from his coat and points it at his head (after shooting a loudmouth trucker). Joker repeatedly tells her to "do it". Harleen is on the verge of tears that being in love frightens him yet the threat of death doesn't.
* Variation in ''Film/{{Predator}}''. After being tracked down by the Predator, Dutch repeatedly says "Come on!", "Do it!", "I'm here!" and "Kill me!" to it in an attempt to get it to walk into a BoobyTrap.
* Marv in ''Film/SinCity'', at his own execution: "Would you hurry it up? I haven't got all night."
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', after Inigo loses his duel with the Man in Black, he begs him to "Kill me quickly." Averted, though, as the Man - [[WorthyOpponent impressed with Inigo's swordsmanship]] - chooses to spare him.
-->I would as soon destroy a stained-glass window as an artist like yourself.
* Played for comedy in the Creator/MarxBrothers movie ''Monkey Business''.
-->'''Groucho:''' ''(to a gangster who has just walked in on Groucho making googly-eyes at his girl)'' Well, if you're going to kill me, hurry up; I have to take my tonic at 2.
* Variation in ''Film/{{Darkman}}'': "If you're not going to kill me I have things to do."
* In ''Film/TheWildBunch'', they are riding away [[spoiler: after a massively cocked-up holdup]], and one of the wounded Bunch (who was shot in the face) pleads with Pike to "Please...just ki--" (Pike shoots him before he even ''says'' it.) Which cues the following exchange:
-->'''Pike''': You boys want to move on or stay here and give him a... decent burial?\\
'''Tector''': [[DueToTheDead He was a good man, and I think we]] ''[[DueToTheDead oughta]]'' [[DueToTheDead bury him]].\\
'''Pike''': He's ''dead!'' And he's got a ''lot'' of good men back there to keep him ''company!''\\
'''Lyle''': Too ''damn'' many!\\
'''Dutch''': ''[removes his hat]'' I think the boys are right. ''I'd'' like to say a few words for the dear, dead departed. And maybe a few ''hymns'd'' be in order. Followed by a church supper. With a ''choir!''\\
'''Lyle''': You crazy bastards! ''Both'' of ya!
* In ''Film/LittleCaesar'', when Rico attempts to force Joe to return:
-->'''Joe''': Shoot, Rico, get it over with.
* In ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', when it seems the T-800 is about to kill John Connor, he defiantly yells at it, "Do it! [[PrecisionFStrike You son of a bitch!]]"
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the original ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'', due to the victim in question saying it only once whilst actively trying to put obstacles and distance between himself and his attacker.
* In the film ''Film/PatriotGames'', as the Irish terrorists rescue their leader and begin executing the guards who were escorting him to prison, the leader asks the police inspector in command, Robert Highlands if he has anything to say.
--> '''Insp. Highlands''': "Just get on with it and be on your way."
* [[spoiler: Rorschach's]] final words in ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' before [[spoiler: Dr. Manhattan]] kills him.
--> "What are you waiting for? Do it. '''DO IT!'''"

* Done by the villains in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. [[spoiler:The two surviving protagonists are creeping through the ElaborateUndergroundBase when the voice of the as-yet-unseen Director comes over the speakers, explaining how their deaths are NecessarilyEvil. Meanwhile on OminousMultipleScreens, we see FacelessGoons racing to kill them.]]
-->'''Director:''' [[spoiler:It's our task to placate the [[SealedEvilInACan Ancient Ones]], as it's yours [[TargetedHumanSacrifice to be offered up to them]].]] ''(sound of tramping feet as goons approach)'' Forgive us, and let us get it over with.

* In ''[[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy Potop]]'''s opening duel, Kmicic eventually just tells Wołodyjowski (his opponent, who has spent three minutes [[CurbStompBattle utterly humiliating him in swordplay without even hitting him once]]) to just finish it and save him further shame. Two seconds later, Kmicic is downed.
* At the end of ''Film/BreakerMorant'' (Australian, 1980), Harry and Major Thomas face a firing squad (after being found guilty of atrocities ordered by their superiors during the Boer War). Just before they're executed, Harry yells out "Shoot straight, ya bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"
* The final scene of ''Film/TheDeparted'' features a low-key version as [[spoiler:Sullivan]] returns to his luxury apartment to find [[spoiler:Dignam]] wearing hospital slippers over his shoes to disguise his footprints and holding a loaded gun, ready to avenge his dead comrades (even the ones he never liked). Having known his crimes would catch up with him eventually, [[spoiler:Sullivan]], in a tone of almost disgusted resignation, sighs, "Okay." [[spoiler:Dignam]] promptly shoots him in the head and makes a quick getaway.

* ''Film/ScreamersTheHunting''. Schwartz is being choked to death by a snake-like [[KillerRobot Screamer]] and gasps, "Please...just make it fast..." [[ItCanThink The Screamer obliges]], releasing its grip only to ram its tail through her chest.

* In ''Literature/BloodyJack'' Jacky says something to this effect at least once per book.
* In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novel ''The Killing Ground'', in their third ordeal, Leodegarius defeats Uriel and Pasanius, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown knocking Pasanius unconscious and leaving Uriel unable to rise]]. Uriel, angry that this man, who should have fought beside them, is going to kill them, tells him to get it over with. [[spoiler:Whereupon Leodegarius tells him that the ordeal is to ''lose'', because the only way they could have defeated him [[SecretTestOfCharacter was the use of warp-based powers]]. Failure has shown that [[IncorruptiblePurePureness they don't have them]].]]
* Colonel Moran would rather go straight to jail, please, and skip the bit where Literature/SherlockHolmes gloats over his capture with an extended tiger-hunting metaphor.
-->"You may or may not have just cause for arresting me," said he, "but at least there can be no reason why I should submit to the gibes of this person. If I am in the hands of the law let things be done in a legal way."
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheStarBeast''. Johnny's alien pet Lummox has been sentenced to death. Johnny helps Lummox escape, but they're hunted down and trapped. One of the pursuers approaches them.
-->''Johnnie found that tears were streaming down his face and that he could not stop them. "Go ahead!" he cried, his voice misbehaving. "Get it over with! He never meant any harm! So kill him quickly . . don't play cat-and-mouse with him." He broke down and sobbed, covering his face with his hands.'' [snip]
-->''The officer looked distressed. "What are you talking about, son? We aren't here to hurt him. We have orders to bring him in without a scratch on him--even if we lost men in the process. Craziest orders I ever had to carry out."''

* In Creator/DanAbnett's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} novel ''Literature/{{Titanicus}}'', when cornered by a skitarii, one of Cally Samstag's soldiers says to GetItOverWith. The skitarii, startled, says it had just sent for help -- and then asks whether [[FriendOrFoe they took it for an enemy.]]
* In Simon Spurrier's Literature/NightLords novel ''Lord of the Night'', when the Inquisitor summons Mita -- for execution or mind-wipe, she assumes -- she tells him during the meeting to do it and get it over with.
** In the BackStory, when the Night Haunter's assassin hesitated, he told her "Now do your job and be done with it."
* The quote to this effect from ''[[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy The Deluge]]'' has become [[MemeticMutation a meme in Poland]]. As Andrzej Kmicic, who's not a hero yet, duels Michał Wołodyjowski, a deceptively short MasterSwordsman, he gets a CurbStompBattle and is reduced to begging to be spared the humiliation. Wołodyjowski obliges (and then leaves before Kmicic is ''quite'' dead, allowing the [[RedemptionQuest rest of the plot]] to happen).
* In Creator/JimButcher's Literature/TheDresdenFiles novel ''Literature/SmallFavor'', when Harry defeats the gruff at [[spoiler:Union Station]], it tells him to finish it. Twice. Whereupon Harry says he does not kill unless necessary, much to the shock of the gruff, who had assumed he was actually in Winter Court.
** In ''Literature/TurnCoat'', Harry pulls this on the skin-walker, shocking it.
* In Stephen Hunt's ''The Kingdom Beyond the Waves'', [[spoiler:Bull]] says this not about death but being assimilated into the Daggish.
* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':

** Another example occurs in ''A Storm of Swords'':
--->"Do you mean to make me beg, bitch? ''Do it!''"

** After [[ActionGirl Brienne]] cuts off the hand of a Dornish sellsword he cries, "Finish it. Send me back to Dorne, you bloody bitch!" She obliges.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** From ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', when Harry is being possessed by Voldemort, it is described as pain beyond pain:
--->"Let the pain stop... let him kill us... end it, Dumbledore... death is nothing compared to this..."
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' reveals this to be the reason why in the climax of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', [[spoiler:Dumbledore's last words are "Severus...please..." -- he's not begging for Snape to spare his life, but to MercyKill him already]].
* In Creator/DanAbnett's Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''First & Only'', Flense threatens to shoot Dorden, whom he is [[HostageSituation holding hostage]], if Gaunt mocks him. Dorden tells Gaunt to mock on, so he can be shot rather than listen to Flense's "garbage."
* In the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Star Wars]]: Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters'' {{anthology}}, there's a story about how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc. The Sarlacc, as the story reveals, is more or less sentient, sort of having the mind of its first victim, and preserves its victims for millennia, getting it to tell them their life stories and forcing them to relive the memories of others while [[AndIMustScream being kept immobile and dissolving]]; it keeps them even after death. Fett, hearing this, demands to know why it doesn't just kill these people, is told/shown an old joke. It's about a farmer with a meat animal that has one leg missing, that apparently can [[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude sing and speak and take care of the farmer's children]]. Asked why it has a missing leg, the farmer says "A barve like that, you don't eat it all at once." Much later, after escaping and healing, Fett hovers in his ship with the weapons pointed at the Sarlacc, and it tells him ''You liberate me from the long Cycle''. But he doesn't shoot it, and when it wants to know why, he repeats that joke's punchline.

** Asked by a despairing Tash in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: The Nightmare Machine''.
* In Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'', when an angel tells a damned soul that he can only be free of the lizard if he gives the angel permission to kill it, the soul argues this point for a time and then says the angel can kill it -- and to ''do'' it -- before collapsing and whimpering, "God help me," -- without rescinding the permission.
** In his allegorical novel ''Literature/ThePilgrimsRegress'', John meets Death in a mountain pass on a stormy night. John realizes that it has been the fear of death that has motivated him his entire life. Death hammers home that he only has two choices:
--->"What am I to do?" said John.\\
"Which you choose," said the Voice. "Jump, or be thrown. Shut your eyes, or have them bandaged by force. Give in or struggle."\\
"I would sooner do the first, if I could."\\
"Then I am your servant and no more your master. The cure of death is dying. He who lays down his liberty in that act receives it back."
* ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'': Averted:
--> '''Bartimaeus''': So go on then. Get it over with.\\
'''Faquarl''': You want me to kill you already?\\
'''Bartimaeus''': Not that. [[IShallTauntYou The rubbish joke you're thinking up.]] About it being good of me to ''hang around'', or something like that. Go on, you know you want to. Get it out of your system.
* In ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'' when Dinin is surrounded by enemy soldiers, he fully expects to be killed and, being an AlwaysChaoticEvil drow himself, isn't even angry about it. However, he asks to be killed quickly and without pain. When the answer is "No," he is ready to fight to the death. Then he learns it's "No, I won't kill you at all." Despite his unrepentant evil, this [[FaceDeathWithDignity calm, absolutely sober way he faces his death as a consequence of his lifestyle]] for Dinin.
* An even-darker variation of this occurs in Creator/PeterDavid's novelization of ''Film/SpiderMan1'', during a moment that's quite a bit of an AdaptationDeviation from the film. Upon realizing that Uncle Ben's killer is the same man he could've stopped earlier, an emotionally-devastated Peter Parker makes no attempt to stop the carjacker from shooting him and mentally tells him to just pull the trigger already. When it turns out that the carjacker is out of bullets, Peter screams out in anguish, causing the carjacker to back away from him in terror and fall out of a window to his death.
* In Colleen [=McCullough=]'s ''Antony and Cleopatra'', Caesarion says to Octavian, "Get on with it already, Octavianus!"
* In Andy Hoare's Literature/WhiteScars novel ''Hunt for Voldorius'', when Voldorius reveals he knows that Malya [[TheMole sent information to his foes]], she tells him to kill her. He reveals worse plans.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "The Scarlet Citadel", Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, facing a giant snake, stands still out of instinct; reason would have told him to get it over with by provoking the snake into an attack.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheJomsvikings'': The fourth Jomsviking to be beheaded, when he is asked how he feels about dying, replies that he is content to die the same way as his father did, and tells the executioner to "slash away!"
* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. Mack Bolan has been [[OneManArmy taking down one Mafia family after another]] despite everything the mob and police can throw at him. When he gets to San Diego, the mob boss there can only say, "I knew you'd get to my territory sooner or later. So go ahead. Kill me." [[BoomHeadshot Bolan does.]]

* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
-->'''Jack Bauer''': I just want you to know, I didn't want you to feel like I had turned my back on you, that I turned my back on the family. I just had to go in my own way, to do things for myself, and I... was never good enough for you. I'm sorry. Anyway... I'm ready. What are you waiting for...? DO IT! DAMN YOU!

** Subverted when the Huntress is holding a crossbow on Frank Bertinelli, her mafia boss father who [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge ordered her fiancé's death]].

** Also [[spoiler:Saul Tigh]] about to be ThrownOutTheAirlock: "What are you waiting for, Apollo? Do it!"

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': [[spoiler: When Hank finds himself being held at gunpoint by Jack while Walt is pleading for his life, he simply tells Walt that begging isn't going to save him, then he tells Jack to do what he's going to do. Jack kills him before he can finish his sentence.]]

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]", facing a firing squad, [[spoiler:Android]] Peri, asked for her last words, replies "Just get on with it."

--->'''[[spoiler:Simon]]:''' [[HeroicSacrifice Light it]].[[note]]Followed by the {{Trope Namer|s}} BigDamnHeroes moment when Mal and the crew arrive with ''Serenity'' to rescue them.[[/note]]
** [[spoiler:Saffron]] in the episode "[[Recap/FireflyE06OurMrsReynolds Our Mrs. Reynolds]]". By asking for this she is also reacting to the hero's equivalent of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech with the villain's form of a ShutUpHannibal. Of course, Mal [[WouldntHitAGirl Wouldn't Shoot a Girl]], or at least not an unarmed one.
--->'''[[spoiler:Saffron]]:''' Promise me you're gonna kill me soon.\\

*** Tyrion curses the person opening his cell with this trope in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E10TheChildren The Children]]" when he is [[spoiler:falsely]] accused of killing [[spoiler:Joffrey]] and imprisoned for it.

* Timon of ''Series/MaddigansQuest'' [[spoiler:screams at Garland to shoot him when she discovers that he's being forced into becoming an heir to the Nennog]]. [[KillHimAlready Boomer approves of the idea]], but Garland ultimately says no.
* In the miniseries ''Series/Merlin1998'': after Mab [[spoiler:kills Morgan]], Frik rages at her in his grief, calling her an "evil old crone." In revenge, Mab [[spoiler: strips him of magic]]. When Mordred asks why she didn't just kill him, she says "Because that's what he wanted me to do."

** Titus Pullo and Octavian interrogate a man they suspect of sleeping with Vorenus' wife. He readily confesses once they start to torture him and gives this trope. Pullo is entirely willing to oblige, but Octavian stops him, realising that he's willing to die to cover up something. [[spoiler:He's fathered a child by her, who would be killed if the truth got out.]]

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In the third-season episode "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS03E07CommonGround Common Ground]]", the Wraith [[MagnificentBastard Todd]] is first introduced. After repeatedly feeding on Sheppard to the point that he's almost become a desiccated corpse, Sheppard intones him to do this. [[spoiler:Then Todd gives back all the life-energy he took from him because Sheppard helped him escape from a Genii prison.]]

'''"Todd":''' [[spoiler:As I told you, John Sheppard, there are many things about Wraith that you do not know.]]

** In season 4, Dean is given an ultimatum: hand another character over to die, or [[spoiler: go back to Hell]]. He initially doesn't think they'll do it, but once he's convinced that they will still tells them to go ahead. They switch to threatening Sam instead, and he complies [[spoiler:exactly as Sam had planned]].

* Subtle double subversion in the first season finale of ''Series/{{Terriers}}''. After [[spoiler: Hank is framed for murder and hauled off to jail along with the actual murderers who almost certainly mean to do away with him as soon as they're alone]], he starts yelling at them to get it over with and kill him right there in the police car. Doubly subverted in that [[spoiler: a) he's [[DeathSeeker partly]] doing it to get the cops to take him seriously and help him, and b) the cops were already secretly on his side and were planning to let him go anyway.]]
* The page quote comes from the season 1 finale of ''Series/Watchmen2019'', where Jane Crawford tells Lady Trieu to stop reading [[spoiler:Will Reeves's speech to the leaders of Cyclops]] and just kill them already. [[spoiler:As evident by her response, Trieu happily obliges.]]
* Season Three of ''Series/TheWire'', [[spoiler:Omar Little]] and [[spoiler:Brother Mouzone]], discover [[spoiler: Stringer Bell]]'s plan to have them murder each other and [[EnemyMine team up]] to track him down. They end up having him cornered at gunpoint, and [[spoiler:Stringer]] at first tries to bargin for his life. But when [[spoiler:Omar]] reveals to him that [[spoiler:Avon]] not only sold him out to them, but even did so willingly, [[spoiler:Stringer]] at first freezes up in shock. Then, [[EtTuBrute with clear feelings of betrayal and defeat in his voice]], he resigns himself and says "Well, get on with it, motherf--". [[spoiler: They do.]]

* In Act III of Thornton Wilder's play ''Theatre/TheSkinOfOurTeeth'', [[spoiler:Henry, having just come back from the war and intercepted at gunpoint by his father, encourages him to go ahead and shoot. He doesn't.]].

* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', 777 fails to defeat Beat and asks him to finish him. Beat declines, letting him live [[spoiler:for about a minute until Konishi erases him]].
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'': This is Geralt's repeated response to the [[BigBad BigBads']] and [[TheDragon Dragon's]] endless BossBanter.
* Done without messing about in ''VideoGame/JediKnightJediAcademy'':
-->'''Tavion:''' Finish it! Kill me.\\
''[Dark Side [[PlayerCharacter Jaden Korr]] kills her]''
* Both [[spoiler:Aribeth]] in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' and [[spoiler:Bastila]] in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' insist you kill them, as they have come too far to turn back to the good side if you persist in trying. However, both works being rather on the idealistic side, they both relent and come back if you previously completed their RomanceSidequest or roll a really high Persuade check.
** However, even if you convince [[spoiler:Aribeth]] to surrender, later events establish she didn't live long after anyway.

* [[spoiler:Alexei Stukov]] in ''VideoGame/StarCraft: Brood War'':
--> [[spoiler:'''Stukov''': Lieutenant Duran]] ... I'm not surprised. We both know exactly what it is that you're here to terminate. Get on with it.
** Quickly followed by a FinalSpeech, a MyGodWhatHaveIDone [[spoiler:from [=DuGalle=] who was [[TheChessMaster manipulated by Duran]] into ordering the execution]], and a RaceAgainstTheClock, in quick succession.
* ''Videogame/TheWalkingDead'': [[spoiler:Andy St. John]] will tell [[spoiler: Lee]] this after [[spoiler: the rest of his family has either been killed or incapacitated, depending on your choices, and it's up to you whether or not you finish your fistfight with him by ending his life.]]
** At the end of Season 2, [[spoiler: if you let Kenny kill Jane, immediately after he stabs her, the reality of what he's done sets in, and he seems to think that, if you were to decide to kill him too, it would be justified; your gun is trained on him, and he tells you do "just do it." It's your call as to whether or not to pull the trigger.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' [[spoiler:Judge Drace does this to Gabranth, urging him to carry out Vayne's orders to execute her because she doesn't care if she dies, so long as Larsa (Vayne's brother) will still be protected by someone she can trust.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Teyrn Loghain asks you for a quick death after you defeat him in a CombatByChampion at the Landsmeet. You can either grant his wish, have Alistair finish him off, or [[spoiler:[[CantKillYouStillNeedYou induct him into the Gray Wardens]]]].
* During the introduction to ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', a captured Stormcloak soldier says this trope word for word, interrupting the priestess giving him and the other prisoners their last rites before being sent to the executioner's block. He quickly gets his head cut off, [[DyingCurse insulting the Imperials on the way]], but if he had waited then he would have likely survived [[NiceJobFixingItVillain thanks to Alduin]].
* [[spoiler: Andrei Ulmeyda]] of ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'' does this [[spoiler: as he's turned into a Smile.]]
--> [[spoiler: Ulmeyda]]: Damn. Get this over with! Once and for all... [[spoiler: Ah! AH! AH! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!]]
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Mileena makes this demand to Kotal Kahn after being captured, refusing to beg. He obliges but says she isn't worthy of his hands, telling D'Vora to do it. (What happens next is [[CruelAndUnusualDeath rather disturbing]]; Cassie Cage, who witnesses, says "Thank you, I know ''I'll'' never eat again.)
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' features Nathan Copeland, [[BadassPreacher an enlightened]] DanceBattler [[WakeUpCallBoss fought early on]] who seeks combat against [[TheProtagonist Travis Touchdown]] in order to liberate one or both of them from their cruel, pointless lives as assassins. His last words as Travis impales him for the killing blow?
-->'''Nathan''': ''[[DeathSeeker DELIVERANCE!]]''
* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'', this occurs early on in the game. [[spoiler:Joel takes a bullet to the leg and is restrained by other members of the Washington Liberation Front. Joel realizes their intentions and accepts he's doomed, telling Abby to give whatever speech she's rehearsed and to get it over with. However, while takes some ExtremeMeleeRevenge [[GolfClubbing by way of a golf club upside Joel's head]], she doesn't finish off Joel until Ellie is ForcedToWatch him die.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': Towards the end of both "Verdant Wind" and "Silver Snow" routes, the defeated [[spoiler:Flame Emperor Edelgard]], observing [[PlayerCharacter Byleth]]'s hesitation to kill a former student, begs them to finish her off. At first, she tries to argue that showing her mercy would just unnecessarily prolong the war, before changing tracks and asking only that they be the one to take her life. [[spoiler:When Byleth finally raises their sword, Edelgard visibly relaxes and mutters how she had wished for the two of them to walk the same path together. Then the blade swings down.]]
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'': After being told he's not the one meant to open a secret vault beneath the Vatican, meaning everything he did [[AllForNothing was for nothing]], Rodrigo Borgia tells Ezio this. Ezio refuses, knowing that [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty killing Rodrigo won't bring back the family members he lost to Borgia's ambitions]] and that [[CruelMercy leaving Rodrigo alive with his failure is a far worse punishment]].
-->'''Rodrigo Borgia''': You can't! It's my destiny! ''[[ThisCannotBe MINE]]!'' I am [[TheChosenOne the Prophet]]!
-->'''Ezio Auditore''': [[TheChosenWannabe You never were]].
-->'''Rodrigo Borgia''': Get it over with then.
-->'''Ezio Auditore''': [[NotWorthKilling No]]. Killing you won't bring my family back. I'm done.
* A variation of this occurs in the fourth episode of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''. After the VillainousBreakdown of [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma once he's convicted of killing Edgeworth's father]], the killer tells the judge to hurry up and hand down his verdict already. [[spoiler:Notably, these are von Karma's last words on screen, as he's sentenced to death at some point before [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll the second game.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': The FinalBoss will demand you finish him off rather than rant about how evil he is, [[CardCarryingVillain which he already knows]]. Johnny admits he has a point.

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* In ''WebVideo/KateModern: The Last Work'', the dying [[spoiler:Tez On Toast]] starts taunting the heroes, telling them to finish him off. Charlie replies that they don't need his murder on their conscience, to which he retorts, "What are you talking about? You've already killed me!" They walk off, leaving him to bleed to death.
* Dracula in ''WebAnimation/ADayInDraculasLife'' [[spoiler:quits trying to do anything to Richter Belmont, who had been made invincible by Maria's BigDamnHeroes moment on top of all the {{Whoring}}, and decides to lay down and tell Richter to kill him. When Richter doesn't comply with killing him right then and there, Dracula realizes that the fight is supposed to look convincing because it's ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' (Or ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' or whatever). Dracula, wanting to be put out of his misery already, sighs that he has to do this and tries to attack Richter, who throws another [[GameBreaker Hydro Storm]]. Dracula dies, sarcastically saying ThisCannotBe, but manages to call Richter a "fucking ass" one last time after he stops screaming.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', Sylvester, Jamie, and Lillian are trapped in the wartorn city of Lugh, and Sylvester, having given up hope of getting himself out, asks their enemy Reverend Mauer to PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou, even going to the point of trying to pull the trigger on Mauer's rifle himself in the hope that his death will spare Jamie and Lillian. He's then astonished when Mauer refuses him, instead opting to recruit the three into his forces.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' Season 1 episode [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E10CloseRickcountersOfTheRickKind Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind]], Evil Rick tells the freed Mortys to "do their worst" and kill him. They are more than happy to oblige. [[spoiler:You find out in the Season 7 episode [[Recap/RickAndMortyS7E5Unmortricken Unmortricken]] that it's because Evil Morty made a puppet out of him and Evil Rick [[ICannotSelfTerminate couldn't kill himself]], thus encouraging the Mortys to [[IDieFree set him free]].]]

May overlap with KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand. If someone else asks, it's KillHimAlready; if someone else orders, FinishHim; If someone asks to be killed because they can't kill themselves, it's ICannotSelfTerminate. See also WhyDontYouJustShootHim. Contrast FaceDeathWithDignity, ScheherezadeGambit, StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred.

You're facing certain death. Perhaps you're gravely wounded; perhaps you have [[TheCavalry no reinforcements]] and can expect no rescue; perhaps you [[LastStand face overwhelming force]]. Your life can be measured in heartbeats. You expect to die before you finish the very thought you're thinki--

--except that your killer is just standing there, waiting for his moment. Waiting for an [[WhyIsntItAttacking unreasonably long time]].

DefiantToTheEnd, you shout at him to get it over with. You tell him to be done with it. You demand to know what he is waiting for. You accuse him of prolonging your misery for his amusement, you accuse the bystanders as having ComeToGawk, ''et cetera''.

Rather frequently, here is where you [[YouWillBeSpared receive the surprising news]] that you will live, which can be because of a variety of reasons. Perhaps [[WorthyOpponent your enemy is honorable]] and/or [[SparingTheAces impressed by your courage]], or perhaps it's because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou you are needed]]. Or maybe [[FriendOrFoe you were mistaken about who was your enemy]], because of [[WouldNotShootAGoodGuy the way you were lied to about this character]]. (Or perhaps they know that [[CruelMercy you'd rather die than suffer the humiliation of having to live with the loss]].)

On other occasions, "get it over with" may be your last words, but at least you went down swinging. (In which case, it is an unusual subtrope of LastRequest.)

* The Creator/ChuckJones Hubie and Bertie short, ''WesternAnimation/CheeseChasers''. The two mice have gorged on so much cheese they can't stand to eat anymore. With nothing left to live for, they go to Claude Cat to eat them.
-->'''Hubie:''' Come on, Boit... let's get it over with.\\
'''Bertie:''' Yeah, over.

* The Creator/ChuckJones Hubie and Bertie short, ''Cheese Chasers''. The two mice have gorged on so much cheese they can't stand to eat anymore. With nothing left to live for, they go to Claude Cat to eat them.
-->'''Hubie:''' Come on, Boit...let's get it over with.\\
'''Bertie:''' Yeah, Over.

* ''WebVideo/PowerRangersBootlegUniverse'' sees [[spoiler:Zack tell Rita to "Get on with it," when she finally gets to him.]]

* ''WebVideo/PowerRangersBootlegUniverse'' sees [[spoiler:Zack tell Rita to do it when she finally gets to him.]]

* Season Three of ''Series/TheWire'', [[spoiler:Omar Little]] and [[spoiler:Brother Mouzone]], discover [[spoiler: Stringer Bell]]'s plan to have them murder each other and [[EnemyMine team up]] to track him down. They end up having him cornered at gunpoint, and [[spoiler:Stringer]] at first tries to bargin for his life. But when [[spoiler:Omar]] reveals to him that [[spoiler:Avon]] not only sold him out to them, but when did so willingly, [[spoiler:Stringer]] at freezes up in shock. Then, [[EtTuBrute with clear feelings of betrayal and defeat in his voice]], he resigns himself and says "Well, get on with it, motherf--". [[spoiler: They do.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'': This is Geralt's repeated response to the [[BigBad BigBads']] and [[TheDragon Dragon's]] [[strike:extended]] endless BossBanter.
* Done without messing about in ''VideoGame/JediAcademy'':
--> '''Tavion''': Finish it! Kill me.
--> '''DarkSide [[PlayerCharacter Jaden Korr]]''': [kills her]

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* ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders''
-->'''Sternum''': What are you waiting for? Finish me!
-->'''Graveheart''': I would...but you're not my enemy.

--> '''Megatron:''' Well, what are you waiting for? Think of the glory! Seize the day! Optimus would.
--> '''Jack:''' No. He wouldn't. Not like this.
--> '''Megatron:''' I will be sure to share the details of our little conversation with Optimus...the day I rip out his Spark.