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* ComicBook/XDarkHorseComics for Creator/{{DarkHorseComics}} ComicBook/ComicsGreatestWorld universe was a clear NinetiesAntiHero and Punisher expy to do this frequently.

* ComicBook/{{X}} for Creator/{{DarkHorseComics}} ComicBook/ComicsGreatestWorld universe was a clear NinetiesAntiHero and Punisher expy to do this frequently.

* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' operates on similar rules to ''Metal Gear Solid'' in that neutralizing guards (lethally or by taking them hostage) causes the central command to ask them for an update[[note]]the InUniverse justification being that their pager hit the ground, drawing attention to them[[/note]], requiring one of the robbers to answer the pager on their behalf ([[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy for gameplay reasons, it doesn't matter if the heister is a different nationality or sex, or]] ''[[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy even speaks an entirely different language]]'', [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy they always fall for it]]). However, if the robber disconnects from the call before it's done, [[ProperlyParanoid or if too many guards "accidentally" drop their pager]] (5 by default), [[SoMuchForStealth they]] ''[[SoMuchForStealth will]]'' [[SoMuchForStealth sound the alarm]]. Oddly enough, however, in the few stealth-optional maps where actual cops are already on the scene, no one ever notices that they're missing.

* ''ComicBook/{{Kin}}''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.

The evil villain or mastermind hears a lot of strange noises coming from outside their office. So naturally they use their intercom to try and contact a guard station for an explanation for the ruckus.

The cause of the commotion is the protagonist going OneManArmy on all the guard stations, eliminating them all one by one just to get to the BigBad and express their disapproval of all the evil they have done.

A GenreSavvy villain would immediately make their exit, because only a fool would wait around for whomever is obliterating all the armed guards in the building to walk in the door and add them to the body count.

But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance. At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.

* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''. Vector keeps asking what is happening, right up until the moment Alita comes crashing through the skylight with her CoolSword, the sword she'd already used to carve up warmechs several times her size.
* ''Film/TronLegacy''. The toadying lackey hears the sound of Sam obliterating the guards just outside the door and is quite disconcerted to see him walk in afterwards. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to immediately pledge his loyalty to Sam to avoid getting derezzed.

* In ''Videogame/DeadSpace3'''s ''Awakening'' DLC, the scenario is inverted when the protagonists [[spoiler: reach Earth and attempt to hail first the government, to no reply; then the military, to no reply; then the mining corps, to no reply; then finally the moon, which does respond... with a jumpled mess of screams, groans, killings, and slashes, revealing everyone on Earth and the Moon are being slaughtered by the necromorphs.]]

But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance.
At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.

This could be a subtrope of ImpededCommunication.
Compare MookHorrorShow as a related trope.

!!Examples

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--> '''Bodyguard:''' [[BondOneLiner My former employer sends his regards.]]

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* ''Film/TronLegacy''. The toadying lackey hears the sound of Sam obliterating the guards just outside the door and is quite disconcerted to see him walk in afterwards. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to immediately pledge his loyalty to Sam to avoid getting deregistered.

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* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".
* ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja''[='s=] ninth mission begins with Karajan barraded in a panic room in his heavily-secured tower. Throughout the mission you can hear Karajan panicking over the comm channel as you take out his guards and disable his defenses. In this case he doesn't run away because there's nowhere else for him to run, and cowering in his panic room with a gun trained at the only entrance is his best option.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".

The cause of the commotion is the protagonist going [[OneManArmy OnePersonArmy]] on all the guard stations, eliminating them all one by one just to get to the BigBad and express their disapproval of all the evil they have done.

* ''ComicBook/Kin''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.
--> Bodyguard: [[BondOneLiner My former employer sends his regards.]]

* ''[=CiaphasCain=]'': One short story that's basically [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on an]] Imperial starship (down to a theft covered up by a terrorist attack) has Cain kill some of the hijackers and use their commbeads to find out where they are and taunt them, along with redirecting them by lying about where he's going.

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