History Main / NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine

* During ''ComicBook/FallOfX'' Doom also invited members of the X-Men, including the team's newest member [[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]], to dinner. He even arranges to have halal dishes prepared for Kamala.

* Considering his disdain for Earth's heroes, Doom tends to entertain them a lot. In ''ComicBook/SavagAvengers'', he invites ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian to dine with him. Conan is insulted at first that Doom refuses to eat with him. When he asks why Doom wears a mask, Doom answers, "I was injured." Conan's response of "So you are vain," ultimately prompts Doom to remove his mask in front of Conan.
* During ''ComicBook/FallOfX'' Doom also invited members of the X-Men, including the team's newest member [[MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]], to dinner. He even arranges to have halal dishes prepared for Kamala.

The villain has the hero at his mercy, surrounded by armed goons. Does he [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shoot him]]? [[MundaneSolution Of course not.]] Does he take the hero prisoner to be strapped into an [[DeathTrap improbable torture device]] (from which he will immediately escape)? No, that comes ''later.''

Instead, for a time, he treats the hero as a [[TermsOfEndangerment close friend]] and [[SacredHospitality guest in his home]], giving him [[GildedCage a plush bedroom]] and a fine (if tense) dinner with AGlassOfChianti and [[YourFavorite the hero's favorite meal]], made from ingredients [[FromMyOwnPersonalGarden grown in the villain's garden]]. If the food isn't spiked, the meal ends with a tour of the facility, then a [[WeCanRuleTogether sales pitch]] on the [[StoryBoardingTheApocalypse villain's scheme]] to remake the world JustBetweenYouAndMe. The hero will reply "YoureInsane" -- and that's if he's polite. If he isn't, saying "ImNotHungry" dampens the festivities quite early. The hero might attempt to steal a CutleryEscapeAid during the meal.

This differs from general AffablyEvil villainy. Treating the hero as a guest is a demonstration of unassailable power, confidence and [[WickedCultured civility]]. It's not quite GoKartingWithBowser, as it ratchets up the tension with the ever-present threat of unpleasantness should the hero step out of line -- the conflict's [[NotAGame not just a game]]. Nor is this DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu, which requires the villain to be genuinely friendly rather than just faking.

With the loonier sort of antagonist, the hero is forced to play along as the villain [[VitriolicBestBuds thinks the hero is his best friend]] and insists they [[GoKartingWithBowser act as such]].

The hero may be provided with formal dining attire: a tux for the gent and [[GoGoEnslavement a good-looking, well-fitting dress]] for the lady, with [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe a bath]] if needed. This may explicitly be so the villain can ogle her. It will almost certainly be so that [[{{Fanservice}} the audience can watch her kick his butt]] [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery in said dress]] later. If the hero's family are present, this can lead to an amusing case of VillainOverForDinner.

The paraphrased trope namer is the ''Film/JamesBond'' villain ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', who did later feed Bond. Also subverted the trope, as Goldfinger was initially going to simply kill Bond, before James bluffs Goldfinger into letting Bond live. These feasts are common in Bond films, which only really subverted it once. (see below)

Compare and contrast CaptiveDate, where one side of a romantic evening would rather not be there but isn't allowed to leave, and EnemyEatsYourLunch, which is when one of the sides isn't keen on sharing food but the other takes it anyway.

Also compare and contrast SacredHospitality: The villain usually plans to torture the hero after the meal, or place him in some horrible death-trap. He is explicitly offering the hero the protection of guest-right but fully intending to violate that protection immediately thereafter. The villain thereby [[MoralEventHorizon reveals himself to be totally without moral or ethical scruples]].

The discount version of this trope is KidnappersKFC, when a kidnapper can only afford fast food for himself and his hostage because he's running from the cops.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Endless Waltz'': Relena is kidnapped and then treated like a queen by Mariemeia Kushrenada and her group.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "[[ThePowerpuffGirlss2E2CollectHerSupperVillain Supper Villain]]". Mr. Smith wishes to melt Professor Utonium's head with a ray-gun (actually a hairdryer with a bubble-wand taped to it), while his wife expects (more like ''demands'') the good Professor (and everyone else) to dine. Of course, this leads to everyone else eating quickly while a nervous Utonium eats as slowly as humanly possible.

* A very well justified example in the ''Literature/{{Replica}}'' series. The organization was very nice to Chris when they captured him. Because if they could corrupt him, they'd have an agent close to Amy and Andy. And if he uses the opportunity to escape, they really don't care. He's NotWorthKilling.

* ''Film/Posse1975'': While holding Marshal Nightingale hostage in the presidential suite, Jack Strawhorn shares a meal with him, with them the two of them even discussing what to have for dessert. However, because Nightingale has his hands cuffed behind him, Mrs Cooper is forced to feed him.

* A very well justified example in the ''Literature/{{Replica}}'' series. The organization was very nice to Chris when they captured him. Because if they could corrupt him, they'd have an agent close to Amy and Andy. And if he uses the opportunity to escape, they really don't care. He's NotWorthKilling.
* A pervasive trope in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' trilogy. Meals in the Capitol are so opulent that it would take days to gather the ingredients in Katniss' home district, where starvation is common. The implication is [[spoiler:that the Capitol is so overwhelmingly powerful that any rebellion will be easily crushed, possibly by starvation. The delicious meals the Tributes are given are a reminder that they'd better play along]].
* OlderThanFeudalism: Joseph subjects his brothers to something rather like this in the Literature/BookOfGenesis. Joseph is a good guy who intends his brothers no harm, but the brothers, who had previously sold him into slavery, ''think'' this is what happened when they realize who he was. It's also extended in time, with the brothers dining and staying with Joseph ''twice'' before he tells them who he is.
* Early in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Dracula plays host (and after Jonathan realizes he's a prisoner) and jailer to Jonathan Harker, and provides him with delicious meals. Although it's more than likely that Dracula does not eat... food, he's apparently a SupremeChef (or else his "brides" are), since there are no human servants at the castle.
* In ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Guan Yu, sworn brother of Liu Bei, is forced to surrender to Liu's enemy Cao Cao. Cao has Guan appointed to high rank of nobility and presents him with every gift imaginable in order to win him over. Eventually, however, after "thanking" Cao by defeating two generals serving another warlord, Yuan Shao, Guan leaves Cao's forces to rejoin Liu, killing several of Cao's men on the way.
* In ''Literature/SonOfTheBlackSword'', this is ''inverted'' when Omand, the Grand Inquisitor, shows up uninvited for dinner at a minor nobleman's house, makes completely polite conversation, casually inquires after the nobleman's absent daughter, and [[ShameIfSomethingHappened her future career.]]

* In the second ''Literature/{{Neogicia}}'' novel, the protagonist Saly gets abducted by the leader of an enemy faction who wants to find out more about one of her BioAugmentation induced powers. Since he wants her in top shape for this, he has her sleep in a nice room, has servants dress her in nice clothing and give her a good meal. The incentive he has in case Saly refuses to demonstrate? A MercyLead to escape his castle.
* "Heroic" example: when Literature/NeroWolfe invites a suspect for interrogation or a police force rival who's interfering in his investigation, he usually makes sure to treat them to a meal, and maybe a visit to his orchids in the greenhouse. Differentiated in that Wolfe very much ''does'' believe in SacredHospitality, and generally only extends that kind of invitation - when it isn't entirely social - to people he honestly expects to be better off afterwards. (Whether they'll be happy about it being a quite different matter.) When a guest, he's equally careful to extricate himself before taking actions that may harm his host.
* An OlderThanSteam "heroic" example: early in the ''Poem of the Cid'' (the epic on which ElCid is loosely based), the Cid invites the Count of Barcelona to eat dinner with him after the count is defeated and captured in battle. When the count says he isn't hungry, the Cid tells him that if he eats he will be given treasure and sent home on a fast horse, and if he does not eat he will not be ransomed and will languish in chains. He decides to eat.

* In volume 4 of ''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', the {{Yandere}} BigBad forces Kyousuke to eat breakfast with her. She is not at all concerned by the fact that she had to beat him into unconsciousness several times before he complied.
* ''Literature/BooksOfTheRaksura'' has a decidedly dark variant when Moon and [[spoiler:the [[NonhumanHumanoidHybrid Raksura-Fell hybrid]] Shade]] are stuck in a lair of the AlwaysChaoticEvil Fell: the "dinner" is a pile of corpses from the last town the Fell raided, and when [[spoiler:Shade]] refuses to eat, the FauxAffablyEvil captors offer to butcher Moon for their meal instead. [[spoiler:Shade placates them by taking one bite, but is left traumatized by the experience.]]
* This happens in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader''. On "the island of the voices", the Narnians suddenly find themselves surrounded by invisible "dufflepuds", claiming to be holding weapons, who demand that Lucy goes into a magician's room to remove the enchantment making them invisible. When the Narnians agree to this, the dufflepuds warmly invite them into their house to dinner and to stay the night, before Lucy fulfils their demand the following morning.
* ''Literature/ASorrorFierceAndFalling'': When [[TheProtagonist Henrietta]] gets caught by R'hlem's army and taken to him, R'hlem treats Henrietta to a meal.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': In the recurring [[FictionalDocument in-game book]], ''A Game at Dinner'', all of the other spies fully expect the dinner to be part of a plot to reveal and kill them by King Helseth. They're not wrong, but this being [[MagnificentBastard King]] [[BatmanGambit Helseth]], [[spoiler:it [[BluffingTheMurderer doesn't play out]] in [[CarryingTheAntidote the way they thought]]]].
%%* The Crooked Man, AffablyEvil, does this to Bigby Wolf at the end of the fourth episode and start of the fifth in ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs''.

%%* Parodied in the [[UrExample ur-context]] of a ''Dr. No'' spoof in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1384.html this]] ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic''

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' near the end of the siege of Azure City, Haley and Belkar attempt to retrieve [[spoiler: Roy's body]] from the battlefield but find that he and [[spoiler: O-Chul]] are guests at a tea party hosted by the extremely powerful but childlike Monster in the Darkness. (Yes, [[spoiler:Roy is dead. O-Chul is paralyzed.]] It's that sort of tea party.) Haley and Belkar have to carefully play along through the meal (and Belkar has to ''cook'' the meal) before they can attempt to escape.
%%** Played almost perfectly straight when Elan's father invites Elan and Haley to a formal dinner, except for the fact that Elan hasn't realized his dad is a villain yet.
%%** Appears in, of course, a Bond parody in the entirely print only ''Snips, Snails and Dragon Tails''.
%%--->'''Roy:''' Do you expect me to eat this?\\
%%'''Belkar:''' No, Mr Greenhilt, I expect you to diet.

%%* ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'': When your would-be assassin is a hot chick in a bunnygirl outfit and disarmed to boot you can probably be excused for deciding to indulge in this trope.
%%* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', the warriors ''think'' Garland is doing this, when in fact he's an AffablyEvil HarmlessVillain.

* King Johann invites ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' to dinner to discuss negotiations and explanations after Dominic has foiled half his plots and made serious setbacks. And then the dinner turns out to be an illusion over an EldritchLocation (which is exceptionally frightening because Dominic is usually immune to magic illusions). And then THAT turns out to be an illusion, because Dominic is actually in a cage while Johann is magically dissecting his brain.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' short "Dial M For Monkey" has the supervillain Simian who invites Monkey to dine with him and proceeds to seduce him to help him destroy the human race.

* 1973/74 ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' episode "Menace of the White Dwarf". After the supervillain Raven accidentally captures Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog, he has his android doubles serve them a meal and shows them around his base.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' The episode "Three Courageous Hearts" has She-ra dropped into another dimension - the Sixth Dimension - by Shadow Weaver, with the intent of trapping her there forever. After travelling for a while, She-ra comes upon a stone dwelling that has a table filled with food. It belongs to the BigBad of the Sixth Dimension, Salistica, and he insists that She-ra dine with him in order to get any answers out of him as to where she is and how she can get out. Salistica proves not to be trustworthy but She-ra gets out in the end anyway.
* In the 2018 reboot, ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', Glimmer and Catra are taken captive on board Horde Prime's ship, after which he serves them a dinner feast with various alien dishes. After Glimmer takes a few bites of a gelatinous dish, Horde Prime tells her that it is a rare delicacy, as the world it came from no longer exists. He then livestreams Galactic Horde robots attacking the Rebellion on the screen behind him, upsetting Glimmer and angering Catra.
* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' has Tobey, who is determined to take her out for ice-cream if he ever defeats her.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Doofenshmirtz reveals to Perry (whom he's caught in a trap again) that it's his birthday (which factors into his latest scheme). While he explains his EvilPlan, he offers Perry a slice of birthday cake, which Perry accepts.
** In another scene, Perry attacks Doof in a train's dining cart. This is part of Doof's plan, since a special agent like Perry would know that you can't just make a scene in a fancy dining environment, thus trapping him by societal convention. [[spoiler:Perry and [[GuestStarPartyMember Agent Lyla]] get out of it by stealing some of Doof's fries, annoying him in a socially acceptable way until he attacks first, justifying their retaliation.]].
* In "A Very Possible Christmas", when WesternAnimation/KimPossible, the Possible family and Shego rescue Ron Stoppable and Drakken when they were stranded near the North Pole due to Drakken's latest scheme backfiring, Drakken invites the Possibles to join him for Christmas dinner. Not that he's gloating or anything, but just because it's Christmas.
%%* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'' and Jet Fusion are once offered a meal this way by Professor Calamitous before Beautiful Gorgeous tries to kill them. Since the whole thing was a parody of James Bond movies, this is to be expected.
* ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'': In "The Last One Standing", Maniac and Blair are brought in to dine with [[spoiler:Daimon Karnes]], where he explains why he went renegade.

%%* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Keep Calm and Flutter On". First, it's inverted when Fluttershy invites her friends over to have dinner with [[MadGod Discord]] as a sign of their friendship. Then it's subverted in that Discord tries to use this opportunity to snatch the girls' Elements of Harmony. But then it's subverted again when [[BecomingTheMask Discord starts to seriously consider becoming Fluttershy's friend]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'', the tyrannical Scarlemagne finally captures Kipo after almost two seasons of pursuing her. His first course of action is to give her a fancy ballgown, treat her and her father to a sumptuous dinner, have a civil chat about his plans for ultimate dominion... and it's enforced by a row of humans with crossbows. Kipo does her best with it and tries to connect with Scarlemagne the same way she does any other enemy. [[spoiler:She makes a surprising amount of headway, but has to rely on her backup plan in the end.]]

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%%* In ''Manga/HaouAiren'', Yishan does this to Kurumi.
* In the ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' anime, when Caren enters Gaito's castle, he invites her for dancing and partying with Noel and Coco, the kidnapped princesses she was going to rescue. [[spoiler:It's a trap, the ''real'' Noel and Coco being stuck in PeopleJars in his throne room, while these two are actually Mimi and Sheshe.]] Nice thought, though.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Endless Waltz'': Relena is kidnapped and then treated like a queen by Mariemeia Kushrenada and her group.
* ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' has Imzat of the New Earth Federation treating Jamil and Tiffa to a nice dinner to discuss the old war and the place of Newtypes in the Federation's planned new world. Unsurprisingly, neither of them actually eat.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': In a storyline of the Gosaku Ota manga, [[TheDragon Baron Ashura]] kidnaps [[TheHero Kouji Kabuto]]. Then Ashura treats him like a guest and invites him to have dinner with him to talk him into joining him (Kouji even was provided with a tuxedo). In one moment Ashura asks Kouji if the meal is to his liking and Kouji replies it would be more to his liking if he was not handcuffed. Ashura retorts he is not SO stupid to let him free.

* In ''Manga/HoshinEngi'', Choukoumei invites Taikobo and Supushan to dine with him before testing if Taikobo is worthy of being his rival with a fight against his sisters.

* Late in the run of the original ''Manga/LupinIII'' manga series, Lupin encounters a scientist whose secrets he intends to steal. So, he invites him to dinner to discuss it.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has Fate sit down for tea with Negi, although this quickly devolves into them berating the others' taste in beverages, until Negi throws the table and sucker punches him.
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': In the second arc's tea party, [[spoiler:Beatrice captures Rosa and ties her to a chair before promising to grant anything for Rosa if she'll accept her existence. She then decides on her own that she knows what to grant Rosa and treats her to a lovely banquet... that is made from the remains of her siblings]]. She actually brags about it being made [[FromMyOwnPersonalGarden From Her Own Personal Compressor]], among other things.
%%* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
%%** In the Alabasta arc, Sir Crocodile did this to Princess Vivi, exposing his entire plan to depose her father and overthrow her country of Alabasta.
%%** In a flashback in the Zou arc, Capone Bege does this to Sanji's group as [[spoiler:he's taking them to Big Mom]]; this time the locale is ''his own body'', thanks to his Devil Fruit powers.
* Zigzagged in ''Literature/OurLastCrusadeOrTheRiseOfANewWorld'': After a surprise encounter with Iska at a theater in a neutral nation Alice and Rin proceed to a pasta restaurant where they are seated at a table reserved by Iska. While the tension remains high, Alice and Iska make a connection based on their mutually shared preferences for pasta. They eventually part ways opting to pretend the diner never happened.
* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', the Nazis attempting to use Nina as bait to lure Johan to them first treat her to a nice dinner at one of the members' mansion.
* In ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'', after [[spoiler:Orion captures Mamoru]], he tells his second-in-command to invite him to dinner. [[spoiler:Mamoru]] spends the time eating up because he didn't know when he'd be able to eat next.

* One episode of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' has Gali feeding the heroes food and water. The meal isn't rigged, but he uses the distraction to sucker-punch them.
* In episode 6 of ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars'', Baron Febdash appears to be a hospitable host to Lafiel and Jinto until the dinner itself, where his villainous intentions are made known.
* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': In the movie finale ''Fright to the Finish'', King Dedede and Escargoon kidnap Tiff and try to make her tell them how to access the Warp Star, by trying to tempt her with lots of food.

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** Pictured above is a scene from issue #87 (1969) of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'' in which Crystal and Sue are trying to escape Doom's castle, only to run right into the dictator's personal dining room. Despite the fact that he was trying to kill them before, he now treats them as honored guests. EvenEvilHasStandards, especially when it comes to getting three square meals, apparently.
** In one issue of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', a decade and a half later, an at-that-point deposed Doom has a run in with the X-Men. He asks Storm to have dinner with him. She agrees, as it's a distraction, something Doom ''knows'' (and is in fact checking on the other X-Men via screens at his end of the table), but both of them are actually enjoying the charade so much they almost don't want to end it.
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', when Spider-Man swings by the Kingpin's building for no reason while contemplating his life, Elektra shows up and invites him in... where Kingpin offers him pizza and a partnership.

* In ''Fanfic/TheGodsAwaken'', [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]] arranges to have one of his servants make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Eda, Lilith, and King whilst they wait for Luz and Amity to return with the Necronomicon.

* ''Fanfic/ATeachersGlory'' has Zabuza sit down to a (non-poisoned) picnic with Asuma and Anko before they fight, because Asuma believes getting accurate information on Mist is more important than immediate killing Zabuza.

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** Subverted in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Stromberg invites Bond to join him for dinner so that Bond will be sitting right in the sights of the gun attached to the underside of the table. Bond figures it out, gets clear in time and returns the favor down the firing tube.
* Parodied in the quote at the top of the page in ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]''. Scott is baffled as to why his father is not shooting his Archenemy on the spot and is instead sharing a meal with him.
* In the ''Film/JamesBond'' {{parody}} ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'', Steranko insists on eating dinner with Michael after he's been captured. Unlike other examples, he is mostly serious because he does not need the hero dead, simply out of the way.
* ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': Darth Vader: "We would be honored if you would join us." Said after he casually blocks laser blasts with his hand. Laser blasts that [[MemeticMutation Han shot first]]. With after-dinner torture, too! Though they don't end up having the dinner onscreen, ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a skit showing what happens when they do. It's awkward.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the Podcast/RiffTrax:
--->'''Chad Vader''': Brunch, anyone?

* In ''Film/SpyKids1'', the spy parents eventually manage to escape from their cell and make their way to the main room, only to find Floop waiting there with a dinner and holding a timer:
-->'''Floop''': Fifteen minutes to escape. With your reputations, I was expecting something a ''little'' more impressive. ''Finally'', we can eat!
* ''Film/Desire1936'': The Spanish criminals out for the stolen jewel, the American everyman in possession of the jewel, and the [[LoveRedeems redeemed love interest]] who stole the jewel sit down for a classy meal. [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow Each side suspects that the others know that it knows]], so they have a nice chat about whether there has to be a war and if America will have the sense to stay out of it. Everyone's looking for an opportunity to turn it into a showdown.

* In the movie ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'', the serial-killing antagonist kidnaps Clarice Starling's antagonistic former boss. After drugging and subduing both the man and Starling, he dresses the woman up in an elegant gown and has a fancy candlelight dinner with both of them. Then again, [[spoiler: he's actually removing portions of the man's brain, cooking them right there at the table, and feeding them to him.]]
%%** The scene where Landa sits and enjoys a strudel with Shoshonna. Her reaction when he finally leaves tells it all.
* Inverted in the ''Film/InfernalAffairs'' films, where top cop Wong has a habit of welcoming gangsters into custody with take-out.

* In ''Film/TheBlackHole'', Dr. Reinhardt invites the visiting crew of the ''Palomino'' to dinner, although it's only a ''safe bet'' that he's a MadScientist at that point:
-->'''[[TheCaptain Captain Holland]]:''' It's only dinner.\\
'''[[RobotBuddy V.I.N.CENT]]:''' "[[DeadpanSnarker ...said the spider to the fly.]]"
* Subverted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Colonel Philips brings Arnim Zola a steak dinner during his interrogation. Zola suspects that it might be drugged and refuses it, claiming vegetarianism on medical grounds. [[labelnote:note]]His line that meat "disagrees" with him is also subtle foreshadowing for his later BrainUploading.[[/labelnote]]Philips shrugs and eats it himself.
-->'''Zola:''' You are trying to intimidate me, Colonel.
-->'''Philips:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I bought you dinner.]]
%%* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', Prince John does this to Robin near the beginning; Robin and his men likewise entertain the Sheriff, Guy, and Marian somewhat later.
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Valentine shares a lovely dinner with whatever guests he sways to his side. This helps the Prime Minister to follow him, while the Swedish Princess says he's completely insane. Later, Valentine more directly invokes the trope by eating with an undercover Harry. Their main course is... [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds McDonald's]]. This dinner also has a practical side, as [[spoiler: the wine Harry ingested contains a special gel that allows him to track Harry's movements.]]
* In ''Film/TheShadow'', the second time Lamont Cranston encounters Shiwan Khan, the villain is eating dinner at a small restaurant. He invites Lamont Cranston to eat, having already ordered for him. Inverted during their first meeting where Lamont is the host and offers Khan a drink while discussing murder and mayhem.
* Inverted in ''Film/MiamiBlues'' when Detective Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward) appears at suspect "Herman Gottlieb's" (Alec Baldwin) apartment to brace him, invites himself to dinner ("Pork Chops? I'll put my teeth in for that!") and proceeds to needle him throughout the meal. ("So -- where'd you do your time?")
* ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'': Rom invites Jane to dine with him while she is his captive on his riverboat; with the understanding that if she refuses, he will drop her friend into the river to be eaten by crocodiles.
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Congo}}''. Captain Wanta invites (then demands) that his prisoners partake of coffee and cake. They mostly ignore this and start 'negotiating' (e.g. bribing) their release, but when the universally despised Herkermer Homolka tries eating a slice of cake, Wanta not only orders him to stop, he makes him spit it out again.
-->'''Captain Wanta:''' Mister Homolka; stop eating my sesame cake. ({{Beat}}) '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop-eating-my-sesame-cake!]]'''

* ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'': Upon learning of the balloonists' presence on the island, MadScientist Sheila Frankenstein dispatches her henchmen to fetch them and bring them to her house. Upon their arrival, she shares a fine bottle of cognac with them (presumably the budge of the film didn't stretch to actual food).
* ''Film/DeathRing'': After abducting Matt, Vachs has him brought to a formal dinner so he can be introduced the [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the men who will be hunting him]].
* Inverted in the campy ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze''. Captain Seas invites our heroes to dinner and only reveals himself as the villain ''after'' the meal.
-->'''Seas:''' Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed your dinner...because it's going to be your last. ''(waiters all produce guns)''
* ''Film/Posse1975'': While holding Marshal Nightingale hostage in the presidential suite, Jack Strawhorn shares a meal with him, with them the two of them even discussing what to have for dessert. However, because Nightingale has his hands cuffed behind him, Mrs Cooper is forced to feed him.

* In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', the bridge crew and Spartans of the ''Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice'' are invited to refreshments by Governor Jiles, leader of an insurgent human community, while they discuss receiving repairs for their vessel. Also FromMyOwnPersonalGarden, as Jiles comments about the asteroid's hydroponic gardens. A {{subversion}} of the usual connotations, however, in that Jiles originally intended to just raid their ship, take anything valuable, and take them prisoner and/or kill them without a meal. The meal was meant more as a "peace offering" after Vice Admiral Whitcomb demonstrated the power of their ship's plasma weaponry and made it clear he was willing to blow the insurgents up before they got close ([[GambitPileup which he couldn't effectively do because he only had one or two working turrets, but Jiles didn't need to know that]]).
* Done in some versions of ''RobinHood'', when Robin's band kidnaps some unfortunate priest or sheriff and forces him to sit down and eat (and sometimes bunk) with them, after which they empty the man's wallet for payment.

* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': In ''Empire of Ivory'', after King Mokhachane has Laurence brutally beaten for refusing to give up intelligence on the Atlantic slave trade and the poor guy nearly dies of infection as a result, Prince Moshueshue tries a different tack--he waits for Laurence to heal up before calling for him again, and sits him down for drinks. Unlike most examples of this trope, Laurence willingly answers Moshueshue's questions, and so the prince gets quite a bit of valuable information that goes on to influence the events of later books.
%%** As does Napolean's treatment of [[spoiler: Granby]] in the fifth, to the point that Laurence lampshades it a bit. Napoleon himself is presented as quite affable, and probably not even evil so much as... ''determined''.
* Used in the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' ([[FakeUltimateHero HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]) novel ''Duty Calls'', as the antagonist, [[spoiler: Radical Inquisitor]] Killian invites Ciaphas to dine with him and his ally Metheius, partially to boast but also to try to recruit him. Cain is understandably a little discomforted at eating with Killian, but plays along, commenting that Killian is the sort of megalomaniac who seems to need this sort of validation of his cleverness.

* Used by the Macellarius bloodline in a ''Literature/VampireTheRequiem'' introduction short story. The Macellarius are uber-AffablyEvil types who are enormously obese vampiric cannibals, gorging themselves on their enemies as they conquer the Requiem. In an odd twist, the Macellarius leader invites two potential converts to dinner, selects one to join the bloodline and has the other killed and eaten as a welcome feast.
%%* In the ''Literature/{{Corum}}'' series by Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Arioch does this to Corum.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Although one of the most basic moral norms in the series' world is the "guest right" -- that no matter how much you want someone dead, if he eats bread and salt at your table, you must not harm him -- there is someone who doesn't care in the slightest about basic morality. Cue the Red Wedding, in which [[spoiler: no less than a viewpoint character is murdered by her brother's new father-in-law, immediately after watching her son and all his guards brutally killed.]]
** Roose Bolton gives a travel-weary [[spoiler: Brienne]] a clean change of clothes, a nice, warm meal, and polite conversation, and then, with just as much politeness, [[spoiler: turns her over to be gang-raped and killed.]]
** The other dinner guest is [[spoiler: Jaime,]] who Roose really does want to get on his side if possible, since he's been badly hurt while in the custody of some people technically working for Roose, and has the power to bring a whole lot of trouble down on Roose's head depending on what he says to who about it. Roose plays nice, but also makes the threat clear in some subtle ways, like serving food that [[spoiler: Jaime can't eat without help]] because it's all stuff that requires two hands to cut.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/DeathMasks'', Harry is captured by the demonic Nicodemus. When he comes to, Nicodemus has set out a full breakfast spread... only Harry's tied up and suspended under a running stream (cutting him off from magical energy). [[MagnificentBastard Nicodemus prepares for things like this]], and all Harry has to do to join him for breakfast is [[DealWithTheDevil make a little arrangement]].
* In Richard Connell's short story, ''Literature/TheMostDangerousGame'', General Zaroff treats Rainsford to a glass of champagne and a filet mignon, although this is ''before'' he find out the Zaroff is a madman who hunts humans for sport.

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[[caption-width-right:250:"Now that [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom I]] have you in my clutches, prepare for your... ''dinner''!"]]

-->"Mumble... I see that the local air helps you build up quite an appetite"
* Pictured above is a scene from ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' #87 (1969) in which Crystal and Sue are trying to escape Doom's castle, only to run right into the dictator's personal dining room. Despite the fact that he was trying to kill them before, he now treats them as honored guests. EvenEvilHasStandards, especially when it comes to getting three square meals apparently.
** In one issue of ''Uncanny X-Men'', a decade and a half later, a at-that-point deposed Doom has a run in with the X-Men. He asks Storm to have dinner with him. She agrees as it's a distraction, something Doom ''knows'' (and is in fact checking on the other X-Men via screens at his end of the table), but both of them are actually enjoying the charade so much they almost don't want to end it.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderman'', when Spider-Man swings by the Kingpin's building for no reason while contemplating his life, Elektra shows up and invites him in... where Kingpin offers him pizza and a partnership.

%%** Mari and Takumi get this treatment in ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' when summoned to Smart Brain to convince them to hand over the Faiz Gear.