History Main / StopOrIShootMyself

* The Doctor, in the 1996 ''DoctorWho'' TV Movie. While YMMV on the rest of the movie's quality, it was one of the moments that really helped cement [[TheNthDoctor Eight]] as being as being ''the'' Doctor.

* In the first ''VampireHunterD'' movie, the female lead threatens to bite out her tongue and bleed to death unless the villains leave D alone,

-->''"Nobody move! I have a hostage. If anyone follows us, I'll kill myself and then her."''
->-- '''Roy Miller''', ''{{Knight and Day}}''

* Kaiba in ''YuGiOh''

* In the first ''CountD'' movie, the female lead threatens to bite out her tongue and bleed to death unless the villains leave D alone,

-->"Nobody move! I have a hostage. If anyone follows us, I'll kill myself and then her."
-->-- '''Roy Miller''', ''KnightAndDay''

* Kaiba in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!''
* In an early episode of ''CodeGeass'', Lelouch threatened suicide when C.C. tried to stop him from walking into an ObviousTrap - he couldn't threaten her since she has a HealingFactor.

* This is a classic threat by the desperate in ''{{Diplomacy}}''. A given player in a situation will claim that he will move all his forces to face the one he is threatening, so that someone else will have a power vacuum to take advantage of while one threatened will get very little.

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[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''BlazingSaddles'' - "Back off or this nigger gets it!" What makes this especially [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] is that the townspeople who were about to ''lynch'' him moments before are suddenly saying things like "Won't someone help that poor man?".

* ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy~=]''

* The WhoopiGoldberg movie ''{{Jumping Jack Flash}}''.

* John Connor tries this in ''{{Terminator}}'' 3. It doesn't work.
* {{TomCruise}}s character does this in KnightAndDay just to cause a scene and make a local fireman a hero. "Nobody move or I kill myself and then I kill her!"

* In the ''[=~Magic: The Gathering~=]'' novel ''The Shattered Alliance'', Lim-Dul comments on this trope after pulling a GrandTheftMe on [[spoiler:Jaya Ballard]].
-->'''Lim-Dul:''' I could threaten her, I suppose, but I would just be threatening myself, and that would be stupid. "One wrong move and I let myself have it".

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* In the episode "7 Men Out" of {{Numb3rs}}, Granger was getting ready to get one guy when the guy put a gun to his own head. Granger ordered him to drop the gun and the guy did. He tossed the gun at Granger and ran for it.

* In the ''{{Tom and Jerry}}'' short "The Missing Mouse", Tom hears news of an escaped white lab mouse who has swallowed a powerful explosive. Jerry, who has been painted white when shoe polish falls on him, pretends to be the mouse, trying to hurt himself and forcing Tom to stop him. Eventually, Tom figures it out, and that's when the ''real'' lab mouse appears...
* A similar situation occurs in the ''LooneyTunes'' short "The Unexpected Pest". Sylvester keeps a mouse around to chase every once in a while and keep his mistress from kicking him out. The mouse eventually figures out that Sylvester needs him alive to keep his happy home, and has the poor puddy tat scrambling to keep the mouse from hurting himself.

* MostTriumphantExample: ''BlazingSaddles'' - "Back off or this nigger gets it!" What makes this especially [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] is that the townspeople who were about to ''lynch'' him moments before are suddenly saying things like "Won't someone help that poor man?".

* MostTriumphantExample: ''BlazingSaddles'' - "Back off or this nigger gets it!" What makes this especially [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] is that the townspeople in question are about to ''lynch'' him.

* In ''CodeGeass'', Lelouch once did this to force C.C. to cooperate with him.

* The Doctor, in the 1996 ''DoctorWho'' TV Movie.

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* A variation is used in ''CodeLyoko'', where Aelita's friends threatened to kill her before the Scyphozoa could MindProbe her (which would kill her too), forcing XANA to order the monster to release her.
* Another variation, in the first season of AvatarTheLastAirBender, the [{EnemyMind Blue Spirit]] is trying to rescue a captured Aang from Admiral Zhao. They are almost out of the fort when the last gate is sealed in front of them and they are surrounded. Zhao yells that they must take the Avatar alive (so that he won't just reincarnate into the Water Tribe and have to be found and captured again down the line). The Blue Spirit immediately moves into a position with his blades at Aang's throat, the silent threat being that they must open the gates or he will kill the person he came to rescue rather than see him captured by Zhao.

* The WhoopiGoldberg movie ''Jumping Jack Flash''.

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* Played with in an issue of the John Byrne ''{{Superman}}'' reboot: Superman gets to hear about a vigilante called Batman and goes to Gotham City to capture him. Batman holds him off by revealing that somewhere in the city is a man with a bomb strapped to him, and Batman is wearing a device that will automatically detonate the bomb if Superman comes too close. Superman agrees to keep his distance and watch Batman in action, they wind up working together to bring down the villain of the week, and at the end of the issue Superman admits that Batman's not as lawless as he'd heard, and he'd probably be willing to let Batman continue operating if it weren't for that strapping-bombs-to-innocent-civilians thing. At this, Batman explains (what neither Superman nor the audience had known up to this point) that the man with the bomb strapped to him was actually Batman himself.

* MostTriumphantExample: ''BlazingSaddles'' - "Back off or this nigger gets it!"
** What makes this especially [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] is that the townspeople in question are about to ''lynch'' him.
--->'''Bart:''' Ooh baby, you are so talented-- and they are so ''dumb!''

* in Chris Hiemerdinger's Feathered Serpent, part two, Melody threatens to kill herself if King Jacob kills a few of his men (who made a mess up) seeing as he needs her alive to convince her uncle to help him, he agrees. Granted, she doesn't have a gun, she uses a knife.
* In the ''MagicTheGathering'' novel ''The Shattered Alliance'', Lim-Dul comments on this trope after pulling a GrandTheftMe on [[spoiler:Jaya Ballard]].
--> '''Lim-Dul''': I could threaten her, I suppose, but I would just be threatening myself, and that would be stupid. 'One wrong move and I let myself have it'.

* ''{{Farscape}}'': John Crichton, when faced with enemies that [[IWantThemAlive want him alive]]. "Get back or the white boy gets it!" (He's holding himself hostage with his finger, and he moments later remarks that they're so stupid.) This is a direct reference, of course, to {{Blazing Saddles}}.

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* In the first CountD movie, the female lead threatens to bite out her tongue and bleed to death unless the villians leave D alone,

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* ''StargateAtlantis'', Season 3 episode "Sateda": Ronon Dex is captured, along with Teyla and Sheppard, by villagers he previously met during his Runner days. They're planning to deliver him to the Wraith in exchange for their village to be spared. The elder refuses to free them even when Ronon put a knife under the throat of one of his jailers -- so Ronon threatens to ''slit his own throat'' if they don't let Sheppard and Teyla go. The villagers are forced to yield since the Wraith were already summoned forth -- and they wouldn't be very pleased to find Ronon dead, as they want him alive for [[TheMostDangerousGame an ultimate hunt]].

--->''Bart:''' Ooh baby, you are so talented-- and they are so ''dumb!''

* ''BlazingSaddles'': When the town reacts violently to the idea of a black sheriff, the memorable "Back off or this nigger gets it!" sequence ensues.

* In ''Trigun'' Wolfwood seems to do this, to provide a visual example on how someone's chosen action will lead to the death of hundreds. It is quickly revealed however, that he never intended to put himself in any danger, and was using an empty clip.