History Main / ThreateningMediator

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', near the closing of the Marineford War, Shanks and his Red Hair Pirates show up in Marineford and then threaten the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines into ending their battle, declaring that anyone who still wants to fight will have to fight against ''his'' side. And then the war promptly stops, with Shanks taking Whitebeard and Ace's corpses to be given proper burial. It works because while the Marines won the war against Whitebeard, they'd certainly not come out unscathed and were in no position to ''immediately'' fight another Emperor-caliber crew, especially since the surviving Whitebeard Pirates would've joined the fight instead of fleeing in this scenario. And Fleet Admiral Sengoku is well aware of this.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', near the closing of the Whitebeard War, Shanks and his Red Hair Pirates - another of the Four Emperors, like Whitebeard Pirates - shows up in Marineford and then threatens the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines to stop fighting by declaring that anyone who still wants to fight will have to fight against ''his'' side. And then the war promptly stops, with Shanks taking Whitebeard and Ace's corpses to be given proper burial. It works because while the Marines won the war against Whitebeard, they'd certainly not come out unscathed and were in no position to ''immediately'' fight people as strong as Shanks and the Red Hairs, especially since the surviving Whitebeard Pirates would've joined the fight instead of fleeing in this scenario. And Fleet Admiral Sengoku is well aware of this.

* In the series finale of ''Series/Farscape'' , Crichton threatens to destroy EVERYONE if the Peacekeepers and Scarrans refuse to make peace.

* In the series finale of Series/Farscape , Crichton threatens to destroy EVERYONE if the Peacekeepers and Scarrans refuse to make peace.

* ''Literature/MatthewSwift'': London has many opposing faction that Matthew has to deal with. Good doesn't equal nice in his case, so his efforts can very easily slide towards ''stop or I'll burn you until nothing but a [[ArcWords shadow on the wall remains]]''.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', near the closing of the Whitebeard War, Shanks and his Red Hair Pirates - another of the Four Emperors, like Whitebeard Pirates - shows up in Marineford and then threatens the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines to stop fighting by declaring that anyone who still wants to fight will have to fight against ''his'' side. And then the war promptly stops, with Shanks taking Whitebeard and Ace's corpses to be given proper burial.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' episode, ''[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirls2016S03E08Largo Largo]]'', has Blossom and Buttercup arguing with each other for a majority of the episode, while Bubbles is investigating a rain cloud making everyone in Townsville depressed except her and her sisters. After discovering that the eponymous character is the cause of all this because his fellow component Allegro split from him because they can't stand each other, she tries to get the four of them to reconcile with each other with a tea party in order to stop the rain cloud. However, when everyone is still fighting each other, she reaches her RageBreakingPoint and basically [[OrderedApology forces the four of them to apologize]].

'''Popeye:''' ''Nobody'' wins. And I'm gonna steps on ''both'' of ya if ya don't shakes hands and makes peace! (''The two kings do'')

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', near the closing of the Whitebeard War, Shanks and his Red Hair Pirates - another of the Four Emperors, like Whitebeard Pirates - shows up in Marineford and then threatens Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines to stop fighting by declaring that anyone who still wants to fight will have to fight against ''his'' side. And then the war promptly stops, with Shanks taking Whitebeard and Ace's corpses to be given proper burial.
* "[[Creator/YukoGoto Gothouther-sama]]" does this for the hosts of [[ShowWithinAShow Lucky Channel]] in episode 23 of ''Manga/LuckyStar'' after Minoru had destroyed the set in a fit of UnstoppableRage the previous episode.

* In ''VideoGame/ElSword'', whenever [[HeadbuttingHeroes Elsword and Aisha start to butt heads with each other]], Rena, who's usually nice, becomes so angry at the two that they're reduced into cowering in terror.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', when Sid and the baby start fighting, Manny warns that "I don't care who started it, I'll finish it."

** In ''The Romulan Way'', Arrhae deals with two lower-ranked servants who are at odds over their son and daughter being in a relationship by threatening to sell both children to another house halfway across the planet.
** In ''Honor Blade'' the neutral Lalairu agree to host a diplomatic summit between the Federation and the Romulan Empire aboard their city-ship ''Mascrar''. The Lalairu are militant about maintaining their reputation as neutral intermediaries and threaten to destroy any ship that disrupts the negotiations regardless of affiliation, to which both sides agree. [[spoiler:They carry out the threat when the Romulans attack the Federation-allied Romulan ship [=ChR=] ''Bloodwing'', joining with the Starfleet ships to rout the enemy vessels.]]

* ''AmericanDad'' has an episode where Stan and Hayley's bickering causes Francine to take this role and demand that they spend time together pleasantly or so help her, she will cut their pretty faces.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', when Sid and the baby start fighting, Manny warns that "I don't care who started it, I'll finish it."

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** In the Renegade GoldenPath ending of the Geth-Quarian War in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Renegade Shepard threatens the quarians that if they don't cut it out and stop attacking the geth, s/he's not going to pull their asses out of the fire this time because s/he's sick of their stupidity.

* The Prince of Verona catches Tybalt and Benvolio among others talking trash with unsheathed swords in the public square in Act I Scene i of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theater/RomeoAndJuliet''. The Prince commands them to stand down, then warns all combatants that any more swordplay in public will result in loss of titles, demoting them to peasants; it's super effective.