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"With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers. They would all cease to exist. I call that mercy."
Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War. He does.

And with that sudden realization, I dropped my pendulum and raised my hand with the thumb and middle finger together. HyPN0se's eyes instantly filled up with terror and rage as he realized that at any moment, I would pull the switch and lower the drawbridge. note 
I smirked at him with triumph and did what I hadn't been able to do for a week.
"Drop."
The switch was pulled, the drawbridge lowered, and I snapped my fingers.
Just the sound of it filled me with immense satisfaction. Not just because I was able to snap my fingers again, but because I knew that with that one single, smooth motion, HyPN0se was done for. The minute the snapping sound let loose, I instantly saw HyPN0se's face turn to that of shock and rage.
Pokémon × Nimja: Play the Game chapter 6, "Bicycle Race", when Nimja transforms from a Mew into a Hypno for the first time (as well as the origin of the expression to "pull the switch and lower the drawbridge" to mean finger-snapping)

Kain Fuery: "Those flames are coming out of nowhere, how does he do it?"
Jean Havoc: "This is the first time you've seen the Colonel fight? His right glove's made of special material called ignition cloth. When he snaps, it makes a spark. After that he uses alchemy to change the oxygen density in the air and boom, bombs on command."
— How Colonel Roy Mustang's flame alchemy works, as described by two of his men in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) Episode 13, Fullmetal vs Flame

"You're just another troublemaking brat,
who keeps stretching my patience,

AND IT'S GONNA-"
[snap!]

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