Belle: Hmph. So you've come to hear my demands.
Namine: You want us to pay you to give us back Larxene?
Zexion: Hahaha, yeah...no. Here's a list of my demands. Meet them, and we'll take back Larxene.
Belle: Zis is ridiculous. Is zis a joke?
Zexion: No joke. Call me if you change your mind.
[One week later]
Zexion: And I want a pony, and a race car, and a Malibu Stacy dream house, and a BB gun, and a...
Zero-Tactility Society member: "We have your wife."
Spider Jerusalem: "I have considered this information carefully. I have decided that I could not give two tugs of a dead dog's cock about my ex-wife, and that you may keep her.
—Transmetropolitan, "Freeze Me With Your Kiss, Part III"
Are you not loved at home?! Are you not wanted by your wives and families and countrymen? How else to explain your government's complete disinterest in your well-being? HOSTAGES FOR MEDICINES! These were my only terms! And yet, six days of pure fucking silence! So I must conclude that you men are the pariahs of Charles-Towne, and I would profit better by using your organs for chum and your bones for char!
—Blackbeard, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Wonder Woman: Damian despises you.
Batman: You can have him.
Batman: You can have him.
—Injustice 2, in a gender-flipped version of the trope
"Once I'm seventeen, the protective charm that keeps me safe will break, and that exposes you as well as me. The Order is sure Voldemort will target you, whether to torture you to try and find out where I am, or because he thinks by holding you hostage I'd come and try to rescue you."
Uncle Vernon's and Harry's eyes met. Harry was sure that in that instant they were both wondering the same thing.
Uncle Vernon's and Harry's eyes met. Harry was sure that in that instant they were both wondering the same thing.
