I Know Where You Live Threat

"Peter, I swear to you, wherever you go wherever you are: I vow there will always be daggers bearing notes signed James Hook! They volition be flung at the doors of your children's children'south children. Do y'all hear me?!"

— Captain Claw, Hook

The Big Bad or some other Villain, having fabricated a threat confronting The Hero and/or someone the Hero loves, produces proof they can actually find the intended victim(s) and acquit it out. Recent photographs of the target(s) at home or in other familiar settings are probably the most pop form of bear witness; the recipient(due south) will recognize background items, clothing, hairstyle and other details as familiar and recent, and the very being of the photos implies someone got physically close enough to take them. On the other hand, the villain may simply say or write the home accost, phone number, schoolhouse name, or other contempo identifying information ("Lovely blue leotard your daughter wore to her dance form today. It matches her optics."). They may even produce some recognizable item belonging to the target(s), thereby proving they've been in that location one time already and can render.

Since executing this trope involves inspiring feelings of fright and intimidation, it is almost often performed past a villain or at their command. If a heroic character does this, chances are that hero already operates exterior ordinary rules (think superhero), or is angry or desperate enough to act without the assistance of law enforcement. When invoked confronting someone with a secret identity, the trope I Know Y'all Know I Know volition play a part in the threat. Implying or announcing that they know such a cloak-and-dagger is another means of making the threat hit close to habitation, and may even imply that the opponent has some way to deal with the target's special abilities (If the villain knows Clark Kent is really Superman, maybe they know about that kryptonite problem too).

While this may be done in conjunction with an Implied Expiry Threat, it usually appears with more direct threats (of the Shame If Something Happened variety) or explicit threats, and then equally to underline both the intent and the ability to follow through. If it is not given in person or via phone, such proof volition likely back-trail an anonymous threatening letter. Trespassing to Talk is an fantabulous way to demonstrate this.

There is often some overlap with Shame If Something Happened, every bit this trope can serve to bolster the threat and encourage the target'south cooperation. In those cases, there's usually something the target can do or some price that can be paid to buy off the threat, if only for a short fourth dimension. If this trope is used alone, oftentimes there is no price that can be paid; the threat is coming and the purpose is more than to terrify beforehand rather than trying to become the target to practise (or cease doing) something.

Compare and dissimilarity The Phone call Knows Where You lot Alive. Where this trope is about demonstrating the power to strike (i.e. the baddies have done their homework and show their work to prove it), The Call Knows Where Yous Alive is about going ahead and really doing it (possibly without any warning). Either style, the situation demands some kind of response. It's too possible to exercise this trope commencement, then go ahead and pull the other one (by carrying out a threat). If the villain only wants to become the drop on the hero, they'll only act (TCKWYL); if the villain wants to play with the hero'southward head get-go, they'll do this first (or something like information technology).

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    Anime and Manga

• Assassination Classroom: As part of his agreement with the Japanese regime, Koro-sensei is forbidden from harming the students in Form 3E. But when some bullies bait Nagisa into participating in a dangerous "suicide bomber" attempt, he reveals he's both willing and able to harm someone else, like their family and friends.
• The Mystery of Mamo: Mameaux skips the threats and only has Frenchy hit the gang'due south hideout with napalm to show them that he really means business organization when he sends hitmen after them for giving him a phony Philosopher's Stone.
• Shonan Jun'ai Gumi!: Yagyo Atsuki's "demons" assail Ryuji and Nagisa'due south autobus while Ryuji is out. They don't physically harm Nagisa, simply go out a huge "oni" kanji on the inside, to show they could have.

    Comic Books

• This is what drives Drake Mallard into retirement in the Darkwing Duck continuation as Negaduck figures out who Darkwing is and attacks his home. Fearful for Gosalyn's safety, he just flat out retires to protect her. When she finds out, she gives him the anarchism act for his selfish human activity.
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe:
  • Donald Duck is extremely protective of both his superhero identity and the cloak-and-dagger amanuensis 1 considering he'southward perfectly aware this would eventually happen if ane or both got out. Hence why as Paperinik he's extremely roughshod to anyone who try and discover out or even lies about knowing (as in, "setting a lynching mob on the culprit" brutal, as he did to some guys who were endangering his identity then to the Beagle Boys for lying they knew) and always carries memory-erasing candies that he'll feed, by strength if necessary, to anyone who discovers him. Anyone, as Daisy and his nephews could evidence if he hadn't slipped them those candies...
  • Interestingly enough, Paperinik himself provides a heroic analogue: if he recognizes the technique of a thief he volition visit them at dwelling, and out-of-town criminals who programme to motion at Duckburg may suddenly receive a visit from Paperinik and exist shown a video with what the hero did to their friends that already tried to move in his city.
    • Another example comes from "Brains at Pale": as the Beagle Boys had hostages Paperinik couldn't attack direct, and so he tormented them psychologically, with the thing that breaks their ability to fight being discovering that Paperinik had destroyed the bridge to their underground hideout in the mountains.
• Sin Metropolis: The district attorney finally gets Marv to confess to the murders actually committed by Kevin and Cardinal Roark (and their murders, which he was guilty of) by turning off the recorder and showing him a picture of his mother in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle. Marv breaks his arm in three places, but signs.
• In Superman storyline Strangers at the Heart's Core, Supergirl receives a cryptic warning about some group called "The Visitors". Afterward, she realizes the Visitors know her secret identity when she is attacked in her own office past them while she is cleaning out her desk, and when they turn her female parent's machine into a car bomb.

    Fan Works

• The Nighttime Lords of Nerima: In the sequel Ranma opts not to tell the Senshi, who are convinced he'southward an interdimensional dark lord bent on taking over the world, he knows their identities to avoid creating this impression.
• Dingy Sympathy: Kristoph pays the rent for Apollo's apartment, he gives Apollo an unpleasant reminder when he visits that he owns him.
• In one Law & Social club: SVU fanfic centered around Amanda Rollins, a former coworker who had abused Rollins in the by comes to her flat building in the middle of the night, rings her doorbell, and speaks to her over the intercom, merely she of form refuses to allow him in. As the post-obit chapter explains, she realizes after the fact that he wasn't actually expecting to be let in; what he was really doing was telling her that he knows where she lives. This ends up being the breaking point that finally drives her to seek help.
• A Law & Order: UK fanfic that depicted an escaped criminal stalking the squad had the criminal in question demonstrate this in chilling style by sending a sympathy carte du jour to Alesha and a funeral wreath to Natalie'south begetter's nursing dwelling house.
• Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Human action Four: Shit hits the fan come chapter thirteen when Hokuto makes his motility. Not but does he know where Tsukune lives, but he's had his Co-Dragons Jovian and Jacqueline hold his mother and cousin hostagr in order to force Moka to come to him.
• What Goes Around Comes Around (Miraculous Ladybug): Shadow Moth discovers Ladybug'south Surreptitious Identity and stages an attack on the Dupain-Cheng bakery, aiming a cannon right at her room while enervating she surrender the Phenomenon Box. This triggers a frantic battle that ends with both unmasked and Gabriel defeated.

    Film

• In Afterward the Sunset, local gangster Moret tries to recruit legendary jewel thief Max into doing a job for him. When Max refuses, claiming that he'due south retired from that life, Moret seems to accept this, merely and then casually mentions, "I beloved the view of the water from your house." Max corrects him, saying, "You hateful the view of my firm from the water". (although this isn't much better, every bit it still indicates this trope). Moret assures him that the first statement was correct, effectively warning Max not to cross him.
• All-time Seller. Detective Meechum has his life saved by a Mysterious Protector, and is not happy when his daughter tells him the same homo gave her a elevator dwelling house, convincing her he was a friend of her male parent with his intimate knowledge of their family. Subsequently on the Big Bad has 2 policeman detain the daughter and bring her to him — not as a hostage, but to demonstrate his power and influence if Meechum doesn't cooperate.
• At the cease of Baton Bathgate, gangster Lucky Luciano contemplates killing the protagonist, but points out to Billy that it'south hardly necessary, as he knows where not but Billy but all his relatives live.
• Fatal Attraction: Alex follows Dan home and clearly continues stalking the family unseen, as proven by her breaking into the firm to kill his daughter's pet rabbit, kidnapping said daughter from her school, and breaking into the firm over again to effort and kill his wife.
• For Petes Sake: When Henry fails to pay a loan shark on time, he has a thug come at her husband Pete with a car and miss him, then calls her to warn her that the adjacent time she fails to pay upwards, the machine will notice its marker.
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Alfrid gives the old "we know where you live" threat to Bard, who calmly responds that information technology's a small boondocks, so everyone knows where each other lives.
• The Gift (2015): Gordo leaves his first souvenir on the Callums' front door, fifty-fifty though neither of them gave him their address, directly. He overheard it while the Callums' were ordering items to be shipped to their new home.
• In the film Ice Foam Man virtually a Humanitarian evil ice cream man, the eponymous man uses the exact line: "You little turds are gonna have to realize you tin't run from the ice foam man! I know where yous alive! If you tell anyone, I'll get your mom and dad!"
• In Grosse Pointe Blank, the assassinator protagonist tries to convince his psychiatrist to continue seeing him (the psychiatrist freaked out when his patient revealed his profession). The protagonist mentions doctor-patient confidentiality as a reason why their continued visits wouldn't be a trouble and so adds, "And besides, I know where you live". Given the protagonist's admitted profession and the fact that he would know the psychiatrist by name, that's not then hard to believe. The assassinator meant it as a blackness joke, only while the psychiatrist realises this he doesn't find it funny at all.
• Subverted in Kick-Ass. Right after mob boss Frank D'Amico orders his goons to bring him Kick Ass, our hero is woken in his bedroom past... young man costumed vigilantes Hit Daughter and Large Daddy, who've come to reiterate their request that he non tell anyone about them. "We like y'all, we just don't trust you." They also signal out how ridiculously piece of cake information technology was to make up one's mind his Secret Identity for someone who's likely to depict the hostile attending of both police force and criminals.
• Layer Cake:
  • Subtly done at one point. The protagonist is going to see his girlfriend at a hotel rendezvous when he gets abducted by a Diabolical Mastermind gangster, and at the end of their "interview", he's casually dropped off at his domicile, which the other guy wouldn't know unless he'd been keeping shut tabs on him.
  • Played for Laughs when the protagonist is being threatened by a Serbian gangster; he acts intimidated and agrees to encounter him where he lives, then asks "Practice you know where that is?". When the Serbian says no, the protagonist hangs upwards on him.
• In The Mad Miss Manton, the unknown murderer stabs a pocketknife onto Melsa Manton'southward door with her cloak and a threatening letter fastened maxim, "Next time you'll be in it."
• The Mechanic (2011). Arthur Bishop stops Steve McKenna from killing a carjacker. Even so before letting the carjacker get, he takes the driver's license from the homo's wallet and informs "Raymond" that if there's any comeback on this, he's going to look him up now that he knows his address.
• In Ane 60 minutes Photograph, after Robin Williams' character gets fired from his job at the Ane Hour Photo, he shows up one more time to go a coil of film developed. The pictures are all photos of the manager's daughter, in her front yard. Upon seeing these, the managing director immediately calls the police force.
• Patriot Games: Miller calls Jack Ryan at his home to taunt him over the astringent injuries Jack'southward daughter suffered later on Miller's failed endeavor to impale Jack's family.
• Jack Rippner from Blood-red Eye gets Lisa to help him assassinate the Secretarial assistant for Homeland Security by showing him her father'southward wallet which he stole from her father'due south house. If she doesn't help him kill the Secretary by moving him out of one hotel room into the other than her father will be murdered.
• Spider-Man: After the Green Goblin attacks Aunt May, Peter realizes that the Goblin knows his Hole-and-corner Identity and is willing to exploit information technology past going afterwards his loved ones.
• Triple 9 (2016). Criminals wordlessly show a bank director a photo of his house, so his wife and daughter, to go his cooperation in opening a rubber deposit box.

    Literature

• Early in Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Body of water, Bill shows Lori a printout of a threatening electronic mail he received earlier that morning, the latest in a series. The note came with recent photos of the cottage, Lori, their nanny Annelise and the twins on their ponies. The text reads:
• In The Client, a young witness is cornered in a infirmary lift by a hit man. Later on warning him to keep his oral cavity shut about what he knows, the man drives his point home by showing the male child a family picture which he recognizes as the i his mother keeps on her nightstand.
• Similarly, in the novel Coma, later threatening Susan, the hit man drives home his point by showing her a flick of her piddling blood brother and alarm her that if she doesn't dorsum off, "I'll take to pay him a visit too."
• Discworld:
  • Villains tend to try this on Sam Vimes. Always a terrible idea, since he's a Papa Wolf and that acts as a Berserk Push for him.
  • In Night Watch Carcer tells Vimes: "I tin can run across your house from here!" before long before they're blasted back in time. When they're sent back, Vimes immediately posts extra guards around his house. In the end, Carcer never really goes near the place; he was but taunting Vimes.
  • Happens several times in Thud!:
    • The dwarves send a suicide squad to assassinate his family... causing him to pursue their sorry asses all the way into Koom Valley, and filling him with so much primal vengeful rage, he nigh murders them.
    • Two troll enforcers for The Breccia effort to intimidate Vimes by proverb this... correct in the middle of the Sentry business firm while surrounded by officers. With the Breccia's dominate having explicitly said that such threats were not to happen. Chrysoprase, the aforementioned boss, subsequently apologizes, assures Vimes the enforcers have been dealt with accordingly, and offers him a new rockery for his troubles (held in a box that couldn't possibly comprise an *entire* troll).
    • The Low Male monarch of the Dwarves almost pulls this on Vimes in a moment of anger earlier communicable himself and mentioning diplomatically how nice it would exist to come across his family unit. Vimes isn't fooled, but lets it slide.
  • In Guards! Guards! information technology'south implied that Lord Vetinari got the Thieves' Guild leaders to agree to his plan to lower the criminal offence rate past legitimizing them, by quietly suggesting that he knew where their loved ones lived. Peculiarly since legitimization meant they now had a fixed abode.
  • In Making Money, Moist von Lipwig has just gotten out of a meeting with Cosmo Lavish, and contemplates his rather poor endeavour at this trope (which, in Cosmo's mind, was actually done on purpose to make Moist underestimate him).

  Moist: Why didn't you add 'We know where your children volition become to school'?

• The Dresden Files novella "The Warrior" features an antagonist who sends Harry photographs of the Carpenter family and their firm: not and then much "I know where you live" as "I know where your friends live". The characters discuss whether this means the Carpenters are really in danger, or whether they're being threatened to distract Harry from something else.
• In The Girl from the Miracles District, after Nikita goes through multiple hoops and hole-and-corner passages to reach her hideout, she doesn't even finish bathing earlier the Large Bad drops an Implied Death Threat on her doorstep.
• Averted in Strega. Burke, an unlicensed private investigator who goes to elaborate steps to hide his identity, is pressured past a would-be client who threatens to plough upward at the hotel where he's a permanent resident. This gives Shush interruption equally simply a few people know he lives at that hotel. "Of course, those people are all incorrect."
• The prologue of Halting State is a transcript of a vaguely threatening job offer, which knows an awful lot well-nigh the "bidder" because he'south never contacted them. The prologue title is "We Know Where You Live, We Know Where Your Domestic dog Goes To Schoolhouse".
• Maul: Lockdown: An Evil vs. Evil version appears when Zero reveals frightening in-depth knowledge about the sister of cannibalistic gang leader Vas Nailhead after Vas bullies him.
• In Pact, Blake Thorburn pays a visit to the fiancee of constabulary officeholder Duncan Behaim, helps her car out of a snowdrift, and gets invited in for nutrient. Duncan immediately comes running, merely cannot assault Blake because of Sacred Hospitality, equally his married woman had offered Blake shelter and food.
• Late in Lynn Shepherd'southward 2012 novel The Lone Firm, protagonist and investigator Charles Maddox finds his housemaid airsickness in the kitchen, and he learns from another retainer that she had been accosted while buying provisions at the markets and a package was added to her basket. The package proves to incorporate the little finger from Charles' right paw, which had been forcibly amputated in an attack on him several days previously. Charles recognizes the contents ("A 2d, closer expect eradicates all doubtfulness."), and the threat:

  The package left in Molly'south basket carried more than one message, and the loudest and clearest of them all is that his unseen antagonist is closing in. Closing in on Charles, and endmost in, now, on all those around him. He could have killed Molly today, if he chose, just as he could take killed Charles on the City Road.

    Alive-Action TV

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • One of the starting time things Affections does when he turns evil is to become into Buffy's room while she'south sleeping, draw a detailed picture of her, and leave information technology for her to find in the morning.
  • And let's not forget Glory, who threatened to kill Buffy's loved ones and make her watch while confronting her in her ain living room.
  • On the Wolfram & Hart website, if you become to the page to fill out a job application, it just reads "We know where to contact you. Await a visit from our recruiters before long."
• Burn Notice, Michael and Fiona effort this past breaking into a bad guy'south abode and playing on his pool table as he arrives. Existence role of the bad guy/spy game himself he cites the trope, doesn't human activity intimidated, and makes them get to their point. It works later when they state his daughter's proper name and overseas schoolhouse address and imply someone is there about to shoot her.
• Chief of Staff: Episode 2.2 ends with Seon-yeong, a crusading assemblywoman, driving in to the parking garage under her apartment building simply to notice evil Corrupt Corporate Executive Lee Cheong-min lying in wait. Lee makes a very thinly veiled Shame If Something Happened threat about how she shouldn't exist going around unescorted, a threat that becomes fifty-fifty less veiled when Seon-yeong goes upwards to her flat and finds that it's been ransacked.
• Cracker. In "Men Should Weep", a rapist is assaulting the wives of people he has a grudge against. He threatens a government bureaucrat with this trope, later raping and murdering his wife. When a detective calls in the address to headquarters in the grieving man'southward presence, he suddenly remembers the threat.

  Detective: You must be threatened a lot in this job.
  Bureaucrat: This one was different.
  Detective: How?
  Bureaucrat: He meant it.

• Daredevil (2015):
  • In "The Perfect Game", Karen Page tries to coerce Felix Manning into giving her information under the threat of public exposure in her newspaper. Felix calmly tells Karen her parents name, the address of the firm she grew upwards in, which room Karen slept in as a child and the fact that she used to exist a drug addict which had something to practice with the decease of her brother. She'southward suitably freaked out.
  • Used in flavour 3 of when the 1000 jury deliberates on whether or not to indict Wilson Fisk. 1 of the jurors starts reciting the names and addresses of the others, implying that they will be targeted if they cull to indict.
  • Done on Fisk himself in Season Ane when Madame Gao arranges a meeting by going directly to Fisk'due south flat. She points out that its location used to be his most closely guarded secret, and the fact that the hush-hush is out shows Fisk has grown sloppy and needs to get his act together.
• In Day Intermission (2006), Detweiler leaves no doubt almost this when showing Hopper the footage of Rita beingness shot so adding images of his sis's family.
• On ER, Luka' s vengeful former patient (he was left permanently disabled due to an error Luka made, kick off a concatenation of disastrous events—failed business concern, failed wedlock, etc) encounters his wife in the park while she's playing with their son. He's not threatening at all, instead being very friendly and polite while never revealing who he is. Simply he does steal the child's stuffed brute. When he returns it in a supposedly friendly gesture, Luka is frightened at the realization both of this trope and the fact that the homo could have easily harmed his wife and son had he wanted to. It doesn't help that a few episodes later on, as Luka looks out the window of his flat, he sees the human being standing beyond the street. And a few episodes later on that, his wife returns home only to find the man sitting on the burrow every bit comfortably as if he belongs in that location.
• All versions of Law & Lodge:
  • A particularly repugnant SVU criminal very casually asks Stabler, "How are Kathy and the kids?" afterward spending weeks stalking Olivia, knowing not only where she lives, simply where she shops/works out/does her laundry, etc., and terrorizing nevertheless another potential victim the same way.
  • On the original program, a defendant admits to killing the victim after the man threatened his married woman by greeting her as she returned home from running errands—"Tell him I was this close.", and years later, a thug threatens ADA Alexandra Borgia with the identical argument (eerily Foreshadowing her fate).
  • Law & Club: UK: James Steele's nemesis practically recites the address of his son'south dwelling—"Bradley Street, Edinburgh" in order to intimidate him.
• Murdoch Mysteries:
  • Late in "Unfinished Business organization" (Flavor 7, Episode 12), Julia gets a photo of her and Murdoch kissing in an aisle (which she and viewers recognize happened after they attended a recent opera performance), together with a letter plain from James Gillies. The letter threatens that if she marries Murdoch, he'll dice, and if she tells him about the letter (and the threat), they'll both dice. This starts a subplot over the next several episodes in which she tries to resolve the trouble herself to continue Murdoch safety. She applies Murdoch's methods and finds the room where the photo was taken. In that room, she also finds a second photo of Murdoch taken within his function with a 2d note threatening expiry if she continues her investigation. Information technology afterwards turns out the photos and threats came from her murdered husband's younger brother Leslie Garland.
  • In the two-parter "On the Waterfront", Brackenreid recalls in Flashback a mean solar day when his married woman Margaret gave directions to two men driving a wagon. The inspector called sharply to his wife from his wheelchair on the front porch, and Margaret didn't seem to understand what he was fussing nigh. The men were the O'Shea brothers, who had browbeaten Brackenreid most to death (hence his presence at home in the wheelchair). They don't speak to Brackenreid directly, only one of them does tip his chapeau to the inspector.
• NCIS As Ellie Bishop interrogates a terrorist who she's had dealings with in the past:

  Terrorist: "Information technology'southward been a long time, Eleanor. I thought near you lot."
  Ellie: "You should have stopped by the office and said hullo".
  Terrorist: "That'south much besides formal. I much prefer your apartment in DC. How is your husband Jake? He should really learn to watch his surroundings."

• NCIS: New Orleans: When Sebastian is abducted by terrorists, they inform him of this very trope, then testify him a picture of Dr. Wade and another of his mother (who is in boondocks for a visit), letting him know that this trope applies to them too.
• On One Life to Live, subsequently Max Holden runs afoul of a Loan Shark. Equally he scrambles to come up up with the money to pay him back, the guy drops by his home for a "friendly" conversation with the man's wife. Subsequently, when she mentions, "a friend of yours stopped by", Max panics equally he realizes that the human being was not-and so-subtly threatening to harm his family if he didn't reimburse him.
• Person of Interest:
  • Combined with Fifty-fifty Evil Has Loved Ones in "Aletheia", when the Machine makes information technology clear it's non going to tolerate the government trying to take control of it.

  The Machine: [via Root] I don't vest to anyone anymore. Yous, however, are mine. I protect you lot. The just matter you love lives at 254 Wendell Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I baby-sit it, aforementioned as I baby-sit you. Exercise non question my judgment. Practice non pursue me or my agents. Trust in me. I am ever watching.

  • In "Prisoners Dilemma", 4 corporate mercenaries plus John Reese have been captured by the FBI. One of them decides to talk and finger Reese as the Homo in the Accommodate vigilante. Harold Finch calls the mercenary with his true name, the address of his family, his mortgage details...and the fact that Finch has just transferred all the coin in his offshore account and won't become it back unless he fingers ane of his colleagues every bit the Man in the Suit instead.
  • And in "C.O.D.", Finch is dealing with an online black marketeer only known equally d3mon8. Or so he believes until...

  Finch: The take hold of, Albert, is that you leave this very second, disappear, and don't show your face for at least a year. Particularly not at your mom's firm in Queens, where you presently reside.

  • In "Pretenders", a Heroic Wannabe is pretending to be a Difficult Boiled Detective called Jack Forge. He gets a telephone call from the villains on a stolen phone he's found, demanding to speak to Detective Forge. After hanging upwards in a panic, he immediately gets a call from the same villains on his workplace phone, asking for him by his real proper noun.
  • In "Last Call", an unseen villain calls a 911 dispatcher and informs her that he'southward kidnapped a child who volition exist killed if she doesn't comply with his instructions. When she expresses skepticism over whether the kidnapping is real, the villain offers to drop a body office over at her address, which he proceeds to give.
• A subtle one in the Remington Steele episode "Elegy in Steele": Major Descoine comes to the agency's role, promises Laura and Steele he'll kill them both by noon that day, and leads them on a chase around the city. One surreal stop is a richly-furnished Victorian-looking apartment in an otherwise abandoned building. On looking effectually, the detectives notice that the framed photographs scattered virtually the living room show them at work on recent cases (in conspicuously recognizable stills from previous episodes), and the penny drops:

  Steele: He'southward been following us! The bloody bugger's been spying on us!
  Laura: It gives me the creeps.
  The Minor: (Enters carrying a loaded tea tray) Oh, "foam," did you say? (Stops as Steele and Laura plough on her, Steel pointing his gun at her) It'southward right here on the tray.

• The Professionals. A criminal does this when jury tampering in "A Not Very Civil Civil Servant" (he's likewise smart enough to include subtle blackmail and bribery besides).

  "You've got iv kids. I know the roads they cross on their manner to school and I know what they wait like. And I can be a very dangerous driver. I know the supermarket your wife shops at. So, what I do is, I put a few things in her pocketbook, I phone call the detective and she's down the route for shop-lifting. You think well-nigh it."

• The Sopranos: When Uncle Junior is on trial, some of June'south assembly observe ane of the jurors (buying candy for his son, no less) and casually mention details of the trial and of the juror's family, and how glad they are that the juror is doing his civic duty. In the next episode, the jury is hung with a single holdout, leading to a mistrial—and that poor juror is hated past all the others.
• The season two finale of Stranger Things makes it clear that the Heed Flayer knows total well who the Political party are and where they live. And information technology's pissed .
• Strong Medicine. Incensed when Dylan fails to save their leader, several gang members brainstorm threatening him. He doesn't take it seriously—until a picture of his girl wearing her infirmary volunteer uniform is sent to him. To drive the bespeak home, a bulls-eye is drawn across her head.
• This comes in handy in Treadstone when someone threatens a Manchurian Agent this style, as he'south had his memories wiped due to brainwashing and he doesn't know where he lives, so he forces the guy making the threat to give him the address.
• Wonder Woman: In "Heed Stealers from Outer Space", the Skrill decide that Diana Prince and Wonder Woman are the same person and send 2 of their conflicting-possessed humans to Diana's apartment. Diana is shocked to encounter them in that location, but she almost manages to fight them off. Then the third Skrill envoy, the 7-human foot tall monster called the Zardor, arrives.

    Professional Wrestling

• This was i of the openly admitted listen games BJ Whitmer used to become the advantage confronting Steve Corino during their final feud in Ring of Honor before Corino's departure, filming himself standing over Corino's sleeping spouse.

    Video Games

• Victor Zsasz subjects the psychiatrist interviewing him in one of the sound diaries in Batman: Arkham Asylum, cheerfully waxing lyrical about the shrink's apartment in minute, agonizing detail, downwards to exactly how many locks are on her door and how many cats she owns. The psychiatrist is removed from his case and security is multiplied on him...this being Arkham Asylum, it does absolutely dink: he escapes and proves he's equally good as his word, only timely intervention past Batman saving the psychiatrist'due south life.
• Happens near the end of Batman: Arkham Origins.
• Defence of the Ancients: Played for Laughs.
• EarthBound: With the two main antagonists. What makes this trope more interesting is the threatening notation given to Ness during the epilogue by his neighbour's brother.

    Webcomics

• In Red Nighttime the pirate Abraham Mengsk responds to Vaegyr Ward disabling his ship past ranting about how he knows where to find his and his wife's families. It turns out to exist the wrong move.
• In Dead Wintertime, after Monday'southward rebellion, the mob boss sends hitmen to his parents. His female parent poisons them.
• In Joe vs. Elan School, later on Joe leaves the titular schoolhouse, he'southward tracked down past another former Elan inmate named Peter who had a reputation for being a nifty, who Joe had maced in an escape attempt. Peter calls Joe on the telephone and says that he'south driven 500 miles to Joe'southward block and really wants to visit. Joe, being Genre Savvy enough to realize that this is highly suspect, makes excuses, ends the phone phone call, and spends the side by side several days paranoid that he's going to be attacked.
• In South.S.D.D "Chris Reed" calls up crime boss Mr. Sweetwater about a sure item his men stole then gives an address, his female parent'due south. Then responds to attempted threats past telling "Sweetwater" he knows everything virtually him, including his real name.

    Web Original

• SCP Foundation: SCP-2835 is a "lost episode" of the No Budget Sam Singer cartoon The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican, which involves Paddy randomly stopping the drawing to ask the viewers what they recollect and getting irrationally angry if they aren't enjoying it, going into a bluster that involves heavy employ of the phrase "Reap what you lot sow!" Testing on the SCP was discontinued afterward Paddy seemed to know where the test subject lived and threatened their family.

  Note from Dr. Naismith: We tin't have whatsoever more chances. Fifty-fifty if he'south bluffing, information technology's specific bluffing, and the implications are, at all-time, troubling.

    Western Animation

• The American Dragon: Jake Long episode "Homecoming" reveals that the Huntsman knows where Rose's parents are, and they'll remain unharmed if she does exactly what he says, that beingness getting the last three crystal skulls to help him slay all magical creatures.
• Justice League:
  • Inverted by Batman when he threatens Deadshot into revealing who hired him to try and electrocute Aquaman. We don't actually hear what he said, but according to Kevin Conroy it was "I know where you live, Floyd."
  • Amanda Waller puts Batman on notice by calling him "rich boy".
• The Owl House:
  • The Emperor's Coven has been enlightened of the Owl House's location since earlier the start of the series, simply it hardly comes up since it's not on Emperor Belos' priority list. That changes in the episode "Eclipse Lake", where the Golden Baby-sit realizes that Luz' portal key is vital to Belos' plans. He gets Amity to hand it over by reminding her of this trope. She may get abroad now, but if she does, Belos will just move the Owl House upward on the target priority listing.
  • Vee cites this every bit her reason for why she doesn't effort to escape Jacob's trap in "Yesterday's Lie". She figures he knows her human disguise at present, so even if she gets away he knows where she lives and can hunt her down, and Camila will either be in danger having to shelter "Luz" or learn the Awful Truth that her honey "girl" for the last few months has been an imposter, and Vee doesn't want to put Camila through that.
• In The Powerpuff Girls episode "Encounter The Crush-Alls," Mojo Jojo, Him, Princess Morbucks and Fuzzy Lumpkins all converge at the Powerpuffs' dwelling and argue over who is going to destroy them.
• Superman: The Blithe Series. Batman does a tongue-in-cheek version to Superman after uncovering his Secret Identity, by using a Tracking Device to follow him to the apartment of 'Clark Kent'.
• Flavour 3 of Young Justice reveals that the Light know the cloak-and-dagger identities of the Justice League as well equally who their loved ones and associates are, but refuse to target said loved ones and associates considering they know that doing so will but become the League on their backs, so they've put this aside as the "nuclear selection". We larn this in an episode where it turns out the League's families have play dates with each other at the Allen household and Sea Master (who was kicked out of the Light) tries to assassinate them on one such day before being stopped by Lady Shiva.

    Real Life

• During her 1975 trial for attempting to impale United states President Gerald Ford, Manson Family fellow member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme threatened the judge, mentioning the pianoforte in the front room of his house. Every bit noted on the April, 25, 2014 edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, the judge's security detail was increased after that. The incident was also mentioned in a console discussion involving some of the trial'southward participants (at about the 50-minute mark).
• The September 17, 2014 edition of The Rachel Maddow Prove opened with a story on an otherwise-slickly produced ISIS video that included some jerky jail cell phone video of the White House. Maddow hangs the lampshade:

  ''But they're good at trying to scare us, right? They don't just show

  stock footage of the White House or some postcard picture of the White

  House. They instead choose footage of the White Firm that maybe you lot might

  take yourself on your cell phone if y'all were driving past the White House,

  which and then makes it extra scary when it comes from ISIS.

  ''This is the footage they show of the White Business firm. It`s like drive-by,

  non very professional footage. It makes you wonder, hmm, how did they

  shoot this? Is ISIS casing the White House? Are they hither?

  ''That'south the feeling they`re trying to create, correct? They`re here,

  they're coming for us. This is a war betwixt the Us of America

  and ISIS.''

• As detailed in Gerald Posner'south 2015 volume God's Bankers, Italian businessman Licio Gelli was caput of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due. Among the documents and photographs found in the 1981 police search of his part was a photo of a naked Pope John Paul II sunning himself by a swimming pool. It was afterward learned that Gelli had shown the photograph to others, drawing attending to the lax papal security: "If it'southward possible to take these pictures of the Pope, imagine how easy it is to shoot him."

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