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The hero is in the role of a Fake Defector. One of his friends has been captured. The Big Bad hands him or her a gun and tells them to kill them. The gun is almost always empty. One of two things usually happens. They pull the trigger and nothing happens, or they point the gun at the Big Bad and nothing happens. In the latter case, their cover is pretty much blown. In addition, if the good guys are using this ploy, they will be careful to commend the testee's reluctance to pull the trigger, since killing should never be easy. Compare Involuntary Battle to the Death, Finish Him!.

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  • Shoot Your Mate
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  • The hero is in the role of a Fake Defector. One of his friends has been captured. The Big Bad hands him or her a gun and tells them to kill them. The gun is almost always empty. One of two things usually happens. They pull the trigger and nothing happens, or they point the gun at the Big Bad and nothing happens. In the latter case, their cover is pretty much blown. In addition, if the good guys are using this ploy, they will be careful to commend the testee's reluctance to pull the trigger, since killing should never be easy. Compare Involuntary Battle to the Death, Finish Him!.
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  • The hero is in the role of a Fake Defector. One of his friends has been captured. The Big Bad hands him or her a gun and tells them to kill them. The gun is almost always empty. One of two things usually happens. They pull the trigger and nothing happens, or they point the gun at the Big Bad and nothing happens. In the latter case, their cover is pretty much blown. In addition, if the good guys are using this ploy, they will be careful to commend the testee's reluctance to pull the trigger, since killing should never be easy. Note for the Yanks here that "mate" is used in the British slang meaning of "friend", not necessarily one's actual mate, though occasionally killing your spouse or lover is used as a particularly strong test. This is a subtrope of If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten. It is often used as a stage in Bring Them Around -- once the character has done something, it's harder for him to leave. Compare Involuntary Battle to the Death, Finish Him!. Examples of Shoot Your Mate include:
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