Want You Dead: An utterly gripping crime thriller that will have you hooked: Book 2 (Detective Meredith Somerset)

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Jason Ironheart says this to Sinclair in "Mind War"; if he wanted to kill someone, he could completely disintegrate that person with just a thought. This is not hyperbole; later, he actually does do this to Kelsey. Perhaps the main elements of the Roy Grace series, designed to keep the attention and interest piqued is the now bizarre situation with his first wife Sandy who is increasingly popping up in his later novels. I guess we are all waiting to see what happens when he and his new, personality deficient wife Cleo discover that she is still alive, especially now they are legally or maybe illegally married. Yet the whole thing is getting infuriating and really needs to be resolved one way or the other.

Another variant in " The Dying Night", where a paper of an important invention is copied and destroyed after the scientist's death. The man's assistant is the first suspect, but Dr. Wendell Urth points out that with the scientist's secrecy, he could have simply walked out with the papers. He had no reason to believe the scientist talked with anyone else, and if he knew otherwise, no reason to suspect he was taken seriously. Stay away from Pinkman... or else you'll do... what? Kill me? If you could kill me, I'd already be dead. But you can't. You can't kill me because Jesse wouldn't cook for you if you did. The story line really was struggling to keep up the great intrigue of the past series, to be honest it started to get so far away from reality I gave up listening at the farce that unfolded! The Swedes also did this at sea, with one of their little diesel-electric submarines sneaking into a carrier battle group during a NATO exercise and "sinking" the USS Ronald Reagan, then sneaking out again. They took pictures through the sub's periscope from torpedo range as proof. This has happened several times with countries with smaller navies, including Canada, Israel, and Germany, demonstrating how a Weak, but Skilled opponent can do some serious damage to a larger military. The Scholomance: When Orion (incorrectly) accuses El of using The Dark Side, she impulsively gives the mana within his body just enough of a tug to show how easily she could rip it out and drain him dry without him able to do a thing to stop her, then reminds him that they had already gone alone on a dangerous errand that would have been the perfect cover story. Unsurprisingly, this convinces him that she is a secret maleficer, until she conclusively proves otherwise later.In the Ciaphas Cain novel Duty Calls, the Big Bad invites Cain to a meal and tells him not to worry about poison; if he was to be killed, it would have been done already with gunfire.

A variant on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: after Joyce's death Xander, obviously looking for someone to blame, suggests that Big Bad Glory may have murdered her and only made it look like a random brain aneurysm. Willow then points out that Glory had basically pulled this trope as a threat before—if she had killed Joyce, she would want them to know that it was her.

Inverted by Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: "If you were going to kill me, you would have done it when you first Disarmed me, you would not have stopped for this pleasant chat about ways and means." (He accuses Malfoy of being half-hearted in his assassination attempts.)