Everyone comes in to find Pope wearing a bizarre battle suit surrounded with black flames and flanked by his demonic frog minions. Subverted in Hellboy when Landis Pope has a board meeting.Block 109: After disposing of Heydrich, Zytek gathers the other major Nazi leaders in the Third Reich's command room so he can kill them all in one fell swoop for their endless crimes against humanity.Just when I thought the Luthors couldn't stoop any lower, my successor installs Death Traps into the board room. We lost two men today before we restudied the schematics. Minion: WAIT! Uh- heh- that switch apparently causes the chairs around the conference table to flip backwards, dumping its occupants through a floor panel down through a chute into a vat of acid, sir. During the Dark Tournament arc of YuYu Hakusho, Sakyo reveals his plan to open a gateway to the Spirit World to the rest of the Black Book Club and then has Toguro kill them when they object.
The Dragon gives a very broad outline of a plan (which isn't even the real one), then the board dies from poisoned drinks. Set up, then subverted at the start of Vexille.In Fairy Tail, the Magic Council gets bombed by Jackal right when the chairman decides that he and his fellow councilmen need to take action against Tartaros.Immediately after giving him the good news, Light forces Takada to commit suicide by writing her name in the Death Note. When she does, it's revealed she has been hiding a piece of the Death Note on her person and kills the opponent by writing his name down. Much later on, Light makes sure to manipulate Takada into doing his bidding and having her stay on guard, in case she gets kidnapped by one of his opponents.Whom he then immediately manipulates into effectively killing the other FBI agents as well as Raye himself. When Light realizes he's being tailed, he comes up with a convoluted plan of going on a fake date, manipulating a criminal with the Death Note into hijacking the bus and eventually dying, just so the FBI agent, Raye Penber, has to reveal his name and face to Light.Thrown from the Zeppelin is when traitors are killed.Īs this is a Betrayal Trope and a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. This is only for when ALL of the audience dies. Especially note confusion with Thrown from the Zeppelin, of which some examples on this very page are. In part, it plays to the fantasies of anyone who's been in an annoying or boring meeting, and the desire to kill their clueless bosses. Sometimes includes Lured into a Trap and/or Nasty Party. Related to You Have Failed Me, You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, He Knows Too Much, and Thrown from the Zeppelin. Cross me and you're next on the chopping block." If it hasn't happened earlier, this will usually be the moment that cements the villain as a Bad Boss. Either way, such cases serves not only as exposition, but also as a way for the villain to display a clear message to his partners/subordinates: "Do as I say, and You Will Be Spared. Or he might even kill just one person, usually the one who is having second thoughts and/or is most outspoken against his plan/leadership. If he is the more pragmatic sort, he will spare some select members, usually the ones he still needs for his plan.
It must be noted that the villain doesn't necessarily need to kill every meeting-attendant. That way, the audience knows of the villain's plan, but there's no one who can betray the villain by talking to the hero. Then he kills each and every member of his audience off in some pre-arranged fashion (usually a deathtrap of some sort). He will gleefully lay out every last detail of his plot with an evil glee. In this case, the villain will discuss his plan with a group of subordinates, a group of business partners (or partners-in-crime), hostages, his family, or some other group. Naturally, the villain wants to keep the details from the heroes, but it is important that the audience know what's going on. The villain has formulated an Evil Plan so dastardly and Machiavellian that the audience is unlikely to pick up on it on their own. Harold Saxon's first day as Prime Minister
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