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When I get angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset... people die!

— Dr. Evil ‧ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Three miniature houses stand on a low blue mound beside a small black spherical bomb with a curved fuse.
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The speaker claims their anger sets off a chain reaction: an upset Mr. Bigglesworth, and then deaths. Presenting a third party's mood as the dangerous link, delivered with grand menace, makes the threat absurd; it is both intimidation and a comic way of shifting responsibility for violence onto something else.

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