Die
Obey
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Both words in one sentence
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So the villain is going on an evil speech about how now everyone must despair and obey or die... Only to get a rock to the head from a Muggle or Innocent Bystander.
Source: Defiant Stone Throw - Bella and Edward fight (not always successfully) to keep their morals in an environment so full of violence, where they are forced to obey or die.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Twilight - The Lost run on a principle of "obey or die" when conquering Netherworlds, but even obedience isn't enough to sate his madness; by the time you first see him, he's on his eighty-third secretary, who speaks for him just before he splatters a slime for delivering bad news regarding Blood Parch.
Source: Bad Boss / Video Games
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