Knock
Refuse
Refuse verb - To be unwilling to grant.
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Grievous Harm with a Body: Lockdown will pull off one of his arms and knock the Autobird off the screen in the "thank the buddy" stage if you refuse the thanks.
- When the girl he first began cheating with discovers she's almost sure to be pregnant and confronts him, he wants nothing more to do with her, and after everyone finds out not only did he knock her up, but refuses to take responsibility, the other girls refuse to have anything to do with him.
- Prior to that story, the Joker had occasionally tried to learn Batman's secret; O'Neil and Adams, however, had the Joker ambush and knock out Batman by chance, only to refuse to kill or unmask him because that wasn't the perfect end to the conflict between them.
Source: Secret Identity Apathy
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