Rhetorical Request Blunder - TV Tropes

People routinely say things they do not mean. Swearing to kill someone or wishing some horrible fate would befall them is usually a harmless way of venting steam. Sometimes a character may think he is speaking to himself, but unbeknownst to him …

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