Considering the circumstances of This Troper's birth, This Troper wouldn't hold it against his mother if she tried this on him.

This Troper's mom has used the "I brought you into this world..." threat before. Somewhat Justified since his birth was the final nail in her first marriage's coffin. At least he knows where the nerve is and how to strike it though, right?

This troper's father used the same threat. It was clearly meant to be scary, but to me, it sounded so corny that I just turned it against him at the first occasion ("''You'' brought ''me'' into this world, I can take you out!")

This troper's father tries this threat sometimes. Always an EpicFail.

...On a note, this troper's father likes to mention since she is rather slow, if ever there were a time for a sacrifice, he's not hesitating to offer her and run away safely.

I have my paranoid bouts and imagine someone close to me might try to kill me. But it's mostly cause I smoke too much.

While my mother never threatened to outright kill me, when I was young (around 8-9 years old), she threatened (more than once, I might add) to cut out my tongue if I ever lied to her. She even told me she kept some scissors in her pocket for just this purpose. I later realized this was because she worked as a seamstress at the time, but it still scared the shit out of me back then.

Okay, so this trope has never happened to This Tropette (thank god), but am I the only one who genuinely finds the "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out" threat scary? I mean, surely that threat has to be illegal ''somewhere''. When I was little, I was terrified when I heard this, the logic being "They're my parents! Why would they lie to me?"

The mere fact that ''THIS'' article of all things has a TroperTales page is downright scary.

Same.