During a heated conversation, an enraged character will grab another character by the collar (typically with both hands), pull them close, and shout something dramatic right into their face.
This move is likely to be used as part of a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique or when making somebody come to their senses. Might be followed by a Minion Maracas.
Compare the more intense Neck Lift, where one character grabs another character by the neck and actually lifts them up, and Villainous Face Hold, where it's the face that's grabbed contemptuously. See also Dragged by the Collar, Necktie Leash and Shake Someone, Objects Fall. Not to be confused with Awkward Collar Pull.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Parodied in one Crayon Shin-chan story, although in this case the character doing the grabbing is obliviously naive and neither angry nor malicious. Class crybaby Masao is weeping his eyes out after some bullies stole his video game console when Shin-Chan, Kazama and Bu-chan pass by. Kazama tells Shin-Chan to try comforting Masao, and Shin-Chan performs this trope while telling Masao, "You, stop crying now!"... it predictably leads to Masao crying louder.
Kazama: You baka! Is this how you comfort someone?
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Phantom Blood: Upon discovering that Dio has been secretly poisoning George, Jonathan grabs ahold of Dio and tells him he will find the proof that will expose Dio's actions.
- Battle Tendency: Caesar angrily grabs Joseph when the latter refuses to go along with his plan to attack Kars during the day, citing that it may be a trap. In the end, Caesar storms off to fight by himself.
- Stardust Crusaders: After learning of Holly's illness brought about by her own Stand, Joseph immediately grabs Jotaro and rams him into a wall while yelling a Big "NO!" in anguish.
- Diamond is Unbreakable: When his father tells him that he should escape from Morioh before being discovered, Yoshikage Kira reacts by grabbing him and states he refuses to stay in hiding and degrade himself further.
- Golden Wind: Following Abbacchio's death, Narancia grabs Giorno and insists that he should be able to heal the body. Giorno's silence causes Narancia to angrily shake him further until he understands a revival isn't possible.
- Stone Ocean: After Weather Report regains his memories and declares his intent to die after defeating Pucci, Anasui grabs him by the collar to demand his stops spouting nonsense until he realizes Weather has regained his memory.
- Steel Ball Run: As Johnny's eyes lit up when planning to kill Diego to retrieve a corpse part, Gyro angrily grabs his collar and reminds him their objective is to retrieve the corpse parts only.
- JoJolion: After learning his Plague of Good Fortune was deliberately caused by Zaihei's Milagro Man, Joshu rams him up the collar outside his apartment after locating him.
- The JoJoLands: After Dragona believes Usagi had wasted their twenty dollars during a test on the lava rock, they annoyingly shake Usagi by the collar demanding their money back until Paco comes back with an unexpected refund.
- KonoSuba: More like an angry lacing grab. The goddess Aqua has high strength and a fairly explosive temper. Against her usual target Kazuma, she'll usually grab and shake him by the collar. But she's also grabbed a number of very large breasted women such as the guild receptionist at Axis and the lich Wiz, she'll yank them around by the lacing on the front of their shirt - the only thing that keeps them from spilling out.
- My Hero Academia: Due to her inability to dissuade Toya from training on his own, Enji hit Rei so hard that she was thrown back to the floor. Five-year-old Shoto stood between his dad and his mom, crying and yelling at Endeavor to stop "bullying" his mother. Enji proceeds to yell at him to get out and even goes to grab Rei by the collar of her shirt, yelling at her that she's responsible to keep an eye on Toya.
- Pokémon: The Original Series:
- Done by Misty to Ash a couple times during the course of the series, as seen here.👁 Image
◊ More often than not, he was asking for it. - A thoroughly well-deserved example is Brock doing it to Damian, who was just bragging about abandoning his Charmander and refused to go back for it, even though it was caught in a rainstorm and in mortal danger.
- Done by Misty to Ash a couple times during the course of the series, as seen here.👁 Image
- The Promised Neverland: During Don's breakdown after learning the truth about Grace Field House, he ends up angrily slugging Norman and Ray in the face over them keeping the secret from him. He then grabs Emma by her shirt front in order to do the same thing to her. Fortunately for her, he stops himself short of doing so as he can't bring himself to harm her even in his rage, so he lets her go and walks outside to cool down.
- Roll Over and Die: Jean does an unusually intense version of this to Flum, which crosses into Neck Lift territory. He grabs her collar by one hand to hoist her up against a wall in front of Cyrill and when Cyrill leaves, things go downhill for Flum. Flum getting collar grabbed is so strong a depiction that it became the chosen image for Crunchyroll's "Roll Over And Die" selection page.
Comic Books
- Batman: Tim Drake gets yanked around by his collar by two out of the three Batmen he works with as Robin (only Dick doesn't do so). When Bruce picks him up by the collar in apparent anger, it's a mock fight they'd set up ahead of time. In Robin (1993), Azrael tries to kill him after grabbing him by the collar and pinning him. This doesn't work out for Azrael, as Tim had already weaponized his costume to prevent this sort of thing.
- Blacksad: Early on in the first album, the titular detective searches for his girlfriend's stalker, who is a florist, and grabs him by the collar with a pistol to his mouth👁 Image
◊. - Captain Marvel Adventures: In issue #121 "Sivana's Time Trap", a time-travelling Sivana has fooled past Captain Marvel into believing he is an honest scientst, when Marvel realizes Sivana knows things he should have zero knowledge of. Guessing he is being deceived, Marvel grabs Sivana's collar, lifts him off the ground, and angrily demands answers.
- Superman:
- The Phantom Zone: Superman rudely and roughly grabs the collar of Thul-Kar's robe, asking whether the wizard will answer his questions willingly or will need to have them beaten out of him.
- The Dominator War: When interrogating Plant Lad, who has just revealed himself to be a traitor to the Legion of Super-Heroes, Timber Wolf angrily grabs him by the collar and demands answers.
- The Hunt for Reactron: During one argument, Supergirl grabs the collar of Flamebird's suit as shouting her before punching her into a car.
- Death & the Family: While interrogating Inspector Henderson, who is at the time kneeling on the floor, Silver Banshee grabs his collar and lifts him up.
Comic Strips
- Knights of the Dinner Table: Sara occasionally does this when provoked by sexist comments or unwanted flirting.
Fan Works
- Adventures of a Line Hopper:
- Paradox: When the Doctor promises that he will always trust her in chapter 16, Buffy grabs him up by his suit and demands that he stop acting like an enemy then, but she quickly releases him as she realizes that she can't hate him.
- Your Nature:
- Buffy decides to get Ethan Rayne to help her summon a vengeance demon to fix the timeline, which she does by grabbing his collar, thrusting him against his box, and gives him a stare that makes him realize that he is dealing with a much colder and more ruthless version of Buffy.
- In chapter 15, the vampiric Doctor angrily confronts Giles over Buffy's upcoming Cruciamentum and at one point holds him up by his collar as he is about to kill him.
- In Happy Endings, when Seo innocently talks about hypothetically killing and Unpersoning Dawn, Buffy angrily grabs her by her pajama top and says right in front of her face that she will kill her if she tries to do that.
- In the ending of All Must Fall, Seo's sister Jenny grabs Madame Kovarian up by her collar as she slams her to a wall and makes it clear that she hates her even though she is going to give Kovarian some help.
- Perfect World: In chapter 27, when Seo mind-controls Dave into hating and being angry at her, he demonstrates it to his fellow chevauchéers by grabbing Seo by her collar.
- An Insider's Look: As wandering around Asuka's mindscape, Shinji runs into one Asuka's Aspect, who grabs his shirt's collar and demands to know who he is.
- In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic The Artist's Garden at Madripoor👁 Image
, Steve goes to Madripoor in order to acquire the component needed for the Quantum Tunnel from the Power Broker, who he is shocked to discover is Sharon. She refuses to give him the component unless he hands over his shield or Sam's wings (which she stole for him and led to her becoming a fugitive) as well as more or less stating that she's largely uninterested in bringing back everyone who disappeared in the Snap because it could threaten her position. When Steve tries to reason with her by asking what Peggy would think of her actions, she throws her wine glass against a wall and fires back that Peggy's "halo was not as untainted as she wanted [him] to believe" and grabs the front of his shirt while cries tears of rage and pointing out that she knew her aunt better than Steve did when he tries to argue against that. Due to how close they are to each other while she does, Steve internally admits he would have enjoyed Sharon doing this in a different context. Afterwards, Steve, due to his anger and guilt at himself for failing to find her and causing her fall from grace, resolves to actually help her, such as getting her a long overdue pardon. - Cold Fire: Jermaine grabs Uriah by the collar of his shirt after delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the other two members of Uriah's gang as payback for the trio bullying Taranee.
- In the light of day is fading, Yuuri does this to Death himself in order to get him to release Victor's soul.
- In My Master Ed, Edward grabs Hohenheim by the collar to emphasize how much he doesn't want to be worshipped.
- Naru-Hina Chronicles Mini-sodes: Tsunade does this to Naruto when he asks some advice on how to fondle Hinata's big breasts, threatening him if he does anything perverted with his girlfriend.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: That Which Could (Not) Happen: In chapter 8, during a heated argument, Misato snags Ritsuko's collar, yanking her closer to her fase, and demands to know why she is so determined to protect Unit-01, even at the cost of Shinji's life.
- Nobody Cared: Snape yanks Marcus Flint by the back of his collar when he catches him bullying Draco.
- Our Week Off Together!: The instant Luz suggests that they tell Amity's siblings Edric and Emira about Luz and Amity becoming a couple, Amity grabs Luz by the collar, pulls her face closely and very firmly makes it clear that she doesn't want them to know about it.
Luz: Okay! I understand! Please don't hurt me!
Films — Animation
- Batman: The Long Halloween: Carmine does this to Alberto while physically threatening him.
- Near the climax of Castle in the Sky, Muska grabs Sheeta by the collar while he's threatening her.
- In Cats Don't Dance, Darla Dimple grabs Danny by the collar as she rants to him that she should've drowned him and his friends when she flooded the stage, inadvertently exposing her offscreen demeanor towards the audience.
- In The Iron Giant, government agent Kent Mansley lies to general Rogard that the titular protagonist killed Hogarth, but the latter two prove to them that he's still alive, with the former glaring disapprovingly at Kent for his actions, which causes Kent to freak out and order a nuclear strike at the giant, which is only a few feet away from him. General Rogard then grabs Mansley by the collar and yells into his face that he's all but doomed the town.
- Kung Fu Panda 2: When Po and the Furious Five are infiltrating Gongmen City to free it from Lord Shen's takeover, they witness one of the wolf soldiers threatening a sheep cook, complete with him hoisting her up by her collar, for not being able to cook him rice even though he had stolen all of her pots and pans for Lord Shen's cannons. He's about to beat her up when Po and the Five intervene and beat him up. The cook thanks them by telling them the location of where the captured Masters Ox and Croc are being held.
- The Little Mermaid (1989): Scuttle tries to convey urgent news to Sebastian and Flounder, but is too flustered to speak coherently. Scuttle resorts to seizing a dubious Sebastian by his shell, and punctuates the sentence, "The Prince is marrying the Sea Witch in disguise!" by slamming the poor crab into the pier.
- Mulan (1998): When Chi Fu is still insulting Mulan even after she saves the day, Captain Li Shang grabs him by the collar. (Bonus points, Chi Fu normally answers to the Emperor.)
Shang: Listen, you pompous—!
Emperor: That is enough! - My Little Pony: Equestria Girls:
- In the first movie, as Twilight first meets the alternate-universe human Pinkie Pie and calls her by her name, she grabs the front of Twilight's shirt and excitedly asks if she's a psychic. Pinkie isn't angry, though, just hyper.
- In Rainbow Rocks, when Beta Bitch Aria Blaze suggests that maybe the Dazzlings should follow her lead instead of Big Bad Adagio Dazzle's, Adagio grabs her by the front of her vest and promptly reasserts her authority over the trio.
- Sykes is the Card-Carrying Villain of Oliver & Company. He meets with destitute Fagin to exact a loan payment, and seizes Fagin by his collar to issue an ultimatum: Repay every cent in three days, or "get hurt." The collar grab further acts to position Fagin's neck in the path of Sykes's car window, where it begins to squeeze his throat.
- In Runaway Brain, Mickey Mouse finds himself in a Shackle Seat Trap while Mad Scientist Doctor Frankenollie throws the Big Electric Switch. This results in Mickey's mind being transferred to the body of a hulking, brutish monster, and vice versa. The monster-minded Mickey bursts his bonds and goes running around loose. The Mickey-minded monster seizes the Mad Scientist by his lapels and demands that he reverse the process. Unfortunately, Frankenollie has been reduced to a skeleton by his own device, and crumbles to dust, leaving Mickey holding an empty lab coat.
- Your Name: When Taki (in Mitsuha's body) tries to convince Mitsuha's father to evacuate Itomori, he brushes it off as either a bid for attention or mental illness, and picks up the phone to call the hospital. Taki loses his temper and yanks the older man forward by his necktie, shocking him.
Films — Live-Action
- Batman Forever: When The Riddler breaks into Two-Face's lair, Two-Face angrily grabs the former's collar and briefly points his gun at The Riddler. Two-Face finally releases The Riddler after the latter convinces the former that they're on the same page about Batman.
- Death Becomes Her: Upon finding his wife, Madeleine, is no longer in the doctor's room, Ernest asks the hospital staff about his wife's whereabouts. When she consoles him, Ernest gets furiously impatient and grabs her collar, demanding her to tell him where Madeleine is. Thus, she tells him that Madeleine is taken to the morgue.
- The Great Houdinis: Harry's "audition" in London involves being arrested. He doesn't try to resist but angrily grabs an officer who tries to arrest Bess.
- Mackintosh and T.J.: A man grabs T.J.'s front while accusing him of theft.
- Midwinter Night's Dream: Lazar does this to a man who harasses Jasna while she's working as a waitress.
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear: Frank does this to two Almost Dead Guys in order to press information from them. His aggressive approach doesn't work out for him, though.
- The Room (2003): Denny yells "You're not my fucking mother!" at Lisa's mother, provoking her to start yanking his shirt collar. Later, Mark grabs Peter by his jacket during their heated argument on the rooftop and shakes him hard.
- Les Visiteurs: A confused Godefroy (a French knight who's been accidentally transported to 1992) grabs the Maréchal des logis (gendarmerie officer) Gibon by the collar in the presbytery scene.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit: After Roger is confronted with evidence of his wife Jessica cheating, Eddie Valiant jokes that "the dames will be breaking his doors down". An angry Roger jumps on him and grabs him by the collar, ranting that he and his wife were going to be happy again before storming out through the window.
- Zig Zag (2002): Singer does this to an employee at the Monkey Cage for calling ZigZag a retard. Towards the end of the movie, Hawke does it to Walters because he's sick of his rude behavior.
Literature
- Discharge! (gelefant): In "Emotion Bomb," Blythe angrily glares and growls at Jermaine before grabbing him by the collar of his shirt during her Emotionite-induced anger over breaking her nail and losing the remote to her family's TV.
- Dr. Franklin's Island: An infuriated Miranda does this to Arnie, but she does it in "the white place" where she has some control of her shape, so while standing and looking mostly human, she grabs him with a taloned bird foot.
- Fractured Stars: Axton warns Dash, "If you so much as piss wrong, I'll pound you into the deck and report you to HQ for insubordination." Dash says, "Insubordinate... pissing?" Axton picks him up by the front and shouts, "Watch your tongue, or I'll blazer it out!"
- Ghoul (2007): The adult Clark grabs the child Timmy by the collar with both hands when the latter stands up to him to keep him from hitting his own son. He holds him up against the wall of a shed and as he finishes his threats about what he'll do if he ever sees Timmy hang around again, he slams him against the wall for good measure.
- Into the Fiery Abyss: After Jermaine is Dragged Off to Hell, Satan grabs him by the shirt and throws him into a fiery pit where he'll relive all of his worst memories forever.
- The Nowhere Girls: Rosina's mami angrily grabs the front of her shirt after Principal Slatterly falsely accuses her of being a drug addict.
- Stalkers with Crushes: Titania grabs Jermaine by the collar of his shirt and pulls him close to her face, lifting him off the floor in the process, after she and Allta barge into his dorm room and demand to know why he lied to them about being too busy to attend a party with them.
Live-Action TV
- Andor: In "Who Else Knows", during Kleya and Cassian's heated discussion in the hide-out, after Cassian calls Luthen too prideful to have gone to Yavin, Kleya grabs him by the vest while angrily reminding him of all the risks Luthen was taking by staying, just to find out the endgame of the Empire's machinations.
- Are You Being Served?: In "The Hold Up", Mr. Humphries, playing a thug, does this with one of the actual thugs in one scene — except that Humphries, being the shorter man, yanks the thug down to his level.
- The Barrier: When Alejo is found dead in the police headquarters, Enrique grabs a random policeman by the collar while angrily telling him to find the killer.
- Cobra Kai: Johnny does this to Louie, furiously demanding Daniel LaRusso's address after the latter shows up at his apartment, takes a baseball bat to his car, and then one of his goons has the audacity to light it on fire. Louie complies.
Johnny: WHERE DOES DANIEL LARUSSO LIVE?!
- Columbo: In "A Stitch in Crime", the criminal surgeon Doctor Mayfield seizes the persistent Lieutenant Columbo by his overcoat lapels, seemingly in a passion to perform surgery over answering questions. However, Columbo notes that this behavior is an Out-of-Character Moment for Mayfield, and correctly deduces that Mayfield used this collar grab to conceal damning evidence.
- Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa: Himura ends up confronting the serial killer Apollo. Both of them harbour a desire to commit a "beautiful" crime, but Himura realises how disturbing his thoughts are and catches criminals in an act of defiance, so when Apollo starts romanticizing his crimes, the usually stoic Himura grabs him by the lapels and gives him a thorough chewing out.
- Firefly: In "Out of Gas", Mal grabs Wash by the collar and yells at him to get up to the bridge. Wash is understandably panicky because Zoe was knocked unconscious in an explosion and Wash refuses to leave her. However, he's the pilot, Simon is giving Zoe good medical care, and Mal desperately needs him to get on the bridge and help Kaylee find out why Serenity exploded and went dead before they all die.
- Full House:
- In "Knock Yourself Out", Reggie subjects Danny to this treatment as he demands the truth regarding his wife from Danny.
Danny: Let's talk about strategy. [Reggie lifts him up by the dress shirt] Let's forget about strategy!
- In "The Wedding (Part 1)", Rebecca grabs Joey by the collar upon finding out what Joey did with Jesse on her and Jesse's wedding day.
Rebecca: [grabs Joey's shirt] You took him skydiving?!
- In "Knock Yourself Out", Reggie subjects Danny to this treatment as he demands the truth regarding his wife from Danny.
- Good Omens: When Aziraphale calls Crowley "nice", he gets this, nose-to-nose with the furious demon, for using such a "four-letter word" to describe him. Crowley does this again at the end of season 2, this time upset over Aziraphale's decision to leave Earth and return to Heaven, before giving him The Big Damn Kiss.
- In the Here Come the Brides pilot, Joshua does this to a sailor who makes fun of Jeremy's stutter.
- In the Kamen Rider franchise, characters do this a lot in moments of dramatic adversity. For example, in Kamen Rider 555, the Creepy Good Masato Kusaka often holds The Hero Takumi Inui's collar while scolding him for being responsible of other's suffering, when he's actually plotting for him to not be around.
- The Untamed: Jiang Cheng does this regularly, usually to Wei Wuxian when the latter is doing something to annoy him more than usual.
- Vikings: Viking Rollo has an Old French lesson, trying to overcome a Language Barrier at court in Paris, and boy, he does not enjoy himself. The lesson ends when he flips out: he tears a page from a (no doubt very precious) book, tears it into tiny pieces, crumples them and is suddenly fluent in Angrish gibberish that resembles Old French. He then flips his own table, grabs his teacher by the collar and flings him across the room. He storms out of the room and knocks down a chair for good measure.
- Without a Trace: Agent Martin Fitzgerald does this with an uncooperative suspect he's interrogating, warning him "Do you know what they do to guys like you in prison?!", prompting his supervisor to do the same thing to him (though it's his arm, rather) to get him to calm down.
Theme Parks
- Étincelle: The Curse of the Black Opal 4D movie from Futuroscope: Teddy first refuses to reveal the location of the Black Opal to Ténèbre, thus the supervillain grabs him by his lapel and lifts him from the ground, which works quite well as an intimidation method.
Video Games
- Deltarune: When Berdly confesses that he has a crush on Susie to Noelle, Noelle starts shaking him by the collar while repeatedly shouting "WHAT"!
- Team Fortress 2: In the "Expiration Date" video, Medic grabs Soldier's collar when the latter reveals he'd been teleporting bread, demanding to know where as doing so over and over resulted in the bread mutating into a huge monster.
- The Legend of Heroes - Trails:
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure: Randy does this to Sigmund after watching him and the Red Constellation slaughter the ILF at Orchis Tower. He gets smacked aside and insulted for going soft for his troubles.
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II: Rean grabs Osborne's collar at the climax of the Disc-One Final Dungeon after he shows up alive, then yells at him for making all the work Crow did prior to his death meaningless.
Web Animation
- 13 Cards: In "Clones Make a Comic", Felix does this to Fëdor for questioning why the animation he made has only three frames.
Felix: I made an animation.Fëdor: Why is it only 3 frames?Felix: DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO MAKE CARTOONS?!
- Helluva Boss: In "Truth Seekers", Millie yanks Loona by the collar while demanding she reopen the portal.
- RWBY: In Volume 8, Watts reveals that the virus he infected Penny with will force her to self-terminate after opening the Vault, but Cinder angrily grabs him by the collar. She raises him off the ground in a Neck Lift before dangling him over the side of the building they're arguing on.
Webcomics
- Furry Experience: Vikki grabs her close friend Ronnie by the lapels in the Tuesday 13 March 2012 strip because Vikki must walk on eggshells around her zealously Mormon roommates, and needs Ronnie to desist being a Jerkass by snarking at their beliefs.
- Girl Genius: They're not actually wearing shirts, but Agatha grabs Tarvek and Gil's harnesses up near their collarbones to yank them close and yell at them in this strip.👁 Image
- Lackadaisy: Viktor yanks Rocky, who infuriates him on the regular, around by his shirt collar on several occasions — and by his neck itself at least once.
- Never Satisfied: When January, attempting to make small talk with Seiji, accidentally strikes a nerve,👁 Image
he quickly grabs her by the collar and threatens her. - Stand Still, Stay Silent: This has happened a couple times:
- Reynir does this to Lalli during his Cabin Fever moment in Chapter 15.
- When Reynir runs off to the church on his own in Chapter 19, Sigrun does this to him after catching up with him.
- Unsounded: Stockyard angrily grabs Elan's collar to yell at his face and then shove him out of the room👁 Image
when Elan questions his superior's involvement in the smuggling plot. - Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic: With his Cloudcuckoolander attitude, Cap'n Fang manages to make several characters angry which results in him getting pulled close by the collar and being shouted at repeatedly, like with Captain Corona👁 Image
and Arachnee.👁 Image
Western Animation
- In the pilot of The Cleveland Show, Cleveland does this to Federline when telling him not to try anything strange with Roberta on their date.
- In Darkwing Duck episode "Apes of Wrath", Darkwing jumps on a gorilla's chest and grabs him around where an anthropomorphic animal's collar would be as he interrogates him about where Gosalyn is.
- DuckTales (1987):
- In Major Courage's first scene in "Where No Duck Has Gone Before", he sees Scrooge and company and grabs the director by the collar, demanding to know what the "clowns" are doing hanging around his set. When the director tells him Scrooge owns the studio, Courage immediately lets go of him in favor of flattering his new boss.
- In "Jungle Duck", the eponymous Jungle Duck, who happens to be the long-vanished Prince Greydrake, pulls his uncle close by the collar when the latter doesn't want to step down from the throne that rightfully belongs to the prince.
- In Gravity Falls episode "Fight Fighters", Robbie does this to Dipper after the latter ends up destroying his phone.
- Looney Tunes:
- In "Slick Hare", Humphrey Bogart asks waiter Elmer Fudd for an order of fried rabbit. Elmer tells him that they're fresh out of rabbit but Bogart grabs him by the collar and gives him one hour to get him that rabbit, or else.
- Played with in "Tortoise Beats Hare" when Bugs Bunny grabs Cecil Turtle by the shell, which comes right out.
- In The Owl House episode "Reaching Out", Eda grabs Warden Wrath by the collar and is very close to using her free hand to claw his face off.
- In Rocko's Modern Life episode "Rocko's Happy Sack", the titular wallaby does this to Filburt at the supermarket after the latter made Rocko miss the 99% deal and threatens him to change the total back before he does something NOT NICE!
- In The Simpsons episode "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", Lisa does this to Bart when confronting him over revealing her true geeky nature to her new friends out of jealousy.
- In Steven Universe episode "The Trial", Defense Zircon holds up Steven by his shirt collar when he states he doesn't know how Pink Diamond's shattering happened.
Real Life
- Allegedly, after Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson visited Lyndon Johnson after making a speech in Philadelphia that Johnson thought was too critical of America's involvement in The Vietnam War, Johnson grabbed Pearson by the lapels and told him he'd "pissed on my rug."
- Prince Harry revealed in his memoir Spare that his brother William did this to him twice — once during an argument at his house ("he grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor"), the second time during an argument after their grandfather's funeral so as to force him to look at him and maintain eye contact.