Threats of Violence — Tag Meaning
A canonical tag for menace without (necessarily) execution: intimidation, ultimatums, the promise of harm hanging over a scene. It lets authors warn for an atmosphere of danger even when no blow lands.
What to Expect From "Threats of Violence" Fics
Characters are threatened credibly enough to frighten, whether or not violence follows. Often paired with hostage, stalking, or villain-POV tags.
How to find Threats of Violence fics on AO3
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Related Tags
Violence
A general-purpose flag for violent content that exceeds the incidental but may not warrant the archive's Graphic Depictions warning. Authors use it to cover fights, assaults, and brutality, trusting readers to combine it with the fic's rating to judge intensity.
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Stalking
A content warning that a character follows, surveils, or intrudes on another — behavior the fic may treat as horror, as dark obsession, or occasionally as comedy of errors. Responsible authors tag it regardless of framing, since depicted stalking is a hard limit for many readers.
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Hostage Situations
Compresses the standoff into a pressure chamber: hostages, demands, negotiators, and clocks. Fanfic configurations are well-mapped — the negotiator talking down someone they know, the secret operative among the hostages, the villain discovering which captive matters most to the hero by watching his face — and the bank-lobby bottle episode remains a fandom favorite.
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