Take no prisoners is a classic military order meaning to show no mercy, and it appears as a hard-bitten voice line in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the 2011 Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games shooter. The line fits the game's bleak, high-intensity campaign tone perfectly. Like many MW3 voice clips, it spread through gaming soundboards, YouTube montages and Discord servers, where players reuse it as a hype cue for aggressive plays, rage moments and cinematic war edits more than a decade after release.