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* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': Sora incessantly mocks Shun Kurosaki during their duel, calling his Xyz monsters worthless and even confessing that [[spoiler:he's a member of the force that invaded Kurosaki's homeland and turned it into a war zone ForTheEvulz]]. Even when Shun keeps countering his moves and dealing massive damage to him, he doesn't let up. Yuya even asked if Sora was out of his mind and asked him to stop provoking him. Sora pays for it when Kurosaki's Raid Raptors - Revolution Falcon [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill carpet bombs the entire battlefield to the ground and makes a building fall on him]].
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* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': Sora incessantly mocks Shun Kurosaki during their duel, calling his Xyz monsters worthless and even confessing that [[spoiler:he's a member of the force that invaded Kurosaki's homeland and turned it into a war zone ForTheEvulz]]. Even when Shun keeps countering his moves and dealing massive damage to him, he doesn't let up. Yuya even asked if Sora was out of his mind and asked him to stop provoking him. Sora pays for it when Kurosaki's Raid Raptors - Revolution Falcon [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill carpet bombs the entire battlefield to the ground and makes a building fall on him]].him]].
* In an early arc of ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', former EvilChancellor Stoffel von Spitzweig tries to curry favor with the protagonist Yuuri (recently made Maou/Demon King) by kidnapping him. That's actually not the bullying part - Stoffel was only doing it so he could have a chance to talk to the kid alone, and treated him well while he was there. But when Yuuri's retainers naturally objected to this, in the pitched battle that followed Stoffel chose to target the most frail-looking of them: Gunter von Christ, known as not only a powerful magic-user but one of the best sword instructors in the kingdom. It'd be understandable to assume the ridiculously-pretty skinny one was a weakling if it was anyone else, but Stoffel should have known damn well what Gunter could do.
* In an early arc of ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', former EvilChancellor Stoffel von Spitzweig tries to curry favor with the protagonist Yuuri (recently made Maou/Demon King) by kidnapping him. That's actually not the bullying part - Stoffel was only doing it so he could have a chance to talk to the kid alone, and treated him well while he was there. But when Yuuri's retainers naturally objected to this, in the pitched battle that followed Stoffel chose to target the most frail-looking of them: Gunter von Christ, known as not only a powerful magic-user but one of the best sword instructors in the kingdom. It'd be understandable to assume the ridiculously-pretty skinny one was a weakling if it was anyone else, but Stoffel should have known damn well what Gunter could do.
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* In ''Anime/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'', pretty much everyone hates and fears [[MagicalEye Cursed Eye bearers]], which can do things like copy all magic used in front of them, dissolve people into dust, or any other number of fun activities. The main character, [[BrilliantButLazy Ryner Lute]], possesses the [[InstantExpert Alpha]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Stigma]], which is the copying version. However, when an Alpha Stigma bearer is [[BerserkButton driven over the edge]], they become homicidally insane and use all of that copied magic to tear the rest of the world a new one. People know this. [[TooDumbToLive And yet everyone insists]] [[FantasticRacism on treating Cursed Eye bearers like crap until the inevitable happens.]][[note]]Not entirely true. The protagonist's SuperpowerEvilSide is vastly more powerful than any other Cursed Eye bearer in the setting. It has been shown that other possessed were quickly dealt with, with little to no trouble. Apparently, the eyes of the possessed Cursed Eye bearer cost a fortune and a lot of those people don't even have an offensive abilities to begin with.[[/note]]
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* In ''Anime/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'', pretty much everyone hates and fears [[MagicalEye Cursed Eye bearers]], which can do things like copy all magic used in front of them, dissolve people into dust, or any other number of fun activities. The main character, [[BrilliantButLazy Ryner Lute]], possesses the [[InstantExpert Alpha]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Stigma]], which is the copying version. However, when an Alpha Stigma bearer is [[BerserkButton driven over the edge]], they become homicidally insane and use all of that copied magic to tear the rest of the world a new one. People know this. [[TooDumbToLive And yet everyone insists]] [[FantasticRacism on treating Cursed Eye bearers like crap until the inevitable happens.]][[note]]Not entirely true. ]][[note]]The stupidity of the population is up for debate. The protagonist's SuperpowerEvilSide SuperpoweredEvilSide is vastly more powerful than of any other Cursed Eye bearer in the setting. It has been shown that other possessed were quickly and quite easily dealt with, with little to no trouble. Apparently, with. Additionally, the eyes of the possessed Cursed Eye bearer cost a fortune and a lot of those people don't even have an offensive abilities to begin with.[[/note]]
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* In ''Anime/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'', pretty much everyone hates and fears [[MagicalEye Cursed Eye bearers]], which can do things like copy all magic used in front of them, dissolve people into dust, or any other number of fun activities. The main character, [[BrilliantButLazy Ryner Lute]], possesses the [[InstantExpert Alpha]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Stigma]], which is the copying version. However, when an Alpha Stigma bearer is [[BerserkButton driven over the edge]], they become homicidally insane and use all of that copied magic to tear the rest of the world a new one. People know this. [[TooDumbToLive And yet everyone insists]] [[FantasticRacism on treating Cursed Eye bearers like crap until the inevitable happens.]]
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* In ''Anime/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'', pretty much everyone hates and fears [[MagicalEye Cursed Eye bearers]], which can do things like copy all magic used in front of them, dissolve people into dust, or any other number of fun activities. The main character, [[BrilliantButLazy Ryner Lute]], possesses the [[InstantExpert Alpha]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Stigma]], which is the copying version. However, when an Alpha Stigma bearer is [[BerserkButton driven over the edge]], they become homicidally insane and use all of that copied magic to tear the rest of the world a new one. People know this. [[TooDumbToLive And yet everyone insists]] [[FantasticRacism on treating Cursed Eye bearers like crap until the inevitable happens.]]]][[note]]Not entirely true. The protagonist's SuperpowerEvilSide is vastly more powerful than any other Cursed Eye bearer in the setting. It has been shown that other possessed were quickly dealt with, with little to no trouble. Apparently, the eyes of the possessed Cursed Eye bearer cost a fortune and a lot of those people don't even have an offensive abilities to begin with.[[/note]]
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** Also, Kyouka of Tartaros captured Erza, stripped her naked, and tortured her. Later, Erza broke free and then completely and utterly curbstomped her!
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** Also, Kyouka of Tartaros captured Erza, stripped her naked, and tortured her. Later, Erza broke free and then completely and utterly curbstomped her!her!
* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': Sora incessantly mocks Shun Kurosaki during their duel, calling his Xyz monsters worthless and even confessing that [[spoiler:he's a member of the force that invaded Kurosaki's homeland and turned it into a war zone ForTheEvulz]]. Even when Shun keeps countering his moves and dealing massive damage to him, he doesn't let up. Yuya even asked if Sora was out of his mind and asked him to stop provoking him. Sora pays for it when Kurosaki's Raid Raptors - Revolution Falcon [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill carpet bombs the entire battlefield to the ground and makes a building fall on him]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': Sora incessantly mocks Shun Kurosaki during their duel, calling his Xyz monsters worthless and even confessing that [[spoiler:he's a member of the force that invaded Kurosaki's homeland and turned it into a war zone ForTheEvulz]]. Even when Shun keeps countering his moves and dealing massive damage to him, he doesn't let up. Yuya even asked if Sora was out of his mind and asked him to stop provoking him. Sora pays for it when Kurosaki's Raid Raptors - Revolution Falcon [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill carpet bombs the entire battlefield to the ground and makes a building fall on him]].
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*** And there's a double dose of TooDumbToLive in this example. See, when Dr. Gero built 17 and 18, he realized how difficult they would be to control, and so came up with a new design for future androids that, while still strong, were more limited in their power. Sounds pretty GenreSavvy, right? Except that he then rebuilt ''his own'' body, and used the deliberately weakened design on himself rather than the fully powered one that might've enabled him to stand up to 17 and 18. Yeah, he's a genius, alright.
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*** And there's a double dose of TooDumbToLive in this example. See, when Dr. Gero built 17 and 18, he realized how difficult they would be to control, and so came up with a new design for future androids that, while still strong, were more limited in their power. Sounds pretty GenreSavvy, right? Except that he then rebuilt ''his own'' body, and used the deliberately weakened design on himself rather than the fully powered one that might've enabled him to stand up to 17 and 18.18 (or better yet, to not even need them in the first place). Yeah, he's a genius, alright.
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** Arguably the biggest example in terms of representative power levels in the series came in the first chapter, when the 8 million bounty mountain bandit Higuma bullied ''Shanks'', who was formerly a member of Gold Roger's pirate crew, and in canon, is one of ''the Yonkou'', and easily on par with the Marine Admirals.
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** Arguably the biggest example in terms of representative power levels in the series came in the first chapter, when the 8 million bounty mountain bandit Higuma bullied ''Shanks'', who was formerly a member of Gold Roger's pirate crew, and in canon, is one of ''the Yonkou'', Four Emperors'', and easily on par with the Marine Admirals.
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This is Mugging The Monster because I\'m pretty sure that guy had no idea how powerful vegeta was
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** It happens to Vegeta at the end of ''Dragon Ball Z'', ten year later after Buu is defeated. When Vegeta is at the tournament waiting for his match, a guy walks up to him and constantly berates him. Vegeta then knocks the guy out by punching him lightly in the face.
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* During the [[TournamentArc Grand Magic Games]] arc in ''Manga/FairyTail'', the members of Sabretooth keep doing this to a ridiculous extent. Whether it's Sting assuming he can beat Natsu despite seeing his strength and determination first-hand, Orga deciding that the best course of action would be to attack [[WorldsStrongestMan one of the Ten Wizard Saints]] head-on, or Minerva kidnapping and torturing a mutual friend of her opponents despite knowing (and exploiting the fact) that the series runs on ThePowerOfFriendship, they never seem to learn until they're eventually defeated ([[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope with the exception of Minerva, who just gets worse]]).
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* During the [[TournamentArc Grand Magic Games]] arc in ''Manga/FairyTail'', the members of Sabretooth keep doing this to a ridiculous extent. Whether it's Sting assuming he can beat Natsu despite seeing his strength and determination first-hand, Orga deciding that the best course of action would be to attack [[WorldsStrongestMan one of the Ten Wizard Saints]] head-on, or Minerva kidnapping and torturing a mutual friend of her opponents despite knowing (and exploiting the fact) that the series runs on ThePowerOfFriendship, they never seem to learn until they're eventually defeated ([[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope with the exception of Minerva, who just gets worse]]).worse]]).
** Also, Kyouka of Tartaros captured Erza, stripped her naked, and tortured her. Later, Erza broke free and then completely and utterly curbstomped her!
** Also, Kyouka of Tartaros captured Erza, stripped her naked, and tortured her. Later, Erza broke free and then completely and utterly curbstomped her!
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* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': During the final battle, Envy just can't resist revealing to Roy Mustang that he was the one who murdered Maes Hughes and then [[EvilGloating gloating]] about it. Mustang promptly launches into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, beating Envy so badly that the homunculus is reduced to ''begging for mercy''.
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* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'': Rin, the [[AntiAntiChrist son]] of {{Satan}} and a [[HalfHumanHybrid human]] woman, always felt [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer different from everyone else]]. Even before his full powers were unleashed, he had a nasty temper and SuperStrength. Because of these characteristics, other children picked on him and called him a demon. This resulted in Rin [[BerserkButton punching them in the face]] and giving them serious injuries.
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* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'': Rin, the [[AntiAntiChrist son]] of {{Satan}} and a [[HalfHumanHybrid human]] woman, always felt [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer different from everyone else]]. Even before his full powers were unleashed, he had a nasty temper SuperStrength and SuperStrength.other enhanced physical features. Because of these characteristics, other children picked on him and called him a demon. This resulted in Rin [[BerserkButton punching them in the face]] and giving them serious injuries.
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If they don\'t know the threat involved (or at least the scale of the threat involved), then it\'s not Bullying A Dragon.
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** Also occurs with an actual set of childhood bullies. In their defence, they didn't know they were dealing with a PersonOfMassDestruction. Unfortunately (or not, given that they were all [[AssholeVictim tremendous assholes]]), they never got the chance to learn from their mistakes.
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** Also occurs with an actual set of childhood bullies. In their defence, they didn't know they were dealing with a PersonOfMassDestruction. Unfortunately (or not, given that they were all [[AssholeVictim tremendous assholes]]), they never got the chance to learn from their mistakes.
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*** Well, type isn't everything (especially in the anime, which doesn't run on pure game stats), and Torkoal is considered a weak battler in the metagame due to being notoriously slow and having offenses and defenses that don't do much to help make up for it. Being severely outnumbered probably didn't help, either.
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** Arguably the biggest example in terms of representative power levels in the series came in the first chapter, when the 8 million bounty mountain bandit Higuma bullied ''Shanks'', who was formerly a member of Gold Roger's pirate crew, and in canon, is one of ''the Yonkou'', and easily on par with the Marine Admirals.
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', people at Shizuo's school (both middle and high school) were not the most intelligent lot. This is evidenced by the fact that they thought picking on ''[[SuperStrength Shizuo]] [[HairTriggerTemper Heiwajima]]'' was anything less than a phenomenally stupid idea. The high school kids can be partially excused due to being manipulated by Izaya. The junior high kids? [[TooDumbToLive Not so much]]
** That's no excuse. Even if they were being manipulated by Izaya, picking on a guy that can [[SuperStrength pick up street signs/vending machines/refrigerators (basically anything) and throw them at you]] and [[NighInvulnerability cannot only survive getting shot at point blank range but also act so casually about it,]] [[TooDumbToLive is a really bad idea.]] [[NighInvulnerability The guy can even get run over by a freaking truck and emerge unharmed]].
** That's no excuse. Even if they were being manipulated by Izaya, picking on a guy that can [[SuperStrength pick up street signs/vending machines/refrigerators (basically anything) and throw them at you]] and [[NighInvulnerability cannot only survive getting shot at point blank range but also act so casually about it,]] [[TooDumbToLive is a really bad idea.]] [[NighInvulnerability The guy can even get run over by a freaking truck and emerge unharmed]].
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', people at Shizuo's school (both middle and high school) were not the most intelligent lot. This is evidenced by the fact that they thought picking on ''[[SuperStrength Shizuo]] [[HairTriggerTemper Heiwajima]]'' was anything less than a phenomenally stupid idea. The high school kids can be partially excused due to being manipulated by Izaya. The junior high kids? [[TooDumbToLive Not so much]]
** That's no excuse.Even if they were being manipulated by Izaya, [[ManipulativeBastard Izaya]], picking on a guy that can [[SuperStrength pick up street signs/vending machines/refrigerators (basically anything) and throw them at you]] and [[NighInvulnerability cannot only survive getting shot at point blank range but also act so casually about it,]] [[TooDumbToLive is a really bad idea.]] [[NighInvulnerability The guy can even get run over by a freaking truck and emerge unharmed]].
** That's no excuse.
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* It occurs with a few twists in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan.'' [[spoiler: Its played straight when the paranoid military police officials openly discuss executing Eren ''directly in front of him shortly after his powers manifest.'' Its then somewhat subverted when Levi delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Eren, upon which they [[OhCrap hilariously realize what could potentially happen if you engage in this trope.]] However, in a unique fashion, Levi not only lampshades this by pointing out their hypocrisy, but his engaging in this ultimately saves Eren, as it shows Eren can control his power, or that he can at least be incapacitated in the long run if the need arises, which was the best option they could hope for at the time.]]
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* It occurs with a few twists in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan.'' [[spoiler: Its played straight when the paranoid military police officials openly discuss executing Eren ''directly in front of him shortly after his powers manifest.'' Its then somewhat subverted when Levi delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Eren, upon which they [[OhCrap hilariously realize what could potentially happen if you engage in this trope.]] However, in a unique fashion, Levi not only lampshades this by pointing out their hypocrisy, but his engaging in this ultimately saves Eren, as it shows Eren can control his power, or that he can at least be incapacitated in the long run if the need arises, which was the best option they could hope for at the time.]]]]
* During the [[TournamentArc Grand Magic Games]] arc in ''Manga/FairyTail'', the members of Sabretooth keep doing this to a ridiculous extent. Whether it's Sting assuming he can beat Natsu despite seeing his strength and determination first-hand, Orga deciding that the best course of action would be to attack [[WorldsStrongestMan one of the Ten Wizard Saints]] head-on, or Minerva kidnapping and torturing a mutual friend of her opponents despite knowing (and exploiting the fact) that the series runs on ThePowerOfFriendship, they never seem to learn until they're eventually defeated ([[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope with the exception of Minerva, who just gets worse]]).
* During the [[TournamentArc Grand Magic Games]] arc in ''Manga/FairyTail'', the members of Sabretooth keep doing this to a ridiculous extent. Whether it's Sting assuming he can beat Natsu despite seeing his strength and determination first-hand, Orga deciding that the best course of action would be to attack [[WorldsStrongestMan one of the Ten Wizard Saints]] head-on, or Minerva kidnapping and torturing a mutual friend of her opponents despite knowing (and exploiting the fact) that the series runs on ThePowerOfFriendship, they never seem to learn until they're eventually defeated ([[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope with the exception of Minerva, who just gets worse]]).
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The Mirai Nikki example didn\'t involve bullying, or any form of antagonizing. That was just Fatal Mistake.
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* ''Manga/MiraiNikki'': The infamously {{Yandere}} Gasai Yuno is crazy about the protagonist Amano Yukiteru. She has killed, dismembered, schemed, plotted, manipulated and done a lot of shit to people with no remorse just because of Yukiteru. And she [[ClingyJealousGirl WILL]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse get rid of anything that she perceives to be between her and Yuki.]] Then Yuki gets [[TakeThatKiss kissed by Tsubaki and Akise.]] [[WhatAnIdiot Their fates go as well as you'd expect.]]
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* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[LipstickLesbian Ayako's]] first match wound up being her last and nearly cost her her life, because she made the mistake of sexually harassing [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi]], who happens to have one of the highest latent fighting potentials on record. Satomi warned her twice to knock it off and fight seriously, but when Ayako [[ThanksForTheMammary went so far as to grope her]], Satomi's patience [[RageBreakingPoint reached its limit.]] She unleashed her ultimate attack[[note]]which is essentially [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi's]] "Ura 121 Shiki Ama no Murakumo" HDM[[/note]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill incinerating the ring, the monitoring equipment, and Ayako along with it]]; leaving her unconscious, covered in second-degree burns, and just barely alive (seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD6fLDR9xSg at 18:07-18:43 here).]]
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* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[LipstickLesbian Ayako's]] Yuuki's]] first match wound up being her last and nearly cost her her life, because she made the mistake of sexually harassing [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi]], who happens to have one of the highest latent fighting potentials on record. Satomi warned her twice to knock it off and fight seriously, but when Ayako Yuuki [[ThanksForTheMammary went so far as to grope her]], Satomi's patience [[RageBreakingPoint reached its limit.]] She unleashed her ultimate attack[[note]]which is essentially [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi's]] "Ura 121 Shiki Ama no Murakumo" HDM[[/note]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill incinerating the ring, the monitoring equipment, and Ayako Yuuki along with it]]; leaving her unconscious, covered in second-degree burns, and just barely alive (seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD6fLDR9xSg at 18:07-18:43 here).]]
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* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[LipstickLesbian Ayako's]] first match wound up being her last and nearly cost her her life, because she made the mistake of sexually harassing [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi]], who happens to have one of the highest latent fighting potentials on record. Satomi warned her twice to knock it off and fight seriously, but when Ayako [[ThanksForTheMammary went so far as to grope her]], Satomi's patience [[RageBreakingPoint reached its limit.]] She unleashed her ultimate attack[[note]]which is essentially [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi's]] "Ura 108 Shiki Orochinagi" DM[[/note]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill incinerating the ring, the monitoring equipment, and Ayako along with it]]; leaving her unconscious, covered in second-degree burns, and just barely alive.
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* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[LipstickLesbian Ayako's]] first match wound up being her last and nearly cost her her life, because she made the mistake of sexually harassing [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi]], who happens to have one of the highest latent fighting potentials on record. Satomi warned her twice to knock it off and fight seriously, but when Ayako [[ThanksForTheMammary went so far as to grope her]], Satomi's patience [[RageBreakingPoint reached its limit.]] She unleashed her ultimate attack[[note]]which is essentially [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi's]] "Ura 108 121 Shiki Orochinagi" DM[[/note]], Ama no Murakumo" HDM[[/note]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill incinerating the ring, the monitoring equipment, and Ayako along with it]]; leaving her unconscious, covered in second-degree burns, and just barely alive.alive (seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD6fLDR9xSg at 18:07-18:43 here).]]
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*''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[LipstickLesbian Ayako's]] first match wound up being her last and nearly cost her her life, because she made the mistake of sexually harassing [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi]], who happens to have one of the highest latent fighting potentials on record. Satomi warned her twice to knock it off and fight seriously, but when Ayako [[ThanksForTheMammary went so far as to grope her]], Satomi's patience [[RageBreakingPoint reached its limit.]] She unleashed her ultimate attack[[note]]which is essentially [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi's]] "Ura 108 Shiki Orochinagi" DM[[/note]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill incinerating the ring, the monitoring equipment, and Ayako along with it]]; leaving her unconscious, covered in second-degree burns, and just barely alive.
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* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', regular folks tend to [[FantasticRacism hate and fear]] the eponymous Warriors of the Organization which generally manifests as mutters, dark looks or giving them a wide berth. Which is only understandable considering that even the weakest of the Warriors is a badass SuperSoldier who has ImplausibleFencingPowers, a HealingFactor and is strong enough to wield their signature claymore swords with just one hand. Then there are the geniuses who decide on trying to ''rape'' one. Luckily they chose [[TheFettered Teresa of the Faint Smile]]. If they had chosen [[AxCrazy someone like Ophelia]] on the [[KillEmAll other hand]]...
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* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', regular folks tend to [[FantasticRacism hate and fear]] the eponymous Warriors of the Organization which generally manifests as mutters, dark looks or giving them a wide berth. Which is only understandable considering that even the weakest of the Warriors is a badass SuperSoldier who has ImplausibleFencingPowers, a HealingFactor and is strong enough to wield their signature claymore swords with just one hand. Then there are the geniuses who decide on trying to ''rape'' one. Luckily they chose [[TheFettered Teresa of the Faint Smile]].Smile]] who convinced most of them to back off. If they had chosen [[AxCrazy someone like Ophelia]] on the [[KillEmAll other hand]]...
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* [[Manga/BlueExorcist Rin]], the [[AntiAntiChrist son]] of {{Satan}} and a [[HalfHumanHybrid human]] woman, always felt [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer different from everyone else]]. Even before his full powers were unleashed, he had a nasty temper and SuperStrength. Because of these characteristics, other children picked on him and called him a demon. This resulted in Rin [[BerserkButton punching them in the face]] and giving them serious injuries.
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* [[Manga/BlueExorcist Rin]], ''Manga/BlueExorcist'': Rin, the [[AntiAntiChrist son]] of {{Satan}} and a [[HalfHumanHybrid human]] woman, always felt [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer different from everyone else]]. Even before his full powers were unleashed, he had a nasty temper and SuperStrength. Because of these characteristics, other children picked on him and called him a demon. This resulted in Rin [[BerserkButton punching them in the face]] and giving them serious injuries.
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* In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' Duel Academy is full of people like this (fans call them "Obelisk snobs") who think that Judai is a wimp simply because the red jacket signifies the Osiris Dorm (which he could have been promoted out of as early as the first season if he had wanted to). No many how many {{Eldritch Abomiation}}s he defeats and [[DeadlyGame Shadow Duels]] he survives throughout the series, the rich upperclassmen never seem to learn. (More than likely, most Obelisk students got there because they had rich parents.)
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* In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' Duel Academy is full of people like this (fans call them "Obelisk snobs") who think that Judai is a wimp simply because the red jacket signifies the Osiris Dorm (which he could have been promoted out of as early as the first season if he had wanted to). No many how many {{Eldritch Abomiation}}s Abomination}}s he defeats and [[DeadlyGame Shadow Duels]] he survives throughout the series, the rich upperclassmen never seem to learn. (More than likely, most Obelisk students got there because they had rich parents.)
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** Manjyome had to deal with a guy like this too shortly after being demoted to Osiris, despite formerly being one of the few competent members of the Obelisk dorm. The guy's name in the dub was "Reginald van Howell III"; a more generic name for a spoiled rich kid there ain't.
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** Manjyome had to deal with a guy like this too shortly after being demoted to Osiris, despite formerly being one of the few competent members of the Obelisk dorm. The guy's name in the dub was "Reginald van Howell III"; a more generic name for a spoiled rich kid there ain't.ain't, and his deck was barely better than a Warrior Toolbox.
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* In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' Duel Academy is full of people like this (fans call them "Obelisk snobs") who think that Judai is a wimp simply because the red jacket signifies the Osiris Dorm (which he could have been promoted out of as early as the first season if he had wanted to). No many how many {{Eldritch Abomiation}}s he defeats and [[DeadlyGame Shadow Duels]] he survives throughout the series, the rich upperclassmen never seem to learn. (More than likely, most Obelisk students got there because they had rich parents.)
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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' gives us Ash Ketchum, an unarmed ten[[ComicBookTime (?)]] year old boy who has never let the fact that a [[OlympusMons Legendary]] or armed criminal could reduce him to greasy paste stop him from chewing them out if need be. He even once yelled at [[OlympusMons Palkia]], who just spent half the movie [[RealityWarper disintegrating space]]. (Miraculously, Ash seems able to reason with these titans of the Pokémon world somehow and get them to back off... ''Most'' of the time.)
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*** Another, more minor example involving [=CP9=]: when DragonInChief Rob Lucci manages to overwhelm Luffy, Usopp challenges him. To put it in perspective, no antagonist before this had ever managed to beat Luffy in terms of [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower brute force]], having to use [[NighInvulnerability Logia]] or [[SuperpowerLottery Paramecia]] powers if they didn't have some other kind of weapon. Lucci is superhuman, but it's completely related to brute force, and his Devil Fruit power only amplifies that strength by giving him the ability to turn into a leopard. And he managed to beat Luffy. Usopp, easily the weakest member of the Straw Hats, starts taunting Lucci, culminating in calling him a ''scaredy-cat.'' Of course, he was only doing that to provoke Luffy into getting up and finishing the fight. It works.
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*** Another, more minor example involving [=CP9=]: when DragonInChief Rob Lucci manages to overwhelm Luffy, Usopp challenges him. To put it in perspective, no antagonist before this had ever managed to beat Luffy in terms when it was a question of [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower brute force]], who had the better CharlesAtlasSuperpower, having to use [[NighInvulnerability Logia]] or [[SuperpowerLottery Paramecia]] powers if they didn't have some other kind of weapon. Lucci is superhuman, but it's completely related to brute force, and his Devil Fruit power only amplifies that strength by giving him the ability to turn into a leopard. And he managed to beat Luffy.Luffy, who was lying down in a bloody mess. Usopp, easily the weakest member of the Straw Hats, starts taunting Lucci, culminating in calling him a ''scaredy-cat.'' Of course, he was only doing that to provoke Luffy into getting up and finishing the fight. It works.
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* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': Kenichi used to be weak and powerless. He still looks like a little dude due to his training, and even still acts afraid of people many, many ,many, MANY times weaker than him, just because they look scary. This is slightly subverted as the moment the bullies/thugs find out who he is, they usually back off and immediately apologize out of fear.
** Played much straighter with Natsu Tanimoto AKA Hermit. He, unlike Kenichi, will NOT hesitate to murder you. He will do so in a way that makes it look like it was someone else, but he WILL beat you black, blue, and red all over.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Abarai Renji provokes Ichigo during their training in the Urahara Shop to get him angry. Ichigo, depressed and terrified by his encounter with the Bount, is fighting extremely feebly, and Renji taunts him about his weak fighting to get him to fight with a clear head again. Renji momentarily regrets being so successful.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Accelerator is the strongest esper in the world, with absurd powers that make him literally untouchable. After he's defeated thanks to Touma's AntiMagic ability, large gangs start regularly trying to attack him. They're so far beneath his contempt he doesn't even use his active abilities to fight them, yet despite the trail of twisted limbs he leaves behind him, they still attack. They also completely trash his apartment while he's away, but even that fails to get a rise out of him.
** In fact, the reason he goes along with the Level 6 project is to make himself so powerful that the very ''thought'' of challenging him would be ridiculous. He's been a target of dragon-bulliers all his life, to the point that flashbacks show him (as an 8-year-old child, mind) being assaulted by everything up to a tank division with air support. He knows he's not in any real danger from 99% of the people who try to kill him, but his greatest wish is that all these people would just ''leave him alone''.
** Mikoto is often targeted by gangs of delinquents. Even if they don't recognize her personally, she is always wearing the uniform of a school that only includes Level 3 or higher Espers.
* ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'': Gen's backstory is being picked on for being half-ayakashi. They throw mud at him and then act surprised when he throws a boulder.
* In the first season of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', humans who know about Contractors have a habit of telling Contractor employees how they think they are nothing but murderous scum who should be wiped out. Luckily for them, most Contractors [[TinMan just]] [[LackOfEmpathy don't care]], but this can get ridiculous when Huang is not only verbally abusing someone who can kill him instantly by ''touching'' him, but lifting him up by the front of his shirt and screaming in his face.
* Happens to [[spoiler:Robert Haydn]] in ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki''. Taunting a small child who can turn his arm into a six-foot cannon is not a good plan.
* Espers in ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'' are treated with suspicion at best and as non-human scum at worst. So bad that one of said dragons will grow up to be the "Queen of Disaster" within the span of 10 years. The Children's previous handler, a representative from ''[[SadistTeacher the education department]]'', used ''shock collars'' on the girls in order to control them. [[spoiler:She had a FreudianExcuse, though: her own mother was equally sadistic and would lock her up if she wasn't "perfect".]]
* This trope is the whole reason that Nagi Naoe in ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' is a member of [[ThePsychoRangers Schwarz]]. He was ostracized and tormented as a child due to his [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]].
* A premise of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade II'', in which the events of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' led to a segment of humanity gaining the power to become a sort of proto-Tekkaman. These "Primary Bodies" have partial Tekkaman powers, but are inexplicably persecuted, and twice during the series, the Primary Bodies revolt and try to convert themselves into full Tekkamen to take over the world.
** In at least "Teknoman" (the English dubbed version of Anime/TekkamanBlade), Ringo's constant attempts to pick fights with Blade in the first half-dozen or so episode could well count as this, seeing as how he's deliberately provoking someone he claims to consider unstable and whom he has seen effortlessly tear through dozens of Spider-Crabs (which are, themselves, killing machines capable of wiping out whole platoons of ordinary soldiers).
* This shows up in ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. Saki Hanajima (aka "Hana-chan"), one of the main character's friends, is rumored--correctly--to be capable of killing people with her thoughts. The reaction of her peers? "Let's bully her!" Luckily for them, she turns out to be one of TheFettered, but still...
** In grade school, she almost killed a boy [[spoiler: after he forced her to eat a live newt to support the rumor of her being a witch]]. It came back to haunt her in middle school.
* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'': [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yuuki]], who can manipulate sound waves, tries to use their shared abusive pasts to [[NotSoDifferent reason]] with the poison (and other liquids - she hides her many scars under a thick layer of "makeup")-secreting [[DarkActionGirl Lily]], to no avail.
* Cell does this to Gohan in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. In an odd variation on the trope, Gohan ''at the time'' was hardly a match for Cell. Cell kept pressing his {{Berserk Button}}s so he'd unleash his hidden power and be a WorthyOpponent. Cell underestimated just how worthy he'd be.
** Unlike his father who favored the carrot (cake), Babidi preferred to use the stick in controlling Buu. Whenever Buu showed some disobedience, Babidi would threaten to reseal the monster. This continued until Goku scolded Buu for letting such a weak coward order him around and Babidi shortly found himself lacking a head.
** Then there's Dr. Gero having repeatedly insulted and berated 17 and 18 whom were rebellious teenagers before he forcibly turned them into cyborgs. Cyborgs far stronger than he is, mind you. What happened to him was inevitable.
*** And there's a double dose of TooDumbToLive in this example. See, when Dr. Gero built 17 and 18, he realized how difficult they would be to control, and so came up with a new design for future androids that, while still strong, were more limited in their power. Sounds pretty GenreSavvy, right? Except that he then rebuilt ''his own'' body, and used the deliberately weakened design on himself rather than the fully powered one that might've enabled him to stand up to 17 and 18. Yeah, he's a genius, alright.
** It happens to Vegeta at the end of ''Dragon Ball Z'', ten year later after Buu is defeated. When Vegeta is at the tournament waiting for his match, a guy walks up to him and constantly berates him. Vegeta then knocks the guy out by punching him lightly in the face.
* Anyone who tries to bully SÅsuke in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''. Yeah, [[WhatAnIdiot good idea]] trying to bully the [[TykeBomb boy]] that's carrying an automatic, who was seen sniping at people from the bushes, planting land mines around the school, and [[DisproportionateRetribution threw grenades at anyone who looked at him or Kaname funny]]. It's actually ''[[TooDumbToLive very]]'' [[TooDumbToLive surprising how many bullies try to antagonize]] the "[[PersonOfMassDestruction weirdo military freak]]", considering how outwardly violent he is with everyone, along with how he [[KarmaHoudini gets away]] with ''any'' crime he commits.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Let's see if we can't isolate and otherwise mentally and emotionally abuse a small child who has a giant fox-demon stuck in him, thus ensuring that he doesn't have a reason to keep said demon there. Let's do this even though, as far as we know, the few people in all of history able to defeat said demon are all long dead.
** Goes double for your average smuck who attacks one of the demon hosts. Goes triple for the Kazekage, who has his son Gaara host a demon, and then tries to assassinate Gaara, someone who is for all intents and purposes, ''invincible''. There's making a stupid choice, and there's just plain ought to know better.
** In fact, pretty much every village treats their hosts like crap. It's semi-justified in that it's only been a few generations since the Tailed Beasts were first sealed, and so far nearly everyone who is a host for their entire life has lost control, gone insane, or betrayed their village; it's only assumed that they'll ALL be that way. Of course no one points out that those hosts go bad largely ''because'' they were mistreated by their villages, and it's not until Naruto goes around [[DefeatMeansFriendship knocking sense into his enemies]], including the above-mentioned Gaara, that most of the world realizes "Oh, hey, they DON'T have to be despicable monstrosities?"
*** The Hidden Cloud is the only village at the start of the series that actually treats their hosts well, and that's only after Killer B actually ''befriended'' his sealed demon.
** There's also Naruto's mother, Kushina. When she first arrived in the Hidden Leaf as a kid, the other kids immediately took to mocking her for her red hair, and she didn't help things when she shot her mouth off about becoming the first female Hokage. Within minutes, she flipped out and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the living shit out of the bullies]]. One particular kid actually brought in his older brother to help him get revenge, and Kushina ''still'' kicked their asses.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': When you're pinned down by the monster with the ability to rip you to shreds with their crazy invisible psychic arms, it's probably a good idea NOT to antagonize them. When one character threatens to kill said monster next time he sees her, the monster solves that problem...[[EyeScream by gouging out the man's eyes]].
* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' with Zelgadis the chimera. Most regular humans either run away in fear or ridicule him for his appearance (and it's also worth noting that he's {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le and a skilled sorcerer-swordsman), but he doesn't do a thing about it; rather, he either makes a snippy reply or he gets depressed. After he meets the other main characters, though, he begins to [[InsultBackfire take some insults in stride.]] In the novels, it seemed that he played it straight in the beginning (as "Rezo's berserker"), but it's hinted that Rezo was influencing/manipulating him.
** Played straight with most of the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Mazoku/Monster race,]] as well as a few other creatures, such as Beastmen (the fifth novel and the scuffle between Beastman Dilgear and Zelgadis early on say it all).
** Played very straight in the first episode of TV series 4. Lina is encountering some pirates, who at this point know that she is Lina Inverse, who has destroyed cities several times (one of them twice). While running away from her in fear, they for some reason decide to taunt her about her breast size, which they know is a BerserkButton. It doesn't end well, although fortunately the scene is meant as comedy, so they suffer AmusingInjuries rather than being killed.
* Pretty much the entire plot of ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' so far if you switch "Dragon" with "Werewolf". To be fair, the people bullying Inugami don't know that he's actually a super powerful werewolf at first. But when the first thing you see a guy do is to make his opponent stab himself with nothing but DeadlyDodging, your first thought should not be to try ganging up on him. When the second thing you see him do is break someone's hand with his face (the guy punching him hurt himself since Inugami is MadeOfIron) and you still want to fight him, you've officially become TooDumbToLive. Later, when Inugami ''does'' reveal his true self to BigBad Haguro Daoh, Daoh becomes crazily obsessed with him (since Inugami caused Daoh, a bonafide emotionless sociopath, to [[NotSoStoic feel a real emotion for the first time in his life]]: gut-wrenching fear) and deliberately provokes him in the hopes of getting Inugami to acknowledge him as a WorthyOpponent.
* A small but plot-relevant example from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Makuramon shows up during Beelzebumon's fight with Megidramon specifically to stomp on his BerserkButton by mocking him and calling him "pathetic" and "weak". Beelzebumon is a six-foot-tall [[HellBentForLeather leather-clad]] fallen angel who packs two shotguns, gets stronger everytime he kills someone and, coincidentally, needs a little boost in power to beat Megidramon. Makuramon is a monkey.
** Impmon [[spoiler:(Beelzebumon himself)]] did this to Devidramon much earlier while he was in a Digital Field. Once he broke out, Impmon wisely fled.
* The entire (literal) plot of SohryudenLegendOfTheDragonKings, which basically had the bad guys deliberately torment each of the four titular brothers to release their dragon nature, and then inevitably get their asses kicked by them when they did.
* The nameless extras that populate many parts of ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' world are guilty of this trope as charged. You would think that the normal reaction, upon learning, that the dude in NiceHat right next to you is supposed to be TheAntiChrist and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide single-handedly massacred half a town worth of people when he was only ten]], should be ''fear'' and trying to get away/not to piss him off. Nope, not in this manga.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' gives us Ash Ketchum, an unarmed ten[[ComicBookTime (?)]] year old boy who has never let the fact that a [[OlympusMons Legendary]] or armed criminal could reduce him to greasy paste stop him from chewing them out if need be. He even once yelled at [[OlympusMons Palkia]], who just spent half the movie [[RealityWarper disintegrating space]]. (Miraculously, Ash seems able to reason with these titans of the Pokémon world somehow and get them to back off... ''Most'' of the time.)
** For a mon-to-mon example, try the ''Advance Generation'' episode where Ash caught a [[PlayingWithFire Torkoal]]. Prior to being captured, said Torkoal is the target of literal bullying by [[ExtraOreDinary Steel-types]], which a Pokémon like Torkoal would have [[KillItWithFire no problem against]][[note]]for the uninformed, Fire has an advantage against Steel[[/note]].
*** Well, type isn't everything, and Torkoal is considered a weak battler in the metagame due to being notoriously slow and having offenses and defenses that don't do much to help make up for it. Being severely outnumbered probably didn't help, either.
** Also, some newbie Pokemon on the team get jealous of [[TeamDad Pikachu]], and try to antagonize him. Never mind that he is higher level than any of them (despite not evolving), and possessed of powerful ShockAndAwe abilities. Particularly [[WhatAnIdiot dumb]] when Oshawott does it, given that he's a Water type, and thus takes [[ElementalRockPaperScissors double the hurt]] from electricity.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', people at Shizuo's school (both middle and high school) were not the most intelligent lot. This is evidenced by the fact that they thought picking on ''[[SuperStrength Shizuo]] [[HairTriggerTemper Heiwajima]]'' was anything less than a phenomenally stupid idea. The high school kids can be partially excused due to being manipulated by Izaya. The junior high kids? [[TooDumbToLive Not so much]]
** That's no excuse. Even if they were being manipulated by Izaya, picking on a guy that can [[SuperStrength pick up street signs/vending machines/refrigerators (basically anything) and throw them at you]] and [[NighInvulnerability cannot only survive getting shot at point blank range but also act so casually about it,]] [[TooDumbToLive is a really bad idea.]] [[NighInvulnerability The guy can even get run over by a freaking truck and emerge unharmed]].
* Nico Robin of ''Manga/OnePiece'' was bullied by other children when she was young (who, when she retaliated, would go whine to their parents who chastise her. Of course the kids were most likely lying as they picked on her first without provocation. Robin just wanted to be left alone) and abused by her foster parents (well mostly the aunt. Her uncle never did but was too weak willed to stand up for Robin). I repeat, they abused a child who has the power to grow body parts wherever she wants, which, as she proves later when she single-handedly takes down about 50 marines, is quite a dangerous and potentially deadly power.
** It's usually MuggingTheMonster when it comes to Shanks and Luffy. People rarely appreciate (or even believe) how strong these two are. Two notable examples, however, are Bellamy in the Skypeia arc and Hody Jones after the TimeSkip. Bellamy assumed Luffy was a weakling because Luffy wouldn't fight back over a simple insult (he didn't see it as worth the trouble). Then, after Bellamy robbed Luffy's friends, he got Luffy's wanted poster, with a bounty that's almost double his own meager sum. He dismissed it as a fake. When Luffy came back to get what he stole, Bellamy still refused to accept the truth. [[CurbStompBattle Cue getting faceplanted]] [[OneHitKill with just one punch to the face.]]
** Hody is an even more egregious example, because not only did he know Luffy had beaten Arlong, but knew his exact reputation right down to recent events and still decided to make an enemy of him. While he arguably ''could'' have beaten "Luffy as advertised" instead of "TookALevelInBadass Luffy", Luffy's mere reputation alone should have made him think twice.
** Special mention goes to Don Krieg, who picks a fight with Dracule Mihawk, who'd previously turned his several large battleships and army of pirates into one badly trashed battleship with most of his men dead. Then showed up just to finish off Krieg's last battleship due to being bored. Which he did with [[ImplausibleFencingPowers one swing of his giant sword]].
** Wow, Spandam! It sure was a [[SarcasmMode great idea]] to frame [[SecretPolice CP9]], seven of the deadliest assassins in the world, for the Enies Lobby disaster. It's not like they will want to go after your blood when they find out what you did to them! Oh…..
*** Another, more minor example involving [=CP9=]: when DragonInChief Rob Lucci manages to overwhelm Luffy, Usopp challenges him. To put it in perspective, no antagonist before this had ever managed to beat Luffy in terms of [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower brute force]], having to use [[NighInvulnerability Logia]] or [[SuperpowerLottery Paramecia]] powers if they didn't have some other kind of weapon. Lucci is superhuman, but it's completely related to brute force, and his Devil Fruit power only amplifies that strength by giving him the ability to turn into a leopard. And he managed to beat Luffy. Usopp, easily the weakest member of the Straw Hats, starts taunting Lucci, culminating in calling him a ''scaredy-cat.'' Of course, he was only doing that to provoke Luffy into getting up and finishing the fight. It works.
** Tashigi has a terrible habit of picking fights with people that are way out of her league, often ones that have powers that render her own abilities useless[[note]]Such as Nico Robin and [[spoiler: Trafalgar Law]][[/note]], though it's not because she's overconfident or over-estimating her abilities: its mostly due to her PluckyGirl tendencies. It's affected her track record against named characters to the point that it even got her labeled a FauxActionGirl a couple times, even though her main problem is that, even after the TimeSkip, she's only at the rank of Marine Captain, and, with only a couple exceptions, the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil left them in the dust a long, long time ago (that being at Enies Lobby, where they were using Captains as ''{{Mooks}}'').
* In the ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' OVA, at one point, you see [[SmallGirlBigGun Presea]] [[EmptyShell lifelessly]] dragging what used to be a huge tree she chopped down through her village of Ozette as everyone in the village stares at her. All of a sudden, some little kid throws a rock at her and yells "Monster!" Uh, kid? You see that huge tree there? You're a heck of a lot lighter than it is.
* For reasons unknown, people challenge Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' even after he's just [[YourHeadASplode exploded someone's head]]. When the first {{Mook|s}} or batch of mooks provoke him, that could easily be explained as MuggingTheMonster. When the second batch tries, having seen the first wave get turned into [[LudicrousGibs fountains of blood and body parts]], then it slides right into this trope by virtue of them being TooDumbToLive.
** It's not like they have any choice in the matter as their [[BadBoss bosses]] WILL kill them if they run away from Kenshiro. Sucks to be a mook in the world of Hokuto no Ken.
* Played as FlawExploitation in the second episode of ''Manga/DeathNote'': How do you investigate a murderer who can kill you anywhere, anytime with a magic heart attack? Keep annoying him in the hopes he will try to kill you.
** Also Light frequently bosses Ryuk, a God of Death, around. Ryuk puts up with it [[spoiler: for a while]] because he thinks it's hilarious. And even so, Ryuk is only helpful insofar as he finds it hilarious; he outright won't help Light in numerous situations because it would be too easy.
** Also there's the instance when Misa is contemplating killing Rem, another God of Death, [[ImStandingRightHere in front of Rem.]] [[LoveMartyr Rem puts up with it because she loves Misa.]]
** There's also Mello yelling at Shidoh, another God of Death, [[TheDitz but Shidoh seems to be too stupid to realize]] he could easily hurt or kill the "scary human."
* [[Manga/BlueExorcist Rin]], the [[AntiAntiChrist son]] of {{Satan}} and a [[HalfHumanHybrid human]] woman, always felt [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer different from everyone else]]. Even before his full powers were unleashed, he had a nasty temper and SuperStrength. Because of these characteristics, other children picked on him and called him a demon. This resulted in Rin [[BerserkButton punching them in the face]] and giving them serious injuries.
** That's not the stupidest thing they can do. See that shy, glasses wearing sickly kid over there? That's Rin's [[BigBrotherInstinct younger twin brother]]. Hurt him in any manner, and Rin will ''[[CurbStompBattle mop the floor]]'' with you. It stands even now. Though, this counts more as Bullying The Dragon's ''Brother''.
* Many people in ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' ends up doing this to Gama and are defeated. Shown also with Baian Maki: in a flashback he fights alone against ten swordsmen who mock his use of the naginata. Baian hits their leader in the face so hard that it snaps his neck and kills him.
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', lots of people screw with half-demons, despite the fact that many half-demons openly possess enough raw power to destroy everyone in the towns that scorn them. True, demons scorn them as well, but even the weakest demon is, generally, much stronger than a human -- in other words, they have a decent chance of fighting back. Humans don't.
** [[WarriorTherapist Shishinki]] was an absolute idiot to try inflicting an HeroicBSOD on Sesshoumaru. It did not end well for him.
* ''Manga/MiraiNikki'': The infamously {{Yandere}} Gasai Yuno is crazy about the protagonist Amano Yukiteru. She has killed, dismembered, schemed, plotted, manipulated and done a lot of shit to people with no remorse just because of Yukiteru. And she [[ClingyJealousGirl WILL]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse get rid of anything that she perceives to be between her and Yuki.]] Then Yuki gets [[TakeThatKiss kissed by Tsubaki and Akise.]] [[WhatAnIdiot Their fates go as well as you'd expect.]]
* It's commonly interpreted that Nanami in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has so much trouble with animals, and at one point actually [[BalefulPolymorph turns into a cow]] because she bullied Anthy in episode 3, and as it turns out, Anthy is among other things the proverbial fairytale Witch. An attentive viewer quickly notices that majority of the side-episodes focusing on Nanami's HumiliationConga show Anthy taking special interest in something related to the episode theme.
* In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', Shinji does this after [[spoiler: Asuka is nearly killed]]. Enraged by Gendo's actions, he begins to attack the headquarters while screaming abuse at his father. Gendo is willing to let Shinji do this until the power runs out... right up until Shinji claims Gendo has never lost anything. Ten seconds later, Shinji is unconscious, without Gendo even moving.
* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', regular folks tend to [[FantasticRacism hate and fear]] the eponymous Warriors of the Organization which generally manifests as mutters, dark looks or giving them a wide berth. Which is only understandable considering that even the weakest of the Warriors is a badass SuperSoldier who has ImplausibleFencingPowers, a HealingFactor and is strong enough to wield their signature claymore swords with just one hand. Then there are the geniuses who decide on trying to ''rape'' one. Luckily they chose [[TheFettered Teresa of the Faint Smile]]. If they had chosen [[AxCrazy someone like Ophelia]] on the [[KillEmAll other hand]]...
* In ''Anime/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'', pretty much everyone hates and fears [[MagicalEye Cursed Eye bearers]], which can do things like copy all magic used in front of them, dissolve people into dust, or any other number of fun activities. The main character, [[BrilliantButLazy Ryner Lute]], possesses the [[InstantExpert Alpha]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Stigma]], which is the copying version. However, when an Alpha Stigma bearer is [[BerserkButton driven over the edge]], they become homicidally insane and use all of that copied magic to tear the rest of the world a new one. People know this. [[TooDumbToLive And yet everyone insists]] [[FantasticRacism on treating Cursed Eye bearers like crap until the inevitable happens.]]
* Ranma Saotome of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has his moment with [[spoiler: Pantyhose]] Taro. Everybody briefly joins in on repeating his [[spoiler: embarrassing name]] despite his repeated demands for them to shut up...and the fact that he's got a winged minotaur as a cursed form. Which had been [[CurbStompBattle kicking their butts]] for the last two episodes. Despite the fact that they are in a cave with a waterfall outside. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Guess they knew it was five minutes before the end of the episode so the plot would be resolved somehow]] [[StatusQuoIsGod without their pulverization and in a way most likely involving the removal of Taro from their immediate locale]].
** Made worse in the manga, where the incident in question takes place about two and a half chapters before the end of that saga. Somewhat justified; the main characters of Ranma 1/2 are all, basically, idiots.
* ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'': Most attempts in attacking the title character [[MuggingTheMonster don't]] [[CuteBruiser end]] [[CurbStompBattle well.]]
* ''Anime/RODTheTV'' has [[spoiler:Joker]] treat PaperMaster Yomiko's grievances with little respect, ultimately trying to scare her off by showing her [[ColdBloodedTorture exactly what he's done to her love interest]]. He also does this in the middle of his organization's massive library/headquarters, when her power is the ability to control paper. The outcome, while tragic, is hardly surprising.
* Tomoe from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' is the heroine Nanami's familiar. He's also a {{Kitsune}} that is implied to be one of the strongest demons around and who, amongst other things, delivered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a ''War God.'' He is both disliked in the demon and divine world and looked down upon for his familiar rank.
* It occurs with a few twists in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan.'' [[spoiler: Its played straight when the paranoid military police officials openly discuss executing Eren ''directly in front of him shortly after his powers manifest.'' Its then somewhat subverted when Levi delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Eren, upon which they [[OhCrap hilariously realize what could potentially happen if you engage in this trope.]] However, in a unique fashion, Levi not only lampshades this by pointing out their hypocrisy, but his engaging in this ultimately saves Eren, as it shows Eren can control his power, or that he can at least be incapacitated in the long run if the need arises, which was the best option they could hope for at the time.]]
** Played much straighter with Natsu Tanimoto AKA Hermit. He, unlike Kenichi, will NOT hesitate to murder you. He will do so in a way that makes it look like it was someone else, but he WILL beat you black, blue, and red all over.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Abarai Renji provokes Ichigo during their training in the Urahara Shop to get him angry. Ichigo, depressed and terrified by his encounter with the Bount, is fighting extremely feebly, and Renji taunts him about his weak fighting to get him to fight with a clear head again. Renji momentarily regrets being so successful.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Accelerator is the strongest esper in the world, with absurd powers that make him literally untouchable. After he's defeated thanks to Touma's AntiMagic ability, large gangs start regularly trying to attack him. They're so far beneath his contempt he doesn't even use his active abilities to fight them, yet despite the trail of twisted limbs he leaves behind him, they still attack. They also completely trash his apartment while he's away, but even that fails to get a rise out of him.
** In fact, the reason he goes along with the Level 6 project is to make himself so powerful that the very ''thought'' of challenging him would be ridiculous. He's been a target of dragon-bulliers all his life, to the point that flashbacks show him (as an 8-year-old child, mind) being assaulted by everything up to a tank division with air support. He knows he's not in any real danger from 99% of the people who try to kill him, but his greatest wish is that all these people would just ''leave him alone''.
** Mikoto is often targeted by gangs of delinquents. Even if they don't recognize her personally, she is always wearing the uniform of a school that only includes Level 3 or higher Espers.
* ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'': Gen's backstory is being picked on for being half-ayakashi. They throw mud at him and then act surprised when he throws a boulder.
* In the first season of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', humans who know about Contractors have a habit of telling Contractor employees how they think they are nothing but murderous scum who should be wiped out. Luckily for them, most Contractors [[TinMan just]] [[LackOfEmpathy don't care]], but this can get ridiculous when Huang is not only verbally abusing someone who can kill him instantly by ''touching'' him, but lifting him up by the front of his shirt and screaming in his face.
* Happens to [[spoiler:Robert Haydn]] in ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki''. Taunting a small child who can turn his arm into a six-foot cannon is not a good plan.
* Espers in ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'' are treated with suspicion at best and as non-human scum at worst. So bad that one of said dragons will grow up to be the "Queen of Disaster" within the span of 10 years. The Children's previous handler, a representative from ''[[SadistTeacher the education department]]'', used ''shock collars'' on the girls in order to control them. [[spoiler:She had a FreudianExcuse, though: her own mother was equally sadistic and would lock her up if she wasn't "perfect".]]
* This trope is the whole reason that Nagi Naoe in ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' is a member of [[ThePsychoRangers Schwarz]]. He was ostracized and tormented as a child due to his [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]].
* A premise of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade II'', in which the events of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' led to a segment of humanity gaining the power to become a sort of proto-Tekkaman. These "Primary Bodies" have partial Tekkaman powers, but are inexplicably persecuted, and twice during the series, the Primary Bodies revolt and try to convert themselves into full Tekkamen to take over the world.
** In at least "Teknoman" (the English dubbed version of Anime/TekkamanBlade), Ringo's constant attempts to pick fights with Blade in the first half-dozen or so episode could well count as this, seeing as how he's deliberately provoking someone he claims to consider unstable and whom he has seen effortlessly tear through dozens of Spider-Crabs (which are, themselves, killing machines capable of wiping out whole platoons of ordinary soldiers).
* This shows up in ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. Saki Hanajima (aka "Hana-chan"), one of the main character's friends, is rumored--correctly--to be capable of killing people with her thoughts. The reaction of her peers? "Let's bully her!" Luckily for them, she turns out to be one of TheFettered, but still...
** In grade school, she almost killed a boy [[spoiler: after he forced her to eat a live newt to support the rumor of her being a witch]]. It came back to haunt her in middle school.
* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'': [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yuuki]], who can manipulate sound waves, tries to use their shared abusive pasts to [[NotSoDifferent reason]] with the poison (and other liquids - she hides her many scars under a thick layer of "makeup")-secreting [[DarkActionGirl Lily]], to no avail.
* Cell does this to Gohan in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. In an odd variation on the trope, Gohan ''at the time'' was hardly a match for Cell. Cell kept pressing his {{Berserk Button}}s so he'd unleash his hidden power and be a WorthyOpponent. Cell underestimated just how worthy he'd be.
** Unlike his father who favored the carrot (cake), Babidi preferred to use the stick in controlling Buu. Whenever Buu showed some disobedience, Babidi would threaten to reseal the monster. This continued until Goku scolded Buu for letting such a weak coward order him around and Babidi shortly found himself lacking a head.
** Then there's Dr. Gero having repeatedly insulted and berated 17 and 18 whom were rebellious teenagers before he forcibly turned them into cyborgs. Cyborgs far stronger than he is, mind you. What happened to him was inevitable.
*** And there's a double dose of TooDumbToLive in this example. See, when Dr. Gero built 17 and 18, he realized how difficult they would be to control, and so came up with a new design for future androids that, while still strong, were more limited in their power. Sounds pretty GenreSavvy, right? Except that he then rebuilt ''his own'' body, and used the deliberately weakened design on himself rather than the fully powered one that might've enabled him to stand up to 17 and 18. Yeah, he's a genius, alright.
** It happens to Vegeta at the end of ''Dragon Ball Z'', ten year later after Buu is defeated. When Vegeta is at the tournament waiting for his match, a guy walks up to him and constantly berates him. Vegeta then knocks the guy out by punching him lightly in the face.
* Anyone who tries to bully SÅsuke in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''. Yeah, [[WhatAnIdiot good idea]] trying to bully the [[TykeBomb boy]] that's carrying an automatic, who was seen sniping at people from the bushes, planting land mines around the school, and [[DisproportionateRetribution threw grenades at anyone who looked at him or Kaname funny]]. It's actually ''[[TooDumbToLive very]]'' [[TooDumbToLive surprising how many bullies try to antagonize]] the "[[PersonOfMassDestruction weirdo military freak]]", considering how outwardly violent he is with everyone, along with how he [[KarmaHoudini gets away]] with ''any'' crime he commits.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Let's see if we can't isolate and otherwise mentally and emotionally abuse a small child who has a giant fox-demon stuck in him, thus ensuring that he doesn't have a reason to keep said demon there. Let's do this even though, as far as we know, the few people in all of history able to defeat said demon are all long dead.
** Goes double for your average smuck who attacks one of the demon hosts. Goes triple for the Kazekage, who has his son Gaara host a demon, and then tries to assassinate Gaara, someone who is for all intents and purposes, ''invincible''. There's making a stupid choice, and there's just plain ought to know better.
** In fact, pretty much every village treats their hosts like crap. It's semi-justified in that it's only been a few generations since the Tailed Beasts were first sealed, and so far nearly everyone who is a host for their entire life has lost control, gone insane, or betrayed their village; it's only assumed that they'll ALL be that way. Of course no one points out that those hosts go bad largely ''because'' they were mistreated by their villages, and it's not until Naruto goes around [[DefeatMeansFriendship knocking sense into his enemies]], including the above-mentioned Gaara, that most of the world realizes "Oh, hey, they DON'T have to be despicable monstrosities?"
*** The Hidden Cloud is the only village at the start of the series that actually treats their hosts well, and that's only after Killer B actually ''befriended'' his sealed demon.
** There's also Naruto's mother, Kushina. When she first arrived in the Hidden Leaf as a kid, the other kids immediately took to mocking her for her red hair, and she didn't help things when she shot her mouth off about becoming the first female Hokage. Within minutes, she flipped out and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the living shit out of the bullies]]. One particular kid actually brought in his older brother to help him get revenge, and Kushina ''still'' kicked their asses.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': When you're pinned down by the monster with the ability to rip you to shreds with their crazy invisible psychic arms, it's probably a good idea NOT to antagonize them. When one character threatens to kill said monster next time he sees her, the monster solves that problem...[[EyeScream by gouging out the man's eyes]].
* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' with Zelgadis the chimera. Most regular humans either run away in fear or ridicule him for his appearance (and it's also worth noting that he's {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le and a skilled sorcerer-swordsman), but he doesn't do a thing about it; rather, he either makes a snippy reply or he gets depressed. After he meets the other main characters, though, he begins to [[InsultBackfire take some insults in stride.]] In the novels, it seemed that he played it straight in the beginning (as "Rezo's berserker"), but it's hinted that Rezo was influencing/manipulating him.
** Played straight with most of the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Mazoku/Monster race,]] as well as a few other creatures, such as Beastmen (the fifth novel and the scuffle between Beastman Dilgear and Zelgadis early on say it all).
** Played very straight in the first episode of TV series 4. Lina is encountering some pirates, who at this point know that she is Lina Inverse, who has destroyed cities several times (one of them twice). While running away from her in fear, they for some reason decide to taunt her about her breast size, which they know is a BerserkButton. It doesn't end well, although fortunately the scene is meant as comedy, so they suffer AmusingInjuries rather than being killed.
* Pretty much the entire plot of ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' so far if you switch "Dragon" with "Werewolf". To be fair, the people bullying Inugami don't know that he's actually a super powerful werewolf at first. But when the first thing you see a guy do is to make his opponent stab himself with nothing but DeadlyDodging, your first thought should not be to try ganging up on him. When the second thing you see him do is break someone's hand with his face (the guy punching him hurt himself since Inugami is MadeOfIron) and you still want to fight him, you've officially become TooDumbToLive. Later, when Inugami ''does'' reveal his true self to BigBad Haguro Daoh, Daoh becomes crazily obsessed with him (since Inugami caused Daoh, a bonafide emotionless sociopath, to [[NotSoStoic feel a real emotion for the first time in his life]]: gut-wrenching fear) and deliberately provokes him in the hopes of getting Inugami to acknowledge him as a WorthyOpponent.
* A small but plot-relevant example from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Makuramon shows up during Beelzebumon's fight with Megidramon specifically to stomp on his BerserkButton by mocking him and calling him "pathetic" and "weak". Beelzebumon is a six-foot-tall [[HellBentForLeather leather-clad]] fallen angel who packs two shotguns, gets stronger everytime he kills someone and, coincidentally, needs a little boost in power to beat Megidramon. Makuramon is a monkey.
** Impmon [[spoiler:(Beelzebumon himself)]] did this to Devidramon much earlier while he was in a Digital Field. Once he broke out, Impmon wisely fled.
* The entire (literal) plot of SohryudenLegendOfTheDragonKings, which basically had the bad guys deliberately torment each of the four titular brothers to release their dragon nature, and then inevitably get their asses kicked by them when they did.
* The nameless extras that populate many parts of ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' world are guilty of this trope as charged. You would think that the normal reaction, upon learning, that the dude in NiceHat right next to you is supposed to be TheAntiChrist and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide single-handedly massacred half a town worth of people when he was only ten]], should be ''fear'' and trying to get away/not to piss him off. Nope, not in this manga.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' gives us Ash Ketchum, an unarmed ten[[ComicBookTime (?)]] year old boy who has never let the fact that a [[OlympusMons Legendary]] or armed criminal could reduce him to greasy paste stop him from chewing them out if need be. He even once yelled at [[OlympusMons Palkia]], who just spent half the movie [[RealityWarper disintegrating space]]. (Miraculously, Ash seems able to reason with these titans of the Pokémon world somehow and get them to back off... ''Most'' of the time.)
** For a mon-to-mon example, try the ''Advance Generation'' episode where Ash caught a [[PlayingWithFire Torkoal]]. Prior to being captured, said Torkoal is the target of literal bullying by [[ExtraOreDinary Steel-types]], which a Pokémon like Torkoal would have [[KillItWithFire no problem against]][[note]]for the uninformed, Fire has an advantage against Steel[[/note]].
*** Well, type isn't everything, and Torkoal is considered a weak battler in the metagame due to being notoriously slow and having offenses and defenses that don't do much to help make up for it. Being severely outnumbered probably didn't help, either.
** Also, some newbie Pokemon on the team get jealous of [[TeamDad Pikachu]], and try to antagonize him. Never mind that he is higher level than any of them (despite not evolving), and possessed of powerful ShockAndAwe abilities. Particularly [[WhatAnIdiot dumb]] when Oshawott does it, given that he's a Water type, and thus takes [[ElementalRockPaperScissors double the hurt]] from electricity.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', people at Shizuo's school (both middle and high school) were not the most intelligent lot. This is evidenced by the fact that they thought picking on ''[[SuperStrength Shizuo]] [[HairTriggerTemper Heiwajima]]'' was anything less than a phenomenally stupid idea. The high school kids can be partially excused due to being manipulated by Izaya. The junior high kids? [[TooDumbToLive Not so much]]
** That's no excuse. Even if they were being manipulated by Izaya, picking on a guy that can [[SuperStrength pick up street signs/vending machines/refrigerators (basically anything) and throw them at you]] and [[NighInvulnerability cannot only survive getting shot at point blank range but also act so casually about it,]] [[TooDumbToLive is a really bad idea.]] [[NighInvulnerability The guy can even get run over by a freaking truck and emerge unharmed]].
* Nico Robin of ''Manga/OnePiece'' was bullied by other children when she was young (who, when she retaliated, would go whine to their parents who chastise her. Of course the kids were most likely lying as they picked on her first without provocation. Robin just wanted to be left alone) and abused by her foster parents (well mostly the aunt. Her uncle never did but was too weak willed to stand up for Robin). I repeat, they abused a child who has the power to grow body parts wherever she wants, which, as she proves later when she single-handedly takes down about 50 marines, is quite a dangerous and potentially deadly power.
** It's usually MuggingTheMonster when it comes to Shanks and Luffy. People rarely appreciate (or even believe) how strong these two are. Two notable examples, however, are Bellamy in the Skypeia arc and Hody Jones after the TimeSkip. Bellamy assumed Luffy was a weakling because Luffy wouldn't fight back over a simple insult (he didn't see it as worth the trouble). Then, after Bellamy robbed Luffy's friends, he got Luffy's wanted poster, with a bounty that's almost double his own meager sum. He dismissed it as a fake. When Luffy came back to get what he stole, Bellamy still refused to accept the truth. [[CurbStompBattle Cue getting faceplanted]] [[OneHitKill with just one punch to the face.]]
** Hody is an even more egregious example, because not only did he know Luffy had beaten Arlong, but knew his exact reputation right down to recent events and still decided to make an enemy of him. While he arguably ''could'' have beaten "Luffy as advertised" instead of "TookALevelInBadass Luffy", Luffy's mere reputation alone should have made him think twice.
** Special mention goes to Don Krieg, who picks a fight with Dracule Mihawk, who'd previously turned his several large battleships and army of pirates into one badly trashed battleship with most of his men dead. Then showed up just to finish off Krieg's last battleship due to being bored. Which he did with [[ImplausibleFencingPowers one swing of his giant sword]].
** Wow, Spandam! It sure was a [[SarcasmMode great idea]] to frame [[SecretPolice CP9]], seven of the deadliest assassins in the world, for the Enies Lobby disaster. It's not like they will want to go after your blood when they find out what you did to them! Oh…..
*** Another, more minor example involving [=CP9=]: when DragonInChief Rob Lucci manages to overwhelm Luffy, Usopp challenges him. To put it in perspective, no antagonist before this had ever managed to beat Luffy in terms of [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower brute force]], having to use [[NighInvulnerability Logia]] or [[SuperpowerLottery Paramecia]] powers if they didn't have some other kind of weapon. Lucci is superhuman, but it's completely related to brute force, and his Devil Fruit power only amplifies that strength by giving him the ability to turn into a leopard. And he managed to beat Luffy. Usopp, easily the weakest member of the Straw Hats, starts taunting Lucci, culminating in calling him a ''scaredy-cat.'' Of course, he was only doing that to provoke Luffy into getting up and finishing the fight. It works.
** Tashigi has a terrible habit of picking fights with people that are way out of her league, often ones that have powers that render her own abilities useless[[note]]Such as Nico Robin and [[spoiler: Trafalgar Law]][[/note]], though it's not because she's overconfident or over-estimating her abilities: its mostly due to her PluckyGirl tendencies. It's affected her track record against named characters to the point that it even got her labeled a FauxActionGirl a couple times, even though her main problem is that, even after the TimeSkip, she's only at the rank of Marine Captain, and, with only a couple exceptions, the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil left them in the dust a long, long time ago (that being at Enies Lobby, where they were using Captains as ''{{Mooks}}'').
* In the ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' OVA, at one point, you see [[SmallGirlBigGun Presea]] [[EmptyShell lifelessly]] dragging what used to be a huge tree she chopped down through her village of Ozette as everyone in the village stares at her. All of a sudden, some little kid throws a rock at her and yells "Monster!" Uh, kid? You see that huge tree there? You're a heck of a lot lighter than it is.
* For reasons unknown, people challenge Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' even after he's just [[YourHeadASplode exploded someone's head]]. When the first {{Mook|s}} or batch of mooks provoke him, that could easily be explained as MuggingTheMonster. When the second batch tries, having seen the first wave get turned into [[LudicrousGibs fountains of blood and body parts]], then it slides right into this trope by virtue of them being TooDumbToLive.
** It's not like they have any choice in the matter as their [[BadBoss bosses]] WILL kill them if they run away from Kenshiro. Sucks to be a mook in the world of Hokuto no Ken.
* Played as FlawExploitation in the second episode of ''Manga/DeathNote'': How do you investigate a murderer who can kill you anywhere, anytime with a magic heart attack? Keep annoying him in the hopes he will try to kill you.
** Also Light frequently bosses Ryuk, a God of Death, around. Ryuk puts up with it [[spoiler: for a while]] because he thinks it's hilarious. And even so, Ryuk is only helpful insofar as he finds it hilarious; he outright won't help Light in numerous situations because it would be too easy.
** Also there's the instance when Misa is contemplating killing Rem, another God of Death, [[ImStandingRightHere in front of Rem.]] [[LoveMartyr Rem puts up with it because she loves Misa.]]
** There's also Mello yelling at Shidoh, another God of Death, [[TheDitz but Shidoh seems to be too stupid to realize]] he could easily hurt or kill the "scary human."
* [[Manga/BlueExorcist Rin]], the [[AntiAntiChrist son]] of {{Satan}} and a [[HalfHumanHybrid human]] woman, always felt [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer different from everyone else]]. Even before his full powers were unleashed, he had a nasty temper and SuperStrength. Because of these characteristics, other children picked on him and called him a demon. This resulted in Rin [[BerserkButton punching them in the face]] and giving them serious injuries.
** That's not the stupidest thing they can do. See that shy, glasses wearing sickly kid over there? That's Rin's [[BigBrotherInstinct younger twin brother]]. Hurt him in any manner, and Rin will ''[[CurbStompBattle mop the floor]]'' with you. It stands even now. Though, this counts more as Bullying The Dragon's ''Brother''.
* Many people in ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' ends up doing this to Gama and are defeated. Shown also with Baian Maki: in a flashback he fights alone against ten swordsmen who mock his use of the naginata. Baian hits their leader in the face so hard that it snaps his neck and kills him.
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', lots of people screw with half-demons, despite the fact that many half-demons openly possess enough raw power to destroy everyone in the towns that scorn them. True, demons scorn them as well, but even the weakest demon is, generally, much stronger than a human -- in other words, they have a decent chance of fighting back. Humans don't.
** [[WarriorTherapist Shishinki]] was an absolute idiot to try inflicting an HeroicBSOD on Sesshoumaru. It did not end well for him.
* ''Manga/MiraiNikki'': The infamously {{Yandere}} Gasai Yuno is crazy about the protagonist Amano Yukiteru. She has killed, dismembered, schemed, plotted, manipulated and done a lot of shit to people with no remorse just because of Yukiteru. And she [[ClingyJealousGirl WILL]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse get rid of anything that she perceives to be between her and Yuki.]] Then Yuki gets [[TakeThatKiss kissed by Tsubaki and Akise.]] [[WhatAnIdiot Their fates go as well as you'd expect.]]
* It's commonly interpreted that Nanami in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has so much trouble with animals, and at one point actually [[BalefulPolymorph turns into a cow]] because she bullied Anthy in episode 3, and as it turns out, Anthy is among other things the proverbial fairytale Witch. An attentive viewer quickly notices that majority of the side-episodes focusing on Nanami's HumiliationConga show Anthy taking special interest in something related to the episode theme.
* In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', Shinji does this after [[spoiler: Asuka is nearly killed]]. Enraged by Gendo's actions, he begins to attack the headquarters while screaming abuse at his father. Gendo is willing to let Shinji do this until the power runs out... right up until Shinji claims Gendo has never lost anything. Ten seconds later, Shinji is unconscious, without Gendo even moving.
* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', regular folks tend to [[FantasticRacism hate and fear]] the eponymous Warriors of the Organization which generally manifests as mutters, dark looks or giving them a wide berth. Which is only understandable considering that even the weakest of the Warriors is a badass SuperSoldier who has ImplausibleFencingPowers, a HealingFactor and is strong enough to wield their signature claymore swords with just one hand. Then there are the geniuses who decide on trying to ''rape'' one. Luckily they chose [[TheFettered Teresa of the Faint Smile]]. If they had chosen [[AxCrazy someone like Ophelia]] on the [[KillEmAll other hand]]...
* In ''Anime/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'', pretty much everyone hates and fears [[MagicalEye Cursed Eye bearers]], which can do things like copy all magic used in front of them, dissolve people into dust, or any other number of fun activities. The main character, [[BrilliantButLazy Ryner Lute]], possesses the [[InstantExpert Alpha]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Stigma]], which is the copying version. However, when an Alpha Stigma bearer is [[BerserkButton driven over the edge]], they become homicidally insane and use all of that copied magic to tear the rest of the world a new one. People know this. [[TooDumbToLive And yet everyone insists]] [[FantasticRacism on treating Cursed Eye bearers like crap until the inevitable happens.]]
* Ranma Saotome of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has his moment with [[spoiler: Pantyhose]] Taro. Everybody briefly joins in on repeating his [[spoiler: embarrassing name]] despite his repeated demands for them to shut up...and the fact that he's got a winged minotaur as a cursed form. Which had been [[CurbStompBattle kicking their butts]] for the last two episodes. Despite the fact that they are in a cave with a waterfall outside. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Guess they knew it was five minutes before the end of the episode so the plot would be resolved somehow]] [[StatusQuoIsGod without their pulverization and in a way most likely involving the removal of Taro from their immediate locale]].
** Made worse in the manga, where the incident in question takes place about two and a half chapters before the end of that saga. Somewhat justified; the main characters of Ranma 1/2 are all, basically, idiots.
* ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'': Most attempts in attacking the title character [[MuggingTheMonster don't]] [[CuteBruiser end]] [[CurbStompBattle well.]]
* ''Anime/RODTheTV'' has [[spoiler:Joker]] treat PaperMaster Yomiko's grievances with little respect, ultimately trying to scare her off by showing her [[ColdBloodedTorture exactly what he's done to her love interest]]. He also does this in the middle of his organization's massive library/headquarters, when her power is the ability to control paper. The outcome, while tragic, is hardly surprising.
* Tomoe from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' is the heroine Nanami's familiar. He's also a {{Kitsune}} that is implied to be one of the strongest demons around and who, amongst other things, delivered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a ''War God.'' He is both disliked in the demon and divine world and looked down upon for his familiar rank.
* It occurs with a few twists in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan.'' [[spoiler: Its played straight when the paranoid military police officials openly discuss executing Eren ''directly in front of him shortly after his powers manifest.'' Its then somewhat subverted when Levi delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Eren, upon which they [[OhCrap hilariously realize what could potentially happen if you engage in this trope.]] However, in a unique fashion, Levi not only lampshades this by pointing out their hypocrisy, but his engaging in this ultimately saves Eren, as it shows Eren can control his power, or that he can at least be incapacitated in the long run if the need arises, which was the best option they could hope for at the time.]]
