History BullyingADragon / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': The Narns spend majority of Season 1 basically bullying the Centauri out of revenge for being subjugated by them. When the Centauri strike back (backed by the immensely powerful Shadows), it proved devastating for the Narn.

** At one point, Rebecca tells Carla she doesn't think she can make anyone cry just like that. Carla then proceeds to hone in on Rebecca's biggest insecurity: Her childhood weight issues, and reduces Rebecca to tears in seconds.

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]", a pair of local louts make the unlikely assumption that a pair of characters dressed in 17 century garb and carrying a bow and arrows must be social workers and attempt to pick a fight with them. Lady Peinforte leaves the suffering UnwillingSuspension in their underwear.

** [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy a Halosian ship]] attacks ''Talyn'', a TriggerHappy LivingShip armed to the teeth with dangerous weapons, and after Crais, his pilot who only uses ''Talyn''‘ s weapons on self-defense, offers a truce. Predictably, they get their asses kicked and all of the crew except the commander and another crew member dies in the ensuing firefight. Then the commander tries the same thing on ''Talyn'''s mother ''Moya'' when it enters the area despite his ship being too damaged to fight, which only works because ''Moya'' doesn’t have any weapons. This attitude eventually gets the remaining crew killed.

** In Season 4, Penguin is on the other side of this. Penguin, Barbara, Tabitha and Butch decide to threaten [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] in order to force him to hold the city ransom for fifty million dollars with his bombs. Sure, he is new to being a criminal at that point, and doesn't seem to be as unhinged as [[AxCrazy his brother]] at first, but by the time they decide to threaten him, he's already destroyed several skyscrapers and forced the evacuation of a major city. They really should have known that threatening him wouldn't go well for them. He simply pretends to go along with their demands before summarily attacking them with a rocket launcher.
** In Season 5, Jeremiah is again the target of this trope, but this time, it's because he's [[spoiler: apparently]] injured and unable to defend himself for awhile. [[spoiler: To clarify, he fell into a vat of chemicals and spent ten years locked up in Arkham pretending to be comatose due to his injuries. Edward Nygma, who was a patient in Arkham during the same time period, encouraged other patients to draw on and stab Jeremiah just for the fun of it, and did it himself. It is therefore not surprising that after Jeremiah stops pretending to be comatose, he breaks Ed out of Arkham (while making him think that [[VillainousFriendship Oswald]] is responsible), and tricks him into committing a high profile crime so that the police will be too distracted to stop [[MadBomber his own planned crimes.]] Since Ed was in the building where Jeremiah's bombs were supposed to go off, Jeremiah probably intended him to die with the heroes.]]

** A baffling example occurs in the series finale. In ''the previous episode,'' Morgana had been so scared of Merlin's power that she'd [[spoiler:trapped him in a cave without his magic. Now that he's visibly recovered his magic, is furious with her, has demonstrated dominion over actual dragons, and he's wielding a ''sword,'' she decides to stand a foot away from him, unarmed, and taunt him. That goes about as well as she deserves.]] It was somewhat justified as Morgana has been [[SanitySlippage slowly slipping into madness]] over the course of the entire series, and by that point she's far past the point of VillainousBreakdown. [[spoiler:Plus, she probably thought Merlin had brought his own sword, and not [[InfinityPlusOneSword Excalibur]], in which case she would have survived the stabbing]].

* In ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] seasons, Pearl Forrester kept Bobo (an ape-man who considered ripping lions apart a hoot) and Observer (a quasi-omnipotent RealityWarper) -- two people who could easily end her if they wanted -- through sheer force of will. The fact that neither man is particularly bright and [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]] helps.

** Throughout the first two seasons, Sherlock constantly slammed Lestrade, Anderson and the rest of the police as a bunch of idiots who couldn't keep up with him and insulting them constantly. Thus, when Moriarty makes it look like Sherlock had been setting all his "crimes" up just to solve them himself, the cops are inclined to agree and John warns Sherlock that every officer he's ever put down is waiting to slap handcuffs on him.

** Clark Kent was often bullied despite that fact that even without powers, he is still very buff and capable of punching people out.

* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'': It's amazing how many people seem to think that manipulating, abusing or otherwise pushing around the members and loved ones of a biker gang with enough military-grade hardware to equip a decent-sized mercenary force is a great idea.

** Jack O'Neill does this a lot, and often seems to get away with it. Once he even does it while helpless on a torture rack.

*** In the episode "Profit and Loss", Gul Toran decides to manipulate Garak into doing his dirty work for him (killing the dissident fugitives that are on the station, an act Garak disapproves of) by dangling the carrot of ending Garak's exile in front of him. Once Garak has corralled the dissidents (and Quark who was helping them), Toran intervenes intending to take the sole credit and mocks Garak with the news that Garak's exile will never end and certainly not with any trivial act such as this. Considering Garak was one of the highest ranked agents of the Obsidian Order prior to his exile, which made him one of the most powerful and dangerous men in the whole of Cardassia (and Toran ''knew'' this), Toran's attempt to manipulate and then betray Garak was the most foolish, suicidal act of his life. Not only does Garak promptly kill Toran for his audacity, but he then helps the dissidents secure their escape and freedom from Cardassia.
*** In the episode "Chimera", two Klingons tried to stab a ''Changeling''. Not only were they attempting to stab a giant amorphous liquid being, the Changeling summoned a sword much larger than knives. Even worse, directly before this incident, the changeling had taken the form of fog which covered the entire promenade. You think he might be a little out of your league, guys?

* ''Series/{{Suits}}'' often features people who really should know better than to try taking on Pearson Hardman. Usually, it ends with Harvey or Mike calmly explaining just how badly they're about to be steam-rolled. Season 2 starts with Mike calmly reciting Trevor's Social Security Number he had read as a child. He then warns that Trevor may have thought he was safe from Mike in the past, but now that they're no longer friends, he should really just back off.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' has an example of MuggingTheMonster that crosses into this. While shopping for wedding china with his fiancée, Walker notices a man loudly harassing a woman and attacking an employee who tries to make him leave. Walker intervenes and tells the man to leave, and the man takes a swing at him. Walker effortlessly blocks it, informs the man that he's a Texas Ranger and tells him to leave again. Then the man decides ''to try to hit Walker again'', and naturally gets the crap beaten out of him, without a single piece of china being damaged.
* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Wolfblood}}'', Rhydian loses control and violently attacks Jimmy, demonstrating extreme strength and the willingness to use it. This doesn't stop Jimmy and his friends from spending most of the series teasing Rhydian, taunting him, framing him for crimes and, at one point, blackmailing him.
* ''Series/{{Wonder Woman|1975}}'': One of the Nazis' favorite pastimes in the WWII era of the show and a [[IdiotBall phenomenally bad idea]]. One of many, many examples comes from "The Richest Man in the World". Wonder Woman has finally figured out [[BigBad Dunfield]]'s plan and cornered his gang in their warehouse. She closes the door on them, smiles and expects them to give up. Instead, they shoot at her. Whereupon she lays down one of the biggest [[CurbStompBattle beatdowns]] in the entire series.

* ''Series/ZeroZeroZero'': A high-ranking cartel captain shows nothing but contempt for Manuel and his troop, a group of military-trained commandos who have recently joined the cartel. After Manuel's squad assemble a small army and hijack a rival shipment, the captain shows up and demands that Manny's troop load up the trucks personally as a way to demean them. One of Manny's men refuse, so the captain impulsively shoots him to enforce his authority. He's instantly cut to pieces in a hail of automatic gunfire.

* ''Series/TheSandman2022'': Lady Johanna Constantine hears rumors that the Devil and the Wandering Jew meet at the White Horse Tavern every hundred years, so she crashes their next meeting with two street toughs in an attempt to beat their arcane secrets out of them. It goes about as well as you'd expect trying to mug two immortal beings to go.

* ''Series/TheSandman'': Lady Johanna Constantine hears rumors that the Devil and the Wandering Jew meet at the White Horse Tavern every hundred years, so she crashes their next meeting with two street toughs in an attempt to beat their arcane secrets out of them. It goes about as well as you'd expect trying to mug two immortal beings to go.

* ''Series/{{Frontier}}'': Elizabeth Carruthers decides to deliberately antagonize Samuel Grant by having his closest associate arrested after scuppering their deal with the Marquis and then rubbing in his face how pathetic he is despite knowing that this is a man who doesn't shy away from things like [[spoiler:murdering his competition. Predictably, he kills her in a frothing rage after she beats him over the head with a candle holder.]]

** In the [[AprilFoolsPlot April Fools episode]], Kenan thinks that a police officer who gave him a parking ticket was fake and was hired by Kel, so he dumps creamed corn and shaving cream on top of the policeman as well as harassing him in the process. As expected, he gets arrested for it.

---> '''Kel''': "Hey, everybody! Look what these keys do! Oh, look Mr. Jack-a-Hamma, the door's open! Oh, it's closed. Oh, wait, it's open. Oh, closed! Hey, wanna come out? ''(Kel laughs as he shuts the door a few more times)''

** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': [[DumbMuscle Ryuuga Banjo]] attacks [[DragonWithAnAgenda Blood Stalk]] despite knowing full well just how outmatched he is after an earlier attempt that was even less thought out [[spoiler: and nearly got him killed]]. He still goes with it because he has people to protect and unfinished business with Stalk.

* Jack O'Neill from ''Series/StargateSG1'' does this a lot, and often seems to get away with it. Once he even does it while helpless on a torture rack.
** Ba'al continued to harass SG-1 even after they played a major part in crippling the Goa'uld System Lords, the Replicators, and the Ori - AKA the three most dangerous threats the galaxy has ever known. If he had just ''stopped'' at some point before season 10 then he probably would have managed to carve out a nice quiet bit of the galaxy for himself in the same way that the Lucian Alliance has. And this is after the fact that it was clearly established that he is far saner (relatively speaking) than any normal Goa'uld and thus was far more likely to cut his losses or broker a deal.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Picard, while not quite bullying Q, is still not nearly as polite as he ought to be to an omnipotent being who, on one occasion, responded to Picard's words by hurling the ''Enterprise'' into the path of the Borg.
** The ''Enterprise'' herself is one of the largest and most powerful ships in Starfleet. This hasn't stopped a number of smaller ships with inferior weapons from firing on her. The only reason such ships don't end up a cloud of space dust is the TechnicalPacifist[=/=]MartialPacifist attitude of Starfleet in general and Captain Picard in particular, so he simply orders Worf to fire one or two shots to disable the attackers.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** In the episode "Profit and Loss", Gul Toran decides to manipulate Garak into doing his dirty work for him (killing the dissident fugitives that are on the station, an act Garak disapproves of) by dangling the carrot of ending Garak's exile in front of him. Once Garak has corralled the dissidents (and Quark who was helping them), Toran intervenes intending to take the sole credit and mocks Garak with the news that Garak's exile will never end and certainly not with any trivial act such as this. Considering Garak was one of the highest ranked agents of the Obsidian Order prior to his exile, which made him one of the most powerful and dangerous men in the whole of Cardassia (and Toran ''knew'' this), Toran's attempt to manipulate and then betray Garak was the most foolish, suicidal act of his life. Not only does Garak promptly kill Toran for his audacity, but he then helps the dissidents secure their escape and freedom from Cardassia.
** In the episode "Chimera", two Klingons tried to stab a ''Changeling''. Not only were they attempting to stab a giant amorphous liquid being, the Changeling summoned a sword much larger than knives. Even worse, directly before this incident, the changeling had taken the form of fog which covered the entire promenade. You think he might be a little out of your league, guys?
** Justified in "Valiant". The Red Squad cadets use the titular USS Valiant, a small ''Defiant''-class starship, to attack a much larger and more heavily armed Dominion battleship because they believe they've found a vulnerability in the battleship's design that they can exploit. [[spoiler: They're dead wrong.]]
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "The Man Trap", Spock slaps around an alien that has previously shown the ability to overpower him. It was {{justified|Trope}} in that he was trying to prove that [[ShapeShifting it wasn't who it looked like]] and was therefore willing to take the risks involved.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': The episode "Scorpion" features the Borg attempting to assimilate species 8472. Unfortunately for them, 8472 obliterates fifteen Borg cubes in self-defense, prompting the Borg to accept assistance from ''Voyager''.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'': In the tie-in comic series, made-of-diamond villain Facet spends months trying to ruin [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]]'s life until Kara loses patience, takes her to the upper atmosphere and lets her go. Supergirl lampshades how dumb is to taunt someone who can ''fly'':

** Many episodes have some incredibly small and weedy-looking men attempting to push an angry-looking Creator/MrT around, and then actually looking surprised when they get thrown through a window. Possibly they're surprised at the [[SoftGlass lack of injury]].

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': The Narns spend majority of Season 1 basically bullying the Centauri out of revenge for being subjugated by them. When the Centauri strike back (backed by the immensely powerful Shadows), it proved devastating for the Narn.
* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''

** In the third series two foppish actors learn about this trope the hard way. They spend the better part of the episode insulting the title character, and then a misunderstanding leads Baldrick to believe they're traitorous anarchists. Blackadder investigates, immediately realizes what's going on, and [[DisproportionateRetribution confirms Baldrick's suspicions.]]

* On ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', this happens more often than not with Casey in a comedic sense, like when he's filled his daily quotient of stupidity from the Buy Morons, but every so often this trope comes into play on a serious issue. In "Chuck vs. Operation Awesome", an old oriental woman is bitching at Chuck about the Buy More's lack of customer service, while Chuck is just concerned with wanting to tell someone outside the loop about his being a spy, worrying for Devon's safety (since he's been kidnapped), and his feelings toward Sarah. He finally snaps, flashes on how to speak Korean, and yells at the woman in her native tongue to more-or-less [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Shut the Fuck Up]], surprising everyone around him, including Jeff, Lester, and more importantly Sarah, because he's always been so pacifistic. It's made even more apparent when Chuck Intersect-kicks Lester for trying to mess with him, Bruce Lee-style only moments after telling off the Korean lady, which drops everyone's jaws even further.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': This is something Karen Page has a particularly bad habit of doing.
** In ''Series/ThePunisher2017'', she outright provokes and insults Lewis Wilson into gunning for her after he's already established himself as a dangerous domestic terrorist who referred to her directly by name in a manifesto. It's lampshaded by Frank, who calls it a terrible idea it was to provoke such a dangerous man into a response.

** As the villain of an early new series episode learned, trying to chain up and experiment on a [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Dalek]] is a ''bad idea''. Deciding to capture and torture ''[[GuileHero the]] [[TheDreaded Doctor]]'' is an even worse one. In fact, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]] is a sort of TakeThat to various people who have in a sense bullied the dragon in real life by not taking the Daleks seriously. Characters continually mock the Dalek's seemingly ridiculous appearance, including a plunger-like attachment and seeming inability to climb stairs, and subsequently end up getting their face sucked off by said plunger or finding out that Daleks can in fact fly.
** According to Dorium the black market dealer in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], this is what the bad guys are doing by trying to pull one over on the Doctor. Dorium even all but says they are bullying a dragon — specifically, he tells them they've pricked a beast but haven't been smart enough to run away from it afterward.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]: A drunk man sees a tall, imposing creature in armour who doesn't look like he came from Earth, assumes he's a guy in a costume and ridicules him while throwing food at him. Predictably, he is killed.
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':

** The CIA agent who not only threatened [[OnlyFriend John]], but hurt [[ParentalSubstitute Mrs. Hudson]] in front of Sherlock, and then ''let his guard down'' while frisking him. As Sherlock puts it, he [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident "fell out of a window"]].

* The Winchesters are often guilty of this in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', such as in the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E19FolsomPrisonBlues "Folsom Prison Blues" (S02, Ep19)]] when Dean starts making fun of Tiny, a very large prisoner, the day after his friend died. Interesting example, as Dean was actually banking on this reaction at the time as the plan was to start a fight, so to give his brother a distraction long enough to get rid of the ghost that was killing the prisoners. As Dean is a very tough man himself, who regularly tangles with super strong monsters and demons only to come out on top, it's fair to say he probably could have killed Tiny if he needed to, this is more an example of a dragonslayer bullying the dragon.

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E88TheLastRitesOfJeffMyrtlebank The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank]]", a dead man revives in the middle of his funeral, which leads the townspeople to believe that his corpse was possessed by a demon. As the episode progresses, these people decide to attempt to force the young man out of town. He gets them to back down by invoking this very trope by stating that if he really is a demon, then they would have more sense to treat him nicely because he could really mess up their lives if he decided to.

--> [[spoiler: '''Leonard''']]: No. No, not to me, [[spoiler: Vanya]]. Please. Please.

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': One of the Nazis' favorite pastimes in the WWII era of the show and a [[IdiotBall phenomenally bad idea]]. One of many, many examples comes from "The Richest Man in the World". Wonder Woman has finally figured out [[BigBad Dunfield]]'s plan and cornered his gang in their warehouse. She closes the door on them, smiles and expects them to give up. Instead, they shoot at her. Whereupon she lays down one of the biggest [[CurbStompBattle beatdowns]] in the entire series.
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' You weren't really planning on leaving were you? ''[closes the door]'' I didn't think so.
-->'''Dunfield's [[{{Mooks}} thug]]:''' ''[pulls a gun and shoots at her to no effect]''
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' ''[steps forward visibly annoyed]'' [[CurbStompBattle In under 2 minutes, she beats, rounds up, and captures the entire gang.]]
* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E09Schizogeny "Schizogeny"]], everyone believes that a sixteen-year-old murdered his stepfather. Some of his classmates get in his face and make fun of him for being a "psycho killer". They apparently thought there was no way this could backfire on them.

** The ''Enterprise'' herself is one of the largest and most powerful ships in Starfleet. This hasn't stopped a number of smaller ships with inferior weapons from firing on her. The only reason such ships don't end up a cloud of space dust is the TechnicalPacifist/MartialPacifist attitude of Starfleet in general and Captain Picard in particular, so he simply orders Worf to fire one or two shots to disable the attackers.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Picard, while not quite bullying Q, is still not nearly as polite as he ought to be to an omnipotent being who, on one occasion, responded to Picard's words by hurling the ''Enterprise'' into the path of the Borg.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Picard, while not quite bullying Q, is still not nearly as polite as he ought to be to an omnipotent being who, on one occasion, responded to Picard's words by hurling the ''Enterprise'' into the path of the Borg.

* One episode of ''Series/ICarly'' had a newcomer bully who liked to pick on Sam. Sam didn't retaliate [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon as she wanted a boy she liked to see her as normal]]. However, near the end, when the trio is at their local hangout waiting for said boy, the bully arrives and starts hassling the three. Said bully finally goes too far when she pushes Carly (who was keeping Sam back), who promptly orders Sam to "rip her head off!" Sam gladly goes to town on her.

* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand''
** A loan shark makes several attempts to harass and threaten Batiatus, but Batiatus is usually flanked by one or more famous gladiators who kill on his command.
** Similarly, you don't try to extort [[spoiler:Oenomeus]].

* In ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', it's really not a good idea to threaten the title character, or especially his family, but most people don't know that he's a serial killer. There are the occasional exceptions, like [[spoiler:Lila, and Miguel Prado]].

* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy a Halosian ship]] attacks ''Talyn'', a TriggerHappy LivingShip armed to the teeth with dangerous weapons, and after Crais, his pilot who only uses ''Talyn''‘ s weapons on self-defense, offers a truce. Predictably, they get their asses kicked and all of the crew except the commander and another crew member dies in the ensuing firefight. Then the commander tries the same thing on ''Talyn'''s mother ''Moya'' when it enters the area despite his ship being too damaged to fight, which only works because ''Moya'' doesn’t have any weapons. This attitude eventually gets the remaining crew killed.

* ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'': Don't mess with Stringfellow Hawke's friends. He will personally send you straight to hell.

** From ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' we have Bulk and Skull, who (as [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] pointed out) regularly bullied a group of six classmates, all of whom could easily beat the crap out of them (even though they mostly seemed to pick on Billy, the weakest of the group). Luckily for them, the Rangers were far too nice to ever do anything. It is shown in [[EnsembleDarkhorse Tommy's]] introduction, though: they go to harass the new kid, only for him to pull off an impromptu demonstration of his martial arts skills (never actually touching either bully), which causes them to run away in wide-eyed terror. They've also been willing to attack monsters and mooks, occasionally even saving the day.

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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': The Narns spend majority of season 1 basically bullying the Centauri out of revenge for being subjugated by them. When the Centauri strike back (backed by the immensely powerful Shadows), it proved devastating for the Narn.

** In season 3 of ''Daredevil'', she confronts Fisk with the actual hope that she'll make him angry enough to snap and try to kill her, and be put back in prison for it. She does so by taunting him with the details of how she killed James Wesley, a plan that almost certainly would've gotten her killed if Foggy hadn't shown up in time. Not only does Karen's plan not work, but Fisk orders Dex to kill her, and in Dex's attempts to do so, several other innocent people (including Father Lantom) get killed.

** In season four, Penguin is on the other side of this. Penguin, Barbara, Tabitha and Butch decide to threaten [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] in order to force him to hold the city ransom for fifty million dollars with his bombs. Sure, he is new to being a criminal at that point, and doesn't seem to be as unhinged as [[AxCrazy his brother]] at first, but by the time they decide to threaten him, he's already destroyed several skyscrapers and forced the evacuation of a major city. They really should have known that threatening him wouldn't go well for them. He simply pretends to go along with their demands before summarily attacking them with a rocket launcher.
** In season five, Jeremiah is again the target of this trope, but this time, it's because he's [[spoiler: apparently]] injured and unable to defend himself for awhile. [[spoiler: To clarify, he fell into a vat of chemicals and spent ten years locked up in Arkham pretending to be comatose due to his injuries. Edward Nygma, who was a patient in Arkham during the same time period, encouraged other patients to draw on and stab Jeremiah just for the fun of it, and did it himself. It is therefore not surprising that after Jeremiah stops pretending to be comatose, he breaks Ed out of Arkham (while making him think that [[VillainousFriendship Oswald]] is responsible), and tricks him into committing a high profile crime so that the police will be too distracted to stop [[MadBomber his own planned crimes.]] Since Ed was in the building where Jeremiah's bombs were supposed to go off, Jeremiah probably intended him to die with the heroes.]]

* In season 3 of ''Series/HeroCorp'', you have the bad guy who's chasing Stève, Stan and Burt for having escaped his [[FightClubbing fighting ring]]. Sure, they're [[SuperZeroes the most inept superheroes]] around, but still, he's trying to get the drop on a guy who can shoot acid and another who can shoot fire, with just a gun. [[spoiler:[[ForegoneConclusion He gets burned]].]]

* ''Series/{{Suits}}'' often features people who really should know better than to try taking on Pearson Hardman. Usually, it ends with Harvey or Mike calmly explaining just how badly they're about to be steam-rolled. Season two starts with Mike calmly reciting Trevor's Social Security Number he had read as a child. He then warns that Trevor may have thought he was safe from Mike in the past, but now that they're no longer friends, he should really just back off.

* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' demonstrates over and over that a) she's very helpful to have on your side when you're in trouble and b) she can and will ruin your life if she feels like it. Doesn't matter; everyone at Neptune High continues to mock her and treat her as a scorned outcast. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in season three when Veronica asks Dick how after all he's seen her do, he still doesn't fear her. The guy she goes to after Dick tries to get tough with her but runs after her to give her what she wants. The third guy stands tough. On a date that night, his credit card is declined and the tires are stolen off his car, then he walks into his unlit dorm room to find [[ChairReveal Veronica waiting for him with a taser]].

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': One of the Nazi's favorite pastimes in the WWII era of the show and a [[IdiotBall phenomenally bad idea]]. One of many, many examples comes from "The Richest Man in the World". Wonder Woman has finally figured out [[BigBad Dunfield]]'s plan and cornered his gang in their warehouse. She closes the door on them, smiles and expects them to give up. Instead, they shoot at her. Whereupon she lays down one of the biggest [[CurbStompBattle beatdowns]] in the entire series.

** In the [[AprilFoolsPlot April Fools episode]], Kenan thinks that a police officer who gave him a parking ticket was fake and was hired by Kel, so he dumps creamed corn and shaving cream on top of the policeman as well as harasses him in the process. As expected, he gets arrested for it.