History BullyingADragon / WesternAnimation

** The villains aren't immune to this, either; most notably, Señor Senior Sr. "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E18AnimalAttraction Animal Attraction]]" had him losing his billionaires' club membership after its president, Phillippe Bullion, learned about his ongoing rivalry with Kim. Then there was "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E29TripleS Triple S]]", where he was swindled by ConMan Vinnie Wheeler and [[BrokeEpisode lost his fortune]]. Being that the Seniors are international supervillains, it never occurred to either Bullion or Wheeler they would face any retaliation from them for their respective deeds, with the former nearly losing his hand to frostbite and being crushed by an icy stalactite after they constructed a giant cryovator to freeze over his club, and the latter offering $2 billion for Senior Sr.'s capture. [[spoiler: The situation with Wheeler resulted in Senior Jr. using the reward money to buy back their island.]]

** The villains aren't immune to this, either; most notably, Señor Senior Sr. "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E18AnimalAttraction Animal Attraction]]" had him losing his billionaires' club membership after its president, Phillippe Bullion, learned about his ongoing rivalry with Kim. Then there was "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E29TripleS Triple S]]", where he was swindled by ConMan Vinnie Wheeler and [[BrokeEpisode lost his fortune]]. Being that the Seniors are international supervillains, it never occurred to either Bullion or Wheeler they would face any retaliation from the Seniors for their respective deeds, with the former nearly losing his hand to frostbite and being crushed by a stalactite after they constructed a giant cryovator to freeze over his club, and the latter offering $2 billion for Senior Sr.'s capture. [[spoiler: The situation with Wheeler resulted in Senior Jr. using the reward money to buy back their island.]]

** The villains aren't immune to this, either; most notably, Señor Senior Sr. "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E18AnimalAttraction Animal Attraction]]" had him losing his billionaires' club membership after its president, Phillippe Bullion, learned about his ongoing rivalry with Kim. Then there was "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E29TripleS Triple S]]", where he was swindled by ConMan Vinnie Wheeler and [[BrokeEpisode lost his fortune]]. Being that the Seniors are international supervillains, it never occurred to either Bullion or Wheeler they would face any retaliation from the Seniors for their respective deeds, with the former nearly losing his hand to frostbite and being crushed by a stalactite after they constructed a giant cryovator to freeze over his club, and the latter offering $2 billion for Senior Sr.'s capture.

** The villains aren't immune to this, either; most notably, Señor Senior Sr. "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E18AnimalAttraction Animal Attraction]]" had him losing his billionaires' club membership after its president, Phillippe Bullion, learned about his ongoing rivalry with Kim. Then there was "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E29TripleS Triple S]]", where he was swindled by ConMan Vinnie Wheeler and [[BrokeEpisode lost his fortune]]. Being that the Seniors are international supervillains, it never occurred to either Bullion or Wheeler they would face any retaliation from the Seniors for their respective deeds, with the former nearly losing his hand to frostbite and being crushed by a stalactite after they constructed a giant cryovator to freeze over his club, and the latter offering $2 billion for Senior Sr.'s capture.

** The villains aren't immune to this, either; most notably, Señor Senior Sr. "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E18AnimalAttraction Animal Attraction]]" had him losing his billionaires' club membership after its president, Phillippe Bullion, learned about his ongoing rivalry with Kim. Then there was "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E29TripleS Triple S]]", where he was swindled by ConMan Vinnie Wheeler and [[BrokeEpisode lost his fortune]]. Being that the Seniors are international supervillains, it never occurred to either of Bullion or Wheeler they would face any retaliation from the Seniors for those deeds, with the former nearly losing his hand to frostbite and being crushed by a stalactite after they constructed a giant cryovator to freeze over his club, and the latter offering $2 billion for Senior Sr.'s capture.

** The villains aren't immune to this, either; most notably, Señor Senior Sr. "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E18AnimalAttraction Animal Attraction]]" had him losing his billionaires' club membership after its president, Phillippe Bullion, learned about his ongoing rivalry with Kim. Then there was "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E29TripleS Triple S]]", where he was swindled by ConMan Vinnie Wheeler and [[BrokeEpisode lost his fortune]]. Being that the Seniors are international supervillains, it never occurred to either of them they would face any retaliation from the Seniors for those deeds, with the former nearly losing his hand to frostbite and being crushed by a stalactite after they constructed a giant cryovator to freeze over his club, and the latter offering $2 billion for Senior Sr.'s capture.

** The villains aren't immune to this, either; most notably, Señor Senior Sr. "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E18AnimalAttraction Animal Attraction]]" had him losing his billionaires' club membership after its president, Phillippe Bullion, learned about his ongoing rivalry with Kim. Then there was "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E29TripleS Triple S]]", where he was swindled by ConMan Vinnie Wheeler and [[BrokeEpisode lost his fortune]]. It never occurred to either of them they would face any retaliation from the Seniors for those deeds, with the former nearly losing his hand to frostbite and being crushed by a stalactite after they constructed a giant cryovator to freeze over his club, and the latter offering $2 billion for Senior Sr.'s capture.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Bobert is a robot with super strength, the ability to shape shift, and can shoot lasers and ''nukes'' at people. "The Robot" shows that the other kids love to mock him. This is justified by the fact that they all think he doesn't have feelings and therefore can't get mad at them.

* Pops up occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. When most of the cast are powerful {{Kung Fu Wizard}}s, it's only a matter of time. If there's a CentralTheme of this universe, it might as well be ,''' Don't mess with a fully realized Avatar, you're just gonna get your butt kicked all the way to Ba Sing Se.'''

** Creator/TexAvery's "WesternAnimation/ADayAtTheZoo" from 1939 has a [[RunningGag recurring gag]] with Egghead (Elmer Fudd's prototype) teasing a lion despite constant scolding from the narrator who warns him that this will end bad for him. The short ends with the lion sleeping peacefully, leading the narrator to conclude that the boy finally went home, but it turns out that the lion actually ate him alive.

** Dracula tells the people of Wallachia they have a year to make their peace after [[BurnTheWitch they burn his wife at the stake]]. They respond by ''celebrating the anniversary of her death''. He tells the people of nearby Targoviste to flee before he annihilates them, and they ignore him. [[KillEmAll He makes good on his threat alright.]]

* Demona from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' thinks it a wise idea to bully and manhandle Puck (yes, ''the'' trickster spirit) into granting her wishes. While he is fairly easygoing about this for most of the episode (though he toils endlessly with her), once Demona finally managed to push his BerserkButton, he thinks up an extremely nasty bit of karmic punishment that won't do Demona's state of mind any favors.

** Related to the above examples, a notable (non-flashback) {{invo|kedTrope}}cation of this trope comes up in the first episode of the second season, "The Avatar State." An Earth Kingdom General tries to help Aang reach the eponymous SuperMode, and when everything he tries ends in failure, he resorts to pushing his BerserkButton i.e. threatening Katara. [[UnstoppableRage It ends about as well as you'd expect it to,]] and the fort where it happens gets smashed to pieces.

*** Happens with an actual dragon in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]". A napping dragon is causing problems for everypony by blowing smoke into the town with its snoring. Rainbow Dash's oh so brilliant strategy to make the dragon leave is to yell at it to get lost, then ''[[LeeroyJenkins kick it in the face]]''. It takes her less than a second to realize that this was a really bad idea. It is then {{defied|Trope}} by Fluttershy who yells at him for his DisproportionateRetribution (the kick annoyed him at best) and that he could have handled it without trying to kill them all. That said, though, they WERE her friends to the point that hurting them was her BerserkButton, [[{{Irony}} making Fluttershy a "dragon" herself]] (though to be fair, nobody was in the right mind at the time to realize that).

--->'''Brock''' "Hank, seriously; when I get my license back, ''I'm allowed to kill you''."

--->'''Brock''' "Seriously, Hank; when I get my license back, ''I'm allowed to kill you''."
--->'''Hank:''' ''*gulps*''

** "Stoop Kid" has the episode's titular character finally growing the toughness to leave his stoop. Harold, who was not aware of this event, casually mocks the Stoop Kid for staying on his stoop...which promptly leads to the Stoop Kid jumping off of his stoop. Harold [[OhCrap freaks out]] and gets chased by the Stoop Kid.

** [[AlphaBitch Bonnie Rockwaller's]] constant petty harassment of Kim -- despite knowing full well that if Kim decided she'd had enough, her only choices would be "run" or "catch a beating" (and in fact breaks down crying the one time Kim seems to be about to do just that). A cut scene in ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama So the Drama]]'' have Ron and Kim discuss this. Kim actually looks like she's considering it for a moment, but ultimately decides that beating on Bonnie would slam her permanent record, as opposed to fighting [[DarkActionGirl Shego]].
** And ''A Sitch in Time'' has Drakken, Monkey Fist, and Killigan go back in time to bully a preteen Kim. When they start on Ron the kindergarten Kim trounces them. Later, [[TooDumbToLive Drakken wants another crack at it]].

* Right after Lucas has seen a [[DumbMuscle Fixed Idea]], a near nine foot tall Frankenstein's monster-like man, tear through his wall in ''WesternAnimation/CyberSix'', he figures he can take it in a fight. All in all, it's probably his ''least'' finest moment in the entire series. Though admittedly he's desperate to save his sister[[note]]he's being blackmailed into capturing her[[/note]], the private investigator Yashimoto tries to capture Cyber Six with nothing more than a grappling hook staff thing. Keep in mind this is ''after'' he's watched her leap ''building to building''. The only thing that saves him from the beating of his life is that Cyber Six [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]] and teams up with him to save the hostages.

** Seen in flashback in "Avatar Day", with a warlord trying to bully Avatar Kyoshi into surrender. When Kyoshi flexes her muscles (breaking off her village's peninsula from the mainland, forming Kyoshi Island), [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the warlord dies]] because he's too busy bellowing threats and insults to notice he was now standing on an unstable cliff. (His actual army [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreated]] the moment Kyoshi went into action).

** During their fight early in Season 4, Kuvira taunts Korra into shifting into the Avatar State. Once Korra does, she wipes the floor with Kuvira until her EnemyWithin rears its head and drives her back to normal.

** Eddy in general does this a lot to Kevin and Sarah, completely ignoring the many beatings he, along with his friends, had suffered from the two, especially the latter, who Eddy even taunted gleefully in one episode, ending with predictable results.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'': OncePerEpisode, Zorak would take the opportunity (and occasionally invented them) to insult, belittle and bully Thundercleese. [[WhatAnIdiot The literal war machine Thundercleese.]] At best Zorak ended up PunchedAcrossTheRoom. Usually, Thundercleese would open fire, leaving Zorak a pair of flaming shins. Good thing for Zorak the show ran on NegativeContinuity.

** "Dial Meg for Murder", aka TheDogBitesBack. [[WhatAnIdiot/FamilyGuy Properly described here.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'': With the powers that crop up, this tends to happen a lot. The writers of the original cartoon seemed aware of this, and supplied a harmless but visible mutant -- a timid little man with fur, Neanderthal features, and claws instead of fingernails -- as a recurring background character constantly harassed by mobs.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[RabidCop Marcus]] goes to the Last Drop to arrest the four kids of the bartender, who he explicitly knows once was a [[RetiredBadass formidable fighter]] and is the defacto head of the underground of [[WretchedHive Zaun]]. He enters said bar full of people he considers thugs and criminals with only two other Enforcers as backup. Marcus is damn lucky his men don't find the kids he was looking for and avoids a beating of a lifetime from everyone at the bar.

** * Creator/TexAvery's "WesternAnimation/ADayAtTheZoo" from 1939 has a [[RunningGag recurring gag]] with Egghead (Elmer Fudd's prototype) teasing a lion despite constant scolding from the narrator who warns him that this will end bad for him. The short ends with the lion sleeping peacefully, leading the narrator to conclude that the boy finally went home, but it turns out that the lion actually ate him alive.

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** In a season 1 flashback, Yakone bloodbends Aang. Aang goes into the Avatar state, chases Yakone down in about thirty seconds, puts him in a rock prison with earthbending, and then takes away his bending.

** Also in season 3, the Red Lotus's plan is to ''invoke'' this trope--specifically, to force Korra into the Avatar State in self-defense, then kill her to end the reincarnation cycle. It's a testament to their ability that they almost make it work, as even they seem surprised at the raw power Korra unleashes when activating the Avatar State on instinct and not deliberately.
** During their fight early in Season 4 Kuvira taunts Korra into shifting into the Avatar State. Once Korra does, she wipes the floor with Kuvira until her EnemyWithin rears its head and drives her back to normal.

** [[AlphaBitch Bonnie Rockwaller's]] constant petty harassment of Kim- despite knowing full well that if Kim decided she'd had enough, her only choices would be "run" or "catch a beating" (and in fact breaks down crying the one time Kim seems to be about to do just that). A cut scene in ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama So the Drama]]'' have Ron and Kim discuss this. Kim actually looks like she's considering it for a moment, but ultimately decides that beating on Bonnie would slam her permanent record, as opposed to fighting [[DarkActionGirl Shego]].

*** [[MilesGloriosus The Great and Powerful Trixie]] has an habit of picking up trouble with ponies and beings who are clearly stronger than her. For starters, she still considers Twilight (a powerful alicorn princess by the series' end) a worthy rival, [[UngratefulBastard even after she freed her from the corrupting influence of the Alicorn Amulet]], and constantly tries her best to upstage her. This is best demonstrated in the season 6 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances No Second Prances]]", where she makes friends with Twilight's pupil Starlight Glimmer with the intent of turning her away from her mentor just so Trixie could finally beat Twilight at something. Even after Trixie does become a genuine friend for Starlight, she still enjoys annoying Twi whenever she has a change. And in the season 6 finale, she has no qualms insulting Discord, a MadGod with near-omnipotent powers and quite a temper, and even calls him out often for how annoying he is.

*** In season 8, Chancellor Neighsay is shown to be [[FantasticRacism racist]] towards all non-ponies, even those that are allies to Equestria, due to believing they are "threats" to their way of life. He openly insults the ambassadors to other countries simply because they aren't ponies and their young students attending Twilight's School of Friendship, which consist of creatures such as griffons, dragons, yaks, changelings, and hippogriffs. After he insults them one too many times the angry leaders nearly get physical with him before Celestia manages to calm them all down and Twilight shows that Neighsay does not speak for the rest of them. This attitude of Neighsay's also extends to anyone who associates with non-ponies, with his later appearances have him showing complete disrespect for Twilight Sparkle, a princess of Equestria and alicorn, who has authority far greater than what his position gives him, due to teaching friendship to non-ponies, believing that she is putting Equestria in danger because of it. This attitude comes back to bite him in the season finale when he finds himself being saved by the young non-pony students he had disrespected for so long, and they end up being the ones to save Equestria thanks to the lessons they learned at the School of Friendship.

** In the season 4 episode "Deception", Obi-Wan Kenobi has to be disguised as a criminal named Rako Hardeen with the intent of extracting information regarding a plot to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine. Undercover as Hardeen, Obi-Wan is taken to the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center. During lunchtime, a [[SharkMan Karkarodon]] inmate approaches the table Obi-Wan is eating his dinner at and begins taunting "Hardeen" (despite the fact that Hardeen has quite a reputation among the criminal underworld) and even [[EnemyEatsYourLunch drinks his beverage]]. Kenobi retaliates by abruptly planting his fork into the offending alien's hand and threatening to eat him, scaring the beejezus out of the inmate who runs away cowardly shortly afterwards.

* ComicBook/LexLuthor's treatment of Superman in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''. Granted, [[IdealHero Sup]][[TheCape er]][[NiceGuy man]] would probably never actually ''do'' anything - but that doesn't change the fact that Luthor is harassing a guy who could kill him in any number of ways before he could even blink, let alone stop him. His [[KnightTemplar Justice Lord]] counterpart did just that.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'': With the powers that crop up, this tends to happen a lot. The writers of the original cartoon seemed aware of this, and supplied a harmless but visible mutant - a timid little man with fur, Neanderthal features, and claws instead of fingernails - as a recurring background character constantly harassed by mobs.

* ComicBook/LexLuthor's treatment of Superman in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''. Granted, [[IdealHero Sup]][[TheCape er]][[NiceGuy man]] would probably never actually ''do'' anything - but that doesn't change the fact that Luthor is harassing a guy who could kill him in any number of ways before he could even blink, let alone do anything. His [[KnightTemplar Justice Lord]] counterpart did just that.