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* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In the episode, "Driven," a high-end spa is robbed by masked gunmen who demand the patrons hand over their car keys. One young lady digs around in her purse, then comes out with some mace which she sprays in the closest man's eyes. He is arrested after he goes to the hospital, then tells the [=CSIs=] he was stung by a bee.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In the episode "Vigilante", rapists are being targeted by vigilantes armed with pepper spray. Their plan is complicated when one of their targets is immune to capsaicin.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls:'' In "Break In", Blanche went to the police station to talk to them about her stolen jewelry and saw a cop she was interested in, so she pulled out a can of what she thought was hairspray that she borrowed from Rose's purse, only to find out [[AerosolSprayBackfire the hard way that Rose had bought a can of mace after the robbery]].

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* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In the episode, "Driven," a high-end spa is robbed by masked gunmen who demand the patrons hand over their car keys. One young lady digs around in her purse, then comes out with some mace which she sprays in the closest man's eyes. He is arrested after he goes to the hospital, then tells the [=CSIs=] he was stung by a bee.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In the episode "Vigilante", "[[Recap/CSINYS07E15 Vigilante]]", rapists are being targeted by vigilantes armed with pepper spray. Their plan is complicated when one of their targets is immune to capsaicin.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls:'' In "Break In", Blanche went goes to the police station to talk to them about her stolen jewelry and saw sees a cop she was she's interested in, so she pulled pulls out a can of what she thought was hairspray that she borrowed from Rose's purse, only to find out [[AerosolSprayBackfire the hard way that Rose had bought a can of mace after the robbery]].



* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E15RabbitOrDuck Rabbit Or Duck]]", Marshall remembers at the last minute that he was supposed to find a date for Ted for Valentine's Day, so he asks several random girls in the bar if they would be interested. One of them gets scared and sprays his eyes with pepper spray, which doesn't stop him from asking her anyway.

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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E15RabbitOrDuck Rabbit Or Duck]]", Marshall remembers at the last minute that he was supposed to find a date for Ted for Valentine's Day, so he asks several random girls in the bar if they would be interested. One of them gets scared and sprays his eyes with pepper spray, which doesn't stop him from asking her anyway.
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* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode "Blind Date", Disco Bear is seen trying to make a move on Petunia, causing her to get extremely uncomfortable. When he tries to kiss her, she sprays him and causes to him to go blind, though considering she's a skunk, [[FurryReminder it most likely wasn't pepper spray]].

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* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode "Blind Date", "[[Recap/HTFBlindDate Blind Date]]", Disco Bear is seen trying to make a move on Petunia, causing her to get extremely uncomfortable. When he tries to kiss her, she sprays him and causes to him to go blind, though considering she's a skunk, [[FurryReminder it most likely wasn't pepper spray]].
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* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode "Blind Date", Disco Bear is seen trying to make a move on Petunia, causing her to get extremely uncomfortable. When he tries to kiss her, she sprays him and causes to him to go blind, though considering she's a skunk, [[FurryReminder it most likely wasn't pepper spray]].
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* ''Fanfic/ConsequencesMiraculousLadybug'': In "EXPOSED'', Marc carries around pepper spray at the insistence of his parents to protect himself from bigots as he is openly gay. He winds up using it against Lila when she attacks Marinette.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': in the episode "Vigilante", rapists are being [[WoundedGazelleGambit targeted]] by vigilantes armed with pepper spray. Their plan is complicated when one of their targets is immune to capsaicin.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': in In the episode "Vigilante", rapists are being [[WoundedGazelleGambit targeted]] targeted by vigilantes armed with pepper spray. Their plan is complicated when one of their targets is immune to capsaicin.
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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': In "Mac Is A Serial Killer," Dennis and Dee try getting into a serial killer's mindset (ItMakesSenseInContext, kind of) and take to stalking the Waitress as if they were going to kill her. She does NOT handle this well and gives both of them a faceful of Mace. The twins are shown washing their faces in the bar's bathroom and sobbing in pain.

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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': In "Mac Is A Serial Killer," Dennis and Dee try getting into a serial killer's mindset (ItMakesSenseInContext, kind of) and take to stalking the Waitress as if they were going to kill her. She does NOT handle this well and gives both of them a faceful of Mace. The twins are shown washing their faces in the bar's bathroom and sobbing in pain.
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* ''Film/WindRiver'' plays this seriously when a meth dealer is being interrogated by two law enforcement officers over a recent murder. He starts reaching for a weapon, and it turns out to be bear spray, which he uses to douse the officers. He uses their temporary incapacitation to arm himself for a deadly shootout.
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* ''Film/TheViralFactor'' have a brief moment during Man Yeung's intro, when he escapes custody from Malaysian police. One of the policemen is armed with pepper spray and delivers a handful into his eyes, but Man Yeung beats up all his escorts and escapes, reaching a nearby drinking fountain to wash his face.
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* ''Fanfic/TaylorHebertMedhallIntern'': Sophia gets a spray in the face to stop her from interfering with Taylor's internship. However, she comes back the next day for revenge, stealing the spray to fill Taylor's locker before shoving her inside. [[spoiler:Greg manages to bring TheCavalry JustInTime, and]] Sophia is charged with attempted murder for it.
--> '''Alan Barnes:''' What, ''murder''? Pepper spray is non-lethal. You’ll never make it stick.\\
'''Alexander:''' It's an ''inflammatory''. A brief exposure can leave a person helpless for minutes at a time, and cause breathing problems. How would you fare if I forced you to breathe a concentrated dose for an hour and a half?
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* ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hybrid-hive-eat-shard-worm-mgln-complete.55056/ Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard]]'': Taylor makes sure she retrieves her pepper spray before answering the door to a stranger. [[spoiler:Turns out it was a good idea, since he was there for some misguided revenge; the spray hampers him long enough for her dad to arrive and punch him out.]]
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* ''Fanfic/SecurityWorm'': Wanting to give Taylor the best possible chance against Lung, Mike gives her ''military'' grade pepper spray, instead of the civilian stuff she was using. [[spoiler:And she contrives to have Lung swallow the whole canister, which puts him down hard.]]
--> '''Mike:''' You spray this in someone's eyes, his ''grandaddy'' feels it.
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* ''VideoGame/Sharpshooter3D'' allows you to collect pepper sprays to be used on enemy mooks, where thugs whose life are ''depleted'' by the spray will throw up green vomit - [[VomitIndiscretionShot onscreen]]! Sometimes policemen will attack you with their sprays as well.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': RJ's plan to have Hammy FakeRabies to scare away girl scouts and steal their cookies goes awry when they fight back, hitting Hammy with a book and then pepper spraying him in the face.
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* ''Film/Water1985''. [[GranolaGirl Pamela Weintraub]] tries to spray a couple of Cuban insurgents, only to realise she's using her perfume spray instead. They like the smell.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Unlike her brother and sister, who are athletic and resort to either dodging or violence to deal with attackers, Kururi uses slightly more conventional methods and arms herself with pepper spray, which she sprays in the eyes of a thug when she and her Mairu are threatened.

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* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': Unlike her brother and sister, who are athletic and resort to either dodging or violence to deal with attackers, Kururi uses slightly more conventional methods and arms herself with pepper spray, which she sprays in the eyes of a thug when she and her Mairu are threatened.
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-->-- '''Chowder''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}''

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-->-- '''Chowder''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}''
''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', "The Wrong Address"
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* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': in the film version, Bella tries to escape James by using pepper spray. It appears to annoy him momentarily but is otherwise a NoSell as he's a vampire. The only reference to pepper spray made in the book version is when Bella is stalked in Port Angeles and notes that she knows exactly where her pepper spray is: in a bag under her bed.

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* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': ''Film/{{Twilight}}'': in the film version, Bella tries to escape James by using pepper spray. It appears to annoy him momentarily but is otherwise a NoSell as he's a vampire. The only reference to pepper spray made in the book version is when Bella is stalked in Port Angeles and notes that she knows exactly where her pepper spray is: in a bag under her bed.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Prisoner's Dilemma", Harold Finch places a call to Detective Fusco, [[KindaBusyHere only to hear screaming and shouting angrily]] as supermodel Karolína Kurková has just pepper-sprayed him in the face, mistaking Fusco for a villain when he first approached her.

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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Prisoner's Dilemma", Harold Finch places a call to Detective Fusco, [[KindaBusyHere only to hear him screaming and shouting angrily]] as supermodel Karolína Kurková has just pepper-sprayed him in the face, mistaking Fusco for a villain when he first approached her.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Prisoner's Dilemma", Harold Finch places a call to Detective Fusco, [[KindaBusyHere only to hear screaming and shouting angrily]] as supermodel Karolína Kurková has just pepper-sprayed him in the face, mistaking Fusco for a villain when he first approached her.

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-->'''Mung''': "[[LampshadeHanging Why do you have so much pepper spray?!]]"

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-->'''Mung''': "[[LampshadeHanging Why do you have so much pepper spray?!]]"-->'''Chowder:''' Pepper spray? That sounds delicious! ''(gets sprayed in the face and screams)'' I WAS WRONG!! '''I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!!!'''



--->'''Chowder''': Pepper spray? That sounds delicious! ''(gets sprayed)'' AAH! I WAS WRONG! I WAS HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY WRONG!

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--->'''Chowder''': Pepper spray? That sounds delicious! ''(gets sprayed)'' AAH! I WAS WRONG! I WAS HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY WRONG!--->'''Mung:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging Why]]'' [[LampshadeHanging do you have so much pepper spray?!]]\\
'''Lady:''' I'm a pepper spray ''saleswoman''! I've got the top sales in my district. ''(sprays Mung again)''
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->''"Pepper spray? That sounds delicious!'' (gets sprayed in the face and screams) ''I WAS WRONG!! '''I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!!!'''"''

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->''"Pepper spray? That sounds delicious!'' (gets sprayed in the face and screams) ''I WAS WRONG!! '''I WRONG!!'' '''''I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!!!'''"''WRONG!!!'''''''"''
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->''"Pepper spray? That sounds delicious!'' [gets sprayed in the face and screams] ''I WAS WRONG!! '''I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!!!'''"''

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->''"Pepper spray? That sounds delicious!'' [gets (gets sprayed in the face and screams] screams) ''I WAS WRONG!! '''I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!!!'''"''
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': in the episode "Vigilante", rapists are being [[WoundedGazelleGambit targeted]] by vigilantes armed with pepper spray. Their plan is complicated when one of their targets has a rare immunity.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': in the episode "Vigilante", rapists are being [[WoundedGazelleGambit targeted]] by vigilantes armed with pepper spray. Their plan is complicated when one of their targets has a rare immunity.is immune to capsaicin.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Recipe For Disaster", a woman becomes scared at the sight of Grim and attempts to use pepper spray on him. Since Grim is a skeleton and doesn't have eyes, it doesn't hurt him.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
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In "Recipe For Disaster", a woman becomes scared at the sight of Grim and attempts to use pepper spray on him. Since Grim is a skeleton and doesn't have eyes, it doesn't hurt him.him.
** After learning he's one-quarter vampire, [[AbhorrentAdmirer Irwin]] once again hits on Mandy, leading her to spray him in the face and him to react in pain. Billy asks if it was pepper spray, and she responds that it was garlic butter.
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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', where Shrek, Donkey, and Puss get arrested, and one of the knights subdues Shrek with a pepper ''shaker''.

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->''"Pepper spray? That sounds delicious!''\\
[gets sprayed in the face and screams]\\
''I WAS WRONG!! '''I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!!!'''"''

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->''"Pepper spray? That sounds delicious!''\\
delicious!'' [gets sprayed in the face and screams]\\
screams] ''I WAS WRONG!! '''I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!!!'''"''

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