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* In "Sanagi Love Song" by now-defunct musical duo Sanagi, the singer describes all the ways she would like to torture a lover who she is furious with, including smashing their face in with a hammer, pushing them from a mountain, pulling off their fingernails, and... forcing them to listen to the Spice Girls.

** Possibly also invoked in the episode 'The Grapes of Wrath', when Bart describes being abused at the hands of two crooked winemakers to a french policeman, and the policeman doesn't seem shocked until Bart mentions them putting antifreeze in the wine.

* Somewhat {{lampshaded}} in ''{{Last Action Hero}}'': Jack Slater, upon rescuing his daughter from thugs and escaping several attempts on his life, including the destruction of a good part of his ex wife's house, breaks into the antagonist Mr. Benedict's mansion, and begins kicking him around, listing a reason for every blow he lands, with the ''exception'' of his ex-wife's house, during which, he stands Mr. Benedict up, straightens out his suit, takes his hand, and gently slaps him on the wrist.

* Gary Oldman's terrorist character in ''AirForceOne'': "When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security adviser, his classified papers - ''and his baseball glove!''"

* Ivan Ooze in ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers: TheMovie'' announces the evil things he'd missed while he was SealedEvilInACan: "'''''The Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition!''''' ''TheBradyBunch reunion!''"
** The ''Brady Bunch'' part actually wasn't in the script, the actor decided to ThrowItIn, which makes it an even more magnificent TakeThat.

* ''Garfield and Friends'' did this a few times, especially in the US Acres shorts. Usually, the last thing mentioned was the lineup/schedule of a rival TV network (the show aired on CBS).

* An episode of [[TheBatman The Batman]] revolved around the Joker escaping from Arkham, kidnapping 52 people that had wronged him, gathering them in one spot, and exacting revenge upon them. After pointing out the judge that gave him a "life sentence" at Arkham and the detectives that caught him, he turns his attention to an Arkham psychiatrist:

* Gilbert Gottfried's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGA0dIz9-Wk version of the Aristocrats joke]]:

--> '''Jim:''' Well, you were in prison, [[SoYeah but]]...

** Not that cruelty to animals is a minor thing, but putting it in the same list as drugs, rape, and incest...SoYeah.

Also see: GoodNewsBadNews, BreadEggsMilkSquick, TheTriple, OddNameOut, [[{{ptitleole57f6w}} What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]], ArsonMurderAndLifeSaving. Compare: ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne, JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife, when the minor crime carries significant consequences. You may have come to this page looking for AllCrimesAreEqual, which is when arson, murder and jaywalking are all met with the same punishments.

** Also from Avatar:
--> '''Sokka:''' Zuko's gone crazy! I made a sand sculpture of Suki, ''and he destroyed it!'' {{beat}} Oh, and he's attacking Aang.

*WoodyAllen's ''Take the Money and Run'' uses this trope twice in the same way. At the beginning, the narrator says that Virgil is wanted for robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of a newt. Later, as Virgil assembles a gang to rob a bank, the narrator reveals what each of them has served time for: "Murder, arson, and dancing with a mailman."

* ''TheATeam'': [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the Season 4 episode "Members Only" when Murdock is giving Hannibal a tour of a country club (Murdock goes there often as his psychiatrist's guest) and then discovers a plot point:
-->'''Murdock (sounding posh)''': The tennis courts are night-lit, there's an extra putting green there, that's the front nine, and that's Faceman chasing someone into the rough.

* In Hal Jordan's ''The Spectre'': "Superman! Batman! Zauriel!"
** Zauriel? Explain please.
*** The fact that you ''need'' it explained sort of demonstrates the point. Superman and Batman are DC Comics' two most iconic characters, both more than 70 years old, known around the entire world, and even within the comics themselves, the characters are generally seen as two of the most significant people ever to live. Zauriel? Well... Zauriel's a 12-year old Hawkman clone. In the context of the stories, he's an angel (and thus, theoretically, fairly potent), but in reality, he's something of an also-ran character.
**** ItMakesSenseInContext: In ''The Spectre'' plotlines, angels (and demons, and obscure occult-ish guys you need a copy of ''Who's Who in the DC Universe'' to recognize, assuming they've even in ''there'') ''do'' tend to be pretty significant. Granted Zauriel isn't Big Mike, but still.

* ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' combines this with ITakeOffenseToThatOne, with the trivial item being the one that causes Kronk's HeelFaceTurn:

* ''TheEmperorsNewSchool'' subverts this, with the trivial item being the one that causes Kronk's HeelFaceTurn: