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Real Life: Israel/The Jews to the Roman Empire.
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* Done by the Israelis to the Roman Empire when lost. Just as one example the treaty the Romans signed with the Israelis stated they'd fix the roads if they were ever damaged - so the Israelis started intentionally loading up heavy carts and place chains and spiked wheels on said carts and riding back and forth across the Roman Capital Building even if they had nowhere to go, just to cost the Romans money; The Jewish people were also quite infamously a rowdy and belligerent group to rule who never technically violated any Roman laws and drove most of their Roman governors mad or to early retirement. By the era of Emperor Tiberius, they decided to just start appointing Jewish Kings instead because otherwise the Israelis would beat them over the head with their own political obligations to them, that the Empire dare not break lest of provinces hear about it and resort to open rebellion.
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* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' makes this Harry Potter's ''modus operandi'' when dealing with his enemies. Meanwhile, Mayor Mare has made this her specialty, managing to stop the Vogons blow up Equestria with it.
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* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' makes this Harry Potter's ''modus operandi'' when dealing with his enemies. Meanwhile, Mayor Mare has made this her specialty, managing to stop the Vogons blow from blowing up Equestria with it.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', Beast-Man and Trap Jaw use a magic crystal palace to capture Orko, and force him to be their slave. However, Orko quickly realizes that he can creatively interpret ''how'' he obeys their commands and begins casting spells that obey the letter of their demands but cause them nothing but nonstop misery and pain. By the end of the episode they are begging Orko to leave.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 216, the main four want to play a game of blind man's buff. However, a passing remark makes Rules (who is an anthropomorphic personification of the concept of rules that has a somewhat robotic form) think that the game is "unequal" since one of the players can't see everyone else, so she refuses to allow them to play until she determines a way to make it "equal". Kaeloo then insists that if Rules wants to accommodate everyone, she really has to accommodate ''everyone'', and she assembles a diverse group of players with different needs and abilities that are impossible to adapt to at the same time and forces Rules to come up with a set of rules that this particular group can use that can truly make them all be on equal footing. Rules is overwhelmed by the increasing demands, shuts down, and restarts with no memory of what happened earlier.
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* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldS2E07ThoseOldScientists]]", [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Mariner]] says she knows a lot of Starfleet codes and regulations so she can use them to slack off whenever she feels like it without breaking any rules. She uses one rule of officers taking regular labor breaks to convince Uhura to spend a few minutes in the bar.
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* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldS2E07ThoseOldScientists]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E07ThoseOldScientists Those Old Scientists]]", [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Mariner]] says she knows a lot of Starfleet codes and regulations so she can use them to slack off whenever she feels like it without breaking any rules. She uses one rule of officers taking regular labor breaks to convince Uhura to spend a few minutes in the bar.
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* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldS2E07ThoseOldScientists]]", [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Mariner]] says she knows a lot of Starfleet codes and regulations so she can use them to slack off whenever she feels like it without breaking any rules. She uses one rule of officers taking regular labor breaks to convince Uhura to spend a few minutes in the bar.
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* In ''VideoGame/EdgeOfEternity'', Selene reveals to Daryon that she got herself released from her job with the Sanctorium due to a combination of this and ReversePsychology. She did her job as an archivist so well that she became "a pain in the butt." Whenever they would try to establish new edicts, she would burst in with tablets of older laws and forgotten Epigrams, Sacred Texts that contradicted whatever edicts they were writing. She drove them so up the wall that they decided to "promote" her from archivist to midwife. She, however, had already become so popular with the midwives that they immediately elected her as their representative on the Council Ring, which meant that she was right back with the elders to drive the demands of the midwife corpus. They freaked out - they had thrown her out by the door only to see her climb back in through the window. They then decided that the only way that they could be sure to be rid of her was to task her with the honor of finding a cure for the Corrosion, there being rumors running around that it was the worst mission they could possibly give her and that she would be mortified to accept such a perilous mission, rumors which she had started.
