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* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'': The "Misguided Miscreants" arc sees Mugen return to his home island, only to get involved in a lot of trouble over finding pirate treasure with his childhood friend Koza, who has developed chronic dependency on others and ChronicBackstabbingDisorder just to survive. After she gets her revenge on Mukuro by having Mugen kill him for her, she runs off with her new boyfriend after thinking that she can finally leave that criminal island and start a new life. When they both see a very implacable Mugen marching along the same road, her boyfriend attacks and gets effortlessly cut down. Koza begs for Mugen to end her life as well, as death would be better than continuing her life of destitution at this point. Without saying a word, Mugen just keeps on walking and leaves her to her [[FateWorseThanDeath fate of being alone]].

--> '''Quicksilver:''' ''"Some of my best friends are mutants." Oh, Valerie, how very typical -- of a [[FantasticRacism Flat Scan]].''

* ''Film/SpaceJam'': During the Ultimate Game, Daffy Duck finds himself holding the ball, causing the five Monstars target him. In a panic, Daffy passes the ball to Granny, who is sitting out of bounds, acting as a cheerleader. The Monstars switch target, and gang-tackle Granny. Lola Bunny gives Daffy a DeathGlare, to which Daffy responds, "She was wide open." Lola says nothing, but turns her back on Daffy, nose high, not deigning to speak to such a cowardly poltroon.

** When Timmy first meets Mr. Roland, and is told to "shake hands" with him, Timmy instead turns his back on Mr. Roland, and walks away, as if he senses that Mr. Roland does not like dogs.

* ''Series/BlueBloods'': After an inmate arranges to have one of his friends killed, Frank Reagan visits the man in prison, where he freely admits his involvement. He's serving a life sentence in a state without a death penalty, so he has nothing to fear. Frank nods briefly, then informs the felon that his friend was also a Federal Consultant to the Marshall's office, and as such, the man was guilty of murdering a Federal agent, and subject to the Death Penalty at the federal level, and would be transfered to a prison in the midwest, where he had no contacts or cronies. Frank gets up and walks away, while four guards have to restrain the now condemned murderer.

** Finally, in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', there are ''two'' examples of this, one of which ends less bloodily than the other. Kratos yet again ends up fighting another Aesir god, [[{{Jerkass}} Heimdall]], and decides to spare his life after [[AnArmAndALeg blowing off one of his arms]], so long as he doesn't try to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Atreus]]. Heimdall, however, [[DontYouDarePityMe furious at the idea of being pitied]], goes through a VillainousBreakdown and attacks the Ghost of Sparta again before he can walk away, which means that the second time they fight, Kratos has no choice but to use lethal force. In the other case, [[KidHero Atreus]] and his new friend [[ActionGirl Angrboda]] have just defeated Angrboda's abusive grandmother Gryla, by destroying the magic cauldron that she [[YourSoulIsMine keeps animal souls in]] to use them like a FantasticDrug. Gryla, in drug-induced anger and despair, shouts at her granddaughter to GetOut, and Angrboda obliges, whilst convincing Atreus not to shoot Gryla. On the way out, Gryla delivers a scathing ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Angrboda, telling her granddaughter that no-one will remember her, not even Atreus. ("You'll just be a forgotten chapter in his story! He'll be too busy [[RelativeButton mourning his father]]!") Angrboda's expression makes it clear that her grandmother's words hurt her, but she doesn't respond to any of them and leaves Gryla's house silently, reminding Atreus that Gryla is [[TroubledAbuser a grieving, lost person]], not a monster.
* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': Following the FinalBattle, Peter furiously [[WhatTheHellHero calls out his old mentor]] Otto Octavius (AKA, [[spoiler: [[BigBad Dr. Octopus]]]]) for throwing away his brilliant mind and genius intellect [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood in favour of revenge on Norman Osborn]] and infecting thousands of New Yorkers with the deadly Devil's Breath virus, [[spoiler:including Aunt May]]. Otto, powerless to defend himself after Peter removed the neural connection between him and his mechanical tentacles, tries claiming that [[GollumMadeMeDoIt the AI running the tentacles drove him to commit evil]], and begs Peter (who he thinks of as [[LikeASonToMe a surrogate son]]) not to let the authorities send him to prison, where [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport the neurological disorder affecting Otto]] will eventually leave him with [[AndIMustScream a still-working mind, but an immobile body]]. Of course, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Otto then shoots himself in the foot]] by [[ImpliedDeathThreat reminding Peter that he knows his secret identity]], whereupon Peter disgustedly acknowledges that his mentor had always been vengeful and twisted even before the tentacles took hold of his mind, and decides to just abandon him in the wreckage of the building where they landed, to deliver the Devil's Breath antidote to the infected. All Otto can do is helplessly scream for Peter to come back whilst he walks away.

** The second example comes later in the game, when Miles' [[EvilUncle uncle Aaron]]/The Prowler takes Miles prisoner to try preventing him from participating in [[EvilVsEvil the battle between the Tinkerer and Roxxon]], because [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Aaron doesn't want his nephew to be killed]] being a hero, like his brother was. Miles, already furious at Aaron for apparently betraying him and getting him captured by Krieger in the first place, breaks through his force-field containment walk and engages in a boss battle with Aaron, before finishing it by [[CallingTheOldManOut calling him out]]. (For what it's worth, said calling-out does inspire Aaron to later end his conflict with his nephew in a peaceful way by doing a BigDamnHeroes to defend Miles' mother and a bunch of civilians from Roxxon's hired soldiers, and later [[spoiler:revealing all of Krieger's crimes to get the evil businessman arrested]].)

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko tries to gives one to [[spoiler: Ozai]], until he learns that they hold crucial information on his mother.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Subverted in the second part of "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E9E10TheMainMan The Main Man]]." After Superman breaks out from his enclosure in [[TheCollector the Preserver's]] ship, Lobo asks Superman to break him out as well, only for Superman to call Lobo a criminal who deserves to be locked up, and walks away. Lobo starts shouting threats at Superman, who ignores hima and walks off by himself, but when Lobo says that even if it takes him years to escape he'll get his revenge on Superman and [[NukeEm return Earth to destroy it]]. This statement causes Superman to go back and help Lobo escape on the condition he never return to Earth when he's free.
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** Next, at the climax of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Kratos is talked out of strangling [[spoiler:Baldur]] by [[MoralityPet Atreus]], and lets the AxCrazy young god go, after warning him not to come after his family again, or [[spoiler:Baldur's]] mother Freya, who he was [[AntagonisticOffspring trying to kill]] earlier. [[spoiler:Baldur]], however, is too [[RevengeBeforeReason vengeful and deranged]] to listen to Kratos, and he starts strangling Freya as soon as he thinks Kratos is far away enough. The Spartan immediately has to [[ShootTheDog save Freya by killing her son]], even if she [[UngratefulBitch hates him for it]].

-->'''Aaron/Prowler:''' [[HeelRealization I know I messed up]]. I let you down. But we're family!
-->''''Miles:''' "Family"?! That didn't stop you from ''lying to me! Manipulating me! Fighting me!'' Being "family" isn't enough anymore!
-->''''Aaron:''' (''collapsing his helmet to reveal his face'') Doesn't have to end like this. You, me, hating each other. That's how it happened between me and your dad! I don't wanna [[HistoryRepeats repeat that]].
-->''''Miles:''' I don't want that, either. But I can't be the person you wanna turn me into. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility I can't turn my back when people need me]]! (''walks away'') I have to be better than that.

* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': In ''Five Go Adventuring Again'', George and Timmy the dog each do this to show their contempt for the tutor Mr Roland.
** When Timmy first meets Mr Roland, and is told to "shake hands" with him, Timmy instead turns his back on Mr Roland, and walks away, as if he senses that Mr Roland does not like dogs.
** Later, George is at first excited to go on an outing with the others to search for the Secret Way. However, when she learns that Mr Roland is going with them, she immediately changes her mind, and walks off to go for a walk with Timmy, as "a lonely little figure going down the garden path".

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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "Mr. Monk is On the Run", Monk gets framed for murder by Dale the Whale during the latter's scheme to get himself pardoned. After solving the mystery, Monk comes to see Dale, who has been stripped of his LuxuryPrisonSuite as punishment. Dale gives a BreakingSpeech about how [[DefectiveDetective Monk]] is in an even worse prison than he is, only for Monk to get the last word by walking away mid-speech.

-->'''Dale''': Come back here! I'm not finished!
-->'''Monk''' ''[quietly, not turning around]'': Oh, yes you are.

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* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Played with. Stoick does brush off Hiccup, walking away saying IHaveNoSon. However, in this case, it doesn't stick, as it's clear Stoick regretted it the moment he'd said it, so when Hiccup flies in to rescue him from the Green Death, he willingly recants.