History Main / DoNotTauntCthulhu

'''Sanchez:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I guess it's time]] [[PreMortemOneLiner to start cutting overhead.]]\\

** {{Discussed|Trope}} at one point when they interviewed a real exorcist called Father Thomas; he warned that they absolutely should not taunt ghosts and demons, because you never know how or when they’ll retaliate. Naturally, they’ve never followed his advice, with Shane in particular [[BullyingADragon actively trying to provoke supernatural beings]] (mainly because [[TheSkeptic he doesn’t believe in them]]).

* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Mentioned in side materials as to why ORT is on the list of Dead Apostle Ancestors (most powerful vampires) despite not being a vampire itself. ORT is the [[EldritchAbomination Ultimate One of Mercury]] and was found sleeping beneath South America. Fearing the sheer power ORT possessed, the 5th Dead Apostle Ancestor decided to try to kill it in its sleep. ORT obliterated the Ancestor, barely stirring from its slumber. The other Ancestors wisely decided they would leave ORT the hell alone, and declared ORT to have taken the former Ancestor's place.

* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': They're called Legendary Pokémon for a ''reason'', Yang...

* Do not corrupt Chtullu would better fit the case in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/47503486 Akumatizing the Kwamis]]'', where Gabriel Agreste decides to akumatize the captive kwamis through their Miraculous to gain more of their power. This not only makes them stronger and free of his control but also allows them to spread their akumatization to other kwamis, including Nooro and [[BroughtDownToNormal stripping Gabriel of his powers]] and left to their very little mercy.

* Prior to the events of ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', Puss had spent [[CatsHaveNineLives eight of his nine lives]] laughing in the face of death, thinking himself invincible. [[spoiler: This, combined with how ''stupid'' his previous deaths were (highlights include being crushed by a barbell after refusing help from a spotter, being incinerated by an oven after setting the temperature too high, and continuing to eat a meal containing shellfish despite being allergic to it), pisses off TheGrimReaper off so much that he decides to personally end Puss's final life and only relents upon witnessing his CharacterDevelopment.]]

* The music video for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql9-82oV2JE You're Gonna Go Far Kid]]'' has a man receiving a magical guitar from a goddess which forces people to dance, heals the sick and injured, and makes money rain from the sky. When he starts robbing the poor and using his guitar to get rich, she reappears and uses the guitar to make him dance himself to death.

** Zhongli is the most recent form that Rex Lapis/Morax the Geo Archon has taken. One of his titles is the God of Contracts. In his first character quest, he makes a contract with a Fatui agent, a worshipper of Hivaria the god of Salt and the Traveler, when searching for artifacts of the God of Salt in some ancient ruins, with the deal being that any artifact found with will first go to the agent, then the worshipper, and them the Traveler in that order. When both the agent and the worshipper break the contract, he gives them a thorough beatdown and a breaking speech respectively.

** A literal example happens in the Eternal Palace raid in Nazjatar. At a few points, you can find the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[ArcVillain Azshara]] keeping tabs in your progress. Upsetting her by performing a /rude or /spit emote at any point can get you [[https://www.wowhead.com/spell=302030/queens-disgust Instantly killed on the spot]].

** In the very first episode, "Encounter At Farpoint", Tasha Yar goes on an impassioned, disgusted rant against Q's KangarooCourt and gets turned into a HumanPopsicle for her trouble.
** Picard learns the hard way that for all his flippancy, Q is still a near-omnipotent being of god-like power. In "Q Who", when Q offers to join the Enterprise crew, even going so far as offering to renounce his powers and bring his near-limitless knowledge to their aid, they all but laugh in his face, claiming they are equipped to handle things themselves. With a snap of his fingers, Q puts it to the test by hurling them into the path of [[TheAssimilator The Borg]]. Even if Q wasn't exactly trustworthy, it was a supremely arrogant statement on the part of Picard, and one that ended up costing him not only his pride (having to beg Q to save them) but the lives of several crew members [[note]] This was eventually revealed as deliberately set-up on Q's part to shatter Starfleet's complacency. The Borg already knew about Earth and had it on the list to be conquered, but the Federation would have been caught completely off-guard without this little demonstration. As for the method, well, an immortal has to have ''some'' fun [[/note]].

** Q takes his son, q, to task for meddling with the Borg.

*** In the same episode, q at one point seals Neelix's mouth shut. Later on, when his powers are removed temporarily, Neelix feels the need to mock and annoy an individual who may once again gain unlimited power in a week.

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Carl finds a walker with its feet stuck in the mud by a riverbank, and decides to foolishly stay, throwing rocks at it, then coming in close to shoot it... At which point it manages to wrench one of its legs free, knocking the gun from his hand, and nearly catches him before he can get away. [[spoiler:Later it makes its way to the farm and kills Dale.]]

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6442286/1/Gaz-s-Horrible-Halloween-Of-Doom Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom]],'' after Gaz destroys a sacrificial offering that Dib was planning to make to Samhain, the Celtic god of death and the harvest, the god himself retaliates by cursing her with terrible luck on Halloween night. In order: she's forced to wear an embarrassing, extremely girly fairy princess costume (and her rival Iggins sees her in it), gets kidnapped by a paranormal investigator who mistakes her for a "Sugar Fairy", trips into a thorn bush, and gets her costume ripped up, has to walk home in the pouring rain, gets splashed with mud by a passing truck, and when she finally gets home, she spontaneously gets several cavities in her mouth just as she's about to enjoy her candy, prompting her father to throw all of it in the trash and haul her down to the basement for a few rounds of painful dental surgery.

* ''Inverted'' (Cthulhu shouldn't taunt humans?) in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11298331/1/A-different-weasel-makes-a-difference A different weasel makes a difference]]'' at the beginning of the great battle for the Wall. A lone White Walker cruelly executes a Night's Watch member, [[DecapitationPresentation lifts his severed head to show it to the defenders]], and then gives an EvilLaugh. Tyrion Lannister promptly obliterates it with an obsidian-tipped scorpion bolt, and the other defenders all roar defiantly. The rest of the army of dead hesitates, taken aback by [[HumansAreWarriors humanity's courage and defiance.]]

-->'''Venkman:''' Not so fast, Vigo. Hey, Vigo, yeah, you, the bimbo with the baby. Didn't you know [[ShouldersOfDoom the big-shoulder look is out]]? You know, I have met some dumb blondes in my life, but you take the taco, pal. Only a Carpathian will come back to life now and choose [[TheBigRottenApple New York]]. Tasty pick, bonehead. If you had brain one in that huge melon on top of your neck, you'd be living the sweet life out in Southern California's beautiful San Fernando Valley.
-->(''Vigo shoots off an AgonyBeam at the Ghostbusters'')
-->'''Venkman:''' Oh, darn it. Ohh... ''darn it''.

* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' demonstrates that you really shouldn't tell TheFairFolk that their challenges are "a piece of cake". When Sarah tells this to Jareth, the Goblin King responds by summoning the clock that [[WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve demonstrates how much time she has left]] and ''[[MovingTheGoalposts spinning the hands forward an hour]]''.

* In the 2006 film adaptation of ''Film/SilentHill'', Anna (a member of the friendly neighborhood death Cult) is caught outside during an Otherworld transition after choosing to insult and pelt [[spoiler:Dahlia Gillespie, the mother of the character who controls the town]] with rocks rather than rushing to safety. [[spoiler:Predictably, Pyramid Head materializes behind her and promptly skins her alive, throwing her flesh at the church door once it closes]]. While [[spoiler:Anna's mother blames this on the protagonist and tries to inflame the mob]], the Cult's leader Christabella gets a rare moment as the voice of reason and points out that [[spoiler:Anna's poor decisions were to blame]].

* ''Film/StuartLittle 2'' has something sort of like this.

-->'''Margalo''': Get lost, you disgusting vulture! Eat my feathers, you vile buzzard!
-->'''Stuart''': Do we really wanna antagonize him?

* "Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Dragons, for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup." is a spin on the Creator/JRRTolkien line "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger," which is possibly a further interpretation of a quote of the even earlier Creator/GKChesterton: "Do not invoke the ancient gods, for they annoy very easily."

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The heroes are talking to the Ellimist, a benevolent SufficientlyAdvancedAlien currently mimicking [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith the form of one of their teenage classmates]]. When Marco makes a smart remark about this on impulse, the Ellimist takes it in good fun, but Jake notes that Marco probably didn't ''plan'' to make fun of someone who could conceivably erase him and his entire ancestry from history.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', when Margaret finds out that her daughter Carrie has [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]], she starts calling her a witch in thrall with Satan, quoting [[AsTheGoodBookSays "thou shalt not suffer]] [[BurnTheWitch a witch to live"]] and demanding that she renounce her powers and not go to the prom. Carrie, realizing that she can finally toss her [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing mother]] aside and go to the prom anyway, proceeds to do just that. The various film adaptations of the story have her, alternatively, knocking Margaret down on the bed, locking her in the closet, and performing a PsychicStrangle on her. [[spoiler:Later, when Carrie returns from her rampage and Margaret tries to kill her, Carrie strikes down Margaret in seconds, using her powers to either squeeze Margaret's heart until it stops beating (in the original book and the 2002 telefilm) or crucify her with kitchen knives (in the 1976 and 2013 films). Still, Margaret was able to land one major hit that, in the book, contributes to Carrie's death later on. In the '76 and '13 films, Margaret deals Carrie a far more damaging emotional blow after the fact -- Carrie's guilt over killing her mother, on top of all the people she killed at prom, [[DrivenToSuicide drives her to suicide]].]]
* In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Scrooge mocks Marley as being an AcidRefluxNightmare, then threatens to invoke the trope on himself by swallowing a toothpick whole. Marley promptly scares the daylights out of him with a marrow-chilling howl.
* As expected, the Franchise/CthulhuMythos has used this trope. [[{{Irony}} However, Lovecraft doesn't involve Cthulhu, or any of the Great Old Ones directly.]] Instead, it's used with the ''Great Ones'', weak gods of the Dreamlands that can be tricked by smart mortals. However, the Great Ones are protected by the Other Gods, who wreak retribution on those who would disturb their wards.

* Hysterically done to Bilbo Baggins in ''Literature/TheHobbit''. Bilbo makes this mistake when talking to Smaug. While Smaug can't see him since he's invisible, he can smell Bilbo, as well as hear him breathing, so he's got a good rough idea of where the little hobbit is. Smaug also has [[BreathWeapon fire breath]]. Bilbo gets somewhat burned for taunting the dragon, and in a rare example of this trope where the ''person'' who did the taunting figures out it's a bad idea, is prompted into saying ''"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo, {{you fool}}!"''

* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles''. In a lecture on BLUE HADES, it's mentioned that the authorities wish to avoid pissing off the Deep Ones because this ancient species that lives in the deep oceans can trigger undersea landslides resulting in a super-tsunami that would wipe out most of humanity. And that's just for starters, as it's speculated that this is just a threat the Deep Ones use like the bayonet on a rifle pointed at a savage tribesman; something we can comprehend in an OutsideContextProblem.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Do not call Yellow Diamond a "[[FantasticSlurs clod]]". She's [[LargeAndInCharge big]], [[GeneralRipper in charge of the military]], [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking one of the most powerful Gems in existence]], and possesses a lightning blast that can [[OneHitKill destabilize any Gem in one shot]]. Peridot did and got destabilized for her troubles the second time around.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** The show does this with regard to the ''main character''. Half the universe thinks the Doctor is a [[MemeticBadass terrifying, nigh-unstoppable demi-god]], and thus invoke this trope whenever someone sets out to deliberately provoke him. From "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]":

* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', do not attack Shana or get in Yuji's (as the Snake of the Festival) way with her or else he'll grievously hurt and/or even kill you.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''L during their one-on-one duel near Zaofu in Season 4, Kuvira confidently tells Korra that she's free to use all the elements, even the [[SuperMode Avatar State]]. While Korra initially does poorly when only using the elements, she wipes the floor with Kuvira after she enters the Avatar State, was a few seconds away from turning her into a stain on the ground, and only stopped when she hallucinated Kuvira to be [[EnemyWithin Dark Korra]].

* Prior to the events of ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', Puss had spent eight of his nine lives laughing in the face of death, thinking himself invincible. [[spoiler: This, combined with how ''stupid'' his previous deaths were (highlights include being crushed by a barbell after refusing help from a spotter, being incinerated by an oven after setting the temperature too high, and continuing to eat a meal containing shellfish despite being allergic to it), pisses off TheGrimReaper off so much that he decides to personally end Puss's final life and only relents upon witnessing his CharacterDevelopment.]]

* Prior to the events of ''WesternAnimation/PussOnBootsTheLastWish'', Puss had spent eight of his nine lives laughing in the face of death, thinking himself invincible. [[spoiler: This, combined with how ''stupid'' his previous deaths were (highlights include being crushed by a barbell after refusing help from a spotter, being incinerated by an oven after setting the temperature too high, and continuing to eat a meal containing shellfish despite being allergic to it), pisses off TheGrimReaper off so much that he decides to personally end Puss's final life and only relents upon witnessing his CharacterDevelopment.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Prior to the events of the film, Puss had spent eight of his nine lives laughing in the face of death, thinking himself invincible. [[spoiler: This, combined with how ''stupid'' his previous deaths were (highlights include being crushed by a barbell after refusing help from a spotter, being incinerated by an oven after setting the temperature too high, and continuing to eat a meal with shellfish in it despite being allergic to it), pisses off TheGrimReaper off so much that he decides to personally collect Puss's final life and only relents upon witnessing his CharacterDevelopment.]]

* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040905c QUIT TAUNTING THE BLACK HOLE]]

-->-- '''[[TheGrimReaper Death]]''', ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Prior to the events of the film, Puss had spent eight of his nine lives laughing in the face of death, thinking himself invincible. [[spoiler:When he finds himself on his last life, Death himself manifests as a Wolf to claim Puss once and for all.]]

* Ryoko does this twice in the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs. The first time, she mocks Ayeka's attempts at torturing information out of her with electrical shocks from her guardians; Ayeka just uses ''Sword Tenchi's lockout'' instead, which hurts like a bitch. The second time, Ryoko makes the mistake at laughing at Ayeka's cutesy voice towards her mother, Misaki; Misaki responds by grabbing Ryoko's cheeks and stretching.

*** The first time, she mocks her predecessor as an old woman who has gone soft. Natasha promptly beats the crap out of her while simultaneously delivering a brutal BreakingSpeech, slicing off her thumb in the ensuing knife-fight.
*** The second time, Yelena's backed up by the Winter Guard and thinks she has Natasha cornered, taking the time to gloat about how she now has something -- or someone -- she saw as Natasha's [[spoiler: (Harry -- or rather, his body, programmed by the Red Room as the Red Son)]] who she molested right in front of Natasha. Cue a) the Avengers (this being a trap), b) a TranquilFury inspired NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Natasha that was so utterly brutally one-sided that the story doesn't even bother showing it.

** Entropy's wrath may be the most feared, but ''all'' of the Elders are decidedly ''not'' ones to screw with. The Father of All Alicorns is slow to anger, but his wrath is noted as putting his Draconequi counterpart Havoc's to shame (and Havoc is warden of ''Hell''). In the above case with Venus, he paused her wrath only long enough to show the pony the full extent of her crimes, and when she showed no remorse at all for the devastation she caused, told Venus DoWithHimAsYouWill. The all loving Fauna Luster's anger has yet to be seen, but is implied to be something even Discord isn't insane enough to call down and even [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse]] for [[AGodAmI all her megalomania]] knew better than to enrage her. One of the only ways to enrage her is to [[MamaBear harm unborn souls who have yet to live]], something ''no one'' is willing to do for fear of her wrath.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6442286/1/Gaz-s-Horrible-Halloween-Of-Doom Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom]],'' after Gaz destroys a sacrificial offering that Dib was planning to make to Samhain, the Celtic god of death and the harvest, the god himself retaliates by cursing her with terrible luck on Halloween night. In order: she's forced to wear an embarrassing, extremely girly fairy princess costume (and her rival Iggins sees her in it), gets kidnapped by a paranormal investigator who mistakes her for a "Sugar Fairy", trips into a thorn bush and gets her costume ripped up, has to walk home in the pouring rain, gets splashed with mud by a passing truck, and when she finally gets home, she spontaneously gets several cavities in her mouth just as she's about to enjoy her candy, prompting her father to throw all of it in the trash and haul her down to the basement for a few rounds of painful dental surgery.

* ''Inverted'' (Cthulhu shouldn't taunt humans?) in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11298331/1/A-different-weasel-makes-a-difference A different weasel makes a difference]]'' at the beginning of the great battle for the Wall. A lone White Walker cruelly executes a Night's Watch member, [[DecapitationPresentation lifts his severed head to show it to the defenders]], and then gives an EvilLaugh. Tyrion Lannister promptly obliterates it with an obsidian tipped scorpion bolt, and the other defenders all roar defiantly. The rest of the army of dead hesitates, taken aback by [[HumansAreWarriors humanity's courage and defiance.]]
* In ''Webcomic/HabenyanChoosesABrideForRitsuka'', Habetrot's OpenMouthInsertFoot tendencies with happily married servants tend to do this, usually by suggesting they can marry Ritsuka despite their past marriages, and usually end up with some like Tomoe Gozen and Bradamante retaliating. Then she questions why Europa would want to stay commited to Zeus due to his adultery in myths. In fury, Europa calls upon Proper-Human History Zeus, who while caring to humans has no problem smiting Habetrot for doubting his love to Europa.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': The song "Playing With the Big Boys Now" is a challenge/taunt from Ramses's magicians to Moses, and by extension God. The next song, "The Plagues", demonstrate that this was not wise.

* ''Film/{{Primeval}}'' features a scene where Orlando Jones' character is being chased by Gustave [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile the man-eater Nile crocodile]], and tricks him into wedging himself between two separate forks of a two-trunked tree. He then turns around to flip the crocodile off before he carries on running. Shortly afterwards, Gustave escapes, catches up to Jones, and kills him.

** In ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'', Rincewind describing Twoflower as such: if total chaos and destruction were lightning, Twoflower is the equivalent of "-standing on top of a mountain in a thunderstorm, wearing full copper plate armour, while shouting at the top of your voice 'ALL GODS ARE BASTARDS!'"

* ''Literature/TheExpanse'' has the [[spoiler: Laconian Empire]] try interacting with the [[spoiler: Dark Gods/Goths]] the only way they can think of: They send an antimatter bomb at them. They respond by [[spoiler: collapsing a neutron star into a black hole, and proceeding to try their hardest to wipe out humanity by altering fundamental laws of physics on a system-wide scale. They actually find a way to do so and kill a whole system, and the only thing that spares the rest of humanity is that they didn't actually realise it had worked.]]

* In the ''Literature/KhaavrenRomances'', Morrolan e'Drien sets off to kill the PhysicalGod Tri'na'gore for various reasons, including that god's followers [[DoomedHometown sacking his adopted home town while he was away]]. After slaughtering a village full of Tri'na'gore worshipers, Morrolan decides to [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu relieve himself on the god's altar]], causing him to manifest so quickly and angrily that Morrolan barely has time to button up his pants. [[spoiler:[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu This was a bad idea on Tri'na'gore's part.]]]]
* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles''. In a lecture on BLUE HADES it's mentioned that the authorities wish to avoid pissing off the Deep Ones because this ancient species that lives in the deep oceans can trigger undersea landslides resulting in a super-tsunami that would wipe out most of humanity. And that's just for starters, as it's speculated that this is just a threat the Deep Ones use like the bayonet on a rifle pointed at a savage tribesman; something we can comprehend in an OutsideContextProblem.

** The episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E4FearItself Fear Itself]]" has a subversion, where they see the Fear Demon that has been terrifying them all episode turn out to be no more than a Barbie doll. Xander starts baby talking him when Giles tells him to "Don't taunt the fear demon." Xander wants to know if it's a threat, but Giles assures him "No. It's just tacky."

** The show does this with regards to the ''main character''. Half the universe thinks the Doctor is a [[MemeticBadass terrifying, nigh-unstoppable demi-god]], and thus invoke this trope whenever someone sets out to deliberately provoke him. From "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]":

** Picard learns the hard way that for all his flippancy, Q is still a near-omnipotent being of god-like power. In "Q Who", when Q offers to join the Enterprise crew, even going so far as offering to renounce his powers and bring his near-limitless knowledge to their aid, they all but laugh in his face, claiming they are equipped to handle things themselves. With a snap of his fingers, Q puts it to the test by hurling them into the path of [[TheAssimilator The Borg]]. Even if Q wasn't exactly trustworthy, it was a supremely arrogant statement on the part of Picard, and one that ended up costing him not only his pride (having to beg Q to save them), but the lives of several crew-members [[note]] This was eventually revealed as deliberately set-up on Q's part to shatter Starfleet's complacency. The Borg already knew about Earth and had it on the list to be conquered, but the Federation would have been caught completely off-guard without this little demonstration. As for the method, well, an immortal has to have ''some'' fun [[/note]].

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Carl finds a walker with its feet stuck in the mud by a riverbank, and decides to foolishly stay, throwing rocks at it, then coming in close to shoot it... At which point it manages to wrench one of its legs free, knocking the gun from his hand and nearly catches him before he can get away. [[spoiler:Later it makes its way to the farm and kills Dale.]]

** Niobe, a mortal queen, boasted to her people that she should be worshipped instead of the goddess Leto, since she had seven sons and seven daughters while Leto only had one son and one daughter. Leto's children, Artemis and Apollo, were furious at this insult to their mother and shot all of Niobe's children dead with their arrows.

* ''VideoGame/AIWarFleetCommand'' sees the player(s) starting a resistant movement against the titular AI that controls the entire Milky Way except for the player(s)' homeworld. The game heavily emphasizes guerilla warfare tactics, taking only what you need and raiding specific targets so that you do not draw the attention of the AI. If you play this game like you would a standard RTS, conquering and destroying everything, the AI will NOT be pleased, and will promtply roll over you with an endless tide of ships.

* In ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho'', poor Cole decides to inform the team that the Firstborn is going to unleash some crazy awesome reality bending magical shit. As thanks, he implodes her mortal form.

* In ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', this is what happens when your heroes do something to draw the attention of [[EldritchAbomination that which lies below.]] Smashing reliefs that depict the horror within the Darkest Dungeon will cause a massive amount of Stress damage as the entity becomes enraged, almost certainly driving that hero mad. Heroes who succeed at a quest into the Darkest Dungeon will also suffer a backlash from this, and refuse to ever return to that place.

** La Signora is a member of the Fatui Harbingers, and according to Venti, each if them were granted godlike powers from the Tsaristza. When she made her first appearance, she ambushed Venti, aka Barbatos, the Anemo Archon, to steal his gnosis, and in her next appearance, Zhongli gave her his gnosis as per his deal with the Tsaristza. However, when she tried to challenge the Raiden Shogun, the Electro Archon, after the Traveler had defeated her in a duel, she found out [[NoBodyLeftBehind the hard way]] why you should never challenge a god, [[spoiler:even if said god never had the gnosis to begin with.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Sir Pentious tries to defeat Alastor with a giant laser cannon, claiming that he has the element of surprise and the power of evil on his side, but Alastor happens to be one of Hell's most powerful sinners (from a mortal upbringing at that), and defeats the Naga within seconds. Fortunately for him and his Egg Bois, demons are (with one exception) incapable of death by the hands of other demons, so he survives, albeit definitely worse for wear.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1440 SCP-1440]] is a WalkingWasteland who, according to himself, once challenged [[ChessWithDeath Death to a game of cards and won]]. While the Brothers Death are able to take a loss and were happy to let him go, he decided to mock Death by not only playing again, but going all or nothing. After three more rounds, he had won three powerful artifacts that he could use to prevent death. Death took this personally, and ever since, two of the three brothers have followed him around and destroyed any manmade civilization that he comes near.

--->'''Rolf:''' Careful Eddy, do not taunt the doodle!\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In Jack O’Lantern’s backstory he stole Grim’s scythe and used it as a bargaining chip to force Grim to give him eternal life. Grim agreed but decided to make sure Jack [[OffWithHisHead would never show his face around town again]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''; during their one-on-one duel near Zaofu in Season 4, Kuvira confidently tells Korra that she's free to use all the elements, even the [[SuperMode Avatar State]]. While Korra initially does poorly when only using the elements, she wipes the floor with Kuvira after she enters the Avatar State, was a few seconds away from turning her into a stain on the ground, and only stopped when she hallucinated Kuvira to be [[EnemyWithin Dark Korra]].

* In the season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:Belos taunts the Collector openly when he makes it clear he has no plan on following through on his promise to free them, since he can't afford to have the magic they gave him in exchange for said freedom fall into his enemies' hands. When King finds and frees the Collector anyway, they casually insist to Belos that they're not angry, then initiate a game of tag and [[LudicrousGibs slam Belos against a wall so hard his entire body is reduced to necrotic green paste]].]]