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* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has one it its Season 2 premiere. Works perfectly to remind the audience how much Gaea hates Omega Zell, but is also a DirtyCoward that won't get in a fight if she can avoid it.

* Many surrealistically weird and disturbing scenes in the movie ''BelleDeJour'' eventually turn out to be the titular protagonist's masochist fantasies.

* In ''MyMadFatDiary'', Rae does this to Chloe in “It’s a Wonderful Rae: Part 2” [[spoiler: by dragging Chloe from the cafe they're sitting in out onto the street, dropping her in the road. Rae then gets into a van and proceeds to run her over before it's revealled that the whole sequence was all in Rae's head.]]

* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has one it its Season 2 premiere. Works prefectly to remind the audience how much Gaea hates Omega Zell, but is also a DirtyCoward that won't get in a fight if she can avoid it.

* There are several in ''{{Dexter}}'',

** A later episode had Francine confess to Stan about having become a surrogate mother for a gay couple's child. Stan flipped out and came at her with a broken beer bottle. Then with a chainsaw. Then with a ferocious leopard. Then with a ferocious leopard ''holding'' a chainsaw. All this is then revealed to be Francine worrying what would happen if she told Stan the truth. And, since the world of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' is so bizarre and Stan is so nuts, all of this actually seemed entirely possible until Francine woke up from her fantasy.

* After TheAuthority takes over the USA, they end up having to fulfill mundane leadership tasks such as meeting with foreign dignitaries. Midnighter usually daydreams about violently murdering said world leaders.

* ''SpyKids'': the dad dreams of fighting an obnoxious parent and throwing him through the school window.

* ''AmericanPsycho'' could invoke this, depending on your interpretation of the movie.
* Used in ''SlumdogMillionaire'' when Jamal meets his brother (on a scaffold in a skyscraper under construction) after years apart, and imagines rushing him off the side and killing them both. (Arguably an ImagineSpot, as this is in a flashback and we know Jamal is alive in the present.)

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* Used often on DaysOfOurLives, though often for dramatic purposes instead of funny.

* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' uses this quite a lot. The trope was so associated with the programme for Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright that they consciously avoided doing it when making ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', according to their commentary track for the film. The most obvious moment I can think of from Spaced is when Daisy accuses Tim of sabotaging her relationship out of bitterness:

* In the ''LupinIII'' manga, the titular character finds himself captured by Inspector Zenigata. Lupin then drops his pen and the Inspector picks it up, only to get kicked in the face and to have Lupin escape. The scene then cuts back to Zenigata telling Lupin to keep dreaming and to pick up his own pen.

* A cut scene from ''PulpFiction'' had Jules in the diner at the end violently killing the two robbers, only to cut back to him sitting there, probably cursing his recently-decided nonviolent ways.

* In ''RequiemForADream'' when Marion is at the restaurant with her psychiatrist, she imagines herself impaling his hand with a fork.

* There's one of these in ''Ravenous'', set to a song called "Cannibal Fantasy" of all things.
* At the beginning of the Soviet film ''MoscowCassiopeia'', [[TheCaptain Vitya]] accidentally reads aloud a note indicating that a girl in his class likes him. Then another boy starts playing a march on his tape player, causing everyone to burst out laughing. Vitya imagines walking throw the rows, striking everyone with a finger (ItMakesSenseInContext). Cut back to Vitya simply standing there, adjusting his glasses.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan #45'' has Spidey heroically and violently rescue a mutant from the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}. Cut back to reality and [[{{Telepathy}} Professor X]] [[ForgotAboutTheMindReader is not amused.]]

--> Therapist: ''What do you see in this one?''
--> Joker: ''Another pretty flower...''

* In WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, Spike goes into one of these during ‘A Dog and Pony Show’, complete with ludicrous amounts of muscle, a chin so manly TransformersAnimated would be jealous, and much [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomp Battling]] as he epicly saves and seduces DistressedDamsel Rarity (who’s even wearing a very Princess Peach dress for full tropey goodness).

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* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has one it its Season 2 premiere. Works prefectly to remind the audience how much Gaea hates Omega Zell, but is also a DirtyCoward that won't get in a fight if she can avoid it.
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* ''Film/MeanGirls'', where Cady imagines beating the living daylights out of the AlphaBitch over the guy they both want. Then she remembers she's no longer in Africa, so she instead puts on a friendly smile.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan #45'' has Spidey heroically and violently rescue a mutant from the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}. Cut back to reality and [[{{Telepathy}} Professor X]] [[OhGodDidSheJustHearThat is not amused.]]

* In MyMadFatDiary, Rae does this to Chloe in “It’s a Wonderful Rae: Part 2” [[spoiler: by dragging Chloe from the cafe they're sitting in out onto the street, dropping her in the road. Rae then gets into a van and proceeds to run her over before it's revealled that the whole sequence was all in Rae's head.]]

* ''VForVendetta'' has a short set of these when Evey imagines unmasking V. Not comic, but not particularly nasty.

* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' (1982) segment "The Crate". While at a party, Professor Northrup fantasizes about killing his wife Wilma by shooting her. The assembled guests applaud him, then Wilma yells at him and he snaps out of it. He does it again when he imagines strangling her.