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'''Instead''': He takes the whole thing as a joke, starting off with a mouthy gag about how his "last name" is "Lipshitz", mocking Rodriguez with "Si, Senor", and [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] with a constant "YES!" when Otunga brings up their incidents with the Brogue Kick. He stops his brief "but Del Rio" argument when Otunga says ADR's not the one being deposed without even mentioning the cross armbreaker. Finally, in a move tht completely defies logic, he even closes out by [[IdiotBall Brogue Kicking the camcorder at the scene]].\\

'''Instead''': He takes the whole thing as a joke, mocking Rodriguez with "Si, Senor", and Wrestling/DanielBryan with a constant "YES!" when Otunga brings up their incidents with the Brogue Kick, and even closes out by Brogue Kicking the camcorder at the scene.\\
'''Furthermore''': Sheamus and Otunga have a match on the actual show. Where Sheamus proceeds to [[TemptingFate hit Otunga with the Brogue Kick]].\\
'''The result''': A.J. Lee goes out there to presumably make another imposition on the World Heavyweight title. Booker T has to swiftly come out to tell her he'll handle it, and he does so…by ruling that any use of the Brogue Kick by Sheamus before his investigation is complete means Sheamus is stripped of the title, thus putting a proverbial trap card in front of his kill shot maneuver right before his title defense at Night of Champions.

'''You'd expect''': Sheamus to treat the case and his defense attorney with a modicum of seriousness, provide counterpoints including other lethal finishers that have been used at least as liberally and caused at least as much mayhem as the Brogue, and make the argument that what Otunga's asking for could escalate into a deep censorship-style crackdown of wrestling moves (and/or at the very least that it's hypocritical because Del Rio broke Wrestling/ReyMysterio's arm in his debut with the cross armbreaker).\\

'''''Instead''': She comes out and violently beats on Vickie Guerrero herself, practically ensuring that the Board of Directors would have to grab their own idiot ball not to '''at least''' order '''her''' to take the same anger management classes she's got Daniel Bryan on.''

* ''FanFic/ToKillAThief'': [[DeathNote Light Yagami]] has it on with his final plan to kill [[Manga/KamikazeKaitouJeanne Jeanne]].\\

* ''{{FanFic/Alex}}'' has the titular antagonist herself doing a press conference at the Candy Kingdom where she pins the blame on the dark swamp event on Marceline. On the top of that, she shows them of her crimes against Princess Bubblegum since "What Was Missing".\\

* Michelle [=McCool=]'s heel-turn angle with Maria on ''[[{{WWE}} Smackdown]]'' in 2008/2009.\\

'''Instead''': She immediately signs it without even looking at it, letting her anger with Abyss' actions earlier [[hottip:*:(he had kidnapped her earlier and brought her out to the ring, then implied to have threatened to hurt her)]] overcome her common sense.

* [[{{WWE}} Kaval]] lasts five minutes in a grueling match against TheBigShow to earn a spot on Team Smackdown at the 2010 ''Bragging Rights''. Then Tyler Reks comes out to challenge him for his spot. Teddy Long comes out to stop him.\\

'''Instead''': He goes for an elbow drop on Sheamus, which he counters with his knees. But that's nothing [[hottip:*:(especially since wrestlers give up certain victory to injure their opponents in cage matches ''all the time'')]] compared to...

* Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets and their home arena, the Pepsi Center, is faced with the genuine possibility that his team might make the NBA playoffs. Problem is, he'd already scheduled a ''{{WWE}} Monday Night Raw'' broadcast during playoff week when, should the team actually make the playoffs, there's a 50/50 chance they'd be playing a home game.\\

'''''Instead''': She comes out and violently beats on Vickie Guerrero herself, practically ensuring that if the Board of Directors would have to grab their own idiot ball not to order '''her''' to take the same anger management classes she's got Daniel Bryan on.''

'''''Instead''': She comes out and personally physically assaults Vickie Guerrero herself.''

'''Instead:''' He comes out flapping his gums in an [[StrawmanHasAPoint justified-but-overblown]] angry tirade about being a conspiracy victim, claiming everyone else was against him and even calling Booker a peasant ([[NapoleonDelusion King Booker?]]) and a criminal ([[DarkAndTroubledPast Booker once spent 19 months in jail for armed robbery before his wrestling career]]).\\
'''The result:''' He ''was'' going to be named the #1 contender, but because of his rant, he and Orton were instead booked to have it out again in the main event. Luckily for Del Rio he was able to get the job done.

'''Instead:''' He comes out flapping his gums in an [[StrawmanHasAPoint justified-but-overblown]] angry tirade about being a conspiracy victim, claiming everyone else being against him and even calling Booker a peasant ([[NapoleonDelusion King Booker?]]) and a criminal ([[DarkAndTroubledPast Booker once spent 19 months in jail for armed robbery before getting into wrestling]]).\\

'''Instead:''' He comes out flapping his gums in an [[StrawmanHasAPoint justified-but-overblown]] angry tirade about being a conspiracy victim, claiming everyone else being against him and even calling the Booker a peasant ([[NapoleonDelusion King Booker?]]) and criminal ([[DarkAndTroubledPast Booker once spent 19 months in jail for armed robbery before getting into wrestling]]).\\

'''Instead:''' He comes out flapping his gums in an [[StrawmanHasAPoint justified-but-overblown]] angry tirade about being a conspiracy victim, claiming everyone else being against him and even calling the Booker a peasant ([[NapoleonDelusion King Booker?]]) and criminal ([[DarkAndTroubledPast Booker was actually in jail 19 months for armed robbery before getting into wrestling]]).\\

'''Instead:''' He comes out flapping his gums in an [[StrawmanHasAPoint justified-but-overblown]] angry tirade about being a conspiracy victim, claiming everyone else being against him and even calling the Booker a peasant ([[NapoleonDelusion King Booker?]]) and criminal ([[DarkAndTroubledPast was actually in jail 19 months for armed robbery before getting into wrestling]]).\\

'''Instead:''' He comes out flapping his gums in an [[StrawmanHasAPoint justified-but-overblown]] angry tirade about being a conspiracy victim, claiming everyone else being against him and even calling the Booker a peasant ([[NapoleonDelusion King Booker?]]) and criminal ([[DarkAndTroubledPast Booker spent 19 months in jail for armed robbery before getting into wrestling]]).\\

* Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio is cheated at Summerslam 2012 by Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} for the World Heavyweight Championship when the referee misses his foot being on the rope, then the next night on ''Raw'' when Sheamus stops Del Rio from beating Wrestling/RandyOrton the same way. On ''Smackdown'', General Manager Wrestling/BookerT is speaking to Orton and Sheamus about the #1 contendership to Sheamus's title, and his tone towards Orton has just shifted from being excited about the match to more serious and somber.\\

'''Instead:''' He comes out flapping his gums in an [[StrawmanHasAPoint justified-but-overblown]] angry tirade about being a conspiracy victim with everyone else being against him.\\

'''You'd expect:''' Del Rio to wait for Booker, the same man who forced Sheamus to apologize for [[HeroicComedicSociopath stealing and trashing his car]] a few weeks back, to finish saying what he was going to say.\\

'''You'd Expect''': The Candy People will know that she's a friend of their princess and as a result, doesn't believe in what her opponent has to say.\\

'''You'd Expect''': The cunning clan of angry rookies who practically took over WWE would have a plan to respond to this after the first couple of attacks. As he technically isn't under contract, they could easily have real cops arrest Cena for assault and criminal trespassing. At the very least, they could employ basic defensive strategy and make sure to always walk in groups of at least two whenever they're inside an arena or hotel during Monday Night Raw.\\
'''Instead''': They continue to act like sitting ducks as John Cena attacks them one at a time. By the time they finally try to get back on the offensive with Cena, he's managed to get the entire locker room in on the plan for revenge against them.

'''You'd Expect''': Barrett to immediately see through Cena stirring the shit, and cut that off at the pass by reminding everyone that he spearheaded the Nexus's rise to prominence and upheld their pledge to get every member a main roster contract, even including Harris and [=McGillicutty=] from NXT season 2. Then, bring out either cops to arrest Cena now that he's finally been drawn out, or Nexus to destroy Cena and take back the upper hand yet.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Barrett to immediately see through Cena stirring the shit, and cut that off at the pass by reminding everyone that he spearheaded the Nexus's rise to prominence and upheld their pledge to get every member a main roster contract, even including Harris and McGillicutty from NXT season 2. Then, bring out either cops to arrest Cena now that he's finally been drawn out, or Nexus to destroy Cena and take back the upper hand yet.\\

'''Instead''': They continue to act like sitting ducks as John Cena attacks them one at a time. By the time they finally try to get back on the offensive with Cena, he's managed to get the entire locker room in on the plan for revenge against them. then exposed Wrestling/WadeBarrett's Machiavellian streak in an in-ring promo at the end of the year.

'''Instead''': He allowed Cena to play him into showing off his true Machiavellian colors, leading to the group being so upset with him that instead of destroying Cena, they walked out on Barrett and forced him to rehire Cena in order to remain a member, and then [[HijackedByGanon replaced him anyway]] a month later with Wrestling/CMPunk. The end result: Nexus became a {{cult}} and ended in gradual BadassDecay.

** Much like Adolf Hitler, was not the smartest drawer in the dictatorial box. He's already been involved in a war with Iran, a war which many consider one of the most costly in terms of human lives lost and money spent since WW1. This has effectively bankrupted the nation. So Saddam hatches a scheme: claim an oil field in neighboring Kuwait is [[ThereWillBeBlood drinking their milkshake]] using slant drilling into their oil field in Rumalia. They claimed it was costing them a billion a year, while Kuwait claimed that Iraq was just lying through their teeth. Peace talks were started, and Iraq demanded $10 billion in damages. Kuwait, angry only agreed to pay $9 Billion.\\

'''Instead:''' Saddam [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gives them all the finger]], telling them that he will do whatever the hell he wants citing numerous shaky claims of things such as Zionist influence in his Arab neighbors.\\
'''So:''' The response is the largest combined military effort since [[WW2 the Second World War]] which leads to an [[CurbstompBattle embarrassing defeat for Iraq]], the near-total destruction of it's military, huge sanctions and restrictions. Saddam ''barely'' keeps his position through what little force he can exert and the nation is in an even ''worse'' state than it was after the Iran-Iraq War. For the opposing team, it's a huge political win-fall and removes one of the biggest military threats in the region.

* In ''Fanfic/SoullessShell'', Arnold has been sentenced to death for rape by Leif, who is the [[GodModeSue incredibly powerful]] [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking leader]] of the vermin of Redwall, but manages to escape and convince his guards to join him.\\

* A few times in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3303241/1/A_Very_Special_Arthur A Very Special Arthur]]''.
** In the beginning, after Arthur hits his head on the bottom of the pool, they get out to call 911.\\

** Arthur’s friends try to reverse his condition, but are told that the only hope for doing so, stem cell treatment, is illegal. They then decide to replicate the process that caused it in order to get him back to normal.\\

* Pecos Bill. On their wedding day, his bride Sluefoot Sue tried to ride his horse Widow Maker. Widow Maker throws her off, and her bustle starts bouncing her higher and higher; she can't stop herself because her wedding dress was made to be removed by her husband, and she's not carrying her knife to her wedding.\\

* Every "I fear my son will upstage me" scenario in GreekMythology. A god/king learns from an oracle "your son with this woman will one day kill you".\\

* And how 'bout probably the most famous one in mythology? Paris has been chosen as a judge to determine whether Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite is most beautiful. All three try to bribe him — Hera offers WorldDomination, Athena offers genius smarts and martial skill, and Aphrodite offers the love of the most beautiful woman in the world.\\

* And then there's Jason, former leader of the Argonauts, he who retrieved the golden fleece, and a hero actually under the divine patronage of Hera. He returns from the journey victorious, since he had the love and assistance of the powerful and mildly CuteAndPsycho princess Medea, who has gone so far as to murder her own brother as a distraction so Jason and his crew could escape her father's wrath.\\

* Numerous commenters on [[http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php this article]], as evidenced by the bit in bold. Basically, if you type the words "Facebook login" into Google, that article's the first result. Hundreds of idiots arrived at that page via Google, and despite the page looking NOTHING like Facebook, proceeded to whine that they were unable to login in the comments. (It's also worth noting that for a time, the article came up first but is clearly marked as a NEWS article.)
* Type "w" in Google. See that part where it says "www.facebook.com"? Yeah, more people have actually Googled "www.facebook.com" than {{Wikipedia}}. ''You know, instead of just putting it in the address bar.'' ItGetsWorse as you type in another "w" — people actually Googled "www.google.com". ''On Google.''

* Michelle [=McCool=]'s heel-turn angle with Maria on ''[[{{WWE}} Smackdown]]'' in 2008/2009.\\

* {{TNA}}:

* [[{{WWE}} Kaval]] lasts five minutes in a grueling match against TheBigShow to earn a spot on Team Smackdown at the 2010 ''Bragging Rights''. Then Tyler Reks comes out to challenge him for his spot. Teddy Long comes out to stop him.\\

* Wade Barrett has two of these moments in a triple-threat cage match, both in ''the same match'':
** Wade's on top of the cage with both RandyOrton and Sheamus on the floor.\\

** Wade's climbing up the cage with both of his opponents down. {{CM Punk}} runs out and climbs the cage, seemingly to help him.\\

* Following the successful completion of his XanatosRoulette against TheUndertaker, {{Wrestler/Kane}} has the World Heavyweight Championship and his brother is buried alive for the fifth time. His next challenger, is one-time rival {{Edge}}. Who, in a move full of MoralDissonance in and of itself, promptly decides to kidnap his father to try to get in his head, and after one title shot failed, to get another one.\\

* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

** In a similar manner, at the start of [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Warlord Ghazkhull]]'s first invasion of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Armageddon]], the planet was under the rule of Overlord Herman Von Strab, who was once described as "[[TakeThat the greatest waste of flesh and bone born in the last 500 years]]". So the Orks start to invade.\\

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* ''TheComedyOfErrors'': One character has been searching for his long-lost twin, and comes to a town where said twin actually lives, causing him to be recognized by everyone and confused with his twin. Mistakes abound, and HilarityEnsues.\\

* In the backstory of ''Theatre/TheTrachiniae'', Deianira is nearly raped by a centaur called Nessus. Her husband Herakles shoots him with arrows poisoned by hydra blood. As Nessus is dying, he gives Deianira some drops of blood from said wound and tells her to handle it very carefully — it's a love potion that will make Herakles' affections return to her should they ever stray.\\

'''Instead:''' [[SmallNameBigEgo Cyrano arrogantly]] invokes ProtectionFromEditors and [[UngratefulBastard nastily rejects the patronage]]. To put things in perspective, rejecting Cardenal Richelieu’s patronage in TheCavalierYears Paris it’s like someone in MarvelUniverse rejecting DoctorDoom’s patronage, or someone in DCUniverse rejecting LexLuthor’s patronage ''when he was PresidentEvil of the United States''.

* In ''{{Bionicle}}'', Takanuva, Gali, and Pohatu are fighting giant bugs. Business as usual for them really, but Takanuva is worried that his regular [[HolyHandGrenade light powers]] won't be powerful enough. He does have a bunch of new toys, though!\\

* Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets and their home arena, the Pepsi Center, is faced with the genuine possibility that his team might make the NBA playoffs. Problem is, he'd already scheduled a ''{{WWE}} Monday Night Raw'' broadcast during playoff week when, should the team actually make the playoffs, there's a 50/50 chance they'd be playing a home game.\\

* The titular monarch in the song "There Lived a King" from ''The Gondoliers'', who was grieved that not everyone was as well-off as he.\\

* On February 26, 1993, Mohammed Salameh used a Ryder truck to try to blow up the World Trade Center.\\

* The one and only thing Paris Hilton has to do in order to claim her vast inheritance is behave like a decent, civilized human being.\\

* GlobalRadio, the British equivalent of ClearChannel, decide to rebrand some stations in the East Midlands to "Capital".\\

* Prodrive, a British racing team, got an [[FormulaOne F1]] entry for 2008 which was based on using a customer chassis by [=McLaren=]-Mercedes. In FormulaOne, customer chassis were an area of dubious loopholes and it was very likely that mid-field teams would file protest against such a tactic.\\

* In the 2011 NCAA Tournament, Ohio State played Kentucky. The Wildcats have just hit a shot to go up by two points with about five seconds left, and the Buckeyes have timeouts left.\\

* Saddam Husein:

'''So:''' The response is the largest combined military effort since [[WW2 the Second World War]] which leads to an [[CurbstompBattle embarrassing defeat for Iraq]], the near-total destruction of it's military, huge sanctions and restrictions. Saddam ''barely'' keeps his position through what little force he can exert and the nation is in an even ''worse'' state than it was after the Iran-Iraq War. For the opposing team, it's a huge political win-fall and removes one of the biggest military threats in the region.