History BullyingADragon / RealLife

* During the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar, the [[LightningBruiser battleship]] USS ''Wisconsin'' was performing shore bombardment when it was engaged by North Korean artillery. One 150mm (5.9") shell actually managed to hit (a seriously large amount of explosive by land battle standards, but verging on destroyer-grade firepower by naval standards), but the ship's armor [[NoSell confined the blast to superficial damage on the deck.]] The ship then gracefully turned all nine of its guns towards its attacker, adjusted its aim, then fired ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill a full broadside]]'' of nine 16" shells at the enemy artillery position, reducing it to a series of craters. Shortly afterwards, her escort - the destroyer USS ''Duncan'' - used its signal lights to flash the message "Temper, temper, ''Wisconsin''."

* During the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar, the [[LightningBruiser battleship]] USS ''Wisconsin'' was performing shore bombardment when it was engaged by North Korean artillery. One 150mm (5.9") shell actually managed to hit, which was a serious amount of explosives for a land battle, but the ship's armor [[NoSell confined the blast to superficial damage on the deck.]] The ship then gracefully turned all nine of its guns towards its attacker, adjusted its aim, then fired ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill a full broadside]]'' of nine 16" shells at the enemy artillery position, reducing it to a series of craters. Shortly afterwards, her escort - the destroyer USS ''Duncan'' - used its signal lights to flash the message "Temper, temper, ''Wisconsin''."

*** While [[BeamMeUpScotty whether or not he said the "sleeping giant" phrase is debatable]], what is verified is that during a meeting where plans to attack Midway were being discussed, Yamamoto flat-out told all the assembled officers that America's industrial might would ''crush'' Japan. This stunned all of them, as they firmly believed in their own superiority and defeat was unthinkable. Yamamoto, however, had no such illusions and knew their only chance was to inflict so much damage on the Americans that they sued for peace. Yamamoto ''also'' knew that would never happen, and that America would curb-stomp Japan, but he was in a position where he had to cling to the smallest hope no matter how unlikely. He did live long enough to see the tide of the war turn hopelessly against Japan, but not to see their final defeat and surrender; he was shot down in 1943 as the target of Operation Vengeance.[[note]]Japan didn't have much choice by this point, though, as the US had embargoed Japan from their primary supplies of oil and iron and they would have likely run out in less than a year, especially with the war ramping up.[[/note]]

* Small animals such as geese, small dogs, insects, and such that are any combination of too aggressive, territorial, or stupid to realize that hassling a human being is a ''bad'' idea.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYvet1IHRAM Watch this video]] and count off how many times this guy ''picks this goose up by the neck'' and chooses to simply toss it from the boat rather than actually harm it.
** This horse, however, [[https://youtu.be/AYetVPMhh7w wasn’t nearly as patient]]. Sure, the title may say the goose merely passed out, but horses kick with ~2000 psi of force, and the goose went flying. We all know what ''really'' happened to the annoying avian...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohXNSdhqgk&t This tiny fennec fox harasses a wolf-dog (in a cage) several times its own size.]] According to the description, the owner keeps the two separate from each other because the wolf-dog might kill the fennec fox, by accident, and the wolf-dog could easily break out of the cage it is in if it really wanted to.
--->'''The Dro:''' "Scout, she can swallow you whole. Be nice."

* Sultan Muhammad II of the Khwarezmian Empire and his uncle Inalchuq thought doing this to UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan of all people [[TooDumbToLive was a good idea]]. Inalchuq, governor of the Khwarezmian city of Otrar, accused a Mongol trading caravan of being spies, executed all the Mongol merchants, and seized the caravan's contents for himself. When word of the massacre got back to Genghis, he sent three diplomats, two Mongolian, and one Muslim to Muhammad to demand reparations and that Inalchuq be punished; Muhammad responded by having the Mongolian diplomats publicly humiliated before making them carry back the decapitated head of their Muslim comrade. Ironically, Genghis hadn't been interested in clashing with the Khwarezmian Empire (he was already embroiled in a bloody war against the [[UsefulNotes/SongLiaoJurchenJinAndWesternXiaDynasties Jin Dynasty]] in China and had hoped to establish trade routes with the Khwarezmian Empire), but by [[ShootTheMessenger killing his envoys]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards violating a taboo Genghis considered sacred]], [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant they provoked Genghis]] into abandoning his war in China to launch a [[MakeAnExampleOfThem wholesale invasion that effectively wiped the Khwarezmian Empire off the map]]. Inalchuq was captured and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally executed by the Mongols]] during the invasion via [[EyeScream having molten silver poured into his eyeballs]], while Muhammad died of illness while on the run after the Mongols sacked his capital city.