Felony Misdemeanor / Anime & Manga

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• A Certain Magical Index:
  • Misaka 10032's reaction to Last Order stealing her visor is to chase after her with an assault rifle.
  • Earlier in the same episode, three of the Sisters (10032, 10039 and 13577) react to the discovery that Misaka 19090 has been dieting and reading a women's magazine by chasing her down like red-eyed demons. We never find out what happened. On the other hand, it's a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance here: all Misaka sisters are part of a Hive Mind and thus behave exactly the same, with the experiences of one affecting the experiences of all, so if one Misaka behaves differently, the entire Hive Mind is at danger of being affected which could very quickly put them into a dangerous situation... and they were well aware the reason she was doing it was that she was trying to get a leg-up on the other Sisters to seduce Touma, the guy they're all in love with.
  • At one point in the manga, Mikoto complains about the measures taken to prevent people like her from reading manga in the stores without buying it (which, obviously, reduces profit for the authors). Seeing how Mikoto is a manga character, the author immediately punishes her by a seemingly random falling object knocking her out cold. Uiharu and Saten immediately start panicking and babbling to no one in particular about buying the manga and its accessories.
• Cromartie High School has a sequence in which the boys are swapping stories of how "bad" they are. Most of them are also in this category, but Kamiyama's story is the one that leaves everyone shocked; when made to work on a "most dominos toppled" world record project, he placed a bit of adhesive on the second-to-last domino.
• Death Note: At one point, Mikami, the 3rd Kira, expands his killing spree to include innocent people who commit such minor crimes as being lazy. Light disapproves of him doing so, but only because he considers the move premature.
• Pretty much anything that might be considered offensive to the devils from Dorohedoro. Whether it's selling devil shaped candy, spraying graffiti on a devil statue or even just plain impoliteness, the devils are very eager to introduce people to their death sentence.
• Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu: There's a horse-headed pervert walking the streets. Does he flash his victims, grope them, molest them? No, he gives them ponytails (though that itself can be construed as sexual battery). Sousuke suggests that they torture him. And then he actually gets arrested and is told that he'll be doing a long time in jail. The segment ends with Kaname saying how something about this situation doesn't feel right.
• In the first chapter of My Hero Academia, the hero Kamui Woods calls a criminal "pure evil" for stealing a purse. Granted, said villain did proceed to use his Quirk to turn into a giant monster, damaging some buildings and endangering bystanders, but it's still a rather minor crime compared to some of the Card-Carrying Villains in the setting—especially since Mt. Lady, a superheroine who can also grow huge, ends up causing even worse property damage while apprehending the thief.
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind features the third kind: "Show no mercy to the insolent!"
• In PandoraHearts, the Will of the Abyss made the Chain Albus explode because he had interrupted her while she was talking. Nevermind that Albus was trying to protect her from his contractor, who was about to stab her.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • The Team Rocket trio, in certain situations. Go after a group of WILD Remoraid to send to HQ? Ten thousand volts and a one-way ticket to the stratosphere. The Pokémon universe seems to have a rule: Use any method but a Poké Ball to catch Pokémon, and expect Laser-Guided Karma to get you. When Jessie snaked a Yanma right out from under the kid who was battling it (using a Poké Ball), not only did Jessie not get a comeuppance, the Yanma evolved into Yanmega in its first battle. All their blastoffs involving catching Pokémon also involve them either stealing other people's Pokémon or using a machine to grab them en masse. You'd think Team Rocket would have made the association by now. Meowth mentioned once when they were trying to steal a migrating school of WILD Magikarp that Pokéballs cost money and they have none. Though it's more like they prefer snagging pokémon with traps because it's more evil that way. Otherwise, how could they afford all those mechs?
  • Early in season 1, Ash made the mistake of voicing his opinions on thinking that perfume is stupid. He made the mistake of doing so in Erika's shop, and in front of Erika. Having pressed Erika's Berserk Button via gravely insulting what she does for a living, she responds by not only kicking him out of her shop but indirectly banning him from stepping foot in her gym.
• Pop Team Epic: One strip has Popuko make a two-hour YouTube video where she eats potato chips while talking in an obnoxious fake voice and producing a lot of mic noise. The last panel shows her in jail - "Arrested for YouTube crimes".
• In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kyouko Sakura: "Don't waste food... Or I'll kill you." Later on, we find out she has a very plausible Freudian Excuse to not want to waste food, being that she grew up poor, not knowing when she would get her next meal.
• Ranma ½: Pantyhose Taro's grudge with Happosai. His legitimate (potential) grudge (his curse) is a Red Herring to this.
• Rebuild World: The Remnant A.I.s from the Old World Precursors are prone to Disproportionate Retribution for this. It's suggested that speeding in Tsubaki's domain leads to to lethal force via robots popping out of Chameleon Camouflage to deliver a Macross Missile Massacre, and she turns Matsubara (mostly) and his guards to Ludicrous Gibs just for him being impatient and rude. Then there's Olivia being willing to kill over the handling of her business card, and Sarenthal being willing to kill over getting onto the roof of her building when you're not one of the people with an appointment.
• In Samurai Flamenco, superhero wannabe Masayoshi fights such crimes as littering, jaywalking or violation of the municipal code. It's partly because he can't take on anything more dangerous, partly because those crimes are often ignored by the police.
• In Tiger & Bunny, Keith Goodman would like everyone to know that ruining birthday parties is a terrible, terrible atrocity.
• 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess is about a warrior-princess of a fantasy empire who finds herself tortured by the terrible Hell-Horde... except the "tortures" take the form of tempting the Princess with delicious food, or letting her experience simple pleasures she missed out on due to her strict upbringing, like a trip to the amusement park or playing video games with friends. About the worst these "tortures" get is letting instant ramen get soggy, eating "Gorilla March" cookies without taking time to appreciate the little pictures on them, threatening to spoil her new favorite TV show, or making a baby polar bear cry by taking away his toy (and Beast Master Krall is such an animal lover, she quickly regrets that last one). All of these things the Princess declares horrible misdeeds.
• Elsee from The World God Only Knows once used her demonic powers to skip class to bake a cake, and commented that she's a bad demon for doing so.
• Howard X. Miller in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX... crushed a poor, innocent flower! How dare you!

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