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* ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' [[WebVideo/TGWTGOneYearBrawl One Year Anniversary Brawl]]:

* In an episode of ''Series/MotherAndSon'', Arthur attempts to get Robert to take care of Maggie for two weeks, so he can take his girlfriend to New Zealand. Robert dismisses his concerns, telling him they're all in his head, and walks out. Arthur yells back, "All in my head"?! She's half-loony, she's absent-minded, and she can't look after herself!" He then turns around and [[RightBehindMe apologises to Maggie]], who replies, "That's alright, Arthur. But she sounds like a strange choice for you to go to New Zealand with."

* In the third Adam Warren miniseries of the ''ComicBook/DirtyPair'', we find perhaps the ultimate misfired insult. Kei's just had an exotic weapon snatched from her hand by a man who fears she'll set it off. "Set it off? Do I look as decerebrate as one of your [=KalSec=] morons!?" she demands of him. "Actually, no! We have ''standards'' for our morons!" he replies, and probably realizes a few moments later what he's just actually said.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': When the dastardly Lord Farquaad meets the titular ogre for the first time...

* Early on in ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', Katarina asks her maid Anne why her mother seems so angry at all the time, to which [[ServileSnarker Anne]] responds that it's probably having to deal with such a difficult child. This just leaves Katarina even more confused. After all, Keith is so well behaved.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "Into the Wild Green Yonder", Mr. Wong is talking to Fry in the presence of his daughter, Amy:

->'''Batman:''' ''[To Ventriloquist]'' I see you're still carrying that dead weight around.\\

''[Ventriloquist chuckles nervously.]''

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has Hob Gadling talking to a Renaissance Fair worker:

** Of course, this is just Shrek being a DeadpanSnarker (and a bit of a {{Jerkass}}).

* SelfDemonstrating version in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
-->'''Grim:''' Hey, we got you this far. Not so bad for a weenie, a dope, and a useless bag of bones with no powers.
-->'''Billy''' (whispering to Irwin): Am I the weenie, or the bag of bones?

** It's only a misfire for Nanny Ogg and Magrat. Mistress Weatherwax is actually ''trying'' to be the crone, so this would be an InsultBackfire, except that she's still insulted by the fact that someone has so little fear of her that they actually ''call'' her a crone. The others think of the triad as "the maiden, the mother and the... other one", even inside their own heads. Granny has ways of ''getting inside'' those.

* In [[Series/Blackadder Blackadder II]], a very drunken Edmund responds to his aunt's outraged queries with "shove off you old trout." She leaves, affronted that he had spoken to her husband in this manner.

** Though it's entirely possible this is just Shrek being a DeadpsnSnarker.

* Used as the punchline of one ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' story. Principal Weatherbee catches Archie fresh from a fight with another student, and about to reprimand him when Archie explains that the other guy had insulted his father. Weatherbee is actually sympathetic to Archie's excuse, as he considers those kinds of insults to be below the belt, and lets Archie off with a warning. As Weatherbee leaves, Jughead comes over and asks what the insult that set Archie off was, and Archie replies "What the creep said - and I quote exactly - was 'Arch, your dad's got a stupid son!'".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Lord Farquaad upon seeing the titular ogre for the first time...

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'':

* In one episode of the anime adaptation of ''VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou'', someone insults Rin Rin by calling her flat-chested. Her response is to demand that they apologize to Shuri immediately.

->'''Batman:''' I see you're still carrying that dead weight around.\\

''(Ventriloquist chuckles nervously.)''