Mugging The Monster / Fan Works

Even in Fan Works, they are criminals unlucky enougn to find out they've Mugging the Monster.

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• Cras Vivere Para Bellum: Izuku and Katsuki get kidnapped by human traffickers. Unfortunately for the latter, Izuku just so happens to be the reincarnation of John Wick.
• Hermione Granger, Demonologist: Hermione Granger summons her first demon at age eight, being a bright, lonely little girl who wants some friends. By the time she hits Hogwarts, she's got quite a few demonic friends. Her Slytherin housemates try to bully her, and she puts up with it for a while. Eventually, they push her too far...and Hilarity Ensues.
  Hermione: I have other friends! And I think it's time you met them!
• His honor the mayor, Drew Lipsky: Two thugs try to threaten Drakken and later Ron. They know who they're dealing with due to the cartoon being a Very Loosely Based on a True Story Show Within a Show, but are Entertainingly Wrong about which parts are made up and which are real.
• My Choices: Twisted Tales Through Time: After hearing the truth about the magical duel's outcome, Firefly's mental image of Blue Star reforms itself to compare to a helpless filly who, on being accosted by muggers looking for an easy mark, easily wipes the floor with them and leaves them bruised and groaning on the roadside.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Garlic Junior falls afoul of this twice.
  • In the Dead Zone Abridged movie, Garlic Junior sends his minions out to collect the dragon balls so he can wish for immortality. One of the dragon balls is attached to the hat a young Gohan wears, and the minions choose to abduct Gohan rather than simply take the ball. As soon as Garlic Junior realizes who Gohan is and that his incompetent group of underlings have kidnapped the son of the World's Strongest Man (after they beat the crap out the guy's wife), he begins panicking over the Roaring Rampage of Revenge he fears Goku will unleash on them.
  • After escaping from the Dead Zone in Episode 31, Garlic Jr. and his new crew of henchmen try to take over the Lookout while Kami is away and Mr. Popo is running it. After refusing to clean up the mess they made of the place, Garlic Jr. tries to monologue to Popo about who he is, apparently completely ignorant that Mr. Popo is anything but Kami's assistant. Popo soon loses patience with Garlic Junior and winds up "assimilating" him and his minions.
• Child of the Storm:
  • A handsy, tipsy middle-aged Roxxon executive gropes a pretty blonde teenager (Carol Danvers), ignoring the anger of her new friend (Harry Potter a.k.a. Harry Thorson), who happens to be a) a demigod (even if The Call Put Me on Hold), b) a young wizard. It really becomes this, though, when he tries to brush off a young, glasses-wearing black man who intervenes seeking an apology from him, and calls said young man an "interfering N-Word Privileges son-of-a-bitch." Said young man is Crown Prince T'Challa of Wakanda, a.k.a. the Black Panther. It does not take a genius to figure out what happens next.
  • In the sequel, Harry's childhood bullies end up picking a fight with him when he has a look around the old estate. Harry is by this point a Person of Mass Destruction with borderline Super-Soldier level physical abilities, with general combat training from a number of Avengers and specifically in aikido from Sean Cassidy a.k.a. Banshee. Unsurprisingly, Carol is left idly wondering where to get some popcorn.
• 3 Slytherin Marauders: Anyone who picks a fight with Tom.
• Advice and Trust: When Asuka joins Shinji's class, a horde of boys chases her. When she says she wants to date nobody, two boys refuse to accept her answer and try to get hard. It turns out that fragile, little girl punches hard.
  Shinji: Maybe that will finally get them to stop chasing me like I'm a prize to be won. [...] How come I'm the one with the pack after them? You were ten times as popular as I was, a week after you arrived, miss incredibly-hot-exotic-foreign-transfer-student. I know Touji and Kensuke were making crazy amounts of cash-selling beauty shots of you almost right away. Why haven't I had to chase away a pack of boys drooling after you?
  Asuka: Because I already had them properly terrified and respectful after I mashed the first two flat when they tried to ask me out the week I got here and refused to take "no" for an answer, [...] Putting a couple of them on the ground with a few punches when they got rough taught the others to keep off. You're just too polite and sweet to girls to scare them off, my darling baka.
• In A.A. Pessimal's Discworld fanfic The Price of Flight, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch set up a sting to catch predators who are targeting young girls. In the targeted part of town, a confused and lost young girl who has lost her way by night is wandering, confused, friendless and alone. She is clearly a recent immigrant with no local connections. The Watch are covertly observing to see who responds and what their motivations are. When the suspects strike, they discover the frail twelve-year-old girl is actually a Banshee. And this is the start of their woes.^note Fortunately, the Banshee is a Watch Cadet under the supervision of werewolf Angua and vampire Sally, and knows there are limits.
• In Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises, local Dean Bitterman and Hate Sink Brad Roy is ordered to fire Dr. Cho by the Big Bad. However, he decided to try and have his way with her in exchange for a last chance. As it turns out, she came prepared... with a 9mm. Not that anyone minded.
• Downplayed in Risk It All. Ren's powers make him more than a match for the average person, but the fact that he lacks Super-Toughness means that any guy with a gun can kill him. He's terrified when a man pulls a gun on him to mug him and rather than be Batman he begins meekly forking over his cash, only collecting himself after the man had started walking away. That's when he breaks the man's arm and takes his money back.
• In Afraid of the Darkness, Lucius Malfoy attempts to bully a Muggle hitman into doing his dirty work, unaware that Jackie Estacado is not an ordinary Muggle nor someone he should be messing with.
• In the Frasier story Dark Horse of the Moons, three Seattle muggers try to shake down Daphne Moon and her brother Tim. Big mistake. A girl growing up in Collyhurst, Manchester, with eight brothers, soon learns how to fight. And when one of her brothers is an off-duty Royal Marine taking a leave in Seattle... Niles Crane gibbers as he watches mayhem ensue.
• In Deadpan Love, some small crook tries to mug a pair of scrawny kids kissing on a bench. At hearing his threats, the two start laughing... the guy was unlucky enough to stumble across Raven and Beast Boy during their first date.
• A gang of thugs tries to mug The Doctor. The Third Doctor. He proceeds to Pressure Point them into unconsciousness.
• In Exodus of Stars, batarians attempt to capture a Star Covenant transport with boarding teams smuggled aboard, as well as an ambush by three warships. Not only does the ship crew get wind of the boarders and easily take them out, but there is also the fact that the batarians have no idea about the armament of a Carrack class transport.
• The Hill of Swords. Louise summons a version of Emiya Shirou who's well along the path to becoming Archer. Then, of course, Guiche challenges him to a duel.
• Last Child of Krypton: When Shinji was younger, some bullies harassed him, ignoring that the scrawny, shy kid could tear steel with his bare hands.
• In Mass Foundations: Redemption in the Stars, a batarian thug tries to rob the Courier, who has just arrived in the Mass Effect, but is still armed and wearing Power Armor, albeit those are vastly outdated. In the end, he doesn't even need them.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the Ponies of Olympus series, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo at one point go to Storm Alley to visit Dash's old mentor Amber Spark, and are harassed by some thugs who want to have some "fun" with them. Since both mares in question are Action Girls, they easily kick ass.
  • Played interestingly in Princess Celestia Gets Mugged: while wandering around Canterlot in her civilian guise Sunny Skies, Princess Celestia is ambushed, mugged, and subsequently kidnapped and held to ransom. Despite being able to escape at any time, Celestia plays along with it out of amusement.
  • In Progress, two stallions flirt with the incognito Luna and try to get her Unsuspectingly Soused. When she catches on, arse-kicking ensues.
  • Interesting variation where the mugging goes both ways in Shepard's R&R. Pinkie Pie shoots a party cannon at Grunt, the diplomats think they're under attack, and Luna restrains them before they could respond. Luna and Shepard almost come to blows while demanding the other to back down. Shepard doesn't realize he's confronting an actual Physical God who could kill him with a thought, while Luna doesn't realize that she's threatening a galactic legend whose death would draw the wrath of all the other races, and her promises "to send him to the moon" are very ineffectual against someone whose people willingly live on moons.
  • At one point in The Rise of Darth Vulcan, the titular Villain Protagonist visits the port town of Port Royal to recruit some pirates for an expedition, and a stallion tries to mug him at swordpoint. Both Ted and his Number Two, Artful Dodger, lampshade the stupidity of this, as even though the former has ditched his armor to travel incognito, he still towers over the pony, and for that matter the outfit he is wearing apparently still makes him look like a Ringwraith. The mugger is lucky to get away with just being knocked out.
  • A Reaper attempts to indoctrinate Celestia in Why No One Messes with Celestia, ignoring her demands that it release her subjects and leave, citing her species' "inferiority". Celestia responds by shooting it with a beam of molten plasma, the center of which is theorized to be millions of degrees centigrade.
  • In You Call That a Costume?, while lost downtown, Personality Swapped Rarity and Applejack encounter a mugger who wants the jewels Applejack is wearing. Unfortunately, he makes a big mistake when he calls Rarity "Toots".
  • In one chapter of New Beginnings, a mugger interrupted Page and a disguised Princess Luna on their date. Subverted; their guards took him out before they did.
  • Discord's New Business: Everyone who messed with Zebra!Luna. Not a one of them realizes she's actually a disguised Princess, or that she'll be informing Celestia of the racism she encountered in Canterlot.
• Flash Thompson essentially does a non-violent version of this in "Exposure" when he plans to use a field trip to Stark Tower to ‘expose’ Peter’s false claims that he has an internship with Stark Enterprises. Since Peter genuinely does work at Stark Enterprises (even if some of his ‘internship’ is his activities as Spider-Man), not only does Flash get the humiliating experience of learning that Peter is working for Tony Stark, but also gets publicly called out by Happy Hogan when people overhear Flash talking about ‘exposing Penis’ and assume that means he’s going to expose himself rather than insulting Peter.
• Of Love and Bunnies:
  • A mugger tries to take Kimberly's purse. He is promptly decked by Tommy. This has a lot of ramifications on the plot, since the mugger was one of their old classmates, and it gets to the point that the world believes that Tommy was the original Black Ranger. They eventually have to send in TJ to ensure that the mugger changes his story.
  • Later on in the story, a Troobian ship attacks a "Ranger Kegger". Attended by every Power Ranger on Earth (pre-SPD). Many of whom that still have their powers and/or various other miscellaneous skills. All of whom are still very, very adept at beating the hell out of foot soldiers. Things do not go well for the Troobians.
• In Respect, a trio of bullies goes after their favorite target, timid crybaby artist Yayoi Kise, not knowing that she's just made a contract with Kyubey specifically to get them to stop... needless to say, it doesn't end well.
• In Unfamiliar, a bunch of muggers attack a young noble and her scruffy, grumpy, hood-wearing servant wandering down a blind alley after dusk. They become aware of their grievous error in judgement shortly before the servant messily kills and eats them. It's a crossover with [PROTOTYPE]; said servant is Alex Mercer.
• The Yellow Wings learned the hard way that Cid and Ensei are way out of their league in The Tainted Grimoire.
• From the Star Trek (2009) fic That Was A Good Fight, a shapeshifting alien salt-vampire thingy attacks the crew of the Enterprise and mocks Kirk after knocking out Spock, assuming him to be just another pathetic human: "What a feast. Your Doctor, your Commander, now you. This whole ship will sustain me. You aren't going to cry? I want to taste your tears." But what the creature doesn't know is that Kirk has been struggling against his new Superpowered Evil Side courtesy of Khan's blood. Now one must pity the poor ensign who has to clean up what remains of the alien out of the floor tiles.
• In Time Braid, this is invoked by Hinata when she and Sakura propose to go undercover as missing-nin and infiltrate Akatsuki. Hinata quotes the standard chestnut along the lines of "meet interesting new people, and kill them"; when Sakura chastises her for violence of outlook, she points out that, being two thirteen-year-old girls travelling alone, one carrying the Byakugan, all sorts of people are bound to attack them whom the world would be better off without anyway. Later, dialogue notes that "eventually, the attacks stopped".
• In Zero vs Kira the Britannian soldiers who unknowingly capture Kira in a world-breaching experiment Gone Horribly Right. "Damn uppity Eleven, you think you're somebody because you can speak English and wear a suit." Light Yagami asks if he may at least know the names of his executioners. Later there's the instance where some Britannian thugs pick a fight with Suzaku. Suzaku, naturally, wipes the floor with them.
• At the beginning of Fate/Stay Night: Ultimate Master, Lancer attacks Ben Tennyson while looking for souls to feed on. He is suitably surprised when what he assumed to be a harmless teenager turns into a hulking armored being with heat vision.
• In First Try Series, Sakura, who is still an Academy student, tries to pick a fight with Naruto, who was almost Chunin, and learns the hard way that he didn't drop out. Her mother Barako tries to destroy Tetsuo's reputation and get an old secretary fired, not knowing they are Danzo's grandson and Danzo himself.
• Forms part of the backstory in Red Fire, Red Planet. Norigom, a Nausicaan just conscripted onto the IKS mupwI's command crew from Rura Penthe, apparently decided his first order of business should be getting laid for probably the first time since the Klingon-Gorn War. And what better target for his affections than the 147 cm, 43 kilo Orion he thought was probably ship's "entertainment"?
  "Norigom came to half an hour later with four cracked ribs, two broken metatarsals and a nose that was somewhat flatter than it had been when he'd entered the room."
• In Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, Mizuki's gang's first encounter with Naruto results in this. After initially meeting him at Ino's family store and dismissing him as a weakling, gang members Dosu, Zaku and Kin happen upon Naruto later in the evening and decide it'll be a good idea to make a game out of beating him up. Only problem is, Naruto happens to be one of the infamous Nine Terrors, people who could destroy cities with ease in the back-story; the end result is that the entire gang winds up with broken bones and their motorcycles smashed to pieces. Much later, it veers into Bullying a Dragon territory when Mizuki takes more of his gang to confront Naruto, Naruto beats up several of them single-handedly and then reveals who he is...and Mizuki decides to take him on anyway, with not-too-surprising results.
• Shadowchasers (Cyber Commander): A flashback reveals that this is how Vincent and Albert Schumer first met the illithiid crime boss Luis DaPen, by trying to shake him down for money when he was alone in Satellite. Unlike most examples of this Trope, it ended well for them; while he could have easily killed them, he instead offered them jobs as his bodyguards, eventually earning their Undying Loyalty.
• Webwork: Jade, now a Jorogumo but disguised as a human via glamour, is mistaken by a mugger for a hooker and is threatened at knifepoint for some "fun" in an alley. She proceeds to slam his head against the alley wall repeatedly, barely noticing as she does so.
• Karakura Thugs is built on this trope. A group of thugs annoyed at Ichigo not being a proper delinquent decide to beat up his friends instead. Almost all of whom have superpowers of some kind, and even the one they attacked that didn't had stun guns and Molotov cocktails instead.
• At one point in Life in Reverse a few crooks had the bad luck to choose to threaten an incognito Loki.
• A mugger tries to hold up Tony and Steve in The Problem with Secret Identities. Tony immediately kicks the gun out of his hand and breaks his nose without thinking about it, to the surprise of even the Cap who doesn't have a chance to react.
• Tales from the Barman:
  • A couple robbers try to hold up Xander's bar. They're so little threat to everyone present that most don't even look up from their drinks.
  • Later, a couple of mafia enforcers try to shake Xander down for protection money. One of Xander's regulars is Illyria.
• In What Happens in Vegas, Dumbledore kidnaps Willow Potter so she can "fulfill her obligation to defeat Voldemort". Willow's wife, Raven, objects. Violently.
• There are a few Five Nights at Freddy's crossovers where the security guard is not gonna let Freddy and gang do what they please;
  • Pyro's Night At Freddy's: Pyro gets the job, and in his own Obliviously Evil way, makes one thing clear; He's not trapped with killer animatronics, the animatronics are trapped with him.
  • New Night Guard: This time, it's Heavy, and he's a lot less oblivious.
  • Dante's Night At Freddy's: Five haunted animatronics. One half-demon demon hunter. Six hours of senseless carnage...for the robots.
  • A Catgirl At Freddy's, a Fenspace crossover. A more accurate title might be "A Catgirl Armed With A Double-Barrelled Shotgun At Freddy's Who Has Her Even More Heavily Armed Boyfriend Waiting Outside". Ultimately subverted because Everybody Lives, the animatronics weren't actually serious about hurting anyone in the first place, and there's a solar system-wide APB out on the Purple Guy.
• The Bridge (MLP): Aria Blaze detects someone emitting a great deal of hatred and rage and approaches in order to feed. It turns out to be Kaizer Ghidorah. Even with the power boost she gets from feeding on him, all she can do is run.
• Tends to be a Running Gag in the Italian remake of Battle Fantasia Project:
  • Seeing that the Yakuza of Tokyo had been recently eradicated, a group of South American criminals tried to fill the vacuum and get rid of the chief of the police by taking in hostage a group of middle school students from Mitakihara that included Mami Tomoe. But they're not that lucky: committing a violent crime in Tokyo means dealing with Sailor Venus...
  • It's mentioned that a criminal tried to rob a bank in San Francisco and had to deal with what is implied to be a retired Harry Callahan. The criminal got his hand shot off, and his panicked moves made him bleed out before the ambulance arrived.
  • How did Mami became known as Mami the Invincible? Well, a few days after her break-up with Kyoko, five magical girls from another town tried to take over Mitakihara and the nearby town, and mocked Mami on her loneliness. Mami blew up one, shot another with the Tiro Finale, tied up and shot in the Soul Gems two others, and let the fifth one go to spread her legend, periodically visiting her to fake having decided to finish the job but having forgotten something she needs to properly kill her.
• A random Muggle in The Eyes Have It throws a can of paint at Sakura's group, thinking them "fancy-shmancy samurai". Sakura compares to seeing a drunk kicking a sleeping bear.
• The crossover of Vandread Halo gives the Spartan II to the all-female Space Pirates. Though the Master Chief clearly shows to be more of a Gentle Giant than he seems, the women still can't stand what would happen if they tried to pick on him. Fortunately aside that, they are savvy enough to avoid this trope.
  • Rabat was...not so lucky.
• In the second arc of Halkegenia Online Zero Hour, the Red Japanese Army tries to attack the SAO Returnees School. A school where most of the students had just spent two years fighting for their lives, taking 38% casualties in the process, and are not going to put up with that again. To make it worse, one of their team leaders, Nanbou 'The Heartbreaker', decides to indulge in his hobby of traumatizing young girls via rape, and happens to pick the girl who is secretly the serial killer who is running around massacring the local yakuzas as his next victim.
• A Running Gag in Ranma ½ stories is to have some thug from out of Nerima pick a fight with Ranma or another member of the Nerima Wrecking Crew, all of whom can shatter walls without even trying thanks to their martial arts training. Then there's the story where an idiot decided to savagely beat and then rape Nabiki...
  Hiro: "You... You don't know who Ranma Saotome is...?"
  Jiro: "Heard his name a few times. Nothing special."
  Hiro: "Nothing special...*cue hysterical laughter* You're a dead man Jiro. A fucking dead man!"
  • Ranma showed up soon after, and, believing death was too good for him, made sure Jiro experienced what he did to Nabiki a hundred times over by using Instant Nyanniichuan on the guy, turning him into a girl, before dumping him in just the right sort of place where he gets gang-raped by a band of thugs.
• A sort of Running Gag in Venus Flash, as Sailor Venus and the Dark Kingdom are an Outside-Context Problem to Panther Claw, and nobody could imagine what Honey can now do with the Airborn Element Fixing Device. Then there's the banchou of Minako's school picking a fight with her...
• In For want of a Nail, (NSFW) protagonist/supersoldier turned professional comedian Jason Thorn makes a joke about a mugger accidentally picking Supergirl for a victim, backing off with "Oh... excuse me, I thought you were someone else...". In the audience, Wonder Woman confides to a friend "Someone actually used that line once...".
• In Cycles Upon Cycles, a group of mostly Batarian mercenaries try to attack a Terran colony with plans to enslave the inhabitants and sell off their technology. Unfortunately for them, the Koprulu sector is such a hostile place that Terrans always set up their military first before allowing civilians on a new colony.
• In Not In Kansas:
  • Vampire Slayer Kendra tries to kill Supergirl with a sword, thinking her a demon. Kara finds the idea kinda funny.
  • Earlier some members of the NID try to kidnap Kara. After taking out three of them, she catches the fourth by standing in front of the getaway van.
• In Father Goose and the Black Knight, Detectives Benson and Stabler interrogate Xander in the Cleveland headquarters over a number of girls who've been raped and tortured. What they don't know is every girl there (all twenty six of them) is a Slayer who adores Xander. Faith openly tells them that they're only leaving the building alive because Xander told the girls not to hurt them.
• The Secret Return of Alex Mack:
  • At eight-year-old Shar's new school, naturally there are boys who give her a hard time when she cries at things that remind her of her murdered parents. Alex lets the school staff know about the problem, pointing out that it's possible she'll flip out and scratch them up with her nails or something. The real danger isn't her nails, though, it's her epic-level pyrokinesis; if Shar truly lost control, they'd be lucky to identify the bodies. Of anyone in the entire school.
  • Clare Tobias tries to take Alex hostage so she can get away after her cover is blown, not realising that Alex could turn silvery in an instant and be immune to anything she can do, zap her unconscious, or telekinetically pinch her carotid artery shut. Alex does have to get a bit creative because she's undercover too, but her power set just has so many options for taking someone down...
• In Thousand Shinji, thugs and men in black often attack Shinji, Asuka and Rei, thinking that they're helpless children. Usually, when their assailants discover their intended victims are NOT defenseless, it's too late to run away.
• In Unbiased the Sound Four try to deliver Orochimaru's offer to Sasuke, only to get the wrong hospital room. Things only become truly problematic when Tayuya asks who the "big-titted whore" is; Tsunade is not amused.
• Quicken: Right after she dug her way out of her own grave, Emma was attacked by four thugs who intended to rape her. She was a berserker with a self-regenerative power. They thought that she was a helpless teenager. She killed them all.
• In Becoming More a local Jerk Jock gropes one of the girls at school and learns the hard way she just became a Slayer when she picks him up one handed and throws him across the hall. Later becomes Bullying a Dragon when he and his friends try to rape and murder her.
• Three examples in Mortal Kombat vs Marvel Universe in regards to the Cage family:
  • When Norman Osborn kidnaps Cassie and her sister, Ravenna, in revenge for their parents beating the crap out of him, he expects Johnny to surrender Cage Incorporated in exchange for their release. He, nor the Hand's gang, Madame Masque or the Purple Man did not know about Cassie and Ravenna being mutant telepaths. Cue the asskicking and skullcracking
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. raids a home in upstate New York, as they suspect that Jessica Jones is hiding there. Nope, it's Cassie, who mows down the Capekillers and several heroes. It takes Iron Man to stop her.
  • Johnny Cage vs a group of muggers. Guess what happens next.
• Mass Effect character Harkin decides to cop a feel of the cute redhead that came in with Nihlus in Wild Effect. After he ignores her warnings that she'll give him a five second head-start, Ranma dislocates every bone in his hand.
  • In the chapter before that, Ranma overpowered a Krogan and the gang that came with him, single-handed, in girl form!
• Nabiki Tendo decides to extort the woman she believes to be yet another fiance in Hell Is a Martial Artist, who goes along with it out of amusement. Unfortunately for her, said woman is Hild, and Nabiki's decision that breaking their deal would earn her more money in the long run costs the girl her soul.
  • Later a Youma possessing Gos tries to take over the planet only to run afoul of the Sailor Scouts (who he knew about) and worse, Sailor Moon's martial arts instructor: Ranma Saotome aka the teen Hild has basically adopted.
• Oh, do the four love this trope in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. It comes into play every time someone attacks them, and they make quite a bit of money this way, thanks to the Blameless Victim Revenge Law — if you're attacked for no reason and you win, you legally get to keep anything you want off the attackers. And since the four never once initiate an attack or do anything to encourage one besides walking around.... They call it “fishing.”
  • Don't fuck with Nine Thousands! And it's a damn good thing the four are Actual Pacifists.
  • Though the city muggers, at least, figure out what's going on after two nights of “fishing.” But the outworlders don't, or can't believe the four are that powerful... despite them being nicknamed the Awesome Foursome after less than two days of mostly just wandering around as tourists.
• In An Open and Frank Discussion by Adrian Tullberg, Civil War-era Iron Man and his various allies encounter a super-powered visitor to their world from another dimension and try to force her to abide the Superhuman Registration Act or face imprisonment in the Negative Zone. Unfortunately for them, the super-powered visitor in question turns out to be Wonder Woman, who proves capable of not only handing each of them their asses, but also of offering an intellectual deconstruction of the numerous constitutional failings of the Registration Act once she's done so.
• In The Vain Rose's Garden, Casanova Wannabe Toshiyuki Aoshima tries first coercing then intimidating Belldandy into sleeping with him. She responds by picking him up and throwing him into a dumpster.
• Instead of the Straw Hats, in Nine Minutes the Foxy Pirates try to attack a small group of Revolutionaries. The reaction of each Revolutionary when they (individually) hear this is an amused, "That's adorable." A later chapter implies only Porsche survived.
• In Life During Wartime, a canon sidestory to Neon Metathesis Evangelion, two thugs try to mug Kaworu, Kensuke and Mana at night, thinking them easy prey. However, Mana has been fully trained by the JSSDF in close quarter combat, and unlike the other sort of training she has received, that one has always come easily to her. The thugs have no chance.
• In Harry by Proxy, some gang members think a member of some rival gang came on their street and decide to give him a lesson. The guy is actually Jeffrey Woods, knife wielder extraordinaire and clinical psychopath. Bloodbath ensues.
• Nick Fury in Vacation means Chaos tries to intimidate Xander Harris into not telling the Avengers about the Watchers Council, even threatening to have him arrested for treason. Xander pretends to be an idiot for a while (such as thinking Nick Fury is Kingsley Shacklebolt) before informing him that he (Xander) is a member of the board and thus has the right to tell anyone he pleases about the Slayer and the Council.
• In A.A. Pessimal's Discworld and The Big Bang Theory crossover The Many Worlds Interpretation, visiting Discworlder Johanna Smith-Rhodes twice encounters the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. In Ankh-Morpork, she has to go easy on Thieves as a mark of professional courtesy to fellow Guild professionals going about their everyday work. In Los Angeles, however, she reasons that all Thieves are unlicenced and professional courtesy no longer applies. Two groups of would-be robbers discover what a trained, professional Assassin is capable of when she isn't even annoyed. Then her Guild colleague Ruth N'Kweze crosses over and meets members of a typical street gang whilst walking two dogs late at night. The dogs are what are called Rhodesian Ridgebacks on both worlds. It isn't Ruth who declines a fight and backs off. A whole LA street gang collectively thinks better of it.
• After Harry busts a drug ring in Adapt and Transform some of the remaining criminals involved hunt him down and take his boyfriend Eggsy hostage, figuring he's an easier target and unaware that he's secretly an almost fully trained auror.
• A random Muggle tries to slip Gia a date rape drug in My Copy, having no idea she's an Opposite-Sex Clone of Batroc the Leaper. Worse is that she's accompanied by Opposite Sex Clones of Trickshot, Forge, and Rhino. The would-be rapist has to have several ribs and a shoulder replaced.
• Sometime after Louise summons Celestia is a familiar in Celestia Takes a Vacation, her older sister Eleanor comes to the academy and starts immediately antagonizing Celestia, comparing her to a common work horse. After a short magical duel, Eleanor is reduced to a talking bunny.
• In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl story The Vampire of Steel:
  • Subverted. Two vampires ambush a seemingly ordinary bystander at night. Said bystander is Zol-Am, a Kryptonian who can kill them in the twinkling of an eye. But he gets cocky and although he rams his arm straight through the chest of one of them, the second bit his neck and left him dry.
  • Played straight shortly after when two vampires assault him. Two heat beams rather they were two bodies littering the ground.
• In Dragon Age: Inquisition fanfic Walking in Circles, we have a non-violent example in which a pickpocket tries to mug Solas and Evelyn, he ends up losing his own purse instead.
• In one of the oneshots in Mysteries of the Seas, Nami tries to rob a ship that pulls up on the cruise ship she's on. Unfortunately for her, the two crew members of said ship are Monet and a post-Time Skip Nico Robin, both of whom have Armaments and Observation Haki and the latter of whom left a copy on-board. Luckily for her, they're willing to recruit her instead as neither as any skill at navigation.
• In the Saint Seiya/The Rising of the Shield Hero crossover The Hero Melromarc Needs and Deserves, Malty tries on Naofumi's replacement the False Rape Accusation she successfully pulled off in canon. Problem is, she's doing it with Cancer Deathmask, who's more than powerful enough to annihilate everything on the planet and has a sketchy morality as a hero-and he takes offense at the set-up.
  It was a minor miracle that Deathmask's punch simply knocked Motoyasu out, or that he didn't massacre everyone.
  • According to the side stories, she got lucky: Deathmask had a plan that would have given her a very painful death and allowed him to all but take over the country but blew it off in a fit of rage when he realized the entire situation and forgot to even kill her, but many of the other Gold Saints would have just killed her on the spot or got creative. Particularly bad for her and everyone involved would have been Aries Mu, who would have simply teleported home after stealing the holy weapons (it's not stated if he would have returned with reinforcements to save the planet anyway), and Pisces Aphrodite, who would have killed her in such a way to push her father and accomplice to torture himself to death at his request.
• Several examples found in X-Men: The Early Years:
  • A thief attempts to snatch the purse of Jean "incredibly powerful psychic with an incredibly short fuse" Grey. It doesn't end well for him. But at least Hank didn't lock him down in a basement and re-engineer him his genes, so yay?
  • A high-school bully called Bruno picks on Bobby until Bobby gets fed up and retaliates. Later on, Bruno can be seen screaming Bobby is an “agent of Satan”.
• In the RWBY fanfic Emergence, a group of ISIS militants capture a young blonde woman, and force her to read their message at knife point. The person in question is Yang Xiao Long, who proceeds to rip the fanatics apart.
• A Man of Iron: During the riot in King's Landing during A Crack of Thunder, a group of men attempt to rape Sansa, as per canon. However, since by this point Sansa has become the Night's Queen... well, let's just say that the guy who's killed via Neck Snap gets off easy compared to how his friends go out.
• In the Firefly fanfic Forward, during the "Mosaic" story arc, a group of thugs manage to board Serenity and capture most of the crew. While most of the crew put up a good fight, the only one they capture without a struggle is River, because she'd had a mental breakdown earlier in the story and had to be sedated. The thugs dismiss River as a non-threat because she's a small teenage girl, and when she wakes up from the drugs, most of the ensuing carnage is only heard over the radio, mixed in with the horrified screams of the men she's slaughtering.
• In Conversations with a Cryptid, Izuku's childhood bullies and several villains who kidnap him for personal revenge. To be fair, it's pretty reasonable for them to not figure out that the timid quirkless kid was actually the son of All for One, who's quite the Knight Templar Parent..
• In My Huntsman Academia, Junior tries to cop a feel of a new waitress he hired at his club. That waitress happened to be Pyrrha Nikos, four-time Mistral Tournament champion and "The Invincible Girl" who has never lost a match. Later on, he's so tired of Huntsmen burning down his bar that he decides to pick a fight with all of Team MNVW in hopes of holding them for ransom, only to be blindsided when almost all of his remaining goons are wiped out by a single Glenn Smash from Izuku, the current holder of One For All.
• In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku accidentally butts heads with a huge, muscular man wearing a plague mask over a rare doll. The man challenges Izuku to a contest of strength, first punching a cushioned receiver and then to an old-fashioned arm wrestling match, to settle who gets it even though Izuku was more than willing to just let him have it. Being Kryptonian, Izuku crushes the man handily without even meaning to, even tossing him into the air and dislocating the man's shoulder.
• In From Muddy Waters, Izuku is so wary of using his Quirk that he's initially mistaken for being Quirkless, leading some of his middle school classmates to try to bully him. He quickly shuts them up with one of his strength enhancing Quirks.
• Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: The Blue Dogs gang hold Izuku/Mastermind at gunpoint to get out of paying for plans to rob Okane Bank, with Tanaka, the leader, calling him a pipsqueak. Immediately after the meeting, Mastermind sells plans on how to murder them to their enemies.
• Service with a Smile:
  • An indirect example. The thugs who put Jaune in the hospital and trash his business inadvertently put themselves in the crosshairs of the hormonal Huntsmen and Huntresses in training, and the even less-morally restrained criminal underground, that love Jaune and/or his diner.
  • Another indirect example occurs when Alexander Sterling calls the ones smearing his business practice liars without first finding out who it is, thinking it's Jaune Arc. Instead it's Weiss Schnee and he's just directly insulted the Schnee family who own the largest MegaCorp in Remnant.
  • Alexander Sterling tries to have his bodyguard remove Velvet when she refuses to let him see Jaune. Velvet easily places the larger man in a submission hold with the implied threat of breaking his shoulder if he resists.
• Because he's out of the loop, V.V. in Six Paths Of Rebellion goes to kidnap Nunnally much like canon. Unfortunately for him, her blindness and inability to walk have both been cured months prior and Nunnally has turned into quite the athlete, and her Ninja Maid is present as well. On top of this, both Sayoko and Nunnally have been given the Rinnegan by C.C., leaving V.V. confronting two outright superhumans while in the body of a ten year old boy. Nunnally makes him suffer immensely before allowing C.C. to kill him.
• Boldores And Boomsticks:
  • Team Rocket thugs have broken into a Pokémon nursery to steal the eggs, but their Drowzee misses the young girl currently on watch. That was their first mistake. Their second was assuming a rich-looking girl with no Pokémon of her own would be easy to cow. Weiss Schnee draws her sword and disabuses them of that notion rapidly.
  • They do this again in a later chapter, when Cassidy and Butch, a couple of higher-level agents, threaten all of RWBY. One starts to monologue about how his new Poké Ball can steal Pokémon from their trainers — and Ruby simply shoots it out of his hand. Then they pull out a pair of high-level Pokémon, who themselves assume it's going to be a simple matter to intimidate the girls. Yang proceeds to gleefully wipe the floor with them.
  • Faba tries to threaten Watts with his Raichu only to end up with the doctor's revolver to his head.
• In Security, Clint Barton's home wasn't actually off the books and was attacked by HYDRA while he was away. Unfortunately for them, Laura Barton's maiden name is Laura Howlett.
• Atonement: Impasse's force field has protected him so long, he thinks he's immune to consequences. It's why he won't listen to warnings that harming Amy meant pissing off her father Marquis. He's Killed Mid-Sentence:
  Impasse: That's right, terms. You want the bitch alive, you'll negotiate. So first—
• In Worm/DC Universe crossover Echoes of Yesterday, Sophia Hess isn't amused when all of sudden a stranger shows up and breaks Taylor Hebert out of the locker where Sophia had shoved her into, so she tries to harass the newcomer. One Neck Lift combined with glowing red eyes later, Sophia and her bully squad consider the virtues of keeping quiet and stay away from Kara.
• Avatar: Legend of Diamond Tiara: Poor Starlight and Ahuizotl. Both of them find out Silver Spoon's true nature much too late.
• Wrong Road to the Right Place: The Dodger tries to use an Explosive Leash on Laurel. She promptly grabs him and holds him close enough that he can't blow her up without killing himself as well. Oliver and security arrive shortly after and subdue him.
  Oliver: Who are you, and what have you done to Laurel?
  The Dodger: The better question is what's she done to me? Unbelievable. A vigilante spoiled my first attempt in Starling and now this. Your police should hang up their caps in shame.
• Hellsing Ultimate Abridged:
  • Zorin Blitz leads the vampire attack on the Hellsing manor, dismissing the Wild Geese mercenary guards and Seras, a recently-turned vampire police officer, as minimal threats, even calling Seras "a stupid, big-tittied police girl." Then, after killing most of the Wild Geese, including their leader Pip, and cutting off one of Seras' arms and blinding her, Seras drinks Pip's blood, and turns into a terrifying blur of vampiric violence who kills Zorin and her entire unit single-handedly.
  • Alucard decided to play this trope for shits and giggles if his Twitter is anything to go by.
    TheCrimsonFuckr: Sometimes I take the form of an 8-year-old and get in windowless vans with strangers. If they're legit, I get candy and PlayStation. If not, I get to eat a child molester. Win-win!
    Although for some reason, they always have the faintest aftertaste of communion wafers.
• In Lelouch of the Apotheosis, V.V. decides to keep Lelouch in line by kidnapping Nunnally, doing so himself because they seem to have Mao on their side given how flawless their security is. In reality, Nunnally has a Geass that lets her see everything within a mile of her which recently hit rampancy, which also lets her see an individual's future. When she notices she can't see a young boy's future, Nunnally realizes he's an immortal like C.C. and kills him herself. Both Charles and Marianne laugh themselves sick at the fact V.V. was killed by little Nunnally, especially since he could have avoided his fate if he'd investigated properly.
• In Idunn's Apple Pie, the Red Skull discovers that Captain America has a wife and son, and decides to take Revenge by Proxy on them. As it turns out, though, his informant (Loki) deliberately neglected a very important fact. Specifically, that the woman who Captain America married was Loki's daughter Hela, the Asgardian Queen of the Dead. By the time Steve and SHIELD arrive on the scene, the HYDRA troops are all dead or unconscious, both Hela and Bucky (her and Steve's son) are totally unhurt, and the Red Skull has had his arms and legs cut off and been stuffed into a trash can.
• In the first chapter of A Peaceful Afterlife, a demon tries to mug Yoshikage Kira, who retains his Stand's powers. Kira turns his money into a bomb and annihilates the thug.
• Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion: After Zim starts interning at Membrane Labs, some thugs corner him on the streets at gunpoint and try to force him to help them rob the facility. Zim responds by cutting off the hands holding their guns; three of them end up dead, while the fourth is taken prisoner in Zim's base and subjected to a Fate Worse than Death.
  Zim: You all really thought you were the monsters here?
• Before the events of Sons of Liberty, Todd pickpocket from a stranger in New York, and end up taking an ID saying 'SHIELD, Colonel Nick Fury, Director'. Thankfully for his sake, Fury took back the ID and left the terrified teen. When he meets Todd and the Brotherhood, he states that he did so since he was impressed at his ability and that taking him to the cops would have brought trouble to both of them.
• In Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion the encounter between Tarkin and the coalition of Tusken tribes has three examples:
  • The Tusken were ready to attack the moisture farms around Anchorhead, and only knew of the settlers, and couldn't know that the Grand Moff of the Outer Rim was there to snap his niece out of her depression. All in all, they were lucky he found Orbital Bombardment excessive and instead came up with a plan to decimate them while also breaking the coalition and leave the survivors traumatized.
  • Tarkin's plan initially goes well... Then the main Tusken's chief pulls out a lightsaber, as he's actually the Tusken-born Jedi Master A'sharad Hett. Tarkin quickly comes up with a way to deal with him, but it's implied that if plan b had failed, he would have gone for the Orbital Bombardment route, and same if he had known about that surprise in the first place.
  • Had Tarkin not intervened first, the Tusken would have been faced with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who would have made short work of the chief and chased away the rest. In fact a later chapter reveals he was already walking to their camp, and only Tarkin having a speeder and thus arriving first kept him from doing the job himself.
• With This Ring:
  • Happens with a twist when the attackers aren't thugs, but rookie Green Lanterns, basically interstellar police officers. However, they were supposed to be continuing basic training, not freaking out at the appearance of an Orange Lantern and attacking him on sight. If they had checked their databases, they would have known, not only that he had an appointment, but also that he has Enlightenment Super Powers and has bonded with the universal embodiment of avarice, resulting in his soul being largely made of orange light — meaning that even five on one, it only takes seconds before they're chained up and he's holding all their power rings.
  • There's a more straightforward example when Paul is strolling incognito through Gotham and doesn't bother to cross the street to avoid three teenagers. One of them confronts him and starts mouthing off, then shoving him — to absolutely no effect — and then notices his glowing orange eyes. And ability to teleport. No hard feelings, though; Paul just smiles at them, suggests that they all keep things peaceful, and hands them a pizza he was keeping in subspace, which terrifies them more than ever.
• In the Grounded Lightning some thugs in Ba-Sing-Se decide to try and rape a cute girl. As their target is Azula, they're quickly burned to death.
• Point Me at the Skyrim: While making their way back to Helgen, Victoria Dallon and Sevitus are ambushed by a group of bandits. Victoria gives them the option to turn back and run. They don't take it. Cue epic beat down with Victoria not even having to lift a single finger.
• In Ere We Go, Pluz Ultra!, a trio of random thugs attempt to mug Toshinori Yagi. Luckily for them, he's out of time for the day and can't transform into All-Might. Unluckily for them, Izuku is nearby and smashes them himself.
  • Later, a pair of criminals try to murder Inko. When they refuse her insistence that they politely leave (and fix the door they broke), she presses a little red button that causes nine minigun turrets to pop out of various locations. Inko then warns them that they're merely the least lethal security measure her home has.
• In the Invader Zim fandom, a common plot for anti-Gaz fanfics is for her to attack a supernatural being or other creature for annoying her, who then shows her its true power by doing something either painful or humiliating to her. For example, in Misery Loves Company, she shoves and yells at a woman in a cemetery, who turns out to be a witch far more powerful than her. She ends up kidnapping Gaz, making her run through a gauntlet of humiliating booby traps, and wiping her memories to adopt her as her new child.
• In The Wizard of Gotham, Vernon Dursley tries to attack the intruder who barged into his family's house. Said intruder happens to be Batman. You can guess how it goes.
• Bakery "Enemies": A robber attacks a bakery that happens to be staffed by Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Cat Noir). They take him down in about two minutes.
• A Darker Path:
  • Sophia ignores Taylor's Implied Death Threat and decides to "show her her place". Taylor quickly proves both willing and able to follow through with her new "Path to Ending" power, using Combat Clairvoyance to brutally kill Sophia without taking even slight damage in return.
  • When Taylor is putting things in place for her murder of Skidmark, a random guy tries to mug her.
    I chose not to kill him, but unfortunately for him, you have to kick someone very hard indeed in the testicles before it's life-threatening.
• Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse:
  • Our heroes, the Kamikaze Pirates, actually fall afoul of this in chapter 18, when they pull a Black-Tie Infiltration of the birthday party of an island governor who has recently been promoted to the rank of Navy Commodore, having come to believe that the Navy are largely made up of corrupt, ineffectual weaklings. It turns out that the man they are intent on robbing, one Baron Sukumvit, is actually a proud scion of a family that has been hunting Grand Line beasts and Zoan-using pirate captains for fun for generations, and he earned his rank the old-fashioned way. Ranma's only forewarning is when the Baron reacts to Ranma's declaration of being a pirate captain with the attitude of a kid getting a much-anticipated present before the Baron delivers a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle that Ranma narrowly escapes from.
  • In chapter 20, a young boy named Anaguma smuggles himself onto the Kamikaze Pirates' ship in hopes of taking one down for a bounty, as he thought they looked like the weakest crew gathered for the Dead End Race. The Kamikazes, at this point, include over half a dozen different Badass Normals, an Animorphism-using Empowered Badass Normal in Shampoo, and Miriam, a giant shark woman who is literally big enough to pick Anaguma up by the scruff of his neck between forefinger and thumb. Upon seeing her face to face, Anaguma immediately starts begging her not to eat him. And that's after Shampoo nonchalantly dodges Anaguma's attempt to shoot him and hauls him onto the deck like a bag of potatoes.
• It's Always The Quiet Ones: Suffice to say, Marietta and her fellow bully would never have picked on Luna if they knew she could summon Eldritch Abominations from the deep with her mother's family spell. Snape might have backed off on his bullying, too.
• Vigilantes' Dawn: Barton Mathis tries to kidnap Laurel Lance like he did in canon. Unfortunately for him, in this AU Laurel is the one who went on the Gambit with Oliver instead of Sara, and thus the one who ended up in the League of Assassins before deserting to rejoin Oliver. All Mathis gets for his troubles is a broken nose and a quick trip back to Iron Heights.
• My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: In Chapter 22, a street gang decides to try and mug a man who they believe is playing as a 'wannabe hero'. The man in question? The Doom Slayer. The next scene has two heroes watch an armless gangster run to them before the Slayer bursts through a wall and slams the man's head into a fire hydrant.
  Thug: HELP ME! YOU GOTTA HELP ME! IT'S A FUCKING MONSTER-
• Love Opens Many Doors: In the eight chapter, it's mentioned that Ranma, Shampoo, Ukyo and Nabiki get mugged thirteen times whilst exploring the Hive Ward in search of the Bottle & Jug Tavern. Each time, the muggers get absolutely squashed by three increasingly ticked-off martial artists.
• Seventh Endmost Vision has a brief incident where Tifa and Sephiroth are mugged by "Beck's Badasses". Fortunately for the crooks in question, the two of them (A First Class Soldier and the "Champion" of Sector Five of Midgar), are more amused by the attempt than anything.
• Heroes of the New World; on Spider Miles, Caribou and his crew spot a trio of newcomers and go over to harass them, as they're a pretty big deal up in the North Blue. Said trio consists of Izuku Midoriya, Yamato, and Vinsmoke Reiju, the former of whom have come from the New World where they have battled pirates who make Caribou look like chump change. True to the trope, Yamato turns Caribou into a Twinkle in the Sky with one hit from her kanabo while Izuku's speed blitz terrifies the rest of the Caribou Pirates into fleeing and swearing off piracy for good.
• Metal Gear: Green (A My Hero Academia/Metal Gear crossover): The Downpour thugs in the USJ decide to attack the Ocelot unit when they order them to surrender. The issue is that the Ocelot Unit is comprised of military trained adults who were expelled by Aizawa's Trigger-Happy antics who have assault rifles, machine guns and a turret-mounted .50 Cal. In Tokoyami's own words, there wasn't enough to bury any of those villains.
• Crazy Irken and ? (Invader Zim-based crossover fic anthology by D_rissing and nightmaster000. ^note Unable to link due to violating Content Policy, but it can be found on their Archive of Our Own pages.): The plot of the Atomic Betty chapter is kicked off by Betty’s crew trying to catch Zim in a sting operation for weapons smuggling, only for him to turn the tables and capture her, allowing him to break her to his will and use her knowledge of Galactic Guardian secrets to completely undermine and destroy the organization.