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TriggerLoaded
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
1st May, 2011 09:26:19 AM
Related to It's All About Me and Disproportionate Retribution. I think one of the Dissonance tropes may apply as well. Values Dissonance, was it?
Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary situation.
Chariset
Since: Jan, 2001
1st May, 2011 12:07:25 PM
This one is a darker version of Minor Insult Meltdown
Why Did You Make Me Hit You? is related.
Laughlin
Since: Dec, 1969
Alice does something horrible to Bob, or tries to. Bob does something to Alice in self-defense. Alice is then horribly upset with Bob for daring to do bad things to her.
(Examples abound both in media and the real world, but the one that triggered this for me was G La DOS being horribly upset at being killed in self-defense. If this ends up as a new trope, I'd suggest How Dare You Fight Back as a title.)