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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10904767/1/Skies-of-Vermillion Skies of Vermillion]]'' (a {{Transformers}} fanfic inspired by AncientRome), Soundwave purchases Tracks as a slave. Throughout the story, Tracks snaps at him, makes accusations, and even ''hits'' him on one occasion. Granted, Tracks has a DarkAndTroubledPast, but the fact remains, Soundwave is his ''owner'', and could easily have him a) beaten, b) executed, c) executed by ''being beaten'', or d) beaten and ''then'' executed if he wanted to.

** Sean Cassidy's occasional antagonism of Snape would be this trope if it wasn't for the fact that Sean's just as big and bad a dragon as Snape, if not rather bigger and badder.

* The MegaCrossover [[Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds Hasbroverse]] uses this in its WorldBuilding backstory to explain why Franchise/GIJoe disbanded: Cobra Commander, being based on his more competent MarvelComics counterpart, was smart enough to avoid getting into a fight with [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} the Decepticons]]. Serpentor, however, wasn't as bright, and launched an attack that pissed off Megatron enough to launch a counterattack so ferocious (including ''glassing'' Cobra Island. ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill Then]]'' [[NoKillLikeOverkill they bombed the island until the volcano erupted and sank it]]) that only a handful of members of the organization survived -- Cobra Commander himself, who was smart enough to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee]] when he realized what Serpentor had done ([[KarmaHoudini and now lives like a king somewhere in upstate New York]]); a half-dozen {{Mooks}} loyal enough that the Commander took them with him; Destro and TheBaroness, who left the group some point prior; and Storm Shadow, who'd had a HeelFaceTurn and likewise left the group. There's also rumors that Zartan survived as well, but there's no confirmation of that.

* ''[[Fanfic/Mortality]]'': A criminal that Watson is interrogating begs for mercy., but gets killed. Also, the criminal that ''tortured Holmes with an inch of his LIFE'' winds up lying in a pool of his own BLOOD.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' and ''TheHouseOfNight'' {{Crossover}} ''Fanfic/NoHoper'' when the other students begin to shun [[TheChessmaster Light]] and he takes to reading Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You can imagine how things are going to go.]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d again by their literature professor Penthesilea:

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7465071/1/Skies-of-Vermillion Skies of Vermillion]]'' (a {{Transformers}} fanfic inspired by AncientRome), Soundwave purchases Tracks as a slave. Throughout the story, Tracks snaps at him, makes accusations, and even ''hits'' him on one occasion. Granted, Tracks has a DarkAndTroubledPast, but the fact remains, Soundwave is his ''owner'', and could easily have him a) beaten, b) executed, c) executed by ''being beaten'', or d) beaten and ''then'' executed if he wanted to.

* The MegaCrossover [[Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds Hasbroverse]] uses this in its WorldBuilding backstory to explain why Franchise/GIJoe disbanded: Cobra Commander, being based on his more competent MarvelComics counterpart, was smart enough to avoid getting into a fight with [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} the Decepticons]]. Serpentor, however, wasn't as bright, and launched an attack that pissed off Megatron enough to launch a counterattack so ferocious (including ''glassing'' Cobra Island) that only a handful of members of the organization survived -- Cobra Commander himself, who was smart enough to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee]] when he realized what Serpentor had done ([[KarmaHoudini and now lives like a king somewhere in upstate New York]]); a half-dozen {{Mooks}} loyal enough that the Commander took them with him; Destro and TheBaroness, who left the group some point prior; and Storm Shadow, who'd had a HeelFaceTurn and likewise left the group. There's also rumors that Zartan survived as well, but there's no confirmation of that.

* In the ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'' side-story ''Day of the Broken Fang'', [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/GIJoe Serpentor]] ordered a COBRA attack on the ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Decepticon]]''. He nearly got away with it, what with Megatron being amused by the attack... Then the Decepticon leader learned that the attack had damaged something he needed for his battles. Aside for Cobra Commander and those he managed to tell while he ran, few others have escaped the Decepticon counter-attack on ''every single COBRA base in the world''.
** Then Overkill and some of the survivors reformed COBRA and launched an attack on West Point, ''after'' the Earth Defense Command, born of the GI Joes, the Oktober Guard and other special forces from all around the world and equipped with weapons based on Cybertronian technology, had all but wiped out the Decepticon. Cobra Commander ([[GenreSavvy smarty enough to know that COBRA was finished the moment the Decepticon stopped laughing at their attack and reacted]] and had [[FakingTheDead faked his own death]] to make sure he'd live in peace) {{Lampshaded}} this.
-->"I mean seriously, fifty people, some tanks and some [=BATs=]? Did his hard drive crash or something?"

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfic ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'', [[EvilSorcerer Lung]] captures and tortures Jade to try to break her to his will. It doesn't end well for him. [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal At all]].]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' crossover fanfiction ''FanFic/AShadowOfTheTitans'' (by the same author as ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni''), the hot dog guy Jade met was really rude to her over 5 cents. This gets his cart blown up.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Progress}}'', Angel Bunny attacks Princess Luna with [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes baseballs]], knowing full well who she is. She freaks out at first, but after a little therapy with Fluttershy and Applebloom, she tries to keep cool about it until he breaks her glasses. Then she snaps.
* In ''Fanfic/TheVinylScratchTapes'', another ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic, Vinyl [[WhatTheHellHero calls]] [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] [[WhatTheHellHero out]] during a live broadcast interview for the whole "banishing your sister to the moon and never checking up on her even once for a thousand years" thing. Her co-host Octavia is horrified by Vinyl's behavior and is stunned when Celestia accepts it with good grace instead of having them immediately yanked off the air and thrown into prison.
** [[spoiler:This comes back to bite Vinyl big time, when Princess Luna [[{{Pun}} royally]] chews her out for giving Celestia a huge guilt trip over the incident when it was entirely Luna's fault to begin with and she had no other choice but to banish her.]]
* [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/8454/Running-From-Myself In yet another]] ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic, two former classmates of Twilight Sparkle mock her and call her names in front of everypony like they used to, even while knowing she is [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia's]] personal student, and thus capable of great magical powers.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' / ''Franchise/MassEffect'' FusionFic, ''FanFic/MassEffectTheEquestrianEquation'', this is basically why you do ''not'' want to pick a fight with the ancient Equines, or their modern-day Equestian descendants. Basically, their instincts are to offer a LastSecondChance to a potential threat, and then ''utterly annihilate them'' if they refuse to back down.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''FanFic/ThePrinceOfDeath'' when Naomi hits Light (who in this ficverse has become a literal God of Death) and L fearfully thinks in his InternalMonologue that she might as well have struck TheGrimReaper in the face.
* A [[DinosaursAreDragons (near-)literal]] example from ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'': Yes, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Ludlow]],]] we know you were the one responsible for [[spoiler:turning Violet into a [[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]. But wouldn't it have made your life a whole lot easier if you had, you know, treated her more nicely? [[SarcasmMode Surely, there wouldn't be any possibility that she could have gained the motivation to fuck him up on an astronomical scale]] -- which, predictably, is [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge exactly what she does.]]]]
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' and ''TheHouseOfNight'' {{Crossover}} ''Fanfic/NoHoper'' when the other students begin to shun [[TheChessmaster Light]] and he takes to reading Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You can imagine how things are going to go.]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d again by their literature professor Penthesilea:
--> '''Prof. Penthesilea''':"…''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' as you'll soon find out, warns us of the danger of underestimation, of messing with the wrong person and not treating everyone with the respect they fully deserve. While this may be tempting for some, it will be an insult to the one you abuse, and may [[ComicallyMissingThePoint end in your untimely death]]."

* There is a ''spectacular'' one in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheDilgarWar''. In their one combat encounter with Earthforce, the heavy cruiser ''Persephone'' and her six fighters (of an outdated model that is about to be phased out for the new model) took down ''fifteen Dilgar ships between light cruisers and destroyers plus fighter support'' before charging at Jha'dur's flagship when the rest of the Dilgar fleet showed up and their jump engine was damaged. The Dilgar knew Earth Alliance already had a huge standing fleet that included ships that made the heavy cruiser look weak, and was building up. To reach the Vree Empire (that has already tried to stop their advance in the League), they have to choose between attacking the Markab, allies of Earth (and Earth Alliance made clear that attacking them would be an act of war), or the Yolu, more powerful than the Markab but isolationist and tactically incompetent: the Dilgar Warmaster Council voted to attack the Markab with a 5-4 majority (Jha'dur and the other competent Warmasters voted to attack the Yolu). Less than a month later, Earthforce has ''annihilated'' Jha'dur's veteran fleet (Jha'dur herself barely escaped with her life twice, first when her ship was in the firing arcs of fifty Earth dreadnoughts and then when Earthforce decided to finish the routed Dilgar fleet with ''[[NukeEm five times the number of surviving Dilgar ships in nukes]]''), and one of the other competent Warmasters is dead.
** The Dilgar have a policy of attacking warships from neutral governments to make reparations and have an excuse to stipulate an alliance. While the policy had worked with the Narn, it failed miserably with the Earth Alliance. Yet, they kept it in place and hoped to get the chance to try it with the ''Minbari''. The same Minbari that in a dozen years would [[CurbStompBattle utterly defeat Earthforce with little losses]]. Jha'dur had the sense to question the wisdom to try it with someone they knew was isolationist and incredibly powerful, [[IgnoredExpert but was ignored again]].

* A pony fanfiction, ''FanFic/CrisisEquestria'', has this. In Chapter 17, Tick Tock says things that extremely piss off Starlight Shadow, which was part of Tick Tock's plan. [[spoiler:It fails.]]

* In The ''FanFic/FirstTrySeries'', Sakura tries to do this to Naruto, with poor results:
--> '''Barako:''' I would like to file a complaint against Uzumaki Naruto.
--> '''Ninja Clerk''' (grabs a pen and a form): What is the nature of this complaint?
--> '''Barako:''' That filthy little monster threatened to break my daughter's arm!
--> '''Clerk''' (fills in information): Where were you, and what were you doing at the time this threat was made, and at what time did it occur?
--> '''Sakura:''' I was outside the Academy. I had just gotten out of class for the day, and noticed him hanging around on that swing in the tree near the entrance. I...I tried to hit him.
--> '''Clerk''' (''coldly crumples form''): Let me get this straight. You, an Academy student, decided to attack a full-fledged shinobi who is only a Genin because he had a run of seriously bad luck, and isn't currently on his way to the Chunin exams because we don't want to give Iwa a chance to legally get their revenge on him for what he did to two of their Genin, and you want us to punish him because he decided to go easy on you and let you off with a warning?

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7465071/1/Skies-of-Vermillion Skies of Vermillion]]'' (a {{Transformers}} fanfic inspired by AncientRome), Soundwave purchases Tracks as a slave. Throughout the story, Tracks snaps at him, makes accusations, and even ''hits'' him on one occasion. Granted, Tracks has a DarkAndTroubledPast, but the fact remains, Soundwave is his ''owner'', and could easily have him a) beaten, b) executed, c) executed by ''being beaten'', or d) beaten and ''then'' executed if he wanted to.

* The MegaCrossover [[Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds Hasbroverse]] uses this in its WorldBuilding backstory to explain why Franchise/GIJoe disbanded: Cobra Commander, being based on his more competent MarvelComics counterpart, was smart enough to avoid getting into a fight with [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} the Decepticons]]. Serpentor, however, wasn't as bright, and launched an attack that pissed off Megatron enough to launch a counterattack so ferocious (including ''glassing'' Cobra Island) that only a handful of members of the organization survived -- Cobra Commander himself, who was smart enough to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee]] when he realized what Serpentor had done ([[KarmaHoudini and now lives like a king somewhere in upstate New York]]); a half-dozen {{Mooks}} loyal enough that the Commander took them with him; Destro and TheBaroness, who left the group some point prior; and Storm Shadow, who'd had a HeelFaceTurn and likewise left the group. There's also rumors that Zartan survived as well, but there's no confirmation of that.
* In FanFic/AradsStardust, [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown Dr. Vahlen's]] cold, provocative attitude when testing the cooperative [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle's]] abilities is really not the smartest one to take when she herself notes that X-Com couldn't hope to build ''anything'' that would stand up to Twilight's telekinetic blasts. Several characters note how stupid this is for the supposedly-bright scientist, and once Vahlen finally looks past her FreudianExcuse for her hostility, she also realizes how foolish her behavior was.
* [[http://aminawolf.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Into-Darkness-Thwarted-376877799 This]] FanArt for ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
* No Sues in this case, just the MSN Gang picking on Brandon repeatedly in ''FanFic/{{Pokeumans}}''. At first he was just getting in their way, but after a while ItsPersonal. This turns out to have been a ''really'' bad idea for them later on.

* {{Discussed}} in FanFic/HPMoR: Quirrel's first rule for being a successful dark lord is "I will not go around provoking strong, vicious enemies." He notes that history would be very different if Hitler had followed that rule.

* {{Discussed}} in HPMoR: Quirrel's first rule for being a successful dark lord is "I will not go around provoking strong, vicious enemies." He notes that history would be very different if Hitler had followed that rule.

* In ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', Naruto gets subjected to this from the very first chapter, upon his arrival in Konoha Town in fact, by Mizuki's biker gang. Dosu, Zaku, and Kin, who'd previously had a run-in with Naruto at Ino's family greengrocery and had then dismissed him as being no threat to them, happen upon him later that same day and decide it's going to be a good idea to have the gang beat on him for kicks. The thing is, Naruto's a former member of the Kyuushingai, nine [[PersonOfMassDestruction very]] [[OneManArmy dangerous]] [[TheDreaded people]] who laid waste to entire cities single-handedly over a 365-day period. The end result of the gang's attempt to bully him? Their motorcycles get turned into scrap, and several of their members wind up bloodied and broken on the ground. Then in the next two chapters, they have another confrontation, at which point he reveals his past to everyone present, and Mizuki (who's there this time) [[TooDumbToLive decides to send his gang at Naruto anyway]]. End result? Naruto defeats the whole lot of them with [[GrievousBottleyHarm a soda bottle]].

** [[spoiler: This comes back to bite Vinyl big time, when Princess Luna [[{{Pun}} royally]] chews her out for giving Celestia a huge guilt trip over the incident when it was entirely Luna's fault to begin with and she had no other choice but to banish her.]]

* A [[DinosaursAreDragons (near-)literal]] example from ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'': Yes, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Ludlow]],]] we know you were the one responsible for [[spoiler:turning Violet into a [[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]. But wouldn't it have made your life a whole lot easier if you had, you know, treated her more nicely? [[SarcasmMode Surely, there wouldn't be any possibility that she could have gained the motivation to fuck him up on an astronomical scale -]] which, predictably, is [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge exactly what she does.]]]]

* Subverted in ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'' Naomi wants to stay on Light's good-side in case Light [[EasyAmnesia ever remembers he's a serial killing mass-murderer.]] Later L plays this completely straight with his continual harassment of Light. Also [[OriginalCharacter Duck]] and Mello:

* There is a ''spectacular'' one in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheDilgarWar''. In their one combat encounter with Earthforce the heavy cruiser ''Persephone'' and her six fighters (of an outdated model that is about to be phased out for the new model) took down ''fifteen Dilgar ships between light cruisers and destroyers plus fighter support'' before charging at Jha'dur's flagship when the rest of the Dilgar fleet showed up and their jump engine was damaged. The Dilgar knew Earth Alliance already had a huge standing fleet that included ships that made the heavy cruiser look weak, and was building up. To reach the Vree Empire (that has already tried to stop their advance in the League) they have to choose between attacking the Markab, allies of Earth (and Earth Alliance made clear that attacking them would be an act of war), or the Yolu, more powerful than the Markab but isolationist and tactically incompetent: the Dilgar Warmaster Council voted to attack the Markab with a 5-4 majority (Jha'dur and the other competent Warmasters voted to attack the Yolu). Less than a month later Earthforce has ''annihilated'' Jha'dur's veteran fleet (Jha'dur herself barely escaped with her life twice, first when her ship was in the firing arcs of fifty Earth dreadnoughts and then when Earthforce decided to finish the routed Dilgar fleet with ''[[NukeEm five times the number of surviving Dilgar ships in nukes]]''), and one of the other competent Warmasters is dead.

* In ''FanFic/ACureForLove'' [[Manga/DeathNote Matt]] fearlessly antagonizes [[SerialKiller Kira]]. [[spoiler: It ends about as well as you can expect.]]
* In ''FanFic/FeverDreams'' [[DragonInChief when Rem starts helping]] Light with his schemes the taskforce assumes that Kira is more powerful than they thought... and so, [[InsaneTrollLogic logically,]] L and the taskforce pester Light more than ever before.
* A pony fanfiction, ''FanFic/CrisisEquestria'' has this. In Chapter 17, Tick Tock says things that extremely piss off Starlight Shadow which was part of Tick Tock's plan. [[spoiler:It fails.]]

* In The ''FanFic/FirstTrySeries'' Sakura tries to do this to Naruto, with poor results:

--> '''Clerk''' (''coldly crumples form''): Let me get this straight. You, an Academy student, decided to attack a full fledged shinobi who is only a Genin because he had a run of seriously bad luck, and isn't currently on his way to the Chunin exams because we don't want to give Iwa a chance to legally get their revenge on him for what he did to two of their Genin, and you want us to punish him because he decided to go easy on you and let you off with a warning?
* This happens ''literally'' in ''[[FanFic/ThreeSlytherinMarauders 3 Slytherin Marauders]]'' when a Death Eater attacks a dragon that has befriended Harry Potter-he got his JustDeserts though the dragon later complained that he gave her indigestion.
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4816968/1/Do-Not-Meddle-In-The-Affairs-Of-Wizards Do Not Meddle In The Affairs Of Wizards]]'' [[ManipulativeBastard Dumbledore keeps trying to control every aspect of Harry's life]] after [[WhatAnIdiot 1) betraying Harry and leaving him to rot in Azkaban and 2) Harry has unlocked God-like powers.]]
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7465071/1/Skies-of-Vermillion Skies of Vermillion]]'' (a {{Transformers}} fanfic inspired by AncientRome), Soundwave purchases Tracks as a slave. Throughout the story, Tracks snaps at him, makes accusations, and even ''hits'' him on one occasion. Granted, Tracks has a DarkAndTroubledPast, but the fact remains, Soundwave is his ''owner'', and could easily have him a) beaten, b) executed, or c) both if he wanted to.
* A lot of civilians in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8213106/1/Uplifted Uplifted series]]'' seem to think that bullying the somewhat mentally unstable Waffen-SS Colonel Joachim Hoch is a perfectly rational thing to do. Very few survive his wrath unscathed.

* In FanFic/AradsStardust, [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown Dr. Vahlen's]] cold, provocative attitude when testing the cooperative[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle's]] abilities is really not the smartest one to take when she herself notes that X-Com couldn't hope to build ''anything'' that would stand up to Twilight's telekinetic blasts. Several characters note how stupid this is for the supposedly-bright scientist, and once Vahlen finally looks past her FreudianExcuse for her hostility, she also realizes how foolish her behavior was.

* In ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', Naruto gets subjected to this from the very first chapter, upon his arrival in Konoha Town in fact, by Mizuki's biker gang. Dosu, Zaku and Kin, who'd previously had a run-in with Naruto at Ino's family greengrocery and had then dismissed him as being no threat to them, happen upon him later that same day and decide it's going to be a good idea to have the gang beat on him for kicks. The thing is, Naruto's a former member of the Kyuushingai, nine [[PersonOfMassDestruction very]] [[OneManArmy dangerous]] [[TheDreaded people]] who laid waste to entire cities single-handedly over a 365-day period. The end result of the gang's attempt to bully him? Their motorcycles get turned into scrap, and several of their members wind up bloodied and broken on the ground. Then in the next two chapters, they have another confrontation, at which point he reveals his past to everyone present, and Mizuki (who's there this time) [[TooDumbToLive decides to send his gang at Naruto anyway]]. End result? Naruto defeats the whole lot of them with [[GrievousBottleyHarm a soda bottle]].