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* Early on in ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'', Optimus has been captured by the Decepticons and brought before Megatron only for Metroplex, who had just gotten back online after being seemingly knocked out, to tear open the roof above them. The unfazed Megatron immediately starts firing on Metroplex and orders his troops to do the same. Metroplex then proceeds to punch Megatron to the ground not once but ''four'' times, and the Decepticon leader would have actually stayed dead were it not for Soundwave using Dark Energon to resurrect him.



* In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: The Frozen Trone'', [[GeneralRipper Grand Marshal Garrithos]] strikes an [[EnemyMine unholy alliance with the Forsaken]] in order to drive the Undead Scourge out of what remains of Lordaeron. When they succeed, he proceeds to tell the leaders of the Forsaken to piss off and get out of ''his'' city. Said leaders are an undead elf [[FourStarBadass who used to be a ranger-general]] and a former member of [[TheLegionsOfHell the Burning Legion]]. Naturally, Sylvanas just tells Varimathras to get rid of the bastard, which he gladly obliges.
** This same Grand Marshal also thought it would be a good idea to direct racist slurs at a several hundred year old elf Prince, who is also an extremely powerful fire mage wielding a legendary weapon. He only doesn't get his sorry hide burnt to a crisp, because Prince Kael'thas needs assistance from the Alliance. But ultimately, Garithos' abuse pushes Kael'thas to join The Horde, the Alliance's perennial enemies. It comes back to bite the Alliance in the behind years later, when Magister Sunreaver modifies a magical artifact to be used as a bomb against an Alliance city. The Alliance are just lucky that there are relatively few elves and they mature slowly.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: The Frozen Trone'', [[GeneralRipper Grand Marshal Garrithos]] Garithos]] strikes an [[EnemyMine unholy alliance with the Forsaken]] in order to drive the Undead Scourge out of what remains of Lordaeron. When they succeed, he proceeds to tell the leaders of the Forsaken to piss off and get out of ''his'' city. Said leaders are an undead elf [[FourStarBadass who used to be a ranger-general]] and a former member of [[TheLegionsOfHell the Burning Legion]]. Naturally, Sylvanas just tells Varimathras to get rid of the bastard, which he gladly obliges.
** This same Grand Marshal also thought it would be a good idea to direct racist slurs at a several hundred year old elf Prince, who is also an extremely powerful fire mage wielding a legendary weapon. He The only doesn't get reason his sorry hide does not get burnt to a crisp, crisp is because Prince Kael'thas needs needed assistance from the Alliance. But ultimately, Alliance at the time given how his people had become a DyingRace in the aftermath of the Scourge invasion, but he eventually finds new benefactors in Illidan and the naga. Ultimately, Garithos' abuse pushes Kael'thas the blood elves to join The Horde, the Alliance's perennial enemies. It comes back to bite the Alliance in the behind years later, when Magister Sunreaver modifies a magical artifact to be used as a bomb against an Alliance city. The Alliance are just lucky that there are relatively few elves left and they mature slowly.
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* The unarmed generic mooks in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' will actively taunt ''Batman'' if they see him but can't reach him. Made all the more hilarious when you hear prisoners comment about how the last time they met up with Batman, he left them with several broken bones.



* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' has the Joker (who is pretty much a normal human) pushing Superman's (effectively a god in human form) buttons to the extreme by planting a nuclear bomb in Metropolis that would explode if Superman's wife, Lois Lane, dies. He achieves his goal by tricking Superman via fear gas that Lois was Doomsday, which got him to take Lois into outer space where she and her unborn child died instantly. Superman, wracked with guilt over the death of his wife, his unborn child, and the millions of citizens from the nuked Metropolis, goes after the Joker and can barely restrain himself from killing him. The Joker taunts Superman further by saying that maybe his next family won't blow up this time. This puts Superman over the edge, as he literally rips out Joker's heart and kills him. Why did the Joker even do all this? Because he got tired of always losing to Batman and decided to pick on Superman instead. Of course, in the end, the Joker did what he intended: causing Superman to snap and break his ThouShallNotKill oath.



* ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'': ComicBook/TheKingpin taunts ComicBook/SpiderMan after he loses ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson, leading to Spider-Man almost unleashing the symbiote on him.
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* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'', a [[{{Delinquents}} gang of Panamanian kids]] decided it's a good idea to vandalize a USMC Humvee, parked on a yard, with an insulting message for the Marines to leave. They get away with it because Mason Jr. told his compatriot to stand down, as they're not worth their time.
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** In ''VideoGame/SonicSuperstars'', Fang the Hunter constantly yells at Trip whenever their traps malfunction (which they do often; then again, trying to capture the likes of Sonic is best left to the professionals). Hell, the entire reason she even works with him in the first place is because he broke her spear and threatened her into doing so, as shown in the ''Fang's Big Break'' webcomic. [[spoiler:But where this really kicks in is in the main cast's version of Golden Capital Act 2, where his Magnificent Queen got thrashed enough to spill the Chaos Emeralds, and he kicks her when she tries to pick them up. "These are the same Emeralds that turn the already dangerous Sonic into a one-hedgehog robot apocalypse, but surely that helmeted ditz has no idea how to use them, right?" Turns out, she knows how they work, and as a parallel to Milla, she wrecks him, the Magnificent Queen, and the giant mech in the background he tries to operate in a single moment of righteous fury. Bonus points for Trip's GoldenSuperMode being a ''literal'' dragon.]]

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** In ''VideoGame/SonicSuperstars'', Fang the Hunter constantly yells at Trip whenever their traps malfunction (which they do often; then again, trying to capture the likes of Sonic is best left to the professionals). Hell, the entire reason she even works with him in the first place is because he broke her spear and threatened her into doing so, as shown in the ''Fang's Big Break'' webcomic. [[spoiler:But where this really kicks in is in the main cast's version of Golden Capital Act 2, where his Magnificent Marvelous Queen got thrashed enough to spill the Chaos Emeralds, and he kicks her when she tries to pick them up. "These are the same Emeralds that turn the already dangerous Sonic into a one-hedgehog robot apocalypse, but surely that helmeted ditz has no idea how to use them, right?" Turns out, she knows how they work, and as transforming into her super form. As a parallel to Milla, she wrecks uses her newfound power to wreck him, the Magnificent Marvelous Queen, and the giant mech in the background he tries to operate in a single moment of righteous fury. fury, completing her HeelFaceTurn. Bonus points for Trip's GoldenSuperMode being a ''literal'' dragon.]]dragon]].
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* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'', ComicBook/TheKingpin taunts Franchise/SpiderMan after he loses ComicBook/MaryJane, leading to Spider-Man almost unleashing the symbiote on him.

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* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'', ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'': ComicBook/TheKingpin taunts Franchise/SpiderMan ComicBook/SpiderMan after he loses ComicBook/MaryJane, ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson, leading to Spider-Man almost unleashing the symbiote on him.
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** In ''VideoGame/SonicSuperstars'', Fang the Hunter constantly yells at Trip whenever their traps malfunction (which they do often; then again, trying to capture the likes of Sonic is best left to the professionals). Hell, the entire reason she even works with him in the first place is because he broke her spear and threatened her into doing so, as shown in the ''Fang's Big Break'' webcomic. [[spoiler:But where this really kicks in is in the main cast's version of Golden Capital Act 2, where his Magnificent Queen got thrashed enough to spill the Chaos Emeralds, and he kicks her when she tries to pick them up. "These are the same Emeralds that turn the already dangerous Sonic into a one-hedgehog robot apocalypse, but surely that helmeted ditz has no idea how to use them, right?" Turns out, she knows how they work, and as a parallel to Milla, she wrecks him, the Magnificent Queen, and the giant mech in the background he tries to operate in a single moment of righteous fury. Bonus points for Trip's GoldenSuperMode being a ''literal'' dragon.]]

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* In ''Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls'', during a chapter in which Jodie attends a birthday party, the partygoers end up ganging up on Jodie and locking her in a cupboard despite knowing about her "ghost powers". After she escapes with the help of Aiden, she's given the opportunity to either leave or to have Aiden wreak havoc on the douchebags.

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* In ''Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls'', ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'', during a chapter in which Jodie attends a birthday party, the partygoers end up ganging up on Jodie and locking her in a cupboard despite knowing about her "ghost powers". After she escapes with the help of Aiden, she's given the opportunity to either leave or to have Aiden wreak havoc on the douchebags.



* ''Videogame/TheBookOfUnwrittenTales'' has a scene where you ''literally'' bully a dragon, in order to help her get angry so she can spit fire and reforge your sword.
* In ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'', other students will constantly attempt to fight Jimmy even though, if the player is doing it right, this consistently results in them lying on the ground moaning. Even the wimpy nerds will, at times, pick fights with you.

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* ''Videogame/TheBookOfUnwrittenTales'' ''VideoGame/TheBookOfUnwrittenTales'' has a scene where you ''literally'' bully a dragon, in order to help her get angry so she can spit fire and reforge your sword.
* In ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', other students will constantly attempt to fight Jimmy even though, if the player is doing it right, this consistently results in them lying on the ground moaning. Even the wimpy nerds will, at times, pick fights with you.



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* No matter the game, random street thugs seem bent on picking a fight with Kiryu Kazuma of the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series. An incredibly menacing, damn near impossible to kill former Yakuza captain known as "The Dragon of Dojima". It ends predictably badly for them every time.
** It's even worse for those punks that decide to go after Taiga "18 Counts" Saejima, an escaped death row inmate with 18 counts of murder on his rap sheet (he didn't actually do it, but that's another story) that makes Kiryu look like a twig.



** At the beginning of the original campaign, [[spoiler:Amie Fern]] ends up killed after she fires off a ''magic missile'' spell at a [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Githyanki]] mage who's giving her master Tarmas a hard time. A Githyanki with a clearly visible ''shield'' spell up[[note]]''shield'' is a complete NoSell against ''magic missile'', which is otherwise an [[UnblockableAttack Unblockable]] AlwaysAccurateAttack[[/note]]. The Githyanki basically rolls his eyes, then one-shots her.

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** At the beginning of the original campaign, [[spoiler:Amie Fern]] ends up killed after she fires off a ''magic missile'' spell at a [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Githyanki]] mage who's giving her master Tarmas a hard time. A Githyanki with a clearly visible ''shield'' spell up[[note]]''shield'' is a complete NoSell against ''magic missile'', which is otherwise an [[UnblockableAttack Unblockable]] {{Unblockable|Attack}} AlwaysAccurateAttack[[/note]]. The Githyanki basically rolls his eyes, then one-shots her.



* ''Videogame/ResidentEvil'': In the remakes for Gamecube and onward, they introduced a new character, Lisa Trevor. A once-innocent little girl that Umbrella mutated into a hulking monster with barely any humanity left, and practically immortal. Wesker was one of the heads of this experiment. In Wesker's second scenario in ''Videogame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', Wesker, having just revived, is fleeing the about-to-explode Arkay Mansion, when he runs into Lisa. What does he do to the massive monstrous (nearly) immortal beast that wants to tear apart the man who ruined her life? He gloats about all the horrible things he did to her. Though possibly justified in that he had turned himself into a super-being just minutes earlier and assumed he himself was immortal.

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* ''Videogame/ResidentEvil'': ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'': In the remakes for Gamecube and onward, they introduced a new character, Lisa Trevor. A once-innocent little girl that Umbrella mutated into a hulking monster with barely any humanity left, and practically immortal. Wesker was one of the heads of this experiment. In Wesker's second scenario in ''Videogame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', Wesker, having just revived, is fleeing the about-to-explode Arkay Mansion, when he runs into Lisa. What does he do to the massive monstrous (nearly) immortal beast that wants to tear apart the man who ruined her life? He gloats about all the horrible things he did to her. Though possibly justified in that he had turned himself into a super-being just minutes earlier and assumed he himself was immortal.



* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth'', Hilda, a "Half" (Half-Huma[n] half-Gajuma), was always despised when she was a kid (and still is). Which wouldn't make much difference, except that Halfs, despite having a weaker body, have much stronger and harder-to-control magic than both Humas and Gajumas. (Un)fortunately, she never fought back.



* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth'', Hilda, a "Half" (Half-Huma[n] half-Gajuma), was always despised when she was a kid (and still is). Which wouldn't make much difference, except that Halfs, despite having a weaker body, have much stronger and harder-to-control magic than both Humas and Gajumas. (Un)fortunately, she never fought back.
* This tends to go both ways in any given ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game; early bosses tend to be barely capable of fighting, but insist on attacking well-known badasses anyway, while the last few bosses are you taking on beings that could probably one-shot you if they decided they didn't want to follow the spellcard rules.

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* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth'', Hilda, a "Half" (Half-Huma[n] half-Gajuma), was always despised when she was a kid (and still is). Which wouldn't make much difference, except that Halfs, despite having a weaker body, have much stronger and harder-to-control magic than both Humas and Gajumas. (Un)fortunately, she never fought back.
* This tends to go both ways in any given ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' game; early bosses tend to be barely capable of fighting, but insist on attacking well-known badasses anyway, while the last few bosses are you taking on beings that could probably one-shot you if they decided they didn't want to follow the spellcard rules.



* No matter the game, random street thugs seem bent on picking a fight with Kiryu Kazuma of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series. An incredibly menacing, damn near impossible to kill former Yakuza captain known as "The Dragon of Dojima". It ends predictably badly for them every time.
** It's even worse for those punks that decide to go after Taiga "18 Counts" Saejima, an escaped death row inmate with 18 counts of murder on his rap sheet (he didn't actually do it, but that's another story) that makes Kiryu look like a twig.
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** A literal example of this is the cause of much of the warring that takes place in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia''. Humanity mistreated the Manakete race (Dragons who took on human form to escape a plague of mental and physical degeneration), despite the fact that they earlier spared them from annihilation by battling against the rogue Earth Dragon tribe, who went berserk due to their refusal to become Manaketes. Eventually, one of them (who, ironically, is the one Earth Dragon who ''didn't'' go berserk) gets sick of it, and rallies his like-minded brethren together to put the humans in their place.

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** A literal example of this is the cause of much of the warring that takes place in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia''.''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight''. Humanity mistreated the Manakete race (Dragons who took on human form to escape a plague of mental and physical degeneration), despite the fact that they earlier spared them from annihilation by battling against the rogue Earth Dragon tribe, who went berserk due to their refusal to become Manaketes. Eventually, one of them (who, ironically, is the one Earth Dragon who ''didn't'' go berserk) gets sick of it, and rallies his like-minded brethren together to put the humans in their place.
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* ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'' begins with the [[AlienInvasion Smurglien Invasion]], with three low-ranking Smurgliens trying to capture the two player protagonists, Nick and Ashley. Unfortunately for the Smurgliens, Nick and Ashley ''can'' fight back. And they do.
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* ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'' begins with the [[AlienInvasion Smurglien Invasion]], with three low-ranking Smurgliens trying to capture the two player protagonists, Nick and Ashley. Unfortunately for the Smurgliens, Nick and Ashley ''can'' fight back. And they do.


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* ''VideoGame/SamuraiWestern'' introduces the badass samurai protagonist Gojiro confronted by three outlaws, who obviously never met a samurai in their life and tries taunting Gojiro for being a stranger in town, besides making un of the samurai's "overgrown butterknife". Gojiro promptly paints the town red with their blood and intestines via katana.
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*** Despite being well-known as the Champion of Kirkwall by Act III, the amount of people who try to murder the person who defeated [[spoiler:the Arishok]] ''in single-combat'' is particularly baffling, [[CurbStompBattle especially if Hawke is a Mage]]. Zevran Arainai lampshaded to Hawke that he doesn't even understand why people ''insist'' in trying to kill both Hawke and the Warden.

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*** Despite being well-known as the Champion of Kirkwall by Act III, the amount of people who try to murder the person who defeated [[spoiler:the Arishok]] ''in single-combat'' is particularly baffling, [[CurbStompBattle especially if Hawke is a Mage]]. Zevran Arainai lampshaded to Hawke that he doesn't even understand why people ''insist'' in trying to kill both Hawke and the Warden.Warden (which he firsthand witnessed personally when they foiled his assassination attempt against them).
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** Heck, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Sonic himself]] counts as this. As one of the most powerful beings in his world, with only a handful of others that can even match him, Sonic treats saving the world as [[ThrillSeeker an exciting adventure at best]] and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday like a day job at worst]] and is surprisingly difficult to genuinely anger. [[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Erazor Djinn]] manages to do just that by pressing every single BerserkButton he has at once and [[FantasticRacism calling him a disgusting rat]] along the way. [[spoiler:The NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he gets from [[UnstoppableRage Darkspine Sonic]] and ColdBloodedTorture afterwards leaves him pleading for even a shred of mercy. [[GoodIsNotSoft He gets none.]]]]

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** Heck, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Sonic himself]] counts as this. As one of the most powerful beings in his world, with only a handful of others that can even match him, Sonic treats saving the world as [[ThrillSeeker an exciting adventure at best]] and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday like a day job at worst]] and is surprisingly difficult to genuinely anger. [[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries [[VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings Erazor Djinn]] manages to do just that by pressing every single BerserkButton he has at once and [[FantasticRacism calling him a disgusting rat]] along the way. [[spoiler:The NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he gets from [[UnstoppableRage Darkspine Sonic]] and ColdBloodedTorture afterwards leaves him pleading for even a shred of mercy. [[GoodIsNotSoft He gets none.]]]]



* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' has [[BigBadWannabe Frau Engel]] (an elderly, ordinary Nazi officer with little to no real combat experience) taunting the hero [[BigGood B.J.]] (basically a OneManArmy who leaves even hardened Nazis soiling themselves in fear) repeatedly over the course of the game, not realizing that he has been killing Nazis and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that were a bigger threat than her (B.J.’s most recent kill was Deathshead, possibly one of the last competent villains in the Wolfenstein games). Engel only got away with it because B.J. was crippled at the time and couldn’t fight back. Towards the end of the game, B.J. acquires a super soldier body after she arrogantly beheaded him and upon seeing him again, goes into a panic and tries to kill him in a [[WimpFight futile attempt with a small golden gun,]] only for B.J. to sever her arm with a hatchet and plant said hatchet right into the screaming Nazi’s face.
** Also, an earlier, but plot-relevant example: B.J’s abusive, bigoted father, Rip, points a loaded shotgun in B.J’s face, knowing full well of what B.J is capable of and what he has done in the past and tries to kill him while bragging that he sent his Jewish mother to a Nazi death camp. B.J [[TranquilFury calmly tells his father off]] and kills the abusive old man effortlessly.

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* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' has [[BigBadWannabe Frau Engel]] (an elderly, ordinary Nazi officer with little to no real combat experience) taunting the hero [[BigGood B.J.]] (basically a OneManArmy who leaves even hardened Nazis soiling themselves in fear) repeatedly over the course of the game, not realizing that he has been killing Nazis and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that were a bigger threat than her (B.J.’s 's most recent kill was Deathshead, possibly one of the last competent villains in the Wolfenstein games). Engel only got away with it because B.J. was crippled at the time and couldn’t fight back. Towards the end of the game, B.J. acquires a super soldier body after she arrogantly beheaded him and upon seeing him again, goes into a panic and tries to kill him in a [[WimpFight futile attempt with a small golden gun,]] only for B.J. to sever her arm with a hatchet and plant said hatchet right into the screaming Nazi’s Nazi's face.
** Also, an earlier, but plot-relevant example: B.J’s J's abusive, bigoted father, Rip, points a loaded shotgun in B.J’s J's face, knowing full well of what B.J is capable of and what he has done in the past and tries to kill him while bragging that he sent his Jewish mother to a Nazi death camp. B.J [[TranquilFury calmly tells his father off]] and kills the abusive old man effortlessly.



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