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* In ''VideoGame/InFamous'' and ''[=inFamous=] 2'', if you choose to take the [[KarmaMeter infamous route]], then average citizens (even unarmed women) will throw rocks and mock you (an amazingly powerful villain).

*** Special mention goes to Rochelle the Red, who decides to kidnap your spouse and hold him/her to ransom -- this being the dragonborn, the one destined to essentially kill the Tamriealic equivalent of the apocalypse. By the way, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge paying the ransom isn't a option]].

* The birthday party scene in Beyond: Two Souls has a particularly ridiculous example. If the player decides to demonstrate their powers, the other guests at the party are noticeably freaked out. A few moments later, the guests have no problem with repeatedly taunting the player and proceed to lock them in a closet. Yeah, I can't imagine that backfiring in any way, right?

* In a rare non-willing example, in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', to destroy Alioth's GiantFlyer warship, [[HinduMythology Kama]] is recruited to shoot an arrow into [[BadAss Shiva's]] eye, as he did in a certain myth, so Shiva uses his spear Pasupata to strike Alioth. Problem is, Kama remembers ''very well'' [[WaveMotionGun what Shiva did to him]] [[UnstoppableRage last time he pulled that trick]], and has to be forced into doing it again. [[spoiler:When the time comes, he's also tricked into believing he'd be protected by JP's. Instead, it turns out only ''his memory'' would be protected, and he's promptly elevated into the air against his will to the correct angle so Pasupata's attack destroys both him and Alioth.]]

* [[DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]] is a former SWAT officer and TheDragon for one of the world's leading biotech corporations. He is a skilled marksman, stealth operative, close-quarter combatant, and all-around {{Badass}} ''[[BadassNormal before]]'' he's [[TookALevelInBadass given custom, military-grade augmentations.]] Augmentations that make him look even more dangerous, even with his BadassLongcoat covering most of them. This is clearly not a man you want to trifle with, regardless of your opinions of him, his employer, or his augmentations. [[spoiler: Everybody]] does it anyway. It's left to the player to decide how Jensen responds.

** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' has an alien general who thinks the best way to deal with The Boss escaping is to blow up Earth. Had he not blown up Earth, The Boss would not have returned to kick his ass up and down the ship.

* [[DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]] is a skilled marksman, stealth operative, close-quarter combatant, and all-around {{Badass}}, in addition to being TheLancer for one of the world's leading biotech corporations. This is all ''[[BadassNormal before]]'' he's [[TookALevelInBadass given custom, military-grade augmentations,]] which only make him look even more dangerous, even with his BadassLongcoat covering them. This is clearly not a man you want to trifle with, regardless of your opinions of him, his employer, or his augmentations. [[spoiler: Everybody]] does it anyway. It's left to the player to decide how Jensen responds.

* [[DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]] is a skilled marksman, stealth operative, close-quarter combatant, and all-around {{Badass}}, in addition to being TheDragon for one of the world's leading biotech corporations. This is all ''[[BadassNormal before]]'' he's [[TookALevelInBadass given custom, military-grade augmentations,]] which only make him look even more dangerous, even with his BadassLongcoat covering them. This is clearly not a man you want to trifle with, regardless of your opinions of him, his employer, or his augmentations. [[spoiler: Everybody]] does it anyway. It's left to the player to decide how Jensen responds.

* In ''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 tear apart the man who ruined her life? He gloats about all the horrible things he did to her. Though possibly justified that he had turned himself into a super-being just minutes earlier and assumed he himself was immortal.

* In ''VideoGame/EveOnline'', the NPCs do this quite a bit. To make maters worse the respawn system in Eve is cannon, and the NPCs know that. So even though they are facing an essentially unkillable foe, they will still taunt and threaten players. It also doesn't matter if you show up in a Vindicator or a strategic cruiser, they will still call you a noob and attack you.

** After a confrontation with Shepard on Thessia, biotic ninja Kai Leng decides to taunt the man/woman who has killed multiple [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]] via email, mocking Thessia's destruction, and [[BerserkButton taunting Shepard about any former crewmembers of his/her's he's killed.]]

* In ''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 tear apart the man who ruined her life? He gloats about all the horrible things he did to her.

* In ''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 tear apart the man who ruined her life? He gloats about all the horrible things he did to her. [[note]] though this isn't as much stupidity as it is a massive ego. As he just minutes earlier, injected himself with a virus, turning himself into a super being. So he is not only 100% confident that she wouldn't be able to kill him, but he is correct, as he defeats Lisa in a fight (by playing dirty) and leaves her to die in the explosion. [[/note]]

* In ''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 tear apart the man who ruined her life? He gloats about all the horrible things he did to her.

* In ''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 tear apart the man who ruined her life? Gloat about all the horrible things he did to her.

* In ''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 and Birkin were 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 tear apart the man who ruined her life? Gloat about all the horrible things he did to her.

* In ''Videogame/ResidentEvil'' In the remakes for Gamecube and onward, they introduced a new character, Lisa Trevor. A once an innocent little girl that Umbrella mutated, into a hulking monster with barely any humanity left, and practically immortal. Wesker and Birkin were 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 tear apart the man who ruined her life? Gloat about all the horrible things he did to her.

* In ''Videogame/ResidentEvil'' In the remakes for Gamecube and onward, they introduced a new character, Lisa Trevor. A once an innocent little girl that Umbrella mutated, into a hulking monster with barely any humanity left, and practically immortal. Wesker and Birkin were 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 Wesker do to the massive monstrous (nearly) immortal beast that wants tear apart the man who ruined her life? GLOAT OF COURSE!

* In ''Videogame/ResidentEvil'' In the remakes for Gamecube and onward, they introduced a new character, Lisa Trevor. A once an innocent little girl that Umbrella mutated, into a hulking monster with barely any humanity left, and practically immortal. Wesker and Birkin were the heads of this experiment. Anyway, 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 Wesker do to the massive monstrous (nearly) immortal beast that wants tear apart the man who ruined her life? GLOAT OF COURSE!

* The bullies in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' story ''Heart to Heart'' do this twice over in the same scene. At one point whilst [[FantasticRacism bullying Makoto]], Noel tries to intervene, only to be pulled aside by the aforementioned Makoto (solely because she didn't want someone else suffering for her sake), and one of the bullies gets herself injured. Said bully tries to pass the blame for the injury to Makoto, yells at Noel (an adopted child of a once-noble family) when she tries to defend Makoto, then talks back to Tsubaki (a child of nobility - a ''Duodecim'' child, to boot) when she tries to adjudicate the affair. Tsubaki takes the opportunity to [[ShamingTheMob turn the bullies' arguments against them]], going to far as to state that her actions at that point were in line with Duodecim expectations with intent to lead by example. The bullies proceed to silently walk out afterwards, having nothing left to say in their defense. In the next scene, Jin reviews Makoto's entrance tests and makes it clear that the bullies would have been ''utterly screwed'' had Makoto chose to physically retaliate.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', a group of slavers decides to attack a runaway Manakete - a {{Shapeshifting}} humanoid (bonus points given that Manaketes' transformed form is a literal dragon) that they had previously enslaved. It goes about as well for them as you'd expect.

* ''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.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' the eponymous Witchers have to take a lot of verbal abuse from normal people. None of them stops to ponder whether it's smart to mock someone who you'll need when you're once again troubled by some undead menace (a common occurrence in this world), and who can break the finest human fighters in half with his superhuman mutant reflexes and HealingFactor.

** Goes double for anybody stupid enough to intentionally piss off Shadow.

* The beginning of ''VideoGame/OverlordII'' has kids tossing snowballs and taunting the Witch-boy, a CreepyChild who blasts lightning with his hands and gains controls of vicious little [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Minions]] early on. [[FromBadToWorse It Gets Worse]] later on when after being tossed out of Nordberg by the village for TheEmpire, frozen in a block of ice and later raised by an EvilChancellor, he returns as a full-fledged EvilOverlord ready to either enslave or slaughter Nordberg.

** [[spoiler: Sure enough, at least one boss is defeated when he asks his abused partner to attack you, after literally enslaving her. She smiles, says 'No'...and uses her charged special on HIM.]]
** [[spoiler: This trope also turns out to be one of the major reasons for all the problems in the game and the reason the BigBad is the BigBad. Poor Mir.]]

* Done in ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'': when they find a more-or-less 5 years old child who's already able to kill soldiers by summoning flames, Seiyras scientists decide to turn him into a guinea pig: the adult version of said kid, last survivor of a genocide, tortured during his childhood eventually team up with the world most wanted terrorist and is instrumental in destroying the AncientConspiracy for which the scientists worked.
* Happens in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' as two villains use Raiden's past and some underhanded tactics to try to [[BreakThemByTalking mock his reasons for fighting]]. Technically, [[GoneHorriblyRight they succeed.]] But Raiden was known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jack the Ripper]] and their mocking convinced him to take up that [[AxCrazy persona]] again. They end up finding out just how bad an idea that was the hard way.
* Two of the Masters in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' have a real problem with this. The first is Shinji, who only evades being killed because [[spoiler:it would upset Sakura, Rider's real master.]] The second is not so lucky and is in fact dead quite a while before the story starts. Caster's Master was jealous of how much better a magus she was, so he put a power limiter on her and then abused her. She got tired of it and tricked him into using up his Command Seals then brutally murdered him.
* If you choose the "Earthborn" origin in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' (You were [[CaptainObvious born on Earth]], orphaned, and grew up on the streets), you eventually run into a former member of a gang you used to be a member of. Commander Shepard is both the commanding officer of a Systems Alliance black ops ship, and a Spectre, ''essentially given carte blanche by the Citadel Council to do whatever they want''. Your "friend" tries to blackmail you, because apparently he thinks revealing that you were a former gang member would ruin you; even though the Alliance and Council are willing to look the other way if you ''mow down mind controlled civilians or exterminate an entire race''. You can choose to point out that you're legally authorized to execute him where he stands... or you can just shoot him.
** Really, regular mercs inexplicably trying to kill Shepard at every possible moment fits this trope, regardless of the origin. Harkin, a corrupt cop from 1 and 2 even taunts Shepard by asking if they think they can get him. There are also several small encounters where someone tries this on Shepard, who can sometimes point out either that a)They are Commander Shepard, aka the galaxy's biggest badass and just what the hell do they think they are trying, or b)They may not know they are dealing with Shepard (or may not believe it), but they can surely see how badass Shepard is, so shut the hell up.

** Quite possibly the best example of this in the series is Warden Kuril who attempts to knowingly imprison Shepard, the most {{Badass}} person in the galaxy, and hold him/her for ransom or sell him/her on the black market as a slave. [[TooDumbToLive It doesn't end well for him.]] Especially stupid, since you belligerently refuse to surrender your weapons on entering the prison, even threatening Kurill, and he (still fully intent on capturing you, remember) [[SuicidalOverconfidence lets you keep your weapons.]] Even ''more'' stupid if you're playing a class that wouldn't have been significantly less dangerous without weapons. What exactly was his plan for imprisoning a Shepard that could throw him across the room with a mean look?

** During Grunt's loyalty mission in the second game, Gatatog Uvenk decides to pick a fight with Grunt, Shepard, and their squadmate...immediately after they have survived a fight on foot with a thresher maw (a hundred-foot-tall monster that spits acid and crush buildings with a swipe of a tentacle). Especially stupid if, rather than simply surviving the fight, Shepard and co. actually ''kill the maw outright''.
* 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.

*** Flemeth in regards to this trope is doubly amusing when you find out she often turns into a [[spoiler: dragon]].
** There's also a rather sad example in Lothering, where a band of refugees attack you out of desperation [[spoiler: to collect the bounty Loghain has placed on your head.]]
** If you tell a couple of bandits that you are the Warden Commander in ''Awakening'', some of them immediately realise that its better to leave, while one actually ''jumps off of a cliff'' and likely to their death, just to avoid having to fight you.

** Chantry zealots such as Petrice go out of their way to escalate hostilities against the hundreds of elite Qunari warriors who were shipwrecked in Kirkwall. The Qunari have done ''nothing'' against Kirkwall for years despite the Arishok's growing disgust with the WretchedHive of a city [[spoiler:since they are busy looking for their sacred relic]]. They aren't even actively looking for converts to the Qun -- people are joining them of their own free will. Near the end of Act II, [[spoiler:when Petrice murders Seamus Dumas after he joined the Qun]] the Arishok warns Hawke that the provocations the Qunari suffered have finally worked [[spoiler:and later launches a full invasion of the city.]]

** 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.]]

* This happens a lot in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' (and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', for that matter). You can be walking around carrying a glass warhammer the size of a wolf, clad in the finest armour in the land custom made for you by the Elder Council, be hailed in the street as the Champion of Cyrodiil, the Grand Champion of the Arena, be known as the leader of the Fighters ''and'' Mages guild... and some punk will jump you by himself and demand that you give him a paltry sum of money or he'll kill you. Similar things happen in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', where you can be a walking tank packing a plasma rifle and someone will try to take you down with a bat. This is particularly unforgivable as the local radio announcer is constantly updating the entire wasteland with information on how badass you are.
** This trope can also be applied to you. When [[TheJuggernaut Liberty]] [[HumongousMecha Prime]] is repaired an attacking the Enclave, you "can" attack him, though doing so is a surefire way to get killed because he NEVER dies no matter what you shoot him with and he can kill you in one hit with his EyeBeams. In other words, DON'T DO IT.
*** Ironically this happens to Liberty Prime itself in Broken Steel. After continually pushing on the Enclave after the assault on the purifier in Fallout 3, the Enclave [[KillSat pushes back. Hard.]]

** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', if you have bad standing with Caesar's Legion, you will attract assassin squads. Said four-man squad (who admittedly tend to be well-equipped for the task) will run up to you and proclaim that Caesar has ordained your death for your crimes against the Legion, before attacking. Said crimes can include killing [[TheSpymaster Vulpes Inculta]], singlehandedly wiping out Cottonwood Cove, Nelson or the Fort, not to mention killing the ''previous'' assassin squads.

** The [=NCR=] isn't much better, however. Not only do they also send {{Ranger}}s after you, if at the ending you decide to pull a fast one on them, [[GeneralFailure General Oliver]] will state that were he in your shoes, he'd have you hung. [[TooDumbToLive While he's surrounded by securitrons armed to the teeth who will do anything you say]].
** The same goes for ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. You may be walking around in a daedric armour, with the legendary Big Badass Sword of Doom, be confirmed [[spoiler: Nerevar Reborn]] AKA the biggest {{Badass}} in Morrowind's history, who just killed a diabolic demi-god three other demi-gods couldn't handle in a fight. Yet some people still tend to believe they have a chance against you. It's worse if you're a vampire or publicly known werewolf.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' makes no exception to this trope, Despite equipment, magic or other abilities, Bandits, Witches, and other humanoid enemies will still charge at you head on, despite you being the only one who can stop the dragons that are currently bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

*** Special mention goes to Rochelle the Red who decides to kidnap your spouse and hold him/her to ransom, this being the dragonborn the one destined to essentially kill the Tamriealic equivalent of the apocalypse. By the way [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge paying the ransom isn't a option]].
*** Amusingly, it's Dragons themselves who are the worst repeat-offenders when it comes to taking on the Dragonborn. Their SuicidalOverconfidence is justified however, as it is an inherent part of their nature to try to dominate and conquer others. Of course, the Dragonborn's ability to permanently kill them by absorbing their souls hasn't particularly engendered any goodwill or reason why they wouldn't want to see them dead.
* 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 gets sick of it, and rallies his likeminded brethren together to put the humans in their place.

* In ''VideoGame/InFamous'' and ''[=inFamous=] 2'' if you choose to take the [[KarmaMeter infamous route]] then average citizens (even unarmed women) will throw rocks and mock you (an amazingly powerful villain).

** Averted in the first game by Zeke, He's been taking advantage of Cole's powers since they appeared and so is fully aware of what he can do and even states that he doesn't want to "do anything that might piss (him) off!" after a news broadcast paints him as a terrorist and turns everyone else in the city against him. Unfortunately, his savvy fails him later on and gets him into very serious trouble.

* In a rare non-willing example, in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', to destroy Alioth's GiantFlyer warship, [[HinduMythology Kama]] is recruited to shoot an arrow into [[BadAss Shiva's]] eye, as he did in a certain myth, so Shiva uses his spear Pasupata to strike Alioth. Problem is, Kama remembers ''very well'' [[WaveMotionGun what Shiva did to him]] [[UnstoppableRage last time he pulled that trick]], and has to be forced into doing it again. [[spoiler: When the time comes, he's also tricked into believing he'd be protected by JP's. Instead, it turns out only ''his memory'' would be protected, and he's promptly elevated into the air against his will to the correct angle so Pasupata's attack destroys both him and Alioth.]]

* In the second and semi-third games for ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', Edwin Odeisseron likes to boast that he's more powerful than [[CreatorsPet Elminster]]. His epilogue for ''Throne of Bhaal'' reveals he actually was stupid enough to try. He spends the rest of his days as "Edwina", a lonely and bitter barmaid somewhere.