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Not necessarily something to make him go berserk, but to Bob, it's like she [[KickTheDog kicked the dog]]. If Alice was bad before, now she's unforgivable.

->''Well, you can knock me down, \\

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* Kendra from the ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "What's My Line Part 2".

* In [[GenderBender Ranma]] and [[TheRival Ryouga]]'s first duel in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', Ryouga rips a tear across Ranma's shirt. The latter complains about it being his favorite shirt, and the former calls him "[[BerserkButton a girl]]" for whining about it in the middle of a man-to-man fight. That was about the last thing Ryouga should have called [[GenderBender him]]. (Later on, that same rip gives Ryouga quite an [[{{Fanservice}} eyeful]] when Ranma inevitably trasforms.)

* ''TheMatrix''- Neo kicks Agent Smith in the face, breaking his sunglasses. Agent Smith does not look happy.

* Literature/{{Psmith}}'s hat gets [[HatDamage destroyed by gun-toting gangsters]] in ''Psmith, Journalist''. To Psmith, this is ''just as bad'' as the fact that [[spoiler:one of his friends lost part of his ear in the same shoot-out]], and [[CrazyAwesome being Psmith]], he ends up [[spoiler:literally making the guy who hired them pay for the hat]].

* On ''{{Friends}}'', Chandler does this to Joey by pulling on the back of his jersey during their thanksgiving football game.

* In ''SluggyFreelance'' Bun-Bun has this reaction when Aylee accidentally erases his ''{{Baywatch}}'' tapes. He goes even more homicidal than usual. "I'm going to hunt you all down if it takes ''forever''! I'm going to be the ''freaking Terminator'' on your collective butts! I will ''never'' stop! ''Never!'' ''NEVER!''"

* A bit of a RunningGag on the old ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 TMNT]]'' show.

* Literature/{{Psmith}}'s hat gets [[HatDamage destroyed by gun-toting gangsters]] in ''Psmith, Journalist''. To Psmith, this is just as bad as the fact that one of his friends [[spoiler:lost part of his ear in the same shoot-out]], and [[CrazyAwesome being Psmith]], he ends up [[spoiler:literally making the guy who hired them pay for the hat]].

* Literature{{Psmith}}'s hat gets destroyed by gun-toting gangsters in ''Psmith, Journalist''. To Psmith, this is just as bad as the fact that one of his friends [[spoiler:lost part of his ear in the same shoot-out]], and [[CrazyAwesome being Psmith]], he ends up [[spoiler:literally making the guy who hired them pay for the hat]].

* Used without the BerserkButton in a Star Wars NJO novel. [[ProudWarriorRace Barabel]] Jedi Tesar Sebatyne gets shot during a boarding action. Leia asks how bad it is. The response? "Bad... my best robe. This really ''burns'' me." Then he laughs and goes to kick all kinds of rear, [[BadAss since that's how Barabels are]].

* Related, though not quite fitting as it's not a human destroying it: one ''{{Seinfield}}'' episode features Jerry lamenting the slow death of "Golden Boy", his best shirt, slowly fading to the point of being unwearable due to overwashing.

* ''TowerOfGod'''':'' Androssi Zahard is incredibly protective of [[strike: her face]] "humanity's greatest cultural heritage". When Hwa Ryun aims a kick at it, she loses her cool and quite literally slips up.

* ''{{Spaceballs}}''- Lonestar, Barf, Vespa and Dot are running for Lonestar's ship to get off of Spaceball 1.

* "This is my best top, dammit!" ~ Ace Rimmer, ''RedDwarf'' episode "Stoke Me a Clipper", directly after being fatally shot in the chest, and directly before killing the Nazis responsible. What a guy!

* Played with in an episode of ''GetSmart''. Max is losing a fencing duel against wheelchair-bound evil mastermind Leadside, until Leadside slices one of the buttons off Max's shirt.

* [[http://xkcd.com/405/ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' strip has a character use a stolen Russian submarine to retrieve his NiceHat.

* In the otherwise eminently forgettable horror movie ''Seven Days to Live'', the main character attempts at one point to defend herself from her (driven insane by the movie's evil house) husband by stabbing him in the midsection with a screwdriver. Later in the movie he has her tied up and gagged and one of the things he tells her during his mad ramblings is, "Look at this. You ruined my favourite shirt and a perfectly good kidney."
* ''Maverick''. The title character gets angry (or possibly pretends to) when his shirt is damaged during a fight.

* An episode of ''TheMask Animated Series'' had the mask chase an assassin robot to the future just because he had damaged his suit. [[spoiler:Sure enough, it was a trap.]]

* How about TheDoctor from Series/DoctorWho? The Ninth doctor had an amazing passion for his black leather jacket, and the Tenth Doctor was very attached to the coat he got from Janis Joplin, always making sure to tell people not to "hurt" it, since well it was a present.

* [[ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' strip has a character use a stolen Russian submarine to retrieve his NiceHat.
* {{Girly}} Subverted it [[ here]]

* [[http://xkcd.com/405/ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' strip has a character use a stolen Russian submarine to retrieve his NiceHat.
* {{Girly}} Subverted it [[http://girlyyy.com/go/423 here]]

* How about TheDoctor from DoctorWho? The Ninth doctor had an amazing passion for his black leather jacket, and the Tenth Doctor was very attached to the coat he got from Janis Joplin, always making sure to tell people not to "hurt" it, since well it was a present.

* On ''{{Friends}}'', Chandler does this to Joey by pulling down a pocket until half of the front rips right off.

* [[{{WWE}} The Rock]] was extremely protective of his "$5000 shirts".

* ''ThePacifier'' - A slice of bologna covered with mustard falls on Agent Wolf's shirt. He even replies, "this is my favorite shirt," invoking the Stock Phrase part of the trope. OrSoIHeard.
** You heard right.

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