Line #38 Main/DeathByMocking


1	->''"Your endless hours spent playing Franchise/{{Pokemon}} will never help True Korea! ''[loud crash heard outside]'' What is that?! Certainly nothing ironically proving me wrong?!"''
2	-->-- '''Minister Limp-Penis-Bad-At-His-Job''' (right before being killed by [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIBulbasaurToParasect Charizard]]), ''WebAnimation/TheAdventuresOfKimJongUn''
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4	Don't tease or mock anyone in a horror film. The monster doesn't like it, and ''will'' kill you for it. Not that the monster actually likes the people you mock (it will kill them too). It's just that mocking is the monster's thing. You're butting in.
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6	So don't tease people, don't treat anyone like they're crazy for talking about the monster, and don't play any practical jokes. The last one isn't a DeadlyPrank, where someone will get hurt by it. The monster will just kill you later for pulling one.
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8	Note that this doesn't count if the people you tease laugh with you. That isn't mocking; it's just having fun. (Of course, if you think you're just joking but the others don't laugh, you've already sealed your fate...)
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10	Compare DoNotTauntCthulhu, SexSignalsDeath, DeathByMaterialism, DeathByGenreSavviness, OffingTheMouth (non-horror-movie variant), and LetsMockTheMonsters (when the characters decide to go one step further).
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12	!!As this is a {{Death Trope\|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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14	!!Examples:
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17	* ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'':
18	** The characters are wading through a river. One guy keeps humming the ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' theme. A girl keeps telling him to stop (instead of just punching him in the face). He's one of the first victims.
19	** Subverted later when another character is taunting a freshly killed anaconda snake, only to be grabbed by another. Unlike the previous victim, the other characters manage to save him from death at the last minute.
20	* An aversion occurs in ''Film/Scream1996''. Two guys pretend to be the killer in school. They don't get killed for this joke, probably because the principal who punished them (and who gets killed later) was even more obnoxious.
21	* In a ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' knockoff ''Film/BlueDemon'', some girls are sneaking into a closed beach. The fence is electric, and two of the girls tests it. It's off, but they act as though they're getting electrocuted anyway. They eventually get eaten.
22	* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' has a guy who taunts a Compsognathus later get eaten by a pack of them.
23	* Averted in ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2''. Right before Jason really gets started building up his body count, half the characters go into town to go drinking and essentially leave the movie. The practical joker (Ted) goes with them and survives to the end credits. However, the joker character does indeed go down in parts [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 I]] (Ned), [[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII III]] (Shelly), [[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter IV]] (Teddy) and [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood VII]] (Carrie-esque RichBitch Melissa).
24	* ''Film/Carrie1976'': Carrie is [[BewareTheNiceOnes pushed over the edge]] by a particularly malicious prank that is the culmination of all the nasty teasing, taunting, humiliation and pranking done to her by the girls in school. She proceeds to kill just about everyone at the prom before taking her RoaringRampageOfRevenge elsewhere.
25	* ''Film/TheLostCity'': Julian falls to his death seconds after laughing when Alex nearly falls.
26	* Spoofed in ''Film/ScaryMovie'', and later in the third film when Brenda pranks Cindy by saying she watched the killer videotape, and then pretending deaths... and as Cindy is out of the room, "Samara" comes out of the television and kills Brenda (specially because Cindy [[CryingWolf wasn't believing her cries anymore]]).
27	* Steve in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''. His fault? Bickering with Anna. His punishment? Zombification then bullet through the brain. Riiight...
28	* Averted in ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', where Melvin the prankster manages to survive to the end of the film, and even appears in one of the sequels and the TV series.
29	* In ''Film/FreddyVsJason,'' Kia tries to show she's not afraid of Freddy by mocking him to his face, only for Jason to chop her in half from behind.
30	** A pair of ravers meeting Jason for the first time mock him. This does not end well.
31	* Anybody who mocks Michael Myers in the ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' remake doesn't last very long.
32	* Barbra's brother in ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and its [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990 1990 remake]] teases her for being scared in the graveyard ("They're coming to get you Barbara..."), and gets killed by a zombie as they ironically end up coming for him first.
33	* A tv-movie ''The Girl Most Likely To...'' had a homely, overweight smart girl subject to routine humiliation in college - after she flees one too many and gets in a car wreck, months later she emerges from reconstructive surgery slim and beautiful, and unrecognizable to her former tormentors who now regard her as one of 'them'...she kills them one by one.
34	* ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'': The lawyer is killed off after he spends his entire appearance being a jackass to Cyrus and his family and insulting the ghosts from behind the protective glass. The Angry Princess later gets him bisected by a door.
35	* In ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'', a girl commits suicide after being cyberbullied. Her spirit proceeds to kill all her friends with the help of social media.
36	* In ''Film/JackieBrown'', [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Melanie the surfer hottie]] starts taunting tough ex-con Louis in the car park over his handling of the current caper, leading to him reaching a RageBreakingPoint and telling Melanie basically that he doesn't want to hear another word from her - not one word. Melanie seems to realize she's driven him too far and meekly squeaks out "Okay, Louis". [[DoubleTap Guess what happens to Melanie?]]
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40	* Subverted by {{Literature/Wulfrik}} the Wanderer, who intentionally mocks giant monsters and then defeats them in single combat. At one point he hurls a long litany of insults at a ''god''... and figures out it's a fake because it ''didn't'' respond to him.
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43	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
44	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' lampshaded and then subverted this.
45	-->'''Xander''' (in a voice like talking to a baby): Who's a wittle fear demon?\
46	'''Giles:''' Don't taunt it.\
47	'''Xander''' (getting up, looking scared): Why? Can it hurt me?\
48	'''Giles:''' No. It's just... tacky, that's all.
49	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
50	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]]: One of von Statten's security guards taunts the titular Dalek by asking, "What're you gonna do? Sucker me to death?" As it turns out, a Dalek's suction-cup arm is capable of outputting enough force to crush a human skull.
51	** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]], the woman who rebuffs the Doctor's warning by stating that the biggest danger at the party is choking on an olive is one of the first people the mutated Lazarus kills just moments later.
52	* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. In "Scar Tissue", Billy Russo looks up a pedophile who broke his arm when he refused his advances in the orphanage, but because Billy has lost most of his memories he's more interested in answers to his past than revenge. However the aging paedophile taunts Billy ([[SuicideByCop perhaps deliberately]] as he implies [[BeingEvilSucks his life sucks]] after being convicted of his crimes and denied a pension) until Billy murders him. Earlier in the episode a man who taunts Billy about his scarred face is MuggedForDisguise and possibly murdered.
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56	* Nearly happens to Mortimer Brewster in ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'', as he's spent a good deal of the first act mocking his [[CainAndAbel older brother]] Jonathan, who of course later shows up and turns out to be an AxCrazy SerialKiller who fully intends to make Mortimer his next victim.
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59	[[folder:Webcomics]]
60	* In ''Webcomic/HereThereBeMonsters'' a vampire that has escaped from a VampireHunter ambush turns around to taunt them about their inability to catch her right before she leaps to safety and gets shot through the head almost immediately.
61	* ''{{Webcomic/Oglaf}}'': In "[[https://www.oglaf.com/survivor/ Survivor]]", famed barbarian Kronar attempts to SpareAMessenger. Instead of being relieved or grateful, the guy he spared instead goes to a tavern and mocks Kronar for going soft. Kronar appears, enraged, and the taverngoers try to prove their worth in being spared by trying to convince Kronar of their storytelling skills. One of the guys mocks Kronar for essentially holding a talent show, and Kronar gives up, massacring everyone.
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