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Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2020-08-28 13:33:57

A variation of Mugging the Monster- the character is socially or politically powerful rather than physically powerful.

Compare its subtrope Robbing the Mob Bank- the mob's bank might be easy to rob (After all, Who Would Be Stupid Enough? to rob the mob's bank), it's the consequences that come with it that are the problem.

2 is more of a Bavarian Fire Drill overlapping with invoked Mugging The Monster; by claiming to be a teacher he not only gets rid of the harassers, he scares them badly enough to deter them from questioning his story.

Edited by Scorpion451
eroock Since: Sep, 2012
wsmith76 Since: Jan, 2015
2024-02-05 06:18:41

Mugging the Monster

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