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'''Waller:''' Frankly, I couldn’t be more serious, colonel! And by the way, if you ever again call anything about me ‘cotton-picking,’ mister —- I’ll stuff those bright, shiny eagles on your shoulders so far up your butt, they’ll be able to nest in your skull!

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'''Waller:''' Frankly, I couldn’t couldn't be more serious, colonel! And by the way, if you ever again call anything about me ‘cotton-picking,’ 'cotton-picking,' mister —- I’ll I'll stuff those bright, shiny eagles on your shoulders so far up your butt, they’ll they'll be able to nest in your skull!



** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s first appearance has her agreeing with Superman's plan to not use her powers without permission and then using them anyway as soon as her cousin's back is turned.

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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s first appearance in "ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959" has her agreeing with Superman's plan to not use her powers without permission and then using them anyway as soon as her cousin's back is turned.


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** In crossover "ComicBook/FromEterniaWithDeath", which is the first ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' story, Skeletor praises Superman out loud for being perceptive enough to realize that he couldn't care less for his underlyings' well-being. Later, upon being defeated, Skeletor teleports away as swearing revenge, and He-Man confirms his nemesis has made a habit of it.
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* In ''ComicBook/HellblazerRiseAndFall'', we're introduced to Lucifer Morningstar after John discovers that something had broken all of the protective wards he placed over his apartment before he's pinned to the ceiling [[EnemyEatsYourLunch while Lucifer is helping himself to John's leftover curry]]. When John refuses to be intimidated, he drops him onto the floor (taking care not to drop him on the couch nearby) and then offers him an extremely rare bottle of wine, wanting to negotiate in his help to finding his wings. This clues us in that this version of the Devil is extremely powerful, a massive {{Troll}}, [[AffablyEvil but he can be reasonable when the situation calls for it and hold no real ill-will towards John]].
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** Superman himself in the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Action_Comics_1.jpg cover]] of ''ComicBook/ActionComicsOne'': He lifts and smashes a car into a rock, displaying immense strength which scares a group of thugs out of their wits.

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** Superman himself in the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Action_Comics_1.jpg cover]] of ''ComicBook/ActionComicsOne'': ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1'': He lifts and smashes a car into a rock, displaying immense strength which scares a group of thugs out of their wits.

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** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] [[DeathSeeker throwing herself]] in front of Commissioner Gordon to prevent him from being [[TakingTheBullet shot]] by an assassin [[ScrewDestiny whom we later learn is her father]]. She swiftly becomes the new Batgirl, with [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]]'s blessing and gratitude.

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** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] [[DeathSeeker Cain throwing herself]] herself in front of Commissioner Gordon to prevent him from being [[TakingTheBullet shot]] shot by an assassin [[ScrewDestiny whom we later learn is her father]]. father. She swiftly becomes the new Batgirl, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, with [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]]'s Gordon's blessing and gratitude.



* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman himself in a [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Action_Comics_1.jpg nutshell]]: He lifts and smashes a car into a rock, displaying immense strength which scares a group of thugs out of their wits.

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman himself in a the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Action_Comics_1.jpg nutshell]]: cover]] of ''ComicBook/ActionComicsOne'': He lifts and smashes a car into a rock, displaying immense strength which scares a group of thugs out of their wits.



** ''ComicBook/Supergirl1984'': Selena's first scene involves one conversation where she reveals within two panels that she is a short-tempered, impatient witch with world-conquering ambitions, she yearns for more power, and she dislikes coming across as sweet or kind.



** The [[LegacyCharacter second]] Bloodsport establishes himself as a virulent bigot with no limits to said bigotry within the first three pages of his debut issue, with his response to coming across a gang of thugs, two black and one white, attempting to gang-rape a woman. He shoots and kills the two black guys while using the racially offensive terms "boy" and "your kind" to them; then when he's got the white thug at gunpoint and the woman demands that he shoot the guy for what they almost did to her, he shoots and kills ''her'' while muttering that "they always knew their place," ''then'' kills the white guy for being a "race-traitor."
---> '''Superman:''' Alien, black, Jew, gay...where ''do'' you draw the line, Bloodsport?\\
'''Bloodsport:''' Anywhere I want!
* Way back in '65, ComicBook/BeastBoy invaded Doom Patrol headquarters and ransacked everything (up to and including defacing a picture of Elasti-girl and putting an axe through one of Robotman's spare head units), came back the next night and got caught only when the Doom Patrol successfully ganged up on him. When they finally let the teenage punk out, he immediately started bellowing at them for messing up his hair and shoes and started another fight, hurling insults in every direction. He then had the gall to demand they let him on the team. The Doom Patrol hated his guts, but the fans loved him, and he's been around for more than fifty years since.

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** The [[LegacyCharacter second]] Bloodsport establishes himself as * ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': In a virulent bigot with no limits to said bigotry within the first three pages of his debut issue, with his response to coming across a gang of thugs, two black and one white, attempting to gang-rape a woman. He shoots and kills the two black guys while using the racially offensive terms "boy" and "your kind" to them; then when he's got the white thug at gunpoint and the woman demands that he shoot the guy for what they almost did to her, he shoots and kills ''her'' while muttering that "they always knew their place," ''then'' kills the white guy for being a "race-traitor."
---> '''Superman:''' Alien, black, Jew, gay...where ''do'' you draw the line, Bloodsport?\\
'''Bloodsport:''' Anywhere I want!
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1965 comic, ComicBook/BeastBoy invaded Doom Patrol headquarters and ransacked everything (up to and including defacing a picture of Elasti-girl and putting an axe through one of Robotman's spare head units), came back the next night and got caught only when the Doom Patrol successfully ganged up on him. When they finally let the teenage punk out, he immediately started bellowing at them for messing up his hair and shoes and started another fight, hurling insults in every direction. He then had the gall to demand they let him on the team. The Doom Patrol hated his guts, but the fans loved him, and he's been around for more than fifty years since.
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* ComicBook/AmandaWaller's [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.

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* ComicBook/AmandaWaller's [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DCComics}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.



* Way back in '65, [[Franchise/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] invaded Doom Patrol headquarters and ransacked everything (up to and including defacing a picture of Elasti-girl and putting an axe through one of Robotman's spare head units), came back the next night and got caught only when the Doom Patrol successfully ganged up on him. When they finally let the teenage punk out, he immediately started bellowing at them for messing up his hair and shoes and started another fight, hurling insults in every direction. He then had the gall to demand they let him on the team. The Doom Patrol hated his guts, but the fans loved him, and he's been around for more than fifty years since.

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* Way back in '65, [[Franchise/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] ComicBook/BeastBoy invaded Doom Patrol headquarters and ransacked everything (up to and including defacing a picture of Elasti-girl and putting an axe through one of Robotman's spare head units), came back the next night and got caught only when the Doom Patrol successfully ganged up on him. When they finally let the teenage punk out, he immediately started bellowing at them for messing up his hair and shoes and started another fight, hurling insults in every direction. He then had the gall to demand they let him on the team. The Doom Patrol hated his guts, but the fans loved him, and he's been around for more than fifty years since.
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* ComicBook/AmandaWaller's [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.

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* ComicBook/AmandaWaller's [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Diana rescuing Steve Trevor from his crashed plane despite not knowing who he is and helping to nurse him back to health. As well as defying her mother to join the contest to determine who will be her people's representative to Man's World.

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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Diana rescuing Steve Trevor from his crashed plane despite not knowing who he is and helping to nurse him back to health. As well as defying her mother to join the contest to determine who will be her people's representative to Man's World.World.
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* In ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'', Lady Mordiel captures a peasant girl with a small fraction of blood power, and after talking to her casually, murders her to absorb her fragment of power; then she orders the girl's family to be suitably compensated.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Batman first appeared on a rooftop beating up thugs.
** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] [[DeathSeeker throwing herself]] in front of Commissioner Gordon to prevent him from being [[TakingTheBullet shot]] by an assassin [[ScrewDestiny whom we later learn is her father]]. She swiftly becomes the new Batgirl, with [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]]'s blessing and gratitude.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'', Dick's use of a gun as a batarang in the opening pages of the first issue makes it clear that this is still the same Dick Grayson that fans love.
* ComicBook/AmandaWaller's [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.
-->'''Flag:''' Are you out of your cotton-picking mind, lady?\\
'''Waller:''' Frankly, I couldn’t be more serious, colonel! And by the way, if you ever again call anything about me ‘cotton-picking,’ mister —- I’ll stuff those bright, shiny eagles on your shoulders so far up your butt, they’ll be able to nest in your skull!
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman himself in a [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Action_Comics_1.jpg nutshell]]: He lifts and smashes a car into a rock, displaying immense strength which scares a group of thugs out of their wits.
** In her very first appearance ComicBook/LoisLane: reluctantly went out on a date with Clark, got annoyed that Clark didn't stand up to a mobster that was bullying them, slapped the mobster herself, got promptly kidnapped by the mobster, and was rescued by Superman. A rather good overview of what her life would be like for the rest of her existence.
** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s first appearance has her agreeing with Superman's plan to not use her powers without permission and then using them anyway as soon as her cousin's back is turned.
** In her first appearance, ComicBook/PowerGirl plugs a volcano, takes up the "Power Girl" name because "it won't confuse [her] with [her] cousin" and makes Wildcat and Flash feel redundant within ''two'' pages.
** The [[LegacyCharacter second]] Bloodsport establishes himself as a virulent bigot with no limits to said bigotry within the first three pages of his debut issue, with his response to coming across a gang of thugs, two black and one white, attempting to gang-rape a woman. He shoots and kills the two black guys while using the racially offensive terms "boy" and "your kind" to them; then when he's got the white thug at gunpoint and the woman demands that he shoot the guy for what they almost did to her, he shoots and kills ''her'' while muttering that "they always knew their place," ''then'' kills the white guy for being a "race-traitor."
---> '''Superman:''' Alien, black, Jew, gay...where ''do'' you draw the line, Bloodsport?\\
'''Bloodsport:''' Anywhere I want!
* Way back in '65, [[Franchise/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] invaded Doom Patrol headquarters and ransacked everything (up to and including defacing a picture of Elasti-girl and putting an axe through one of Robotman's spare head units), came back the next night and got caught only when the Doom Patrol successfully ganged up on him. When they finally let the teenage punk out, he immediately started bellowing at them for messing up his hair and shoes and started another fight, hurling insults in every direction. He then had the gall to demand they let him on the team. The Doom Patrol hated his guts, but the fans loved him, and he's been around for more than fifty years since.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** Rorschach's opening narration provides a glimpse into his unstable mind: a retired crimefighter who now believes the city deserves its problems and longs for the day when the people are desperate enough to want his help again... just so he can smugly refuse.
** The first time we see Dr. Manhattan he is shown as a giant which [[PhysicalGod showcases his power]] as well as his [[HumanoidAbomination truly alien nature to the rest of the world]]. He then responds to the news of The Comedian's death with [[BlueAndOrangeMorality "Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I care?"]]
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Diana rescuing Steve Trevor from his crashed plane despite not knowing who he is and helping to nurse him back to health. As well as defying her mother to join the contest to determine who will be her people's representative to Man's World.

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