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* ''Literature/TheBible'':
** A group of young men make fun[[note]]the insults they are recorded as using sound rather tame by modern standards, but were considerably more dire in the culture of the time[[/note]] of Elisha, one of {{God}}'s prophets. [[BearsAreBadNews God sends a pair of she-bears after them that mauled them to death.]]
** Earlier parts of the Bible have quite a few incidents where the Hebrews get tired of their God, with the most famous being the incident with the golden calf, only for Him to retract His protections and cause the Israelites to come running back.
** Harassing Old Testament prophets frequently qualified for this trope. Elisha's mentor Elijah had a habit of [[KillItWithFire calling down fire from heaven]] when disrespected, disbelieved, or threatened.
** UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} himself was almost stoned on several occasions, but he just walked through the crowd unharmed each time. His disciples wanted him to call down fire on one occasion, but he told them he wasn't into that sort of thing. Even when he was being arrested just prior to his resurrection, he very calmly points out that he has all of Heaven's angels on speed dial if he wanted a BigDamnHeroes moment. And while hanging on the cross, he was mocked: "If you really are the Son of God, then come down from there!" The Book of Revelation lays out the future comeuppance that those who reject(ed) him can look forward to.
** See also [[FlyingDutchman The Wandering Jew]], cursed by Jesus for mocking him on the cross.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Hercules fits this trope. Hercules was normally a nice guy and more than willing to help you out. However, there are several stories of kings cheating him out of payment, only for Hercules to sometimes come back years later and kill them for having dared wrong him. The worst offender being King Laomedon of Troy, who refused to pay Hercules AFTER he had witnessed the hero killing a sea monster sent by Poseidon. Hercules eventually killed Laomedon and nearly his entire family after sacking the city. What makes Laomedon even dumber? The monster was sent by Poseidon due to Laomedon refusing to pay him for building Troy's walls, meaning he made the exact same mistake ''twice in a row''. The only guy that had any justification was Eurystheus, the guy who gave him his Labours. Because he had Hera on his side/back.
* We also have Jason. His protector was the goddess of marriage Hera, and he had seen his wife Medea (who had been given to him by Hera herself) [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend cutting her own brother into pieces to protect him]] and killing an unkillable bronze giant with a look (depending on the version, she either [[PsychicAssistedSuicide hypnotized it into killing itself]] or [[DrivenToSuicide tortured him into suicide]]). Then Jason decided to [[TooDumbToLive dump her for the daughter of the king of Corinth]]. Cue Hera withdrawing her protection and letting [[WomanScorned Medea]] destroy Jason so much that [[CruelMercy killing him would have been merciful]], including: burning alive the king and his daughter (she was actually aiming for the daughter, the king just tried to save her and died in the process), destroying Corinth, and killing (most of) her own children by Jason (in some versions one of his children, Thessalus, survived and later became king).
* In Creator/{{Euripides}} The Theatre/{{Bacchae}}, Dionysus is bullied by the local king Pentheus. Dionysus has just come back from a long trip to Asia Minor and is excited to return to the city that his mother was from and to have all the people in the city join in the festivities that have been established to worship the new god Dionysus. Pentheus is having none of that, so he outlaws the festival, kills a few of Dionysus' followers, and declares (loudly and openly) that Dionysus' mother did not, in fact, sleep with Zeus to produce Dionysus, but was just a common whore and Dionysus is a bastard with delusions of grandeur and has him locked up in jail. This does not go over well with Dionysus. He causes the women of the city to go insane and go out to the forests to rave and dance and kill the soldiers in the surrounding towns, drives Pentheus crazy (and makes him cross-dress?), then lures Pentheus out into the woods, where his mother and aunt (along with the other women of the city) tear him into pieces and stick his head on a spear to parade it back into the city. Then he takes the madness off of them, letting them see exactly what they've done to their king.
* A special mention goes to Peirithous, who [[TooDumbToLive somehow decided it was a good idea]] to sneak into ''the Underworld'' along with Theseus (who ''knew'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck it was a terrible idea]], but was bound to come by an oath) in an attempt to abduct Persephone, the spouse of Hades (the ''God of the Dead'', and one of the three oldest and most powerful Gods) in order to take her as his wife. [[FateWorseThanDeath This didn't end well for him.]]
* Quite a few damned souls in Tartarus are there because they tried to deceive, steal from, or otherwise abuse the gods themselves.
** Tantalus was invited to dine with them, but he misbehaved and stole ambrosia and nectar to bring it back to his people, then (if that weren't enough) invited them in return, serving them a meal made from the body of his murdered son Pelos simply to prove he could trick them. (He did not.)
** Ixion was also invited to dine with them and lusted after Hera (doing this to the wife of your host is bad enough, but this was ''Zeus's'' wife). Then when the gods baited a trap with [[spoiler:a fake]] Hera, Ixion tried to rape her.
** Sisyphus was trusted with secrets by Zeus, and progressively: betrayed those secrets, held Thanatos hostage and tricked Persephone into letting him go after purposely telling his wife not to give him funeral rites. Of course, Hades figured out Sisyphus's treachery and [[OhCrap came to collect.]]
* In Myth/NorseMythology, Loki does this to all of the Gods, but especially to Skadi, by gleefully telling her that he is the one who bears the responsibility for the death of her father Thjazi. He is able to do this due to the SacredHospitality law the Gods enforce and that he is Odin's blood-brother, making him untouchable. Then it backfires horribly when the Gods bind him for tricking Hödr into killing Baldr: Skadi places a snake above Loki that will drop poison into his eyes until Ragnarök comes.
* A literal case in Eastern Asian mythology in general that also overlaps with BerserkButton, BewareTheNiceOnes, TurnsRed, and DisproportionateRetribution. From the records of the ''Han Feizi'', it was stated that the term ''nilin/gekirin'' (lit. inverted scale) was basically a situation where a benevolent Eastern dragon no matter how lax or chill it was, [[BerserkButton would technically be rip-shit pissed]] to the point where it will destroy the one responsible for inverting its most sensitive scale on its chin in the most painful way possible (hence the literal translation of the term). This was used as a comparison of putting Chinese rulers and those said dragons on the same boat, [[BewareTheNiceOnes where pressing that kind of ruler's berserk button]] [[OhCrap would spell complete hell and wrath for the one who did it]]. There exist other similar Eastern Asian creatures of high spiritual divinity with their own similar sensitivities to instant rage as well, such as the qilin/kirin. In the case of video games, there's a reason why the Japanese name for the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series' Outrage move to have its Japanese name literally be written as "Gekirin"...
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* ''Literature/TheBible'':
** A group of young men make fun[[note]]the insults they are recorded as using sound rather tame by modern standards, but were considerably more dire in the culture of the time[[/note]] of Elisha, one of {{God}}'s prophets. [[BearsAreBadNews God sends a pair of she-bears after them that mauled them to death.]]
** Earlier parts of the Bible have quite a few incidents where the Hebrews get tired of their God, with the most famous being the incident with the golden calf, only for Him to retract His protections and cause the Israelites to come running back.
** Harassing Old Testament prophets frequently qualified for this trope. Elisha's mentor Elijah had a habit of [[KillItWithFire calling down fire from heaven]] when disrespected, disbelieved, or threatened.
** UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} himself was almost stoned on several occasions, but he just walked through the crowd unharmed each time. His disciples wanted him to call down fire on one occasion, but he told them he wasn't into that sort of thing. Even when he was being arrested just prior to his resurrection, he very calmly points out that he has all of Heaven's angels on speed dial if he wanted a BigDamnHeroes moment. And while hanging on the cross, he was mocked: "If you really are the Son of God, then come down from there!" The Book of Revelation lays out the future comeuppance that those who reject(ed) him can look forward to.
** See also [[FlyingDutchman The Wandering Jew]], cursed by Jesus for mocking him on the cross.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Hercules fits this trope. Hercules was normally a nice guy and more than willing to help you out. However, there are several stories of kings cheating him out of payment, only for Hercules to sometimes come back years later and kill them for having dared wrong him. The worst offender being King Laomedon of Troy, who refused to pay Hercules AFTER he had witnessed the hero killing a sea monster sent by Poseidon. Hercules eventually killed Laomedon and nearly his entire family after sacking the city. What makes Laomedon even dumber? The monster was sent by Poseidon due to Laomedon refusing to pay him for building Troy's walls, meaning he made the exact same mistake ''twice in a row''. The only guy that had any justification was Eurystheus, the guy who gave him his Labours. Because he had Hera on his side/back.
* We also have Jason. His protector was the goddess of marriage Hera, and he had seen his wife Medea (who had been given to him by Hera herself) [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend cutting her own brother into pieces to protect him]] and killing an unkillable bronze giant with a look (depending on the version, she either [[PsychicAssistedSuicide hypnotized it into killing itself]] or [[DrivenToSuicide tortured him into suicide]]). Then Jason decided to [[TooDumbToLive dump her for the daughter of the king of Corinth]]. Cue Hera withdrawing her protection and letting [[WomanScorned Medea]] destroy Jason so much that [[CruelMercy killing him would have been merciful]], including: burning alive the king and his daughter (she was actually aiming for the daughter, the king just tried to save her and died in the process), destroying Corinth, and killing (most of) her own children by Jason (in some versions one of his children, Thessalus, survived and later became king).
* In Creator/{{Euripides}} The Theatre/{{Bacchae}}, Dionysus is bullied by the local king Pentheus. Dionysus has just come back from a long trip to Asia Minor and is excited to return to the city that his mother was from and to have all the people in the city join in the festivities that have been established to worship the new god Dionysus. Pentheus is having none of that, so he outlaws the festival, kills a few of Dionysus' followers, and declares (loudly and openly) that Dionysus' mother did not, in fact, sleep with Zeus to produce Dionysus, but was just a common whore and Dionysus is a bastard with delusions of grandeur and has him locked up in jail. This does not go over well with Dionysus. He causes the women of the city to go insane and go out to the forests to rave and dance and kill the soldiers in the surrounding towns, drives Pentheus crazy (and makes him cross-dress?), then lures Pentheus out into the woods, where his mother and aunt (along with the other women of the city) tear him into pieces and stick his head on a spear to parade it back into the city. Then he takes the madness off of them, letting them see exactly what they've done to their king.
* A special mention goes to Peirithous, who [[TooDumbToLive somehow decided it was a good idea]] to sneak into ''the Underworld'' along with Theseus (who ''knew'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck it was a terrible idea]], but was bound to come by an oath) in an attempt to abduct Persephone, the spouse of Hades (the ''God of the Dead'', and one of the three oldest and most powerful Gods) in order to take her as his wife. [[FateWorseThanDeath This didn't end well for him.]]
* Quite a few damned souls in Tartarus are there because they tried to deceive, steal from, or otherwise abuse the gods themselves.
** Tantalus was invited to dine with them, but he misbehaved and stole ambrosia and nectar to bring it back to his people, then (if that weren't enough) invited them in return, serving them a meal made from the body of his murdered son Pelos simply to prove he could trick them. (He did not.)
** Ixion was also invited to dine with them and lusted after Hera (doing this to the wife of your host is bad enough, but this was ''Zeus's'' wife). Then when the gods baited a trap with [[spoiler:a fake]] Hera, Ixion tried to rape her.
** Sisyphus was trusted with secrets by Zeus, and progressively: betrayed those secrets, held Thanatos hostage and tricked Persephone into letting him go after purposely telling his wife not to give him funeral rites. Of course, Hades figured out Sisyphus's treachery and [[OhCrap came to collect.]]
* In Myth/NorseMythology, Loki does this to all of the Gods, but especially to Skadi, by gleefully telling her that he is the one who bears the responsibility for the death of her father Thjazi. He is able to do this due to the SacredHospitality law the Gods enforce and that he is Odin's blood-brother, making him untouchable. Then it backfires horribly when the Gods bind him for tricking Hödr into killing Baldr: Skadi places a snake above Loki that will drop poison into his eyes until Ragnarök comes.
* A literal case in Eastern Asian mythology in general that also overlaps with BerserkButton, BewareTheNiceOnes, TurnsRed, and DisproportionateRetribution. From the records of the ''Han Feizi'', it was stated that the term ''nilin/gekirin'' (lit. inverted scale) was basically a situation where a benevolent Eastern dragon no matter how lax or chill it was, [[BerserkButton would technically be rip-shit pissed]] to the point where it will destroy the one responsible for inverting its most sensitive scale on its chin in the most painful way possible (hence the literal translation of the term). This was used as a comparison of putting Chinese rulers and those said dragons on the same boat, [[BewareTheNiceOnes where pressing that kind of ruler's berserk button]] [[OhCrap would spell complete hell and wrath for the one who did it]]. There exist other similar Eastern Asian creatures of high spiritual divinity with their own similar sensitivities to instant rage as well, such as the qilin/kirin. In the case of video games, there's a reason why the Japanese name for the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series' Outrage move to have its Japanese name literally be written as "Gekirin"...
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* Although ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' pushes the inevitable apocalyptic nova vs. baseline war as something [[BewareTheSuperman inherent in the novas' nature]], in the actual metaplot, the war doesn't start until novas learn that [[spoiler: Project Utopia, the MutantDraftBoard that ostensibly works to promote nova/human peace, has been sterilizing every nova it can get its hands on]]. TheReveal of this panics every non-affiliated nova, gives the [[FantasticRacism Nova Supremacists]] Teragen a huge boost in credibility, and outrages every formerly loyal nova, making the Aberrant War ''directly'' the humans' fault.
* Deconstructed and Reconstructed in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent''. Any action you take against the God-Machine automatically defaults into this, considering its [[DeusEstMachina scale of power]]. Provoking and angering such a powerful entity is, needless to say, ''suicidal''. The reconstruction comes from the fact that there's a level of bullying that only amounts to 'annoyance' to it, and as long you don't become a threat, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm it would gladly concede just to get you off its hair]].
* ''Tabletopgame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** This is also true of sorcerers, who [[MageSpecies have innate magical talents]]. [[UnequalRites Even standard wizards tend to do it]], even though sorcerers can cast more spells per day than them. It's to be noted that while Wizards look down on Sorcerers for being generally considered weaker (a Sorcerer has more spells a day, but is locked to specific spells, while a Wizard has slightly fewer spells per day, but has full access to a staggering number of choices), they also despise Sorcerers for, essentially, being born winners. A Sorcerer is born with their power, while a Wizard has to study for ''decades'' to cast the most basic cantrips.
** Warlocks suffer an even worse treatment (due to their powers often but not always having a demonic origin), and ''Complete Arcane'' (the book introducing the class) points out how it should be standard for most settings to scorn, resent, and persecute warlocks. Given that warlocks are casters who have an unlimited store of spells (unlike the sorcerer, who will eventually run dry), and probably made a DealWithTheDevil to get their powers (which, by the way, are far more focused on killing people than those of Wizards or Sorcerers), this ''really makes no sense''.
** There are also half-dragons, who are almost always treated badly by humans in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Yes, they think it's a good idea to pick on the person with claws and sharp teeth who can breathe dangerous substances and who has a parent that can level the town, and often will do so to protect or avenge his/her child. Tabletopgame/{{Eberron}} averts this by making the half-dragons considered abominations by the ''dragons''. Furthermore, even in the core game, a lot of dragons are lax parents even with their pureblood children and are even worse towards their half-breed spawn, making this not ''as'' dangerous as it sounds at first -- there's no guarantee that their dragon parent will care -- but still playing with fire. The half-dragons can still do plenty of damage themselves. The Dragonblooded supplement has a short story at the beginning of the chapter on Spellscales in which the main character encounters a young spellscale girl being bullied by a mob of normal kids, and managing to cast a high-enough-level Sleep spell to knock out eight or ten at once.
* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigilDarkAndLight'' includes the Magisters, a conspiracy of Hunters who kidnap [[TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful Princesses]] and mortals so they can trap the former in a LotusEaterMachine to use their lifeless body as power sources and brainwash the latter as their personal slaves. It's mentionned some of them have been stupid enough to try using this ritual on [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changelings]] (faerie beings with the ability [[DreamWeaver to travel in and reshape dreams]]) and [[TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial Beasts]] (creatures who are ''[[AnthropomorphicPersonification literal]]'' nightmares made flesh). Predictably, these Magisters ended up comatose after their "captives" easily escaped to strike back by plaguing them with horrible nightmares.
* ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering''
** The Elder Land Wurm's flavor text: "Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dragons lie."
** Played with via the card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253693 Slumbering Dragon]], which can't attack or block until it's had several counters put onto it. It gets counters whenever something tries to attack its controller.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', this mentality is actually something that [[MageSpecies hags]] seek in villages to foster their changeling offspring. See, changelings are essentially {{Cute Monster Girl}}s who more or less fit the anime CuteWitch look. Hags need to perform a magical ritual in order to transform them into the hideously ugly and more powerful hag forms -- but they can only do so if the changeling accepts the ritual. As a result, the hags strive to ensure that the families or villages they foster their spawn to will be [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer sufficiently hostile to someone who isn't "normal"]] that, when the hag makes the offer to her daughter, the embittered changeling will gladly accept in hopes of using that power for revenge. Needless to say, when the new hag has been reborn, she usually pays back her tormentors in spades.
* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'':
** Being pushed around one too many times is listed as an example of common ways for espers to initially manifest their talents.
** This is how Ian first manifested his telekinesis. Chad assaulted Ian at school and ended up getting hit with a TK Push strong enough to hospitalize him.
** Lucky, who can start fires with his mind, is threatened by a liquor store clerk and chased by an entire angry mob.
** Harry in ''Broken Things'' spends the bulk of the story being experimented on and tortured by Shop members who know that he's a powerful psychokinetic. See the page's AssholeVictim example to see how that works out for them.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''
** Magic users are looked upon with distrust and fear by a large segment of the population, and many actively discriminate against them, often on religious grounds.
** Metahumans are sometimes discriminated against by humans for being "freaks." Metahumans include trolls, who stand 7 to 10 feet tall, are extremely strong, and have armor-plated skin.
** With the existence of actual Dragons in the setting, this trope becomes a literal case for [[TooDumbToLive anybody who even dares to antagonize]] or even strike a deal with one.
* Wizards and Psykers of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' respectively. The Wizards normally don't give a damn about what peasants think, but soldiers love them, and psykers, well, their powers come from Chaos... Considering that psykers are incredibly vulnerable to PowerIncontinence, DemonicPossession, and in more than a few occasions having their skull turned into a portal to allow TheLegionsOfHell to overrun the planet, this trope becomes even more ridiculous if treatment of them within the Imperium wasn't less "ostracism" and more "immediate execution."
** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}}'' supplement ''Honour the Chapter'', The Black Templars' history in the Jericho Reach began with a Prelate-Imperialis named Nadab Saul trying to convince the Black Templars to join the nascent Achilus Crusade in the worst ways possible. He tried to browbeat and intimidate the Marshals instead of appealing to their sense of duty. Even as Battle-Brothers hauled him away, never to be seen again, he continued to spit invectives, condemning the entire Chapter as traitors.
** After the First War for Armageddon against literal LegionsOfHell was won, the Grey Knights and the Inquisition decided that to avoid corruption, all population and military at the planet must be sterilized and worked to death in the labor camps. That didn't sit well with the ChaoticGood Space Wolves chapter. The result is the Months of Shame, a minor civil war that cost the Grey Knights and Inquisition a battle fleet worth of ships, the head of the inquisitor who ordered the death of Armageddon's population, (who went completely ballistic and Exterminatus'd several planets in a failed attempt to eliminate them) a whole brotherhood worth of Grey Knights (this squabble cost them as much as the entire war for Armageddon... yep, one brotherhood lost almost all its members twice in a matter of months), and from now on, any and all inquisitional ships over Fenris are shot on sight.
** Inquisitors might believe that they have the right to be bossy around Space Marine Chapter Masters. Then their bodies happen to be found in the Chapter Monastery, supposedly killed by an ork sniper. [[note]]The joke here being that there are no ork snipers, given the inherent [[MoreDakka love of dakka]] and [[ATeamFiring hate of accuracy]] all orks have.[[/note]]
** Eldar tend to be guided by false prophecies and will attack vastly superior forces, while being very arrogant about it.
** That the Tau ''don't'' do this as a rule is the only reason they're still around. The Imperium is larger and more populous than the Tau Empire by several orders of magnitude, but also has to fight {{Forever War}}s on multiple fronts, and their local forces alone can ''at best'' keep the Tau contained. In other words, the Imperium knows they don't have the reserves to wipe out the Tau without suffering significant setbacks elsewhere in the galaxy, but the Tau know that they can't antagonize the Imperium ''too much'' or else the humans might just take that risk. {{Realpolitik}} does the rest, keeping the conflict between the two nations to low-level border battles and allowing them to ally against [[EnemyMine common enemies]].
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* Although ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' pushes the inevitable apocalyptic nova vs. baseline war as something [[BewareTheSuperman inherent in the novas' nature]], in the actual metaplot, the war doesn't start until novas learn that [[spoiler: Project Utopia, the MutantDraftBoard that ostensibly works to promote nova/human peace, has been sterilizing every nova it can get its hands on]]. TheReveal of this panics every non-affiliated nova, gives the [[FantasticRacism Nova Supremacists]] Teragen a huge boost in credibility, and outrages every formerly loyal nova, making the Aberrant War ''directly'' the humans' fault.
* Deconstructed and Reconstructed in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent''. Any action you take against the God-Machine automatically defaults into this, considering its [[DeusEstMachina scale of power]]. Provoking and angering such a powerful entity is, needless to say, ''suicidal''. The reconstruction comes from the fact that there's a level of bullying that only amounts to 'annoyance' to it, and as long you don't become a threat, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm it would gladly concede just to get you off its hair]].
* ''Tabletopgame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** This is also true of sorcerers, who [[MageSpecies have innate magical talents]]. [[UnequalRites Even standard wizards tend to do it]], even though sorcerers can cast more spells per day than them. It's to be noted that while Wizards look down on Sorcerers for being generally considered weaker (a Sorcerer has more spells a day, but is locked to specific spells, while a Wizard has slightly fewer spells per day, but has full access to a staggering number of choices), they also despise Sorcerers for, essentially, being born winners. A Sorcerer is born with their power, while a Wizard has to study for ''decades'' to cast the most basic cantrips.
** Warlocks suffer an even worse treatment (due to their powers often but not always having a demonic origin), and ''Complete Arcane'' (the book introducing the class) points out how it should be standard for most settings to scorn, resent, and persecute warlocks. Given that warlocks are casters who have an unlimited store of spells (unlike the sorcerer, who will eventually run dry), and probably made a DealWithTheDevil to get their powers (which, by the way, are far more focused on killing people than those of Wizards or Sorcerers), this ''really makes no sense''.
** There are also half-dragons, who are almost always treated badly by humans in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Yes, they think it's a good idea to pick on the person with claws and sharp teeth who can breathe dangerous substances and who has a parent that can level the town, and often will do so to protect or avenge his/her child. Tabletopgame/{{Eberron}} averts this by making the half-dragons considered abominations by the ''dragons''. Furthermore, even in the core game, a lot of dragons are lax parents even with their pureblood children and are even worse towards their half-breed spawn, making this not ''as'' dangerous as it sounds at first -- there's no guarantee that their dragon parent will care -- but still playing with fire. The half-dragons can still do plenty of damage themselves. The Dragonblooded supplement has a short story at the beginning of the chapter on Spellscales in which the main character encounters a young spellscale girl being bullied by a mob of normal kids, and managing to cast a high-enough-level Sleep spell to knock out eight or ten at once.
* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigilDarkAndLight'' includes the Magisters, a conspiracy of Hunters who kidnap [[TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful Princesses]] and mortals so they can trap the former in a LotusEaterMachine to use their lifeless body as power sources and brainwash the latter as their personal slaves. It's mentionned some of them have been stupid enough to try using this ritual on [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changelings]] (faerie beings with the ability [[DreamWeaver to travel in and reshape dreams]]) and [[TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial Beasts]] (creatures who are ''[[AnthropomorphicPersonification literal]]'' nightmares made flesh). Predictably, these Magisters ended up comatose after their "captives" easily escaped to strike back by plaguing them with horrible nightmares.
* ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering''
** The Elder Land Wurm's flavor text: "Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dragons lie."
** Played with via the card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253693 Slumbering Dragon]], which can't attack or block until it's had several counters put onto it. It gets counters whenever something tries to attack its controller.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', this mentality is actually something that [[MageSpecies hags]] seek in villages to foster their changeling offspring. See, changelings are essentially {{Cute Monster Girl}}s who more or less fit the anime CuteWitch look. Hags need to perform a magical ritual in order to transform them into the hideously ugly and more powerful hag forms -- but they can only do so if the changeling accepts the ritual. As a result, the hags strive to ensure that the families or villages they foster their spawn to will be [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer sufficiently hostile to someone who isn't "normal"]] that, when the hag makes the offer to her daughter, the embittered changeling will gladly accept in hopes of using that power for revenge. Needless to say, when the new hag has been reborn, she usually pays back her tormentors in spades.
* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'':
** Being pushed around one too many times is listed as an example of common ways for espers to initially manifest their talents.
** This is how Ian first manifested his telekinesis. Chad assaulted Ian at school and ended up getting hit with a TK Push strong enough to hospitalize him.
** Lucky, who can start fires with his mind, is threatened by a liquor store clerk and chased by an entire angry mob.
** Harry in ''Broken Things'' spends the bulk of the story being experimented on and tortured by Shop members who know that he's a powerful psychokinetic. See the page's AssholeVictim example to see how that works out for them.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''
** Magic users are looked upon with distrust and fear by a large segment of the population, and many actively discriminate against them, often on religious grounds.
** Metahumans are sometimes discriminated against by humans for being "freaks." Metahumans include trolls, who stand 7 to 10 feet tall, are extremely strong, and have armor-plated skin.
** With the existence of actual Dragons in the setting, this trope becomes a literal case for [[TooDumbToLive anybody who even dares to antagonize]] or even strike a deal with one.
* Wizards and Psykers of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' respectively. The Wizards normally don't give a damn about what peasants think, but soldiers love them, and psykers, well, their powers come from Chaos... Considering that psykers are incredibly vulnerable to PowerIncontinence, DemonicPossession, and in more than a few occasions having their skull turned into a portal to allow TheLegionsOfHell to overrun the planet, this trope becomes even more ridiculous if treatment of them within the Imperium wasn't less "ostracism" and more "immediate execution."
** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}}'' supplement ''Honour the Chapter'', The Black Templars' history in the Jericho Reach began with a Prelate-Imperialis named Nadab Saul trying to convince the Black Templars to join the nascent Achilus Crusade in the worst ways possible. He tried to browbeat and intimidate the Marshals instead of appealing to their sense of duty. Even as Battle-Brothers hauled him away, never to be seen again, he continued to spit invectives, condemning the entire Chapter as traitors.
** After the First War for Armageddon against literal LegionsOfHell was won, the Grey Knights and the Inquisition decided that to avoid corruption, all population and military at the planet must be sterilized and worked to death in the labor camps. That didn't sit well with the ChaoticGood Space Wolves chapter. The result is the Months of Shame, a minor civil war that cost the Grey Knights and Inquisition a battle fleet worth of ships, the head of the inquisitor who ordered the death of Armageddon's population, (who went completely ballistic and Exterminatus'd several planets in a failed attempt to eliminate them) a whole brotherhood worth of Grey Knights (this squabble cost them as much as the entire war for Armageddon... yep, one brotherhood lost almost all its members twice in a matter of months), and from now on, any and all inquisitional ships over Fenris are shot on sight.
** Inquisitors might believe that they have the right to be bossy around Space Marine Chapter Masters. Then their bodies happen to be found in the Chapter Monastery, supposedly killed by an ork sniper. [[note]]The joke here being that there are no ork snipers, given the inherent [[MoreDakka love of dakka]] and [[ATeamFiring hate of accuracy]] all orks have.[[/note]]
** Eldar tend to be guided by false prophecies and will attack vastly superior forces, while being very arrogant about it.
** That the Tau ''don't'' do this as a rule is the only reason they're still around. The Imperium is larger and more populous than the Tau Empire by several orders of magnitude, but also has to fight {{Forever War}}s on multiple fronts, and their local forces alone can ''at best'' keep the Tau contained. In other words, the Imperium knows they don't have the reserves to wipe out the Tau without suffering significant setbacks elsewhere in the galaxy, but the Tau know that they can't antagonize the Imperium ''too much'' or else the humans might just take that risk. {{Realpolitik}} does the rest, keeping the conflict between the two nations to low-level border battles and allowing them to ally against [[EnemyMine common enemies]].
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: You know your opponent is tough. You think you're tougher. You were wrong.
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Also, see FantasticRacism. A popular FreudianExcuse and backstory for a StartOfDarkness. This [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary trope doesn't usually]] have anything to do with TheDragon who's the BigBad's second-in-command ([[FreudianExcuse although,]] [[StartOfDarkness it might]]). VideoGame examples where the AI keeps trying to bully you despite the power difference because it's not programmed to back down has a special trope, SuicidalOverconfidence. The CorneredRattlesnake is weaker than a 'Dragon' and may not appear powerful or willing to fight back but can be dangerous if pushed too far. If the bullying takes the form of sexually predatory acts, then it is also a case of LustMakesYouDumb.
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Also, see FantasticRacism. A popular FreudianExcuse and backstory for a StartOfDarkness. This [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary trope doesn't usually]] have anything to do with TheDragon who's the BigBad's second-in-command ([[FreudianExcuse although,]] [[StartOfDarkness it might]]).second-in-command. VideoGame examples where the AI keeps trying to bully you despite the power difference because it's not programmed to back down has a special trope, SuicidalOverconfidence. The CorneredRattlesnake is weaker than a 'Dragon' and may not appear powerful or willing to fight back but can be dangerous if pushed too far. If the bullying takes the form of sexually predatory acts, then it is also a case of LustMakesYouDumb.
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* There's a children's song about a trio of monkeys living in the jungle who get bored one day and decide to taunt the crocodile in the river, confidant that they're too quick to be caught by him. He promptly tricks one of the monkeys into coming close, and the next verse is about the two monkeys living in the jungle who get bored and decide to taunt the crocodile. The song ends with a jungle that has no monkeys but one very full crocodile.
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* There's a children's song about a trio of monkeys living in the jungle who get bored one day and decide to taunt the crocodile in the river, confidant confident that they're too quick to be caught by him. He promptly tricks one of the monkeys into coming close, and the next verse is about the two monkeys living in the jungle who get bored and decide to taunt the crocodile. The song ends with a jungle that has no monkeys but one very full crocodile.
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* While LetsPlay/HatFilms are fairly competent ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' players, their two efforts to harass LetsPlay/LewisBrindley and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} at [[WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries the latter's farm]] have ended in failure, after [[LetsGetDangerous Lewis and Sjin decided to fight back]]. The first time ended with one of the Sirs falling to their death in a ravine, the second ended with a group of [[DemonicSpiders captive beasts]] hacking them to pieces.
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* While LetsPlay/HatFilms are fairly competent ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' players, their two efforts to harass LetsPlay/LewisBrindley and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} at [[WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries the latter's farm]] WebVideo/SjinsFarm have ended in failure, after [[LetsGetDangerous Lewis and Sjin decided to fight back]]. The first time ended with one of the Sirs falling to their death in a ravine, the second ended with a group of [[DemonicSpiders captive beasts]] hacking them to pieces.
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Also, see FantasticRacism. A popular FreudianExcuse and backstory for a StartOfDarkness. This [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary trope doesn't usually]] have anything to do with TheDragon who's the BigBad's second-in-command ([[FreudianExcuse although,]] [[StartOfDarkness it might]]). VideoGame examples where the AI keeps trying to bully you despite the power difference because it's not programmed to back down has a special trope, SuicidalOverconfidence. The CorneredRattlesnake is weaker than a 'Dragon' and may not appear powerful or willing to fight back but can be dangerous if pushed too far. If the bullying takes the form of sexual predatory acts, then it is also a case of LustMakesYouDumb.
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Also, see FantasticRacism. A popular FreudianExcuse and backstory for a StartOfDarkness. This [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary trope doesn't usually]] have anything to do with TheDragon who's the BigBad's second-in-command ([[FreudianExcuse although,]] [[StartOfDarkness it might]]). VideoGame examples where the AI keeps trying to bully you despite the power difference because it's not programmed to back down has a special trope, SuicidalOverconfidence. The CorneredRattlesnake is weaker than a 'Dragon' and may not appear powerful or willing to fight back but can be dangerous if pushed too far. If the bullying takes the form of sexual sexually predatory acts, then it is also a case of LustMakesYouDumb.
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* A couple [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiWYEf4wAeM Stacker 2 commercials]] had a man make fun of Wrestling/{{Kane}}, a sadistic monster heel from the WWE. Ends about as well as you'd expect...
* A Creator/SpikeTV commercial has a pair of convention-goers mock [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fett]] for his unusual name and appearance. It ends badly for them.
* A Creator/SpikeTV commercial has a pair of convention-goers mock [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fett]] for his unusual name and appearance. It ends badly for them.
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* A Creator/SpikeTVcommercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=034VGcWIzfA commercial]] has a pair of convention-goers mock [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fett]] for his unusual name and appearance. It ends badly for them.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder Fall is a deadly combatant and manipulator with [[ElementalPowers an ability]] that makes her one of the most powerful people on Remnant. This doesn't stop one character from trying to blackmail her by threatening to get her into trouble with her [[TheDreaded even more dangerous boss]]. [[spoiler:Neo steals the Relic of Knowledge from Salem and then taunts Cinder with it because Cinder has failed to give Neo her promised chance of revenge against Ruby. Cinder apologises just enough to convince Neo to hand over the Relic, devises a plan to obtain the second Relic and then throws Neo into TheVoidBetweenTheWorlds as soon as Neo has served her purpose.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder Fall is a deadly combatant and manipulator with [[ElementalPowers an ability]] that makes her one of the most powerful people on Remnant. This doesn't stop one character from trying to blackmail her by threatening to get her into trouble with her [[TheDreaded even more dangerous boss]]. [[spoiler:Neo steals the Relic of Knowledge from Salem and then taunts Cinder with it because Cinder has failed to give Neo her promised chance of revenge against Ruby. Cinder apologises apologizes just enough to convince Neo to hand over the Relic, devises a plan to obtain the second Relic and then throws Neo into TheVoidBetweenTheWorlds as soon as Neo has served her purpose.]]
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If [[BreakTheCutie the victim snaps]], they ''will'' [[WhosLaughingNow turn]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes the]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds tables]] (if not [[ChainsawGood turn the table into a buzzsaw]], [[SpectacularSpinning set it spinning at hurricane-level speeds]], and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shove their tormentors' intestines into the spinning blades]]… [[{{Metaphorgotten}} literal tables need not be involved]]). Also, don't lie. [[CatharsisFactor It is very cathartically awesome]] when the bullies are [[AssholeVictim finally]] [[KarmicDeath killed]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch off]] or subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath as [[BestServedCold Revenge]]. (And, if they have not done anything remotely objectionable up to this point, this could well be taken as a case of DarkIsNotEvil.) Unfortunately, many of the times a bully attempts to go after someone of this ilk is because they are ''trying'' to elicit a response, which, in turn, would prove everyone's point about [[IResembleThatRemark how much of a freak they truly are]]. Then again, in many cases, this makes them even stupider, as they don't seem to consider anything particularly awful happening to themselves as a result of their actions.
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If [[BreakTheCutie the victim snaps]], they ''will'' [[WhosLaughingNow turn]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes the]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds tables]] (if not [[ChainsawGood turn the table into a buzzsaw]], [[SpectacularSpinning set it spinning at hurricane-level speeds]], and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shove their tormentors' intestines into the spinning blades]]… [[{{Metaphorgotten}} literal tables need not be involved]]). Also, don't lie. [[CatharsisFactor It is very cathartically awesome]] when the bullies are [[AssholeVictim finally]] [[KarmicDeath killed]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch [[PayEvilUntoEvil finally killed off]] or subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath as [[BestServedCold Revenge]]. (And, if they have not done anything remotely objectionable up to this point, this could well be taken as a case of DarkIsNotEvil.) Unfortunately, many of the times a bully attempts to go after someone of this ilk is because they are ''trying'' to elicit a response, which, in turn, would prove everyone's point about [[IResembleThatRemark how much of a freak they truly are]]. Then again, in many cases, this makes them even stupider, as they don't seem to consider anything particularly awful happening to themselves as a result of their actions.
