History Main / DefiedTrope

* In the first episode of Season 5, ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'' stakes Dracula again when he reforms from dust, and then reminds him she's still there when he starts reforming again, prompting him to blow away.

* In the first episode of Season 5, ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'' stabs Dracula again when he tries to resurrect, and then reminds him she's still there when he tries again.

* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' defies TheBeard in one issue. Mikoshiba explains to Sakura that he needs a fake girlfriend in order to ward off a suitor. Both of them are very familiar with romance stories, and thus independently realize that the flow of the conversation will lead to them fake-dating (either by Sakura offering or Mikoshiba asking), which neither of them want to do, so they both trail off...[[HypocriticalHumor and get offended that the other didn't offer/ask]]. Mikoshiba winds up bringing Seo, who is more or less convincing.

* ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'' defies Jade Chan's love of using LoopholeAbuse to go LeeroyJenkins in chapter 11. [[OriginalCharacter Valerie]] — who has carried Jade and Paco out of the temple the fight over the Pan'Ku Box is taking place — not only tells them to WaitHere, but makes sure to quickly phrase her order to make clear Jade and Paco can only stay where they are or move further away from the temple if the place they are in becomes unsafe. Jade spends a few seconds seconds sputtering (then groaning) in annoyance as she tries to find a loophole but can't find it.

* ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'' defies Jade Chan's love of using LoopholeAbuse to go LeeroyJenkins in chapter 11. The Ultimate Evil: There are some examples in addition to the canonical ones of Jade and Shendu. [[OriginalCharacter Valerie]] — who has carried Jade and Paco out of the temple the fight over the Pan'Ku Box is taking place — not only tells them to WaitHere, but makes sure to add a long bunch of sub-sections to her order that prohibit Jade from finding a loophole.

* The plot of the book ''In Down And Out In Purgatory'' by Creator/TimPowers revolves around a defiance of VengeanceDenied: after the man who murdered the protagonist's fiancee dies of natural causes before he can face justice, the protagonist [[AfterlifeAvenger pursues his quarry into the afterlife]].

* The short story [[http://podcastle.org/2010/01/26/podcastle-88-another-end-of-the-empire/ Another End Of The Empire]] by Tim Pratt features the EvilOverlord Mogrash who is told the following prophecy:

* Literature/AnansiBoys'': Fat Charlie, when arrested on charges of embezzling money from his employer, goes off on a long rant about how his very kind ([[FairCop and pretty]]) interrogator is just playing GoodCopBadCop with him. She sighs and explains that no, there is no bad cop waiting in the wings, and yes, the police are in fact pretty sure he's innocent.

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' has one of the guys who write the saferoom graffiti proclaim that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters "WE ARE THE REAL MONSTERS"]]. The guy ''underneath'' him says "No, that's the zombies".

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' presents this in the guise of one of the final TakeAThirdOption choices. A player actively seeking to achieve some sort of compromise between two factions is rewarded with a rather large "boom".

* [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] defies a SadisticChoice in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Xaldin kidnaps her and takes the rose that can lift Beast's curse, [[SadisticChoice forcing Beast to choose which he'll give back]]. Although Beast chooses for Belle to be safe, she elbows Xaldin, saving herself and the rose.
* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', the player can ask [[BigBad Irenicus]] to [[JustBetweenYouAndMe explain his plans and motivations]]. He flatly replies, "No, you warrant no villain's exposition from me."
* ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: The Faces of Evil]]'' and MotivationalKiss: "How about a kiss, for luck?" "You've ''got'' to be kidding me."
* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' often defies the TakeCover trope, especially on higher difficulty levels: explosives can destroy most cover. Bunch of aliens/troopers cluttered behind cover? Throw a grenade at them and have your buddies shoot them. Then, the [[MiniMecha MEC Trooper]] has an ability specifically designed to destroy cover.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', there is a scene in which Ike is given a choice to either play RousingSpeech straight or defy it (it doesn't affect the game at all outside the scene). If you choose to defy it, Mist is annoyed by how boring it is, but Ike says he's perfectly happy being boring.

* The FinalBoss fight of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' has Nero decide [[spoiler:the CainAndAbel trope is not happening on his watch, and he forcibly intervenes in Dante and Vergil's DuelToTheDeath to stop them]].
-->''"Nero, having found his own reasons to fight, comes between [[spoiler:his father and uncle. There will be no fratricide this day.]]"''
* According to its FlavorText, the fourth Anti Corruption Initiative in ''VideoGame/RebelInc'' reduces Corruption by "banning the printing of high denomination currency", which [[ImpliedTrope presumably]] works by making it harder to stuff a BriefcaseFullOfMoney as a bribe, which is a practice that has actually picked up some pace in real life.

* ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs'' defies WorthlessTreasureTwist: when two packs of dogs get ready to fight over a bag of garbage that may contain food, Chief calls a time-out and asks for someone to check the contents of the bag to make sure it's worth it. After one of the dogs does so and affirms that there's food inside, Chief says it's WorthIt and starts the fight.

-->-- ''Film/{{Evolution|2001}}''

'''Harry Block:''' Uh-uh. I've seen this movie; [[BlackDudeDiesFirst the black dude dies first]]. ''You'' snag it.

* ''Film/WithoutWarning1994'' defies ApocalypticGagOrder. When the government detects a wave of meteors en route to three of the world's biggest capitals (the work of aliens that are performing FirstContact and got irate when [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill mankind decided to defend itself]]) and decides to keep quiet while they prepare a strategy to intercept them, TheWormGuy who theorized it's first contact immediately calls it quits, declares what is going to the reporters broadcasting live, and leaves to spend what he believes are his (and mankind's) final hours with his family (which turned out to be [[EverybodyDiesEnding a very accurate prediction]]).

* ''WebVideo/MovieFights'' host, Andy Signore, is aware that he tends to say [[CatchPhrase "This is tough"]] before making a call for the debate rounds, and would try not to say it whenever possible. He would sometimes lampshade this.

* In ''Film/{{Evolution}}'', Harry is asked to grab a small alien monster, and he refuses based on BlackDudeDiesFirst. [[spoiler:And he lives through the film.]]

-->-- ''Film/{{Evolution}}''

* [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash's Butterfree]] in a sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' defies [[spoiler: MurderTheHypotenuse, when he finds out that the Pink Butterfree found herself another mate. He has a moment alone with his "rival", where he could easily kill him and say that a Fearow did it, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark but ultimately can't bring himself to do it,]] [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and decides to let his mate be happy with him]].]]

* Contrasting the {{invoked|Trope}} BodyguardCrush in ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'', Kazuma goes out of his way to keep Ayano at a distance and offend her as much as possible so she doesn't get attached to him either. It doesn't really work.

* In ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'', superhero costume designer Edna Mode doesn't incorporate [[SuperheroesWearCapes capes]] into the costumes she designs, and lists several CapeSnag incidents why. This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun with a villain. This has long been addressed in actual comics (for one, capes are easily detachable), and the ''[[WatsonianVSDoylist real]]'' reason for "no capes" is that the animators didn't want to deal with [[NoFlowInCGI cape physics and animation]] over the course of a film.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', [[{{Snowlems}} Olaf]] longs to one day [[TragicDream experience summer]], setting himself up for a DeathByIrony. [[spoiler:When [[AnIcePerson Elsa]] stops the EndlessWinter she created, she gives Olaf his own snow cloud so he wouldn't melt in the heat.]]

* Despite being one of the most well-known [[PlayingWith/SmellySkunk characteristics of skunks]] in real life, spraying is an uncomfortable taboo in "Literature/WelcomeHome"; it is only used for self-defense in life-or-death situations and never in anger. However, even though it is an extremely rare occurrence and nothing but hearsay, it doesn't prevent harmful stereotypes from spreading, creating a minor conflict in the story.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', superhero costume designer Edna Mode doesn't incorporate [[SuperheroesWearCapes capes]] into the costumes she designs, and lists several CapeSnag incidents why. This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun with a villain. This has long been addressed in actual comics (for one, capes are easily detachable), and the ''[[WatsonianVSDoylist real]]'' reason for "no capes" is that the animators didn't want to deal with [[NoFlowInCGI cape physics and animation]] over the course of a film.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Abed's short story in "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps" is a truly bizarre example: he creates a RationalFic in which the protagonists, a couple that are being stalked by an escaped SerialKiller, defy every single thing that would make them SlasherFilm victims: they were already [[DeathBySex reluctant to have sex]] even before hearing about the escaped killer, they instantly call the police [[CellPhonesAreUseless from their fully charged cell phones]], [[PoliceAreUseless the police promptly answers the call]], and then they arm themselves and then [[BackToBackBadasses go stand back-to-back]] in the most defensible part of the cabin to wait for the cops to arrive. The reason why this is a bizarre example is because it's a ''[[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]]'' of rationalist fiction -- Abed got so focused in defying tropes [[StrawVulcan for logic's sake]] that he didn't make the story entertaining to anybody but himself (notably, the protagonists never encounter any obstacles, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse like the killer the story takes a long time to set up]]).

** In ''Film/Scream2022'', after several movies in which the Ghostface killers aimed to obtain FameThroughInfamy and got it (although [[PyrrhicVictory they didn't lived to enjoy it]]), which then fed into [[FranchiseZombie keeping the "Stab" franchise going]] and inspire more Ghostfaces; Gale Weathers makes clear that she will do her absolute damnedest to prevent it from happening this time, beginning by writing a tell-all book about this film's spree which will focus only on the victims (including [[spoiler:Dewey, Gale's ex-boyfriend]]) and won't so much as mention the Ghostfaces' name.

* Despite being played straight before, ''[[SimultaneousArcs Part 3 - Twilight]]'' of ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'' defies TalkingToHimself: [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney The Judge]] refuses to talk to {{AudioPlay/Doctor Whooves|AndAssistant}} as he's afraid [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall it might cause some sort of paradox if he does]].

** defies ALessonLearnedTooWell. In "Rich Hank, Poor Hank", Bobby mistakenly thinks that his father is rich when he overhears Hank telling Peggy about his $1,000 annual bonus from work but mistakenly gets the idea that Hank makes that much per day. At first, Bobby tries to get his father to spend his money, which backfires when Hank tries to teach Bobby the value of a dollar by showing how much money Bobby spent and suggests Bobby could make money by taking littered cans to the recycling center, but this only reinforces Bobby's misjudgment that Hank is being stingy. Bobby steals Hank's emergency credit card and goes to the mall. After Bobby is caught and he tells Hank he knows he's rich, Hank clarifies Bobby's earlier misconceptions -- the $1,000 check was an annual bonus and the strongbox of oil receipts was a collection of receipts what Hank has spent on the truck, such as oil changes. They return all of the items which Bobby had purchased, save for a nonrefundable jet ski. Bobby, feeling bad for the trouble he caused and learning of his family's real income, works hard at his punishment and adopting Hank's attitude towards the value of a hard day's work and an honest dollar. At first, Hank is happy and proud of Bobby, but when they try to sell the jet ski to a rich father buying it for his spoiled son Eric, Hank becomes uncomfortable when he sees that Bobby is too eager to please Eric, who treats him like garbage. This prompts Hank to decide not to sell the jet ski to Eric's father. As Hank and Bobby ride the jet ski to test it, he tells Bobby they're not selling the jet ski, they will sell it in a year and carry it on his credit card until then. The episode ends with Hank and Bobby talking about a responsible way to use a credit card and Hank happy that Bobby learned his lesson about earnest work and not behaving like that spoiled brat.