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[[caption-width-right:300: [[MortalKombat Round one]], ''[[MortalKombat FIGHT!]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:300: [[StreetFighter Round one]], ''[[StreetFighter FIGHT!]]'']]

-->"Millerna Wins! ''[[MortalKombat Manipulatality!!!]]''"\\
-- ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged''

* Anyone who has watched the first IronMan movie will remember that little scene between Pepper and What's-her-face.

** The refrigerator turns out to be so epic in its filth that it spawns a horrible god-eating abomination when it's finally opened. To be fair, GodsNeedPrayerBadly had a hand in it- apparently passive-aggressive fear-scorn counts as belief.

** The refrigerator turns out to be so epic in its filth that it spawns a horrible abomination when it's finally opened.

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* One of the many {{Cutaway Gag}}s in ''FamilyGuy'' is Peter helping Chris to get his insect badge by observing a family of "wasps." Cut away to Chris and Peter sitting behind a potted plant in a lavish dining hall watching a family of [[{{AcceptableEthnicTargets}} upper-class White Anglo Saxon Protestants]] doing exactly this.

This is also TruthInTelevision, as it's almost a necessity in politics and diplomacy.

* One of the many {{Cutaway Gag}}s in ''FamilyGuy'' is Peter helping Christ to get his insect badge by observing a family of "wasps." Cut away to Chris and Peter sitting behind a potted plant in a lavish dining hall watching a family of [[{{AcceptableEthnicTargets}} upper-class White Anglo Saxon Protestants]] doing exactly this.
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* One of the many {{Cutaway Gag}}s is Peter helping Christ to get his insect badge by observing a family of "wasps." Cut away to Chris and Peter sitting behind a potted plant in a lavish dining hall watching a family of [[{{AcceptableEthnicTargets}} upper-class White Anglo Saxon Protestants]] doing exactly this.

* Sheldon from ''TheBigBangTheory'' does this a lot.

* Name comes from ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'', which spoofed Hitomi's and Millerna's discussions in the real ''VisionOfEscaflowne'' series, over who would get Allen. Basically, each fight [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome started and ended with an announcer presenting them as intense, brutal fights]], even though the actual scenes were just them calmly lying and manipulating each other. The RunningGag first shows up [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqieymT7z14 here at 2:56:]].
* Sheldon from ''TheBigBangTheory'' does this a lot.
* Rose and her mother fight this way (when they're not more aggressively fighting) in ''{{Homestuck}}''. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002266 Their refrigerator is a good example of the nature of the feud]] (goes on for several pages).
* Gwendolen and Cecily in TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest.

* Some of the cases in the ''AceAttorney'' are this.
* A refrigerator is also the site of Passive Aggressive Kombat in TheLongDarkTeatimeOfTheSoul... Dirk Gently does not want to open it before his housekeeper cleans it, and sets up elaborate, tiny traps in order to be able to tell if she has, one including a strand of hair.

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Once in a while these can break into something more severe, to show that at leastone character has hit a breaking point, or that someone hit that character's BerserkButton.

Fighting doesn't have to involve shouting or anything physical. For some characters sharp well placed words are all they need to duel. They can sound very reasonable, even gentle. But it's still a knock-out, winner-take-all confrontation, for all that the people involved are trying to remain composed and amicable.

Once in a while these can break into something more severe, to show one character has hit a breaking point, or that someone hit that character's BerserkButton.

Fighting doesn't have to involve shouting or anything physical. No, you can sound very reasonable, even gentle. But it's still a knock-out, winner-take-all confrontation, just that the people involved are trying to remain composed and amicable.

* Name comes from ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'', which presented Hitomi's and Millerna's confrontations in a WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome manner (first seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqieymT7z14 here at 2:56:]]).

* Name comes from ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'', which presented Hitomi's and Millerna's confrontations in a WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome manner.

-> "Millerna Wins! ''[[MortalKombat Manipulatality!!!]]''"
--> -- ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged''

->"Millerna Wins! ''[[MortalKombat Manipulatality!!!]]''"
-->-- ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged''

* ''PrideAndPrejudice'' is like the WWII of {{snark}}ery and PolitenessJudo, but almost everyone is so passive-aggressive, blink and you miss it.
** Pretty much everything by Jane Austen is made of this trope because they're about {{snark}}ing on a society that reveres manners (so most conflict is dealt with in the most cutting--but polite!--manner possible), but ''PrideAndPrejudice'' is probably the best example because of all the people who disapprove of the couples and make it known in the most polite way possible.

** A refrigerator is also the site of Passive Aggressive Kombat in TheLongDarkTeatimeOfTheSoul... Dirk Gently does not want to open it before his housekeeper cleans it, and sets up elaborate, tiny traps in order to be able to tell if she has, one including a strand of hair.