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You're just minding your own business when there is suddenly a commotion aroused nearby. A SavageWolf suddenly appears snarling and chasing everyone in town. No matter what happens, you can't seem to subdue the wolf. Suddenly, as the wolf turns around, you look and see that there is a thorn stuck in the wolf's left hind paw so you quickly trap the wolf. Once the wolf has been subdued, you pull the thorn out from the wolf's foot. The wolf gets back up again, but this time, he starts licking your face and wagging it's tail, happy that the thorn is removed.

A character is minding his own business when there is suddenly a commotion aroused nearby. A SavageWolf suddenly appears snarling and chasing everyone in town. No matter what happens, you can't seem to subdue the wolf. Suddenly, as the wolf turns around, you look and see that there is a thorn stuck in the wolf's left hind paw so you quickly trap the wolf. Once the wolf has been subdued, you pull the thorn out from the wolf's foot. The wolf gets back up again, but this time, he starts licking your face, happy that the thorn is removed.

!Examples:

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* This happened ''[[FleetingDemographicRule four times]]'' in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** The Kanto episode "To Master The Onixpected" had Elite Four member Bruno capture an Onix after pulling out a Sandslash that had been lodged between two segments of its rock body.
** The Sinnoh episode "Faced With Steelix Determination" involved a Steelix going on a mad rage near a village of Bidoof because of some shovels that Team Rocket had accidentally jabbed into its head. [[FromBadToWorse Made even worse]] when it was nearing a large lake during its anger (Steelix are Steel and Ground Pokemon and are weak against water). Fortunately, Ash and the gang, with help from the Bidoof, were able to remove the shovels before Steelix could fall into the lake.

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[[AC:FairyTales]]
* The folk tale ''The Lion and the Mouse''. Mostly likely the UrExample of this trope.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KirikouAndTheSorceress'': The sorceress has a massive thorn in her back, stuck so deeply in the only way to remove it is with your teeth. When it's removed, she gets better.
* Inversion: In ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'', removing the stake from the heart area of Dracula's skeleton lets him instantly re-form and go on a "rampage" of bloodsucking.

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* ''Literature/RiftwarCycle'': A bear went on a rampage because it had an arrowhead stuck in it. The arrowhead was shown be made oddly or wrong, and its maker--also assumed to be the one who shot it, ended up wanted for murder--specifically of those the bear had killed in its rampage.
* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Carcharoth was already evil and violent to begin with when he ate the hand of Beren, which caused him to go on a mindless rampage - probably because the hand in question was holding a silmaril at the time, meaning that Carcharoth's guts were engulfed in constant burning agony. Possibly one of the most extreme examples of this trope--both in terms of deadliness of rampage and the pain.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'' had the Jabberwocky, who was in a state of crankiness, due to a thorn stuck in his paw. With the combined effort of everyone, the thorn was removed, inciting the Jabberwocky's {{Heel Face Turn}}.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', with the eponymous character posing as his superhero persona Quailman, involved a giant monster created by Dr. Rubbersuit called Klotzilla that was rampaging throughout the city. Quailman then discovered that said monster had a thorn stuck in his foot and removes the thorn, helping Klotzilla from the pain he was in.

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* ''Videogame/ChampionsOnline'': The reaosn for the Qualar invasion in the tutorial; sevrela devices in champion's headquaters are making a [[BrownNote sound]] that is "[[MemeticMutation driving the Qualar CRAZY!]]

* The boar at the beginning of ''PrincessMononoke'' was crazy/evil because of a bullet (or rather the ensuing infection).

Not to be confused with: ForWantOfANail

* The film ''Namu,The Killer Whale'' had one of these-Namu was provoked into a rage by someone throwing him a fish rigged with a hook. He finally calmed when someone found the hook and pulled it out.
* In ''Film/SnowDogs'', the malamute Demon seems to have a permanently vicious tempermant. Near the end of the film, we learn that it's all due to a bad tooth. Ted (a dentist) pulls out the tooth, and Demon gratefully licks his face.

* In ''SnowDogs'', the malamute Demon seems to have a permanently vicious tempermant. Near the end of the film, we learn that it's all due to a bad tooth. Ted (a dentist) pulls out the tooth, and Demon gratefully licks his face.

* ''RiftwarCycle'': A bear went on a rampage because it had an arrowhead stuck in it. The arrowhead was shown be made oddly or wrong, and its maker--also assumed to be the one who shot it, ended up wanted for murder--specifically of those the bear had killed in its rampage.
* In ''TheSilmarillion'', Carcharoth was already evil and violent to begin with when he ate the hand of Beren, which caused him to go on a mindless rampage - probably because the hand in question was holding a silmaril at the time, meaning that Carcharoth's guts were engulfed in constant burning agony. Possibly one of the most extreme examples of this trope--both in terms of deadliness of rampage and the pain.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesagake Sankebetsu]] [[SuperPersistentPredator man-eating]] {{bear|sAreBadNews}} that terrorized Hokkaido during the winter of 1915 sported a huge scar in the shoulder, leading some people to suspect that it had been either shot by a hunter or wounded in a trap earlier in the year, and that this wound had made it unable to gather enough food in the autumn for hibernation. Hence why it spent the winter eating the only "resource" available - people.

A character is minding his own business when there is suddenly a commotion aroused nearby. A [[EverythingsWorseWithWolves big mean]] [[BigBadassWolf wolf]] suddenly appears snarling and chasing everyone in town. No matter what happens, you can't seem to subdue the wolf. Suddenly, as the wolf turns around, you look and see that there is a thorn stuck in the wolf's left hind paw so you quickly trap the wolf. Once the wolf has been subdued, you pull the thorn out from the wolf's foot. The wolf gets back up again, but this time, he starts licking your face, happy that the thorn is removed.

A character is minding his own business when there is suddenly a commotion aroused nearby. A [[{{Everythings WorseWith Wolves}} big mean]] [[{{Big Badass Wolf}} wolf]] suddenly appears snarling and chasing everyone in town. No matter what happens, you can't seem to subdue the wolf. Suddenly, as the wolf turns around, you look and see that there is a thorn stuck in the wolf's left hind paw so you quickly trap the wolf. Once the wolf has been subdued, you pull the thorn out from the wolf's foot. The wolf gets back up again, but this time, he starts licking your face, happy that the thorn is removed.

Not to be confused with: {{For Want Of A Nail}}

!!Examples:

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** The Sinnoh episode "Faced With Steelix Determination" involved a Steelix going on a mad rage near a village of Bidoof because of some shovels that Team Rocket had accidentally jabbed into its head. [[{{From Bad To Worse}} Made even worse]] when it was nearing a large lake during its anger (Steelix are Steel and Ground Pokemon and are weak against water). Fortunately, Ash and the gang, with help from the Bidoof, were able to remove the shovels before Steelix could fall into the lake.

* The boar at the beginning of ''{{Princess Mononoke}}'' was crazy/evil because of a bullet (or rather the ensuing infection).

* This is essentially the effect of "black gears" in ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''.

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[[AC: {{Fairy Tales}}]]
* The folk tale ''The Lion and the Mouse''. Mostly likely the {{Ur Example}} of this trope.

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[[AC: {{Literature}}]]
* ''{{Riftwar Cycle}}'': A bear went on a rampage because it had an arrowhead stuck in it. The arrowhead was shown be made oddly or wrong, and its maker--also assumed to be the one who shot it, ended up wanted for murder--specifically of those the bear had killed in its rampage.

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[[AC: {{Western Animation}}]]

* An episode of ''{{Doug}}'', with the eponymous character posing as his superhero persona Quailman, involved a giant monster created by Dr. Rubbersuit called Klotzilla that was rampaging throughout the city. Quailman then discovered that said monster had a thorn stuck in his foot and removes the thorn, helping Klotzilla from the pain he was in.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Simpsons}}'', a bear that assaulted Homer was aggressive because of some electronic chip attached to his ear.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ed Edd N Eddy}}'' Ed goes on a rampage that genuinely scares the entire cast because [[spoiler: he has a pebble in his shoe]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spongebob Squarepants}}'': "The Smoking Peanut" has a giant clam behaving this way. Everyone thinks it's because it had a peanut thrown at it, but later it turns out its egg was stolen.

* ''DinkTheLittleDinosaur'': Dink and his friends had to convince a really huge dinosaur to help them in one episode. He initially refused, stating he had his own share of trouble, he had a thorn stuck on his foot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Danny Phantom}}'', this is how Danny meets Frostbite.

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* ''KirikouAndTheSorceress'': The sorceress has a massive thorn in her back, stuck so deeply in the only way to remove it is with your teeth. When it's removed, she gets better.

* In the film ''JungleBoy,'' main character Suresh figures out that a horse is rearing because of something stuck in its hoof.

* ''MassEffect'': The Rachni are wreaking havoc on the research station on Noveria. It turns out this is because they are separated from their mother.

* In ''TheSilmarillion'', Carcharoth ate the hand of Beren for a snack, which caused him to go on a mindless rampage, though he was already evil and violent to begin with. Possibly one of the most extreme examples of this trope--both in terms of deadliness of rampage and the pain.

* The boar at the beginning of ''{{Princess Mononoke}}'' was crazy/evil because of a bullet.

** A Unova episode that recently aired in Japan had a wild Gigalith that was terrorizing town while Ash was battling against the Pokemon Champion Alder. Alder then noticed that Gigalith had a nail stuck in its foot so he removed it.

* In an episode of ''{{Ed Edd N Eddy}}'' Ed goes on a rampage that genuinely scares the entire cast because [[spoiler: he has a pebble in his shoe]].
* ''{{Spongebob Squarepants}}'': "The Smoking Peanut" has a giant clam behaving this way. Everyone thinks it's because it had a peanut thrown at it, but later it turns out its egg was stolen.

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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesagake Sankebetsu]] [[SuperPersistentPredator man-eating]] [[EverythingIsWorseWithBears bear]] that terrorized Hokkaido during the winter of 1915 sported a huge scar in the shoulder, leading some people to suspect that it had been either shot by a hunter or wounded in a trap earlier in the year, and that this wound had made it unable to gather enough food in the autumn for hibernation. Hence why it spent the winter eating the only "resource" available - people.