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* In ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'', Susan and her cronies mess up Sharon and her cronies' tent with honey, twine, and feathers while they are asleep. This is right before tent inspection, so this causes Sharon's tent to fail inspection and as a result, the girls are banned from the camp dance that night. Sharon gets revenge on Susan by hiding under the outside balcony of the building where the dance is held, and when Susan comes out to the balcony to chat with a boy and leans against the edge of the balcony, Sharon takes a pair of scissors and cuts out a large portion of Susan's skirt. When Susan goes back into the dance, pandemonium ensues.

* In the lead-up to the wedding between ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm}}, Black Panther's rival the Man-Ape planned to crash their wedding as a prelude to invading Wakanda since he wasn't invited. The next time he is seen, he is morosely drinking Scotch at the wedding reception's open bar. Turns out he was on the wedding's invitation list.
* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}''' Sleeping Beauty, Briar Rose, learns that revenge is the reason for her curse, which has the unfortunate factor of kicking back in whenever she pricks her finger. Then she has a chance to discuss it with the casting fairy.
* A villainous example shows up in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. ComicBook/TheJoker approaches the Royal Flush Gang and demands to know why he was excluded from the newest Secret Society Of Super-Villains and subsequently kills them when they explain that "[[{{Pun}} Everyone knows the Joker's wild]]." The Joker responds "[[SarcasmFailure That's not funny.]]" [[spoiler: In the last issue of the series, he ambushes and gruesomely kills the BigBad in Gotham City, while Lex Luthor watches and explains, "You didn't let the Joker play."]]
** While he doesn't ''like'' the Joker, Lex Luthor has made a point at times to invite him along to various legions of doom specifically to avoid this trope. The Joker may be a pain in the ass to work ''with'', but better that than have him pissed off that he wasn't invited along.
** Similar example, slightly less gruesome, is Joker's role in ''ComicBook/{{Justice}}'': Brainiac doesn't invite him into his Legion of Doom because he can't compute how a psychotic clown could be of use to his scheme to TakeOverTheWorld, and the Joker answers by escaping from Arkham Asylum, infiltrating Brainiac's compound, and blowing a significant chunk of it to smithereens during the final battle, which just adds insult to injury considering that the Legion is suffering a HumiliationConga at the hands of the Justice League [[PlotIrrelevantVillain at the very same time]].
* In ''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]]'''s short-lived series, actress Carlotta [=LaRosa=] is hosting a party she's invited our Everlovin' Blue-Eyed titular character to, and calls up contemporary [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Milan Ramada]] to tell her ''she's'' not invited. Milan's payback is to get PsychoForHire Arcade to trap the party in his AmusementParkOfDoom.

* A villainous example shows up in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. ComicBook/TheJoker approaches the Royal Flush Gang and demands to know why he was excluded from the newest Secret Society Of Super-Villains and subsequently kills them when they explain that, "[[IncrediblyLamePun Everyone knows the Joker's wild]]." The Joker responds "[[SarcasmFailure That's not funny.]]" [[spoiler: In the last issue of the series, he ambushes and gruesomely kills the BigBad in Gotham City, while Lex Luthor watches and explains, "You didn't let the Joker play."]]

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'''Patty and Violet:''''' (nervous)'' Okay...you're invited.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/AlwaysSometimesMonsters''. The plot kicks off when the protagonist is invited to attend their love interest's wedding. Said invitation is sent by [[spoiler:the protagonist's former best friend]], who does so purely out of spite.

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* In the lead-up to the wedding between ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm}}, Black Panther's rival the Man-Ape planned to crash their wedding as a prelude to invading Wakanda since he wasn't invited. The next time he is seen, he is morosely drinking Scotch at the wedding reception's open bar. Turns out he was on the wedding's invitation list.
* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}''' Sleeping Beauty, Briar Rose, learns that revenge is the reason for her curse, which has the unfortunate factor of kicking back in whenever she pricks her finger. Then she has a chance to discuss it with the casting fairy.

* In ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'', because [[Recap/TotalDramaScarlettFever Scarlett attempted to blow up the island with everyone still on it]], her son Nero deliberately wasn't invited to be on ''Total Drama Legacy''. However, he shows up anyway.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''. Maleficent wasn't invited, and Merryweather makes it clear she wasn't wanted. Averted in the [[{{Film/Maleficent}} live-action adaptation]]. Maleficent does crash the party, but her [[StartOfDarkness motivations]] to target [[LoveInterestTraitor Stefan's]] daughter go ''way'' beyond not being invited to the christening. She does pay mocking lip service to the trope.

* "Literature/SleepingBeauty". The circumstances for the evil fairy not being invited vary, from a simple clerical error to (as in the Disney version) outright not wanting her there. (Though in "Literature/SunMoonAndTalia", an older variant, it was just a prophecy, not a curse.)
* The fairy tale ''The Hind in the Wood'' [[JustifiedTrope justifies the "wicked" fairy's outrage]]: the Fairy of the Fountain was the first fairy to befriend the Queen, and in fact ''introduced'' the Queen to the fairy who allowed the Queen to conceive a daughter in the first place. But by the time the little Princess was born, the Queen had neglected the Fairy of the Fountain and forgets to invite her. No wonder she's upset...

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Prior to the start of the series, the kids were invited to a pool party. Marco put a few chocolate bars in the pool and told everyone they were... [[ToiletHumor well guess]]. In the present, Marco is the only one not invited when the same girl hosts another pool party. In revenge, he and Ax attend the party as [[EekAMouse mice]].

* Happened in one episode of ''Series/KenanAndKel'', where Kenan decides to set up a booby-trapped birthday present for Marc after he didn't get invited to his birthday party, even though he didn't want the invitation in the first place. [[spoiler:It was revealed that Kenan was originally going to be invited, but in an effort to avoid Marc, he told Sharla to lie about something in order to get out of the party. Sharla told Marc that he was going to have a surgery on his ear, and thus is unable to attend.]]

* In Literature/TheTrojanCycle of Myth/GreekMythology, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology) Eris the goddess of strife]] was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. In revenge, she crashed the party and threw the AppleOfDiscord into the event to cause the other goddesses present to start fighting over it. It would eventually get resolved by Paris, a mortal prince of Troy, choosing Aphrodite as the fairest of them and being rewarded with the hand of the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, Helen of Sparta. The Greeks were ''not'' happy with how Paris chose to claim her, and thus began the Trojan War. That makes this trope OlderThanFeudalism.
* From the Finnish epic of ''[[Literature/TheKalevala Kalevala]]:'' When the Maid of the Northland gets married, the hero Lemminkäinen, who had wooed the same girl before without success, is the only one in all of Finland who is not invited. Resenting the shame done to him, he gatecrashes the wedding feast, where he ignores the hostility of the host and behaves rudely to the guests until he is challenged to a swordfight duel by the bride's father. Then he [[OffWithHisHead lops off the head of the latter]] before the duel even really gets started and dashes off, eventually escaping to safety.
* Cunningly averted in a Swedish folktale. A farmer was on good terms with a troll living nearby. When he got his first kid he understood that the troll wanted to be the kid's godfather, but the farmer thought that was going a bit too far - but he didn't want to make the troll angry. So he goes to invite the troll directly. The troll gets happy - but then the farmer starts bragging about who is coming to the christening... namely a whole cadre of famous saints, making the church-fearing troll nervous. When he finally adds that the old pagan troll-foe Thor would provide the music, the troll has had enough and doesn't want to come anymore, but to get out of it with his honour intact he gives a huge christening gift to the kids, trolls being proverbially rich in Swedish folklore.

* ''Literature/{{Talmud}}'': A parable tells of a first-century Jewish man who has a friend named Kamtza and an enemy with the similar name of Bar Kamtza. He throws a banquet and tells his servant to invite Kamtza, but the servant invites Bar Kamtza by mistake. When the latter shows up for the banquet, the host, in front of all the other guests, orders him to leave. Bar Kamtza, wishing to save face, offers to pay first for his own meal, then for half the cost of the banquet, and finally for the full cost, to no avail. He leaves the banquet so humiliated, and angered at the failure of the rabbinic sages present to stand up for him, that he engineers an elaborate plan to convince the Roman authorities that the Jews are planning to rebel. As a result, says the Talmud, the Second Temple was destroyed and the Jews were exiled.

-->'''Charlie Brown:''' If you don't let me come, I'll get in a jet fighter, and fly it over your house, and strafe it! [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Then I'll come back with a bomber squadron, and we'll bomb your party to pieces!]]
-->'''Patty and Violet:''''' (nervous)'' Okay...you're invited.

* This is the central premise of the game ''VideoGame/NaughtyBear.''
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': Bowser embarks on this, because he's ''really'' mad Toadsworth didn't invite him on a luxurious cruise like the rest of the cast. This is also the reason for the [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Bowser Time mechanic]], where the Koopa king shows up every 5 turns to ruin their vacation with deeds ranging from messing with the boards themselves or [[EvilIsPetty forcing the players to pose and pay for funny, board-relevant group photos he snaps]].

--> '''Pam''': Next time you invite Pam!

* In the episode "Debutante Ball" of ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'', Cleo is not invited to the high society ball thrown by her childhood friend Muffy [=DuParr=]. The reason she's not invited is her lack of pedigree, even though Muffy holds a debt of honor due to Cleo looking out for her during their childhoods. Cleo's rarely as angry as she is over this and what with the Catillac Cats being [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]], they crash the party and ruin it. They didn't mean to go quite as far as they did, but they're not sorry for it either.
* ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'': Half of the Chameleon’s motivation for repeatedly trying to get T.U.F.F. and D.O.O.M. to destroy each other in “Share-A-Lair”. He obviously wants T.U.F.F. destroyed for repeatedly foiling him, but why does he want to have fellow villains D.O.O.M. destroyed? They never invite him to their ice cream socials.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Discord gets angry and jealous when he learns Fluttershy invited someone else as her plus one to the Grand Galloping Gala instead of him. Fluttershy only did so because she assumed he had his own invitation and didn't need hers, but it doesn't make him feel better. When it turns out he ''was'' invited (the mailpony just got lost in Discord's chaotic home dimension), he brings the Smooze as his own plus one in order to both make Fluttershy jealous and wreak havoc on the Gala.

* ''Literature/TheSecretLivesOfPrincesses''

* In the Music/StarBomb song "Crasher-Vania", [[{{Franchise/Castlevania}} Simon Belmont]] is upset that he was invited to Dracula's party, so he crashes it and slaughters all of Drac's monster pals.

** The fairy tale ''The Hind in the Wood'' manages to further Justify the "wicked" fairy's outrage -- the Fairy of the Fountain is, at the start, not evil, but was the first fairy to befriend the Queen, and in fact ''introduced'' the Queen to the fairy who allowed the Queen to conceive a daughter in the first place. But by the time the little Princess was born, the Queen had neglected the Fairy of the Fountain and forgets to invite her. No wonder she's upset...

There's a big ol' party and everyone's invited ... but not, it seems, ''that'' guy or gal. They may be an insufferable {{Jerkass}}, a villain, or some other type that ''[[SmallNameBigEgo thinks]]'' they're popular but no one likes, usually because of their [[DisproportionateRetribution vindictive]] nature and [[BerserkButton volatile]] HairTriggerTemper. And wouldn't you know it, after finding out they've been snubbed they go and [[IResembleThatRemark prove their reputation right]] by concocting a [[{{Revenge}} RevengeSVP]] plot against the party-goers, host, or [[AndYourLittleDogToo a loved one of theirs.]]

* In ''Goblin Moon'', the Duchess's grudge against an innocent girl dates back to her christening ceremony. No, she wasn't deliberately or accidentally denied an invitation; she was invited but arrived so very late that the girl's mother had to reluctantly select a substitute godmother instead.

* In the Literature/TrojanCycle of Myth/GreekMythology, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology) Eris the goddess of strife]] was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. In revenge, she crashed the party and threw the AppleOfDiscord into the event to cause the other goddesses present to start fighting over it. It would eventually get resolved by Paris, a mortal prince of Troy, choosing Aphrodite as the fairest of them and being rewarded with the hand of the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, Helen of Sparta. The Greeks were ''not'' happy with how Paris chose to claim her, and thus began the Trojan War. That makes this trope OlderThanFeudalism.

* In ''Film/TheParentTrap'', Susan and her cronies mess up Sharon and her cronies' tent with honey, twine, and feathers while they are asleep. This is right before tent inspection, so this causes Sharon's tent to fail inspection and as a result, the girls are banned from the camp dance that night. Sharon gets revenge on Susan by hiding under the outside balcony of the building where the dance is held, and when Susan comes out to the balcony to chat with a boy and leans against the edge of the balcony, Sharon takes a pair of scissors and cuts out a large portion of Susan's skirt. When Susan goes back into the dance, pandemonium ensues.

* Bowser in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 7'' embarks on this, because he's ''really'' mad Toadsworth didn't invite him on a luxurious cruise like the rest of the cast. This is also the reason for the [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Bowser Time mechanic]], where the Koopa king shows up every 5 turns to ruin their vacation with deeds ranging from messing with the boards themselves or [[EvilIsPetty forcing the players to pose and pay for funny, board-relevant group photos he snaps]].

There's a big ol' party and everyone's invited ... but not, it seems, ''that'' guy or gal. They may be an insufferable {{Jerkass}}, a villain, or some other type that ''[[SmallNameBigEgo thinks]]'' they're popular but no one likes, usually because of their [[DisproportionateRetribution vindictive]] nature and [[BerserkButton volatile]] HairTriggerTemper. And wouldn't you know it, after finding out they've been snubbed they go and [[IResembleThatRemark prove their reputation right]] by concocting a {{Revenge}}[[TitleDrop SVP]] plot against the party-goers, host, or [[AndYourLittleDogToo a loved one of theirs.]]

* Bowser in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 7''.

* The "Literature/SleepingBeauty" example is also subverted in the first book of ''Literature/TheEnchantedForestChronicles''. [[PrincessProtagonist Princess]] Alinora has had most of the well-known fairy-tale princess calamities either fail to happen to her or [[FracturedFairyTale not happen the way they're supposed to]].

There's a big ol' party and everyone's invited ... but not, it seems, ''that'' guy or gal. They may be an insufferable {{Jerkass}}, a villain, or some other type that ''[[SmallNameBigEgo thinks]]'' they're popular but no one likes, usually because of their [[DisproportionateRetribution vindictive]] nature and [[BerserkButton volatile]] HairTriggerTemper. And wouldn't you know it, after finding out they've been snubbed they go and [[IResembleThatRemark prove their reputation right]] by concocting a {{Revenge}}[[TitleDrop SVP]] plot against the party goers, host, or [[AndYourLittleDogToo a loved one of theirs.]]

** Similar example, slightly less gruesome, is Joker's role in ''ComicBook/{{Justice}}'': Brainiac doesn't invites him into his Legion of Doom because he can't compute how a psychotic clown could be of use to his scheme to TakeOverTheWorld, and the Joker answers by escaping from Arkham Asylum, infiltrating Brainiac's compound, and blowing a significant chunk of it to smithereens during the final battle, which just adds insult to injury considering that the Legion is suffering a HumiliationConga at the hands of the Justice League [[PlotIrrelevantVillain at the very same time]].

* In ''Film/TheParentTrap'', Susan and her cronies mess up Sharon and her cronies' tent with honey, twine and feathers while they are asleep. This is right before tent inspection, so this causes Sharon's tent to fail inspection and as a result, the girls are banned from the camp dance that night. Sharon gets revenge on Susan by hiding under the outside balcony of the building where the dance is held, and when Susan comes out to the balcony to chat with a boy and leans against the edge of the balcony, Sharon takes a pair of scissors and cuts out a large portion of Susan's skirt. When Susan goes back into the dance, pandemonium ensues.

* In ''Goblin Moon'', the Duchess's grudge against an innocent girl dates back to her christening ceremony. No, she wasn't deliberately or accidentally denied an invitation: she was invited, but arrived so very late that the girl's mother had to reluctantly select a substitute godmother instead.

* Happened in one episode of ''Series/KenanAndKel'', where Kenan decides to set up a booby-trapped birthday present to Marc after he didn't get invited to his birthday party, even though he didn't want the invitation in the first place. [[spoiler:It was revealed that Kenan was originally going to be invited, but in an effort to avoid Marc, he told Sharla to lie about something in order to get out of the party. Sharla told Marc that he was going to have a surgery on his ear, and thus is unable to attend.]]

* In the Literature/TrojanCycle of Myth/GreekMythology, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology) Eris the goddess of strife]] was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. In revenge she crashed the party and threw the AppleOfDiscord into the event to cause the other goddesses present to start fighting over it. It would eventually get resolved by Paris, a mortal prince of Troy, choosing Aphrodite as the fairest of them and being rewarded with the hand of the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, Helen of Sparta. The Greeks were ''not'' happy with how Paris chose to claim her, and thus began the Trojan War. That makes this trope OlderThanFeudalism.

* ''Literature/{{Talmud}}'': A parable tells of a first-century Jewish man who has a friend named Kamtza and an enemy with the similar name of Bar Kamtza. He throws a banquet and tells his servant to invite Kamtza, but the servant invites Bar Kamtza by mistake. When the latter shows up for the banquet, the host, in front of all the other guests, orders him to leave. Bar Kamtza, wishing to save face, offers to pay first for his own meal, then for half the cost of the banquet, and finally for the full cost, to no avail. He leaves the banquet so humiliated, and angered at the failure of the rabbinic sages present to stand up for him, that he engineers an elaborate plan to convince the Roman authorities that the Jews are planning to rebel. As a result, says the Talmud, the Second Temple was destroyed and the Jews exiled.

* In ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple'', Mother Hare suddenly arrives at the church social with a burst of thunder and lightning, to the consternation of Lovey Mars, Mrs. Juniper and Miss Minerva. After insulting the three ladies for not having invited her, she presents them with the titular AppleOfDiscord.

* Literature/{{Animorphs}}: Prior to the start of the series, the kids were invited to a pool party. Marco put a few chocolate bars in the pool and told everyone they were... [[Toilet Humor well guess]]. In the present, Marco is the only one not invited when the same girl hosts another pool party. In revenge, he and Ax attend the party as [[EekAMouse mice]].

-->'''Charlie Brown:''' If you don't let me come, I'll get in a jet fighter, and fly it over your house, and strafe it! [[NoKillLikeOverkill Then I'll come back with a bomber squadron, and we'll bomb your party to pieces!]]

* A RunningGag early in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' was that the GirlPosse of [[ThoseTwoGuys Patty and Violet]] would announce to Charlie Brown that they were having a party and not inviting him. His most successful response to the taunt involved threatening a highly improbable version of this: