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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has the Hinox, which are giant trolls who are always sleeping when you come across them. They'll only attack you if you wake them up, and it's pretty easy to avoid doing so if you're careful. In fact, if you're ''really'' careful, you can climb on top of them and steal their loot without stirring them.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' replaces them with pigs. If you return to the first island you'll find that the pig you caught at the beginning of the game is now HUGE. It can be provoked just like the other pigs. It does more damage than any other enemy in the game when it attacks — including the FinalBoss!

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** ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has a turtle-like creature and its adorable babies in a certain room in Maridia. While they're normally utterly harmless, if you attack the little ones, [[MamaBear the mother will immediately spin around in her shell after you.]] This is how you can reach an item upgrade [[SequenceBreaking before acquiring the Space Jump]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has a turtle-like creature and its adorable babies in a certain room in Maridia. While they're normally utterly harmless, if you attack the little ones, [[MamaBear the mother will immediately spin around in her shell after you.]] This is how you can reach an item upgrade [[SequenceBreaking before acquiring the Space Jump]].

** In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', Vendrick and the Ancient Dragon are introduced as non-hostile [=NPC=]s, but hitting them a few times triggers a BonusBoss fight in both cases, and [[MarathonBoss grueling ones at that]]. ''Scholar of the First Sin'' also revamps the Dragon Shrine so that all Dragon Knights are initially non-hostile to you until you either hit them first or refuse to make your way to the Ancient Dragon.

** Multiple franchise installments have the Cuccos, vicious birds who many old-school gamers can recognize by name as being this trope. In every game they appear in and are attackable they'll gang up on Link and viciously destroy him should he poke them with his sword one too many times. In some games the barrage will stop if you survive long enough, but in others the only escape is to leave the area or die.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'', you repeatedly defeat the Moblin King until he's living in a one-room house in a village making bombs for sale, utterly disheartened at how low he's fallen, to the point where he makes no attempt to harm you. If you put a bomb in his stockpile, however, it's the final straw, and he and his mooks run outside, lock the place up, and watch the house explode — [[NonStandardGameOver with you still in it]].

* ''Videogame/{{Kirby}}'': The Scarfies are recurring adorable mooks who simply float in the air, being completely still or bobbing up and down. However, if Kirby tries to [[VacuumMouth inhale]] them, they'll suddenly turn into hideous cyclopean critters who try to bite Kirby. Subverted in some games where sometimes they'll slowly drift towards Kirby (with the same hideous face) if he turns his back on them, [[Videogame/SuperMarioBros Boo]]-style.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': Similar to the Wigglers from Mario, there's the Scarfies. They're cute and seemingly-harmless little orange creatures with a pair pointy ears. Unless you attack them, in which case they will get mad and transform into Mutant Scarfies, who have one hell of a NightmareFace and will chase you around, [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] on contact.

* ''Franchise/Kirby'': Similar to the Wigglers from Mario, there's the Scarfies. They're cute and seemingly-harmless little orange creatures with a pair pointy ears. Unless you attack them, in which case they will get mad and transform into Mutant Scarfies, who have one hell of a NightmareFace and will chase you around, [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] on contact.

** The shopkeepers in the ''VideoGame/ChocoboMysteryDungeon'' series look like the ''GrimReaper'' and are ungodly powerful. Naturally, you need to kill one to achieve HundredPercentCompletion.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', you may see a large and high level [[TyrannosaurusRex T-Rex]]-esque creature wandering around a very early area of the game. The green HP bar indicates it's not hostile as long as you leave it alone. If you're [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough foolish]] enough to run up and [[BullyingADragon smack it]], [[CurbstompBattle don't expect to live for much longer]]...

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Frontier'' has the Espinas, large, powerful Flying Wyverns whose thick, spiked hides deflect most attacks. Unlike the vast majority of hyperterritorial Monsters, Espinas is unusually docile and ignores Hunters even as they attack it — unless they manage to sufficiently piss it off, which results in many inexperienced players being introduced to a world of hurt. ''Especially'' with the Rare subspecies.

* The Game Boy Advance RPG ''Dokapon'' had the Shopkeepers. While they would never pick a fight with you, you could [[ShopliftAndDie pick a fight with them... Ouch.]]

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'', you repeatedly defeat the Moblin King until he's living in a one-room house in a village making bombs for sale, utterly disheartened at how low he's fallen, to the point where makes no attempt to harm you. If you put a bomb in his stockpile, however, it's the final straw, and he and his mooks run outside and watch the house explode — [[NonStandardGameOver with you still in it]].

* The King P Statue in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' is normally nothing more than a background element found in the upper right corner of New Pork City. However, you can choose to provoke it, in which case it will come to life and, unless you know a secret to defeating it, hand you your ass on a silver platter.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' is absolutely ''lousy'' with these; the world is filled to the brim with monsters, a number of whom won't attack you unless you provoke them. The enormous Millesaurs are the earliest example. They're some of the largest and most powerful enemies in the game, but will ignore you as long as you leave them alone. The most extreme example is the game's BonusBoss: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Telethia, the Endbringer]]. It's completely non-hostile, but if you attack it it's the single most powerful enemy in the game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' has Bulborbs that sleep unless you a) get too close to them or b) attack them. You can find out which is which by looking at their eyes. The ones with half open eyes have the lighter slumber.
* ''Videogame/{{Kirby}}'': The Scarfies are recurring adorable mooks who simply float in the air, being completely still or bobbing up and down. However, if Kirby try to [[VacuumMouth inhale]] them, they'll suddenly turn into hideous cyclopean critters who try to bite Kirby. Subverted in some games where sometimes they'll slowly drift towards Kirby (with the same hideous face) if he turns his back on them, [[Videogame/SuperMarioBros Boo]]-style.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' replaces them with pigs. If you return to the first island you'll find that the pig you caught at the beginning of the game is now HUGE. It can be provoked just like the other pigs. It does more damage than any other enemy in the game when it attacks- including the FinalBoss!
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'', you repeatedly defeat the Moblin King until he's living in a one room house in a village making bombs for sale, utterly disheartened at how low he's fallen, to the point where makes no attempt to harm you. If you put a bomb in his stockpile, however, it's the final straw, and he and his mooks run outside and watch the house explode- with you still in it.

** The shopkeepers in the ''VideoGame/ChocoboMysteryDungeon'' series look like the ''GrimReaper'' and are ungodly powerful. Naturally you need to kill one to achieve HundredPercentCompletion.
* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', the Witch does nothing besides moan, sob and cue creepy music. If you attack her in any way (be it by bullet, melee, explosion or fire), get too close to her, shine your flashlight at her for long, and in some cases, look at her too long, she'll get startled, which means she'll run at you faster than a survivor can run when not under the effects of an epinephrine boost (although [[KillItWithFire not when she's on fire, then she's slower]]), claw the offender for either an instant incap or, on higher difficulties, a OneHitKill, and if said offender is incapped, she'll rake ''furiously'' at them and kill them very quickly. In some versions [[TotalPartyKill she'll rampage against the the other party members, too, out of sheer spite]], and in all cases, she'll switch targets if another survivor [[ManOnFire lights her up]]. Sneaking past is the preferrable option, although the Director is often smart enough to spawn her at a chokepoint with no way around, and vanilla bots don't have enough AI to run past her one at a time, and that often forces the player to kill her by any means possible. While she's a {{Demonic Spider|s}} when all four Survivors are together, in any game mode where the player is alone, making stealth ''far'' more manageable, she's rarely more than an annoyance and a slowdown in pace, even less so than the Spitter. ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' introduced daytime levels, and in them, Witches have a change in behavior: they get up and wander blindly around at a slow pace, and aside from getting shot, are much more patient towards anything that annoys them.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Frontier'' has the Espinas, large, powerful Flying Wyverns whose thick, spiked hides deflect most attacks. Unlike the vast majority of hyperterritorial Monsters, Espinas is unusually docile and ignores Hunters even as they attack it -- unless they manage to sufficiently piss it off, which results in many inexperienced players being introduced to a world of hurt. ''Especially'' with the Rare subspecies.

* The Big Daddies fill this role in ''VideoGame/BioShock1''. They'll lumber past ignoring you all day long, at worst shoving you aside dealing zero damage if you stand in their way, but if you take a shot at them (or their Little Sister) they won't stop until one of you is dead. But if you do kill them, you can both capture the Little Sister and loot their bodies for money and ammo.

** In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', Vendrick and the Ancient Dragon are introduced as non-hostile [=NPC=]s, but hitting them a few times triggers a BonusBoss fight in both cases, and [[MarathonBoss a grueling one at that]]. ''Scholar of the First Sin'' also revamps the Dragon Shrine so that all Dragon Knights are initially non-hostile to you until you either hit them first or refuse to make your way to the Ancient Dragon.

** In ''VideoGameDarkSoulsII'', Vendrick and the Ancient Dragon are introduced as non-hostile [=NPC=]s, but hitting them a few times triggers a BonusBoss fight in both cases, and [[MarathonBoss a grueling one at that]]. ''Scholar of the First Sin'' also revamps the Dragon Shrine so that all Dragon Knights are initially non-hostile to you until you either hit them first or refuse to make your way to the Ancient Dragon.

** The shopkeepers in the ''ChocoboMysteryDungeon'' series look like the ''GrimReaper'' and are ungodly powerful. Naturally you need to kill one to achieve HundredPercentCompletion.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', you may see a large [[TyrannosaurusRex T-Rex]]-esque creature wandering around a very early area of the game. It's harmless as long as you leave it alone. If you're [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough foolish]] enough to run up and [[BullyingADragon smack it]], [[CurbstompBattle don't expect to live for much longer]]...