You probably shouldn't tell a superhero someone getting robbed isn't worth saving.
- In Alice in Wonderland, Alice is put on trial by the Queen of Hearts for offending the latter and is about to be executed (by beheading, naturally) until Alice remembers that she has some mushrooms from earlier which allow her to grow giant in size. She then eats them and grows gigantic. Everyone is now intimidated by her size, even the Queen. Alice then starts telling the Queen off. Unfortunately, however, as she berates Her Majesty, the effects of the mushrooms wear off prematurely, and as Alice shrinks back down to normal size, she realizes she's in big trouble now.Alice: And as for you, (curtsies exaggeratedly) Your Majesty... (voice turns sour) Your Majesty indeed! Why, you're not a queen! (suddenly starts shrinking) You're just a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old ty... (having shrunken fully to normal, she looks around nervously) tyrant...
Queen of Hearts: (chuckles sinisterly) And, uh, what were you saying, my dear?
Cheshire Cat: (sitting on top of the Queen) Why, she simply said you were a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant! (cackles)
(Alice becomes alarmed at what the Cat said)
Queen: OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!! - Gaston beating up Beast in Beauty and the Beast. It's implied that this happens because Gaston is so much stronger and tougher than everyone else that he feels he's just as much a "dragon" as the Beast is. Until the Beast actually starts fighting back, and then he realizes how deep he's in, after which he resorts to more cowardly tactics.
- A Bug's Life: Hopper knows that while the ants are smaller individually, they outnumber the grasshoppers by a hundred to one and that if the ants realized their numerical superiority, the grasshoppers would be crushed. However, in a comparatively intelligent move for this trope, Hopper's actions to antagonize the ants is done deliberately to make the ants feel weak and helpless, so they don't realize their collective advantage. That is, until Flik reminds Hopper just how much the grasshoppers depend on the ants."Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things, and year after year, they somehow manage to pick food for themselves and you! So, who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's you who needs us! We're a lot stronger than you say we are! And you know it... don't you?"
- Frozen: When the teenage human Anna throws a snowball at Marshmallow, the hulking snow-construct Elsa built to guard her castle. Downplayed in that Anna isn't mean; she's just very impulsive, and Marshmallow had just flung her friend Olaf the snowman into a boulder.
- Disney's Hercules has kids mocking the title character and calling him "Jerkules" specifically for his superhuman abilities making him a "freak". They were only able to get away with it because it's a Disney movie and Hercules is a good guy. The Hercules of the actual myths was known for letting his anger get the best of him, often with lethal results for the mortals involved (though at least one of these rages, which cost him his family, was induced by his nemesis Hera).
- How to Train Your Dragon: Quite literally happens when Stoick approaches the lair of the Red Death dragon and throws stones into its cave to get it to come out. Only when it comes out does Stoick realize he's in way over his head.
- The Incredibles:
- Bob Parr as his Secret Identity, works at an insurance company and is constantly browbeaten by his tiny boss Mr. Huph. When the boss stops Bob from coming to the aid of a mugging victim, then makes fun of the situation, he loses it and throws Huph through a few walls. Even if his boss didn't know he had superpowers, Bob has about five feet and a couple hundred pounds on him. This example is at least somewhat justified since Huph is, well, Bob's boss. Predictably, after throwing his employer through the wall and severely injuring him, Bob is fired.
- Later in the movie, Syndrome makes the mistake of taunting Bob that he will one day kidnap his infant son, causing Bob to throw his car at Syndrome and knock him into the jet turbine, causing him to die a very gruesome death via his cape getting caught.
- In The Jungle Book 2, Lucky the vulture gets the brilliant idea of openly mocking the widely-feared tiger Shere Khan to his face. Once he tells Shere Khan where Mowgli is headed just to taunt him... Lucky didn't live up to his name shortly afterwards.
- Kung Fu Panda: Commander Vachir harasses Tai Lung that someone else is going to be the Dragon Warrior, but not him, which is the sole reason behind Tai Lung's Start of Darkness. He stomps on his tail, which makes Tai Lung unsurprisingly goes on an endless rampage and explodes the entire prison because of this.
- In Mickey's House of Villains, this is used as a Running Gag, as every single time Donald tries to scare someone with his costumes, it backfires horrendously, especially when he tries it with Beast. During "Trick Or Treat", his tangling with Witch Hazel also counts.
- Osmosis Jones: The first thing Thrax does is pay a visit to a group of germ mobsters in Frank's armpit. Their leader clearly doesn't think highly of Thrax and mocks him before ordering one of his thugs to attack him, but Thrax easily subdues all of them.
- At the start of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Puss's catchphrase is that he laughs at death and has put himself in dangerous situations with the knowledge that he had his 9 lives to fall back on if he doesn't make it. As a result of making bad decision after bad decision, Puss loses his lives until he finally gets down to his ninth and final one. It then turns out that in handling his lives so carelessly and arrogantly laughing at death and believing he was immortal, Puss, without even realizing it, mocked the literal Grim Reaper himself. Now that Puss is down to his 9th and final life, Death himself decides to pay Puss a visit and believes that since Puss always laughed at him, the least Death can do is kill Puss in a final blaze of glory through a duel. When Puss finally accepts that he should be more appreciative of life and accept that Death is inevitable for him, Death accepts Puss's new outlook on life and decides to leave him alone.
- Ratatouille: When Ego makes his visit to inform Linguini about his upcoming review, he taunts him by saying he is "slow for someone in the fast lane". Linguini's response is to call Ego "thin for someone who likes food", prompting a collective gasp from everyone present. Ego actually needs a minute to respond, stunned that Linguini was that brave.
- A heroic example occurs in Shrek Forever After. When the witches capture Shrek and bring him before Rumpelstiltskin, Rumpelstiltskin proceeds to gloat about how he was conned—culminating in telling him his kids no longer exist. All Rumpelstiltskin accomplishes, though, is enraging Shrek to the point of breaking free and escaping.
- In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Saddam's constant verbal abuse towards Satan eventually becomes his own un-doing once Saddam calls Satan a "weak, stupid cum bucket".
- In Turning Red, Tyler repeatedly bullies Mei into doing what he wants even after she nearly takes his head off with a dodgeball for insulting her. When Mei attends his birthday party, Tyler pushes her too far and ends up getting pounced on and scratched up.
- In Wreck-It Ralph, the Nicelanders spurn Ralph despite the importance he plays in their game, and Gene is especially mean, despite Ralph being capable of completely and utterly wrecking him. That said, when the game starts up, a sprite that looks incredibly similar to Gene gets tossed like a football, suggesting that Gene's animosity towards Ralph is in the Freudian Excuse territory.
- Zootopia: Judy loses her temper when shrew mob boss Mr. Big mistakes her for "some kind of performer" and tries to cow him into helping with her investigation, despite being surrounded by polar bear mooks and despite the otherwise unflappable Nick being terrified of him. Mr. Big proceeds to try and have her "iced" too, and Judy is only saved when it turns out the shrew lady she rescued earlier that day is Mr. Big's daughter, and she intervenes on Judy's behalf.
