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* A variation in in ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. In Master Makarov's first appearance, he admonishes everyone in the guild for various misdeeds (including Natsu for blowing up several fight scenes). Just as it looks like he's about to give them all severe punishment, he says something that boils down to "Screw the Council! True Fairy Tail mages don't need to be intimidated by authority!" And the crowd goes wild.

** They also invert it. When the council goes over a list of violations by Fairy Tail, including many, ''many'' counts of propety damage, and associating with the criminal Jellal, not to mention all the things they did ''before'' the new council was selected, one of them mentions that the guild ''did'' stop a dark guild from taking over an ancient magic that would have turned the whole country into a giant magic war zone. The other members then decide that this is ''also'' a violation, because they didn't wait to get permission to save the day.

* Episode 5 of ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' has a perfect example: Satsuma is ''furious'' at the team for disobeying his orders, to the point Kudamon does most of the scolding for him. When it seems like he's going to unload on Masaru and Tohma in particular...he quietly congratulates them for making it back, smiling to Kudamon's confusion. {{spoiler|This could be explained by the fact the last time ''he'' went to the Digital World it was a disaster. Knowing his team did it successfully gave him hope that Digital Dives could actually work.}}

* In ''[[Kindergarten Cop]]'': Kimble is being questioned by the school principal after the former beat up a student's abusive father:

'''Miss Schlowski''': Please...allow me to finish. I thought that the whistle and drills were ''outrageous''...but ''[[Stern Teacher|it worked.]]'' Now, I don't know what kind of cop you are, Mr. Kimble, but you are a ''very'' good teacher. Now. I want you to answer one more question--don't lie. What did it feel like to hit that son of a bitch? }}

* Used in the first ''[[Rush Hour]]''.

* From the 1970s [[Police Procedural|police drama]] ''[[McCloud]]'', where Chief Clifford would give McCloud one of these about [[Once an Episode]].

** It's often used as the "thing" in [[And Another Thing]] moments - typically, the Captain will give their subordinate a full dressing down, dismiss them... then stop them at the door and remark "Nice job out there".

** Also notable is Data during the Klingon civil war, who, while given temporary command of a starship, disobeys orders and exposes the Romulans as they cross the border. Data himself, being completely logical, states to Picard that ends do ''not'' justify the means and expects to be reprimanded. Picard is the one who claims that Data did the right thing.

{{quote|'''Luchenko''': If we decide to pursue this, who should we negotiate with? You?

'''Delenn''': No. The three of us [''Delenn, G'Kar, and Londo''] make up the advisory board of the new alliance. We have our duly elected President, as you do.

'''''President'' Sheridan''': Funny thing about retiring. You no sooner pick out the places you want to go on vacation than someone comes at you with another job offer. }}

** In a similar vein, when Garibaldi takes over his fiance's company as the new CEO/Chairman of the Board, he calls a meeting with about eight notorious troublemakers, upstarts, whistleblowers and worrywarts. One of them [[Wrong Genre Savvy|gets up and exclaims how none of them did anything wrong, there's no way Garibaldi can just fire them]]; Garibaldi instead says how he just fired the ''old'' board of directors who were nothing but sycophantic yes-men, and this [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] is the ''new'' board. Specifically it's their job to tell him when he, or anyone else in management, is screwing up or generally [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|acting like an ass on company time]].

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Vallejo:''' Principal Folsom isn't sure whether to give you guys a commendation or to give you detention. On the one hand, you put Stainless away. But on the other hand, you destroyed an entire shipment of brushed steel stalls, you ruined a month's supply of macaroni, and you allowed the most notorious graffiti vandal in the history of the school to escape.}}

** Considering that Fillmore does more damage than the perp in ''[[Running Gag|every single episode]]''...

'''Green Lantern''': You're headstrong, unprofessional, and reckless. If you ever jeopardize yourself or your teammates again by [[Leeroy Jenkins|running off half-cocked without a battle plan]], I will personally see that you are [[Turn in Your Badge|kicked out of the League]], and I don't care who [[Superman|your cousin]] is. And incidentally... you did good. }}

* In ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'', [[Batman]] delivers one of these in episode four. Particularly notable for coming from ''Batman'', who in a lot of media is obsessively controlling to the point of being unable to deal with any deviation from his orders, no matter how justified. He scolds the team for not obeying his order to not interfere, and then praises them for reacting well once contact with the enemy inevitably changed the game.

'''Batman:''' No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. How you ''react'' to the unforeseen is what determines success. }}

* In [[The Simpsons]], Apu gives us this example when Homer resigns from a brief stint working at the Quik-E-Mart:

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