Beware the Nice Ones/Fan Works

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  • Downfall is chock full of (relatively) nice, non-combative people. When they decide to get busy it tends to get ugly, mostly because the non-aggressive characters are usually the more powerful ones.
  • Stray contains an incident where this trope is applied to Otacon, of all people. It turns out that the quirky, tenderhearted, non-action anime geek can be dangerously resourceful when backed into a corner.
  • In the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers fan comic Of Mice and Mayhem Gadget, usually the epitome of kindness, attacks the men who were after her when Chip gets shot trying to protect her.
  • The portrayal of Fluttershy as seen so far[when?] in Friendship Is Witchcraft.
  • Latias from Latias' Journey. She's depicted mostly as a gentle, somewhat timid and fearful Pokemon. That changes big time in Chapter 5. After watching a bunch of evil bird Pokemon butcher a bunch of baby Flying and Bug types in Wing Fortress, she goes completely apeshit. The end result: a bunch of enemy Flying types lying in pieces in nursery, followed by a Psychic attack so powerful that it could best be described as a psychic nuke. That is followed up with an even more obscenely powerful Fire (or Dragon) attack that completely obliterates Wing Fortress and a large piece of the surrounding forest. It is utterly terrifying but at the same time fucking awesome.
  • In the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller fan fiction, the protagonist Kaigen Kou is usually calm and slow to anger, but bullying or mistreating his friends releases a terribly ruthless and somewhat psychotic side. It's a bad idea to bully his friends, but sully the reputation of the woman he loves and you'll find yourself beaten half to death and inches away from being LIT ON FIRE.
  • This Crossover fic between Good Omens and Supernatural. Aziraphale unleashes some truly righteous fury on some wannabe Satanists who have crossed the Moral Event Horizon to summon the wrong yellow-eyed demon.

Aziraphale's expression was like thunder. "Come to me, my child," he said, his tone as cutting as diamonds. "And I will show you a true wonder of a miracle!"

  • In Fill the Moon, when Demyx happens to witness Xigbar being slightly wounded by Captain Barbossa, that minor injury towards his lover is enough to get him to snap, summoning an entire hurricane and capsizing the Black Pearl, along with drowning around one hundred Heartless and keeping the entire pirate crew at bay with the power of his magic. Don't piss off Demmy-kins.
    • Another nice, cute, sweet messiah you don't piss off? The little girl called Senayax. Once you lay a finger on her family or her pet Heartless, you are in for an absolute world of hurt. Hollowmoon, the Eldritch Abomination that lives inside her, and Kingdom Hearts itself? They found that fact out the hard way.
  • Granted, Eija Satomi from Divine Blood isn't adverse to dealing lethal force when necessary, but she is still extremely friendly, patient, kind and generally feels remorse when she is forced to kill. However, after the ghost of her second, divine mother killed the first blood-related adult other than her own mother, apparently out of no reason than spite, Eija's response was violent enough to catch the attention of an ongoing psychic battle between the soul(s) of a Humanoid Abomination and several Gods and Demons. The Humanoid Abomination ran away while almost everybody else watched Eija seal the ghost by drowning it in psychic representations of blood.
    • Later, Yamato Nadeshiko Kasumi kills a banquet hall full of rebel gods using what appears to be blood magic-based poison, given that it was triggered by stabbing her own hand, which caused them to suddenly keel over one by one.
  • Uriel in Manchester Lost. One moment he is falling off the edge of heaven (which Raphael notes has no edges) and forgetting how to fly, as well as being a general Cloudcuckoolander the next he is throwing the 3rd most powerful demon in hell through several buildings and the remains are sizzling and in bits. Then, after a long battle, he nearly succeeds in ripping Lucifer in half, and throws him all over the place.
  • The dwarven noble protagonist in Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns expected Faren, the DC, to hate him when he revealed to him that he always knew Rica was Bhelen's concubine and had never said anything. Faren doesn't really end up hating him but, since he hates Bhelen's guts (among other, deeper reasons), he still delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the prince, leaving him with a broken jaw and a couple of snapped ribs for good measure, plus a swollen eye. At least Faren ends up regretting it, after getting a What the Hell, Hero? speech from Kallian Tabirs, the city elf warden and his love interest, plus finding out just why the guy withheld that from him. He only really realizes just how badly he flipped out after remembering that the DN has a particular problem that prevents healing magic from working on him, so Wynne can't just snap her fingers and make the horrid pain go away.
  • DC Nation - Dr. Light had unleashed a toxin that was killing all prepubescent children in North America as revenge for his Mind Rape at the hands of the JLA, just to make sure that the heroes' children suffered. He captured Sue Dibny to "finish what he started." A JLA strike team was sent after him. Light had them all on the ropes and was dangerously close to killing the Elongated Man when Sue broke out of her holding cell, and armed with Hal Jordan's ring, proceeded to open up a literal can of whoop-ass on him while cussing him out in English and Yiddish.
    • Nationverse actually loves this Trope. Hypertime elemental (and Cloudcuckoolander) Shift is normally pretty laid back. When Shift's zombie grandfather almost killed him (during Shift and Miss Martian's first date date), Miss Martian morphed into her giant, scary white martian form and tore the zombie to little pieces. When the zombie grandpa got better moments later, Shift snapped and stranded him in a dead alternate Hypertime after beating him up at superspeed. He thought to himself (in his normal fragmented manner), after the blur of his own movements, "Tastes terrible. Zombies taste like old Slim Jims. Makes sense. Need mouthwash after this." The nice one bit off a chunk of his undead grandfather.
    • Another example is Fauna's "freak out" stage. Fauna is a sweet-natured, Technical Pacifist Granola Girl with abilities (she'll never call them powers) close to Beast Boy's. Push her to the point where her shapeshifting snaps her brain, and she will come at you with everything, including cobra venom.
  • In Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness, Dennis Creevey is one of the sweetest, nicest boys you could ask for... until the Death Eaters finally push him too far. "AVADA KEDAVRA YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
  • In The Man With No Name, the villain utterly fails to do this in regards to the Doctor.

The Doctor: Do that and you will end your days screaming in the deep places of my mind.
Big Bad: Y-you wouldn't do that! You can't!
The Doctor: Why not? You would.
Big Bad: B-but you're the Doctor!
The Doctor: Ah, yes, that argument. Heard that one before. And you know me so well, do you? You called me a monster not long ago. But now–ah, now you plead for the Doctor, the compassionate, merciful, pacifist Doctor.

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