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** And [http://xkcd.com/1027/ later], by the same character, when someone tries "negging: you belittle chicks to undermine their self-confidence so they'll be more vulnerable and seek your approval" on her. [[Alt Text]]: "Son, don't try to play 'make you feel bad' with the Michael Jordan of making you feel bad."

* In ''[[Goblins]]'', when Dellyn figures out that Thaco has taken levels as though he were a [[Player Character]], he calls it the 'most perverse thing he's ever heard of', and points out that by doing so, Thaco has admitted that goblins will always be inferior to humans.

* A subversion occurs in this strip of ''[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20031214.html It's Walky]'', in which the main villain—who has a tendency to do this to certain heroes and play on their insecurities and the secrets he's learnt about them—finds his ability hampered when faced with members of the team that he knows next-to-nothing about, and what little he ''does'' know doesn't bother them in the slightest when he tries to throw it back at them. Frustrated, he curses himself for 'playing favorites'.

* A subversion occurs in this strip of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131011030735/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20031214.html It's Walky]'', in which the main villain—who has a tendency to do this to certain heroes and play on their insecurities and the secrets he's learnt about them—finds his ability hampered when faced with members of the team that he knows next-to-nothing about, and what little he ''does'' know doesn't bother them in the slightest when he tries to throw it back at them. Frustrated, he curses himself for 'playing favorites'.

* Hunter Ravenwood of ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' sometimes does this to people who annoy him.

{{quote|[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20100104.html "I still got it"]}}