Break the Haughty: Difference between revisions

** In Exodus, this is applied to the whole of Egypt. Pharaoh defies Yahweh, refusing to free the Hebrew slaves. Yahweh proceeds to turn the Nile to blood, unleash hordes of frogs, lice, and beasts, inflicts a plague on the animals and boils on the humans, [[Kill It with Fire|rains burning ice]] on the land, sends a swarm of locusts to attack their fields, covers the land in darkness, and kills every Egyptian firstborn save Pharaoh. Pharaoh gives in, [[Ignored Epiphany|but changes his mind]] and ends up [[Too Dumb to Live|dying]] because of it.

* Josef K., the protagonist of ''[[The Trial]]'', is a pompously self-important bank manager whose reaction on being arrested in his apartment is outrage at such minor officials daring to bother ''him''. Over the course of the novel he finds out that he has much less power than he thought. Whether any moral lessons emerge is questionable, though.

* Can be said for each of the Malfoys, specifically Draco and Narcissa in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', following Lucius being added to this trope in ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]''.

** The pwnage starts as early as ''[[Chamber of Secrets]]'', when {{spoiler|Lucius gets his ass handed to him by his own former house elf.}}

 

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