Bullying a Dragon: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"How do you bully a ''God?''"

"Very, very carefully." }}

* The [[Mother Goose|Three Blind Mice]]; you'd think ''any'' mice, let alone blind ones, would know better than to tease the Farmer's Wife. They were lucky she ''only'' cut off their tails with a carving knife.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Pointing this trope out]] is how Zedd drives off a lynch mob after him in the first book of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series. The mob is going after him because they believe he has terrible magic powers, so Zedd asks them to list what some of these powers might be, and once they do, Zedd points out how ''brave'' these men must be to come after a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] with nothing but torches and pitchforks. This is enough to make them back down, though Zedd throws in an additional mind game to make them ''really'' sorry.