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** Really, regular mercs inexplicably trying to kill Shepard at every possible moment fits this trope, regardless of the origin. Harkin, a corrupt cop from 1 and 2 even taunts Shepard by asking if they think they can get him. There are also several small encounters where someone tries this on Shepard, who can sometimes point out either that a)They are Commander Shepard, aka the galaxy's biggest badass and just what the hell do they think they are trying, or b)They may not know they are dealing with Shepard (or may not believe it), but they can surely see how badass Shepard is, so shut the hell up.
*** As Wrex put it - "Anyone who attacks us is either stupid, or on Saren's payroll. Killing the latter is business - [[Too Dumb to Live|killing the former is a favor to the universe.]]"
** Quite possibly the best example of this in the series is Warden Kuril who attempts to knowingly imprison Shepard, the most [[Badass]] person in the galaxy, and hold him/her for ransom or sell him/her on the black market as a slave. [[Too Dumb to Live|It doesn't end well for him.]] Especially stupid, since you belligerently refuse to surrender your weapons on entering the prison, even threatening Kurill, and he (still fully intent on capturing you, remember) [[What an Idiot!|lets you keep your weapons.]] Even ''more'' stupid if you're playing a class that wouldn't have been significantly less dangerous without weapons. What exactly was his plan for imprisoning a Shepard that could throw him across the room with a mean look?
** In the ''Mass Effect: Redemption'' comic, some shuttle pilots try to get additional "[[Attempted Rape|docking fees]]" from [[Hot Scientist|Liara T'Soni]]. Liara, as it turns out, is a powerful asari biotic who works with Commander Shepard.
** After a "fight" with
* In ''[[Tales of Rebirth]]'', Hilda, a "Half" (Half-Huma[n] half-Gajuma) was always despised when she was a kid (and still is). Which wouldn't make much difference, except that Halfs, despite having a weaker body, have much stronger and harder-to-control magic than both Humas and Gajumas. (Un)Fortunately, she never fought back.
* A literal example in ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV''. [[The Empire]] keeps messing with both Ryu and [[Big Bad|Fou-Lu]] even though they are quite aware of what they are. Needless to say, neither ends well.
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* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' during the first mission with Landon Ricketts John Marston is greeted by a trio of Mexican thugs who are hassling him for being an American interfering in the affairs of Mexico. John says that he has no problem with them personally and he is just here in Mexico on official business, he then asks them politely to leave him alone and they can all go home to their families. The trio then continues to harass John and even steals his hat. John then having had enough of their tomfoolery shoots all 3 of them casually and takes his hat back. John by now has killed hundreds of bandits that decided to get in his way so those 3 didn't have any clue who they were messing with. Landon Ricketts lampshades the killings of those 3 idiots and tells John that he becomes like a peasant when he kills peasants and that he isn't exactly endearing himself to the people of Mexico by casually killing men like that. A dragon killing casually when it doesn't need to is just showing off.
* In the beginning of ''[[Baten Kaitos]] Origins'', some low-ranking Dark Servicemen start taunting Sagi after he's overheard musing over the morality of the assignment. They apparently forgot that Sagi is both a spiriter and a talented swordsman. For extra [[What an Idiot!]] points, two of the servicemen start ''another'' fight with him ten minutes later - while [[Badass Automaton|Guillo]] is backing him up.
▲* After a "fight" with [[Mass Effect|Commander Shepard]] which primarily consists of him running away and calling in close air support from a gunship, biotic ninja Kai Leng decides to taunt the man/woman who has killed multiple [[Eldritch Abomination|Reapers]] via email, even [[Complete Monster|mocking Thessia's destruction]]. [[Too Dumb to Live|He lasts about as long as you would expect.]]
* [[The Dragon|Araman]] chasing you down after the {{spoiler|battle on the Fugue Plane}} in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer''. [[Sarcasm Mode|Sure! Singlehandedly attacking a party of four probably-30th-level characters is a]] ''[[Sarcasm Mode|wonderful]]'' [[Sarcasm Mode|idea!]]
** One troper reported Araman getting blown away on the first round of the fight.
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