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* In one episode of ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'', Section 9 tracks down a group of [[Organ Theft|organleggers]]. Major Kusanagi, herself a full-body cyborg since childhood, gets much more emotionally involved than usual because one patient who was affected by the actions of the thieves was a little 6 year old girl. She even pretends to be a member of [[The Mafiya]] and threatens to kill one of the criminals in order to [[Scare'Em Straight]].

** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', Captain Carrot confronts one of the plotters behind the plot to poison Lord Vetinari, which has resulted in the accidental murder of two people who lived in Sam Vimes's old neighborhood. When the plotter in question asks if the people killed were "anyone important", Carrot informs him that he should be lucky Commander Vimes wasn't around to hear him say that.

* In ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', Tobias has one of these when he spots a couple of kids bullying another boy. He unleashes what he calls a "talon haircut" on them.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* In an episode of ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'', Lois is on [[Twelve12 Angry Men|jury duty]]. After viciously calling for the conviction of a teenage thief, she realizes that she's projecting her feelings about Francis on the defendant and resigns, but not until she's convinced everyone else and wasted an insane amount of time.

* Used twice by Kutner in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. One episode has him act very sympathetically toward a girl who claims to be orphaned (like him), but when he discovers she lied, the niceness stops. Averted in a later episode, in which Kutner is mean to a teenage [[Jerk Jock]]. Taub assumes that this trope is in effect, but it later turns out that Kutner was acting on guilt caused by his own high school jerkosity.

* Sara Sidle in ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' tended to lose her objectivity if there was any indication at all in a case that a girl was being sexually abused or exploited. While it's never made explicit, it's strongly implied that she was abused herself.

* In ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' Agent McGee is interrogating a suspect who brags about beating up nerds, he plays along for a minute or two before revealing he used to be bullied and as a Federal Agent he was now the one in power and could make the bully's life a living hell.

* In ''[[Murder Byby Numbers]]'', the lead loses all objectivity dealing with one of the suspects, Richie, {{spoiler|because his cocky, abrasive demeanor reminds her of her abusive ex.}}

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