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Not the be confused with the one-panel [[Newspaper Comic]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In one episode of ''[[Ghost in the 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]].

== [[Literature]] ==

* Commander Sam Vimes of the Watch in ''[[Discworld]]'' often relates a crime to his past of living in the ghetto. Take my advice, don't pick on the poor in Ankh-Morpork if Vimes could find out about it... not healthy for you.

* In ''[[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.

 

* In an episode of ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', Lois is on [[12 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.

 

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