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* ''[[Medaka Box]]'': Zenkichi, despite being nearly subdued by Oudo's [[Compelling Voice]] (and seeing him do the same to Medaka), manages to resist enough to attack him {{spoiler|due to seeing him trying to kiss her}}.
* [[Soul Eater]] has Black*Star pulling a one man stand against Kishin Asura, madness incarnate, who at the time is easily the size of a house. He's obviously outclassed but doesn't let that slow him down as he proceeds to beat the crap out of the giant to keep him distracted while Death the Kid prepares a massive [[Wave Motion Gun]] attack.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* During one fight in ''[[Ponies Make War]]'', Rainbow Dash kicks [[Big Bad|Tit]][[Eldritch Abomination|an's]] avatar in the face. It doesn't hurt him much, but it does distract him long enough for Luna to run him through with her blade.
* {{spoiler|Zeno Blaze}} in ''[[Clash of the Elements]]'' does this quite literally to Joe Dark {{spoiler|after he becomes a soul residing inside of Alex's body.}}
== Film ==
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]'', Marlene actually attempts this by chucking a materia at Loz's head. It works a little ''too'' well. (Incidentally, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Marlene is six and Loz just beat the crap out of Marlene's]] [[Made of Iron]] [[Mama Bear|surrogate mother]].)
** And don't forget Denzel's response to Bahamhut Sin: "YOU SON OF A BIIIITCH!". Denzel is also about six. Bahamut is a giant dragon that is only defeated when the entire party from VII gets back together.
* Merry and Pippin do it at the end of [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' to allow Frodo to escape from the Uruk-hai.
** And then Aragorn does the same thing in ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Return of the King]]'' when he cuts off the Mouth of Sauron's head. You only see this in the extended edition, but as soon as that happens Sauron shifts his attention from a weakened Frodo bearing the Ring to the Black Gate and his dead servant.
** Don't forget Merry stabbing the Witch King of Angmar in the knee, giving Éowyn the chance to get up and strike back.
* Kay and Jay both do it at the end of ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' to the giant cockroach alien in order to keep him on Earth. Kay taunts him ([[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"Do you know how many of your kind I've swatted with a newspaper? You are nothing but a smear on the sports page to me, you slimy, gut-sucking intestinal parasite! Eat me. EAT ME!"]]) to get him to swallow him; then Jay steps on several normal cockroaches to distract him from getting on the spaceship until Kay can shoot him from the inside.
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* The [[Ghostbusters]] consider this and arming the proton packs, a [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]].
* In the third ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie, Davy Jones offers a mortally wounded James Norrington a chance to join his undead crew. James responds by ''[[Dying Moment of Awesome|stabbing him in the chest]]''. Jones is unharmed, but it's still pretty satisfying. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej-2AOtssog See it for yourselves.]
== Literature ==
* Inverted in [[J. R. R.
▲* Inverted in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'', where an army of 7000 soldiers and most of the Fellowship's surviving members are mustered for the sole purpose of Flipping Off Sauron, just so Frodo can get the Ring to Mount Doom.
** In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', Melkor turns up at Feanor's house and asks if he'd like to come to Middle-Earth with him. Feanor is about to accept when Melkor implies he wants Feanor's Silmarils, and Feanor slams the door in his face.
* In Eric Flint and David Freer's book ''Pyramid Scheme'', our heroes find themselves trapped in the world of Greek mythology and caught up in a war against the gods of Olympus. At one point, Zeus, king of the Olympians, is about to start blasting people with thunderbolts. Henri Lenoir, visiting French botanist, proceeds to deliver a blistering salvo of insults in true Gallic fashion, [[We Need a Distraction|distracting Zeus]] until the others can escape. Also a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], because he gets killed.
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{{quote|'''Harry to Lasciel the Temptress:''' And by any chance does all this knowledge and power and good advice come for only three easy installments of nineteen ninety-five plus shipping and handling? Or maybe it comes with a bonus set of knives tough enough to saw through a nail, yet can still cut tomatoes like 'this'.
'''Lasciel''': You aren't nearly as funny as you think you are. }}
{{quote|'''Harry to Cowl:''' Touché, O dark master of evil bathrobes.}}
{{quote|'''Harry to Cowl (again):''' And again I do answer thee. Bite me.}}
** And whilst charging into a pitched battle between the rival Faerie courts:
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* In [[The Salvation War]]: [http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=118769&highlight= Armageddon], happens when Gordon Brown says "Sod off, Baldrick" in reply to [[Brown Note|The Message]] and Satan's message that humanity now belongs to him, then revealing that he [[Blackadder|has a cunning plan]] to deal with the situation.
** And in a hilarious use of the trope, {{spoiler|Michael the archangel ''intentionally'' does this to Yahweh when he delivers a heap of bad new to him. He doesn't insult Him directly, but he does do his bit of snarking... and he KNOWS what Yahweh's reaction would be to the news}}
* ''[[Discworld
** To explain, Discworld gods tend to take insults pretty personally. Unfortunately for them, they've never had to contend with a [[Golem|ceramic atheist]].
* In the [[Dragonlance]] last book, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, a member of the Kender race - which are chronically bored, are impulsive kleptomaniacs and considered little more than a pest by the other people of the world - managed to do this to [[Big Bad|Chaos]] the father of ALL the Gods, using lots of insults - Kenders are able to come up with insults against anything - to [[We Need a Distraction|distract him]] while the other people in the battle attempt to make him bleed, for his blood is required to vanish him. In the end, he not only distracts Chaos efficiently, but, using his small knife, cuts him, and the blood coming from that cut is the one used to win the battle.
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* ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]'' has Billy The Kid threatening {{spoiler|his master, Quetzalcoatl}} with an axe. Considering the [[No Immortal Inertia|potential]] [[Rapid Aging|consequences]], that took balls.
* [[Malazan Book of the Fallen|Quick Ben]] may be the master of this. There is a very long list of Gods and Rulers he has pissed off during the course of his career.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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'''Armus:''' I will kill you and those in there.
'''Picard:''' But you will still be in this place. Forever, alone, immortal. That's your real fear, never to die; never again to be united with those who left you here. I'm not taking you anywhere. }}
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* At the end of ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', after Bowser {{spoiler|beefs himself up with the power of Kammy's machine ''and'' the Star Rod's invincibility}}, Twink flies straight at him and bonks him in the back of the head, making him look around in confusion long enough for Mario to get his [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]].
* In part of the [[All There in the Manual|backstory]] in ''[[Rift]]'', [[Lady of Black Magic|Asha Catari]] dies, and [[Big Bad|Regulos]] informs her that he intends to make her his avatar upon Telara. She [[Badass|tells him to get bent]]...and then, she comes [[Back from the Dead]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Nanase of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' uses her [[Doppleganger Spin]] ability to distract the Omega Goo so she can talk to Ellen starting [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-11-16 here].
* An ironic one in [[Grim Tales from Down Below|Grim Tales]] when you see [https://web.archive.org/web/20130911223112/http://grim.snafu-comics.com/index.php?comic_id=192 who's flipping off who], but it definitely counts.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Whateley Universe]] example: Phase, fighting a demon from a hell dimension, has lost. She's beaten to a bloody pulp, dying, and about to suffer a literal [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. She stalls by being a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and gets the thing monologuing long enough for the cavalry to show up. And the cavalry only show up with the right stuff because Phase ''already figured out what she was facing before she called for help''.
* ''[[How It Should Have Ended]]'''s take on [[The Lord of the Rings]] has several of the characters doing this to the eye of Sauron while Frodo air-drops the ring into the fire, instead of trekking a long way and having several more people die than neccesary. The plan works (Gollum dies, too), and the characters ride away into the sunset laughing.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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{{quote|'''[[Captain Ersatz|Ichthulhu]]:''' Speak to me, child of Thanagar.
'''Hawkgirl:''' I have nothing to say to you! I have a ''gesture'', [[Finger on Lips|but my hands are tied]]. }}
* [[Transformers Animated|Bumblebee]] actually manages to use this as a weapon in itself against the Decepticon Blitzwing, who is five times his height and twenty times his firepower—and also has trouble staying in his jet mode when he gets really annoyed. Even if he's very high up at the time.
* [[Peter Pan and The Pirates]] has an [[Physical God|ice god]] appear in the the hideout and berate Peter for tresspassing in his domain. How does Peter respond? "you're trespassing in ''my'' house and getting ''snow'' everywhere."
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{{quote|'''Grimlock''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}BtGdfulu5KI&feature{{=}}player_detailpage#t{{=}}363s Me Grimlock kick butt!]}}
* Leave it to [[Mickey Mouse]] to make [[Fantasia| Chernabog]] himself laugh through stand-up comedy roasting, something he did in the [[Halloween Special]], ''House of Villains''.
* ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'':
** In the episode "Veritas"; by the end of the episode, the Lower Deck crew has ''really'' had a long day, and when Q shows up wanting to challenge them, they do ''not'' want to deal with him, Mariner telling him to "go bother Picard".
{{Quote|'''Q:''' Aw, Picard is no fun! He's always quoting Shakespeare, always making wine...}}
:* In [[The Stinger]] to "The Spy Humungous", the Lower Decks actually decide to get some laughs by crank-calling Armus (the villain from the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Skin of Evil"), still languishing in isolation — and completely unrepentant — ''thirty years'' after Picard marooned him on Vagra II. Not exactly the [[Hero-Killer|type of guy]] you'd want to mock unless from a safe distance.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The US' attempt at censoring pirate sites, the PROTECT IP Bill, had some [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030003945/http://www.dontcensorthenet.com/full-text-of-the-protect-ip-act-of-2011 ill-advised wording] that would allow the government to censor any site [[Unfortunate Implications|remotely related
* My high school teacher related the story of World War II General Anthony McAuliffe, whose troops were given a surrender ultimatum at the Battle of the Bulge. His one-word response: NUTS!
* Most of Churchill's famous
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