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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' had a variation on this. Scar, the neighborhood serial killer, comes out to violently attack our heroes. Mei Chan attacks the Elrics when they try for a finishing blow, and runs off with an injured Scar.
* In ''[[El
* One of the first stories in ''[[
** Inverted later when Shinpachi thinks Kagura's new alien giant dog is playing with her, Gin informs him that the dog's attacking her and she's too powerful to notice.
* ''[[
** Incidentally, Nel is playing "endless tag" with her friends, and since "[[Third Person Person|Nel]] is a masochist" (and a [[Token Mini-Moe|loli]] with her arrancar mask covered), their "game" looked an awful lot like three hollows chasing a sobbing little girl. Actually, that's exactly what it was.
* In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', this probably would have happened with Antylamon (the last Deva yet to be revealed) had Shiuchon not been given her Digivice before Takato and Jenrya could think of attacking. And Zhuqiaomon reverts him to Lopmon shortly afterwards, confirming (see [[Redemption Demotion]]) his [[Heel Face Turn]].
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* While Hagrid from ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is far from a cute young girl, his attachment to his exotic pets does fit. He names the three-headed dog Fluffy, he is upset when he has to send his baby dragon Norbert away, and he cries buckets when the giant spider (Acromantula) Aragog dies. He was expelled from Hogwarts for keeping dangerous critters as pets, including Aragog. Harry and Ron are often at a loss to understand him, though the Trio does recognize why he is upset over the scheduled execution of an innocent hippogriff.
** Hagrid ''himself'' is a version of this. Giant hairy scary guy who can bend rifle barrels with one hand comes knocking down the door? If the Dursley's were proper foster parents instead of assholes who didn't give a crap about Harry, they'd probably freak out when Hagrid approached Harry. And when Hagrid is outed as a half-giant, many wizarding parents are terrified that he's a vicious monster who'll hurt their kids, when he's actually one of the gentlest, sweetest characters in the entire series.
* Almost happens in ''[[
* [[The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]] contain multiple examples, especially in the first book, ''Dealing With Dragons''. A princess, Cimorene, runs away and volunteers to be the captive of a dragon; she then spends her time trying to stop knights from fighting the dragon because she doesn't want them to rescue her.
* In ''[[Myth Adventures|Something MYTH Inc]].'', Gleep the baby dragon gets accidentally shot because a trigger-happy bowman thinks he's attacking when he just wants to play.
* In ''Keeper of the Isis Light'', the main character's gigantic pet is killed when it tries to engage a human in a game of fetch.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms|One Good Knight]]'' provides a borderline example. While the Dragon in question ''did'' ravage [[The Kingdom]] of Arcadia until provided with weekly virgin sacrifices, it turns out that it was operating under a Tradition-reenforced geas and [[Literal Genie|took pains to avoid harming any thinking creature]]... including the impromptu phalanx of dragonbait *ahem* [[Amazon Brigade|maidens]] that confronted the heroes when they tracked said beast to it's lair.
* In [[Tanith Lee]]'s ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[
* A sketch on ''[[The Dave Allen Show]]'' had a slavering werewolf doing a typical horror movie stalk of a Distressed Damsel. When he finally cornered her, she holds up a leash and calls "Walkies!" while the werewolf bounds about like an excited puppy.
* Happened with ''[[
** A nice [[Double Subversion]]: Cordelia, trapped in a unknown dimension ends up being chased by a vicious beast who catches her and... ''licks her face?''. '''Whew.''' Then the pet's owner showed up, congratulated the "dog" and chained Cordelia. Unfortunately, it turns out that while the beast was a pet, it was a '''hound''' hunting... humans.
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* The June 2009 trailer for [[Team Ico Series|Team Ico's]] ''The Last Guardian'' sets this up.
* Subverted in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''. A [[Mega Neko|giant cat]] attacks you at one point. This is Lucia and Carla's pet, Andre... but they don't mind you beating up their cat because, frankly, the cat didn't have a reason to hurt you and you were just defending yourself.
* [[H
* Becomes a major character-driving plot point for one villain in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', where the monster in question was the [[Raised
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the [[Pilot Movie]] of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' had Aang trying to find a crazy king's lost pet Flopsie as one of three deadly challanges. He thinks it's the cute and cuddly rabbit being chased by the 7 foot tall gorilla-goat thing. He eventually figures out the trick and even learns an Aesop about it (after the climatic fight with the king, of course).
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