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* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' : The vain Queen Cassiopeia had the nerve to proclaim that her daughter, Andromeda, was more beautiful than the city's patron goddess, Thetis ... and she did this inside of ''Thetis's own temple,'' no less. In typical form for the Greek gods, Thetis does not take kindly to the insult, and as punishment, she demands that Andromeda be sacrificed to the Kraken, or else the entire city would be destroyed.

** Also, at the beginning of the film, the arrogant and vengeful King Acrisius of Argos condemns his own daughter, Danae, and her infant child, Perseus - ''who happens to be the son of Zeus, the leader of the gods'' - to the sea. It never seems to occur to Acrisius that Zeus just ''might'' be a little P.O.'ed by this. (Zeus commanded Poseidon to unleash the Kraken on Argos, destroying the entire kingdom. Acrisius may not have noticed, however, since he was busy being crushed to death by Zeus's hand.)

* In the original novel ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', the heroine's attempt to reach a lovely-looking garden doesn't go well. After discovering a key that opens the tiny door that leads there - which she can't possibly fit into - she finds a shrinking potion, but after using it, finds she left the key on a table she now cannot reach. Then she finds a cake that makes her grow, and is now where she started, and finally, she shrinks again using the White Rabbit's fan, but again, doesn't have the key and is worse off than ever. Fast forward about eight years - [[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)| to the 2010 movie, where Alice is a teenager]] - and she's back at the same place with the same set-up, and it seems she might make the same mistake again, the Doormouse (who is watching) wondering how she couldn't figure it out by now. Subverted, however, as she eventually does, making sure to hold onto the key while she takes the potion.