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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Cry for Justice]]'' hands the ball to several heroes, making them increasingly violent and sadistic in their efforts to track down criminals. The worst of them is Ray Palmer, who [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|tortures information out of Killer Moth]] by shrinking to a microscopic size, entering his brain and enlarging slightly to simulate a stroke--the same method Jean Loring used to kill Sue Dibny.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Septimus Heap]]'': The usually nice titular character was rather mean to his sister Jenna at the beginning of Darke, for ostensibly no reason other than to disregard her warnings about a building danger in the Palace.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This happens on ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' a lot.
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
*** The Apple family ponies were being pretty inconsiderate to their customers also, what with making them stand in line all day only to sell out early and leave the ponies in the back empty handed. Would it have killed them to raise the price? Or set up a pre-order system? Or at least limit the amount of cider per customer per day so Pinkie Pie couldn't walk off with a whole load while the others go thirsty?
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
*** Fluttershy eventually goes mad with her assertive training and starts bullying anyone who so much as vaguely inconveniences her. [[My God, What Have I Done?|She snaps out of it]] when she manages to make her friends cry as a result.
** Let us not forget [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
*** Other [[Fan Nickname|Mane 6]] bounce with the ball laugh at her problem and she is overreacting.
* Pretty much every ''[[Family Guy]]'' character is prone to this based on [[Rule of Funny]]. Lois and Brian, who by default are somewhat straight-faced and fairly empathetic characters, can become selfish, vindictive and outright sociopathic jerks if it helps with the shock value comedy. To a lesser extent Seth Mc Farlane's [[American Dad|other]] [[The Cleveland Show|works]] are prone to this as well.
* A lot of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' shorts employ this, having Tom instigate the conflict so that while Jerry dishes out [[Disproportionate Retribution]] for the rest of the short the audience still roots for him ([[Draco in Leather Pants|for the most part]]).
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