Just Toying with Them: Difference between revisions

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** Loz gets into a fight with Tifa in the church, which he seems to regard as good sport. She beats him up with relative ease and he seems to be defeated. Then he gets up again and, no longer wanting to play, takes her out with one move using [[Flash Step]].

** This is also a likely way of interpreting the final battle between Cloud and Sephiroth. Sephiroth, whose motivation at this point is largely payback for being defeated in [[Final Fantasy VII|the game]], drives Cloud to his highest limits without even so much as getting winded himself, and then tries to finish him off after some suitable [[Evil Gloating]].

* [[Hunter X Hunter]]: On the way to the 4th phase of the Hunter Exam, Netero challenges Gon and Killua to steal a basketball from him. It's soon apparent that he's [[Just Toying with Them]]. Gon turns this into a game of his own - he wants to see if he can force Netero to use ''his other arm'' to keep the ball away from him.

* [[Hunter X Hunter]]: On the way to the 4th phase of the Hunter Exam, Netero challenges Gon and Killua to steal a basketball from him. It's soon apparent that he's Just Toying with Them. Gon turns this into a game of his own - he wants to see if he can force Netero to use ''his other arm'' to keep the ball away from him.

* [[Ranma ½]]: Ranma holds off Akane's attacks with one hand while reading a manga with the other. Now that's humiliation.

* [[Yu Yu Hakusho]]: Young Toguro, the antagonist of the second season (the Dark Tournament), feigned defeat the first time he met Yusuke in order for his employer to win a bet. However, he later went back gave Yusuke a demonstration of his real power by demolishing a building. He plays this trope by explicitly telling others what percent of his power he's using. The only exception is during his final fight with Yusuke when he revealed he'd only been using 85% of his power instead of 100%

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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''

** In "Oceans Unmoving", Bun-bun remarks that the only reason he hasn't killed Calix yet for getting in his way is because he kind of likes him... especially when he can [[Break Them by Talking|verbally "crush his soul"]], as he then proceeds to do while at the same time demonstrating he could physically kill him easily.

** In "A Time For Hair Raising", the characters enter a spirit world and face two [[Jerkass Genie~~|Jerkass Genies~~]], Zefolas and Fezeel. These two demons trade in souls and are virtually omnipotent in their own realm, but like to play a game of granting wishes to mortals in exchange for their souls rather than just taking them outright. They have no intention of ever ''losing'' the game, though, so they interpret the wishes however they like and ignore all that might cause them harm. Their only weakness is that they're still bound by any promise they ''do'' choose to make.

** In "A Time For Hair Raising", the characters enter a spirit world and face two [[Jerkass Genie]]s, Zefolas and Fezeel. These two demons trade in souls and are virtually omnipotent in their own realm, but like to play a game of granting wishes to mortals in exchange for their souls rather than just taking them outright. They have no intention of ever ''losing'' the game, though, so they interpret the wishes however they like and ignore all that might cause them harm. Their only weakness is that they're still bound by any promise they ''do'' choose to make.

* In ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', there's one situation where Foxhound, (the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'') tries to save several members of Dead Cell, (the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] from [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]) who have been captured. To start off, a pair of snipers start thinning out the guards in the compound they're attacking. One of them quickly takes out two out of three guards that are standing together, but keeps missing the last one by an inch, ''even when the guy runs inside''. When the other sniper comments on this, the first sniper comments "[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=234 I'm just fucking with him]."

* At one point in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', among an evil adventuring party, Malack points out (rather angrily, given the circumstances) that Tarquin was doing this in order to test the skills of one of the enemies he was fighting. He apologises and promises not to do it again.

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== Western Animation ==

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': Discord, an evilly mischievous [[Reality Warper]] who displays the power to easily destroy the main characters, challenges the ponies to play a game to regain the Elements of Harmony, the only thing capable of defeating him. During play, he approaches each of them and manipulates them into abandoning the Element each of them represents before magically hypnotizing them into a bizarro version of ~~themselves -- if~~ his attempt fails, he simply brainwashes his victim with brute force, and even "wins" by brainwashing one character to break the rules. The result of this is that {{spoiler|he can just hand them the Elements, so he can watch and laugh as they prove powerless, and breaks the heroines' hope entirely. Unsurprisingly, this arrogance leads to his undoing later.}}

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': Discord, an evilly mischievous [[Reality Warper]] who displays the power to easily destroy the main characters, challenges the ponies to play a game to regain the Elements of Harmony, the only thing capable of defeating him. During play, he approaches each of them and manipulates them into abandoning the Element each of them represents before magically hypnotizing them into a bizarro version of themselves—if his attempt fails, he simply brainwashes his victim with brute force, and even "wins" by brainwashing one character to break the rules. The result of this is that {{spoiler|he can just hand them the Elements, so he can watch and laugh as they prove powerless, and breaks the heroines' hope entirely. Unsurprisingly, this arrogance leads to his undoing later.}}

** Ironically, Discord [[What the Hell, Hero?|implicitly criticizes]] [[Big Good]] Celestia for sealing him in stone at one point. Her [[Good Is Not Soft|decisiveness]] in dealing with her enemies brings to mind [[Terry Pratchett]]'s quote about how it's better to be at the mercy of an evil man, as he wants his enemies to know they have lost.

* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'': In "Darkseid Descending", [[Darkseid]] agrees to Batman's challenge to a fistfight without using his "godlike powers" because he finds the idea interesting. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference in terms of power levels, because he's still got physical abilities on par with [[Superman]]. {{spoiler|Batman manages to keep him busy for a moment, in which time one of his allies pushes the "villain loses" button that sucks Darkseid and his army back away from Earth.}}