Law of Disproportionate Response: Difference between revisions

* [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Edward Elric]] puts up with a real lot. And he does well, considering [[Hair-Trigger Temper|his temper is even shorter]] [[The Napoleon|than he himself]]. He even stays relatively calm when you threaten his loved ones ([[Tranquil Fury|though it is not a good calmness]]). However, call him small - [[Berserk Button|KABOOM - you've got him in your face]].

* In ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', Keima is [[The Stoic]] who never bats an eyelash at any oddities his current target might have, for he's truly someone who had seen it all in at least one [[Dating Sim]] out of the [[Otaku|unspecified thousands he ever played]]. But when his target turns out to be the [[Girl Next Door]] classmate who [[Playing Against Type|should be an unimportant secondary character with zero character development as per standard dating sim formulas]], he completely [[Heroic BSOD|flies off the edge]] and repeatedly proclaims his task as impossible.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Sandman]]'' - Dream of the Endless cast Nada into Hell because she didn't want to get into a [[Mayfly-December Romance]]. There are undoubtedly other examples within the series, but that is the one that stands out the most. To be fair, he did let her out... ''after several thousand years, and being bugged about it by various people the whole time''.

* In some versions of Superman, Lex Luthor hates Superman so much because Superman accidentally caused Lex's baldness.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Jason's speech to Kelly in ''[[Mystery Team]]''. He tells the orphaned girl that life isn't fair because he got a car for Christmas instead of a new bike... this discussion taking place hours after they were kidnapped by a drug dealer.

 

* [[Older Than Steam]]: Alexander Pope's ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]'' circles around this trope as surely as the Earth around the sun. In [[Real Life]], the Fermor family (close friends of Pope's) got into a humongous uproar because [[Traumatic Haircut|an aesthetically pleasing lock of Arabella Fermor's hair had been clipped without her permission]]. She was engaged to the man in question, and was so angry she actually ''broke off the engagement'' on account of a haircut. In ''[[The Rape of the Lock]],'' then, Pope turns the incident into the subject of its own ''epic,'' complete with epic card games, a [[Battle Royale With Cheese]], a journey to the Underworld, and a [[Deus Ex Machina]] to crown it all. It's ''awesome.''

* Vetinari in ''Discworld''. He is used to the absurdities of the Disc, Ankh-Morpork being Ankh-Morpork. But don't be a mime...or else. He does, however, prefer corrective measures against practitioners of that form of art, rather than the ham-fisted "[[Kill'Em All|kill them all]]" approach of lesser patricians.

 

* ''[[Seinfeld]]''

* ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''

** "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back...

 

 

* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]]: This play deconstructs this law showing us the [[Jerkass|kind of person]] who uses [[Disproportionate Retribution]] (like Cyrano, De Guiche and all the Gascon’s Cadets except Le Bret) and the [[Serious Business|kind of]] [[Fan Dumb|personality that uses]] [[Disproportionate Recompense]] (like Cyrano and Roxane) and the consequences of this trope in [[Real Life]]. For the audience, the same thing that are very funny [[Deconstruction|are very serious for the characters in the play]].

** At Act I Scene IV, Cyrano is bothered by a Bore. It seems completely innocent on his part. After all, he’s a Bore, and this is not worthy a real retribution. So, instead of simply ignoring the Bore, [[Jerkass|Cyrano]] invokes [[Disproportionate Retribution]] so he has a good reason to kick the Bore’s ass.

** Which gets [[Harsher in Hindsight]] when we find out in the sequel that Kronk's dad had found him a disappointment for wanting to be a chef.

* In one episode of ''[[Care Bears|Adventures in Care-a-Lot]]'', Grizzle, disguised as [[Disguised in Drag|Busybody Bear]], is trying to break up a band that some of the bears started by spreading gossip about the members. "She" tells Harmony that Cheer said that she sounds like "a thunderwhale with a sore throat" when she sings, but Harmony just says Busybody must have misunderstood. So Busybody replies, "Oh, that's right, she just said that you're bossy," causing Harmony to gasp loudly in shock.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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