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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone and if he thinks he can scare you then he’s got another thing coming and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna… HAHAHAHA…heh… LAAAAAAAUUUGH!"''|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}-tiynTPuUUM Pinkie Pie]'', ''[[My Little Pony:
The heroes are walking through the dark catacombs. Is that [[Nightmare Fuel|heavy breathing]]? No, not wanting to imagine what could be so loathsome as to ''live'' in such a place, they dismiss it as the wind. They press on, then suddenly something terrible leaps out of the shadows and... the heroes burst into laughter.
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Has nothing whatsoever to do with: [[He Who Fights Monsters]], [[Talking the Monster to Death]], [[Mugging the Monster]], or [[Bullying a Dragon]].
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== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyVsHNEBeBk Jack Link's Beef Jerky presents: Messin' with Sasquatch].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* From Headinjury dot com we have the following critiques ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131028210045/http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article73.htm part 1] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028211733/http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article95.htm part 2]) of stupid ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' monsters.
* For more ''D&D'' monster mockery, visit the [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-monster-manual.php WTF D&D!?] feature at [[Something Awful]], as it takes the piss out of the artwork in tabletop game sourcebooks, usually focusing on ridiculous monster ideas.
* Many, many PCs do this when their DM reveals a custom monster he's spent all week lovingly crafting. Not that published monsters are exempt, especially those published by 3rd party publishers.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Adventurers!]]'' has its [https://web.archive.org/web/20100203173049/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0343.html infamous evil pants].
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' gives us [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0541.html acid-breathing sharks] as a not-so-subtle [[Take That]] at the quality of certain supplements (an acid-breathing shark had appeared about a year before that strip in a supplement written by one [[Self-Deprecation|Rich Burlew]]).
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' regularly mixes this trope with [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] for the robot masters. While on the subject of ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'', the way the fandom treats him Bubble Man may as well be [[Aquaman]]'s [[Evil Counterpart]].
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** Also an inversion appears in [http://www.goblinscomic.com/12222006/ this strip], where Complains finds out humans can't see in the dark and asks, "Man, how have these creatures ''not'' been wiped out?"
* Happens in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' when Dr. McNinja [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p22 punches a zombie and then taunts the helpless monster].
* ''Commissioned'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20140509205600/http://www.commissionedcomic.com/?p=243 See that scrawny catperson in tighty-whities?] The player thinks his character is a hulking badass weretiger.
* From ''[[VG Cats]]'' [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=1 You know, maybe we shouldn't be jamming the helpless critters into airtight balls] and [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=45 hemorrhoids].
* Torg and Riff from [[Sluggy Freelance]] do this pretty much instinctively. It comes in handy one time when they need to cause K'Z'K pain in order to exorcise him. He's invincible, but still suffers from their horrible puns about his name.
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