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* Parodied in ''[[TheresThere's Something About Mary]]''.

* Played straight in ''[[Mad Max (Film)|Mad Max]]'' when one of the bikers is let go on a "No Contest" plea.

* ''[[Lethal Weapon (Film)|Lethal Weapon]]'', where they let Riggs fight with Mr. Joshua at the end.

** Somewhat averted in ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'': in Season 6, Det. Goren is interviewing convicted serial killer Mark Ford Brady in an effort to find more of his victims before he is executed, and when it becomes clear that Brady {{spoiler|raped Goren's mother and may well be his own father}}, Goren snaps and goes for his throat. There's a prison guard right there in the room, but he doesn't interfere in any way; Goren just gets control of himself.

* Happened in an episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' but it was not one of the team who went across the table at the unsub; it was in fact the priest of the local church, who had helped organize a search for a missing woman in the community, and had been asked to talk to the suspect after they captured him as he was a parishioner and might talk to the priest. The priest -- whopriest—who has remained calm and composed the entire episode -- finallyepisode—finally loses it when the suspect reveals he {{spoiler|chopped up the woman and made her into a stew that he then fed to the search parties.}}

* Sgt. Kelloway from the movie version of ''[[The Mask (Filmfilm)|The Mask]]''. Granted, it had definitely become personal at that point, what with them finding a picture of Kelloway's wife in Stanley's pants.

* Similar to the Criminal Intent example above, [[The X -Files|Mulder]] faces a serial child murderer who claims Mulder's sister as a victim. Driver over the edge, Mulder smacks him out of the seat. When the perp yells, "He hit me!" the guard shrugs and says, [[Blatant Lies|"I didn't see it."]]

* When [[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]] learns, in ''The Honor of the Queen'', that a P.O.W. prison guard has been [[Moral Event Horizon|ordering prisoners raped and beaten]], she goes after him with murderous intent. Only the intervention of one of her subordinates, who shoves her arm aside as she's pulling the trigger, keeps her from killing him. Rather than an [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] speech, though, she's told that there's no need to commit career suicide by killing him without a trial, when there's plenty of evidence to convict him and hang him after a full court-martial.

* Inverted, subverted, and played straight to different degrees in J.D. Robb's ''[[In Death]]'' series. Most of the time Eve, the [[Good Cop, Bad Cop|Bad Cop]] in almost every interview, intentionally provokes this reaction, sometimes even letting them land a blow to justify [[Kicking Ass and Taking Names]]. At the same time, some of the series's [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]s and even their [[Sympathetic Murderer|Sympathetic Murderers]]s will elicit this reaction from [[Hot-Blooded]] cops if [[It's Personal|it's personal.]] Sometimes it looks like one party or the other will snap and lunge... only to [[Genre Savvy|cool down and call a lawyer]] or [[I Never Said It Was Poison|point out a flaw in the suspect's story.]]

* In [[LAL.A. Confidential]], Bud White's [[Berserk Button]] is triggered as he listens to a black suspect confessing to the incidental crime of kidnapping and raping a Mexican woman. He shatters the back of the chair he is leaning on, storms into the interrogation room, violently pushes the suspect against the wall, and places the barrel of his gun into his mouth. Go 50's!

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* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': When [[Fiery Redhead|Rainbow Dash]] is ready to [[Leeroy Jenkins|charge headfirst into a problem]], [[Team Mom|Applejack's]] normally the one who holds her back by her tail, prompting this reaction.