Mugging the Monster/Web Comics

Examples of Mugging the Monster in Web Comics include:

El Goonish Shive. While Grace and Sarah are walking through an alley, they're jumped by a knife wielding mugger. Little does the mugger know that Grace is a Shape Shifter with an exceptionally powerful alternate form. And in case it's not enough, telekinesis.

Mugger: AAAAAAAA!!! Demon Girl!!! Repent!!! Repent I Say!!! AAAAAAA!!!

Order of the Stick
- Parodied in this comic.
- Directly referenced at the end of that arc:

Durkon: One a' these days, yer just gonna end up trying ta rob like a level 16 fighter by accident and get massacred.

- Played straight after the end of the bandit arc in this strip where the former leaders of the bandits get killed picking on a much higher-level character.
- Played straight (albeit more mildly) in another strip; Pickpocketing the Rogue if you will.
- Xykon once tried to steal a cool crown from a librarian.

Xykon: ...and it turned out oops! He was also an archmage! Needless to say, hilarity ensued.

Happens in Schlock Mercenary, which incidentally turns something the mercs are not good at (a formal dinner) into something that they are very, very good at. Note this continues to happen occasionally, only these days the mercs tend to be wearing power armor (it looks just like the uniforms they wore before that weren't armor... so it stays this trope).
- While acquiring Schlock some new eyes (after his were gouged out in a particularly brutal fight) the Toughs are continually faced with a more numerous but far less able enemy. Culminates in the enemy fleet attacking Petey in the belief that any ex-Tausennigan warship can't possibly have a working AI. They are "rather fatally mistaken".
Megatokyo: It is not a good idea to try groping Erika.
In Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, a foxwoman finds a young man going to visit his grandmother. She takes human form, lures him with the promise of random sex, and then shifts into her foxwoman form, making it look she's going to eat him. Turns out the man is a shapeshifted dragon.
- Later a variation when an adventuring party captured Gren and Wolf to try and use them as guides. These two don't struggle, but for some reason fail to take this situation seriously and start giving a guided tour style lecture on geology and history of the Black Mountain. That she is expected home a hour ago by her beholder boyfriend and he's currently the prince-consort of the local Drow Queen may have something to do with this.
Blip
- Done here. The would-be victims are a vampire and a witch. A vampire, incidentally, who appears to have once been the Queen of Demons before she and Lucifer broke up.
- Also, in a later scene, a date rapist tries to take advantage of a succubus.
In Tales of the Questor, a group of angry townspeople catch Quentyn trying to flee with their prisoner. Quentyn warns them off with his elfshot pistol. The lead roughneck laughs in his face—only to be pincushioned a moment later.
In a guest Alien Loves Predator strip, a mugger pulls a gun on Abe and Preston while they are talking about crime in New York. The mugger quickly asks if the gun is theirs, while Preston's Plasmacaster accidentally targets his head.
Mocked in Another Gaming Comic. Within the tabletop game the characters play, poorly-equipped bandits attack a group of "flying, flaming weaponmasters"—a standard D&D party. "They're bandits, not brain surgeons."
In Drowtales a mugger decides to go after Ariel and Faen and lead them into an alley when they ask him for directions . While he is right that they're two young Val girls with relatively little in the way of street smarts, what he didn't know was the fact that Faen's mother, Ash'waren, is the most powerful empath in Chel, and Faen is powerful enough and has so little control over her abilities that she sics a wolf on the mugger without meaning to before he can react.
Emily Watson's Establishing Character Moment in Spacetrawler. Two guys with knives tell her to hand over her wallet; she whips out a pair of handguns and demands her would-be muggers' wallets and car keys.
This happens a few times in Wapsi Square. The mugger pulls a knife. Heather pulls a gun.
In Impure Blood, some men decide to stalk Caspian as a freak lover.
In Endstone, finding a naked girl in the woods may not be that lucky a thing.
- In the Backstory, aiming your Witch Hunt at Kyri and her daughter may not be wise, even with Torches and Pitchforks.
In Heartcore, a couple of thugs attempt to do horrible things to a helpless woman. Oh wait, that's no helpless woman; that's Amethyst Lashiec, former princess of Asgard and a powerful succubus, incognito.
According to Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger, this is the inevitable fate of space pirates.
During one story in At Arms Length, a troupe of conquistador-like alien bugs choose Reece's house as the starting point of their invasion of Earth. They quickly regret this.
In Blue Yonder, this is broadly implied to be part of the Backstory of Claremont Apartments and why such a wretched neighbor is so safe.
Gunnerkrigg Court once had senior schoolkids mocking Annie and Kat. And the "teddy", which was a doll possessed by the spirit bored out of his mind for years and now also annoyed. And somewhat shapeshifting. Quoth the big guy on the next page, "I absolutely did not expect thiiiiis!" (comment below: "I bet that guy wasn't expecting that.")
In Homestuck, Tavros really shouldn't have tried to troll Dave.
Girl Genius had Oublenmach try to break into what turned out to be a Jägermonster bar, brandish his weapon and threaten the staff into giving him what they consider a sacred relic. The next time we see him subjected to Neck Lift.
- The last surviving hostile Spark in Mechanisburg found himself "a charming pair of innocent hostages": Zeetha, daughter of Chump and Axel Higgs.
A mugger once told Butch of Chopping Block to empty his pockets. He tried, but he ran out of body parts to stab the mugger in before he ran out of blades to stab him with.
xkcd strip "Pickup Artist", where one of these tried to demonstrate a pickup technique on Black Hat Guy's girlfriend. Alt Text: "Son, don't try to play 'make you feel bad' with the Michael Jordan of making you feel bad."
Magick Chicks had a mutual case. Faith wanted to charm and seduce a random girl. Layla wanted to get her evening sip of blood. Oops.
|Bite Me! had it with a rat who tried to scare Lucien from its territory by hissing and showing teeth.
Nerf Now demonstrates in "Nature's Balance 4" how it works on the species, by way of Mama Bear.
Evil Inc. got one dude who just had to tell the complaining Lightning Lady that he "does not give two hoots for her charge". Then he hooted three time - redundancy didn't hurt anyone, right? Certainly not as much as her charge going through, anyway.
Optipess had that one guy who tried to rob a bank implementing a Standard Villain Procedure.
Erma, in the strip "Down To Clown". Stock horror-movie Evil Clown versus Erma... who happens to be the cutest little Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl you'll ever meet.
Looking for Group had such a moment when brigands tried to attack the team, and didn't figure out why no one takes them too seriously until they actually attacked. Much later a robber with knife jumped a lizard kid. This was the kid Richard adopted. The snout sticking out of the handbag that he patted after this was sorted out is a dragon.
Exploitation Now had a moment with some guy trying to mug Jordan and Bush. Hysterical laughter ensues. Unfortunately for the mugger, he didn't catch where it goes.
The Monster Under the Bed had Tim peacefully treat-or-tricking with his girlfriend. Or shall we say, eponymous girlfriend. When accosted by a bully from Tim's school. Eventually he tried to take Shadow's candy bag, Tim tried to defend her and things went downhill until she decided to drop the human disguise. Halloween bonus happens. That guy did not appreciate so many sharp teeth so close.
Sluggy Freelance had a pack of vengeful zombies who found Riff's old house. And tried to eat a girl who happened to be around. This being Oasis, the news didn't particularly upset her.

Oasis: (happily smiling) "Do unto others", I always say!

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