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* Either inverted or played straight in Oleg Divov's ''[[Night Watcher]]'': a vampire decides to stalk a drunken cop, whom the readers already know to be a [[Badass Normal]] and [[The Big Guy]]. The cop mistakes the fruity vampire for a gay stalker and decides to teach him a lesson before he causes any trouble, preemptively attacking, beating him up and dragging him off to the station. Mind you, the vampire was mostly taken by surprise, and might have turned the tables later, if not for this cop encountering his colleague [[Vampire Hunter|Captain Kotov]] along the way; Kotov quickly realizes what's going on and finishes the vampire off.

* In the Antony Horowitz novel ''Raven's Gate'', someone tries to mug Mrs Deverill, who is basically an [[Eldritch Abomination]]. She [[Mind Rape|mind rapes]] him into committing suicide with his knife. One inch at a time.

* ''Brotherhood of the Rose'' by David Morrell has a group of street thugs gang up on [[Badass|Saul]] ~~-- who~~ unknown to them has been a CIA black ops assassin since he was a teenager. [[Curb Stomp Battle|He then breaks their fingers]], [[Five-Finger Discount|takes their wallets]], [[Laser-Guided Karma|and comes up with seventy dollars]].

* ''Brotherhood of the Rose'' by David Morrell has a group of street thugs gang up on [[Badass|Saul]]—who unknown to them has been a CIA black ops assassin since he was a teenager. [[Curb Stomp Battle|He then breaks their fingers]], [[Five-Finger Discount|takes their wallets]], [[Laser-Guided Karma|and comes up with seventy dollars]].

* Happens in the ''Star Wars'' book ''[[Shatterpoint]]''. Corrupt police think they can steal Mace Windu's things while he is in customs because he is naked and unarmed. They soon learn that a Jedi Knight does not need clothes or a lightsaber to kick ass.

* In [[Jack Vance]]'s ''[[The Demon Princes]]'' cycle, there's a brief description of the time a thirteen-year-old Kirth Gersen—who is being trained for his eventual [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]—and his grandfather -- [[Old Master|who is doing the training]]—are attacked by a mugger. Gersen breaks a number of the man's bones, ending with his neck, while grandfather watches.

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* On an early episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' a few guys get a bit aggressive when flirting with [[The President's Daughter|Zoey Bartlet]] and promptly end up arrested after Josh presses a panic button.

* The pilot of ''[[Person of Interest]]''. Some wannabe toughs start hassling a hobo on a New York subway. When one gets rough, the hobo, a Special Forces-trained ex-CIA operative named John Reese, takes them down with alarming rapidity.

* [[Supernatural|A random passerby]], while texting, brushes the tall, cadverous man in black, then has the nerve to tell ''him'' to watch where he's going. Nice job provoking [[The Grim Reaper|Death]], dumbass.

* [[Supernatural (TV series)|A random passerby]], while texting, brushes the tall, cadverous man in black, then has the nerve to tell ''him'' to watch where he's going. Nice job provoking [[The Grim Reaper|Death]], dumbass.

* In ''[[Knight Rider]]'', many a random criminal has tried to steal or damage KITT, who looks like a cool but normal car, but is actually both sentient and super tough. KITT's responses range from snapping at the crooks for disturbing him to deliberately freaking them out to simply sitting there and confusing them with his invulnerability all their attacks.

* This is Omar's occupation in ''[[The Wire]]'' as a stickup boy. The best example is when he steals from drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield.

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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDjqQFln72E&feature=g-vrec&context=G2e99147RVAAAAAAAADg Around 2008 in Canada], two rednecks in a pick-up truck come across a guy and his girlfriend in a fancy car. They heckle him with lots of [[Cluster F-Bomb|cursing]] and insults while driving right behind them and filming the incident on their camera the whole time. The guy in the fancy car is eventually cornered by the two rednecks at a dead-end; when the rednecks get out of their truck with a baseball bat and walk toward the guy, the guy [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight|pulls out a handgun]] and tells them to back off. The guy's girlfriend takes the camera, and the guy takes the rednecks' truck key and tosses it in a nearby sewer before driving off and later uploading the camera footage to [[YouTube]].

* In the early 1700s, Dick Turpin, famous highwayman, once stopped a gentleman on a coach road and threatened him with a pistol. That "gentleman" turned out to be Thomas King, ''another'' famous highwayman. King was so ''impressed'' that he took Turpin as a partner and they robbed and murdered on the Essex roads together for two years.

* The infamous Sony CD manufacter-sponsored rootkit would probably have had a longer run out in the wild if one of the first computers it had infected [https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2005/10/31/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights-management-gone-too-far/ hadn't belonged to Mark Russinovich] ~~-- a~~ senior Microsoft executive who invented most of the debugging, process monitoring, and system monitoring utilities for the Windows operating system, was a significant contributor to the Windows source code, and was one of the only human beings on Earth actually capable of doing the kernel-level debugging and audit of Windows XP necessary to find the rootkit in action.

* The infamous Sony CD manufacter-sponsored rootkit would probably have had a longer run out in the wild if one of the first computers it had infected [https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2005/10/31/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights-management-gone-too-far/ hadn't belonged to Mark Russinovich]—a senior Microsoft executive who invented most of the debugging, process monitoring, and system monitoring utilities for the Windows operating system, was a significant contributor to the Windows source code, and was one of the only human beings on Earth actually capable of doing the kernel-level debugging and audit of Windows XP necessary to find the rootkit in action.

** It gets better. He was also the developer of Windows' original RootkitRevealer utility.

* Some rather clumsy scammers were unlucky enough [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/17/tech_support_scam_takedown/ to catch parents of a computer security expert] with scareware. Hilarity (and irony of the "antivirus vendors" receiving a "photo of my credit card" infected with the hottest disk-encrypting malware at the time) ensues.