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** That time Vash was taken hostage by the vengeance people, nonlethal example. Possibly also the resolution of the sandsteamer thing. Vash gets underestimated a lot.
* [[Ax Crazy]] [[Psycho for Hire]] [[Blood Knight]] Kurudo Akabane of ''[[GetBackers]]'' fame gets so much of this. People have attempted to mug and antagonize him so many times...including, occasionally, the protagonists. Considered that Akabane is considered one of the, if not ''the'', most powerful characters in the series' universe, it usually ends pretty badly for the muggers.
* ''[[
** Later on, a senator has the misfortune of having his car commandeered by [[Complete Monster|Dio]] [[Time Stands Still|Brando]] and tries to ''push him around'' by mentioning how important he is. Dio is not impressed.
* How many times has this happened to Kenshiro from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''? Every page. Every single page. Everywhere he goes, he is instantly attacked by crazy maniac Road Warrior people whose destiny is to literally explode after he strikes them. ''You would think word of this man would get around.''
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'''Munch:''' ''(pulls out gun)'' It's Glock time, you son of a bitch. }}
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Terms of Endearment" involves a part-demon man who would extract the demonic fetuses of his wives before they could be born and reveal his secret. Until he tries it on one woman who wakes up during the extraction process. "I said, what are you doing, Wayne?" In the end, she escapes with the baby, and Mulder and Scully conclude that he finally found someone more evil than he.
* In ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'', Owen is a scum of a man who {{spoiler|murders Annie}} and, even after seeing her as a ghost, continues to hurt her going so far as to {{spoiler|indirectly tell her that he cheated on her before her death}} while comfortingly holding his new girlfriend (and Annie's old friend). He believes that Annie can do nothing to him since she is shy and insecure. Until she digs up some courage and has George and Mitchell stand behind her. Suddenly, Owen finds himself confronted with a werewolf, a vampire, and his former fiancée who stare him down before Annie {{spoiler|tells him "the secret only the dead know"}}, which is apparently horrific. Sometime shortly after, Owen is incarcerated into the nut house.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', a drug dealer named "Sugar" learns to his everlasting detriment that one does not mess with Michael Westen, no matter how much of a pushover Michael may look like.
** In another episode a groups of Russian mercenaries are quite aware how dangerous Michael is and come prepared. However, they do not realize that the man they kidnap alongside Michael is actually an important business associate of one of the heads of the [[The Mafiya|Russian Mafiya]]. No matter how things turn up they are royally screwed either way.
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* Dressing up policewomen like [[Ms. Fanservice]] and sending them out to troll for johns is standard practice for vice squads worldwide. Muggers and psychos occasionally fall for their act, and get snapped up by the decoy or her backup.
* This is the entire basis of pedo-hunting, whether by the FBI or Anonymous. You pose as a gullible young girl, wait to be solicited by a child molester, track them down, and either arrest them or just ruin their life.
* In the late [[The Roman Republic|Roman Republic]] a young [[
** The story gets better. While being held prisoner on the ship, the personable [[Julius Caesar]] befriended the pirates, and made jokes that when he was ransomed he was going to come back and kill them all. The pirates laughed at their captive's great sense of humor. Later, [[Oh Crap|they found out he wasn't joking]].
* In 1890 the three Dalton brothers and two henchmen came riding into Coffeeville Kansas in order to gain fame by robbing two banks at once across the street from each other. Of course there were problems with this scheme notably that before their job was done word got out among the townsfolk. And a typical Western town had a lot more than five people, and an awful lot of guns.
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