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* Happens a few times to Fleming in ''[[The Vampire Files]]'' series, both in the city and when he's jumped by tramps on his parents' unoccupied farm. A [[Vegetarian Vampire]], he doesn't actually hurt such attackers, just scares the living shit out of 'em.
* In ''The Visitor'', the second book in the ''[[Animorphs]]'' series, a young man attempts to persuade [[Action Girl|Rachel]] to get into his car. When the creep doesn't take no for an answer, she scares the living daylights out of him by morphing halfway into an elephant. Considering that she could have completed the morph and stomped him flat or just gone grizzly bear on him, the jerk got off easy.
* Happens on a species level in many science-fiction stories, a noteworthy one being Turtledove's "The Road Not Taken". Aliens, who note that humans are so primitive they don't even have antigravity or FTL (which is so easy to discover that on some
* In ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant|Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer]]',' a group of thieves try to rob everyone at {{spoiler|the Requiem Ball}}. Said {{spoiler|Ball}} contains all sorts of magic-users whose abilities range from [[Playing with Fire|wielding]] [[Making a Splash|various]] [[Shock and Awe|elements]] to other fancy abilities such as [[Shapeshifting]] and [[Seers|'Sensitivity' (precognition)]]. [[Hilarity Ensues|An arse-kicking ensues]].
* [[1632]]: Doesn't it sound like a nice recreation for overworked sixteenth-century mercenaries to [[Rape Pilage And Burn]] around this small peaceful town in which everybody just happens to own and know how to use twentieth century firearms?
* Happens several times in [[Belisarius Series]]. The most interesting is when the bad guys hire ally thugs to assassinate Bellisarius' wife, only for her to duck into a butcher shop, throw a very sticky cauldron of hot stew on them and while they are recovering fall to hacking them with a knife(which there are plenty to hand [[Captain Obvious|in a butcher shop]]) until help arrives in the form of one of her husband's soldiers armed to the teeth and as capable of killing alley thugs as of killing flies.
* In one of the [[Judge Dredd]] novels, bad things happen whenever Dredd tries to take a bath including one incident when some thieves attempted to burgle his apartment. Needless to say they ended up serving long sentences.
* ''[[Curse of the Wolfgirl]]'' has a couple of rather yobbish [[Alpha Bitch]]es relentlessly bully Agrivex, a young fire-demon currently pretending to be human to attend college, which surprisingly works out all right for them since 'Vex is a sweet natured girl who really doesn't understand nastiness or is prepared to hurt people. Then they try it on 'Vex's friend Kalix. Kalix is a werewolf with [[Unstoppable Rage|anger issues]]. This works out substantially less well for them.
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