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== Anime
* In ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'' it's shown during his fight with Takamura that Brian Hawk was nearly mugged in the streets of New York. Of course, it wasn't successful as Hawk proceeded to beat the mugger nearly to death with his bare hands.
* ''[[Trigun]]'': A bunch of slavers to try and intimidate [[The Dragon|Legato]], and become increasingly angry when he keeps ignoring them, asking a waiter for a new spoon when the bandits [[Improbable Aiming Skills|shoot the first one out of his hand]]. And then he [[Mind Rape|stops]] [[Psychic Powers|ignoring]] them...
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* A gang of thugs tries to mug [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3qZYUPi2Y here]. The Third Doctor. He proceeds to [[Pressure Point]] them into unconsciousness.
* In ''[[Progress]]'', two stallions flirt with the incognito Luna and try to get her [[Unsuspectingly Soused]]. When she catches on, arse-kicking ensues.
* In ''[[Time Braid]]'', this is invoked by Hinata when she and Sakura propose to go undercover as missing-nin and infiltrate Akatsuki. Hinata quotes the standard chestnut along the lines of "meet interesting new people, and kill them"; when Sakura chastises her for violence of outlook, she points out that, being two thirteen-year-old girls travelling alone, one carrying an unsealed Byakugan, all sorts of people are bound to attack them who the world would be better off without anyway. Later, dialogue notes that "eventually, the attacks stopped".
* ''[[The Hill of Swords]]''. ''[[Zero no Tsukaima
* The Yellow Wings learned the hard way that Cid and Ensei are way out of their league in ''[[The Tainted Grimoire]]''.
* In ''[[Zero vs. Kira]]'' [[Code Geass|the Britannian soldiers]] who unknowingly capture [[Death Note|Kira]] in a [[Trapped in Another World|world-breaching experiment]] [[Gone Horribly Right]]. [[Death by Racism|"Damn uppity Eleven, you think you're somebody]] [[Too Dumb to Live|because you can speak English and wear a suit."]] [[Last Request|Light Yagami asks if he may at least]] [[I Know Your True Name|know the names]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|of his executioners...]]
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* Subverted in [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]]'s [[Ethshar]] novel ''The Misenchanted Sword''. The protagonist has a magical sword {{spoiler|that won't let him die till he's killed 98 more people}}, and he wanders back alleys looking for trouble, acting like an old man, a big purse of gold on his hip, expecting this trope. He doesn't run into anyone.
** [[Double Subversion|Doubly subverted]] when he later runs into some thugs robbing an elderly lady. Also played straight with {{spoiler|said elderly lady.}}
* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'': The most memorable and sadistically amusing is when Pavel Young tries to rape Honor and ends up beaten to a pulp.
**On an international level when Haven attacks Manticore and when the Solarians attack the alliance.
** Lampshaded by Captain Oversteegan in ''The Service of the Sword''. A bully picks on Abagail Hearns whereupon the Captain tells [[The Bully]] that he might think he comes of a [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|fine family]] but Abagail's family [[Blue Blood]] makes his look like peons, even if [[Modest Royalty|she]] doesn't give herself airs about it. And as a bonus in case he missed that point, should the bully go to far and rouse her father's [[Papa Wolf|Greysonian patriarchal wrath]], he would squash him like a bug.
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