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* A [[Wolverine]] solo adventure had a variation of this. A young woman was on a subway train with no one else around besides a sleeping homeless man with a newspaper over his face. Two muggers approach her and attempt a routine mugging, then the homeless man woke up, and you'll never guess who he turned out to be!
* ''[[Career Killers]]'': Many are the unfortunate (now dead) bikers who thought Lady Shiva would be an easy target.
* Many examples for ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'':
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** Similarly, Wolverine and Spiderman were both in a bar, in costume, having an intense argument. Just as they were about to start trading punches instead of words, a group of thugs burst through the door with weapons drawn, noticing the angry superheroes only after they're inside. Cue the thug in the back "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Next time, I choose the place we rob.]]"
** In another memorable issue, Spidey is in the midst of a fight with Morbius the Living Vampire, on the ESU grounds, when a gang of [[Politically Incorrect Villain| Friends of Humanity]] mistake Morbius for a mutant and attack him. The insults from them stop when they realize the blows from their bats weren't hurting him at all, and Morbius likely would have killed them if Spidey hadn't stopped him. [[Too Dumb To Live| Of course, this tends to happen to those guys a lot...]]
** You'd think a well-dressed businessman with a custom-made Italian suit and a Rolex would be a complete idiot to be alone in Central Park in the middle of the night, and that's exactly what a bunch of punks thought when they saw Thomas Fireheart there in another Spider-Man story. Little did they know, Fireheart was not only the CEO of Fireheart industries, he was the Puma, [[Magical Native American| the mystical protector of his tribe]]. Still, he didn't even need to turn into the Puma to give them a good thrashing (and he did give them a fair warning first). Even worse, the ''reason'' he was there was to meet with Spidey to discuss a crisis, who showed up two minutes after the fight started; the punks [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here| had the sense to run for it then.]]
** One example that didn't actually involve Spidey: His friend (more or less) Flash Thompson was on a date with Felicia Hardy in the park in one issue when three goons accosted them. At first, Flash didn't want any trouble, and gave them Felicia's purse (leading her - who was actually the Black Cat and dating him in order to get back at Peter for marrying Mary Jane - to think he was a coward for a brief moment). Then, however, one of the thugs tried to get fresh with Felicia, and that crossed the line for Flash; being an amateur boxer at the time, he beat them within an inch of their lives.
** One unique example was a story where [[The Punisher]] was a [[Special Guest| guest star]]. After he parked his Battle Van in a rather bad neighborhood, a punk (who said to himself that you'd "have to be nuts" to park a custom van there) tried to rip the wheels off. Of course, its owner and Spidey were inside it, but they didn't even notice him; the van's security system gave him the shock of his life and sent him running, convinced that the van's owner was nuts.
* On several occasions in ''[[100 Bullets|One Hundred Bullets]]'', people have tried to mug [[Complete Monster|Lono.]] He either kills them on the spot or tracks them down later for some graphic on-panel [[Cold-Blooded Torture|fun]].
* ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' sometimes defeats random bandits casually. In one case, he travels through a mountain pass, [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands|casually disarming indians and bandits]] while monologueing to his [[Cool Horse]]. When he arrives at his destination, he expresses surprise at being told there were bandits in that pass, and can't explain where the arrow in his hat came from. But then again, he is an [[Invincible Hero]]...
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