Mugging the Monster: Difference between revisions

* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''Children of the Night'', a shapeshifting souleater vampire who leaves a group and comes back sated is said by the group's leader to have been "trolling for rapists" in the form of an attractive young woman. The doubting member of the group, who is repulsed and uncomfortable about basically murdering random people but needs to feed, thinks this sounds like a good idea, and so he wanders Central Park until a junkie attacks him and is killed.

** In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|Brightly Burning]]'', Lavan is cornered by a pack of school bullies who pin him down and beat him with a lash. His panic results in a violent breakthrough manifestation of his Firestarting gift that he's the only survivor of.

* ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel|The Warlock]]'' has a couple street thugs attempt to mug {{spoiler|[[War God|Mars Ultor.]]}}

* ''[[X Wing Series|Iron Fist]]'' starts with an attempt by Imperial elements to capture or kill the Wraiths; they send a cyborg to the bar where the Wraiths are enjoying themselves, have the cyborg start a fight, and then show up dressed as the local police to arrest everyone. But the Wraiths cotton on to the fact that something's not right. The roster at the time included [[Ironic Nickname|Runt]], [[Genius Bruiser|Piggy]], an expert in hand-to-hand combat, and Phanan, who promptly [[Combat Medic|cut someone's throat with a laser scalpel]].