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* ''[[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 picksofficer ontries Abagailto use his rank and position to verbally abuse Midshipman Abigail Hearns. whereuponAt which point the Captain tellsclues in [[The Bully]] that he might thinkcome he comes offrom a [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|finereasonably prominent family]] but AbagailAbigail's family [[Blue Blood]] makesare hisoffworld look like peons''royalty'', even if [[Modest Royalty|she]] doesn't give herself airs about it. And as a bonus in case he missed that point, shouldwhile theAbigail bullyis goherself toa farpatient and rouselong-suffering woman her father's is a living stereotype of [[Papa Wolf|GreysonianGraysonian overprotective patriarchal wrath]], heand wouldthe squashbully's himactivities likeare arapidly approaching the threshold where her father might actually find out about bugthem.
* In one of the ''[[Troubleshooters]]'' books, someone attempts to mug Jules Cassidy, who's short, gay, and looks like he could be in a boy band. Jules, however, is an FBI agent.
* Happens to [[Repairman Jack]] about [[Once an Episode|once every book]], starting in the first installment where he does it on purpose to draw out the mugger who stole a [[MacGuffin]] from his client.
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