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* In ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick Ass]]'', two bullies try to shake down Hit-Girl for lunch money when she's out of costume. Cue Hit-Girl cracking her knuckles. The bullies no doubt had a hard time living the result down.

* This is the premise of ''[[The Perfect Host]]'': An attempted bank robber on the run threatens a random guy with a knife. Throughout the rest of the film, the thief learns why he would have been better off messing with someone else.

* The [[Chuck Norris]] movie ''Code of Silence'' has a sequence where two lowlife thugs enter a nondescript Chicago bar full of middle-aged white guys who don't look like much of anything, and some younger friends, sitting there quietly drinking their beers. After an epically failed attempt to appear casual, the two lowlifes draw their guns and loudly announce that this is a stickup. They aren't even halfway through their opening move before they notice, to their horror, that ''every single customer in the room'' has pulled a handgun on them. Moral of the story: Don't try to stick up the local cop bar.

* ''[[Back to the Future]]''; Biff's pals threaten Reginald, with a racial slur no less; Reginald's tough-looking friend Martin shows up with ''his'' three tough-looking friends. [[Oh Crap]]...