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{{quote|'''Homer/[[Bonnie and Clyde|Clyde]]:''' Chicken? Nobody calls me chicken without goading me into doing something stupid!}}
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', "The Blind Bandit"
{{quote|'''The Boulder:''' [[Third Person Person|The Boulder]] [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|feels conflicted about fighting]] a young, [[Disability Superpower|blind]] girl.
'''Toph:''' Sounds to me like you're ''scared''!
''[[Beat]]''
'''The Boulder:''' The Boulder is over his conflicted feelings, and is now ready to bury you in a Rockalanche!
'''Toph:''' Whenever you're ready, the Pebble! }}
* A classic exchange between [[Yosemite Sam]] and [[Bugs Bunny]] in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'':
{{quote|'''Yosemite Sam''': Now you ornery, no-good, long eared, varmint...
'''[[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]''': Just a minute, doc. Them's fightin' words.
'''Yosemite Sam''': Yeah, them's fightin' words!
'''[[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]''' (draws a line across the ground): I dare you to step across this line.
'''Yosemite Sam''': I'm a-steppin'
''(some variations involve multiple "lines", but they always result in Sam falling of a cliff/diving board/what have you) }}
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': In the [[Your Worst Nightmare]] episode, Blossom gets Buttercup to face her fear by teasing her about being afraid.
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'''Riveras (in unison)''': [[Berserk Button|COWARDS?!]] * furious dust-cloud of ass-kicking* }}
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Applebloom is attempting to actually call a chicken, and Scootaloo claims "that is ''not'' how you call a chicken!" When Scootaloo refuses to show her the right way to call a chicken...
{{quote|'''Applebloom''': [[Just for Pun|You're just CHICKEN!]]
'''Scootaloo''': Am not!
'''Applebloom''': Oh wait, ''now'' I know how to call a chicken. SCOOTALOOOO! SCOOT-SCOOTALOOOOOOO!
'''Scootaloo''': That was so funny, I forgot to laugh!
'''Applebloom''': You also forgot how to call chickens. }}
** Scootaloo actually ''being'' (or at least literally treated like) a chicken quickly became [[Memetic Mutation|a common recurring joke in the fandom]].
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
* ''[[The Fairly
* '''''[[SpongeBob SquarePants|NOBODY CALLS ME TUBBY!!!]]'''''
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== Real Life ==
* Supposedly, in the Wild West calling someone a coward was one of four fighting words that you would only invoke if you were prepared to fight for your life. The other three were thief, cheater (especially when playing cards in a saloon), and liar.
**Not just in the Wild West. It has been historically among the most widely accepted reasons for calling someone out. For good reason as it is saying a person is not capable of helping his own group in a pinch and might well make it look vulnerable before outsiders.
***Furthermore cowardice is infectious. When one man runs, the man next to him sees him running and assumes the battle/hunt/cattle drive/whatever to be lost. Humans who depend on working together and whose main defense against predation is [[Humans Are Warriors|eliminating predators]] have their survival wrapped up in stigmatizing cowardice and thus to accept the name can be a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. Which goes far toward explaining why men will fight to avoid the term.
***And that is not even allowing for keeping one's place in the competition for mates. Having someone who won't help [[Papa Wolf|protect the children]] can be awkward to say the least.
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