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{{trope}}
{{quote|The pain is gone, I've succeeded. I feel strong too. '''''I'm not afraid of you anymore!''''' You won't kill me, I'll make you pay for everything you did to me!!!|'''Ariel
In fiction it's common for a character who has been abused or mistreated by another to eventually confront that person in order to move on with their life, and they discover that the person really was never as powerful as they thought, and that the abuse they suffered was the result of that person's own issues and insecurities. The abused may even take pity on the person who hurt them and decide that they're [[Not Worth Killing]], and this is often the first step in a [[Humiliation Conga]].
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Compare [[Face Your Fears]]. See also [[Calling the Old Man Out]] for a specific variant of this. Not to be confused with [[I'm Not Afraid of You]], when a threat loses its power (or [[Puff of Logic|disappears entirely]]) once a character is no longer afraid of it.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Brutally done by Lucy in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' to the cruel kids who tormented her for so long after they push her too far by killing her dog in front of her. {{spoiler|She snaps and kills them}}.
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* In ''[[Fray]]'' (a spinoff of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''), our eponymous heroine breaks down and is unable to fight the first time she is confronted by the vampire that killed her brother. The second time, she just tosses aside her weapon and gets ready. {{spoiler|Subverted when her sister crushes him with a car.}} And Fray comments she was about to get her ass kicked.
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* In the ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' fanfic ''Jaquemart'' Anthy slaps her former abusive fiancée Saionji, a reversal of what he did to her at the beginning of the series.
** Of course she had never been afraid of him as such, and was just venting some steam. And quickly realized that she was indeed getting in exactly the same state of mind as Saionji used to be, which she wasn't at all pleased about.
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{{quote|'''Glinda:''' Don't be afraid, Elphie.
'''Elphaba:''' I'm not afraid... It's the Wizard who should be afraid of me. }}
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** At the end of ''[[
*** Subverted in the same book for Teatime's wizard associate, who gets all fired up to invoke this trope on the vision of his childhood bully: after all, he's a grown man now, so can surely scare off some pesky kid.
** From ''[[
** Rincewind has a similar mental confrontation with the Great Spell inside his head in ''[[The Light Fantastic]]'', lambasting it for ruining his life {{spoiler|and then being too scared to help him against Trymon in the end}}.
** Also in ''[[The Truth]]'', William De Worde has a brilliant moment of this with his father, after saying "Men like my father are bullies and they're the worst kind because they aren't cowards and if you stand up to them they only hit you harder." Granted William had a vampire for backup, but he didn't know that.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''Only In Death'', Larkin is haunted by apparitions of the (dead) psychopathic killer Cuu. At the end, he defies him and declares he is joining the real Ghosts to die with them. The apparition vanishes.
* [[Invoked Trope]] and then [[Subverted Trope]] in the ''[[Everworld]]'' series. The witch Senna asks her half-sister if she's afraid of her. April, who the narrative makes clear ''is'' very much afraid, attempts to tell her the words of this trope. Senna's response is to use her powers to open the gateway between Everworld and the Old World, and then shove her sister's head through it.
{{quote|''Senna: "So much for 'maybe.' "''}}
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* In ''[[StarCraft|Uprising]]'' Kerrigan confronts Rumm, the officer who had abused her for a decade. She escapes captivity and deep fries his brain with her powers giving him a long overdue [[Karmic Death]]
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* In ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "A Piano in the House", a man buys a player piano with an unusual quality: when loaded with the correct music, it causes a person listening to it to express their true emotions and personality. He uses it to expose the personality flaws of his dinner guests so he can cruelly mock them. However, the piano eventually reveals his inner nature to be immature and frightened of other people, which causes him to be malicious and hateful. When the others learn this, they feel pity for him.
** Similarly, [[Mitchell and Webb]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekx3unEYYWg green clarinet]. {{spoiler|"Well I have a red tuba that [[Brown Note|makes you shit yourself]]."}}
* Shortly after the 2008 election, Chris Wallace was interviewed on ''[[The Daily Show]]'' and gave Jon Stewart a cookie as a gift from Karl Rove, with a strong implication that it was poisoned (Rove had told Wallace specifically which cookie out of the batch to pass on to him). The [[Studio Audience]], smelling a rat, began yelling for Jon not to eat it.
{{quote|'''Jon Stewart''': Let me tell you why I'll eat it: ''Karl Rove can't hurt me anymore.'' [eats cookie]}}
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* Ron Stoppable from the series ''[[Kim Possible]]'' really fits this trope. Being that he was afraid of things that were ridiculous things (or perhaps, [[Properly Paranoid|not so ridiculous]]), throughout the series, he overcome many of them, such as when he decided to stop running from his mutant enemy Gill and fight back, and more notably he conquered his childhood fear of monkeys, even accepting their nature as the source of his mystical martial arts powers. Even before that, he no longer felt intimidated to face his personal [[Arch Enemy]] Monkey Fist, just annoyed.
* Invoked by Kevin's stepfather in ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'': He stands up to the [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|mutated, out of his mind]] Kevin, declaring "I'm not afraid of you anymore, Kevin."
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