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{{quote| '''Glinda:''' Don't be afraid, Elphie.<br />

'''Elphaba:''' I'm not afraid... It's the Wizard who should be afraid of me. }}

** 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. {{spoiler|Too late, he realizes that he himself has become a little boy again...}}

** From ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'': "I did not throw you far enough!"

* In season five of ''[[Lost]]'', Locke ominously tells Ben that he's not afraid of anything Ben can do anymore. This is a clue that {{spoiler|[[Spot the Imposter|it's not really Locke]]}}.

* In the old ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century|Buck Rogers]]'' TV series, there was a sorcerer/rabble rouser, played by Jack Palance(!), who could strike anyone dead with a magical touch...but only if that person believed in and feared his power. Buck Rogers figures this out and destroys his power by publically demonstrating that it is hollow.

* In the episode "Profiler, Profiled" on ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', Derek Morgan has a scene at the end where he tells off the unsub {{spoiler|Carl Buford, the man who raped him repeatedly when he was young}} in what is essentially just one big moment of this. Eventually, the unsub gets so desperate that he unintentionally reveals his crimes to the police, exposing himself as the monster he truly is. As he gets taken away, Derek tells him to go to hell while the unsub can only beg desperately.

* Done a few times in ''[[Eastenders]]'' with [[Domestic Abuser]] storylines:

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