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{{quote|''"Frail? You? Serra, you have no need of any escort to protect you. Even the most hardened criminal would flee in terror after five minutes in your company."''|'''Erk''', '''''[[Fire Emblem]]'''''}}
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== Comic Books ==
* The [[Marvel Universe]] robot character Machine Man (Aaron Stack) was nudged toward sentience by the alien Celestials at his creation. Years later, they abducted him and took him into space. They then returned him to Earth with little explanation for their actions. Suffering from self-esteem issues, Aaron claims they returned him because they thought he was boring and obnoxious.
** A flashback in ''[[Nextwave]]'' (which [[Unreliable Narrator|may or may not be real]]) has the Celestials telling Aaron that he's a loser. Complete with L on the forehead. And they mock him further when he [[Wangst
{{quote|'''Celestial:''' Aaron Stack, you who were called Machine Man. You have travelled with us for three hundred and sixty cycles by your reckoning of time. There is now something we have to tell you. You are total ☠☠☠☠.
'''Aaron:''' ...What?
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* Even the ''[[Dennis the Menace US|Dennis the Menace]]'' movie did this when Dennis was kidnapped.
* The main character in ''[[High Strung]]'' spends most of the film complaining about whatever is within his view (it's not exactly great cinema). At the end, he is dragged away by Death (played by [[Jim Carrey]]), who eventually lets him go because he complains so much.
* ''[[No Deposit, No Return]]''
* ''[[Ruthless People]]'' is all about this trope (and [[You Can Keep Her]] too).
* ''[[Baby's Day Out]]'' has three bumbling kidnappers [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|completely unable to keep one baby corraled]], with [[Amusing Injuries|hilariously painful results]]. The baby isn't ''trying'' to hurt anyone, he's just going about his adventure. It's the kidnappers themselves who are getting into trouble.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Yakko and Dot challenge [[The Grim Reaper]] at checkers to bring Wakko back to life, with their lives at stake. They
** One episode features something [[Tastes Like Diabetes|so horrible]], even the Warner siblings can't deal with it: [[Captain Ersatz|Baloney]] [[Barney and Friends|Barney the Dinosaur]]. Even dropping multiple anvils on him only gains them a temporary respite.
* At the end of the [[Looney Tunes]] short "The Whole Idea", an inventor finally tires of his stereotypically shrewish wife's nagging and drops her down one of the "portable holes" he'd invented. It apparently leads all the way to [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]], as there's a burst of flame and then a mopey-looking demon appears, hauling her out by the collar of her blouse and asking the inventor, "Isn't it bad enough down here without ''her''?"
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