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** [[A Man Is Always Eager]]? No. When Ayaka turns out to be an [[Insatiable Newlyweds|Insatiable Newlywed]] whose newfound postmarital hunger drives her into [[Making Love in All the Wrong Places]], Uileag is more than a little disturbed and reluctant.
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11775552/1/The-Greatest-Generation-RESTART The Greatest Generation]'': Shipgirls get a lot of leeway as [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]s; being the most effective means of combatting abyssals means they get a pass on [[Mildly Military]] and [[Military Maverick]] behaviour that would get any regular soldier in trouble. Then Tenryuu engages in gross insubordination and threatening an allied foreign officer - admittedly in defense of her subordinates who said officer had been speaking less than kindly of - and quickly learns that there are still lines, the crossing of which will not be tolerated, special ability notwithstanding.
* There are several ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'' fics that do this:
** Some fics have the characters (not just Chloé) judged or ostracized for their actions as akumatized villains. Sometimes they're able to evade it (mainly the child/minor ones), but others (older and/or more dangerous ones) typically aren't so lucky.
** Marinette finding proof to reveal Lila's lies (Alya's bad journalism, Adrien taking the high road, and the whole class being dumb and rude are typically also called out). Nicer fics just knock the [[Idiot Ball|Idiot]]/[[Jerkass Ball|Jerkass Balls]] out of their hands and have everyone have common sense.
** There also several fics where Ms. Bustier is punished or fired for her need to turn the other cheek towards her students' clearly harmful behaviors/actions.
** Mayor Bourgeois notices Audrey's harmful attitude towards him and Chloe and divorces her.
** There are fics where ''all'' the girls' think [[Stalker with a Crush|Marinette's Stalker with a Crush]] tendencies towards Adrien are concerning, not just [[Only Sane Man|Alix and Mylene]]. They actively try to get her to stop/help. If that doesn't work, they typically stop being friends with her.
** Speaking of which, that infamous scene in 'Puppeteer 2' typically has Adrien creeped out at what Marinette did.
* A few ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fan works that do this:
** ''[[The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well]]'': Rainbow Dash either resents her friends for either forcing her self-esteem down the drain or runs away to be a hero somewhere else. Nicer fics will have the mane 5 admit that while they had a point to take Rainbow's ego down a few pegs, they did go too far with it.
** ''[[One Bad Apple]]'': The CMC ignore Babs' bluff and tell an adult, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon ditch Babs Seed when she's done their dirty work for them, or Applejack and the CMC aren't nearly as [[Easily Forgiven|forgiving as they were in canon]].
** ''[[Ponyville Confidential]]'': The CMC run away, the mane six get a massive earful by someone for ostracizing three fillies (including their own families), and/or Featherweight and Diamond Tiara get karma for causing the conflict in the first place.
* In the ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'' fanfic series, ''[https://archiveofourown.org/series/994671 Smart Adversaries AU]'', not only are the baddies smarter but reality seems to come down harder.
** In ''Copycat Cops It'' and ''Darkblade and the Diary'', Adrien finds out about Marinette breaking into his locker, is very disgusted with her and breaks off their friendship. In the latter fic, it also makes her lose the election, due to everyone (save for Sabrina) also being disgusted with her.
== [[Film]] ==
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** Maverick has thus far avoided getting kicked out of the Navy despite his antics thanks to Iceman covering for him, but even then there's only so much that can be done. {{spoiler|Iceman hasn't even been dead long}} before Cyclone pulls him off the training with the admittedly reasonable pretext that he hasn't given the desired results. Later, when he takes a plane on an unauthorised flight to show that the low-level ingress in the required timeframe is actually possible despite the other pilots' hitherto failure, Cyclone makes clear to him that he should by right be facing a court martial, and that even if he's spared that, he will still be reaching the end of his career in this mission one way or another, whether it's through dying in enemy airspace or getting grounded permanently after his return.
** This film performs a [[Happy Ending Override]] on the previous one, hitting the viewer with the fact that no, just because Maverick received a pep talk and powered his way through his grief to fight doesn't mean that his issues from Goose's death are magically resolved. 30 years on, he still misses Goose, and the man's son still blames him for his role in the death.
* ''[[The Other Guys]]'': A criminal gets away from Highsmith and Danson - two swaggering supercops who would be the protagonists of a more stereotypical story - by ziplining from the roof of a tall building. To save time on getting to ground level, the two of them do a big heroic jump off the roof, saying to aim for the bushes. {{spoiler|There are no convenient bushes to break their fall. They go splat on the ground far below, and the camera lingers on their corpses for extra black comedy value.}}
== [[Literature]] ==
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** In "A Milhouse Divided" Kirk and Luanne get divorced due to their fighting at the Simpson's dinner party being the final straw. At the end of the episode, Kirk tries to sing a romantic song (really badly) to her at Homer and Marge's second wedding and asks her to marry him again. She coldly refuses because neither were happy in their marriage and one song can't fix years of misery. It also helps that her new boyfriend is an [[American Gladiators|American Gladiator]].
** In "Homer to the Max" Homer sues the creators of Police Cops for improper use of his name when they made their Homer Simpson character a moron and pretty much Homer as a cop. The judge finds in favor of the creators instantly because no one has an exclusive right to their name.
** Homer assumes college is nothing but [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinks]] and partying and picking on nerds in "Homer Goes to College." In reality the [[Academic Athlete|jocks are studious and not the idiots they seem]], the [[Dean Bitterman]] is actually friendly and the nerds while intelligent in their studies, have no grasp of life outside college. Naturally this flies over Homer's head and he learns nothing about from the experience.
* [[Teen Titans]]
**Many villains like Mad Mod and Warp have treated Starfire as the damsel that Robin has to rescue, thinking she's the weakest link in the team. As Starfire cheerfully reminds Cinderblock in the pilot, being nice doesn't mean she's helpless. She's a Tamaranean princess trained in hand-to-hand combat in a culture where it's tradition to fight for the throne if you don't like the leader. Starfire knows how to fight, use her massive strength with control, and shoot Starbolts with extremely accurate aim. Oh, and she escaped from a Gordanian prisoner warship when she was still a teenager and unable to use most of her powers due to her handcuffs. She just would rather if an opponent would surrender before she has to resort to violence but if you get her ''angry'', watch out! Starfire has beaten her older sister twice in combat, four times if you count the spinoff comics, and shows that when she fights, she means business.
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