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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"A slayer's life is simple. Want? Take. Have."''
|'''Faith''', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''}}
Let's face it, in some worlds [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]], and the only reason these [[Crapsack World]]s have a semblance of civility and law is fear of reprisal. So what happens when your typical misanthrope gets a hold of [[Phlebotinum]], a [[Ring of Power]], is [[Viral Transformation|bit by a werewolf]] or discovers they're a mutant with [[Stock Super Powers]]? Blow <s>up</s> off society and do whatever they want!
Rather than try to be a hero who got [[The Call]], they will use their powers for petty crime. Want a million dollars? Just use your [[Eye Beams]] to melt open the bank vault. A lover cheated on you? [[Super Strength]] to turn the guy's car into a cube. That beautiful house? Summon up a ghost to scare the owners away and move in once the price drops. "But what if the cops find out?!" Well, with most cases of this trope, the newly empowered criminal will either make [[Immune to Bullets|short work of them]] or be totally undetectable. In truly disgusting extremes, they may walk into a restaurant (where they're ''known'' as a [[Super Villain]]), [[Evil Is Petty|be rude to the waiter]], not pay the bill, and then fight their way through the city's police force for it. And that's assuming the police even try to ''stop'' the super-jerk, as it won't take too many public demonstrations before the cops have to admit it's futile.
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{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' Subverted by [[The Hero|Pretty Sammy]] when she tried to break the rules, a classmate informs her that even Magical Girls have to abide by the rules.
** [[Dark Magical Girl|Pixy Misa]] does this all the time. It's no surprise being that [[Beneath the Mask|she represents what a Misao without moral bounds would do]]. Even after her [[Heel Face Turn]], she still does things like stealing a NASA space shuttle.
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* Pretty much the concept behind both ''[[Code Geass]]'' and ''[[Death Note]]'', with a clever teenager lamenting the state of the world, accidentally obtaining superpowers in the first episode, and [[Utopia Justifies the Means|immediately going on a world-changing killing spree]].
** It's worth noting though, that the two have entirely different motivations and goals, and only vaguely similar tactics.
* Frieza from ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'' boasts about being the most powerful being in the universe (though he more or less is lying). So he decides the lives of others mean absolutely nothing to him -- his own followers included. And he does horrific things that terrify aliens everywhere. Humans consider him terrifying too even if their morals aren't quite the same as aliens'. Ironically, when Goku becomes Super Saiyan, he still more or less sticks to the rules, or at least his own personal morals -- though he is angrier than before, even if it's justified.
== Card Games ==▼
* In a way, the [[Corrupt Church|Orzhov Syndicate]] from ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]''. As expressed in [http://www.magiccards.info/rav/en/108.html this card]'s flavor text:▼
{{quote|"Why limit yourself to mortal law when you can outlive those who enforce it?"}}▼
== Comic Books ==
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* [[The Authority]], though for their case it might be more of 'Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers - And I Will Make New Rules!'
== [[Fan
* [[Death Note|Light]] in ''[[The Prince of Death]]'' decides to be more of a [[Jerkass]] than usual when L is having a meeting with the Kira Taskforce and [[Crazy Jealous Guy|isn't paying enough attention to him.]] [[Attention Whore|He regains L's attention]] by telling the room full of cops he's the original Kira (and instigating a (cat)fight with Naomi by [[Evil Gloating|gloating]] [[Kick the Dog|over the fact that he killed her boyfriend]]) [[Story-Breaker Power|knowing full well that there is absolutely nothing they can do about it now that he has become a literal God of Death]]:
{{quote|'''Light''': I was hoping for something a little more entertaining... But I'm bored. This is pointless! You've already caught the Kira that killed her dear boyfriend. Just tell her!
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲=== Card Games ===
▲* In a way, the [[Corrupt Church|Orzhov Syndicate]] from ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]''. As expressed in [http://www.magiccards.info/rav/en/108.html this card]'s flavor text:
▲{{quote|"Why limit yourself to mortal law when you can outlive those who enforce it?"}}
=== Tabletop RPG ===
* Crops up in ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' gamelines:
** The [[Masquerade/Quotes|third quote]] for [[Masquerade]] illustrates a problem with this train of thought. That said, vampires in ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' (and most supernaturals, for that matter) can get away with ''a '''lot''''' considering both the [[Crapsack World]] they live in means people just don't care about most crimes, and their Masquerade clean up is top notch. (Provided you have the expertise/pull to have the clean up done for you without getting staked, mind you.)
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