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* [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel ''[[Splinter of the Minds Eye]]''. Captain-Supervisor Grammel insults the Yuzzem by saying that they stink. One of the Yuzzem retaliates by spitting a blob of saliva and hitting him on the back of the neck. Later, when Leia takes up Luke's lightsaber to fight {{spoiler|''Darth Vader'' - yes, she is a [[Badass]]}}, and he laughs at her, she spits at him.

** In [[X Wing Series|Solo Command]], a captured enemy scientist spits on Nawara Ven, who takes it in stride. It's rather satisfying; she's got a serious case of [[Fantastic Racism]], and he's a nonhuman who's been bearing up calmly under it for half the book.

* Used and subverted in ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]''. On one hand, Kel needs to find a gesture to show the Chamber that it won't break her with its nightmarish visions. On the other, it's later "an offering of herself" to appease any restless ghosts.

* In ''[[Les Misérables (novel)|Les Misérables]]'', Fantine, fallen as low as she can get (a whore, sick with tuberculosis, and arrested for attacking a bourgeois) spits in the face of the mayor, because his strict laws about moral conduct were what drove her to her state. The mayor, being [[The Messiah]], forgives her for it almost at once.

* ''[[Angel]]'': While on the receiving end of a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]], Faith [[Defiant to the End|hocks a loogie of]] [[Blood From the Mouth|her own blood]] in The Beast's face.

** Also, the [[Catch Phrase]] of the head of the Italian branch of Wolfram & Hart:

* And a similar example on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Willow almost manages to kill Glory. After she's used up all her magic and it looks like Glory will squash her like a bug, Willow spits in her face. Did I mention that Glory is a ''god''?

** When [[Grand Theft Me|Buffy is in Faith's body]] in "Who Are You?", a member of the Watcher's Council spec ops team spits in her face, and Buffy starts to understand where Faith's me-against-the-world attitude comes from.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Shrek]]'', the Gingerbread Man spits in Lord Farquad's face during his interrogation.

'''Gingerbread Man''': [[Unhand Them, Villain!|Eat me!]] (spits) }}

* In Disney's version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', Esmeralda spits on Frollo's face. She does this while tied to a stake, ready to be [[Burn the Witch|burned]], and this is her answer to Frollo's proposal that she be released in exchange for being "his".