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== Live-Action TV ==

* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', [[The McCoy|McCoy]] is always trying to get an emotional rise out of [[The Spock|Spock]], but in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren," McCoy jumps to Spock's defense when powerful aliens force him to cry and to laugh. And in other episodes he's usually the first to jump to Spock's defense any time ''anyone'' attacks or insults him, possibly because his issues with Spock are more of a giant angry moral debate while other people tend to be full racism.

* Although it's never expressly stated, it's pretty obvious that [[The A-Team|B.A.]] is the only one who's allowed to be mean to Murdock and Face. He frequently verbally abuses them and threatens them with physical violence (Murdock is his main target, but Face gets quite a bit of this too, at times). And then you'll get a scene where the team is facing the [[Villain of the Week|slimeballs of the week;]] Murdock and Face, the physically weaker half of the team, frequently find themselves fighting a [[Mook]] who's too big for them to handle. Cue B.A., who proceeds to knock the sucka's lights out. Five minutes later he's back to insulting Murdock and Face and threatening to beat them up himself. Happens every few episodes.

** "He's the only one who gets to call me that." ''Awwwww.''

*** The easiest way to identify bad guys is that they are people who call him "Sammy." Even [[Satan|Lucifer]] was [[Your Mileage May Vary|somewhat]] sympathetic until he called Sam "Sammy." After that, he had to die.

* In ''[[Glee]]'', Rachel is tricked by her boyfriend Jesse into getting egged by [[Opposing Sports Team|Vocal Adrenaline]] - genuinely upsetting for Rachel, since 1) she's a vegan and 2) Jesse took the opportunity to break up with her. The boys from New Directions immediately mobilise to go kick Vocal Adrenaline's asses - including [[The Rival|Kurt]], who angrily insists that "Rachel is one of us! ''We're'' the only ones who get to humiliate her."

** And then there's the moment when all the Glee guys, even the ones who used to bully Kurt, defends him in front of Karofsky.

* On ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore may hate each other and mess with each other all the time, but woe betide anyone else who tries to hurt or kill the other.

* On ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Michael gets this way when his new girlfriend/PR manager insults the other Bluths. Subverted in that he only defends her until [[Papa Wolf|she picks on his son]], at which point he leaves her at the mercy of his sister and his mother.

* ''[[Black Books]]'' has a half-dying Bernard (having had to look after himself for a whole day) snap out of it when he hears that Manny is being bullied by his new boss. "[[Who Dares?|How]] ''[[Who Dares?|DARE]]'' [[Who Dares?|you?]] Don't you touch a hair on that boy's head! Have you no respect? He's mine! Get your ''own'' human plaything, you quartz-brained little cream puff!"

* On ''[[Home Improvement]]'', Brad and Randy say that anyone who calls Mark a dork for wearing glasses will have to answer to them, because they are the only ones allowed to call him a dork.

* While [[Frasier]] Crane will happily mock, belittle and humiliate his little brother Niles all day long, he hates Niles's wife Maris with a burning passion because of ''her'' abusive treatment of her husband. Occasionally expressed by Frasier [[Hypocritical Humor|encouraging Niles to stand up for himself, and then yelling at him and bossing him around while telling him precisely how to do so.]]

* In the pilot episode of ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'', the fiery, sarcastic Detective Sergeant Havers - who doesn't even ''[[Fire-Forged Friends|like]]'' her partner DI Lynley at this point - immediately takes offense at the accusations leveled against him by an old partner of Lynley's, with whom he had parted on rather unfriendly terms. And she does this while conveniently ignoring the fact that, just hours earlier, she had been levelling those same accusations at him! This is an excellent indicator of their future relationship.

* Leverage features this with [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] Eliot and Hardison. When the [[Villain of the Week]] tries to throw Hardison off the roof:

{{quote|'''Eliot:''' Nobody throws Hardison off a roof. Except maybe me. }}