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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Secret Wars]]'', one of Marvel's first [[Crisis Crossover
* A recurring trope for the Thing of the [[Fantastic Four]] — he will constantly threaten, shove around, fight with, and even beat up the Human Torch, but the moment anyone ''else'' lays a finger on him, Ben will exclaim "no one hits Matchstick but me!" and will not stop until the villain has been pummeled thoroughly. Johnny Storm reciprocates similarly — he is constantly making fun of and playing cruel pranks on the Thing while showing little to no sensitivity about his monstrous appearance, but will furiously leap to his defense if anyone ''else'' hurts Ben's feelings.
* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Cain goes absolutely berserk when {{spoiler|The Kindly Ones}} kill Abel. It should be pointed out that Abel dies a lot of times in the series... always killed by Cain, of course.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[Firefly]]'', Mal calls Inara a whore all the time. But he's also the first to defend her if anyone else calls her (or implies she is) a whore. He later states that that while he loathes and insults her job, he's not insulting the woman herself and actively tries to protect her professional reputation (just never to her face). On the other hand, the person who triggered his
* 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.
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