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** In one Sprite commercial, a mom takes out some [[Bland-Name Product|Sun Fizz]] to give to her children. The sun logo comes to life to sing the drink's praises. The mom and kids respond by doing what a real life mom and kids would do: freak out and run away, screaming. This troper recalls that commercial winning some kind of award.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpReQprVjag One depressing European ad against child abuse] had a man [[Amusing Injuries|beating a cartoon kid]] for a while before cutting to a real, unconscious kid on the floor and the legend "Real children don't bounce back".
== Anime and Manga ==
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* In episode in [[Soul Eater]] where Death the Kid first starts attending the DWMA, [[Large Ham|Black Star]] climbs up near the top of the academy building to deliver a [[Badass Boast]] to Kid...who's standing near the front entrance and can't hear a word he's saying because he's so far away.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'': Pretty much the entire first season was spent establishing [[Lightning Bruiser|The Major]] as a nigh-unstoppable badass, so, when she picks a fight with Gayle and his [[Powered Armor|military mech suit]] while armed with nothing but a pistol, you'd expect her to win handily. She does not. In point of fact, she gets outright [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomped]] until Saito shows up with his [[BFG|anti-tank rifle]]. [[Rock Beats Laser]] clearly does not work in that universe.
== Comic Books ==
* This trope could be called "The ''[[Kick-Ass]]'' Principle", too. Seriously, read the whole damn thing. It subverts almost every and all superhero trends, and replaces it all with how it would work being a hero in real life. It's painful to watch it.
** Until an 11
* A common situation with superheroes since the end of the [[Silver Age]]. And it has resulted in some great stories, but fails in others. The problem being that [[Necessary Weasel|some of the basic tenets of superheroes have to be kept in order for the genre to work]].
* This is probably one of [[Garth Ennis]]'s favorite tropes, and is probably the reason why he has such a devoted [[Hatedom]] among certain hardcore superhero fans.
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* In the Zatara story found in the original [[Action Comics|Action Comics #33]], a villain attempts to steal a platinum idol so that he can sell it and become rich. More then one person notes that putting the statue on the market would cause the price of platinum to plummet.
▲== Fan Fic ==
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic ''The Night Of Days'' (in which [[WW 2|American Airborne troops and German defenders are teleported from Normandy]] into Equestria by a reincarnation of [[Bigger Bad|Nightmare Moon]]) has her luring scattered German soldiers to her castle ruins, where she then tries to manipulate them and gradually take them over, in order to make them fight for her and put her on the Equestrian throne. The German commanding officer is... [[Shut UP, Hannibal|not amused]]. He nods at first, [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|but then he pulls out his sidearm]] and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|nonchalantly guns her down, injuring her severely]]. Then he declares that the soldiers under his command would be serving no one but "Führer and Vaterland" and leads them on a campaign to [[Day of the Jackboot|colonise Equestrian territory]] for [[Nazi Germany]].
** [[Word of God]] says that he wanted to avert exactly what another fanfic he once read did; having the Germans comply with Nightmare Moon without as much as a question. He said he disliked it exactly because it would have been completely unrealistic.
* The ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1518794/1/The_Game_of_the_Gods The Game Of The Gods]'' is ''thirty-three'' instances of this. Morgoth fashions [[Mary Sue]] after Mary Sue; Varda carefully imposes reality and lets their own impossibility do them in. [[Just for Pun|Reality Ends Sues]]?
* In ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', reality doesn't so much ensue as it ambushes you in an alley, beats you over the head with a lead pipe, and then rifles through your pockets for [[Anyone Can Die|more characters to viciously and mercilessly kill]].
** It's worth pointing out that the most noble and heroic death thus far (
* The ''[[Firefly]]'' fic ''[[Forward]]'' has River facing off against a rival pirate crew's [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]. The battle begins with them sizing each other up, and with the martial artist declaring River as a [[Worthy Opponent]], who might be able to truly test his skills, and he rushes at her with his bo staff. {{spoiler|River shoots him twice in the head. Then she demands chocolate.}}
** Later on, River is facing a group of vengeful pirates. She's on the ground, and they're in their ship. She starts running for cover behind some boulders where they can't shoot her, only to get hit by the backwash of their engines and get thrown into said boulders, breaking her legs and back.
* Like the Fic above, a very old Latin Fanfic called
* Frequently [[Played With]] in ''[[Hunting the Unicorn]]'' -- [[Troperiffic|lots of tropes]] show up naturally, but everyone who ''actively tries'' to [[Invoked Trope|invoke a trope]] will end up just failing at best, or running into [[Deconstruction|consequences]] at worst. Most notable is {{spoiler|Blaine}}'s past attempt to invoke ''[[Sex Equals Love]]'', which... [[Break the Cutie|didn't work.]]▼
▲* Like the Fic above, a very old Latin Fanfic called "Strata" [[Lost Forever|(deleted since 2003)]] had this premise with a Ranma 1/2-[[Sailor Moon]] crossover. An elite army of very [[Genre Savvy]] [[Military Science Fiction|black ops]] end in their Universe and by a series of hi-jinks ended [[Kill Them All|targeting martial artists]] for the government agency. They break [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|every]] [[Killed Mid-Sentence|loophole]] in battle, using [[Combat Pragmatist|ambushes, snipers]], heavy weapons, reinforced vehicles and even bioweapons, mowing down and nearly killing the main characters. It doesn't get ''truly'' brutal until Kuno gets shot in the middle of his rambling. {{spoiler|He [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|deftly avoids it and brutally beats the entire team to within an inch of their lives]] [[Punctuated Pounding|while explaining that]], [[Reality Is Unrealistic|shockingly, the fact that he was talking doesn't make him blind, deaf, or stupid; and that he's a not worthless opponent just because he doesn't use a gun or have military training]]. Then he congratulates them for pissing off every single fighter on the planet and making ''very'' sure that no rules will ever apply to the black ops.}} [[Deconstruction|It]] [[Kill Them All|gets very]] [[Wrong Genre Savvy|dark]] from there, very fast. {{spoiler|The people of the "unreal" universe show the "professionals" how and why they were feared in their world. (What [[Deadly Dodging|Mars does]] to the [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|sniper ambush]] and Mercury's house defense are [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|undiluted awesomeness]]) and Saffron's revenge... holy crap. }} In the end... the world didn't change all that much, except for a Footnote of some insane assholes from a silly dimension in the Saotome scrolls.
** Another case is where Blaine hits his head and the [[Easy Amnesia]]
▲* Frequently [[Played With]] in ''[[Hunting the Unicorn]]''--[[Troperiffic|lots of tropes]] show up naturally, but everyone who ''actively tries'' to [[Invoked Trope|invoke a trope]] will end up just failing at best, or running into [[Deconstruction|consequences]] at worst. Most notable is {{spoiler|Blaine}}'s past attempt to invoke ''[[Sex Equals Love]]'', which... [[Break the Cutie|didn't work.]]
▲** Another case is where Blaine hits his head and the [[Easy Amnesia]] / [[Tap on the Head]] tropes are ''very'' much averted.
* Played with, though also straight, in the ''[[1983 Doomsday Stories]],'' which has Austria hoping against hope that Hungary survived [[Apocalypse How|Doomsday]]. {{spoiler|She doesn't}}. Though it doesn't stop {{spoiler|her}} from looking after him even after death.
* Subverted in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5659618/1/Mikami_VS_The_Cybermen_A_Tale_Most_Epic Mikami Vs. the Cybermen]''. After eight days straight of writing, he mentions how surprised he is that he hasn't run out of ink. {{spoiler|[[Double Subverted]] right afterwards, when he dies of thirst.}}
* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8065617/1/ Markings of The Mind]'' [[Teen Genius]] Light Yagami is placed in solitary confinement for fifty days... [[Sanity Slippage|and goes stark raving mad.]]
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