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* Pop quiz: You're an old guy who just got out of the hospital for a heart attack. You go to a diner for some grub and get harassed by knife-wielding delinquents. What do you do? Well, if you're [[Secondhand Lions|Hub McCann]], you start teaching them proper knife-handling technique before they cut their own fingers off...
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* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|The Chamber of Secrets]]'', Ron, Fred and George steal their dad's car to rescue Harry. After flying the car back to The Burrow, their mother is livid. Their father, however... "Really? How'd it go?"
** And in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Order of the Phoenix]]'', a certain professor states to Peeves the Poltergeist, who is attempting to [[Falling Chandelier of Doom|unscrew a chandelier from the ceiling]], how best to make harm for [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|their mutual enemy]]:
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* ''[[The Redemption of Althalus]]'': after Dweia shows the assembled group examples of what has been happening in Perquaine (noblemen and priests collaborating to do whatever they want, which includes raping peasant women and seizing a well belonging to a peasant village so a nobleman can grow crops and throw the peasants out), someone asks why they're interfering in the rebellion, as it looks to be long overdue, and Dweia responds that the wrong people are leading the rebellion.
* In [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey|Strong Poison]]'', Bill Rumm is a thoroughly reformed cracksman. But he still can admire a good job and disapproves of dynamiting open safes.
* [[Discworld]]:
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{{quote|"What was wrong with a simple cosh? Or even a hammer? I could have provided one if asked."}}
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* When ''[[Phule's Company]]'' started, Sushi was extremely annoyed by Do-Wop, whom he called "petty thief" in his face. Do-Wop didn't notice which word was emphasized until it was pointed out to him directly, along with the minimum prize value Sushi (a former white-collar criminal) considered worth any risk at all.
{{quote|'''Phule:''' If I understand you correctly, Sushi, your objection to Do-Wop is not the fact that he steals, but rather ''the scale'' he operates on.}}
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* In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' after Time of Troubles people soon began to [https://web.archive.org/web/20161101215335/http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=fr%2Ffx20010403m compare] followers of [[It's All About Me|Cyric]] with those of [[Evil Overlord|Bane]]... and note that there's a right way and a wrong way of running your [[Religion of Evil]].
{{quote|Gossip (which travels swiftly to Cyricist ears) includes reminiscences about the "good old dark days" when the Banites up at The Dark Lord’s Hand, as the temple was then known, "really knew how to be proper tyrants... not clumsy brutes, like this lot. Silken menace, and not shouting and the clumsy bludgeon." }}
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{{quote|'''Dr. Tenenbaum (audio diary):''' 'Well,' I said, 'if you're going to do such things, at least you should do them properly.'}}
* Happens regularly in ''[[EVE Online]]'': Player thieves, spies and saboteurs are frequently chastised for either using [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Paper Thin Disguises]] or blowing their covers too early.
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