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Note this doesn't count if the people you tease laugh with you. That isn't mocking; it's just having fun.
 
Compare [[Death Byby Sex]], [[Death Byby Materialism]], and [[Death Byby Genre Savviness]]. See also [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]
 
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Anaconda (Film)|Anacondas]]: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'', the characters are wading through a river. One guy keeps humming the ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'' theme. A girl keeps telling him to stop (instead of just punching him in the face). He's one of the first victims.
** Mildly subverted later when another character is taunting a freshly killed anaconda snake, only to be grabbed by another. Unlike the previous victim, the other characters manage to save him from death at the last minute.
* An aversion occurs in ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream]]''. Two guys pretend to be the killer in school. They don't get killed for this joke, probably because the principal who punished them (and who gets killed later) was even more obnoxious.
* In a recent ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]''/''[[Piranha (Film)|Piranha]]'' knockoff (not ''[[Deep Blue Sea (Film)|Deep Blue Sea]]''), some girls are sneaking into a closed beach. The fence is electric, and one of the girls tests it. It's off, but she acts as though she's getting electrocuted anyway. She gets eaten.
** ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' has a similar scene, but the victims laugh at that (well, one of them does), so the joker lives to the end (and even through the second sequel).
*** ''Lost World: [[Jurassic Park]]'' had a guy who taunted a Compsognathus later get eaten by a pack of them, however.
* Averted in the second ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]]'' movie. Right before Jason really gets started building up his body count, half the characters go into town to go drinking and essentially leave the movie. The practical joker (Ted) goes with them, and survives to the end credits. However, the joker character does indeed go down in parts 1 (Ned), 3 (Shelly), 4 (Teddy), 6 (Cort), 7 (Carrie-esque [[Rich Bitch]] Melissa), and 8 (Julius).
* ''[[Carrie]]'' was [[Beware the Nice Ones|pushed over the edge]] by a particularly malicious prank that was the culmination of all the nasty teasing, taunting, humiliation and pranking done to her by the girls in school. She proceeds to kill just about everyone at the prom before taking her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] elsewhere.
* Spoofed in ''[[Scary Movie]]'', and later in the third film when Brenda pranks Cindy by saying she watched the killer videotape, and then pretending deaths... and as Cindy is out of the room, "Samara" comes out of the television and kills Brenda (specially because Cindy [[Crying Wolf|wasn't believing her cries anymore]]).
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* Nearly happens to Mortimer Brewster in ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'', as he's spent a good deal of the first act mocking his [[Cain and Abel|older brother]] Jonathan, who of course later shows up and turns out to be an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Serial Killer]] who fully intends to make Mortimer his next victim.
* Averted in ''[[Tremors]]'', where Melvin the prankster manages to survive to the end of the film.
* In ''[[Freddy VSvs. Jason]],'' Kia tries to show she's not afraid of Freddy by mocking him to his face. Jason chops her in half from behind.
** A pair of ravers meeting Jason for the first time mock him. [[Too Dumb to Live|This does not end well.]]
* Anybody who mocks Michael Myers in the ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]'' remake doesn't last very long.
* ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'': "They're coming to get you Barbara . . ."
 
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