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What was that? I can't- BLAFGH!
That sound you just heard is what happens when a character who is assumed to be weak and helpless compared to their stronger counterparts in a setting won't give in. Yes, narrative convention assumes that they will fail to successfully resist, but to hell with that. [[Defiant to
When successful, this usually results in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. When unsuccessful, it can lead to either some talk about [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|the reason why you suck]], [[It Got Worse|things getting worse]], or [[Downer Ending|tragic results]]. Spoilers abound.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Prehaps the darkest and most disturbing example in recent manga the protagonist Ryo Narushima from ''Shamo'' He begins the series by murdering both of his parrents with a knife because he felt their overbearingness would kill him soon. And then proceedes to get much much worse. No seriously
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''. When Rachel responds to the Joker's threats via a [[Groin Attack]], this actually makes things worse- now, instead of being a random damsel, she's an ''interesting'' damsel worthy of being involved in plans far more dangerous than establishing Joker's villain cred.
* ''[[Street Fighter (
{{quote| '''''Chun Li''': [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|That's exactly what I wanted you to think.]] '''YA-TAI!''' *[[Breaking the Bonds|snaps wrist bonds]] and kicks Bison out of his chair*''}}
* In the Japanese live action version of the manga ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'', the heroine, Makino Tsukushi, delivers a solid punch to the jaw of Domyouji Tsukasa, the spoiled, sadistic BMOC of Eitoku High School and its clique of ultra-rich hot guys, The Flower Four. No one dares to cross the F4 for fear of retaliation, but Tsukushi -- who the F4, particularly Domyouji, have been picking on mercilessly for weeks -- refuses to play the victim anymore and declares war. This could be considered a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], except it happens so early in the story that there is much more awesome to follow!
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In ''Tereza Batista'', the titular heroine is sold at the age of thirteen to be a sex slave to a captain. Rather than submitting to her fate as a victim, she viciously thrashes, bites, and attacks her subduer for several pages before finally being forced to submit. After the [[Time Skip]] -- {{spoiler|when he catches her in bed with a lover, and the lover cowers realizing what the captain's about to do to him, Tereza immediately takes advantage of the captain's turned back to stab him. This shocks the captain as he lies dying, since his slaves aren't supposed to have the willpower to think they can actually kill him once they've been broken}}.
* Some of the victims on ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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