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[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] [[Mooning]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* The second variation is played with in [[Discworld]]'s Small Gods. When the god Om gets his powers back, he and Brutha have a minor disagreement over some new laws. Om comments on how he can simply blast Brutha into a little smear on the floor, and Brutha cheerfully agrees that he could, couldn't he? And how Brutha would have absolutely no way of defending himself, whatsoever. Om grumbles that it's not right for someone to use defenselessness as a defense.
* [http://www.101zenstories.com/index.php?story=44 This Zen parable] - a thief entered the house of a priest who was meditating and threatens him, the priest tells him where the money is, asks him to leave enough for the priest to pay taxes and makes sure the thief thanks him when he leaves. A few days later the thief is arrested, but when the police ask the priest to testify against him, the priest tells them that he gave the thief the money and the thief thanked him. The thief still goes to prison, but when his sentence is over he comes back to learn Zen under the priest.
* Subverted heavily in [[Aesop's Fables|Aesop's fable]] "[[The Farmer and The Viper]]". The titular farmer shows compassion to the snake, but his [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|good deed]] [[Just for Pun|comes back to bite him]]. The moral? [[Family
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* The Risans in ''[[Star Trek]]'' take this to a scary level. Based on one episode of ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', terrorism is apparently okay to them so long as the terrorists are enjoying themselves.
* Byron the leader of the telepath community that moved onto ''[[Babylon 5]]'' used this against a group of anti-telepath bigots, ''asking'' one of them to repeatedly punch him in the face and then asking if it made him feel any better. It unnerved the bigots into leaving.
* Played for laughs in an episode of ''[[
== Music ==
* The protagonist of the Kenny Rogers song "[[The So
== [[Real Life]] ==
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== Western Animation ==
* An episode of ''[[Moral Orel]]'' is titled "Turn the Other Cheek." After listening to a children's song with that title all night, Orel gets it in his head that he should turn the other cheek at every opportunity. The school bully beats Orel repeatedly until his father tells him that he should be doing the exact opposite. [[Hilarity Ensues]] again when Orel preemptively attacks at every possible threat of force, even when his best friend Doughty throws rock in Rock, Paper, Scissors.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has this with [[The Messiah|Aang]] and how he treats the [[Anti
* Parodied in the ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode Rapture's Delight, in which Stan slaps Jesus, turns the other cheek...and is slapped again.
* [[Jem]] often gets called out on this by some fans. Throughout the course of the series, The Misfits have put Jem and the Holograms in situations where where the latter group could have been killed, but Jerrica / Jem never calls the police (she likely had her reasons...).
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