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== Action Adventure ==
* The NES ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' game lowers your health by one hit point each time you shoot an unarmed enemy.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'':
** Attacking Cuccos (and sometimes other animals, such as the pigs in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'') results in them fighting back ''in swarms''. Endless, '''invincible''' swarms. The [[Fan Nickname]] for this is the "Cucco Revenge Squad."
** In the battle mode of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures]]'', this is actually a sneaky tactic—Attack a Cucco inside a building enough times and a swarm of them will appear and attack your pals, since they do not attack anyone inside buildings, you're safe!
** There's an interesting variation on this in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]'', where you temporarily control the Cucco you've been attacking.
** There's also a bird selling red
:* Spoofed in [http://www.dorkly.com/video/18879/dorkly-bits-link-to-the-past-with-a-portal-gun this Dorkly Bits parody] of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]]''. Link, having acquired a ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' gun, uses the Cuccos to ''kill Ganon''.
▲There's also a bird selling red potion and lantern oil in the forest just before the forest temple in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]''. You pay by dropping rupees into a box, but nothing stops you from just walking out without paying a single rupee. However, doing so causes the bird to violently attack you any time you try to go shopping again. Doesn't seem that bad, until you're in desperate need of that red potion or lamp oil...[[Subverted Trope|Subverted,]] however, in that you can put in just one rupee and the only negative reaction you'll get is the bird telling you not to be so cheap; you can get away with this as many times as you like.
:* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'' you can attack Zelda with various items while she's possessing a phantom. If you hit her too many times the red haze and [[Sound-Coded for Your Convenience|"you've been spotted by a phantom" music]] will play, and she'll attack back. Bonus points if her attack sends you flying into a [[Bottomless Pit]] or [[Lava Pit|pool of lava]]. That's what you get for messing with a Type B [[Tsundere]], Link.
▲*** In the DX (color) version, the photographer will actually snap a commemorative photo, too.
▲** An interesting inversion to this trope exists in ''Twilight Princess'', where you can enter Hyrule Castle Town's market in wolf form and intentionally scare the local populace. Appears to be played straight with the guards coming to take care of you, but they are all too petrified to even attempt to attack you, and if you try to scare them even more, they run away while dropping various useful items, like rupees and similar stuff. It is odd seeing that attacking chickens/Cuccos traditionally gets you punished in the series, while [[The Joys of Torturing Mooks|terrorizing the capital city of Hyrule is]] ''[[The Joys of Torturing Mooks|rewarding]]''.
▲** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|Oracle of Seasons]]'', after defeating the King Moblin, you find him in a house in Sunken City, crafting bombs. You can throw a lit bomb into his stockpile, then flee the house and watch it blow up with him inside of it. Try this repeatedly, and the third time he catches you and [[Nonstandard Game Over|traps you inside the house when it blows]].
* In the NES game ''[[Nightshade]]'', you are a [[Superhero]]. You gain reputation for defeating [[mook]]s, and the more reputation you have, the more people will help you. Very high reputation yields such rewards as a healing booth (which you ''[[Nintendo Hard|will]]'' need). Attacking someone defenseless, however, causes your reputation to take a nose dive.
* ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' lets you fire on friendly boats and airships from your hovercraft. However, if you keep shooting at them, they'll eventually call the police on you, who will fine you. Some [[NPC]] ships are quicker to phone the cops than others... And if you maneuver quickly, you can actually ''avoid'' the police!
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* In ''[[Tomb Raider]] II'', attacking the Tibetan warrior monks in the Barkhang Monastery will result in ''every single monk in the entire level'' going for Lara's blood - and it can be easily done if the player is simply trying to help the monks out in their fights against [[Big Bad|Bartoli's]] [[mook]]s and accidentally target a monk instead of a gunman. They aren't hard to kill, but since there's so many of them it can be easy to become overpowered.
* Sort of a minor one in the [[Nintendo DS]] version of ''Lego Batman'': Once you unlock Alfred as a character, he'll usually be peaceably standing around as an NPC in the batcave. You can attack him, but once you do, he'll come after you with a bat.
== Action Game ==
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