My brother once spat in my just opened bottle of sarsaparilla. When I was done drinking he laughed his ass off and told me he'd spat in it. Later that day, when he grabbed his cup to rinse out his mouth while brushing his teeth, he got a mouthful of what he at first thought was water, but turned out to have a much higher urine content. He also had his pillow spat in (below the cover, so it wasn't as obvious) for a whole month. It's been around seven years since then, and to the extent of my knowledge he's yet to spit in another drink of mine, and to the extent of his knowledge I've yet to piss in a drink of his.

ThisTroper's father just stabbed him in the forehead with a fork for supposedly using derivative (as in a show is too derivative) incorrectly. ThisTroper's father didn't even apologize.

This Troper can be a Complete Monster when playing video games. In games when team killing is possible, I've been known to kill my own allies when they kill an enemy I wanted to kill.

People like you are why we cannot have nice things.

When this troper's sister stayed at an MIT frat house to complete a summer internship at Harvard, the fratboys there often stole her bags of cherries, one of her {{Trademark Favorite Food}}s. Keep in mind that these 1-pound bags of cherries only cost $5 a bag. Eventually she got so fed up with their continually stealing her cherries (and trashing her living quarters with their parties) that she stole a $60 bottle of Drambuie alcohol from their pantry to take home as a souvenir.

An Internship often lasts for at the very least a month. If they were continually stealing her cherries, and she always bought more, it's entirely possible she wound up paying more than $60. ... Also, what kind of crazy frat has expensive alcohol?

This troper likes to get horrible revenge on her Sims if they do something she doesn't like. One sim got killed for kicking over someone's garbage.

You too, huh?

In my game, I made it a crime to ''use Love Potion #8.5 as it was an illegal drug...'' Penalty: Execution by firing squad. Here's some crimes and punishments:

''Vampirism:'' Execution by fire

''Public WooHoo (Disturbing public decency):'' Life stage imprisonment for both parties

''Attacking emergency personnel:'' Life or execution for army and federal agents, TWO life stages for firefighters and police

''Refusal to pay bills:'' Repossession and life stage ban on owning a house (Implementing this for when I get Apartment Life)

''Possession and/or use of Love Potion, Vamprocillin-D or Magical Powers:'' Execution for Love Potion and Vamprocillin-D, life in prison for Magic Powers (AL)

This troper once killed a Nanny for causing a potty trained toddler to wet himself.

This Troper does that too!

When this troper is playing Medieval II: {{Total War}}, on his first playthrough, he kept being attacked by several factions. We'd have a war for a while, then ask for a ceasefire. Eventually it got so annoying that I went all Reaper on them. No offers of ceasefires, just CONQUERCONQUERCONQUER.

This troper's ex-dad used to ground me from the Internet for a couple of weeks whenever I don't get to drink eight glasses of water a day. -o-

That ranks up there with the time my dad grounded me for arguing with him. Okay, but guess what it was about. I commented that once I had a case of E. coli when I was around six. My dad argued that I never did. Cue the grounding when I insisted. week later my dad said, very casually over the breakfast table that he did, in fact, remember the time I had E. coli. Was there an apology for the now-useless grounding? Of course there wasn't.

That fucking blows. I think you should show your father this page and gently ask him to apologize or this troper might just FIND OUT WHERE EXACTLY HE LIVES AND CHASE HIM WITH A DVD OF THE {{GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE}} WHILE DRESSED UP AS JASON VORHEES.

This troper was born male, and was sentenced a year's full-time community service for the "crime".

I'm presuming this has something to do with conscription?

This troper sometimes employed this. Although once it was perfectly justified: discussing with an enemy, he called me his friend. Threw my case, missed. Threw my notebook, right in his face! (and I didn't even think before attacking, it was practically reflex.) For a case he once saw, a guy (brother of a classmate) said to a classmate something bad about his girlfriend. The classmate replied by punching him hard enough for his mouth to bleed and require stitches!

I added Mr. Krabs to the CompleteMonster page once. They deleted it, flipped me off, started saying I don't understand the trope and just read the name of it, went against this entry, became rude to me, and banned me for a day.

They e-flipped you off? Deleting it and saying you did not understand the trope are quite called for, as the first two criteria (if not the others) of CompleteMonster are in stark contrast to the style of villainy of Mr. Krabs. Banning you for a day might have been taking it a bit far, but users who seem not to know what they are doing should not be editing until they have a better idea of it, and temporarily banning users who so evidently misinterpret the CompleteMonster trope might seem to be a good way to help clean up the trope. As for rudeness, it depends on what the extent of the rudeness was...

This Troper once unleashed a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on a guy twice her size. His crime? Insulting her favourite film, and her favourite character in said film. Granted, he was doing this ad nauseum, but still. Needless to say, he never wanted to be within a five mile radius of her again.

This troper spent about 15 minutes using the computer at my youth centre, putting up with a jerkass poking me with a pool cue every minute. On my way out I flipped him off, causing him to follow me down the street and into a shopping arcade, where he beat me to the floor and started kicking me.

This troper roleplays in CityOfHeroes, with a character that's a known fan of Disproportionate Retribution. Such crimes include dealing with his childhood bully by lacing his food with a high-powered explosive, killing an ex-girlfriend for just generally not being very bright (to be fair, there is something of a FreudianExcuse going with those two - he attributes the fatal flaw of everybody who wronged him being lack of intelligence, and believes the world needs to be smarter by any means necessary), and delivering a fatal dose of electricity to a woman who dared interrupt his phone call. This does have a negative side-effect, however, in that when he's actually fair about something (YourMileageMayVary, but I think trying to kill your murderer after you get better is proportionate) he's still considered to be taking it too far.

Understandable, but shouldn't that character be a villain in that game?

Yeah, he should definitely be a villain. There '''is''' ''City of Villains'', you know.

This troper has a twin brother which his friends often confuse for the other. In one incident in the locker room, he called him a "stupid motherfucking KKK racist bastard" and swore he would do his best to make sure the poor dipshit would fail at everything he tried.

In Command & Conquer: Generals, this troper's computer opponent made the mistake of hitting his trade center with an aurora-strike. In retaliation, I hit his base with 37 SCUD Storms loaded with Anthrax gamma, obliterating it in the blink of an eye.

At the [=McDonald's=] where this troper works, as we were going through the breakfast rush, we saw a guy run into our parking lot, followed quickly by five police cars and an animal control car from the opposite entrance. A man built like a linebacker leapt out of the animal control car and tackled the running guy and, apparently, they hit the ground so hard the running guy needed some [=EMTs=] to look at his head before the cops threw him in the back of one of their cars. So, what had this guy done? Well, he had robbed the store that was literally across the street from the police station. What did he take? A couple cartons of cigarettes. Do ''not'' steal cigarettes in my city, the law will find you and make you ''pay''.

Like most people here, I can only come up with a video game example, but here it is. I was playing the Empire in StarWars: Empire At War: Forces Of Corruption. The Rebels had just committed a few small harassing attacks on my planets which eventually annoyed me so much that I built a Death Star and blew every single one of their planets to bits. ''Burn in hell, Rebel scum!''

This troper has one which I would have put in berserk button, but that is blocked, but it still kinda falls into here. After a long week of being sick as a dog, and because of that being off work, and because of that being conscripted by his father into helping move house. I finally get home tired and all I want to do is sit back, relax, and watch some {{One Piece}} on my computer before having to go to work the next day, and guess what? I turn on my computer and find that it has been messed with. My friends had put a {{squick}}-inducing background and played with it so that it restarted every minute and opened all of my games at once. I was so pissed that I kicked over my chair; I knew it was a prank, but wasn't in the mood. Knowing nothing of how to fix it, I woke up my hungover flat mate, who did something to stop it. It wasn't until later that my other flatmate walks in with a smug grin saying: #QUOTE#Flat Mate; "so did you find something wrong with your computer?" #QUOTE#Me: "is it alright if I punch you now?" #QUOTE#Flat Mate; "no because you punch hard."

I did it anyway; punching my flat mate so hard in the arm that the he almost cried and had a huge bruise which ached for two weeks afterwards. It was not until later that I found out the flat mate hadn't had much to do with the sabotage at all and the rest of my mates (the ones actually involved) had yet to have disproportionate retribution dealt to them, they will have it soon or later and I will make sure to post it on here.

This troper says the Above Troper's flatmate had it coming - if someone messed with this troper's computer like that though, he would at the least dealt a GroinAttack or two on the culprit...

I've noticed that the AI in ''Left4Dead'' loves dishing this out upon me and my teammates if we ever let it be known that we're fed up with their mind-numbing stupidity. The most recent example is from a singleplayer session - Charger hits me on a stairwell, Coach pisses off a Witch and gets himself killed while trying to help, and Rochelle gets hit by a Smoker. What does Ellis do? Stand completely still and do nothing. I ended up having to use the console to kick all the Special Infected involved, plus Ellis. What do I get for removing Ellis? Dozens of Witches, thousands of Chargers, and billions of zombies from that point to the end of the map.

This troper had an infected toe. {{Squick}}, I know. Standing on said toe was a serious {{Berserk Button}} for him at the time. One time at a prize-giving ceremony for the school, a fellow classmate (read {{Jerkass}}) walked backwards and stood on the toe by accident. This troper politely shoved the classmate and told him to "Not stand on my toe!". The {{Jerkass}} shoved this troper back saying "It was a f**king accident!". The classmate then crossed the {{Moral Event Horizon}} by attempting to stand on the toe for the rest of the day.

Three examples for this troper:

Do something as minor as not stopping to do something when I ask can net you a screaming ball of fury trying to claw your eyes out and aim for your throat. I have gotten a lot better about that, but there are still occasions (e.g. Once, I was high strung and instead of going to cool off, I went to line up for lunch. A person commented on me budging, if I recall, and I replied by biting their arm and attacking them. There is a reason I take medication.)

Total Annihilation Kingdoms example. Once, I was playing, and kept getting pounded. I eventually staved off the attack and even stole one of their mages for building. Cue me making three of the four (one of the races wasn't on the map) race dragons and a huge army of drakes that razed everything in their path. Did I just send them to the base? No. I selected all of them and had them attack one target at a time, then let them scatter (in groups of 10-15) to destroy any stragglers. THEN I finished the mission objective.

Pokemon. In Pearl, Cynthia beat me. I kept trying (by resetting) until I saw the last Pokemon I needed to see to get the National Dex. Cue me using the Pal Park to transfer over a team of level 100s, followed by me completely destroying the Elite 4 in one run through.

A guy I know had people get him and this other guy mixed up because they looked alike or something. The guy got tired of it, misquoted what he said about a video game making it sound like a death threat, and got him kicked out of school.

This Troper was de facto expelled from school, and barred from participating in any school activities, even his own graduation. After he used pepper spray on a student who ''attacked him'' in a position that could have caused asphyxiation if prolonged. This Troper's act of self defense qualified as "Assault" (A police officer even implying that I could be charged with "Assault with a Caustic Chemical). Meanwhile, the offending student was let off with a slap on the wrist. My therapist implied that this overwhelming reaction was because they feared I would become a school shooter.

Once, this troper was suspended from school. For being choked by another kid. At least he got suspended too.

Am I correct in assuming this other student was female?

I have a humorous case of this and a not so humorous case: Let's go with the unhumorous case first. This troper has held this grudge against this girl for the following "crimes": 1) Acting attentive in one class and then being all spacey in another (seriously, what the hell?) 2) Wearing her shirt too low. She told her to pull it up and her friend said "Shut up Troper." She then did a presentation on women's rights in history. A tad hypocritical? Maybe if you're that picky about crap. 3) Wearing bunny ears with another girl to school on dress up day at school. 4)Happening to get the attractive history this troper wanted in tenth grade (this troper and her already had him the year before and developed a crush on him). 5) Accused of being dispespectful by playing with her nails (if you've gotten this far, commence either laughing or banging your head against a wall) which made this troper want to call her out for reasons 2 and 3. 6) She happened to be a cheerleader. Put reasons 2, 3, 4, and 6 and you could tell that this troper is a BIT of a {{Yandere}}, a ClingyJealousGirl, and an ass. Wow. That's sad.

On a humorous note, there was this time where my friend (jokingly) said that his father owed him a car FOR EATING ONE OF HIS COOKIES. I even pointed this out by saying this trope name.

This troper consistently insults and yells when his computer doesn't work. He's flicked it off, and one nearly punched it for not doing a search on DeviantART. Also, once shouted "bite me" at his mother when she asked me if I just woke up. Went to anger management, and now he's better.

Also, once some kid was calling me fat, or something to that affect, so I punched him. He starts trying to choke me, shouting "I'll kill you!" Later, he apologized, and I've never seen him again.

This troper once accidentally ate his sister's dessert. Her response? Ran at him with a hurl (like a hockey stick, except really f***ing heavy).

This troper made an excellently humorous status update on Facebook, only for one of his friends to point out the joke. This troper proceeded to link that friend to DontExplainTheJoke, thus exposing him to TV Tropes and sucking him in for the rest of his life.

This Troper had a job in a factory for a couple months, when one time he was told he was coming back from break late too many times. I quickly apologized to my supervisor, promised it wouldn't happen again, and suggested they dock my pay as punishment. The supervisor looked at me like I had just personally insulted her infant son and walked away. I quickly forgot about it and went back to work. No more than fifteen minutes later, the head honcho comes up to me and pulls me aside. He yells at me for being late so many times, for "getting snippy" with my supervisor, mentions how much said supervisor, and him for that matter don't like me, and immediately terminates my contract. He tells me to hand over my card and, "Get the fuck out of here." He follows me until I leave the factory and proceeds to inform me that I am now barred from ever coming on the premises again. Makes it kind of a pain since this Troper's friend also works there and carpools with him.

This troper's high school teacher arranged a student-teacher-parent conference over {{Pokemon}} fanart, but turned a completely blind eye to some of the male students laughing and hooting at the explosions during the 9/11 Twin Towers attack.

There was a bully at school who decided to beat up one of this troper's friends. Me and another mate cornered the said bully, kicked him in the nuts, and give him a beating twice as bad as the one he gave my friend.

I believe You're looking for the ''{{LaserGuidedKarma}}'' section as well as ''{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}}''

This troper was once picked on a bit in middle school by one guy on the hockey team, and picked on worse by the people said guy from the hockey team associated with. One day, when said guy got into a spleen-rupturing accident on the hockey rink, he ended up hospitalized for a while, and when said guy came back I said "I'd frankly have been happier if you died in the hospital" to him. I didn't quite mean it, and I later apologized, but the point is that the reason I said it to him was because it was something I thought he deserved to hear.

This troper once saw a pay toilet (the kind with horrific hygiene and buckets for flushing, not the kind that you put a coin into and cleans itself automatically) guarded by a cop wielding a Norinco Type 56 assault rifle. I wish I could make this up.

This troper would like to share a recent news story with you all and it goes a little something like this: A man at a party was extremely intoxicated and farting uncontrollably. Fellow partygoers proceeded to deride his flatulent state. Offended, he leaves the party and all goes back to normal. Forty-five minutes later, he returns with three knives and proceeds to start stabbing everything in sight. Four people are hospitalized, one of whom dies from his injuries. No, I'm really not kidding.

This Troper is pretty mellow now, but trust me, I was one heck of a BullyHunter in my youth. In first grade, I made the schoolyard bully scared stiff of me by repeatedly hunting him down and punching his lights out. This got to the point that ten years later, after I had mostly forgotten about the abuse, the bully in question dropped out of a school camping trip just because he would up sharing a cabin with me. In 4th grade, I once saw a kid pulling the "take a short kid's hat and taunt him while holding said hat just out of his reach" trick. In response, I charged at the perpetrator and beat the snot out of him, then calmly handed the short kid his hat back and walked away. I got a three-day suspension for that, and I ''still'' don't regret it.

This troper has fond memories of an 11th-grade end-of-year class picnic for AP United States History. After I'd been hit by a stray water balloon from a classmate (let's call him Winslow), I very calmly took the plastic bag the balloons had been stored in--one of those big ten-gallon deals--walked to the faucet in the park's bathroom, and emerged with a ''huge'' bag of water and a bellowed challenge: "'''Winslow, you weasel, where the hell are you?'''" Needless to say, HilarityEnsued.

Is it wrong of me to have said "Fuck, yeah." after reading that?

This troper flipped the bird to a pair of rude customers at work. They lied to the police to get me arrested for assault and battery.

This Troper attended a Trivium concert in 2009 and this kid was "fighting invisible ninjas" in the pit when Whitechapel was performing and punched me in the face accidentally, which broke my glasses. I assumed it was intentional at the moment, so I kicked him ''HARD'' in the balls, punched him in the kidneys, and sent him flying into a support beam where he left with something like a busted nose or a bleeding lip (I didn't see, at the time, the venue's lighting was piss-poor - all I know was he was bleeding) as well. I only found out he wasn't a drunken asshole from some girl he was with on the street after the show, even though other people at the show told me "good job" and such for getting rid of a pit ninja (he had hit other people at the show as well, apparently).

This was followed quickly by LaserGuidedKarma, as I caught the swine flu three days later, just as my hearing had returned.

Original fiction example (we still put those in Troper Tales, don't we?): Working on a light sci-fi/space-pirates story wherein one character will get the spaceship equivalent of a parking ticket/car boot. Note that I find booting cars (which hasn't even happened to me, the following is based on principle alone) to be completely unjustifiable for the reason that, if done in a remote location, it can impede the ability of a person to return home. Going home is something I feel should always be possible except in cases of imprisonment of the person himself/herself. You do not keep people from being able to return to a familiar, controlled, friendly, predictable environment. ''Ever.'' So, when the protagonist calls the enforcement officer over to pay the ticket, he opens a compartment in the ship to get his credit chit and hands the officer a box, saying "Here, hang onto this for a sec." He transfers the money and puts the credit chit away, taking the box back too. The officer goes on his merry way and our hero takes off for his next appointment. So what was in the box? A block of Phoroxium-161, a (fictitious) highly-radioactive isotope in whose presence our hero's species evolved, conferring immunity upon them, but which causes an extremely protracted and indescribably painful death by radiation sickness in other species who are susceptible to it. The enforcement officer has about 3 weeks to live, but given that they'll be spent watching ''and feeling'' his own body turn to an organic slurry, seeing his vision degrade into blindness as his eyes liquefy and drain out of their sockets, and having to fight hard not to drown in the goop that used to be the solid tissue of his throat running down into his lungs, all of this accompanied by the feeling of white-hot belt-sanders scraping away all the sensory neurons in his body ''all the time'', he'll die wishing our hero had just put a bullet in his head to begin with. The Brits have Angle Grinder Man. For everything else, there's psychopathic DisproportionateRetribution by radiation poisoning.

That was brutal even by my standards, tell us your secrets! Or be impaled on a great massive pike that's on fire while I throw tomahawks at you.

Actually rather simple. It's largely a two-element formula: First, you need to be willing and able to consider, in painstaking and explicit detail, the physical ramifications of what you're writing and make sure not to exaggerate based on the cause (e.g. if you want to have a laser beam that causes heads to explode, figure out how it would need to happen in order to be plausible or figure out some secondary catalyst for the explosion). Also, if you're going to explode heads (again, just for the sake of example), don't write that the head burst like a water balloon - that's too comical. Instead, write something along the lines of heat from the laser boiling the cerebrospinal fluid, raising intracranial pressure to critical levels and causing massive fractures in the skull from the inside out, forcing brain matter to spray through the cracks and the eyes to burst out of their sockets. It's much more believable, due to being much less over the top and more realistic due to the asymmetrical shape of the skull (unless you're dealing with a species with perfectly spherical heads). Secondly, as if these examples haven't made this perfectly clear already, cross the line. Not twice, but five, six, seven, however many times it takes until you're completely shocked at yourself for having thought it up. Then do it exactly one more time, to prove to yourself that there's more where that came from and to instill the notion that no matter how bad you make something, it can always get worse, so you haven't "gone too far." That prevents you from turning yourself off to writing violence due to self-loathing or disgust. After that, it's all just little details and learning how to write them. Hint on that front: appeal to the senses. Reread the above passage and note the bit about vision blurring, difficulty breathing, burning pain all over the body. That stuff is key. Get the audience to imagine vividly what it would be like to experience what the victim is experiencing. And really, that passage was pretty mild in the way of some of the grisly depictions I've written, especially compared to what tends to happen to priests, preachers, pastors and the like in my stories. Heh, just wait till I get around to writing about TSA employees. That's gonna be more fun than a barrel of botulism-infected monkeys.

This troper has a tendency to do this to AIs either when an enemy AI does something horrible to some other character I really liked, or to AIs on my own team when the friendly-fire option is on if they do one too many dumb things if not try to kill me. They take a sucker-shot at me one too many times, I come totting my grenade launcher (or variants thereof) to return the shots back. Kill my helpless slab of woobie-meat while my back is turned? I reload the save, brutally slaughter the entire platoon, and then drag my living mcguffin toward the finish line through the wreckage. Neighbor sims tease one of my controlled sims until they break down in tears? Better hope they're fireproof and like cheese sandwiches. What? They knocked out the Magikarp I was raising? Better prepare for a dish of Lugia-rage. What's that? They killed Kenny Kuriboh? Better pray to their deck-god before the full calvary of 8+ star monsters line up front and center to blast their ass to next Wednesday.

This same troper was also a victim of the trope as well. One time I was playing 7 Trials of Glory and had been curious of what Yugi has to say if you had beaten him after seeing the reactions of other [=NPCs=]. Fortunately, that wasn't too hard, because he made pretty poor decisions early into the game that crippled him very quickly he left himself open with neither traps/spells nor monsters set up for two turns, then on a turn where he ''actually started doing something'', he ended up summoning Summoning Skull twice (the first time was buffed, but because I attached a spell that paralyzed it ([[ArtificialStupidity the buffs coming AFTER I crippled it, by the way), he sacrificed it to summon a different Summoning Skull with far less power than the first) as well as Maha Vailo, except that long before this time I had a monster out decidedly more powerful than both their ATKs combined thanks to environment and equip card buffs, and he didn't have the LP to spare to leave dangerously underpowered mons out in the open like this without losing.]], so I finally got my chance. What I expected was for him to either be stunned like the other [=NPCs=] (like Ryou, Tristan, Joey/Jounouchi, etc. do) or carefree in a "you did great, let's play again" kind of way (like Tea and somewhat Mai). What I got, however, was him breaking down and crying because by failing a casual game, he believes he failed Yami. Unfortunately, at the time I've beaten Yugi for the first time I was playing the game with some friends, one of which noticed this and happens to be Yugi's fan. So, as punishment for making her favorite {{Adorkable}} kid cry she made it her life mission to make ''me'' cry by restarting one of my old pokemon cartridges holding a collection of glitch pokemon that took me a month to collect and another month to train and use without breaking the game beyond repair. This became a running joke among my other friends, who would always tell the Yugi fan when I had 7 Trials on hand and warn her of when I had beaten another character to a point of crying. History repeated itself since I had dueled and won against a cat, and although it technically didn't cry, she was convinced I scared poor kitty and I found two other games (or rather, misplaced memory cards) wiped clean of their saved data three days later (goodbye, trophy collection, and farewell completed Dolphin, you both will be missed). There was an aversion to this, however, as a third time I was playing the game when I didn't have her around, and was about to beat Marik not that hard, because like Yugi he had made a really nasty mistake that costed him. While he had the advantage on the field for a good while with monsters I didn't have the right hand to counter, suddenly he had Card Destruction and [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny apparently loved it so much he immediately went nuts over it to a point he used it, then miraculously drew two others like it among other card discarding/drawing spells like Graceful Charity and Pot of Greed, essentially playing the old switcheroo that lasted over five minutes and costed probably a quarter of his deck's worth of cards (throwing occasional spells out for the hell of it that I think he did for the lulz since it caused his own mons to be wiped out) before it ended with his side of the field completely wiped clean of monsters, spells and booby traps, which ended with him saying hello to Kuriboh who devoured his remaining LP.]] when she suddenly walked in and saw this. Fortunately, Marik didn't cry (although his reaction to it was something else) so the other older games she borrowed came back with their save files still in-tact. Lesson learned: Don't make Yugi (or any other bishie) cry, least of all in front of a fangirl that is heavily devoted in shipping him with [[MarySue herself]] Yami and whom lives nearby you For those curious of why I'd still hang around her long enough for the second event to happen, nevermind others, was because she was actually somewhat of a nice person and helped me a lot with other things outside of gaming. Well, [[DataVampire when she's not actively devouring half your gaming library's worth of saves over bishies.]]

Maybe confront her over alienating real people over imaginary characters?

When attempting to take injustice into one's own hands, an equal and opposite reaction is still seen as a reaction and thus elicits another response. This troper has thus made it his policy to inflict DisproportionateRetribution whenever wronged in some way, so that the offender's reaction ends up reestablishing the balance. The problem with this method is, of course, that it is nigh-impossible to stop the exchange of offenses until both parties are satisfied with the balance before the other party remembers their authority over this troper and cuts the knot.

This Troper was playing Halo:Reach yesterday, attempting campaign on Legendary Solo (he hadn't bothered before). By Level 6, we were storming the beach, and I was gleefully stealing my allies few kills, laughing at their futile attempts to actually matter in the scheme of things. Once we entered the base, a solitary Elite attacked. I promptly unloaded into him, and as I reloaded, the Elite died. I stopped, turned to the nearest group of Marines, and killed every single one of them. To make this worse, they probably didn't even do it. I'm betting it was Kat. We are mortal enemies.

So those hapless marines are just trying to survive on Reach, and a Spartan comes up and shoots them all because they HELPED HIM KILL AN ELITE? You bastard.

Due to ValuesDissonance,I feel that many of the unfair punishments before the Industrial Revolution weren't this trope.No,I think the people that implemented them didn't act out because they thought it was right.Rather,I feel they just did it for the purpose of scaring people into submission.

This troper enjoys poking and annoying her best friend every day because said friend knocked this troper's planner off of her desk a few times in sixth grade (which was two years ago).

This troper's local classic rock station (KLBJ FM) did a bit on the Rock 'n Roll Halftime Show where the hosts were talking about spicy peppers. One guy joked around and did a dead-on impression of the Whataburger guy (a voice on the commercials for a Texas-exclusive - if I recall correctly - chain of burger joints) talking about how he ate a scorpion jalapeno someone slipped into his burger. After he got done "hootin' and a hollerin'", he went out to his car and got his flamethrower, tracked down the person who put the pepper in his burger, and shot them in the face with the flamethrower.

This one guy I never met before in my life once pulled up in his car, screamed profanities at me then hit me with a bottle. What was my crime that so much deserved a bottle over my head? Being fat. (The real kicker here; At the time I was a UK size 8).

This troper was once suspended from his accounting job for a week because a payroll client phoned up to say they hadn't received the payslips for the week. Whilst that may sound like a fair punishment, the client was phoning a day after the payslips were sent in the post, which was ''still'' before they were actually needed - They weren't needed for another day, and we (The accountants) had already arranged for the wages to be paid into the employee bank accounts later in the week. So the client had phoned up because something they didn't need until later in the week had arrived straight away. And if that's not bad enough? '''It wasn't even my fault they hadn't received them yet'', it was the post office skipping a collection that caused it.

This troper is going through hell because someone on deviantART has sent her death threats and made a fake facebook page of her, calling her a slut. Why? Because this troper reported her and her alternate accounts for art theft.

Subverted...This troper's friend brought a pocket knife to school- you know, the ones with a bunch of different blades and everything. She's been bringing it to school for over a year now, and one time, she even chased a kid down the hallway threatening him with it. Punishment? One after-school detention.

Ok...this is gonna be a long one: it's actually three in one

In fourth grade, I had a friend who I told nearly all my secrets. One day I told her that I didn't like the fact that my friend was flirting with the guy I had a crush on. She then proceeded to write a letter to him under the name of the friend who was flirting with him, and made me promise not to tell. When the guy found the letter he was devastated, so I did the right thing and told him my friend wrote the letter ( the letter was DisproportionateRetribution on it's own). When my friend found out, she chased me to the end of the playground and started to choke me for ''being a bad friend''. I started to choke her in self defense, and only stopped when her face turned purple. The principle only saw me choking her and threatened to have me expelled or call the cops until I explained the situation. fourth grade wasn't a good year for me.

This Troper would often tell someone else that her mom, dad, or a teacher that they were hurting her. Though often, all they did was just yell at her or say something she didn't like.: Though they ''might have'' hurt her self-esteem, [[FridgeBrilliance if you think about it.]] Melanie likes to make fun of this. Stupid bitch.

This troper once incurred the punishment of having his Internet connection automatically cut off at certain arbitrary time each day... for using it during the never explicitly defined forbidden time. Fair enough. The very day the punishment was lifted, this troper's mother walked in on him immediately after the restricted time and saw him using a computer, enjoying the freedom he had just been given, and promptly reinstated the punishment. This cycle has repeated itself several times now.

This Troper is very low-key and never does anything illegal or generally frowned upon, generally does her homework, but her parents are incredibly tough on her anyways. Stay up until 1 am on a summer night? Selfish and a betrayal of parents' trust. Disagree on what's for dinner? Purposely trying to piss people off, life-ruiner. Tell a boy I love him at 16? Slut. Being harassed verbally by people I don't even know on a regular basis? I'm being whiny. I spill something once, I'm brain-dead and a perpetual klutz. Friend calls to spend time with me at 20? He's a stalker and my mother wants to get a restraining order against him. Admit I'm skeptical of God and don't think having sex before marriage is as bad as people say? They threaten to disown me. Mom wouldn't talk to me for awhile because I told her I was ''friends'' with a lesbian. No way am I ever telling her ''I'm'' pansexual.

Let them disown you. From what you've just related, you don't need them.

AssassinsCreed: Those beggars, madmen and musicians are always getting a nice sword through their eyes or other body parts when they think it would be a good idea to throw rocks at that white robed and running lunatic.