Beware the Nice Ones/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* Gwen Tennyson and Grandpa Max Tennyson in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', besides the obvious fact that Grandpa Max is a [[Badass Normal]], he's super, super nice to everyone, but when you push his buttons it's not pretty. Same with Gwen, she's the nicest of the [[Power Trio]], but when she blows up, THINGS BLOW UP WITH HER. (Obvious example: "Max Out")

** The titular Ben "10" Tennyson himself qualifies; a kind-hearted, outgoing guy (though a bit egocentric and foolish at times), but if you push him too far ([[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|like say, put his girlfriend's life at risk just to spite him]]), kiss your ass goodbye because [[Let's Get Dangerous|he'll kick it into oblivion]].

** In the older cartoons, before he gets significantly watered down to [[The Generic Guy]] of the group, he's just as aggressive as [[Donald Duck]] when pushed to the limit - ultimately in Symphony Hour, [http://api.ning.com/files/S9aUJ5ULhEVgRYUxxFzAm52ACeCOCgT0n1H2TrgCHEHiLISavf7FkrHsBgrttJpa/3412103194_0de4cd207f_o.jpg?width=737&height=552 he pulls a pistol(!)]{{Dead link}} on Donald when the duck tries to skip out on a concert [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]. Notably this is the last time until House of Mouse we see this side of the mouse.

* When the usually sweet [[The Pollyanna|Bubbles]] of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' is sufficiently provoked, she's been shown to eclipse ''both'' of her sisters Blossom and Buttercup in terms of raw anger and violence. Every single one of her emotions is taken to the extreme: When she's happy, she's bursting with euphoria, when she's sad, she loses all will to live, when she's afraid, she's paralyzed by fear. So, naturally, when she's angry, she is rage incarnate.

* The title character of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' is extremely tolerant and obnoxiously optimistic. Though, in one episode Squidward resigns from his job and stays at Spongebob's house until he can find a new job. He takes it too far and stays a lot longer than necessary, and while Spongebob doesn't completely lose his temper, he snaps a bit and drops some '''very''' obvious hints that Squidward should already look for a job. The latter still doesn't get it, though, so Spongebob finally breaks and takes Squidward all the way to the Krusty Krab. He tries to convince Mr. Krabs to hire Squidward back, and when that didn't work, the sponge finally snaps, outright ''strangles his boss'', calls him a cheapskate, and finally yells at him on how stupid the situation is. It shows that even Spongebob [[Berserk Button|has his limits...]]

** EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Parr family members, {{spoiler|and yes, that includes [[Superpower Lottery|the]] [[Goo-Goo Godlike|baby]] as well.}} [[Action Mom]] Helen takes out ''four'' of Syndrome's mooks despite being caught in two closing doors, [[Meaningful Name|aptly named]] [[Shrinking Violet|Violet]] later manages to beat another one down with a stick, and [[Fragile Speedster|Dash]] runs circles around a gaggle of them due to [[Deadly Dodging]] skills coupled with his ability to [[WalkWalking Onon Water|run on water]]. And let's not forget that [[Punctuated Pounding]] in his sister's defense just a few scenes later.

* Rhinox, from ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' is of the standard [[Gentle Giant]] variety. Once something ''does'' get through his skin, he's a raging mass of strength and firepower that even [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] Dinobot has learned to tread lightly around.

* GIR of ''[[Invader Zim (Animation)|Invader Zim]]'', though more selfish and self-centred than most examples, is a sweet [[Genki Girl|Genki Guy]] of a robot with an obsession for fast food and small animals, but when in "duty mode", he becomes a frighteningly efficient minion of [[The Empire]]. Mercifully, it usually only lasts for a few seconds, but on the one occasion he was locked in this mode not only did GIR accomplish more in ten minutes than Zim had over the entire series, it almost killed him.

* In the ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'' episode "In Search of Ancient Blunders", [[Adventurer Archaeologist]] Myra is as friendly and polite as you could hope--but she has her limits. After she, Baloo and Wildcat spend a day being chased around a pyramid by the Air Pirates (who want to loot it) and a [[Mummy]] (who wants to protect it), Myra finally loses her temper and yells at the mummy: "We're trying to help you! You can stomp around all day growling like an idiot, or you can give us a hand!" The mummy takes Myra's advice and gets rid of the Air Pirates.

* Shirley the Loon of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' is the very model of serenity and inner peace, but when a plan for her and the other girls to abscond to the prom of a rival school ends with Miss Loon doused in punch, she snaps, in an obvious nod to ''[[Carrie]]''.

* Gadget from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' snaps twice: in "The Case of the Cola Cult" when her friends are endangered and her inventions are sabotaged and, in "Dirty Rotten Diapers", when her repeated attempts to solve the situation peacefully are met with nothing but extreme hostility and violence from the subject in question.

* Marge, the endless suffering matriarch of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' family, has snapped on a few occasions when Homer screwed up once too many (especially in [[The Movie]]).

* Aang, from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', is this goofy little teenager, okay? He's a monk, he loves riding animals and dropping pudding cakes on fuddy-duddy heads, and playing with kids and generally being the most [[Tastes Like Diabetes|sickeningly sweet person]] he possibly can. He can fight pretty darn well, but always goes for disarms or knockdowns... until you cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] in his presence. Then his [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|eyes start glowing]] and he becomes a demigod capable of throwing hurricanes, tidal waves and mountain ranges around like softballs. He is so terrifyingly powerful and destructive he scares the crap out his enemies, innocent bystanders, his friends and even ''himself''. At this point, just stop moving and silently await your doom. There's not much else you can do. Apart from crap your pants, but you've probably done that already.

** Hei Bai is a kind forest spirit--after all, who would fear an entity who takes the form of a [[Pandaing to Thethe Audience|panda]]? Messing with his forest is still a bad idea.

* In the series finale of both ''[[Superman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Superman the Animated Series]]'' and ''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]] Unlimited'', Superman (see the comics section) encounters situations that stretch even his patience. In TAS, after taking some of it out on a few humans (some more deserving of it than others), he goes into [[Unstoppable Rage]] mode on the cause of it all. In ''Justice League'', he finds it an excuse to cut loose on an ''extremely'' powerful foe - the same one who pushed him over the edge last time, in fact - all the while [[World of Cardboard Speech|ranting about how nice it is to let go of his inhibitions when he normally has to be so careful]], because as far he's concerned the world might as well be cardboard.

** Superman turns into this in ''[[Superman /Batman: Public Enemies]]'' when Batman sacrifices himself to manually steer a rocket into a kryptonite asteroid {{spoiler|(but not really)}}. Superman utters the line '''"That's my best friend, and you just killed him."''' before tearing into Lex. Judging by [[Oh Crap|the look on Luthor's face]] after the monologue, it's reasonable to believe that he just planted the last of his bravery in his underwear.

{{quote| '''Thug:''' Look, I know Batman. I once ratted out a counterfeiter to Batman. And believe me, you are no Batm-- ''(Flash drops him)'' [[Oh Crap|aaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH]]!!!}}

* ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man (Animation)|The Spectacular Spider Man]]'': Otto Octavius. Kind, apologetic and shy. Fantasizes about killing his boss, Norman Osborn. Then after his big snap, he manages to at least slam him around a bit. Surprising that Norman hasn't become a recluse after all the incidents with insane coworkers he's had.

** The whole "Otto Octavius became Doctor Octopus because he was pushed too far" thing was also used in ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]] 2'', in one of Alfred Molina's best performances.

* Gi from ''[[Captain Planet and The Planeteers (Animation)|Captain Planet and Thethe Planeteers]]'' is usually the [[Team Mom]] and peacemaker who tries to [[Rousseau Was Right|see the good in all humans]]. She also tried to drown someone when she found out he shot her good friend. You won't like her when she's angry.

* ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'''s Professor Calculus is normally a soft-spoken, mildly eccentric, rather charming old man, who, by virtue of his poor hearing and generally good demeanor, does not notice most of the jokes at his expense, and doesn't care about those he does hear. But then Captain Haddock [[Berserk Button|accused him of "acting the goat"...]]

{{quote| '''Calculus:''' See what "the goat" CREATED!}}

* The strong but good-natured Ed in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' is normally a [[Gentle Giant]] who doesn't even get mad when his bossy kid sister Sarah (AKA the "rotten-to-the-core cherished one") abuses his trust. But when he's in a bad mood in the episode "Little Ed Blue", even Sarah is intimidated by him:

{{quote| '''Sarah:''' You can't kick me out, I live here too!<br />

* Seemingly invoked on [[Casper]] in one of the older cartoons, ''Fright from Wrong'', when his nasty uncles force-feed him a huge jar of "Mean Pills" that practically warp him into a red devil creature. Naturally, this [[Gone Horribly Right|backfires]] when Casper [[Humiliation Conga|spends the rest of the short putting them through the wringer]] (both literally and figuratively). It would appear that this example wouldn't count since Casper was drugged to act like that, right? Ehhh, not so much... he reveals at the very end that he never took the pills; all the cartoonish brutality he'd unleashed on his uncles was ''all'' him just trying to teach them a lesson! The little Friendly Ghost really ''can'' be scarier than given credit for.

* In ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', lovable and quirky Beast Boy, who usually runs away from anyone powerful and evil, when sufficiently provoked is [[Let's Get Dangerous|quick to bring the pain]]. All of which are surpassed by the penultimate episode of Season 5 (which starts off with his growling "NOW try and follow me!" and blowing up some fallen robots, right after the Brain is done gloating over his victory over '''all''' the other Titans), in which Beast Boy assembles a rag-tag team, leads it properly, and takes on '''all of the show's villains''' at the same time. He closes it by quipping "Brain Freeze", after freezing the Brain.

* In ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'', Meg Griffin has been described by Brian as "far sweeter and kinder than the typical American girl" and has [[The Woobie|put up with a]] [[Butt Monkey|LOT of abuse]] these past couple of years. However under the right circumstances, Meg could unleash [[Unstoppable Rage|her repressed rage]] on anyone that [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|pisses her off enough]] or have prison life [[Took a Level Inin Badass|turn her into]] [[Tranquil Fury|hardened badass]] [[Who's Laughing Now?|that her whole family]] [[From Nobody to Nightmare|is DEATHLY afraid of]].

* Most of the time Kuki/Numbuh 3 from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' is the team's sweet [[The Ditz|ditzy]] [[Genki Girl]], but when she does get angry, epic asskicking usually ensues.

{{quote| '''Mr. Boss''': Quick! RUN LIKE LITTLE GIRLS!}}

* The quiet, and usually introverted Fern from ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'' has shown a willingness to take (non-violent) revenge on those who mock her, as the episodes "Draw!" and "War of the Worms" can attest.

* Nabu from ''[[Winx Club (Animation)|Winx Club]]'' is usually a nice person, but during S4 episode 24, after the evil shapeshifter Duman turns into a monster and reveals that the Black Circle lied about their apparent [[Heel Face Turn]] and that they are really planning to seal the Earth fairies away for good, Nabu proceeds to single-handedly defeat Duman, by trapping him inside a magical sphere which then ''explodes''. Brandon even comments on this afterwards:

{{quote| '''Brandon''': Hey, remind me never to make you angry!}}

* The [[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Galaxy Rangers]]? [[Lawful Good]] (Zach), [[Neutral Good]] (Niko), [[Chaotic Good]] (Doc), and [[Depending Onon the Writer]] (but never lower than [[Lawful Neutral]]) (Shane). However, [[Lawful Good]] has taken starships out of orbit with his [[Arm Cannon]]. [[Neutral Good]]? Plays like a cross of a [[Star Wars|Jedi]] and a [[Mass Effect|Biotic]], carries a [[BFG]], and is also very good with unarmed combat. [[Chaotic Good]] is a [[Badass Normal]] in a fight, and manged to take down one of the nastiest villains the show whipped up ''singlehandedly.'' Either that or he'll just make every computer in the room riot. [[Depending Onon the Writer]] was designed as a living weapon. Just get out of the guy's way...Worse is [[Sixth Ranger|Zozo]], who is a [[Hobbits|short, unassuming alien from an agricultural world]] and the friendliest, most cheerful guy ever. Piss him off or threaten the folks he's with? Well, he's got an entry under [[Ambadassador]] for a reason.

* On ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'', Beth and Lindsay spend a good deal of the season under [[Alpha Bitch|Heather's]] heel, which makes these instances all the more satisfying. First, Beth ''finally'' realizes that she's serving someone she hates, and as a result drops the challenge and [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch|begins shooting her with her paintball gun]]. Then, much later, after Heather pretty much tosses Lindsay aside despite total loyalty, she responds by cussing her out, much to Heather's shock (and everyone else's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|approval]]).

* In ''DC Showcase: [[Superman /Shazam!: theThe Return of Black Adam]]'', Black Adam learned that even though [[Captain Marvel]] is the ultimate nice guy boyscout (even compared to Superman), presenting him a [[The Sadistic Choice|sadistic choice]] and then trying to kill the hostage anyway is a [[Let's Get Dangerous|BAD IDEA]]. It doesn't matter how experienced or powerful you are, [[Curb Stomp Battle|you WILL get your butt kicked. SOUNDLY.]]

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has [[Meaningful Name|Fluttershy]], the [[Shrinking Violet|kindest, shyest, most gentle]] pony in all Equestria... and also the ''scariest'' pony in all Equestria. Her [[Friend to All Living Things]] ability allows her to pacify everything from an enraged manticore to a ''gigantic'' adult dragon with as much ease as she soothes a frightened rabbit (the latter of which she subdued by ''[[Talking the Monster Toto Death|lecturing]]'' it into submission). Her [[Death Glare|Stare]] is so powerful it allows her to stare down a cockatrice ''as it's [[Taken for Granite|turning her to stone]]''. Some [[Teach Him Anger|assertiveness training]] results in her [[Took a Level Inin Jerkass|taking 5000 levels in jerkass]], enough to drive Rarity and Pinkie Pie to ''tears''. And when the animals near the Grand Galloping Gala don't return her affections, [[Yandere|well]]...

{{quote| '''Fluttershy''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}rwp60eYuie0 You're... going to LOOOOVE MEEEEEE!]}}

{{quote| '''Rarity''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}R-JBaCpiAxo Fighting's not really my thing, I'm more into fashion], but I'll '''rip you to pieces''' if you ''touch one scale on his cute little head!''}}

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'': "GET ON THE TRIKE!" Note: [[The Everyman|Phineas]] does this after trying to reason with Candace.

* [[Ant-Man]] is ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]''' team pacifist, and will continue trying to negotiate a peaceful end to a confrontation well past the end of his teammates' patience. Unless the bad guys he's trying to talk down hurt [[The Wasp]]. Then they will get ''owned''.

* Princess Katherine, from Disney's ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' series, started out as a brat but ended up essentially giving up her whole world to protect the orphaned gargoyle eggs. Then, when Demona and [[Macbeth]] end up [[Brainwashed and Crazy|attacking the young gargoyles]], Katherine grabs [[Dark Action Girl|Demona]]'s laser-rifle and knocks her out. To repeat, she ''beat Demona'' in a fight, with a weapon she'd never seen before that night, when she's never been seen fighting on-screen before. Everyone is very impressed.

* [[Gentle Giant]] Modo from ''[[Biker Mice From Mars (Animation)|Biker Mice From Mars]]''. He's basically one of the nicest characters on Biker Mice, but it's a very bad idea to provoke him by [[Berserk Button|calling him a rat or threatening his bike.]]

* "Pepper" Potts from ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]''. That's probably one of her trademark aspects of her personality (aside from her [[Motor Mouth]] that is.) Nomrally, this girl is goofy, bubbly, and talkative, but if the situation calls for it, she shows a somewhat violent side of her. An example of this is when she mentions offhand to Gene that she got a guy deported for espionage. When the {{spoiler|armor designs are stolen and sold to Stane and Hammer, Pepper suggests Tony steal them back or trash their companies trying amidst various angry growls}}.

* Francine Smith from ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]''. She can snap in a rather disturbing manner.

* Anet from ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' is a [[Forgetful Jones]] Elephant monk, kind natured and peacable, who, like the rest of his Village, is more prone to meditating on a problem than taking direct action. When their village is invaded by [[Lizard Folk]], the dire straights prompt a collective [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant]], and Anet in particular leads the charge. He tosses one of the invading force's [[Walking Tank|Walking Tanks]] into its neighbor, and makes short work of the Lizard general's bayonetted rifle, wrenching it out of his hands and bending it in half. In response, the general flees in terror.

* Miss Martian from ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]]'' is a sweet bubbly girl most of the time. She's also a {{spoiler|White Martian whose [[Psychic Powers]] ''dwarf'' those of the [[Martian Manhunter]].}} She's also deeply ashamed {{spoiler|of her natural form (which looks like something straight out of a sci-fi horror film)}} and will do just about ''anything'' to keep it a secret. {{spoiler|"Anything" includes ''psychically rendering her own teammates unconscious''. Which is tame compared to what she did to the villain who threatened to expose her secret -- ''she erased his mind, leaving him a drooling vegetable.''}}