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* ''[[Patton]]'': During the invasion of Sicily, a pair of mules pulling a wagon refuse to move, blocking a bridge and causing a column of American troops to be strafed. Patton shoots the mules and has them dumped over the side of the bridge, allowing the column to continue.
* In ''[[Der Schuh Des Manitu (Film)|Der Schuh Desdes Manitu]]'', while the Greek talks about the cleverness of his donkey, the beast steps on the rails, refuses to move and gets killed by an express train.
* In ''Cahill, United States Marshal'', John Wayne is left horseless and is forced to buy a mule from a farmer for lack of any alternative. There's a short clip of it bucking in protest when he mounts up, although it cooperates perfectly well in later scenes.
 
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* ''[[Discworld]]''
** Bad Ass, Lancre was named for the fact that a donkey got stubborn there. The village was founded by the people riding in the wagon it was pulling. Now Lancrians have to explain it to everybody.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]'' a donkey gets stuck up a minaret in Al Khali. Being the stubborn animals they are there is no chance it will back down. It can't turn around, and being right at the top it can't go forward. The locals are amazed at Ventanari when he disappears into the minaret and returns leading a docile donkey. Ventanari helpfully explained that the key is to find that part of the donkey that really wants to get down.
* ''[[Animal Farm]]'': Benjamin the donkey is never taken in for a moment by the pig's false promises of Utopia, and refuses to undertake extra labor for it as some of the more idealistic animals do.
* Invoked in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''The Fairy Godmother'', the first of her [[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms]] series. A stubborn prince who behaves like an ass finds himself [[Involuntary Transformation|transformed into one]]. His asinine behavior persists for some time until he loses some of his pride and subsequently reforms.
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* Parodied in a ''[[Family Guy]]'' cutaway, where a mule plays the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, and refuses to admit that he was in ''[[Footloose]]''.
* Averted in [[Disney]]'s ''[[The Small One (Disney)|The Small One]]'' (directed by [[Don Bluth]]) in which the eponymous ass is gentle, patient, and quite amazingly self-sacrificing.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Troperrific|(of course)]] has Applejack, who's actually less patient then an ''actual'' mule. Admittedly, the mule in question seemed to not mind the implications of the actual insult, but still...
** A later episode gives us Cranky Doodle Donkey, who's old, set in his ways, and very, ''very'' unwilling to deal with Pinkie Pie. After a while, you start to emphasize with him.
 
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