- Sarah's Stick'Em Up prank in the Lonelygirl15 episode "Crazy Emo Chick".
- Simon Wood's first scene on the island in Survival of the Fittest sets up his central theme: coming close to succeeding then falling at the final hurdle.
- Captain Hammer in Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog has one of these every single time he's on camera! Almost as if Joss Whedon wanted to really hammer home the point about what a creep he is...
- Most of the main characters in the Whateley Universe get them:
- Chaka starts off as a young black teenager sharing a room with his unpleasant older brother, and turning into a pretty girl...turning into a mutant...having to leave home and go to a Super-Hero School...and he's thrilled to death about every bit of it.
- The headmistress, Dr. Elizabeth Carson, gives the welcome speech and immediately comes across as someone you'd better not cross. Then later on, at Halloween, we meet her other identity, Lady Astarte, and we find out she's really someone you shouldn't tick off.
- Trevor James Goodkind is the White Prince, heir to billions in a wealthy anti-mutant business family and being groomed to be one of the Goodkinds who takes over the reins of power. We first see him and his family at dinner, being waited on, having a staff of chefs, and Trevor is plotting about how, when he grows up, he's going to get his favorite chef to come with him when he moves out. The next morning, he manifests as a mutant and things rapidly go downhill from there, with a series of Break the Haughty scenes.
- The first episode of The Guild is just a long string of these for each of the characters, first establishing Codex with her weblog:
- Mecha Sonic's first appearance in Super Mario Bros Z involved him vaporizing a poor Goomba at point blank range to retrieve a Chaos Emerald. And that's probably the nicest thing he's done in the entire series so far.
- Zack from Echo Chamber gets his before the opening credits roll on Episode 1:
Tom: Thank you, Zack, for ruining the 20th take. |
- Even though she's much more developed now, The Nostalgia Chick's massive ego was seeded with her very first line:
Hi, I'm your Nostalgia Chick, and I, like most of the world, am an American." |
- Likewise, The Nostalgia Critic's Sad Clown-ness started with him being Driven to Suicide at a dumb song in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
- Wolf 359: The Hephaestus crew's boss Marcus Cutter is The Ghost throughout the first season, only to be introduced proper in the second season premiere when Winkowski contacts him to probe to see if he really did order Hilbert to mutiny. Cutter is polite and cheerful while talking with her, but interrupts himself to threaten to have an employee murdered while he watches if she doesn't bring a set of documents to his desk at a specific time, all the while never dropping the same blandly pleasant tone. He caps it off by telling her to just shoot Hilbert, while making it clear that he doesn't regard his employees being put in severe danger as an emergency unless it directly services him in some way. All of it sums up Cutter's personality and total disregard for human life quite nicely.

