History DesignatedHero / LiveActionTV

** Rose Tyler is meant to be seen as really heroic and loving for crossing dimensions to find the Doctor. Except the Doctor told her that coming back between worlds would destroy both, to which her reaction was [[ItsAllAboutMe "So?"]] She was able to cross worlds due to the Daleks' Reality Bomb collapsing the barriers between Universe, however her dialogue shows she was trying to come back before this happened. And for risking the destruction of two worlds so she could get to someone she loved she gets her own, conveniently human, [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest version]] of him (created by a massive AssPull). KarmaHoudini?
** Not only did she get her own version of the Doctor that gets to live with her in Pete's World, she also kisses that human version of the Doctor right in front of the original!

** Clara Oswald becomes one toward the end of season 8. In "Kill The Moon", she overrules the votes of Earth and decides to spare the Moon Creature whose birth might destroy the planet. (Fortunately, it doesn't, but she had no reason to think that it wouldn't.) In "In The Forest Of The Night", upon learning that a solar flare will burn the earth, she rejects the proposition of the Doctor to save herself, Danny and a class of children claiming that she doesn't want to be the last human... without bothering to consult Danny and the children first. But the kicker is the beginning of "Dark Water", [[spoiler: after the sudden death of her boyfriend Danny, she attempts to blackmail the Doctor to save Danny by drugging him and threatening to throw the keys of the Tardis in the lava]] yet [[spoiler: she later gets the chance to see Danny one last time]] and we are supposed to see her as TheWoobie. Remember, the Doctor once kicked Adam out of the Tardis [[MoralDissonance for a far lesser crime]].
** Though in Clara's defence for "Dark Water" [[spoiler: she was operating on grief and does get called out for it.]]

** The Tenth Doctor has a tendency to come across as a hypocritical, arrogant and egotistical jerk. His first story has him overthrowing the government because the prime minister blew up a spaceship of aliens whose leader had proven untrustworthy (he tried to kill the Doctor after promising not to leave in peace) and would have likely gone on to decimated other planets. This leads to The Master becoming prime minister followed by a government willing to send ten per cent of Earth's children to a FateWorseThanDeath. He also spends most of Series 3 treating Martha as inferior to Rose and whining about losing Rose and his no second chances rule given to many one off villains is waved for The Master and Davros. He also called his clone a monster for blowing up the daleks (i.e. standard operating procedure for the daleks since their first appearance) despite been capable of slaughtering the universe. Finally he spends most of his regeneration episode whining about how regenerating is equivalent to death even though no past or future incarnation acts like this or any other Time Lord for that matter. And he gets angry at a man who caused his death because he saved someone else's life.

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Captain "Designated Hero" Janeway - after stranding her crew in the Delta Quadrant due to reasons largely beyond her control, she forgoes several attempts that would have gotten her back to the Alpha Quadrant, kills one of her crew to restore the status quo, and when given the chance to go back in time and save her crew, rather than preventing them from going to the Delta Quadrant in the first place, she opts to save someone they recruited along the way and abandon nearly a third of her crew to die when they get dragged into the Delta Quadrant. The "Equinox" two-parter is often seen as the worst because because the ''Equinox'' was much worse off than ''Voyager'' and driven to extremity, and her protests seemed more founded on Federation regulations than the brutality the captain was committing on innocent aliens. Her temporary alliance with the Borg against Species 8472 also got her a lot of flack after 8472 were {{Retcon}}ned from ScaryDogmaticAliens that seemed to be out for ThePurge to reasonable people who somehow gave Kes the completely wrong idea while they were {{Mind Rap|e}}ing her. The series' StatusQuoIsGod mandate meant that everyone had to come to an accord by the end of the episode, so these issues never got adequately addressed, nor was there ever a middle ground between "always stand by Federation principles" or "screw it we need to get home," resulting in this kind of mess.

* If one uses AlternateCharacterInterpretation, the agents on ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' are seen like this, still working for a possibly corrupt organization while teaming up with shady characters like Rosalind Price of the ATCU whenever it suits them. They also have tendency to go to extremes for their revenge, yet put themselves on the moral high ground. Finally, they only stopped seeing the Inhumans as a threat due to the latter's connection to [[spoiler: Daisy/Skye]]. They are only really justified in their treatment of Ward, which even borders on extreme (they really hate traitors.). Yet, they have no lingering problems with Bobbi and Mack, who worked with others behind their backs, hijacked Shield from them, and sent Coulson on the run for several weeks. Nor do they have a problem with Simmons's sudden xenophobic attitude towards powered people, or Skye somehow believing that they would randomly attack the Inhumans during a peace meeting to the point where she brutally assaulted two agents, including May.

* If one uses AlternateCharacterInterpretation, the agents on ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' are seen like this, still working for a possibly corrupt organization while teaming up with shady characters like Rosalind Price of the ATCU whenever it suits them. They also have tendency to go to extremes for their revenge, yet put themselves on the moral high ground. Finally, they only stopped seeing the Inhumans as a threat due to the latter's connection to [[spoiler: Daisy/Skye]]. They are only really justified in their treatment of Ward, which even borders on extreme (they really hate traitors.)

* If one uses AlternateCharacterInterpretation, the agents on ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' are seen like this, still working for a possibly corrupt organization while teaming up with shady characters like Rosalind Price of the ATCU whenever it suits them. They also have tendency to go to extremes for their revenge, yet put themselves on the moral high ground. Finally, they only stopped seeing the Inhumans as a threat due to the latter's connection to [[spoiler: Daisy/Skye]].

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' started off his eponymous series as a callous, self-centered serial killer of a VillainProtagonist. However, towards the end of the series, it seems it was intended for him to undergo CharacterDevelopment and become a more functional and moral hero, based on how every other character [[CharacterShilling shills him to high heaven.]] In practice, he remained exactly as callous, self-centered, and murderous as he ever was, culminating in [[http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/dexter-remember-the-monsters-102659 the last episode,]] where he [[spoiler:MercyKills his sister, steals her body from the hospital, dumps it in the ocean, and fakes his own death, abandoning his son to the care of his murderous girlfriend while he works as a lumberjack]], all while every other character tells us that this is perfectly moral and he deserves to do it.

** Not all of these examples really work. The whole point of the episode about Monica and Chandler's engagement night was that she wasn't trying to steal Monica's thunder and that Monica was just insecure. She also hardly stole attention during the wedding day as only Phoebe knew she was pregnant.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': After a few seasons, both of the Winchester brothers slaughter hundreds of demons, killing their human hosts in the process - even when they have the knowledge and opportunity to perform an exorcism which would save the host. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Unless it's someone they know who's possessed]].
** In their many arguments throughout the series, both brothers have occasionally made selfish or hypocritical decisions that the narrative expects us to support, such as Sam retiring from hunting and not trying to find Dean in season 8, or Dean tricking Sam into letting an angel possess him to save his life.
** By the end of Season 10, both of them have rejected opportunities to defeat literally apocalyptic evils for purely selfish reasons. Season 8 ends with Sam [[spoiler:aborting a ritual to seal all demons away in Hell permanently because it would cost him his life, which Dean refuses to accept.]] Dean spends Season 10 [[spoiler:being driven by the Mark of Cain to increasingly gratuitous acts of violence, before learning that the Mark is a LeakingCanOfEvil for the primordial Darkness that brought about Lucifer's fall]]; in the finale, [[spoiler:he kills Death and lets the Darkness escape rather than sacrifice himself and Sam to remove it from Earth permanently]].

** The Tenth Doctor has a tendency to come across as a hypocritical, arrogant and egotistical jerk. His first story has him overthrowing the government because the prime minister blow up a spaceship of aliens whose leader had proven untrustworthy (he tried to kill the Doctor after promising not to leave in peace) and would have likely gone on to decimated other planets. This leads to The Master becoming prime minister followed by a government willing to send ten per cent of Earth's children to a FateWorseThanDeath. He also spends most of Series 3 treating Martha as inferior to Rose and whining about losing Rose and his no second chances rule given to many one off villains is waved for The Master and Davros. He also called his clone a monster for blowing up the daleks (i.e. standard operating procedure for the daleks since their first appearance) despite been capable of slaughtering the universe. Finally he spends moat of his regeneration episode whining about how regenerating is equivalent to death even though no past or future incarnation acts like this or any other Time Lord for that matter. And he gets angry at a man who caused his death because he saved someone else's life.

** The 10th Doctor undergoes this several times. In "The Christmas Invasion" he brings down Harriet Jones, apparently changing history and preventing Britain's Golden Age, because he didn't like her destroying the Sycorax. While her actions were certainly not morally impeccable, the Doctor criticises others for changing history and later stories seem to show he made things worse by doing this.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Leonard, as he has gained a generally jerk demeanor and holier-than-thou attitude as the series went on.
** Sheldon has become this as the series went on as well, with him being so needlessly dickish that it defies the boundaries of any AmbiguousDisorder.

** For many fans, Buffy is the DH for much of [[SeasonalRot Seasons Six and Seven.]] However, there were implications that Buffy wasn't exactly being herself, being under even more massive pressure than usually, and having gone through several traumatic experiences in a short time. This has been played with several times, from Buffy's temper tantrum that she wasn't allowed to kill Faith and Series/{{Angel}} telling her to get stuffed, to her being rejected by the potential slayers, to a storyline where a rogue slayer intends to kill Buffy because of how much of a princess she is.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': The Charmed Ones, in the later seasons, have stopped thinking about saving people and are more about themselves. They cast magic on innocent people, needlessly set up a human criminal up to get killed by demons in their home, and joined up with a bunch of magical extremists to wipe out free will for the sake of destroying evil. Then they faked their deaths and got a new girl (played by the same actress as the aforementioned Penny from ''Big Bang Theory'') to do all the work for them. Seriously, the new girl [[spoiler:being [[DefectorFromDecadence convinced]] by [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil her]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy sister]] to [[FaceHeelTurn turn heel]] and the two of them almost being powerful enough to kill the Halliwells (before she got better, anyway)]] was practically a [[LaserGuidedKarma due backfire]].
* Played with for most of Chris Liley's characters. The most glaring examplles being the ones form ''Series/SummerHeightsHigh'':

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': Edward Allen Bernero stated that Jason Gideon was meant to be the central character to the show, even though episodes tended towards ensemble-like setups. Furthermore, Gideon as a character wasn't particularly nice to the rest of the team, as he frequently disobeys the chain of command (giving orders to the team when it's supposed to be Hotch's job), being terribly difficult to work with and not being very approachable. Hotch called him out on this in "What Fresh Hell?", telling him that he bought flowers for Garcia (after Gideon proved extremely difficult with her in the previous episode) and said they were from Gideon explaining, "Jason, people need to know that they're important, and sometimes you forget that."

** In "Tooth and Claw" when people are getting torn to pieces by a werewolf Rose's main priority still seems to be [[SkewedPriorities winning a bet]] with the Doctor she can get Victoria to say she is not amused. In that episode she can come across as a NightmareFetishist and it isn't surprising Victoria gets so angry at Rose and the Doctor for seeming to enjoy the horrific events.
** The 10th Doctor can undergo this several times. In "The Christmas Invasion" he brings down Harriet Jones, apparently changing history and preventing Britain's Golden Age, because he didn't like her destroying the Sycorax. While her actions were certainly not morally impeccable, the Doctor criticises others for changing history and later stories seem to show he made things worse by doing this.
** Lady Christina de Souza, the ClassyCatBurglar from "Planet of the Dead". She is meant to be the heroic companion figure. However arguably nothing she does is particularly heroic, only self-preservation. She is introduced stealing a museum artefact and doesn't seem at all unhappy that her possible boyfriend gets arrested. And finally the Doctor helping her escape the Police is meant to be seen as a great moment, and McMillian as an InspectorJavert for wanting to arrest her. However he was completely justified in arresting her, in which case Christina is a KarmaHoudini. To add insult to injury in ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW she still gets away with committing crimes after leaving Earth.
** Clara Oswald becomes one toward the end of season 8. In "Kill The Moon", she overules the votes of Earth and decides to spare the Moon Creature whose birth might destroy the planet (Fortunately, it doesn't though for all she knew it would). In "In The Forest Of The Night", upon learning that a solar flare will burn the earth, she rejects the proposition of the Doctor to save herself, Danny and a class of children claiming that she doesn't want to be the last human... without bothering to consult Danny and the children first. But the kicker is the beginning of "Dark Water", [[spoiler: after the sudden death of her boyfriend Danny, she attempts to blackmail the Doctor to save Danny by drugging him and threatening to throw the keys of the Tardis in the lava]] yet [[spoiler: she later gets the chance to see Danny one last time]] and we are supposed to see her as TheWoobie. Remember, the Doctor once kicked Adam out of the Tardis [[MoralDissonance for a far lesser crime]].

* ''Series/TheFollowing'': Both the main character as well as the [=FBI=] are incredibly incompetent and act like idiots. Ryan Hardy, TheHero, thinks that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he and only he]] can take down SerialKiller Joe Carroll and his cult of maniacs, to the point where he ends up getting several police officers and innocent people harmed or killed and getting furious when anyone but him crosses the line to save their loved ones, as well as playing the very role Carroll wants him to play in the first place; on the other hand, the Feds aren't much better, repeatedly underestimating both Hardy and the cult and making many stupid mistakes. Both Hardy and the Feds also fail to consider that if Joe had people watching both his family ''and'' his only surviving victim, [[spoiler: then he might have had someone watching Ryan as well- this last one gets Hardy stabbed and Claire killed.]] The only reason the good guys win is that the cult turns out to be just as self-sabotaging themselves in the long run, but at least the cult has the excuse that they are all AxCrazy; Hardy and the Feds are just selfish and stupid.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Rachel. She refuses to take Ross back but abuses any girl he tries to date (backstabbing the adorable Julie, shaving Bonnie's head, planning to ruin Emily's wedding and insulting a girl who flirts with him). She emotionally abuses Ross making him break up with girls and then putting stipulations on them getting back together, helping ruin his marriage, then says he's too 'messed up' to date, and forbidding him from dating her sister. She's also [[ItsAllAboutMe incredibly self-centred]], stealing Monica and Chandler's engagement night ''and'' wedding day, belittling others' problems, constantly complaining about her own and telling Monica and Chandler they have to come to her baby's birthday party, so they can't go away after they spent a fortune on a room [[spoiler:to reconnect after they've discovered ''they can't have children!'']]

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Carly never stops her [=Jerkass=] friend Sam from bullying others. What kind of friend lets another friend bully her other friends? Then in "iMove Out," when Freddie's mom came on the set to humiliate her son, instead of turning off the camera, she points it at Freddie while he's getting embarrassed. And that's not even getting into Carly's emotional manipulation of [[DoggedNiceGuy Fredd]][[TheWoobie ie...]]

** It doesn't help that the detectives and prosecutors tend to have a smug attitude most of the time. Almost veering into SmugSnake territory.

**** A bit false, though he counts as a DH. Locke was pretty clearly connected to the island from the very beginning, regardless of his actions. [[spoiler: As the final season illustrates, pretty much all the main characters were.]]

* Judge Harry Stone from ''NightCourt'' was a straight-up hero throughout the entire show, except for a single episode, where a high-class brothel is raided and their records are seized. The madam begs Harry to make the case disappear, since she doesn't want her clients to be swept up in the sting, arguing that they are good men who were nice to the prostitutes and don't deserve the stigma. Nonetheless, they were still visiting prostitutes, many of them were married, and often shared highly sensitive details of their work with the girls. For some reason Harry agonises over this until he realises that the clients, many of whom were wealthy and powerful men, including politicians and military commanders, have friends in high places that can make it go away for him. So he contacts the Pentagon and an Admiral quickly arrives to take the records in the name of security. This is portrayed as a happy ending, apparently using political corruption to cover up the adultery and serious security breaches of the country's leaders is okay if said leaders were polite to the prostitutes they visited.
** What's worse is that this was extremely out of character for Harry, who was consistently portrayed as kind and compassionate to the people he judged, but ultimately a stickler for the law; often ruling against his friends, family or childhood idols if it was his duty.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': Has Jim & Pam, who are supposed to be normal, but are actually kinda pricks. Jim knew he wasn't supposed to upset Andy when he was at Stamford, but he did, and he did it again at Scranton. He picked on Andy - someone he ''knew'' had anger management issues - enough to make him punch a hole in the wall. He even probably endangered Pam in helping too. Between the two of them, they were lusting after each other, regardless of the feelings of the people they were involved with. They also broke company policy in the baby shower ep with the bluetooth and making themselves noticeable enough to warrant investigation ([[FridgeBrilliance though considering how lax Michael is with office policy, he probably let it slide]]). Sometimes Jim's pranks on Dwight go too far (enough to give him a bit of a HeroicBSOD when regaling). The writers do notice this sometimes, especially in later seasons. A few episode show Jim being embarrassed by his immaturity, and show Dwight as more of a victim. This depiction is closer to the UK version, where Tim and Dawn were often presented as immature bullies, and not just playful jokers.
* ''Promised Land'': Shamaya Taggert from the ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' spin off. You're supposed to like this character, but she come off as a bitter self righteous pretentious prick.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': After a few seasons, both of the Winchester brothers slaughter hundreds of demons killing their human hosts in the process even when they have the knowledge and opportunity to perform an exorcism which would save the host. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Unless it's someone they know who's possessed]].

* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': It's easy to sympathize with her backstory, which includes ParentalAbandonment, rape and subsequent social exile. It's not so easy to actually ''like'' her, as she's incredibly manipulative, enables various illegal actions throughout the series (including the kidnapping of a baby), uses her friends as pawns (sometimes putting their lives in danger) and is just outright ''mean'' to most people she speaks to on a regular basis. One could make a solid argument that the only difference between Veronica and the [[AlphaBitch popular crowd]] she was once part of is that fact that she's directing her manipulative tendencies into a profession which ostensibly helps people -- notably, her behavior worsens in season three when she has no central mystery to solve. It must be pointed out, however, that this was part and parcel of what many fans saw as the show's degeneration after season one. In the first season, Veronica seemed genuinely good and kind under her understandably gruff exterior, and seemed to genuinely care for the people she helped. It was in the subsequent seasons that she really became a hero in name only.

* ''Series/DawsonsCreek'': Dawson. He normally acts like a spoiled, self-centred [=Jerkass=], especially in Season 3. After he himself rejected Joey, he is furious when she falls in love with Pacey. He forces her to choose between their friendship and Pacey, alienates Pacey and tries to win Joey back in an increasingly manipulative, underhand way. (Including almost killing Pacey in a sailing race, lying to Joey about renewing their friendship and tricking Joey to going to the prom with him). All of this is treated as a normal competition to 'win the girl'.

* ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'': The title character's wife becomes this in the later seasons, as the show devoted ever-increasing amounts of screentime to the war between her and her mother-in-law, and kept trying to shill her as the heroine. What made it really ridiculous was the fact that her behavior was ''exactly the same as the mother-in-law's'' (i.e., bullying other family members, being arrogant and condescending,etc.), which made it really hard to actually root for her, as there seemed to be no real difference between the two characters. In fact, the wife's behavior was arguably even ''worse'' than her mother-in-law's, because she physically and emotionally abused her husband in virtually every episode of the mid-to-later seasons.

* ''FlashForward2009'': Mark Benford. Many perceive him to be a major-league [=Jerkass=] to his coworkers, his family, and everyone. ''See:'' giving his wife huge amounts of shit for seeing herself sleeping with another man in her FlashForward, yet lying to her about his own (he was drinking in his); routinely flouting international law and direct orders from his boss, but unlike other Screw The Rules types, he doesn't really accomplish anything by doing so; having his hands superglued to the IdiotBall (best example: [[spoiler: shooting an assassin who has what is obviously a unit tattoo]]); and as the promo for the post-hiatus episodes shows, [[spoiler: accusing Demetri of being a mole]].
* ''TheFollowing'': Both the main character as well as the [=FBI=] are incredibly incompetent and act like idiots. Ryan Hardy, TheHero, thinks that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he and only he]] can take down SerialKiller Joe Carroll and his cult of maniacs, to the point where he ends up getting several police officers and innocent people harmed or killed and getting furious when anyone but him crosses the line to save their loved ones, as well as playing the very role Carroll wants him to play in the first place; on the other hand, the Feds aren't much better, repeatedly underestimating both Hardy and the cult and making many stupid mistakes. Both Hardy and the Feds also fail to consider that if Joe had people watching both his family ''and'' his only surviving victim, [[spoiler: then he might have had someone watching Ryan as well- this last one gets Hardy stabbed and Claire killed.]] The only reason the good guys win is that the cult turns out to be just as self-sabotaging themselves in the long run, but at least the cult has the excuse that they are all AxCrazy; Hardy and the Feds are just selfish and stupid.

* ''Promised Land'': Shamaya Taggert from the ''TouchedByAnAngel'' spin off. You're supposed to like this character, but she come off as a bitter self righteous pretentious prick.

* ''The Secret Life of Us'': Series 2 turned the character of Gabrielle into a serious [=Jerkass=]. She starts an affair with Dominic, a married man with two young children, and gets him to leave his wife Francesca for her, saying that because she loves him so, ''so'' much this is all justified. When Francesca shouts at Gabrielle and calls her selfish, she has the barefaced cheek to complain that Francesca is victimizing her, and then she breaks up with Dominic for ''spending too much time trying to comfort his heartbroken children'', rather than forgetting them and focusing all his time on her. A short time later Dominic, who has tried and failed to make things work with his wife because he can't forget Gabrielle, tries to win her back, and she says she has gotten used to being on her own, even though she caused all this pain on the grounds that she supposedly loved him so much. Despite this, neither Gabrielle or any other character apart from Francesca says anything about how selfish, fickle and destructive her actions are, and she is still depicted as a likable character the audience should root for and empathize with.

* ''{{Series/Survivor}}'' had this trope mentioned by [[Characters/SurvivorTocantins Tyson]] [[Characters/SurvivorHeroesvsVillains Apostol]] in [[Characters/SurvivorBloodVsWater Blood vs Water]] at the Final Tribal, saying he wasn't a villain and that "If you aren't the villain, you have to be the hero"
* ''TrueBlood'': The vampires. Bill killed many people with Lorena and has deliberately killed people even in the present day. Every vampire we've met we know for a fact have killed at least one human, and many of these vamps we know have killed more than that. Even "saintly" Godric killed Eric's 2 best friends before turning Eric into a vamp. And thanks to Jessica killing a man soon after she became a vampire, there's now no vampire we can definitely state has never killed a human. The Authority might be seen as a benevolent influence... except as their Arbiter they appointed a nasty [[FantasticRacism "humans-are-inferior-to-vampires" bigot]] who regarded the fact Bill killed a vampire to save the life of a human as making Bill's crime of killing the vampire worse, not better, and as punishment had a terrified teenaged girl (Jessica) kidnapped and forcibly turned into a vampire by Bill. And we're supposed to be rooting for the vampires and their integration with humans because why, exactly?

* ''{{Victorious}}'': Tori Vega. In the first episode, she gets revenge on the AlphaBitch by kissing her boyfriend. That wouldn't be too bad if she hadn't done it ''again'' in another episode (This time it was actually a good friend of hers). In one episode, she left her friend behind at a Sushi bar because she selfishly wanted to return to class. Earlier, he did something nice for her by treating her.
* ''TheWire'': Jimmy [=McNulty=], the closest thing this show has to a central character, discusses this trope in-universe with regards to his (oftentimes morally questionable) behavior.

*** What pushed the line for most viewers was when Elliot intentionally caused a man to have a ''Psychotic Break'' so the law can force him to go on medication. And Dr. Hong (the psychiatrist) is treated as a traitor when he rightfully objected and decided to become the defense's expert witness witness.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': After a few seasons, both of the Winchester brothers slaughter hundreds of demons killing their human hosts in the process even when they have the knowledge and opportunity to perfom an exorcism wich would save the host. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Unless it's someone they know who's possessed]].

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': After a few seasons, both of the Winchester brothers slaughter hundreds of demons killing their human hosts in the process even when they have the knowledge and opportunity to perfom an exorcism wich would save the host. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Unless it's someone they know who's possessed]].
** Dean is physically and emotionally abusive to Sam and Cas; he blatantly disregards Sam's wishes and violates his autonomy; he never accepts responsibility for what he's done; and he constantly blames Sam for everything that ever goes wrong, even after Sam threw himself into Lucifer's cage with two angry archangels in order to fix his mistakes. He broke the first seal by ''torturing souls in hell'' and it was mentioned once and forgiven immediately, whereas Sam breaking the last seal by killing Lilith, something far less morally reprehensible, was seen as something that needed to be atoned for and was brought up again and again, even several seasons later.
** Sam can fall into this as well, mostly in season 8, where he decides to retire from hunting and stop caring about [[spoiler: Dean being trapped in Purgatory and Kevin captured by Crowley]] yet it was presented as a mature decision for the character.

** TheFederation often veers into this territory DependingOnTheWriter due to the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] causing them to routinely let entire species go extinct, despite being in a position to avert such disasters; all whilst touting it as the "[[AppealToNature Natural Order]]" and the morally superior thing to do.