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* ''Franchise/StargateVerse'':
** The main characters of ''Series/StargateSG1'' are, when you boil it down to its essence, waging a secret war that affects the whole planet, most of whom are not allowed to know about it. By the later seasons, this included the US President weighing in to kill a journalist's story on the ''giant space cruiser'' that citizens are not supposed to know their taxes are funding.
** The Atlantis Expedition in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' spends most of its time cack-handedly bumbling around starting problems, with a side order of ethically dubious science projects. It is perhaps worth noting that the first episode where the problem of the week is neither caused nor significantly exacerbated by the actions of the Atlantis Expedition doesn't come along until ''halfway through season three'', by which time they have reawakened an armada of space vampires, performed an experiment on one of those vampires without consent, and blown up a significant chunk of a solar system. One episode has the people of the Pegasus Galaxy actively put them on trial, and it's solved not by them actually making a good case for their presence making anything better, but by Woolsey figuring out which of the adjudicators is being bribed and coming up with a better offer.
** The main characters of ''Series/StargateSG1'' are, when you boil it down to its essence, waging a secret war that affects the whole planet, most of whom are not allowed to know about it. By the later seasons, this included the US President weighing in to kill a journalist's story on the ''giant space cruiser'' that citizens are not supposed to know their taxes are funding.
** The Atlantis Expedition in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' spends most of its time cack-handedly bumbling around starting problems, with a side order of ethically dubious science projects. It is perhaps worth noting that the first episode where the problem of the week is neither caused nor significantly exacerbated by the actions of the Atlantis Expedition doesn't come along until ''halfway through season three'', by which time they have reawakened an armada of space vampires, performed an experiment on one of those vampires without consent, and blown up a significant chunk of a solar system. One episode has the people of the Pegasus Galaxy actively put them on trial, and it's solved not by them actually making a good case for their presence making anything better, but by Woolsey figuring out which of the adjudicators is being bribed and coming up with a better offer.
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** ''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 who died before Season 7. The "Equinox" two-parter is often seen as the worst because the ''Equinox'' was much worse off than ''Voyager'', 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 a lot of flack after 8472 were {{Retcon}}ned from ScaryDogmaticAliens apparently 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.
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** ''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 opportunities 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 who died before Season 7. The "Equinox" two-parter is often seen as the worst because the ''Equinox'' was much worse off than ''Voyager'', 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 a lot of flack after 8472 were {{Retcon}}ned from ScaryDogmaticAliens apparently 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.
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* ''Series/{{Moesha}}'': Upon rewatching the series, Frank and even Moesha come off as this. Frank for his overprotective tendencies (even SlutShaming Moesha for a tattoo) and cheating on his late wife, along with enabling Moesha's bratty behavior towards Dee. Moesha for her behavior to Dee and how she looks down on her friends, especially Kim.
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* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'': Jason from "Bad Egg" is introduced as a trouble-making, smartmouth brat who everyone looks down on, but the episode wants us to see him as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold forming a strong friendship with a monster who everyone judges as evil like he is. Eventually, the baby monster helps him grow as a better person thanks to the power of their friendship. Unfortunately, Jason does not make himself look completely innocent when he goes out of his way to annoy his parents, picks on his little brother (who ''does'' like him), causes even more problems while trying to save the baby monster, increases issues for the government agents who are trying to prevent the creatures from being loose on the public, and by the end has no shred of regret for any of his actions and promises to cause ''even more mischief'' with his pet monster at military school. Not exactly traits one would give to a lovable kid hero.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Lady Christina de Souza, the ClassyCatBurglar from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet of the Dead]]". She is meant to be a heroic companion figure, but arguably nothing she does is particularly heroic -- only self-preservation. She is introduced stealing a museum artifact and doesn't seem at all unhappy that her possible boyfriend gets arrested. 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. To add insult to injury, in ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW she still gets away with committing crimes after leaving Earth.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Lady Christina de Souza, the ClassyCatBurglar from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet of the Dead]]". She is meant to be a heroic companion figure, but arguably nothing she does is particularly heroic -- only self-preservation. She is introduced stealing a museum artifact and doesn't seem at all unhappy that her possible boyfriend gets arrested. 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. To add insult to injury, in ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW she still gets away with committing crimes after leaving Earth.
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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'':Lady Christina de Souza, the ClassyCatBurglar from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet of the Dead]]". She is meant to be a heroic companion figure, but arguably nothing she does is particularly heroic -- only self-preservation. She is introduced stealing a museum artifact and doesn't seem at all unhappy that her possible boyfriend gets arrested. 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. To add insult to injury, in ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW she still gets away with committing crimes after leaving Earth.
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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'':Lady ''Series/DoctorWho'': Lady Christina de Souza, the ClassyCatBurglar from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet of the Dead]]". She is meant to be a heroic companion figure, but arguably nothing she does is particularly heroic -- only self-preservation. She is introduced stealing a museum artifact and doesn't seem at all unhappy that her possible boyfriend gets arrested. 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. To add insult to injury, in ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW she still gets away with committing crimes after leaving Earth.
