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* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Fire Lord Ozai asks Zuko (who spent most of season 2 WalkingTheEarth) how best to take care of the [[TheRemnant the remaining pockets of resistance in the Earth Kingdom]]. Zuko thinks that the resistances are stubborn like rocks and won't give up as long as they have hope. Zuko ''meant'' 'you're never going to be able to terrorize them into submission and should seek to pacify them diplomatically', but Azula thinks he means 'the best way to stop them is to terrorize them ''more'' until their will is completely broken' and suggests using Sozin's Comet to commit genocide against them. Ozai actually liking Azula's solution finally clues Zuko in that Ozai is a CompleteMonster and that the Fire Nation's campaign of world conquest is totally unjustifiable.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur gets [[WhatTheHellHero a lot flack from his parents and peers]] for hitting D.W. in retaliation for breaking his model plane. He focuses entirely on the fact that he constantly reminded D.W. not to touch it, failing to realize their point is that hitting his sister is still not an appropriate response. It takes Binky (who was pressured by the Tough Customers) hitting him [[JerkassRealization to finally realize his mistake]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'', season 1 finale "Devourer of Light": driven by fear that the French Revolution will spell the end of the church, Abbot Emmanuel has thrown in his lot with the vampire queen Erszabet Báthory, who promises a return of the "natural order", which he interprets as the church returned to a position of power. To that end, he prepares his daughter, Maria Renard, as a sacrifice for Erszabet. When Richter Belmont leads his friends -- including Maria's mother, Tera -- on a mission to rescue Maria and stop Erszabet's plot, Emmanuel fights back against them, quoting the ''Binding of Isaac'', a story from the Book of Genesis that tells of Abraham, who had been commanded by God to make a sacrifice of his son Isaac, as justification for sacrificing Maria. Tera pointedly fires back that God stopped Abraham from carrying out Isaac's death and offered a ram to sacrifice instead. In the end, with Erszabet too powerful to stop and with no alternative, Tera offers herself in Maria's place as a sacrifice to Erszabet, telling Emmanual "''I'' am the ram!"
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' season 2 premiere "Arts 'N Crass" had Daria and Jane tasked with submitting a painting meant to represent student life. Daria, being TheCynic, gets the idea to submit a painting of a pretty girl with a poem explaining she [[WeightWoe maintained that beauty through bulimia]]. Even after having it explained to them, their cheerful English teacher and DeanBitterman Mr. O'Neill and Ms. Li struggled to understand the negative message and tried to get them to change it despite the entire point being the juxtaposition of beautiful imagery with a darker underlying theme. Although to his credit, Mr. O'Neill [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure attempted to meet them halfway]] by suggesting a MissedMealAesop to lighten the tone but the two refused to compromise.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans "A Tale of Two Stans"]], [[spoiler:During Stan and Ford's final argument before the latter is sent into an alternate universe, the final straw in Stan's argument that Ford is putting his ambitions before his family is that Ford is "selfishly hoarding" his grant money instead of using it to help his family. Stan, a high school dropout and con man, doesn't realize that this is the one instance where Ford really can't do anything, because [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that isn't how grant money works]]. The people who ''gave'' Ford the grant money would be monitoring Ford's expenses quite closely to make sure that he wasn't embezzling from them by spending the money on anything but the project he said it was for, which unfortunately for both Stans includes using it to help his family.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 17, Kaeloo [[ForcefulKiss forces several kisses on Mr. Cat]] offscreen and she thinks it's okay because "kissing isn't violent". She tries to explain this to Mr. Cat... who is sitting in TroubledFetalPosition with a disturbed facial expression, clearly feeling violated.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Shining Knight (a time-displaced Aurthurian knight) faces off against the KnightTemplar General Eiling, and tries to get him to come to his senses and realize that following orders isn't always the right option by relating a story of when Arthur gave him a SecretTestOfCharacter by ordering him to destroy a village, which Shining Knight disobeyed because he knew that would be an evil act and not something [[TheGoodKing Arthur]] would have wanted. Eiling retorts that Shining Knight is clearly not a good soldier, ignoring the point that what Arthur wanted was to make sure that Shining Knight would, of his own accord, make the right choice in a ToBeLawfulOrGood situation.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "Stormy Weather 2", Nathalie, Gabriel Agreste's assistant, reveals in an InternalMonologue that she admires Gabriel's commitment to his family. Of course, this is ignoring that Gabriel is an emotionally abusive ControlFreak whose "commitment" is damaging to everyone involved.

* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': In "Radical New Equipment," the gang encounters a group of winter sports athletes with different physical impairments, such as blindness and paralysis. Reggie is particularly impressed by Lizzie, a girl with a prosthetic leg, and tries to strike up a friendship, only to treat her like a helpless child. Hoping to help Reggie understand that Lizzie is not helpless because of her disability. Reggie's father, Ray, and honorary uncle Tito tell her a story about their friend Leonard "The Lizard" Brady; he used to be the best surfer around until he lost his eyesight. All his friends felt sorry for him because he could not surf anymore, until one day at night, he was able to surf in the dark with no problem. Tito explains that Brady did not let anything stop him from living his life to the fullest. He even uses his blindness to his advantage. Reggie got that Lizzie is making the best of a bad situation, and left before Ray and Tito explain the real lesson that she should've learned.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Kenny Dies" (with a semi-parody tone), where the boys are told Kenny is diagnosed with a terminal disease. "[[ChildrenAreInnocent But he's gonna get better, right?]]" inquires Stan. Somber music plays in the background as the adults exchange saddened looks.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E10GhostsOfGeonosis "Ghosts of]] [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E11GhostsOfGeonosisPartII Geonosis"]], the rebels exploring the titular GhostPlanet find a surviving Geonosian. When they ask him what the Empire was doing at the planet, all he does is draw a circle inside of a circle, clearly representative of [[EarthShatteringKaboom a]] [[ThatsNoMoon certain]] {{superweapon}}. Due to the LanguageBarrier, however, the rebels can only misinterpret the images, ultimately concluding that Klik-Klak was drawing the poison gas canisters they find at the bottom of a shaft.

** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E3OffColors "Off Colors"]], [[spoiler:Lars saves the Off Colors from the Shattering Robonoids by blocking their scanners with his body and beating them with a rock. He finishes off the last one by jumping on top of it and jamming a pointed rock in its "eye", causing it to [[MadeOfExplodium blow up]]. He gets flung into a wall with a nasty ''"CRACK"'' and falls thirty feet to the ground. The Off Colors, who are used to Gems' SuperToughness, start celebrating and praise his heroism... while Steven starts to panic because he knows that humans can't just walk off those sorts of hits. Sure enough, when he checks Lars's pulse, [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath it isn't there]], and he starts sobbing because he knows he's just lost a friend.]]

** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E10PricklyPair Prickly Pair]]", where Steven vents his bottled-up feelings to a sentient cactus, who ends up [[NotInFrontOfTheParrot causing problems when it starts parroting Steven's words]]. Steven realizes that using the creature as an emotional outlet was a mistake, but what he takes away from the experience is that he shouldn't talk about his problems ''at all''.
** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E15MrUniverse Mr. Universe]]", in which Steven is upset upon learning his father ran away from a comparatively mundane life and ended up raising his son with limitless freedom, along with not giving Steven the basic necessities he should have had growing up like schooling. Greg's reasoning is that his parents were emotionally controlling, whereas Steven points out that they might have had their reasons for their actions and how Greg's decision [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting to raise his son in the opposite manner]] resulted in Steven having no idea what to do with his life and his inability to connect with people anymore. After Steven yells and crashes the van, Greg says he's proud of Steven for speaking up as he himself never had the courage to do that with his own father. If this were any other scenario, this would be heartwarming. However, it's clear Greg doesn't realize Steven isn't acting out or expressing his individuality, he's furious at his father for essentially running away from a normal family and not giving Steven any structure, [[BrokenPedestal cementing in his mind]] Greg is a ManChild who was not fit to raise him. Saying he's proud of Steven just made it worse.

** The Conductor. [[spoiler:Or, rather, Amelia. Towards the end of Book 1, we learn that, much like every other passenger, she found herself aboard the train after a traumatic event. However, after learning about the purpose of the train and its inner workings, her (admittedly justified) questions about how no one there consented to adventure therapy give way to an insistence that she should be allowed to use the science of the train to bring her husband back to life instead of working through her issues, too enveloped with grief to see any issues with this.]] The result of reaching for this goal is three decades of suffering and confusion for the denizens of the train, both directly and indirectly.
** The reason for Season 3's conflict is that Grace decided that [[AnimatedTattoo numbers]] going up was a ''good'' thing (the actual goal is to get your numbers down to 0 via CharacterDevelopment so you can leave the train) and taught this to her Apex cult, resulting in them [[VirtueIsWeakness venerating bad behavior and refusal to move on from trauma]]. By around the midpoint of Season 3, she's started to learn that she was wrong. Unfortunately for everyone, while her friend Simon gets to learn the same lessons as her, he instead concludes that [[spoiler:her number going down was a bad thing purely because it meant they were growing further apart (because she was developing as a person while he remained selfish), so he decided that the only thing for it was to ''kill'' Grace if he couldn't make her return to her old self.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SantaInc'': Candy wants to be the first female and elf to become the new Santa, and to that end she's fixated on that goal. However, she's also very rude, irritable and uninterested in getting along with others, which hurts in the one area most important. [[spoiler:As being Santa means being a FriendToAllChildren, Candy's guaranteed success was shot down when Santa saw she hated being around kids and scared them away to Devin, who's genuine good relationship with them made Santa decide to give him the position instead. She fails to understand why this is so important until Santa tells her that getting along with kids is the number one aspect he needs in a successor, but Candy's insistence she can learn makes it clear she sees it more like a minor job requirement rather than ''the'' key aspect of the job. When Santa instead offers her the role of [[BehindEveryMan being the brains of the Santa Inc.]] while Devin becomes the face as the new Santa, she rejects this and curses him out.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'', season 1 finale "Devourer of Light": driven by fear that the French Revolution will spell the end of the church, Abbot Emmanuel has thrown in his lot with the vampire queen Erszabet Báthory, who promises a return of the "natural order", which he interprets as the church returned to a position of power. To that end, he prepares his daughter, Maria Renard, as a sacrifice for Erszabet. When Richter Belmont leads his friends -- including Maria's mother, Tera -- on a mission to rescue Maria and stop Erszabet's plot, Emmanuel fights back against them, quoting the ''Binding of Isaac'', a story from the Book of Genesis that tells of Abraham, who had been commanded by God to make a sacrifice of his son Isaac, as justification for sacrificing Maria. Tera pointedly fires back that God stopped Abraham from carrying out Isaac's death and offered a ram to sacrifice instead. In the end, with Erszabet too powerful to stop and with no alternative, Tera offers herself in Maria's place as a sacrifice to Erszabet, telling emanual "''I'' am the ram!"

* ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'', season 1 finale "Devourer of Light": driven by fear that the French Revolution will spell the end of the church, Abbot Emmanuel has thrown in his lot with the vampire queen Erszabet Báthory, who promises a return of the "natural order", which he interprets as the church returned to a position of power. To that end, he prepares his daughter, Maria Renard, as a sacrifice for Erszabet. When Richter Belmont leads his friends -- including Maria's mother, Tera -- on a mission to rescue Maria and stop Erszabet's plot, Emmanuel fights back against them, quoting the ''Binding of Isaac'', a story from the Book of Genesis that tells of Abraham, who had been commanded by God to make a sacrifice of his son Isaac, as justification for sacrificing Maria. Tera pointedly points out that God stopped Abraham from carrying out Isaac's death and offered a ram to sacrifice instead. In the end, with Erszabet too powerful to stop and with no alternative, Tera offers herself in Maria's place as a sacrifice to Erszabet, telling emanual "''I'' am the ram!"

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' season 2 premiere "Arts 'N Crass" had Daria and Jane tasked with submitting a painting meant to represent student life. Daria, being TheCynic, gets the idea to submit a painting of a pretty girl with a poem explaining she [[WeightWoe maintained that beauty through bulimia]]. Even after having it explained to them, their cheerful English teacher and stern principal Mr. O'Neill and Ms. Li struggled to understand the negative message and tried to get them to change it despite the entire point being the juxtaposition of beautiful imagery with a darker underlying theme. Although to his credit, Mr. O'Neill [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure attempted to meet them halfway]] by suggesting a MissedMealAesop to lighten the tone but the two refused to compromise.

** The reason for Season 3's conflict is that Grace decided that [[AnimatedTattoo numbers]] going up was a ''good'' thing (the actual goal is to get your numbers down to 0 via CharacterDevelopment so you can leave the train) and taught this to her Apex cult, resulting in them [[VirtueIsWeakness venerating bad behavior and refusal to move on from trauma]]. By around the midpoint of Season 3, she's started to learn that she was wrong. Unfortunately for everyone, her friend Simon sees her number going down and that his friend's attitude is changing and worries that she's no longer the person he befriended. He gets to learn the same things she does about the true nature of the numbers, but [[spoiler:he decides to ''completely ignore'' all of the implications in favor of focusing how Grace's number going down meant leaving him (because he absolutely refused to acknowledge he might be wrong about the numbers, but details), so he decides that if he can't make her change her mind, he'll just have to kill her instead.]]

** Simon. During the second half of Book 3, he becomes worried about the growing rift between him and his lifelong friend Grace, and concludes that the problem is that [[AnimatedTattoo her number]] is going down instead of up. By this point, Grace herself as realized that her number decreasing is probably a good thing, which two other characters confirm when questioned. However, all Simon gets from these conversations is that his best friend is becoming a very different person and is abandoning him in the process, and so decides that [[spoiler:if he can't make her return to her old mindset, he'll have to simply get rid of her]].

** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E3OffColors "Off Colors"]], [[spoiler:Lars saves the Off Colors from the Shattering Robonoids by blocking their scanners with his body and beating them with a rock. He finishes off the last one by jumping on top of it and jamming a pointed rock in its "eye", causing it to [[MadeOfExplodium blow up]]. He gets flung into a wall with a nasty ''"CRACK"'' and falls thirty feet to the ground. The Off Colors immediately start celebrating and praising his bravery while Steven panics because ''[[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Lars isn't moving]]''. He immediately checks Lars's vitals, and [[TearJerker starts to sob]] when [[HeroicSacrifice he can't find a heartbeat]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans "A Tale of Two Stans"]], [[spoiler:During Stan and Ford's final argument before the latter is sent into an alternate universe, Stan angrily accuses Ford of “selfishly hoarding” his grant money rather than helping out Stan or their parents. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that’s not how grant money works, and Ford’s expenditures would’ve been]] ''[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome very]]'' [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome closely monitored so as to make sure that they didn’t get abused in any such way]]. On the other hand, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified given Stan dropped out of high school]] and may not know this. On the other hand, he is actually correct in a more general sense; namely that Ford had spent his life in pursuit of his ambitions rather than help those who got him there, especially since Ford would end up causing a lot of trouble for it, (especially [[GoMadFromTheRevelation McGucket]].) When he finally contacted Stan, it was over a decade later and was to ask him for a favor, not bothering to see how Stan himself was]].
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'':

* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Fire Lord Ozai asks Zuko (who spent most of season 2 WalkingTheEarth) how best to take care of the [[TheRemnant the remaining pockets of resistance in the Earth Kingdom]]. Zuko thinks that the resistances are stubborn like rocks and won't give up as long as they have hope, which Azula and Ozai take to mean that they should just [[KillItWithFire burn it all to the ground]], whereas Zuko was going to suggest a more diplomatic approach.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Shining Knight (a time-displaced Aurthurian knight) faces off against the KnightTemplar General Ellis, and tries to get him to come to his senses and realize that following orders isn't always the right option by relating a story of when Arthur gave him a SecretTestOfCharacter by ordering him to destroy a village, which Shining Knight disobeyed because he knew that would be an evil act and not something [[TheGoodKing Arthur]] would have wanted. Ellis retorts that Shining Knight is clearly not a good soldier, ignoring the point that what Arthur wanted was to make sure that Shining Knight would, of his own accord, make the right choice in a ToBeLawfulOrGood situation.

** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E15MrUniverse Mr. Universe]], in which Steven is upset upon learning his father ran away from a comparatively mundane life and ended up raising his son with limitless freedom, along with not giving Steven the basic necessities he should have had growing up like schooling. Greg's reasoning is that his parents were emotionally controlling, whereas Steven points out that they might have had their reasons for their actions and how Greg's decision [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting to raise his son in the opposite manner]] resulted in Steven having no idea what to do with his life and his inability to connect with people anymore. After Steven yells and crashes the van, Greg says he's proud of Steven for speaking up as he himself never had the courage to do that with his own father. If this were any other scenario, this would be heartwarming. However, it's clear Greg doesn't realize Steven isn't acting out or expressing his individuality, he's furious at his father for essentially running away from a normal family and not giving Steven any structure, [[BrokenPedestal cementing in his mind]] Greg is a ManChild who was not fit to raise him. Saying he's proud of Steven just made it worse.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans "A Tale of Two Stans"]], [[spoiler:During Stan and Ford's final argument before the latter is sent into an alternate universe, Stan angrily accuses Ford of “selfishly hoarding” his grant money rather than helping out Stan or their parents. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that’s not how grant money works, and Ford’s expenditures would’ve been]] ''[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome very]]'' [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome closely monitored so as to make sure that they didn’t get abused in any such way]]. On the other hand, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified given Stan dropped out of high school]] and may not know this. On the other hand, he is actually correct in a more general sense; namely that Ford had spent his life in pursuit of his ambitions rather than help those who got him there, especially since Ford would end up causing a lot of trouble for it, (especially [[GoMadFromTheRevelation McGucket]].) When he finally contacted Stan, it was over a decade and ask him for a favor, not bothering to see how Stan himself was]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur gets [[WhatTheHellHero a lot flack from his parents and peers]] for hitting D.W. in retaliation for breaking his model plane. He focuses entirely on the fact that he constantly reminded D.W. not to touch it, failing to realize their point is that hitting his sister is still not an appropriate response. It took Binky (who was pressured by the Tough Customers) hitting him that [[JerkassRealization makes realize his mistake]].

** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E15MrUniverse Mr. Universe]], in which Steven is upset upon learning his father ran away from a comparatively mundane life and ended up raising his son with limitless freedom, along with not giving Steven the basic necessities he should have had growing up like schooling. Greg's reasoning is that his parents were emotionally controlling, whereas Steven points out that they might have had their reasons for their actions and how Greg's decision [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting to raise his son in the opposite manner]] resulted in Steven having no idea what to do with his life and his inability to connect with people anymore. After Steven yells and crashes the van, Greg says he's proud of Steven for speaking up as he himself never had the courage to do that. If this were any other scenario, this would be heartwarming. However, it's clear Greg doesn't realize Steven isn't acting out, he's furious at his father for essentially running away from a normal family and not giving Steven a normal life.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' has the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E10PricklyPair Prickly Pair]]", where Steven vents his bottled-up feelings to a sentient cactus, who ends up [[NotInFrontOfTheParrot causing problems when it starts parroting Steven's words]]. Steven realizes that using the creature as an emotional outlet was a mistake, but what he takes away from the experience is that he shouldn't talk about his problems ''at all''.

* ''WesternAnimation/SantaInc'': Candy wants to be the first female and elf to become the new Santa, and to that end she's fixated on that goal. However, she's also very rude, irritable and uninterested in getting along with others, which hurts in the one area most important. [[spoiler:As being Santa means being a FriendToAllChildren, Candy's guaranteed success was shot down when Santa saw she hated being around kids and scared them away to Devin, who's genuine good relationship with them made Santa decide to give him the position instead. She fails to understand why this is so important until Santa tells her that getting along with kids is the number one aspect he needs in a successor, but Candy's insistence she can learn makes it clear she sees it more like a minor job requirement rather than 'the'' key aspect of the job. When Santa instead offers her the role of [[BehindEveryMan being the brains of the Santa Inc.]] while Devin becomes the face as the new Santa, she rejects this and curses him out.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Shining Knight (a time-displaced Aurthurian knight) faces off against the KnightTemplar General Ellis, and tries to get him to come to his senses and realize that following orders isn't always the right option by relating a story of when Arthur gave him a SecretTestOfCharacter by ordering him to destroy a village, which Shining Knight disobeyed because he knew that would be an evil act and not something [[TheGoodKing Arthur]] would have wanted. Ellis retorts that Shining Knight is clearly not a good soldier, ignoring the point that what Arthur wanted was to make sure that Shining Knight would, of his own accord, make the right choice in a ToBeLawfulOrToBeGood situation.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", Twilight lectures Spike about all the trouble he's been causing because he's jealous of Owlowiscious, telling him "This is not the Spike I know and love!" A dejected Spike interprets this as meaning Twilight doesn't love him anymore, and prompts him to run away from home.

* ''WesternAnimation/SantaInc'': Candy wants to be the first female and elf to become the new Santa, and to that end she's fixated on that goal. However, she's also very rude, irritable and uninterested in getting along with others, which hurts in the one area most important. [[spoiler:As being Santa means being a FriendToAllChildren, Candy's guaranteed success was shot down when Santa saw she hated being around kids and scared them away to Devin, who's genuine good relationship with them gave him the position. She fails to understand why this is so important until Santa told her that getting along with kids is the number one aspect he needed in a successor. Candy's insistence she can learn makes it clear she sees it more like a standard job requirement like learning a skill rather than just genuinely being a good person. When Santa instead offers her the role of being the brains of the Santa Inc while Devin becomes the face as the new Santa, she rejects and acts like she was treated wrongly.]]

** The Homeworld Gems have performed experiments with [[FusionDance fusion]] as a means to strengthen their forces. Unfortunately, they see it as nothing but a power boost instead of a relationship. [[spoiler:By forcefully mashing together Gem shards]], all they have created are misshapen pitiful horrors. [[spoiler:So then they went "screw it" and used the results of their research to make a "fusion" out of ''millions'' of shards called the Cluster and stuck it in the Earth's core so that it will destroy the planet upon awakening.]]

** In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart Now We're Only Falling Apart]]", Sapphire is distraught upon finding out that [[spoiler:[[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond]], as she ended up believing that Rose was the [[BadBoss cruel]], [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] the Crystal Gems assumed they were supposed to shatter along with the other Diamonds, and she never looked into Rose or any of her intentions because she trusted Rose that much. Steven and Pearl eventually get her to realize how backwards Sapphire was thinking when Pearl explains why Pink Diamond did what she did to spare the Earth.]] Pearl's following flashback story reveals that when [[spoiler:Pink Diamond told Blue Diamond she wanted to save life on Earth from the damage Pink's colonization was causing, Blue created a PeopleZoo and put a few humans in, believing that that would appease her.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'':
** In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E4Volleyball Volleyball]]", Pearl thinks that White Diamond is the cause of Volleyball's scar, and refuses to believe that it was Pink Diamond.
** The episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E10PricklyPair Prickly Pair]]" has Steven venting his bottled-up feelings to a sentient cactus, [[NotInFrontOfTheParrot causing problems when it starts parroting Steven's words]]. Steven realizes that using his pet as an emotional punching bag was a mistake... But what he takes away from this experience is that he shouldn't talk about his problems ''at all''.
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' has an example in the form of Amelia. During the final episode it's revealed that much like the protagonist, she found herself aboard the train after a traumatic event. (the death of her husband), but rather than use the many environments to work through her emotional issues as is implied to be the train's very purpose, she asked the conductor to make a train car for her in which her husband was still alive. The conductor refused [[spoiler: so she rebelled and took control of the train herself.]] The number that denotes her progress has ascended so high that it's unlikely she'll ever be able to leave alive.