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* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' does some pretty unpleasant things to get Kilgrave, and is rather rude, sarcastic, and belligerent towards most people.

* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': In the pilot, Wonder Woman blows up a submarine, killing all on board. In "Anschluss 77", she [[TooPowerfulToLive kills the clone of Hitler]] by using her magic lasso to force the doctor to reverse the process.

* Summer Roberts from ''Series/TheOC'' can be bitchy, rude, and inconsiderate, but she also saves Christmas when needed.

* Mark Fallon on the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episodes "Setup" and "Countdown". He is a Homeland Security agent assigned to help track down a bomb. He is an [[KnightInSourArmor extremely dour]] sort but he is dedicated to his job and does it well. His dourness as it turns out comes from the fact that his wife was killed on 9-11.

* Proceeding Worf on this account would be none other than Spock of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Like most Vulcans he’s haughty, condescending (especially of humans) and coldly logical to near callous degrees and stubborn in his own way. A lot of the TOS crew aside from Kirk and Uhura have real trouble tolerating him ''especially'' Bones who often can’t stand him. Nonetheless Spock is a tremendously brave and noble officer and as ''Film/StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan'' shows someone who will [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice his own life]] to ensure his crewmates and friends survive. Dr Leonard “Bones” [=McCoy=] himself also counts, he’ll complain about everything under the sun and is even willingly to slap a pregnant woman in retaliation after she smacked him several times for just trying to check her bump, but he’s ultimately still a good man and loyal friend.

* ''Series/TheBoys'':

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'':

* ''Series/WonderWoman'': In the pilot, Wonder Woman blows up a submarine, killing all on board. In "Anschluss 77", she [[TooPowerfulToLive kills the clone of Hitler]] by using her magic lasso to force the doctor to reverse the process.

** Annie January aka Starlight (understandably) becomes this, haughty, headstrong and refusing to ever display any weakness or willingness to back down in light of what she’s suffered she comes off as harsh and cold to the extent even her boyfriend Hughie expresses how hard it is to be in a loving relationship with her. Yet Annie is still an unquestionably a good person and one of the few supers in the show who is actually TheCape.

** Lister is also this to a lesser degree, slobbish, lazy and thuggishly trouble making when given the chance, he is far from the noble and tragic figure supposedly the last human alive ought to be. But he’s still deeply heroic and caring to his friends with his worst nightmare being waking up and discovering he’s actually a Neo-Nazi dictator in a dystopia. Lister may be [[ThePigPen disgusting]] but he is unquestionably a good man.

* Proceeding Worf on this account would be none other than Spock of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Like most Vulcans he’s haughty, condescending (especially of humans) and coldly logical to near callous degrees and stubborn in his own way. A lot of the TOS crew aside from Kirk and Uhura have real trouble tolerating him ''especially'' Bones who often can’t stand him. Nonetheless Spock is a tremendously brave and noble officer and as ''Film/StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan'' shows someone who will [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice his own life]] to ensure his crewmates and friends survive. Dr Leonard “Bones” [=McCoy=] himself also counts, he’ll complain everything under the sun and is even willingly to slap a pregnant woman in retaliation after she smacked him several times for just trying to check her bump, but he’s ultimately still a good man and loyal friend.

** [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] with Reginald Hargreeves himself who similar to Professor X was aiming for this trope raising his adopted super children harshly with TrainingFromHell that was often ludicrously cruel [[WellIntentionedExtremist in attempt to prevent the apocalypse]]. Except all he managed to do was turn them into a bunch of severely troubled individuals traumatised by his methods to make them heroes and in one case [[spoiler:Vanya]] directly helped cause the apocalypse in the first place [[NiceJobBreakingItHero all because of his horrendous parenting]].

* Saul Tigh of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' is an unfriendly, grumpy bastard with an alcohol addiction and is the first to call out for the execution of a Cylon. He's also LawfulGood, fiercely loyal to his best friend and superior Bill Adama and is not afraid to sacrifice himself if necessary.

** [[LovableAlphaBitch Cordelia Chase]] on ''Buffy'' (and to a lesser degree on ''Series/{{Angel}}'') is selfish, abrasive, and, when not being ''intentionally'' rude, is still staggeringly tactless. On the other hand, when it comes to fighting the bad guys, she's as brave as anyone else, loyal, and brutally honest.

* And following this pattern, Dr. Reid Oliver from ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''. There's a reason why his FandomNickname was Dr. Series/{{House}}.
* Jon Taffer, the host of ''Series/{{Bar Rescue}}''.

** Adam, then a new companion of the Ninth Doctor's, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame winds up]] in a future news station and gets tempted at the prospect of using future knowledge in his relative present to make money. This indirectly endangers the Doctor, who nonetheless escapes unharmed. The Doctor's punishment? [[spoiler:Taking Adam back to the present with a future device in his head that opens panels to his brain whenever someone snaps their fingers. He tells Adam, a child genius who's seen the future first-hand, that if he wants to escape being dissected by the government for his future tech, he has to live a dull life]].