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* ''Film/FromBeyond'': Dr. Bloch is a cold {{Jerkass}} who constantly criticizes and berates Dr. Katherine [=McMichaels=] for using patients mainly for her experiments, and for unethical behavior. Bloch is entirely correct despite her abrasiveness. Of course, it's undermined by the fact that [[{{Hypocrite}} Bloch]] doesn't care about her patients where Katherine does, and that when Katherine is MistakenForInsane and remanded to Bloch's custody, Bloch subjects her to torturous electroshock therapy out of spite.
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*** When Peck returns as [[Film/GhostbustersFrozenEmpire Mayor of New York]] forty years later, he again raises valid concerns about the new Ghostbusters team- including Egon's daughter Callie and grandchildren Trevor and Phoebe- using Phoebe as a member of the team when she's fifteen years old and not getting paid, meaning the Ghostbusters are essentially violating child labour laws. However, once again Peck's potential validity is undermined by his attitude, ignoring how Phoebe is far from a regular teen and had already proven herself against Gozer back in Somerville.
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** When Gray is clearly upset by his parents' apparent decision to get a divorce, [[KickTheDog Zach's response is to tell his crying, distressed younger brother that he has toughen up]] and that it's not his choice what happens to their parents. It's pretty harsh but Zach is right that Gray will have to learn to deal with their parents divorcing and there's nothing he can do about it.
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--> '''Wormer:''' Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
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* ''Film/TheBounty'': Bligh is legally and probably ethically in the right throughout the film - he's correct that the men are neglecting their duties as sailors and that the junior officers are setting a bad example, and much of his discipline is aimed at ensuring the crew are fit and healthy because he is haunted by his experience on previous voyages of losing men to sickness. It's not his logic that turns everyone against him, it's his manner

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* ''Film/NotOkay'': Harper is rude, smug, and by her own admission jealous of the attention Danni gets after the attack, but she's the only one of Danni's colleagues who notices something suspicious about Danni's story. When confronting her with the evidence, Harper reminds Danni people were killed in the attacks.

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Harper is rude, smug, and by her own admission jealous of the attention Danni gets after the attack, but she's the only one of Danni's colleagues who notices something suspicious about Danni's story. When confronting her with the evidence, Harper reminds Danni people were killed in the attacks.attacks.
** [[spoiler: Danni's mother is very cold to her after she's forced to move back in after getting doxxed, but both she and her husband have been recieving death threats and accusations that they were involved in Danni's lie, which, considering how both of them were actually just as fooled as everybody else was, is a very understandable thing to be frustrated about. Danni's mother is also not wrong to point out that Danni's life is most likely ruined by the lie, considering how nobody would trust somebody who lied about something huge ever again]].
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** Despite acting like an angry, high-horsed [[{{Jerkass}} dick]] and despite his vengeance-fueled insistence that ''all'' the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] should be indiscriminately killed in their sleep (which [[WrongAssumption clashes with this film's]] GreenAesop), [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]] is proven quite right that Monarch's containment measures won't be nearly enough to stop the Titans from breaking free and causing devastation if they awaken. When King Ghidorah's call enslaves all the Titans at once, they have no problem tearing apart the containment facilities Monarch have built around them.
** [[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah Alan Jonah]] may be a murderous MisanthropeSupreme who engineers most of the film's events and is willing to let the Titans kill ''the whole world'' under King Ghidorah's command, but he's 100% right when he loudly and harshly chides Madison for being a WideEyedIdealist, [[spoiler:who bought every word her [[SanitySlippage deranged]] and [[AbusiveMom manipulative mother]] spoon-fed her without listening to her own heart and conscience sooner]]; and when he criticizes Emma [[spoiler:for not indoctrinating Madison into their plan properly before she made her daughter a part of an EcoTerrorist plot to kill millions of people that their team now has to lag around on their every delicate mission]].

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** Despite acting like an angry, high-horsed [[{{Jerkass}} dick]] and despite his vengeance-fueled insistence that ''all'' the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] should be indiscriminately killed in their sleep (which [[WrongAssumption clashes with this film's]] GreenAesop), [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell [[Characters/MonsterVerseRussellFamily Mark Russell]] is proven quite right that Monarch's containment measures won't be nearly enough to stop the Titans from breaking free and causing devastation if they awaken. When King Ghidorah's call enslaves all the Titans at once, they have no problem tearing apart the containment facilities Monarch have built around them.
** [[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists Alan Jonah]] may be a murderous MisanthropeSupreme who engineers most of the film's events and is willing to let the Titans kill ''the whole world'' under King Ghidorah's command, but he's 100% right when he loudly and harshly chides Madison for being a WideEyedIdealist, [[spoiler:who bought every word her [[SanitySlippage deranged]] and [[AbusiveMom manipulative mother]] spoon-fed her without listening to her own heart and conscience sooner]]; and when he criticizes Emma [[spoiler:for not indoctrinating Madison into their plan properly before she made her daughter a part of an EcoTerrorist plot to kill millions of people that their team now has to lag around on their every delicate mission]].
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* ''Film/BrewsterMcCloud'': Captain Crandall is a grouchy and often disrespectful cop, but he is right to denounce the late Officer Breen as a DirtyCop who doesn't deserve a hero's funeral.
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** While Randal was totally correct, that's not to say that Dante doesn't have some legitimate gripes. He was pressured in to coming in on his day off, and Randal's irresponsibility had caused several issues that Dante was stuck in the middle of. From Randal being hours late (and Dante having to deal with a disgruntled video store customer), to offending a customer while talking about sexual acts and flashing porn at him, to selling cigarettes to a minor (which Dante was blamed and fined for), to spitting water at a customer who annoyed him. If anything, Randal's soliloquy served as a good reminder to Dante to get off of his high horse, and take responsibility as well.

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** While Randal was totally correct, that's not to say that Dante doesn't have some legitimate gripes. He was pressured in to coming in on his day off, and Randal's irresponsibility had caused several issues that Dante was stuck in the middle of. From Randal being hours late (and Dante having to deal with a disgruntled video store customer), customer); to offending a customer while talking about sexual acts and flashing porn at him, him; to selling cigarettes to a minor (which Dante was blamed and fined for), for); to spitting water at a customer who annoyed him. If anything, Randal's soliloquy served as a good reminder to Dante to get off of his high horse, and take responsibility as well.
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* ''Film/BartonFink'':
** Jack Lipnick, the executive of Capitol Pictures, was initially very enthusiastic about having Barton Fink working for him as a screenwriter and has assigned him to write a wrestling picture. [[spoiler:The moment he receives Fink's screenplay, his disposition sours significantly; he harshly tells Barton off for writing some "fruity movie about suffering" and places him under a contract that will not produce anything he writes until he learns to fall in line. That said, Barton was ordered specifically to write a wrestling picture, not a drama about a wrestler.]]
** Geisler is hostile and obnoxious to Barton from the get-go, but his attitude becomes more justified when Barton hasn't written anything after being employed for weeks.
** [[spoiler:Detectives Mastrionotti and Deutsch may be hostile to Barton when they asked him if he knows anything about Karl "Madman" Mundt, aka Charlie Meadows, even giving an air of antisemitism, but when Barton says that Mundt "liked Jack Oakie pictures", the detectives rightly point out that it is too vague a description and not helpful for them.]]
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* ''Film/RaisingTheWind'': While he may have been far too rude about it, the cab driver was right in that Jill was in the wrong for backing into his cab, damaging his bumper, and losing him Chesney's fare.
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* ''Film/AboutLittleRedRidingHood'': The old women of the village forbid one of Little Red Riding Hood’s friends to go with her to the forest mainly because they are bad-tempered, bitter and envious. However, they say that she might as well go with a wolf right away and that the wolves probably haven’t forgiven Little Red Riding Hood for [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood the original fairytale]]'s events -- and they are perfectly right: TheBigBadWolf’s mother wants revenge on Red Riding Hood and has sent two wolves to kidnap the girl; the latter is in company of said wolves for most of the time in the woods.

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* ''Film/AboutLittleRedRidingHood'': ''Film/AboutTheLittleRedRidingHood'': The old women of the village forbid one of Little Red Riding Hood’s friends to go with her to the forest mainly because they are bad-tempered, bitter and envious. However, they say that she might as well go with a wolf right away and that the wolves probably haven’t forgiven Little Red Riding Hood for [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood the original fairytale]]'s events -- and they are perfectly right: TheBigBadWolf’s mother wants revenge on Red Riding Hood and has sent two wolves to kidnap the girl; the latter is in company of said wolves for most of the time in the woods.

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