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Like plumbers, portrayed as ignorant idiots with the added aspect of [[ConstructionCatcalling wolf whistling, catcalling, and making lewd sexual comments]] towards vulnerable or shy women in the street below where they are working on scaffolding where they are out of the way of any repercussions.

Like plumbers, portrayed as ignorant idiots with the added aspect of wolf whistling, catcalling, and making lewd sexual comments towards vulnerable or shy women in the street below where they are working on scaffolding where they are out of the way of any repercussions.

* In ''Film/TheWolfofWallstreet'', A New York stockbroker recounts to the audience how he made his fortune through shady (and outright illegal) stock manipulations, and the hedonistic drug/sex-fueled lifestyle he built with that fortune. His downfall begins when he is investigated by the SEC and FBI, but he refuses to leave the life he has built.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] is assigned to assassinate his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile, yet he has [[VillainWithGoodPublicity an impeccable reputation]] and the public has no idea he's using his vineyard to hide a cocaine operation. Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it appear a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado family storyline is continued in ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}'' with more family members contracted for elimination.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] is assigned to assassinate his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile. Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it appear a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado family storyline is continued in ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}''.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] is assigned to assassins his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile. Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it appear a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado family storyline is continued in ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}''.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] is assigned his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile. Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it appear a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado family storyline is continued in ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}''.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] is assigned his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile. Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it appear a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado storyline is continued in ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}''.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] is assigned his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile, Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it look like a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado storyline is continued in ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}''.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] is assigned his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile, Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it look like a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado drug business is continued in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}'' story arc.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] targets his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile, Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it look like a rival drug lord ordered the hit. The Delgado drug business is revisited in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman2}}'' story arc.

* Udre Belicoff in the 2007 ''Film/{{Hitman}}'' film is into drug trafficking as well as arms trading for extra garnish on his career. Agent 47 mocks Udre for supposedly [[NeverGetHighOnYourOwnSupply getting high on his supply]] (or maybe he's really that inept!). The former is likely as Uder carelessly leaves loaded magazines out on the display table for his demo arms and 47 even sneaks an exploding brief case into Udre's mansion.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] targets his share of drug traffickers. [[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Don Fernando Delgado]] is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile, Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it look like a rival drug lord ordered the hit. Udre Belicoff in the 2007 ''Film/{{Hitman}}'' film is into drug trafficking as well as arms trading for extra garnish on his career.

* [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} Agent 47]] targets his share of drug traffickers. Don Fernando Delgado is especially noted for the cocaine ring he's running in Chile, Agent 47 is also contracted to take out his son to make it look like a rival drug lord ordered the hit.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Kill a drug dealer - get $2000.
** Of course, the Grove Street [=OGs=] (the gang that CJ, the protagonist, is a part of) are vehemently against the use of hard drugs (though marijuana is apparently okay). Compared to the other gangs in the city (besides the Varrios Los Aztecas), the Grove Street families are NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters.

* ''Film/{{Super}}'' zigzags this trope. The first thing the main character does once he becomes a Superhero is find some drug dealers and bash their heads with a wrench. At first, the media portrays him as a [[DeconstructedTrope psychopath that's brutally assaulting people.]] Later in the movie, the fact that [[AssholeVictim the people he attacked were criminals surfaces]], and the media and the public {{Reconstruction start to see him as a force for justice.}}

* ''Film/{{Super}}'' zigzags this trope. The first thing the main character does once he becomes a Superhero is find some drug dealers and bash their heads with a wrench. At first, the media portrays him as a [[DeconstructedTrope psychopath that's brutally assaulting people.]] Later in the movie, the fact that [[AssholeVictim the people he attacked were criminals surfaces]], and the media and the public [[Reconstruction start to see him as a force for justice.]]

* ''Film/{{Super}}'' zigzags this trope. The first thing the main character does once he becomes a Superhero is find some drug dealers and bash their heads with a wrench. At first, the media portrays him as a [[DeconstructedTrope psychopath that's brutally assaulting people.]] Later in the movie, the fact that [[AssholeVictim the people he attacked were criminals surfaces]], and the media and the public [[ReconstructedTrope start to see him as a force for justice.]]

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Yes, even the occupations that include risking one's life on a daily basis to save other peoples' lives and, if possible, property -- firemen, rescue service officers and the like -- are not always immune. There is the trope of a firefighter (or somebody who aspires to be one) who himself starts fires in hopes that this will allow him to prove himself in action or out of [[HeroismAddiction a desire to feel needed]]. (Yes, these characters are usually male.) And specifically in the US, there's the whole FEMA conspiracy theory...

!! Office/white-collar jobs

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* In Japan, the lawyers are okay, it's the ''judges'' who are demonized.
** Which is why the judge from the aforementioned ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games is portrayed as such a moron. And why the localisations play up the CloudCuckooLander aspects of the Judge to make him endearing instead of merely being senile. Judges tend to be well-respected in the west, unless they're obviously corrupt.
* Dick Cheney has achieved what many Americans can only imagine: he shot a lawyer in the face with a shotgun, then got the ''lawyer'' to apologize. And he '''still''' doesn't smile!

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!!Physicians
Most portrayals of physicians are fairly positive; it's hard to get down on an occupation whose sole raison d'etre is healing the sick and alleviating suffering. However, when physicians go wrong, they go terribly wrong. Given the gravitas of the Hippocratic Oath, there's intense drama to be played out when a physician chooses to go against his code. It's still acceptable to portray a doctor as a complete quack, especially in a comedy. In dramatic works, expect a cold sociopath who sees patients as dollars or a collection of symptoms whose suffering is irrelevant.
* A growing stereotype is that of the doctor who only cares about getting positive feedback from patients, even at the expense of the patients' actual health. Such doctors will casually prescribe unnecessary, addictive, or otherwise dangerous drugs at the patients' request, let impending health problems go untreated, and make sure only to tell the patients what they want to hear rather than give them advice on healthy living that might be seen as insulting. (Note that this may not be ''entirely'' the doctor's fault: many doctors these days have to answer to insurers, hospital administrators, the Joint Commission, and others in the {{Adminisphere}}, who hold them to strict metrics like Press-Ganey, HCAHPS, and patient satisfaction surveys. If they do not meet these metrics, or if they get a bad review on a site like Yelp from a patient who's irate because the doctor told them something they didn't want to hear, they can be penalized, up to and including being fired from the hospital or clinic where they work.)
* On a related note, practitioners of alternative health care will often be portrayed as GranolaGirl ditzes or knowingly malign peddlers of AllNaturalSnakeOil in works which embrace Enlightenment on the RomanticismVersusEnlightenment conflict.
* Another topic is the illegal organ trade.
* Physicians who treat life-or-death cases are likely to be sued for malpractice when they fail to help a patient, even if there's nothing that could have been done. This means that they need extensive malpractice insurance, which invites accusations that they are incompetent or casual murderers. After all, why would a doctor insure himself against malpractice if he didn't plan on committing some?
* What's the difference between a doctor and a lawyer? A lawyer will rob you; a doctor will rob you ''and'' kill you.
* Among doctors and medical students, primary care doctors tend to be acceptable career targets, because [[JackOfAllTrades they don't specialize]], and they don't make as much money as specialists. (Which is one reason why there's a shortage of [=PCPs=]; so many medical students are choosing specialties instead.)
* Subject to changes depending on geography. Countries with universal healthcare systems (i.e. where patients don't get billed for medical care) tend to have a more positive portrayal of doctors, due to the lack of any financial motive.

!![[PsychoPsychologist Psychologists/Psychiatrists]]
Depending on the genre, any mental health professional in media will either be a sex-obsessed CloudCuckooLander with an OedipusComplex, or the nay-sayer who gets TheCassandra committed to BedlamHouse. Not to mention that all the times they would be truly needed, [[ThereAreNoTherapists they don't exist at all.]] And of course, there's no difference at all between psychology and psychiatry. Often, the only psychiatry depicted will be [[ElectricTorture electroshock therapy]].
* Oh, psychotherapy is a lot more sinister than that. After all, they're [[MindRape messing]] with your ''mind'', maaan! The fact that a visit to BedlamHouse invariably [[GoAmongMadPeople reduces the perfectly sane to gibbering catatonia]] goes to show how [[BreakThemByTalking terrifyingly evil]] shrinks are.
* And of course, you'll rarely see any that subscribe to the [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian biological, cognitive or behavioral models]] of psychopathology.
* Or prescribe any medication (since psychologists and psychiatrists are the same thing, and also because all of them are Freudians who want to [[FreudianCouch talk about your neuroses for an hour while you lie on a couch]]). If they do, [[NoMedicationForMe their patients will refuse to take it]], which is depicted as being liberating instead of risky or dangerous.
* Even sympathetic psychiatric workers will usually have the conflict of being the voice of wisdom and experience in the office while being [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes plagued by personal issues they can't solve]] at home. Irony!
* Another somewhat sympathetic portrayal will show them as futilely attempting to treat the AxCrazy villain of the work. Invariably, the villain will prove to be [[TheFarmerAndTheViper too evil to help]], with the poor doctor unaware of this until he becomes the next victim. Expect at least one scene with the psychiatrist ineffectually begging his patient to step off the path of destruction he's following.
* A certain group, referred to on this wiki as the ChurchOfHappyology, considers psychiatrists to be their mortal enemy (perhaps because if there's one thing a meme can't stand, it's competition and the possibility of {{deprogramming}}). Consequently, they spend an inordinate effort attempting to discredit this profession. Some of the anti-psychiatry ideas floating around out there may have originated with this Church.
* Not to mention the cliche where people with mental illness are portrayed as mildly eccentric goofballs who just need a person to listen to them and offer a kind word and helping hand rather than professional care or medication. This subtly implies that psychiatrists and psychologists do not listen and never, ever offer a kind word or helping hand. It also implies mental illness is not really a disease but a personality trait, which is a rather dangerous implication.

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* Raoul Cauvin's work ''Psy'' is a gag-a-day strip mocking with the profession of psychologists. While his other gag-a-day strips have also laughed with professions (such as is the case with gravediggers (''Pierre Tombal'') and cops (''Agent 212'')) they portray the characters that do that profession in a positive and sympathetic light. This is pretty much lacking in this work, since the main character is a workaholic freudworshipping asshole that even gets the most basic aspects of psychiatry wrong.

!!Proctologists
Despite them being fairly important in preventing and treating certain types of cancer, few people will see past "a guy who sticks his fingers up people's asses for a living."
* In some ways, proctologists are the new dentists.
* Bowser & Blue have a comedy song that pokes gentle fun at the field. "''We praise the colorectal surgeon, misunderstood and much-maligned, slaving away in the heart of darkness, working where the Sun don't shine.''"

!!Abortion Doctors
* Portrayed very unsympathetically in most [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion pro-life]] works, where they are [[MedicalHorror cold-hearted amoral scientists]], or worse.

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* Averted in a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode where Mr(s.) Garrison goes to an abortion clinic and describes getting an abortion in the crudest way possible (i.e. scrambling its brains and vaccuuming it out). A nurse overhears her and is visibly disturbed at Mr(s.) Garrison's callousness.

!!Nurses
* Portrayed as [[HospitalHottie oversexed]] bimboes who spend more time flirting with doctors (or occasionally patients) than treating patients, and who weren't smart enough to make it through medical school and got HiredForTheirLooks. (Which is, of course, not true at all; nurses work just as hard as doctors, arguably moreso, and nursing school is ''most assuredly'' not something that just anyone can do or is cut out for.) Because nursing is a primarily female-dominated profession, its portrayal ''frequently'' comes with a heaping helping of misogyny. Male nurses (if they're shown at all) are almost always portrayed as either gay, or using their profession to get with female nurses or patients. Female nurses still wear short white dresses and caps, occasionally with [[ZettaiRyouiki thigh-high stockings underneath]], even though nurses haven't worn outfits like that for decades; in RealLife, both male and female nurses wear scrubs. (And actually, the "[[SexyWhateverOutfit sexy nurse outfit]]" is something of a DeadUnicornTrope; even when female nurses ''did'' wear dresses or skirts (up until about TheSeventies or so), the hems were never more than an inch or two above the knee, at the most. Nor did they show AbsoluteCleavage.)
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!!Police Officers
In most people's eyes, cops only exist to give you traffic tickets, [[PoliceBrutality beat you to a bloody pulp]], and/or take you to jail. If you haven't actually done anything wrong, they'll find a reason to do one of those things, and due to several infamous incidents they're seen as having {{Hair Trigger Temper}}s, especially when it comes to dealing with members of minority groups. When they aren't, they're busy [[DonutMessWithACop scarfing down donuts]]. That or they represent the threat of [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour a potential future that few would like]] and are the clenched right fist of TheMan.

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* Despite preferring to stick to the UnacceptableTargets most of the time, Music/AnalCunt once did a song called "You're a Cop". Lyrics include "Powdered sugar on your fingers, coffee on your shirt, [[CorruptCop bribes in your pocket]], you never do any work".

!!TrafficWardens
Read the article for info.

!!Traffic Cops
Smirking tools employed to boost the public coffers by handing out citations, who'll happily [[PoliceAreUseless spend 45 minutes ticketing a sweet little old lady]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor for her expired inspection tag]] before doing anything to stop the madman [[DrivesLikeCrazy weaving through traffic at 90 miles an hour]].

!!Airport Security
The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is ''profoundly'' unpopular in the United States. Stereotypes run from mere annoyances (who can, at worst, slow you down and cause you to miss your plane) to sadistic fascists who enjoy stripping passengers of their shoes, possessions, and basic dignity. The security screeners who work out of sight may also be in the game, rifling through the passengers' luggage and taking items of value.
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If a character is employed by a three-letter agency like the CIA, NSA, DEA and FBI or a non-American equivalent (or a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction loosely inspired by portrayals of these agencies), you can bet that they will be spooky, powerful [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] who carry the characters' lives in their hands, usually not often for the best, with only the most benign examples being portrayed as [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villains]]. In a serious historical or political drama, if not part of a GovernmentConspiracy, they may often simply be portrayed as overly gung ho or incompetent.

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!!Scientists
They are often [[MadScientist evil]], [[BunglingInventor quixotic]] or [[AbsentMindedProfessor clueless]]. They will more often than not lack [[NotGoodWithPeople basic social skills]] and common sense; the latter usually so the [[GoodIsDumb book-dumb hero]] can show them how intelligence isn't all about "book learnin'".
* There's a joke that goes like this: A biologist is a chemist who can't do math, and a chemist is a 3rd-rate physicist.
* Marine biologists often find themselves the butt of jokes involving [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]] with [[{{Squick}} fish, dolphins, seals, squid]], or really AnythingThatMoves in the ocean.
* All physicists ever do is nukes. Some of them may also develop God complexes or build other types of superweapons, but in the end, it all boils down to nukes.
* Chemists are also seen as spouting Technobabble in the form of chemical nomenclature (under whose rules names of compounds can get long and messy). Chemists are also sometimes portrayed either as bomb-makers, as drug-makers, or as poisoners. If not, then they will usually have tendencies towards them, such as pyromania or toxomania. Chemistry is also seen as the science that is most harmful to the environment, and this coupled with some chemical disasters and the technobabble spouted by chemists has given rise to ''chemophobia'', an irrational prejudice against "artificial" chemicals.
* Computer scientists have it bad as well, by virtue of computers being a stereotypical {{nerd}} interest since they first entered the public eye. Computer scientists (in the rare event they are actually called that) are either reclusive {{Basement Dweller}}s, {{Technobabble}}-spouting academics, or trapped in dead-end tech support jobs.
* Skeptics/critical thinkers also get some flak, see {{The Scully}} for more details. Often portrayed as closed-minded and dogmatic jerks who are out to spoil the fun of believers and are [[SkepticismFailure almost always wrong in attempting to explain paranormal phenomena with natural explanations]].

!!Teachers
Despite being the reason for any profession's continuation. Parents are often blamed for a child's bad behavior, but if the child can barely count to ten on their fingers then it's all the teachers fault. Don't even start with the jokes involving sex or pedophilia. Despite TruthInTelevision and RealLife aspects, not all teachers enjoy, want, or desire extracurricular activities with their students, even if they are in the HotForTeacher or HotLibrarian category. Other insults include becoming a teacher "for the great holidays" and nothing else, digs about the wages (most common in US based shows), and running the gamut from alcoholic to depressive to passive-aggressive to [[HippieTeacher pleasant but useless]]. The reasoning behind teachers as acceptable targets could probably be put down to familiarity - almost everyone in countries where education is mandatory has met a teacher at some point. Not many of us can claim that a marine biologist was nasty to us, but most people had a teacher that they didn't like.
* See also SadistTeacher, for the teachers who use their positions to abuse students.
* One popular insult aimed at teachers is "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." Teachers of younger children get this particularly badly with comedians often cracking jokes such as "all you have to do is make stuff out of pasta". Tip: before making this comment, try teaching someone who doesn't know how to hold a pencil how to write. The fact that high school teachers are normally very well versed in their chosen field is normally dismissed, leading to characters who became teachers because "they weren't good at anything else".
* Once someone is identified as a piano teacher, you know what will happen.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' shows several teacher stereotypes.
* There also is the stereotype of drama, music or other fine arts teachers as being washed up performers who can't get work anywhere else (see ''Series/TheSteveHarveyShow''). This can be TruthInTelevision. It may be easier to keep a job as a teacher (at least until recently) than to keep a job as an actor or artist.
* Ironically, the last statement is {{subverted|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "300 Big Ones" which featured, of all things, a nasty marine biologist.

!!Librarians
Pretty much an AlwaysFemale subset of the SadistTeacher, with the added benefit of never actually helping or teaching anyone. Aside from looks of scorn, most will only get a trademark "SHHHHHHHHHH!" Outside their realm of power, they're depicted as lonely, bitter, anal-aggressive spinsters. This is somewhat amusing, as unless you're going to become an archivist or a cataloger, serving patrons is going to be the majority of what you do. However, as a contrast, there is the HotLibrarian.
* [[MeaningfulName Ms. Censordoll]] from ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' is a text book example of this. Unlike most librarians, she actively embraces censoring books.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' [[spoiler: She's just about to close up the library!!!]] Oh yes, definitely the worst fate that could befall anyone.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unshelved}}'' averts this trope, or rather uses stereotypes of librarians that librarians themselves use (aka Dewey the snarky and hip YA librarian, Mel the overworked and stressed out manager, Tamara the overly cheery children's librarian, the rarely-seen socially challenged and weird cataloger, etc). Colleen is the closest to the standard librarian stereotype, but she's portrayed as being largely a dinosaur in the modern world of librarianship. It also turns the tables in that most of the jokes make fun of library ''patrons''. This may have something to do with the fact that the writer is himself a librarian.
* Th mid-90s Creator/ParkerPosey movie ''Film/PartyGirl'' portrays working in a library relatively accurately (even pointing out that not everyone who works in a library is a librarian--as with doctors, lawyers, and teachers, to be a librarian requires earning a professional degree, in library science in this case). It's therefore become a bit of a cult classic amongst librarians.

!!Home Education
Anyone who's trained at home via anything like correspondence courses ''will'' be at best depicted as incompetent at their profession and at worst outright moronic overall, often without a hint of joking. Though nowadays in real life home computers, the internet, and video streaming technology have made home schooling a valid and effective means of education (sometimes more effective than a classroom setting), this is never the case on the screen.
* A ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' issue had Jughead's cousin repair an air conditioner for Archie's family. As they're powering it on Jughead remarks his cousin knew what he was doing as he just finished his correspondence course in appliance repair. Cue Archie quipping "Correspondence course?! Now you tell me!" and the ac unit blowing the power for the whole neighborhood.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Anthology Of Interest I" Dr. Zoidberg remarks he has mail-order degrees in "Murderology" and "Murderonomy" and sets out to solve the case. Needless to say [[TooDumbToLive it's Zoidberg]] and he doesn't accomplish much before being murdered himself.

!!Health and Safety Officers
Generally not shown that much in fiction (after all, NoOSHACompliance is the law of the land in fiction-land), but the prevailing stereotype of the EHS officer in construction and manufacturing is as follows: an ObstructiveBureaucrat who likes to play "safety cop" and ride people's asses about trivial matters or, worse, about things that are genuine safety issues that are unavoidable either due to the employer's continual failure to adequately address them, or because not ignoring them would lead to things being way behind schedule or production falling below goals, and generally does nothing other than get in the way and unduly interrupt workflow. Furthermore, they are generally view as management's compliance dogs, rather than actually making hard decisions when the interests of the workers and of management don't align - when their jobs are on the line, they will usually kowtow to management, then bark a big game about how the workers are their real boss, when they really don't care about anything other than their own self-interest.

!![[CondemnedContestant Criminals]] in general

** Mr. Slant, a centuries old {{Zombie}} who is undisputed Head of the Guild of Lawyers, is presented as the amoral type to whom the letter of the Law means everything and the ''spirit'' of the Law is mere circumstantial evidence. It is said his reason for coming back as a Zombie was so as to be able to claim outstanding fees from errant clients. He has been seen providing the legal groundwork for a coup d'etat, so as to ensure the takeover is legally unimpeachable; but capable of unhesitatingly switching sides to defend the status quo when the revolution fails.

* This is a mixed bag in real life. Generally, hunters are live-off-the-land type and hunt for food or to cull overpopulation to [[MercyKill save wildlife from starving to death or disease]] because of said overpopulation, and they're also deeply concerned about conservation to the point where if you were to talk to them about conservation without going into hunting, [[NotSoDifferent you might confuse them for a Wellfare advocate]]. Trophy hunters, however, can very much play the worst stereotypes straight, as they've been known to (knowingly or not) help poachers kill "at risk" or endangered species to take their trophies.

Suthors don't particularly like being criticized -- and chances are, if you enjoy the work in which they are portrayed, you'll probably dislike ''its'' critics too.

* In Literature/GoodOmens telemarketers are portrayed as actively enjoying calling people in uncomfortable situations, such as in the middle of a bath, and even holding competitions over it. One telemarketer reaches Crowley’s answering machine, where he’d just trapped Hastur, causing her entire office to be skeletonized by a swarm of demonic maggots. Which the Narrator says is demonstrative of the self-defeating nature of evil, as preventing an untold number of people from being bothered by Telemarketers has basically spread a wave of low-grade goodness overthe world. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, their deaths are retconned away by Adam canceling the Apocalypse.]]