History Main / CondescendingCompassion

** Hermione's treatment of House Elves has shades of this, though it takes her a long time to fully realize it. After witnessing Mr. Crouch's brutal treatment and dismissal of Winky, she becomes a fierce advocate for elf rights, and although her intentions come from a good place, she fails to understand that House Elves simply don't view the world in the same way: Their BlueAndOrangeMorality makes them eager to serve humans, and [[HappinessInSlavery notions as such "freedom" and "payment" are causes for shame rather than joy.]] True, they like working for kind, understanding humans ''better'' than mistreatment, but they still prefer mistreatment to freedom, to the point where many would consider consider it a FateWorseThanDeath. While Harry did share how jubilant Dobby was upon being freed from the Malfoys two years prior to the Crouch incident, Hermione also fails to comprehend that Dobby was very much the exception to the rule. Believing that she knows what's best for the elves - that they'll like freedom "once they've got a taste of it" - she attempts to trick the Hogwarts elves into freeing themselves, which backfires; they are deeply insulted by this and Dobby even notes that he's become the only one to clean the Gryffindor common room since. Dumbledore, by contrast, treats the elves kindly and respectfully, and gladly agrees to pay the one House Elf (Dobby) who asks for it but does not suggest freeing the majority who don't desire it.

** Hermione's treatment of House Elves has shades of this, though it takes her a long time to fully realize it. She had heard from Harry how jubilant Dobby was upon being freed from the Malfoys, and after witnessing Mr. Crouch's brutal treatment and dismissal of Winky, she becomes a fierce advocate for elf rights. Although her intentions come from a good place, she fails to realize that House Elves simply don't see the world in the same way: Their BlueAndOrangeMorality makes them eager to serve humans, and [[HappinessInSlavery notions as such "freedom" and "payment" are causes for shame rather than joy.]] True, they like working for kind, understanding humans ''better'' than mistreatment, but they still prefer mistreatment to freedom, to the point where many would consider consider it a FateWorseThanDeath. Hermione also fails to comprehend that Dobby was very much the exception to this mode of thinking, and believing that she knows what's best for the elves - that they'll like freedom "once they've got a taste of it" - attempts to trick them into freeing themselves. The House-Elves are insulted by this and Dobby even notes that he's become the main person to clean Gryffindor house since. Dumbledore, by contrast, treats them kindly and respectfully and gladly agrees to pay the one House Elf who asks for it but does not suggest freeing the majority who don't desire it.
*** By the time of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', Hermione still fiercely holds to her intentions, but she's become much more aware of the general House Elf mindset, and even lectures Harry when he attempts to blame Kreacher for unintentionally causing Sirius' death.

** Hermione's treatment of House Elves has shades of this, though she doesn't realise it and truly believes that she is the only one who treats them as equals. Their BlueAndOrangeMorality makes them eager to serve humans, and [[HappinessInSlavery they're offended by such notions as "freedom" and "payment". They like working for kind, understanding humans]] ''better'' than mistreatment, but they still (with only one exception that we see) prefer mistreatment to freedom, to the point where they literally consider it a FateWorseThanDeath. Hermione, believing that she knows what's best for them and that they'll like freedom "once they've got a taste of it," attempts to trick them into freeing themselves. The House-Elves are insulted by this and Dobby even notes that he's become the main person to clean Gryffindor house since. Dumbledore, by contrast, treats them kindly and respectfully and gladly agrees to pay the one House Elf who asks for it but does not suggest freeing the majority who don't desire it.

* ''Manga/IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'' opens up with the protagonist, a down-on-his-luck part-timer, working up the courage to confess to his longtime crush and coworker, a single mother. Said confession consists of him asking her out with marriage in mind (fine), deflecting her claims that her age is a problem (fine)... and then proceeding to bring up the fact that society typically sees women approaching their thirties, who don't have their virginity, or already have children as undesirable, and that her circumstances (including ''her child'') don't matter as long as they love each other. Cue her next rejection, asking [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what he can bring to the table if he wants to start a family with her]], and him wondering where all of it went wrong.

* ''Film/TheWar'': A new teacher comes to town and she's not prejudiced in the slightest bit. She thinks it's wonderful that dumb black children have to sit in the back of her classroom while the bright white children get all her attention. That's what makes life "a bowl full of cherries" for her.

* Mingluan and Mingyi in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' seem like close brothers who can laugh and play together, but digging beneath the surface shows the ugly truth: Mingluan is a bastard and Mingyi considers himself inherently superior because of it and treats his brother as an inferior. Once Mingluan figures it out he's deeply insulted.

* ''Fanfic/BurningEmbers'': Iida, Yaoyorozu, and Kirishima all fall into this after learning that Izuku [[ForWantOfANail made it into U.A. despite being Quirkless]]. Both Iida and Yaoyorozu believe that it's far too dangerous for somebody without a Quirk to become a Hero; Yaoyorozu even lectures him on how he shouldn't have stood up to [[BarbaricBully Bakugou]] during their battle trial due to the massive difference in their respective abilities. Kirishima is more supportive, praising his skills... but claiming that they're especially impressive "for a Quirkless person."

* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' plays with this trope in a few ways. Being a game about {{disabled love interest}}s, it's easy to fall into this, and is the cause for some {{bad ending}}s. ''Especially'' [[spoiler:[[TheWoobie Hanako's]]]]. Interestingly enough, the "sympathetic bigot" part of the trope played out in real life during the development of the game. Not knowing led to ignorant pitying, but once the creators actually began researching and talking to people they developed a more nuanced portrayal of the people involved (for example, the main obstacles in the characters' lives are rarely their disabilities but their emotional/psychological problems -- which ''can'' stem from their disabilities but don't necessarily ''have'' to).

* An episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' has Zack dating a [[DisabledLoveInterest paraplegic girl]]. He is very considerate to her, but to such an extent that he slides into this trope - at one point loudly and publicly "congratulating" her for going through life in a wheelchair when she'd much rather just be treated normally. She calls him out on it and breaks up with him, but by the end of the episode he's learned the error of his ways and they reunite ([[GirlOfTheWeek at least temporarily]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': Parodied with the Richard Branson expy Sebastian St. Claire. Sebastian St. Claire, a billionaire who has given up the business world to help out in a fictional war-torn Eastern European country, is very condescending towards the local people, never actually bothering to engage with or learn from them while simultaneously spending a lot of time talking about how poor and needy they are. He is also continually using the Cordovians as photo opportunities and never bothers to consider what they might actually want (for example, building a monument to himself and a shiny library in the middle of a dilapidated refugee camp). At one point, he tells Dianne that a little boy named Kinko's name means "orphan who will probably die soon".

* ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'': Vivenna tries to be understanding towards the prickly Jewels after learning that she lost her Breath to one of the Returned. Jewels responds that being chosen to give your Breath to a god is an honor for her people and that her sacrifice helped save her family from starvation, and thus she really isn't interested in Vivenna's pity.

* ''Prey'': Jim Beal from this William Johnstone novel is a RightWingMilitiaFanatic whose official position (which to be fair, he actually seems to believe in) is that black people aren't naturally inferior, but were made inferior to the point where integration is currently unfeasible by the centuries they were given limited education and social advancement due to slavery and the Jim Crow laws. The reader isn't meant to agree with him (at least not entirely) but Beal and his followers ([[RenegadeSplinterFaction some of them, anyway]]) come across as very much a ALighterShadeOfBlack due to not being WesternTerrorists, unlike rival militia leader Victor Radford, and his fellow AxCrazy Neo-Nazi's.

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* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Stabilizer Junghan Gong forces you to buy a certificate from the Emotion Mitigation Center for 100V, more than its appraised price of 84V. He then offers you a loan to help "pitiful" citizens like you pay for fees such as the business permit, which is needed by the end of Week 2 to keep running Darcy's shop.

* In ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', Captain Hammer's song "Everyone's a Hero" is a combination of this and {{Metaphorgotten}}.
-->'''Captain Hammer:''' "Everyone's a hero in their own way / everyone's got they villains they must face / they're not as cool as mine / but folks, you know it's fine to know your place."\\
'''Captain Hammer:''' "A hero doesn't care / if you're a bunch of scary alcoholic bums."
* Invoked in WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows' "Best Hit Songs of 2017" episode, regarding "Praying" by Music/{{Kesha}}:
-->"It is a song about forgiveness, but the really condescending forgiveness that Southerners like to use to remind you that you're a loathsome piece of shit."

* ''Fanfic/AnUnpleasantSurprise'': [[HeteronormativeCrusader Ashley Harris]] believes that [[AdaptationalSexuality Molly and her girlfriend, Libby]], have been groomed by her parents into becoming {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s and wants to turn her back to "normal". Molly is naturally offended and hurt by this homophobic attitude and [[WeUsedToBeFriends ends her friendship with Ashley]] after it became clear her words were falling on deaf ears.

'''Chip:''' ''[rolls eyes]''\\
'''Muffy:''' I know you laugh at my hobbies, but this is '''important''' to me. ''[nearly stomps on the ants she claims to want to help]''

'''Kyle:''' ''[irritably]'' Yes I am! I ''am'' a Jew, Cartman!\\

* ''Manga/IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'' opens up with the protagonist, a down on his luck part timer, working up the courage to confess to his longtime crush and coworker, a single mother. Said confession consists of him asking her out with marriage in mind (fine), deflecting her claims that her age is a problem (fine)... and then proceeding to bring up the fact that society typically sees women approaching their thirties, who don't have their virginity, or already have children as undesirable, and that her circumstances (including ''her child'') don't matter as long as they love each other. Cue her next rejection, asking [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what he can bring to the table if he wants to start a family with her]], and him wondering where all of it went wrong.

* An variant appears in ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', with the Masters of the Ryonzampaku Dojo treating everybody that tries to fight [[ThugDojo YOMI]] / [[NebulousEvilOrganization YAMI]] this way. As a high percentage of the people that try to fight the organisation ({{Muggles}}, the occasional BadassNormal and more "normal" martial artists) are pretty much raising the ire of a bunch of [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Sociopath Kung-Fu People]] who are walking [[PersonOfMassDestruction Human Beings of Mass Destruction]] via SupernaturalMartialArts and ''they'' are the only ones who can give a fair fight, there is an odd InUniverse justification for said condescension.
* Downplayed with Momo Yaoyarozu from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. She never looks down on any of her classmates, but she tends to forget how rich she is compared to them, [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally bragging]] about it some times. This is especially notable when she excitedly offers to tutor her friends at her mansion and even get expensive tea ready for the visit, all the while baffling them without even noticing. However, she's just so SpoiledSweet and adorable that no one could ever get mad at her.

* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': The Space Ponies treat the Equestrians like they're still in nursery school when it comes to brute strength, think their ideas of harmony and friendship are silly and are all too happy to make them bipedal in order to improve their lives.

* ''Fanfic/TheWeddingCrashers'': Leah is ever so ''generously'' invited to Renesmee's wedding, where the {{Bridezilla}} offers to buy her a dress so that she won't be wearing some "cheap off-the-rack thing". Renesmee also practically hands her the bouquet rather than tossing it, saying that maybe somebody will actually love her now. The worst part is that these and other acts in the same line by Renesmee and other people were done out as ''genuine'' attempts of being nice to Leah, which says a lot of how self-centered and disconnected they are.

** Ran fully buys into [[AbusiveParents Yuusaku's]] [[ControlFreak insistence]] that Shinichi needs to be kept within a GildedCage, since her boyfriend is "normal, delicate and weak". Once it becomes clear to him that she completely agrees with his father, Shinichi decides to [[spoiler:break things off]].

* ''Fanfic/JulekaVsTheForcesOfTheUniverse'': Alya insists that Marinette is completely hopeless and incapable of achieving ''anything'' on her own merits, requiring the "[[UnwantedAssistance generous support]]" of her and the Girl Squad. She uses this to justify being a complete ControlFreak subjecting her to a barrage of {{Zany Scheme}}s that keep resulting in Marinette being utterly humiliated, while blaming their failure on Marinette.
* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': When he crashes Nadja's live interview with Ladybug, Viperion and Kitsune, Chat Noir talks down to the other heroes, claiming that they can't be expected to know much about their line of work since they're only ''temporary'' heroes, lacking the experience he and his "partner" have. Nobody is impressed by his posturing, particularly since Chat Noir ''missed'' the FinalBattle with Hawkmoth.

* ''Fanfic/{{Apotheosis|MHA}}'': Despite famously declaring that "Anyone can be a hero!", when he meets Izuku and learns that he's Quirkless, All Might advises him to give up on his dream, believing that he's simply not ''capable'' of accomplishing anything without a powerful Quirk. This proves to be the last straw, setting Izuku on the path to become a VillainProtagonist.
* ''Fanfic/AnotherFormOfPower'': All Might feels that Pro Heroism should be left to those who have won the SuperpowerLottery. Might sound practical enough... so long as one ignores the FantasticRacism those without Quirks face. Izuku ultimately twists this logic and turns it against him by going into politics, using his influence to reshape society and shift the standards for how heroes are treated.
* ''Fanfic/BurningEmbers'': Iida, Yaoyorozu and Kirishima all fall into this after learning that Izuku [[ForWantOfANail made it into U.A. despite being Quirkless]]. Both Iida and Yaoyorozu believe that it's far too dangerous for somebody without a Quirk to become a Hero; Yaoyorozu even lectures him on how he shouldn't have stood up to [[BarbaricBully Bakugou]] during their battle trial due to the massive difference in their respective abilities. Kirishima is more supportive, praising his skills... but claiming that they're especially impressive "for a Quirkless person."

* ''Film/FatHead'': The documentary frames Morgan Spurlock and other anti-fastfood advocates as being of the opinion that poor people and minorities are stupid and do not understand what they're consuming. Tom counters that they are fully aware that fast food is not healthy, but are still making that choice.

* The main conflict in ''Film/TheSMJudge'' is about how the prosecutor and others are trying to cast Magda in the role of the poor little victim who everyone should feel sorry for -never mind that the prosecutor himself is the only one having a real harmful influence on her life. Ironically, she didn't get any help when she [[InternalizedCategorism hated herself for being a masochist]] or when she got abused for real by her previous husband. Nope, the pity comes only ''after'' she has turned her life around so that everything is going great.

* ''Literature/BridgetJones'': The "Smug Marrieds" in both the novel and films' series are either passive aggressively shame/pity single peers (mostly women) when they aren't asking [[ConstantlyCurious "How's Your Love Life?"]] or making "tick tock tick tock" sounds when reminding Bridget about her biological clock.

---> Reacher Gilt ''loved'' the Post Office and blessed its little cotton socks. He was very grateful for its assistance during this difficult period and looked forward to future co-operation, although of course the Post Office, in the real modern world, would never be able to compete on anything other than a very local level. Mind you, someone has to deliver the bills, ho ho ... It was masterly ... ''the bastard''.

* ''Literature/DonQuixote'': the first part of the novel give us The Barber and the Curate, two MoralGuardians, and in the second part LoonyFan Sanson Carrásco, whose sincere desire to help that poor fool, Don Quixote and cure his madness is sabotaged by this attitude, rendering all of them into ThresholdGuardians. Also, all three do things to help him that could be easily described as "crazy".

* ''Literature/TheRoosevelt'': David Loris, a resident at the titular assised living facility who was partially paralyzed in a car crash a few years ago, hates being pitied and treated like a baby by other people, especially staff. Emmet takes an instant dislike to David, which David finds refreshing, because at least Emmet doesn't feel sorry for him and is reacting to his personality, not his body.

** In two episodes, the main characters run a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game to help an outsider who is a passionate fan of the game resolve some personal issues in their life (in the first case, to help a potentially suicidal young man feel a connection; in the second, to bridge a divide between an estranged father and son). However, while in both cases they mean well, it's pretty clear that almost all the main characters consider ''Dungeons and Dragons'' stupid and beneath them, and they initially just plan to run a game where the person they're trying to help scores an easy victory under the assumption that this will automatically solve their problem. This results in them coming off as unintentionally patronising, condescending and dismissive to the person they're trying to help. It's especially glaring in the second case, where, elated by their first success[[note]]Said success had very little to do with D&D; Neil just saw how bitter and lonely [[AntiVillain Pierce]] was, and realized he (Neil) was [[YouAreNotAlone nowhere near as far gone]].[[/note]], they make an incredibly unsubtle character arc revolving around "the bond between father and son". Said son catches on immediately and is miffed.

* In BR Chopra’s ''Series/{{Mahabharata}}'' Yudhistir is asked to render judgment on four murderers each belonging to one of Hinduism’s four castes. Yudhistir gives the lowest caste peasant four years, stating that because of his caste, he is ignorant. The trader who is the next highest caste gets eight years, because according to Yudhistir, he is still “ignorant” but not “as ignorant” as the peasant. The soldier is given a harsh sentence of sixteen years, since he is of an even higher warrior caste. The brahmin however, is handed over to other Brahmins to judge, because Yudhistir decrees that as a member of the highest priestly scholar caste, he is more knowledgeable compared to even Yudhistir himself, so only other Brahmins who are as learned as the murderer can “fairly” judge him.

* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'' The federation members often act this way to any and all aliens who are sentient yet primitive, but show enough self awareness to see that humans themselves were once like that.
* In the Regency episode of ''Series/TheSupersizersEat'', it is mentioned that the Enclosure Act prohibited anyone but the landowners from hunting on the land (anyone else becomes guilty of poaching), there were bad harvests and high taxation which lead to famines — a bad time to be poor. The scene where Sue as an upper-middle-class lady goes distributing leftovers to the poor reeks of condescension. Hard and uncomfortable to watch, but Sue's delivery is also funny as hell.

* Nanne Grönvall's song "Fördomar" (Prejudice) plays this for laughs. The whole song is about the protagonist bragging about how she's perfect and [[DistinctionWithoutADifference does not have]] any prejudice whatsoever. The first verse is simply about how great and open-minded she is in general. The second verse is the Alice of this trope, expecting gratitude from gays for not despising them. The rest of the song goes downhill from there with blatant racism (against blacks ''and'' whites), sexism (against men ''and'' women), ageism (against young people ''and'' old people) and so on.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Bretonnian society is so ridiculously stratified that commoners are literally seen as a different (and inferior) species than the nobles. This view leads this trope being common amongst the more "compassionate" of lords and knights. For example, a lord who mistreats his peasants may see several of his neighbors band together to depose him. This isn't because they actually care about the welfare of the peasants, but because abusing poor defenseless peasants is conduct unbecoming of a Brettonian noble that makes the noble class look bad. Conversely, anyone who simply dismounts and fights alongside the peasant levy on foot is seen as an exemplar of humility and compassion.

* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' plays with this trope in a few ways. Being a game about {{disabled love interest}}s, it's easy to fall into this, and is the cause for some {{bad ending}}s. ''Especially'' [[spoiler:[[TheWoobie Hanako's]]]]. Interestingly enough, the "sympathetic bigot" part of the trope played out in real life during the development of the game. Not knowing led to ignorant pitying, but once the creators actually began researching and talking to people they developed a more nuanced portrayal of the people involved (for example, the main obstacles in the characters lives are rarely their disabilities but their emotional/psychological problems -- which ''can'' stem from their disabilities but don't necessarily ''have'' to).

* ''WebAnimation/RevengeFilms'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9Ha_v_mDk "I asked my wife to go on a date. She was surprised to see the man she was cheating on with"]] features a spiteful variant. When Bob finds out about Emily’s affair with Kevin, he brings her to the hospital where Kevin is at, mockingly cooing at her at ‘how happy’ she must be to see and comfort Kevin. When they leave, Bob then ‘does Emily a favor’ by bringing to her ‘new home’, AKA, Kevin’s apartment, and then presents her with the divorce papers, still cooing to Emily on how happy she must be that he was letting her go to be with her true love and not to worry about the divorce, proudly proclaiming that her tears must be out of gratitude for his ‘kindness’.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise", Linda takes offense to the upper middle-class Cynthia Bush calling the Belchers "simple folk" who are "doing the best they can" in the essay she's [[TheParentProducedProject "helping" her son Logan write]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': Parodied with the Richard Branson expy Sebastian St. Claire. Sebastian St. Claire, a billionaire who has given up the business world to help out in a fictional war-torn Eastern European country, is very condescending towards the local people, never actually bothering to engage with or learn from them while simultaneously spending a lot of time talking about how poor and needy they are. He is also continually using the Cordovians as photo-opportunities and never bothers to consider what they might actually want (for example, building a monument to himself and a shiny library in the middle of a dilapidated refugee camp). At one point, he tells Dianne that a little boy named Kinko's name means "orphan who will probably die soon".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Rayla shows shades of this. She clearly has empathy for humans, but doesn't really hold them in high regard. Her interactions with Callum, her human romantic partner, imply that, for better or worse, she doesn't seem to ever treat him as an equal. Bearing that fact in mind, it's important to realize that Rayla is far more generous and forward-thinking to humans than virtually any elf in the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Chris gets voted prom king. His family initially assume it's some kind of [[PromWrecker prank]], only to find out that the student body voted him prom king because they thought he was mentally handicapped and felt bad for him. Chris initially dismisses this, but after finding out the prom queen was a girl who died in a car accident, comes to realize the student body only voted for him out of pity.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzags with this]] in the episode "The Wonderful World of Wizzly". When visiting the Disneyland-esque amusement park, Jenny is horrified at seeing animatronics there and views their lives there as akin to slavery and mistreatment. So she made it her mission to liberate them by flying them out of the park and encouraging them to make something of themselves. It utterly fails since the animatronics are nowhere near as advanced as her and were designed and programmed specifically to serve and entertain park attendants. Jenny continutes to try this until the robots' begin singing in unison and finally annoying her to listen. Rather than return them to the park though, she instead flies them to what she thought was an uninhibited world in the hopes they can form their own society. Instead, they continute to sing, much to the chagrin of the tiny aliens living there. Ultimately, Jenny's compassion is sincere, but rather be condescending, she actually overestimates their capabilities. A large part of this does seem to stem from Jenny not having interacted with any other robots on her level of sentience and personality (note this episode was one of the last of Season 1 and where more sentient robots would be introduced over time.)
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle Twilight Sparkle]] drops this like an anvil on Pinkie Pie in "Baby Cakes", making a stressed out Pinkie who was grateful for her friend's appearance to angrily slam the door in her face.

** ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E22TheNedliestCatch The Ned-Liest Catch]]'': When Ned Flanders starts dating Edna Krabappel and learns of her past liasions with multiple men, he begins to have doubts. Based on misinterpreted advice from Homer, he says he forgives her, to which Edna bristles; calling Ned out as a "sanctimonious prude", she gives him the ultimatum that the relationship will only continue if his judgement of her past doesn't get in the way.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Often PlayedForLaughs with [[Characters/SouthParkEricCartman Eric Cartman]] who, in the rare occasions he shows ''any'' compassion whatsoever to minorities or any group of people he [[PoliticallyCorrectVillain isn't openly discriminatory against]], will instead treat them this way, such as treating Token as a ticking time bomb who could riot at any possible moment just because he's black or believing merely referring to Kyle as being Jewish was somehow a slur. Naturally, said people take ''extreme'' offense to it:

* From the NewsParody website ''Website/BabylonBee'' during COVID-19: [[https://babylonbee.com/news/inspiring-celebrities-spell-out-were-all-in-this-together-with-their-yachts "Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out 'We're All In This Together' With Their Yachts"]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'': Muffy, the snobby [[JustForPun WASP]] who takes incredible pity on the "poor, dirty, smelly" Z and Bala when they ask a simple question of how to get to the food wrapped in plastic at a picnic. She couldn't be more condescending if she tried.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Twilight Sparkle drops this like an anvil on Pinkie Pie in "Baby Cakes", making a stressed out Pinkie who was grateful for her friend's appearance to angrily slam the door in her face.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Often PlayedForLaughs with Cartman who, in the rare occasions he shows ''any'' compassion whatsoever to minorities or any group of people he [[PoliticallyCorrectVillain isn't openly discriminatory against]], will instead treat them this way, such as treating Token as a ticking time bomb who could riot at any possible moment just because he's black or believing merely referring to Kyle as being Jewish was somehow a slur. Naturally, said people take ''extreme'' offense to it:

** Pearl is occasionally a smug know-it-all. It especially irritates Amethyst, and in "On The Run" she loses her temper. She accuses Pearl of looking down on her, reminding her of her faults, and indirectly blaming her for the [[GreatOffscreenWar Gem War]]. Their fight ends when Pearl understands and apologizes for unknowingly belittling her friend.

** Rose Quartz suffered from this during her time on Earth--though she loved humans and genuinely fought against the Great Diamond Authority to protect them, it was clear that she saw them as "lesser" life forms who couldn't help themselves. [[spoiler: TheReveal that Rose was actually Pink Diamond [[FreudianExcuse accounts for this]]--the Diamonds genuinely believe that they are superior to ''all'' life.]]
** [[BigBad White Diamond]] has this trope in spades. She's the most powerful Gem in all of Homeworld--even the other Diamonds are terrified of her--and believes that she always knows what is best for everyone; as such, she speaks in a kindly but highly condescending tone, as if all other creatures are stupid children. Even worse, if anyone dares to even remotely disagree with her thoughts or question the FantasticCasteSystem she's established, she simply [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul brainwashes them]] into [[TheVirus an extension of herself]], eradicating their entire personality. And scariest of all, White thinks this is an improvement--after all, who ''wouldn't'' want to be subsumed into someone so utterly perfect?

** ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' explores this with none other than Steven himself. After defeating Homeworld and establishing a galaxy-wide peace, he is clearly developing the same {{Pride}} his mother Rose Quartz once held. It's also heavily implied that he spent so long [[ChronicHeroSyndrome fixing everyone's problems]] that the lack of those very problems is leading to a severe identity crisis.