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* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'' where the animals shun Verne partially for calling RJ out ([[StrawmanHasAPoint which he, of course is right about]], [[BecomingTheMask at first]]), but mostly for calling them stupid for listening to him, something that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Hammy]] takes very harshly. This plays a part in RJ's HeelRealization and he actually works on settling things between them.

** During the ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Sterling Gates]]''' run, General Sam Lane and his minions Reactron and Superwoman used this tactic against the eponymous heroine over and over again: they harass ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and try to murder her, and when Kara defends herself, she gets in trouble for aggravated assault and battery, and even attempted murder in ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman''.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' story arc "Growing Pains": After Peter accidentally broke [[JerkJock Flash Thompson's]] hand by blocking one of his punches, his parents [[HilaritySues sue Aunt May and Uncle Ben for the medical costs]].

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* In one of the later ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' books, [[TheWoobie Leah]] tells off Bella for the way she's been treating Jacob. [[WoundedGazelleGambit Bella then bursts into tears and everybody, including Jacob, gets mad at Leah for upsetting her]].

* In ''Film/HomeAlone1'', [[BigBrotherBully Buzz]] deliberately eats all of Kevin's cheese pizza then tells him to get a plate as he pretends to throw up, leading to Kevin angrily shoving him and causing a DisasterDominoes effect throughout the kitchen. Afterwards, everyone blames Kevin for the mess and is sent to the third floor by his mother while everyone ignores the fact that Buzz started it.

* In ''Film/HomeAlone'', [[BigBrotherBully Buzz]] deliberately eats all of Kevin's cheese pizza then tells him to get a plate as he pretends to throw up, leading to Kevin angrily shoving him and causing a DisasterDominoes effect throughout the kitchen. Afterwards, everyone blames Kevin for the mess and is sent to the third floor by his mother while everyone ignores the fact that Buzz started it.

-->'''Agatha''': I get it. I ''see'' where this is going. ''She'' came here, claiming to be the Heterodyne, with her stupid pink airship and her perfect pretty clothes and her ''cheap theatrics'', trying to steal ''my'' town and ''my'' castle. Not to mention she tried to ''kill'' me, and is probably the one responsible for the ''army of clanks'' at my gate. But ''I'm'' the meanie, because ''I'' made Princess Psycho ''cry''.

-->'''Agatha''': I get it. I ''see'' where this is going. ''She'' came here, claiming to be the Heterodyne, with her stupid pink airship and her perfect pretty clothes and her ''cheap theatrics'', trying to steal ''my'' town and ''my'' castle, not to mention she tried to ''kill''me, and is probably the one responsible for the ''army of clanks'' at my gate, but ''I'm'' the meanie, because ''I'' made Princess Psycho ''cry''.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Agatha [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090504feels like this when]] Zola, the Knights of Jove's fake Heterodyne, bursts into tears after being captured.

* In Creator/{{Stephen King}}'s ''Film/{{It|1990}}'', when Ben is tormented by his cousin Bradley over his crush on Beverly, he retaliates. Ben's aunt then comes in to pull Ben off of her son and scold him, not even reprimanding her son when he tells Ben he hates him and he's only with them because it's their duty to house him.

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': One episode has Ichigo's little sisters demanding that he apologizes to their cousin Tsukishima after he punches him. That wouldn't be wrong except that [[spoiler:Tsukishima is really a villain and he messed with their memories to make them think he's their cousin]]. So, basically he had that punch coming.
* At the beginning of ''Manga/ChildrenOfTheSea'', Ruka is playing soccer when an AlphaBitch on the other team trips her and causes her to skin her knees. In retaliation, Ruka elbows her in the face. Everyone, even Ruka's friends, turn on her and the coach kicks her off the team because she won't apologize for it while ignoring that the other girl started it.
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': At the beginning of the Myotismon arc, his lackey [=DemiDevimon=] tells lies to TK about his brother Matt in order to break his hope. When Tokomon tells him to stop lying, [=DemiDevimon=] mocks him cruelly, causing Tokomon to fire a bubble at him. Unfortunately, this was a BatmanGambit by [=DemiDevimon=] as TK saw Tokomon strike (not knowing that [=DemiDevimon=] started it) and abandoned him along with his crest and digivice.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': When Kohta's little sister Kanae tells him that she saw his friend Lucy commit mass murder at a festival, [[OrderedApology he tells her to apologize to Lucy]] for accusing her or else he'll "hate her forever". A second later, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe she's bifurcated]] ''by Lucy''. This leaves Kohta with a double-heaping of PartingWordsRegret, as his final words to his sister were not only that he'd hate her forever, but he called her a liar when [[CassandraTruth she was telling the truth]].
* One episode of ''Manga/{{Freezing}}'' sees Satellizer el Bridget attacked and sexually assaulted by [[AlphaBitch upperclassman Miyabi Kannazuki]], who wants to make Kazuya Aoi her newest Limiter. Against the odds, Satellizer and Kazuya manage to fight back, only for Satellizer to get in trouble for the equivalent of attacking a superior officer. Adding insult to injury, Miyabi's peers then decide to send the resident AxCrazy KnightTemplar after Satellizer, while Miyabi faces no penalties for her role in the violence.
* Late into ''Manga/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru'', this happens to Samart Sirinto when he forfeits his fight against Kaoru Hamada. Everyone was furious thinking he was looking down on karate because it was blatantly obvious that Hamada was no match for him. However, he was just afraid that if the fight went any further he would cause another CasualtyInTheRing.
* ''Lightnovel/MyRepairSkillBecameAnAlmightyCheat'': Not only does the "hero" Falcone blame Luke for the loss of supplies due to his own carelessness, but Falcone's backer turns around and accuses Luke of abandoning the hero party and leaving them to die instead, purely to steal the Hero's sword, and when that accusation is debunked, then tries to accuse Luke of killing the hero to cover up a mithril smuggling operation. When that accusation also gets debunked, The King tells the guy, "shut it, you damn windbag" albeit in far more diplomatic terms.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** A crazy situation occurs when the Straw Hats arrive at their first stop along the Grand Line. The crew is greeted by the island's inhabitants with open arms and a party is thrown. After the Straw Hats fall asleep, however, it's revealed that the islanders are really bounty hunters working for Baroque Works. Zoro, having suspected something, was still awake and managed to take them all down. When Luffy woke up needing to use the bathroom, he discovered what had happened and attacked Zoro with intent to actually kill him for [[TooDumbToLive being an ingrate to the 'kind people']], refusing to listen to Zoro's explanation, [[CassandraTruth believing it to be lies]]. The truth does eventually get through to him eventually, after Nami [[DopeSlap smacks some sense into him]].
** For a more heartbreaking example, in Sabo's backstory, when he got into a fight with a boy from a noble family after the latter made a cruel insult, Sabo's own mother, upon learning of what happened, ignored her son's injuries and in fact ''[[ArmorPiercingSlap slapped him]]'' before apologizing repeatedly to the boy's family, seeing the social connection as more important than her own son.
* In one episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Chronicles'', an Azuril [[RelationshipSabotage sabotages Meowth's attempts to woo a Skitty]], causing Meowth to justifiably chase him in anger. The Pichu brothers and their friends come to Azuril's aid [[SympathyForTheDevil and blow Meowth away]].
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Anyone would get upset at the sight of the fiancee being with another girl and would want to protect their lover. Due to her temper, Marie's manipulations, and Julius' indifference towards her, Angelica instead ends up getting people turned against her by looking like a foolish and jealous woman. Thankfully, Leon is able to see through it.
* ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'': Inami is so [[DoesNotLikeMen terrified of men]], that she instantly punches out any man who is unfortunate enough to be near her, [[RunningGag with her regular victim being Souta]]. Eventually, he gets fed up, [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on this]], and ''everyone'' treats him as the bad guy and acts as if Inami didn't deserve his calling out.
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* ''Fanfic/BitterTearsAnAnonAMissFic'': When Adagio is confronting the heroes at the hospital, she reveals that she witnessed Flash's ill-fated attempt to get Sunset to open up and snapped a picture of Sunset injuring herself. While Flash was really trying to catch Sunset when she lost her balance, the photo's staging makes it look like he's deliberately shoving her down into the park bench. Adagio gloats about how she only needs to circulate the photo to ruin his reputation. It ends up being averted, though; after the Sirens leave the hospital, Adagio deletes the photo, satisfied with the Evil Gloating she's gotten in.
* ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons'': Bruce Wayne is subjected to this when someone shoots Selina Kyle with a poisoned dart during their wedding. As Batman, Bruce has no option but to leave Selina alone in order to search and capture the culprit, leaving people puzzled when they call and are told Bruce Wayne isn't in his manor taking care of his bedridden, sick wife.
* ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'': This occurs with Twilight's loved ones at the wedding rehearsal just like in canon. [[ForWantOfANail Except this time]], because [[ManipulativeBastard Prince Jewelius]] helps Twilight in thwarting the Changeling invasion and reveals the heroes' mistakes to the public, they pay the price for it [[HeroWithBadPublicity with their reputations and social status]].
* ''Fanfic/MeanRabbit'': Izuku ''constantly'' runs into this problem. Sure, he's pretty abrasive, but given what he has to put up with, it's a bit hard to blame him:
** [[SadistTeacher Aizawa]] tries to kick him out of U.A. [[FantasticRacism for being Quirkless]] by blatantly rigging the results of his assessment test, then punishes five of his classmates for failing to beat him in a rematch? The majority of Class 1-A blames ''him'' for standing up for himself, accusing him of selfishly putting his dreams before others and acting like he ''KNEW'' what Aizawa would do.
** Bakugou uses a potentially lethal attack against him during a training exercise? How '''dare''' he [[CrimeOfSelfDefense defend himself]] and turn his own assault against him!
** He calls out three of his classmates for considering leaving him behind during a villain attack? While he's already injured, no less? Obviously ''he's'' the one overreacting and blowing things out of proportion, and it's his fault when [[spoiler:two of them get expelled for it]].
** He calls out Monoma for claiming that he's ''happy'' about said villain attack for the 'publicity', pointing out how badly he was scarred in the assault? All the crowd sees is him yelling at Monoma until he's brought to tears.
* In ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'', Ritsuko tampers with Asuka's brain activity until Asuka is driven mad and beats fellow pilot Keiko up, which in turn makes the Nerv's staff believe the Second Child is a psychopath.
* In ''Fanfic/ProfessorArc'', Jaune's family shows up at Beacon, unaware of the fic's events and expecting to meet with the awkward wimp Jaune was before successfully reinventing himself as Professor Arc. To their bewilderment, everything they do to try to bring him back home, especially framing Jaune as an incompetent bumbler who has no business being in Beacon, makes them look like unpleasable jerkasses who hate him for being generally better than them.
* ''Fanfic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':
** In Act III chapter 12, after Mizore and Felucia explain to the others that Dark's claim that he's only keeping Tsukune alive long enough for Kokoa to [[TheAtoner repay her debt to him]] was merely an act to fool the headmaster and buy time to find out how to repair the [[RestrainingBolt Holy Lock]], they outright accuse them of being {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s and giving Dark too little credit. Of course, the rest of the gang had good reason to take Dark's words at face value, since he had openly stated on more than one occasion that if he even ''suspected'' that the Holy Lock wouldn't hold and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the ghoul]] would roam free again, he would kill Tsukune without hesitation.
** In Act VI chapter 17, Mizore and Arial [[DesignatedGirlFight get into a fight]] over Dark that leads to Mizore pinning Arial down and literally beating Arial to a bloody pulp all while screaming at her to stay away from Dark and outright calling her a bitch. It's only after she's beaten Arial senseless and flat-out tells the other girls that "the bitch had it coming" that she realizes that during the fight, she broke into the boys' room and beat Arial to an inch of her life right in front of Dark, who considers Arial his guardian angel; by that point, Dark was the only one in the group who was [[LockedOutOfTheLoop unaware]] that Arial was [[{{Yandere}} obsessively in love with him]] to the extent that she [[MurderTheHypotenuse nearly killed Mizore in front of everybody]] in a jealous rage[[note]]Dark had fainted at the sight of Arial, so he didn't see it happen[[/note]], so to him, it appears that Mizore attacked Arial without provocation. With this, Mizore is forced to reveal the AwfulTruth to Dark.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41938833 Think Before You Speak]]'': After Izuku avoids an explosive assault from [[BarbaricBully Katsuki]], Tenya [[DeadlyDodging is unintentionally caught in the crossfire]]. Aizawa then gives Tensei a deliberately skewed account of the incident where he pins all the blame on ''Izuku'', spurring Tensei to [[SayingTooMuch tell the media]] that his brother was injured by 'a careless student with SuperStrength'. This winds up getting Tensei into serious trouble, as he finds himself accused of [[MaliciousSlander slandering an innocent student]] and trying to ruin Izuku's career before it could even get started.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21138575 Who You Know]]'', [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lila]] tells Alya that she can arrange for Marinette to meet hot new fashion designer MDC. Not only does she [[CelebrityLie not have any ability]] to do so, she knows that Marinette wouldn't fall for it... and so doesn't even make the 'offer' to her at all. Instead, she insults and riles her up so when Marinette gets annoyed, ''she'' looks like she's being unreasonable and cruel.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** In one episode, Raj has Howard and Bernadette babysit his dog, only for them to lose it. Raj manages to find the dog and decides to make Howard and Bernadette squirm for a few hours. When the pair calls Raj to cover up they lost his dog, Raj reveals he found it a few hours ago, resulting in Bernadette getting on his case about making them worry sick about the dog, resulting in ''Raj'' being the one to apologize, with Howard and Bernadette's losing his dog forgotten.
** There's also the one where Penny finally loses it with Howard and sends him into a downward spiral of self-loathing despair because of the scathing put-down she gives him. It doesn't help that she was pretty much in the right and it's remarkable she waited so long before calling Howard out on his boorish clumsy chat-up lines. She is still made to feel like a jerk by the others for being so brutally candid. She feels she has to go and apoogise. But still ends up breaking his nose.
* In ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Ray used to hate playing ping-pong with Frank due to his UnsportsmanlikeGloating, but holds proud memories of the one time he beat him, so when Frank reveals that [[ILetYouWin he let him win]], he demands another game to settle the score. Frank wins again and rubs it in Ray's face like he usually does, [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine until Ray tells him that he let]] ''[[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine him]]'' [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine win]]. [[{{Hypocrite}} Frank storms out in a huff]] and Marie immediately tells Ray off for humiliating his father.
* ''Series/{{Fastlane}}'': Van's father Ray Ray happens to be a ConMan that exploits his "coolness" to make people drop their guard around him. Van has been around him long enough to develop savviness and keep his guard up, but the plot constantly conspires to make him look horrible when he orders ''his own father'' to assume the position for frisking, for example (turns out he got a gun from a contact).
* A Season Five episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', “The One With the Girl Who Hits Joey”, has Ross move into a new apartment. A resident tries to get him to give $100 for the super's retirement, but Ross only ''just'' moved in and doesn't feel obliged. Everyone in the building treats him like a pariah.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' Season Six episode "Stress Related", Carlton shows up to give a speech at Ashley's school for Career Day (as their father, Phil, can’t make it,) but everyone at the assembly quickly determines that he doesn't have a job, despite what he says about career success in general. After one student quips that Carlton is a bum (causing laughter among the students present,) another student actually has the nerve to raise her hand to question if that is, in fact, the truth. "Excuse me, sir. Are you really a bum?", she "politely" inquires. Suffice to say that she is genuinely shocked and unprepared when he angrily snaps, "Back off, sister!", but then a third student in the audience has the nerve to stand up for her by calling Carlton out on his "attitude problem" and basically say that ''he'' is being insensitive to ''her'' feelings, not vice versa. And to add further insult to her brother's emotional injury, Ashley reinforces this trope at the end of the episode when she laments to her father that, while she can understand that he was too busy to make it to the career fair himself, she ''can't'' understand why, of all people, he'd send Carlton in his place, further implying her brother's defensive outburst towards that girl was completely out of line.
* One episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' features Amy trying to get the family prepared for a singing contest. Seeing them underachieving, she uses a fake family in the performance. When she gets home, the family is upset over the deception, but Amy's fast talking results in the family apologizing to ''her'' for being terrible at the routine.
* In one episode of ''Series/GroundedForLife'', upon learning that Eddie had an adult movie shot at their house, Claudia [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the house]]. When the kids find out, they get upset that they'll never see their uncle again. Claudia even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it as shown in the page quote.
* The ''Series/HomeImprovement'' "Some Like It Hot Rod" features Jill putting Tim's car outside, only for it to get covered in snow. When Tim gets upset with her, she turns it around about how all the times he ruined her things, she forgave him, [[{{Hypocrite}} only for him to not do the same]], ending with ''her'' storming out of the garage upset. It's then that Tim realizes what just happened.
-->'''Tim''': Wait a minute! You are really good. ''You'' screw up, and ''I'm'' getting yelled at! You are really, ''really'' good!
* In the ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E13Columns Columns]]", Ted deals with a worker (his former boss) who keeps belittling his ideas and being a jerk, prompting him to fire him. However, he finds himself unable to do it due to circumstances: his birthday, his wife left him and served him divorce papers, and his dog died. Finally, Ted has enough and decides to fire him at last. However, as he does, the worker has a heart attack. Ted [[WoundedGazelleGambit thinks he's faking it]] and fires him anyway. The worker is then carried off in a stretcher and everyone despises Ted, including the paramedics.
* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Alien", the detectives are brought in to investigate a stabbing at a Catholic school. While there, they find that the stabber in question had been the victim of a vicious bullying campaign that the school had done nothing to quell because they wanted her parents, a lesbian couple, to pull her out.
* In the ''Series/MadamSecretary'' episode "The Ninth Circle", the [=McCords'=] son Jason is expelled from a Quaker school after he breaks the school bully's nose for [[YourMom insulting his mother Elizabeth]] and refuses to apologize. Admittedly Quakers are [[ActualPacifist big on nonviolence]], but Dean Ward blames the whole thing on Jason without addressing the prior cyberbullying by the SpoiledBrat rich kid, and Liz and Henry [=McCord=] are way angrier at Ward than at Jason.
-->'''Liz:''' If I ran the State Department the way you run this school, the world would be a smoldering ember!
* Wonderfully inverted in an episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''. Lois grounds Malcolm for not helping move a couch even though he was doing some school work. Then when the family is forced to evacuate due to a train wreck releasing toxic fumes, she says the grounding still stands and makes him stay on a cot. When he finally stands up to her, she humiliates him in front of everyone. This results in her being forced to stay outside with the others for things they did (Reese creating a black market for supplies, Dewey lying to everyone to get sympathy, and Hal for causing the accident that forced the evacuation in the first place), resulting in the one time Malcolm came out on top.
* ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': Dick hosts a new talk show with bubbly, vapid co-host Buffy Denver (Julie Brown). At a history museum, he gently tries to get her to tone down her giggly airhead comments while interviewing a curator. She immediately breaks down crying, and the curator tears into Dick for crushing her enthusiasm, and shouts "Go to hell, Mister Loudon!"
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Picard tells Wesley to shut up when he tries to warn the captain about Lore.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' features an episode where Charlie gives his mother a CallingTheOldManOut speech but then she turns it around and treats him like he's being a brat.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'': Barney's hungry cousin, from the short of the same name, for ''no given reason'', gets Barney jailed in the end, via by putting the signs saying not to feed the bears he took down back up, summoning the police, and telling them that Barney tried to feed him, ''even though the guy spent the whole short stealing Barney's food, and Barney offered him his last sandwich in defeat''.
* In effect in the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "Splitting Images". Tired of resident JerkJock Dash picking on him, Danny decides to use his powers to get some payback. Unfortunately, he catches the attention of BullyHunter Sidney Poindexter who thinks that Dash was an innocent kid (somehow missing when Dash picked on Danny), so he takes over Danny's body and sends him to his realm where Danny gets picked on by Poindexter's bullies. While the message in the episode is ComesGreatResponsibility, it's laced with this trope as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' in the short "Crazy Over Daisy". Chip and Dale torment him and destroy his bicycle while he's on his way to Daisy's. When he tries to give them their just desserts by [[ItMakesSenseInContext using them as a motor for a new bicycle]], Daisy thinks that he’s being mean to them.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
** In the episode "Boys Will Be Eds", Rolf's goat, Victor was attacking Jimmy to get his sandwich, with Rolf trying to pull him off Jimmy. When Sarah came onto the scene, [[HelpMistakenForAttack she thought]] ''[[HelpMistakenForAttack Rolf]]'' [[HelpMistakenForAttack was attacking Jimmy]] and pulled him away from Jimmy before he could pry Victor off before beating him to a pulp.
** The ending of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'' has an inversion of this. At the beginning of the movie, the Eds' latest scam caused massive damage and severely hurt the children, resulting in them being hunted down. After the encounter with Eddy's brother, everyone got over it, except Johnny who didn't arrive until afterwards. Therefore, when he attacked the Eds, the children beat him up.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E2SeahorseSeashellParty Seahorse Seashell Party]]", [[ButtMonkey Meg]] ''finally'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls out Peter, Lois and Chris for their poor treatment of her]]. However, at the end of the episode, ''she'' ends up feeling guilty and apologizes to ''them'' for chewing them out because [[InsaneTrollLogic they all need a human punching bag to take all their frustrations on and wouldn't be able to function without it]].
--->'''Meg:''' ''(to Brian)'' Do you think it's possible that this family can't survive without some sort of lightning rod to absorb all of the dysfunction?
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E16HerpeTheLoveSore Herpes, the Love Sore]]" combines this with KarmaHoudini when a trio of bullies take Peter, Joe, and Quagmire's booth at their bar. When they try to fight back, it results in them being bruised and bloodied. Then when the bullies reveal they're American soldiers, everyone in the bar actually ''cheers'' for them while shunning Peter, Joe, and Quagmire.
--->'''Peter''': [[RootingForTheEmpire I can't believe I have to root for Afghanistan now.]]
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' features Billy being tormented by Sperg. In a rare heartwarming moment (for her), Mandy stands up to Sperg on Billy's behalf, [[UngratefulBastard only for Billy to get on her for picking on him]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Girl Trouble", [[{{Tsundere}} Helga]] spends the entire episode tormenting Arnold as usual. When he finally snaps and throws paint at her, Mr. Simmons, [[AdultsAreUseless who paid no attention to any of Helga's antics]], gives a forlorn speech about how disappointed he is seeing Arnold harassing another student and [[SelectiveEnforcement punishes him]]. Grandpa earlier related to Arnold's treatment with his own childhood bully, who he states always managed to turn the tables and make ''him'' look like the bully. As it turns out, she was Grandma.
* A ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon entitled "Feline Frame-Up" features a dog that was defending a kitten from a mean cat, only for their master to get the wrong idea and think the dog was being mean to the cat, resulting in him getting thrown out of the house. Fortunately, the dog managed to force the cat to confess the truth in the end.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' two-parter episode, "A Canterlot Wedding" (Season 2 finale). Twilight Sparkle accuses Princess Cadence of being evil after seeing how much of a {{Jerkass}} she was being towards her friends. Cadence breaks down in tears and runs away, causing her friends to be upset with her, Shining Armor (her brother) to change his mind about her being [[BestWoman Best Mare]], and Princess Celestia to be disappointed in her. [[spoiler:Turns out that it was really the Queen of the Changelings, impersonating Cadence and the real one was trapped in an abandoned mine below the castle. Because of Twilight's friends shunning her, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Canterlot became overrun with an army of Changelings and nearly destroyed, and Queen Chrysalis gleefully points this out.]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
** In "Sweet 'n' Sour", the title characters try to stop a group called [[CuteIsEvil the Fluffy Bunch]] from committing crimes. Unfortunately, the Fluffy Bunch's [[CutenessProximity cuteness]] makes the townspeople believe the girls were ''harassing'' the Fluffy Bunch and [[HeroWithBadPublicity they ostracize the girls as a result]].
** In "Schoolhouse Rocked", the Gangreen Gang are put into Miss Keane's kindergarten class and take advantage of it to bully the children. The girls try to stop them, but their attempts are mistaken for bullying by Miss Keane. When she gives them a time-out during recess, the Gang are free to beat up the kindergarteners in a one-sided game of [[DodgeballIsHell dodgeball.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E2AllsFairInOvenWar All's Fair in Oven War]]", Marge is constantly tormented by the other competitors, with them burning her entries for no reason. When she decides to [[TheDogBitesBack give them a taste of their own medicine]] [[LaserGuidedKarma by doing the same to them]], Lisa [[BrokenPedestal becomes disappointed in her]] and convinces her to confess the truth, [[DoubleStandard while ignoring that they started the whole thing to begin with]].
** Another episode features Gill staying with the family after losing his job on Christmas. He stays for months and defiles the house to the point where Marge can't take it anymore and decides to stand up to him. By that time, Gill had gotten a new job, so Marge [[ALessonLearnedTooWell takes the family to his new workplace to tell him off]]. Unfortunately, when she does, he loses the respect of his workers and his boss fires him. Marge feels so guilty that she and the family buy a vacation house from Gill.
** In a segment parodying ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Homer (playing the role of the Count) sets up [[RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts an elaborate revenge scheme]] for the man (Moe) who stole his love (Marge) and had him sent to prison, which ends with Moe being killed. Unfortunately, Marge gets upset with him for killing her husband. Granted she also lampshades the fact he spent all this time formulating a murder scheme over actually reuniting with his family.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS17E10TheHobbit The Hobbit]]", Wendy calls out [[InnocentlyInsensitive Butters]] for insulting Lisa Berger, only for ''her'' to get scolded by Mr. Mackey who accuses her of bullying. The same thing keeps happening when she tries to preach her anti-body image message to the school.
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS22E01DeadKids Dead Kids]]", when Sharon furiously chews out Randy for not taking the school shootings seriously, [[ShamedByAMob the townsfolk get on her case for it]] and take Randy's side, and then storm off.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E3TheBullyJustOneBite The Bully]]", Flats the Flounder menaces [=SpongeBob=], threatening to "kick your butt". When he actually does, however, [=SpongeBob=]'s soft body just absorbs the blows, and Flats keeps punching away until he falls from exhaustion. [=SpongeBob=] then gives his fellow students a speech against violence, raising his fist for emphasis. That's when Mrs. Puff comes in, sees Flats on the floor and [=SpongeBob=] with his fist up, and accuses him of beating up Flats, then tells him [[HereWeGoAgain "I'm going to kick your butt!"]]
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS7E2GrowthSpoutStuckInTheWringer Stuck in the Wringer]]", [=SpongeBob=] has an accident that gets him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stuck in the wringer]], and thanks to Patrick's [[TooDumbToLive stupidity]], he can't get out. [=SpongeBob=] feels he'll never be able to do anything now, but Patrick gives him a RousingSpeech that he can go on. Unfortunately, Patrick's speech [[InstantlyProvenWrong is proven unfounded]] as the wringer causes [=SpongeBob=] a ton of bad luck no matter how much Patrick tries to inspire him. Finally, in the middle of an amusement park, [=SpongeBob=] [[RageBreakingPoint snaps at Patrick]], [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling him his life is over and that it's all his fault]]. Patrick runs off crying [[ShamedByAMob while everyone watching calls [=SpongeBob=] a jerk and says he got what he deserved]].
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS7E5KeepBikiniBottomBeautifulAPalForGary A Pal for Gary]]", Gary saves [=SpongeBob=] from Puffy Fluffy, only to get scolded again.
** In the episode entitled "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS9E8SafeDepositKrabsPlanktonsPet Plankton's Pet]]", Plankton disguises himself as a baby to steal a Krabby Patty. However, Mr. Krabs sees through his disguise (and it's a pretty good disguise) and attacks him. Everyone is horrified that Mr. Krabs is seemingly attacking a baby until he reveals it's Plankton. However, when Mr. Krabs kicks him out, a bunch of women that were watching start attacking him and calling him a monster.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' episode "Here, Kitty, Kitty", Molly found an adorable kitten. [[DramaticIrony Unbeknownst to her, however,]] the kitten was [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon secretly]] [[CatsAreMean vicious and mean]], and was attempting to eat Molly's fish with Taz being the only one who was aware of the kitten's true colors. Unfortunately, Molly kept assuming that Taz was picking on the kitten and [[CassandraTruth wouldn't listen to Taz's explanations]]. Eventually, Taz managed to get rid of the kitten and save the fish, but when Molly came up on the scene, she thought ''Taz'' was messing with her fish and ''still'' wouldn't listen to Taz's explanations, accusing him of doing something to her kitten. [[DownerEnding The episode ends]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished with Taz being given a bath]], [[HatesBaths which he hates]].
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* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Anyone would get upset at the sight of the fiancee being with another girl and would want to protect their lover. Due to her temper, Marie's manipulations, and Julius' indifference towards her, Angelica instead ends up getting people turned against her by looking like a foolish and jealous woman. Thankfully, Leon is able to see through it.

* In one episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Chronicles'', an Azuril [[RelationshipSabotage sabotages Meowth's attempts to woo a Skitty]], causing Meowth to justifiably chase him in anger. The Pichu brothers and their friends come to Azuril's aid [[SympathyForTheDevil and blow Meowth away]].
* ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'': Inami is so [[DoesNotLikeMen terrified of men]], that she instantly punches out any man who is unfortunate enough to be near her, [[RunningGag with her regular victim being Souta]]. Eventually, he gets fed up, [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on this]], and ''everyone'' treats him as the bad guy and acts as if Inami didn't deserve his calling out.

* Late into ''Manga/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru'', this happens to Samart Sirinto when he forfeits his fight against Kaoru Hamada. Everyone was furious thinking he was looking down on karate because it was blatantly obvious that Hamada was no match for him. However, he was just afraid that if the fight went any further he would cause another CasualtyInTheRing.
* ''Lightnovel/MyRepairSkillBecameAnAlmightyCheat'': Not only does the "hero" Falcone blame Luke for the loss of supplies due to his own carelessness, but Falcone's backer turns around and accuses Luke of abandoning the hero party and leaving them to die instead, purely to steal the Hero's sword, and when that accusation is debunked, then tries to accuse Luke of killing the hero to cover up a mithril smuggling operation. When that accusation also gets debunked, The King tells the guy, "shut it, you damn windbag" albeit in far more diplomatic terms.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': When Kohta's little sister Kanae tells him that she saw his friend Lucy commit mass murder at a festival, [[OrderedApology he tells her to apologize to Lucy]] for accusing her or else he'll "hate her forever". A second later, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe she's bifurcated]] ''by Lucy''. This leaves Kohta with a double-heaping of PartingWordsRegret, as his final words to his sister were not only that he'd hate her forever, but he called her a liar when [[CassandraTruth she was telling the truth]].

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' story arc "Growing Pains": After Peter accidentally broke [[JerkJock Flash Thompson's]] hand by blocking one of his punches, his parents [[HilaritySues sue Aunt May and Uncle Ben for the medical costs]].
* In a flashback scene in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', young Walter Korvacs is being harassed by a couple of older kids because his mother is a prostitute, so Korvacs takes one kid's cigarette and stabs him in the eye with it. Korvacs is sent to juvenile hall while the bully receives no official punishment.

* In the lead up to ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Maxwell Lord takes control of Superman, making him attack the rest of the Justice League and intending to have Superman go on a rampage that will turn the world against all metahumans. Franchise/WonderWoman, after having pleaded with Max to cease his actions and doing everything in her power to subdue Superman without killing him, ultimately kills Max who himself admitted this was the only way to stop his plan. Due to footage of the incident being edited in such a way to make her look like the bad guy, Wonder Woman is shunned by the public for several years and even Superman and Batman, both of whom knew the entire context of the situation, turn on her.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** In one episode, Raj has Howard and Bernadette babysit his dog, only for them to lose it. Raj manages to find the dog and decides to make Howard and Bernadette squirm for a few hours. When the pair calls Raj to cover up they lost his dog, Raj reveals he found it a few hours ago, resulting in Bernadette getting on his case about making them worry sick about the dog, resulting in ''Raj'' being the one to apologize, with Howard and Bernadette's losing his dog forgotten.
** There's also the one where Penny finally loses it with Howard and sends him into a downward spiral of self-loathing despair because of the scathing put-down she gives him. It doesn't help that she was pretty much in the right and it's remarkable she waited so long before calling Howard out on his boorish clumsy chat-up lines. She is still made to feel like a jerk by the others for being so brutally candid. She feels she has to go and apoogise. But still ends up breaking his nose.

* ''Series/{{Fastlane}}'': Van's father Ray Ray happens to be a ConMan that exploits his "coolness" to make people drop their guard around him. Van has been around him long enough to develop savviness and keep his guard up, but the plot constantly conspires to make him look horrible when he orders ''his own father'' to assume the position for frisking, for example (turns out he got a gun from a contact).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS22E01DeadKids Dead Kids]]", when Sharon furiously chews out Randy for not taking the school shootings seriously, [[ShamedByAMob the townsfolk get on her case for it]] and take Randy's side, and then storm off.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** In one episode, the title characters try to stop a group called [[CuteIsEvil the Fluffy Bunch]] from committing crimes. Unfortunately, the Fluffy Bunch's [[CutenessProximity cuteness]] makes the townspeople believe the girls were ''harassing'' the Fluffy Bunch and [[HeroWithBadPublicity they ostracize the girls as a result]].
** In "School House Rocked", the Gangreen Gang are put into Miss Keane's kindergarten class and take advantage of it to bully the children. The girls try to stop them, but their attempts are mistaken for bullying by Miss Keane. When she gives them a time-out during recess, the Gang are free to beat up the kindergarteners in a one-sided game of [[DodgeballIsHell dodgeball.]]

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': When Kohta's little sister Kanae tells him that she saw his friend Lucy commit mass murder at a festival, [[OrderedApology he tells her to apologize to Lucy]] for accusing her or else he'll "hate her forever". A second later, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe she's bifurcated]] ''by Lucy''. This leaves Kohta with a double-heaping of PartingWordsRegret, as his final words to his sister were not only that he'd hate her forever, but he called her a liar when she was telling the truth.

* In Creator/{{Stephen King}}'s ''Film/{{It|1990}}'', when Ben is tormented by his cousin Jim over his crush on Beverly, he retaliates. Ben's aunt then comes in to pull Ben off of her son and scold him, not even reprimanding her son when he tells Ben he hates him and he's only with them because it's their duty to house him.

->'''Claudia''': Wait a minute. How did ''I'' become the bad guy?
->'''Henry''': You made Uncle Eddie leave. Now I'm going to have a porno birthday!

* At the beginning of the Myotismon arc of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', his lackey [=DemiDevimon=] tells lies to TK about his brother Matt in order to break his hope. When Tokomon tells him to stop lying, [=DemiDevimon=] mocks him cruelly, causing Tokomon to fire a bubble at him. Unfortunately, this was a BatmanGambit by [=DemiDevimon=] as TK saw Tokomon strike (not knowing that [=DemiDevimon=] started it) and abandoned him along with his crest and digivice.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS7E2GrowthSpoutStuckInTheWringer Stuck in the Wringer]]", [=SpongeBob=] has an accident that gets him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stuck in the wringer]], and thanks to Patrick's [[TooDumbToLive stupidity]], he can't get out. [=SpongeBob=] feels he'll never be able to do anything now, but Patrick gives him a RousingSpeech that he can go on. Unfortunately, Patrick's speech [[InstantlyProvenWrong is proven unfounded]] as the wringer causes [=SpongeBob=] a ton of bad luck no matter how much Patrick tries to inspire him. Finally, in the middle of an amusement park, [=SpongeBob=] [[RageBreakingPoint snaps at Patrick]], [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling him his life is over and that it's all his fault]]. Patrick runs off crying [[ShamedByAMob while everyone who was watching call [=SpongeBob=] a jerk and say he got what he deserved]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'', Penny belittles Sherman over being a "dog" and starts assaulting him in the cafeteria. After Sherman bites her in retaliation, the school staff see this as Sherman bullying ''her'' due to Penny pulling CrocodileTears in a photo (though the principal did seem to understand the situation). In return, [[InsaneTrollLogic Mr. Peabody is accused of bad parenting]] and [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices almost gets Sherman taken away from him]].

* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' Season Six episode "Stress Related", Carlton shows up to give a speech at Ashley's school for Career Day (as their father, Phil, can’t make it,) but everyone at the assembly quickly determines that he doesn't have a job, despite what he says about career success in general. After one student quips that Carlton is a bum (causing laughter among the students present,) another student actually has the nerve to raise her hand to question if that is, in fact, the truth. "Excuse me, sir. Are you really a bum?", [[WhatAnIdiot she "politely" inquires]]. Suffice to say that she is genuinely shocked and unprepared when he angrily snaps, "Back off, sister!", but then a third student in the audience has the nerve to stand up for her by calling Carlton out on his "attitude problem" and basically say that ''he'' is being insensitive to ''her'' feelings, not vice versa. And to add further insult to her brother's emotional injury, Ashley reinforces this trope at the end of the episode when she laments to her father that, while she can understand that he was too busy to make it to the career fair himself, she ''can't'' understand why, of all people, he'd send Carlton in his place, further implying her brother's defensive outburst towards that girl was completely out of line.

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': When Kohta's little sister Kanae tells him that she saw his friend Lucy commit mass murder at a festival, [[OrderedApology he tells her to apologize to Lucy]] for accusing her or else he'll "hate her forever". A second later, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe she's bifurcated]] ''by Lucy''. This leaves Kohta with a double-heaping of PartingWordsRegret, as his final words to his sister were not only that that he'd hate her forever, but he called her a liar when she was telling the truth.