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Usually, this is portrayed as being a very {{Jerkass}} thing to do.

* In ''Film/TheHaunting1999'', Elinor took care of her invalid mother by herself for 11 years, only for her mom will their apartment for her younger daughter Jane, who never lift a finger to help. Jane immediately decides to sell the apartment and when Elinor protests she'll become a homeless, Jane cynically asks her to babysit her spoiled son in return for a place to live.
* ''Film/TheMask'': Stanley Ipkiss is treated as a doormat by everyone, from his coworkers to his mechanics. Near the openings, he buys the tickets of a show to invite a work colleague. The young woman lies that her best friend is in town, knowing that Stanley would generously give her the tickets and she would enjoy the show with someone she actually liked.

* Occurs in several episodes of ''Here's Lucy'', usually involving either Lucy and Harry agreeing to help the other, who subsequently takes excessive advantage of the others offer. One notable example is the episode "Harrison Carter, Male Nurse" where Lucy has broken her leg and has Harry become her nurse-maid. She constantly summons him with a bell to come upstairs, just as he has just gotten downstairs, making increasingly petty demands each time.

* Fluffy & Uranus from ''{{WesternAnimation/Duckman}}'' allow their boss to stay with them for a while, but his abuse of this trope eventually leads them to calling him out on this, [[PrecisionFStrike cussing him out]], and kicking him out, in that order.

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and then ''she's'' called a monster by Loly. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes, and Ichigo can't help her because Ulquiorra's in the way. [[BreakTheCutie And that's not the worst of poor Orihime's torture in captivity.]]

* Happens in the ''FanFic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'' with Spike. Because he had a crush on Rarity, whenever she would flirt and tease him in order to get him to do some favors for her, he was unaware that she didn’t recuperate his feelings leading him to think he had a chance with her. This came to a head in "Spike’s Heartbreak" where he found out [[MomentKiller the hard way]], that Rarity was in a relationship with Lightning Blitz. When everyone calls Rarity out on it, she realizes how horrible she had treated Spike and tried to make amends with him.

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes, and Ichigo can't help her because Ulquiorra's in the way. [[BreakTheCutie And that's not the worst of poor Orihime's torture in captivity.]]

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes. [[BreakTheCutie And that's not the worst of poor Orihime's torture in captivity.]]

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes. [[BreakTheCutieAnd that's not the worst of poor Orihime's torture in captivity]].

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes. [[BreakTheCutieAnd that's not the worst of poor Orihime's torture in captivity.]

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes. [[BreakTheCutieAnd that's not the worst of poor Orihime's torture in captivity.]]

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes. [[BreakTheCutieAnd that's not the worst of poor Orihime's torture in captivity.

* Loly and Menoly from ''Manga/Bleach''. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes.

* ''Manga/Bleach'': Loly and Menoly. After Aizen kidnaps ActualPacifist Orihime, they break into her room and go out of their way to torture her, since they're jealous of Orihime for getting Aizen's interest. When Grimmjow saves her, Orihime's poor face is disfigured by those two monsters. Yet she heals them both, and what does Orihime get? Slapped in the face and ''she's'' called a monster. And she heals them again too when Loly tears at her clothes.

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Compare MovingTheGoalposts, ThePrimaDonna, ChoosyBeggar, and AllTakeAndNoGive (a variation of this with relationships). TheFarmerAndTheViper is a more extreme and outright villainous variant.

* MafiaPrincess Trish Una basically walks all over our heroes from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' when they are instructed to protect her. Granted, she was their boss' daughter.

* ''Film/TheMask'': Stanley Ipkiss is treated as a doormat by everyone, from his coworkers to his mechanics. Near the openings, he buys the tickets of a show to invite a class colleague. The young woman lies that her best friend is in town, knowing that Stanley would generously give her the tickets and she would enjoy the show with someone she actually liked.

* In ''Film/TheHaunting1999'', Elinor took care of her invalid mother by herself for 11 years, only for her mom will their apartment for her younger daughter, who never lift a finger to help. Said woman decides to sell the apartment and when Elinor protests she'll become a homeless, her sister cynically asks her to babysit her spoiled son in return for a place to live.

** In "Rarity Takes Manehattan", it happens to Rarity again. She runs into an old acquaintance at a fashion show and gives her some of her custom fabric to use for trim on her designs. Said acquaintance uses ''all'' the fabric to completely remake her dresses, and then takes credit for the fabric, forcing Rarity to remake her own dresses from scratch so it won't look like she's making knockoffs. In this case, it's less a case of unchecked greed, and more a potential rival intentionally screwing Rarity over ''and'' plagiarizing her all in one go.

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* MafiaPrincess Trish Una basically walks all over our heroes from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' when they are instructed to protect her. Granted, she was their boss' daughter.

* ''Series/TheJohnLarroquetteShow'': John wins an electric car. He charges it at home, where [[LoopholeAbuse he gets free electricity included in his rent]]. His landlord complains and cuts him off, so John starts charging it at the bus station where he works.

* In ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', Mr Wines will occasionally approach the player and offer to "hire" them to provide for one of its [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy revels]]. This means providing, out of your own pocket, 23.50 Echoes of wine, honey, and blackmail (for the entertainers), and getting "paid" with detritus left by the partygoers worth a paltry 3.74 Echoes. And that's if you ''succeed'' at the fairly high-level Persuasive check at the end, otherwise, you get paid ''nothing''.

* Kerry/Seraphim from the Literature/WhateleyUniverse ran into a brutal case of this. Her powers allow her to heal people, and she looks like an angel and is staying in a church. Initially she heals people because she wants to, but soon those caring for her decide that they want the flow of interest, tourism, and money she's generated to keep up and won't let her stop healing, even when it endangers her own health. It doesn't end well.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' falls victim to this a lot.
** One time Squidward quits his job over an argument with Mr. Krabs and ends up on the street. [=SpongeBob=] takes Squidward in, and though initially grateful, Squidward becomes a SpoiledBrat who refuses to even leave his bed and forces [=SpongeBob=] to wait on him hand and foot. Eventually, [=SpongeBob=] [[RageBreakingPoint snapped]] and dragged him back to the Krusty Krab to get him his job back.
** A few episodes revolve around [=SpongeBob=] trying to get past being an ExtremeDoormat to the whole of Bikini Bottom, but realizing he is okay with being stepped on (sometimes literally).
** Another episode revolves around [=SpongeBob=] gaining a large amount of wealth. What starts as him buying someone an ice cream evolves to him basically throwing money to an enormous crowd of moochers.
** In "The Sponge Who Could Fly", after [=SpongeBob=] gains the ability to fly, he initially uses it to save people in danger, but the people eventually pester him into doing tasks they could do themselves and have nothing to do with flying (such as cleaning Mr. Krabs' garage, helping Larry pick out a tie, balance Mrs. Puff's checkbook, etc.). This is where [=SpongeBob=] ditches them and head to Jellyfish Fields, [[EntitledBastard and the people angrily hunt him down while demanding he do their stuff]].
** In the episode "Krusty Towers," Mr. Krabs starts the eponymous hotel with the policy "We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request." When Squidward gets sick of waiting on Patrick hand and foot, he quits his job... and promptly returns as a guest and milks the policy for all it's worth.
* Similarly, Fluffy & Uranus from ''{{WesternAnimation/Duckman}}'' allow their boss to stay with them for a while, but his abuse of this trope eventually leads them to calling him out on this, [[PrecisionFStrike cussing him out]], and kicking him out, in that order.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' is also a victim of this. In one episode, when he is walking in his kitchen during the night, he lets a passing bug walk by, giving Flecko the fly a chance to take advantage of this by unofficially inviting the rest of the bugs (who were held captive by Ed Bighead) in Rocko's house.

* Both of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s'' [[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow shows]] at least once utilize a similar plot where Garfield befriends a mouse in his home, explaining he doesn't chase them. The mouse immediately invites all of his friends to take over the place and rob it clean of food. This is obviously a [[BerserkButton sore spot]] for [[BigEater Garfield]] who decides to take action following this.
* Wendy in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''' episode [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E13BossMabel "Boss Mabel"]]. Mabel, as acting boss, decides to be more permissive to Wendy by letting her hang out more often with her friends. When Wendy and her friends destroy the gift shop with their dangerous games (even hitting a kid with a severed head), Mabel politely asks Wendy to return to work and clean the mess. Wendy instead guilt-trips Mabel by telling her she's starting to act like Stan and Mabel, horrified at the comparison, gives Wendy a day off with full pay, leaving Mabel to do ''her'' job as well. This is one of [[CoolBigSis Wendy's]] most {{Jerkass}} moments ever.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had Killer Croc do this to a bunch of circus freaks who had hidden themselves away from the outside world so they could be themselves. They were willing to let him join them on their farm, but when Killer Croc heard they had $50,000, he couldn't resist. When asked why after he's captured, Killer Croc solemnly admits [[IronicEcho he had to be himself]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': In season 3, Team Avatar is travelling across the Earth Kingdom searching for Airbenders created by Harmonic Convergence, eventually coming upon an orphaned boy named Kai, who claims that his parents were killed by outlaws and now he's on the run. The town sheriff sets the story straight, stating that Kai was actually adopted by a nice, wealthy family, and repaid their kindness [[TheFarmerAndTheViper by robbing them blind]]. Team Avatar still take pity on Kai when he claims he's turned a new leaf since then, partly because he would've gone to jail if they hadn't (and partly because they hadn't been able to recruit any other Airbenders to their cause), only for him to do the same thing to them later on. [[CharacterDevelopment He gets better about it...]] eventually.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': This is why Donald's Uncle Scrooge is such a [[TheScrooge skinflint]]. The one time he tried to be more charitable to improve his image, this trope took full effect.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', when Judy and Nick first meet, Nick uses Judy's generosity combined with his partner's irresistible cuteness to get her to buy them a giant popsicle, which they use to sell a bunch of smaller popsicles to lemmings. When she confronts him, he tries to justify it simply as the way the world works. However, [[spoiler: it's heavily implied later that he rightfully took offense to her [[CondescendingCompassion offering him help]] while wearing [[UnfortunateImplications fox repellant]] on her belt.]]

Compare MovingTheGoalposts, ThePrimaDonna, and AllTakeAndNoGive (a variation of this with relationships). TheFarmerAndTheViper is a more extreme and outright villainous variant.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Kaneki's mother was a regular victim of this thanks to his {{Jerkass}} aunt, who kept turning to her for financial help. Sadly, Kaneki's mom was every bit an ExtremeDoormat and literally worked herself to death. It ultimately transpires that said aunt never actually needed the money and lived an incredibly comfortable life: she just wanted ''more'', and knew she could use her sister to get it.