History Main / WasTooHardOnHim

* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': After he is swayed to take part in the plan to kill her, Al desperately tries to apologize to Tris, only for her to rebuff it by saying that if he comes near again, she'll kill him. He then commits suicide by jumping into a ravine, leading Tris to wonder if she was too hard on him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'': In "Elroy's Mob", George punishes Elroy for allegedly getting failing grades on his report tape ([[GuiltByAssociationGag plus Astro, for defending him]]) despite his pleas that his classmate Kenny switched their tapes. Shortly thereafter, he gets a message from Kenny (having been caught red-handed by his father) vouching for Elroy, and by the time he goes to Elroy's room to apologize, he and Astro have already left behind a DearJohnLetter.

** In ''Turning Over A New Bayleef'', Ash's Bayleef kept constantly hugging and tackling Ash, and he ends up yelling at her for it. After Bayleef runs away, Ash realizes that his Pokemon went missing and decided to look for her. While looking for Bayleef, Ash wonders why she ran away but Misty helped him realize that he was the one who told her to "go away and stay away" from him. Hearing this, Ash regrets for being so rough on Bayleef. He later finds Bayleef and tries to apologize, but she refuses to go back to him. However, Bayleef realize that Ash truly was sorry for yelling at her and forgave him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'', Sunset becomes enraged at Human Twilight for her dangerous magical experiments, but after seeing her running of crying, she realizes she went too far.

** In ''[[VideoGame/Persona5 Persona 5 Royal]]'', the the female Phantom Thieves admit that [[spoiler:attacking Ryuji after he nearly died saving everyone was a dickish thing to do]]. Futaba even wants to apologize to him.

** The tragedy is that by forcing her into performing ceremonies and going to holy springs while also dismissing her interest in research and archaeology, '''[[DramaticIrony he]]''' was the biggest obstacle to her unlocking her powers, since she carries the Triforce of Wisdom. ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' shows that when Ganon's attack came, he ordered Link to drag her away while he and his remaining Royal Guard pulled off a YouShallNotPass.

* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' episode "The Last Temptation of Raimundo", Raimundo was forced to use Shen Gong Wu during a time that he can't because Jack and Wuya caused a lava flow in his hometown. When his friends find out, Raimundo was said hurtful things from them as they assumed that he used Shen Gong Wu for his own fun and didn't believe his story, except for the last part of it. Despite everyone frustrations, Master Fung reminded everyone that they should't be so hard on Raimundo. However, through Dojo, they realize that Raimundo was [[CassandraTruth telling the truth]] and they not only felt guilty for not believing him but also for being hard on him. After finding him and saving him from Wuya when she took control of his Shen Gong Wu body, the rest of the monks apologizes to Raimundo for being hard on him and not believing his noble intentions, which he accepts.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' episode "The Last Temptation of Raimundo", Raimundo was forced to use Shen Gong Wu during a time that he can't because Jack and Wuya caused a lava flow in his hometown. When his friends find out, Raimundo was said hurtful things from them as they assumed that he used Shen Gong Wu for his own fun and didn't believe his story, expect for the last part of it. Despite everyone frustrations, Master Fung reminded everyone that they should't be so hard on Raimundo. However, through Dojo, they realize that Raimundo was [[CassandraTruth telling the truth]] and they not only felt guilty for not believing him but also for being hard on him. After finding him and saving him from Wuya when she took control of his Shen Gong Wu body, the rest of the monks apologizes to Raimundo for being hard on him and not believing his noble intentions, which he accepts.

* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' Nebula is the first to deduce that Thanos really has destroyed the Infinity Stones, based on the fact that she knows him well enough to know that, for all his faults, he'd [[WillNotTellALie never willingly tell a lie]]. At this Thanos (helplessly at the mercy of the Avengers) looks at her with what appears to be genuine pride, and he begins to tell her how he may have been to hard on her, but is [[OffWithHisHead interrupted by Thor]].

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', after seeing his brother under Noah's control, Kabia thought to himself that he might of been too hard on Mokuba and stride to [[MustMakeAmends make amends]] with him by getting him back to [[IKnowYoureinThereSomewhereFight senses]], which work.

--->'''Xiao Nao:''' You really don't think you have a family?\\

-->'''Po''': ''(ashamed)'' Wow. In my mind, that was cooler.
-->'''Mantis''': You spoke the truth, buddy. Worst mistake of your life, but I appreciate it.

-->'''Xiao Nao:''' You really don't think you have a family?
-->''*Tigress glances lamentingly at Shifu and the Furious Five chatting among themselves*''

** In ''Candace Against the Universe'', when Phineas, Ferb, and their friends arrive to save Candace from the aliens, Candace ends up rejecting them and the gift they made for her, telling them she's finally where she belongs and that they're the reason for her misery back on Earth. After her brothers and their friends are sent away, Candace starts to wonder if she had been too hard on them, since they came all the way to bring her back home, but Super Super Big Doctor assures she did the right thing.

** Near the end of ''Power Rangers: Super Ninja Steel'', Hayley harshly told Calvin off when he didn't show up to help her rehearse for an audition for a TV show, which turned out to be set up by Madame Odious, and she dumped him when he was being totally honest to her. However, after a conversation with Sarah, Hayley realized how wrong she was to be so hard on Calvin and regretted dumping him.
** Near the end of the first season of ''Power Rangers: Beast Morphers'', Mayor Daniels discovers that Devon is the Red Ranger as this discovery got him to realized how much of a hard time he had given him. After witnessing him get kidnapped, Mayor Daniels did everything in his power to save Devon and set things right between them, which they did.

** The tragedy is that by forcing her into performing ceremonies and going to holy springs while also dismissing her interest in research and archaeology, [[DramaticIrony '''he''' was the biggest obstacle to her unlocking her powers, since she carries the Triforce of Wisdom.]] VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' shows that when Ganon's attack came, he ordered Link to drag her away while he and his remaining Royal Guard pulled off a YouShallNotPass.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'': King Triton dwells over this after scolding Ariel. He also thinks this after destroying her secret grotto filled with human treasures. To be fair, he ''did'' go overboard with the latter, especially since [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it leads to her running away and making a deal with Ursula]].

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':

** In ''Candace Against the Universe'', when Phineas, Ferb, and their friends arrive to save Candace from the aliens, Candace ends up rejecting them and the gift they made for her, telling them she's finally where she belongs and that they're the reason for her misery back on Earth. After her brothers and their friends are sent away, Candace starts to wonder if she had been too hard on them, but Super Super Big Doctor assures she did the right thing.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'''s Peter Benton has a HeelRealization about this when his constant criticism of one of his interns doesn't result in the man buckling down and working harder to become a better doctor, it results in him ''killing himself'' because he can't take it anymore.

* King Triton dwells over this after scolding Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''. He also thinks this after destroying her secret grotto filled with human treasures. To be fair, he ''did'' go overboard with the latter, especially since [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it leads to her running away and making a deal with Ursula]].
* [[OverprotectiveDad Marlin]] feels this way about Nemo in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. He feels this way again about Dory in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'', Alex and the others decide to track down the penguins and chimps, thinking that they had abandoned them in Africa despite planning to come back for them. As part of an elaborate plan to confront them, Alex decides that step 1 is meeting them, step 2 is to give them hell for abandoning them, and step 3 is to realize that they were too hard on them and apologize. The plan ends up going off the rails, and Alex accidentally skips to step 3 when they meet them. Skipper accepts the apology without question, and orders his men to move out. Alex angrily realizes that he told them he was sorry without chewing them out first.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'': Right when Samson the lion yells at his son for costing them the game out of "jealousy" that he couldn't roar, Ryan flinches. Samson sees this and apologizes, but Ryan says [[YouAreNotMyFather he wishes his father really]] ''[[YouAreNotMyFather wasn't]]'' [[YouAreNotMyFather his father]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas'', Mickey send Pluto to his doghouse after his attempt to put the star on the Christmas tree ended up with all of Mickey's decorations destroyed. Later, when Mickey fixes everything, he begins to feel bad for how he yelled at him and goes to the doghouse to apologize, only to find that Pluto had run away.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', Moses asks Seti if he was too harsh on Rameses by calling him a weak link who will bring Egypt to shame, just after Moses took blame for goading Rameses on their chariot race. Seti responds that he ''[[ToughLove has]]'' [[ToughLove to be hard]] on Rameses: he's the crown prince and the one who will one day rule over all of Egypt, so he can't afford to be careless.
** {{God}} actually has a moment like this in the movie. When he appears to Moses in the burning bush and tells him to go to free his people from Egypt, Moses tries to argue with God that he's not good enough for the job. God eventually raises His voice with Moses, while making the fire of the burning bush flare up brightly. Seeing how frightened this makes Moses, God takes on a much softer, more comforting tone, and assures him that He will be with him every step of the way.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook2'', Mowgli's adoptive father shouts at Mowgli for crossing the river, even though he was told not to, with the village kids and confined him to his room without dinner. Later that night, Baloo takes Mowgli back to the jungle and Shanti follows them thinking Baloo kidnapped the man-cub while Ranjan, Mowgli's adoptive brother, follows her. The adults in the village were too busy getting Shere Khan out of the village and after they kicked the tiger out, they found out the children ran into the jungle and go there to look for them. Mowgli's adoptive father, the next day, feels remorse and guilty saying he was "too harsh" on Mowgli. His wife assures them that they'll find the children and they continue searching.

* In ''Manga/SandChronicles'', Ann's grandma Misayo blames herself for her daughter's suicide, regretting that she had scolded her not long beforehand to "get a hold of [her]self" when she really meant to tell her to do her best.
* ''Manga/YourLieInApril'':
** Kousei's abusive mother, also a MyGodWhatHaveIDone. In episode 13, we get a look at the situation from Hiroko's point of view and [[spoiler:despite the numerous instances of abuse she put Kousei through, Saki loved Kousei and only wanted to make sure that Kousei would be able to move on after she was gone. Her last moments in the hospital were spent lamenting that she wasn't a better mother to him and that she hoped that "her treasure would find happiness."]]
** In a way, Kaori towards Kousei. [[spoiler:In the posthumous letter she wrote to Kousei, she tells him how much she loves him and that she was sorry for being so mean to him and hitting him.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' Isao Kako's older sister is fairly harsh with him, often criticizing him for his attitude, and in a dream sequence, gives him a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling him an [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical]] [[DirtyCoward coward]] who [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex feels better about himself by looking down on Kirie]]. Toward the end of the manga, [[spoiler:she realizes that he tried to run away from his battle, thereby causing collateral damage]], and asks Ushiro and Machi not to hate Isao, saying that [[spoiler:he would have lived a normal life, albeit making some mistakes along the way, if he hadn't entered the contract]].
-->"I think maybe I was too hard on him. Maybe I should have accepted him the way he was. I just wanted to make him see how foolish he was to look down on Kirie-kun."
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': Occurs in [[Recap/Doraemon1979E1759SoapBubbles "Soap Bubbles"]]. After Mr. S gets hit with the Soap Bubble Straw, he feels like he's too hard on Noby and that he doesn't understand what Noby goes through.
* In ''Manga/NewGame'', Umiko's first scene has her informing Aoba that the [=NPCs=] Aoba modeled have errors, and telling her that she should have checked for them (something that Kou had failed to tell Aoba to do). It's a reasonable lecture, but Umiko takes it a bit too far by, among other things, snidely remarking that graphics designers are only concerned about appearances. After Aoba fixes the bugs, Umiko apologizes and gives Aoba a spent shotgun shell as an ApologyGift.
* ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': Iona Hikawa/Cure Fortune, also a MyGodWhatHaveIDone. She spends the whole first half scolding and being mean non-stop to Hime/Cure Princess for her DarkSecret [[spoiler:of opening Axia and freeing the Phantom Empire, which led to the downfall of her older sister, Maria Hikawa, A.K.A. Cure Tender]], declaring she would never forgive her for it, even going as far as trying to turn Megumi and Yuko against her to team up with her. Then she recieves a good dose of BreakTheBadass (at the cost of a set of powers.), coupled with an AwfulTruth behind Cure Tender's fall. Later, after that , when she learns why Hime opened Axia, she regrets being hard to her when she tried to tell her many times and she apologizes to her for it.
* ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': In episode 6, where is introduced Souta Minamino, the AnnoyingYoungerSibling of Kanade Minamino/Cure Rhythm, both silblings spend most of the episode bickering, while, unknown to each other, care for each other, with Kanade always scolding Souta, even for the smallest things, and also saying hurtful stuff, despite her bestie Hibiki's objections. One day, Souta was making cupcakes as a White Day Present for her. (a idea suggested by Hibiki) When Kanade came back to school, she sees the mess in the kitchen, she assumes the worst, and snaps at him for it, thinking he was only fooling around and refusing to listen to his explanation that he only did it because he was making cupcakes for her, and said hurtful things that he is no good at all. This affected Souta so much he screams at her he hates her and walk out on her. Hibiki then gives her [[WhatTheHellHero a piece of her mind over her treatment of Souta]] and even admited she is envious of Kanade having a younger sibling while she is an only child. Souta being targeted by Siren and Trio the Minor, even her powers waning because of Souta saying hurtful stuff about her, spouting his true feelings about her, both served as an eye-opener for her, as Kanade comes to regret being so hard at Souta and to a lesser extent Hibiki when they both tried to tell her he is not bad as he seemed, [[NotNowKiddo but they were both shamed from talking.]] This leads Rhythm to tell him [[AngerBornOfWorry her reasoning about her constant scolding to him]] and she apologizes to him for not believing his noble intentions and of course being rough with him and accept his present for her. He forgives her.

** In ''Target: April O'Neil'', April, who has been holding a grudge against him and the rest of the Turtles for accidentally mutating her father to a bat in ''The Mutation Situation'', [[RejectedApology brushed]] off Donnie's attempts to fix things between them and tells him to leave but did take a second to hear him say that some things are beyond anyone's control. While hanging out with Casey and hearing him say the same thing Donnie said, April not only thinks about their advices but also [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted]] her actions towards the Turtles. During a Foot Clan attack, April realized that Donnie and Casey were right that some situations can't be control as she call the Turtles, mainly Donnie, for help. Also, during the fight, April tells the rest of the Turtles to not be so rough on Donnie because she could have been kidnapped if he hadn't answered her call for help. After the Foot Clan retreated, April [[{{Forgiveness}} thanks]] the Turtles for saving her and apologizes to them for her behavior, especially Donnie.