History UngratefulBastard / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'', when Athena sacrifices herself to save her father Zeus from being stabbed to death by Kratos, Zeus barely reacts to it and just flees while leaving her there. In fact, it is Kratos who ironically shows more grief for her death.

** A problem shared by most Fae within the British Lostbelt of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is that [[spoiler:they ultimately don't care about any good thing you've done for them in the past. If they want to harm you now, they will, as Cernunnos, Morgan, and Baobhan Sith find out to their sorrow.]]

** If you talk [[spoiler:Arcade Gannon]] and the Remnants into fighting for the NCR, they either send Rangers and bounty hunters after him (if they win) or arrest him indefinitely (if they lose to the Legion) - since his only crime is being [[spoiler:the son of an [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Enclave officer]]]], this is more than a bit douchey. [[spoiler: Alternatively, you can fight in favor of Mr. House, and while Arcade won't risk the NCR or Legion hunting him, he still mourns the loss of life and liberty in the Mojave, thus leaving without a notation where he goes.]]

** The fairies are a prime example, but really, EVERYTHING in the game that accuses Serge and company of wrongdoing is full of itself. Especially the Green Aesops toward the game's ending. The dwarves get on Serge for killing the Hydra. Said dwarves are also the guys who have been trying to kill you, no questions asked, since you got into the Marsh. Then said dwarves go off and slaughter the fairies. Save the fairies, and they act like you're the murderers. Then there's the whole "Reptites evolved more closely with the planet!" Which is a load of crock, since the Reptites were building giant castles and actively waging war, while the humans had been peaceful, and lived in harmony with nature. Nevermind the parts where the dragons try and blame you for Lavos' crimes. ''Chrono Cross'' takes place in a WORLD of ungrateful bastards.

* In ''Videogame/DarkSoulsIII'' ''The Ringed City'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:the Pygmies were not the enemies of the gods scheming to replace the Age of Fire as Kaathe claimed. They ''revered'' the gods of Anor Londo and fought the Everlasting Dragons alongside them. Gwyn repaid their devotion by giving them a beautiful city to call home and even sent his youngest daughter to live with them...all to trap them in a GildedCage for eternity. Gwyn feared the power of the Dark Soul so much that he even placed a seal of fire upon humanity to keep that power in check, which became ''the Dark Sign''. The Undead Curse, the cycle of linking the First Flame...all of it was due to a ungrateful deity's fear of his own devoted subjects]].

* During the story mode of ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 4'', Hitomi is attacked by a Tyrannousaurus, only for Jann Lee to save her. Instead of giving him the thanks he deserves, she scolds him for attacking the dino.

** Colonel Cassandra Moore. When she asks you to [[spoiler:kill the Brotherhood of Steel, you can instead negotiate a peace treaty with them, with the Brotherhood agreeing to send men to assist at Hoover Dam]]. You gain NCR '''infamy''' for doing that. It probably has something to do with her being a GeneralRipper, considering that, in addition to the Brotherhood, she wants to kill The Kings, the Great Khans and Mr. House. [[TooDumbToLive Did she ever stop to wonder if it was reasonable to ask one person to wipe out four major factions]] and [[BullyingADragon whether s/he might have a problem with it?]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'': [[spoiler: Marche's little brother Doned. In the real world, he's sickly and wheelchair-bound, but in fantasy!Ivalice, he's perfectly healthy and can walk. He resents Marche immensely for wanting to change the world back to normal, since Doned firmly believes that Marche had a perfect life back home and that he himself was miserable and had nothing to be thankful for. This is in complete ignorance of the fact that a) the only reason they moved to St. Ivalice was for the sake of Doned's health, b) that arguments concerning his illness are what drove his parents to divorce, and c) that Doned receives the lion's share of their parents' attention, leaving Marche lonely, withdrawn, and harboring an astounding amount of resentment that he can't express because of the circumstances. Marche is pissed at Doned for not appreciating or even recognizing all of these sacrifices, to the point of forsaking his own family for a make-believe life. After Doned makes several attempts to sabotage Marche's missions, often by telling guards or bounty hunters about him, Marche finally tells Doned about the sacrifices he'd made for his brother's sake, causing Doned to break down and apologize]].
* Despite saving his ass (and organization!) in both ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' 2/X and 3, Morden still tries to kill the protagonists in 6 and 7/XX. Although he ''is'' leader of the world-wide rebellion which player opposes.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'', when Athena sacrifice herself to save her father Zeus from being stabbed to death by Kratos, Zeus barely reacts to it and just flees while leaving her there. In fact, it is Kratos whom ironically shows more grief to her death.

* During the very beginning of ''VideoGame/GravityRush'' a father begs the PluckyGirl heroine to save his son, despite her having no memories of who she is and why she is different from normal people. Once she gets a grasp of her floating ability, she rescues the boy and even tries to save their house, only for both of them to blame her for their house being destroyed and accusing her of being evil simply [[FantasticRacism because she's a girl with powers. This becomes a constant theme throughout the game]].

* The weeping willow in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder''. When you turn her back into her human form, she carelessly tosses aside her harp (the sole comfort she had the whole time she was a tree), calls her fiancé, and struts off with him withouta word of thanks to you.

*** Additionally, both the original and the replacement council were caught off guard by the Reaper attack (granted, they didn't believe you, but it's hard to expect them to just take your word for it) and the theoretical plans for using the Crucible (not even Liara knows what the Crucible can do, or what the Catalyst is).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', the woman the protagonist saved in his backstory comes off this way. Because the man assaulting her apparently has dirt on her, she's convinced to testify that the protagonist assaulted an innocent man, thus getting the protagonist put on probation and nearly ruining his life in the process. When the protagonist tells his story to the first four party members, Yusuke's quite appalled with the woman's actions. [[spoiler:The woman does come around and testifies against Shido, ensuring his conviction and ensuring that the protagonist's name is cleared, although it's unclear what motivated that change]].

* Bandages and medicine are worth their weight in gold in ''VideoGame/ThisWarOfMine''. The local hospital is trying desperately to treat victims despite being in pretty dire straits itself, and can solicit the player for donations of their precious medical supplies. If you decide to do the right thing, the accepting doctor not only declines to thank you, but brusquely asks if you've got any more. Perhaps understandable given his circumstances, but given how rare and valuable said supplies are for the player...

** Some players see Hershel Greene as this for kicking the group out even if Lee tries to save Shawn. To his credit he does act much kinder to Lee than the rest of the group.

** Kenny after the second episode develops this and [[spoiler: gets worse in Episode 3 and 4. Finally stops being this in Episode 5 if Ben is alive to tell him off for his selfishness.]]

** Lilly [[spoiler: you choose to keep her after she kills Carley/Doug, she tricks you and flees by herself. Happens again in Season 4 if players tell AJ to stand-down from killing Lilly, which leads to her killing James.]]

** If your Desert Ranger squad saves the town of Highpool from raiders at the start of the game, everyone hates you because of an incident 15 years ago where [[VideoGame/{{Wasteland}} your predecessors]] shot a boy and his dog in self defense while fixing their water purifier. Despite the fact that everyone would be dead if not for you, one of the candidates for mayor wants to support the Rangers' rivals, the Red Skorpions, in spite of the fact that they ignored their distress calls and you didn't. Getting them to continue supporting the Rangers requires nothing less than fixing their water purifier again, stopping their irrigation system from exploding, performing surgery on all their wounded, putting out a fire, and reuniting a man with his dog.

** At the start of the game, an innkeeper in White Orchard is assaulted by a woman for removing a Temerian shield from her wall to protect the inn from [[TheEmpire Nilfgaardians]]. When Geralt intervenes, he and Vesemir are accosted by a group of thugs believing them to be Nilfgaardian sympathizers. After they kill the thugs in self-defense, the innkeeper kicks them out despite Geralt having saved her cousin from a griffin and stopped her face from being beaten in any further. Later, she comes across Geralt again at a tavern in Novigrad and tries to have him lynched by the other patrons, only to be ignored.

** Occurs in one DownerEnding for the ''Blood and Wine'' expansion. [[spoiler:Whether he kills [[BigBad Dettlaff]] or not, if Geralt acquiesces to his demands and brings him Syanna, the one who orchestrated the entire tragedy of the main quest, Dettlaff kills Syanna and her sister Duchess Anna Henrietta refuses to pay Geralt the amount he was owed for stopping the murders in addition to throwing him in jail. Her anger seems reasonable at first, until Geralt and Regis learn that Syanna was planning to assassinate her sister the entire time. When they reveal this information to her after Geralt is released from prison, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter she refuses to believe it and orders all the evidence to be destroyed]], as well as telling Geralt to get out of her sight.]]
* At one point in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', the player is given the choice whether or not to rescue Uzuki and Kariya from Taboo Noise. If they choose to do so, Kariya is thankful... but Uzuki tells them to piss off. Amusingly, Neku is ''aware'' of this trope, and if you save them, explains that he's only doing it ''to'' piss them off.
* Queen Therazane in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' Cataclysm. Despite helping her get rid of the Twilight Cult presence in her Deepholm, she never actually likes The Earthen Ring, with her outright telling them, after they repair the World Pillar (which was actually broken apart by Deathwing during "The Shattering"), that they aren't welcome there (The Earthen Ring do oblige that without objection). However, the player character, once completing the last story quest in that zone, is welcome to stay (which is a bittersweet reward: though you gained her respect and welcome, Therazane is also home to what was one of the most grueling Daily Quest grinds in the Cataclysm expansion...which was a necessity since they held the all important shoulder enchantments. Thanks a lot, Queen).

** She might've liked Thrall, though, despite his involvement with the Earthen Ring -- this is mostly attributed to the overwhelming CreatorsPet tendencies Thrall had during the Cataclysm expansion. She seemed to be sympathetic of his issue of the elements being separated from him in patch 4.2 when you helped Aggra get him back, though it seems as Aggra didn't exactly forget how ungrateful Therazane was to them earlier if you take what she says in Vash'jir just prior to you and her going into Deepholm to save the former Horde Warchief into account.

* Nishiki in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'', as his [[BloodBrothers blood brother]] and childhood friend, Kiryu, who's just willingly done a decade in prison for a crime [[TakingTheHeat Nishiki actually committed]], gets paroled and discovers that Nishiki's gone pretty evil in the interim and they're now enemies. To his credit, Nishiki does say he still genuinely wants to be friends with Kiryu like they used to be, but Kiryu can't go along with the things Nishiki is involved in. Additionally, Nishiki turns on his and Kiryu's foster father, Kazama, who was the one who got him promoted to the head of his own {{yakuza}} family in the first place, and starts muscling in on Kazama's territory.

** In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' [[spoiler: In K's end Phi and K get injected with poison and Sigma gets only one dose of antidote. Since K's inside PoweredArmor, Sigma cannot inject him, so he injects Phi, before he gets poisoned himself. Phi then complains that she'll be in debt instead of thanking him for saving her, and claims he should've injected himself.]]
** In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' [[spoiler: during the Russian roulette, Diana can save Phi if she shoots Sigma with revolver half-filled with blanks. If Diana shoots a blank then Phi gets mad at her for risking Sigma's life, saying she didn't care that he might die, even though Sigma himself told her to shoot. If he dies it's even worse, as Phi will call Diana a murderer.]]

* One of the reasons Archer is so bitter in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper As a typical demonstration of how people felt after being saved, one of them put him to death afterward after accusing him of starting the incident.]]

* At one point in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', the player is given the choice whether or not to rescue ThoseTwoBadGuys Uzuki and Kariya from Taboo Noise. If they choose to do so, Kariya is thankful... but Uzuki tells them to piss off. Amusingly, Neku is ''aware'' of this trope, and if you save them, explains that he's only doing it ''to'' piss them off.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' allows the Lone Wanderer to return to Vault 101, which has fallen into chaos since his/her departure. If the Wanderer sides with Amata and opens the vault to the outside world, she thanks you... and then kicks your ass out. From a story perspective, this is a temporary measure until hostilities die down, but even in the PlayableEpilogue DLC, this hasn't come to pass. [[NotSoDifferent So much for being better than her dad.]]

* One of the reasons Archer is so bitter in ''FateStayNight''. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper As a typical demonstration of how people felt after being saved, one of them put him to death afterward after accusing him of starting the incident.]]]]

* In ''VisualNovel/{{FateStayNight}}'' [[spoiler:Rin's {{sore loser}} attitude worsens later on in ''Unlimited Blade Works'', eventually becoming an Ungrateful Bitch after Archer betrays her, where she [[NeverMyFault shifts all the blame]] to Shirou, who had rescued her yet again.]]
** [[spoiler:One of the reasons Archer is so bitter in ''FateStayNight''. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper As a typical demonstration of how people felt after being saved, one of them put him to death afterward after accusing him of starting the incident.]]]]

* At one point in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', the player is given the choice whether or not to rescue ThoseTwoBadGuys Uzuki and Kariya from Taboo Noise. If they choose to do so, Kariya is thankful... but Uzuki tells them to piss off. Amusingly, Neku is ''aware'' of this trope, and if you save them, explains that he's only doing it ''to'' piss them off.
* Good god, ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave''. Most of the population believes Marona is "the Possessed One" who can kill them all. So not only do they berate, insult, and hiss at her...they hire her services to save their bacon, and then stiff her on the payment. They get better, but geez.
* [[spoiler:Kohaku]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is a rare somewhat-justified example of this trope. [[spoiler:As an eight-year-old child, she was repeatedly and violently raped by Makihisa Tohno so that Makihisa could take advantage of Kohaku's "Synchronizer" ability to help keep him sane. When Makihisa's daughter Akiha discovered what was going on, she put a stop to it ''immediately'' and made Kohaku her personal maid... but Kohaku still sets a plan in motion to destroy the Tohno family, wiping out Akiha as well and sparing only the (adopted) Shiki. But this isn't deliberate ingratitude on Kohaku's part; in order to mentally survive repeated rapes, Kohaku killed off her emotions and became a doll, so she tried to destroy the Tohno family just to give herself a purpose in life, not out of a spiteful desire to destroy her rescuer Akiha. In fact, if Akiha dies in one of Hisui's routes, even when this was a part of Kohaku's own plan she will later mourn Akiha in her own way, bringing tea to Akiha's room despite how she's not there anymore to drink it.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/{{FateStayNight}}'' [[spoiler:Rin's {{sore loser}} attitude worsens later on in ''Unlimited Blade Works'', eventually becoming an Ungrateful Bitch after Archer betrays her, where she [[NeverMyFault shifts all the blame]] to Shirou, who had rescued her yet again.]]
** [[spoiler:One of the reasons Archer is so bitter in ''FateStayNight''. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper As a typical demonstration of how people felt after being saved, one of them put him to death afterward after accusing him of starting the incident.]]]]

** The fairies are a prime example, but really, EVERYTHING in the game that accuses Serge and company of wrongdoing is full of itself. Especially the Green Aesops toward the game's ending. The dwarves get on Serge for killing the Hydra. Said dwarves are also the guys who have been trying to kill you, no questions asked, since you got into the Marsh. Then said dwarves go off and slaughter the fairies. Save the fairies, and they act like you're the murderers. Then there's the whole "Reptites evolved more closely with the planet!" Which is a load of crock, since the Reptites were building giant castles and actively waging war, while the humans had been peaceful, and lived in harmony with nature. Nevermind the parts where the dragons try and blame you for Lavos' crimes. Chrono Cross takes place in a WORLD of ungrateful bastards.
* [[spoiler:Scott Shelby a.k.a The Origami Killer]] from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' can be this in one of the scenarios played out. [[spoiler:During the fight on a conveyor belt against Jayden. If you did the button prompts right, Shelby gets knocked off and hanging for his life. You can choose to let him drop or hoist him up. Choose the latter, and he ''still'' tries to kill Jayden. Not surprisingly this leads to Shelby's downfall after one last struggle.]]
* The weeping willow in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder''. When you turn her back into her human form, she carelessly tosses aside her harp (the sole comfort she had the whole time she was a tree), calls her fiancé, and struts off with him withouta word of thanks to you.
** The BrattyTeenageDaughter Lady Celeste in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow''. After all the time it took Alexander to save her from the Minotaur, too.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' allows the Lone Wanderer to return to Vault 101, which has fallen into chaos since his/her departure. If the Wanderer sides with Amata and opens the vault to the outside world, she thanks you... and then kicks your ass out. From a story perspective, this is a temporary measure until hostilities die down, but even in the PlayableEpilogue DLC, this hasn't come to pass. [[NotSoDifferent So much for being better than her dad.]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** Colonel Cassandra Moore. When she asks you to [[spoiler:kill the Brotherhood of Steel, you can instead negotiate a peace treaty with them, with the Brotherhood agreeing to send men to assist at Hoover Dam]]. You gain NCR '''infamy''' for doing that. It probably has something to do with her being a GeneralRipper, considering that, in addition to the Brotherhood, she wants to kill The Kings, the Great Khans and Mr. House. [[TooDumbToLive Did she ever stop to wonder if it was reasonable to ask one person to wipe out four major factions]] and [[BullyingADragon whether s/he might have a problem with it?]]
** Caesar's Legion and Mr. House don't treat the Brotherhood any better. In fact, they abhor them so much [[LiteralMinded they both want their heads, crushed.]] [[ButThouMust Whereas Mr. House is straightforward and won't take no for an answer]] [[spoiler:(cut dialogue suggests that probing them against or allying them with the NCR proves equally disappointing in House's eyes, as the Brotherhood's ideology alone threatens his power)]], an ending for the Brotherhood, [[spoiler: if you chose to slaughter the Brotherhood's members WITHOUT destroying the bunker, then fight for the Legion]], portrays the Brotherhood assaulting the NCR at Helios One heavily, only to suffer the consequences so pyrrhic that they fail to respond to the oncoming Legion, who promptly drives them out of the Mojave. This ending was originally intended to be achieved from you convincing Caesar to spare them to probe them into attacking the NCR, except this option was cut, [[GameMod though it was later restored]] thanks to [[https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/48330/ this mod.]]
** It's argubly best to encourage the Khans to flee north and go their own way. [[RivalsTeamUp It is possible for the Khans to agree to an alliance with the NCR]], so the Khan warriors assist them in the final battle... but afterwards, the NCR thanks the Khans by forcibly moving them out of their home in Red Rock Canyon and relocating them to a barren reservation. [[EnemyMine If they continue to work with Caesar's Legion instead]] and kick the NCR out of Vegas, the latter immediately forcibly absorbs the former and destroys them as a culture. [[spoiler: Alternatively, you can convince Papa Khan that his tribe is in terminal decline, driving him to fatalistically seek out a final great battle for his Khans at Hoover Dam. His broken spirit leads to the eventual disintegration of his tribe.]]
** If you talk [[spoiler:Arcade Gannon]] and the Remnants into fighting for the NCR, they either send Rangers and bounty hunters after him (if they win) or arrest him indefinitely (if they lose to the Legion) - since his only crime is being [[spoiler:the son of an [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Enclave officer]]]], this is more than a bit douchey. [[spoiler: Alternatively, you can fight in favor of Mr. House, and while Arcade won't risk the NCR or Legion hunting him, he still mourns the loss of life and liberty in the Mojave, thus leaving without a notation where he goes.]]
** If the Courier sides with the Legion and allows Caesar to die because of his brain tumor, [[BloodKnight Lanius]] will become the new leader of the Legion. He is far more ruthless than Caesar, [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans and handles several things differently than Caesar would have if victorious.]] [[spoiler: For example, he would have Arcade Gannon crucified rather than keeping him on-hand as a doctor, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughter the people of the Strip upon arrival at the gates of Vegas]], have Chief Hanlon crucified with the other NCR Rangers rather than grant him a swift death out of respect, exterminate the Followers of the Apocalypse rather than give them safe passage out of the Mojave Wasteland, and pursue the Enclave remnants rather than recognize it as a lost cause.]]
* ''VideoGame/Wasteland2''
** If your Desert Ranger squad saves the town of Highpool from raiders at the start of the game, everyone hates you because of an incident 15 years ago where [[VideoGame/{{Wasteland}} your predecessors]] shot a boy and his dog in self defense while fixing their water purifier. Despite the fact that everyone would be dead if not for you, one of the candidates for mayor wants to support the Rangers' rivals, the Red Skorpions, in spite of the fact that they ignored their distress calls and you didn't. Getting them to continue supporting the Rangers requires nothing less than fixing their water purifier again, stopping their irrigation system from exploding, performing surgery on all their wounded, putting out a fire, and reuniting a man with his dog.
** On the road to Damonta you encounter a group of cattle merchants that's been ambushed. Even if you treat all their wounded, one of the men hates you because Desert Rangers killed his brother [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who was a raider]]. If you try to get him to open up about it he shoots you, and the rest of his party joins in including the people you just treated.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'', [[spoiler:even after you weaken Murdaw by defeating him in the dream world and, you know, ''saving the monarchs of Somnia from certain doom'', the guards of Somnia will still treat you like a piece of shit due to the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero events]] of your last visit. Thankfully, the recently awakened king sets them straight before things can get hairy]].

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Miles Edgeworth comes off as one to Phoenix in the first game. When things look hopeless for him while he's on trial for murder, Maya manages to coerce Lotta into making a contradiction with her testimony by shouting out at her, getting held in contempt of court in the process, but in response, after the first day of the trial, Edgeworth [[DoesNotKnowHowToSayThanks tells Phoenix she should watch what she says in court]]. This is ultimately subverted when it is revealed that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Edgeworth arranged to pay for Maya's bail]]. Gumshoe also notes that Edgeworth's lips were trembling during the outburst.
** Lana Skye also comes off like this when she actually tries to confess to murder and ''fire you from your position as her attorney'', but she has a decent reason because [[spoiler:she thought the continued defense would implicate her sister Ema. Sadly, she's right, and Ema is briefly implicated before Phoenix is able to get them both off.]]
** Wocky Kitaki from ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''. After Apollo proves him innocent he throws a fit, screaming his head off and threatening Apollo because [[spoiler:his girlfriend Alita turned out to be the real murderer and framed him for the crime]]. Luckily, his more-reasonable [[TheDon father]] is more than appreciative.
*** {{Justified|Trope}} somewhat because he's a hormonal teenager with a tough guy persona (though a 19-year-old should probably know better).

* In the ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' series, [[PlayerCharacter Gorion's Ward]] saves the cities of Baldur's Gate and Suldanessellar, and the residents of both cities turn on them at the first ill wind. [[spoiler: That tends to happen when your dad is a murder god.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''
** At the start of the game, an innkeeper in White Orchard is assaulted by a woman for removing a Temerian shield from her wall to protect the inn from [[TheEmpire Nilfgaardians]]. When Geralt intervenes, he and Vesemir are accosted by a group of thugs believing them to be Nilfgaardian sympathizers. After they kill the thugs in self-defense, the innkeeper kicks them out despite Geralt having saved her cousin from a griffin and stopped her face from being beaten in any further. Later she comes across Geralt again at a tavern in Novigrad and tries to have him lynched by the other patrons, only to be ignored.
** At one point Geralt comes across the village of Honorton, only to discover that all of its inhabitants were butchered. When he finds the culprit, a fellow [[HunterOfMonsters Witcher]] from the School of the Cat, he learns that the Cat Witcher had completed a contract to kill a [[PlantPerson Leshen]] that was terrorizing the villagers. They then proceeded to stab him InTheBack with a pitchfork rather than paying him the amount they had agreed upon. In a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge fit of rage]], he murdered all of the villagers [[WouldntHurtAChild except for a little girl]].
** Occurs in one DownerEnding for the ''Blood and Wine'' expansion. [[spoiler:Whether he kills [[BigBad Dettlaff]] or not, if Geralt acquiesces to his demands and brings him Syanna, the one who orchestrated the entire tragedy of the main quest, Dettlaff kills Syanna and her sister Duchess Anna Henrietta refuses to pay Geralt the amount he was owed for stopping the murders in addition to throwing him in jail. Her anger seems reasonable at first, until Geralt and Regis learn that Syanna was planning to assassinate her sister the entire time. When they reveal this information to her after Geralt is released from prison, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter she refuses to believe it and orders all the evidence to be destroyed]], as well as telling Geralt to get out of her sight.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', after CJ finally bails Sweet out of jail after so much work done for Toreno, how does Sweet respond? He calls him out for abandoning his hood without so much of a 'thank you'.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has Franklin's aunt, Denise, who he shares his house with. Despite Franklin being the one putting a roof over both their heads and being the one who makes the money (even if it involves something shady), Denise is completely ungrateful and never wants to bother with Franklin at all unless she needs something. She even goes out of her way to say that Franklin's mother made a mistake in even having him in the first place. Once Franklin is able to get his own house, he gladly leaves Denise behind.

* In ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'', it is possible to ride to the rescue of some harassed ship only to have it jump away without offering anything as thanks.
* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' IV: It doesn't matter how much technology you share with Tokugawa, how many of your units you donate to him, or how many of your resources you gift to his civilization - Tokugawa is such an isolationist that he won't even ''open his borders'', let alone give you anything in return.
* Queen Therazane in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' Cataclysm. Despite helping her get rid of the Twilight Cult presence in her Deepholm, she never actually likes The Earthen Ring, with her outright telling them, after they repair the World Pillar (which was actually broken apart by Deathwing during "The Shattering"), that they aren't welcome there (The Earthen Ring do oblige that without objection). However, the player character, once completing the last story quest in that zone, is welcome to stay (which is a bittersweet reward: though you gained her respect and welcome, Therazane is also home to what was one of the most grueling Daily Quest grinds in the Cataclysm expansion...which was a necessity since they held the all important shoulder enchantments. Thanks a lot, Queen).
** Much of this hatred stems from players killing Theradras, her daughter (the last boss of Maraudon, and a boss in the Elemental Invasion event), but one would think that she would be at least somewhat grateful for saving the entire Plane of Earth.
** She might've liked Thrall, though, despite his involvement with the Earthen Ring - this is mostly attributed to the overwhelming CreatorsPet tendencies Thrall had during the Cataclysm expansion. She seemed to be sympathetic of his issue of the elements being separated from him in patch 4.2 when you helped Aggra get him back, though it seems as Aggra didn't exactly forget how ungrateful Therazane was to them earlier if you take what she says in Vash'jir just prior to you and her going into Deepholm to save the former Horde Warchief into account.
** Magatha Grimtotem, after being rescued from the Twilight's Hammer cult, implies she will kill you if you meet her again.
* Played for laughs [[PlayerPunch (at the player's expense)]] in ''VideoGame/NieR''. In one sidequest, you need to find a man's son, who has run away from home and refuses to take up the family business. You chase the kid down, [[TwentyBearAsses get tricked into finding vendor trash for him,]] find that he's left again, talk to his father, discover that he's run off to a desert town, get tricked ''again'' and let him escape, chase him across the desert and (at last) convince him to go back to his family...who then leave before you can talk to them. It turns out [[spoiler:that they were criminals, and the kid wanted to get away from "the family business.]] And the kicker? You don't get any reward except the knowledge that you just returned the kid to a life of crime. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking it, completionist]].
* Falco Lombardi from the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' series is such a cocky hotshot that he not only complains when you KillSteal from him, he makes snide remarks when you shoot enemies that are ''attacking him.''
--> [[SarcasmMode "Gee, I've been saved by Fox. How swell."]]

* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'': [[spoiler: Aiden and the Ocelots abandon Lukas and form their own crew, The Blaze Rods, regardless of whether or not he went to go find them in Episode 4]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'': [[spoiler: Marche's little brother Doned. In the real world, he's sickly and wheelchair-bound, but in fantasy!Ivalice, he's perfectly healthy and can walk. He resents Marche immensely for wanting to change the world back to normal, since Doned firmly believes that Marche had a perfect life back home and that he himself was miserable and had nothing to be thankful for. This is in complete ignorance of the fact that a) the only reason they moved to St. Ivalice was for the sake of Doned's health, b) that arguments concerning his illness are what drove his parents to divorce, and c) that Doned receives the lion's share of their parents' attention, leaving Marche lonely, withdrawn, and harboring an astounding amount of resentment that he can't express because of the circumstances. Marche is pissed at Doned for not appreciating or even recognizing all of these sacrifices, to the point of forsaking his own family for a make-believe life. After Doned makes several attempts to sabotage Marche's missions, often by telling guards or bounty hunters about him, Marche finally tells Doned about the sacrifices he'd made for his brother's sake, causing Doned to break down and apologize]].
* Despite saving his ass (and organization!) in both ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' 2/X and 3, Morden still tries to kill the protagonists in 6 and 7/XX. Although he ''is'' leader of the world-wide rebellion which player opposes.
** For what it's worth, though [[spoiler: Either Morden or Rootmars will save the player at the end of Metal Slug 6, depending on what route you took in stage 4]].
* In ''VideoGame/CombatInstinct'' 3, the Hrumians turn against you after turning the tables in your favor in 2.
* Zuko in ''VideoGame/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' acts like this when Aang and Haru try to help him out. Rather than accept their kindness and put his personal quest aside, he tries to attack them.
* During the story mode of ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 4'', Hitomi is attacked by a Tyrannousaurus, only for Jann Lee to save her. Instead of giving him the thanks he deserves, she scolds him for attacking the dino.
* In the final neck of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII: Reaper of Souls'', [[spoiler:Imperius]] asks for your aid in defeating the FinalBoss [[spoiler:Malthael]] as he cannot do it himself, but, with him not giving a damn about humanity or the [[{{Nephilim}} Nephalem]] (including you), he makes it clear that he will ''not'' thank you for it.
* In ''Videogame/DarkSoulsIII'' ''The Ringed City'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:the Pygmies were not the enemies of the gods scheming to replace the Age of Fire as Kaathe claimed. They ''revered'' the gods of Anor Londo and fought the Everlasting Dragons alongside them. Gwyn repaid their devotion by giving them a beautiful city to call home and even sent his youngest daughter to live with them...all to trap them in a GildedCage for eternity. Gwyn feared the power of the Dark Soul so much that he even placed a seal of fire upon humanity to keep that power in check, which became ''the Dark Sign''. The Undead Curse, the cycle of linking the First Flame...all of it was due to a ungrateful deity's fear of his own devoted subjects]].
** On a less apocalyptic scale, Patches will rudely say that you "could try looking a bit harder" if you look at his inventory and don't buy anything. He will say this even when, shortly prior to checking his inventory, you have agreed to spare his life after he tried to murder you. For the second time. It's almost impressive the level of cheek it takes to demand that someone should be buying your stock within seconds of them graciously agreeing to overlook your attempts to kill them. [[spoiler:Although in the Ringed City, after he's spent some time as [[AmnesiacDissonance Amnesiac Lapp]], while he does backstab you yet again, at least he leaves his armour for you and is willing to serve as a summon.]]
* During the very beginning of ''VideoGame/GravityRush'' a father begs the PluckyGirl heroine to save his son, despite her having no memories of who she is and why she is different from normal people. Once she gets a grasp of her floating ability, she rescues the boy and even tries to save their house, only for both of them to blame her for their house being destroyed and accusing her of being evil simply [[FantasticRacism because she's a girl with powers. This becomes a constant theme throughout the game]].
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'', when Athena sacrifice herself to save her father Zeus from being stabbed to death by Kratos, Zeus barely reacts to it and just flees while leaving her there. In fact, it is Kratos whom ironically shows more grief to her death.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Near the end of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]''[='s=] main quest, you come into the possession of a massively powerful artifact that you cannot utilize yourself.[[note]]You can ''try'', but you get a NonStandardGameOver with [[ApocalypseHow highly destructive results]] for Tamriel.[[/note]] However, you can [[KingmakerScenario hand it over]] to one of several of the powers of the Iliac Bay who will use it to crush their rivals. Three offer you no reward for giving it to them (only one is intended to do so, as the dialogue and code make it clear that the other two are ''supposed to'' reward you, the game is just buggy) and it is the ''only'' one to go so far as to backstab you and send battlemages after you. [[spoiler: It's King Eadwyre of Wayrest]]. The sneering about your naivety could be taken as fitting given all the scheming and betrayal going on in the game, except every other alternative realises that not betraying you is the better option, whether out of being a better person, recognizing how lethally dangerous you'd have to be at that point, or being cognizant that there's one more adventuring task left before the tool can be used -- including the person you ''steal'' the tool from if you bother to hand it back personally.
** In the series' backstory, Lamae Bal, the [[{{Precursors}} Nede]] woman who was "ravaged" by [[GodOfEvil Molag Bal]] (the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of Domination and [[TheCorrupter Corruption]]) and turned into the [[MonsterProgenitor first vampire]], was a loyal priestess of Arkay (the [[SaintlyChurch Aedric God of Life and Death]]) both before and after she was turned. After she was, though, Arkay fell silent toward her and she saw this as a terrible betrayal. Further twisting the knife is that Arkay's blessing can undo vampirism in general, but did nothing for Lamae no matter how much she begged him for it. For this reason, when she is met in the prequel ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'', Lamae plots against Arkay just as much as she does against Molag Bal.
* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' Trilogy: Whenever you save Phi she'll ''always'' be a bitch about it.
** In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' [[spoiler: In K's end Phi and K get injected with poison and Sigma gets only one dose of antidote. Since K's inside PoweredArmor, Sigma cannot inject him, so he injects Phi, before he gets poisoned himself. Phi then complains that she'll be in debt instead of thanking him for saving her, and claims he should've injected himself.]]
** In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' [[spoiler: during the Russian roulette, Diana can save Phi if she shoots Sigma with revolver half-filled with blanks. If Diana shoots a blank then Phi gets mad at her for risking Sigma's life, saying she didn't care that he might die, even though Sigma himself told her to shoot. If he dies it's even worse, as Phi will call Diana a murderer.]]
* Slayde is like this in the DLC of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia''. He gets caught up in the traders' rebellion and needs Fernand and Clive to come bail him out. How does he "thank" them? First by subtly complaining that they "finally" showed up, and then pretending that he got injured as an excuse to flee and make them clean up his mess.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'':
** Most units thank whoever heals them, but Dimitri, after snapping and becoming (among other things) a DeathSeeker after the TimeSkip on the Blue Lions route, dismisses the healing as a waste of effort.
** In the Black Eagles route, Rhea flees to Fhirdiad, capital of the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus. She then "repays" its citizens for sheltering her for five years [[spoiler:not to mention Dimitri for sacrificing his life while fighting for her]], by [[spoiler:ordering the city to be set on fire in a last-ditch attempt to kill Edelgard, Byleth and their allies]].
* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', Silver Sable and her mercenaries are brought in to deal with Mr. Negative and his Demons, and whenever Spider-Man saves their lives he's told that [[BlatantLies they had it under control]] or that he's not wanted.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', the woman the protagonist saved in his backstory comes off this way. Because the man assaulting her apparently has dirt on her, she's convinced to testify that the protagonist assaulted an innocent man, thus getting the protagonist put on probation and nearly ruining his life in the process. When the protagonist tells his story to the first four party members, Yusuke's quite appalled with the woman's actions. [[spoiler:The woman does come around and testifies against Shido, ensuring his conviction and ensuring that the protagonist's name is cleared, although it's unclear what motivated that change]].
* ''VideoGame/IronHelix'': Only in the Sega CD version of the game. [[spoiler:Even though you just stopped a rogue starship of Earth's from killing an entire alien planet's population, thereby preventing an interstellar war, all Earth's officials care about is how much you know about their top-secret DepopulationBomb.]]

*** [[spoiler: He'll be upset with Clementine on Sarita's death no matter what you tried to save her in season 2.]]
** Lilly [[spoiler: you choose to keep her after she kills Carley/Doug, she tricks you and flees by herself. Happens again in season 4 if players tell AJ to stand-down from killing Lilly, which leads to her killing James.]]

* Zote in ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' will insult you whenever you save him, because to his ego-driven mindset, you preventing him from getting devoured by a Vengefly King is denying him the chance to kill it himself, despite [[BoisterousWeakling his complete inability to effectively damage anything ever]].

* ''Crowntakers'': You, the illegitimate spawn of the king, rise from peasant origins to slay wolves, bandits, Vikings, corrupt knights, even your own half-brother, and the usurping duke, all to save the king from his execution within 18 days. How does he respond? [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness By immediately locking you and your party in the dungeons]]. The only way to 'win' the game is to let him die, and then 'avenge' him by killing the duke.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'', Joel and Tommy help save Abby from a swarm of infected; while she pulls her weight during the crisis, she couldn't have survived by herself. Abby "repays" them by [[spoiler:brutally murdering Joel in {{revenge}} for killing her father at the end of the first game]].
* In ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'', 200 years before the start of the story, [[CuteGhostGirl Abigail]] died when she agreed to be sacrificed in her sister Helena's place. Helena doesn't thank Abigail or even try to stop her from sacrificing herself, and neither do their parents. Abigail tells Madison that this was because Helena was so desperate to escape her fate that nothing else mattered to her.
-->'''Abigail''': If death looms over you for long enough, it corrupts everything. Even love.

** Ironically, a similar scene in the anime ''Anime/SonicX'' also happens.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{FateStayNight}}'' [[spoiler:Rin's sore loser attitude worsens later on in ''Unlimited Blade Works'', eventually becoming an Ungrateful Bitch after Archer betrays her, where she shifts all the blame to Shirou, who had rescued her yet again.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'', 200 years before the start of the story, [[CuteGhostGirl Abigail]] died when she agreed to be sacrificed in her sister Helena's place. Helena doesn't thank Abigail or even try to stop her from sacrificing herself, and neither do their parents. Abigail tells Madison that Helena's desperation to avoid her fate was so much that it eclipsed her love for her sister.

** Caesar's Legion and Mr. House don't treat the Brotherhood any better. In fact, they abhor them so much [[Literal-Minded they both want their heads, crushed.]] [[ButThouMust Whereas Mr. House is straightforward and won't take no for an answer]] [[spoiler:(cut dialogue suggests that probing them against or allying them with the NCR proves equally disappointing in House's eyes, as the Brotherhood's ideology alone threatens his power)]], an ending for the Brotherhood, [[spoiler: if you chose to slaughter the Brotherhood's members WITHOUT destroying the bunker, then fight for the Legion]], portrays the Brotherhood assaulting the NCR at Helios One heavily, only to suffer the consequences so pyrrhic that they fail to respond to the oncoming Legion, who promptly drives them out of the Mojave. This ending was originally intended to be achieved from you convincing Caesar to spare them to probe them into attacking the NCR, except this option was cut, [[GameMod though it was later restored]] thanks to [[https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/48330/ this mod.]]