History UnintentionallySympathetic / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'': Kimberly's cheerleader bullies who used to be part of her GirlPosse are more sympathetic than they were intended to be, their AlphaBitch cruelty to Kimberly is undeniably bad but it is revealed Kimberly is the one who leaked a compromising photo of another friend and teammate of theirs, making their anger towards her actually understandable and fairly reasonable given how serious of a crime that is. Even if their revenge bullying of Kimberly is still quite cruel. Worsening matters, is that Kimberly doesn't apologise to her friend whose photo she took nor does she admit to or express guilt to any of her new friends apart from Jason in private, who being her LoveInterest of course forgives her easily. This makes Kimberly pretty UnintentionallyUnsympathetic to some viewers in how she avoids coming to terms with her felony, since she seems to care about making ''herself'' feel better rather than personally make up for it. The moment in the climax where Kimberly wrecks the girls' car with her Zord is meant to be a humorously satisfying and empowering moment of revenge for her -- even though she was the one who had done wrong and humiliated one of her friends.

* In ''Film/JurassicPark'', the audience is supposed to see Dennis Nedry, the corpulent computer programmer of the titular park, as a corrupt, greedy traitor who deserved his grisly death at the hands of a Dilphosaurus. While he was a bit of an arrogant jerk, he was suffering from financial problems and never received a proper raise for his hard work, hence why he attempted to betray John Hammond for [=BioSyn=]. Hammond's hypocritical boasting about "sparing no expense" as he pinches pennies with the salary of the guy who built and manages his system ''completely singlehandedly'' also increases the unintentional sympathy viewers may feel for Nedry.[[note]]This was present to a greater extent in the original novel, where John Hammond was a {{Jerkass}}, but Nedry's behavior was mostly kept unchanged in the film whereas Hammond was made far kinder and able to understand he was misguided in his beliefs.[[/note]]

** "[[InUniverseNickname The Don]]", a random biker from a [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted scene]], comes across Carol Danvers trying to read a map and attempts to flirt with her, spouting off several innuendoes and asking her for a smile despite her trying to ignore him. In response, Carol shakes his hand and uses her powers to ''[[DisproportionateRetribution shock him]]'' before forcing him to relinquish his jacket and motorcycle. The Don complies immediately, and Carol quips "[[IronicEcho What, no smile?]]" as he runs away. The movie clearly intended this scene to be framed as Carol putting a chauvinistic asshole in his place. However, [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale it completely ignores that Carol assaulted and robbed]] a defenseless {{Muggle}} because he flirted with her. The theatrical cut tries to [[DownplayedTrope downplay]] this trope: The Don only flirts with her in passing, and Carol steals his bike when he leaves.

** In a childhood flashback, we see Carol and her brother in a go-cart circuit. He shouts, "Slow down!" before a hairpin curve. Carol, angrily, hits the gas and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome she ends up crashing her go-cart]]. Next thing we see is their father, visibly distraught, scolding her. She remembers the scene as an example of men trying to push her down. In reality, her brother just said her that the curve was dangerous and she was too fast and [[GoodParents her father was worried that Carol could be badly hurt]]! This paints Carol as a jerkass who [[NeverMyFault could not assume her own failures and projected in men]].

** The film pretty clearly wants Yasmine to be seen negatively for her being the one who threatens Amy's position in the Cuties, but while Yasmine gets kicked out of the team for her own mistake earlier in the film, many found her to be this on account of [[spoiler:Amy pushing her in the river, and Yasmine showing she cannot swim. If not for the nearby buoy, Yasmine could have drowned, making her look far less unsympathetic than the film wanted to show]].

** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': Anakin's massacre of the Tusken Raiders is portrayed as his StartOfDarkness, but considering they all seem to be [[AlwaysChaoticEvil bloodthirsty assholes]] who attack humans for no reason, and considering they just ''kidnapped and murdered his mother'', quite a few viewers think he was completely justified.

* ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'': Moore clearly intended to set up Creator/CharltonHeston as the "bad guy" during his interview at the end of the documentary. However, viewers tend to have far more sympathy since it was subsequently revealed that he suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Moore's attempted hatchet-job is also [[ManipulativeEditing so obvious]] that even people who might otherwise agree with Moore's political views find it hard to defend him in that moment.

* ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'': Moore clearly intended to set up Creator/CharltonHeston as the "bad guy" during his interview at the end of the documentary. However, viewers tend to have far more sympathy for Heston because he was already diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Moore's attempted hatchet-job is also [[ManipulativeEditing so obvious]] that even people who might otherwise agree with Moore's political views find it hard to defend him in that moment.

* Steve Trevor's host aka "Handsome Man" from ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' has garnered more sympathy from people than the filmmakers intended. He's evidently supposed to be just a convenient vessel for Steve Trevor to come back to life in after Diana wishes for his return, and where exactly his conscious mind goes after Steve unintentionally hijacks his body (whether it's a ''Film/GetOut'' situation) is not deeply discussed or considered important. This only made a lot of viewers feel terrible for him as Diana and Steve put his life into mortal danger multiple times throughout the movie, have sex using his body ([[DoubleStandardRapeSciFi effectively making it rape on Diana's part]]) and Diana even suggests making the possession ''permanent''. Consequently, this also made Diana's grief over being forced to take back her wish and freeing this poor man from Steve's psyche [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unsympathetic]] for a lot of viewers. Additionally this could've been avoided altogether by just having Steve appear in a new body without the GrandTheftMe.