History WhatTheHellHero / Film

* Loomis himself realizes what an asshole he's become in Zombie's ''Film/{{Halloween}} 2''.

* ''TheJoker'', of all people, pulls this on ''{{Batman}}'' in ''TheDarkKnight'', as part of his HannibalLecture.

* In ''FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', Tommy Jarvis demands to know why the sheriff didn't incinerate Jason when they recovered his remains. The sheriff gives him this reply in a very curt manner toward [[spoiler:Elias Voorhees]]:

* In ''FridayThe13th Part VI: Jason Lives'', Tommy Jarvis demands to know why the sheriff didn't incinerate Jason when they recovered his remains. The sheriff gives him this reply in a very curt manner toward [[spoiler:Elias Voorhees]]:

'''Elsa:''' You do!\\

* Though not exactly a Hero, in ''TheGodfather Part II'' Don Corleone is called out when he plans to assassinate [[spoiler:Hyman Roth]] - despite the fact that he's run out of places to run to and killing him is an unnecessary risk to business.

** In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Kirk blazes with Ahabesque fury, "'''''[[KillHimAlready Let them die!]]'''''" when told by Spock the Klingons will be extinct in 50 years; Spock's reaction is one of such grave incredulity that it even forces Kirk to collect himself and change the subject. William Shatner was disturbed by Kirk's FaceHeelTurn, and had Meyer shoot the scene again with Kirk being more reasonable. Meyer [[TakeThat went to the original take]] in the final cut. Spock gets his own "What the hell" when [[spoiler: he {{mind rape}}s Valeris]]. Of course, Kirk getting called out for hating the Klingons makes him look even worse when you consider that, back in The Original Series, he called out an ''Enterprise'' lieutenant for expressing very similar opinions toward the Romulans. Hell, both of them were motivated by loss of family (the lieutenant lost several family members in the Earth-Romulan War).

* In ''KamenRider x KamenRiderFourze & [[KamenRiderOOO OOO]]: Movie War Megamax'', Kengo gets one from the Kamen Rider Club when he willingly calls up [[KamenRiderDouble Foundation X]] to give away the SOLU that had taken the form of Nadeshiko Misaki... whom Gentarou had fallen in love with.

* AmericanGangster has VillainProtagonist Frank Lucas, normally AffablyEvil [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters Neighbourhood Friendly Gangster]] completely lose his shit when the cops raid his mansion, and one of them slaps his wife. He starts to leave, clearly with murder on his mind when his frail, elderly mother steps in front of him.

* Kirk gets a big one in ''StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' when [=McCoy=] calls him out - forcefully - for forgetting the fact that it's been two-some years since he commanded a starship, and that his unfamiliarity with the ''Enterprise'''s refitted systems is putting the whole ship in jeopardy. Surprisingly, Kirk actually listens. Apparently, even the greatest captain in Starfleet history isn't immune to hubris.

** In ''StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Kirk blazes with Ahabesque fury, "'''''[[KillHimAlready Let them die!]]'''''" when told by Spock the Klingons will be extinct in 50 years; Spock's reaction is one of such grave incredulity that it even forces Kirk to collect himself and change the subject. William Shatner was disturbed by Kirk's FaceHeelTurn, and had Meyer shoot the scene again with Kirk being more reasonable. Meyer [[TakeThat went to the original take]] in the final cut. Spock gets his own "What the hell" when [[spoiler: he {{mind rape}}s Valeris]]. Of course, Kirk getting called out for hating the Klingons makes him look even worse when you consider that, back in The Original Series, he called out an ''Enterprise'' lieutenant for expressing very similar opinions toward the Romulans. Hell, both of them were motivated by loss of family (the lieutenant lost several family members in the Earth-Romulan War).

* And then in ''StarTrekFirstContact'', Lily confronts Picard over his fight with the Borg, asking how many people had to die for him to save the ship? She invoked ''MobyDick'', comparing him to Captain Ahab... though when he did finally come to his senses, she admitted she never actually read the entire book.

* JamesBond in the reboot often catches a lot of flak from M and [=MI6=] for using his License to Kill a little too liberally. In ''CasinoRoyale'', he is nearly suspended for the unnecessary killing of a terrorist in a foreign embassy (or more accurately, being caught on tape doing it). In ''{{Quantum of Solace}}'', M nearly arrests Bond when his reckless actions results in the death of [[spoiler:Mathis]] and another [=MI6=] agent.

** In Dr.No, Honey all but says the trope name after witnessing Bond (again somewhat unnecessarily) knifing a guard. This moment actually stands as the only time in the original film series (and the last until the Vesper moment described above) that someone is shown being upset at witnessing Bond using his license to kill.

'''Indy:''' (''grabbing Elsa's throat'') All I have to do is squeeze...\\
'''Elsa:''' All I have to do is scream.

* ''{{Contagion}}'' Everybody jumps on Cheever for alerting his wife to get out of Chicago before the quarantine goes into effect, even though if she was sick, she'd have infected a lot of others.

* In ''AlienResurrection'', the crew cannot divert the ship (which is overrun with xenomorphs) from returning to Earth, so they crash it into the planet. The explosion covers most of the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, wiping out millions. Of course, Ripley might have convinced the others that death is preferable to being infected.
** More a [[LesserOfTwoEvils Pick the Lesser Evil]] than WTF, Hero? If the Aliens had gotten loose on Earth the entire world would have been royally screwed in at most a few years. The same way [[spoiler:nuking the town]] was actually the right choice in AVP:R.

* The whole plot of {{Orgazmo}} involves Elder Joe Young, the protagonist and a Mormon missionary, getting involved with porn acting to make enough money to pay for a temple wedding for himself and his painfully wholesome fiancee, Lisa, as well as get them a nice place when they're married. [[spoiler:Lisa herself]] unfortunately finds out about his acting in pornos when she decides to pay him a surprise visit. She is not happy about it and tells him so.\

* The whole plot of {{Orgazmo}} involves Elder Joe Young, the protagonist and a Mormon missionary, getting involved with porn acting to make enough money to pay for a temple wedding for himself and his painfully wholesome fiancee, Lisa, as well as get them a nice place when they're married. [[spoiler:Lisa herself]] unfortunately finds out about his acting in pornos when she decides to pay him a surprise visit. She is not happy about it and tells him so.

-->'''Sheriff''': Well, we were gonna, but some [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]] paid to [[DueToTheDead give him and his mother a proper burial]].

* In ''Film/EverAfter'', after Prince Henry denounces Danielle in front of the entire court for lying to him about her true identity - in spite of being hopelessly in love with her - he gets an incredible [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=] speech from none less than Leonardo da Vinci.
* ''DirtyHarry'' got called out on the tactics that he used to bring Scorpio in, including his full-on [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Jack Bauer style interrogation]] on the football field. Granted, Harry was absolutely furious after Scorpio revealed himself as a CompleteMonster (who didn't feel like revealing the location of his [[BuriedAlive hostage]] after all), but it still qualified as [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=] in the eyes of Harry's superiors.

* Loomis himself realizes what an asshole he's become in Zombie's ''{{Halloween}} 2''.

* Doubling as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, Fozzie delivers one to all the Muppets in TheGreatMuppetCaper when they all try to back out of Kermit's plan to catch the thieves who framed Miss Piggy red-handed.

* And then in ''StarTrekFirstContact'', Lily confronts Picard over his fight with the Borg, asking how many people had to die for him to save the ship? She compared it to ''MobyDick''... though when he did finally come to his senses, she admitted she never actually read the entire book.