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| 5 | * ''Series/{{The 100}}'': Due to the GreyAndGrayMorality at work, practically ''every'' character gets one of these at some point. Bellamy gets one for making the Ark think the 100 were dead, leading to the deaths of several hundred people. Clarke gets one for ruining a peace conference by bringing weapons to it, and later gets another for knowing a missile was going to destroy a village, but doing nothing to stop it. Abby gets one for turning her husband over to be killed, and the Council in general gets several for their overzealous use of executions. Finn gets a ''lot'' of these for his pointless slaughter of a Grounder village. And Jasper gets one of these for ... [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism being kind of an arrogant jerk for an episode]]. |
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| 9 | * ''Series/Adam12'': In one episode, the search for a missing six-year-old leads to a child molester's house, where she's in critical condition. When Reed and Malloy catch the creep, he claims that [[BlatantLies she wanted what she got]]. Malloy is so enraged he commits PoliceBrutality, and the episode's extra-long dénouement is about the consequences he faces for using excessive force; he draws a suspension for his actions. Malloy is also told that the event is in his permanent record, and will affect his promotions from then on. |
| 10 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 11 | ** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E10Reunion Reunion]]", the title character becomes increasingly "dark", to the point that he [[spoiler:lets Dru and Darla kill a bunch of Wolfram & Hart lawyers]]. After this, Cordy, Wes, and Gunn confront him, telling him they will keep an eye on him and prevent him from doing anything that horrible because they care. [[spoiler:He fires them.]] |
| 12 | *** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E13HappyAnniversary Happy Anniversary]]", [[spoiler:he reveals to Lorne he fired them to prevent ''them'' from getting dark or prevent them from suffering other worse consequences than being fired, even if they'd rather prevent them from doing anything as horrible as what he did to the Wolfram & Hart lawyers. And since he didn't believe he was coming back, so he could deal with Wes, Gunn and especially Cordy hating him instead of intervening and cutting off all ties with them as long as they concentrate on the "good fight" that he'd given up on.]] |
| 13 | *** However, in "[[Recap/AngelS02E15Reprise Reprise]]", [[spoiler:he made a horrifying discovery about [[HellOnEarth Wolfram & Hart]] that made his actions AllForNothing, including firing Wes, Gunn and Cordy to prevent them from becoming dark as well.]] |
| 14 | ** Also the entire point of season 5's "[[Recap/AngelS05E12YoureWelcome You're Welcome]]". [[spoiler: Cordelia]] returns from [[spoiler: her comatose state after Ascending]] in order to set Angel and the rest of the gang straight after they began to lose sight of their original goals [[spoiler: due in part to taking over Wolfram and Hart, as well as Lindsey's manipulation.]] |
| 15 | ** Again in "[[Recap/AngelS05E21PowerPlay Power Play]]", when Angel [[spoiler: secretly infiltrates the Black Thorn]] and his friends suspect he has gone evil. |
| 16 | ** Angel wasn't alone on this. How about [[spoiler: Fred trying to kill her old professor, Gunn ''succeeding'', Wesley kidnapping Connor, Connor trapping Angel in the ocean, Lorne removing his sleep which caused a Hulk-esque Lorne to be born.]]. The only person that is immune to this would be Cordelia [[spoiler: because she was actually possessed by an EldritchAbomination during the story-arc where she was the BigBad]]. However, they all eventually get called out on it. |
| 17 | ** Cordy calls Angel out in "[[Recap/AngelS01E21BlindDate Blind Date]]" for betraying Lindsey when he was trying to do a HeelFaceTurn. |
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| 21 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': |
| 22 | ** Sheridan gets called out by Garibaldi over his illegal interrogation of Morden in "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum". Actually, ''most'' of the cast gets a turn at this through the course of the episode; Garibaldi was merely one of the more vocal. (Another being Talia, who eventually let her displeasure be known by ''slapping'' Captain Sheridan, who admits that he probably deserved it.) |
| 23 | ** Sheridan calls out Kosh for his OmniscientMoralityLicence bullcrap and for doing nothing while the Shadows rampaged when he could have given Sheridan a much needed victory to get the alliance Kosh wants him to build off the ground. At first, Kosh refused, even smacks Sheridan around, then realizes Sheridan is right and caves in. [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice Poor Kosh.]]]] |
| 24 | ** Delenn and Sheridan called out the Vorlons and the Shadows for failing in their self-imposed role as shepherds of the Younger Races. While they're not really heroes, they do [[BlueAndOrangeMorality claim some benevolent intentions (if strange and extreme methods of execution)]] which have been thoroughly perverted through the eons, and being called out by the Younger Races and the remaining Old Ones makes them realize this. |
| 25 | ** When Sheridan is set up for murder by renegade Minbari, Delenn (who seems pathologically incapable of telling anybody anything, at times) keeps her mouth shut, seemingly caught between the truth and loyalty to her people. Sheridan has to shame her into coming clean and clearing his name. It's one of the rare times she's actually called out on her evasiveness. |
| 26 | ** Of course, the ultimate Sheridan-to-Delenn WhatTheHellHero moment comes when he finds out [[spoiler: she suspected his wife might still be alive,]] but didn't tell him because she feared he'd go to Za'ha'dum and be killed. |
| 27 | ** There are ''many, many'' WTHH moments with Delenn and Sheridan. They both make bad calls more than once, although they have good intentions. Over the course of their relationship they've called each other out ''many'' times. |
| 28 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' (the DarkerAndEdgier reboot): |
| 29 | ** This happens all the time. Often between William Adama and Laura Roslin, or William and Lee Adama. Let's not forget Helo, calling Adama and Roslin on attempting biological warfare and kidnapping his daughter. |
| 30 | ** Another scene regarding Roslin arranging the kidnapping of Hera also provides an example of this trope: it is revealed that Adama was not consulted by Roslin about the kidnapping scheme, and believed along with Helo and Athena that Hera had died. Adama is epically PISSED when Roslin finally tells him what she did, to the point he can barely speak over his own rage. |
| 31 | * ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'': This pretty much is all that goes on with this show after [[spoiler:Nina and George bring Herrick to live with them. Nina calls George out on letting Mitchell murder a frightened amnesiac, George calls out Mitchell for the same thing later on, and Annie calls out Mitchell for being an ass in general.]] |
| 32 | * ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': Kim gives one to Jimmy when she finds out [[spoiler: he fabricated evidence to get Daniel off from stealing drugs and selling them for profit.]] |
| 33 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': |
| 34 | ** The second season features some major screw-ups on the part of the team members, especially in "The Man in the Cell" where several nearly die. This comes to a head in "The Man in the Mansion" when Hodgins' keeping secret his prior involvement with a suspect nearly gets the case thrown out of court. The federal prosecutor chews the whole team out over their behavior, although she apparently didn't know about Booth hauling off and shooting an ice cream truck. |
| 35 | ** Arastoo gets in a good one at Finn when Finn starts questioning whether the Muslim Arastoo can work the case of a 9/11 victim |
| 36 | ** Finn himself calls out Hodgins when the entomologist keeps putting down his southern accent. |
| 37 | ** Brennan gives Booth an epic one when he is preparing to hunt down Sweets’ killer on his own. He’s lost faith in the system and she has to convince him not to go rogue. Fortunately it works. |
| 38 | * ''Series/TheBoys2019'' |
| 39 | ** Queen Maeve is appalled when Homelander won't even attempt to save ''some'' of the airline passengers. Since he can't save everyone, Homelander just leaves them to die. The passengers naturally also denounce them for this before they're killed in the crash. |
| 40 | ** When A-Train and Hughie come face-to-face, the super "hero" calls out Hughie for murdering Translucent and using his girlfriend (which indirectly led to ''her'' death) and points out that, while he ''did'' kill Hughie's girlfriend and showed zero remorse for it, it was accidental unlike Hughie who's been deliberately killing people and showing no remorse for others. |
| 41 | ---> '''A-Train:''' THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME IS I MADE A MISTAKE! THE SHIT THAT YOU DID WAS ON PURPOSE!!! SO WHO'S WORSE?! |
| 42 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 43 | ** This happens all the time. Citing all the WhatTheHellHero moments would take a whole page. Some of these are solo efforts, others are group interventions, mostly with Xander spearheading them. Buffy is the most common victim of it (due to her tendency to keep secrets from her friends and to underestimate the danger potential of her boyfriends), but Willow gets her share in the later seasons, and not even Giles or Xander are spared from it. |
| 44 | ** Buffy's case is mostly the fact that she's still a teenager and isn't emotionally stable half the time, and people seem to forget that, even her own friends. Because of that, nobody supports her very well in the earlier seasons, even though they try to. This is most evident in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E2DeadMansParty Dead Man's Party]]", where she makes her return to Sunnydale after running away, where everyone collectively lectures her. Nevermind the fact that she waited months to kill her boyfriend; Xander blames her for putting everyone else in danger (the others try to pick up slayer duties), Willow avoids her until Buffy caves again emotionally and tries to run away again, and Joyce tried to give Buffy space, but seemed to have a little difficulty acknowledging that her daughter was home. |
| 45 | ** In the same episode, Buffy gives a ShutUpHannibal to her mother's What The Hell Hero speech; Joyce pointed out how worried she was while Buffy had run away, which incensed Buffy, since [[spoiler: Joyce had told her to leave and never come back.]] |
| 46 | ** Buffy "acting like such a bitca" in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E1WhenSheWasBad When She Was Bad]]" [[spoiler: after having been revived.]] |
| 47 | *** Notable in that this particular "What the Hell, Hero?" speech was delivered by ''Cordelia.'' |
| 48 | ** In Season 9, Angel thinks Connor would be better off without him, so he pretty much abandons him. He doesn't even answer his phone calls, which Faith calls him out on. |
| 49 | *** Angel actually gets a few of these from Faith. |
| 50 | ** Buffy's friends have this reaction to her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E7Revelations Revelations]]" on discovering that Angel (last seen as Angelus) has returned and Buffy has been keeping it secret. Also, in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E19EmptyPlaces Empty Places]]", Buffy is kicked out of her house. |
| 51 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E10Wrecked Wrecked]]", Dawn slaps Willow after almost killing her in a car crash and Tara leaves her after she screwed with Tara's head and broke her promise to avoid magic for a week when she couldn't last a day. |
| 52 | ** During ''Angel and Faith's'' "Family Reunion" arc, Willow and Angel give one to each other. She wants him to use his son to bring magic back. He's not willing to take such a risk: |
| 53 | --->'''Angel:''' You want me to find the son I've never been there for and ruin the life he's built. Ask him to go back to the hell he grew up in because of me. For some wild goose chase. Something that's not even possible. Here ''I'' was ashamed to see ''you''. |
| 54 | ** Andrew has this reaction when he finds out that Giles knew that Buffy had gone to the future and killed an evil version of Willow, but didn't tell him or set up precautions in case Willow did turn evil again. Giles even acknowledges he is right, and they begin working on an emergency plan in case Willow does go evil again. |
| 55 | ** After Angel gets exposed as Twilight, everybody has this reaction to him, especially after it is revealed he was an UnwittingPawn to a evil dimension trying to end the world. After he gets possessed by the real Twilight and kills Giles and Buffy is forced to destroy the Seed of Wonder to stop the destruction of the world, the only ones willing to associate with Angel and not try to kill him are Buffy and Faith, and Buffy doesn't even ''want'' to be around him anymore. Willow, however, has grown past this somewhat, but she still states that she hasn't forgiven him for his actions next. |
| 56 | ** In Season 9, Buffy and Spike give Andrew complete and total hell after he swaps Buffy's mind into a robot after roofieing her at a party, in order to protect her from an unknown BigBad that is after her. Without telling anyone else what he did. This leads to Buffy thinking she is pregnant due to limitations of the robot body, but discovers that she is a robot when her arm gets chopped off. Spike even threatens to kill Andrew if he doesn't fix the situation. |
| 57 | * ''Series/BurnNotice'': |
| 58 | ** Michael Weston gets these pretty regularly, usually from Fiona or Madeleine, when he is forced to endanger friends and innocents to get an operation to work. He got it most often in the 4th Season, when after inadvertantly burning Jesse Porter, Michael recruited him into his investigation without coming clean about his involvement, sometimes even bypassing opportunities to clear Jesse's name for the sake of the mission. More recently he got one after getting Sam involved in a very dangerous operation that nearly got him killed (significantly, Sam himself was okay with it). |
| 59 | ** This has almost become protagonist is always wrong, as almost every time Micheal is forced to endanger people or do something morally grey, he is called out on it. But if Fiona or Sam do the same, he is expected to back them up. |
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| 63 | * ''Series/{{Charite}}'': Nurse Ida delivers one to her suitor, medicine student Georg Tischendorf, after he's let Mrs. Ehrlich down in childbirth just to run off and fight an academic duel in his fraternity. The Ehrlich baby died during that, and Mrs. Ehrlich nearly followed, so Ida is not too impressed with Georg's fancy new DuelingScar. |
| 64 | ** Later, Robert Koch gets a very loud and angry one from Professor Virchow and a [[GentlemanSnarker calm, polite but pointed one]] from Doctor Ehrlich after Koch's sloppy scientific research has led to Tuberculin being marketed as a tuberculosis miracle remedy despite it being anything but. |
| 65 | * ''Series/Charmed1998'': Piper and Leo's wedding is [[WeddingSmashers interrupted]] by Prue's astral projection running off with a biker guy in the middle of the ceremony. Piper goes into a HeroicBSOD and refuses to continue the ceremony. Phoebe casts a spell to drag Astral Prue back home and thoroughly chews her out for ruining Piper's big day when she ''knows'' how hard Piper and Leo had to fight to get permission from [[ThePowersThatBe The Elders]] to be together. |
| 66 | * ''Series/TheCloser'': The final season is one long WhatTheHellHero directed at Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson for running roughshod over proper police procedure. In particular, Brenda drove a murderer who'd gotten an immunity deal back to his house... and left him there to get lynched. |
| 67 | * ''Series/CobraKai'': |
| 68 | ** When Amanda finds out that Daniel manipulated Johnny's landlord into increasing his rent to try and put him out of business, she is outright repulsed and tears a strip off of him. Not only does she point out how callous and cruel it was, and how it was ''serious'' DisproportionateRetribution for Johnny spray-painting a dick on Daniel's billboard, but she also points out how this will have permanent negative repercussions for all the other businesses in that strip mall who now have to pay double the rent because of Daniel and Johnny's stupid high-school feud. After a serious HeelRealization and a visit to Mr. Miyagi's grave, Daniel returns to his own martial art in order to find the balance in his life. |
| 69 | ** Daniel gets this a lot, even when he's not even at fault. When his [[BlackSheep trashy cousin]] (unbeknownst to him) gathers a couple of biker punks to not only trash but ''light Johnny's CoolCar on fire'', the very first thing Johnny calls him out for is how such a stupid stunt could have burned the whole neighborhood down. |
| 70 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': |
| 71 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/CommunityS1E07IntroductionToStatistics Introduction to Statistics]]", when Jeff finally snaps and tells his friends to get lost and leave him to seduce Slater, they -- and Slater -- are quick to point out what they think of this (although Troy subverts it): |
| 72 | --->'''Britta:''' "Way to go!"\ |
| 73 | '''Abed:''' "I know I'm not Batman; you could try not being a {{jerk|ass}}."\ |
| 74 | '''Troy:''' "She's pretty hot."\ |
| 75 | '''Jeff:''' ''[Slinking back over to Slater]'' "Well, where were we little doggy?"\ |
| 76 | '''Slater:''' "Unseemly." ''[Walks off]''\ |
| 77 | '''Jeff:''' ''[Deflated]'' "Yeah... crap." |
| 78 | ** In the season 2 premiere, Jeff calls out Abed on being obsessed with TV and movies. Abed answers that 'in movies and TV we have likeable leading men. But in reality we have this. We have '''you'''. |
| 79 | * ''Series/ColdCase'' |
| 80 | ** In "The Promise", when the victim admonishes her friend for (unintentionally) getting her humiliated at a frat party: |
| 81 | --->'''Laurie:''' You four-eyed loser! That's what the jocks used to call you in high school, or don't you remember? You think getting contacts changes who you were? Makes you their friend now? Their brother? You used to hate guys like this, guys who beat you up in gym class every day. You were better than them. Because you didn't need to make others feel small, to feel real. But you know what? You're that guy now, Dirk. You're that guy. |
| 82 | * ''Series/ControlZ'': |
| 83 | ** In 2.01, SofÃa's mom confronts her for hiding the truth about [[spoiler:her father's faked death]] that resulted in their house getting repossessed, knowing full well how long she has been mourning him even during their regular visits at his "tomb". SofÃa also gives one out to her mother in 2.06 after finding out that she had her father arrested. Nevertheless, SofÃa eventually apologizes, telling her that she should've told her the truth from the beginning. |
| 84 | ** In 2.06, After Pablo spreads the news about Raúl and allegedly SofÃa's roles in harboring Gerry from the police, the majority of the students are quick to turn on her, including Alex who calls SofÃa out, not only for this, but also because of her closeness to Raúl who has had a bad reputation due to his previous actions as the hacker. Quintanilla even questions SofÃa about this when she temporarily crashes with him, asking her if she has forgotten what he did before. |
| 85 | * ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': Vanessa and her friends decide to sneak off to Baltimore for a concert. Problem is, the apartment where they told their parents where they were burns to the ground, and they end up losing their car and money. Clair, furious at being lied to and thinking Vanessa was dying, gives her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYpVzc3qunE one hell of an]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI7x-lA5Qnk ass-chewing]]. |
| 86 | * In ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'', Himura gets chewed out in the fourth episode for the cavalier way that he treats investigations: |
| 87 | -->'''Sagio:''' Is this fun to you? Because of your profiling, our lives have changed drastically. Is it fun to ruin people's lives?\ |
| 88 | '''Himura:''' I have to do this.\ |
| 89 | '''Sagio:''' What a miserable way to live. |
| 90 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Brass spends much of the episode "Genetic Disorder" getting these repeatedly, because he lets his own past influence his thinking that Doc's wife really was cheating on Doc. He doesn't let up until the end of the ep, when the evidence shows what really happened. |
| 91 | * ''Series/{{Crusade}}'': ''Series/BabylonFive'''s ScrewedByTheNetwork spinoff series, had two completed but unproduced scripts that were filled to the brim with this trope. In these separate episodes (one being midseason, the other being the season finale), Captain Gideon risks his current ship and crew to chase down and get revenge on the Mysterious Evil Spaceship that destroyed his previous ship, killing his captain and the rest of the crew, and between the space battles there are a lot of "What the hell?" speeches from the rest of the main cast. It's only overshadowed by the finale's revelation that [[spoiler:Gideon's bosses in [=EarthForce=] created the Evil Ship, and his best friend, Galen the [[MagicFromTechnology Technomage]], knew the whole time]], at which point Gideon gets to do some "What the hell?"-ing of his own. |
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| 95 | * ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': In "[[Recap/TheDickVanDykeShowS1E17PunchThyNeighbor Punch Thy Neighbor]]", Millie jumps to the conclusion that Rob has punched Laura and pushes Jerry into going over to protect her. When Jerry comes over, Rob has scissors in hand for trimming a bandage and is upset about slipping on one of Ritchie's toys, and Jerry pins him to the floor. After finding out the truth, he chews out his wife for pushing him into beating the tar out of his best friend. |
| 96 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' really loves this trope: |
| 97 | ** The Doctor's companions have been calling him on stuff since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the very first]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild episode]]''. Remember Susan's freak out when he decides to keep Barbara and Ian prisoner? Two episodes later, the Doctor moves as if to bash an injured man's head in (because he wanted to escape to the TARDIS and thought they were wasting time), and Ian intercepts him asking what the hell he thought he was doing. |
| 98 | ** Also, when Ian forces the Doctor to find Barbara by holding the Fluid Link hostage, he calls the Doctor out on shirking his responsibilities. In short, "you got us into this, you get us out." |
| 99 | ** Barbara Wright gets a great one in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction "The Edge of Destruction"]]. The Doctor is threatening to throw her and Ian out of the TARDIS, ''into empty space'', and she tells him he has no right to threaten them as he owes his life to the two of them several times over already. |
| 100 | --->'''Barbara:''' Accuse us? You ought to go down on your hands and knees and thank us! |
| 101 | ** Steven nearly left the TARDIS over the Doctor's refusal to save anyone during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve"]]. |
| 102 | ** Jamie, probably one of the Doctor's most loyal companions, gives him a right telling off after being manipulated in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks "The Evil of the Daleks"]]. |
| 103 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks "Resurrection of the Daleks"]] in Season 21 has the Doctor's companion Tegan leaving as a result of her disgust over the bloodshed she had just witnessed and the Doctor saying he must mend his ways. (He doesn't.) |
| 104 | ** Often just the way the Seventh Doctor treats Ace, especially when it's to further a [[GambitRoulette hidden scheme]] of his. |
| 105 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]]: The Doctor isn't impressed by Rose's slightly xenophobic reactions to the aliens on Platform One. In return, Rose isn't particularly pleased to learn that the TARDIS' translation circuits rearrange her brain without asking, particularly since the Doctor made some snide remarks about her culture shock instead of telling her this. |
| 106 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "Aliens of London"]]: Jackie Tyler, Rose's mother, chews the Ninth Doctor out for showing up out of nowhere, taking her daughter away with him with no explanation, and not even always getting the return date right. |
| 107 | ** The Ninth Doctor gets a couple very brief ones in the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]]. [[spoiler:One in the form of a Dalek commenting on how he would make a good Dalek for suggesting its new orders were to kill itself, one in the form of Rose pointing out that the Dalek wasn't the one pointing the gun at her.]] |
| 108 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]]: |
| 109 | *** Mickey really lets Rose have it for just abandoning him, leaving him to spend a year being suspected of murdering him, and making him feel like he was nothing, and yet still expecting him to wait for her. |
| 110 | *** Even Margaret Blaine, a.k.a. [[OverlyLongName Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]], an alien who has proved herself perfectly willing to destroy entire planets, gets in on the act, when she observes that the Doctor's "happy-go-lucky life" seems to generate an [[DoomMagnet awful lot of destruction]]. |
| 111 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]]: |
| 112 | *** After waking up, the Doctor gets angry at Rose for giving up on him, and then admits that was rude. |
| 113 | *** After Harriet Jones has the Sycorax ship shot down, the Doctor is ''furious'' and chews her out. She defends herself by pointing out that the Sycorax proved untrustworthy and could have come back. What the Doctor does next ends up having [[NiceJobBreakingItHero very bad consequences]]. |
| 114 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]], Queen Victoria also calls him and Rose out for giggling and acting silly immediately after a terrifying adventure. |
| 115 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]]: Rose and Sarah Jane both call out the Doctor for leaving Sarah and never coming back, leading her to assume he'd died. |
| 116 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love & Monsters"]]: Elton is understandably aggrieved when, after being chased and nearly murdered by the alien who put his friends in a FateWorseThanDeath, the Doctor and Rose turn up... because Rose is angry about Elton upsetting her mother, which is practically a blip on the scale compared to what the Abzorbaloff has done. |
| 117 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]: The Doctor tells Rose off for choosing him over her mother. However, he's too preoccupied with defeating the Daleks to go into it, and lets it go when Rose assures him that she chose him a long time ago. |
| 118 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]]: The agonized, semi-possessed Doctor gives one to Captain [=McDonnell=] for not checking to see if her ship was extracting fuel from a lifeform. Martha refuses her assistance to help treat him, snapping coldly that she's done enough. |
| 119 | ** Joan Redfern calls the Doctor on the consequences of his dalliance as a human in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: "If the Doctor had never chosen this place, on a whim... would anyone here have died?" |
| 120 | ** Donna turned down an invitation to take a spin around space-time with the Doctor after he wiped out the Racnoss in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]]. She continues to call him on his various "Time Lord-y" decisions throughout Series 4, particularly [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii when he states]] [[spoiler:the destruction of Pompeii]] is a "fixed point in time", and so he decides not to interfere; and how he [[spoiler:neglected to help the enslaved Ood when he last met them.]] |
| 121 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]], Martha gives the Doctor a bit of a chewing out for his self-righteous attitude towards a group of [=UNIT=] officials, pointing out that they were doing their best to save the planet and frequently had to do so in his absence. Although, at the end of it, Martha mentions wanting to make them "better". |
| 122 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]], ''Agatha Christie'' gets in on it. "How like a man to have fun while there's disaster all around him! ...I'll work with you, gladly, but for the sake of justice, ''not'' your own amusement." |
| 123 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]] gives us an example of [[spoiler:the hero calling ''himself'' out]]: The Doctor [[spoiler:banishes his clone self to a parallel universe after his act of genocide upon the Daleks.]] Although [[spoiler:the clone self also gets to be free to be with Rose Tyler through that banishment, and in a cut scene would've got a piece of Grow-Your-Own TARDIS...]] He also gets called out by the ''villain'' (Davros) — "You turn your companions into weapons!" |
| 124 | ** At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]], [[spoiler:the Doctor has told himself that [[AGodAmI as the last of the Time Lords, he can change the laws of time as he sees fit]] and after violating the rules and changing a fixed point in time, has gone slightly mad with power. Adelaide, one of the people he saved, is rightly horrified, and gives the Doctor a good verbal battering. She then brings him back down to earth... by [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself to make sure the timeline goes as it's supposed to]].]] |
| 125 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], Wilfred calls out the Doctor for his [[spoiler:[[TechnicalPacifist refusal to kill]] the Master, when doing so would restore humanity to its regular state.]] |
| 126 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]]: |
| 127 | *** First, the Doctor gives a chewing out to the people who set up [[spoiler:the situation with the Star Whale]] in the first place, as well as one to Amy for getting LaserGuidedAmnesia instead of telling him about it. |
| 128 | *** Amy then calls the Doctor out on his decision to [[spoiler:lobotomize the Star Whale]] to solve the problem. |
| 129 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]], the Doctor spends a lot of time walking around like he owns the place, which usually works for him. The Bishop in particular is offended at how arrogant the Doctor is, and calls him out on it. |
| 130 | --->'''The Doctor:''' I called you an idiot. Sorry. But there was no way to rescue your men.\ |
| 131 | '''Father Octavian:''' I know that, sir. And when you've flown away in your little blue box, I'll explain that to their families. |
| 132 | ** Done quite well by Rory during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]]. |
| 133 | --->'''Rory:''' ''[to the Doctor]'' You know what's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks, it's that you make them want to impress you! You make it so they don't want to let you down. You have ''no idea'' how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around! |
| 134 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], the Doctor even does it to ''himself'', [[spoiler:in the form of the Dream Lord]], pointing out his self-righteous attitude, and the fact that he never visits his friends after he leaves them. |
| 135 | ** Rory does it ''again'' in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]. |
| 136 | --->'''The Doctor:''' Your girlfriend isn't as important as the whole universe.\ |
| 137 | '''Rory:''' SHE IS TO ME! ''[punches the Doctor]'' |
| 138 | *** Subverted as the Doctor was testing him. |
| 139 | ---->'''The Doctor:''' WELCOME BACK RORY WILLIAMS! |
| 140 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], [[spoiler:the Doctor realizes too late that the antagonists have stolen Amy and Rory's baby and are going to turn her into a weapon against him. River Song arrives to call him on it:]] |
| 141 | --->[[spoiler:'''The Doctor:''' You think I wanted this? ''I'' didn't want this! This wasn't ''me.'']]\ |
| 142 | [[spoiler:'''River:''' This was ''exactly'' you. ''All'' this! ''All'' of it! You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become ''this?'' The man who can turn an army around at the ''mention'' of his name. Doctor. The word for "healer", and "wise man" throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean?]] |
| 143 | ** May apply for Rory again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]] when [[spoiler:the Doctor makes Rory choose which of two Amys ([[ItMakesSenseIncontext Present Amy or Future Amy]]) to take with them. Note: this is after the Doctor explicitly tells them that they can take both Present Amy and Future Amy aboard the TARDIS. Later, the Doctor tells Rory flat-out that he lied to them. Then makes Rory choose which to keep. After Rory and an unconscious Present Amy are already on board. And Future Amy is sobbing right outside the TARDIS. Then he leaves Rory to explain to Present Amy the dirty job of what had to be done when she comes to and asks what happened to Future Amy.]] |
| 144 | --->'''The Doctor:''' Your choice.\ |
| 145 | '''Rory:''' This isn't fair. You're turning me into you! |
| 146 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]], the Doctor does this to River when she [[spoiler:refuses to kill him, thus altering a fixed point and nearly destroying time.]] |
| 147 | --->'''The Doctor:''' River! River! This is ridiculous! That would mean nothing to anyone. It's insane. Worse, it's stupid! You embarrass me. |
| 148 | ** Amy gets an especially epic What the Hell Hero moment in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy "A Town Called Mercy"]], when the Doctor attempts to hand Jex over to the Gunslinger: |
| 149 | --->'''The Doctor:''' We could end this right now. We could save everyone right now!\ |
| 150 | '''Amy:''' This is not how we roll, and you know it. What's happened to you, Doctor? When did killing someone become an option?\ |
| 151 | '''The Doctor:''' Jex has to answer for his crimes.\ |
| 152 | '''Amy:''' And what then? Are you going to hunt down everyone who's made a gun or a bullet or a bomb?\ |
| 153 | '''The Doctor:''' But they keep coming back, don't you see? Every time I negotiate, I try to understand. Well not today. No, today I honour the victims first. His, the Master's, the Daleks'. All the people that died because of ''my mercy!''\ |
| 154 | '''Amy:''' See, this is what happens when you travel alone for too long. Well listen to me, Doctor, we can't be like him. We have to be better than him. |
| 155 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], the War Doctor and the Tenth Doctor call out the Eleventh Doctor rather harshly for having put aside what they did in The Time War and no longer remembering [[spoiler:how many children died]] when they pressed the button that wiped out the Time Lords and Daleks. |
| 156 | --->'''War Doctor:''' Did you ever count?\ |
| 157 | '''Eleventh Doctor:''' Count what? \ |
| 158 | '''War Doctor:''' [[spoiler: How many children there were on Gallifrey that day.]]\ |
| 159 | '''Eleventh Doctor:''' ''[pause]'' I've absolutely no idea.\ |
| 160 | '''War Doctor:''' How old are you now?\ |
| 161 | '''Eleventh Doctor:''' Uh, I dunno. I lose track. 1200 and something, I think, unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age, that's how old I am.\ |
| 162 | '''War Doctor:''' Four hundred years older than me and in all that time you never even wondered how many there were. Never once counted.\ |
| 163 | '''Eleventh Doctor:''' Tell me: What would be the point?\ |
| 164 | '''Tenth Doctor:''' 2.47 billion.\ |
| 165 | '''War Doctor:''' You did count!\ |
| 166 | '''Tenth Doctor:''' ''[to the Eleventh Doctor]'' You forgot! Four hundred years; is that all it takes?\ |
| 167 | '''Eleventh Doctor:''' I moved on.\ |
| 168 | '''Tenth Doctor:''' Where? Where can you be now that you could forget something like that? |
| 169 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]]: Psi is unimpressed by the Twelfth Doctor's "professional detachment" and Clara's claim that "underneath it all, he isn't really like that." Crucially, she ''has'' known him for a while — but mostly as the far less-detached Eleven at this point in her tenure; even she is having problems adjusting to Twelve. |
| 170 | --->'''Psi:''' It's very obvious that you've been with him for a while. Because you are ''really'' good at the excuses. |
| 171 | ** Very specifically invoked in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon Kill the Moon]]", which ends with [[spoiler:Clara telling the Doctor off, at length, for patronising her and her species, and for deliberately withholding information to make her scared for her life, the life of her pupil, and of the planet itself. The Doctor, who didn't mean any of this, just stands there and takes it — this is, in fairness, [[KarmaHoudini karma long overdue]] since Twelve's first story, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]". And it nearly costs him her friendship.]] |
| 172 | ** Clara is the target of this from Cass in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood Before the Flood]]" as she takes risks with other people's lives in a very Doctor-like fashion, as part of an ongoing character arc seeing her becoming the Doctor's DistaffCounterpart. Elsewhere in the same episode, the Doctor gets chewed out by Bennett for letting [[spoiler:O'Donnell]] die to prove a theory about the villain's plan. |
| 173 | ** The Doctor gets this from Ashildr in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]] over his choice to [[spoiler: save her life in a way that also made her immortal]] and then just moving on at the end of the previous episode, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied "The Girl Who Died"]]. |
| 174 | ** Pretty much the last 3/4 of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" is one big version of this trope directed at the Doctor, when he threatens to destroy time in order to [[spoiler: save Clara from her fixed-point death. Clara herself gives him one after he shoots the General, though she forgives him instantly once reminded of regeneration. She later gives him a more emotional one when she learns he tortured himself for billions of years in order to get to this point and save her — and then turns her fury on his people, who never did anything about it. Clara isn't finished: she later gives the Doctor a ''silent'' dressing down when he makes a BadassBoast at being accountable to no one, and finally she directly challenges his plan to MindRape her to protect her from the Time Lords]]. |
| 175 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]: At the climax, the Doctor is not impressed when crane operator Karl kicks the villain off the arm of his crane. (The bad guy doesn't hit the ground because the recall device to send him back to his homeworld had been activated.) |
| 176 | --->"You had no right to do that." |
| 177 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]]: The Doctor gives Ryan quite a lecture after his attempt to [[IKnowMortalKombat go]] ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' on the robots attacking them with one of their guns only makes the situation worse. |
| 178 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]]: Chief medic Astos tells the Doctor off after she insists on trying to hijack the medical ship to return to the TARDIS, completely ignoring the fact that there are other patients onboard who need to get medical care at the hospital they're heading for. She realizes he's right. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:E]] |
| 182 | * In ''Series/TheEscapeArtist'', this happens twice to Will Burton, the main character: |
| 183 | ** In the third episode, Will is called out by [[spoiler:the Scottish court judges he stands before, because he mentions that Foyle murdered his wife as part of his defence. They state matter-of-factly that Will confronted Foyle, but it's obvious that they are unapproving]]. |
| 184 | ** This is the reaction that most people have to finding out that Will is on trial. |
| 185 | * ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'': In one episode, Ray discovers that his daughter Ally has been bullying a little girl at school, and informs Debra. Debra simply shrugs and brushes the matter away. When Ray presses the issue, Debra replies that she doesn't think it's anything to be upset about. Ray then asks Debra why she doesn't mind the fact that Ally is bullying other kids, and Debra expresses disinterest in the whole thing. When Ray complains about Debra's lack of concern about Ally bullying a little girl, [[{{Jerkass}} Debra actually utters the line "So, you're upset that I've taught my daughter to be self-confident?!"]] When Ray is, quite justifiably, surprised and upset at Debra for saying this, he points out that he and Robert are both still scarred from their own experiences with bullying. Debra then calls him a wuss and begins making fun of ''him''... [[DracoInLeatherPants while the studio audience cheers ecstatically for her.]] |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:F]] |
| 189 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In the "We're So Screwed" trilogy at the end of this show's run, John Crichton [[spoiler: leaves Scorpius, his nemesis he'd struck a deal with, to die at the hands of the Scarrens]]. It's only through a [[CrazyPrepared pre-planned]] {{plan}} that John is forced to go back and rescue him. [[MagnificentBastard Scorpius]], of all people, is the one to call him out on it during a quiet little sit down—sure, he's spent the past few years hunting John and making his life miserable, but he's always been ''honest'' about it, and kept any deals he made in full, including genuinely risking his own skin to protect John and his friends. |
| 190 | ** Only nine episodes into the show, there was a big one for D'Argo, Zhaan, and Rygel. An alien "scientist" offers the crew maps that can help them get back to their homes...in exchange for one of Pilot's arms. Pilot is unwilling to give one up freely, so they hold him down and chop it off. Pilot is surprisingly forgiving, but Crichton and Aeryn don't let the others off the hook so easily. |
| 191 | ** In ''The Peacekeeper Wars'', Crichton finally gets a chance to employ what everyone's wanted since he came into their neck of space: a wormhole weapon. In doing so, he threatens all of space, and members like Rygel try to hit Crichton with this trope, but he reverses it and turns it into BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, noting that, essentially, ''they asked for it''. |
| 192 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In the pilot episode, Wash calls Mal on "the whole murder issue" when he threatens to throw Simon out the airlock if Kaylee doesn't survive her gunshot wound. |
| 193 | * In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Barry gets called out a few times for his decision to go back in time and attempt to save his mother, causing [[CosmicRetcon unforseen changes in the timeline]], for example by Jay Garrick in [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E2Paradox "Paradox"]] and by both Cisco and Caitlin in [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E7KillerFrost "Killer Frost"]]. |
| 194 | -->'''Caitlin''': You keep messing with everyone's lives, wrecking everything, and we're left behind to pick up the pieces from your mistakes. Some things you break can't be put back together. |
| 195 | ** The team is ''not'' happy when they find out that [[spoiler:Barry went back in time and altered history, then hid their past lives from them.]] Cisco calls out Barry for being a {{hypocrite}} when [[spoiler:Barry refuses to go back in time to save Cisco's brother but it was quite alright for Barry to go back and try to save his parents.]] |
| 196 | * ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'': In this Canadian drama, after a teammate goes to save a girl who was involved in one of his previous cases without telling the others, his teammates call him out for doing something so stupid that could have gotten him killed and nearly did. |
| 197 | * ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Jo spends the entire season finale with this view of Henry due to the fact he's keeping things from her and acting irresponsibly, and keeps putting himself in mortal danger. Culminates in him [[spoiler: adding magnesium to a suspect's coffee which he suggests ''Jo give to him'', causing symptoms of a heart attack, then implying to the man that he'll ''let him die'' if he doesn't tell Henry what he wants to know; Lucas stealing an important piece of evidence for Henry; and Henry taking that evidence into an abandoned subway tunnel to meet Adam, with Jo only hearing gunshots and then finding Henry's watch and a family picture left behind when she gets there.]] Luckily, she seems to be giving him a chance to explain at the end. |
| 198 | * ''Series/ForeverKnight'': Natalie does one of these on Nick in one of the first season episodes, when he was close to giving up on his humanity quest. |
| 199 | * ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': After Marcel finds out that Daniel more or less kidnapped Tequiro from his birth father, he then denounces his action (which no one before really knew about to condemn, aside from Hortense. his accomplice). |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:G]] |
| 203 | * ''Series/{{Galactica 1980}}'': In one episode, Dillon and Troy don't mind passing stolen money off to honest people, but draw the line at giving money to thieves. In this episode, they are approached by thugs in Central Park. One of them demands that Dillon and Troy give the thugs all of their money. They respond that they can't do that because the money they have is stolen and that this would implicate the thugs in grand larceny. The money actually is stolen, but the problem with this is that Dillon and Troy have been spending that stolen money freely prior to this point. They'd bought camping supplies, paid for meals, bought airline tickets, and paid for taxi rides and every one of these transactions were with honest, law-abiding citizens. What the hell, hero? |
| 204 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 205 | ** Mirri Maz Duur calls out Daenerys for seeing herself as a hero for "saving" Mirri after she had already been raped and forced to watch everything and everyone she valued destroyed by Daenerys's husband. |
| 206 | ** Arya calls out the Brotherhood Without Banners for callously selling out Gendry for gold despite their claims of being a BandOfBrothers and fighting for the people. |
| 207 | ** Sandor Clegane also calls out the Brotherhood for accusing him of crimes he had nothing to do with to justify their plan to rob and execute him. |
| 208 | ** Robb and Catelyn are both called out (by each other and Robb's bannermen) over some of their more questionable choices. |
| 209 | *** Catelyn gets one from Robb and Lord Karstark when she goes behind their backs and releases Jaime Lannister in the hope of getting Sansa and Arya back. |
| 210 | *** Catelyn gets Robb right back by pointing out how monumentally stupid breaking his deal with House Frey just to marry a field nurse is. |
| 211 | *** Robb gives a minor one to his mother after she spends a month at Bran's bedside, neglecting the castle and her younger son Rickon, who's six and disoriented by all the changes at Winterfell. |
| 212 | ** Half of Stannis's army calls him out for sacrificing Shireen by deserting his army. |
| 213 | ** Not particularly vicious or biting, but Talisa Maegyr makes it clear to Robb Stark as to exactly what the costs will be to him pushing on with his war with the Lannisters, exemplified in the Lannister soldier that he witnesses her amputate. |
| 214 | --->'''Robb:''' The boy was lucky you were here. \ |
| 215 | '''Talisa:''' He was unlucky you were. |
| 216 | ** Arya has a bit of one in ''Lord Snow'' when she asks Ned why he would allow Sansa to marry Joffrey when the King and Queen put Sansa in the position where she would have to lie out of duty towards Joffrey or call the Prince a liar in front of them. Ned doesn't have an answer to this question and it seems to have had a factor in his later decision to call off the wedding and go back to Winterfell so that Sansa would later have a match with someone worthy of her. |
| 217 | ** Hodor does this to Bran, in a Hodor-y sense, after Bran wargs into him in order to kill Locke. After getting himself back, Hodor looks at his own bloodstained hands, ''clearly'' shocked, and then to Bran, seeming to realize what happened and obviously not being entirely okay with what Bran just did, or ''made'' him do. Hodor isn't really capable of the same level of call-out most characters are, though. It gets worse when it's revealed that it isn't the first time Bran has invaded Hodor's mind. |
| 218 | ** ''Bronn'', of all people, calls out Jaime for not visiting Tyrion right away after being (falsely) imprisoned for Joffrey's murder, pointing out the faith Tyrion had in him when he was also imprisoned in The Vale back in Season 1: |
| 219 | --->'''Bronn:''' He named you as his Champion because he knew you'd ride day and night to come fight for him. You gonna fight for him now? |
| 220 | ** Varys gives one to Ned Stark after Robert's death, asking him what on earth possessed him to flat-out confront Cersei after piecing together her secret. |
| 221 | ** Varys is extensively called out by Daenerys on this during Season 7, regarding his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. |
| 222 | ** Grey Worm calls out Tyrion on negotiating with the slavers, pointing out that they don't see him, Missandei, or Tyrion as people and even self-interest won't stop them from trying to reinstate slavery. |
| 223 | ** Downplayed with Shireen, as she never overtly calls out Melisandre for burning her uncle, whom she was quite fond of. However, in her conversation with Melisandre, she doesn't even hide the fact she believes it was wrong and smartly dismisses Melisandre's attempts to convince her otherwise. She's one of the only people who cannot bear to watch Mance burning alive, the other exception being Gilly, while her mother Selyse is visibly smirking the whole time. |
| 224 | ** Gendry calls Arya out on her usage of Jaqen's three offered assassinations, claiming that she could have picked anyone of importance to the Lannister war effort, like Lord Tywin or King Joffrey. |
| 225 | * ''Series/{{Glee}}'': |
| 226 | ** Burt Hummel gives Finn a truly [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome epic]] one when he hears Finn calling Kurt homophobic slurs. In another episode, Kurt gets called out, also by Burt, for his slightly stalker-y behavior. |
| 227 | ** In 'Dance With Somebody', Blaine calls out Kurt for allegedly cheating on him (Kurt was sending dozens of flirty texts with another guy while remaining emotionally distant from Blaine). |
| 228 | *** {{Subverted}} when Kurt delivers his own WhatTheHellHero when he tells him he's guilty of cheating according to his rules, since he kept in touch with overly flirty Sebastian for weeks. |
| 229 | ** Don't forget Emma calling out Will on messing around with Shelby and for sleeping with April Rhodes (literally sleeping, but she doesn't know that nor does he deny it). "You're a slut Will. You're a slut." |
| 230 | ** Blaine gives one to Kurt in "Blame it on the Alcohol" when Kurt tries to make Blaine feel guilty for questioning his sexuality. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:H]] |
| 234 | * ''Series/HaltAndCatchFire'': This is practically one of Joe [=MacMillian's=] ''modi operandi''. Joe's often risky and progressive East Coast corporate thinking puts him at odds with his co-workers Gordon Clark and Cameron Howe, and especially with his [[GoodOlBoy more conservative superiors]] John Bosworth and Nathan Cardiff. |
| 235 | ** In "I/O", he deliberately tells IBM that he and Gordon had reverse engineered the [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PC]] in order to force Cardiff Electric into the PC-compatible business. |
| 236 | ** In "Close to the Metal", Joe engineers a crisis [[spoiler:by sabotaging Cameron's work]] in order to generate publicity for the Cardiff PC. |
| 237 | * ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': Janine gives one of these to June after June proposes they MercyKill Natalie, who is brain dead but being kept on life support until her baby can be delivered. [[spoiler: It works.]] |
| 238 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 239 | ** In the third season, Daphne pulls a true "What the hell, Hiro?" after watching him stab Ando right in the chest. The kicker? [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead He didn't actually do it.]]]] |
| 240 | ** Also, we see Nathan Petrelli getting this twice, first from Hiro in Season 1 and then from Peter in Season 3. |
| 241 | * ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'': |
| 242 | ** Several in a series about a do-gooder angel (Johnathan Smith) and his mortal sidekick, Mark Gordon who travel from place to place to do (usually) good deeds: |
| 243 | ** In one episode, Johnathan uses insider trading, including stealing the company's trash and hiring a disgruntled former employee for his insider information to start a series of deals so he can manipulate two companies' stock prices, gain control over the company's voting shares, and get rid of his enemies. |
| 244 | ** After seeing a bully take a guy's lunch and walking away, Johnathan (after being told by God not to do this) rips the trunk off the guy's car, then starts a fight with the guy and all his friends, including punching one of them so hard that the guy flies and skids across the top of the car. |
| 245 | ** Johnathan pushes a little girl into swimming pools for being a smart ass, but without the benefit of knowing why she was pushed in. Johnathan did it for self-satisfaction. |
| 246 | ** Mark also has his moments. In ''The Secret'', Mark's friend Wes finds out that his wife lied to him about their daughter. Wes thinks his wife is a virgin when they met and that his wife can't have kids, but then adopted their daughter. The truth is, his wife slept with a guy before she met Wes, got pregnant, had the baby, and gave it up for adoption. When she met Wes, she hurried up and married him, made up the story about not being able to have children, then went to adopt her own daughter back from the adoption agency. Wes is (reasonably) upset at his wife about her deceit and moves out. Mark spends the rest of the episode trying to convince Wes that it's no big deal and that Wes is over-reacting. In the end, Wes "comes to his senses" and forgives her. |
| 247 | * ''Series/{{House}}'': |
| 248 | ** This show is ''made of this trope''. The climax of the Season 5 opener is Wilson deciding "enough is enough" and telling House he's cutting ties with him. Completely. Since House actually [[spoiler: stole prescription sheets from Wilson]], this should have happened a season or two earlier. Back then, Wilson just settled for turning House in to Tritter (with eventual explanation), which caused its own problems. |
| 249 | ** And then promptly {{subverted}} when [[spoiler:Wilson comes back because he realizes that ''being around House is fun and makes his life interesting.'']] |
| 250 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': |
| 251 | ** In season 1, the normally moral and good-hearted Ted deliberately decides to cheat on his long distance girlfriend Victoria with Robin, the woman he's been crazy about for months. He trades phone calls with most of his friends, all of them whom tell him that even going to Robin's apartment is a very bad idea. The future version of Ted, narrating the story agrees that it's the stupidest thing he had ever done. There is fallout over this for the next two or three episodes. |
| 252 | ** This actually has fallout in much later episodes, up to the seventh season, when he [[spoiler: meets Victoria again]] and reveals that he's felt guilty about this the entire time. |
| 253 | ** In the season three episode "No Tomorrow" Ted is once again on the receiving end of one of these, this time from Marshall after drunken shenanigans with Barney the night before, involving but not limited to hitting on a married woman. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:I]] |
| 257 | * ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': After Ainslee, Althea's rapist, gets bailed out of prison, he goes and bothers Althea again at a church. Virgil storms out, beats the crap out of him, and nearly strangles him, only for Chief Gillespie to pull him off of Ainslee and ream him out because it's not going to help and an assault charge against Virgil is only going to make it harder to nail Ainslee to the wall. |
| 258 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': |
| 259 | ** ''Every single episode'' is based on this trope. You could say [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist the show itself is a personification of it.]] |
| 260 | ** Apart from the fact that the protagonists aren't heroes at all and don't mind being called out. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:J]] |
| 264 | * ''Series/JustRollWithIt'': After Owen and Blair manage to not only stop their respective grandparents from fighting with each other, the two grandparents start to fall in love. This disturbs Rachel and Byron and they try to break up their parents. Owen then calls them out on this, especially his father. Owen mentioned his grandmother had never been happier since her husband's death and this causes Rachel and Byron to realize they were horrible to their parents. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:K]] |
| 268 | * ''Series/KevinCanFuckHimself'': |
| 269 | ** Allison is occasionally called out when she acts [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishly]] or in a [[DidntThinkThisThrough short-sighted and impulsive]] manner. The harshest one she gets is from Tammy, who accuses her of being clingy towards Patty, who's Allison's best (and [[OnlyFriend only]]) friend and Tammy's girlfriend. |
| 270 | ** In the episode "Live Free or Die", Allison lays a harsh one on Patty for treating Kevin's destructive and idiotic antics as harmless and silly fun. |
| 271 | --->'''Allison:''' Patty, do you remember when I got that job as a paralegal? I started working a lot, and Kevin convinced everyone I was having an affair.\ |
| 272 | '''Patty:''' My money was on cult. But, yeah.\ |
| 273 | '''Allison:''' [[MistakenForCheating He thought that I'd fallen in love with my boss]], who was sixty and married. But that didn't matter. Kevin still put sugar in his gas tank. Ruined his Saturn.\ |
| 274 | '''Patty:''' Okay, fine, I never said he was a great guy. But that's the kind of juvenile crap he does.\ |
| 275 | '''Allison:''' Patty, he got me ''fired''. Right when I felt like I was worth something. He ruined it. And you just watched him and ''laughed''. Can you just think about that for more than one second? He didn't like something that was my own, and so he took it away from me. Like this car. Like my friends. Like ''any'' shred of a life that is my own.\ |
| 276 | '''Patty:''' I-It... It seemed... harmless.\ |
| 277 | '''Allison:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion And when he spent all our life savings without telling me? Was that harmless, too?]] |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:L]] |
| 281 | * ''Series/LawAndOrder'': |
| 282 | ** When Jack [=McCoy=] goes off into one of his many WriterOnBoard crusades, expect him to be called on it by at least his colleagues. |
| 283 | ** In one episode where they need to get a suspect out of the Iranian embassy, the characters have two women trick two of the embassy employees into taking their pictures, only to have detectives Lupo and Bernard conveniently show up, examine the camera and find pictures of famous landmarks. They then blackmail the employees into helping them under threatening to arrest them as terrorists. Fortunately for the two employees, they were smart enough to call someone higher up in the US government, who proceeded to chew the main characters a new one for the stunt they pulled. |
| 284 | ** Now that Jack is the District Attorney, he gets to throw a few of his own [=WTHHs=] at Mike Cutter. Although Connie is the one that usually calls Mike out when he's being an idiot. |
| 285 | ** Adam Schiff loved to call Jack out whenever he went too far trying to deliver JusticeByOtherLegalMeans and crept into flat-out abuses of prosecutorial discretion (though in some cases, he'd deliver just a snarky warning that he might be stepping over the line). Similarly, Jack shot down Abby Carmichael's attempt to convict a SerialKiller on charges he was innocent of; Abby pointed out Jack's penchant for bending the law and Jack replied he only did it to convict defendants of crimes they were guilty of in the first place. |
| 286 | ** [=McCoy=] gets another one in the episode ''Gov Lov'' when he succeeds in nullifying gay marriages in the state in order to force a man to testify against his husband (since there are some laws that allow [[SpousalPrivilege spouses refusal to testify against each other]]). During the trial, the man bluntly tells [=McCoy=] that he would have ''willingly'' testified, but due to [=McCoy's=] actions ruining hundreds of marriages for his own goals, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero now he refuses]] despite knowing he'd be held in contempt. |
| 287 | ** In ''Under the Influence'' Jack is particularly enraged at a vehicular homicide by a drunk driver, given that this is how Claire Kincaid recently died. So much so that he buries evidence that the driver was drunk, even hiding an exculpatory witness so that he can class the killing as a first degree murder and go for the death penalty. Second chair Jamie Ross repeatedly calls him out for unethical actions in pursuit of vengeance. [[spoiler: It eventually has an effect, as Jack relents while the defendant is on the stand.]] |
| 288 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': |
| 289 | ** In the episode "Cold", Eliot thinks Fin has tipped off a suspect (who happens to be their colleague, Chester) to run, and dumps his phone records to check. A correct move for a cop, but an absolute dick move to do to a friend and co-worker (even Olivia thinks he should've just asked Fin). Elliot tries (half-heartedly) to apologize, but Fin's having none of it: |
| 290 | --->'''Fin:''' You're a bulldog, Stabler. Quick to assume, slow to admit when you're wrong. Makes for a good cop, but a lousy human being.\ |
| 291 | '''Olivia:''' Fin, hear him out.\ |
| 292 | '''Fin:''' Stay out of it, Liv. That being said, I know what it cost you.\ |
| 293 | '''Elliot:''' Appreciate that.\ |
| 294 | '''Fin:''' I'm not done. The problem is you will still be the same rat bastard tomorrow, and nothing you say will ever change that. ''(walks out of the station, handing his transfer request to Munch on his way out)'' |
| 295 | ** Would it have been better had he just called Internal Affairs to investigate? (Probably not.) |
| 296 | ** From the same episode, Casey gets called out by her superior for [[spoiler:blatantly forging the evidence used against the rogue cop she was prosecuting]]. |
| 297 | ** This happens plenty of times in the series. In the episode "Blinded," Olivia and Casey gets called out by ''each other'' (Casey for throwing the case of the perp of the week, and Olivia for deliberately informing the feds of the perp's location, knowing that he would be executed, out of revenge for him blinding Elliot). [[LesYay They make up.]] |
| 298 | ** Elliot Stabler is really a walking 'What The Hell, Hero?'. |
| 299 | ** "Screwed" is possibly the most [[DiabolusExMachina notorious]] instance of this. [[spoiler:Elliot is called out for covering up his daughter's DUI charges. Benson is called out for helping a known fugitive escape justice. Fin is called for his actions during his time in the narcotics division.]] |
| 300 | ** One episode has Elliot temporarily being paired up with a different partner, and their personalities make them repeatedly butt heads. After they start fighting in the middle of the office, Cragen calls Elliot into his office and tells him the reason he was paired up with him is so that he would see what it was like to work with ''him.'' |
| 301 | ** Even the BadassPacifist of the cast, Dr. Huang, goes ''ballistic'' on Stabler in one episode after Stabler intentionally worsens a mentally ill suspect's condition in order to make him talk.[[note]]Stabler provoked the suspect into attacking him, justifying the use of drugs to calm him down. Drugs Huang refused to administer against the defendant's will. Huang is not only furious that Elliot did an end-run around him, but that now, without medical supervision, any statement the perp made is now basically inadmissiable because he was technically drugged. Cragen has to beg the DA to drop the charges so that there's no case for Elliot to have torpedoed. |
| 302 | ** Subverted in one episode where Cragen begins to chew out Benson and Stabler for doing an illegal search only to realize by their surprised reaction that they honestly thought the search was legal and that A.D.A. Cabot lied to them about having a warrant. She's later berated for that by the judge and gets suspended for a month.[[/note]] |
| 303 | * In the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E5Compromised "Compromised"]], [[Comicbook/BlackCanary Sara]] goes off mission to prevent a time anomaly in 1987 Washington DC when she learns Damian Darhk, the man who will, in thirty years time, [[spoiler: murder her [[Comicbook/BlackCanary sister]]]]. Killing Darhk in 1987 will cause an even worse time anomaly than the one they are trying to prevent, and her RevengeBeforeReason leads to a fight with White House secruity, and alerting Darhk that the Legends are in this time period. [[Comicbook/FirestormDCComics Martin and Jax]] call her out on this behaviour, especially Jax, as Sara had not long before [[{{Hypocrite}} stood with Martin against Jax's wishes to change the future for the "better".]] |
| 304 | * ''Series/LazyTown'': During Ziggy's birthday party, Stingy brings him a present. When it turns out that Robbie brought nothing to the party, he is perplexed by his standards, asserting that he at least he had the decency to have brought cookies. |
| 305 | * ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': |
| 306 | ** When you hurt Charles Ingalls' family, you don't want to cross his path -- as Pa will beat you senseless and beyond the point of just beating you down. An infamous example came in the 1982 episode "He Was Only Twelve," wherein adopted son James (Creator/JasonBateman) is wounded while walking into a bank during a bank robbery. As his son lie dying in a hospital, an irate Charles recruits Mr. Edwards and Albert to track down the criminal gang that did this, and when they do, Charles knocks down the leader of the gang and chokes him to the brink of unconsciousness, even long after he had been beaten. Only when Edwards shouts out, "For the love of God, Charles ... LET HIM GO!!!!" does he relent. [[note]](This was a revised script from ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' (the Season 13 episode "He Was Only Seven"); here, it is Michael Landon's Little Joe character that pleads for Roscoe Lee Browne to release his vice grip from the lead bad guy's neck.)[[/note]] |
| 307 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel is called out by [[VillainHasAPoint Sauron of all people]], and rightfully so. Galadriel, being TheDeterminator that she is, couldn't just let go of the chance of gaining another army to hunt down Sauron in the Southlands through Halbrand being the Southlands's so-called lost king. She puts Halbrand in a vulnerable position by lying to Miriel that he was the one asking for an army from Numenor to unite his people. [[spoiler:Sauron/Halbrand]] seems to get genuinely angry with Galadriel and accuses her of using him even though he begged her to just let him have a quiet, peaceful existence in Numenor, and suggesting she finds peace for herself too. |
| 308 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'': |
| 309 | ** In the episode "Namaste", Sawyer calls Jack out on his leadership in the early seasons (made all the more awesome given that Jack is used to leading Sawyer around, and that the entire interchange arises from Jack's questioning Sawyer for sitting around and reading instead of taking action): |
| 310 | -->'''Sawyer:''' It's how I like to run things. I think. I'm sure that doesn't mean that much to you, 'cause back when you were calling the shots, you pretty much just reacted. See, you didn't think, Jack, and as I recall, a lot of people ended up dead.\ |
| 311 | '''Jack:''' [[spoiler:I got us off the island.]]\ |
| 312 | '''Sawyer:''' But here you are... [[spoiler:right back where you started]]. |
| 313 | ** Unfortunately Sawyer's point is somewhat undermined by his being an ass about it directly afterward and showing signs of exactly the same trends of leadership Jack showed. For his part Jack shows relief and acceptance of Sawyer's general point about his leadership, though in his defense, unlike him, Sawyer has the luxury of a comfortable and powerful position to plan instead of react. |
| 314 | ** In the last episode of Season 5, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Jack wants to nuke the island so he can get Kate back. He gets called out on it by Sawyer of all people.]] WhatTheHellHero indeed. Again sort of undermined when Sawyer changes tack and aids Jack, as does everyone else. Given how things ended up he will rightfully be pissed, but by changing his mind with everyone else and aiding him he has not much ground to stand on. |
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| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:M]] |
| 318 | * ''Series/{{MASH}}'': |
| 319 | ** The episode "Fallen Idol" has Radar call Hawkeye out after the latter reports to surgery after getting drunk (due to his guilt over having urged Radar to visit a Seoul brothel on his R&R leave, leading to Radar getting wounded by mortar fire en route). This leads to a bitter, though temporary, falling-out between the two men. |
| 320 | *** And shortly after the fallout, Col. Potter, Father Mulcahy, Major Houlihan, and one of the nurses proceed to let Hawkeye have it for chewing out Radar. |
| 321 | ** In the season 8 episode "Preventative Medicine", Hawkeye performs an unnecessary appendectomy on a battle-happy colonel to put him out of commission who is scheming of how to an unauthorized (and potentially high-casualty) offensive in direct defiance of his orders. B.J. furiously protests this, calling it "mutilation" and a violation of every tenet they're supposed to live by as doctors. This is an interesting parallel/contrast to previous wingman Trapper, who was only too happy to help Hawkeye [[RecycledScript do the same thing]] in the season 3 episode "White Gold". |
| 322 | ** On a lesser scale, you'd be surprised on how many times Hawkeye gets called for his self-righteousness and sanctimony. These two flaws are commonly attributed to SeasonalRot but for one, this is early seasons as well, and for two, [[FridgeBrilliance it might have been deliberate]]. |
| 323 | * ''Series/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel'': [[spoiler: Lenny Bruce]] gives a lengthy one of these to Midge in the season 4 finale, calling her out on her misguided self-sabotage. |
| 324 | -->[[spoiler:'''Lenny:''' Ninety percent of this game is how they see you. They see you hanging with Tony Bennett, they think you deserve to be there. They see you hauled off to jail for saying "fuck" at a strip club, they think you deserve that also. Wise up! Don't plan - work! Just work, and keep working. There is a moment in this business: window’s open. If you miss it, it closes.]] |
| 325 | * ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': Has a rather epic one pulled by Gaius on Uther in "The Witchfinder". He's one of very few people able to do this without losing their head in the process. |
| 326 | --->'''Gaius:''' ...You see sorcerers where there are only servants... |
| 327 | * ''Series/TheMentalist'': Patrick Jane frequently gets called out on his more...unorthodox methods. Considering his revelations also tend to crack cases wide open, he usually gets by with little more than a slap on the wrist, except when things go really over the top and/or his antics insult someone with connections. More severe consequences are occasionally in the offing, though, to the point that after a couple incidents he's lucky to still have his job. |
| 328 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': |
| 329 | ** "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS4E1 Garden of Death]]": After they dig up a body in the memorial garden, Troy immediately goes to press one of their suspects about it. Once Barnaby catches up to him he chews Troy out for jumping the gun, pointing out that not only have they not yet identified the body as being the woman they believe it is but they haven't informed the next of kin either. |
| 330 | * ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': In [[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E3SecretsAndLies "Secrets & Lies"]], the woman who Tim and Duvall answer to is furious at Tim for his actions in the previous two episodes. She points out that when he first found out that there was a leak of Monarch's files, he ''should'' have brought it to her, [[Film/Godzilla2014 Dr. Serizawa]] or one of his other higher-ups in [[CovertGroup Monarch]] so that they could take care of it in an orderly manner -- instead, he broke protocol to go off half-cocked trying to get the files back on his and Duvall's own without telling Duvall what he was doing, for [[SecretlySelfish his own personal glory and self-indulgence at playing spies]]; and he's made a clusterfuck of achieving that goal, with the civilians now on the run alongside a retired Monarch operative gone rogue and still in possession of the files. |
| 331 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 332 | ** The main characters both receive and deliver these. Some examples: |
| 333 | ** Monk, when on the receiving end: |
| 334 | *** Any time his OCD compulsions cause difficulties in an investigation. |
| 335 | *** In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", Dr. Kroger asks Monk if he's been sending him his trash. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Monk denies it, but Dr. Kroger immediately points out that the trash in question is sorted according to color and food groups, and it's Monk's handwriting on the shipping label]]. |
| 336 | *** In "Mr. Monk and the Genius", Stottlemeyer confronts him privately in an interrogation room upon finding out Monk plans to plant evidence. |
| 337 | *** In "Mr. Monk on Wheels", Stottlemeyer does this to Monk when he sees his friend treating Natalie like an emotional punching bag, in part because of Monk himself getting shot in the leg and him blaming her for the entire ordeal. |
| 338 | *** In "Mr. Monk and the Bully", Natalie angrily chews him out when he's deciding to follow his childhood bully's wife, to borderline stalking. |
| 339 | ** Natalie: |
| 340 | *** In "Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra", Monk not being able to cover her expenses. |
| 341 | *** In "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", Natalie chews Monk out for the problems she has with him witnessing a gang killing and ending up in federal witness protection, namely: she is stuck with him, Stottlemeyer and Agent Grooms in the middle of the woods; her daughter is missing a full week of school since she has to stay with Natalie's parents, Monk has a price on his head, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and he broke someone's car radio antenna while trying to straighten it out]]. |
| 342 | *** In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", calling Monk out for lying to the press about the sanitation union boss's death. |
| 343 | *** In "Mr. Monk Is On The Run, Part Two", Natalie delivers one to Stottlemeyer for faking Monk's "death" without telling her, even though Stottlemeyer did have valid reasons for keeping the truth from her, namely, fearing that Sheriff John Rollins - who is assisting in the manhunt for Monk, and also happens to be the one who framed him for the six-fingered man's death - might be watching her while trying to locate Monk. |
| 344 | *** In "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever", Natalie gets to be on the receiving end when Monk confronts her for being too occupied by her lottery hostess celebrity status to help him on his homicide investigation. |
| 345 | *** In "Mr. Monk and the Bully", Natalie angrily chews Monk out for continuing to follow Roderick Brody's wife. |
| 346 | *** In the novel ''Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop'', several instances: 1) Natalie getting upset when Stottlemeyer cuts Monk's consulting contract off ostensibly due to budget cuts, but which she sees as retribution to having been humiliated by a rival at a convention. 2) Natalie chewing out Nick Slade for sending Monk loads of case files to overwork him to the point of sleep deprivation. |
| 347 | * In "Series/MrRobot" Elliot and Darlene call out [[spoiler: Angela]] for working with the Dark Army behind their backs and exploiting Elliot's mental illness. She responds to them by blaming them for everything and taking no responsibility for her actions towards them. |
| 348 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': |
| 349 | ** A number of the [[TheHero protagonists]] of this show's movie-watching experiments are facetious, sexist, rude, stupid, and impulsive, among many other negative qualities, but are rarely recognized as the [[JerkAss Jerk Asses]] that they are within the content of the story. Joel/Mike and the 'Bots are not so oblivious, nor as forgiving. |
| 350 | ** The title character of ''Film/SecretAgentSuperDragon'' is a good example: |
| 351 | --->'''Joel:''' ''(Super Dragon reveals that he'd already photographed the cure for a harmful drug to the [[BigBad mastermind]], who's just taken [[CyanidePill poison]])'' "What a ''jerk''. He just wanted to get the guy's goat son before he died." |
| 352 | ** The hero of ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' is a real good example: |
| 353 | --->'''Mike:''' ''(As hero David Ryder ignites the gas ditch where TheDragon [=MacPherson=], who also uses a cane to hobble around on, burning him alive)'' "And our brave hero roasts the disabled man!" |
| 354 | ** In the universe of the show itself, the bots often pull this on Mike just for the sake tormenting him. One example is when he accidentally breaks the Hubble Telescope in TheMovie. Another's in one episode where the RunningGag of the host segments is that Crow and Servo get a violent monkey after seeing one in the movie, which proceeds to go crazy and start throwing random stuff at Mike. At the end of the episode Mike sedates it with a tranquilizer gun, only for Servo and Crow to berate him for doing so. No matter what he does, the [[ButtMonkey poor guy]] just can't win, and that makes it [[RuleOfFunny all the more hilarious]]. |
| 355 | ** Mike ''really'' gets it during season eight. In the course of the first half of the season, Mike earns the TropeNamer title "MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds" by obliterating three planets purely on accident: allowing cultists to arm a nuke inside the Earth, asking the Nanites to create a diversion to get Bobo and Pearl off of the Observer's World and creating a baking soda bomb ''way'' too strong to create a second diversion to get Bobo, Pearl and Brain Guy off the Unnamed World. |
| 356 | ** Plus many other incidents that the bots respond to with "Oh, ''good one'', Mike." |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | [[folder:N]] |
| 360 | * ''Series/NickyRickyDickyAndDawn'': In the "Quad with a Blog" episode, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Nicky]] is the food critic who panned the Get Sport Café. |
| 361 | [[/folder]] |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[folder:O]] |
| 364 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': After Emma tries to leave town, taking her son with her, Mary Margaret (who is, unbeknownst to either of them, actually Emma's mother Snow White) gives her a WhatTheHellHero over both abducting the boy (who Emma had given up for adoption and was living with an adoptive mother) and leaving without saying anything to Mary, who Emma has referred to at least once as [[{{Irony}} the closest thing she has to family.]] |
| 365 | ** Henry calls out Emma and Charming for considering killing [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Regina]] after Snow [[spoiler:tricks Regina into killing her mother to save Mr Gold]], in order to end the blood feud. |
| 366 | --->'''Henry''': Stop! Listen to yourselves! You're talking about killing my ''mom!'' You used to be heroes! What happened to you?' |
| 367 | * In "Trying to Pick a Fight", ''Series/OurMissBrooks'' colludes with Mrs. Conklin to trick Mr. Conklin in believing that she had went home to her mother. Mr. Boynton calls out Miss Brooks. HilarityEnsues, as Miss Brooks gets the fight she desires with {{Love Interest|s}} Mr. Boynton. |
| 368 | -->'''Miss Brooks''': So, what are you gonna do about it, Frog Boy? |
| 369 | [[/folder]] |
| 370 | |
| 371 | [[folder:P]] |
| 372 | * ''{{Series/Pandora}}'': Tom grows a grudge toward Jax when she uses him and his father in a dangerous situation solely to get information about the death of her parents. |
| 373 | * ''Series/{{Poldark}}'' |
| 374 | ** When Poldark learns Elizabeth is going to marry [[spoiler: his enemy George Warleggen]] he goes to her house and they [[spoiler: have sex.]] When he returns, his wife Demelza [[spoiler: punches him]]. |
| 375 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 376 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', during Alex's brief attempt to takes Wes' place as the Red Ranger, he starts acting like a DrillSergeantNasty who doesn't care about the Rangers' feelings. Eventually Lucas gets fed up and tells him to his face that ''he'' is the one who doesn't care about his future, and the others quickly follow that if he truly cared he wouldn't have taken Wes' place at all. |
| 377 | ** In the finale of ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', Nick gets called out [[spoiler:by his teammates when he decides to [[DespairEventHorizon give up]], after being [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomped]] by the Master.]] It didn't help that they had to [[spoiler:pry it out of him since, when asked, he ''didn't even bother to give them a clear answer.'']] |
| 378 | ** The whole point of the "Prince takes Knight" episode from ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce''. Robo Knight, the titular SixthRanger and AloofAlly, is a superpowered, emotionless, relentless robot, programmed to fight Earth Invaders. As such, he fights with utter disregard for any civilian unable to vacate the fighting grounds, prompting the Rangers to shout several times a variation of this trope: "What's the deal, Robo Knight?" |
| 379 | * ''Series/ThePractice'': |
| 380 | ** This trope is the main overriding theme. At the beginning of the series, the lawyers are idealistic and guided by a clear sense of ethics. As seasons progress, however, the WhatTheHellHero moments increase to an alarming rate. It first becomes serious as the last resort "Plan B" increasingly becomes a first resort and hurts their reputation among other lawyers. It finally reaches an apex in the final season with [[Series/BostonLegal Alan Shore]]. Alan Shore has a notorious reputation for being just barely above-board ethics-wise, but he manages to actually take the moral high ground on the firm when, after firing him, Eugene speaks to Shore's longtime clients separately and tries to convince them to stay with the firm instead of Shore, even though Shore has only been a member of the firm for a few months. Something which Shore only even finds out about because one of his clients, for unrelated reasons, tapes all conversations he has with his attorneys. |
| 381 | ** The Firm became so notorious for their dogged "anything-goes" approach that if a lawyer was caught half-assing their defense of the MonsterOfTheWeek, someone (even the opposing counsel) could be counted on to point out the [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten nun-killer or child-rapist they successfully got acquitted the other day]], call them out on their hypocrisy for daring to allow their disgust at the defendant's crimes to interfere with their efforts and remind them of their legal obligation to use whatever underhanded tactics were at their disposal to get the defendant off. |
| 382 | * ''Series/PrincessAgents'': |
| 383 | ** Yuwen Yue calls Yan Xun out for planning to flood Chang'an, knowing it would kill thousands of civilians, to avenge his family and escape the city. |
| 384 | ** Chu Qiao calls Yan Xun out for how he's become cruel, paranoid, and suspicious of everyone, including his closest friends. |
| 385 | * ''Series/PushingDaisies'': In the episode ''Kerspslash'' Emerson Codd gets his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when he calls out Ned and Chuck for attempting to [[spoiler: ruin Lily and Vivian's comeback performance so they wouldn't tour in Europe]]. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:S]] |
| 389 | * ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': It's a show about people's dirty secrets coming out so you get this a lot. For instance, Cyrus gives the President an epic one when he sees that the President is more worried about preparing a speech rather than preventing the coming scandal. |
| 390 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Happens a few times when one of the team does something negligent and tries to avoid responsibility. Dr. Cox is especially prone to calling people out for this kind of thing. |
| 391 | ** In "My Big Bird", a "morbidity and mortality" conference on the death of a patient looks like it's about to place the blame on all four of the young protagonists, only for autopsy results to come in and absolve them due to an unrelated error by another doctor. The gang celebrates their "good fortune" at the bar later, prompting Dr. Cox to wipe the grins off their faces by pointing out that their mistakes easily COULD'VE killed the patient, and only dumb luck made it someone else's problem - and that the patient's family is grieving regardless. |
| 392 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': In Episode 4066, Baby Bear decides to rewrite the story of ''Literature/{{Goldilocks}} and the Three Bears'' to include Curly, his new baby sister. In order to keep Goldilocks from eating his porridge and breaking his favorite chair, Baby Bear writes that Goldilocks drinks from Curly's bottle and breaks Curly's high chair when she tries to sit in it. Upon hearing this rewrite, Telly calls Baby Bear out for his selfishness, saying that if he had his own baby sister, he wouldn't write a story involving Goldilocks drinking from her bottle or breaking her high chair, knowing she'd be upset if it happened to her. He tells Baby Bear that as a big brother, he should be protecting Curly's stuff because of how tiny and helpless she is. Baby Bear realizes that Telly is right and decides to rewrite the story again to give Curly a happy ending. |
| 393 | * ''Series/SexAndTheCity'': [[BewareTheNiceOnes Charlotte]] gives Carrie a surprisingly blunt one, after catching her and her married ex-boyfriend in the middle of a hotel. She shuts down any attempts of Carrie trying to gain sympathy from her, and more than that, forces her to think about how this will effect Natasha, Big's wife, if/when she finds out. |
| 394 | -->'''Charlotte''': This isn't a joke Carrie! They took vows, vows he broke. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion I'm getting married in three weeks, what if someone did this to me?]]\ |
| 395 | '''Carrie''':...I would kill them.\ |
| 396 | '''Charlotte''': How could you do this? |
| 397 | * ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': |
| 398 | ** In the third episode, John attempts this on the eponymous character, with limited results: |
| 399 | --->'''John:''' There are lives at stake, Sherlock! Actual human li - just so I know, d'you care about that at all?\ |
| 400 | '''Sherlock:''' Will caring about them help save them?\ |
| 401 | '''John:''' No.\ |
| 402 | '''Sherlock:''' Then I'll continue not to make that mistake.\ |
| 403 | '''John:''' And you find that easy, do y--\ |
| 404 | '''Sherlock:''' Yes, very. Is that news to you?\ |
| 405 | '''John:''' N...no.\ |
| 406 | '''Sherlock:''' ...I've disappointed you.\ |
| 407 | '''John:''' [[SarcasmMode Good. That's a good deduction, yeah]].\ |
| 408 | '''Sherlock:''' Don't make people into heroes, John; heroes don't exist, and if they did, [[AntiHero I wouldn't be one of them]]. |
| 409 | ** Cue [[AFriendInNeed John needing help right away.]] |
| 410 | ** Holmes has a veiled one at [[spoiler:his brother, for upsetting their mother under [[NoodleIncident unknown circumstances]].]] |
| 411 | ** Molly too, when she [[DidYouThinkICantFeel stands up to him.]] |
| 412 | ** "You always say such horrible things." |
| 413 | ** And ''both'' of them call Sherlock out on his doing drugs again. |
| 414 | * ''Series/TheShield'': |
| 415 | ** Featured a ton of this as Vic Mackey being called out on his sins as the series came to an end. Between Shane calling Vic out on his murder of Detective Terry Crowley after Vic confronted Shane for his murder of Curtis "Lem" Lemansky and Ronnie Gardocki's final scene as he curses Vic out for betraying Ronnie in order to get full immunity for his laundry list of crimes, creator Shawn Ryan made a huge point of slamming Vic via this trope as the series ended. |
| 416 | ** Of course, Ronnie's calling out of Vic occurs seconds after Ronnie's co-worker (and honest cop) Detective Dutch Wagenbach calls Ronnie out on his own laundry list of sins, most notably his (tacit) willingness to turn a blind eye to the fact that Vic Mackey murdered Detective Crowley. Not to mention the fact that Ronnie is arrested within seconds of Claudette performing her own calling out of Vic Mackey, over how he drove his partner/nemesis Detective Shane Vendrell to murder his entire family and himself. |
| 417 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': |
| 418 | ** Breaks down like this: 50% characters angsting about what to do; 10% characters doing something; 40% characters being chewed out by other characters for doing whatever they did. |
| 419 | ** Clark gave a WhatTheHellHero to Chloe for [[spoiler: betraying him to Lionel]]. |
| 420 | ** Chloe to Lana when the latter beats her up [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown viciously]]. |
| 421 | ** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E01Exile Exile]]" (and part of the next episode, "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E02Phoenix Phoenix]]"): Clark is BrainwashedAndCrazy due to red kryptonite and spent his summer living a life of crime in Metropolis. It wasn't really him, since the red k is a potent mind-altering substance for Kryptonians, but it doesn't stop him from being chewed out by pretty much everyone. |
| 422 | --->'''Chloe''': What you're going to do if one day Lana shows up on your doorstep, or your dad? How are you going to explain this to them?\ |
| 423 | '''Clark''': I'm through explaining myself to anyone.\ |
| 424 | '''Chloe''': Clark, Lana is a wreck and your parents are losing the farm!\ |
| 425 | '''Clark''': What do I care? I'm never going to go back anyway.\ |
| 426 | '''Chloe''': Clark, you are not forced into [[TitleDrop exile]]. You ran away from your problems. You're not being noble, you're being a coward!\ |
| 427 | '''Clark''': (''roars and shoves Chloe out'') Chloe, get out! If you tell anyone where I am, I'll go so far away from Metropolis no one would ever find me!\ |
| 428 | '''Chloe''': I don't even know who you are anymore.\ |
| 429 | '''Clark''': GET OUT! |
| 430 | ** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E18Truth Truth]]", Chloe temporarily gets the power to [[LivingLieDetector compel people to tell her the truth]], and immediately becomes DrunkWithPower, as she starts prancing around the school terrorizing the entire student body just for kicks. Perhaps the worst moment is when Chloe forcibly outs a closeted gay football player in front of the rest of the school, and then stands there smirking and laughing at him. Needless to say, that scene is ''definitely'' HarsherInHindsight. Clark is horrified by her behavior, but his complaints don't do anything to deter her from continuing her behavior, she only stops after she has a NearDeathExperience at the end of the episode and loses her power. |
| 431 | ** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E06Prey Prey]]": Clark [[spoiler:steals Chloe's list of the meteor infected and gives it to the police]] because he's hoping it will help solve a murder and prevent future ones. Nevertheless she is ''not'' happy. |
| 432 | ** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E10Bride Bride]]": [[spoiler:Lana]] berates Clark for [[spoiler:not restoring Chloe's Brainiac-wiped memories of his secret]], with Clark arguing that he was hoping that this would keep Chloe safe. |
| 433 | ** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E14Requiem Requiem]]": Chloe does not like Oliver's decision to kill [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor to stop him from nuking Metropolis and pin Lex's death on one of his minions who actually ''was'' guilty of murder, just not that particular one]]. Oliver then points out that A. [[spoiler: Lex]] would have nuked the city and gone on to do other horrible things (and the comics show that he's correct in this assessment) and that B. he knows Chloe [[spoiler:{{Mind Rape}}d a bad guy into a catatonic state to protect Clark; the show keeps it deliberately ambiguous whether this was completely her decision or Brainiac's, but Chloe gets flabbergasted and puts up a very flimsy defense.]] Oliver then points out that ultimately, to protect Clark or the world, Chloe would do similar things. Chloe quite tellingly falls silent. And ultimately, she admits he's right in saying this, and she becomes more of an open KnightTemplar. |
| 434 | ** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E01Savior Savior]]": Clark refuses to [[spoiler:go back and save Jimmy]] despite Chloe's pleas. While he does have a good reason for denying her request (he discovered in Season 5 that preventing one person's death via time travel will merely result in someone ''else'' dying--usually someone else in the same circle of acquaintances--and he does not want to let this happen again), Chloe is so [[BreakTheCutie broken]] by now it is hard not to sympathize with her. Then again, Clark knows that if he tries this, it will result in more deaths, and he refuses to allow that to happen. |
| 435 | ** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E10Disciple Disciple]]": Clark does one to Chloe when she tells him [[spoiler:[[TheDogWasTheMastermind she set up]] the series of {{death trap}}s and trials in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E05Roulette Roulette]]" against Oliver.]] |
| 436 | ** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E15Conspiracy Conspiracy]]": Oliver is shocked to know Chloe is [[spoiler:making kryptonite weapons. Or, to put it bluntly, weapons designed to kill Clark and his kind.]] |
| 437 | * ''Franchise/StargateVerse'': |
| 438 | ** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': |
| 439 | *** [[TomatoInTheMirror Michael]] is a Wraith that was forcibly transformed into a human and brainwashed to believe he'd always been human, only to partially revert into a human-Wraith hybrid and traumatically regain his suppressed memories. ''And then they did the exact same thing to him again,'' after he had teamed up with them on the very specific condition that they would not! He naturally calls out the team for what they did every chance he gets. |
| 440 | *** There is also the question as to who authorized the use of biological weapons against the Wraith. It was, however, almost certainly either the IOA, the US military or the US government, considering that Atlantis is in weekly contact with Earth as of the beginning of season 2. |
| 441 | *** The IOA or the US government apparently authorized an attack on the Pegasus replicators (Asurans), leading to the practical extermination of the Asurans by the combined forces of the Atlantis Expedition, the Wraith (their primary enemies), and the Travellers (a society composed of a number of advanced starships). One's mileage may vary on this aspect, considering that the Asurans were, for better or for worse (usually for worse) sentient, and thus the actions of the expedition could constitute genocide and/or war crimes. On the other hand, the Asurans, far more so than the replicators of SG-1, are implacable and unambiguously evil (they are never portrayed as emotionless metal spiders, as in SG-1, but as malevolent human-like robots), meaning that the only practical way to actually defeat the replicators is to destroy every single nanite block. Further, the few 'good' Asurans actually survived. |
| 442 | *** In one episode, a man infects Jeannie, [=McKay's=] sister, with nanites so [=McKay=] will figure out how to program them to treat injuries. The guy wanted to cure his otherwise untreatable daughter. [=McKay=] does it, but the nanites are indiscriminate and render the kid brain dead (then she dies anyway). To save Jeannie, who will inevitably end up the same way, John Sheppard talked the father into ''[[DrivenToSuicide being willfully fed on by a Wraith]]'' (preventing [=McKay=] from doing the same thing) by pointing out how pointless his life was now that his daughter had died. [=McKay=] expresses shock for about 30 seconds and then the matter is never brought up again. On the other hand, that character had repeatedly told [=McKay=] and his sister that his life basically had no meaning without his daughter, and would probably have committed suicide anyway. Letting Todd eat him so he could finish deactivating the nanites injected into Jeannie was probably the best outcome. |
| 443 | *** One of the series' clip shows is devoted entirely to this. A newly formed interplanetary coalition puts the Atlantis team on trial, with the clip show highlighting every single plot-relevant fuck-up they had made to that point. They manage to win by bribing of one of the judges (who admittedly was already being bribed by someone else). One ''is'' swayed by their arguments, and the third was ludicrously, hilariously biased against Atlantis and was going to vote against them no matter what they said or did. |
| 444 | ** ''Series/StargateSG1'': |
| 445 | *** One episode has the team (minus their MoralityPet) betray Fifth, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot and the lone Replicator capable of human emotion, to trap his [[HordeOfAlienLocusts more voracious kin]] and destroy them all. He returns later with an understandably large grudge against Sam. |
| 446 | *** This is a recurring element in ''Stargate'', where most of the cast are military, and when people are counting on you for their safety, sometimes the smart choice trumps the right one. On one occasion, Daniel straight up calls Jack a "stupid son of a bitch," and Jack doesn't apologize or make excuses. He just says "it had to go down this way," and leaves it at that. |
| 447 | *** In the episode "The Other Side", despite generally operating from a neutral standpoint, SG-1 intervenes in a world war and inevitably causes a massacre of the white supremacist side. Despite the beggings of the faction's leader to be brought with them, Jack returns through the Stargate and closes the iris on him, drawing a shocked and horrified, and possibly disillusioned or even infuriated, look from Carter. |
| 448 | *** There's also the fact that the leader promised to give them their advanced technology in exchange for letting him come with them. Guess what the primary task of SGC is and why NID has to take matters into their own hands. |
| 449 | ** Basically invoked when Daniel Jackson learns that the half-ascended Goa'uld Anubis is basically allowed to exist as a punishment from the other Ascended against his sort-of mentor in Ascension, Oma Desala. Oma has often bent the rules against interfering with the lower planes to assist others in achieving Ascension, but at one point she was tricked into helping Anubis ascend and only realised his true evil after he had become pure energy. The Others interfered to force Anubis back to the mortal plane, but left him half-Ascended; this leaves him bound by rules that he cannot use any knowledge and power he couldn't have theoretically gained as a standard Goa'uld, but still leaves him an immortal, irredeemably evil psychopath with a god complex. Daniel is vocally outraged when he first learns this, angry at how Anubis has been allowed to continue for centuries to punish Oma when all she did was make one mistake. |
| 450 | ** ''Series/StargateUniverse'': Hits this early in the first mid-season finale. Upon discovering [[spoiler: Rush's attempt to frame him for the murder of a subordinate]], Young responds by [[spoiler: beating the hell out of him and leaving him for dead on a desolate planet]]. This action, along with [[spoiler: Rush's eventual return]], further expands the rift between the military and civilian personnel including [[spoiler: a mutiny attempt]] shortly after. |
| 451 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': |
| 452 | ** The classic episode "In the Pale Moonlight" has Garak call out Sisko when the latter tries to express righteous outrage at the assassination Garak arranged, pointing out that Sisko had known at the start it would have come down to something like that when he had asked Garak to trick the Romulans into the war. |
| 453 | ** Sisko has another of these moments in "For the Uniform", where he manages to capture the rogue officer Eddington by ''poisoning a planet'' (the people on it have time to evacuate). It's Eddington who calls him out here. Subverted in the same case in that Sisko's plan is to force Eddington to feel morally superior and surrender to prevent any more such attacks. |
| 454 | ** Though in a bit of Solomonic wisdom, Eddington had [[spoiler: poisoned a Cardassian planet in a way not fatal to humans, so Sisko poisoned a Federation planet in a way not fatal to Cardassians. The sides swap planets so that Eddington's earlier attack doesn't cause balance of power issues]] so Sisko's really undoing previous damage and capturing the bad guy here - although he did give the order to do the same thing to two more planets unless Eddington immediately surrendered, all because [[ItsPersonal it was personal.]] |
| 455 | ** In "The Dogs of War," Odo calls out the entire Federation when he points out to Sisko that even though they all say they hate the methods used by Section 31, they don't mind standing by and reaping the benefits while [[spoiler: the virus engineered by Section 31 kills the Founders.]] |
| 456 | ** During the Dominion occupation of Deep Space Nine, Odo falls under the sway of his former mentor, the Female Changeling, and neglects his resistance responsibilities. Kira angrily calls him out on it. |
| 457 | ** "Children of Time", Kira is aghast to learn [[spoiler: Alternate Odo changed the flight path of the ''Defiant'', causing 8000 colonists to vanish from the timeline because he didn't want her to die.]] |
| 458 | --->[[spoiler: '''Kira:''' ''8000 people''! That makes it ''right''?!]] |
| 459 | --->[[spoiler: '''Odo:''' I don't know. He thought so.]] |
| 460 | ** In the penultimate episode "Dogs of War", [[spoiler:Bashir, having just cured Odo of the morphogenic plague, reveals to him that Section 31 played a part in infecting him and the rest of the Changeling race. Odo is quite cross with the Federation: even after Sisko tells him that the Federation didn't ''officially'' condone Section 31's actions, the fact that they were refusing to grant permission to spread the cure, expediting the end of the Dominion War by abetting genocide, was still infuriating.]] |
| 461 | * ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': |
| 462 | ** Had the crew in a desperate need of a warp core because of a Xindi attack. They met a friendly alien ship also in need of supplies, but they refused to trade them a warp coil. Captain Archer [[spoiler:had his crew forcibly raid the ship]], trying to justify it by [[spoiler:the extreme needs they had]] and by [[spoiler:giving them supplies in return]]. The alien captain refused Archer's justification by saying [[spoiler:it was still a brutal mugging]]. |
| 463 | ** Of course, there ''was'' a planet, and by extension, the future at stake. And they did a good job of showing his progression towards that point. |
| 464 | ** Then there was the time when [[spoiler: Trip was mortally wounded]], and Phlox created an accelerated-growth clone of him in order to harvest neural tissue and save [[spoiler: Trip]]'s life (the clone would then die). Of course, the clone rapidly became a fully-sentient human with all of his progenitor's memories, and learned that his purpose was to die in order to save another. He was... less than thrilled at the prospect, to say the least. Especially when a guilt-ridden Phlox then thought up an experimental treatment that might save the clone and give him a normal lifespan, which would obviously then mean [[spoiler: Trip]] would die. Archer is unwilling to take the risk and eventually has to ''order the clone to die'', after which both the victim and Phlox immediately call him out on it. [[spoiler: The clone eventually accepts.]] |
| 465 | ** Another episode presented a dilemma for Archer and Phlox, when a pre-warp race was dying from a genetic disease and was desperately looking for a cure. While working on the cure, Phlox meets members of another race that has evolved on the same planet. They're treated as second-class citizens but are not abused. Phlox realizes they have great potential that can't be exploited as long as the other race keeps them down. He finds the cure but has trouble deciding whether or not he should tell Archer. Should he provide the cure, save one species, thereby dooming the other into stagnation and servitude; or should he withhold the cure, dooming the first species to extinction but allowing the other one to flourish. When he eventually tells Archer about the cure, he tries to justify his reluctance by claiming that fighting nature is wrong. Archer immediately calls him out by pointing out that doctors do it all the time. In the end, [[spoiler:Archer admits that non-interference is the better choice in this regard]]. |
| 466 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': |
| 467 | ** In the episode "Pen Pals", Data inadvertently begins communicating with a young girl from a pre Warp Capable planet which is facing an apocalypse. Data wishes to assist, but Picard refuses as the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] prevents interference in the natural development of a civilization. Most of the command staff seem willing to leave them to face their imminent demise, however, Geordi and [[DrJerk Pulaski]] are actually willing to call out the other officers on being so dispassionate about a planetary extinction. Nevertheless, Picard orders Data to cease communicating, but upon hearing a transmission of the terrified girl begging Data for help, [[NotSoStoic he agrees to violate the Prime Directive and help.]] |
| 468 | ** A variation of this occurs in the first part of "Descent". When Data admits he experienced pleasure when he killed a Borg to another Borg being held prisoner by the crew (one who displays a very unusual sense of individuality for a Borg) even though he knows such feelings are immoral, the Borg tells him he must then be an immoral person. [[spoiler:(The guy is trying to mess with his head; in truth, Data's feelings are the result of an [[PersonalityChip emotion chip]] being manipulated by his evil brother Lore.)]] |
| 469 | ** In the episode "The First Duty", Picard gives one to Wesley Crusher after he learns he and his comrades are covering up a colleague's death: |
| 470 | --->'''Picard:''' I asked you a question, Cadet.\ |
| 471 | '''Wesley:''' I... choose not to answer, sir.\ |
| 472 | '''Picard:''' You choose not to answer... and yet you've already given an answer to the inquiry... and that answer was a lie.\ |
| 473 | '''Wesley:''' I said the accident occurred after the loop, and it did.\ |
| 474 | '''Picard:''' But you neglected to mention the fact that following the loop your team executed a dangerous maneuver which was the direct cause of the crash. Yes, you told the truth... [[FromACertainPointOfView but only to a point]]. And a lie of omission is still a lie. Do you remember the day you first came aboard this ship? Your mother brought you to the bridge...\ |
| 475 | '''Wesley:''' Yes.\ |
| 476 | '''Picard:''' You even sat in my chair. It annoyed me at first... a presumptuous child playing on my ship. But I never forgot the way you knew every control and display before you ever set foot on the bridge. You acted like you belonged there.\ |
| 477 | '''Wesley:''' I remember.\ |
| 478 | '''Picard:''' Later, when I decided to make you an acting ensign, I was convinced you would be an outstanding officer. I've never questioned that conviction... until now. [[TitleDrop The first duty]] of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based. And if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform. Mister Crusher, I'll make this simple for you. Either you come forward and tell Admiral Brand what really took place... or I will.\ |
| 479 | '''Wesley:''' Captain...\ |
| 480 | '''Picard:''' Dismissed. |
| 481 | ** In the episode "Homeward", a primitive culture is also facing an imminent apocalypse, and the crew refused to help because of Prime Directive concerns. The entire crew is willing to let the population die, with one exception who transports the population up from the planet and into the Holodeck, and [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he feels pretty damn justified in doing so, even if he'll be a criminal in the Federation from that point on]]. |
| 482 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': |
| 483 | ** In "Tuvix", [[AppliedPhlebotinum a transporter accident]] fuse Tuvok and Neelix into a new character, Tuvix. The entire episode is spent building him up as being more of a person than an accident, culminating his being forcibly dragged to Sickbay by security to be split back into Tuvok and Neelix. Most of the cast seems to be in favor of this, standing by silently during the initial struggle in the bridge. It's the Doctor who calls Janeway out on it, noting that his programming prevents him from acting against the wishes of his patient. Janeway accepts this, then ''turns him off'' before performing the procedure herself. |
| 484 | ** Seven of Nine was not very happy when Janeway planned to fix the Doctor's guilt-induced nervous breakdown by giving him what basically amounted to a Holo-Lobotomy. |
| 485 | ** In "Virtuoso", the Doctor goes on a rant, claiming that Janeway [[FantasticRacism doesn't see him as an equal and never has]]. She does have some valid arguments as to why she wants to refuse his request, but it's clear that he has a point as well. |
| 486 | ** Janeway got a serious chewing-out from both Chakotay and a one-off character named Arturis for helping the Borg defeat Species 8472 in "Scorpion". |
| 487 | --->'''Arturis:''' "I don't blame (points at Seven) them! They were just drones, acting with their collective instinct! You...you had a choice!" |
| 488 | * ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': In "Project Daedalus," Michael Burnham attempts to try and aid her stepbrother Spock in solving the mysteries behind the mysterious Red Angel that had granted him visions of an apocalyptic future. However, as the two fell out many years ago, Spock is becoming increasingly frustrated with her attempts to try and solve his problem, and eventually rips into her, revealing exactly why he refused all attempts to reconnect with her; as far as he's concerned, her attempts to burden multiple tragedies of her past (her parent's deaths, logic extremists targeting Sarek's family, and the Klingon-Federation War) are nothing more than selfish acts on her part. He even smashes the three dimensional chess board, expressing how, for once in his life, he's actually happy about expressing emotions. Burnham is hurt by this pretty hard to the point she's an emotional mess when Tilly finds her. However, the next episode shows that Spock's words, as harsh as they were, did resonate with Burnham, and after learning the truth about her parents, does admit to him that he was right in a way. |
| 489 | * ''Series/StormChasers'': Josh chews out Sean in 4x6 after Sean's driver tries to get past a traffic jam of amateur chasers by driving in the oncoming traffic lane, and gets filmed doing it on somebody's dash cam. This results in him being ordered to stay 75 miles away from Josh's project [=VORTEX2=] for the last two episodes of the season or else lose his grant funding--and that was the ''compromise'': Josh's first offer was for Sean to send the TIV home altogether. {{Justified|Trope}} because, even though they aren't chasing partners anymore and the [=TIV2=] team aren't part of [=VORTEX2=], lots of people know they ''used'' to work together and the safety violation could [[AssociationFallacy make VORTEX2 look bad by proxy]]. |
| 490 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 491 | ** Sam gets a lot of these after he fails to keep his brother from being dragged off to hell. |
| 492 | ** Sam starts using his demon-blood-born powers to exorcise demons between seasons three and four, and in season four, the prophet Chuck is the first to call him on the way he fuels those powers: |
| 493 | -->'''Chuck''': Come on, Sam -- sucking blood? You gotta know that's wrong. |
| 494 | ** Dean finds out when Sam, jonesing for a fix, cuts a demon's throat to drink her blood so he can pull the demon out of Castiel's vessel's wife without killing her. Dean locks Sam up so he can detox from the [[PsychoSerum demon blood]]. This is followed by Sam leaving to kill Lilith, thinking that's the only way to stop the Apocalypse ([[spoiler:too bad that's [[UnwittingPawn actually]] what [[NiceJobBreakingItHero starts it]]]])after they fight when Dean [[BerserkButton calls him a monster]]. |
| 495 | *** The whole point of the addiction makes the title all the more fitting... |
| 496 | ** In season 6, [[spoiler:soulless]] Sam gets plenty of these. In Live Free or Twihard, Sam [[spoiler: lets Dean get bitten and turned into a vampire. Not some BS "[[ItsAllMyFault Oh it's all my fault]]" Wangst, he straight up waited until it was too late before he started to help, because it would help track down the other vampires.]] |
| 497 | ** Dean almost says it verbatim ("Sam" instead of "hero") in "Clap Your Hands if You Believe" when he finds Sam having sex instead of [[spoiler:trying to find him after Dean had been kidnapped by "aliens"]] |
| 498 | ** In season six, [[spoiler:Castiel]] gets one in "My Heart Will Go On" from ''Fate'', over how Balthazar altered history by stopping the ''Titanic'' from sinking, [[spoiler:by Castiel's order, to create 50,000 new souls to aid his side of the civil war in Heaven.]] |
| 499 | ** Later in the season, Dean, Sam, and Bobby confront [[spoiler:Castiel on the fact that he's working with Crowley and trying to open Purgatory in order to win the civil war in Heaven.]] |
| 500 | ** A particularly awesome example in season seven episode 1. [[spoiler: Death calls out God!Castiel]]. |
| 501 | ** Dean gets a good amount of this from Sam, Bobby, and ''especially'' Castiel, who also gives him one hell of a beatdown, in the fifth season episode "Point of No Return" after they find out that he's willing to let himself become the vessel of Michael. |
| 502 | ** Dean also gets several from Sam when Sam learns that Dean let the angel Ezekiel [[spoiler: actually Gadreel]] possess him under false pretenses. |
| 503 | * In ''Series/TheSwampFox'', Marion gets one from a couple of his men, the ones who are also friends. Horry and Plunkett in particular tell him that he's so caught up in finding his nephew's killer that he's forgotten about the war he's fighting. |
| 504 | [[/folder]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:T]] |
| 507 | * ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': |
| 508 | ** Does this with Sarah giving up John to foster parents, Derek Reese murdering Andy, and for extra awesome Sarah does it to Cameron. Yes, you heard right, the ''terminator'' gets called out on what she does. |
| 509 | ** Though in that latter case, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Cameron was just doing what her programming told her to do]], and she gets confused by Sarah's response. |
| 510 | *** And Cameron ends up being right in one situation in which she [[spoiler: kills a group of teenagers in a bowling alley in order to keep Sarah and John's secret safe. She hesitantly agrees to allow one of the boys to live, only for that boy to later reveal the secret to Cromartie (and get killed anyway)]]. |
| 511 | * ''Series/TheThickOfIt'': Malcolm lets Nicola have it when she leaked the massive data loss to the wrong reporter: |
| 512 | -->'''Malcolm:''' (''[[PunctuatedPounding while slamming the folders on his lap]]'') Fuck's sake! Jesus Christ! Well, now we've got another fucking adjective to add to fucking smug and glum, haven't we? Fucking ''retarded!'' Jesus Chri- did you not think it would have been germane to check who you're talking to? It's a fucking newspaper office! It's not a fucking sanatorium for the fucking deaf, is it? Are you ''so dense'' am I gonna have to run around slapping badges on people with a big tick on some and a big cross on others so you know ''when'' to shut your gob and when to open it?! Jesus Christ... Oh, but that would probably confuse you as well, won't it? That'll be too confusing! You'd see the cross and go: "oh fuck, X marks the spot! Better tell this little person all about the Prime Minister's fucking '''[[SuddenlyShouting CATASTROPHIC ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION!]]''' [[SarcasmMode Oh but, not to worry. Not to worry]], you sent fucking Olly over there to deal with it.\ |
| 513 | '''Nicola:''' He-\ |
| 514 | '''Malcolm:''' [[SuddenlyShouting FUCKING OLLY!]] He's a fucking- he's a fucking knitted scarf, that twat! He's a fucking balaclava! |
| 515 | * ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': |
| 516 | ** In related-to-''Series/DoctorWho'' news, Jack Harkness gets called hard for his actions towards the end of the "[[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]" serial. The look on [[spoiler:Jack's daughter's face when she confronts him after he killed his grandchild to save the rest of Earth's kids]] is painful enough without words. Add to that [[spoiler: Gwen's angry and tearful denunciation of Jack's running away from what he has wrought on Earth]], and it ends up a brutal assault on Jack's ''modus operandi''. |
| 517 | ** Upon learning what Jack did in 1965, Ianto confronts his partner. |
| 518 | --->'''Jack:''' Tell me, what should I have done?\ |
| 519 | '''Ianto:''' Stood up to them. The Jack I know would've stood up to them. |
| 520 | ** Gwen's video recording in ''Children of Earth'' also has a bit of "What the Hell, Doctor?" - not because he'd done something wrong, but because there were a number of times when he didn't show up. Then she decided that [[HumansAreBastards he must look away from them in shame, given what occurred...]] |
| 521 | ** Also during ''Children of Earth'', Dr. Rupesh attempts this on Agent Johnson regarding her treatment of Captain Jack, only for her to fire back that she wasn't the one who just killed an innocent man to help with a cover story. [[spoiler: She then proceeds to murder Rupesh to help with her own cover story.]] |
| 522 | ** Much earlier in Torchwood, Ianto got called out for keeping his Cyberman girlfriend in the basement. He also got two weeks' suspension. |
| 523 | [[/folder]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | [[folder:V]] |
| 526 | * ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': |
| 527 | ** Bonnie gives one to Elena for having Damon compel Jeremy, her brother, into leaving town and getting away from being put in the line of fire as Klaus and his hybrids wander the town. Bonnie brings up the fact that he should be allowed to choose whether or not he wants to do this, not be made to do it by a vampire's compulsion, even if Elena says she's doing it to protect Jeremy. |
| 528 | ** Tyler calls out Caroline and the others for murdering the hybrid Chris in cold blood to lift the hunter's curse on Elena. |
| 529 | ** Stefan deciding which witch to kill between Bonnie and her mother to save Elena by flipping a coin. |
| 530 | * ''{{Series/Vida}}'': Eddy is appalled by Emma's coldness and Lyn's self-centeredness in regards to their mother's death. |
| 531 | [[/folder]] |
| 532 | |
| 533 | [[folder:W]] |
| 534 | * ''Series/TheWestWing'': |
| 535 | ** LOVES this trope. Just about every character gives one at some point (with Toby and Leo probably being the most consistent, but really everyone gets one in at least once), often (but not always) targeted at ''the President of the United States.'' |
| 536 | ** In fact, the 2-part premiere for season 2 which shows [[HowWeGotHere how most of the cast got involved with the campaign]] shows nearly every major character speaking truth to power, demonstrating their commitment to the larger greater good. |
| 537 | * ''Series/TheWire'': |
| 538 | ** Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin gets it from the drug dealers, his underlings, his friends, the media and eventually his entire chain of command for his [[DealWithTheDevil Hamsterdam]] plan. |
| 539 | ** In a similar fashion, [=McNulty=]'s scheme to manufacture a super-sexy fake serial killer, preying on the homeless in Baltimore in order to force the asshole Mayor to pump more funds into the Baltimore Police Department's budget after cutting said budget to the bone, led to much "What the Hell" yelling at [=McNulty=]. |
| 540 | ** The best of all of them in ''The Wire'', however, is Bunk's truly ''epic'' calling out of Omar after [[spoiler:Tosha is killed]]. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wmgghlEagA&feature=related here]], it is truly powerful. |
| 541 | *** Bunk practically lives and breathes this trope, particularly in season 5. |
| 542 | * ''Series/WonderWoman'': In a metafictional example, a number of reviewers of the [[Series/WonderWoman2011Pilot 2011 pilot]] for the failed remake have invoked "What the hell, hero?" in noting scenes in which Wonder Woman tortures a man for information, throttles others with her lasso, and (the most controversial) throws a pipe through a guard's neck - all acts considered violations of how the character of Diana has been established in the comics. |
| 543 | [[/folder]] |
| 544 | |
| 545 | [[folder:X]] |
| 546 | * ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Gabrielle betrays Xena, calls her out for her vengeful murder plot against the Green Dragon, and follows with a healthy dose of WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou in "The Debt". Of course, that was likely a reaction to Xena trying to murder Gabrielle's EnfantTerrible. |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
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