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[[caption-width:320:The [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong above trope]] is the other motto that [[AcceptableTargets the IRS]] swears by.]]

-->''"Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along\\
Each day, we do a little dance and sing a little song\\
If you ever disagree, it means that you are wrong\\
Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along!"''
--->'''-- Buddy Bears theme song, ''GarfieldAndFriends'''''

-->''"Broadcast Standards — at all three networks at various times — frowned on characters not operating in lockstep with everyone thinking and doing as their peers did. The group is always right. The one kid who doesn't want to do what everyone else does is always wrong!"''
--->'''-- Mark Evanier''' [[http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_12_11.html#016337 about the time he wrote for cartoons on the 80's]]





Alice, Bob, and Carol are friends. Alice and Bob want to paint their clubhouse green. [[CommanderContrarian Carol thinks brown would be better.]] She goes to the paint store to buy brown paint to try and force the issue, but [[HoistByHisOwnPetard has trouble climbing the ladder with one hand and falls and spills paint everywhere and gets covered in it]], and Alice and Bob say that [[ButtMonkey this happened because Carol was so wrong to act alone.]]

This is [[AnAesop a surprisingly common theme]] in children's shows, especially in the 1980s when MoralGuardians (in the USA) promoted it as the primary "pro-social" moral. The essence, as summed up in [[http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL145.htm this article by Mark Evanier]], is this: ''the group is always right; TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong''. Thus, [[WarpedAesop you should always agree]] with your friends and go along with whatever they want to do without argument -- [[DrugsAreBad unless it has to do with drugs]], of course. In extreme cases, ThePowerOfFriendship can even be contingent on making the holdout agree with the majority. The problems with mindless conformity encapsulated in the JumpOffABridgeRebuttal never come up, since, you know, everyone jumping off a bridge together is ''social'' and LonersAreFreaks.

If this happens frequently in a show, sometimes there's a [[CommanderContrarian specific chronic complainer]] in the show's ensemble whose ButtMonkey status is attributed to this trope being true, often TheLancer. In other cases, [[ConflictBall it rotates to fit characterization]]. Probably the most common [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop Warped Aesop]]. In extreme cases, the complainer becomes the DoomedContrarian.

When this trope is reversed, the Complainer becomes a BlitheSpirit, and/or PeerPressureMakesYouEvil.

TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong trope is almost nonexistent in German-produced shows these days, because Germans have always been chronic nitpickers who ''love'' to complain about things and point out where someone's argument went wrong. But Germany had a lock-step mentality of its own up to WWII; blame it on the Prussians and their proclaimed virtues of duty, military obedience and loyalty to those higher-up with a bigger funnier hat than your own. The resultant social backlash against conformism and old corrupt structures during the 1960s was called the "68er Generation", which unfortunately in some cases went far beyond its intended goals, ending with some people on the extreme end of the movement proposing armed anarchy.
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* This troper's mother once recounted an anecdote of an old Oscar Meyer commercial. It starts with a group of children singing the old "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener" song. Then it shows a boy singing his own version, informing the world at large just how glad he is that he is not an Oscar Meyer wiener, and therefore will not be eaten. He trails off as all the other children turn to glare at him, and then he joins them singing it right ways. Not a little creepy.

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* Subverted in ''NaruTaru''. The Complainer is a girl named Miyoko Shitou who is a part of a group of girls that bully the local LonelyRichKid, therefore she's a complainer who's actually ''right''. [[spoiler: And she's the only one of the group who doesn't ''die''. Well, at least not as a result of said LonelyRichKid's reprisal, which means [[KillEmAll she lived around a few months/a year longer than the the rest of the population on Earth aside of Shiina, Mamiko and their kids]]. ]]
* ''BattleOfThePlanets'' often tried to make TheLancer Jason seem this way (in contrast to the original ''{{Gatchaman}}'''s Joe simply being more cynical and embittered than the rest of the team).

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*Given that Team IronMan won the MarvelCivilWar, we're probably meant to assume this about CaptainAmerica.
** It helps that he was finally "[[EpiphanyTherapy convinced]]" not to kill Iron Man and lay down arms by being team [[{{Anvilicious}} tackled by a policeman, paramedic, firefighter and soldier (who were ethnically diverse, at that)]] by showing him the Hulk-level destruction their fighting was causing.
** The storyline seemed to be originally intended to be a bit ambiguous about who's right. Then there was ExecutiveMeddling and a WriterRevolt, as everyone making the comics picked their prefered side and tried to make them the "obviously good" side. Now we've got an accidentally ambiguous storyline that nobody intended to be ambiguous.

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* Disney's Snow White has Grumpy who is forced to conform to the others' belief that Snow White is a good person. She is, but Grumpy was actually right about her leading the queen right to them. No one mentions this little fact, though.
* The film ''Christmas with the Kranks'' involves the Kranks being pressured into expensively celebrating Christmas by the ''entire neighborhood''. Every house on their block is apparently supposed to have Frosty on the roof and soon protesters are demanding that they "Free Frosty!" At the end, their daughter decides to come home for Christmas so they and the neighbors can deck the house out in record time for a big, fluffy ending celebrating the joys of absolute conformity.
** It doesn't help that the reason they didn't decorate was because, this being the first time their daughter hadn't been home for Christmas, they ''planned to go out of town,'' and everyone still had their panties in a twist about.
* Satirized in the movie ''Erik the Viking'' (1989) by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Hy-Brasil isn't sinking! And anyone claiming otherwise is obviously wrong-headed and insane!
--->(The doors of the Great Hall burst open and a wall of water crashes through, knocking the Vikings off their feet. There is little doubt that the whole of Hy-Brasil is sinking see a street go down, a statue sink and then we Cut to a close-up of King Arnulf. He is standing at the top of the Forum steps addressing a crowd of anxious citizens. They are keeping surprisingly good order considering they are already standing ankle-deep in water, and the whole town is rapidly sinking around them.)
--->KING ARNULF: Now, I know what some of you must be thinking... the day has come.... we're all going down, etc. etc. But let's get away from the fantasy and look at the ''facts''. ''Fact One'' - The threat of total destruction has kept the peace for one thousand years. ''Fact Two'' - The chances of it failing now are therefore one in three hundred and sixty-five thousand. ''Fact Three''..."
--->(By this time the water is up to people's knees, and several have crowded onto the lower steps to avoid getting wet.)
--->KING ARNULF: "''Fact Three'' - Our safety regulations are the most rigorous in the world. We are all nice to each other, we never rub each other up the wrong way or contradict each other, do we?"
--->CROWD: "No."
--->(Rumble. The buildings sink and masonry falls.)
--->CITIZEN: "We... er... ''do'' seem to be going down quite fast, Your Majesty - not trying to contradict you, course."
--->KING ARNULF: "No, of course you're not, citizen. But let's stick to the facts. There has ''never'' been a safer, more certain way of keeping the peace. So whatever's happening, you can rest assured, Hy-Brasil is ''not'' sinking. Repeat, ''not'' sinking."
* The movie "Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins" has RJ complaining that his family just gives him the finger when all he wants is their "thumb ups". Turns out, he "forgot where he came from" despite being incredibly successful with his life.
** This happens very common with African American Media these days. The implication that [[UnfortunateImplications success is a betrayal of one's roots]] is not a fortunate one.
* Lampshaded in BobRoberts
--->'''Bob Roberts''': ...But they complain and complain and complain!


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*Marco in ''{{Animorphs}}'' can either be this trope played straight or subverted. His cynical side is often useful for finding traps and not having the group rush in recklessly. One the other hand, despite being the best tactician of the team, he often ends up wrong simply because luck and the demands of the plot conspire to make him look stupid. So most of the time, he's just a wiseass, but a smart one.
* Roger Manning in ''Tom Corbett: SpaceCadet'' is the complainer of his PowerTrio, and almost always wrong, especially in the earlier books.
*The titular Milieu in the Galactic Milieu Trilogy believes this, whether the author agrees with them is unknown.
* One of the illustrations for one of the CaptainUnderpants books is a big poster with such inspirational phrases as "Be like everyone else!" and "Individuality causes pain!".
* Inverted in Ayn Rand's novels, where the 'complainer' (or loner or dissident) is always the hero. This only serves to highlight the irony of the above example regarding some sections of the Objectivist movement.
* In ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Hermione objects to proceeding under the assumption that the Hallows legend is real since there's no evidence for it at all, and is appropriately exasperated when Xenophilius Lovegood asks if she can ''prove'' that it's not true. Guess who turns out to be right.
* In the ChroniclesOfNarnia, complaining in the form of failing to maintain a StiffUpperLip is always discouraged (which is fair enough, since the situation is often dire). There's also Trumpkin with regards to the existence of Aslan, and each of the children minus Lucy with regards to his visibility when he actually shows up, and many more. There are also instances of the complainer being right, though.

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* ''AllegrasWindow'' had an episode like this. The class was asked what their favorite vegetable was, and they all answered "blue zutabaga," (a fictional vegetable that often featured in the show) except Allegra, who had never had one before, and said that her favorite vegetable was the carrot. Over the course of the episode, Allegra was urged by everyone she knew to try blue zutabagas, until the end, when she finally tasted one, and decided it was, in fact, her favorite vegetable.
** The ''intended'' Aesop of that episode was likely "[[GreenEggsAndHam don't be afraid to try new foods]]," and the classroom scene was probably to emphasize how good everyone thought this vegetable was, so why still insist you won't like it? Good point, [[BrokenAesop bad approach]].
*Surprising aversion in ''PowerRangersRPM''. The way things usually work is for the Rangers to defend Corinth from one monster attack at a time, but newcomers Gem and Gemma are unimpressed, saying that they'd rather take the fight to the bad guys. They strike out on their own, and Scott, who couldn't get Colonel Truman to listen to his theory about the villains' real plan, goes with them. Naturally, the reckless rebels learn their lesson about going off on their own, right? [[spoiler: Wrong. The villains had found a way to suck the air out of the city through its force field, and with the shields powered as high as they were, they couldn't be powered down in time to save everyone. The outpost Gem and Gemma wanted to attack? Guess what it was being used for? Yeah. If not for the trio doing everything you're not supposed to do on Saturday morning TV, everyone in Corinth, the last human settlement on Earth, would be very dead by now.]]
* ''{{iCarly}}'': iMeet Fred. They should replace this tropes picture with one of Freddie after being beaten up with a tennis racquet because he said Fred wasn't that funny. Then getting tossed out of a treehouse. Among other things.

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* This is intentionally subverted by ''Blue Man Group'' in their shows. Despite the total uniformity in appearance between the Blue Men, there's an undercurrent of nonconformity dwelling beneath the surface and occasionally breaching for air. In their pantomime skits there's one Blue Man who does something different than the other two; that's why there are three, it's the minimum number you need to have an in-group and a dissenter. In most skits, it's the one doing something odd that gets the rest of the group to change.

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* Played for laughs in ''FireEmblem: The Sacred Stones'': L'Arachel and Dozla are both constantly happy and hyperactive, while Rennac is cynical and wants nothing to do with their adventures. Naturally, he always gets dragged along for the ride. [[spoiler: His ending hints that he eventually got used to them, though; his many escape attempts failed, but admittedly he didn't try very hard to get away in the first place.]]
** It might be part of it, however, that Rennac has [[StatisticallySpeaking absolutely terrible luck]].
* [[DevilSurvivor Poor Yuzu]]. All she wants is to escape the hellhole that the locked-down Yamanote Circle has become, what with all the demons and [[YourDaysAreNumbered the Death Clock]] and [[BreakTheCutie cutie-breaking horrors]]. She tried [[RefusalOfTheCall refusing the call]], but nobody would let her -- [[IJustWantToBeNormal she just wants her life back]]! But, if you actually ''try'' this... [[spoiler: You either cause humanity to fail their [[SecretTestOfCharacter test]] and lose their free will, or, by defeating everyone trying to ''stop'' your escape, inadvertantly allow demons to escape and usher in a CrapsackWorld.]] She just can't win...

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* The article referenced above talks about this being the reason for [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Eric]]'s existence in [[Series/DungeonsAndDragons the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon]].
** Fortunately, this trope was also subverted by the show: In some episodes, primarily in season two, there are cases where Eric is right and everyone else is wrong.
***One of the writers has since said that Eric was originally supposed to be right a lot more often, but the MoralGuardians basically forced this trope. The script for the unproduced final episode subverts this trope in that the group splits in two, and looks like Eric's group may be getting set up for this, but it turns out that [[spoiler:''both'' groups are wrong. Fortunately, they figure out what they really need to do just in time.]]
* ''TheGetAlongGang'' was completely dedicated to this trope. The "complainer" in this case was even depicted as [[JustEatGilligan a compulsive gambler who'd bet the clubhouse at the slightest provocation.]] (Seriously, ''the name of the show'' pretty much ''tells'' you this.)
* This is one aspect of the "communist" leanings of ''TheSmurfs''. [[DumbIsGood Brainy Smurf]] was the usual [[ButtMonkey complainer]].
** Of course Brainy Smurf's glasses are smarter than him, not to mention his ego could cause a solar eclipse...
** The other complainer, Grumpy Smurf, wasn't wrong, but the Smurfs found him annoying anyway. (The viewers, on the other hand...)
* Parodied heavily with the ShowWithinAShow "The Buddy Bears" from ''GarfieldAndFriends''; obviously, the page quote comes from this. Not coincidentally, the head writer of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' was Mark Evanier. One episode featured Garfield, sick of having to deal with them, [[AppleOfDiscord manipulate them into a situation where they COULDN'T agree]]: [[spoiler:pizza toppings]].
** Their ''other'' verse, with double your creepy, goes:
--->''Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we never have a fight\\
Anyone who disagrees is never, ever right\\
If you have a point of view, then keep it out of sight\\
Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we never have a fight!''
** Questioned by Garfield...
--->'''Garfield''': But what about having an individual point of view?\\
'''B1''': I have an individual point of view.\\
'''B2''': And I agree with him.\\
'''B3''': And I agree with both of them.\\
'''All''': ''We all have an individual point of view!''
**Similarly, an episode of ''U.S.Acres'' featured Roy Rooster, the cast's prankster and resident smart-aleck, getting fed up with the farm and joining the Buddy Bears as "Big Bad Buddy Bird" in order to exemplify this trope: their 'episodes' involved little skits showing kids what happens when you don't agree, even over trivial things: a 16-ton safe gets dropped on your head. Roy gets safes dropped on his head throughout the episode, once for wanting chocolate ice cream when the rest of the bears wanted vanilla, ''and they were all buying individual cones''. He eventually gets them to promise not to drop a safe on him, so he gets on with his act... [[spoiler:and they drop ''two'' safes on him]]. Roy gets fed up and yells at the audience, "Don't do everything your friends do, ''just because they do it''! Have a '' brain'' of your own!"
** There has been a sequel to this episode called "Roy Gets Sacked", which followed Roy as he thinks his friends don't want him anymore and finds himself back as a co-star to the Buddy Bears (who are this time accompanied by an AffirmativeActionGirl) in essentially the same role as before, but this time he is relieved to hear that they don't have any 16-ton safes to drop on him anymore. Unfortunately for Roy, they drop other things on him instead, such as a piano, a 1988 Convertible, and [[spoiler:a '''27'''-ton safe]]. Roy just makes a break for it after that last one, rather than tell the audience to make their own decisions like last time.
** The best part about the Buddy Bears? According to [[http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_12_11.html#012563 another part]] of the site linked to at the top of the page, the writer who had to write the ''Dungeons and Dragons'' episodes with this trope enforced on them, wrote the Buddy Bears to skewer this trope.
* The 2000s version of StrawberryShortcake seems to have this [[AnAesop aesop]] quite a bit, specifically in The Costume Party and Mind Your Manners, where both complainers are ''tricked into complying'' with Strawberry and her friends' views via parties.
* There are some moments in ''{{WITCH}}'' where they take ThePowerOfFriendship a bit too far, where the moral feels like "if someone is your friend, the two of you must agree on everything and do everything together." Their LimitedSocialCircle makes it even worse. (To the writers' credit, one of their biggest problems comes precisely because they have such a tight group.)
** And you can bet that half of the time, the victim of this is going to be Cornelia.
**To be fair, you can't really feel ''too'' bad for Cornelia, because she's [[TheLibby a stereotypical high-school queen bee]] who seems to lord her money, popularity and good looks over the others on more than one occasion. So...not the most sympathetic girl, no.
* Wheeler of ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' -- of course the [[{{Eagleland}} lazy, ignorant American]] would always be wrong! This reaches ridiculous levels in a Season 4 episode where he's portrayed as a heartless jerk because he's the only one who doesn't want to take every injured or endangered animal they find on their missions back to Hope Island. Even on a show ''founded on the GreenAesop premise'', removing exotic species from their natural habitat is okay if everyone agrees with it!
** The early seasons tended to rotate it a bit more though.
** In the Season 4 episode, "Hollywaste", the Planeteers are playing stunt doubles (we don't know why either) in a movie [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs based on one of their adventures.]] The eco-friendly actress who plays the movie version of Linka, Bambi Blight, is the younger sister of reoccuring BigBad Dr. Blight. Trouble happens as usual -- and clues point to Bambi. Most of the Planeteers are quick to blame Bambi but Wheeler alone trusts her. In the end, Dr. Blight reveals herself as the guilty party. After a battle and the arrest of Dr. Blight, Captain Planet says, "Bambi is proof that [[IncrediblyLamePun one bad Blight doesn't spoil the whole crop]]."
*** Yes it does. That's ''exactly'' what blights do. See also, the Irish Potato Famine.
*** Note that Wheeler was right, but not because he disapproved of guilt by association - he thought she was innocent because she was an [[BeautyEqualsGoodness attractive Hollywood actress]]. So the one time he's right, it's ''entirely by accident''.
** This trope becomes a bit hilarious when comparing the two episodes dealing with overpopulation, where in each one Wheeler is on ''entirely opposite side of the debate'', yet both times he learns a lesson about how he's wrong and the other four are right. The first season "Population Bomb" had him learn having too many kids is irresponsible via [[AllJustADream an obvious Lilliputian dream sequence]]. Four years later in "Numbers Game," Wheeler wonders why people had kids if they couldn't afford to raise them. Cue Gi jumping down his throat and putting words in his mouth simply for asking a damn question. And once again, learns how he's wrong (though in a more nuanced, less {{Anvilicious}} way this time) through an obvious dream sequence.
* ''CareBears'': most of the characters are characterized by unique personality quirks, but GrumpyBear is unique in being the only bear to make a hobby out of finding the cloud wrapped around every silver lining (understandably, since the universe's opinion of him tends towards the ButtMonkey-esque.) Nonetheless, he remains quite possibly [[EnsembleDarkhorse the most awesome character on the show]], having cobbled together a fully-functional teleporter, survived an attack from a renegade bowl of fruit and ''playing baseball with lightning''. Even the latest TV series, which gives all the bears a special power unique to their symbol, happily grants Grumpy arguably the most broken power on the show... The complainer may usually be wrong, but even hunting for clouds among the silver linings sometimes has a silver lining.
** The trope is outright subverted in at least one ''CareBears'' story involving Grumpy Bear; the other Care Bears spend the entire story trying to cheer Grumpy Bear up and only succeed in irritating him. Eventually they reach the revelation that Grumpy Bear is ''happy being grumpy'' and that they should just let him go on being so.
* Satirized in an episode of ''GIJoe'' where the viewer gets a brief glimpse of a Cobra-produced kid's cartoon show. It features non-conformists being magically transformed into "right-thinking" clones.
** However, subverted occasionally by Shipwreck, whose constant bellyaching is usually echoed by his allies. "Oh, man, not ''push-ups'', I ''hate'' push-ups..." "''Everybody'' hates push-ups, Shipwreck, but we gotta do 'em. So pick up the pace!"
*** Shipwreck is in the military. Sure GI Joe isn't big on rank, but he really does have to do those push-ups...
* One gag in ''TheSimpsons'' involves Bart singing the Bingo song in kindergarten. Except he doesn't sing all of the letters. A teacher promptly declares "Hmpf, not college material" and crosses him off the list.
** That, however, was more about Bart being dumb than non-conformist. A better example comes from the same episode in which Homer and Marge go to see the school counselor to find out why Bart's having such a hard time in school and he suggests that Bart try to remove his personality and be more of a "faceless slug". It is of course played as a joke rather than straight.
* Rankin-Bass's '''Twas the Night Before Christmas'' takes the Santa Claus myth in a creepy direction. A know-it-all preteen mouse writes a letter in the paper saying that Santa is a myth and signs it 'All of Us', meaning him and his friends. Santa decides not to deliver presents to the whole town, even though the very concept of a naughty/nice list means he could easily tell who the offender was. Everyone decides they have to build him a giant, expensive clock as a peace offering so he'll come visit. The mouse who started the whole mess is then taken on a tour of the town by his father to show how he "ruined everyone's Christmas with [his] opinions" and "doesn't know as much as [he] thinks [he does]."
* ''{{The Busy World of Richard Scarry}}'' (based on the books [[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt of, uh, Richard Scarry]]) has the brothers Pig Will and Pig Won't, who somehow manage to embody this Aesop using only two people. As their names suggest, one agrees to ''every'' request or offer, and the other refuses every offer. No matter what their giggly hippo babysitter asks them to do, Pig Won't's refusal ends up making him miserable... somehow. Even when it's a simple preference not to play a certain game. One wonders how, exactly, Pig Will would cope with being so "agreeable"/mentally pliable in the outside world, without the protection of a benign authority figure.
** {{This Troper}} recalls reading the book this was based off of as a kid. What happened was that Pig Won't would '''''always''''' say "I won't", without even thinking about it. So one day when their father asks who wants to go with him to visit the fire station, Pig Won't declares "I won't". At the fire station, Pig Will gets to play with the dalmatian, wear a fire suit, play with the fire hose (with adult supervision), and it all ends with an all-you-can-eat hot fudge sundae orgy! When Pig Won't sees all the fun Pig Will had, he immediately becomes Pig Me Too. The moral's supposed to be: "Don't just blindly disobey your folks, because you might miss out on some pretty cool stuff!", but reeks more of "Obey all orders without question, and you'll get a treat! You know, a ''treat'', like a dog gets or not shitting on the carpet!". When Pig Me Too enters the real world and stops getting treats for obeying, he's going to feel like a dumbass.
* A tamed down version of this was occasionally used in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''; Sokka's complaints were often dismissed or flat-out ignored, but at times he could be rather obnoxious in his presentation of them, so it all balanced out. Later on, other characters would fill this role but for valid reasons other than Bryke needing an IdiotOfTheWeek.
** Probably the farthest it ever went with this trope was the episode "The Painted Lady". Many fans felt that Sokka had a perfectly reasonable point in complaining that they shouldn't stop at one place for too long, but in the end Katara and Aang won out over him, for....well, TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong.
** I take issue with this. This isn't "The Complainer is Often Ignored" trope. Sokka is TheSmartGuy of the group. He is paranoid and a complainer, but his intuition is right a normal amount of time. Now, in comparing the complainers and what they complain about, Sokka complains about anything that puts the team in immediate danger, Katara complains about teamwork, altruism and manners, Aang complains about the challenges, violence and duty, and Toph complains about rules, blind-sighted goals (lol) and weakness. Each one's opinions and ideas have lead to good results and bad ones, but the story itself doesn't try to paint any of them as '''unfailingly wrong''', which I think is the point of this trope.
*Subverted in {{Transformers}}. Gears complainns about '''everything''' but the other Autobots actually like having him around because they find his complaints amusing and his behavior never leads him to trouble. In fact, the one time he was content and helpful it was because the Decepticons were controlling him.

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* In ''CharlieTheUnicorn'', it's played straight the entire time, except for right until the end, [[spoiler:when his two friends steal his kidney.]]
** Or the sequel, when they go on a magical quest to return an amulet to the banana king. [[spoiler:It all turns out to be an elaborate ploy to rob Charlie blind.]]
*** ''Really'' elaborate. [[spoiler:It even includes a set-swapping musical number.]]
** Or the third one, where Charlie is dragged every step of the way on a magical underwater journey to complete the snowman that they say will save the world. [[spoiler: They complete the snowman, all right. By using knockout gas on Charlie so they can break off his horn and use it as the snowman's nose. Oh, and his kidney's there, too.]]
*** One begins to wonder why Charlie doesn't just run away from those two. [[TheCatCameBack Oh wait.]]

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