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** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsMargeSimpson Marge Simpson]] and [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]]. While the show generally enlists them into StraightMan roles against the former two, there are plenty of cases the girls can be just too priggish, hypocritical or self-serving in their cause to side with.

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** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsMargeSimpson Marge Simpson]] Simpson and [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]].Simpson. While the show generally enlists them into StraightMan roles against the former two, there are plenty of cases the girls can be just too priggish, hypocritical or self-serving in their cause to side with.
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** In the show, there exists something called "The Kairu Honor Code." So far, there are three parts of it. The Kairu must be taken from the object by the team that gets the rights to it. The second part is that Kairu Warriors must never attack ordinary people. The third part is that attacking your opponent even after they forfeit is forbidden. Even [[BigBad Lokar]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards can't stand anyone who]] [[LawfulEvil breaks the code]] and actually disbands the team that does. Team Stax, the good guys, attack normal people, and get away with it because they're the heroes.

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** In the show, there exists something called "The Kairu Honor Code." So far, there are three parts of it. The Kairu must be taken from the object by the team that gets the rights to it. The second part is that Kairu Warriors must never attack ordinary people. The third part is that attacking your opponent even after they forfeit is forbidden. Even [[BigBad Lokar]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards can't stand anyone who]] [[LawfulEvil who breaks the code]] and actually disbands the team that does. Team Stax, the good guys, attack normal people, and get away with it because they're the heroes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'': Despite being the main protagonist, Angelina Mouseling could be very nasty and horrible at times, at her very worst being an overtly whiny, self-pitying, selfish brat. This is especially if she is [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] (which she can be quite prone to). This was heavily toned down in ''The Next Steps''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'':
** Jerry's morals are rather questionable towards the spies, as he sometimes puts them into situations that could have easily killed them had it been real life.
*** There's also the fact that he had been sending ''minor teenage girls'' on extremely dangerous missions that could have easily gotten them hurt or worse, and in "WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez", he sends ''even younger middle school kids'' (The Clarks) on the very same missions as well.
*** There is also the fact that in [[WesternAnimation/TotallySpiesTheMovie the movie]], he practically forced the girls into joining W.O.O.H.P., despite saying it was their choice but actively ruining their lives until they complied. It makes one wonder just how many W.O.O.H.P. agents are legitimately working for WOOHP by "choice", anyway.
*** His treatment of the girls in Season 1 episode "The Fugitives" arguably crosses the line from being ethically ambiguous into outright cruelty, attempting to have behavioral modification chips forcibly implanted in their heads after they're framed for a crime spree. Given the fact that Jerry doesn't even bother to hear them out when they protest their innocence, it's a wonder W.O.O.H.P. can be considered the good guys after all this.
*** He forces the girls (and the Clarks) to keep their spying secret from their parents. When the girls' mothers discover that their kids are spies (Thanks to Jerry) in “Totally Busted” their mothers were within their rights to pull their daughters out of W.O.O.H.P.. Later when the girls need help from W.O.O.H.P. to save their moms, Jerry (and G.L.A.D.I.S.) lock them out completely, leaving the girls having to rescue their mothers with hardware supplies.
*** Jerry also dismisses what the girls actually want. One example is in “Solo Spies” Jerry gives them what he thinks is a promotion (making them Solo Spies). The girls tell Jerry they don’t want this (and instead see this as a form of punishment) and tell Jerry they want to stay together but he forces them to become solo spies with them only one gadget each to complete a mission. He also sells their penthouse to Mandy which forces them to live in the West Coast Hall dorm rooms (something else they don’t want). Sam and Clover’s rooms have rats and a leaky roof and while Alex’s room is fine she only has a small box and her pet pig with her. Later in the episode because they are all alone all three get kidnapped. They are able to work together and finish their case. The girls still rightfully miffed at Jerry until he gives in and let’s them live and spy together... But he doesn’t apologize to them at all.
** The girls' mothers were likely not meant to seem unbearable in “Totally Busted.” They were within their rights pull their daughters out of W.O.O.H.P. after all. But instead of listening to their daughters' point of view they just punish them throughout the three-parter. The girls had the spy life chosen for them by their boss, Jerry but the moms barely call him out preferring to punish the girls. During this, thanks to to a villain’s serum, Mandy and her friends turned into Spy Assassins. The girls HAVE to continue spying because Mandy and her friends are trying to KILL them. When Sam Alex and Clover are trying to figure out what’s going on, the moms tell their daughters they can’t hang out anymore. When the moms are later kidnapped by Mandy and girls go to save them (with no help from WOOHP). They get yelled at yet again! It’s only when the moms are back on the ground thanks to the girls using their jumpers as parachutes that their moms FINALLY let up. Even then the girls' mothers are never called out for how they acted or apologize to their kids.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'': In "Weight For Me", Popeye and Brutus return from a naval tour of duty to find that Olive Oil has put on a lot of weight in their absence. Popeye is openly appalled at her size and demands she loses weight immediately, even though she repeatedly tells him she doesn't want to and that she finds his exercise routines exhausting. The episode presents his actions as loving but he comes off as a shallow jerk. Compare this to [[DesignatedVillain Brutus]], who is just as, [[ChubbyChaser if not more]], attracted to her fat as he was when she was skinny, spends the day trying to do romantic things for her and rightfully tells Popeye that if Olive didn't want to lose weight then he had no right to try and make her. [[JerkassHasAPoint That being said]], no one can argue that Olive might be dangerously overweight and could have health complications if Popeye haven't forced her to exercise.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BabyHuey'': Huey, at least in some stories. He is, after all, basically just a big baby who [[SpoiledBrat always has to have his way]], so he ends up causing a lot of trouble for sympathetic characters as well as villains.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': The spirits. Book 2 goes in-depth on the history of the world and reveals that humanity was once confined to living in cities on the backs of lion-turtles after the spirits basically all but took over the mortal realm, and the spirits viciously hated them and would try to kill them if they so much as left ''to find food'' (and could possess their bodies and horribly mutate them). The spirits, including Raava, all talk about how HumansAreBastards and are selfish and violent, and show no regard for their well-being even if humans haven't directly done anything to them. Then in Book 4, when Korra asks the spirits to help her defend Republic City from Kuvira, they flat out refuse and don't care what happens to the city or the people living there. Characters constantly talk about how humanity needs to learn to respect the spirits and live in harmony with them, but no one ever brings attent

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': The spirits. Book 2 goes in-depth on the history of the world and reveals that humanity was once confined to living in cities on the backs of lion-turtles after the spirits basically all but took over the mortal realm, and the spirits viciously hated them and would try to kill them if they so much as left ''to find food'' (and could possess their bodies and horribly mutate them). The spirits, including Raava, all talk about how HumansAreBastards and are selfish and violent, and show no regard for their well-being even if humans haven't directly done anything to them. Then in Book 4, when Korra asks the spirits to help her defend Republic City from Kuvira, they flat out refuse and don't care what happens to the city or the people living there. Characters constantly talk about how humanity needs to learn to respect the spirits and live in harmony with them, but no one ever brings attentattention to the problem that the ''spirits'' are the ones constantly practicing FantasticRacism towards humans even ''without'' Vaatu influencing them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': The spirits. Book 2 goes in-depth on the history of the world and reveals that humanity was once confined to living in cities on the backs of lion-turtles after the spirits basically all but took over the mortal realm, and the spirits viciously hated them and would try to kill them if they so much as left ''to find food'' (and could possess their bodies and horribly mutate them). The spirits, including Raava, all talk about how HumansAreBastards and are selfish and violent, and show no regard for their well-being even if humans haven't directly done anything to them. Then in Book 4, when Korra asks the spirits to help her defend Republic City from Kuvira, they flat out refuse and don't care what happens to the city or the people living there. Characters constantly talk about how humanity needs to learn to respect the spirits and live in harmony with them, but no one ever brings attent

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