This happens on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic on a regular basis due to the Aesop-centric formula of the show.
- In "The Ticket Master", when Twilight receives a ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala, everypony starts to chase her for it including her friends — yes, even Fluttershy.
- In "Bridle Gossip" when Zecora, a zebra comes to town and is the victim of Fantastic Racism by everypony (including the Mane 6 minus Twilight and Apple Bloom, and even then Twilight briefly joins in when their suspicions are seemingly confirmed). Apple Bloom later follows Zecora home to see if the racism is justified and the Mane 6 try to get her back. Hilarity Ensues.
- Discord, the Big Bad of the Season 2 Premiere has the power to Invoke this trope on others.
- In the same premiere, Twilight seemed to be holding it because she lost patience with her corrupted friends; when Spike had practical concerns such as Rainbow Dash, who was corrupted at the time, being missing, Twilight doesn't care at all about it and makes him take her place in the Elements of Harmony ritual. This fails for obvious reasons.
- "Lesson Zero", where the usually reasonable and fair-natured Twilight Sparkle has an outright Sanity Slippage from being tardy in writing a friendship letter, and resorts to causing a problem in order to have material. The other main six bouncing with the ball laugh at her problem and tell her she is overreacting.
- It's held by Spike in the episode "Secret of My Excess", where he ends up being overcome by a dragon's hoarding instinct and starts abusing the fact that it's his birthday to try and get free stuff from people until it eventually gets out of control and causes him to become a huge, savage dragon.
- In "Putting Your Hoof Down" Angel treats Fluttershy like crap, forcing her to go to the market so he can eat his favorite foods. Once there everypony hates her guts and tries to take advantage of her. For example, when she tries to purchase the last cherry from one market stall, the seller jacks up the price to 20 bits, but when she refuses, he sells it to another pony for only 2 bits. Tomatoes are now 2 bits rather than the one they were yesterday. Fluttershy gets assertiveness training from a visiting motivational speech — giving Minotaur named Iron Will, but eventually goes mad with her newfound assertiveness and starts bullying anyone who so much as vaguely inconveniences her. She snaps out of it when she manages to make her friends cry as a result.
- Ms. Harshwhinny grabs it in "Equestria Games". She shows No Sympathy for Spike when he's too overcome with stage fright to light the Equestria Games torch. And when Spike tries to make up for it, Harshwhinny flat out accuses him of being an Attention Whore.
- "28 Pranks Later" opens with Rainbow Dash pranking Fluttershy by pretending to be a monster, leaving her absolutely terrified. This despite the fact that back in "Griffon the Brush-Off", Rainbow specifically refused to prank Fluttershy knowing she's too sensitive to handle it (not to mention whatever prank they were planning back then was probably far more mild than what she pulled in this episode). Some of the other pranks Rainbow Dash plays (such as sneaking a brick into a pony's sandwich, which could easily have caused him real harm) are also much more mean-spirited than what she had previously been shown to be capable of.
- Applejack in "Honest Apple", where she's tasked with critiquing the practicality of some fashion designs and ends up offending everyone who made them by not tactfully filtering her opinions.
- Most of Equestria gets hold this ball in "Fame and Misfortune". As soon as the Friendship Journal is published for the public to read, kids become over-obsessive about Rainbow Dash while brushing off Twilight Sparkle entirely, and older ponies laugh at everything Pinkie Pie says even though it's not funny, try to insert themselves into Applejack's family life, harass Fluttershy for learning the same lessons over and over again, and boycott Rarity's business because they didn't like her lessons. It reaches its head when mobs of ponies surround Twilight's castle and act like they're fictional characters in-universe, with one saying Twilight's "character" would be more interesting if she'd stayed in Canterlot. They also they don't learn their lesson and continue to engage in petty squabbles with each other up until the very end of the episode, with the only exceptions being the newly-introduced Toola Roola and Coconut Cream.
- "Non-Compete Clause" gives Applejack and Rainbow Dash joint custody of the Jerkass Ball. Not only are they as obsessed with competing with each other as they were back in "Fall Weather Friends", they can't be bothered to set it aside even when the safety of their students is at stake.
- "The Washouts" hits Rainbow Dash with the Jerkass Ball when she objects to Scootaloo taking an interest in the titular stunt team. While she expresses legitimate safety concerns with Scootaloo actually joining the Washouts, she practically admits that she is motivated at least as much by wanting Scootaloo to look up to her and her alone. Rainbow goes so far as to strongly imply that she had been expecting Scootaloo to follow her into the Wonderbolts, despite being unable to fly.note Scotaloo also plays with the ball herself when she openly disparages the Wonderbolts to Rainbow Dash's face (knowing full well that becoming one was Rainbow's lifelong dream).
- "2, 4, 6, Greaaat" has Rainbow Dash passionately embrace the Jerkass Ball when she shamelessly walks away from her duties as cheer squad coach, and openly disparages cheerleading in front of the squad (some of whom probably have Rainbow as a teacher, no less). Even when Yona and Ocellus run away crying, she fails to see anything wrong with her behavior until Smolder calls her out.
- "A Trivial Pursuit" pegs Twilight Sparkle with the ball when she becomes obsessed with winning the Trivia Trot competition and gets paired up with Pinkie Pie. She treats Pinkie like a burden, refusing to let Pinkie answer any questions after getting one wrong (even when the category is cupcakes, on which Pinkie would be Ponyville's resident expert). When they fall behind, Twilight engages in shameless rules lawyering to get other contestants disqualified and thin out the competition. She even gets Pinkie Pie disqualified in order to pair up with Sunburst, whom she assumes will make a more valuable partner. Instead, Sunburst steals the Jerkass Ball and runs with it, treating Twilight the same way she had treated Pinkie.
