Crossovers
- In The Babylon Effect
, the Minbari are called out on this by an Asari matriarch. The Terran-Minbari War started when a Terran Alliance ship panicked and killed a Minbari leader, but during a prisoner interrogation, Matriarch Benezia tells a Minbari commander that, by that logic, the killing of an Asari matriarch who was trying to negotiate a peace between Terra and Minbar should justify the Asari wiping out the Minbari. After all there are individual Asari who have been alive since before the last Great War, so by the Minbari's logic, they are an older, wiser and superior race, and therefore there's all the justification they need. The Minbari commander starts to realize how stupid their holy war has become. - Dead or Alive 4: The Devil Factor: When Dante reveals his fratricide of Vergil to Ayane, the latter, despite having wanted to kill Kasumi for years, finds herself nauseated at that information. Indeed, her hatred of Kasumi actually begins to waver at that thought.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: Aldarn despises the nobility and Phobos' forces for all the awful things they've done, but feels justified in the "heroic" nature of the Rebellion's own less than admirable acts. He's also perfectly willing to use Ikazuki's mask to force the Rebellion to accept his leadership, but denies that it's anything like Phobos' means of ruling by force.
- Hell Is a Martial Artist: Aside from Ranma, all of the residents of the Tendo Dojo suffer from this. Hild remarks that Akane is the worst of the lot, but even Kasumi blithely ignores how low her family can sink, then acts shocked and appalled whenever any of their victims dare retaliate. Especially when it comes to her sister Nabiki, who is more than happy to engage in some truly reprehensible behavior in the name of making a quick buck.
- Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: Even after thousands of years, Darth Nihilus still feels genuinely outraged and bitter that his former Sith apprentice Visas Marr betrayed him and contributed to his defeat at the hands of Meetra Surik. This is despite the fact that he destroyed Visas's home planet (and likely all her friends and family), kidnapped her, and enslaved her after mentally breaking her will.
- Raise Yourselves Up (We're Done): At the urging of Lila, Alya and most of her students, Miss Bustier informs Marinette and Chloé that they won't be allowed to attend the annual class trip that year. Not only are they shocked and upset when both girls naturally decide that they won't help with any of the fundraising effort for said trip, most of the class is left seething when they learn the pair were much more successful with raising money for their own travel plans, with both Bustier and Adrien trying and failing to convince them to let them tag along. Downplayed slightly in that Nino openly acknowledges that the two don't owe them anything; it's simply that their teacher and the bulk of his peers don't want to admit that they've reaped what they've sown.
- SAPR: Sunset Shimmer decides to enable the Breach to happen by destroying the controls of the train explicitly because she values the lives of her team, but she doesn't value the lives of the people of Vale. It takes a bit of self-reflection in prison before she realizes the myopia.
- A Thin Veneer has, in order of escalation, the Minbari, who think that, because the humans killed one of their leaders, their entire species deserves to die, the Ashen, who think that anyone who does not blindly obey everything the Vorlons demand deserve annihilation, and the Vorlons, who think that any who do not conform to their rigid and selfserving view of Order, even races older than themselves, need to be cast down. A running example of this is all three races get selfrighteously outraged when the Earth Alliance, the Federation and the Klingons manage to actually fight back on a level or better playing field instead of just laying down and getting eradicated.
- The Wedding Crashers:
- Sam and the rest of Leah's pack treat her like dirt due to how badly she reacted after he imprinted on her sister Emily and promptly broke up with her... ignoring how he attacked Emily when she refused him at first, leaving her with scars on her face. They also have no problem with Quil imprinting on a two-year old and waiting until Claire's old enough to marry him, ignoring her parents' horror at the prospect.
- The red-eyed vampires spend most of the wedding openly planning to either feed on or convert the Winchesters, and are affronted and appalled when they start getting told to shove off. They see nothing wrong with threatening to kill Sam and Dean for their disrespectful attitudes, yet cry murder when the humans dare to defend themselves and respond in kind. When Sam growls that he should stake them all for planning to stalk and kill Dean after the wedding, Bella actually replies with "On what grounds?"
- The Cullens don't eat humans, but have no problems with their red-eyed allies eating some on the way to the wedding, with Jasper even insisting that all the humans they killed doesn't count as murder. At the climax, Bella loudly proclaims that it's part of the food chain which only serves to piss off Castiel enough for him to use telekinesis on her to shut up and makes her father disown her after the wedding.
- Lampshaded in Back to the Future Prequel by Doc, who wonders how Hank can care so much about Doc accidentally hurting his sister while being completely unconcerned about threatening Marty.
- or did it eat the little girl?: Kokichi models this quite nicely in let's go out with a bang!. He goes out of his way to harass Miu at every turn, constantly reminding her of all her mistakes and regrets and insisting that she's Beyond Redemption. It's Personal for him since she considered killing him in the simulation. Yet he completely ignores one little detail: he succeeded where she failed and had Gonta strangle her to death. When Miu finally calls him out on this and reveals that she's haunted by the memory of him watching her die, Kokichi is completely taken aback — it simply never occurred to him that she might have legitimate reasons to dislike him herself.
- Played for Laughs in Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Dr. Gero rages when Piccolo crushes one of his arms, demanding to know what he did to deserve such treatment. Piccolo responds that Gero vaporized a significant portion of a city with his Laser Eyes; when Gero responds "I mean recently!", Piccolo points out that this happened less than an hour ago.
- In Business, the mob boss Marcone explains how he's different from other criminals because he's motivated by the greater good, and they're just greedy parasites...while he's torturing an insurance salesman into lowering his prices. Yeah. That's not greedy at all. In the same scene, Marcone claims that Harry's vigilante efforts to punish criminals are self-righteous and naive, but his own vigilante efforts to punish criminals are somehow not.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): King Ghidorah — particularly the middle head — absolutely hates the long-dead, malevolent alien Makers whom tortured it and whose actions drove Ghidorah to become the way it now is. Yet the heads seem to realize (or they just don't care) that they've become just as malicious and heinous as the Makers in all the ways that matter.
- In Hail Odysseus, Draco Malfoy is furious when Harry and Ginny tell him that they had Blaise Zabini killed and are going to have Pansy Parkinson fake a murder-suicide, while ignoring that he was actually paying Blaise Zabini to kill Harry and the only reason he did not do it himself was because he is a coward.
- Wish Carefully: Lucius Malfoy rationalizes the Death Eaters' kidnapping of eight young witches as a necessary act to introduce fresh blood into their limited gene pool and that the kidnapping scheme really just "rescued" them from their old lives of poverty since they get to reside in luxurious mansions and be pampered like royalty in exchange for being glorified Breeding Slaves.
- Invoked in the Modern AU fic If, which opens with Hiccup losing his parents in an apparent accident and then being rejected by his former friends because he's no longer rich. When circumstances lead to Hiccup regaining control of his parents' finances and the discovery that Snotlout's father (and Hiccup's uncle) was responsible for the deaths of Hiccup's parents, Snotlout acts insulted when Hiccup refuses to give Snotlout and his mother a place to stay in his regained mansion. Hiccup acknowledges that he might have been stuck-up about his wealth in the past, but he never deliberately excluded Snotlout, and after the way his cousin treated him recently, he can't trust that Snotlout wouldn't try and steal something or hurt Hiccup or his friends if he was allowed into the mansion.
- The Victors Project: A partial example. Finnick's chapter notes that, during the Rebellion, the Capitol undergoes hardships it's never had to deal with before (rationing, random searches and arrests, curfews etc.) and the reaction of many (although not all) of the people amounts to this.The more aware of the Capitol citizens muse that this must be what life has been like in the districts for seven odd decades. The rest simply cannot comprehend that these horrible things are happening to them.
- Ambience: A Fleet Symphony:
- Several times Damon and co. encounter bad guys who try to use I Have a Family to beg for mercy, yet somehow see no problem with slavery, murder, rape and doing all sorts of evil to others who have families too.
- The Abyssals claim they're morally "more worthy" of Earth and despise mankind for its misdeeds, yet conveniently overlook the equally or even more heinous wrongdoings of their commanders.
- Shiranui sees nothing wrong with being insubordinate and putting her ship sisters ahead of the needs of the fleet. Yet when Suzukaze does the same it's suddenly disgusting. Furthermore, despite her self-declared protective feelings for her ship sisters, she doesn't even stop to contemplate how she herself would react if, like the deserter, one of her own ship sisters were to turn on her for defending them.
- For His Own Sake:
- Granny Hina believes that she knows better than everybody else, and is willing to go to any lengths to manipulate, cajole or trick others into doing whatever she wants. She's even willing to support Suu's idea of brainwashing Keitaro in order to force her grandson into following her wishes again.
- Mutsumi is similarly determined to help Keitaro and Naru get back together, despite both telling her outright that they want nothing to do with each other after their breakup. This makes her the perfect Unwitting Pawn for Kagura and Chisato.
- Lampshaded in Relationships Series when Lindy (gently) reminds Nove that Cinque's injuries happened because she attacked on Scaglietti's orders, but that people can forgive her because in her heart, she now understands this and regrets it.
- In born of hell('s kitchen), serial killer Salinger shouts to Jessica that he has grounds to have Peter ("her monster") arrested and locked in prison when he winds up getting himself hurt by Peter's runaway strength (two black eyes, three broken bones, a broken nose and a dislocated shoulder). Never mind the fact that Peter was his kidnap victim, is a minor, he did it purely for self-defense and Salinger was intending on hurting him to vent his anger over Jessica at the time.
- Renegade Reinterpretations explores this with regards to canon's portrayal of Morinth, suggesting that "If Bioware hadn't tried to play the emotional anvil by having Morinth's only victim with a face be apparently the only young, pretty, white, harmless, nice virgin girl on the pit of vice and sin that was Omega, and instead let it be some Omega crime boss who caught Morinth's notice for his inner-fire, most people would find the exact same character a lot less evil."
- Alya and the Harem Reality: In the previous timeline, Gabriel won, but one of the heroes leapt in and grabbed one of the Earrings in order to make the reality-altering Wish first. Upon learning this from Nooroo, Gabriel immediately declares that the hero in question murdered the Emelie from that reality, refusing to acknowledge all of the pain, suffering, and murder he's indulged in throughout his quest.
- Dad Villain AU: Gabriel despises Ladybug so much that he devoted his Wish to ensuring that she and her loved ones would SUFFER in the new reality. He feels fully justified in this pettiness, so much so that he openly brags about his victory to Viceroy, the new Butterfly user... without considering that Viceroy might also be driven by a desire for revenge against HIM.
- He also insists that his reign of terror as Hawkmoth was completely justified since he was trying to save Emelie, despite how he considers his vengence against the former Ladybug to be more important than keeping Emelie safe, using her as an Unwitting Pawn in his scheme. Yet the notion that Viceroy is motivated to protect his loved ones is completely beyond him as well.
- Feralnette AU: This is one of Alya's Fatal Flaws: she'll twist herself into knots justifying and hand-waving away anything she or Lila does, to the point of telling Ladybug and Chat Noir they have no right to be upset after Lila falsely accuses Marinette of working with Hawkmoth. That said, this has its limits: Lila threatening to blackmail Felix by complaining to the school board about their being nonbinary proves to be too much for her to bear.
- The Karma of Lies: Adrien mistakenly believes that the world runs on Protagonist-Centered Morality, and that he's one of the 'good guys', making everything he does automatically The Morally Right Thing by default. Every decision he makes is through the lens of determining how it personally impacts HIM, with no regard whatsoever for anyone else getting hurt.
- He refuses to reveal that Lila is a Manipulative Bitch because he doesn't want to be the bearer of bad news for his friends and possibly make them upset with him. Sure, she's conning them into donating to Fake Charities, but that's not really a problem since he's not losing anything.
- The fact that she's getting everyone to shun Marinette? Well, Marinette can handle that, right? Even when Marinette tells him outright that no, she can't, he "reassures" her that she's more than capable of dealing with the isolation... and of replacing all of the clothes they just thoughtlessly got rid of whenever they decide that they want more stuff from her.
- He treats Ladybug's Miraculous Cure as a magical Reset Button, believing it erases all the consequences of Hawkmoth's akuma rampaging through Paris. After the Final Battle, he tries to argue that Hawkmoth should receive a less severe punishment due to this, disregarding all the suffering he caused by claiming it wasn't permanent... while also believing that he should be rewarded handsomely for all the times he 'nobly sacrificed himself' as Chat Noir. (To his mind, that's fair because he needs the money.)
- He dislikes Lila clinging to him, but sees absolutely nothing wrong with harassing Ladybug no matter how often she rejects him, insisting that they're meant to be because he says so.
- After Lila successfully scams him, Adrien immediately insists that she must be dealt with ASAP, failing to recognize how his inaction prior to this point has made this significantly harder, particularly since he previously vouched for and defended her character.
- Alya and the majority of Marinette's classmates prove to be just as bad about this. After ignoring and isolating her on Lila's say-so, they're all shocked — shocked! — to learn that she has no intention of welcoming them back with open arms. Instead, Marinette cuts them out of her life in much the same way they did to her. Only Chloé, Juleka and Rose recognize what they did wrong and accept that they're not entitled to her friendship or forgiveness; the rest try to force their way back in. Alya specifically gloats about her intention to never let Marinette live this down once they're 'besties' again, even while arguing that they didn't do anything wrong and shouldn't be punished at all.
- Alya suffers from this in LadyBugOut: as far as she's concerned, Ladybug betrayed her when she decided to start her own blog, and Marinette did the same when she chose to help the superheroine with that project. The fact that Ladybug and Marinette only did so in response to Alya deliberately misrepresenting what happened with Oblivio, posting the picture of Ladybug and Chat Noir Kissing Under the Influence of their missing memories without context and over Ladybug's explicitly begging her not to, completely flies over her head.
- Alya further complains about Ladybug choosing a new Fox and replacing her as Rena Rouge. Ladybug directly compares it to Alya's own betrayal, only for Alya to brush that matter off as totally different and unrelated.
- As much as Adrien dislikes how Chloé and Lila act entitled to claim him as their "boyfriend", he sees nothing wrong with his own harassment of Ladybug as Chat Noir. He defends Alya posting the picture without context by declaring that Chat Noir deserved that kiss, and later smugly proclaims that Ladybug's refusal to let him forcibly kiss her is proof that she's "denying her real feelings". It takes Marinette giving him a taste of his own medicine for him to finally grasp that he was acting just like his own unwanted admirers.
- Adrien Agreste's Protagonist-Centered Morality becomes this in Leave for Mendeleiev due to him no longer having the protection of being the official Love Interest.
- His biggest priority is discovering Ladybug's Secret Identity and making her return his feelings; to his mind, nothing is worse than the fact she keeps rejecting him. At the same time, he blithely ignores Chloé's crush on him... save for when he thinks that she's Ladybug thanks to Lady Wifi.
- He also ignores Aurore's crush on him, to the point that when she directly asks him out, he looks her in the eyes and politely asks her name. While she thinks that he's Oblivious to Love, it's implied to be more a matter of Selective Obliviousness; he's so used to dealing with fangirls that he takes it for granted that they all have crushes on him. When he finds out that Marinette isn't attracted, he gets extremely offended and tries to guilt-trip her into taking it back.
- He gets very upset whenever anyone disagrees with him or ignores his input... and yet sees absolutely nothing wrong with treating his kwami like crap whenever Plagg tries pointing out his problems or expresses his own opinions.
- Marinette's Week Off: In the sequel, Marinette's Life (After the Week Off), Alya makes a big deal out of deliberately excluding Marinette, Chloé and Nathaniel from her plans to watch the premiere of Disney's The Embers of Pirates and Mermaids, stressing that she only wants her friends there. All three take the news calmly, with Marinette remarking that she completely understands and hopes that Alya will extend the same sort of grace and understanding towards her in turn. Naturally, when the class sees those three attending the premiere (since Marinette is starring in said film), Alya throws a fit about how her "bestie" failed to invite her, completely ignoring that they stopped being friends a long time ago.
- The One to Make It Stay: Adrien/Chat Noir constantly refuses to listen to Ladybug, ignoring her repeated requests for him to stop flirting with her and take their duties as superheroes more seriously. He also blames her for the tension that has naturally resulted from this, complaining that she doesn't treat him like her partner and equal... because she supposedly doesn't listen to him. And whenever anyone directly calls him out on this, he deflects and refuses to acknowledge their point, trying to make them out to be in the wrong. Demonstrating, again, that he will not listen to anyone who isn't telling him what he wants to hear, while demanding that everyone else should listen to him exclusively.Chat Noir: You're completely out of control. We're supposed to be partners, but then you go ahead and pick and get rid of teammates without me.
Ladybug: Maybe if you actually acted like a partner, and treated our teammates with respect, I would have given your opinion more consideration. Why is it that I have to entertain what you want, but when I tell you to back off and stop hitting on me, you get to act like I'm being unreasonable?
Chat Noir: Come on. Are you seriously airing out our dirty laundry in front of everyone right now?
Viperion: If you don't want her to call you out, don't give her material to work with.
Chat Noir: (glaring at him) Stay out of this, snake. - Recklessness features Alya learning about the Wish and immediately deciding they should use it to learn Hawkmoth's secret identity. Never mind that using the Wish will completely rewrite reality; as far as she's concerned, that just makes the current world an Expendable Alternate Universe, and she completely dismisses things like Marinette horribly dying at an akumatized Adrien's hands as "no big deal".
- Villain Of Your Own Story: In the Wish-created reality, Adrien despises his new classmates, blaming them for how Chloé's Karma Houdini Warranty ran out when her bullying was exposed to the public. In order to 'punish' them, he works behind the scenes to make them miserable, setting them up to be akumatized and exulting in their misery, all while telling himself that they deserve it.
- What Goes Around Comes Around: In the sequel, Truth & Journalism, Alya is upset that Ms. Bustier is facing the same scrutiny for her actions as Principal Damocles. While she's perfectly fine with Damocles being punished, as she still holds a grudge against him for how he'd punished her for breaking into Chloé's locker and his wrongful expulsion of Marinette, she feels it's unfair for Bustier to have been censured... despite how her teacher also gave Chloé preferential treatment and was equally responsible for the expulsion incident.
- The Wolves in the Woods:
- Kim, Max and Alix threaten New Transfer Student Ben, slamming him up against the lockers and declaring that they'll make the lives of him and the other new students miserable over a misunderstanding. After repeatedly asking them to let him go, Ben snaps Kim's wrist to make him release him. Alya then barges into Ms. Mendeleiev's room after class to confront and threaten him further. When he points out that she prioritized attacking him over getting her friend medical treatment, she snaps that he's lucky Kim wasn't akumatized, otherwise he would have made him pay for what he'd done himself. Throughout all of this, she fails to understand why Ms. Mendeleiev and other witnesses are reacting in horror to her actions over Ben's, or why her mother is so outraged by her behavior.
- Once Lila owns up to her deception while testifying against Ms. Bustier and the class, Alya condemns her as a Manipulative Bitch who turned everyone against Marinette by painting her as a bully. She insists that Lila should pay for her crimes, even suggesting that she needs to die. Problem is, Alya is just as cruelly manipulative as Lila, if not more so — for while Lila was uncomfortable with how the class turned on Marinette, Alya encouraged the others to hurt their 'everyday Ladybug', all while fully aware that Lila wasn't telling the truth. She was exploiting the situation to pursue her own agenda of breaking down her bestie's self-esteem out of jealousy over her achievements.
- One of the clearest illustrations of how Alya struggles with this comes when her parents confront her with a recording of her bragging to her classmates about the "dirt" she's dug up on Marinette's new classmates at St. Catherine's. Alya is aghast and wonders how they found out, while Marlena points out that the victims of her intended Malicious Slander campaign would also like to know where she got her information from.
- Ms. Caline Bustier also suffers from this. In fact, it's her teachings that fostered such toxicity in her classroom in the first place: she turned a blind eye to the way most of the class was bullying Marinette, letting them grow increasingly blatant, as she blamed her for not appeasing them and "making amends". While calling her out, Ms. Mendeleive observes that Caline staunchly refuses to forgive any of the students who "betrayed" her by exposing her terrible teaching tactics to public scrutiny, then asks why she believes Marinette should forgive everyone who betrayed her when Caline is still holding a grudge.
- In The Emerald Phoenix a Tubalcain Alhambra Expy gleefully sets out to kill Kamakiri and Kirishima, but then is shocked that Kamakiri would use a lethal attack on him.
- Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: Izuku shoots down Shiragaki's choice to kidnap and attempt to recruit Bakugou Katsuki during the attack on the UA Training Camp, in spite of how villainous he acts, because of this:Izuku/Mastermind: You’ll never be able to get Katsuki to be a villain because he doesn’t see himself as one. He sees himself as a hero and no amount of threatening or bribery is going to convince him otherwise.
- Mean Rabbit: During the USJ assault, Kyoka refuses to listen to anything Izuku says, declaring he needs to "prove himself" first. At the same time, she's furious when he doesn't immediately do anything she commands, despite him having little reason to trust her when she was willing to leave him for dead.
- One for All and Eight for the Ninth: Most of the Shie Hassaikai want revenge upon Izuku, blaming him for Overhaul's death. (Despite the fact that All for One actually murdered him.) The fact that Izuku only fought Overhaul because he was a horrible person who'd been brutally torturing a little girl doesn't even register with them.
- Think Before You Speak:
- Aizawa's primary justification for trying to ruin Izuku's life and get him kicked out of U.A. is that he doesn't have enough control over his Quirk yet, dismissing him as careless with his powers. He completely ignores Katsuki being reckless, to the point that when Katsuki's carelessness gets Tenya seriously injured, he lies to Tensei and claims Izuku was responsible instead.
- Katsuki legitimately believes that he was completely justified in trying to hurt Izuku just because of who he is, and is mystified when Midnight tells him that "I only did it because it was Deku!" isn't a valid defense.
- In Perfection Is Overrated, some of the SUEs follow this ideology, caring about those they care about while being willing to inflict suffering and death on everyone else for the sake of their goals and the former groups- and this is them at their most moral. The only exceptions are Mariko (who is genuinely the most morally superior of them all) and Hitomi (who has no morals or people she cares about).
- Subverted in Windows of the Soul. Natsuki, who has no pretensions of being a paragon of morality, admits to having no moral high ground regarding Umi Tsuda, the fiancee of a First District member Shizuru had killed, and who, in the fic, tries to kill Shizuru. Natsuki admits that what Shizuru did to Umi's fiancee was terrible, but while she understands why Umi would seek revenge, she cannot agree or sympathize, simply because if Shizuru took away someone close to Umi, Umi is now trying to take away someone close to Natsuki.Natsuki: For me, and for this woman, it's far simpler. I stand here and you stand there. You've lost your precious things, so in order to satisfy your desire for justice you seek to take mine. And I won't let you, because Shizuru is my precious thing.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In anti-Conversion Bureau stories, the PER and the Equestrians are often called out for their villainous actions but they're all too quick to act like they're the innocent victims of a hateful conspiracy.
- Checker Monarch, the villain of Getting Back on Your Hooves is perfectly willing to exact a convoluted plan to ruin Trixie's life (in retaliation for Trixie trying to be happy because they're sisters and Checker hated sharing the spotlight with her in any way) that runs the risk of financially ruining the Apple family, because doing so won't cause any trouble for her. A little later she is enraged (and later attempts to seriously wound or kill Rainbow after a Villainous Breakdown) at Rainbow Dash's ruining said plan by failing to act according to Monarch's predictions, despite Dash's being a completely unwitting pawn in the whole affair. Specifically, she expected Dash to lash out at filly-aged Trixie. Bear in mind that Checker Monarch is, very intentionally, a complete sociopath.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse:
- The Apples have this about their monopoly. They see it as okay to do whatever it takes to maintain their stranglehold at others' expense and Luna help anyone who dares get in the way. Applejack at least seems genuinely clueless about why it's a bad thing and appears convinced that they couldn't survive without it, but Apple Bloom is decidedly hostile whenever someone brings it up.
- Discussed in Carrot Top Season. When Trixie tries to dissuade Carrot Top from helping look for the foalnapped Apple Bloom, CT guilt-trips her by saying that she wouldn't have the same attitude if it were Dinky who fell victim.
- In Chapter 9 of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the griffon ambassador expresses displeasure about not being told about the arrival of Midsummer Night and its pilots. Yet when Celestia reminds him of his own nation's similar obligations to inform Equestria of unusual activity, he tries, however clumsily, to worm his way out of it.
- A Case Study in the Sturdiness of the Rookie 9:
- Ino terrorizes her teammates by constantly controlling them with her clan's mind-swapping jutsus, but is utterly furious when Team Seven betrays them in the Forest of Death, accusing Sakura and Shino of forcing Chouji to go along with their plan... much like how she forces Naruto and Kiba to comply with her demands. Justified in that Asuma encouraged Ino's abuse.
- Along similar lines, Sakura and Shino both feel righteously justified in their anger towards Team Ten, while either failing or refusing to recognize the part they played in creating the grudges that others now hold against them.
- A Drop of Poison: Kiritori treats Naruto like absolute crap, but swiftly grows fond of one of Naruto's shadow clones, Muremanu. Naruto grows increasingly resentful of this and eventually calls Kiritori out, wanting to know why he's so willing to support one orphaned boy and provide them with support and guidance while going out of his way to harass and belittle another.
- Escape From The Hokage's Hat: Danzo doesn't want anything bad to happen to Konoha. He has zero problems doing this to other villages to ensure this. Kakashi preaches that you don't abandon your allies or you are worse than trash yet when Sasuke does just that (and is promptly hit by Laser-Guided Karma) he mopes about everyone hating Sasuke for it.
- Legacy Of The Rasengan: Naruto has an angry Naruto call Sakura out on this in Chapter 19, after she impulsively broke into Naruto's apartment and stole his private scrolls. He points out that for all the times he and other people have tried being good friends to her, Sakura just keeps brushing them off for Sasuke, and she never thinks of how her actions affect the people around her as long as she thinks they'll impresses the guy. Sakura silently acknowledges that he's completely right and it takes her showing that she wants following his lead, creating her own unique jutsu as an apology in order to start regain his trust.
- Team 8: During their battle at the Chuunin Exams, Kiba and Akamaru use Gatsuuga on Shino. When Kiba sees that his ninken partner was wounded, he promptly calls his opponent a bastard, furious at the prospect of them defending themselves during their fight.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness:
- Dark suffers from this. For example, in Act III chapter 8, after being resurrected/resummoned after Tsukune's inner ghoul killed him, he tries to murder Tsukune outright because of the ghoul, knowing full well that in killing Tsukune, he'd be doing the exact same thing to Moka that the ghoul did to Mizore. Furthermore, in Act VI, when Arial nearly kills Mizore in a jealous rage, Dark comes up with lame excuses to justify Arial's behavior, when he had previously killed people just for looking at Mizore the wrong way; however, the situation with Arial can be justified, since she's his guardian angel and Dark just cannot live with forsaking her.
- Also in Act III chapter 8, Felucia and Mizore, after openly supporting Dark's view that Tsukune's inner ghoul is too dangerous to be kept alive even with the Holy Lock, actively fight Moka and Kokoa to prevent them from stopping Dark from killing Tsukune. Kokoa calls them out on it, pointing out that they know how it feels to lose someone they love and are doing the same thing to Moka; while this gets through to Mizore and causes her to hesitate, Felucia is not so easily swayed.
- In Act III chapter 24, when Apoch and Astreal regain consciousness after getting beaten up by Inner Moka, they're instantly terrified at the sight of her and scream about how she's going to kill them. As Inner Moka points out, they have little room to talk, considering the fact that the entire reason Inner Moka beat then up in the first place is because they tried to kill Yukari. Additionally, in Act III chapter 23, they remark that they distrust Yukari to be around Ahakon because she "never learns and chases after those who are taken," and when their actions cause Ahakon to break up with them in favor of Yukari, they themselves spend the rest of the fic chasing after Ahakon, who is now already taken, and even try to seduce him and steal him back at least once.
- The original Jovian and Jacqueline who served as Hokuto's Co-Dragons absolutely thrive on pain, violence, and mass destruction... as long as they're the aggressors, not the victims. Case in point: in Act IV, Jovian had previously killed the original Apoch in cold blood during Act III and spent several chapters of Act IV going on a massively destructive rampage through Tsukune's hometown alongside Jacqueline For the Evulz, but in Act IV chapter 28, the minute Apoch and Astreal successfully kill Jacqueline, Jovian completely drops all pretense of playfulness and starts spamming Wave Motion Guns at the Ezranas in an Unstoppable Rage.
- Hokuto himself. He holds the nihilistic view that all life, human and monster alike, is naturally evil and violent, with living things destroying everything around them for no good reason. He himself is just as violent and destructive, with Jovian and Jacqueline's aforementioned rampage in Act IV being done on his orders.
- After accepting her role as Dark's guardian angel/mother figure in Act VI, Arial insists that Mizore isn't good enough for Dark in part because Mizore doesn't respect her; considering the fact that Arial had previously nearly murdered Mizore in a jealous rage, stole her engagement ring right off of her hand, and is continuing to be a complete jerkass to Mizore despite all of her attempts to reason with her and win her approval, Arial has done absolutely nothing to deserve any respect from Mizore.
- Children of Remnant: The conspiracy to assassinate Jaune come to the conclusion that Jaune must be controlling Blake to serve him somehow since Blake was persuaded to attack her own mother in his name. Not once does it cross their mind that Kali, for all intents and purposes, isn't Blake's mother anymore, or that Kali stabbing her brother in the throat may have provoked her.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
- In Home, Horde Prime ate and drank things other than amniotic fluid and "[partook] in the flesh", something that the horde clones think is forbidden for them. While the Speaker thinks that Horde Prime is a perfect being and is allowed to do such things, Hordak takes it as a sign that the fact that he "would break his doctrine when it suited him" meant he wasn't a leader worth following.
- Purple Days: In the Bloody Lion iteration of the "Groundhog Day" Loop, Lord Darry pleads with Joffrey to spare his son because the latter is just a boy, which prompts a furious Joffrey to point out that every armed peasant in Darry's service was or had a mere boy themselves yet he didn't spare a thought for them before dragging them into a skirmish based on his blasted pride.
- Rose Quartz and Pearl both exhibit this in Ask White Pearl and Steven (almost!) anything after learning what kind of gem Steven is:
- Rose accuses Steven of being none other than White Diamond in disguise, having rotated his/her gem around and taken on a smaller, less threatening form, feigning innocence and ignorance while pretending to be somebody else. What's ironic about this is that Rose is none other than Pink Diamond herself, and has kept the surviving Crystal Gems (sans Pearl) and everyone else who knows her Locked Out of the Loop for over 5,000 years.
- Pearl attempts to convince White Pearl to leave Steven and join the Crystal Gems. She takes considerable offense at White Pearl implying that they're a Cult of Personality centered around Rose, insisting that this is her chance to finally become her own gem... despite the fact that Pearl is actually pretty fanatically loyal to Rose, AKA her own Diamond.
- In Sword Art Online Abridged, there's Kirito's response to Yui's idea of a joke (i.e. faking her death right in front of her adoptive parents).Kirito: Okay, sweetie? I'm gonna let you in on a little-known secret of comedy: bad things aren't funny when they happen to Daddy.
Yui: What about Mommy?
Kirito: (without skipping a beat) Oh, Mommy's fair game, go for the throat.
- Beast Boy and Raven Join PETA: The ALF and PETA claim that it's perfectly moral for them to kill animals.
- In the Continuation Fic The Return, H-Neun calls Nao out for not feeling anything when she shot a cannon at a ship full of his countrymen, who he then had to see slaughtered. She promptly pointed out that they were soldiers who had been attacking them and he did worse on Module 77 under Cain's order, killing students who weren't capable of fighting back and using poison gas so he's not innocent himself. Once she's gone, he does agree and needed to take his anger out on her for living as a traitor rather than dying loyally.
- Dilandau's penchant for slapping his men is exaggerated in Vision of Escaflowne Abridged, to the point where one of them forgets what he's doing and desperately tries to defect when someone DOESN'T bitchslap him. But so help you if he catches someone else treating his Dragonslayers like dirt.Dilandau: No-one bitchslaps my men but me!
