History UngratefulBastard / LiveActionTV

* Chuck [=McGill=] from ''Series/BetterCallSaul''. His brother Jimmy slaves away and goes through all sorts of ridiculous hoops to keep him afloat despite his mental condition, and does all he can to help him return to the real world and practice law again and what's his thanks? [[spoiler: Chuck has been conspiring to keep Jimmy a dirt-poor lawyer with a terrible reputation, and won't let him get a job at HHM.]]

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]", {{Jerkass}} Fred Renard meets a [[PsychicPowers clairvoyant]] peddler who gives people items they'll need in the future, and demands something from him as well. He's given a pair of scissors that ends up saving his life when his scarf gets caught in an elevator, but instead of thanking him he instead demands that he help him cheat at gambling and attempts to kill him when he refuses. [[LaserGuidedKarma He's then hit by a car]] due to a pair of slippery shoes he stole from him, as predicted.

* ''Series/HenryDanger'': At the end of "Love Bytes", Ray is furious at Schwoz destroying the prized sword he used to destroy Halley with, despite the fact he saved his life.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' had an entire episode based around this trope. In "The Good Samaritan", Frasier spends all day doing good deeds, but every person he helps turns out to be a jerk. He returns a man's wallet only for the man to accuse him of stealing money out of it. Then, he helps a woman put her dog into her car and she drives off without even thanking him. Then, he helps a man fix a tire on his car only for the man to threaten to sue him because he scratched the car with his cufflinks. Finally, Frasier picks up a woman left in the rain, only to find out that she's really a prostitute (and a guy) and gets arrested for it. The last one turned out to be just an ''ImagineSpot'' Frasier thought of as what was the worst thing that can happen. He then decides to pick up the woman for real, and she turns out to be very grateful.

* ''Series/HenryDanger'': At the end of "Love Bytes", Ray is furious at Schwoz destroying the prized sword he used to destroy Halley with, despite the fact he saved his life.
* Nina is this to Fabian MANY times on ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'', most notably when he rescues her from falling into the chasm.
-->'''Fabian''': I...I saved you...
-->'''Nina''': Oh yeah? Well, why don't you save the other girl (Joy Mercer) in this dress?!
** Fabian has also tended to be like this towards Joy in Season 3.
*** Also [[ManipulativeBastard Rufus Zeno]]. Patricia had taken a huge risk and rescued him from the hospital when the teachers had put him into some sort of coma, and he repaid her by kidnapping her later on.

** Maris, the [[THeGhost unseen]] former wife of Niles, apparently sees gratitude as a foreign concept. Whenever Niles goes through Hell to please her, she does not show him any sort of respect whatsoever. It is honestly quite cathartic when Niles finally decides to divorce her.

** In the episode "Sleeping Dogs", Archer and his crew save a Klingon ship in two ways: they cure the crew of a neurotoxin that they'd all unknowingly ingested and save the ship itself from being crushed in the atmosphere of a gas giant. When the Klingon captain recovers, he immediately demands Archer's surrender, even threatening to fire on ''Enterprise''. Archer tells him to shove it up his torpedo tubes before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere warping away]]. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Archer himself: "Remind me to stop trying to help people."

--> '''Archer:''' Are you saying you owe Daniels' people your lives?\\

* In the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', {{Jerkass}} Fred Renard meets a [[PsychicPowers clairvoyant]] peddler who gives people items they'll need in the future, and demands something from him as well. He's given a pair of scissors that ends up saving his life when his scarf gets caught in an elevator, but instead of thanking him he instead demands that he help him cheat at gambling and attempts to kill him when he refuses. [[LaserGuidedKarma He's then hit by a car]] due to a pair of slippery shoes he stole from him, as predicted.

** Clayton Hughes is unable to show any sort of gratitude to anyone. Glynn repeatedly covers for his mistakes and drops out of his campaign for lieutenant governor to take care of him, which Hughes repays by viewing him as a CategoryTraitor and trying to murder him. His mother is nothing but loving and even visits him in prison, which he rewards by bitching at her for sheltering him. Yood and Basil's efforts to be friendly with him are met with Hughes behaving like a total {{Jerkass}} just [[AngryBlackMan because Yood is white.]]

** Despite her family relying on Richard Fuisz financially to help them out, Elizabeth avoids going to him for help in starting up her medical technology company. It makes no sense to Fuisz since he founded and sold off a medical technology company himself. He actually goes on to invent and patent a technology that would make dealing with him essential, only for Elizabeth and Theranos ''to sue him''.