History DudeWheresMyRespect / AnimeAndManga

** Before any of this though, we have Suzaku, who spends most of the series trying to work within Britannia to change the system. Problem is, he's a low-ranking Honorary Britannian, which has him sent for cannon fodder missions for much of Season 1.

** Goku is seen as the HopeBringer among his family and friends. Outside that circle, however, no one knows or cares about him. This is mostly because Goku purposely keeps himself under the radar, preferring to live a peaceful and calm life when fighting is not involved. However, Goku has helped a number of people and he was actually known as the person who beat King Piccolo and his son, saving the world (King Furry tried to give Goku a medal for defeating King Piccolo, but an oblivious Goku left before he could). He is also a winner of the World Martial Arts Tournament and runner-up two years in a row with matches that are considered legendary. Also, thanks to Babidi's magic, the entire world saw him fight Buu at Super Saiyan 3 and cheered him on. Yet, when Goku asked for help to form the Spirit Bomb to kill Buu, only a few people cared. Only the people who knew Goku throughout his life or met him personally offered anything. ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' averts this, however, with Mr. Satan giving him the reward money he got as the [[FakeUltimateHero world savior]] as his way of thanking him as well as keeping him quiet about things. While widely considered to be non-canon and to have no bearing on ''Dragon Ball Z'', the finale of ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' finally does away with this and has the world acknowledge Goku as a hero, with there being a statue of him still standing at the site of the World Tournament 100 years after he was last seen.

* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': It doesn't matter how many times Naofumi saves Melromarc--The three other heroes and the ruling family still find reasons to hate him. Although it's also kinda averted because people like Raphtalia are grateful for the things he did.

* In ''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' this happened to the Hero and some of his companions after they defeated the Demon Lord, much to the Demon Lord's horror when he comes back to life:

** Leo, his second in command and almost equal, was given a large amount of wastelands as a "reward" and then cut off with his followers. Since they were now forced into independence they created the Gamma Republic and worked hard to cultivate the lands, eventually finding precious magical ore... At which point the kingdom declared them all traitors and criminals and started a war to try and steal the land.

* Ataru Moroboshi from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' saved the world ''in the first chapter/episode''. Everyone but Lum tend to treat him as an idiotic parasite, and his girlfriend Shinobu went back on her promise to marry him if he succeeded (and later broke up with him).

** Schneizel [[spoiler:is able to convince the Black Knights to turn on Lelouch using half-truths, despite the large amount he did for their cause]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The Straw Hat Pirates fall to this quite a bit. It's granted that they ARE pirates, and most of the time the people don't even know it was them in the first place, and if they do it's usually because of their wanted posters. Chopper, in particular, when he gets his first wanted poster, is appalled to find that the Marines have classed him as the Straw Hats' [[TeamPet pet]], and given him a bounty of ''50''. (Even currently, it's only 1000, and that's just because the bounties of the whole crew went up.) To compare, the second-lowest bounty in the crew is of several hundred millions. Though when they get to Fish-Man Island [[spoiler:the Fishman Princes are looking for them, not to arrest them, to deliver a message from their mutual friend Jimbe and invite them back to the Royal Castle]]. This all changes after the Impel Down Arc, where Luffy and his crew are either respected or ''feared'', thanks to the incident in Sabaody Archipelago, the mass-breakout in Impel Down -- the World Government's "unbreakable" prison, and Luffy taking part in the War in Marineford just a day after. [[TimeSkip Two years later]], [[ShroudedInMyth entire legends spread around them]] implying their ruthlessness, and Luffy being barely human.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Touma Kamijou has saved countless numbers of lives, saved Academy City in a few instance, and saved the ''entire world'' on more than one occasion. Despite this, the second the trouble is over, he's back to being luck's ButtMonkey. Usually signified when Index shows up and gives him the usual bite on the head. ''The President of the United States'' once appeared on national TV and radio and praised Touma as the hero who ended the conflict against Othinus and convinced her to pull a HeelFaceTurn. Touma still doesn't get any respect.

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': The main character is looked down on by the other adventurers for doing nothing but fight low-level goblins while they're off fighting demons and whatnot. Subverted with the guild girls who actually give out the quests; [[NotSoHarmlessVillain they are well aware of how dangerous goblins are]] since they see unprepared young parties go out to fight them and never come back. Therefore, they love Goblin Slayer since he's the only one doing anything about it, and snub the higher-level adventurers. The commonfolk who usually have to deal with the goblins are fond of him, too. However, Goblin Slayer himself doesn't care what anybody thinks of him as long as he gets to kill goblins. After the goblin raid on the town in Volume 1, the other adventurers have warmed up to him somewhat: He's a goblin-obsessed weirdo, but he's ''their'' goblin-obsessed weirdo.

* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'' Quenser and Heivia are famous for the uncanny ability to destroy Objects on their own, a task previously thought impossible. However within the military they are still given grunt work and receive no official recognition for their work due to being a civilian and private who regularly violate orders and regulations.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'', Kyousuke goes through great lengths to help Kirino's secret hobby become accepted by their father and her best friend Ayase. He also helps her to meet Saori and Kuroneko, which she forms a strong bond with and would never have met on her own. And even though he didn't really want to, he plays the gal games and eroge that Kirino dumps on him. Despite this and more, she still treats him like dirt for the most part.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': It doesn't matter how many times Naofumi saves Melromarc--The three other heroes and the ruling family still find reasons to hate him. Although it's also kinda averted because people like Raphtalia are grateful for the things he did.

* ''LightNovel/SkyWizardsAcademy'':

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The Straw Hat Pirates fall to this quite a bit. It's granted that they ARE pirates, and most of the time the people don't even know it was them in the first place, and if they do it's usually because of their wanted posters. Chopper, in particular, when he gets his first wanted poster, is appalled to find that the Marines have classed him as the Straw Hats' [[TeamPet pet]], and given him a bounty of ''50''. (Even currently, it's only 100, and that's just because the bounties of the whole crew went up.) To compare, the second-lowest bounty in the crew at the time was ''16,000,000''. Though when they get to Fish-Man Island [[spoiler:the Fishman Princes are looking for them, not to arrest them, to deliver a message from their mutual friend Jimbe and invite them back to the Royal Castle]]. This all changes after the Impel Down Arc, where Luffy and his crew are either respected or ''feared'', thanks to the incident in Sabaody Archipelago, the mass-breakout in Impel Down -- the World Government's "unbreakable" prison, and Luffy taking part in the War in Marineford just a day after. [[TimeSkip Two years later]], [[ShroudedInMyth entire legends spread around them]] implying their ruthlessness, and Luffy being barely human.

* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' and her teammates on the Kiyosumi mahjong team often gets this, despite having advanced far in the tournament. The media tend to focus on Nodoka who, despite her accomplishments in the middle school tournament the previous year, isn't as good as Saki, and there are those who would claim that [[GagBoobs Nodoka's breasts are the only reason she gets attention]]. In the first round of the quarterfinals of the tournament, one reporter gets chewed out by his colleague for even considering giving an interview to Yuuki, and he's told that Nagano is a weak prefecture. Yuuki gets offended because it not only insults her and her teammates, but also their opponents who gave their all in the prefectural finals.

** Ash is still treated as an average trainer by new trainers that he meets despite the numerous accomplishments he has achieved. You would think that a guy who won against 36 Gym Leaders in 5 regions and got up into at least the top 10 in the league challenges that followed, ''beat'' the Orange League champion, defeated the Battle Frontier, has befriended and caught numerous Pokemon over his years of traveling, won numerous conventional battles and even those he lost against ended up respecting his talent, has helped out countless people who were in trouble, and on at least a dozen occasions saved the world from the wrath of legendary Pokemon would get a little recognition now and again. It seems extremely implausible that he hasn't at least gotten a few reporters asking for an interview or entered a town or two that has heard about him. It doesn't help that [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe how good Ash, along with how strong his Pikachu is, depends entirely on what the plot requires.]] He might vary from coming off as an average trainer, simply because if he was kept consistent after each season there would be no tension. The only humans who ever really respected him were Gary after the two reconciled, his mother, and Prof. Oak. Pokémon themselves, however, respect him immensely, with many Legendaries regarding him as a ChosenOne at various points (particularly in [[Anime/Pokemon2000 the second film]] and ''Best Wishes'').
** In an episode of ''Sun and Moon'', Mallow, one of Ash's classmates at the Pokémon School in Alola, quits her father's restaurant because she feels she doesn't get the respect she deserves for her contributions to the restaurant.
** Ash finally starts to get out of this in ''Journeys'' -- while he still has to climb from the bottom for the right to face Leon, his past major opponents and allies definitely give him their due. He also has a few fans in Alola [[spoiler:due to being the region's first Champion]].

--> '''Barnaby''': Don't tell me you actually want some praise, too!

* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': For all of Miko's hard efforts to keep order in the school, she's constantly mocked behind her back and thought of as an annoying try hard. It's heavily implied that she wants some sort of validation for her work, given that she listens to encouragement [=CDs=] in her spare time and her most precious middle school memory being the mysterious "thank you" letter. [[spoiler:Also, the trigger for her developing feelings for Ishigami during the culture festival is him showing her a video he took of everyone laughing and having fun at the bonfire that she worked so hard to get approved.]] That said, this is strictly limited to her classmates, as Chapter 115 shows that all the members of the Neighborhood Association recognize her hard work and tend to dote on her, and by the end of the series she's earned enough respect that she wins the position of StudentCouncilPresident in a LandslideElection.]]

* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': For all of Miko's hard efforts to keep order in the school, she's constantly mocked behind her back and thought of as an annoying try hard. It's heavily implied that she wants some sort of validation for her work, given that she listens to encouragement [=CDs=] in her spare time and her most precious middle school memory being the mysterious "thank you" letter. [[spoiler:Also, the trigger for her developing feelings for Ishigami during the culture festival is him showing her a video he took of everyone laughing and having fun at the bonfire that she worked so hard to get approved.]] That said, this is strictly limited to her classmates, as Chapter 115 shows that all the members of the Neighborhood Association recognize her hard work and tend to dote on her.

* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': For all of Miko's hard efforts to keep order in the school, she's constantly mocked behind her back and thought of as an annoying try hard. It's heavily implied that she wants some sort of validation for her work, given that she listens to encouragement [=CDs=] in her spare time and her most precious middle school memory being the mysterious "thank you" letter.

** Kuriboh. ''Seriously''. From Kaiba onwards, it's hard to find a rival, antagonist, or villain who is willing to describe the little guy with an adjective better than "worthless", despite the fact that, time and time again, it and its many variations have protected its owners from monsters with godlike powers, saving them and the world as a whole from certain doom each time. (The worst part about this is, some of these folks use monsters that are, if you compare the numbers, even weaker than a Kuriboh, showing incredible hypocrisy in their words.)

* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' and her teammates on the Kiyosumi mahjong team often gets this, despite having advanced far in the tournament. The media tend to focus on Nodoka who, despite her accomplishments in the middle school tournament the previous year, isn't as good as Saki, and there are those who would claim that [[GagBoobs Nodoka's breasts are the only reason she gets attention]]. In the first round of the quarterfinals of the tournament, one reporter gets chewed out by his colleague for even considering giving an interview to Yuuki, and he's told that Nagano is a weak prefecture.

* The Jersey Club in ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'' spends most of their time wandering around helping other clubs, rescuing drowning children, and...what was that last thing? Oh, right: [[BigDamnHeroes repeatedly saving the town and/or planet from annihilation at the hands of alien invaders.]] But, despite knowing all of this, the student council tries to take their teensy clubroom away because they're technically not an official club. They try to recruit a fourth member because 3 is too few for a club -- rules are rules, apparently -- but most people dismiss them as weirdos (even though the clubmembers are usually very popular), and they only manage to get one prodigious [[CuteClumsyGirl klutz]] who quits by the end of the episode.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Ash is still treated as an average trainer by new trainers that he meets despite the numerous accomplishments he has achieved. You would think that a guy who won against 36 Gym Leaders in 5 regions and got up into at least the top 10 in the league challenges that followed, ''beat'' the Orange League champion, defeated the Battle Frontier, has befriended and caught numerous Pokemon over his years of traveling, won numerous conventional battles and even those he lost against ended up respecting his talent, has helped out countless people who were in trouble, and on at least a dozen occasions saved the world from the wrath of legendary Pokemon would get a little recognition now and again. It seems extremely implausible that he hasn't at least gotten a few reporters asking for an interview or entered a town or two that has heard about him. It doesn't help that [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe how good Ash, along with how strong his Pikachu is, depends entirely on what the plot requires.]] He might vary from coming off as an average trainer, simply because if he was kept consistent after each season there would be no tension. The only humans who ever really respected him were Gary after the two reconciled, his mother, and Prof. Oak. Pokémon themselves, however, respect him immensely, with many Legendaries regarding him as a ChosenOne at various points (particularly in [[Anime/Pokemon2000 the second film]] and ''Best Wishes'').

** Jonouchi has had several amazing victories over cheaters, put up a tremendous fight against the duelists he lost against, and helped save the world several times. Yet, everyone treats him like a joke or has no idea who he is. He even defeated Marik before anyone else did (taking a direct hit from Ra, something even ''he'' doesn't know how he survived), he technically lost the duel because he succumbed to exhaustion at the last second from the shadow game, but he was literally one move away from ending the arc on his own. (That may have been the one time Kaiba said anything about him may have come close to a compliment.) He does get a ''little'' respect, just not much that he knows about, with Pegasus himself in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' saying in a flashback scene that he considered Jonouchi the third-best duelist he had encountered. (Pegasus invented the game, so a guy can't help but trust his opinion here.)

** Goku is seen as the HopeBringer among his family and friends. Outside that circle, however, no one knows or cares about him. This is mostly because Goku purposely keeps himself under the radar, preferring to live a peaceful and calm life when fighting is not involved. However, Goku has helped a number of people and he was actually known as the person who beat King Piccolo and his son, saving the world (King Furry tried to give Goku a medal for defeating King Piccolo, but an oblivious Goku left before he could). He is also a winner of the World Martial Arts Tournament and runner-up two years in a row with matches that are consider legendary. Also, thanks to Babidi's magic, the entire world saw him fight Buu at Super Saiyan 3 and cheered him on. Yet, when Goku asked for help to form the Spirit Bomb to kill Buu, only a few people cared. Only the people who knew Goku throughout his life or met him personally offered anything. ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' averts this, however, with Mr. Satan giving him the reward money he got as the [[FakeUltimateHero world savior]] as his way of thanking him as well as keeping him quiet about things. While widely considered to be non-canon and to have no bearing on ''Dragon Ball Z'', the finale of ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' finally does away with this and has the world acknowledge Goku as a hero, with there being a statue of him still standing at the site of the World Tournament 100 years after he was last seen.