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* ''Fanfic/TheTaleOfACatMostCurious'' ([[https://archiveofourown.org/works/53913826/chapters/136464688 link]]): All of the main characters are selfish and self-serving in some way.
** The [[VillainProtagonist Curious Cat]] is treated more empathetically than in canon, but they're still bitter, self-serving and desperate to escape the Ever After's confines after aeons of being trapped there so that they can acquire new knowledge to sate their intrinsic hunger for information, not least of all longing to understand why the Brother Gods abandoned them and the Ever After to create the Remnantians. The Cat is willing to deceive, manipulate and kill if it comes down to it in order to achieve that goal.
** Neopolitan's only motivation is avenging her own personal loss of Roman Torchwick, and she's much more willing than the Cat is to endanger the Afterans, and previously the population of Atlas-Mantle, to get her own revenge or just for her amusement without any signs of remorse.
** RWBY/J see themselves as the heroes saving the day, but their actions, behaviour and thoughts speak of profound selfishness and lack of empathy which reaches sociopathic levels; from RWBY/J's roles in the destruction of Atlas-Mantle, to their mostly banal and self-centred reactions to the aftermath, to their callous treatments of the Atlas-Mantle refugees, the Afterans and even each-other. Yang Xiao-Long and Blake Belladonna are characterised as delusional narcissists who don't truly care for anyone or anything but themselves and their relationship, and are pathologically incapable of admitting that they're in the wrong. Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc are understandably traumatised, but they also care more about how it reflects on themselves and feelings self-pity than they do about the people they've objectively gotten hurt. Ultimately, RWBY/J care more about themselves and about flattering their own self-images as the archetypal heroes in their self-serving mental narratives than they do about ''actually'' doing heroic things which objectively help others.

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* ''Fanfic/TheTaleOfACatMostCurious'' ([[https://archiveofourown.org/works/53913826/chapters/136464688 link]]): All of the main characters characters, protagonist and antagonists, are selfish and self-serving in some way.
** The [[VillainProtagonist Curious Cat]] is treated more empathetically than in canon, but they're still bitter, self-serving and desperate to escape the Ever After's confines after aeons of being trapped there so that they can acquire new knowledge to that will sate their intrinsic hunger for information, not least of all longing to understand why the Brother Gods abandoned them and the Ever After to create the Remnantians. The Cat is willing to deceive, manipulate and kill if it comes down to it in order to achieve that goal.
goal. They know that the Ever After will lack a psychopomp to guide Afterans with hearts too weak to listen back to the Tree, but after aeons of giving bits of their heart away to Afterans and getting nothing back to fix them while their mental state declined, the Cat thinks they've earned the right to selfishly help theirself.
** Neopolitan's only motivation is avenging her own personal loss of Roman Torchwick, and she's much more willing than the Cat is to endanger the Afterans, and previously the population of Atlas-Mantle, to get her own revenge or just for her amusement without any signs of amusement, showing no remorse.
** RWBY/J see themselves as the heroes saving the day, but their actions, behaviour and thoughts speak of profound selfishness and profoundly selfish people who lack of empathy which reaches to a sociopathic levels; degree; from RWBY/J's their roles in the breakdown of General Ironwood and the destruction of Atlas-Mantle, through to their mostly banal and self-centred reactions to in the aftermath, to and their callous treatments of the Atlas-Mantle refugees, the Afterans and even each-other. Yang Xiao-Long and Blake Belladonna are characterised as delusional narcissists who don't truly care for anyone or anything but themselves and their relationship, and are they're pathologically incapable of admitting that they're in the wrong. Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc are understandably traumatised, but they also care more about how it reflects their failures reflect on their heroic self-images and feeling sorry for themselves and feelings self-pity than they do about the people they've objectively gotten hurt. Ultimately, RWBY/J care more about themselves and about flattering their own self-images as the archetypal heroes in their self-serving mental narratives than they do about ''actually'' doing heroic things which objectively help others.
the people they claim to be protecting.
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* ''Fanfic/TheTaleOfACatMostCurious'' ([[https://archiveofourown.org/works/53913826/chapters/136464688 link]]): All of the main characters are selfish and self-serving in some way.
** The [[VillainProtagonist Curious Cat]] is treated more empathetically than in canon, but they're still bitter, self-serving and desperate to escape the Ever After's confines after aeons of being trapped there so that they can acquire new knowledge to sate their intrinsic hunger for information, not least of all longing to understand why the Brother Gods abandoned them and the Ever After to create the Remnantians. The Cat is willing to deceive, manipulate and kill if it comes down to it in order to achieve that goal.
** Neopolitan's only motivation is avenging her own personal loss of Roman Torchwick, and she's much more willing than the Cat is to endanger the Afterans, and previously the population of Atlas-Mantle, to get her own revenge or just for her amusement without any signs of remorse.
** RWBY/J see themselves as the heroes saving the day, but their actions, behaviour and thoughts speak of profound selfishness and lack of empathy which reaches sociopathic levels; from RWBY/J's roles in the destruction of Atlas-Mantle, to their mostly banal and self-centred reactions to the aftermath, to their callous treatments of the Atlas-Mantle refugees, the Afterans and even each-other. Yang Xiao-Long and Blake Belladonna are characterised as delusional narcissists who don't truly care for anyone or anything but themselves and their relationship, and are pathologically incapable of admitting that they're in the wrong. Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc are understandably traumatised, but they also care more about how it reflects on themselves and feelings self-pity than they do about the people they've objectively gotten hurt. Ultimately, RWBY/J care more about themselves and about flattering their own self-images as the archetypal heroes in their self-serving mental narratives than they do about ''actually'' doing heroic things which objectively help others.
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* Alya's FatalFlaw in ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'' is that she either can't or ''won't'' think about anything beyond how it benefits her and her boyfriend.
** The entire fiasco in question boils down to the pair {{taking advantage of|Generosity}} Marinette's reluctance to "let her friends down" by constantly asking her to look after their younger siblings for them, for free and frequently with very short notice, while they run around behind their parents' backs. When Marinette is eventually forced to cancel one time since all the babysitting has caused her to fall behind on her studies, Alya passive-aggressively 'encourages' her to "Go catch up so you can actually babysit next time!", not caring one whit about how much she's been struggling.
** Once her parents discover what she's been doing, Alya complains bitterly about how having her allowance docked is preventing her from buying the new camera she was saving up for, along with [[YouAreGrounded being grounded]]. She also refuses to admit [[NeverMyFault that they'd done anything wrong]], despite how they'd clearly ''known'' well enough to have been sneaking around/hiding everything from their parents in the first place.
** As Marlena privately notes, Alya only cares about the revelation that Lila was [[LiarRevealed deceiving everyone]] insofar as it impacts ''her'' '''personally''', grousing about how posting her claims on the Ladyblog has destroyed ''her'' credibility and trying to blame her for everything that's gone wrong.
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* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'':
** His Quirk name says it all. Not even [[TheDragon Tomura]], [[UndyingLoyalty Gigantomachia]], [[MoralityPet Yoichi]] or [[SuperiorSuccessor Luz]] are exceptions to All For One's egomania, viewing them more as extensions of his will than their own person's.
** When it comes down to it, the Death Camp is for Governor Maxwell's sake rather than for his country's, fearing the new Quirk users in the U.S. will plot to overthrow him.
** Kennedy planned to keep the $10 billion prize money to himself after his team wins the game and leave the rest of his teammates out in the cold.
** Tyler Wittebane only cares about himself and his goals. At the end of the day, everything he does his for his own benefit: hiring assassins after people he doesn't like, and wishes to eradicate all superhumans and other supernatural beings, believing it was his destiny by God to do it. All he wants is for the world to reflect his viewpoint and for there to be no dissenting opinions, [[spoiler:much like his ancestor Belos before him.]]
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** ''Field Trip'': Father Scorch only cares about imposing his world order about [[FantasticRacism Faunus-supremacy]] and [[HeteronormativeCrusader the irradiation of homosexuality]]. Any followers who don't live up to this code will have to kill their lovers or be killed themselves. He outright confirms his self-centered nature [[spoiler: during the train bombings]].
** ''Recovery'' and ''Atlas'': Jacques Schnee constantly proves this to be true. Even more than in canon. He is rather controlling of others and only does things for his own benefit. [[spoiler: The reason he joins Salem is that she promises to let him rule Atlas. Basically, it's a huge ego trip.]]

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** ''Field Trip'': Father Scorch only cares about imposing his world order about [[FantasticRacism Faunus-supremacy]] and [[HeteronormativeCrusader the irradiation erradication of homosexuality]]. Any followers who don't live up to this code will have to kill their lovers or be killed themselves. He outright confirms his self-centered nature [[spoiler: during the train bombings]].
** ''Recovery'' and ''Atlas'': Jacques Schnee constantly proves this to be true. Even more than in canon. He is rather controlling of others and only does things for his own benefit. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The reason he joins Salem is that she promises to let him rule Atlas. Basically, it's a huge ego trip.]]
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*In ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'', Dana's entire blog consists of nothing but complaining about how Mary's actions affect her, along with blaming her for everything that goes wrong, [[NeverMyFault even when she herself is responsible.]] Plus, whenever she's called out for her actions towards Mary, with Lianna at one point telling her to listen to Mary for once, she says "Why can't anyone listen to me for once?!". Then when the cops point out in Chapter 10 that her treatment of Mary is abuse, she complains about what would the cops know about child abuse since as far as Dana knows they never experienced it despite tons of people having experienced child abuse. She's basically consumed by the ideas Dr. Goldman put into her head about autistic people and reacts violently whenever Mary engages in stimming, tying into her being a ControlFreak. This quote sums it up best:
--> '''Todd:''' Can’t you see anything except in terms of how it affects you?!\\
'''Dana:''' No! I can’t! [[EvilCannotComprehendGood And I don’t see why you won’t!!]]
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14239491/1/Blood-and-Grenadine Blood and Grenadine]]'' Daphne mentions that her sister Astoria is ''upset'' that Voldemort kicked the bucket because Draco might not be able to marry her and "stay really rich".
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* Prue demonstrates a minor version of this in ''Fanfic/OnceAndFutureWitches'' when she and the others travel back to 1983 and Penny reveals that the girls’ childhood babysitter Lynne was the girls’ original Whitelighter. Prue notes that she always assumed Lynne stopped coming because Penny decided that Prue herself was too old for a babysitter, but in reality Lynne was killed by a Darklighter.
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* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': While [[Characters/CodePrimeMegatron Megatron]] started out as a revolutionary trying to bring equality to Cybertron, he soon became obsessed with gaining personal power, to the point that he started a civil war and destroyed his home planet, and hasn't slowed down since.
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* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'' has General Grievous[[spoiler:'s imposter]]. Whereas the Grievous from ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' hated the Jedi for all the suffering they caused his people, this Grievous hates the Jedi because they wouldn't let him join them, never mind that it's impossible for a non-Force-sensitive to become a Jedi in the first place. The author has also stated that this Grievous didn't fight in the Huk War and didn't care about the other Kaleesh, only about getting power for himself.

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* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. vs Warhammer 40K]]'' has General Grievous[[spoiler:'s imposter]]. Whereas the Grievous from ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' hated the Jedi for all the suffering they caused his people, this Grievous hates the Jedi because they wouldn't let him join them, never mind that it's impossible for a non-Force-sensitive to become a Jedi in the first place. The author has also stated that this Grievous didn't fight in the Huk War and didn't care about the other Kaleesh, only about getting power for himself.
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* In ''Fanfic/TorqueJakAndDaxter'', when [[spoiler:Jak saves Keira from Erol and she stands beside him]], Erol assumes that they have been scheming together to humiliate him before the Baron and undermine his authority. He couldn’t be more wrong on the entire situation.

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* ''Webcomic/DadVillainAU'': Emelie Agreste turns out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing who expects everything to go her way just as a matter of course. While her husband uses her as an UnwittingPawn in his scheme to punish Marinette for [[EvilIsPetty opposing him as Ladybug in the original reality]], said plan hinges upon Emelie casually using the Peacock Pin's powers despite it ''clearly'' being broken; nothing bad is happening to ''her'', so clearly there's nothing to worry about, right? She also treats Adrien with CondescendingCompassion, encouraging his dependence upon her and acting like he's more of a ''fancy pet'' than her ''son'', and uses [[IgnoredEnamouredUnderling Nathalie's crush on her]] to string her along for her own personal amusement.



** Chloé is so used to getting her way that she takes Marinette [[ForWantOfANail getting transferred into a different class]] as a personal challenge. All the more so when Ms. Mendeleiev makes clear that so far as ''she's'' concerned, the rules still apply to her ''despite'' [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her family's wealth]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her father being the Mayor]]. She's made it one of her goals to '''crush''' Marinette's spirit and teach her that she can't escape her so easily.

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** Chloé is so used to getting her way that she takes Marinette [[ForWantOfANail [[PointOfDivergence getting transferred into to a different class]] as a personal challenge. All the more so when Ms. Mendeleiev makes clear that so far as ''she's'' concerned, the rules still apply to her ''despite'' [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her family's wealth]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her father being the Mayor]]. She's made it one of her goals to '''crush''' Marinette's spirit and teach her that she can't escape her so easily.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5454443/1/Not-Better-Just-Different Not Better, Just Different]]'', [[spoiler:Rose arranges for Martha to continue travelling with the Doctor rather than Donna so that the Doctor will avoid the circumstances that led to the creation of the Metacrisis and Donna having her memory of him wiped. However, once the Daleks' plans for the Reality Bomb are defeated, Rose immediately assumes that the Doctor will want to be with her as he doesn't 'need' Martha anymore, rather than considering that the Doctor has just spent some time in a relationship with Martha in this timeline and may genuinely love her now; the Doctor later explicitly assures Rose that he ''did'' love her, but he's just moved on]].

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5454443/1/Not-Better-Just-Different Not Better, Just Different]]'', [[spoiler:Rose arranges for Martha to continue travelling with the Doctor rather than Donna so that the Doctor will avoid the circumstances that led to the creation of the Metacrisis and Donna having her memory of him wiped. However, once the Daleks' plans for the Reality Bomb are defeated, Rose immediately assumes that the Doctor will want to be with her ''her'' as he doesn't 'need' Martha anymore, rather than considering that the Doctor has just spent some time in a relationship with Martha in this timeline and may genuinely love her now; the Doctor later explicitly assures Rose that he ''did'' love her, but he's just moved on]].



* Fleur at least starts with this attitude in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33823474/chapters/84087325 Apex Predator]]'', seeing nothing wrong with seducing boys she finds interesting and discarding them when they become emotionally needy. Even when she first becomes interested in Harry, she is only interested in him as a conquest rather than a true partner, appreciating that he has power and a willingness to help others while also being comparatively submissive, although at least a part of her cares for him as more than just a convenient lay.

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* Fleur at least starts with this attitude in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33823474/chapters/84087325 Apex Predator]]'', seeing nothing wrong with seducing boys she finds interesting and discarding them when they become emotionally needy. Even when she first becomes interested in Harry, she is only interested in him as a conquest rather than a true partner, appreciating that he has power and a willingness to help others while also being comparatively submissive, although at least a part of her cares for him as more than just a convenient lay. lay even before they start forming a deeper relationship.
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* In ''Fanfic/TurningRedSecretsOfThePanda'', it's made quite clear as the story goes on that Jason Vaugn only cares about himself and the profit he gets, and doesn't give a damn about what happens to the civilians of Toronto.
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* ''Fanfic/TimeToDisinfect'': During her rant in chapter 9, Mari's mother frames everything Mari does in terms of how it affects ''her'', with no concern for Mari's feelings whatsoever.

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