History JerkassHasAPoint / WesternAnimation

** Calling [[Characters/Castlevania2017DraculasArmy Dracula]] a {{Jerkass}} for this particular action is a bit of a stretch since the nature of his company makes it KickTheSonOfABitch at worst. He states to his War Council's faces that the reason he trusts Hector and Isaac, a pair of ''human'' Forgemasters, more than any one of the generals among his own kind with the war effort to KillAllHumans, is because the Forgemasters joined Dracula out of genuine loyalty whilst the vampire lords only came for blood and carnage.

*** One odd, retroactive example comes from Powell's first appearance. There was no indication that he was a bad guy at the time and his decision to cut off Prometheus Black's funding was presented as entirely reasonable, since Black had not only failed to deliver a workable product but also gotten himself in legal hot water. Even when the audience learned just how much of a self-serving sleazebag Powell was, him dropping Black comes off as a KickTheSonOfABitch moment at worst, since Black was never a sympathetic character to begin with.

-->'''Boscha:''' ''(Reading)'' "Twice have I tarried at Tanabrack. Yet e'er have I kept my troth to thee, Azura."\\

** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsCharlesMontgomeryBurns Mr. Burns]] of all people gets this in "Mountain of Madness" when he's rightfully disgusted at the employees of the plant for being unable to co-operate with one another and evacuate the building in a timely manner during a fire drill. Considering how serious working at a nuclear plant is, that's something employees need to know for the sake of their own safety and others and Burns organizing a teamwork retreat in order to better the employees is arguably one of the most sensible decisions he's made as a boss.

** In "White Christmas Blues", Lisa buys the family gifts with a purpose such as radish seeds for Homer so he can lose weight and a book for Bart so he can learn something. Later, when she finds Bart burning the book she got him she is outraged at him destroying her gift. Bart counters by saying it's ''his'' gift that she gave him so he's free to do with it as he pleases. Aside from that, he points out she knew he wouldn't like the book and rather than getting the family gifts they'd actually like as is custom, she just got them stuff that would boost her ego and make her feel good about herself for buying them. Lisa realizes he's right and buys him an ebook with apps he can enjoy.
** After Homer dragged home a trampoline that injured half the kids in the neighborhood (and getting rid of it gets the family car trashed by Jimbo and the other bullies) Homer gets a passive aggressive silent treatment by Marge who kept telling him that the trampoline was a bad idea. However, Homer points out that yeah, the trampoline was a bad idea but at least he's willing to try new things and if he listened to Marge's nagging, he'd never do anything other than work and go to church. The next day, Marge asks the kids if they also think she just nags all the time, and they reluctantly agree that she does (the viewer is shown flashbacks to Marge's moralizing from past episodes). Marge isn't really able to come up with a counter-argument and decides to spend some time at her sisters.

** "Homer the Heretic" has this happening when Homer decides to stop going to church. Most of the arguments he makes are pretty reasonable, to the point that even God agrees (not observing the traditions doesn't make him a bad person, Reverend Lovejoy's sermons are too miserable and boring to affirm his faith, and God is everywhere and there are many forms of faith, so he's free to find it in his own way). However, while his reasoning is good, Homer's actual motivation for not going to church is just that he's lazy and he wants a free Sunday to lounge on the couch and eat fatty foods.
** Mr. Burns of all people gets this in "Mountain of Madness" when he's rightfully disgusted at the employees of the plant for being unable to co-operate with one another and evacuate the building in a timely manner during a fire drill. Considering how serious working at a nuclear plant is, that's something employees need to know for the sake of their own safety and others and Burns organizing a teamwork retreat in order to better the employees is arguably one of the most sensible decisions he's made as a boss.
** In "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation," a severely-impaired Homer confesses to a cab driver that he sometimes wishes he'd never gotten married or had kids because of the dreams he had to give up in order to support his family. The whole conversation is filmed for a hidden camera show and aired on TV. The rest of the family is furious and pick Homer up from work the next day to take him to what he assumes is a punishment of some kind, only to park at a rock-and-roll fantasy camp. They've paid for a week there out of the family vacation fund, realizing he really does make a lot of sacrifices for them and they've never thanked him.
--->'''Marge:''' We had a family meeting and decided that even though what you said about us was incredibly thoughtless and hurtful, you had a point.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', {{Jerkass}} Eric Cartman gets this quite a few times throughout the series, when his twisted worldview is occasionally proven true. Usually PlayedForLaughs like most everything else in the series.
** Cartman accidentally stumbled onto a real terrorist plot while accusing the new Middle-Eastern kid (who had nothing to do with it) of being a terrorist.

** In "Cartoon Wars, Part 1", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is set to depict the Muslim prophet Muhammad uncensored, resulting in several terrorist threats. Kyle tries to defend the Family Guy writers for standing up for free speech, while Cartman uncharacteristically points out that people can get hurt. Cartman even asks Kyle "If ten people die because Family Guy just had to have its little joke, will you still think it's funny? What if a hundred people died? Will it be funny ''then'', Kyle?" This leads to Kyle conceding the point, teaming up with Cartman to get the episode pulled. [[spoiler:It's ultimately subverted when Cartman later reveals that he doesn't care about people getting hurt; he's just exploiting the controversy in order to get ''Family Guy'' cancelled, due to a personal dislike of his humor being compared to the show. This turns Kyle's stance around, saying that letting things be censored because of these kind of threats allows terrorism to work.]]
** Cartman gets another good one in "Bass to Mouth." The school faculty consult him to help curb suicide attempts by students who crapped their pants, but balk at his plan to keep kids from being singled out by making everyone crap their pants with laxative-spiked pizza. Cartman then asks "Well, if you have a better idea, then why am I here?" One beat later, Mr. Mackey is on the phone, arranging a school Pizza Day.

** In "Born Again Krabs," after the Flying Dutchman (the Bikini Bottom version of Satan) is ready to drag Mr. Krabs to Davy Jones' Locker for being greedy, [=SpongeBob=] sticks up for his boss and wagers his own soul that Krabs is really generous. The Dutchman then offers Krabs a handful of pocket change in exchange for [=SpongeBob's=] soul, [[DirtyCoward which Krabs accepts without hesitation]]. Krabs gloats over the money, while the Dutchman departs with the sponge. Squidward, who hates [=SpongeBob=] with a passion, is absolutely ''[[EveryoneHasStandards disgusted]]'' with Krabs and angrily chews him out for [[UngratefulBastard selling SpongeBob out after he stuck up for him]], flat-out telling Krabs that he should be ashamed of himself. Krabs [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes Squidward is right and immediately repents]].

** In "Walking Small," when Plankton's attempts to use [=SpongeBob=] as an UnwittingPawn to clear Goo Lagoon of beachgoers for his new "Mega Bucket" backfire due to [=SpongeBob's=] passiveness, Plankton angrily chews [=SpongeBob=] out, remarking that he's just like stairs and always lets people "step all over him." Despite the fact that he was just manipulating [=SpongeBob=], he's right in that Sponge ''is'' an ExtremeDoormat.
** In the post-movie seasons, Squidward's hatred of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick has become far more justified, considering the fact that the two often barge into his home uninvited, and their antics often cause him physical injury. Even Mrs. Puff agreed with him when Squidward complained about [=SpongeBob=] being the bane of his existence.
** On another level, Squidward's attitude towards the Krusty Krab and its management is far more realistic than [=SpongeBob's=], especially since, among other things, Mr. Krabs is very much a BadBoss who regularly mistreats and underpays his employees.
** One episode has Plankton declare that he's giving up his pursuit of the Krabby Patty formula and converting the Chum Bucket into a knick-knack store called the Chumporium. Mr. Krabs doesn't buy it and, after his initial attempts to goad Plankton fail, he snaps and smashes up the Chumporium with a baseball bat while ranting about how obvious Plankton's charade is. Krabs eventually backs off, apologizes for his behaviour, and befriends the reformed Plankton... but of course, since StatusQuoIsGod, it turns out Plankton really ''wasn't'' reformed and was just tricking Krabs into letting his guard down. So while Krabs spent the first half of the episode being a total jerk, he was also completely correct about the Chumporium's true nature.
** In "Jellyfish Jam", Squidward is right when he tells [=SpongeBob=] that a jellyfish is a wild animal and not a pet. He gets proven right at the climax of the episode.
** In "Krusty Love", despite his unpleasant behavior, Mr. Krabs does have a leg to stand on in that he explicitly asked [=Spongebob=] not to let him spend any money, [[NoMatterHowMuchIBeg no matter what he might say or do to convince him otherwise.]] The problem is, [=Spongebob=]'s UndyingLoyalty and his tendencies to be something of an [[ExtremeDoormat Extreme Doormat]] really don't leave him equipped for a task like that.
** In "Night Light", Squidward was right to tell [=SpongeBob=] that there are no "creepy creatures of the dark" and all this darkness phobia was just in his imagination.

** In "Squid Baby", Squidward was awfully disturbed by [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick suddenly acting like babies while playing with the former's old baby toys, and insists they act their age, just seconds before undergoing Head-Go-Boom-Boom-itis. Also, Mr. Krabs, despite not caring about Squidward's condition at work, was right to tell [=SpongeBob=] not to change his diaper in front of everyone at the ordering counter as it's too disturbing for the customers, and sends him to the kitchen to change it there so he has privacy.

** In the episode "We Need To Talk", [[GreenEyedMonster Pearl]] lashes out at Greg, claiming Rose's love for him is 'just a phase.' While an incredibly cruel and [[FantasticRacism racist]] [[note]]given Greg and Rose's divergent lifespans/biological origins[[/note]] remark, it ''is'' true that Rose at the time didn't consider him her equal -- something Greg eventually realizes.
** In "It Could've Been Great" Peridot reveals what Homeworld's original plans for Earth were: [[spoiler: the Earth would have been used as a Gem breeding ground until all the life was sucked out of it, and then it would've been hollowed out and set up as a Gem colony. Peridot is flabbergasted that the Crystal Gems would fight to stop it, and insensitively but correctly points out that Rose's efforts to save the Earth ultimately doomed it anyway on a longer time scale, since the current threat, the planet-sized Cluster gem incubating underground, wouldn't have happened if the colony had proceeded as planned]]. The Crystal Gems are violently angry with her for insulting Rose's mission, but unfortunately, she's absolutely right. The planet would've been killed during colonization, but the Cluster is only there because Rose invalidated the colonization.
** Peridot gets one ''in hindsight'', when she asks Pearl who her owner is and comments that she looks fancy, Pearl retorts that she doesn't have an owner and that she's her own Pearl. Peridot turns out to be right when [[spoiler: it turns out that Pearl was Pink Diamond's -- and Pink Diamond is Rose Quartz. So Pearl has still been carrying out the will of her old master well beyond her death and was madly in love with her, making her even ''more'' devoted to her master than any other Pearl on the shown combined.]]
** White Diamond is actually pretty spot on in declaring Pink Diamond to be emotionally immature and childish. [[note]] And whether she ever truly moved past this point as Rose Quartz is a matter of some debate [[/note]] In fact, ''most'' of her assessments of the flaws of others are brutally accurate. The irony is that [[MoralMyopia she can't recognize those same flaws in herself.]]
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture Future]]'', while Jasper is just as prickly as she was back in the original series, [[spoiler:her ReasonYouSuckSpeech for Steven in "Little Homeschool" is dead on about a lot of Steven's personal foibles, like believing everyone needs his help and will accept it without question, that he's never really been able to beat her without outside help, and he arguably needs help more than anybody else in the series does. Steven only agrees with her that they haven't fought one on one]].

** Beast Boy, while being affected with the JerkassBall in "The Beast Within", also brings up the salient point that he's often disrespected, especially by Raven.
** When Starfire and Raven switch bodies, Starfire, fed up with Raven's snarking at her for her inability to fly with Raven's powers, calls her out on her constant negativity. Raven then fires back by saying that unlike Starfire, she doesn't have the luxury of being emotionally open, and that Starfire knows nothing about her. Starfire concedes Raven's point, asking Raven to help her understand, and the two emerge from the incident as closer friends.

*** Terra gets a turn during her fight with Raven in "Aftershock pt. One" when she mockingly asks Raven if the real reason Raven didn't like her wasn't because she didn't trust her, but because she was jealous that the team liked Terra better than her. Judging by Raven's furious reaction, it seems like Terra might not have been far off the mark.

* An early episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Action]]'' has [[AlphaBitch Heather]] point out how inefficient her team is and give an alternate plan. Gwen responds with simply, "If ''you'' say it, then we're not doing it." even though it's a [[DontShootTheMessage good idea]].
** At the merge in the same season, Duncan asks Courtney for help in getting rid of Leshawna. Courtney asks why she would want to help him. Duncan then tells Courtney that she has immunity, ergo not being able to be voted off at the moment. He also adds that sooner or later, the other girls would want her gone if she were to lose the next challenge. Courtney was about to say something to Duncan, but stops when she realizes that he is right.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': While Stan Smith may be a jerkass, he does bring up a lot of valid points.

** Sterling Archer, of all people, calls out his team for using him as an excuse to be their worst selves. Archer always had a strained relationship with his co-workers because he's an annoying douchebag on his best days and a complete a-hole on his worse days, with him constantly bullying and belittling them. Even the closest ones he has to friends have a hard time tolerating him at times. He was also a toxic influence on them. So when Archer was shot and put in a coma for three years, he found that his co-workers have become successful without him when he woke up. And it is implied that they are content without him in their lives, with them leaving him to his own devices for three months and trying to keep him from going on important missions with them. With Archer back and acting like an obnoxious, antagonistic, and impulsive ManChild, the rest of the characters start reverting to their self-destructive and dysfunctional selves. However, Archer himself did not do much to corrupt them. He just made a few comments that started fights. And while Archer causes Cyril to lose his confidence, he didn't do much but make some mean comments and sabotage his diet; but despite spending three years being a successful spy, it doesn't take much prodding from Archer to make him break down. This all comes to a head in the 11th season finale, where Lana angrily tells Archer despite him just saving the world, that she wishes he stayed in a coma and admits that she was OK with the Earth being destroyed if he was gone with it. Archer just asks if she ever considered that they like having him around so they have an excuse to be their worse selves, leaving Lana and the team with no words.

** Bojack may be a bitter misanthrope, but he often brings up very valid points:

* In the "Bend Her" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', after Bender has a sex change, the female crewmates accuse of him of being a bad representation of their gender and [[GoldDigger dating a celebrity robot just for the sake of indulgence]]. When "she" questions whether they've really never done the same thing, they can barely muster up a denial.

** "Injustice For All" has a villain-on-villain example where, after capturing Batman, [[WildCard The Joker]] keeps pestering Lex Luthor to "trust someone who knows" and just kill Batman while Lex, who doesn't particularly want The Joker around in the first place, just blows him off. Of course Batman, being Batman, spends the entire time being a thorn in the team's side, causing infighting and hindering their progress, and ultimately reveals he could have escaped any time he wanted in the first place.
** Whenever Superman [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness acts seriously antagonistic towards someone]] who isn't actively attempting to kill him or his friends, chances are that he's completely right that they're planning something... but he just can't prove it until the trap is sprung. In ''Twilight'', he's all for leaving Darkseid to Brainiac's mercy, but is overruled by his teammates who point out that they can't take the chance of Brainiac with Darkseid's technology, and it later turns out that Darkseid made a deal with Brainiac to lure in the Justice League. In ''Clash'', he gets into a fight with Captain Marvel over whether Lex had truly reformed. While it turns out that Lex's project in that episode was legit, in the season finale he proves he really is the same old evil Lex.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Lila Rossi might be a HateSink and trying to manipulate [[ControlFreak Gabriel]], but she's spot on that his overprotective nature is just making Adrien feel isolated and he needs friends his age.

** Fluttershy gets one herself in "Putting Your Hoof Down" when she talks about how Pinkie Pie and Rarity want "Pushover Fluttershy" back. Yeah, she was being mean about it, but it's been shown plenty of times before and since in which her friends will take advantage of her kindness. But really, Pinkie and Rarity were HAPPY that Fluttershy was finally standing up for herself. They only tried to put a stop to it when they saw Fluttershy had [[TookALevelInJerkass become needlessly vindictive and aggressive]].
** [[TheFairFolk Queen Chrysalis]] wasn't wrong when she points out how Twilight Sparkle thought that something was wrong with Princess Cadance [[spoiler:who was actually Chrysalis herself in disguise]], and that the cast was so focused on their wedding planning, they failed to realize that Twilight was right the whole time. It was at that point when the others have a JerkassRealization and Applejack apologized to Twilight on the behalf of everypony. She also points out how infantile and unbefitting Pinkie Pie's planned party activities are for a royal wedding. One can't help but agree with her.

** This is Discord's "thing" since he did a very vague HeelFaceTurn. He's still a jerk, but his insults tend to ring true, and he's the first to lavish sarcastic [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame "approval"]] on less than noble actions.

* In episode 7 of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Amity rebuffs Luz’s attempts to make friends since every time they meet Amity ends up humiliated and is proven right when she later stumbles onto Luz unknowingly having broken into her secret den with Amity's older siblings and allegedly stealing her diary, although later Amity realizes that Luz never intended to embarrass her.

* Candace from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' seems to embody this trope. While she is hard on her titular brothers, her anger often comes from their inventions, which tend to be dangerous and/or reckless.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' uses this trope a lot with Rick. For instance, Rick angrily reads Jerry the riot act in "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", as when Jerry correctly accuses Rick of taking his family, Rick retorts that Jerry's the one who got Beth knocked up at seventeen and tells him that he uses pity to make people feel sorry for him and thus easier to manipulate, which nearly drives Jerry to tears. Later, Rick advises Jerry to be more [[PetTheDog honest with himself]] in the end of the episode, which is how [[spoiler: Jerry manages to get back his family in the season finale.]]
** Jerry himself takes this when questioning Tammy's marriage approval to Birdperson despite the age-gap. Despite being snubbed, he turns out to be correct as the marriage was a sham and a trap for all of Rick's friends, and even Rick's family narrowly escape because they were suspicious.

** In "Coronation", Hordak berates Catra for [[spoiler:activating the portal before it was ready and bringing down disaster.]] His tone was vicious, but he wasn't wrong.
** While [[spoiler:Double Trouble]] is a born manipulator with no loyalty to anyone, their TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Catra, calling her out for continually expecting people to stay with her when [[AllTakeAndNoGive she does nothing but push them away]], is ''entirely accurate'' -- so accurate, in fact, that [[BreakingSpeech it leaves Catra slumped on the ground, without the will to even defend herself against someone threatening to kill her]].
** That same episode previous has Catra do this, insulting Hordak by telling him that [[spoiler:he's lying to himself if he thinks Horde Prime cares about a "defect" like him.]] Her comments were motivated by cruelty, but events at the end of the episode prove her right.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', in episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE7POV POV]], Internal Affairs Detective Hackle despite being a JerkAss had a good reason to be suspicious of Harvey since he went to the warehouse early without backup and gave an apparent flimsy reason. He also isn't wrong when he points out that three cops are telling two different stories between them means ''someone'' has to be lying.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's newfound obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later temporarily left braindead. The good news? Peter incredibly awakens none the worse for wear. The bad news? It's just seconds after Lois gave him up for dead and pulled the plug on him. Peter, unsurprisingly, is understandably livid about Lois' decision and initially refuses to forgive her since she did it without his knowledge or consent. But while Lois isn't exactly a model housewife, it's not a decision she made lightly and she easily justifies it; for her entire married life, she's had to put up with a husband [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded who scored so low on an intelligence test that he was diagnosed as intellectually disabled]] and who does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head, consequences and his own safety be damned. That Peter ''hasn't'' gotten himself killed yet is nothing short of a miracle, and Lois has lived in fear of it happening for so long that when she thought it finally did, she couldn't help but be relieved that she didn't need to worry anymore. It ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois says she instantly regretted it, but the fact of the matter is that Peter's breathtaking stupidity and carelessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheodoreTugboat'' episode, "Theodore in the Middle", George puts in an official complaint about Emily being late for the morning work meeting, starting [[FeudEpisode a feud between the two tugboats that lasts for the rest of the episode]]. While George was most likely motivated by his own pride, Emily's lateness was delaying the morning work meeting and causing problems for the visiting ships who need the tugboats' help.

--->'''Squidward''': Mr. Krabs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but how could you trade [=SpongeBob=] for ''sixty-two cents''?!\\
'''Mr. Krabs''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint ...You think I could've gotten more?]]

** In the post-movie seasons, Squidward's hatred of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick has become far more justified, considering the fact that the two often barge into his home uninvited, and their antics often cause him physical injury. Even Mrs. Puff agreed with him when Squidward complained about Spongebob being the bane of his existence.

** In "The Abrasive Side" while the abrasive side Gary orders for [=SpongeBob=] ends up taking over his life, he does make a point when saying no to Sandy and Mr. Krabs; the former asked [=SpongeBob=] to be a test subject without notifying him beforehand, while the latter tried to give [=SpongeBob=] a late shift which lasted ''seventeen hours'', with the addition of not paying him overtime.

** In “Fools in April”, Squidward’s retaliation prank may have been a cruel moment that earned many DudeNotFunny reactions, but it did stem from a legitimate grievance. Are Spongebob’s obnoxious pranks not a distraction to him? Never mind they’re in fast food, which is a high pressure work environment.

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy Hurricane Neddy]], when Ned Flanders has his mental break and starts insulting the townspeople, most (but not all) of what he said was merited. He tells Marge that her family is “out of control” (to which the previous eight seasons have been a testament to that); He mentions Lisa’s tendency of butting in and busybody behavior (even if she was rightfully sticking up for Bart in that scenario); mocks what a useless cop Chief Wiggum is; insults Krusty the Clown as an unfunny hack (even [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E15TheLastTemptationofKrust future episodes have made this a plot point]]); Moe even agrees that he’s an “ugly, hate-filled man”; and while calling Homer “the worst human being I’ve ever met” may seem harsh, Homer has savagely insulted, bullied, and taken advantage of Ned for the better part of their time as neighbors. The only people who didn’t deserve it were Lenny (whom Ned admits that he doesn’t know him, but insults him anyway) and arguably Bart (as telling a child that they’ll grow up to be a bum based on childhood mischief is still a rotten thing to say).

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's newfound obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later temporarily left braindead. The good news? Peter incredibly awakens none the worse for wear. The bad news? It's just seconds after Lois gave him up for dead and pulled the plug on him. Peter, unsurprisingly, is understandably livid about Lois's decision and initially refuses to forgive her since she did it without his knowledge or consent. But while Lois isn't exactly a model housewife, it's not a decision she made lightly and she easily justifies it; for her entire married life, she's had to put up with a husband [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded who scored so low on an intelligence test that he was diagnosed as intellectually disabled]] and who does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head, consequences and his own safety be damned. That Peter ''hasn't'' gotten himself killed yet is nothing short of a miracle, and Lois has lived in fear of it happening for so long that when she thought it finally did, she couldn't help but be relieved that she didn't need to worry anymore. It ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois says she instantly regretted it, but the fact of the matter is that Peter's breathtaking stupidity and carelessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's newfound obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later temporarily left braindead. The good news? Peter incredibly awakens none the worse for wear. The bad news? It's just seconds after Lois gave him up for dead and pulled the plug on him. Peter, unsurprisingly, is understandably livid about Lois's decision and initially refuses to forgive her since she did it without his knowledge or consent. But while Lois isn't exactly a model housewife, it's not a decision she made lightly and she easily justifies it; for her entire married life, she's had to put up with a husband [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded who scored so low on an intelligence test that he was diagnosed as mentally retarded]] and who does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head, consequences and his own safety be damned. That Peter ''hasn't'' gotten himself killed yet is nothing short of a miracle, and Lois has lived in fear of it happening for so long that when she thought it finally did, she couldn't help but be relieved that she didn't need to worry anymore. It ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois says she instantly regretted it, but the fact of the matter is that Peter's breathtaking stupidity and carelessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's newfound obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later temporarily left braindead. The good news? Peter miraculously awakens none the worse for wear. The bad news? It's just seconds after Lois gave him up for dead and pulled the plug on him. Peter, unsurprisingly, is understandably livid about Lois's decision and initially refuses to forgive her since she did it without his knowledge or consent. But while Lois isn't exactly a model spouse herself, it's not a decision she made lightly and she easily justifies it; for years, she's had to put up with a PsychopathicManchild of a husband [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded who scored so low on an intelligence test that he was diagnosed as mentally retarded]] and who does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head without any regard for the consequences or his own safety. That Peter ''hasn't'' gotten himself killed yet is nothing short of incredible, and Lois has lived in fear of it happening for so long that when she thought it finally did, she couldn't help but be relieved that she didn't need to worry anymore. It ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois says she instantly regretted it, but the fact of the matter is that Peter's breathtaking stupidity and carelessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

** In "I Dated a Robot," Leela similarly finds herself reluctantly agreed with Bender that Fry's [[{{Robosexual}} relationship with a robot]] is a terrible idea.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': In "Karai's Vendetta," when Donnie is fully prepared to abandon their mission to blow up the Kraang's water-poisoning underwater laboratory to save April from Karai, Raph quickly points out that if they do so, the Kraang will poison everyone in New York, ''including'' April.

* In ''WesternANimation/MonstersUniversity'', there's Johnny Worthington, the leader of fraternity Roar Omega Roar, who's arrogancy make him Mike's rival in the story. In spite of Johnny's brutal jerkishness, he is ultimately right that Oozma Kappa lack the traditional Scarer traits. This does leads to Oozma Kappa learning to become resourceful about their own seemingly benign traits to become Scarers. Lampshaded by Sulley in a deleted scene:
-->'''Mike:''' Tell them! That guy's a jerk! He's all wrong!
-->'''Sulley:''' You're right. He's a jerk...but I'm ''not'' so sure he's wrong.

** [[TheFairFolk Queen Chrysalis]] wasn't wrong when she points out how Twilight Sparkle thought that something was wrong with Princess Cadance [[spoiler:who was actually Chrysalis herself in disguise]], and that the cast was so focused on their wedding planning, they failed to realize that Twilight was right the whole time. It was at that point when the others have a JerkassRealization and Applejack apologizes to Twilight on the behalf of everypony. She also points out how infantile and unbefitting Pinkie Pie's planned party activities are for a royal wedding. One can't help but agree with her.