History Main / EntitledBastard

** On a grander scale, there's also [[AbusiveParents Odalia Blight]] and [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]], who engage in an AllTakeAndNoGive with others and are so narcissistic that despite promising to keep their word and being pleased when people fulfill their agreement, they absolutely lose it when others want them to uphold their word or, in Belos' case, if someone [[DisproportionateRetribution merely questions them]].

** In her first few appearances, [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]] was [[ItsAllAboutMe completely occupied with her own issues and had little to no regard for the problems or feelings of others]]. She was obsessed with getting her top student title from Willow for cheating even though she bullied the latter for struggling in class, and Amity nearly got Luz killed over retrieving it. She also didn't care about making Luz give up her dream of becoming a witch and likely mauling her when she accepted the human's witches dual challenge; since she was more concerned with her own embarrassment at the convention and how it might [[MoralMyopia ruin her chance of getting into the Emperor's Coven]]. Despite everything Amity has done and how much she hurt others just to prove some sense of superiority over others, she calls [[NiceGirl Luz of all people]], [[{{Hypocrite}} a bully]] over a misunderstanding without [[OneSideOfTheStory even trying to talk or listen to Luz's perspective on those events]] or actually getting to know her as a person. Fortunately, [[CharacterDevelopment she gradually grows out of this]].

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'': When the Autobots win the war and Cybertron is restored, many of the neutral Cybertonians return to the planet and try to take control, [[GodzillaThreshold forcing the Autobots]] to [[EnemyMine release the captive Deceptions]] to stop the attack. They also put blame on the Autobots even though it was the Autobots who fought and died to restore their world.

* ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'': {{Jerkass}} bystander Byron Brassballs.

* ''MarinettesWeekOff'': Despite [[WeUsedToBeFriends breaking off her friendship]] with Marinette, Alya still expects her former bestie to be ready to shoulder a ''massive'' workload and help with various projects at a moment's notice. She is ''not happy'' to learn that she's currently taking a week-long vacation.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler: After betraying Anne and her friends once again and sending King Andrias to the dungeon, Sasha Waybright acts nonchalant and friendly with Anne and Marcy immediately afterwards. When Anne is gobsmacked about this and voices her protests, Sasha says she's just being a SoreLoser and acts as if she should have seen this coming. This causes Anne to finally snap and give her a major TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

* In the Salt-Shot ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44607043/chapters/121613383 A Price to Pay]]'', Adrien [[FaceHeelTurn betrays Ladybug]], believing that he'll get everything he wants in the new reality created by [[TheBadGuyWins his father's Wish]]: not only will he get his mother back, Marinette will ''have'' to love him, right? After they learn the hard way that RealityWarpingIsNotAToy and that the Wish [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor didn't turn out how they expected]], Adrien expects Marinette to help him "fix everything" to his liking, even after learning that she [[RippleEffectProofMemory remembers the original reality]] ''and'' that ''her father'' was the one who got killed as the Wish's EquivalentExchange. He even accuses her of being petty for not [[EasilyForgiven instantly accepting]] his BackhandedApology ''while he's making it'', complaining about having to apologize in the first place.

** As a RichBitch, Weiss Schnee acts as such early on. Best shown in "The Badge and the Burden," where she vocally complains about how she wasn't made leader of Team RWBY and tells Professor Port that Ozpin made a mistake making Ruby the leader. Port even sums her up as "a girl who spent her entire life getting exactly what she wanted", which Weiss admits isn't entirely wrong.
** ''Everything'' Cinder Fall does is built on entitlement; she pursues the powers of the Maidens relentlessly, and openly states that she's the only one worthy of them. [[spoiler:Volume 8 reveals this is a product of a [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrifically abusive childhood]], and she feels she's entitled to power and justified in taking whatever she wants because of her past suffering. Dr. Watts tears this apart, telling Cinder straight to her face that the world doesn't owe her a thing and if she wants power, she needs to actually ''earn'' it.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler: After betraying Anne and her friends once again and sending King Andrias to the dungeon, [[Characters/AmphibiaSashaWaybright Sasha Waybright]] acts nonchalant and friendly with Anne and Marcy immediately afterwards. When Anne is gobsmacked about this and voices her protests, Sasha says she's just being a SoreLoser and acts as if she should have seen this coming. This causes Anne to finally snap and give her a major TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

** Humanity is frequently accused of this by their detractors (especially turians), due to having entered galactic politics thirty years ago and thrown aside centuries of tradition to try and push and shove their way to the head of the table. Humanity [[DudeWhereIsMyRespect counters]] that they simply want to get involved and protect the galaxy, having demonstrated their considerable [[BadassArmy military strength]] during the First Contact War and pointing out that AsskickingLeadsToLeadership was precisely how the ''turians'' themselves got onto the Council in the first place.

* In ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', King Aultcray Melromarc embodies this trope, since even before Malty enacted her [[FalseRapeAccusation blatantly lie-filled scheme]], the King ''always'' opted to [[ColdReception ignore]] the Shield Hero Naofumi, not even caring for him to introduce himself after the three other Cardinal [[FailureHero "Heroes"]] introduced themselves, that alone speaks volumes of his sheer dislike/hatred toward the Shield Hero; and it just [[SarcasmMode gets better from there]] as he constantly finds flimsy excuses to deprive him of whatever he has scraped together, even his own slave Raphtalia, which is a demi-human, and the King freaking '''hates demi-humans'''; not to mention knowing full well that demi-human slavery is prominent in Melromarc by his own decree no less, he just used the rigged duel on Naofumi to [[IrrationalHatred subtly vent his hatred on him]], getting joy when he sees the rigged duel seemingly worked. [[spoiler: Temporarily at least.]] Really says a lot about how shitty this Royal Asshat is. After all that, how exactly did he expect Naofumi to respond to his demand to explain how he got stronger than the other heroes despite the negative stigma and unfair handicaps he forced upon him? Aultcray ''still'' expected him to comply when it was clear that Naofumi '''will not''' respect, nor obey him by this point for all the crap he's done, and somehow looks shocked and angered when the former spells it out to him. [[spoiler:He does get better, unlike his daughter.]]

* In ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', King Aultcray Melromarc embodies this trope, since even before Malty enacted her [[FalseRapeAccusation blatantly lie-filled scheme]], the King ''always'' opted to ignore the Shield Hero Naofumi, not even caring for him to introduce himself after the three other Cardinal [[FailureHero "Heroes"]] introduced themselves, that alone speaks volumes of his sheer dislike/hatred toward the Shield Hero; and it just [[SarcasmMode gets better from there]] as he constantly finds flimsy excuses to deprive him of whatever he has scraped together, even his own slave Raphtalia, which is a demi-human, and the King freaking '''hates demi-humans'''; not to mention knowing full well that demi-human slavery is prominent in Melromarc by his own decree no less, he just used the rigged duel on Naofumi to [[IrrationalHatred subtly vent his hatred on him]], getting joy when he sees the rigged duel seemingly worked. [[spoiler: Temporarily at least.]] Really says a lot about how shitty this Royal Asshat is. After all that, how exactly did he expect Naofumi to respond to his demand to explain how he got stronger than the other heroes despite the negative stigma and unfair handicaps he forced upon him? Aultcray ''still'' expected him to comply when it was clear that Naofumi '''will not''' respect, nor obey him by this point for all the crap he's done, and somehow looks shocked and angered when the former spells it out to him. [[spoiler:He does get better, unlike his daughter.]]

* In the WebAnimation/TeamServiceAnnouncement ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjOCkoLbCQ Metal and Dispensers]]'', the RED Soldier causes a ton of trouble for his team's Engineer by wasting the ammo crate during the setup period. Later he dashes to him demanding a dispenser... but the Engineer doesn't feel all that obliged.

** In addition, this is how Harry comes to view the Ministry of Magic when Rufus Scrimgeour asks for his support after the Ministry did nothing while Cornelius Fudge put him and Dumbledore through a smear campaign. Harry coldly tells Scrimgeour to shove it.

** Manticore's High Ridge Government could be the collective poster children for this trope (not least because they're all [[UpperClassTwit highborn idiots]]. They [[spoiler:put the Haven-Manticore War on pause just when their side has the decisive upper hand, spend years chopping their political opponents (who happen to be the statesmen and military officers who made that war winnable) off at the knees out of spite, antagonize their allies to the point where some start siding with Haven, and drag out peace negotiations for no reason than bolstering their domestic political position [[note]]Their parties all saw dramatic losses of support during the war on account of their stupid policies, but the existance of a state of war means they don't have to call an election, so they want to drag out the peace negotiations for as long as humanly possible to allow time for their vote-buying schemes and other corrupt activities to get the electorate back on their side [[/note]] (said treatment eventually pushes the Havenites to reignite the war). Sure, at the end of ''War of Honor'' they're given the boot and made political persona non grata, several are later arrested, and Descroix is [[spoiler:murdered by Mesa]], but considering the mess they've created (or made worse), it still feels like they're getting off light.]] Captain (later Rear Admiral) Michael Oversteegen is related to seemingly half of these idiots and pulls no punches when informing those relatives how much he detests them.

** Manticore's High Ridge Government could be the collective poster children for this trope (not least because they're all [[UpperClassTwit highborn idiots]]. They [[spoiler:put the Haven-Manticore War on pause just when their side has the decisive upper hand, spend years chopping their political opponents (who happen to be the statesmen and military officers who made that war winnable) off at the knees out of spite, antagonize their allies to the point where some start siding with Haven, and drag out peace negotiations for no reason other than rubbing Haven's nose in it (said treatment eventually pushes the Havenites to reignite the war). Sure, at the end of ''War of Honor'' they're given the boot and made political persona non grata, but considering the mess they've created (or made worse), it still feels like they're getting off light.]] Captain (later Rear Admiral) Michael Oversteegen is related to seemingly half of these idiots and pulls no punches when informing those relatives how much he detests them.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': [[Characters/BeavisAndButtHeadTitularCharacters Beavis and Butt-Head]] always expect others to bend over backwards for them, no matter how ridiculous, unsavory, or vague their requests are. They are promptly disappointed when they don't.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13383522/30/Alien-Nemesis Alien: Nemesis]]'', Zack Ryan basically wants to be top dog without being willing to put in the effort to actually get there and sees all women as "parasites" because he grew up in an area where he mostly saw women flocking around wealthy men. As a child, he was expelled from a criminal gang for never putting any work in, he was constantly arrested when he tried to gather resources to start his own gang afterwards, and his attempt to get an "in" with local junk traders leads to him joining Ripley's crew to track the aliens while dismissing her tales as stories due to his lack of respect for women. He ends up [[EyeScream having his eyes clawed out]] by Jones the cat when he tries to steal a rare tool from Newt, and subsequently refuses to accept the explanation that there is no equipment to repair the damage to his eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': [[Characters/BeavisAndButtHeadTitularCharacters Beavis and Butt-Head]] always expect others to bend over backwards to give them whatever they want, no matter how ridiculous, unsavory, or vague their requests are. They are promptly disappointed when they don't.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has this as a feature of many of its villains: Gravemoss thinks he ''deserves'' the power to conduct his heinous experiments; HYDRA think they ''deserve'' to rule the world (based on an unclear metric of being 'better' than everyone else); the Red Room believe they ''deserve'' to regain Russia's 'lost empire' (more specifically, Yelena Belova believes that she ''deserves'' to be the Black Widow); Sinister believes that he ''deserves'' the god-given right to treat anyone and everyone as a medical experiment; Surtur believes he ''deserves'' his power (stolen from [[spoiler:the Phoenix]]) and has the right to rewrite the universe according to his design (because everyone else is wrong, apparently); and Reynolds [[spoiler:a.k.a. the Void/the Parasite]] believes that he ''deserves'' [[spoiler:Clark's]] power because apparently he isn't using it properly.
* Viserys Targaryen from ''Fanfic/TheDifferenceOneManCanMake'' thinks the Norfolks will immediately grovel and obey him when he comes at First Forge seeking an army to give him the Iron Throne. When Harry bluntly says no and details why, Viserys is so infuriated he tries to draw his sword and when his sister Daenerys stops him, his first reaction is trying to beat her.

* ''Fanfic/TheSuperheroicsOfHaruhiSuzumiya'': Despite constantly insulting, belittling and bullying Izuku, Katsuki still expects him to follow him to Aldera Middle School. When he learns that he's planning on attending the same school as Haruhi instead, Katsuki's completely shocked... and ''furious''.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13383522/30/Alien-Nemesis Alien: Nemesis]]'', Zack Ryan basically wants to be top dog without being willing to put in the effort to actually get there, and sees all women as "parasites" because he grew up in an area where he mostly saw women flocking around wealthy men. As a child, he was expelled from a criminal gang for never putting any work in, he was constantly arrested when he tried to gather resources to start his own gang afterwards, and his attempt to get an "in" with local junk traders leads to him joining Ripley's crew to track the aliens while dismissing her tales as stories due to his lack of respect for women. He ends up [[EyeScream having his eyes clawed out]] by Jones the cat when he tries to steal a rare tool from Newt, and subsequently refuses to accept the explanation that there is no equipment to repair the damage to his eyes.

* ''Fanfic/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDenial'': Mahiru outright ''demands'' that Togami and Hinata protect her, even while constantly criticizing their efforts because they're 'useless men'. She eagerly throws them under the bus when the worst happens, blaming them for every single thing that goes wrong. Even seeing one of them [[BloodSplatteredInnocents covered in blood]] after they tried and failed to prevent [[spoiler:Akane's death]] elicits NoSympathy from her, treating it as a FailureToSaveMurder.

** Braig as well. At the end of ''Re:Final Stand'', he bemoans that he'll never get a Keyblade now and that Xehanort promised him his own. Terra and Aqua tell him point-blank that an evil bastard like him would ''never'' be worthy of a Keyblade anyway.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26693095/chapters/83491480 Everything You Deserve]]'': Adrien is so [[ItsAllAboutMe self-absorbed]] that he reacts to the prospect of the kwami being able to choose their own partners with horror, because Plagg might not be willing to work with him if he wasn't ''forced'' to by the Ring. So he betrays Ladybug's trust to make a series of selfish Wishes, trying to [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy warp the whole world]] into being his idealized playground. Unfortunately for him, all his Wishes are granted in ways that don't quite fit his intentions, resulting in a lot of LaserGuidedKarma.

* ''Film/BatmanBegins'': [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when Ra's Al Ghul is trapped on a train bound to crash, but rather than expect to be saved he taunts Batman on whether he's learned the necessity of killing for [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans the greater good]]. Since his mercy earlier at the monastery allowed Ra's to torment him, he was implying that Batman's lack of desire to kill is self-invalidating and even in that case (where Ra believes he is on the right and Bruce is on the wrong) he won't be able to stop him because his thinking is inherently flawed. Batman notes (pretty much shirking the issue and glossing over that he set up with Gordon's help the train to crash):

* ''Film/{{Descendants}} 3'': Audrey is revealed to be this, though in all fairness, it’s not all her fault. Being the daughter of Sleeping Beauty, she was constantly encouraged to win over Prince Ben, who was the heir to the supreme throne of Auradon, and become his Queen, by her well-intentioned by entitled family. They raised Audrey from a young age to believe that she was the best candidate for Queen, and no one else deserved the title more than her, coming from an elite royal family on both sides, and the daughter of a famous PrincessClassic. This, Audrey grew up [[EntitledToHaveYou believing that she was destined to marry Ben]] and become Queen of Auradon. When she fails to achieve such, her grandmother breathes her in public for not being able to hold onto Ben, saying that she has shamed her family by failing to become Queen. Egged on by her grandmother’s harsh words and a lifetime of expectations wasted, Audrey snaps and [[FaceHeelTurn steals the throne of Auradon for herself, plotting to overthrow Ben]].
* ''Film/{{Exam}}'': [[spoiler:White]] genuinely believes that he is better than everyone and should be the one to get the job. Dark mentions that this is one of the symptoms of his Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': Even though Umbridge sadistically tortured Harry and many other students by making them carve words into their own skin (in Harry's case, "I must not tell lies"), took over Hogwarts, and forced students to follow increasingly inane rules, she is genuinely shocked when Harry refuses to save her from a herd of centaurs that ''she'' pissed off. Harry even gets to use an IronicEcho for her which he didn't use in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the book]] ("Sorry, Professor, I must not tell lies").

* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'': Princess Vespa starts out this way, but gets over it pretty quickly (she kinda lost the attitude along with the matching luggage).

* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'': ObstructiveBureaucrat Galloway, after repeatedly insulting Lennox, Epps, his troops and the Autobots (even calling [[spoiler:the dead Optimus Prime a pile of junk]]), expected that Lennox would help him get to safety when there was a problem (actually rigged by the heroes to go help Sam) with the airplane. Of course, Lennox does us all a favor and shoves Galloway off the plane with only his parachute.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Rudolph is both this and one hell of an ObstructiveBureaucrat. Despite the fact that he would have died long ago if not for Harry and Murphy, Rudolph takes every opportunity to give Internal Affairs information on Murphy and try to get Harry arrested. In ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', he is at his worst. Rudolph [[spoiler:gets the FBI to bring Harry in for questioning after his office is blown up, and has the FBI break down Harry's door. Oh, and he gets Murphy fired... ''after she helped to save him from Red Court Vampires.'' Rudolph is saved from imminent death at least twice in the book, in fact, which only seems to make him more rabid in his hatred for the heroes.]]

** Anraddin, upon arriving at a poor fisherman’s hut, demands hospitality for the night, and is not particularly impressed by the meal placed before him. He also attempts to purchase the fisherman’s adopted son as a slave (setting off the entire plot).

** Aravis initially displays some haughtiness towards the lower classes, but is a genuinely good person with strong morals and values. Her whole arc is kicked off by escaping an arranged marriage and she refuses to be kept down by an oppressive patriarchy.
* ''Literature/ImTheEvilLordOfAnIntergalacticEmpire'': Liam's parents decide to "gift" their title and lands to their five-year-old son in exchange of a hefty allowance, so they can go live the easy life in the Empire's capital. As Liam later discovers, the family is heavily indebted and their lands underdeveloped, but (with the aid of a few decent advisors) he manages to turn things around and make his territory prosperous and strong, and he himself has become famous after defeating a dreaded pirate. When he meets his parents again, nearly fifty years later (humanity has changed so much that fifty-year-old Liam is just on the edge of puberty), Liam's parents ''and grandparents'' demand an increased allowance, since Liam's now rich and they are indebted. When Liam cuts them off, his father demands the Prime Minister to restore the title to him (with the implication that he will have Liam killed once that happens, for the slight), only to be surprised when the Prime Minister denies his request on account that Liam is actually doing his job.

* ''{{Literature/Speak}}'': Melinda befriends the new girl at school, Heather, only for Heather to ditch her as soon as she's able to get in with the popular Martha clique, because of Melinda's unpopularity with the rest of the school. Several months later, the Marthas' sky-high expectations have become too much for Heather, and she resorts to begging Melinda for help on a massive school project the Marthas expect her to complete. She's genuinely shocked when Melinda refuses.
-->'''Melinda's thoughts:''' She completely ignores the fact that I was never in, and that she dumped me, banished me from even the shadows of Martha glory. I feel like any minute a guy in a lavender suit will burst into the room with a microphone and bellow, “Another alternate-reality moment brought to you by Adolescence!”

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler:After betraying Anne and her friends once again and sending King Andrias to the dungeon, [[Characters/AmphibiaSashaWaybright Sasha Waybright]] acts nonchalant and friendly with Anne and Marcy immediately afterwards. When Anne is gobsmacked about this and voices her protests, Sasha says she's just being a SoreLoser and acts as if she should have seen this coming. This causes Anne to finally snap and give her a major TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]