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[[folder:Comics]]* {{Spider-Man}}'s greatest and best hidden foe does this quite often. Who is he? [[spoiler:J. Jonah Jameson.]] He manages to publicly badmouth and ridicule him on a daily basis, has created two supervillains (the infamous Scorpion as well as C-lister The Human Fly) and a few evil robots in his quest to kill Spidey, gets into all sorts of fights and kidnappings by Spidey's other foes (who are jealous of him), and Spider-Man always, ''always'' pulls his bacon out of the fire... though he does put him in his place with purposely embarrassing rescues.
* In various continuities, this is Lex Luthor's attitude towards {{Superman}}. Justified because he's a MagnificentBastard and knows Supes is his universe's TheCape.

* ''Webcomic/MeatShield'': Prince Jonus of Westhame. After they saved his sorry life and soul from a demoness and a bunch of evil cultists, he has the gal to try and get the heroes arrested for "laying a hand on his person". [[http://www.meatshield.net/archive/jaine-lays-down-the-law/ Jaine's response sums it up best.]]

Despite being a JerkAss who [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bad mouths the heroes]], [[SwissMessenger obstructs their efforts]] or is an outright villain, they feel entitled to the heroes unwavering loyalty and aid in a time of crisis. Once a threat[[hottip:* :(bonus points if it's their own doing)]] comes around that can't be slimed out of by selling out an ally, he asks for and expects to be saved, possibly even before more deserving InnocentBystanders!

The Entitled Bastard usually thinks [[ItsAllAboutMe it's all about them;]] they don't feel at all sheepish about asking the people whose lives they've made hell for help, and they [[UngratefulBastard see no reason to thank them for it afterwards]]. What happens to them depends on just how annoying or harmful they've been, and how [[TheCape nice]] or [[AntiHero naughty]] the heroes are. If they've just been bad mouthing a generally GoodSamaritan [[SamaritanSyndrome of a hero]], they'll be saved no matter what. If the hero has a sense of humor, they might leave them in a safe place... hanging by their underpants. On the other hand, outright murderous villains will likely die with a look of bewilderment as the AntiHero refuses to help... or even ''speeds their death along.''

!!Examples:

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* The Politicians in charge of the Free Planets Alliance in ''LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' come across as this for the large part. The biggest example comes when they beg Yang Wen-li to go out and save their asses from an invasion by TheEmpire... while in the middle of trying to hold him under inquiry of ''questionable'' legality officially for his previous actions in saving their asses from a military coup not too long before. [[spoiler: [[ItGotWorse It gets worse.]] They don't learn a damn thing, do something ''similar'' to him later, and those actions end up forcing the Alliance to surrender to the Galactic Empire.]]

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* {{Spider-Man}}'s greatest and best hidden foe does this quite often. Who is he? [[spoiler:J. Jonah Jameson.]] He manages to publicly badmouth and ridicule him on a daily basis, has created two supervillains (the infamous Scorpion as well as C-lister The Human Fly) and a few evil robots in his quest to kill Spidey, gets into all sorts of fights and kidnappings by Spidey's other foes (who are jealous of him), and Spider-Man always, ''always'' pulls his bacon out of the fire... though he does put him in his place with purposely embarrassing rescues.

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* The princess in {{Spaceballs}} start out this way. She gets over it pretty quickly, however... She kinda lost the attitude along with the matching luggage.
* There's an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga Batman Begins]]'', Rhas 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 Rhas to torment him, he was implying Batman needs to kill him. Batman notes (pretty much shirking the issue):
-->''I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you.''
* Happens in ''{{Titanic}}''. The fiance actually uses a small child (just grabs her off the deck) to get a seat on a lifeboat, seeming like a KarmaHoudini, but then we learn he kills himself because of the 1929 Wall Street crash.

* In Film/{{Transformers}}, 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 favour and shoves Galloway off the plane with only his parachute.

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* [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Borsk Fey'lya]], and much of his administration, particularly during the Yuuzhan Vong war. Even worse, since it's generally the military he's talking to, they actually ''are'' required to save him, no matter how much he's damaged the situation.

* [[HonorHarrington 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.]]
* [[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. In ''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 pretty much gets Murphy fired.]]

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* The following in ''{{Misfits}}'' gave me the idea.
-->'''Nathan:''' Come on, use your power, save us!
-->'''Simon:''' [[JerkAss After]] [[TheNicknamer everything]] [[MouthyKid you've]] [[KidsAreCruel done]] [[MyNameIsNotDurwood to me]], you want me to save you?
-->'''Nathan:''' ''Yes!'' Get on with it ''[[NotHelpingYourCase you little freak!]]''
-->'''Simon:''' ''[Turns invisible]''
-->'''Nathan:''' You're gonna save yourself? ''You [[IResembleThatRemark selfish bastard!]] [[{{Hypocrite}} I'll]] remember this! [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter I thought]] [[WithFriendsLikeThese we were friends!]]''
* Vampire Spike, after his first run-in with Initiative soldiers, comes to [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] saying "Help me". Buffy has a short violent response.
-->'''Spike:''' What part of 'Help me' don't you understand?
-->'''Buffy:''' The part where I help you.

--->'''Buffy:''' So you haven't murdered anybody lately? Let's be best pals!

--->'''Spike:''' Because you do that. You're the goody-good guys. You're the bloody freaking cavalry.
* Russell Hantz of ''{{Survivor}}'' considers himself among the ranks of the game's {{Magnificent Bastard}}s, like Richard Hatch and "Boston" Rob Mariano. But what they understand and he doesn't is that evicted players on the jury have to ''like'' you or at least ''respect'' you enough to vote for you to win. Russell just wantonly lied and bullied his way through the game - twice - and ended by asking "Aren't I awesome?", to which both juries shouted '''''"NO!"''''' And then he had the gall, after his second loss, to argue that the rules were flawed ''because'' he didn't win, or because someone who had a drastically different playstyle [[TheCassandra (Sandra)]] could win ''twice''.

* The Weeping Angels from DoctorWho. They spent two episodes chasing the Doctor and his friends, killing everyone in their way. At the end of the two-parter, the Angels discover that one of the cracks in the universe is threatening to absorb them and wipe them from existence - so they have the ''nerve'' to tell the Doctor to sacrifice himself to save them. True, they say they'll spare River and Amy, but considering [[CompleteMonster who we're talking about]], they were probably lying about that.

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* You know people who are ''just'' like this.
* People often run into these working in Customer Service
* FanDumb and HateDumb often overlap with this trope, believing that they own the franchise and medium in its entirety and that all executive decisions should be run through them first, and are naturally finding ''something'' to complain about no matter ''what''.
* Personal examples go into the TroperTales - be very careful adding specific examples to these.

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* The mayor from AdvanceWars Days of Ruin.
* [[AssInAmbassador Ambassador frickin' Udina]] from ''MassEffect.'' The guy takes every opportunity to badmouth, second-guess, and otherwise undermine you that he can get, culminating in [[TurnInYourBadge ordering the]] [[CoolStarship Normandy]] [[TurnInYourBadge grounded]] simply because it's politically expedient. When you [[BigDamnHeroes come in and save the Citadel anyway]] [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs from a massive Geth attack]], [[TheFederation the Systems Alliance]] either gets offered a seat on the Citadel Council, or '''takes over''' the council, depending on how exactly you dealt with [[spoiler:Sovereign and the Destiny Ascension]]. Either way, you're told that your recommendation will carry the most weight, and Udina seems to honestly expect you to recommend him over [[spoiler:Captain Anderson]], even after the shit he's piled on you. Of course, nothing's stopping you from doing just that, [[EasilyForgiven if you're the forgiving type]]. '''If.'''
** Happens again in the sequel if you saved the Council. Depending on your choice of Anderson or Udina, you may get to meet them (two guesses which one will get you the audience?). But if you were hoping that proving them wrong and saving their asses the last time they ignored your warnings would get them to believe anything you say now, much less help...forget about it.
* [[PrinceCharmless Prince Charmles]] of ''DragonQuestVIII''. Not only do the heroes have to drag him along on what's supposed to be ''his'' RiteOfPassage, he expects them to do all the fighting and slay an Argon Lizard for its heart... and after they kill one, he immediately decides "Oh, I should have an even ''bigger'' and ''better'' Argon Heart -- ''You'' guys work on that!" He doesn't treat them with even the slightest ''shred'' of respect, expecting them to do everything for him because he's royalty -- the only physical exertion he puts himself through during the entire trip is [[spoiler: whipping Medea, then Trode]], and after '''THAT''' stunt the player will likely join the heroes in cursing the fact they can't just leave him in the reserve. To top it all off, after you finally secure a Heart he deems acceptable and return to Argonia, [[spoiler: he finds a way to even more [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney flagrantly flout the rules]] by ''buying'' a Heart in the Marketplace]]. Yet even after all of that, he's absolutely '''shocked''' when this comes back to bite him.
* A player type that shows up in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', especially using the dungeon finder that groups people from different servers who will probably never see each other again even online - the {{GIFT}} is magnified in that circumstance. Most of the time they're damage dealers who attitude is permanently "gogogogo" regardless of whether everyone's ready. They tend to overlook two things. 1. If they start blasting away at monsters before the [[StoneWall tank]] is ready, it may decide that if they want the monster's attention so badly, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown they can have it]]. 2. In a fair number of encounters players will take damage greatly exceeding their total health. So calling the person you're expecting to [[TheMedic save your life several times]] a noob because they like to have {{mana}} before starting a fight works out badly.

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* This one asshole in ''GirlGenius'' on the airship. When the ship is under attack, he still demands the captain obey his orders rather than evade the attack. Then a [[KarmicDeath most satisfying]] order comes to throw useless objects overboard...

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* ''Heroes of Newerth'' As it is a team game you come across many players who embody this. They will spend most of the game demanding you buy wards or even give them your health potions. They will freak out if you do not do everything possible to save them and when you do they will completely ignore it and berate you the next time they feel you slip up.

** Russell also cried and said that he respected the game too much to lose in Redemption Island, saying it was how a professional NFL player feels about playing with a bunch of "Peewee leaders" who "lost the challenge on purpose to get him out", and claimed that nobody else was there to play the game and was only there to fame. Never mind that he was doing the ''exact same thing'' he did during the previous two times he played, down to recklessly searching for the idol[[hottip:*:If you're idol hunting, MAKE SURE NOBODY IS WATCHING YOU first!!]] without even considering that this time, people ''had'' an opportunity to see him play. (And if you seen the seasons with him, there's [[SpotlightStealingSquad absolutely]] [[TheWesley no]] [[CharacterFocus excuse]] for not knowing his game inside and out.)

* Russell Hantz of ''{{Survivor}}'' considers himself among the ranks of the game's {{Magnificent Bastard}}s, like Richard Hatch and "Boston" Rob Mariano. But what they understand and he doesn't is that evicted players on the jury have to ''like'' you or at least ''respect'' you enough to vote for you to win. Russell just wantonly lied and bullied his way through the game - twice - and ended by asking "Aren't I awesome?", to which both juries shouted '''''"NO!"''''' And then he had the gall, after his second loss, to argue that the rules were flawed ''because'' he didn't win, or because someone who had a drastically different playstyle [[TheCassandra (Sandra)]] could win ''twice''.

The Entitled Bastard usually thinks [[ItsAllAboutMe it's all about me;]] they don't feel at all sheepish about asking the people whose lives they've made hell for help, and they see no reason to [[UngratefulBastard thank them for it afterwards]]. What happens to them depends on just how annoying or harmful they've been, and how [[TheCape nice]] or [[AntiHero naughty]] the heroes are. If they've just been bad mouthing a generally GoodSamaritan [[SamaritanSyndrome of a hero]], they'll be saved no matter what. If the hero has a sense of humor, they might leave them in a safe place... hanging by their underpants. On the other hand, outright murderous villains will likely die with a look of bewilderment as the AntiHero refuses to help... or even ''speeds their death along.''

* The Politicians in charge of the Free Planets Alliance in ''LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' come across as this for the large part. The biggest example comes when they beg him to go out and save their asses from an invasion by TheEmpire... while in the middle of trying to hold him under inquiry of ''questionable'' legality officially for his previous actions in saving their asses from a military coup not too long before.

** It's also not just the DPS classes who do this. Tanks often tend to {{Leeroy}} right on in, sometimes even using abilities to increase their movement and going out of the healer's range and neglecting to actually get aggro on mobs before moving on, and then when the group wipes or somebody dies, either blame the healer for neglecting them, or the DPS for not knowing how to manage aggro and taking too much damage. (Which is going to happen in a lot of fights, either simply because of the enemies or because the tank hasn't bothered to position themselves to avoid, say, giant lightning bolts hitting the entire group.)
*** That's also not to say there aren't healers who are like this; too. Some have been known to completely ''ignore'' healing DPS period even though a lot of fights summon trash mobs that must be off-tanked, inflict a debuff on a random party member that deals damage or increases damage taken by a certain percent, or worse yet, inflict unavoidable Area of Effect damage. Then act like it's the DPS's fault they died.

* There's an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga Batman Begins]]'', Rhas 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 to necessity of killing for [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans the greater good]]. Since his mercy earlier at the monastery allowed Rhas to torment him, he was implying Batman needs to kill him. Batman notes (pretty much shirking the issue):

The Entitled Bastard usually thinks [[ItsAllAboutMe it's all about me;]] they don't feel at all sheepish about asking the people whose lives they've made hell for help, and they see no reason to [[UngratefulBastard thank them for it afterwards]]. Depending on just how annoying or harmful they've been, and how [[TheCape nice]] or [[AntiHero naughty]] the heroes are, is what happens to them. If they've just been bad mouthing a generally GoodSamaritan [[SamaritanSyndrome of a hero]], they'll be saved no matter what. If the hero has a sense of humor, they might leave them in a safe place... hanging by their underpants. On the other hand, outright murderous villains will likely die with a look of bewilderment as the AntiHero refuses to help... or even ''speeds their death along.''

** Recently, he pulled the extreme of this, and kicked Peter Parker (not knowing he was Spider-Man) out of his job for taking a picture of JJJ rescuing one of his bodyguards from the new Vulture. Why fire him? Because JJJ's family photo was behind him, and press embargoes forbid the photo. To add salt, he then blames just about everything that has gone wrong with life in general on a combination of Peter Parker and Spider-Man.
*** Actually, he fired Peter for FAKING the photo, since Pete didn't have time to take any pictures as Spidey - Jameson knew it was a fake because the picture in the background was of the former Mayor's kids. Whether he had to do it during a press conference, or has a right to criticise anyone else's journalistic ethics, is another story...

** It's also not just the DPS classes who do this. Tanks often tend to Leeroy right on in, and the healer who gets so tunnel visioned on healing the tank they neglect the DPS, and then when the group wipes or somebody dies, either blame the healer for neglecting them, or the DPS for not knowing how to manage aggro and getting damage taken. (When it's kind of inevitable for how DPS can take damage given the area of effect damage)

* Senna Wales, the witch of the ''{{Everworld}}'' series. She believes that the other four main characters are [[WhatMeasureIsANonSuper magicless]] [[XanatosSucker fools]] who should shut up and do exactly as she says and be grateful for it, and is herself totally ungrateful to anything that they do for her. She's a bit different in that she isn't an antagonist originally, and even helps the main four characters as often as she troubles them, at least until [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope the very end]].