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* In the Literature/BookOfEsther, Haman is the second most powerful person in the most powerful empire in the world, and everyone is required to bow down when he passes. Then somebody points out that Mordechai the Jew ''doesn't'' bow, apparently on the grounds that [[AgainstMyReligion his religion forbids it]]. Haman's solution is [[LeaveNoSurvivors to wipe out all the Jews in the empire]]. At one point he rants to his wife and friends about how all of his good fortune and successes don't mean anything whenever he notices Mordechai standing when he passes.
* PlayedForDrama in Myth/NorseMythology. The god Balder is murdered by Loki, but Hel, ruler of the Underworld, agrees that he can be resurrected if every creature in the universe cries for him. One random giantess named Thok (who, DependingOnTheWriter, might be Loki in disguise) says that she never particularly liked Balder anyway, so Hel can keep him. He will somehow come back from the dead after [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]], though.
** Balder's death in itself is an example, his mother asked everything in the world to swear not to hurt him, but didn't see the mistletoe plant and so didn't ask it. The gods made a game of throwing things at the NighInvulnerable Balder to see them bounce off or even swerve away. Then Loki shows up with a spear made of mistletoe, gives to a blind Aesir...

** Asuka is one of the few people able to pilot an Eva, marking her as one of humanity's saviors, and quickly becomes a popular student with no shortage of admirers. She's flummoxed by the fact that Shinji is too emotionally withdrawn to connect to her, and her attempts to attract his attention (trying to goad him into sharing a room, getting a new swimsuit, kissing him) are in vain. She is also extremely put off when Rei reacts to her grandstanding offer that they should be friends with annoyed indifference (the way [[TheStoic Rei]] reacts to pretty much everyone who intrudes on her personal space), and it forms the beginning of her ([[UnknownRival very one-sided]]) rivalry with her.

* ''Manga/SchoolMermaid'': The last arc of the original series had the school nurse trick the protagonist into activating the mermaid spell simply so she would fail before its deadline and turn into a mermaid herself. Why? Because all the boys at the school fawn over her save for one boy who just happens to be the protagonist's crush. The nurse finds that unacceptable and wants the girl turned into a mermaid because the girl has the same first letter as said boy (it's due to the odd rules of the spell) and she plans on enacting the spell herself, hunting the girl down and eating her flesh so she can force the boy to love her. [[EvilIsPetty Yeah...]]

* PlayedForDrama in ''{{ComicBook/Irredeemable}}''. The Plutonian has an intense, driving need to be loved by everyone around him and receives endless praise from being the world's greatest super-hero. But he's unable to get over the few people who ''don't'' shower him with praise, whom he can hear with his SuperSenses, leading him to bitterly think that the entire population of Earth are nothing but selfish, ungrateful animals.

* Invoked by Twilight Sparkle towards Princess Celestia in ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/171911/take-two Take Two]]''. [[spoiler:This happens because her future self went back in time [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and uploaded a copy of her future memories into her younger selves mind]], which revealed how [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Celestia]] had released Discord [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter thinking he could be reformed]]; only for Discord to later kill all of Twilight's friends and loved ones in the future.]]

* A rare non-comic example may be found in author Creator/FlanneryOConnor's short story "Revelation". In it, smug Ruby Turpin is the well-bred wife of a successful farmer and highly respected by her town and church; she seldom lets anyone forget how blessed by God she is. Everyone goes along with this and with her constant passing judgments until a girl from a white-trash background insults Mrs. Turpin and hurls her philosophy book at her. (It's implied the girl is mentally disturbed.) Shaken, the older woman returns home, refusing any consolation, shouting at her black farm help who keep saying they admire her. Ultimately the girl's words leave Mrs. Turpin severely upset, recoiling at the unpleasant truths she sees about herself and railing at God.

* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' kicks off this way. After nearly ''everyone'' Bella meets at school is friendly and welcoming to her, she is nearly driven to tears because Edward Cullen is distant with her. Instead of doing her best to ignore it, she does nothing but obsess over this. In later books, Bella has a paralyzing fear of even ''talking'' to Rosalie and Leah, because they are pretty much the only vampire and werewolf respectively who don't like her-- though this may be more a case of wanting to avoid supernaturally powerful beings who might have a grudge against her. Finally, Bella spends an inordinate amount of time being mentally catty about Lauren, the lone human who doesn't like her, when she's immediately surrounded by friends otherwise and Bella herself doesn't like Lauren in return.

* PlayedForDrama in ''{{ComicBook/Irredeemable}}''. [[Characters/IrredeemablePlutonian The Plutonian]] has an intense, driving need to be loved by everyone around him and receives endless praise from being the world's greatest super-hero. But he's unable to get over the few people who ''don't'' shower him with praise, whom he can hear with his SuperSenses, leading him to bitterly think that the entire population of Earth are nothing but selfish, ungrateful animals.

Doing this in RealLife ''can'' be the result of narcissism or sociopathy, but it can also be caused if "Alice" has been emotionally abused, bullied, or otherwise personally or socially abused or ostracized in the past and thus developed people-pleasing tendencies as a survival mechanism[[note]]The most accepted term for it being [[https://psychcentral.com/health/fawn-response fawn response]][[/note]].This can make what happens to them even more tragic, especially when they see it as only trying to protect themselves from abuse or placate haters -- and as a result ends up drawing even more abuse and ostracism for falling into this trope.

Doing this in RealLife ''can'' be the result of narcissism or sociopathy, but it can also be caused if "Alice" has been emotionally abused, bullied, or otherwise personally or socially ostracized in the past and thus developed people-pleasing tendencies as a survival mechanism. This can make what happens to them even more tragic, especially when they see it as only trying to protect themselves from abuse or placate haters -- and as a result ends up drawing even more abuse and ostracism for falling into this trope.

Contrast EnemiesEqualsGreatness, where someone ''likes'' that they have the contempt of others, and OnlyOneFindsItFun for when only one person ''likes'' some''thing''. Compare JerkassToOne, which is this trope from the opposite angle.

* This often happens to ''Series/{{Frasier}}''; it's often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with the explanation that Frasier is a pretty emotionally needy person. In one notable instance, his show was being focus-grouped. Eleven members of the group ''raved'' about how great he was, and one person didn't like him, without offering explanation. Frasier, of course, obsessed the one negative review and ended up hounding the guy to find out what it was the guy didn't like. This naturally escalated to a series of misadventures, culminating in Frasier accidentally burning down the man's newsstand. The guy [[RageBreakingPoint finally takes Frasier to task]], yelling that he simply didn't like Frasier's know-it-all personality, but now had plenty of ''other'' reasons to hate him.

'''Nazuna:''' Huh? You wanted your pictures taken?\\

* ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGGreatCometOf1812'' has another non-comic example: Natasha goes to visit her future father and sister-in-law.

* ''Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812'' has another non-comic example: Natasha goes to visit her future father and sister-in-law.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Becker}}'' has Margaret realising that Mrs. Connolly, a patient she visits at home who has always been strangely cold and crotchety to her, gets along well with both Lynda and Becker (and has done so for years, in the latter case). Rather than go through the usual plot of trying and failing to make her like her by changing her behavior, Margaret straight-up asks for an explanation. [[RiddleForTheAges She doesn't really get one, with Mrs. Connolly saying that she just doesn't like her.]].

->''And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”''

->''“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
-> And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”''

->''"Don’t focus on the one guy who hates you. You don’t go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile of dog shit."''
-->-- '''''Series/ShitMyDadSays'''''

* PlayedForDrama in ''{{ComicBook/Irredeemable}}''. [[Characters/IrredeemablePlutonian The Plutonian]] has an intense, driving need to be loved by everyone around him and receives endless praise from being the world's greatest super-hero. But he's unable to get over the few people who ''don't'' shower him with praise, leading him to bitterly think that the entire population of Earth are nothing but selfish, ungrateful animals.

** Homer Simpson is rather off-put when he gains a personal enemy in Frank Grimes from the appropriately-titled episode "Homer's Enemy". Moe tries to comfort Homer by saying that there are people who don't like him, too. Homer refuses to accept this. Meanwhile, Grimes is [[HourglassPlot later off-put himself]] [[InvertedTrope that nobody else feels the same way about Homer]] [[OnlySaneMan when he can clearly see him as being]] TooDumbToLive.

** In "Lisa's Pony," Homer gets the cold shoulder from Lisa after his latest blunder and is so desperate to win back her affection that he decides to buy her the pony she's always wanted, even though its upkeep is far beyond what the family can afford, forcing him to take a second job.

* In ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'', Midori is so used to being the cutest, most popular girl around (when her vampire friends aren't with her, at least), that [[NotGoodWithRejection she becomes seriously irked]] when [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove Yamori]] turns her down. Later, when it appears that [[ThePeepingTom someone is taking racy pictures]] of the girls at the [[CosplayCafe maid café]] she works at, Midori becomes similarly peeved when Yamori points out there aren't any of her specifically.