History Main / UngratefulBastard

** The second time is when Wally saves Barry from Plunder. Instead of thanking him, Barry scolds Wally for not following his orders to stay behind. He does apologize later on though.

** The second time is when Wally saves Barry from Plunder. Instead of thanking him, Barry scolds Wally for not following his orders to stay behind. However, Barry does apologize at the end of the episode.

** First, at the beginning of the episode, he and Barry rescue a cop from a burning building. Later on, Wally is at the precinct and overhears the cop badmouthing Kid Flash, even calling him useless.
** The second time is when Wally saves Barry from Plunder. Instead of thanking him, Barry scolds Wally for not following his orders to stay behind. Luckily, Barry does apologize at the end.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat!", Mr. Cat's friends spend a lot of time and effort in helping him [[ItMakesSenseInContext stay in Smileyland]]. [[spoiler: Near the end of the episode, he manages to get invisibility powers and beats them all up.]]

** At one point Geralt comes across the village of Honorton, only to discover that all of its inhabitants were butchered. When he finds the culprit, a fellow [[HunterOfMonsters Witcher]] from the School of the Cat, he learns that the Cat Witcher had completed a contract to kill a [[PlantPerson Leshen]] that was terrorizing the villagers. They then proceeded to stab him InTheBack with a pitchfork rather than paying him the amount they had agreed upon. In a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge fit of rage]], he murders all of the villagers [[WouldntHurtAChild except for a little girl]].

** At the start of the game, an innkeeper in White Orchard is assaulted by a woman for removing a Temerian shield from her wall to protect the inn from [[TheEmpire Nilfgaardians]]. When Geralt intervenes, he and Vesemir are accosted by a group of thugs believing them to be Nilfgaardian sympathizers. After they kill the thugs in self-defense, the innkeeper kicks him out despite Geralt having saved her cousin from a griffin and stopped her face from being beaten in any further. Later she comes across Geralt again at a tavern in Novigrad and tries to have him lynched by the other patrons, only to be ignored.

* Played horrifically straight by humanity in ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''. The Autobots have defended humanity from invasion, even at the cost of their own world being reborn. Humanity's response to this is to help hunt an intergalactic BountyHunter kill the remaining Autobots and harvest ttheir bodies for the raw materials to make consumer goods. For profit. There have actually been camps hoping humans get wiped out in the next movie because of this.

** When a school bully named Flats who was going to kick [=SpongeBob=]'s butt was terribly injured in a truck accident, [=SpongeBob=] preformed surgery on him that saved his life. When he wakes up he still plans to kick his butt.

* In the final neck of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII: Reaper of Souls'', [[spoiler:Imperius]] asks for your aid in defeating the FinalBoss [[spoiler:Malthael]] as he cannot do it himself, but, with him not giving a damn about humanity or the [[{{Nephilim}} Nephalem]] (including [[spoiler:you, the hero]]), he makes it clear that he will ''not'' thank you for it.

* In "The Parking Garage" episode on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}"", George defends a little boy who is being mistreated by his mother, and the boy thanks him by saying that he's ugly.

* In Creator/RobinJarvis' ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Histories]]'' book ''Thomas'', [[spoiler:Mulligan]] pulls the unconscious [[spoiler:Dimlon]] out of the sea, saving his life. What happens when he comes to? It turns out he is [[spoiler:in fact Dahrem Ruhar, an adept of [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale]], who is]] intent on killing [[spoiler:Mulligan]].]]

* In Creator/RobinJarvis' ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Histories]]'' book ''Thomas'', [[spoiler:Mulligan]] pulls the unconscious [[spoiler:Dimlon]] out of the sea, saving his life. What happens when he comes to? It turns out he is [[spoiler:in fact Dahrem Ruhar, an adept of [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale]], who]] is intent on killing [[spoiler:Mulligan]].]]

* In Creator/RobinJarvis' ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Histories]]'' book ''Thomas'', [[spoiler:Mulligan]] pulls the unconscious [[spoiler:Dimlon]] out of the sea, saving his life. What happens when he comes to? [[spoiler:It turns out he is in fact Dahrem Ruhar, an adept of [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale]], who is intent on killing Mulligan.]]

* In Creator/RobinJarvis' ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Histories]]'' book ''Thomas'', [[spoiler:Mulligan]] pulls the unconscious [[spoiler:Dimlon]] out of the sea, saving his life. What happens when he comes to? [[spoiler:It turns out he is in fact Dahrem Ruhar, an adept of [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale]], who is intent on killing Mulligan.]]

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' during Part 1: Phantom Blood , Jonathan Joestar attempted this with Dio Brando, very, very hard, but Dio really is the ultimate ungrateful bastard; being nice to him results in him either thinking you're an idiot to be taken advantage of, or getting really angry and resentful. In Stardust Crusaders, DIO inverts this by inducing fierce loyalty towards him in people who weren't otherwise evil.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': TheHero Kouji Kabuto, his {{Tsundere}} BattleCouple and {{Love Interest|s}} Sayaka Yumi, their families and their friends risk their lives on a constant basis to protect humankind from a MadScientist and WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds worked for Hitler and wants to TakeOverTheWorld and enslaving the whole humanity [[FreudianExcuse to make them pay for all grievances he suffered in the past.]] How much gratitude do they get? You guessed it, none. Not only that but also people constantly blame them for the destruction and the deaths caused for the battles between Mazinger-Z and the [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beasts]], [[TooDumbToLive apparently not realizing]] if Mazinger-Z did not exist, all of them would be corpses or slaves (or keeping in mind how Dr. Hell got his {{Mooks}}, they could become BOTH). And every time TheDragon Baron Ashura blackmails the Japanese Government, they demand the Government gives into their threats (episode 17 provides a good example).
** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Tetsuya and Jun have the same kind of gratitude and regard. Or even worse. In the manga episodes penned by GosakuOta -one of the Creator/GoNagai assistants-, TheDragon Great Marshall Of Hell [[spoiler:warned he would blow Tokyo up unless the HomeBase and the HumongousMecha of the heroes were destroyed. People demanded the Government yielded... And they did. The Fortress of Science was destroyed, and Tetsuya and his allies were forced to flee and lie low for a while]]. During that time they had absolutely NO help to try and keep defending humankind. They did get many insults, though.
** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': Duke Fleed and his HumongousMecha is the only thing that stands between the human beings and global genocide. What does he get in exchange? Danbei Makiba bossing him around and [[OverprotectiveDad threatening to kill him if he so much as breathes near his daughter Hikaru]]. Danbei also complains that if Grendizer did not exist, [[TooDumbToLive they could be such good friends with the aliens]].
* Seto Kaiba from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' refuses to change his opinion of Yugi, despite the latter having come to his and/or [[DistressBall his brother's rescue]] on at least three separate occasions. He has a GrudgingThankYou moment at the end of Duelist Kingdom, even though defeating Yugi became an obsession for him in the following seasons.
** At least he stopped trying to kill him in the manga. His opinion of Yugi did eventually change, but that was in episode 223, and it took seeing Yugi [[spoiler:destroy ALL THREE EGYPTIAN GODS in one move]] for that to happen.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'', Jonouchi is the only one who stands up for Aigami when some bullies try to pick on him. Despite this, [[spoiler:Aigami later banishes him to another dimension that would slowly kill him, and calls Jonouchi worthless]].
* Lolly and Menolly from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. After [[spoiler:Orihime heals them both (including bringing Menolly ''back from the dead'') from the mauling they got at the hands of Grimmjow, they still consider her a useless monster not worthy of Aizen's attention. When he leaves to take out the hometown, they decide to take advantage of Ichigo being occupied with another fight and try to beat Orihime to death again. [[DroppedABridgeOnHim It doesn't end well for them]]]]. They (or at least Lolly) actually hate Orihime MORE after she [[spoiler:heals them]].

* Rufa from ''Manga/DragonHalf'', while not, technically, an enemy, treads close to this trope.

* An example that's neither villains nor rivals: The {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s ordering around the Black Order in ''Manga/DGrayMan''. These jerks are supposedly on Allen's (the hero) side. Yet their reaction to him [[spoiler:saving everyone's asses, hampering the BigBad's ability to make {{mooks}}, and capturing the Ark]] at the end of the Ark Arc is to [[spoiler:put him under surveillance and try him for heresy, despite the fact that it is known, in canon, that if he'd betrayed him he [[BodyHorror wouldn't still be walking around]], let alone now one of their most powerful exorcists]]. Not only that, but they absolutely ''need'' him to continue their war, pushing this into TooDumbToLive territory. Even worse now, [[spoiler:they put him in a jail cell for not obeying orders when he was trying to save everyone]].
* In ''Manga/BusouRenkin'' , Kazuki risks his life to protect the Hayasaka Twins (the series' IneffectualSympatheticVillain) from Tokiko, who wants to kill them simply because they work for L.X.E. Shusui "thanks" Kazuki by trying to kill him. Kazuki gets better (thanks to Ouka), but even so...
* [[TheBarnum Nabiki Tendô]], of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ranma Saotome]] is not only engaged to marry her little sister in an ArrangedMarriage, but protects the household on a fairly regular basis from various chaos. Admittedly, some of that chaos comes to them ''because'' he's living there, but there are many events that would have fallen on the Tendôs' doorstep anyway ([[MartialArtsAndCrafts Picolet]] [[BigEater Chardin]] showing up to claim one of them as his [[ArrangedMarriage promised wife]], Akane running off to Ryûgenzawa and its resident {{Orochi}}, [[FairWeatherMentor Happôsai]] coming to town...). He's also directly saved her from harm at least once, and once saved her life. How does she repay him? She's utterly indifferent to his well-being and considers him solely a source of money and amusement, to the extent she's willing to put his life in danger if she thinks it will make her some money.
** There's also a subversion: As Genma Saotome frequently complains, Ranma Saotome is an "ungrateful son"...except in Ranma's case he's kind of justified, because everything positive Genma did for Ranma was what a father is ''supposed'' to do, while Genma also added a lot of unnecessary negative complications that he then left for Ranma to fix. Really, Genma himself is an example of this trope, ungrateful that Ranma ''does'' constantly clean up after his messes.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''
** [[spoiler:Sasuke Uchiha]] became this midway through ''Shippuuden''. While [[spoiler:attacking the Kage conference, Suigetsu and Jugo]] save his life, as they had against [[spoiler:Killer Bee]] earlier. However, [[spoiler:Sasuke]] leaves them both to die without looking back, collapsing the ceiling on them and the enemies alike. Later on, [[spoiler:Karin heals him back from the brink of death (again, saving his life twice counting Killer Bee and the Kages) and helps Sasuke defeat Danzo. When Danzo takes her hostage, Sasuke aims his Chidori Spear right through her, considering anyone dumb enough to be taken hostage a burden. She survives the spear, and just as Sasuke is about to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill kill her with Chidori]], Sakura shows up and claims to want to join them. Sasuke (who even now isn't ''that'' stupid) tells Sakura to kill Karin, who manages to warn Sakura that Sasuke's about to ''chidori'' both of them. As much of a rabid Sasuke fangirl as Karin is, she doesn't take being skewered well]].
** Also, the treatment of Naruto by the villagers. If the Kyuubi hadn't been sealed inside him, it would have destroyed Konoha, but he is a pariah because of it. Over time, this gets better as they see how much Naruto has accomplished and start regarding him as a hero.
** Hatake Sakumo suffered greatly from it. During a dangerous mission, his teammates were captured and [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind he went back to save them]]. Unfortunately this also meant he had to give up on a mission that was vital to Konoha. The result? The whole of Konoha villifies and disgraces him, ''including the people whose lives he saved'', ultimately [[DrivenToSuicide driving him into a depression and then suicide]]. As if that isn't sad enough, he leaves behind a seven year old son who absolutely idolized him, and leads to some serious plot development. After all, [[spoiler:If Sakumo hadn't killed himself, Obito might never have met [[BigBad Madara]] and ''the Akatsuki would never have been formed'']].
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''
** Ash's Charizard used to a '''major''' example of this. When it was still a Charmander, its [[{{Jerkass}} former trainer]] abandoned it on a rock, leaving it on the brink of death on a rainy night. Ash had saved this Pokémon and took it with him on his journeys. It would eventually evolve into Charmeleon and start disobeying him. Upon evolving into a Charizard, its attitude doesn't improve much and actually costs Ash the Pokémon League Indigo Conference.
** In ''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior'', the main characters meet Shaymin, the Gratitude Pokémon. Yeah right... All she does throughout the film is annoy the characters and treat them badly.
** Also lampshaded when Ash saves the Team Rocket trio. While Jessie claims it doesn't change anything and begins ranting at the heroes for saving them James interrupts saying that he, at least, is thankful. This doesn't stop him doing villain stuff a few seconds later.
** Jessie does this again when she gets paralyzed and is not one bit grateful to Misty for providing the Salveyo Weed cure, nor to her teammates for going out of their way to take care of her in the first place. James and Meowth even call her out on this.
* In one episode of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'', the trio supposedly meet Xavier III whose trying to spread Christianity to Japan. However he turns out to be nothing but a con man taking advantage of the locals. A girl name Yuri, whom he mercilessly abused, has him at gunpoint and is all set to kill him. But she eventually just tells him to get lost and spares his life. He responds by trying to kill her. Karma however stepped in when after a brief fight a [[KarmicDeath giant cross gets dropped on him]].
* The [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Council]] are this towards ''Manga/FairyTail''. On occasion this makes sense, since usually Fairy Tail just rounds up random minor criminals while ''destroying half the city in the process'', but they also get punished when stopping potential calamities without causing trouble in the process

* In a sense, Villetta Nu of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' could be considered this for convincing Ohgi, whose love she finally accepted, [[spoiler:to lead the charge of the Black Knights in turning on Lelouch]] because of some rather questionable evidence of Geass. Yeah, even though she had been keeping surveillance over Lelouch because of said power, which she must have known had limits, and that Lelouch saved Ohgi from execution via Britannian firing squad, which he had to do by going under Villetta's radar. Now alright, Lelouch didn't necessarily do it for Villetta's sake, but talk about a complete lack of class. The Black Knights themselves can be considered this as well for turning on Lelouch, the man who brought them so far against Britannia, after everything he did in an under the table deal for Japan on account of said evidence. While it's true Lelouch had been secretive, they were completely passive aggressive about it, used one of their most trusted and crucial members, Kallen, as bait, and threaten to gun her down as well when she protests, and worse, trusted the word of the enemy commander instead which was expertly skewed against their own, and did so with no input from the organization they were now serving, the UFN.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has Zeff providing Don Krieg with food to feed his starving crew with, only for Krieg to immediately turn around and attack the restaurant who had just saved both his and his crew's lives.
** Krieg did give everyone in the restaurant time to evacuate before he took it over; still JerkAss behavior, but quite a concession coming from him, albeit partly necessitated by his men needing time to eat and regain their strength. A better example would be when Don Krieg himself was starving. Everyone else present loudly and proudly declared their intent to just let him keel over and die, with only Sanji willing to step forward with food for him. Once Don Krieg is done eating, the first thing he does is get up and punch out, of all people, ''Sanji''. '''For absolutely no reason'''.
** The Longarm tribe, who [[spoiler:Brook]] decides to work with and proceeds to earn them a lot of money and fame, repay him by [[spoiler:turning him over to the Navy when Brook tells them that he plans to retire and return to piracy]].
** In ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'', the Straw Hats go out of their way to warn Golden Lion Shiki about an incoming typhoon. After they avoid it, he repays them by [[spoiler:kidnapping Nami as his new navigator and sends the rest of the crew pummeling down towards his floating islands as prey for the animals there]].
** Myosgard, after just having his life saved by Queen Otohime, tries to shoot her. Then again after he is healed up, all he shouts is his disgust towards having to be with them. And lastly, he voices his anger when Otohime wishes to come with him on his ship.
** A villainous subversion in the Dressrosa arc, where Donquixote Doflamingo sees Trafalgar Law as this, as he took Law in as a child and raised him to be his right-hand man, his crew giving him the swordsmanship, martial arts, and marksmanship skills needed to become a OneManArmy, only for Law to turn on him and seek to take his life. However, it's clear to everyone that Law's reasons for betraying Doflamingo are extremely justified. Doflamingo is an AxCrazy maniac with no conscience concerning anyone outside of his own crew, but [[spoiler:his younger brother Rocinante, also called Corazon, was gentle and kindhearted. He was responsible for saving Law's life from an otherwise incurable disease, spending half a year traveling around the world looking for a cure and getting gravely injured in the process. But shortly afterwards, Corazon is killed by Doflamingo for being a ReverseMole working for the Marines]].
** Another example from the Dressrosa arc. A LOT of the country's population, along with many, many visitors to the island, were LivingToys, changed from humans into that for one reason or another and enslaved by the Donquixote Family through use of a Devil Fruit user named Sugar. They were doomed to spend the rest of their lives slaving away until their toy bodies gave out, unless by some miracle the Devil Fruit user who had converted them was forcibly rendered unconscious, which would break the spell. This happens thanks to the actions of [[spoiler:Usopp]], who was beaten to within an inch of his life on the way there. How do the toys who witnessed the battle and turned back repay him? They…well, actually, they hail him as a hero, a ''god'' even, and subject themselves to him. But then along comes Donquixote Doflamingo, the leader of the family who is NOT happy about his {{Masquerade}} being shattered. He puts out the names of all of the ones who are a threat to his power on the island, including all of the Straw Hats, putting a bounty on each one. [[spoiler:Usopp]], for his trouble, is given a bounty of 500,000,000 Berries. A large number of the former toys are suddenly taken with greed, and decide to kill him.
-->'''Many Powerful Fighters''': ''(while attacking)'' [[http://www.onemanga2.com/One_Piece/748/14/ DROP DEAD, YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS!]]

* In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', Niijima is this way towards Kenichi early on. He berates Kenichi constantly, and when Kenichi starts getting stronger, he uses him largely for his own selfish gains. Niijima does more or less grow out of this trope, and turns into more of a GuileHero, especially after he forms the Shinpaku Alliance.
* Louise in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' might be one of the most exaggerated examples. Saito does/is forced to do so damn much for her after being kidnapped from his home, namely all of her chores, fight all of her battles for her. He even refuses a chance to escape from Halkeginia and go home just to be with Louise. At the end of the second season, he [[spoiler:goes up against a giant army, and dies]] just to keep Louise safe. All the thanks he gets from her is whipping and beating him until he faints out of sheer agony, and destroying his self-worth to the point where he genuinely believes that he is useless. Summed up perfectly by Derflinger:
--->'''Derflinger''': "You acted coldly to him again didn't you? And then Partner went away with a bitter face... He says he loves you. Partner gave up on going home and joined the war to follow you, though he doesn't want to get involved in it. Why do you think that is? Because he loves you. Have you ever responded to his feelings, even once? While he devotes himself to you, isn't whipping the only thing you do to him?"
** [[spoiler:It is eventually mentioned that the Familiar spell also removed his willingness to leave Louise's side, so his decision to stay becomes AscendedFridgeHorror.]]
* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', in the light novel adaptation, in which it is revealed that [[spoiler:Erika, one of Miho's fiercest critics,]] was [[spoiler:one of the girls Miho saved from the tournament, and abandoned her flag tank to do so]].
* In ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'', [[spoiler:the guy who stabs Yuu in the second-last chapter is a student who Yuu saved from bullies many chapters back]].
* Chibi-Usa once pulled this towards Usagi in the anime version of ''Anime/SailorMoon''. [[spoiler:She actually ''stole Usagi's TransformationTrinket after learning that she was Sailor Moon'', mentally whining about how terrible Usagi was and how much she hated her for being careless and whiny. Since Usagi was unable to stop the Senshi's capture at the hands of Rubeus ''because'' Chibi-Usa rendered her useless by stealing the brooch, she '''massively''' chewed Chibi-Usa out for her stupidity.]] From then on, she still acted bratty sometimes yet never to this extreme.
* In the infamous island arc of ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', the title character turns into one . She almost drowns while clinging to Nemo's sinking cabin, while asking the ''animals'' and the ''fish'' to save her. She receives no such response, predictably. When Jean and Marie both save her, she instead yells at them for catching even more fish. (Marie quickly calls her out on it.) She gets even worse in the Africa arc where she betrays Jean after admitting how important he was to her in the previous episode! ([[CanonDiscontinuity Both of these incidents are quickly forgotten and never mentioned again anywhere else in the show at episode 35.]])

* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', one jerk in the backstory threw away the food Frohze gave him because they weren't high-class ingredients. During a worldwide ''famine''. Small wonder Midora flipped out and attacked the guy.
* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'': In episode 7, after helping to save Mizore from herself and her [[PowerIncontinence haywire ice clones]], Mizore flat-out tells Tsukune and Inner Moka not to expect her to thank them. In response, Inner Moka lays her out flat and lectures her, telling her to actually try living her life before she starts [[DrivenToSuicide talking about killing herself]]; Mizore takes this to heart.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Bastard might be a bit strong of a word here, but whenever the Military Police Brigade or Garrison are forced to HoldTheLine, they're hoping that the [[TheAce Survey Corps]] will [[TheCavalry reach them in time to save the day]]. Immediately afterwards they and the civilians continue to treat them like crap, calling them weirdos and a waste of resources.
* In ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', the crowd is one. First, Saitama destroys a meteor that [[ApocalypseHow would've completely and utterly annihilated at least Z-City and quite possibly a lot more]] but the pieces still hit and cause a lot of destruction. Two of the Tank Top brothers use this and manage to turn the crowd against him. [[WorldOfCardboardSpeech He shuts them down.]]

* The light novel, Ultimate Antihero, might as well be titled "Ungrateful Bastards, the Light Novel". The main character, Kamishiro Homura, goes on to save the last remnants of mankind, risking his life, and sanity, by reading a tome of Eldritch lore, handed him by The Crawling Chaos to go up against a "Demon King" class monster which, with a single attack, ''[[ApocalypseWow scorched 96 percent of the Earth's surface.]]'' How do the governments of the 10 remaining countries respond to his courage and self-sacrifice? A victory parade? Hail him as a savior and champion of humanity? '''NO!''' They slap a seal on his powers that would risk 70% ''of the Earth'' if he tries to remove it, and constantly track him day and night like a wanted fugitive, strip away his human rights and erase all public records of his background, making it impossible for him to have gainful employment. They slander him, call him a traitor to his species to the point where everybody of the human race, bar a small number of people that can actually be counted on one hand, look upon him with unbridled terror. To top it all off, these same government officials continuously send ''assassins'', if not whole armies, after him to try to kill him, and resent the fact that ''he still fights to save humanity in spite of them''. So how do they ultimately decide to deal with the ongoing demon threat? ''They create an artificial Archangel Michael to kill him and obliterate his home nation.'' [[KnightTemplar In order to secure "salvation from Heaven."]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Let's just say Michael doesn't have the same definition of "salvation" that they do.]]

** The real cause of humanity's ungrateful bastardry towards mutantkind? A 3-billion-year-old sentient bacteria bent on taking over the world.

* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' the civilians swing from {{Muggles}} to Ungrateful Bastards ridiculously soon after the {{Masquerade}} is broken. Although the fact that Hellboy would seem to them to have gone from "cool urban legend" to "scary demon with huge guns who attracts enormous, destructive plant monsters"... And this is why the comics has him being public knowledge since day one (that's since the 1950s).
* Lieutenant Dan subverts this in ''Film/ForrestGump''. Initially he is not only ungrateful, [[UnwantedRescue but downright angry with Gump for saving his life]]. This was mostly a pride thing, though, as he was the first in his family not to die in battle and didn't know what to do with his life afterwards, especially after losing his legs. If anything, by the end of the movie he becomes grateful to Gump for not just saving him, but giving him a reason to live. Even before the end, he actually respected Gump and considered him his best friend. He was angry at him for saving him because he had to live without legs, but that didn't mean he truly turned against him.
-->"I never thanked you for saving my life."

* In ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' this seems to be the case on the surface, but is subverted. While Optimus Prime [[spoiler:kills Megatron, despite the fact that he helped him defeat a mutual enemy]] it's made clear Megatron's actions were purely out of self-interest, and that aside, he was personally responsible for the death of one of Prime's comrades. Even his alleged "surrender" seemed to be nothing more than an act of mockery.
* In ''Film/{{The Phantom|1996}}'', TheDragon Quill was once saved by the 20th Phantom, after he was attacked by a rabid monkey. Quill said that he would lead him to the Sengh Brotherhood's hideout. Instead, he stabbed the Phantom in the back, stole his belt and took it to the Brotherhood, who initiated him.
* In ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', "Steamboat Willie" is spared by the platoon... only to rejoin the German forces and [[spoiler:help kill the main character, Miller. No wonder shortly after he surrenders [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene he gets shot]]. By the same guy who argued with the squad that he should be let go, in fact]].
* In ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', Ingen's dinosaur capturing party rescues Ian and his team, the supposed good guys in the film, after a T-Rex destroys all of their equipment and leaves them dangling off of a cliff. They then provide all of the information Ian and co. need to get help and personally escort them there, despite heavy losses to their own ranks (most of which directly caused by [[TooDumbToLive Ian's group]]). Despite all of this, Ian's team still feels the need to spend every minute of screen time possible heckling and sabotaging them. Nick Van Owen even steals the bullets from them as they leave the island, leaving Ingen's team helpless against the attacking dinosaurs. That's ''manslaughter'', or at the very least depraved indifference.
* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'':
** Subverted in the finale of the first ''Film/SpiderMan1'' film, where Spidey seems to get a ''lot'' more respect than he ''ever'' did in the comics. Just when it looks like the Green Goblin is about to end his career, [[BrooklynRage the villain starts getting pelted with garbage by angry New Yorkers standing on the Queensboro Bridge.]] The New Yorkers scream profanities at the villain, one says "C'mon, you're gonna attack a guy who's trying to save a bunch of kids?!", and then one New Yorker shouts, "You mess wit' one of us, you mess wit' ALL of us!" Apparently, this was added in as a ShoutOut to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to reflect the general feeling New Yorkers had following the crisis. Still, for Spider-Man, this was ''really'' something.
*** It was played straight earlier in the film, when calls were being made for Spidey's arrest. It was even fairly invoked by the Green Goblin, who told Spider-Man that the people of New York would hate him in the end despite everything he'd done for them -- and they ''did''. Also, it featured JJJ doing his thing in typical {{Paparazzi}} fashion.
** In ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Spider-Man saves Harry Osborn from being killed when Dr. Ock's experiment blows up. Harry, who still thinks Spidey killed his father, tells him it doesn't change anything. As he leaves the building with his bodyguard, Harry says Spider-Man shamed him by touching him.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Anakin Skywalker himself from the prequel trilogy '''enjoys''' living this trope. He definitely qualifies during ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', where he puts the blame on Obi-Wan Kenobi for holding him back after Shmi, his mother, died in the Tusken Raider camp, assume that the Jedi Council weren't going easy on him and distrust them even more after he's refused the rank of Jedi Master, kills all of the Jedi, including the younglings, in the Jedi temple during Order 66 after ''all his devoted years of serving them'', and, worst of all, Force chokes Padmé Amidala, his wife, to near death, after ''all his years of marriage with her'', because he thought that she betrays him when Obi-Wan appears on her ship, so that the medical facility staff in Polis Massa will be unable to save her, leaving her eventual death inevitable. There isn't even any victory in his final defeat at the hands of Obi-Wan, because the victory for Anakin's former Jedi Master came off as Pyrrhic, resulting in the fallen Jedi apprentice being encased in black armor at the very end of the third prequel.
** ''Leia''. "When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?" No, we didn't, Your Worshipfullness, because we're ''two guys and an anthropomorphic dog up against thousands of enemy soldiers. To save your ungrateful skin.'' For [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality whatever]] [[TheUnfairSex reason]], it's PlayedForLaughs. [[JerkassHasAPoint Rescues are kind of pointless when everyone just gets killed on the way out.]]
** The Jedi in general count too. Oh hey look, here's this nice woman who let her son come and join us. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have the Chosen One in our order...What's that? She's still a slave? Oh never mind. We'll just let her suffer in slavery and then get tortured to death by savages. This also applies on a broader scale, what with the typical treatment of families who give up their ''children'' to the Order.
** The Jedi themselves were on the receiving end of this. When they were wiped out nobody really cared. Served the Republic in all its forms as guardians for twenty thousand years? Led the clone troopers (who also get no respect) to victory against the overwhelming Separatist forces in the current civil war? Oh, well. No use crying over spilt milk.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Pyro towards Professor X in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. This doesn't sit well with Magneto.
--->'''Pyro:''' [[spoiler:I would've killed]] the professor if you had given me the chance.\\
'''Magneto:''' Charles Xavier did more for mutants than you'll ever know. [[spoiler:[[AntagonistInMourning My single greatest regret is that that he had to die for our dream to live]]]].
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', minutes after [[spoiler:the mutants single-handedly prevent World War III, the military tries to kill them since they were deemed too dangerous]].
** ''Film/TheWolverine'':
*** Mostly played straight with Ichiro Yashida towards Wolverine. He wanted to [[spoiler:acquire Wolverine's HealingFactor to achieve eternal youth, but he claims that it's for Logan's own good since that what he (Logan) [[DeathSeeker really wanted]]. Nonetheless, Ichiro still seemed at first genuinely thankful to Logan for saving his life back in WWII. Only when Logan said no, did he show the uglier side of him and that he would put his survival before even his savior's]].
*** Shingen shows nothing but open contempt for Logan throughout the movie. He never once acknowledges or thanks him for saving his father's life, if not for which he wouldn't even exist.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Erik--while living under a new identity--uses his powers to save a fellow steelworker, so what happens next? Another steelworker informs the authorities who he really is, which leads to [[spoiler:the death of Lehnsherr's wife and daughter]].
* In ''Film/LordOfIllusions'', Nix's cult have spent the better part of 15 years trying to revive him from his imprisonment in the afterlife. Upon his resurrection he murders them all for having proven themselves unworthy of him.

* In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', Vlad's people try to burn him alive the moment they find out that he's a vampire and they don't care who he is or what he had done to save them all -- to them, he's just a monster. [[ShamingTheMob Vlad calls them out on the spot]]. When Vlad's vampire army has finished off the Ottomans, they turn their attention to try and kill Ingeras. [[PapaWolf They forgot whose boy that was]].
* The two rats in ''Film/DrDolittle'' are explicitly not grateful to the good doctor after he saves one of them.
--> "You want gratitude? Get a hamster!"
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', [[spoiler:even though Caleb helped her escape, Ava left him to die of starvation in the facility]].
* In ''Film/TheDeparted'', when [[spoiler:Barrigan saves Sullivan from being arrested]] the very next thing he does is shoot his rescuer in the head.
* In the B Movie, ''Prayer For The Rollerboys'', Creator/CoreyHaim saves the life of TheDragon to the boss of a roller blade gang, who also happens to be Haim's childhood friend. Out of jealousy, the dragon spends the rest of the film trying to sabotage Haim's place in the gang.
* The NoBudget fantasy film ''The Lords of Magick'' has a nobleman horribly mutilated and murdered by bandits, before being resurrected by two passing wizards. Said nobleman's response is to immediately have the wizards arrested for practising the forbidden art of necromancy, without any mention at all of reporting the people who actually killed him.

** [[ItsAllAboutMe Chancellor Gowron]] owes his position to TheFederation--Picard (as the Arbiter of Succession) installed him as chancellor and exposed the illegal Romulan aid to his enemies of the House of Duras, and Worf actively fought for him and persuaded his brother Kurn to do so. So what happens when the Federation opposes his invasion of Cardassia? He withdraws from the Khitomer Accords and declares war on his former allies.

** The Northwest Family were cursed and possibly damned to an IronicHell because of this; 150 years prior to "Northwest Mansion Noir", they had asked local lumberjacks and laborers to build their mansion in exchange for a yearly party between the lower and upper classes. The mansion apparently takes years to complete, with several workers dying due to the unstable working conditions. And when the workers finish and ask for their reward, the Northwests laughed at them and shut them out of the party. It took a repentant Pacifica to undo the damage and it'll be her alone to enter the divine gates.
** Grunkle Stan accuses [[spoiler: his twin brother]] of this. [[spoiler: Stan spent the better part of three decades trying to get his brother back from an alternate dimension. Not only does his brother overtly refuse to thank him, he demands that Stan relinquish ownership of the Mystery Shack, which was originally his brother's home, and move out.]] The lack of gratitude is understandable because [[spoiler: a) Stan was partly responsible for his brother being trapped in another dimension in the first place and b) Stan risked the destruction of the ''entire universe'' in the process of bringing his brother back]].
** In a critical moment when Dipper decides to accept apprenticeship with Ford, Mabel, rather than sacrifice her happiness for Dipper's sake like he did to her countless times and be happy for him when he leaves her, chose to selfishly give the rift to Blendin just for the chance of having an eternal summer and prevent Dipper from leaving her, [[AesopAmnesia completely ignoring any lesson in maturity in the process]].

* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', this lies at the heart of Emi's grievance against Miho's sister Maho in ''Little Army''. It turns out that during the tournament Maho won, [[spoiler:when one of the tanks on Maho's team fell off a cliff, the opposing team's (of which Emi's older sister was a member) flag tank went to help, but Maho ordered her tank to fire on the flag tank, even though she was winning]]. However, [[SubvertedTrope Maho's expression when it's first brought up not only indicates shame over doing so, but also quite possibly ignorance of what the flag tank was trying to accomplish]].
** This is played straight in the light novel adaptation, in which it is revealed that [[spoiler:Erika, one of Miho's fiercest critics,]] was [[spoiler:one of the girls Miho saved from the tournament, and abandoned her flag tank to do so]].