History NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished / FanWorks

* Subverted in the ForWantOfANail fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32960350/chapters/81803836 Really? Me Too!]]''; Wei Wuxian comes to Jin Guangyao's defence when a Clan Leader and his wife loudly insult the latter behind his back. To avoid this trope from playing out, Wei Wuxian decides to return to the Flower Banquet with Jin Guangyao in order to watch out for him. Subverted further when this leads to the two of them forming an OddFriendship (due to [[CommonalityConnection their similar backgrounds]]), ultimately preventing most of the tragic events of canon from taking place.

** Mme Bustier runs her class by expecting the better-behaved students to 'lead by example', encouraging them to TurnTheOtherCheek and show bullies the right way to act. In practice, this means that they're pressured to let bullies [[ExtremeDoormat walk all over them]] and are scolded whenever they try escaping this. Marinette was a former victim of this before [[ForWantOfANail transferring to another class]], and Bustier ''still'' believes that she should continue being 'one of the Marinettes of the world'. Being nice just doesn't cut it in her classroom.

* Jiraiya in ''Fanfic/ObitoSensei'', just like in canon, taught Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan so they could not only protect themselves in Rain but also use their powers for good through Ninshu. He later protected them from Hanzo and Danzo's manipulations [[ForWantOfANail by killing Danzo]]. His former students then founded the Akatsuki and took over the Nation of Rain to create a political power that threatens the other Hidden Villages. Due to this, Jiraiya has become a pariah in Konoha due to his part in the Akatsuki's foundation, forced to focus on his spy network outside and away from his home.

* ''Fanfic/OnTrial'': Eugene stops James the guard from [[spoiler: ''cutting out Cass' tongue'']], fires him, and has Cass taken to her old bedroom for a few days to recover. When the king hears about this, he fires Eugene as Guard Captain and has James replace him.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'', [[GenderFlip Petra Parker]] saves Avengers Tower and a bystander from a giant robot. Shortly after, the bystander (actually SHIELD agent Phil Coulson) reports what he saw to Fury, including the fact that Petra contacted someone (Leo) after the fight, thus putting Petra and her family on SHIELD's radar.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'', [[GenderFlip Petra Parker]] saves Stark Tower and a bystander from a giant robot. Shortly after, the bystander (actually SHIELD agent Phil Coulson) reports what he saw to Fury, including the fact that Petra contacted someone after the fight, thus putting Petra and her family on SHIELD's radar.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'', Petra Parker saves Stark Tower and a bystander from a giant robot. Shortly after, the bystander (actually SHIELD agent Phil Coulson) reports what he saw to Fury, including the fact that Petra contacted someone after the fight, thus putting Petra and her family on SHIELD's radar.

* In ''Fanfic/SpiderManFindingHomes'', Kate is apologetic when she learns that Wendy got fired from the police for stealing Clint's arrows from evidence. However, Wendy assures Kate that she’s happy with how things turned out, observing that the force wasn’t always welcoming to a gay black woman anyway, and adds that she knew and accepted such risks when she agreed to their original request.

* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3111404/1/Browncoats-at-World-s-End Browncoats at World's End]]" reveals that Jack Sparrow has been subject to an unusual variation of this since he turned down the advances of Lady Phoenix, who he believed to be the favoured mistress of Pirate Lord Sao Feng, as he was concerned that this would offend a man whom Jack respects. However, Lady Phoenix is actually Sao Feng's ''sister'' rather than his mistress, but since Lady Phoenix told Sao Feng that Jack had hurt her without specifying how he did, so Jack has spent the last few years being hunted by Sao Feng because he thought he did the honorable thing.

* ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'': Discussed in Chapter 80 between Kagura, Mai, and the Happy Huntresses. As Kagura reveals, he was held back a year at Atlas Academy because he prefers to "do what feels right than to do what [he's] told", and none of his instructors were fond of that, give how Atlas' schooling system heavily discourages any disobedience of authority. May recollects her own times at Atlas and how she tried to stand up against bullies, only to be punished by the staff and the Marigolds for "exaggerating" the issue or "embarrassing" the family respectively.

* ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'': Discussed in Chapter 80 between Kagura, Mai, and the Happy Huntresses. As Kagura reveals, he was held back a year at Atlas Academy because he prefers to "do what feels right than to do what [he's] told", and none of his instructors were fond of that, give how Atlas' schooling system heavily discourages any disobedience of authority. May recollects her own times at Atlas and how she tried to stand up against bullies, only to be punished by the staff and the Marigolds for "exaggerating" the issue or "embarrassing" the family.

* ''Fanfic/AProtectorsPride'': For being the hero Ichigo always gets shafted when he saves the day. Example? [[spoiler: He kills Aizen]] but when Ichigo needs to save [[spoiler:his mom from Hell in a time-sensitive mission because of corrupt nobles in Soul Society]], Yamamoto stalls him [[spoiler:long enough that Ichigo's mother gets trapped there.]]

* ''Fanfic/BlackenedSkies'': Kaede's efforts to unite the other students against Monokuma result in her standing on a BrokenPedestal once it's revealed that she's [[GuileHero willing to lie, mislead and manipulate others]] in the process

* ''Fanfic/AProtectorsPride'': For being the hero Ichigo always gets shafted when he saves the day. Example? [[spoiler: He kills Aizen]] but when Ichigo needs to save [[spoiler: his mom from Hell in a time-sensitive mission because of corrupt nobles in Soul Society]], Yamamoto stalls him [[spoiler: long enough that Ichigo's mother gets trapped there.]]

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* In ''Fanfic/ANewWorldOnHerShoulders'', while Ruby, Penny, Robin, and Laura do help defend Mantle when it suffers from a Grimm attack, Ace Ops still arrests them afterward since they are first year students and it's against the law for first and second year students to wield weapons in Mantle without the approval of a professional Huntsman.

* ''Fanfic/ArrowRebirth'': As WordOfGod himself points out, this is the great tragedy of Tommy's character arc in the first story. While [[spoiler:exposing Oliver]] was a foolish decision, it was ultimately done out of love and concern for his best friend. And what does Tommy get in return? [[spoiler:The scorn of the woman he loved, his family name shamed, and loss of whatever innocence he had left, culminating in his best friend effectively (if reluctantly) abandoning him to be taken and forced to join the League of Assassins, to become the one thing he's fought all his life against: his father]].
* In ''FanFic/TheSmurfsThatCanonForgot'', Scaredy steps up to compensate for the absence of the time-traveling smurfs. The extra defenses he comes up with ultimately ''do'' protect the village, but not without [[NiceJobBreakingItHero incident or cost]]... and his efforts also turn him into the resident [[TheScapegoat scapegoat]] for all the smurfs who [[AppealToTradition feel they've diverged too much from]] the GoodOldWays. One of the biggest 'rewards' he receives is learning to fear his own neighbors, as several of his biggest critics [[spoiler:break into his home to terrorize him]].


* In ''Fanfic/TheDayAfterYouSavedTheMultiverse'', ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s parents are kidnapped because he put off a furniture store fire which had been caused by the mob to punish the owners' refusal to pay a protection racket.

* In the Third Movement of ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', the four encounter a colony of shrunken humans being used as a science project by aliens. They unshrink the humans and take 40 of them back to C'hou to start a new life. But [[UnwantedRescue the humans resent being removed from their universe]] and, among other things, steal the four's personal stuff after the four are whisked away to look for the third piece of the Vasyn.
* The four practically live this trope in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'', getting chased by mobs or fined because they didn't save the day in the right way. Things get to the point where they simply refuse to help anyone out any more (also partially because they neither want to be considered heroes nor want to do anything except take down the Big Bad so they can go home—and if they could get home some other way they'd gladly do that and leave the world to rot).
* ''Fanfic/AlphaAndOmega'': In book two, Shinji’s allies send out a makeshift probe trying to locate him. This backfired when part of the probe is sent careening towards [[CoolAirship the Wunder]]. The impact knocks out Misato for days, and would have likely killed several crew members, [[HopeSpot right as Shinji and Wille were about to conclude negotiations]]. The result? [[spoiler: Shinji uses his new Angelic abilities to save them, outing himself as an Angel, and promptly being savagely beaten and taken prisoner by Wille. [[InsultToInjury The kicker?]] Shinji realizes in frozen time right before he does this that [[ThisIsGoingToSuck this is what’s going to happen]], [[WhatYouAreInTheDark chooses to]] [[KnightInSourArmor help anyway]], and takes a moment to instruct Rei to remember this lesson in human ingratitude]].
* ''Fanfic/SummerDaysAndEveningFlames'': Starfall puts his racism against griffins aside long enough to rescue Gilda from several criminals, freeing her from her bonds and defending her form would-be lethal blows. Although he did kill one (in defense of another), he was still arrested due to "vigilantism" by not being reinstated into the guard yet.
* ''Pattycakes'': Dash would have preferred to keep napping, but went to see Fluttershy because she's a good friend; it got her [[SlippingAMickey mickey'd]], [[MindRape mindraped]] and mentally regressed, roughly InThatOrder.
* ''Fanfic/AProtectorsPride'': For being the hero Ichigo always gets shafted when he saves the day. Example? [[spoiler: He kills Aizen]] but when Ichigo needs to save [[spoiler: his mom from Hell in a time-sensitive mission because of corrupt nobles in Soul Society]], Yamamoto stalls him [[spoiler: long enough that Ichigo's mother gets trapped there.]]
* In ''Trunk's New Look'', Trunks offers to babysit his past self and Goten which results in him getting blackmailed, dressed up as a PlayboyBunny [[spoiler: and getting mistaken as his wife by Vegeta]]
* "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/840435/1/Good_Samaritan_Blues Good Samaritan Blues]]", a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fanfiction. The title says it all.

* In ''Fanfic/OfLiliesAndChestnuts'', Chestnut sees a Canterlot noble drop an expensive necklace, so picks it up and walks up to return it. The noble realizes the necklace is missing and turns around just in time to see [[FantasticRacism a dirty bat pony thief]] holding her necklace, and doesn't give Chestnut a moment to explain before she calls for bunch of angry Royal Guards. When Fleur and Rarity find Chestnut, she's hiding in a back-alley dumpster and terrified for her life.
* In ''Fanfic/EquestriasFirstHuman'', [[spoiler:The human Connor pushes Celestia out of the way of a falling spike, saving her life. How is he thanked: The Royal Guards beat Connor to a pulp for laying his hands on the Princess. It is justified since those guards were actually [[TheMole moles]] for the terrorist group targeting her. Princess Celestia did try to thank Connor, but he stormed off, having been mistreated by Ponyville, and the beating (and his friend's indifference) pushed him over the edge.]]
* ''Fanfic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'': In his backstory, Rason Miyamosa saved a monster girl (later revealed in Act III to be Luna Cii) from a human rapist, and the other angels responded by [[FallenAngel banishing him from Heaven]] because angel laws explicitly state that [[ThouShaltNotKillMuggles humans are sacred and must be protected no matter what until they actually die with sin]]. And that's only because one of the elders opted for leniency and decided to give Rason a chance to prove that monsters can be both good and evil just like humans; the other angels originally planned to just execute him.
* In ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'', a group of disabled pegasi stop a rogue tornado from ruining their hometowns (it's complicated). The result is that they get sentenced to five years community service with TheSocialDarwinist as a warden, who then ruins their lives further by broadcasting this at their graduations -- it even results in one of them getting her baby taken away. Luckily, they convince the fic's VillainProtagonist [[LaserGuidedKarma to dispense some indiscriminate justice on the place.]]
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': Vivi's two year infiltration of Baroque Works to rescue her country from Crocodile ends this way: [[spoiler:Having been identified as an associate of the Straw-Hat pirates, the information makes it to the World Nobles (who have a grudge against her family) and she is immediately accused of treason by the World Government, meaning there is no way she can remain in Alabasta.]]

* ''FanFic/ABrighterDark'': A Hoshidan soldier stops to help one of his comrades after she collapses due to exhaustion and dehydration. [[spoiler: Said comrade turns out to be Princess Corrin of Nohr, public enemy #1 and the one who killed his son at the Bottomless Canyon, and the Nohrians sent to rescue her cut off his arm.]] Ryoma lampshades it, noting how only bad luck turned his kindness against him.
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', a little girl and her adoptive father are walking across the streets of Azalea Town. Suddenly a baby carriage rolls down the streets, and it's about to get squashed by the traffic, and the girl jumps in to save her. Immediately, people begin ganging up on her and her father... [[DisproportionateRetribution because she accidentally stepped on a Slowpoke's tail.]] The girl barely escapes with her life, her father doesn't.

* In ''Fanfic/LostBoy'', when Hiccup defends an incapacitated Stoick when the Outcasts invade, Snotlout takes his chance and gives Hiccup to them as a hostage. His moment of heroism has him repeatedly abused, raped and branded an Outcast by Alvin. By the time Stoick and the others mount their rescue, it is already too late. Everyone, including Stoick, Astrid and Fishlegs, is forced to ignore him under accordance to Viking Law due to the Outcast-brand and Stoick ends up believing that Hiccup really is the whore that the Jorgensons claim him to be. It takes a thorough chewing out by Gobber and a very thorough examination of the law for Stoick to come to his senses [[spoiler:only to find that Hiccup had just then [[DespairEventHorizon attempted to end his life]].]]
* ''FanFic/ARabbitAmongWolves'': Jaune, hoping to get the White Fang some good [=PR=], decides to sell some of the stolen Dust and help the poor. The press [[MaliciousSlander accuses him of preying on the homeless]].
* ''Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman'': ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson was BornUnlucky, and she suffers this on a regular basis. Her schoolwork has suffered, she's been fired and lost her apartment due to superhero duties making her chronically late, some of her critics as Spider-Woman have threatened her with sexual violence, she's lost acting roles she's dreamed of since childhood, and she suffers from stress in her efforts to deal with being a TripleShifter who has really bad cases of ChronicHeroSyndrome and SamaritanSyndrome.
* Played with in crossover ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsAura''. No matter how much good Lucario does for Ponyville and Equestria in general, there are those (especially that one loudmouth) who look at him with fear (even Luna mistrusts him for some time). On the other hand, most ponies, especially the Mane Six, warm up to him after getting to know him, and after defeating Razorwing, he is appointed Guardian of Ponyville.
* In crossover ''Fanfic/EchoesOfYesterday'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] saves [[Literature/{{Worm}} Taylor]] from being locked inside a biohazard container and then scares her bullies away... which unfortunately means she might be charged with assaulting a teenager, so Kara gets forced to lie low for a while.
* In ''Fanfic/ANewWorldOnHerShoulders'', while Ruby, Penny, Robin, and Laura do help defend Mantle when it suffers from a Grimm attack, Ace Ops still arrests them afterward since they are first year students and it's against the law for first and second year students to wield weapons in Mantle without the approval of a professional Huntsman.
* ''Blog/MiraculousRewrite'': Seeing that Chat Noir is moping around, Marinette tries to cheer him up by buying him some of Andre's famous ice cream. Unfortunately, Andre immediately starts [[ShipperOnDeck shipping it]], despite Chat's protests that he's in love with Ladybug... and the fact that Luka is literally [[ImStandingRightHere standing right there]], having bought ice cream with her earlier. Andre's utter inability to respect their boundaries leads to him getting akumatized into Glaciator and trying to ''force'' them together.
* ''Fanfic/ArrowRebirth'': As WordOfGod himself points out, this is the great tragedy of Tommy's character arc in the first story. While [[spoiler:exposing Oliver]] was a foolish decision, it was ultimately done out of love and concern for his best friend. And what does Tommy get in return? [[spoiler:The scorn of the woman he loved, his family name shamed, and loss of whatever innocence he had left, culminating in his best friend effectively (if reluctantly) abandoning him to be taken and forced to join the League of Assassins, to become the one thing he's fought all his life against: his father]].
* In ''FanFic/TheSmurfsThatCanonForgot'', Scaredy steps up to compensate for the absence of the time-traveling smurfs. The extra defenses he comes up with ultimately ''do'' protect the village, but not without [[NiceJobBreakingItHero incident or cost]]... and his efforts also turn him into the resident [[TheScapegoat scapegoat]] for all the smurfs who [[AppealToTradition feel they've diverged too much from]] the GoodOldWays. One of the biggest 'rewards' he receives is learning to fear his own neighbors, as several of his biggest critics [[spoiler:break into his home to terrorize him]].
* After numerous loops in ''Fanfic/KazuichiStrangelove'', [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Kazuichi]] had managed to subdued the despair-induced Mikan and had her locked in her cabin, meaning all is going well, right? Unfortunately, this only enraged Monokuma, and this along with the previous meddling to stop murder attempts makes Kazuichi his target. Monokuma changes the Despair Disease so that if Kazuichi faints when infected, four of his classmates will die. He also makes the disease infect a person every 8 hours, with Kazuichi being the last so he'd be ForcedToWatch his friends succumb to the disease.
* At one point of ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Life In Flames'', Elisa and Rio manage to succeed in calming [[spoiler:Heatran]] and prevent Mt. Corona’s eruption, even saving Alex and Eve, who went to Mt. Corona, in the process. However, as Team Aura went against Guildmaster Roserade's orders, even attacking two members of the Roserade Guild, both are not only [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment sent to bed without dinner for the night]], but Rio has to also clean the dinner hall for a week, but not only is Elisa stuck with doing sentry duty for ''one whole month'', but she is also forbidden from leaving the guild at all (with Roserade even turning up the security measures to ensure Elisa doesn't do so). One night during the punishment, however, Elisa overhears an argument between Alex and Roserade due to the separate punishments Elisa and Rio were given, with Roserade insisting that Elisa and Rio broke the rules, while Alex argues that Elisa and Rio didn't deserve punishment for preventing Mt. Corona from erupting and that Team Aura should be rewarded for their bravery instead. Elisa ends up rushing into the Guildmaster's chamber to defend Guildmaster Roserade's statement, thus ending the conflict between Alex and Roserade, also resulting in Elisa's punishment being reduced by two weeks.
* ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'':
** Mme Bustier runs her class by expecting the better-behaved students to 'lead by example', encouraging them to TurnTheOtherCheek and show bullies the right way to act. In practice, this means that they're pressured to let bullies [[ExtremeDoormat walk all over them]] and are scolded whenever they try escaping this. Marinette was a former victim of this before [[ForWantOfANail transferring to another class]], and Bustier ''still'' believes that she should continue being 'one of the Marinettes of the world'. Being nice just doesn't cut it in her classroom.
** After the Gorilla akuma is resolved, Marinette feels sorry for Adrien and decides to approach him with Aurore and Ondine, stating that "Ladybug mentioned" that he'd like some company while watching a movie. Unfortunately, she's unaware that Adrien is actually her 'partner' Chat Noir, who feels [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to Ladybug and all her secrets]]. So her kind gesture just makes him suspect that she could 'help' him figure out who Ladybug is...
* In ''Fanfic/TheDayAfterYouSavedTheMultiverse'', ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s parents are kidnapped because he put off a furniture store fire which had been caused by the mob to punish the owners' refusal to pay a protection racket.