History WhatTheHellHero / LiveActionTV

** The Ninth Doctor also gets a couple very brief ones in the episode "Dalek." [[spoiler:One in the form of a Dalek commenting on how he would make a good Dalek for suggesting it's new orders were to kill itself, one in the form of Rose pointing out that the Dalek wasn't the one pointing the gun at her.]]
** Martha gives the Doctor a bit of a chewing out after his self-righteous attitude towards a group of [=UNIT=] officials, pointing out that they were doing their best to save the planet and frequently had to do so in his absence. Although, at the end of it, Martha mentions wanting to make them 'better'; I'm guessing that means pacifist, especially as the Doctor approves. I'd love to see an episode where the Doctor goes back to WWII and stops the Allies from fighting the Axis, then seeing what a monumental cock-up he ends up with.
*** He's not actually that dumb. It's bound to be a fixed point or something (like Pompeii)... Seems that the Doctor only sees reason to interfere with an event when he knows it's malleable. If he can basically "see" all of time and space, then he knows where he can probably get away with walking about like he owns the place and interfering a lot.

** And in a recent episode where they need to get a suspect out of the Iranian embassy, the characters have two women trick two of the embassy employees into taking their pictures, only to have detectives Lupo and Bernard conveniently show up, examine the camera and find pictures of famous landmarks. They then blackmail the employees into helping them under threatening to arrest them as terrorists. Fortunately for the two employees, they were smart enough to call someone higher up in the US government, who proceeded to chew the main characters a new one for the stunt they pulled.

* ''Series/{{House}}'' is ''made of this trope'', particularly the new season. The climax of the Season 5 opener is Wilson deciding "enough is enough" and telling House he's cutting ties with him. Completely. Since House actually [[spoiler: stole prescription sheets from Wilson]], this should have happened a season or two earlier. Back then, Wilson just settled for turning House in to Tritter (with eventual explanation), which caused its own problems.

* ''{{House}}'' is ''made of this trope'', particularly the new season. The climax of the Season 5 opener is Wilson deciding "enough is enough" and telling House he's cutting ties with him. Completely. Since House actually [[spoiler: stole prescription sheets from Wilson]], this should have happened a season or two earlier. Back then, Wilson just settled for turning House in to Tritter (with eventual explanation), which caused its own problems.

*** Considering Barbara (or even Susan) might actually have been in better physical condition than the 1st Doctor, Ian can sound more old-fashioned than reasonable to present-day ears. Much more in line with this trope is when the Doctor moves as if to BASH SAID INJURED MAN'S HEAD IN (because he wanted to escape to the TARDIS and thought they were wasting time), and Ian intercepts him asking what the h### he thought he was doing.
* In related-to-''Series/DoctorWho'' news, Jack Harkness gets called hard for his actions towards the end of the "Children of Earth" serial of ''{{Torchwood}}''. The look on [[spoiler:Jack's daughter's face when she confronts him after he killed his grandchild to save the rest of Earth's kids]] is painful enough without words. Add to that [[spoiler: Gwen's angry and tearful denunciation of Jack's running away from what he has wrought on Earth]], and it ends up a brutal assault on Jack's ''modus operandi''.
** Also ''{{Torchwood}}'', in an odd bit of foreshadowing, Ianto calls Jack on playing the hero while being "the biggest monster of all". Slightly averted, since Jack's actions at the time were almost completely justified by the time Ianto got around to calling him on them.
** Gwen's video recording in "Children of Earth" also has a bit of [[WhatTheHellHero "What the Hell, Doctor?"]] - not because he'd done something wrong, but because there were a number of times when he didn't show up. Then she decided that [[HumansAreBastards humans deserved it anyway, for how they were behaving at the time...]] No thought is apparantly ever given as to whether or not the Doctor may have ''other'' apocalypses to deal with at the time...
*** Uh, The Doctor doesn't have time? [[YouFailLogicForever If that's his excuse...]]
*** There are limits on his time travel. It's quite possible that this was one of those "fixed" events. Also he cannot be everywhere at every single moment... Well, alright technically he ''can'' but there are still limits, and he can't come running every time.
*** The end of Children of Earth was approximately when Ten was busy turning into Eleven, given his visiting Jack at the alien bar and turning him on to Alonso. He was a little dying-of-radiation-poisoning and regenerating at the time. Plus, of course, [[HeroOfAnotherStory "Hero of Another Story]]

** The IOA or the US government apparently authorized an attack on the Pegasus replicators (Asurans), leading to the practical extermination of the Asurans by the combined forces of the Atlantis Expedition, the Wraith (their primary enemies), and the Travellers (a society composed of a number of advanced starships). One's mileage may vary on this aspect, considering that the Asurans were, for better or for worse (usually for worse) sentient, and thus the actions of the expedition could constitute genocide and/or war crimes. On the other hand, the Asurans, far more so than the replicators of SG-1, are implacable and unambiguously evil (they are never portrayed as emotionless metal spiders, as in SG-1, but as malevolent human-like robots), meaning that the only practical way to actually defeat the replicators is to destroy every single nanite block.

** In the same episode, Buffy gives a [[ShutUpHannibal]] to her mother's What The Hell Hero speech; Joyce pointed out how worried she was while Buffy had run away, which incensed Buffy, since [[spoiler: Joyce had told her to leave and never come back.]]

** The IOA or the US government apparently authorized an attack on the Pegasus replicators (Asurans), leading to the practical extermination of the Asurans by the combined forces of the Atlantis Expedition, the Wraith (their primary enemies), and the Travellers (a society composed of a number of advanced starships). One's mileage may vary on this aspect, considering that Asurans were, for better or for worse (usually for worse) sentient, and thus the actions of the expedition could constitute genocide and/or war crimes. On the other hand, the Asurans, far more so than the replicators of SG-1, are implacable and unambiguously evil (they are never portrayed as emotionless metal spiders, but as malevolent human-like robots), meaning that the only practical way to actually defeat the replicators is to destroy every single nanite block.

** The IOA or the US government apparently authorized an attack on the Pegasus replicators (Asurans) that led to the genocide of the ENTIRE race. The fact that Asurans were machines has no bearing on the fact the overwhelming majority of their SENTIENT race was destroyed by an armada of Earth ,Wraith and Traveler ships. Besides being morally wrong, it is also legally wrong on Earth and would have resulted in prosecutions of all involved, including all members of the Atlantis expedition for war crimes.

** Yep...he sure did. BTW, who authorized the use of biological weapons against the Wraith anyway? If it was Weir, where did she get the authority? From the IOA? Or the US government? Or did she think this one up on her own?
** The IOA or the US government apparently authorized an attack on the Asurans that led to the genocide of the ENTIRE race. The fact that Asurans were machines has no bearing on the fact the overwhelming majority of their SENTIENT race was destroyed by an armada of Earth ,Wraith and Traveler ships. Besides being morally wrong, it is also legally wrong on Earth and would have resulted in prosecutions of all involved, including all members of the Atlantis expedition for war crimes.

* Bonnie on TheVampireDiaries gives one to Elena for having Damon compel Jeremy, her brother, into leaving town and getting away from being put in the line of fire as Klaus and his hybrids wander the town. Bonnie brings up the fact that he should be allowed to choose whether or not he wants to do this, not be made to do it by a vampire's compulsion, even if Elena says she's doing it to protect Jeremy.

''{{Series/Merlin}}'' has a rather epic one pulled by Gaius on Uther in "The Witchfinder". He's one of very few people able to do this without losing their head in the process.

--->Gaius:...You see sorcerers where there are only servants...

** There are ''many, many'' WTHH moments with Delenn and Sheridan. Starting with the fact that she pulled another closed-mouth stunt on Sheridan after ''the big one'' despite the fact that the previous attempt caused him to dump her in circumstances that pushed her to the point of trying to kill herself. Sheridan expecting her to abandon her caste mates to die so she can stay around B5 to keep him happy is another--and certainly something big enough to put Delenn's later flirtatious habits with Neroon and Lennier in perspective.
*** Dumping her? Expecting her to abandon her caste mates? Flirting with Neroon and Lennier? Um... have we been watching the same show, here?
*** Wait, this is a little confusing, who called out who here?
*** They take turns calling each other out. Needless to say they end up married.

*** Series Four featured Donna Noble as a companion, whose primary M.O. was to call the Doctor out on things. Those that love her as a companion do so because it's a change of pace from other companions who spent most of their time hero-worshipping him.
*** Speak for yourself; I loved her because [[spoiler:she put her hand on the lever in Fires of Pompeii, sharing the Doctor's burden.]] All the Doctor's companions help save the day at some point, but that (for one thing) puts Donna a step above in my opinion.

** Speak for yourself; I loved her because [[spoiler:she put her hand on the lever in Fires of Pompeii, sharing the Doctor's burden.]] All the Doctor's companions help save the day at some point, but that (for one thing) puts Donna a step above in my opinion.

''{{series/Merlin}}'' has a rather epic one pulled by Gaius on Uther in "The Witchfinder". He's one of very few people able to do this without losing their head in the process.

** Smallville is full of WhatTheHellHero Clark moments, especially noticeable as his relationship with his "best friend" Lex Luthor declines. In many early episodes, Lex commits minor, explanable offenses, and Clark overreacts, only then to turn around and betray him in much worse ways. In one episode, he allowed a [[spoiler:drugged]] Lex to be [[spoiler:wrongly]] imprisoned in an insane asylum, and [[spoiler:tortured to the point of permanently losing his short term memories]] because [[spoiler:Lex had seen him pull off something extraordinary and realized he was more than human]].

* On the other end, Buffy gets one on {{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}twice, both in season 2 "When She Was Bad" and in season 7, the ep where she ultimately walks out on the crew.

* {{Angel}} gets called on this in season 5, when he starts his mission to join the evil Circle of the Black Thorn to take them out.

* {{Angel}}Angel gets called on this in season 5, when he starts his mission to join the evil Circle of the Black Thorn to take them out.

* In ''StargateAtlantis'', [[TomatoInTheMirror Michael]] calls out the team for what they did to him every chance he gets.

* ''StargateUniverse'' hits this early in the first mid-season finale. Upon discovering [[spoiler: Rush's attempt to frame him for the murder of a subordinate]], Young responds by [[spoiler: beating the hell out of him and leaving him for dead on a desolate planet.]] This action along with [[spoiler: Rush's eventual return]] further expands the rift between the military and civilian personnel including [[spoiler: a mutiny attempt]] shortly after.