History WhatTheHellHero / LiveActionTV

*** Catelyn gets Robb right back by pointing out how monumentally stupid breaking his deal with House Frey, just to marry a field nurse, is.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Queen Maeve is appalled when Homelander won't even attempt to save ''some'' of the airline passengers. Since he can't save everyone, Homelander just leaves them to die. The passengers naturally also denounce them for this before they're killed in the crash.

** Again in late season 5 when Angel [[spoiler: secretly infiltrates the Black Thorn]] and his friends suspect he has gone evil.

** Cordy calls Angel out in the first season for betraying Lindsey when he was trying to do a HeelFaceTurn.

** Buffy's friends have this reaction to her in Season 3 on discovering that Angel (last seen as Angelus) has returned and Buffy has been keeping it secret. Also, in season 7, Buffy is kicked out of her house.
** In Season 6, Dawn slaps Willow after almost killing her in a car crash and Tara leaves her after she screwed with Tara's head and broke her promise to avoid magic for a week when she couldn't last a day.

* In ''Series/CobraKai'' when Amanda finds out that Daniel manipulated Johnny's landlord into increasing his rent to try and put him out of business, she is outright repulsed and tears a strip off of him. Not only does she point out how callous and cruel it was, and how it was ''serious'' DisproportionateRetribution for Johnny spray-painting a dick on Daniel's billboard, but she also points out how this will have permanent negative repercussions for all the other businesses in that strip mall who now have to pay double the rent because of Daniel and Johnny's high-school feud. After a serious HeelRealization and a visit to Mr. Miyagi's grave, Daniel returns to his own martial art in order to find the balance in his life.

** In middle of season 2, the title character becomes increasingly "dark", to the point that he [[spoiler:lets Dru and Darla kill a bunch of Wolfram & Hart lawyers]]. After this, Cordy, Wes, and Gunn confront him, telling him they will keep an eye on him and prevent him from doing anything that horrible because they care. [[spoiler:He fires them.]]
*** A few episodes later, [[spoiler:he reveals to Lorne he fired them to prevent ''them'' from getting dark or prevent them from suffering other worse consequences than being fired, even if they'd rather prevent them from doing anything as horrible as what he did to the Wolfram & Hart lawyers. And since he didn't believe he was coming back, so he could deal with Wes, Gunn and especially Cordy hating him instead of intervening and cutting off all ties with them as long as they concentrate on the "good fight" that he'd given up on.]]
*** However, two episodes later, [[spoiler:he made a horrifying discovery about [[HellOnEarth Wolfram & Hart]] that made his actions AllForNothing, including firing Wes, Gunn and Cordy to prevent them from becoming dark as well.]]
** Also the entire point of season 5's "You're Welcome". [[spoiler: Cordelia]] returns from [[spoiler: her comatose state after Ascending]] in order to set Angel and the rest of the gang straight after they began to lose sight of their original goals [[spoiler: due in part to taking over Wolfram and Hart, as well as Lindsey's manipulation.]]

** Buffy's case is mostly the fact that she's still a teenager and isn't emotionally stable half the time, and people seem to forget that, even her own friends. Because of that, nobody supports her very well in the earlier seasons, even though they try to. This is most evident in the episode where she makes her return to Sunnydale after running away, where everyone collectively lectures her. Nevermind the fact that she waited months to kill her boyfriend; Xander blames her for putting everyone else in danger (the others try to pick up slayer duties), Willow avoids her until Buffy caves again emotionally and tries to run away again, and Joyce tried to give Buffy space, but seemed to have a little difficulty acknowledging that her daughter was home.

** Buffy "acting like such a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments bitca"]] in the beginning of season 2 [[spoiler: after having been revived.]]

* ''Series/{{Charite}}'': Nurse Ida delivers one to her suitor, medicine student Georg Tischendorf, after he's let Mrs. Ehrlich down in childbirth just to run off and fight an academic duel in his fraternity. The Ehrlich baby died during that, and Mrs. Ehrlich nearly followed, so Ida is not too impressed with Georg's fancy new RuggedScar.

* ''Series/TwistedTales'': A clone of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' hosted by Bryan Brown, also starred Brown in the episode "The Confident Man". Brown's character and his wife are hardware store owners whose store is held up at knife point by a junkie. He picks up a cordless drill and manages to convince the junkie that it's actually a gun - he just thinks it's a cordless drill because he's so high. His wife and the other employee obviously back him up, and someone who later walks in off the street catches on. The police eventually arrive and cuff the junkie. Brown says "just so you don't go out of your mind, mate..." and pulls the trigger. Cut to his wife: "I don't understand!" It was over! Why did you do it?!". Cut to the junkie, on the floor with a smoking hole in his head. Cut to a gun in Brown's hand. "I thought it was a cordless drill".

* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'': In one episode, Ray discovers that his daughter Ally has been bullying a little girl at school, and informs Debra. Debra simply shrugs and brushes the matter away. When Ray presses the issue, Debra replies that she doesn't think it's anything to be upset about. Ray then asks Debra why she doesn't mind the fact that Ally is bullying other kids, and Debra expresses disinterest in the whole thing. When Ray complains about Debra's lack of concern about Ally bullying a little girl, [[{{Jerkass}} Debra actually utters the line "So, you're upset that I've taught my daughter to be self-confident?!"]] When Ray is, quite justifiably, surprised and upset at Debra for saying this, he points out that he and Robert are both still scarred from their own experiences with bullying. Debra then calls him a wuss and begins making fun of ''him''... [[DracoInLeatherPants while the studio audience cheers ecstatically for her.]] This bounces between WhatTheHellHero and MoralDissonance, because although [[WhatTheHellHero the daughter is being recognized for the bitch she is]], [[MoralDissonance the mom isn't]].

* ''Series/TwistedTales'': A clone of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' hosted by Bryan Brown, also starred Brown in the episode "The Confident Man". Brown's character and his wife are hardware store owners whose store is held up at knife point by a junkie. He picks up a cordless drill and manages to convince the junkie that it's actually a gun - he just thinks it's a cordless drill because he's so high. His wife and the other employee obviously back him up, and someone who later walks in off the street catches on. The police eventually arrive and cuff the junkie. Brown says "just so you don't go out of your mind, mate..." and pulls the trigger. Cut to his wife: [[WhatTheHellHero "I don't understand!" It was over! Why did you do it?!"]]. Cut to the junkie, on the floor with a smoking hole in his head. Cut to a gun in Brown's hand. "I thought it was a cordless drill".

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* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode 'Terrorform', in order to escape the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Rimmer's]] own despair, hug him and tell him that they care about him, raising his self-esteem high enough for them to escape. ''They then almost instantly'' then go back on their words, answering his self-deprecating questions about if they really meant it with a resounding "NO." ''despite having seen his self-loathing and messed up psyche first hand''.
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** Now that Jack is the District Attorney, he gets to throw a few of his own WTHHs at Mike Cutter. Although Connie is the one that usually calls Mike out when he's being an idiot.

** The Firm became so notorious for their dogged "anything-goes" approach that if a lawyer was caught half-assing their defense of the MonsterOfTheWeek, someone (even the opposing counsel) could be counted on to point out the [[NeverLiveItDown nun-killer or child-rapist they successfully got acquitted the other day]], call them out on their hypocrisy for daring to allow their disgust at the defendant's crimes to interfere with their efforts and remind them of their legal obligation to use whatever underhanded tactics were at their disposal to get the defendant off.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': The second season features some major screw-ups on the part of the team members, especially in "The Man in the Cell" where several nearly die. This comes to a head in "The Man in the Mansion" when Hodgins' keeping secret his prior involvement with a suspect nearly gets the case thrown out of court. The federal prosecutor chews the whole team out over their behavior, although she apparently didn't know about Booth hauling off and shooting an ice cream truck.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], the Doctor even does it to ''himself'', [[spoiler:in the form of the Dream Lord]], pointing out his self-righteous attitude, and the fact that he never visits his 'friends' after he leaves them.

** May apply for Rory again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]] when [[spoiler: the Doctor makes Rory choose which of two Amys ([[ItMakesSenseIncontext Present Amy or Future Amy]]) to take with them. Note: this is after the Doctor explicitly tells them that they can take both Present Amy and Future Amy aboard the TARDIS. Later, the Doctor tells Rory flat-out that he lied to them. Then makes Rory choose which to keep. After Rory and an unconscious Present Amy are already on board. And Future Amy is sobbing right outside the TARDIS. Then leaves Rory to explain to Present Amy the dirty job of what had to be done when she comes to and asks what happened to Future Amy.:]]

--> '''Bronn:''' He named you as his Champion because he knew you'd ride day and night to come fight for him. You gonna fight for him now?

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "Aliens of London"]]: Jackie Tyler, Rose's mother, chewed the Ninth Doctor out for showing up out of nowhere, taking her daughter away with him with no explanation, and not even always getting the return date right.

** At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars']], [[spoiler:the Doctor has told himself that [[AGodAmI as the last of the Time Lords, he can change the laws of time as he sees fit]] and after violating the rules and changing a fixed point in time, has gone slightly mad with power. Adelaide, one of the people he saved, is rightly horrified, and gives the Doctor a good verbal battering. She then brings him back down to earth... by [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself to make sure the timeline goes as it's supposed to]].]]

'''Father Octavian:''' I know that, sir. And when you've flown away in your little blue box I'll explain that to their families.\\
''Ouch.''

** Amy gets an especially epic What The Hell Hero moment in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy "A Town Called Mercy"]], when the Doctor attempts to hand Jex over to the Gunslinger:

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist Time Heist]]", Psi is unimpressed by the Twelfth Doctor's "professional detachment" and Clara's claim that "underneath it all, he isn't really like that." Crucially, she ''has'' known him for a while — but mostly as the far less-detached Eleven at this point in her tenure; even she is having problems adjusting to Twelve.

* ''Series/TwistedTales'': A clone of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' hosted by Bryan Brown, also starred Brown in the episode "The Confident Man". Brown's character and his wife are hardware store owners whose store is held up at knife point by a junkie. He picks up a cordless drill and manages to convince the junkie that it's actually a gun - he just thinks it's a cordless drill because he's so high. His wife and the other employee obviously back him up, and someone who later walks in off the street catches on. The police eventually arrive and cuff the junkie. Brown says "just so you don't go out of your mind, mate..." and pulls the trigger. Cut to his wife: [[WhatTheHellHero "I don't understand!" It was over! Why did you do it?!"]]. Cut to the junkie, on the floor with a smoking hole in his head. Cut to a gun in Brown's hand. "I thought it was a cordless drill".

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Queen Maeve is appalled when Homelander won't even attempt to save ''some'' of the airline passangers. Since he can't save everyone, Homelander just leaves them to die. The passengers naturally also denounce them for this before they're killed in the crash.

** In the season 2 premiere, Jeff calls out Abed on being obsessed with TV and movies. Abed answers that 'in movies and TV we have likeable leading men. But in reality we have this. We have '''you'''.'
* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': Vanessa and her friends make a [[WhatAnIdiot very stupid]] choice and sneak off to Baltimore for a concert. Problem is, the apartment where they told their parents where they were burns to the ground, and they end up losing their car and money. Clair, furious at being lied to and thinking Vanessa was dying, gives her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYpVzc3qunE one hell of an]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI7x-lA5Qnk ass-chewing]].

--->'''Laurie:''' You four-eyed loser! That's what the jocks used to call you in high school, or don't you remember? You think getting contacts changes who you were? Makes you their friend now? Their brother? You used to hate guys like this, guys who beat you up in gym class every day. You were better than them. Because you didn't need to make others feel small, to feel real. But you know what? You're that guy now, Dirk. You're that guy.* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Brass spends much of the episode "Genetic Disorder" getting these repeatedly, because he lets his own past influence his thinking that Doc's wife really was cheating on Doc. He doesn't let up until the end of the ep, when the evidence shows what really happened.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Brass spends much of the episode "Genetic Disorder" getting these repeatedly, because he lets his own past influence his thinking that Doc's wife really was cheating on Doc. He doesn't let up until the end of the ep, when the evidence shows what really happened.

** Of course, the ultimate Sheridan-to-Delenn WhatTheHellHero moment comes when he finds out [[spoiler: she suspected his wife might still be alive,]] but didn't bother to tell him.

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'': Due to the GreyAndGrayMorality at work, practically ''every'' character gets one of these at some point. Bellamy gets one for making the Ark think the 100 were dead, leading to the deaths of several hundred people. Clarke gets one for ruining a peace conference by bringing weapons to it, and later gets another for knowing a missile was going to destroy a village, but doing nothing to stop it. Abby gets one for turning her husband over to be killed, and the Council in general gets several for their overzealous use of executions. Finn gets a ''lot'' of these for his pointless slaughter of a Grounder village. And Jasper gets one of these for . . . [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism being kind of an arrogant jerk for an episode]].

* ''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.

** When Poldark learns Elizabeth is going to marry [[spoiler: his enemy George Warleggen]] he goes to her house and they [[spoiler: have sex in a controversial scene that many viewers interpreted as rape.]] When he returns, his wife Demelza [[spoiler: punches him]]. Elizabeth, believing he loves her, waits for him to come back, but he never does, and with a sudden [[spoiler: pregnancy]] she is pushed into marrying [[spoiler: Warleggen]]. While his behavior causes suffering for many characters, his treatment of both Demelza and Elizabeth led to remarkably large detractors for the title character and supposed hero among fans of the series.

** Dean almost says it verbatim ("Sam" instead of "hero") in "Clap Your Hands if You Believe" when he finds Sam having sex instead of [[spoiler:trying to find him after Dean had been kidnapped by "aliens"]] (To be fair to Sam, at this point in the series he had lost his soul and thus found it hard to emotionally connect to anything).

** Season 10 basically has several fans accusing the Winchesters of this, as Sam in particular goes to extreme lengths to try and save Dean from the Mark of Cain even as it results in the deaths of their allies.