History WhatTheHellHero / WesternAnimation

** Pinkie Pie in Luna Eclipsed, pretending that Princess Luna was evil to make Nightmare Night seem more scary for her and the children, even though Luna wanted everyone to see that she wasn't evil anymore. Twilight shows exasperation at this.

* The second season of the 90s ''{{Series/Iron Man}}'' cartoon starts with Tony faking his death as part of a plan to stop the Mandarin. He doesn't of his friends in on it so their grief will convince the villains he's really dead. All but two of the supporting cast (Rhodey and [[ComicBook/{{Spider-Woman}} Julia]]) walk out on him in disgust, and even the two who stay make it clear he crossed a line.

* In ''BeastWars'', after Dinobot's recent trip through the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor and giving the [[MacGuffin Golden Disk]] to [[BigBad Megatron]], Rattrap gives this to him:

*** Well, they might have avoided making [[spoiler: Omega Supreme]] borderline mentally retarded so he wouldn't understand his actions and instead would mindlessly follow the orders of his commander. That was pretty assholish.
**** This may explain why they handed control of [[spoiler:Omega Supreme]] over to Ratchet. They realized that what they were creating was horrible and destructive, so they put it in the hands of the one autobot least likely to abuse it.

** Also in "The Storm," this trope is used to show that most people from the Fire Nation are not AlwaysChaoticEvil, and that Zuko's own crew does not appreciate him acting like an idiot and a JerkAss. His lieutenant calls him out for placing his search above the safety of the crew and accuses him of having utter contempt for everyone besides himself, thus hitting Zuko's BerserkButton.

** Basically the whole Gaang's reaction to Jet.

** Yet there are quite a few fans that thought that Santa was oh so mean to poor Jack. This Jack fangirl actually used to think so too, but after thinking about it, wouldn't ''you'' be a bit pissed at the guy who screwed up your holiday and nearly got you eaten? And note that [[{{FridgeBrilliance}} Santa didn't know Jack told Lock, Shock, and Barrel not to send him down to Oogie.]]
*** Not to mention that Santa was still understanding enough to [[spoiler:bring snow to Halloweentown, so Jack's dream that everyone could understand Christmas came true.]]
**** More FridgeBrilliance: Snow ''is'' possible on Halloween.

* The second season of the 90s ''{{Series/Iron Man}}'' cartoon starts with Tony faking his death as part of a plan to stop the Mandarin. He doesn't of his friends in on it so their grief will convince the villains he's really dead. All but two of the supporting cast (Rhodey and [[ComicBook/{{Spider-Woman}} Jennifer]]) walk out on him in disgust, and even the two who stay make it clear he crossed a line.

**** FridgeBrilliance: Snow ''is'' possible on Halloween.

* ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Santa gives Jack a hefty chewing-out when he comes to apologize. In the original poem, he's much more understanding (possibly because he didn't have a sapient burlap sack gloating about how it intended to turn him into stew and eat him).

** Sokka gives a rather harsh one to Aang in "Bato of the Water Tribe" when he hides a map from his friends, a map that reveals where their father was at. The real reason why is because Sokka feels that Aang betrayed them. Afterwards, a bit later, Sokka and Katara decide to go back to Aang and apologize.

** In second season he gets one from his girlfriend's brother, for paying more attention to Gwen Stacy, than to her.

* In the episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' "The Storm" an elderly fisherman calls out Aang on abandoning the world to 100 years of war (although the man is entirely unaware of the circumstances, and believes it to just be a result of cowardice and willful neglect of his duty as Avatar, which it was, up until the whole "frozen in an iceberg" bit).

** Pinkie Pie in Luna Eclipsed, pretending that Princess Luna was evil to make Nightmare Night seem more scary for her and the children, even though Luna wanted everyone to see that she wasn't evil anymore. Twilight shows exasperation at this.

** Yet there are quite a few fans that thought that Santa was oh so mean to poor Jack. This Jack fangirl actually used to think so too, but after thinking about it, wouldn't ''you'' be a bit pissed at the guy who screwed up your holiday and nearly got you eaten? And note, fangirls, that [[{{FridgeBrilliance}} Santa didn't know Jack told Lock, Shock, and Barrel not to send him down to Oogie.]]

** Yet there are quite a few fans that thought that [[{{FanDumb}} Santa was oh so mean to poor Jack]]. This Jack fangirl actually used to think so too, but after thinking about it, wouldn't ''you'' be a bit pissed at the guy who screwed up your holiday and nearly got you eaten? And note, fangirls, that [[{{FridgeBrilliance}} Santa didn't know Jack told Lock, Shock, and Barrel not to send him down to Oogie.]]

* Twilight Sparkle gets a mild one from Princess Celestia in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Lesson Zero" after Celestia teleports in to fix the mess Twilight made. There's not many words, just "Meet me in the library" and a stern look. Which is all that was needed, because the princess is fully understanding about the anxiety that had led Twilight to take desperate measures to begin with.

* Prowl of ''TransformersAnimated'' can't seem to convince Optimus Prime that the Dinobots are alive, and thus melting them down would be wrong. Prowl says he can sense a spark, but Prime says the destructive, lumbering, fire-breathing former animatronics are too big a risk when all Prowl has to go on is his feelings. So Prowl convinces Bulkhead to sneak out with him in the middle of the night and save the Dinobots. Prime is ''not'' happy about this once he finds out, so depending on how you feel about the Dinobots, it could be a [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=] moment for either Prowl or Optimus; the Dinobots ''are'' living things, but they're also incredibly destructive. When they finally get around to telling Prime of this, he is ''not'' happy that they stole the Dinobots. Prowl points out that they ''rescued'' the Dinobots.

*** Unfortunately, no matter how right the Queen was and how true it might be in real life, the way it was done most likely would invoke a TruffautWasRight effect: Flik pushed his idea at the risk of the entire colony, was chewed out and banished for it (In fact, when he originally proposed the idea, they only agreed to it in order to exile him without his knowledge), but in the end he was completely right about the circus bugs and he saves the day thanks to his original reckless idea. Ha! [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop So the Queen was wrong after all]]!

** Pinkie Pie in Luna Eclipsed, pretending that Princess Luna was evil to make Nightmare Night seem more scary for her and the children, even though Luna wanted everyone to see that she wasn't evil anymore.

* Twilight Sparkle gets a mild one from Princess Celestia in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Lesson Zero" after Celestia teleports in to fix the mess Twilight made. There's not many words, just "Meet me in the library" and a stern look. Which is all that was needed, because the princess is fully understanding about the anxiety that had led Twilight to take desperate measures to begin with.