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8	* ''InformedWrongness/MiraculousLadybug''
9	* ''InformedWrongness/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
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12	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Meek for a Week", Francine's friends are supposed to be wrong for telling her to be polite. While the way Francine chose to attempt politeness (by suppressing her feelings) was wrong, she could have just expressed her feelings in a nicer way, and some of her mean actions were more than just expressing her feelings; they were just plain insulting (for instance, she repeatedly said, "Can't you do anything right?" when someone messed up).
13	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' has Macie turning thirteen and her parents forgetting it. When Ginger tells them this, they're horrified and try to make it up to Macie by spending large amounts of time with her. The 'issue' is that they treat her more like you would a seven year old than you would a thirteen year old. While being treated as a small child can be seen as humiliating by most, Macie herself never complains or seems to dislike the treatment but her friends are horrified that Macie's parents are infantilizing her. Her parents are presented in the wrong and this is something that needs to be changed even though Macie doesn't mind. At the end, however, Macie decides to talk to her parents and tell them that while she's had fun catching up on lost childhood, she is a teenager now and they should treat her as such.
14	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
15	** Episodes where Stan deals with his ObnoxiousInLaws ("Big Trouble in Little Langley" and "[[Recap/AmericanDadS10E5KungPaoTurkey Kung Pao Turkey]]") present him as wrong for being annoyed at Francine's parents when they come over uninvited, enforce their rules under Stan's roof, and use or destroy his property without permission. Both episodes end with Stan learning to accept them, even though Stan is justified at being annoyed by their behavior.
16	** "[[Recap/AmericanDadS8E12TheWrestler The Wrestler]]" has Stan wrestling against Roger (as Dmitri Crotchlickmeoff) to maintain his undefeated high school wrestling record, and during the match, Roger lets slip that Francine asked him to break Stan's record because she's sick of hearing about it. At no point does anyone bring up the fact that she simply could have told Stan that, rather than trying to take something away that meant a lot to her husband just because she doesn't want to hear about it anymore, and Stan is portrayed as being in the wrong for being proud, albeit too much, of a real accomplishment.
17	** In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS8E15LessMoneyMoProblems Less Money, Mo' Problems]]", Stan is made out to be the bad guy because he doesn't want his slacker daughter and her loser boyfriend to sponge off him, or at least be less intrusive and inconsiderate if they are going to live with him rent-free.
18	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': The first time Ben goes to Gwen's magic university, he sees Hex walking around in broad daylight and reflexively attacks him. As it turns out, Hex had had an offscreen HeelFaceTurn which Ben didn't know about because Gwen never kept him updated, and yet Gwen and Hex treat Ben as though he's being unfair to someone that, for all he knew, was still up to no good.
19	* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': The Biker Mice get this in the episode "Hard Rock", where we learn that the titular character was a mercenary who helped the Plutarkians devastate their planet with his [[MusicalAssassin abilities]]. He has since then done a HeelFaceTurn, but the guys are both suspicious and still pissed (especially Throttle). We are supposed to side with Charley, who consider their feelings a "grudge" and can't believe they can't forgive him. While Hard Rock has really changed (to the point he is ready to get killed rather than harm somebody else again), the fact is that he '''did''' destroy half of Mars, and this is not something is easy to get over. The fact that Charley acts as the worst thing he did was steal their lunch money is baffling.
20	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'': In one episode, the titular character is afraid of a man he doesn't know. His mother then ''leaves him alone with said man to get over his fears''. This is supposed to portray Caillou as being irrational for fearing the man, but ''his mother'' didn't know the man either, making both [[StrawmanHasAPoint Caillou's fear of the man justified]] and [[ParentalNeglect his mother heavily irresponsible]].
21	* Done rather frustratingly in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' with Wheeler, who gets dismissed as an idiot [[DumbassHasAPoint even when he has a point]]. In at least one episode, the others brought him around to their way of thinking, then arbitrarily switched sides, and he was considered wrong again. The episode "The Numbers Game" takes this to bizarre levels -- at the beginning of the episode, he opines that people shouldn't have children they can't afford to support, and the others call him out for being unsympathetic to poor people. Then he goes to sleep and has a dream where he and Linka are married with a whole bunch of kids, which leads to a horribly wasteful world since having more than two kids is bad for the environment, and his dream-friends chew him out ''again'' for being so irresponsible. He then wakes up and tells Linka that if they get married one day, he only wants two kids at most. The episode sets it up as if he learned a lesson... but by the show's own standards, ''he'' was right the whole time! At one point, they did the same debate, except in this episode, Wheeler was on the exact opposite side of the argument and was still considered wrong.
22	* One ''Creator/CartoonNetwork'' [[https://youtu.be/ysgvpMEZN84?si=zgQw9xmbkhjY8R1l promo]] had several sidekick characters, including ComicBook/{{Robin}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Barney Rubble]], [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Boo-Boo]] and [[WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel Morocco Mole]] extoling the virtues and contributions of the sidekick; Spotlighting WesternAnimation/PorkyPig for having done his best work as a sidekick despite previously being a headliner. Chicken from ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' pipes up saying he shouldn't be there, as he was a co-star, not a sidekick. The others at the table treat him as delusional. Except he's right: He's every bit the star of the show as his sister, Cow.
23	** Even odder, among the sidekicks deriding Chicken is [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote]], who is a VillainProtagonist in most of the RR shorts, a PunchClockVillain co-star in the ''WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog'' shorts, and a standard villain in his appearnces vs. WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales.
24	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In "Operation: D.A.T.E.", the Delightful Children from Down the Lane invite every kid in town, including the titular KND, their archenemies, to a dance party. Numbuh 1 thinks it's some sort of trap, and has to invite Lizzie along to go undercover to the party. But, Lizzie thinks of it as a date, and keeps insisting on it even after the Delightful Children reveal their plans to zombify every kid they take pictures of. This eventually leads to [[RageBreakingPoint Nigel]] angrily giving Lizzie a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]] and goes off to face the Delightful Children alone. Nigel looks like the bad guy for "ruining" a romantic evening, but Lizzie's SelectiveObliviousness and excessive nagging is what caused Numbuh 1 to blow up on her in the first place. Course, [[spoiler: given how we discover Lizzie is actually a GKND plant (literally a {{Plant Alien\|s}}) to test his loyalty to the KND, it's likely she was testing him.]]
25	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': In the GrandFinale, "[[WesternAnimation/PhantomPlanet Phantom Planet]]", Danny [[spoiler:gets rid of his powers]] and the others are visibly upset by this, with Sam eventually calling him selfish for doing it. Danny questions why what he did was selfish, and many viewers took Danny's side of the argument: he wanted to [[spoiler:[[IJustWantToBeNormal be normal again]] in order to protect his family from the ghost hunters searching for him, and the presence of said ghost hunters meant that he was no longer needed as Amity's protector (plus he wouldn't be able to do much with his ghost powers with them around anyways)]]. Not to mention Sam seems only to care for Danny ''Phantom'', not Danny ''Fenton'', [[{{Hypocrite}} making her come off as selfish instead]].
26	* Also a major trait of Eric from the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' cartoon. This is one of the most famous examples of TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong. No matter how reasonable his objections were, the other characters ignore him, and we're supposed to side with ''them''.
27	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' gets a lot of these.
28	** In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E16StopLookAndEd Stop, Look and Ed]]", Double D is seen as the wrong one just because he called the kids' parents despite the fact that it was the kids' own fault for breaking the rules all because Eddy told them to. Keep in mind that they shouldn't have even trusted Eddy to begin with knowing that they hate him the most of the trio due to what his scams had caused them. So they really have no right getting mad at Double D (or the other two Eds for that matter).
29	** In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E14ToSirWithEd To Sir, with Ed]]", Nazz punishes Eddy by demanding him to go to bed after Ed accidentally causes the bathtub to crash down through the ceiling. Eddy gets painted as the jerk even though Nazz wasn't doing her job as a responsible babysitter after she unofficially invited guests in Eddy's house, probably without Eddy's parents' permission.
30	** In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E8DimLitEd Dim Lit Ed]]", Double D tries to educate the kids due to their lack of decorum. Towards the second half of the episode, we're made to believe that Double D was being a jerk to the kids by letting them believe that the prize for a scavenger hunt is a jawbreaker even though they only put words in his mouth right before he even had a chance to tell them what the real prize is.
31	** In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E9TooSmartForHisOwnEd Too Smart for His Own Ed]]", the kids blame Ed and Eddy for their failed quizzes after Ed wrote down random answers all because they believed that he was a genius after winning a spelling bee. Most of the questions were fairly easy to answer and required little to no thought at all, so there was no reason for them to rely on Ed for their quizzes.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/FrostyReturns'': Because it's a spray that destroys snow in a kid's movie about a sentient snowman, we're supposed to be horrified by Summer Wheeze and see it getting discontinued at the end as a victory. While the villain's plan to use it to get rid of ALL the snow was indeed stupid, if it had been used responsibly simply to clear the snow from the streets and side walks, then the product would actually have been a great boon to society. Seriously, can you imagine all the time and effort that would be spared each winter if you could just spray away the snow in a matter of minutes as opposed to hours of tedious shoveling? Aging people (like that teacher in the movie) can even die of heart attacks if they exert too much effort shoveling. Thus the only problem was how the product was used, not the product itself.
33	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}:''
34	** Fry in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E3IRoommate I, Roommate]]" is ''constantly'' chastised by Leela for not wanting to live with Bender and choosing a nice apartment downtown instead, because of how depressed Bender becomes for not getting to be Fry's roommate. Fry's treated as if he's just being a callous jerk who turned his back on Bender, and of course in the end he goes back to living with Bender, but nobody acknowledges that Bender's apartment is ''literally'' unlivable for a human (being a coffin-sized closet without furniture, kitchen, or a bathroom) and that there's nowhere else in town where the two could live together. People also call out Fry for not caring that Bender was suffering for his sake, being driven to a depressed self-destructive state, but nobody takes any issue with Fry having to suffer for Bender's sake by living in an apartment that nearly destroyed him after a single night. Even in the end, the only reason living in Bender's apartment works out for Fry is due to sheer luck that the closet is large enough for Fry to live in.
35	** "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E22LeelaAndTheGenestalk Leela and the Genestalk]]" shows a number of positive effects of genetic engineering and the only downsides given are vague "long-term effects" (bear in mind that the technology in-universe is over a thousand years old). We're supposed to side with the anti-genetic engineering crowd simply because they're represented by Leela and the other side is represented by Mom. {{Subverted\|Trope}} when the instant a cure is made available for Leela, she immediately stops caring.
36	** “Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences” has Lrrr undergo a midlife crisis after Ndnd kicks him out of their palace for not catering to her wishes and for slouching around and television. Even when Lrrr does give Ndnd what she wanted with help from Fry, he is still deemed in the wrong for having earth invaded and for making a false charade that he legitimately conquered the planet as Leela demands that he tell the truth. However this treatment of Lrrr is basically uncalled for as Lrrr was kicked out after an attempt to appease Ndnd by invading earth backfired when he invaded during a comic con and was mistaken for a contestant. Ndnd also refuses to let lrrr explain himself and hits him with a frying pan. The planet express crew in particular handles Lrrr’s problem poorly as the fake invasion lie was not his to begin with as it was Fry didn’t listen to Leela when she told Lrrr that he should not do a war of the worlds rip off and upon hearing this, Fry was quick to undermine Leela. Despite this, Lrrr is deemed fully at fault and Fry is never called out for his role in the fake invasion.
37	** An InUniverse example appears in "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E21YoLeelaLeela Yo Leela Leela]]" when Leela lies about creating a children's show from scratch when in reality she's just writing about the antics of an alien species. She becomes more and more convinced that it's wrong that she's lied and that she's taking advantage of the aliens and finally confesses... and nobody else cares. "Wrong" or not, her actions improved the lives of everyone involved: the alien species was able to buy medicine and infrastructure with the paychecks they earned while the orphans were inspired by Leela's success story and ended up HappilyAdopted and employed at the TV studio. Even when this is explained to her she begs them to stop praising her and insists she deserves to be punished while the orphans, the aliens, and her friends all hail her as a hero.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Goliath and Elisa help the Avalon clan defend themselves from Oberon, who wants to drive them out. One of the clanmembers points out that technically the clan is squatting on Oberon's rightful property, but her thought is quickly dismissed and we're supposed to side with the gargoyles. To make it worse, Elisa's rationalization that Oberon gave up his claim on Avalon by abandoning it for a thousand years conveniently ignores the fact that Oberon is immortal and a thousand years wouldn't seem that long to him. To his credit, Oberon was willing to settle the matter diplomatically at the end, so at least it wasn't a matter of him being completely wrong as the Avalon clan proving themselves worthy to stay on Avalon, and there's no question that Oberon is still top dog over the human residents.
39	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E16RoadsideAttraction Roadside Attraction]]", Dipper tries to get over his unrequited crush on Wendy by following his grunkle's advice and using a road trip as an excuse to get friendly with a bunch of girls he's never going to see again. This is supposed to be a metaphor for Dipper sleeping around and using Pick-up Artist tactics, with him getting their online contacts as a stand-in for phone numbers, and the episode treats it with the full lecherousness it's supposed to represent. The key problem is that, despite the symbolism, what is ''literally'' happening on-screen is that Dipper is ''just'' talking to them. He's just making friendly and ''entirely non-romantic'' small-talk with some girls. Heck, most people would probably agree that it is a really healthy exercise for a shy and self-conscious kid like Dipper to try their hand at small-talking with their peers. Somehow, this ends up backfiring on him when all of the girls meet, treating him as a cheater for leading them all on at the same time... by ''talking'' to them. Exacerbated by the fact that another episode has Soos also trying to pick up girls and it's seen as a noble pursuit just because he's more inept at it and possibly because he does not move on to the next one until after being turned down. Near the beginning of the series, Mabel is also shown trying to pick up a summer boyfriend with almost every boy she sees, and this is seen as a charming quirk of her character. Mabel never gets a storyline devoted to that to the same level Dipper had.
40	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'':
41	** In the episode "[[Recap/HeyArnoldS3E57GirlTroubleSchoolDance Girl Trouble]]", Arnold gets fed up with [[{{Tsundere}} Helga's bullying]] and gets back at her by spilling paint on her. [[SelectiveEnforcement He gets in trouble]] and [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass everyone treats him like he]] performed a KickTheDog action. He's told that he should just [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale let Helga bully him]] [[TheUnfairSex because she's a girl]].
42	** In "Student Teacher", [[TheAce Olga]] starts working as a teaching assistant at P.S. 118, much to Helga's frustration. She eventually snaps that she "can't stand" Olga and wishes she wasn't around, leading Olga to have a breakdown. However, after Helga first learned about Olga teaching in her class, she had a serious and mature conversation with her sister about establishing certain boundaries, such as not sharing embarrassing stories about her. Olga agrees... then proceeds to break every single one, leading to Helga getting teased and tormented. Since Helga very clearly and calmly states what she wants, her being treated as the bad guy in the episode doesn't make sense, especially because the boundaries essentially amount to respecting her privacy and not giving her special treatment, which are perfectly reasonable things to ask.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/HighGuardianSpice'':
44	** Zinnia's panic over entering a deadly cave then quitting is seen as an over dramatic reaction by her classmates, even being mocked by Amaryllis (though that's [[AlphaBitch hardly out of character]] for her), despite the fact that being forced to go on a mission where there's a chance of death is a legitimate concern.
45	** A minor one with Snapdragon's father who appears in a flashback. While his hyper-masculine thinking is rather flawed, especially with the suggestion that Snapdragon should spend more time sparring with their brothers and encouraging the use of brute force, the father's lesson to Snapdragon boils down to standing up for oneself when someone takes what's theirs. Overall a reasonable thing for a father to tell their child when dealing with people harassing them and taking their stuff, but instead it's portrayed as an example of uncomplicated toxic masculinity and how it relates to Snapdragon violently blowing up on Cal earlier.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': In one episode, Minx ends up kicked out of her band after taking a HeelFaceTurn and ends up DrivenToSuicide. After being [[InterruptedSuicide saved from jumping off a building]], she becomes [[IOweYouMyLife indebted]] to Rio due to him saving her from drowning a few days prior. Minx is made to be a huge annoyance however she doesn't do anything particularly wrong. For example, it's not her fault that the Starlight Girls decide to misuse the toy guns she brought them. In the end everyone gets mad at her, which causes her to [[StatusQuoIsGod go back to being a jerk and return to her band]].
47	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': The episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E3TheDoomsdaySanction The Doomsday Sanction]]" has the League itself subjected to this, as Batman views his fellow founding members sending Doomsday to the Phantom Zone as a line they shouldn't have crossed. However, AdaptationalIntelligence aside, he was still Doomsday, a violent, rampaging monster with no conscience and not a normal criminal, so a normal prison couldn't hold him. On top of that, the government had already failed to contain this monster, there was no other place where Doomsday would ''not'' break out of and begin his rampage anew.
48	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS3E13DeKahnstructingHenry De-Kahnstructing Henry]]", we're supposed to believe Hank was responsible for Kahn getting fired because he told Dale, Bill and Boomhauer details about a top-secret project which Kahn had shared with him. But Kahn signed a non-disclosure agreement and then showed an outsider, under false pretenses (claiming they needed propane when the building doesn't use any), just to show up his neighbor with the expectation Hank would tell people. Kahn was sworn to secrecy and was rightfully fired for breaking it.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
50	** Any conflict at all between humans and spirits in the show is portrayed as the humans' fault for being selfish and not willing to understand the spirits, but from what we actually see, the spirits are just as guilty of this and are not morally superior to humanity in any way. They demand respect from humanity while giving none in return, yet the narrative constantly portrays them as being in the right.
51	** Lin Bei Fong, Chief of the Republic City Metal Bending Police, is apparently wrong for wanting to arrest Varrick for the crimes he committed in season 2 because he's seeking asylum in the city of her half-sister Suyin, who believes that his past crimes no longer matter because he says he wants to reform.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'':
53	** The Princess is meant to be unreasonable in "[[Recap/LittlePrincessS2E23IWantToBeQueen I Want to Be Queen]]" for wanting to eat pancakes like the Queen because, according to the Chef, they're not "healthy". However, while it would be unhealthy if she ate them every day, she expressly said that she wanted them "for a change". Also, pancakes aren't any less healthy for a four-year-old than an adult.
54	** In "[[Recap/LittlePrincessS2E33IWantToFindTheTreasure I Want to Find the Treasure]]", the Princess is meant to be wrong for using a map to find the Easter eggs. However, leaving aside the question of why there even ''was'' a map, the Princess wasn't purposefully cheating; she ''didn't know'' that using the map wasn't allowed.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
56	** In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E6HootysMovingHassle Hooty's Moving Hassle]]", King is understandably annoyed when Eda Clawthorne decides to gamble for the Elixir for what turned out to be a trap, But the corrupt Tibbles was charging more for the elixir than she had in her wallet, she couldn't use her powers due to her curse, meaning the only other choice was to go full Owl Beast.
57	** In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E13TheFirstDay The First Day]]", Luz is assigned to the Detention Track, which is designed to keep troublemaking students out of the way so that they can't embarrass the school. Luz complains that she's "better than this place" because she doesn't want to sit around doing nothing all day when she could be learning magic. She then finds out that the other students on the Track feel exactly the same and have found a way to study every class while they’re there. When Luz's friends come to break her out so she can appeal to the principal, the other students are offended that she thinks she’s better than they are. Luz and the framing of the episode agree with them. Except Luz never badmouthed the students. She badmouthed the Detention Track itself, and she stopped doing so immediately after learning the truth. It was Luz's friends, who didn't know the truth, seeking to get her off the Track at that point, and she only goes along with them because she's offended the other students.
58	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E14ShrinkingStarsFitzPatrick Shrinking Stars]]", Patrick interviews intergalactic captain Doug Quasar and his robot companion Pat-Tron. One of the first questions he asks is, "Where are you guys from?" Quasar stares at him like he asked the dumbest thing possible, and responds "ummm... outer... space?" in a judgmental tone. Quasar giving an overly literal MathematiciansAnswer to a normal and expected question from a talk show makes ''him'' look like the dumb one in this conversation, rather than [[TheDitz Patrick]].
59	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': Skipper pulls one towards himself in "Launchtime". He has a JerkassRealization while being at the mercy of the Moon Cat's "hospitality" and believes he should have been a better neighbor to the Lemurs, but given how invasive and disrespectful the lemurs have been so far of the Penguins's stuff and that they have spent the whole episode taking advantage of their absence to steal their TV, it is hard to blame Skipper for putting limits on their behavior. It is worth mentioning that it becomes an IgnoredAesop at the end, but it is more because of InsaneTrollLogic [[note]] The moon cat wasn't from the moon, so the "moon cat hospitality" doesn't exist.[[/note]] that Skipper realizing he was right all along.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
61	** "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E8PasteMakesWasteIceSore Paste Makes Waste]]": Buttercup's attitude towards Elmer after he became a monster. She's treated as being in the wrong for refusing to apologize to him after bullying him, but as she points out, Elmer was [[MisplacedRetribution attacking people that didn't even do anything to him]], including [[UngratefulBastard his teacher that actually stood up for him]]. Not helping matters was that Buttercup was not the only student who bullied Elmer in the episode as all the other students in her class except Blossom and Bubbles were also teasing Elmer viciously for eating paste even after being told to stop by Ms.Keane. Despite these circumstances, none of the other students who bullied Elmer apologized to him for their role in the bullying.
62	** "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss2E11TwistedSisterCoverUp Cover Up]]" has Blossom and Bubbles pressure Buttercup to get rid of her SecurityBlanket, claiming it's an emotional crutch, even though A) Buttercup is at an age where it's considered acceptable to have a security blanket, and B) [[{{Hypocrite}} Bubbles has Octi, who is also an emotional crutch]].
63	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Gretchen practicing with her yo-yo all day is apparently a horrible habit that warrants Vince to angrily say "why don't you put that thing away!" and Spinelli to complain about it. It's presented as a sign that Gretchen is 'neglecting' her friends over her new hobby.
64	* Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch entitled ''Film/{{Twelve Angry\|Men}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_People Little People]]''. A RogueJuror insists they not convict a boy of murder because one of the witnesses must have been mistaken about her testimony, since she normally wears glasses and wouldn't have them on when she woke up and allegedly saw the crime (an obvious reference to ''Film/TwelveAngryMen''). A dog on the jury points out that there is incontrovertible DNA evidence at the scene of the crime pointing to the boy. The RogueJuror replies by saying- "why are we listening to you? You're a BLEEP ing dog!" Later it turns out the Juror's theory is wrong [[spoiler:and he ends up on trial for accidentally killing the defendant]].
65	* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': The episode "Power Girl Surfers" has Otto and Reggie getting into an argument that starts when Otto is unexpectedly offered a cover story in his favorite surfing magazine, and Reggie is unable to convince the magazine editor that she deserves her own story more than her brother does. While the editor was undeniably a {{Jerkass}} to Reggie, we're never actually shown anything suggesting that she would have been a better candidate than Otto, and Otto is painted as a selfish jerk because he accepts the cover story, refusing to throw away his shot at fame because of his sister's jealousy.
66	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/RugratsS3E16UnderChuckiesBedChuckieIsRich Chuckie Is Rich]]", Chuckie is seen as changing for the worse due to his father winning a sweepstakes and the wealth (allegedly) going to his head. However, what he rightfully got mad at was Tommy, Phil and Lil completely ignoring him to play with his new video game instead of wanting to be in his company, making it come off as them preferring his new toys to his friendship. Yet, he is portrayed as being in the wrong and has to apologize by the episode's end.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E15OhBrotherWhereArtThou Oh Brother, Where Art Thou]]", Homer reconnects with his long-lost brother Herb, who is the head of a major automobile company. Convinced that the auto industry has lost touch with the common man, Herb has Homer design the next car, which is so impractical and expensive, Herb's company is promptly out of business. The episode, and its later sequel, want to pin the blame solely on Homer for ruining Herb's life. This ignores several points made in the episode: 1) Homer states he has no experience in auto design, an objection Herb steamrolls over, 2) the engineers make several attempts to communicate that Homer has no idea what he is doing and that his design is wildly impractical, again Herb hears this and steamrolls them over, 3) Herb somehow leverages his entire company on the idea that a car he has never seen will be incredibly popular. The grand unveiling is the first time he, the president of a major car company, has seen the car or even the price tag per unit. His business and personal fortune must have been both tied to a car he never even supervised because the end of the episode shows his mansion foreclosed and Herb on his way to the hobo life.
68	* ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu''; The BigBad, Dragon, is mentioned to have been "punished for his arrogance". In his full backstory, it's said that the valley the characters live in was under an intense drought. When Dragon asked the Heavens if he could use his water powers to stop the drought, the Heavens didn't respond at all. So Dragon went ahead and ended the drought with rainfall. The Heavens then punished him by stripping him of his water powers and trapping him in a mountain prison. This is most likely based on a Chinese legend on how the four rivers were made. Four dragons of water went much the same way as Dragon did and gave the people water after being refused permission, and were punished by the gods by being turned into rivers. Seeing as China presents the afterlife as a CelestialBureaucracy and deference to authority is taken ''very'' seriously, apparently the way Dragon was "arrogant" is that he thought himself above those that told him when he was able to use his powers.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
70	** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E9KrabBorgRockAByeBivalve Krab Borg]]": [=SpongeBob=]'s fear that Mr. Krabs was replaced by a robot is supposed to be seen as paranoid and irrational, especially since it's partly because of a movie he'd watched the night before (one with a twist ending revealing [[spoiler:the "world-conquering robots" were all in the main characters' heads]], no less). However, in a previous episode, Mr. Krabs ''was'' impersonated by a robot (operated by Plankton), so it's not hard to say [=SpongeBob=]'s suspicions aren't ''completely'' unfounded.
71	** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E4NastyPattyIdiotBox Nasty Patty]]" has Mr. Krabs see a news report about a con artist pretending to be a health inspector to get free food and immediately assume the health inspector currently in the Krusty Krab is the impostor. This is meant to be an example of his love of money getting the better of him by driving him to become paranoid and assume the worst. However, even though the guy apparently turns out to be the genuine article, he acts nothing like a real health inspector, eating the food the restaurant serves instead of checking the cleanliness and making sure the employees are following proper hygiene procedures. With this in mind, it's no wonder Mr. Krabs thought he wasn't a real inspector when the possibility was brought up.
72	* ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats1985'': In "All That Glitters" Jaga harshly and completely blames Lion-O for bringing down a curse on the Sword of Omens by attacking a fellow Thundercat. Never mind that it was a clever scheme by Mumm-Ra, it was clearly Tygra who impulsively ambushed Lion-O who reacted in self-defense; the area was dark and it could have been a matter of life and death, not leaving much room to discern his attacker's identity as Jaga was suggesting he should have done.
73	* ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'': Lion-O gets hit with this a lot. Even his good decisions land him in the doghouse. Perhaps the biggest example is in "Song of the Petalars", where Tygra constantly gets on Lion-O's case about having the group flee from the hundred-strong lizard army chasing them, rather than engage in a hopeless battle. By the end of the episode, Lion-O is convinced that they have to stand and fight, a decision that would have gotten them all killed if Panthro hadn't shown up at the last second.
74	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
75	** ''Action'' has Gwen fall victim to this in "The Chefshank Redemption." The Killer Grips blackmail her into losing the challenge and ultimately eliminating herself as revenge for how Trent would keep throwing challenges for the aforementioned team. However, Gwen was completely unaware of the fact that Trent was throwing the challenges for his team on purpose in order to keep her safe so she's basically being punished for something that was both out of her hands and not even her fault. Her constant misfortunes throughout the episode that're supposed to be viewed as "Karma" (such as being puked on by Lindsay) but instead come across as needless torture don't help, either.
76	** In the first revival season, Millie's psychological reports on the other contestants are meant to be shady and holier-than-thou. While doing this behind the other contestants' backs is unethical, the actual points she makes in these reports hold up fairly well, particularly when it comes to Priya's parents. Despite Priya insisting she loves her parents and it's wrong for Millie to report on them, their behavior includes [[AbusiveParents putting Priya through intense athletic gauntlets from a very young age to fulfill their fantasy, suppressing her own desire to be a doctor, and leaving her alone in the woods]] -- behaviors that would not only be taken seriously in a less comedic setting, but likely be ''mandated'' reporting regardless of Priya's personal feelings. Additionally, while her resentful attitude towards her generation is meant to hide an InferioritySuperiorityComplex, the depiction of characters heavily tied to contemporary culture like [[AlphaBitch Julia]] and [[BadInfluencer Chase]] make it hard not to see her point.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'': In "Field Trip to the Past", the boy trolls become jealous of the fact that only girls can do magic. This is treated as unreasonable, but the boys have every right to be jealous, especially considering that the girl trolls repeatedly use magic on other people without their consent, and are rarely punished for it.
78	* ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'': Bertie's reluctance to buy a house with Speckle, while discussed sympathetically, is still treated as a sign that she has serious commitment issues. However, given that the couple only just started living together and are still navigating the issues that come with that, signing onto a 30 year fixed mortgage really isn't the best idea.
79	* In season four of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Roxy initially not wanting anything to do with fairies, magic, or going to Alfea is portrayed negatively and her acceptance is supposed to be part of her CharacterDevelopment. While the latter isn't necessarily a bad thing, Roxy had every right to be angry and lash out at the Winx. Yes, they were trying to protect her, but their introduction to her was ''entering her home without permission'', not to mention they inadvertently led the wizards right to her. From how things look from Roxy's point of view, it's understandable she blames the Winx for everything that's happened at that point, and unlike Bloom, she wasn't exactly given a choice in the matter.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': In "L is for Loser", Irma ends up embarrassed by the latest of attempt by Martin, her AbhorrentAdmirer, to win her affections. Irma, who has made it clear numerous times that she has no romantic feelings for Martin, finally gets sick of his inability to take a hint and viciously rips him a new one. Her speech is broadcast on the school radio by resident trouble maker Uriah and the entire school turns against her for being a jerk to Martin. While calling Martin ugly and mocking his clothes may have been going too far, Irma was very much right to let Martin have it that they weren't in a relationship and some of Martin's attempts to win Irma have bordered on harassment. By the end of the episode, Irma issues an apology to Martin over the radio because she doesn't want to lose his friendship which he accepts. However, Martin never apologizes for his own entitled behavior towards Irma.
81	* At the end of season two of ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx,'' the former BigBad, [[spoiler: Tinkerbell]], makes a sudden, jarring LoveAtFirstSight HeelFaceTurn. The Winx and their new friend Matt (the other half of said LoveAtFirstSight) believe her reformation is genuine. Their other allies, led by Jim, aren't so quick to forgive. Jim points out all the terrible things she's done (including kidnapping and attempted murder), which have spanned two seasons. The only "proof" the Winx have of her sincerity is that Jim "saw her face in the stars" and she says she's sorry, yet they quickly decide that Jim's goal is to grab her power for himself and become even more of a tyrant. ''Yes,'' Jim fully intended to grab power [[spoiler: he is Captain Hook, after all]], and he becomes the enemy for the remaining three episodes, and [[spoiler: Tinkerbell]] does eventually prove through her actions that her reformation is genuine, but that doesn't erase everything she's done to hurt people. Notably, the other citizens of the World of Dreams initially feel the same way as Jim, but none of ''them'' are criticized for it.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'': "Joyride"; Avalanche joins the X-Men, but only to be close to Kitty, who he's grown close to and has feelings for. Throughout the episode, he goofs off, destroys property, endangers others, and shows that he's way over his head, and when Cyclops tries to be friendly, he growls at him like a dog, then taunts him when he finds his car has been trashed by a joyride. So, when Cyclops starts to suspect he's responsible for the recent joyrides, he's presented as wrong to not trust the former villain, even though all the evidence points to him, and in the end Scott apologizes for not trusting him. While Scott shouldn't have embarrassed him by reactivating a machine to knock him over, that doesn't change the fact he's treated as an asshole for not trusting him despite his lack of any logical reason to. In the end Lance quits, not because of Scott but because he'd rather stay with the Brotherhood because the X-Men expect too much effort being put in.

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