Times where somebody is Made Out to Be a Jerkass for reacting to an actual Jerkass in Western Animation.
- Barney Bear: Barney's hungry cousin, from the short of the same name, for no given reason, gets Barney jailed in the end, via by putting the signs saying not to feed the bears he took down back up, summoning the police, and telling them that Barney tried to feed him, even though the guy spent the whole short stealing Barney's food, and Barney offered him his last sandwich in defeat.
- In effect in the Danny Phantom episode "Splitting Images". Tired of resident Jerk Jock Dash picking on him, Danny decides to use his powers to get some payback. Unfortunately, he catches the attention of Bully Hunter Sidney Poindexter who thinks that Dash was an innocent kid (somehow missing when Dash picked on Danny), so he takes over Danny's body and sends him to his realm where Danny gets picked on by Poindexter's bullies. While the message in the episode is Comes Great Responsibility, it's laced with this trope as well.
- Donald Duck:
- In the short "Crazy Over Daisy", Chip and Dale torment Donald and destroy his bicycle while he's on his way to Daisy's. When he tries to give them their just desserts by using them as a motor for a new bicycle, Daisy thinks that he's being mean to them.
- A surprising number of Donald Duck media expects us to root for his adversaries, even when he's done nothing to deserve their torment.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy:
- In the episode "Boys Will Be Eds", Rolf's goat, Victor was attacking Jimmy to get his sandwich, with Rolf trying to pull him off Jimmy. When Sarah came onto the scene, she thought Rolf was attacking Jimmy and pulled him away from Jimmy before he could pry Victor off before beating him to a pulp.
- The ending of Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show has an inversion of this. At the beginning of the movie, the Eds' latest scam caused massive damage and severely hurt the children, resulting in them being hunted down. After the encounter with Eddy's brother, everyone got over it, except Johnny who didn't arrive until afterwards. Therefore, when he attacked the Eds, the children beat him up.
- Family Guy: "Herpes, the Love Sore" combines this with Karma Houdini when a trio of bullies take Peter, Joe, and Quagmire's booth at their bar. When they try to fight back, it results in them being bruised and bloodied. Then when the bullies reveal they're American soldiers, everyone in the bar actually cheers for them while shunning Peter, Joe, and Quagmire.
- An episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy features Billy being tormented by Sperg. In a rare heartwarming moment (for her), Mandy stands up to Sperg on Billy's behalf, only for Billy to get on her for picking on him.
- Hey Arnold!: In "Girl Trouble", Helga spends the entire episode tormenting Arnold as usual. When he finally snaps and throws paint at her, Mr. Simmons, who paid no attention to any of Helga's antics, gives a forlorn speech about how disappointed he is seeing Arnold harassing another student and punishes him. Grandpa earlier related to Arnold's treatment with his own childhood bully, who he states always managed to turn the tables and make him look like the bully. As it turns out, she was Grandma.
- A Looney Tunes cartoon entitled "Feline Frame-Up" features a dog that was defending a kitten from a mean cat, only for their master to get the wrong idea and think the dog was being mean to the cat, resulting in him getting thrown out of the house. Fortunately, the dog managed to force the cat to confess the truth in the end.
- In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic two-parter episode, "A Canterlot Wedding" (Season 2 finale). Twilight Sparkle accuses Princess Cadence of being evil after seeing how much of a Jerkass she was being towards her friends. Cadence breaks down in tears and runs away, causing her friends to be upset with her, Shining Armor (her brother) to change his mind about her being Best Mare, and Princess Celestia to be disappointed in her. Turns out that it was really the Queen of the Changelings, impersonating Cadence and the real one was trapped in an abandoned mine below the castle. Because of Twilight's friends shunning her, Canterlot became overrun with an army of Changelings and nearly destroyed, and Queen Chrysalis gleefully points this out.
- The Penguins of Madagascar: In the beginning of "Can't Touch This", the Penguins hear a boy cry and go to investigate it. They learn that Randy the sheep (who lives in zoos petting zoos) had bitten a boy who was petting him. The penguins decide to punish Randy for what he did, but he reveals to them that he is the wronged one — the boy bullied him, and when he teared out a piece of his wool, Randy attacked him in self-defense.
- The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
- In "Sweet 'n' Sour", the title characters try to stop a group called the Fluffy Bunch from committing crimes. Unfortunately, the Fluffy Bunch's cuteness makes the townspeople believe the girls were harassing the Fluffy Bunch and they ostracize the girls as a result.
- In "Schoolhouse Rocked", the Gangreen Gang are put into Miss Keane's kindergarten class and take advantage of it to bully the children. The girls try to stop them, but their attempts are mistaken for bullying by Miss Keane. When she gives them a time-out during recess, the Gang are free to beat up the kindergarteners in a one-sided game of dodgeball.
- The Simpsons:
- One episode features Gill staying with the family after losing his job on Christmas. He stays for months and defiles the house to the point where Marge can't take it anymore and decides to stand up to him. By that time, Gill had gotten a new job, so Marge takes the family to his new workplace to tell him off. Unfortunately, when she does, he loses the respect of his workers and his boss fires him. Marge feels so guilty that she and the family buy a vacation house from Gill.
- In a segment parodying The Count of Monte Cristo, Homer (playing the role of the Count) sets up an elaborate revenge scheme for the man (Moe) who stole his love (Marge) and had him sent to prison, which ends with Moe being killed. Unfortunately, Marge gets upset with him for killing her husband. Granted she also lampshades the fact he spent all this time formulating a murder scheme over actually reuniting with his family.
- This tends to happen to Ned Flanders in the rare moment that he loses patience with Homer. In the episode "Homer Loves Flanders," after his buildup of frustration over the course of the episode finally causes him to snap at Homer in church and the congregation turns against him as a result, Homer himself defends him, citing Ned's unflagging patience with him through constant abuse as proof of his goodness.
- South Park:
- In "The Hobbit", Wendy calls out Butters for insulting Lisa Berger, only for her to get scolded by Mr. Mackey who accuses her of bullying. The same thing keeps happening when she tries to preach her anti-body image message to the school.
- In "Dead Kids", when Sharon furiously chews out Randy for not taking the school shootings seriously, the townsfolk get on her case for it and take Randy's side, and then storm off.
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- In "The Bully", Flats the Flounder menaces SpongeBob, threatening to "kick your butt". When he actually does, however, SpongeBob's soft body just absorbs the blows, and Flats keeps punching away until he falls from exhaustion. SpongeBob then gives his fellow students a speech against violence, raising his fist for emphasis. That's when Mrs. Puff comes in, sees Flats on the floor and SpongeBob with his fist up, and accuses him of beating up Flats, then tells him "I'm going to kick your butt!"
- In "Stuck in the Wringer", SpongeBob has an accident that gets him stuck in the wringer, and thanks to Patrick's stupidity, he can't get out. SpongeBob feels he'll never be able to do anything now, but Patrick gives him a Rousing Speech that he can go on. Unfortunately, Patrick's speech is proven unfounded as the wringer causes SpongeBob a ton of bad luck no matter how much Patrick tries to inspire him. Finally, in the middle of an amusement park, SpongeBob snaps at Patrick, telling him his life is over and that it's all his fault. Patrick runs off crying while everyone watching calls SpongeBob a jerk and says he got what he deserved.
- In "A Pal for Gary", Gary saves SpongeBob from Puffy Fluffy, only to get scolded again.
- In the episode entitled "Plankton's Pet", Plankton disguises himself as a baby to steal a Krabby Patty. However, Mr. Krabs sees through his disguise (and it's a pretty good disguise) and attacks him. Everyone is horrified that Mr. Krabs is seemingly attacking a baby until he reveals it's Plankton. However, when Mr. Krabs kicks him out, a bunch of women that were watching start attacking him and calling him a monster.
- In the Taz-Mania episode "Here, Kitty, Kitty", Molly found an adorable kitten. Unbeknownst to her, however, the kitten was secretly vicious and mean, and was attempting to eat Molly's fish with Taz being the only one who was aware of the kitten's true colors. Unfortunately, Molly kept assuming that Taz was picking on the kitten and wouldn't listen to Taz's explanations. Eventually, Taz managed to get rid of the kitten and save the fish, but when Molly came up on the scene, she thought Taz was messing with her fish and still wouldn't listen to Taz's explanations, accusing him of doing something to her kitten. The episode ends with Taz being given a bath, which he hates.
