Times where No Good Deed Goes Unpunished in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- 10 Billion Years
: Lala-Ru was born in the far future where Earth had become a desert planet. When she encountered Kyubey and it offered her a wish, she used it to wish for water, which gave her the power to summon infinite amounts of water. The first thing she did was make her village's well start flowing again, but a rival village took her village chieftain's son hostage and demanded access to the water, which started a breakout of violence. Everywhere she went, it was the same: whenever she brought water to a destitute village by reviving a well or stream, they would be grateful at first, but then desperate or greedy people would start fighting and killing each other to gain access to it. As rumors spread around the world of the girl who could summon water from nowhere, Lala-Ru was hunted by corrupt kings, warlords and generals who wanted her power. - In Avenger of Steel, the people of Azarath took in Raven- the half-human daughter of Trigon- when she was a baby and refused to kill her, and they were ultimately destroyed for their kindness and mercy. What made this even more tragic was that Raven genuinely loved and respected the people of Azarath; she just lost control of her powers for a second, and now has to live haunted by the fact she caused their destruction.
- In Avengers: Infinite Wars, Padme and Threepio took time out of their day to help a severed droid head acquire a new body, and only much later learn that the head in question belonged to Ultron, who used that new body to begin a campaign that would culminate in him becoming the single greatest threat in the galaxy, launching a simultaneous attack on every major faction. Ultron specifically stops by Padme's office in chapter 49 to taunt her with the idea that all this is only because of her previous kindness, although the Avengers all assure Padme that Ultron's smart and powerful enough that he would have found a way to be a threat anyway and she just made things a bit easier for him to start off.
- BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: Discussed in Chapter 80 between Kagura, Mai, and the Happy Huntresses. As Kagura reveals, he was held back a year at Atlas Academy because he prefers to "do what feels right than to do what [he's] told", and none of his instructors were fond of that, give how Atlas' schooling system heavily discourages any disobedience of authority. May recollects her own times at Atlas and how she tried to stand up against bullies, only to be dismissed by the staff for "exaggerating" the issue and punished by the Marigolds for "embarrassing" the family. After listening to Kagura, she even lampshades this trope.May: (thoughts) Doesn't seem like much has changed up there. No good deed goes unpunished, after all.
- "Browncoats at World's End" reveals that Jack Sparrow has been subject to an unusual variation of this since he turned down the advances of Lady Phoenix, who he believed to be the favoured mistress of Pirate Lord Sao Feng, as he was concerned that sleeping with Lady Phoenix would offend a man whom Jack respects. However, Lady Phoenix is actually Sao Feng's sister rather than his mistress, but since Lady Phoenix told Sao Feng that Jack had hurt her without specifying how he did, Jack has spent the last few years being hunted by Sao Feng even though Jack thought he did the honorable thing.
- The morning after Mirabel gives Hiccup and Toothless her mother's magically-healing arepas in Can I Keep Him?, the two try and steal the family's breakfast the next morning. In Casita's attempts to protect it, the family finds the dishes smashed and breakfast ruined.
- The Difference One Man Can Make:
- Harry's efforts to improve the lives of the Wildlings make several other Wildling leaders jealous, while also making the Seven Kingdoms suspect he's organizing them to assault the Wall.
- When Benjen argues against warring with the Norfolk, Alliser Thorne promptly suggests his Wildling blood is influencing him, asking if he's 'in bed' with Harry.
- In Echoes of Yesterday, Kara saves Taylor from being locked inside a biohazard container and then scares her bullies away... which unfortunately means she might be charged with assaulting a teenager, so Kara gets forced to lie low for a while.
- Played With in Friendship Is Aura. No matter how much good Lucario does for Ponyville and Equestria in general, there are those (especially that one loudmouth) who look at him with fear (even Luna mistrusts him for some time). On the other hand, most ponies, especially the Mane Six, warm up to him after getting to know him, and after defeating Razorwing, he is appointed Guardian of Ponyville.
- Adam Jensen, to a horrifying degree in Mass Effect: Human Revolution. To quote doctor Hein:While many ran and cowered in their bunkers during the Blitz, Jensen took up arms to defend a people that did nothing but view him with suspicion and scorn. Over ten thousand people owe him their lives, and while all of them proved grateful in the end, The Alliance decided that this would not do, and had their buddies in the Templars burn his home. He then spent the next six to seven years righting wrongs and capturing dangerous criminals, making the Citadel a safer place and earning the respect of his co-workers in C-Sec. His reward for that? The Alliance plots to capture him and sell him out to the Order for making vanilla humans look bad. His reward for saving the life of a Quarian Pilgrim, exposing a corrupt Spectre in the process? The Council doesn't even give him so much as a pat on the head, and the pilgrim can't get past his mechanical parts and views him with suspicion and fear.
- During Loki's attack in The Last Seidr, Harry can't stay still while people might be in danger. This leads to him stopping Loki from fatally stabbing Coulson and saving the agent's life. Unfortunately, it also gets Harry kidnapped by Loki, who believes that Harry is a seidr.
- In Star Wars Episode I: The Familiar of Zero, Montmorency develops a new healing potion to heal Guiche after he's left horribly injured and in constant pain (bad enough that all he says is "Please kill me") from Calista's Force Lightning. After she gets Guiche's consent to use it upon him and successfully heals him (though not without scarring), she's placed under house arrest for performing experiments on another student and is threatened with expulsion and potential jail time. Montmorency understandably delivers a What the Hell, Hero? to the academy staff given that not only did she save Guiche from a life of endless agony, but they and his family were planning on euthanizing him.
- In Thieves Can Be Heroes!, Izuku suffers the fate of the protagonist of Persona 5, meaning that he gets arrested by Dirty Cops after trying to stop a drunken man from raping a woman who proceeded to accuse Izuku of the deed. Not only does this saddle him with a criminal record, but the trial made him miss the U.A. Entrance Exam and forced him to move to Tokyo while serving out his probation. His new record all but guarantees that he'll be barred from any hero-related work and he's even more of a social pariah then ever, with all of his new teachers and classmates treating him like a two-bit thug when he hasn't done anything to them.
- Twisted Reflections: Against Raziel's advice, Louise keeps the promise she made to a dying soldier to free his family and other Winged Ones and Firstborns from captivity. Her kindness backfires when the other Firstborns slaughter nearby villages soon after being freed.
- Several characters in With Pearl and Ruby Glowing try to do good things, only for them to backfire on them.
- Frankie tries to help what she thinks is a homeless man and ends up being raped by him on top of broken glass.
- Following Courtney's assault, Duncan hunts down the people responsible and beats them up. However, because the boys were all of higher standing than he was, his parole officer blackmails him into sex in exchange for keeping quiet about it.
- Robyn frees a number of force laborers from one of Jacques Schnee's trucks and he has her kidnapped and gang-raped by other labor slaves.
- Basil Brush goes back to the church in his friend Molly's place to fetch her dropped contact lenses so she won't be walking around alone in the dark, and he walks in on the Death Eaters (an alt-right antitheist terrorist group in the fic) and gets Strapped to a Bomb.
- Arrow: Rebirth: As Word of God himself points out, this is the great tragedy of Tommy's character arc in the first story. While exposing Oliver was a foolish decision, it was ultimately done out of love and concern for his best friend. And what does Tommy get in return? The scorn of the woman he loved, his family name shamed, and loss of whatever innocence he had left, culminating in his best friend effectively (if reluctantly) abandoning him to be taken and forced to join the League of Assassins, to become the one thing he's fought all his life against: his father.
- In To Hell and Back (Arrowverse), Ralph Dibny tries to convince Eddie Thawne to get ahead of his parents' murders by turning himself in, trying to show him that taking responsibility for it (since it genuinely was an accident caused by Eddie losing control of his previously-unknown metahuman abilities) will help him get a lighter punishment. Eddie's response is to murder Ralph (albeit accidentally), mutilate his corpse, frame a mugger for it, and then blow up a police department's evidence locker while people are in the building to cover it all up.
- A Protector's Pride: For being the hero, Ichigo always gets shafted when he saves the day. Example? He kills Aizen but when Ichigo needs to save his mom from Hell in a time-sensitive mission because of corrupt nobles in Soul Society, Yamamoto stalls him long enough that Ichigo's mother gets trapped there.
- Swinging Pendulum: Ichigo and the Visored help the Shinigami stop Aizen. As a reward, the Central 46 execute the Visored; Ichigo is only spared as thanks for defeating Aizen, leading to his imprisonment instead.
- Cross Ange The Knight Of Hilda:
- Against orders, Rio's sympathy for Hilda overrides his sense of duty and takes her up to Misurugi where the two of them intervene in Tusk and the Wild Pack's rescue of Ange. Though it ends well, once safely away, the Wild Pack proceeds to beat the crap out of him for going off script. Boss himself later contacts Rio and says that if he didn't have another mission lined up, he'd have Rio dragged back to HQ and locked in the stockade for a month.
- Averted with Inspector Schwarz who, after letting Rio and Hilda escape in gratitude for Rio sparing his life (as he tried to stop his colleagues from raping Hilda after they caught her), is able to keep his superiors from finding out what he did.
- "and back into despair again":
- Mahiru's reward for trying to stop Nagito from hanging himself is a Slashed Throat.
- When the group gets trapped in the Fun House, Hifumi finds another student attempting to kill themselves in order to satisfy Mononkuma's Starvation Motive. They attempt to stop them; as a result, he accidentally kills her in the struggle, becoming the next murderer.
- Blackened Skies: Kaede's efforts to unite the other students against Monokuma result in her standing on a Broken Pedestal once it's revealed that she's willing to lie, mislead and manipulate others in the process.
- Danganronpa R1 has a double example. In order to protect the others from seeing a horrifying clip show, Makoto tries blocking the door to the A/V room from the inside. This causes Mondo and Sakura to assume the worst, and Sakura kicks the door open to 'free' him... only for this to accidentally injure Makoto. His head injury proves fatal, leaving Sakura as the unintentional Blackened.
- After numerous loops in Kazuichi Strangelove, Kazuichi had managed to subdued the despair-induced Mikan and had her locked in her cabin, meaning all is going well, right? Unfortunately, this only enraged Monokuma, and this along with the previous meddling to stop murder attempts makes Kazuichi his target. Monokuma changes the Despair Disease so that if Kazuichi faints when infected, four of his classmates will die. He also makes the disease infect a person every 8 hours, with Kazuichi being the last so he'd be Forced to Watch his friends succumb to the disease.
- Tyrantly Ever After: Back when she was a mere mortal, Artina was severely punished for showing compassion towards enemy soldiers, ultimately accused of treason and executed. After the events of Disgaea 4, she finds herself grappling with a Crisis of Faith as her angelic powers wane, wondering if she's once again being punished because God disapproves of her following her morals.
- In Trunk's New Look, Trunks offers to babysit his past self and Goten which results in him getting blackmailed, dressed up as a Playboy Bunny and getting mistaken as his wife by Vegeta.
- Vow of Nudity: Spectra's core thematic arc involves constantly struggling to rise above the cosmic abuse the universe throws her way and be a good person despite every choice she makes inevitably blowing up in her face for reasons always out of her control.
- Off the Line: When Rainstorm helps Flower deal with some people who were harassing her, her overprotective handler puts a hit out on him.
- A Brighter Dark: A Hoshidan soldier stops to help one of his comrades after she collapses due to exhaustion and dehydration. Said comrade turns out to be Princess Corrin of Nohr, public enemy #1 and the one who killed his son at the Bottomless Canyon, and the Nohrians sent to rescue her cut off his arm. Ryoma lampshades it, noting how only bad luck turned his kindness against him.
- In the Pirate AU "On Golden Shores", flashbacks reveal that Anna originally signed up on a ship after she tried to save her former employer, Lady Hargraves, from an assault; when Anna took the dying woman back to the manor, Lord Hargraves assumed that Anna was the one who had attacked his wife out of resentment for being dismissed from their service, forcing Anna to disguise herself as a boy and sign up on a ship to escape being sent to prison for something she hadn't even done.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi
- Subverted in the Alternate Universe fic Really? Me Too!; Wei Wuxian comes to Jin Guangyao's defence when a Clan Leader and his wife loudly insult the latter behind his back. To avoid this trope from playing out, Wei Wuxian decides to return to the Flower Banquet with Jin Guangyao in order to watch out for him. Subverted further when this leads to the two of them forming an Odd Friendship (due to their similar backgrounds), ultimately preventing most of the tragic events of canon from taking place.
- In Brutal Harry, Harry is forced to go dumpster diving at school after his fourth day having food withheld by Uncle Vernon. A random kitchen worker notices the torn-open trash bags and reports it to the principal. The principal correctly guesses that the dumpster diver is Harry and informs Vernon, who beats Harry to the point of breaking three bones in his fingers and forces him to go another week without food. The kitchen worker is laid off with no explanation given.
- In Lost Boy, when Hiccup defends an incapacitated Stoick when the Outcasts invade, Snotlout takes his chance and gives Hiccup to them as a hostage. His moment of heroism has him repeatedly abused, raped and branded an Outcast by Alvin. By the time Stoick and the others mount their rescue, it is already too late. Everyone, including Stoick, Astrid and Fishlegs, is forced to ignore him under accordance to Viking Law due to the Outcast-brand and Stoick ends up believing that Hiccup really is the whore that the Jorgensons claim him to be. It takes a thorough chewing out by Gobber and a very thorough examination of the law for Stoick to come to his senses only to find that Hiccup had just then attempted to end his life.
- The Violet Demon: The one time Gaz ignores her Lack of Empathy and tries to protect Velinda from the Fornaxians, it leads to her being captured and enslaved in Velinda's place.
- In All Things Probable Series, the two worst situations to happen to Grimm Probable (Kim's darker male counterpart) were the result of him acting on his better impulses. In "Back to Kwitcherbeliakin", he helps Maze carry out a ritual out of genuine interest and curiosity about Maze's culture; it turns out that Maze intended to sacrifice him. In "A Friend in Darkness", he gets petrified after taking a shot meant for Kim.
- In Spider-Man: Finding Home, Kate is apologetic when she learns that Wendy got fired from the police for stealing Clint's arrows from evidence. However, Wendy assures Kate that she’s happy with how things turned out, observing that the force wasn’t always welcoming to a gay black woman anyway, and adds that she knew and accepted such risks when she agreed to their original request.
- Ultimate Spider-Woman: Mary Jane Watson was Born Unlucky, and she suffers this on a regular basis. Her schoolwork has suffered, she's been fired and lost her apartment due to superhero duties making her chronically late, some of her critics as Spider-Woman have threatened her with sexual violence, she's lost acting roles she's dreamed of since childhood, and she suffers from stress in her efforts to deal with being a Triple Shifter who has really bad cases of Chronic Hero Syndrome and Samaritan Syndrome.
- BURN THE WITCH:
- Lila exploits Rose's desire to help others by manipulating her into promoting her Fake Charity, leading Rose to unwittingly convince many of her friends, family members and other innocents into donating. Prince Ali winds up as one of her victims, and breaks off their friendship upon investigating and discovering the ruse.
- Lila attempts to repay Marinette's effort to protect her from the angry mob by throwing her under the bus and sacrificing her to protect herself. However, this completely backfires since Witch Hunter simply records this as another one of her many sins.
- Sabine takes a sopping wet Lila into the bakery so she can dry off after taking a dip in the Seine. Lila promptly breaks into Marinette's room looking for potential blackmail material and steals some of her clothes.
- Crimson and Noire: In chapter 42, Adrien stands up for one of his father's employees when Audrey tries to fire her just because she isn't seating in the front row for the fashion show. This ends up making him more a target when Audrey gets akumatized into Style Queen, who turns him into glitter and dissolves him to lure out his father.
- Leave for Mendeleiev:
- Mme Bustier runs her class by expecting the better-behaved students to 'lead by example', encouraging them to Turn the Other Cheek and show bullies the right way to act. In practice, this means that they're pressured to let bullies walk all over them and are scolded whenever they try escaping this. Marinette was a former victim of this before transferring to another class, and Bustier still believes that she should continue being 'one of the Marinettes of the world'. Being nice just doesn't cut it in her classroom.
- After the Gorilla akuma is resolved, Marinette feels sorry for Adrien and decides to approach him with Aurore and Ondine, stating that "Ladybug mentioned" that he'd like some company while watching a movie. Unfortunately, she's unaware that Adrien is actually her 'partner' Chat Noir, who feels entitled to Ladybug and all her secrets. So her kind gesture just makes him suspect that she could 'help' him figure out who Ladybug is...
- Marinette's offer to help Nino with his movie becomes an exhausting ordeal when he proves to be an entitled Control Freak, lying to her about Chloé's involvement and blaming HER for not being able to stand up to her bully, ignoring how he wasn't willing to stand up against the Spoiled Brat either.
- Marinette Dupain-Cheng's Spite Playlist: When Gabrielle steps in to defend Marinette from Thomas' unwanted advances, he loudly announces to all and sundry that her family is broke, humilating her in front of her peers and smirking at her horror.
- Miraculous! Rewrite: Seeing that Chat Noir is moping around, Marinette tries to cheer him up by buying him some of Andre's famous ice cream. Unfortunately, Andre immediately starts shipping it, despite Chat's protests that he's in love with Ladybug... and the fact that Luka is literally standing right there, having bought ice cream with her earlier. Andre's utter inability to respect their boundaries leads to him getting akumatized into Glaciator and trying to force them together.
- One step backwards and Three forwards: Felix finds Rose grappling with a bout of insecurity at the gym and sits down with her to talk her through it. Lila films the encounter and posts it online, trying to make it look like he's cheating on his girlfriend.
- In this untitled oneshot, Marinette agrees to keep the fact that Alya's parents commissioned her to make a dress for their daughter a secret. Keeping this secret spurs Alya to break off their friendship and uninvite her from her birthday party, leading to Marinette having to deliver the dress and then leave before the celebration starts. The only upside is how this leads to Lila's true nature being exposed when she tries to claim credit for the dress's creation right in front of Alya's parents.
- God Help the Outcasts
- While taking a walk outside, Susan sees a few little girls and tries to help one with a scraped knee. The nearby soldiers believe that she's hurting the little girl, and open fire on Susan. Monger has to intervene before they finally stop.
- The monsters save the city from the robot probe...and yet people still look at them with fear, suspicion, and hatred.
- Death Daggers begins with Izuku, Tenya and Shouto intervening in an Attempted Rape, only for the assailant to declare that his father will use his connections to ruin their lives for interfering with his 'fun'. Then Ochako accidentally kills him.
- Dirty Little Secrets: When Shinso's Mind Control Quirk first manifested, he used it to stop a bully who was picking on another kid. The other kids promptly labeled his power creepy, and the bully's mother filed a complaint against him.
- Emerald Furnace - Path Of Storms: When Izuku defeats a villain gang in the mountain town he's been hiding in, the cops reward him by shooting at him. All Might calls them out for forcing thoughts of persecution on Izuku.
- Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy: After Ochako intervenes in a high-speed chase, Nedzu decides to become The Svengali, attempting to mold her into a new Symbol of Peace to replace All Might.
- Viridian: The Green Guide: Viridian admits to Aizawa that he's Quirkless in an effort to comfort the man as they're held captive by All For One. Once that situation is resolved, Aizawa immediately uses that information in his quest to track the vigilante down. Played With in that Aizawa sincerely means no harm, but Izuku is so used to society treating him like shit that he fears the worst.
- Whispered Tribulation: Izuku became a Heroic Bystander when he just happened to be in the area when Stain attacked Native and Tenya. Aizawa treats this as 'evidence' that Izuku is The Mole, insisting that his presence was far too coincidental.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Equestria's First Human, The human Connor pushes Celestia out of the way of a falling spike, saving her life. How is he thanked: The Royal Guards beat Connor to a pulp for laying his hands on the Princess. It is justified since those guards were actually moles for the terrorist group targeting her. Princess Celestia did try to thank Connor, but he stormed off, having been mistreated by Ponyville, and the beating (and his friend's indifference) pushed him over the edge.
- In Of Lilies and Chestnuts, Chestnut sees a Canterlot noble drop an expensive necklace, so picks it up and walks up to return it. The noble realizes the necklace is missing and turns around just in time to see a dirty bat pony thief holding her necklace, and doesn't give Chestnut a moment to explain before she calls for bunch of angry Royal Guards. When Fleur and Rarity find Chestnut, she's hiding in a back-alley dumpster and terrified for her life.
- Pattycakes: Dash would have preferred to keep napping, but went to see Fluttershy because she's a good friend; it got her mickey'd, mindraped and mentally regressed, roughly ...In That Order.
- In The Rise of Darth Vulcan, a group of disabled pegasi stop a rogue tornado from ruining their hometowns (it's complicated). The result is that they get sentenced to five years community service with The Social Darwinist as a warden, who then ruins their lives further by broadcasting this at their graduations — it even results in one of them getting her baby taken away. Luckily, they convince the fic's Villain Protagonist to dispense some indiscriminate justice on the place.
- Summer Days and Evening Flames: Starfall puts his racism against griffins aside long enough to rescue Gilda from several criminals, freeing her from her bonds and defending her form would-be lethal blows. Although he did kill one (in defense of another), he was still arrested due to "vigilantism" by not being reinstated into the guard yet.
- In Legacy Undone, Konoha's Daimyo takes Kurotsuchi to live with him for six years in an effort to fix the bad blood between Konoha and Iwa. While she works to help convince her grandfather of their sincerity, Tobi exploits the situation to trigger a bloody war between them.
- Jiraiya in Obito-Sensei, just like in canon, taught Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan so they could not only protect themselves in Rain but also use their powers for good through Ninshu. He later protected them from Hanzo and Danzo's manipulations by killing Danzo. His former students then founded the Akatsuki and took over the Nation of Rain to create a political power that threatens the other Hidden Villages. Due to this, Jiraiya has become a pariah in Konoha due to his part in the Akatsuki's foundation, forced to focus on his spy network outside and away from his home.
- Alpha and Omega: In book two, Shinji’s allies send out a makeshift probe trying to locate him. This backfired when part of the probe is sent careening towards the Wunder. The impact knocks out Misato for days, and would have likely killed several crew members, right as Shinji and Wille were about to conclude negotiations. The result? Shinji uses his new Angelic abilities to save them, outing himself as an Angel, and promptly being savagely beaten and taken prisoner by Wille. The kicker? Shinji realizes in frozen time right before he does this that this is what’s going to happen, chooses to help anyway, and takes a moment to instruct Rei to remember this lesson in human ingratitude.
- In-Tents-ly Sick: Totobory offers his fish as a trade to Cozybory for her burnt one. This ends up giving him food poisoning.
- This Bites!: Vivi's two year infiltration of Baroque Works to rescue her country from Crocodile ends this way: Having been identified as an associate of the Straw-Hat pirates, the information makes it to the World Nobles (who have a grudge against her family) and she is immediately accused of treason by the World Government, meaning there is no way she can remain in Alabasta.
- The Thief of Light, The Maid of Shadows: This serves as a Commonality Connection between Akira and Sadayo. Both were punished for trying to help someone who needed it, with Akira getting saddled with a criminal record while Sadayo faces Blackmail over what she considers to be her greatest failure.
- At one point of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Life In Flames, Elisa and Rio manage to succeed in calming Heatran and prevent Mt. Corona’s eruption, even saving Alex and Eve, who went to Mt. Corona, in the process. However, as Team Aura went against Guildmaster Roserade's orders, even attacking two members of the Roserade Guild, both are not only sent to bed without dinner for the night, but Rio has to also clean the dinner hall for a week, but not only is Elisa stuck with doing sentry duty for one whole month, but she is also forbidden from leaving the guild at all (with Roserade even turning up the security measures to ensure Elisa doesn't do so). One night during the punishment, however, Elisa overhears an argument between Alex and Roserade due to the separate punishments Elisa and Rio were given, with Roserade insisting that Elisa and Rio broke the rules, while Alex argues that Elisa and Rio didn't deserve punishment for preventing Mt. Corona from erupting and that Team Aura should be rewarded for their bravery instead. Elisa ends up rushing into the Guildmaster's chamber to defend Guildmaster Roserade's statement, thus ending the conflict between Alex and Roserade, also resulting in Elisa's punishment being reduced by two weeks.
- In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, a little girl and her adoptive father are walking across the streets of Azalea Town. Suddenly a baby carriage rolls down the streets, and it's about to get squashed by the traffic, and the girl jumps in to save her. Immediately, people begin ganging up on her and her father... because she accidentally stepped on a Slowpoke's tail. The girl barely escapes with her life, her father doesn't.
- In the Third Movement of With Strings Attached, the four encounter a colony of shrunken humans being used as a science project by aliens. They unshrink the humans and take 40 of them back to C'hou to start a new life. But the humans resent being removed from their universe and, among other things, steal the four's personal stuff after the four are whisked away to look for the third piece of the Vasyn.
- The four practically live this trope in The Keys Stand Alone, getting chased by mobs or fined because they didn't save the day in the right way. Things get to the point where they simply refuse to help anyone out any more (also partially because they neither want to be considered heroes nor want to do anything except take down the Big Bad so they can go home—and if they could get home some other way they'd gladly do that and leave the world to rot).
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness: In his backstory, Rason Miyamosa saved a monster girl (later revealed in Act III to be Luna Cii) from a human rapist, and the other angels responded by banishing him from Heaven because angel laws explicitly state that humans are sacred and must be protected no matter what until they actually die with sin. And that's only because one of the elders opted for leniency and decided to give Rason a chance to prove that monsters can be both good and evil just like humans; the other angels originally planned to just execute him.
- In A New World on her Shoulders, while Ruby, Penny, Robin, and Laura do help defend Mantle when it suffers from a Grimm attack, Ace Ops still arrests them afterward since they are first year students and it's against the law for first and second year students to wield weapons in Mantle without the approval of a professional Huntsman.
- A Rabbit Among Wolves: Jaune, hoping to get the White Fang some good PR, decides to sell some of the stolen Dust and help the poor. The press accuses him of preying on the homeless.
- In The Smurfs That Canon Forgot, Scaredy steps up to compensate for the absence of the time-traveling smurfs. The extra defenses he comes up with ultimately do protect the village, but not without incident or cost... and his efforts also turn him into the resident scapegoat for all the smurfs who feel they've diverged too much from the Good Old Ways. One of the biggest 'rewards' he receives is learning to fear his own neighbors, as several of his biggest critics break into his home to terrorize him.
- Little Rebellions: While Bronze Pearl didn't agree with the rebellion, she decided to warn them about the Diamonds' plan to launch the Corruption Bomb, feeling they didn't deserve such a fate. She ends up being caught in said corruption wave as a result.
- In The Day After You Saved the Multiverse, Superboy's parents are kidnapped because he put off a furniture store fire which had been caused by the mob to punish the owners' refusal to pay a protection racket.
- On Trial: Eugene stops James the guard from cutting out Cass' tongue, fires him, and has Cass taken to her old bedroom for a few days to recover. When the king hears about this, he fires Eugene as Guard Captain and has James replace him.
- Good Samaritan Blues, a The Lord of the Rings fanfiction. The title says it all.
