Unwanted Assistance in Anime and Manga.
- Bleach: Ichigo's Inner Hollow interferes in his fights with both Byakuya and Ulquiorra. The first time Ichigo resists his Inner Hollow's influence and shoves him out of the way before apologizing to Byakuya, who is puzzled that Ichigo wouldn't want any assistance even though he was about to lose; the second time, however, it's Played for Drama after Ulquiorra begins to disintegrate from his injuries, leaving Ichigo completely dissatisfied at winning like that (and just like Byakuya, completely puzzling Ulquiorra).
- Bokurano has our little friend Koyemushi, which is supposed to be the guide for the kids while on Zearth. While he is forced to obey the kids while they are contracted, he is extremely cynical and cruel, and will often "forget" to give out certain pieces of information, all because he loves to see the kids agonize and cry. Extra points for actually helping the kids exclusively when he knew it would hurt them more than it would help them.
- Brand New Animal: When Michiru discovers her old friend Nazuna is acting as the prophet for a growing cult, she assumes that she was forced into the position and works to help her escape, despite Nazuna's insistence that she's fine and that Michiru shouldn't get involved. Michiru's efforts eventually lead to a meeting with the city's mayor, which Nazuna decides to use to speed up the process of getting her cult seen as a legitimate religion. When Michiru tries to call Nazuna out for using her, Nazuna points out that she spent every conversation explicitly telling Michiru that she shouldn't do anything.
- In Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning, after the reveals that go down on his 12th birthday, Lui is disgusted and horrified by Ukkomon's continued obsession with making him happy regardless of the consequences, including leaving Lui with a permanent reminder of the Digimon he hated so much in the form of transplanting one of his own eyes in his head.
- Future GPX Cyber Formula: Earlier in the series, Asurada tries to teach its partner Hayato how to drive properly, but he ignores his advice, and he even tries to destroy Asurada when the machine indirectly caused the crash involving him and his friend Johji (which resulted in the latter's retirement from Cyber Formula).
- In Infinite Stratos, when Houki, Rin, and Cecilia all try to explain to Ichika how to use the I.S. with their Techno Babble, it only serves to confuse him. On the other hand, Charles offers to duel Ichika, and after sounding stomping him, he offers some tips on Ichika's weaknesses and explains things that makes it easy for him to understand. He also helps train Ichika on using a rifle, and seems a bit too friendly, causing the girls to get quite jealous.
- Legendz: In the manga, Ken gains possession of the Golden Soul Doll, except that he doesn't want to use it — he even goes so far as to dodge the beam that the Golden Soul Doll gives Shiron when they're almost down for the count. Eventually, of course, he gets so tired that he has to give in, and Shiron transforms massively. More a case of Holding Back the Phlebotinum, but in this case, the Phlebotinum is actively trying to help. The reason Ken doesn't want to use it is because he's afraid he'll start relying on it to get him out of every scrape.
- Maken-ki!: For the female students at Tenbi Academy, Takeru's repeated insistence on interfering in their matches is a source of irritation. They and their Principal have told him several times that the girls are more than capable of defending themselves. In some cases, they end up having to save him instead. Thankfully, he eventually gets the message and stops butting in.
- The Mazinger series:
- Mazinger Z: Several times Kouji complained Sayaka she was getting in the way, hindering him and making more harm than good. And even though he can have a point, he could telling it in a more tactful way...
- Great Mazinger: Jun Hono was a Tsundere Action Girl with a worth-of-years extensive training like mecha pilot and martial artist. Likewise, her Humongous Mecha Venus A was clearly more powerful than the Mazinger Z Fem Bots). During her first mecha battle she fought the Mykene War Beast skilfully, gaining the upper hand several times. She could have won... if Boss would have not gotten in the way EVERY TIME she was about to finish the Robeast off, telling her girls should not fight and he would look after the Mykene monster. Whenever she managed to shove him off, the War Beast had recovered and she had to begin again. The ironical part is Boss thought he was being chivalrous, charming and kind instead of an offensive and hindering nuisance.
- In Muhyo and Roji, Nana and her father provide this to each other: he anonymously takes and sells fake ghost photos, which upsets her. She in return takes a photo of a bank robbery, angering him by putting herself in danger.
- In NAKAIMO - My Little Sister is Among Them!, Shougo runs away from Miyabi and Konoe in episode 3 due to their insistence on "training him to like girls".
- No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!, Tomoko Kuroki's PE/Homeroom teacher notices that she has no friends and repeatedly tries to, rather bluntly and in a rather humiliating fashion, help her get friends or make it easier for her. Tomoko definitely wishes she'd stop doing that.
- One Piece:
- During Luffy and Katakuri’s battle, Katakuri’s younger sister Flambé tries to impress and aid him by using her silent blowgun to covertly injure Luffy. Katakuri, who had been deeply enjoying the battle and sees Luffy as a Worthy Opponent, is infuriated and angrily tells her to stay out of his duel. He goes so far as to undo her assistance by stabbing himself so the fight will be evenly matched again.
- This happened twice to Kaido, once during a duel with Oden in the past, and the second during the fight with Luffy in the present. Both times it infuriated him because it ruined his chance of an honourable, evenly-matched fight with a Worthy Opponent (a real rarity for someone as strong as him). In both cases, he made sure the person who interfered paid greatly for helping him. When it turns out Luffy hadn't actually been defeated yet, Kaido is ecstatic and actually apologizes to him for the interference earlier.Kaido: I'm sorry about that idiot earlier... I didn't want to win that way.
- Sgt. Frog: Pointing out the fact that Keroro made a doomsday device in front of the Hinatas at a time like this isn't really helping your cause, Mirara.
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Britai tries to tell Kamjin that he doesn't want his help since he won't bother to ask for it when the Bodol fleet is deployed near Earth. Kamjin "objects" to this.
- In Toriko, Midora's Start of Darkness featured this. He suffered serious injuries trying to gather "Cure Water" to heal his exhausted mother figure Frohze. Frohze used the last of her strength to prepare a meal to help Midora. He's spent centuries futilely trying to eat away the pain.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL has Yuma, who is irritated by Astral frequently giving him advice on what moves to execute in his duels, despite the fact that he is totally clueless without the help. In one early episode, in fact, Yuma gets so angry at Astral that he tells him he will not do what Astral tells him to do from this point. Astral then starts purposely giving Yuma ''bad'' advice, and as expected, Yuma does the exact opposite, which turns out to be what he has to do in order to win.
