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* High School Dean Edward R. Rooney in ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' is presented as a villain, even though it is his job to enforce school rules. The film makes him rather crazy about his job, resorting to breaking and entering, to make him the villain.
** It also makes it clear that his problem with Ferris [[It's Personal|is more a personal one than a professional one]], and rather than trying to get Ferris back into school for his own good, declares gleefully that he intends to "put one hell of a dent in [Ferris's] future".
*** Ferris has committed frequent and serious enough offenses to legitimately be a candidate for expulsion, so we cannot fairly fault the principal for intending to expel him. As for his obvious personal satisfaction at the thought of busting Ferris -- while that is entirely present, it still does not automatically make him ethically or factually ''wrong''. Indeed, the dissonance between 'is not likeable to the audience' and 'is not wrong' is what this trope is about.
* The disaster film ''Meteor'' had an American general be portrayed in a bad light for objecting to Russians getting access to a top secret American command center during the height of the Cold War. [[Straw Man Has a Point]].
* Mrs Tingle in ''[[Teaching Mrs. Tingle]]'' is really the only sensible and likable character. Most of the movie involves the [[Designated Hero|jerkass protagonist]] and her friends trying to torture and murder her because she accused the protagonist of cheating when she had every reason to believe that the protagonist had, in fact, been cheating. The movie also heavily implies that Trudy, the protagonist's competitor for the stipendium, deserves to be killed [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|merely for being studious]].
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