Quit Your Whining: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''Hey, man what is this? Sounds like the wail of a wimp!<br />

''Did you let loser side take command?''|'''Lost Horizon''' - "Sworn in the Metal Wind"}}

This'''Quit tropeYour Whining''' comes in many flavors. If the viewers/readers perceive Bob to be [[The Scrappy]], this trope will make it seem as if Bob is [[Take That, Scrappy!|getting what he deserves]], and Alice is doing what she should be doing. If the viewers/reader perceive Bob to be [[The Woobie]], this trope will make Alice seem like a [[Jerkass]]. Or, if Bob is entering a [[Wangst]] storm that seems uncharacteristic of him, and this trope manages to make him snap out of it, neither characters will be viewed negatively. Or, it could backfire spectacularly, causing Bob to remain in his [[Heroic BSOD]] and making Alice seem like an idiot.

Bob does not need to explicitly tell Alice what it is he is Wangsting about--ifabout—if Alice can infer, or has been informed of, what the subject of the Wangst is, she can perform this trope anyway.

** Suzaku does this to Lelouch, with a mixture of [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]], when {{spoiler|Lelouch finds out that Nunnally is alive, and begins to despair. Suzaku tells him to suck it up and remember Zero Requiem.}}

{{quote| "Yukiteru, do you know just why I hate you so much? It's because your crying face resembles my stupid dog at home! Even now...! *''[punches Yukiteru*]'' That face you're making right now! Don't go crying when you made this choice yourself! You're just a damn lowlife who killed his friends for his own convenience! You don't have a right to cry!"}}

* In ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'' this is constantly [[Jerkass|Ryoki's]] response whenever his girlfriend [[Extreme Doormat|Hatsumi]] [[Wangst|wangstswangst]]s or puts herself down.

{{quote| " Shut your mouth, Chopper! You are disgraceful! It was your choice to get a life on the sea. Dead or alive, the choice was yours alone. Don't blame it on others. We accepted the challenge. Usopp and the others tried their best. In the pirate's world, tears won't get you anything. If you are a man, then sit tight and quietly watch the game!"}}

* In ''[[Bakuman｡]]'', Takahama frequently complains about his editor, Miura, trying to get him to make his series have more humor, even at the expense of the story, and the main characters often view Miura similarly. He meets with the editor in chief to request a different editor, only to have his request denied, and told that if he can't write what he wants, it simply means he isn't good enough yet. Takahama leaves, chastened, and the main characters admit that they've been blaming Miura too much.

* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', Signum's reaction to Teana protesting and saying that [[Training Fromfrom Hell]] is the only way to stand out compared to the rest of the forwards is to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|punch her]], telling Nanoha that Teana will get spoiled if people listen to her whining.

* In ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', Arika, having a [[Heroic BSOD]] after events during and after the [[Wham! Episode]], including {{spoiler|her friend Erstin's death}} declares she [[Ten-Minute Retirement|quits being an Otome]] and runs off, only to get swallowed by a sand monster along with Mashiro. Arika complains about some of her troubles, prompting Mashiro to say that she's not the only one suffering, leading to a discussion that causes both of them to renew and refocus their resolve.

* This was done with [[Captain America (comics)]] when [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jim Steranko]] realized that his moaning about the death of Bucky was getting really old. So, they had Rick Jones appear in a copy of Bucky's costume and tells Cap that other people have lost loved ones and it's past time he move on like any soldier.

{{quote| '''Charlie Fitts''': Want to be with your family every night... ''you think you have to justify that?''}}

* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Franchisenovel)/|Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix|Harry Potter]]'', Harry gets multiple ones. While he's [[Wangst|Wangsting]]ing over his ill-treatment at the hands of the ''Daily Prophet'' and the student body, Hermione tells him to quit painting Ron and her with the same brush when they're actually trying to help him. Ron delivers one of these to Harry after Harry has been sulking and snapping at him and Hermione, telling Harry that while he does have a lot to be annoyed about, taking out his temper on his friends won't solve anything. Later, after Harry goes into full [[Heroic BSOD]] mode and tries to run away after hearing that he might be possessed by Voldemort, the portrait of Phineas Nigellus calls him an idiot and says he is too busy wallowing in self-pity to realize that the world does not revolve around him.

{{quote| "And what use would that be to anyone? If you loved Lily Evans, if you truly loved her, then your way forward is clear."}}

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

{{quote| You stupid, stupid son-of-a-bitch! Well, boo hoo. I am so sorry your feelings are hurt... princess! Are you under the impression that family's supposed to make you feel good? Make you an apple pie, maybe? They're supposed to make you miserable! That's why they're family.}}

** At the end of season 5, Castiel has been stripped of his angelic powers. When he starts to angst about the loss, Bobby basically shames him out of it--Castielit—Castiel might be only human now, but hey, so are the rest of them, and Bobby, who's in a wheelchair, has a lot more reason to feel useless.'

* All of [[BioWare]]'s games--fromgames—from ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' to ''[[Mass Effect]]''--have—have conversation options similar to this when talking to your fellow [[NPC]] adventurers. The [[NPC]] will begin talking about their "main issue" ([[Baldur's Gate|getting her wings cut off]], [[Mass Effect|being an unwilling test subject]], [[Dragon Age|being the king's bastard]], [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|killing Jedi]], etc.), and the [[Player Character]] can either show his or her interest and help them resolve their issues or tell them to suck it up.

** Note that, in most examples, doing this is a bad thing. Though you actually ''have'' to snap at [[Baldur's Gate|Aerie]] at one point during her romance.

{{quote| '''Niko:''' Back where I was from, we didn't have electricity until I was ''twelve.''}}

{{quote| ''There, there, you blubbering goddamn pansy.''}}

* In ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' the titular character does not wish to remember his past life, {{spoiler|as the little he knows at that point has made him psychotically unstable}}. Reck, in a [[Moment of Awesome]], promptly punches him in the face and yells at him to stop being pathetic. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605095547/http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=3072 here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120217052313/http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=3075 here]. {{spoiler|This is followed by a prompt [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomp]] of the enemy who had, up until then, been beating them up, so it obviously worked.}}

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'': In the episode "Olga Gets Engaged" Olga collapses into tears upon learning at the last minute her fiance decided not to marry her. Helga's response is "Alright, that's enough! Suck it up, you big crybaby!"

{{quote| '''Rarity''': I am ''not'' whining, I am complaining. Do you want to hear ''whining''? (''dials up her voice several pitches'') ''Thiiis'' is ''whiiiniiing''. Oooh, this harness is too ''tiiiight'', it's going to chafe. Can't you loosen it? ''Oooh'', it hurts, and it's ''so nastyyy'', oooh, why couldn't you clean it first, it's going to leave a ''staain''. Oh and the ''waa''gons' getting heavy, why do I have to ''pull iiiiiit!?''<br />

'''Diamond Dog''': Nnngh! Make it stop! Stop whining!<br />