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Contrast [[Divided We Fall]]. Compare [[The Resenter]], who actively resents the hero. Can be a [[Knight in Sour Armor]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.]] Unfortunately (fortunately?) for them, the SM-verse is a real [[Sugar Bowl]] at times, and everything really can be set right with [[The Power of Love]], so really, their sourness just makes them look [[Wangst]]y sometimes.
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** Puddleglum is also said to be unusually ''optimistic and cheerful'' for a Marshwiggle - just imagine what the others would be like!
** In ''[[Prince Caspian]]'', Trumpkin argues against sending someone to look for Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, but when the decision goes against him, volunteers to go, because he has [[With Due Respect|given his advice]] and now he must take orders.
* In ''[[Harry Potter]] and the [[Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', Zacharias Smith, while a member of the DA, seems never to speak unless he is berating Harry's methods. Continues even after this supreme put-down:
{{quote|"As if Expelliarmus is going to work on Voldemort."
"I've used it on him." }}
** Of course, Smith turns out to be a [[Dirty Coward]] when the chips are down...
** [[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|Aberforth Dumbledore]] is almost the complete opposite of his brother. At one point, he basically says that Voldemort's already won and anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves. It doesn't stop him from coming to the trio's aid when they need it, offering his pub as a meeting place for the Order, and courageously fighting in {{spoiler|and surviving}} the Battle of Hogwarts.
* Many of Rand Al Thor's supporters in the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' behave like this. The man is the [[Chosen One]] (of several prophecies and groups) but none of his disparate groups of supporters trust the other ones, and many regard him as nothing more than a loaded cannon they need to further their own ends while regarding him as an idiot who messes everything up that they need to step carefully around. To be fair Rand is pretty insane by this point, and can act idiotically, but he is a lot more competent than they give him credit for and were it not for the prevalence of this trope he would have managed to do a lot more by now.
** Interestingly enough, Rand is actually [[Genre Savvy]] enough to try and play the groups against each other in order to get rid of some people that are hindering him. [[Xanatos Gambit|Its a safe bet that at least one of them will bite the dust]] but [[General Failure|Namely High Lord Wieramon.]] [[Failure Is the Only Option|It never works.]]
* Grantaire in ''[[Les Misérables]]''.
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