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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime episode "Challenge of the Samurai", Ash Ketchum spends much of the episode being berated by [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|the titular character]] for not finishing what he started (not stopping a Weedle from escaping, thus letting it summon a swarm of Beedrill). However, the only reason the Weedle escaped was because the Samurai surprised him as he was about to capture it, because he didn't have the courtesy to wait until Ash was done catching it. Yet Ash is meant to accept responsibility for what went wrong, even though ''nothing'' was his fault, and even though he defeats the Samurai, he's still short one Weedle which would someday evolve into a Beedrill.
** As a more general example, Team Rocket is rightfully lambasted for trying to steal Pokemon that already belong to trainers... but they're also reacted to in exactly the same way when they attempt to catch wild Pokemon, the same thing the protagonists are (supposed to be) doing. The series seems to imply that their methods are somehow in the wrong when catching wild Pokemon, and that the only "fair" way to catch a wild Pokemon is to have one of your own beat it up first.
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* Another Marvel example. Skarr, Son Of The Hulk, was hit with this really hard throughout his entire miniseries. The narration and tone constantly informed us that he was bordering on being a [[Complete Monster]] if he wasn't already one. And while he certainly did a few [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|morally dubious things in his quest to stop the slavers and slaughterers rampaging across the planet]], they were phrased in such overblown ways to make them seem worse than they were that it just seemed melodramatic (with one of his "worst" offenses being a ''bluff'' of [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]). This culminated in Skarr being wrong for ''not wanting Galactus to eat his planet'' because, apparently, Galactus eating the planet was for the greater good... keep in mind, Earth superheroes regularly bluff Galactus with '''destroying the entire universe''' to make him leave Earth alone, which means he just goes off and eats someone else's planet.
== Fan Works ==
* Not surprisingly, this trope tends to find a lot of use in
▲* Not surprisingly, this trope tends to find a lot of use in fanfiction, especially when people invoke [[Draco in Leather Pants]] and [[Ron the Death Eater]] to change the social dynamics of a story's cast to fit their own story. This is [[Egregious]] when done in a series with a lot of [[Comedic Sociopathy]] (such as ''[[Ranma ½]]'') where the entire cast is playing a gigantic game of catch with a multitude of [[Idiot Ball]]s, [[Distress Ball]]s, [[Hero Ball]]s, and [[Villain Ball]]s. In such stories, it doesn't matter how much attempted murder and bastardry have happened in the past, the NEW instance is suddenly the breaking point for which everyone will view the perpetrator as a [[Complete Monster]].
* In ''[[My Immortal]]'', being a "prep" or a "poser", rather than a "goff", is bad because... the story says so!
== Film ==
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