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* ''[[GE - Good Ending]]'' has Yuki, one of the main protagonists in the series. A good part of the manga is spent trying to get Utsumi, the protagonist, help her deal with her [[Broken Bird]] issues, only to have her throw everything out the window by asking him to rape her, in order to overwrite the bad memories she had with her previous boyfriend. Utsumi [[What the Hell, Hero?|calls her out on it]], so she dumps him because he's always too nice to her.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' falls into this sometimes as well.
** Sasuke seems to be meant to be seen as a morally gray character being led down the wrong path by his obsession with revenge, but to a number of fans his [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]],
** Similarly, the [[Belated Backstory]] of the legendary "Salamander" Hanzo, the ninja against whom the Sannin won their titles by ''surviving'' a battle with him sets Hanzo up as a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who lost sight of his goals but is honored in defeat by his rival as a man who strove for peace. [[You Keep Using That Word|By starting a lot of wars and turning his homeland into an unlivable hellhole that produced the most psychologically broken, defeated human beings in the series, just because he was arrogant enough to think his strength could unite the world.]] Most fans still consider Hanzo an utterly unsympathetic character whose violent death at Pain's hands was richly deserved, as his claim of good intentions didn't make him any less of a paranoid warmongering dictator.
* The early ''[[Pokémon]]'' episode "Challenge of the Samurai!" has [[Character of the Day|Samurai]] constantly shame and browbeat Ash for not taking responsibility for his blunders, such as failing to catch a Weedle and allowing that Weedle to rile up a swarm of Beedrill that end up kidnapping his Metapod. The problem is, Ash's "blunders" are mistakes ''Samurai'' made in the first place. ''He'' stopped Ash from catching the Weedle by demanding a Pokémon battle at swordpoint, making it his fault that an angry Beedrill swarm are attacking them. But the episode treats Ash owning up to Samurai's mistakes as him learning his lesson as opposed to resigning himself to being the victim of Samurai's self-righteous [[Never My Fault]] mentality.
* Even after Yukiha became just as evil as her own rapist in ''[[The Girl in the Library: Until The Pure You Falls From Grace]]'', the writer, Amare Are, still expected people to feel sorry for her even though she ceased to be a victim when she decided to be Masami's [[Sex Slave]] than with Aida who genuinely loved her.
* Todoroki's mother in ''[[My Hero Academia]]'' is viewed as this by half of the [[Broken Base]] surrounding her and her treatment of her son. Thanks to years of awful, sustained abuse by her husband Endeavor, she had a mental breakdown and mutilated Todoroki's face with boiling water due to mistaking him for his dad. While [[My God, What Have I Done?|she apologized the second she realized what happened]] and deeply regrets what happened years after the fact, many fans find that she was ''way'' too [[Easily Forgiven]] by Todoroki and his siblings due to the belief that no matter the circumstances that led to it, child abuse is vile and inexcusable. And it doesn't help that she didn't merely slap or hit him: she ''burned his face to the point of scarring''.
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