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[[File:JadeAndJackie.jpg|link=Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|frame|You should let her help. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|What could go wrong?]]]]
 
{{quote|'''Dex:''' Consider us your reinforcements.<br />
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Perhaps these helpers hope to form a [[Hero Secret Service]], [[La Résistance]], or just want to be part of [[Fighting for Survival]] and actually manage to aid the hero in his fight. Be it by hindering [[The Dragon]], freeing him from horrors, or healing his wounds. However the hero ''doesn't'' hail their effort with high praise, advice, or most strangely of all, gratitude... but becomes an [[Ungrateful Bastard]] and tells them to pack it up and go home.
 
Perhaps the hero [[I Work Alone|works alone]], prefers a populace [[Holding Out for Aa Hero]], or has a bad case of [[Samaritan Syndrome]] and generalized case of [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies]]. Sometimes he's justified in his being hidebound by the helpers being [[Reckless Sidekick|hopelessly helpless and incompetent]]. Sometimes he's [[Good Is Not Nice|just not a nice person]]. Whatever the case, he at least strongly urges the helpers to disband and might verbally abuse them, or even take steps to ensure they can't try to help him again.
 
This can end up one of three ways.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Happens in an episode of ''[[G Gundam]]''. Domon's rudeness to Rain, despite her aid AND putting up with his rude attitude for the past 11 months, inspires her to quit as God Gundam's mechanic. [[The Obi-Wan|Schwarz]] offers her a job as his mechanic, primarily to teach Domon [[An Aesop|a lesson]]. During the fight with Schwarz, Domon refuses to learn his lesson until God Gundam is crippled by a faulty repair job, and Rain tells him how to fix it himself, allowing him to win the match.
* L in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' mostly treats the police force like this. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted:]] it's a weeding-out ploy to ensure that the people he's working with are the ones who will stick with him, come hell or high water, and give their lives if necessary, to bring Kira down.
* ''[[One Piece]]'''s Ussop Pirate Gang (from when he joins the crew) could fit. When Ussop decides to fight, he tries to get the trio to think he isn't, and then in the battle, gives them an important job when they show up to try and help. He's even proud of them at the end, but ends up leaving them for the Straw Hats.
 
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' has... Jade. Every episode Jackie tells her to stay with Uncle, leave the fighting to him, and stay out of danger. She never, ''ever'' listens. To her credit, she at least helps as much (if not more) than she hinders, Jackie never accepts her as his sidekick.
** Which would be because she's like ''eight years old'' and he's her uncle, and he's supposed to be ''protecting'' her! And she nearly gets herself killed a lot of the time! Heck, most of the time, Jackie doesn't want to have to fight either.
** Not to mention, she causes most of the problems in the first place, and Jackie wouldn't have to save to world all the time if it wasn't for her refusing to listen to him when he tells her not to do dangerous things because she thinks it's cool or fun.
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